Zhang Yuanqing hesitated for a moment and replied: "Li Guanren, I don't know whether I can make a return on my capital and make a profit. However, according to the explanatory reports in Chang'an Times and Business Report, I should be able to make a return on my capital and make a profit."
"Oh, what did the newspaper say?"
"After the straight road is repaired, the fare will be charged directly, based on the amount per mile. Li Guanren, the first-class seat we took from Qingyuan Pass to Pizhou, the fare per person is seventy-four guan."
"Seventy-four strings? So expensive?" Li Qingluan was shocked.
The standard of relief for poor people in the Song Dynasty was "twenty coins per person per day". Therefore, for ordinary people, the daily expenses of a family of five were at least about one hundred coins.
The money she paid for the trip was enough for the family to survive for two years.
One person has seventy-four guan, and two people have 148 guan. From Qingyuan Pass to Pizhou, it is about 600 miles. According to what was said when getting on the train, you have to change horses but not cars in the middle of the journey. You travel day and night, starting in the morning and arriving in the evening.
You can get there in one day.
Can you get there in one day?!!
So quickly, the two hundred and fifty dollars seemed worth it.
"Mr. Zhang, can you make back your capital and make a profit just by soliciting customers?"
Zhang Yuanqing shook his head, "Li Guanren, that's definitely not enough. The construction of this straight road will cost money, and the daily maintenance after construction will also cost money. How can we make a profit with this passenger traffic alone? And the road from Qingyuan Pass to Pizhou
It's a straight road, not a hotline, and there aren't many business travelers coming and going. It was just a coincidence that we happened to meet this group of carriages."
Li Qingluan pointed to the freight carriage speeding on the road on the other side, "Isn't it still possible to transport goods?"
"Li Guanren, you are indeed right. This straight road can also transport goods. In addition to the goods transported to Qingyuan Pass for export to our country, a large part of them are supplies for the border army. I heard that the freight for military supplies is cheaper, but
After calculation, it is enough to maintain the maintenance cost of this straight road and make a slight profit. It will take longer to recover the capital and make a profit."
"But the straight road from Jingzhao Prefecture to Qinzhou via Xianyang, Qizhou, Longzhou, is full of money. It was expanded on the basis of the old Longyou Road in the Qin, Han and pre-Tang Dynasties, and now it has become a golden road.
Merchants from the Western Regions, Hexi, and Longyou ran on that road, and large quantities of goods were transported on this road."
"The straight road leading to Lanzhou via Gongzhou is still being expanded and will be divided into two roads in the future. The west road will extend to Huang, Shan and other states. The north road will follow the Kaluochuan River, go straight to Liangzhou, and then go west to Shazhou. Listen
It is said that freight carriages on that road must be booked one month in advance."
Li Qingluan was secretly sad. The loss of the land west of Hexi was the biggest pain for the Xia Kingdom and the key point of its decline.
"On the first day of the second year of Tianqi, all the states in Hexi surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Hexi capital was set up to protect the royal palace - I heard that it will be revoked this year and changed to Hexi County?"
"Yes, Mr. Li. It was originally said that the county was not changed until the fourth year of Tianqi, but for some reason it was changed one year in advance. Hexi, Xihai, and Longyou counties were changed together."
After hearing the news, Li Qingluan thought about it quietly, and then asked, "Is there no news from Zhang Guangshun? About the deployment of our Xia Kingdom?"
"No."
"Not at all."
Hearing this questioning, Zhang Yuanqing felt nervous, stopped and thought about it, and finally found a suitable topic to express his merits.
"Guangshun heard an old story from the Military Intelligence Bureau and accidentally mentioned that there was a man named Emifeng in the Xia State who provided a lot of information to the Song State. He later went to inquire about it and found out some clues.
I only know that it is at a key location in the center of our country, but we are still inquiring about the details.”
"Emei Peak?" Li Qingluan rubbed his brow.
Now there are too many people in Xia State who are willing to serve as internal correspondents for Song State. In addition to those Han officials, even the Dangxiang and Uighur nobles are unreliable. A peak of Emei is nothing, Li Qingluan is worried about the endless mountains.
"Let's check again when we go back." Li Qingluan prevaricated, "Song State took over all the states in Hexi and took over Juyanhai. In the west, it can trade with other countries in the Western Region through Shazhou; in the north, it can do business with Mobei through the Zubu Kelie tribe; in the south,
..."
Speaking of this, Li Qingluan sounded a little panicked, why did the Song Dynasty suddenly open up its territory and expand its territory to such a large territory.
"Occupying all the land of Uzang, Bowo, Nagu (Ngari area), and Mayu (eastern Kashmir), most of them were organized into the seven wings of the Suzaku Banner, with 140,000 households, and the rest were set up with 27 comfort and appeasement units.
Envoys to serve as restraints. Now the seven-winged Suzaku has 140,000 households and more than 100,000 cavalry. They are waiting for danger and are eyeing Niboluo, Dali and Tianzhu..."
"Yes," Zhang Yuanqing couldn't help but sigh, "In the past, the Dali Kingdom thought that the sky was high and the sky was high, and it was not very respectful to the Song Dynasty. The Seven Wings of Zhuque Manbian, Bowo Motuo and other places established eleven chieftains, and they immediately
His face changed. On the first day of this year, Duan Zhengchun, the leader of the Dali Kingdom, sent his son Duan Heyu as the chief envoy, and Gao Taiyun, the brother of the Prime Minister Gao Taiming and the governor Gao Taiyun as deputy envoys to Kaifeng City..."
Zhang Yuanqing thought for a while and said, "They probably haven't left. They admire Mr. Dongpo the most. If he passes away, they will definitely not leave in a hurry."
Li Qingluan didn't say anything. She seemed to have thought of something. She tilted her head in thought, her face getting increasingly ugly.
"The Song army has become so powerful, how could it be possible for me, Daxia, to sit back and ignore me? In the past, Daxia stretched across Henan and Hexi, and Zhao Shisan dared to use troops to fight. Now that Daxia is trapped in an inch of land south of Henan, he
Zhao Shisan talks about kindness and doesn't dare to use troops anymore?"
Speaking of this, Li Qingluan's tone was a little unkind, "Zhang Guangshun, in such an important position in the Privy Council, really haven't heard anything at all? He - he must have had second thoughts, right?"
There were a few beads of sweat on Zhang Yuanqing's forehead, and he quickly explained, somewhat flustered.
"No, absolutely not! Guangshun's relatives are all in the Xia Kingdom. How could he dare to forget the kindness of His Majesty and the Princess?"
Li Qingluan looked at him quietly, waiting for his next words. The look in his eyes was cold to the bone, as if if the next words were wrong, he would be thrown off the galloping horse.
"Guangshun really did not inquire about the Song army's deployment to Xixia in the Privy Council. In the past two years, the Song army mobilized back and forth, some captured Juyanhai, some wiped out Huangtou Huihe, Caotou Datar, and some marched into Uzang.
Yes, there is really no news of launching troops against our Xia Kingdom. It seems that in the past two years, the official in Kaifeng City has forgotten the Xia Kingdom in the northwest."
After listening to Zhang Yuanqing's hurried explanation, Li Qingluan asked calmly: "Why do I get the information that the Song Army has been mobilized frequently in the past two years, especially the three northwest armies, which have undergone great changes."
"Princess...Li Guanren is right! In the first year of Tianqi, after the Dunyushan uprising in Hebei Province, wars broke out all over the Song Dynasty. Luzhou in Hedong, Langya in Qilu, Luyang in Huainan, Xuancheng in Jiangdong, and Quzhou in western Zhejiang happened one after another.
There was civil unrest. The Song army was mobilized from all over, not only the three armies in the northwest and the three armies in Hebei and Hedong, but also a lot of troops were deployed to suppress it."
"So many civil unrest?" Li Qingluan said thoughtfully, a little unbelievable.
"Li Guanren, actually, the root cause is still the inspection of land. Although Zhao Guanjia has made it clear that he will declare the land himself and pay taxes according to the regulations in the future, it will ensure that it is safe and passed on to his descendants. But no one is willing to accept it. All the fields that used to be taxed must now be taxed.
How much food is missing outside. But they also know that Zhao Guan's family is strong and they dare not come openly, so..."
"So you want to incite people everywhere to cause trouble?"
"Yes. I don't know where these people found their connections, but they actually managed to win over the Sect, the Zoroastrian Sect, the Maitreya Sect, and the White Lotus Sect. People with ulterior motives in the local area were found by them, and then they gave money to soldiers and instigated them to start an army.
Making trouble. They only know that Zhao Guan's family has a strong temperament, but they don't know that this one is also sharp-eyed, cruel and cruel. They are waiting for these people to come forward so that they can catch them all."
Li Qingluan was too lazy to care about the life and death of those people. She was concerned about the mobilization of the Song Army.
"The officers and soldiers in the hinterland of the Song Dynasty are so useless, why do we still need to mobilize the border troops to suppress the civil unrest?"
"Li Guanren, the Song Dynasty has been at peace for a hundred years. Except for the northwest, even the imperial guards in the capital and Hebei are in tatters. Not to mention the prosperous and peaceful places in the southeast have long been unusable. The Zhao Guan family took this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, that is, eradicate them.
The local forces that opposed the New Deal completely reorganized the Forbidden Army in various parts of the southeast, and also frightened the wealthy families in other places who were resentful of the New Deal."
"Isn't it possible to use these troops to deploy generals and train troops so that they can be used in our Daxia?"
Zhang Yuanqing was speechless. He even felt that Li Qingluan had a persecution fantasy.
Now that Zhao Guan's family is busy dealing with internal affairs, they have no time to deal with overseas affairs. The new policy he is implementing now is more dynamic than the new law promoted by Wang Wencheng during the reign of Duke Xining, and the backlash caused is greater than that time. It is all due to his efforts
Press it down.
To put it mildly, they are walking on thin ice. If they are not careful, it will be a tsunami of the world's nobles resisting "tyranny". Zhao Guan's family still has the opportunity to take care of other things.
Li Qingluan didn't wait for Zhang Yuanqing's answer. He felt secretly in his heart and sighed: "Mr. Zhang, you were sent out again just a few days after you returned to Xingqing. You don't know much about the situation in the country. Now many people are trying to persuade your majesty.
, ascended the throne, demoted himself to the vassal king, and surrendered to the Song and Liao countries."
Zhang Yuanqing's expression changed, "Has the domestic situation deteriorated to this extent?"
Li Qingluan did not answer directly, but murmured to himself: "I plan to go to Kaifeng this time to formally make this request to Zhao Shisan. I want to take a good look and see that he understands Gao Guo's true intentions to me."
Zhang Yuanqing was slightly startled when he heard this. He quickly understood the meaning of Li Qingluan's words and fell silent.
The sunlight shines in from the window and reflects on the faces of the two people, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, constantly flashing. This chapter has been completed!
