Chapter 1,477 Authorization Letter

Su You said: "If you were someone who didn't understand the situation, you might have been deceived by the local officials. Let me ask you, when the Song Dynasty conquered Xixia, the Song-Liao agreement required that the Song Dynasty could only station how many people in Muna Mountain.

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"Thirty-five thousand people, right?"

"We, the Song Dynasty, only have a total of 35,000 people. It is difficult to deal with Xiaoguli's Yunnei Prefecture garrison. Do you think Zhongwu can still control the 150,000 people of the Bai Tachu Division?"

"Furthermore, it is clearly written in the aid agreement that the people from the two armies will be dispersed and resettled by the Song Dynasty, and will be sent back to the Liao Kingdom after one year. This is because the brothers of Song and Liao are all citizens of the world, and the late emperor cannot bear to have them die.

Fengxue just extended a helping hand."

"The people of the two groups ate horse chews in the Song Dynasty. I didn't receive any money from the Song Dynasty. I sent them out of the country as gifts after the autumn, and also gave them cattle, sheep and horses as gifts."

"I, the Great Song Dynasty, have done all my benevolence and righteousness, haven't I?"

"Yunnei Prefecture belongs to the Liao Kingdom. The place where the two troops returned is the Liao Kingdom. We, the Song Dynasty, have completed our obligations to our country."

"As for whether their presence is in compliance with your country's laws or not, that is your country's internal affairs."

"When did the Song Dynasty need to interfere in the internal affairs of the Northern Dynasty?"

Niu Wenshu retorted: "But they are working for Zhongwu!"

Su You also retorted: "Are there less people from the Song Dynasty in Zhanglu Island working for the Liao people?!"

"This...this is different..."

"Then please tell me, Niu Diguan, what's the difference?"

There is nothing wrong with Su You's words. The Song people from Zhanglu Island have been exporting to Youyun and the coastal cities of the Liao Kingdom. Their presence is everywhere in the economic activities in the southern region of the Liao Kingdom.

Those high-yield industries, such as ports, porcelain, silk, patent medicines, wool spinning, iron smelting, and finance, are all controlled by the nobles, but the actual managers of these industries are mostly professionals hired from the two islands.

And most of these people are Song people.

Niu Wenshu was so angry. He knew something was different, but he didn't dare to say it.

Could it be said that the Tatars went to the Song Dynasty for a year and since then they were no longer willing to return to the Song Dynasty? That the Liao Dynasty did not control the tribes in the west well? It is said that the Tatar tribe rebelled almost every year, and the Liao Dynasty massacred seventy or eighty people in the west.

Years ago, Zha La Yi'er was barely killed. Wu Gu Dilie did not dare to resist, but he never conquered Zu Bu. In the end, he only took measures to ban the iron?

Are you saying that the nobles of the Liao Kingdom were corrupted from the time they participated in politics to the next level, and they were shamelessly cooperating with the Song people in order to pursue the maximum benefits brought to them by technology and trade?

It is said that Shichun, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, once reported to Yelu Hongji, asking the Liao State to vigorously introduce the technology of the Song Dynasty and support the tax-free policy, but the powerful people took advantage of it?

It is said that they obtained the tax-free status under the guise of introducing technology to attract talents. In fact, Song people were in charge of material import, machine operation, personnel management, and product sales?

What the powerful wanted was money, and the water-drawing machines that the Chamberlain had worked so hard to restore were incomparable to those of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the so-called introduction of the powerful was, in the final analysis, just to act as compradors, or to be compradors encouraged by the policies of the Liao Dynasty.

But the dignitaries shouted that it was really fragrant, really fragrant. How dare he, the Minister of Household Affairs of Nanyuan, touch such a big plate of steamed buns?

Is Yelu Yisun great? At his peak, he could kill the queen and the prince, but in the end, wasn't he tricked by the merchants and the powerful?

After Su You conquered Xixia, the Song monarchs and ministers saw clearly that the Liao Kingdom's seemingly powerful fig leaf actually only blocked the traditional Song and Liao border lines. In fact, the Liao Kingdom was a giant with feet of clay.

Just like a man who is so poor that he only wears a shirt. No matter how beautiful or luxurious the shirt is, it cannot block the ugly big butt of his lower body.

Therefore, Su You was not afraid that the Liao Kingdom would make any big move in Hetao. On the contrary, it was the Liao Kingdom that was afraid.

Niu Wenshu's mouth was bitter: "Over the years, Daliao is very grateful for the help it has given to the Southern Dynasty. Situ, if the performance of the Tatars this year makes our country's good impression of your country's rescue of the Tatars last year disappear,

Isn’t it worth the loss?”

Su You smiled and said: "First of all, your court may have misunderstood our court's motives for helping the Tatars. The reason why our court helped them is because they are human beings, hundreds of thousands of them."

"Just like the previous rescue of your country from the locust plague, our country is founded on benevolence and filial piety. We cannot just watch hundreds of thousands of people die on the border and remain indifferent, even if they are your subordinates and compatriots."

"Secondly, our court does not hope to gain any favor from your court. We just did what we wanted to do and made ourselves selfless, but we did not make any demands on this matter from your court.

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"Therefore, our court does not need to win the favor of your country on this matter. Whether it exists or disappears, it does not matter to me, the Song Dynasty."

"But as a human being, I think everyone should be grateful after receiving help."

"If you don't understand, it's not the fault of the person providing help, but the fault of the person receiving help. His morals are too bad, his character is too bad, and he doesn't have the basic qualities of a human being."

"That's their sorrow."

If Xiao Xi were here, he would definitely be furious and shout that the Duke of Shu bullied people and we have to pay compensation, but Niu Wenshu actually looked ashamed: "Situ is wrong. I am grateful to the Southern Dynasties for their help."

"However, there has been an agreement since the Chanyuan Alliance that grazing and farming are not allowed within fifty miles of the border between the two Koreas. This is to prevent people from the two countries from having too much contact and causing trouble."

Su You said: "Yes, we, the Song Dynasty, have always strictly abided by this regulation, but your dynasty allowed the people to cut down trees, graze, build fields, fish in the boundary rivers in the restricted area, and even create a fait accompli, and then embezzle

I have a territory of seven hundred miles."

Niu Wenshu stopped him immediately: "The seven hundred miles were agreed during the Xining period. Situ doesn't need to mention the past."

Su You said: "If you never forget the past and the future, this kind of thing will never happen to the Song Dynasty again."

"Song and Liao are countries of brothers, so they must sit on equal positions to discuss affairs. I believe your Majesty also means the same, so the envoys were replaced by people like Niu Diguan, who is knowledgeable and reasonable."

"Because he knows that it is useless to send Xiao Xi here to make trouble unreasonably, and we will not pay attention to him anymore."

"So Niu Diguan, if you have something to say, just talk about it, and don't use the excuse of blocking the internal affairs of the White House and Bai Ta in the hope of getting some benefits in exchange."

"Since everyone is a sensible person, let's negotiate on the basis of mutual benefit."

"If you want to be unreasonable, I can reply to you now. Please restrain the people on your border and ask them to withdraw fifty miles from the border of the Song Dynasty. They should not live illegally in the restricted area or cross the border as nomads.

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"The two Tatar tribes, please keep them outside the river. The grass in that area is the same. Don't always think that the grass here in the Song Dynasty is more fragrant!"

Niu Wenshuli was at a loss for words and his old face turned red: "Well, Situ, let's skip this section. Let me talk about this mission and what I want from His Majesty?"

Su You smiled and said: "Yes, your Majesty is an old customer of Sitong. If you have any requirements, just say it! We will try our best if we can do it; if we can't, we will discuss it slowly and finally come up with a solution.

Good results will come."

Niu Wenshu pushed over a brochure: "All the demands of our court are here."

"First of all, the Sitian Pavilion, which your dynasty is assisting our dynasty, has been completed. However, many of the observation instruments, recording forms, and astronomical calculations require your dynasty to send famous teachers to teach our scholars to use, record, and calculate."

Su You nodded: "This is a reasonable request. You can't spend 1.5 million yuan just sitting there unused. I will ask your Majesty to choose someone."

Niu Wenshu added: "Second, at the request of the Minister of Industry, I would like to obtain several lathes from your dynasty for processing workpieces."

Su You said: "This is negotiable, but nowadays there are many grades of machine tools in the Song Dynasty. The most expensive one is worth 300,000 guan. I don't know about the cheapest one. It is estimated to cost tens of thousands guan."

Niu Wenshu said: "If the machine is too expensive, then we can just use the drawings."

Su You laughed loudly: "Then I'm even more afraid that you can't afford it, because the drawings are much more expensive than the machine tools."

Niu Wenshu was a little unhappy: "How could Situ be so prevaricating? Aren't the drawings just some paper? How can it be more expensive than steel?"

Su You said: "Let the local officials know that our government has just implemented a law called the "Patent Law" to protect the interests of inventors of inventions such as machine tools."

"Presumably you, Niu Diguan, also know some of the power of machine tools. Then you should imagine how much effort our skilled craftsmen from the Song Dynasty put into inventing this thing."
Chapter completed!