For merchants in the Song Dynasty, obeying the unified command of the court has become a habit. The court does not have to directly issue political orders to all merchants. After all, this is impossible and court officials will not accept it. However, they can lead the economic direction of the entire Song Dynasty by controlling the senior merchants in the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the state-owned capital of the Song Dynasty also accounted for a large proportion, which is the benefit of state capital monopoly. Zhao Zhen only needed to control these capital in the hands of the Song Dynasty to allow the wealthy businessmen and tycoons to follow.

However, these wealthy merchants and the capital of the Song Dynasty abandoned the old path of the Western Regions and turned to the south to leave the country from Yunnan Road. After borrowing it from Pengjialuo to Tianzhu, all the merchants of the Song Dynasty began to follow the trend.

The court also put forward a very attractive slogan. The land of Tianzhu is full of gold, because the wealthy people trade gold. At the same time, the Fourth Sichuan-Shaanxi Road and merchants from the Song Dynasty and the northern merchants began to go south sharply, and the economy in the south was also driven.

The newly built highway is always the best to walk on, and the convenience of transportation has also brought more merchants and economic development. The original economic phenomenon of wealth in the north and poor in the south was alleviated, and it also allowed the south to catch up.

Gradually, the people discovered that the people in the south were the best at doing business, and the southern economy developed rapidly. With the path to the west of the Tianzhu, all merchants flocked to the west.

This is a trend and a trend. Many merchants have found that their goods have been sold out before they even came out of Tianzhu. Tianzhu, which has never had such a large-scale trade with the Central Plains, has rushed to buy them after seeing the fine products of the Song Dynasty.

This is too common for Tianzhu, where wealth is polarized, so Tianzhu became another wealth place for the Song Dynasty. Of course, some merchants carried a lot of goods. After buying some in Tianzhu, they began to continue to go west after they had money.

These merchants were smart. They not only sold the goods from the Song Dynasty to Europa, but also bought the goods from Europa at low prices and then returned to the Song Dynasty. Although the exotic things are not as valuable as the goods from the Song Dynasty, they are still popular in the Song Dynasty.

You can earn twice or even three times after going out, which is a 300% gain for merchants. Driven by using it, almost all merchants gave up the Silk Road in the Western Regions and turned to the west from India. This road has also become a golden road, describing gold everywhere here.

This move completely changed the economic structure of the Song Dynasty, causing the southern economy, which was originally relatively backward, to rise rapidly, and also caused the Western Regions to lose the last piece of cake of the Song Dynasty, a considerable piece of cake!

It can be said that the hearts of the people in the Western Regions are bleeding. Suddenly, all the business opportunities in the Song Dynasty and the merchants in the Song Dynasty suddenly disappeared, making the originally prosperous Silk Road an ordinary wasteland.

Yes, this is the short-sightedness of the people of the Western Regions. They only care about making money from the merchants of the Song Dynasty, but completely ignore what will happen in the future.

Now the revenge of the Song Dynasty has come, and it is only just the beginning to cut off the trade route. Zhao Zhen believes that the Western Regions people, who have been supported by the Song Dynasty, will never satisfy the little benefits brought to them by the Liao people.

In fact, this is true. The Liao people came from wealth, so how could they give the Western Regions too many benefits?

This is an opportunity for the Liao people, an opportunity for the Liao Dynasty, and a way out for Xiao Tali to seek for the Liao Dynasty. Now that the business road is smooth, the Liao Dynasty has gained considerable benefits, but the request from the Western Regions to get a share of the pie is the ruthless rejection of the Liao people.

Maybe the Liao Dynasty could not fight against the Song Dynasty, but it was more than enough to deal with the people of the Western Regions. The Liao Dynasty used the simplest and most crude way to announce to the people of the Western Regions that she had the final say now!

This is completely a farce that leads wolves into the house, and it is also the beginning of a comedy planned by Zhao Zhen. This is just the beginning. Zhao Zhen had long guessed that the Liao people and the Western Regions would turn against each other. The Western Regions demanded a lot of benefits, which would make the Western Regions prosperous, but the Liao people could not give them such treatment.

Of course, the Liao people must not let go. After all, this is the last life-saving straw for the Liao Dynasty, not a villain who snatched food from their mouths. But the Western Regions are just a shameless villain, which Zhao Zhen had long expected.

This is just the beginning. It is far from being that simple to deal with the Western Regions. Zhao Zhen suddenly realized that he was too relaxed in the Western Regions. This land must be included in the territory directly managed by the Song Dynasty. It is obviously a huge mistake to carry out through cooperation.

This world is evil, only destruction is good, only weak is evil, and only survival is the law of survival. The essence of the strong prey on the weak is not only popular among species, but also popular among countries.

How many dynasties have been destroyed and how many dynasties have appeared over the past thousands of years, as if the popularity has passed through the sky and disappeared without a trace. This is the greatest charm of this era.

Once he decided to destroy the Western Regions, he had to exhaust all means to completely surrender to the Song Dynasty and completely incorporate it into the territory of the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty withdrew all merchants from the Western Regions and cut off the trade route. This was a great news for the Liao Dynasty. Without the competition from the Song Dynasty, their products could be more popular in the Western Regions because the people of the Western Regions had no choice.

Originally, Zhao Zhen planned to put the Western Regions behind Tubo, because the pit he dug from the beginning was to prepare for burying the Western Regions, but later, he gradually discovered that it was better to bury Tubo than dig a pit and bury the Western Regions.

The problem can be seen from the terrain.

The Western Regions happened to be like an iron plow inserted between the Liao Dynasty and the Tubo. It would be too stupid for Zhao Zhen to not use such a geographical advantage.

The grassland seems to be a large piece of land, but in fact it is not the case. Grazing on the grassland has conditions and rules that must be followed.

There are specific forces in specific areas and special grazing and migration locations. If there is no thick old sheep manure as a sheep plate, it will be a fatal blow to the sheep flock in winter. What are the sheep flocks? They are the source of life in the grassland people and their reliance!

Why could Wei Qing and Huo Qubing accurately lead troops to attack the Turks? The uncle and nephew understood the rules on the grassland thoroughly. They remembered the rich water and grass wherever they were, and sent people to inquire clearly.

As for Li Guang's difficulty in seizing it, it is not that his combat power is not good, but that he is always lost! What it means to get lost on the grassland, Zhao Zhen uses his toes to know.

So he felt that Li Guang was not wronged at all. Such a person is suitable as a powerful general who leads the way and takes the lead in charge, but is not suitable as the commander of the army.
Chapter completed!