After the Xixia and Northern Liao reached an alliance, Xixia established a large number of Investigations in the Northern and Eastern Liao borders. For a while, a large number of merchants gathered at the border. The border between Western Xia and Northern Liao, which was originally very rare, is now a prosperous scene. The resources of grain, pig iron, blue and white salt, tea, wine, cloth, silk and other materials in the Xixia continued to flow into the Northern Liao territory, and the fur, medicinal materials, ginseng, deer antler, gold and silver in the Northern Liao territory flowed into the Western Xia.

The signing of the Xixia business reached a peak again. In addition to the Silk Road that originally opened up westward, Xixia added another northward trade route. The trade route with the Northern Liao Dynasty brought wealth to Xixia, but also brought huge hidden dangers.

Since most of the items traded by both parties are important strategic materials such as grain and tea, and are also the living materials that the people rely on for survival, a large amount of exports have caused the rise in the prices of grain and tea in Xixia. Although the area where Xixia is located is vast, there are few areas that produce grain, only the Hehuang area, the Ningxia Plain, the Hetao Plain, and some oasis and river valley areas.

With the increase of the population of Xixia, the grain gongying in Xixia has become tense, but it was not particularly obvious before trade with the Northern Liao Dynasty. With the increase of grain trade with the Northern Liao Dynasty, this problem has become increasingly acute. The grain prices in Xixia began to rise, and the stability of a country's grain relations is stable. If there is a problem with the grain gongying in Xixia, it is very likely that the turmoil in Xixia will cause instability in Xixia.

Another thing is the tea trade. In Xixia, there is no place where tea is produced at all. All tea in Xixia must be imported from the Northern Song Dynasty. In this era, tea was an extremely important strategic material, especially for the grassland people in the north, tea is an indispensable thing.

Since the grassland people mainly use meat and dairy products, these things are very greasy, so tea needs to be drunk to remove greasy. Tea had already penetrated into the homes of ordinary people in China at that time and became an indispensable part of people's lives, just like salt, but the tea was produced only in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, both the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia Dynasty needed to obtain tea from trade with the Song Dynasty every year. Moreover, the tea in the Song Dynasty was monopolized by the government, and the amount of tea traded to the two countries every year was limited.

Nowadays, Northern Liao needs to obtain tea from Xixia, and there are only those teas in Xixia, which will inevitably lead to a shortage of tea. Once the price of tea is scarce, it will rise accordingly. The rise in tea prices will cause some people to not buy tea, and the Baixin will cause panic or civil chaos.

Originally, Li Liangzuo did not consider these things at all, but now the problem has arisen. Both food and tea have a nervous situation. Although it is not very serious, if it is not solved as soon as possible, it may cause serious problems. This matter makes Li Liangzuo anxious and worried.

In desperation, Li Liangzuo could only order to temporarily stop the gongying of grain and tea in Northern Liao, and at the same time, the right to sell these two materials to the court, and merchants were not allowed to sell grain and tea privately. Although the government's strong intervention temporarily stabilized prices, this was only temporary and the problem was still not completely resolved.

In the imperial study room of Xingqing Prefecture Royal Palace.

Li Liangzuo sat on the dragon throne and looked at the six cabinet members and said, "Tell me! How to solve this matter? Northern Liao needs a lot of food and tea, and these are also indispensable for us; especially tea, we rely entirely on the Song Dynasty. Now the two countries are in the Heping period, the Song Dynasty may be a stable gongying, but what if the two of them start to have a war!

The Song Dynasty will cut off trade with us as soon as possible, so wouldn’t our Daxia Kingdom fall into a very difficult situation overnight? This problem must be solved. You must come up with a feasible solution for me.”

The judicial envoy Gao Huaizheng first proposed: "Your Majesty, can you transplant the tea tree to the north so that we don't have to worry about the gongying of tea anymore."

Zhou Wentai immediately objected: "Gao Dada may not know that tea trees only grow in the warm and humid south. It is absolutely impossible to introduce tea trees into our country. We are destined to be controlled by others when it comes to tea issues; my opinion is to solve the gongying problem of food first."

Wei Ge Ningling said: "Since the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty, grain has been a big problem. Although our country has a vast territory, the land that can adapt to grain cultivation is very limited, and grain output has always been a big problem. It used to be that the population of Western Xia is relatively small and easy to solve. However, with the increase of the population, there has been a shortage of grain. Now, every year we need to buy a certain amount of grain from the Song Dynasty to supplement the gap;

Your Majesty, according to the old minister's opinion, we must continue to strengthen the construction of farmland water conservancy, increase grain output, and see if new farmland can be opened up."

Li Liangzuo nodded and said, "Uncle Huang is right. Since this is the case, then the Farmland Water Resources Department will be established in the court to be responsible for the country's farmland water conservancy projects and find ways to increase grain output. This position is intuitive and important. Do you see who can hold this position?"

Noyi Shengshen stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister asks for this position."

Li Liangzuo glanced at Nouyi Rewards, and didn't know what the old boy had to do, so he refused and said, "The old general is also a military affairs envoy. I can't bear to take heavy burdens on the old general!"

Li Liangzuo's words were very tactful, but the meaning was very clear. You are already a military service envoy. Giving you the position of director of the Farmland Water Resources Department is not that you have too much power, so this position cannot be given to you.

No Yipeng also understood what Li Liangzuo meant, so he said to Li Liangzuo: "The old minister is willing to resign from his position as military affairs envoy and concentrate on managing the Farmland Water Conservancy Department. Although the old minister does not understand water conservancy, the general direction of the old minister can still grasp it."

When Li Liangzuo heard that Nuoyigui said this, he began to weigh the pros and cons of it. Nuoyigui was all from military generals and had a great influence in the border army. Many generals in the border army were promoted one by one. If Nuoyigui could completely leave the army, Li Liangzuo could slowly eliminate the influence of Nuoyigui in the border army, so that the military power would be completely controlled by Li Liangzuo.

After understanding all this, Li Liangzuo nodded and said, "Okay, since the veteran general insists, then I will do the same. From now on, the veteran general will be transferred to the director of the Farmland Water Resources Department; the affairs of the Military Council will be temporarily handed over to the Deputy Military Envoy Zhou Wentai daili."

"I am obeying Your Majesty's Imperial Order." The two of them took over the imperial edict and said.

At this moment, Xiao Fuzi hurriedly broke in and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... The Imperial Concubine is about to give birth, and the Imperial Concubine is about to give birth..."

"What did you say?" Li Liangzuo said without reacting for a moment; "You said Qiaoer is going to give birth."

"Yes, Your Majesty, go and have a look!" Xiao Fuzi said anxiously.

Li Liangzuo said to the six people: "My dear friends, let's end today's discussion! As for the tea issue, we are coming up with a solution tomorrow. Today, everyone will go back and think about it."

"I respectfully send you to Your Majesty." The six cabinet members bowed and bowed.

Li Liangzuo left in a hurry.
Chapter completed!