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"Returning to Your Majesty, I have seen Wang Tanzhi's corpse. After I fought with the man in black last night, I felt that the sword moves of the man in black were somewhat familiar. Later, I finally remembered that the dead body on Wang Tanzhi's body The sword wound should have come from the hand of the man in black!"

Zhao Junsheng was a little less calm now: "When did Prince Jing have such a person with such high martial arts?"

Zhao Junsheng couldn't help but attach so much importance to it. King Jing and Zhao Ting have made a lot of small moves in the past six months, and the most critical part of his record in the court case has been torn off, except King Jing and Zhao Ting himself, the dead Wang Tanzhi, and Zhao Ting. Other than his spies, no one knew what he had been doing for the past six months.

Shadow did not answer, this is not something he should ask, and it is not his business.

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while and asked, "Which court ministers and officials has King Jing had contact with these days?"

"Ever since several ministers controlled by Prince Jing were dismissed, Prince Jing has not had any contact with other ministers. Judging from the current situation, the forces secretly managed by Prince Jing have been destroyed. , there should be only Xiaoyu Xiaoxia, but after this incident, these Xiaoyu Xiaoxia should not dare to show their heads again, and Prince Jing will definitely not easily contact them again!"

Zhao Junsheng rubbed his chin, and told Shadow: "You don't need to worry about the contact between King Jing and court officials. You can check this man in black and see when such a person appears in my business. What is this person's identity, and why did he appear beside Prince Jing!"

"promise!"

The Shangyuan Festival is here. This is the most lively festival of the year. Both the Qian Kingdom and the Liu Song Kingdom hold lantern festivals on this day, and they carnival all night for three consecutive days.

On this day, the emperor, ministers and common people celebrate together, especially at night when the lantern festival is held, almost every household will go to the street to play. The folk art show drew waves of cheers like a tsunami.

After the Shangyuan Festival, both the court and the people quickly returned to normal, and those who should work should work and those who should provide for the elderly.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, at the court meeting.

Pei Jin stood up and saluted and said: "Your Majesty, there is not much time left until the beginning of spring. Since November last year, the imperial court has ordered all county and county governments to organize labor to dredge rivers and ditches, repair water diversion and irrigation facilities, strengthen dams, etc. , but I don’t know the specific situation yet, so I sent people to various places to inspect, and if they encounter ineffective implementation during the inspection process, they will be punished!”

Zhao Junsheng said: "I have considered this matter, where is Li Shan?"

A minister in his fifties stood up and saluted: "Take you as the imperial envoy, and give the imperial envoy a thousand soldiers and horses to inspect the dredging of rivers and ditches, irrigation facilities, reinforcement of dams and other matters in various parts of our country! King Jing Zhao Ting, by You will be the deputy imperial envoy to assist Li Shan!"

Both of them stood up and saluted and agreed: "I obey the order!"

Honglu Temple officials stood up and reported: "Qizou Your Majesty, at the end of last year, when the Persian envoy Yaztize came to see His Majesty, he proposed the idea of ​​sending [-] troops from both countries to attack the disgusting people. As soon as Lu Temple opened the official office to handle official business, Yaztize personally came over and proposed to see His Majesty, asking about our country's decision on this matter, I don't know how I should reply? Does Your Majesty want to see Yaztize?"

Zhao Junsheng pondered for a while, and said: "During this period of time, I have been considering this matter, and have decided not to send additional troops to the west of Congling for the time being. At present, the strategic focus of our dynasty is still on the south. In terms of strategy, as for the matter of the Yanda people, our dynasty has sent Kuhehan to lead more than [-] people into the west of Congling, and this year has caused a lot of pressure on the Yanda people!"

Minister Kang Ying stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, our court and the Yanda people are still in a state of war. Our court caravan cannot enter the territory controlled by the Yanda people west of Congling, and the northern silk road has not yet been fully explored. It is clear, so in the past year, our foreign trade has been greatly affected!"

"However, the Sogdian merchants under the rule of the Yanda people were able to enter the territory of our dynasty to engage in commerce and trade. After passing through the Congling Ridge, the Silk Road has disappeared from our dynasty's caravans, but the camel caravans of Sogdian merchants are everywhere , They are now doing a unique business, I can earn five times, or even ten times the profit when I ship the goods worth ten yuan to the end, and I can make a lot of money in one round trip! Only last year, I went to I lost 600 million guan in commercial tax revenue, and if things go on like this, I will lose more and more money, and the Sogdian merchants have earned all the money!"

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said, "It's really not going to go on like this. What's the plan of the Ministry of Finance? How to stop the loss?"

Kang Ying bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, I believe that our dynasty should countermeasures. Since the haters do not allow our caravans to enter its territory, our dynasty will also prohibit the haters from entering our territory, and prohibit the haters from taking the western Goods are sold into the territory of our dynasty, and only our products are allowed to flow into the west! As far as I know, the Naida people are barbaric and do not do production. I imposed trade sanctions on the merchants of various ministries in Tocharian, and they were not allowed to sell Western goods into our country, and they were not allowed to purchase our Korean goods. It will not take long for the Sogdian merchants to survive. They have no money to supply the disgusting people. , the people who hate you will have no money to buy food and other daily necessities, and after a long time, there will definitely be problems inside the people who hate you!"

Liang Ji stood up and bowed to Zhao Junsheng, and asked Kang Ying, "Master Kang, if you do this, the goods produced in my dynasty will not be allowed to be purchased by Sogdian merchants. In this way, the quantity of my dynasty's goods entering the west will be reduced." Much less, the loss will be greater and more severe. After all, the Naida people control the Silk Road in the Tocharian area, and the Sogdian merchants are the backbone of purchasing our goods. Only a small number of Persian merchants and Roman merchants can pass through the Spitfire. Luo came to me to work hard, and the merchants in my dynasty could not enter the territory of the disgusting people, and you did not allow Sogdian merchants to enter the territory of my dynasty. Wouldn’t the goods produced by my dynasty have to be accumulated in large quantities? How can those factories and workshops survive? Craftsmanship How do people survive?"

Kang Yingdao: "The lower officials also know that what Liang Gong said is right, but if I don't take countermeasures against the haters, wouldn't it be in vain to let them take advantage? How can my Daqian Dynasty allow the haters to bully them?"

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At this time Chen Yan stood up and said, "Master Kang, the Sogdians are not Yanda people. They are just under the rule of the Yanda people. Sogdian merchants are all over the world. It is true that we are hostile to the Yanda people, but we cannot One shot overturned a boat of people!"

Kang Ying was furious when she heard the words, and pointed at Chen Yan and cursed: "It's a joke, the Sogdians are indeed not the people of the people, but they are the subjects of the people of the people. Use this money to buy food and armaments to fight against our court! Tell me, how much money did you charge the Sogdian merchants? Why are you still speaking for them in this situation?"

"You are spitting blood, you are slandering!" Chen Yan yelled angrily, and hurriedly bowed to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, Kang Ying wronged my minister, please Your Majesty to be the master for my minister!"

"Okay, if you are innocent, what are you afraid of? Get up, don't cry like a mother-in-law!"

As long as Chen Yan got up and returned to his original position, he hated Kang Ying very much.

Zhao Junsheng asked Kang Ying: "In addition to restricting Sogdian merchants from entering our country to do business, are there any other measures? Kang Ying, you must know that if we do this, we can indeed deal a heavy blow to the haters, but it is also a way to kill the enemy." If the Sogdian merchants are restricted from entering our dynasty, and the merchants from our dynasty cannot enter Sogdian territory, then only a few Persian and Roman merchants can transport our goods to the west. Most of the goods exported will be unmarketable. How to solve this matter? If it is not resolved, the industry and commerce in our country will be hit hard. Many factories and workshops will die because of this, and workers will have nothing to do. The pressure will increase!"

Kang Ying bowed and replied: "Your Majesty, I think we can increase the customs duties on the border, so as to reduce our losses. Although Persian and Roman merchants will also reduce their profits because of the increase in border customs duties, no matter what No matter how we raise tariffs, they will always make money, and our tea, porcelain, silk, and paper are necessities in the West, no matter how expensive they are, some people will buy them!"

"At the same time, through the above measures, merchants can be forced to develop the Northern Silk Road. As long as there is a caravan that can go back and forth between Chang'an and Constantinople twice in a row, the Northern Silk Road will be formed. As long as the Northern Silk Road Once the trade route is fixed, I don’t have to go to Tochara to go to the caravan, and I can go south to Persia halfway through the northern line, or go directly to Constantinople in Eastern Rome!”

The Eastern Roman Empire, they have always regarded themselves as the descendants of the Romans, and considered them to be the orthodox successors of the Roman civilization, and the same is true for the Western Roman Empire, they also believed that they were the orthodox successors of the Roman Empire.

At this time, the Western world did not have the concepts of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire. Both were part of the Roman Empire, but there were two emperors and two capital cities, one governing the east and the other governing the west. It was added by later historians to distinguish the two empires.

Even the name of the Byzantine Empire, which appeared later, did not exist at this time. This name was introduced by the German historian Jeromeus in his own work in 1557, and has been widely cited in the Western world since then.

Why did you name the Eastern Roman Empire the Byzantine Empire?In addition to some derogatory meanings, it is mainly because Constantine the Great set the capital before Constantinople. Constantinople was a small town called Byzantium before, and the name was changed after the capital was here. It's called Constantinople.

If it is in the Eastern world, it is absolutely impossible for the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire to exist at the same time. This is the difference in the right of inheritance between the East and the West.

In the East, there is a saying that there are no two masters in a country, and there is no two suns in the sky, that is, a country has only one emperor, and one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, otherwise the world will be in chaos and wars will be fought for years.

But in the West, it is normal for the emperor to divide the country into two and give his two sons inheritance, and the subjects can also accept it, because the Roman Empire has long had a precedent of co-ruling emperors, and even four emperors co-ruling. , So in AD 395, the Roman Empire was divided into two before the death of Emperor Theodosius I, and they were given to his two sons respectively, so two emperors appeared in the Roman Empire to rule the east and west respectively. Part of the situation, and this time the partition caused the Roman Empire to never be unified again.

The reason why Western historians named them the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire is also because the Western Roman Empire perished in 476, and the ruling area was divided up by barbarians, leaving only the eastern part of the Roman Empire.

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, and agreed: "Then let's do this. The decree will be passed on. The county and county governments in various places will issue notices, ordering Sogdian merchants from all over the place to leave our court within one month. Before he left, the local government arrested him and sent him out of the country forcibly! Unless there is a new decree, they can no longer enter our country to do business! From now on, the customs duty on my goods will be increased by three times!"

Some of the ministers thought that doing so would cause dissatisfaction among the small neighboring countries, and Persian and Roman merchants would also protest. They wanted to advise Zhao Junsheng to reconsider, but Zhao Junsheng had already issued a decree, and the emperor said it well, and it was impossible to take it back. , so the ministers can only agree.

"According to the order!"

Zhao Junsheng is not worried at all that foreign businessmen will not buy it. At this time, the Dagan Empire is not afraid of any country, nor does it need to bow and compromise with any country. The Dagan Empire is fully capable of making these other countries hold their noses admit.

The decision at the court meeting spread quickly, and aroused widespread discussion among the common people on the streets.

Two days later, the Persian envoy Yaztize, who received the news, went to Honglu Temple again to inquire about the response to the proposal of joint military dispatch and the increase in tariffs. After receiving the answer, he strongly demanded to see the emperor.

Honglu Temple officials had no choice but to go to the palace to report to Zhao Junsheng, who agreed to meet Yaztize after consideration.

Under the guidance of the eunuch, Yaztize arrived at the Zichen Hall. In Qianguo, the Zichen Hall was used for the emperor to listen to the government and receive foreign envoys, which is the so-called foreign court, and the Qinzheng Hall was used by Zhao Junsheng to handle daily military and political affairs. The location is the so-called inner court, and the Taiji Hall is the palace used to receive the worship of officials and envoys when major celebrations are held.

"The Persian envoy Yaztize pays his respects to His Majesty the Emperor Dagan!" Yaztize saluted Zhao Junsheng after finishing speaking.

Zhao Junsheng sat on the throne and raised his hand: "The envoy is not polite, I don't know why your Excellency came to see me?"

Yaztize said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I heard that His Majesty decided not to accept our two proposals to send [-] troops each to attack the Naida people. I wonder why His Majesty rejected our goodwill? With His Majesty's wisdom, it is not difficult to see that this is beneficial to both of us!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded and said: "It is true that your country's proposal is good, and we also respond positively to this proposal, but considering the current situation of our Dagan Empire, it is really not appropriate to send too many troops. We already sent troops last year More than 2 people and 10,000+ people provided logistical support to pass through Congling and caused great losses to the people, but this is already our limit!"

Yaztize was not dismissed by Zhao Junsheng's words. He said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, as far as I know, your country currently has a population of 3000 million, a military force of one million, and your subjects are rich. The income is increasing year by year, and it is truly the largest country in the East. The Song State in the south is farther away than you. With the strength of your country, you can definitely dispatch more troops to attack the Yanda people! For your country, the Yanda people are Blocking a disgusting and annoying blocker on the East-West business road, only by eradicating such a barbaric country can the business exchanges between the East and the West be more developed. I think it is worthwhile for your country to dispatch [-] troops to solve this problem Yes, it can solve the problem of blocked Silk Road once and for all!"

Zhao Junsheng said in his heart that this guy's eloquence is quite good, he speaks clearly and logically, and he always thinks about the big cadres, but I just won't be fooled, what can you do?

"Your Excellency's words are very reasonable. I have to admit this, but I and the ministers and ministers in the court have their own considerations. We have been fighting abroad for these years, and the territory has continued to expand, but the people in the country need to rest and recuperate. The newly occupied area needs to strengthen its rule, and the soldiers in the army also need to restore their morale, so adding troops to the west of Congling is not our first choice!"

"However, since your country's sincerity in sending you here has moved me very much, I can't send you a trip in vain, so I decided to use two other methods to cooperate with your country in cracking down on those who hate you!"

Yaztize quickly asked, "What are the other two ways to ask Your Majesty?"

Zhao Junsheng stretched out a finger: "First, I have decreed that from today onwards, the Sogdian merchants in our court will be restricted to leave our country within one month, and they will not be allowed to enter again until a new decree is issued. Your Excellency, the envoy, also knows that the Sogdians are a well-known ethnic group for their commercial prosperity. If they cannot enter our country to do business, the economy of the Sogdians will inevitably suffer a devastating blow. They will have no money to buy steel to build Armors, without money to pay soldiers, no money to buy food and other supplies around, and their own goods can not be sold to the east, then the strength of their army will drop a lot, and this is exactly the reason for your country to send troops Chance!"

"Second, I will order General Kuhahan to lead the army to continue attacking the territory controlled by the Yanda people to cooperate with your country's military operations!"