The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1012 Ten Years of Change
While Cai Jing was vigorously developing commerce and combating desertification in the Western Regions, he led the Xiling Army to excavate or protect the treasures of the Western Regions. This king thought it was to cater to the holy will, while Lu Heng was to protect the culture of the Western Regions.

Although the purpose is different, the means are the same. All matters related to human nature need to be assisted by other means in addition to being restricted by a government order.

Cai Jing's actions disdain both Han Qi and Li Gang. While recognizing his talent, he also participates in various performances. In short, Cai Jing has not been as unknown in recent years as he was in previous years.

Cai Jing's "tomb robbery" behavior still made some discoveries, such as finding the Jingjue ruins, many treasures were transported to Shouchun, and he also found the very famous "Pisces Jade Pendant" in later generations!
This jade pendant did not turn Cai Jing into a mirror image person, and lived well, nor did it make another copy of Lu Heng. In short, it is a piece of jade carving with complicated craftsmanship, which can be called invaluable and nothing more.

It is said that this jade pendant processing art is the exclusive tribute of Shanshan Kingdom, that is, the royal family of Loulan Kingdom. Originally, there were many in Shanshan Kingdom, but they were lost due to the war, and the craftsmanship was also lost. Even Princess Shuangyang couldn’t find a craftsman who knew this craftsmanship. Lu Heng also felt very sorry.

Although Cai Jing, Li Gang, and Han Qi were "fighting", the development of the Western Regions did not stop. In the words of later generations, the Western Regions became an important area for the GDP growth of the Song Dynasty.

Ten years have passed now, and there are still two years before Cai Jing will return to the court. Li Gang and Han Qi both returned to the court one step earlier to serve as deputy envoys of the Six Doors and deputy envoys of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

As for Dong Yun and Fei Yi, who returned to the court earlier, and the recalled Jiang Wan, they replaced the deceased Wang Chong, Sheng Xian, and Yan Xiang in the Twelfth Ministry.

Ten years passed quickly, and a group of old officials in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty also slowly left. In addition to Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong who had become officials, there were also the deceased Wang Chong, Sheng Xian, Yan Xiang and others. The limit of human lifespan.

But fortunately, the talents of the new generation of the Song Dynasty have risen, and the talents of the Mesozoic generation are still in their prime. These veterans can also put down their burdens and take care of themselves.

Cai Jing still has two years in office, and Lu Heng has already been selected to replace this political monster. It is Yu Jie who believes that with the foundation of Zhuge Liang and Cai Jing, Yu Jie can make the Western Regions more prosperous and have more oases.

In addition to the vigorous development of the Western Regions in the northwest, the Song Dynasty did not give in much to the Korean Peninsula in the northeast. The black soil is the granary of Lu Heng's country, and it has also been the top priority in the past ten years.

The Jurchens wanted to take back the land of Koryo from the Song Dynasty more than once, and they went south on a large scale twice within ten years, and they were pushed back by the generals of the Yang family led by Meng Gong, Wang Shao, and Yang Yanzhao.

The Western Regions in the northwest, Hanzhou in the northeast, Zhengdong Island Prefecture, and Haizhou in the south have developed rapidly in the past ten years. Under this premise, Zhou Yu wiped out the last power of the island country four years ago, and the island country officially became the island of China. States, emperors, and island nobles have also become past tense.

After a hundred years of the Song Dynasty, the island state, no, whether the island state will be divided Lu Heng is not sure, but in the Song Dynasty, unless the country is subjugated, it is impossible to split again, but in this time and space, the island state is unified by China just like the Korean peninsula , is the sovereign territory of China.

In short, the key words for the important development of the "four places" and "two trades" in the Song Dynasty in the past ten years are the Western Regions, the Korean Peninsula, Haizhou, and Daozhou.

One of the trades is naturally maritime trade, because the route is too long. The Maritime Silk Road, which can only be traded once every two years, can make Da Song, Siam, and Cao Wei earn a lot of money every time, and even Dali can drink soup .

This maritime trade line greatly stimulated the economies of the four countries, and at the same time made the alliance of the four countries closer and closer. Li Jun of Siam also paid attention to maritime trade, but as far as the eye could see, the routes were all in the territory of the Song Dynasty, which made Li Jun very nervous. Aggrieved.

Lu Heng took the foresight to occupy the Malay Islands first, so that Siam, which is also a coastal country, has no room to develop on the sea. It is impossible to fight the Maritime Silk Road, which involves too many economic chains. Without this lifeline, Li Jun thinks Siam's own economy will collapse.

But Li Jun did not sit still. Since he could not occupy the territory, it is always good to vigorously develop navigation and expand navigation routes. Li Jun hopes that Siam can go to the west by itself instead of being taken by Song every time.

In this way, the nautical competition between Siam and Da Song started, but now ten years later, Da Song is far ahead. Lu Heng guesses that there may be two endings in the long run.

The first is that the Siamese economy is completely controlled by the Song Dynasty, and the second is to rise up and fight against the Song Dynasty.

In general, the war between Song Dynasty and Siam is inevitable in the future, but it is not now!Maybe it's Lu Lin, maybe it's the next generation or two, and I don't know for sure!

At the same time, when mentioning Siam, I have to mention the international situation. Boss Cao’s Cao Wei controls Qinghai as a whole. As he gets older, he becomes more and more Buddhist. Sooner or later.

Great Song's economic control over Cao Wei is far stronger than that of Siam, because Cao Wei is a landlocked country whose foreign trade depends entirely on Great Song. I believe that Cao Wei's high-level officials have reacted now, but it is too late.

At least the economic community represented by the Huaxia Alliance will be the main theme in the next few decades or even hundreds of years, unless there are different changes in Siam, Dali, and Cao Wei.

Among them, Lu Heng felt that Cao Wei, who was still Boss Cao, was the most dangerous, because even Da Song had heard about the dispute between Cao Pi and Cao Zhi in the East Palace, and Boss Cao had not yet decided on the heir.

However, Lu Heng clearly remembered that Boss Cao passed away in this year, that is, in 220. I don’t know if it will make Cao Wei turbulent. Song shared a powerful enemy together.

You are not mistaken, it is a strong enemy, not Yelu Abaoji's Liao, the grass on the grave is several meters high, and it is not Wanyan Aguda's gold, but Mongolia!

Before talking about Mongolia, let’s talk about the old rivals of the Song Dynasty, Liao and Jin.

The focus is on the Liao Kingdom. After being hit by the Western Regions seized ten years ago, Yelu Abaoji failed to get out of the haze of losing Goryeo like Wanyan Aguda.

Yelu Abaoji died within two years after retreating to the grassland and moving his capital to Longting!
After Yelu Abaoji died of illness, the new Liao lord was Yeluxian, the medicine jar, but the power was not in his hands, but in the hands of his stepmother Shuluping, who had been confronting Song Dynasty in recent years.

It is rumored that when Shuluping was buried for Yelu Abaoji, he personally chopped off one of his own arms and swore that he would never die with Da Song!

Although Shuluping's arm was broken as in history, he did not massacre those meritorious ministers who slaughtered Yelu Abaoji as in history.

Shu Luping also knew that the Liao Kingdom is now troubled, but the Song Dynasty is a thriving and powerful enemy.

(End of this chapter)