"Are you worried that the Southern Dynasty would become more aggressive and continue to ask for Hanzhong?" Seeing that several people did not express their opinions, Li Siyan asked with a smile.

"That's right, Hanzhong is known as the mouth of Shu, which is equivalent to closing their access to Guanzhong. How could he give up!" Brother Sang shook his head and said.

"Do your highness and the two Shangguans think that the Southern Dynasties still have the power to launch a war? No, the Southern Dynasties are now at the end of their power and are unable to continue to advance north. They also hope to negotiate peace with our Dynasties!" Li Siyan asked and answered.

"How can I see it?" Li Qian asked with a frown. He knew that this judgment determines the direction and outcome of his peace talks and must not ignore it.

"These days, Xiaguan has nothing to do and often wanders around the city and finds some clues." Li Siyan stroked his beard and said, "Food is the most important thing for the people. In order to ensure the stability of the capital, Lin'an's grain prices have always been maintained at a low level, and they can remain stable even when encountering famines. Xiaguan asked some grain merchants that the price of rice this year is twenty cents more expensive than in previous years, but there is no major disaster in Jiangdong this autumn, and the grain has not been in owed, so it is still a good year."

"A stone of rice grows only twenty cents, what does this have to do with peace talks!" Tie Muer teased.

"Your Highness, don't underestimate these twenty-months. The rice produced in Jiangdong can be eaten by people all over the world. In previous years, it could transport more than three million stones to the capital through the canal. However, the food in the capital, which was the most important place in the Southern Dynasty, increased by twenty-months, which is extremely abnormal." Li Siyan smiled without thinking.

"Well, what Li Shangshu said is reasonable." Li Qian said, "The rise in grain prices in the capital indicates that there was a shortage of grain in the Southern Dynasty. In order to stabilize the two Huai Rivers and raise military rations, the court had to buy grain from the people, which led to shortage of grain among the people, so the prices naturally rose. Don't underestimate the mere twenty-months. Only a few million stones of military ration are required every year, so the Southern Dynasty would have to pay millions of chunks of extra money. In addition, it would have to supplement the refugees in the two Huai Rivers, so it would be more needed."

"That can't be said that the Southern Dynasty is powerless to start a war based on this!" Brother Sang frowned. He knew that the two of them were right, but he didn't want to see them proud, and sneered.

"Left Prime Minister, if this is the case, the lower officials dare not speak nonsense." Li Siyan sighed in his heart, but still smiled on his face, "Now the price is not only grain, but also salt. Since the former and Southern Dynasties, the price has been maintained at low salt prices, and now the market has also increased by five cents. The salt is sold by the government and private individuals cannot intervene, which means that due to financial difficulties, salt tax has to be raised to make up for the deficit."

"In addition, Xiaguan also found that most of the people holding new banknotes on the market were new banknotes, which also shows that the Southern Dynasties' treasury had already had a deficit, so they had to print new banknotes to make up for the shortcomings. How could they continue to advance north if they had no money? Xiaguan thought that the reason why the Southern Dynasties suddenly stopped at Yingtian Prefecture in a good situation was mostly due to financial tensions. In order not to cause civil strife, they could only agree to peace talks and stop a large-scale offensive."

"Shu Li is as careful as his hair, and he checks it very carefully." Li Qian nodded repeatedly, "Thinking about this, the gentry of the Southern Dynasty came to Beijing to write a letter because of the 'tax of gentry and gentry'. The Southern Dynasty has always implemented the right-wing strategy to reduce taxes and exempt gentry taxes. Now he is willing to offend gentry at all costs, and to increase taxes, and the judgment of forming Li Shangshu is correct."

"So, it's not that the Southern Dynasty doesn't want to fight, but that they don't have money anymore!" Tiemur understood and laughed, "Then why should we rush to negotiate with the Southern Dynasty? When they can't wait, they will lower their conditions."

"Your Highness is a bad one!" Li Siyan waved his hand, "The Southern Dynasty has only been three years since its recovery of Jiangnan. It needs to stabilize the people's hearts, so it cannot be exhausted and fished, so it can only slow down. But this does not mean that they have lost the ability to launch a local attack, and our dynasty is almost dry and is eager to rest and recover and restore vitality, but they cannot wait."

"Why is this?" Tiemur looked at Brother Sang and asked.

"Your Highness, this is like the northwest. Even if Alibuge has been pacified, Haidu will still be defeated continuously, but we have to place tens of thousands of troops to prepare for war. The same is true for the Central Plains. In order to resist the Southern Dynasties' northern expedition, our dynasty not only lost tens of thousands of elite troops, but also almost exhausted. The food and grass reserves of the court were almost exhausted, and the people had collected several times... I am afraid that the famine will be settled next spring. If our dynasty cannot reach a peace agreement with the Southern Dynasties, we will have to have Chen heavy troops on the front line. People eat horses and feed them all with the court's supply. It is really impossible to consume!" Brother Sang sighed...

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The Mongolian Yuan delegation sent Sichuan to the desk of Kaifeng and Nanyang. He was very happy, but after reading it, he felt like he was stuck in his throat. According to the map, Hanzhong did not include it. He secretly scolded himself for being negligent in advance, but he did not understand that Hanzhong did not belong to Sichuan in advance.

It is a big deal to expand territory. Of course, Zhao Bing would not let it go. He still asked Ma Duanlin to tell him about the evolution of Sichuan place names and the changes in his jurisdiction. After some explanation, he was ashamed. Of course, he could never admit his negligence at this time. After all, the two sides had not officially reached a peace agreement. But he also knew that the possibility of knocking Hanzhong back from the Mongolian Yuan was too small. After all, no one was willing to let others hold their life gate in their hands.

Speaking of which, it is also because Zhao Bing's poison in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in his previous life, he always believed that Liu Bei occupied Xichuan. According to Hanzhong, he was known as the King of Shu, so he thought that Hanzhong took it for granted as a part of Sichuan. However, historical facts taught him again that there was no place name Sichuan during the Three Kingdoms period, so naturally there was no such thing as Hanzhong's return to Sichuan.

The name of Hanzhong comes from the people of Chu. Qu Yuan has the saying "There are birds coming from the south to gather in the north of Han". Because its origin is between Xiangyang and Nanyang, the Han River flows through the hinterland of Chu, so it is called Hanbei, Handong and Hanzhong. This name is expanded with the Chu people's expansion westward and the scope continues to expand. By the time the Qin Dynasty established Hanzhong County, Hanzhong had already ended the Qinling Mountains in the north, reached Bashan in the south, crossed the Jialing River in the west, and reached the huge administrative region of Chu Great Wall and Jingshan in the east.

The Hanzhong County was originally located in Xicheng, namely Ankang, Shaanxi, and moved westward to Nanzheng in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Hanzhong County was divided into Xicheng, Shangyong and Fangling, which were divided into the middle reaches. Hanzhong became a special name for the upstream basin, perfectly realizing the history of the transformation of place name drift.

"Hanzhong is the throat of Yizhou, and the opportunity for survival and death. If there is no Hanzhong, there will be no Shu. This is the disaster for the family." At this time, most people, including Zhao Bing, would have made it clear that Hanzhong once belonged to Sichuan. However, Yizhou in the Han Dynasty spans the southwest, and Hanzhong and Yi are both one county; the Western Jin Dynasty divided Yizhou, and Liangzhou governed the seven counties of Bahan; the Tang Dynasty established various roads, and Xingyuan connected to Xiangyang in the east, and belonged to Shannan Road.

After several changes in the middle, when the Song Dynasty founded the country, the Song army captured Shu. Due to improper aftermath work, the troops plundered Shu, causing three large-scale rebellions to break out in Shu. Faced with the complex situation in Shu, Taizu became thoughtful at the throat of the Shu mouth in Hanzhong. In the fifth year of Qiande, Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to the capital of Sanquan County, setting a precedent for the central government of my country to be directly under the county-level administrative districts.

Zhao Bing found that the ancestors were always worried about Shu. After decades of continuous reorganization and division of Shu administrative regions, they finally divided and merged Shu prefectures and counties into Yizhou Road, Lizhou Road, Kuizhou Road and Zizhou Road. Yizhou Road is mainly the Chengdu Plain in western Sichuan, Lizhou Road is the mountainous land in southern and northern Sichuan, Kuizhou Road is the mountainous land in eastern Sichuan and river valleys, and Zizhou Road is the hilly area in central and southern Sichuan. Together, it is called Sichuan Fourth Road, abbreviated as Sichuan, and it was named today at this time.

Zhao Bing also had to admire the result of this dazzling operation. Bashu was finally completely conquered by the Central Plains dynasty for the first time. This time, not only conquered the plains and basins, but also the mountains and hills. In the past, the rulers could only occupy the avenues, cities and plains, and today they could advance all the way to the mountainside and the top of the mountain.

After a long period of peace, Sichuan's development also entered the fast lane. After the endless population breeds, it gradually filled the basins and hills in western Sichuan, river valleys and mountains in eastern Sichuan, basins and mountains in northern Sichuan. Agricultural reclamation carried out along the river valleys, wheat filled the hillsides, rice filled the valleys, and the valleys of the Han River, Jialing River, and Qu River were covered with valleys. The development of agriculture conquered the valleys of all sizes in Shu, making the mountains an isolated island in the agricultural ocean.

When we moved south, the six-city pattern in Shu was basically formed. Chengdu, Jiading, Baoning, Chongqing, Zunyi and Hanzhong, Chengdu are all the plain centers among the hills in western Sichuan. Jiading is the channel of Yunnan and Sichuan and the intersection of the three rivers in the Minjiang River, Qingyi River and Dadu River. Baoning is the center of shipping in northern Sichuan and the Jialing River. Chongqing is the hub of shipping in the Yangtze River and Jialing River. Hanzhong is the center of the basin and the Hanjiang River. The end of the Jialing River shipping. Zunyi is the traffic outpost for the Song people to extend to the Yunnan-Guizhou limestone plateau.

Zhao Bing thought that the prosperity and development of Sichuan's agriculture and commerce was also a misfortune. The movement of population and the exchanges of business and tourism were equivalent to indicating and connecting the routes of large and small to enter Shu. Shu was not at risk since then. The facts also prove that Hanzhong had basically not played its due role since then, but instead became the base camp for the northern forces to penetrate Shu.

However, at this time, Hanzhong was a large administrative region, and was listed with the administrative regions in the Sichuan Basin, and there was no upper and lower affiliation. Even when it arrived at the Northern Song Dynasty, it was one of the four Sichuan Roads. Although it appeared as the name of Sichuan, it was just a common name, informal administrative division.

After the Mongol Yuan attacked Sichuan, he came to the operation of the Fans like the Song Dynasty. In August of the first year of Zhongtong, the Mongol Empire established the Qinshu Province. In the third year of Zhongtong, it was renamed the Shushu Province in Xixi, Sichuan. Its capital was Fengyuan, and the Guanzhong area was used as the base camp for the southwest Shu area. As the war deepened, the provincial capital and jurisdiction continued to deepen to the front line. In the seventh year, the Xingyuan province was moved to the eighth year, and in Lizhou, it was moved to Fengyuan after the end of the war to destroy the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!