After Li Xingzhou entered, the dance music did not stop. After all, the emperor was old and half lying on the tiger-skin seat. Concubine Tian dressed carefully, but she could not hide the traces of time.

It is rare to see him relaxing so much, and waved his hand with a smile: "Sing Chew, come and see, this is a Korean dancer, it is a Korean dancer, it is quite fresh."

Li Xingzhou walked over and looked at him. They were all pretty, but foreigners were not surprised. Because of business, foreigners are very common in Jingguo.

The most common ones are the Khitans, Qiang people, people of all ethnic groups in the Dali Kingdom, Goryeo, Japanese people, and in a few days they can see the Arab Central Asian generation.

Although Kaiyuan was the capital, the coastal areas of Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Mingzhou and other places were the main trading areas, so most foreigners were concentrated in these places, and the Maritime Bureau was also established in these places.

The Maritime Trade Bureau is equivalent to later customs. It can be said to be a very advanced system. It ensures that the court can make profits from maritime trade, and then promotes the court to support maritime trade, making maritime trade manageable and orderly, and promoting the continuous development of maritime trade.

The most specific manifestation is continuous tax reductions. Ships entering the sea trade need to be collected. At the beginning, the Maritime Bureau collected 10 taxes and 2, and gradually reduced it to 10 taxes and one tax, and then to 15 taxes and one tax. There is also a downward trend. Reducing tariffs will greatly promote trade. Maritime trade has also become an important source of wealth for the entire country. It will definitely pay more attention to it and form a virtuous cycle. Unfortunately, this system was abolished in the early Ming Dynasty and then banned by the sea.

When the maritime trade reached its peak, most countries in East Asia used copper coins made by Jingguo, especially around Japan, Dali, Liao and other surrounding areas.

The reason is very simple. There are many merchants and commodities in Jingguo, and the credibility of the currency must be supported by resources.

In the past, the Liao Kingdom, Japan, Xia Kingdom and others liked to use Jing Kingdom's copper coins. They could buy goods with Jing Kingdom merchants. They could not buy things with copper coins made by their own countries, because there were so many commodities in their country.

Over time, many people have found that instead of using their own country's money, it is better to use the money from Jingguo to buy and sell with Jingguo merchants. For this reason, Jingguo copper coins are common settlement currencies in neighboring countries, because Jingguo merchants can buy things, so other money may not be necessary.

Over time, Guangzhou, Mingzhou and other places in Jingguo became financial centers. Foreigners who want to make money and dreams try every means to make money from Jingguo, and the number of foreigners has increased.

However, this kind of commercial prosperity is fragile in the face of powerful military forces. Without the support of industrialization, business and military cannot be linked together, and both industrial and commercial development cannot be achieved.

"Why, do you like whom?" the emperor asked suddenly, interrupting his thoughts, "If you like you and tell me that these were sent by King Goryeo. He had previously surrendered to Liao and later surrendered to Jin. Now I must have heard of the news that we used troops to fight against Liao and won the battles and won the gifts to me again."

The emperor said and started to do it, shaking his head: "The small country has no trust and is capricious. I am old and cannot benefit from it. If you like it, take it back."

Li Xingzhou was stunned for a moment, and this was the same as...

"No." He always finds it difficult to accept the way people are treated as objects.

"Are you being controlled by Wang Yue's granddaughter?" The emperor frowned, "I can warn you that a man should not be soft-hearted, nor should you believe the pillow..." When he said that, he remembered the presence of Concubine Tian, ​​and hurriedly stopped him, "Anyway, you understand. By the way, what's wrong with you coming? Could there be good news ahead."

Li Xingzhou took a deep breath and what should come will always come: "There is indeed a report of the battle, but..."

The emperor nodded and waved his hand to let the dancer exit, before he asked him to hand over the battle report.

There were three reports of the battle report. He jumped out. The emperor held it in his hand for a while. The smile on his face slowly disappeared, and his face became more and more serious until it was extremely gloomy. The hall was terriblely quiet, and the sound of rain outside the house could be clearly heard...

He didn't get angry in the end, but just asked in a cold voice: "Who should you die of these people? Yang Hu! Or Tong Guan!"

Li Xingzhou didn't say anything. He knew that he would die if he talked. This was not a joke, but many things were not as simple as who was right or wrong. If it were just personal considerations, Yang Hu and Tong Guan should be damned, but the interests in it were very complicated because human nature is complex and disorderly.

"Yang Hu is Yang Wenguang's son. He was defeated by the war, but Taiyuan, as well as Ninghua and Daizhou in the north of Taiyuan, Baode needs to be defended. Without the Liao Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, Yang Hu is Yang Wenguang's eldest son..."

Li Xingzhou's meaning is actually very clear. Yang Hu cannot be killed for the time being, and punishment is OK. No one can guarantee whether the distant Yang Wenguang is loyal. There are always sage worship plots in Chinese thinking, which imaginates some people perfectly and perfectly.

Therefore, we hope that there will be a wise monarch who can understand people's hearts, know people and make good use of them, and he can control the big and small things of the world alone.

If not, then I hope there is a great master in Qingtian who clearly distinguishes good and evil. He can see good and bad people at a glance. He never makes mistakes when rewarding good and punishing evil. For example, Guan Gong has a knife in his hand, only killing good people, not bad people. What is good people and what is bad people? That's too complicated, we don't care.

No more, I hope that there will be a hero who is very good at kung fu, and a hundred people cannot approach you, and do not have to consider money, do not live in the world, eliminate harm for the people, rob the rich and help the poor, and take the heads of corrupt officials, so there is a unique Chinese martial arts novel.

Are there perfect people in the world? Impossible.

Therefore, these hopes are destined to fail, and for thousands of years, there are still people looking forward to them.

The Yang family was loyal for generations, but he had to consider the worst direction. It was almost inevitable that the Jin army would covet the Central Plains. At that time, Yang Wenguang, Taiyuan on the Western Front and Wei Chaoren on the Eastern Front, they would be crucial people.

"Then kill the Tongguan!" The emperor's voice was very cold, without any emotion. "Immediately pass the order and escort the Tongguan back to Beijing! Yang Hu was demoted to a commoner! Yang Hongzhao, as the commander, had a bad battle, so he also returned to Beijing to wait for the despair! The army was temporarily controlled by Wei Chaoren."

"Yes." Li Xingzhou wrote down one by one. The emperor's government orders were issued through the Political Affairs Hall, and the military orders needed to be issued by the Privy Council. They were not issued at will. The government orders might be rejected by the Hanlin Academy, the Secretariat and the Menxia Province. The military orders did not have these concerns because the status of military officers was low.

The emperor thought about it again, "Forget it, Tong Guan will return to Beijing and wait for the defeat. There is no need to escort it. Let the Shenwu Army and Wu Lie Army retreat."

"Yes!" Li Xingzhou wrote down one by one.

After saying that, the old emperor could no longer hold it back and covered his forehead and waved his hand in pain, "You go back and do your business..."

Li Xingzhou bowed and said goodbye. When he turned around, he saw Concubine Tian quickly massaged his temples.

When he left Kunning Palace, the rain became much lighter. The emperor was really old. He lost his aura a few years ago and did not even kill such a big thing. At that time, the former Wude envoy Zhu Yue died early.

.....

The emperor probably also noticed the failure reported by Yang Hongzhao because of the low morale of the imperial guards and the disarray of military discipline. His face was gloomy because Zhong Daoyu tried his best to persuade the imperial guards to be morale, but he was directly exiled to the common people. Now it is not only a slap in the face of the emperor, but such a great defeat has already hurt the foundation of the country.

Although the losses were heavy, the three armies were close to 200,000. Now there are about 100,000 people in the middle and right armies outside Qigou Pass. Yang Hongzhao was ordered to return to Beijing, but the army could not be ignored, so Wei Chaoren took over. However, after withdrawing the Shenwu Army, there were only Wei Chaoren's Guanbei Army and Lingjie Army in the Qigou Pass area, and there should be about 50,000 people in total.

The emperor's decision was quite decisive. The so-called rat shit broke a pot of soup, let alone tens of thousands of pills.

Yelu Dashi was not many. If the Western Route Army only let the Yang family army fight in the Anding battle and all the imperial guards were gone, even if the number was small, the probability of victory was very high. Yang Wenguang was a veteran general who had been fighting against the Liao people for decades with the Liao people in the Sanjiao area, and the Yang family army under his command also had the experience of fighting against the Liao people.

But in the formation of tens of thousands of people, a large number of people suddenly fled. How can I fight...

At present, there is also a huge amount of food and grass supply. Every time a period of delay is delayed, it will be a huge pressure on the court.

Although Jingguo is rich, he cannot withstand long-term troubles. It is now late May and it has been nearly three months since the dispatch of troops. Li Xingzhou asked Xue Fang for excessive support to Xue Fang, Jingguo can hold on until about November of the year.

There are about six months left, and it seems that it takes a lot of time, but in fact, six months are not too long. At this time, if Yelu Dashi sticks to Nanjing, as long as the Jin people don’t take action or attack them from the front and back, Li Xingzhou will not find it strange for him to guard for six years.

Could it be that they could only spend a lot of money to ask the Jin people for help, just like the Northern Song Dynasty?

......

"There has been no news in the north for a long time. Have you ever heard of it on the way?" In the best restaurant in Jiangzhou, a young man in green clothes looked at the rain outside the window. There was a young man in brown clothes and a young man in purple clothes sitting opposite him.

This young master in Qingyi is the head of the Gan family, who is still young this year.

Because in the last battle of the court, Shen Yinfeng and his uncle Shen Lin Dayi destroyed their relatives and stood decisively on the side of King Pingnan. Everyone knows what happened behind them. The deputy prime minister and his followers were all beaten up. Yu Chengan froze to death on his way to exile. His son-in-law Shen wins, and the eldest brother who is also Gan Yinfeng was also exiled.

Then, Shen Yinfeng was appointed as an official, and his uncle Shen Lin was transferred to the imperial guards to serve. With the support of the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, the Shen family became the largest merchant in Jiangzhou in one fell swoop, and it was very glorious.

The young master in brown laughed: "What nonsense do you say? Do you think I am so stupid and will run to the place where the war is fought? Life is my own, I am very scary, but the scene of the year is so chaotic. The Jin Dynasty fought with the Liao Dynasty, and our country and Liao Dynasty also fought with the Liao Dynasty. The Xia Dynasty fought by itself, and the Mongolian tribes I went to, the world was in chaos, and there were soldiers everywhere." As he said that, he drank a glass of emotion.

This person is He Xu, the second son of He Zhao, and He Qian's brother. He is doing business on the sidelines and traveling around various countries.

"Mongolian tribes?" The young master of purple robe asked curiously. He was Xie Linjiang. Because he stood on the side of King Pingnan last time, he jumped from a minor official in Ningjiang Prefecture to become a judge, and was second only to the magistrate of Ningjiang Prefecture and Tongzhi in Ningjiang Prefecture.

The judge Wang Ke was also promoted from judge to Tongzhi of Ningjiang Prefecture.

He Xu nodded: "I originally wanted to go there to sell some things. The iron and salt of Mongolian generation are very valuable. As long as they are shipped over, they can be sold several times the Central Plains."

"You are so brave, you dare to sell private salt."

"Shh, I don't want to die. Besides, my father doesn't give me much money, so I can't do anything. I always have to earn some money when I run around, otherwise I'd starve to death on the road.

I also collected the silver from King Pingnan and was instructed to inquire about the situation of the Mongolian tribes for him.

As a result, I didn't dare to go north as soon as I arrived in Ulaanbaatar. The Mongolian tribes have now fought and the whole grassland is in chaos. I heard that a powerful tribe appeared on the grassland, and the joint attacks were defeated. Now it is being liquidated one by one, and many people are fleeing west in fear."

"Why go west?"

"It is said that there is an equally powerful tribe called Naiman tribe in the west. I don't know what it is. I have never been to the west of the grassland, and it is even more chaotic. There are many tribes, and no one obeys each other, and blood will bleed every now and then.

He had originally promised King Pingnan to inquire about the information of various departments for him, but when he arrived in Ulaanbaatar, he was in chaos and did not dare to advance north, so he had to turn back again, which was really ashamed.

By the way, there is Xixia!

When I went there, I walked to Xingqing Prefecture to the grassland north. It was fine, but in a few months, I got into a group when I came back. The Emperor of Xixia was beaten to Xiliang Prefecture to take refuge. I had no choice but to take a detour to Taiyuan, so I came to Jiangzhou. I don’t know what happened in the past two years, and I was fighting everywhere." He Xu shook his head.

"What a pity, it would be great if you came back from Shanhaiguan. You can also tell us some of the situation in the north. The rain has been like this. It has not been resting for more than 20 days, which is very anxious." Xie Linjiang said: "I wish I could join the army by myself and go north to serve the country."

"Forget it. I have seen a war, and there are ten thousand more scholars who have joined the army. Should they win or not?" He Xu shook his head.

"What do you say..." Xie Linjiang was dissatisfied.

"Ah..." He Xu suddenly frowned, "I remember something. When I passed by Taiyuan seven or eight days ago, the officials warned me that there were a large number of defeated soldiers outside, so I asked me to be careful. I was afraid that I would also ask for a ward guard. When I talked to people in the city, I heard that many defeated soldiers were wandering around Taiyuan, and some even became bandits. I spent a lot of money to hire an escort agency. Fortunately, I invited them. After leaving Taiyuan, I could encounter three or four defeated soldiers a day, more or less...."

"What does this have to do with the war?" Shen Yinfeng poured them two wines and said.

"Think about it carefully, where did these defeated troops come from? To the north of Taiyuan are the important towns of Sanjiao, Daizhou, Baode and Ninghua. Not to mention the defeated troops, the Liao army has not been able to get through for more than a hundred years. Where did the defeated troops come from?" He Xu seemed to suddenly discover something.

"You mean..."

"It can only be our own army, it won't be... the army on the west route was defeated, right?" He Xu said in disbelief.

"Impossible! The three armies won consecutive battles, and the vanguard attacks have already controlled Nanjing. The emperor issued an order to change the name of Yanshan Mansion. The battle report will never be wrong!" Xie Linjiang was excited.

"Then where did so many defeated troops come from?"

The three of them fell silent. The rain was still falling outside the building, but a terrible thought arose in their hearts, making them even dare not think deeply.

"No...I'm really defeated..."
Chapter completed!