Dad, this seems to be the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 206
"Hexi Corridor? Could it be that the Song Dynasty has already begun plotting the Hexi Corridor, intending to restore the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties?"

Sun Yue said with a wry smile: "Brother Li was joking. The Southern Tang Dynasty and the Later Shu Dynasty are on the side, and the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun are like thorns in their throats. In fact, my Great Song Dynasty is far from completing the national reunification. It is really a bit embarrassing to talk about the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties at this time." It's too early."

Li Guangyan nodded when he heard the words. If Sun Yue really said something crazy during the banquet, he really had to take a good look at this so-called child prodigy. They are all tossing and wanting to die, if Da Song is thinking about this place now, then unless he is crazy, he will not do that if he wants to die.

"The brother means..."

"It's not that Song Dynasty is plotting the Hexi Corridor. I mean, myself, or to be precise, our Sun family has plots for the Hexi Corridor."

"Oh? How do you explain this?"

"Brother Li may not be aware that apart from my father and son serving as minor officials in the court, our family is also the richest man in the entire Song Dynasty. The largest restaurant in Kaifeng City, Fenglelou, belongs to our family. At the same time, almost In the high-end brewing industry, it is considered to be the only one, with tens of thousands of catties of distiller’s yeast sold every month. In addition, we have a large sugarcane plantation in Huainan, and a construction team with thousands of people in the whole country. It can be said that , Our family’s annual profit alone is at least equivalent to the sum of all the taxes in the five states of Dingnan. Of course, most of this money was spent, but not much was really spent on our family.”

Hearing this, Li Guangyan was really shocked. He had heard that Sun Yue's family was rich, but he never thought that their family would be so rich!One year's profit is equivalent to the sum of the taxes of the five states?

Well, the party members are also quite poor, and the tax collection is not as much as that of the Central Plains, but that is also very scary. Well, doesn't this mean that Sun Yue is much richer than him?

This is because Sun Chunming is sensible. He doesn’t save the money he earns or spend too much. Instead, he quickly invests the local money to make money. Even most of it is invested in the right places to relieve the country’s worries, such as His research on explosives, otherwise even if Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Guangmei were standing behind their house, he might have been slaughtered.

"Then you mean..."

"To put it simply, I'm here to send money to the party members. My father wants to unite the rich merchants of the Song Dynasty to do a business with the entire party. Is the scale of the business, so to speak, ten times larger than that at this time?" The total taxation of the five states."

"What... why is the business so big?"

"The Hexi Corridor, the Silk Road. In the Tang Dynasty, it was because of this road that it was able to connect all countries. The Song Dynasty is not capable of developing it by itself. We can do this work by ourselves. On the other side of the corridor, there is a soft and comfortable Persian carpet. Precious and shining gems, more importantly, there are countless horses! My Song Dynasty has silk, porcelain, and tea, but there are no horses! If Tubo, Uighur, Dangxiang and our Song Dynasty merchants can join forces to form If a caravan raids the Hexi Corridor and sells the goods directly to the Gaochang Uyghurs, I promise, whatever the ministries want, I will have whatever the Song Dynasty wants!"

This is a bit crazy, but this is the normal state of the Song Dynasty. It may not be obvious at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, but let's put it this way, the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty was actually rich to the point of frightening. For comparison, the wealth of the Ming Dynasty Seventy percent is in the imperial court, only 100% is in the folk, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen had to raise 100 million taels and almost urinated blood. As for the Northern Song Dynasty, if you convert 100 million taels, it is nothing more than [-] million guan. Dozens!"

In the Han Dynasty, for the sake of the Hexi Corridor, the wolves could be sealed off and the Huns were driven out. In the Tang Dynasty, because the national power was too strong, the entire Turkic people could directly call him Dad, and in the Song Dynasty... then spend money to buy it.

If dynasties are compared to superheroes, then the Han Dynasty is Captain America. He is brave and domineering and is a symbol of the nation.In the Tang Dynasty, it was Thor, whose strength was beyond the charts, and existed like a god, while in the Song Dynasty, it was Iron Man.

If this guy hadn't been rich, he would have died dozens of times.

As long as you have money, is there anything you can't solve?Sun Yue believes that money can make ghosts move.

"You want to buy horses from the Western Regions through the Hexi Corridor? This... is a bit whimsical. You must know that the current Hexi Corridor is not controlled by a certain ethnic group. There are our party, some of the Tubo, and various other things that I can't figure out. Uyghur, one of these tribes disagrees, and the trade route is nonsense."

"Can't you earn a piece of money if you have money? Brother should know that the products of the Song Dynasty are in short supply in the Western Regions. An ordinary white porcelain bottle can be exchanged for a piece of gold of the same size in the Western Regions or even further away. The profit is more than a few hundred times?
In the Han and Tang Dynasties, this profit was completely monopolized by the Han people. Now that the Song Dynasty has no such strength, then everyone can earn together. Which tribe does not lack iron, which nation does not lack tea?I plan to develop Dingnan Wuzhou into a large-scale ethnic exchange market, linking the Hexi Corridor in the west and the Song Dynasty in the east. As long as we are united, the profits will be enough for everyone in the party to live a good life. Don't worry about starving anymore. "

"Impossible. People's greed is infinite. You can't do everything. If only the Song Dynasty and the Dangxiang are involved, there may be some discussion on this matter, but if you add Tubo and Uyghur, it will be It's a fool's dream, and money touches people's hearts.

As long as any tribe can't resist plundering trade routes, this line will be ruined. In the vast Gobi, people who kill people will be thrown away, let alone revenge, and it will be difficult to find who did it. It is possible to directly send troops to destroy the country because Qiuci blocked the trade route. Why does the Song Dynasty dominate such a trade route today? "

Sun Yue nodded and said: "It is indeed impossible for the Song Dynasty to send troops directly, but Dangxiang can. Today's Tubo has been torn apart, and the three departments on the Hexi Corridor can't afford to make trouble. In fact, Dangxiang has at least In the Northwest, it is already the largest force, so I want to ask DANG Xiang to help us, no, for us, to guard this road for everyone to make a fortune together."

"Dang Xiang guards the Hexi Corridor for Song Dynasty? Is this..."

"Naturally, it is impossible to let the party members help in vain. In addition to the visible financial income brought by this trade route, we can also exchange another thing. With this thing and this trade route, the party People may have to fight a lot more because of this, but I am sure that the living standards of party members can be improved at least ten times!
These are just ordinary people, you nobles, you are enough to live like a wealthy family in the Song Dynasty from now on, let’s just talk about this tea, this should be the best tea you can get, brother, wait until this matter is done It's done, this kind of tea is given to you for free, you don't care to drink it anymore. "

"Oh? What is so amazing?"

"cement!"

(End of this chapter)