The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

When Duan Siping first established the country, he borrowed troops from Heichuan in the east, and the 37 barbarian tribes. Except for the 37 tribes, a small number of the 37 tribes, such as the silence, Situo, Tierong, etc., were all the rest.

Wuman in eastern Yunnan, northeast Yunnan, central Yunnan, southern Yunnan and western Guizhou. Since the Dali regime "has success depends on the barbarians in the east", at the beginning of the founding of the country, "all of them were awarded treasures and rewards" and were exempted from corvee labor.

These conferred Wuman nobles were all big and small feudal lords who "had a official and a family's salary, and who control the land and the people."

In the later period, due to the cowardice of the Dali king and the economic and cultural progress of the ethnic groups in the border areas, the awareness of independence was enhanced, and the ruling class was full of factions, intrigue, and fighting for power and profit, local forces grew bigger and even the influence of the royal power, and the local centrifugal force gradually increased.

All this makes the actual control of the supreme ruler of Dali much smaller than the nominal jurisdiction.

Many areas around the Dali regime have more autonomy in politics, economy and even military aspects, resulting in strong local tribes holding troops and self-respecting themselves often invade the land of people of neighboring ethnic groups to expand their territory and sphere of influence, and to establish themselves as a country.

The rise of these local autonomous regimes will inevitably seriously shake the foundation of Dali's rule. Instability factors are growing increasingly, and when there is any disturbance, it will cause chaos...

The real cause of this turmoil is actually very simple, it is because of money. Dali Country Qifenshan and Sanfenfield has limited agricultural income. Fortunately, the handicraft industry is relatively developed and was once part of the Silk Road. Relying on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road, we can have some income.

, but most of this money fell into the hands of the imperial court and the large tribes. The income of other tribes mainly relies on selling horses, and the buyer of horses usually has only one, that is, the adjacent Song Dynasty.

At the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, it lost its place to shed horses one after another and could only buy horses from the Khitan and Xixia for a high price. However, due to frequent wars between them, the roads were cut off. In order to supplement the military horses, they could only buy "Guangma" from Dali.

The so-called Guangma refers to the horses bought by the Song Dynasty court on Guangnan West Road, and the horses were produced in Dali. The maximum number of horses bought in the Song Dynasty was more than 3,000 horses each year, and the trade volume was about 200,000 taels of silver. Although this amount of money was for

There was not much in the Song Dynasty, but it was very generous for some tribes in Dali. They made them regard horse trading as their main economic pillar, and made their tribes rich through war horse trade, and established their country with war horse economy.

Stimulated by the huge profits, everyone wanted to share a piece of the pie. The horse sales process would inevitably be hindered by others. Some tribes built countless checkpoints and battle bases on traffic, and dispatched soldiers to escort along the way.

Breaking through the barriers and opening the way through force shows how profound the Song Dynasty had on their economy. However, this bloody trade gradually declined with Zhao Qi's ascension to the throne. He had already controlled the northwest, Shaanxi and southern Mo area through a series of wars.

The grassland has a vast pasture and millions of horses in stock. At the same time, the access to trade routes has also allowed a few such as the Uighurs, Tubo, and Tatar to import excellent war horses into the Song Dynasty. The lack of horses has been fundamentally reversed.

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Because Guangma is short and good at carrying weights on mountain roads, the Song army's baggage and mountain troops still purchase a small amount, but it has been greatly scared compared to before. The battle between the various units is more intense and cruel. Everyone wants to

Monopolizing the war horse trade and making that little profit. A new dispute began with an imperial edict from the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

The trade zone between the Song Dynasty and Dali Kingdom was used to be located in Hengshanzhai, Yongzhou on South Road in Guangxi. The emperor thought that Guangma mostly supplies Sichuan and Shaanxi areas, and even though buying horses was paid for gold, silver, silk and brocade, it was more important to

Pay the salt payment. Considering that after the transaction in Hengshanzhai, there was still a long journey to drive the horses to Sichuan and Shaanxi, it was too inconvenient to transport the salt here, so it was decided to choose a place with a gentle water level on the right bank of the Jinsha River near Luzhou.

Build a city to establish a city for transactions between the two countries.

After repeated investigation by officials on Tongchuan Road, the site was finally selected to build a city at the intersection of Jinsha River and Niulan River in Luzhou. It was called "Neighborly City". It was across the river from Dongchuan County, Dali Country. The Song Dynasty wanted to build a cable bridge.

The two buildings were convenient for exchanges, and they sent envoys to discuss the construction of a city with the State of Dali to build a bridge. As expected, Zhao Qiong's surprise, this suggestion was rejected by the State of Dali.

In the past, Dali Kingdom has been asking the two countries to establish Hecheng City in eastern Yunnan, why did it refuse? Because Zhao Jie chose this place with sensitive! The Dongchuan tribe is connected to Tongchuanfu Road in the Song Dynasty, and there are seven Wuman tribes, because Dali Kingdom treats them.

The management and control of the seven ministries was relaxed, so the Wumeng tribe, Wusa tribe, Yi Niang tribe, Mangbu tribe, Yixi tribe, and Atou tribe all wanted to turn to the Song Dynasty. However, because the Song Dynasty had always been with the Khitan, Jurchens and Dangxiang in the north.

Wars are constantly. The strategic focus is on the north and there is no time to take care of their 'good intentions', so the six tribes including Yixi are actually in a relatively independent development state, and only the Qubian tribe of Dongchuan County is still under the control of Dali Kingdom.

Dali Kingdom could not care about it in the past. But if it was established, it would have to take action, because Dali Kingdom had already had such a problem, and it was the heroic rise of Qi Kingdom, which was adjacent to it. They quickly became rich and strong through the war horse trade.

He is the only one who is stronger than the barbarians. He dares to claim to be stronger than Hengshan. He expands his sphere of influence through tribal alliances. He has surpassed Luodian and jumped into the most important ethnic minority regime in the southwest region after Dali, not only threatening

They reached their borders and stole a lot of their wealth.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Gao family refused to establish a city in Dongchuan County on the grounds of preventing the second Qi State from appearing. What they are really worried about is that the barbarians quickly rose and threatened the Gao family through trade with the Song Dynasty.

The rule of Dali State gradually lost its current status, so he tried his best to stop it.

Of course, the Dongchuan tribes were so angry that they had no idea that they were not a match for Gao Shunzhen's blind refusal to prevent him from getting rich. However, at this time they had not lost their minds and knew that they were not a match for Gao. But at this time, they heard that the Song Dynasty was going to be here.

When the city was established, some Song Dynasty merchants with a keen sense of smell had already arrived impatiently. Seeing that the government could not reach an agreement, some of them wanted to cross the two governments and find the largest Wumeng tribe leader in private transactions.

But these merchants were not interested in Dali's horses, but in front of them, they bought ownership at a price of 500 jin per hectares. Luo Jichang, the leader of the Wumeng tribe, could not think that in their eyes, in addition to blocking the road, they could also do it.

What is the use of wilderness mountains with some prey? This money is enough to buy a hundred acres of good land in Dali. If he sells the thousand acres of barren mountains to which he belongs to these merchants of the Song Dynasty, he will get money in an instant.

Five hundred thousand coins.

Luo Jichang felt that this deal was very cost-effective, and he could cultivate good land and leave it to him. The barren mountains turned into silver, and this money was enough to make him lose his worries about food and drink for three generations. He agreed readily at the moment. What surprised him even more was the legend.

The treacherous and cunning merchants in the Song Dynasty were very fair in doing business. Even the trees on the mountain, the villages built, and even the dam fields on the mountain were converted into silver and returned to him, totaling 600,000 jin of coins. 600,000 jin

The silver piled up like a small hill. Faced with this unexpected fortune that fell from the sky, Luo Jichang was so happy that he almost fainted. The Wumeng tribe was even more excited. Everyone's good days have come!

Where can there be an airtight wall in the world? They are so rich that they wear gold and silver, and they eat and drink delicious food to show off their wealth. The Wumeng tribe's wealth quickly spread to the ears of other tribes in Dongchuan, and they come to ask for advice to make money.

The secret. Lao Luo said it all in a row because of the brothers' faces. He heard that the barren mountain, which has always been regarded as waste, was sold at such a high price, so he hoped that Wumeng tribe would give an introduction

People contacted Song Shang and asked if they could buy their mountain.

Luo Jichang thought about it and agreed. Will everyone make money? But when he told Song Shang, they got angry, saying that the Wumeng people were not trustworthy, and told them about the matter, yelling to ask them to refund the money--not buy it.

Then Lao Luo remembered that during the negotiations, both sides had indeed said that it would be fine if both sides knew about this matter, and they must not spread it, so as not to attract the attention of the official. If there is any violation, not only will the money be refunded, but the compensation will also be paid at half of the total price.

.He was stunned. He didn't even say that he had returned the money he had just received, but he would have to pay 300,000 yuan. Where did they have it!

No one is willing to spit out the fat meat from his mouth, let alone such a huge fortune. Luo Jichang asked a few reasons, but he had already made up his mind and kept the money no matter what he wanted. Song Shang sighed

It took a few breaths to explain the reason. It turned out that the problem was Gao Shunzhen, the prime minister of Dali. After the failure of the city construction negotiations, the Song envoy proposed to rent a mine in Dongchuan County, Dali. The merchants found out the news in advance.

I wanted to make some money from the mines, so I asked them to keep it confidential, otherwise I would find nothing if the news leaked.

Luo Jichang was furious when he heard this. However, he did not hate Song Shang's cunning, but hated Gao Suzhen. The Song Dynasty wanted to rent the land in Dongchuan County, but they knew nothing about it. They must have wanted to put the money in their pockets.

He immediately stated that he had the final say that even if the two countries failed to negotiate, they would hand over the land to them according to the agreement and would never let them suffer any losses.

But I hope that the Song Shang can buy the barren mountains of other tribes together.

The merchants are profit-oriented, and finally sacrificed the gods to the leaders of the six tribes of Dongchuan. After making a blood oath, they agreed. However, because they didn't have that much money, they could only pay a part of the money in stock, and the rest could be compensated with goods. In the end, the Song merchant spent money.

The barren mountains of Dongchuan County were bought for a price of more than 2 million yuan, but the conditions were that each ministries had to unconditionally protect them and the safety of the land and could not let the Dali Kingdom intervene in the matter. For the sake of money, everyone agreed.

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