Looking at his almost crazy prince, Wang Huaien quickly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Pay attention to your image! Image!"
Zhao Jun, who was laughing arrogantly just now, suddenly stopped laughing, coughed twice and looked around: "Ahem, is there anyone around?"
Wang Huaien immediately said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, there is no one else around."
"That's good, that's good..."
Zhao Jun nodded with satisfaction. He just knew what he looked like in the second grade just now. There was no need for others to see it, otherwise he would be silenced.
After relieving the embarrassment a little, Zhao Jun asked Wang Huaien again: "By the way, is there any movement at the Liaoyun Pass?"
Wang Huaien immediately replied: "Yes!
Starting three days ago, the entire Liaoyun Pass has been closed, and no one is allowed to enter or exit. It is said that this is an order from above, in order to prevent spies from passing on information about the pass.
That’s why I did it. "
Zhao Jun said clearly: "It should be that my cheap father made adjustments to the defense of the pass after receiving the news. In order to prevent people with ulterior motives from sending the information out again, this time the entire Liaoyun Pass was closed.
By the way, have we bought enough tea bricks? "
Halfway through, Zhao Jun remembered something again, so he asked.
Wang Huaien nodded quickly and said: "In case you can rest assured, we have purchased nearly 20 million kilograms of tea bricks. At present, the shortage of war horses in the Yunzhou County Army has been fully filled, and we have already started to negotiate with those tribes for the rest. Trading common horses.”
Those tribes are also very happy about this, because if we just exchange war horses, they will not have too many war horses in their hands, and there are limited ones that can be traded.
When trading ordinary horses, the number in their hands will be considerable.
So it was quickly accepted. Correspondingly, for ordinary horses, the price we gave was half that of war horses. "
Zhao Jun nodded with satisfaction: "It's good if the shortfalls are filled. Have they been handed over to the army?"
“Totally delivered!”
"That's good!"
After pondering for a moment, Zhao Jun suddenly asked: "Are they interested in our other supplies except tea bricks?"
Wang Huaien was a little surprised and said: "My lord, what do you mean?"
Zhao Jun glanced at the north and said slowly: "Wang Banban, we are destined to fight the Tatars, and we must fight beautifully to let the Tatars see our strength clearly.
But I am not fighting the Tatars with the intention of weakening them, but just to let them know that we are not to be trifled with! "
Wang Huai'en was still a little confused and asked: "Then what result do you want, Your Majesty?"
Zhao Jun said coldly: "Wang Banban, have you ever heard of the idiom of raising bandits to respect themselves?"
Wang Huai'en was shocked. As a eunuch who could be sent to serve the vassal king, he was not illiterate, but as someone who had studied in the inner chamber, he naturally knew the meaning of this idiom.
But he didn't understand why the prince would say this idiom at this time.
"Could it be that the prince wants to..."
Wang Huaien guessed.
Zhao Jun nodded: "Yes, I just want to support the bandits in order to respect themselves.
Now the situation in our Yunzhou County has probably been exposed.
Then I must find a way to prevent my father from causing trouble to us, or that he will not dare to touch us easily.
The best way at present is to raise the bandits to respect themselves.
We are going to fight the Tatars, but we cannot beat them too badly. We must leave them with some strength to threaten the border of the Song Dynasty.
Only in this way can the Song Dynasty, which is already stretched thin with its military strength, tolerate us entrenched in Yunzhou County.
Unable to spare any troops, they can only rely on us to defend the northeastern border.
Otherwise, relying on the tens of thousands of people at Liaoyun Pass and the insiders among them, it would be impossible to defend the northeastern border! "
Zhao Jun paused. Then he looked to the north and said: "Although I am not afraid of him sending troops to attack, it would be a good thing if it can reduce a little trouble.
Everyone is in peace. I help the imperial court block the northeast side.
They shouldn't come to trouble me either, it's simply the best of both worlds. "
Wang Huaien was a little confused and said: "Your Highness, can't you just tell His Majesty directly?
Why do we have to follow the path of supporting bandits and respecting ourselves? "
Zhao Jun sneered and said:
"Do you think it will be useful? Even if my cheap father agrees, the civil and military officials in the dynasty will not agree.
They would not tolerate an uncontrolled vassal king in charge of an army of 300,000 people.
Only by forcing them with realistic helplessness and forcing them to do this will they allow such a thing to happen.
Wang Banban, today I will teach you to be good.
Regardless of the high-sounding words spoken by the ministers, they all seemed to be gentlemen.
But they do no less dirty things secretly than others, and the words they say are no different from farts.
They say that any promise made that is not written in black and white, and is not followed up by real actions, is all nonsense!
Just don’t take it seriously!
Those who can become officials in our Song Dynasty are all smart people, and smart people have one particularly striking characteristic.
That is, you will never allow things to happen that are beyond your control.
Once there is, unless they really have no other choice, they will use all means to solve the matter, otherwise they will not be able to feel at ease while eating! "
Wang Huaien was silent and had to admit that his prince was indeed right.
Although he is just a chamberlain, he has read books and history, and knows the strategies of smart people in history.
As the prince said, they will not tolerate a threat that is beyond their control.
Only by using reality to force them to compromise will they accept it, otherwise they will create a lot of tricks that will be difficult for people to guard against.
Zhao Jun smiled when he saw that he had figured it out, and then said:
"So our strategic goal in Yunzhou County this time is to defeat the Tatar army and let them understand that they are not our opponents, and then we can let them go back."
"Then I thought that it would be a loss to let them go like this, so I decided to open a mutual market with them!"
"Mutual market?"
Wang Huaien was stunned, not quite understanding the meaning of this word.
Zhao Jun explained that it was to set up a place to trade items with them. Except for embargoed materials, everything else could be traded on the mutual market.
Of course, since we are the victor, we must have an advantage. The price of the goods must be set by us, and they must accept this price!
This is what they should do as the losing side.
Although our Yunzhou County now has three counties of Shendu and there is no shortage of food, millions of people cannot only eat food, so I want to use this mutual market to supplement the source of meat for Yunzhou County.
The mutual market is also good for the Tatars. They can get a lot of things that they couldn't get before. Moreover, through the mutual market, I can gradually control these Tatars. It can be said that it is a good thing to achieve many things with one stone! "
"Can mutual trading still control the Tatars?" Wang Huaien was a little unconvinced, but Zhao Jun just smiled slightly.
Sometimes the way to control a force is more than just force.
This is the advantage that I, as a modern person, have over these people in the feudal era.
This is the power of knowledge and vision!
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(End of chapter)
