[Southern Song Dynasty] Splendid mountains and rivers

The air is filled with the unique damp and salty smell of Qinghai Lake. Baskets and baskets of green salt were carried here and exchanged for fine gold.The winding path seems to have no end at a glance, and even the large saline-alkali land looks a little cute.Zhao Yuan purposely found a wicker chair, and sat leaning against a rock, with a smile still on his face.

Half of the salt has been stuffed in the space, and in about half a month, she won't be able to eat so much goods.

The Xixia Kingdom, the Hexi Corridor, and the endless desert yellow sand, of course, the ambitious new emperor of Xiliao——Yelü Dashi...

She closed her eyes, slowly recalling the torn Kingdom of Jin, and gradually had an idea in her mind.

"Di Ji."

The voice is a little immature and a little strange.Zhao Yuan opened his eyes and found that there were several young businessmen in front of him.These merchants have fair skin and darker facial contours. They don't look like people from the Song Dynasty, nor do they look like Hu merchants from the Western Regions, but rather... Arabs or Jews.

Anyone who can call her "Emperor Ji" must have something to do with her imperial brother.

Zhao Yuan smiled and nodded, and asked softly: "Are there any important matters?"

The leading young businessman hesitated for a moment, and then said: "His Royal Highness, we may not be able to do this business." His pronunciation was a bit weird, like swallowing, but it was not the case after careful identification.

Zhao Yuan remained calm.

The businessman continued: "The king of Xixia has sent a special envoy, who will arrive soon."

Zhao Yuan gave a low "hmm", and there was an imperceptible smile in his eyes.

The king of Xixia sent an envoy?

If the King of Xixia didn't send someone over, she wouldn't be able to continue this scene.

"When we do business with the government, we always put our heads on the waistband of our trousers. But now it's...His Royal Highness, look..."

Zhao Yuan glanced at them with a half-smile: "How? Want to withdraw?"

Several businessmen nodded in unison.You can earn money with your life, but you have to spend your life.

"That's all right, just listen to your honor." Zhao Yuan flicked his sleeves in a dispirited manner, stood up and looked at the snow-white salt fields, slowly curled up the corners of his lips, and smiled sinisterly, "I cut off his national economy and people's livelihood. , If he doesn’t come to look for me, it’s a ghost.”

As mentioned earlier, businessmen are all profit-seeking.

A piece of rock salt is transported from Qinghai Lake to various salt markets in the Xixia Kingdom, not to mention the shipping cost, and the labor is not small.Now there is a rich and powerful buyer on the edge of Qinghai Lake. The salt farmers must like to do business with her.In this way, the price of salt in Xixia Kingdom will soar.

In addition, Zhao Yuan whispered to General Zhong early in the morning that the Western Army had strangled the salt channel to the east of Xixia Kingdom, and the price of salt would definitely rise even higher.

But the problem is...

Can a person live without salt?

You know, starch, water, and inorganic salts are the necessities of life.

The most frightening thing is that once the human body lacks salt, it will show a terrible symptom: the whole body is weak, and it is hard to lift up the energy when doing anything.And this is where Zhao Yuan will kill with one blow.

After sending those merchants away, she slapped her hands lightly three times, and said to the black-armored sergeant who suddenly appeared and then disappeared: "The general of the same kind said, you can do it now."

When the price of salt rises, common people will rebel.

And the whole army is short of salt...

Xi, Xia, Bing, and defeat.

Zhao Yuan sat back on the rattan chair, calculating the Xixia army's marching speed step by step, without daring to make any mistakes.The Xixia party members are notoriously vicious. The leaders Tai Zu, Tai Zong, and Renzong spent a long time, but they did not bring down the Xixia Kingdom. Instead, they raised a group of vicious wolves in the northwest.This time, she had to pull out the nail.

You know, the ancestor of the Xixia king was named Li, and he was a well-known rebel general in the Tang Dynasty.

She closed her eyes quietly for a while, and after confirming that the plan was correct, she lowered her voice and said: "If you are afraid of death, go quickly, if you are not afraid of death, follow me to the capital of Xixia King."

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The turmoil of a country is often manifested in the capital.

Like now.

The skyrocketing salt price has made the entire capital violent.However, in just a few months, the price of salt has increased by more than ten times, and there is still a trend of continuing to skyrocket.There is a classic theory in economics: If a certain product is out of stock by 10%, do you think you can buy it at 1.1 times the price?wrong!Must buy at ten times the price!Because in the market, confidence is more important than gold!

How did the real estate bubble come about, and how did Xixia Wangdu's salt price bubble come about.

And what Zhao Yuan has to do now is to pile up the price of salt, pile up the foam, and wait for it to detonate automatically.

The low-level civilians who can't afford salt have already started to move, and under the guidance of caring people, they are slowly withdrawing to the east.It is said that there are fields in the east and salt in the east, and you will not die of hunger.As for who is the emperor in the east...

Whatever it is, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was called His Majesty 2000 years ago anyway.

This matter, of course, was also ordered by Zhao Yuan.It is a tradition that the two armies do not hurt civilians in battle, and these people who migrated eastward can also replenish enough labor.The most important thing is to form a trend of "Xixia is gone".

Remember how that sentence was said?

Confidence is more important than gold.

Once the Xixia people no longer believed in their king, once the Xixia army became weak and weak, and was cut as tofu by the Western Xia army of the Song Dynasty...

To the west of the Song Dynasty, there is no more summer.

Historians of later generations no longer want to describe this war as "destroyed" or "ruthless".The silent Song soldiers merged into a torrent, devouring the withered yellow land like a dragon.When the king of Xixia received the news, the army had already reached the palace.He's furious, he's mad... well, historians aren't interested in losers anyway.

The princes and nobles of the Xixia Kingdom didn't understand what was going on until the man behind the scenes, dressed in the imperial concubine of the Song Dynasty, swaggered into the Xixia Palace, shook out a roll of bright yellow cloth, and said that the Li family had accepted the order. .

Although the price of salt is sky-high, isn't it just eating less salt?How did you lose?

Of course, the nobles of the royal palace of the Xixia Kingdom would not know the consequences of long-term salt shortage, and of course the Great Song Emperor would not be so kind to tell them.

They only need to know that because of the lack of salt in the entire army, the 50 Xixia army was torn apart by the [-] Xixia army, and then the Xiang army was replaced by someone who was beaten directly by Huanglong and the Xixia Kingdom was destroyed.

The King of Xixia stared at his deadly enemy, wishing he could pierce two more holes in Zhao Yuan's body.

He knew very well that all of this had something to do with the Great Song Emperor Ji in front of him.As soon as his special envoy arrived at Qinghai Lake, he heard that the salt merchants had packed up their bags and ran away, and that the biggest salt merchant was actually Her Royal Highness Roufu Emperor Ji of the Great Song Kingdom...

Rou Fu Di Ji, Rou Fu Di Ji again!

How did the Kingdom of Jin fall apart, how did Xiliao get squeezed out, how did Xixia Kingdom...

"Your Majesty..."

He watched Roufu Diji approaching, bent down, and smiled at him.

"Do you prefer to meet my emperor brother, or do you prefer to stay in the Xixia Palace and commit suicide?"

devil!Absolutely the devil!

The more that Empress smiled like a flower, the more he felt the chills in his back.

It must be the innocent soul of the Song Kingdom who summoned this devil, it must be!

He looked behind the devil, and there were two neat rows of black-armored sergeants with eyes like knives. The leader was a tall and straight young general, who looked familiar no matter how he looked.

Looking at the military flag again, and the word "Zong" on the flag clanging like gold and stone, he seemed to understand something, but he didn't seem to understand anything.

In the Song Dynasty, the Zhong family guarding the northwest was Xixia's deadly enemy.