The end of the Battle of Pingxia in Northwest China is clean and neat. Even if there is a little dissonance between Anding Prefecture and Hexi Corridor, it is just a small unpleasant displeasure that is indispensable in the running-in process, and it is harmless.

Zhao Gou looked at the memorials delivered one after another in Anding Prefecture and Hexi Corridor, and his heart was as sweet as eating honey. Not to mention the fields and pastures in Lingxia Land, nor to mention the livestock seized in this battle, but the iron ore and salt pond in Hengshan added two more money trees to the court.

Especially the salt pond.

For more than a hundred years, the green salt and snow salt in Western Xia have been sold in the east, west, south and north. Whether it is the Liao people, the Song people, or the Tubo people on the plateau, they are all covered.

However, during the period when it fell into the hands of the Song Dynasty, the Ministry of Revenue and the local tutor Changpingsi made nearly ten million yuan in wealth because it issued new salt banknotes. This thing is a real money-making and does not arouse public anger. The salt workers in several salt ponds can also be captured as a prisoner. The cost of salt is extremely low, which is really a good deal.

Just a salt pond, it makes up for a lot of deficiencies to some extent, and it can last for a lot of time!

But this does not mean that Zhao Song's financial situation has improved completely.

Zhao Gou is now making a lot of money and spending more. A huge country is really like a bottomless pit, and he can spend all his money. Not to mention anything else, there is only one transportation issue. The Song Dynasty is now focusing on the borders of the northern border, that is, communicating the transportation between Yanyun and Hedong and Anding Prefecture, and communicating the transportation between Anding Prefecture and Guanxi Sixth Road. In this way, I don’t know how much money and grain have been spent. The budget bill made by the Ministry of Revenue is worth tens of millions of yuan. If this includes the entire China, the expenses are even more of an astronomical figure.

Even if such things cannot be handled in a year or two, the money and grain expenditure must be achieved at once, and the expenses within this year will be used as a unit of tens of millions of yuan.

And this is just one of Zhao Song’s many work this year.

Zhao Gou could only be glad that he didn't need to do specific details, although just the decision-making decision made him busy.

It is precisely because of the busy government affairs and his feet are not touching the ground every day that he is now like Zong Ze, who is very disgusted with the outbreak of things outside the work plan in the year.

Because once something unplanned is revealed, it will cause a series of domino reactions, which will affect the whole body, and in the end it will add more trouble to the court and how much trouble it will add to Zhao Gou in the end it will add, that is completely immeasurable.

But Murphy's law is here, and things will shift in the opposite direction of hope.

While Zhao Gou was smiling happily as he looked at the high profit after the Northwest War, unexpected troubles had already come to him.

First of all, the Tubo people, the "strong" Xixia capital was defeated by the Han people, and the Tubo people in the Hehuang area should be as good as they should be. More importantly, the Tubo behind Hehuang also seems to have to offer their knees to express their willingness to peace.

At the same time, the Gaochang Uighurs, the people from the Dongxi Kara Khanate, and the Dongkepuchak people also came to visit them.

Although this Karakhanate was a believer in the Tianfang, it had maintained friendly relations with the Song Dynasty and had been in constant contact for more than a hundred years. Shortly after the Karakhanate was merged with the Kingdom of Khotan, a delegation headed by the Uighur Luo Siwen in 1009 brought local specialties to the Song Dynasty to pay tribute. Since then, the East Karakhanate has frequently sent envoys to pay tribute, and the two sides have been in constant contact. Especially the East Karakhanate, which has paid tribute more frequently since the Xining period of the Song Dynasty, once a year or two, and once a year or a year until the Yuanfeng period.

The reason is very simple, that is, the Seljuk Dynasty captured Bukhara, and the Western Kara Khanate became a political vassal of the Seljuk Dynasty. The Eastern Kara Khanate in the east also suffered tremendous pressure from the West. Instead, he became closer to the Liao Kingdom, hired and asked each other frequently, and became in-laws.

Although the Liao Kingdom's rule centered on the east, the name of Khitan merchants was still very loud in the Central Asian world. Moreover, the westernmost part of the Liao Kingdom's territory had extended to the west of Mount Altai and was already next to Central Asia.

The grassland "Silk Road" with the grassland as the carrier has existed for two hundred years and has a far-reaching impact on Central Asian countries.

However, decades have passed in a blink of an eye. The pressure from the Seljuks has been under increasing importance recently. The Gloru people are almost independent. There is a deep gap between the Khan and the Deputy Khan. The strength of the Dongkara Khan has dropped to the valley since its founding. However, the Liao Kingdom has been destroyed. In the blink of an eye, the Western Xia has also become a thing of the past. Isn’t it just that the Dongkara Khanate has targeted Zhao Song again?

Because in the history of the Western Regions, over the past thousand years, they have been taken for themselves by the powerful Central Plains dynasty many times. During the Li Tang Dynasty, the Tang army even entered the Hezhong area of ​​Central Asia and competed for the mighty Dashi Empire in Talas.

Ahmad Arslan Khan, who was in his twilight years, did not believe that the Gaochang Uighurs, who were weaker than Dongkala, could withstand Zhao Song's military attack and extended tentacles.

Although he felt that he was going to hook up with Zhao Song, he felt a little like he was leading a wolf into the house, but he was about to die. Facing the sharp blades waved by the Seljuk people, facing the damn Gelu people in the north of the Khanate, and the Dongkepuchak people who were vaguely supported by the Garou people in the north, he recognized him even if he drank poison to quench his thirst.

Therefore, the envoys of the Xikarakh Khanate came. Those who came to the Central Plains represented not their own will, but the Seljuk Empire behind them. In addition, the Dongkepuchak people who were joining in the fun, or the Dongkepuchak Khanate.

With the division and decline of the Kipchak people, this political force, which was united by many tribes, could no longer create a major threat to the countries and nations in the south. The era of the Kipchak people has passed.

They are now a loose tribal alliance, occupying the vast Qinzha prairie with the "brother" on the west side of the Caspian Sea.

They joined in the fun and sent people to the Song Dynasty, which was more to watch the dispute closer - the relationship between the Eastern Kara Khanate and the Song Empire, the attitude of the Song Empire toward the Western Kara Khanate and even the Seljuk people behind it.

This really touched the hearts of many people.

Moreover, there were many merchants from all over the world following the mission. These people entered the Central Plains and Bianliang. Not to mention their understanding of the Zhao Song Dynasty, just one issue of translation made the Ministry of Rites frustrated.

"Let the Ministry of Rites draw some people from the white merchants in Bianliang, and those who are proficient in the animated speeches will solve this urgent problem." Then you still have to rely on yourself.

"This matter is over, and the Ministry of Rites has begun to establish the Tongwenguan."

Zhao Gou can still deal with this "emergency" situation. But what about the East and West Kara Khanate? What about the Seljuks? Every bit of attitude and degree are closely related to Zhao Song's future strategy for moving westward.

Zhao Gou didn't know how many meetings he had held these days.

Because of the entire westward strategy, from geographical exploration to the solutions of the Gaochang Uighurs and the Eastern Kara Khanate, and then the solution to various forces in Central Asia, all involved all aspects of the Zhao and Song Empire.

Before the Jurchens in the east were completely fucked down, Zhao Song could not make a big deal to the west. Who would dare to say that the war against the Jin people would be smooth?

If the Jin people did not fight head-on for such a vast land outside the Liaodong Pass, they would not know how long it would take for the Song army to stop. No one could estimate the cost of money, food and military supplies for the war against Jin.

If the Jurchens are tied, but the treasury is empty, then we need to implement the strategy of moving west, but we need to accumulate for a certain number of years...
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