After the imperial court officially enthroned the State of Xikang, Xingtai built a residence in Changshoufang west of Chang'an City, and was the Queen's Mansion of Xikang.

When King Yong Yi arrived at Changshoufang, Queen Ye Ali of Xikang and a group of Tang and Tibet officials had been waiting in the gate for a long time.

"My minister Ye Li, welcome Your Highness Yong!"

When he saw King Yong fall into the car, Ye Ali, dressed in a scholar's robe, walked in front of him and bowed to worship.

After seeing this, Li Tong bent down and helped him with a smile and said, "King Xikang is my good friend. He lives in Chang'an and is waiting in the middle hall. Why do you need so much politeness?"

Although Ye Ali dressed in a gentleman manner, there was a difference between men and women after all. Li Tong was unable to walk with his arms, and his fingers were about to close at the bend of his arms.

Ye Ali also stood up with the flow, standing tall behind King Yong, only half a head shorter than Li Tong. He was already extremely outstanding among women, with a slightly gentle and charming heroic spirit. Even if he didn't say anything, he was already a pleasing picture.

"If your highness has a tutor, please let someone leave and report it. I will go and accept the order. The king is fortunate to come to the palace, and I dare to come out disrespectfully!"

Ye Ali looked straight at King Yong, and there was an unconcealed joy in his eyes.

While the two were greeting each other, all the staff members of the Xikang Palace also came in front of us to see each other. Although Ye Ali, the Queen of Xikang, lived in Chang'an, was not just a false title. The country and the people were the focus of Taiwan's border management, so they were also equipped with all the staff members, and their personnel structure was second only to the Yong Palace.

Among them, there were Xingtai who chose the assistants of the prefectures, such as Su Yue served as the chief of the Xikang Prince's Mansion after he was appointed as the chief of the Xikang Prince's Mansion, and Tian Shaoan also hired as the kingdom official. In addition, there were also a group of subordinates whom Ye Ali brought when he entered the Tang Dynasty, as well as several foreign officials appointed in Chang'an City. Now he left the palace to welcome him, with a total of twenty or thirty members.

There were not a foreign monarch and chiefs living in Chang'an City, but when it comes to standard treatment, they did not surpass Ye Ali. He had a good identity and entered the Tang Dynasty with the Tubo princess. Now the title of Queen Xikang has been operated from scratch. If there are also differences in relatives among the surviving forces, Xikang is undoubtedly the direct descendant of Xingtai.

Even if we put aside closeness and alienation, the ownership of Xikang State has brought real benefits to the Taiwan Strait. At the World Expo not long ago, Xikang State's foreign trade procurement contributed no less than three million yuan in trade volume, and was far ahead in the foreign countries. This alone is worthy of Li Tong's favorable and favorable treatment.

There are ridges and ridges between the east of Sichuan and Tibet. Compared with Shuzhong and Guanzhong, it can be called poor mountains and bad waters, but this does not mean that the Xikang Kingdom itself has no economic value and no purchasing power.

Although most of the Tuqiang and wilderness in that town, its social structure is still in the state of tribal slave owners. The chiefs of the tribes have absolute authority within their respective tribes and have absolute control over their personal and property.

The constant yield of farming and weaving may be meager, but the yield of the pasta is quite considerable. Minerals such as gold, copper, cinnabar, yaks, pack horses and other livestock, musk, bait medicine, salt and other products are also highly valuable commodities.

Moreover, this land is located between the two powerful countries of the Tang Dynasty and Tubo. Needless to say, the strategic position is needed. The trade benefits of the Tea-Horse Traffic Road alone cannot be underestimated. In the later Middle Tang Dynasty, the eight Western Mountain Kingdoms, with the main body of Qiang, rose among the mountains and rivers in western Sichuan, and grew stronger through war and trade, called the two-sided Qiang, so that life should not be too comfortable.

Since the Tubo Lun family came to power, the relationship with the Tang Dynasty has fallen to freezing point because of the strategies and operations surrounding Tuyuhun. There is naturally no way to talk about official trade activities, but the demand has not decreased, but has become more prosperous. At least one-third of the merchants in Shu made a fortune by smuggling through the Tea-Horse Trading Road.

People's pursuit of profit is endless. The geographical situation in western Sichuan is complicated, so it is absolutely impossible to block it. If the imperial court can really send troops to completely block the tea and horse trade road, then it will be enough to check the smuggling and rush to the plateau to kill Tubo.

Regarding this, Guo Yuanzhen made a very detailed report based on his personal experience, believing that it is better to lose weight than to block.

If the Taiwan still wants to suppress the tea and horse trade, not only will it not ban this trade channel, but it will force smuggling merchants to become more out of the law, making this smuggling trade more unregulated. For the huge profits contained in this, it may even take the path of armed smuggling, making the situation of border troubles even more serious.

Li Tong deeply agrees with this, so he established the pro-Tang power of Xikang Women's Kingdom, as the only trade object in the region, to squeeze the profit margin of smuggling through official trade activities.

Regular product output has already guaranteed considerable profits. If it is concentrated on the output of forbidden items, it is much more convenient to check. After all, the source of forbidden items itself is not without control, and there are only so many customer groups. If you stuck these two nodes, no matter how secret the channel is, even if you go to heaven and earth, once a large amount of logistics movement occurs, you can find it more concisely.

The group entered the palace and Su Yue, the chief of the royal family, first reported the progress of the previous trade delivery. Although Xikang Kingdom purchased a lot at the World Expo, it was not directly paid off for both money and goods, and most of them were discounted on raw materials.

If you really need money and money to deal with it, not to mention that Xikang cannot afford so much money, even if you can, Li Tong is not happy to do so.

The many things that Xikang Kingdom can export are of extremely high value. The focus of trade between the two parties is not on the money and goods between them, but rather on the basis of which it is derived from greater profit space. After they communicate with each other, they can choose other trade objects based on this, and the profit will be multiplied several times.

Ye Ali was in Chang'an and could only control state affairs remotely. Such a large amount of goods and goods flowed out alone could not be completed in a short time by relying on his power in the eastern region. Xingtai also fully understood this. Lu Yuanfang served as the chief of Yizhou. One of the important tasks was to integrate the power of civil merchants in Shu. For example, Guo Wanjun, a Shu merchant who once followed Guo Yuanzhen to the inner territory of Tubo, would go in and out of western Sichuan and transport and export the materials of Xikang Kingdom. The various transportation costs incurred in this were naturally responsible for Xikang Kingdom.

After all, once these Tang Dynasty products arrive in Xikang and are sold separately to the surrounding areas, the profits will be amazing. Even such a large amount of trade is not something that can be eaten by Xikang. In the early years, the merchants who were connected to the foreign countries in Shu had already been integrated, and their original trade volume was also merged.

Compared with the profits from this trade, Ye Ali was more concerned about the issue of garrison in Longnan. Her current identity as Queen Xikang is only recognized by the Tang Dynasty, and in Tubo, she is still the Princess Chizun of the Eastern Region, and the Eastern Region she was undertaking was also based on the contradiction between the Zanpu royal family and the powerful ministers of the Lun family.

This time, if a large amount of Tang Dynasty goods arrive in Xikang, the wealth will be touching, and such amazing profits will be enough to make Zanpu and Qinling covet, and perhaps the previous conflicts will be put aside and join forces to grab it.

If such a thing really happens, Xikang will definitely not be able to defend it, and it will inevitably require strong force protection. Only by entering the deep army in Xingtai can we intimidate both Zanpu and Qinling.

"The income from this trade is unknown. But no matter how much you can collect, after deducting all kinds of payments, Ye Li is willing to donate all his or her highness to strengthen the military affairs of Longnan! He will give it to him every year in the future, so he will definitely ensure that Longnan Jiawu will always have a lot of money!"

After the officials and the officials finished reporting and each withdrew, Ye Ali stood up again to salute and expressed his opinion.

After hearing this, Li Tong smiled and said, "Although the troops stationed in Taiwan are still in Longnan, they have their own plans to protect Xikang, but their own plans are their own plans. I and the King of Xikang are willing to be friends for a long time. How can I be obsessed with short-term profits and heavy burdens?"

"Before I entered the Tang Dynasty, the foreign countries were forced by the powers of various families and struggling to survive. Only after entering the Tang Dynasty could they be protected and loved by His Highness, can they realize the calmness of life. The Xikang land was already conferred on His Highness and gained this vanity, just to make the Xingtai easier to do in the Eastern Region. How much can you enjoy? If you rely on love to be greedy, and make a fool of yourself, you will lose your true long-term plan!"

Speaking of this, Ye Ali looked up at King Yong: "I beg your highness not to treat you as a far-reaching guest in foreign countries, but you can grow up in the king's plan, and your wish is enough! Since you have been born, you have been forced to take many favors and forced people, but your highness is caring for you. You are so dedicated to being lonely, but you are not willing..."

Li Tong lowered his head and saw the sincere and enthusiastic look, and couldn't help but feel emotion and sighed without any remembrance: "I was not born with power and follow me. I recall my predecessor. I am not Wuwu Qu You, and both have a loneliness and mercy. I feel that the queen can abandon everything and come far away to me, and have such a sincere entrustment, how can I bear to refuse?

But on my day, the queen can be carefree in everything, and it has nothing to do with the choice of power, but only the close friends feel sympathy. They are both people who have fallen into the world, and since I first understand and give benefits to others, the world is not ruthless, but the person you meet or is not satisfied with."

Although Xikang Kingdom has received considerable attention from Xingtai, it is still not the primary place for Xingtai. In the past year, Ye Ali has been in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Tong has also contacted him many times for public and private affairs. In addition to an appreciation, he is indeed sympathetic.

A woman is no longer tolerated by her family and country, and is dependent on her enemy country thousands of miles away, and is manipulated by human power. It seems that she is honored and honored, but in fact the road is getting narrower and narrower. The so-called Xikang Kingdom does give her a lot of vanity at the moment, but if the situation in the Tang Dynasty and Tubo changes in the coming year, it may be her death-hunting talisman.

So Li Tong is also willing to give her a promise, and she will give her some protection regardless of whether the business strategy around Xikang Country changes.

After hearing what King Yong said, Ye Ali was moved and shed tears for a moment, and bowed to the head.
Chapter completed!