As Chen hour is approaching, the sun shines on the Qingzhou City on the bank of the Yellow River in the north.

This small prefecture city is one of the few cities in Hebei East Road that benefit from the "Sanyi Huihe River". Because the north-flowing Yellow River flows through the plain east of Qingzhou Prefecture City, and injects into the Liao and Song dynasties dozens of miles away.

In addition to destroying a large number of farmland in Qingzhou, the Yellow River also brought unexpected business opportunities. Countless merchant ships would sail from the heartland of the Central Plains and from the city of Kaifeng along the Yellow River, all gathered on the section of the river from Qingzhou City to the mouth of the Yellow River. Merchants who came with the ship would sell their goods in the Qingzhou Quotation at the junction of the Yellow River and the boundary river, or simply sell their goods in Qingzhou City, and at the same time buy goods sold by merchants from Liao Kingdom, and then go downstream to traffic the goods to Daming Prefecture and Kaifeng Prefecture.

In addition, the Hutuo River flowing from Zhending Prefecture on Hebei West Road and Dingzhou will also inject the Yellow River into Qingzhou. This waterway will also bring a large amount of goods to Qingzhou - Dingzhou is a well-known porcelain center at this time, and Dingzhou produces excellent quality Ding porcelain!

However, gathering people and goods is not all good for Qingzhou City, because this city near the border between Liao and Song dynasties is too small and cannot accommodate merchants and goods from all sides.

It is impossible to expand Qingzhou City. According to the "Chanyuan Alliance", it is impossible to build cities without authorization on the border of Liao and Song dynasties. Moreover, Qingzhou City is stuck on the bank of the Yellow River that flows northward, and is a fortress city that can control the Yellow River waterway. How could the Liao Kingdom agree to the Song Dynasty to build Qingzhou City?

Although the Liao Kingdom did not intend to "follow" the Yellow River water (actually countercurrent) to go south to the Central Plains, they knew how afraid of the Song Dynasty was.

This is the trump card used by the Great Liao Kingdom to oppress the Song Dynasty in diplomacy. How can the Song Dynasty use a strong city to block the passage of the Liao army to sail south?

While the Liao Kingdom did not allow the Song Dynasty to expand the city of Qingzhou, officials from the Song Dynasty also had a headache about the population of ships gathered in Qingzhou. So many people rushed in and out of the small city of Qingzhou, which would cause great pressure on public security and population management. In particular, many merchant ship owners also brought escorts and carried bows and arrows, and the number of people was far greater than that of the Hebei Imperial Guards stationed in Qingzhou.

If these unscrupulous merchants and the rich men in the world really start to have a quarrel, it is hard to say whether the imperial guards in Qingzhou City can be suppressed...

In addition, the Hebei Imperial Army has actually become an army that can do everything, just not fight.

Therefore, the prosperity of Qingzhou's business also caused the garrisons of the six military camps on both sides of the Yellow River in Qingzhou to start business, and their combat effectiveness naturally plummeted.

It is precisely because the security problems faced by Qingzhou are too agitated that the Pacification Command and Transport Command of Hebei East Road are currently supporting the establishment of a new market on both sides of the Border River in the northern part of Cangzhou.

Although Jiehe Commercial City has a "uncontrollable" risk, it is at least not on the bank of the Yellow River. Moreover, after all the merchants gathered in Qingzhou moved to Jiehe Commercial City, the imperial guards in Qingzhou may turn their attention back from commercial activities to military...

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The north wind in autumn has become a bit bit of a bit cold winter, but it is extremely comfortable for Xiao Baoxian, the left-behind Nanjing Road of the Great Liao Dynasty, who is used to the colder climate on the northern grasslands.

He and Ma Renwang, who had just been promoted to the transfer envoy of Nanjing Road in the Great Liao Dynasty, were the chief and deputy envoys of this Qingzhou meeting. They were accompanied by Li Zhong, the Song envoy who had been stranded in Xijin Prefecture (Li Zhong is now a companion envoy), and came south on the Liao Dynasty's official ship.

After arriving in Qingzhou City, he checked in the Yingguan Hotel in Qingzhou City, waiting for Song envoys Zhang Shangying, Zhang Shuye and others to come north.

The inn is in the most prosperous area in Qingzhou City. Looking at the bustling crowds on the streets, Xiao Baoxian was a little white and gentle. He was wearing a Confucian uniform of a Han scholar and wearing a soft hat and a squid on his head. Xiao Baoxian just sighed softly.

"Leave it behind..." The horse man standing beside Xiao Baoxian and observing the bustling and crowded Qingzhou City like him, he asked, "Why are you sighing?"

Xiao Baoxian said: "Why don't we sigh when we see the enemy's country is prosperous and the people's livelihood is peaceful?"

"If you are rich, you will be rich, and if you are strong, you may not be strong."

Xiao Baoxian shook his head, "The Song Dynasty is powerful, but because the Song Lord despises the warriors and does not cultivate war preparations, he is inferior to the Liao Dynasty in the way of using troops to win.

But once they woke up, the Great Liao could not resist the population of the Song Dynasty and the wealth of a hundred times that of my wealth."

"Let's stay, do you think the Song Dynasty has awakened?" Ma Renwang asked a little worriedly.

"I'm awakened!" Xiao Bao gritted his teeth first, "Isn't that old man Murong Wangyou helping Song people to train generals now?"

Murong Wangyou's defection to the Liao Kingdom had already known about it and made negotiations, but the Song Dynasty ignored it and asked Murong Wangyou to be the chief military officer of the Privy Council. Recently, he began to select miscellaneous military officials under the age of 25 and who had the experience of leading troops to be trained in the Privy Council of the Military Academy.

This made the senior executives of the Great Liao Kingdom very worried!

The Liao people, including the important Han officials like Ma Renwang, cannot imagine what threat a market would pose. The various views put forward by Wu Haogu in order to promote the establishment of Jiehe Market, if the great people of the Liao Kingdom listened to it, it would only cause a burst of laughter.

Because the Liao Kingdom has not yet developed into a civil society, industry and commerce are just the last existences that depend on the powerful clan. How could it be so great?

Moreover, the Liao Kingdom, which was the Wudang family, studied the three battles between the Liao and Song 16 states, which were far more thorough than that of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, they came to the conclusion that unless the Song army could complete the two tasks of conquering the city of Yanjing and destroying the army north of the Liao Kingdom at the same time, they would not be able to take over the land of Yanyun.

If the Song army had such combat power, then what the Liao Kingdom lost was not Yan Yun, but everything!

It is precisely based on this analysis that the senior executives of the Liao Kingdom ignored the security issues of Jiehe Commercial City. As long as the commercial city could immediately provide 100,000,200,000 yuan in money to support the Mobei War, the Liao kings and ministers thought it was very good - they were very busy now, and they were all at the point of asking for money to donate money in the temple.

But Murong Wangyou's Military and Education Department made them see the crisis.

Because the Military and Education Department of the Privy Council of the Song State was obviously training grassroots officers for the new army!

After the officer’s training is over, it must be the training of troops!

With the current financial resources and population of the Song Dynasty, as long as there are good officers, there is no problem in training 200,000 combat power comparable to that of the imperial guards in the early Song Dynasty.

If there are these 200,000 elite combat soldiers... the Liao Kingdom will be destroyed!

"Don't worry about staying behind," Ma Renwang smiled and explained, "I think Master Song set up a military science department on a whim and would not really train troops at all."

"Won't?"

"No," Ma Renwang smiled and said, "The military training is a tangle that affects the whole body! Now it's just a few hundred miscellaneous military officers. Before it's time to be awarded an official position, it's even further away from recruiting troops and making equipment... If we really get to that point, I'm afraid that the Song people won't have to take action. The Song people will have to snatch up. At that time, as long as we use a little trick, we can destroy the Song people's training plan."

"Sub-Plan?" Xiao Baoxian asked, "Tell me, let me see."

"It's very easy," said Ma Renwang, "You can send someone to pretend to be a Taoist and take a walk in Kaifeng Prefecture, and the rumors say that the Military Academy has a dragon spirit."

"it works?"

"Of course it's useful," Ma Renwang smiled, "Isn't the Military Academy today the former Palace Front Office?"

"That's right." Xiao Bao nodded first.

Ma Renwang also said: "There will never be few opponents from this Military Academy in the Song Dynasty. As long as there is a reason, they will definitely attack them together, so our dynasty does not have to worry at all."

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The Yellow River, the wheat waves surging on both sides, and the river water slowly flows northward.

Several official ships were slowly moving on the river, and you could vaguely hear the melodious sound of silk and bamboo coming from the official ship.

Zhang Shangying's face was a little solemn, and she no longer had the elegance along the way.

Qingzhou City was about to arrive, and then a negotiation was going to be held with the envoys of the Liao Kingdom. Although Li Zhong had sent someone to send a letter to Zhang Shangying, informing the Liao Kingdom that it generally agreed to open a market.

However, the support of the Liao people was not unconditional. They hoped to get a huge sum of money from the Song Dynasty at one time to support the war that was fought longer and longer than that of Mobei.

And this money was impossible for the Song Dynasty court to pay. Because the Song Dynasty emperor did not want the war between the Liao Kingdom and the Shubu people to end as soon as possible.

If the money is to be paid now, Zhao Xu, the official, would have taken it out without hesitation...

"Dalang, what do you think of this? Can you raise some money for the Liao people?"

Zhang Shuye was talking, and he thought about it, as if this was the only way.

Since the court cannot pay, let the merchants pay!

Zhang Shangying also looked at Wu Haogu.

Wu Haogu frowned and his mind began to turn.

The Liao people's requirements were reasonable. Because the Song Dynasty had various plans for the market, Wu Haogu himself also had a small plan, so the Liao people would be fooled? They must have plans, and this plan was to ask for money.

But... can you pay this money?

One hundred thousand and two hundred thousand is a big sum of money for the Khitans, and it is nothing to the Song Dynasty.

But the problem is that this money was used to aid the Liao army in war, which is contrary to the goal of the establishment of Jiehe Market. If Wu Haogu took it out, he should have taken out the money openly, then he would have given people a handle.

If someone in the court uses this problem to attack the market, it is difficult to say whether the market can continue to handle it. Even if the market can handle it, it will be convicted of being a soldier.

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu shook his head slightly and said, "The Liao people are just extorting... We cannot pay this money in the Song Dynasty."

"I can't pay the money," Zhang Shangying looked at Wu Haogu, "Can things succeed?"
Chapter completed!