Zhao Zhen is not planning to take action against the Polo dynasty in India now. Although the Indian Peninsula is not far from the Song Dynasty, it is actually a waste of money. The national beliefs there are too strong and chaotic, and the tall Himalayas are used as barriers.

The merchants of the Song Dynasty traded from India and the West used Bagan to enter Pengjialuo, then entered India from Pengjialuo, and then headed northwest to Seljuk.

Bagan is Burma in later generations, while Pengjialuo is Bangladesh. Although there is also trade, the road is not easy to walk. The merchants in the Song Dynasty chose this path to trade in the West out of helplessness.

After all, when the Western Regions fell into the hands of the Khitan before, if you want to arrive in the West with your goods, you must choose this path. Anyway, no caravan is willing to take the goods to the Tubo plateau. From there, it is not only a difficult road, but also a possibility of going without going back.

Therefore, the southern trade route was a last choice for merchants in the Song Dynasty. There were only these two roads to choose from when walking from 6. It would be much better at sea, but it would take more time and risks to walk from the sea.

Although I avoided the Khitan when I walked from Tianzhu, it was actually extremely troublesome. Not to mention the long journey, it was not so easy to walk on the road. After all, it was not easy to walk in either Bagan, Pengjialuo or Tianzhu.

The merchants of the Song Dynasty had no need for them to build roads, so they could only endure the rugged roads, but now another difficulty was added, the difficulties made by the Indians.

The Han people generally can tolerate many things and do not like to cause trouble and fight. Most of the time, they take a step back and endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens. Even if they are made difficult by the Indians, there is no way.

But one thing Zhao Zhen knew was that the merchants in the Song Dynasty who were harassed in India would never have been made by local poor people or people of the lower caste. People like India had no status at all, and even the livestock in the homes of people of higher castes were inferior.

How could these people dare to attack the merchants in the Song Dynasty? Zhao Zhen believed that even if they took action, it would be instructed by those high castes.

Then this makes sense. The Indians repeatedly attacked merchants in the Song Dynasty, and the mastermind behind them must be high castes. Of course, it would not be the poor people asking for money and property from the Song Dynasty, but those high castes.

Obviously, they were no longer satisfied with the merchants of the Song Dynasty who earned a lot of wealth from Tianzhu. The merchants of the Song Dynasty brought prosperity to Tianzhu, but in comparison, they were completely absorbing the blood of the Boluo Dynasty.

Zhao Zhen saw the trade between the Song Dynasty and the Polo Dynasty from the memorials of the Three Sessions. How many goods sold in the Song Dynasty and how many goods bought from Tianzhu are all registered.

From these figures, it is clear that the trade deficit between the Song Dynasty and the Polo dynasties could reach five times, or even more than six or seven times.

Such a deficit will be devastating to India. Although the Polo dynasty has been smooth sailing during this period, not only has the national strength increased or even unified the Indian Peninsula, but in fact it has suffered serious losses, especially the aristocratic class and monk group of the Polo dynasty.

The class divisions of the Polo dynasty were unusual, with the top being the king, but the ruling class at the next level was not only the high caste aristocrats, but also a large group of aristocratic monks.

Even Buddhism, which emphasizes the equality of all beings, is divided into three levels in India, and almost all monks in the temple are aristocrats or high castes.

The same is true for the land division of the Polo dynasty. The land belongs to the king, and then it is divided into nobles and monks, and then it is ordinary people. Of course, there will be no such good things. What ordinary people have to pay is to offer to temples.

How many temples are there in India? There are so many Nalanda Temple. Just one Nalanda Temple requires the people of fifteen villages and land production to provide for it. If it is a person of the lower caste, it will be even worse. Almost all the things you get are offered to the temple, and you also have to go to the streets to beg for most of the begging to the temple. You and your family can only leave a little food to fill your stomach.

But even so, these low-caste people have no regrets and even more humble service. They have never thought of resisting or rejecting at all. They will only blame their birth, which is born with a bad life.

I hate my own skin and only want to serve the temple and monks in exchange for my own escape in the next life.

Moreover, from the memorials of the People's Contemporary Department, Zhao Zhen also found that these people accepted the alms of the Song Dynasty merchants, turned around and worshiped their things to the temple. After a long time, the merchants no longer gave them charity. However, they did not expect that the Song Dynasty merchants who did not give alms became sinners and enemies.

The Han people could not see others suffering, but they also couldn't see people who were lazy. These people of lower castes were even unwilling to pay attention to the merchants of the Song Dynasty who brought goods in exchange for food. They insisted on getting alms. If they were not given, they would stay nearby and not leave.

There are not many such people who starve to death in front of the diligent Song Dynasty merchants, and gradually they will not give them any charity. Who would have thought that those who are unwilling to do their best to pretend to be pitiful and gain sympathy?

At the beginning, there were merchants from the Song Dynasty who were deceived, but when there were more and more tributes piled up in front of a temple, no one was deceived again.

The merchants in the Song Dynasty earned not official money from Tianzhu, but real money and silver. The people of Tianzhu loved gold and were not stingy at all on the Buddha. They needed a large amount of gold ornaments as betrothal gifts when they were married.

The merchants of the Song Dynasty were amazed at it that such dynasties actually had so much gold. In fact, there were not many gold mines in Tianzhu, but they tried their best to mine because they believed that only this most precious thing in the world could be worthy of the nobles of the higher castes and the Buddhas in the temples.

Therefore, the Indians worked hard to mine gold and exchange gold, and for them, gold was a symbol of all wealth.

But everything was different after the merchants of the Song Dynasty came. Gold became the main means of currency. In front of merchants of the Song Dynasty, official banknotes were the first. As long as there were official banknotes from the Song Dynasty, they would definitely trade them.

But there were not many official notes in Tianzhu. In addition to official notes, the merchants in the Song Dynasty recognized the most were gold and silver. The silver production in Tianzhu was not much, but there was a lot of gold.

Faced with the exquisite commodities and goods of the Song Dynasty, the high caste nobles and monks of the Tianzhu could not control them, and could only exchange real money and silver for the goods of the Song Dynasty, and then sell these goods to the common people to earn more gold.

The goods they sold to merchants in the Song Dynasty also had to be exchanged for gold, and did not want to exchange for official banknotes from the Song Dynasty.

As a result, the official banknotes of the Song Dynasty were not circulated in India, but a country's gold reserves were limited. As the Song Dynasty continued to sell goods to India, over time, the gold in India became less and less.

Gradually, the Indians discovered this problem, but they only knew that the gold they had in their hands was getting less and less, and the goods from the Song Dynasty exchanged for gold were becoming increasingly difficult to sell.

In this way, the unlucky ones were the nobles and monks of India, and the people who were affordable were the common people and untouchables they originally looked down upon.
Chapter completed!