The Weapon Tycoon Who Traveled to Great Qin

Regarding the expansion of the fort, the nobles of the Chu State believed that it was necessary. Only by expanding the fort could the past merchant ships be intercepted and then high taxes could be imposed on the past merchant ships. Only the interests of the nobility can be guaranteed.

In contrast, the establishment of aristocratic naval forces and surface warships can certainly achieve this goal, but the combat capabilities of warships are really too low. Facts have also proved that a navy is not enough to gather a group of personnel and build a few warships. It takes time to improve combat power. The nobles simply wouldn't give so much time to hone their battle fleet. The most important thing is that the invested capital and rate of return also need to be considered.

A strong navy needs a lot of things. The nobles are impatient and will not continue to invest more money to purchase more weapons and equipment to strengthen their navy. It is obviously very unreasonable to invest in the navy's surface power. Sensible.

After seeing the role of the fort, the nobles decisively increased the investment in the fort, and the scale of the fort will continue to double.

To the north of the desert, the Xiongnu controlled area. A horse team is slowly approaching a Huns tribe.

"Oh. Oh. Da Da Da Da." Just as the horse team was about to approach the Xiongnu tribe, a fast galloping cavalry quickly stepped forward.

"Hua la la." After approaching the horse team, the cavalry stopped quickly, and then spoke some Hun language aloud to the one headed in the language of jiligulu.

The guy from the horse team at the head also said something. The Huns who rushed over let out a wild cry at this time. The other cavalry shouted loudly at this time, looking very happy.

And this horse team is a caravan. And this caravan actually came from the State of Qin. This horse team entered the Mobei area from the east of the Qin State Grassland. The reason for this is that the defense line of Qin's eastern border is relatively weak. There are many areas where Qin’s garrison cannot take care of, and such areas are very suitable for large-scale entry of caravans like horses, but if you enter from the middle of the north, you can reduce the distance, but you can’t carry more. Many supplies. Because the entire central defense line is related to the central nervous system of the Qin State, and the Qin army was the first to establish a defense line here, the density of the defense line here is the tightest, and few smuggling caravans can pass here.

With the confrontation between the Qin army and the Huns began. Smuggling horse teams gradually increased. In order to thoroughly combat the Xiongnu tribe. Let the Huns weaken in the encirclement and suppression of the Qin army. On the one hand, the Qin Army continued to organize forces to rob. On the other hand, it is to reduce commercial trade with the Huns and block materials from entering the Huns. Qin Jun hoped to use this method to completely trap the Huns to death.

But with the cessation of the war between the two sides and the advent of peace, the demand for trade gradually began to shoot. With the development of iron smelting technology, the demand for iron by the Huns is increasing. They need iron to make arrows and armor, and of course, they also need Qin to make them. In addition to the demand for iron, there are also salt, cloth, and various daily necessities. On the Xiongnu side, in addition to cattle, sheep, leather, and horses. There seems to be nothing more to offer. Because of these things, Qin's livestock area will also provide them. Not only the areas controlled by the Qin State mentioned above, but the Western Regions can also provide them, but the Xiongnu can always provide something that the Qin State specifically needs, such as population and special servants. There are also some precious furs and gems. These things can be bought at a very good price in Qin.

Because of the unequal relationship of trade. The Huns need a lot of iron, salt, and other resources. Their demand is particularly strong. There are many things like the Qin State, and the things that the Huns are rich in, Qin State, as a result, a huge trade gap has been created. The existence of this trade gap led to the emergence of smuggling, even though the Qin army launched a blockade on the border. However, this kind of blockade gradually evolved into a growing trend of smuggling in the increasingly fierce trade atmosphere of the Qin State.

In the eastern part of the State of Qin, in the area bordering the Huns, most of the smugglers here in the State of Qin gathered here. They collected things made by local handicrafts in the State of Qin, went into the Xiongnu area and sold them to the Huns, and then exchanged a large number of them. Kind of property. And these products can be bought at an absolutely good price in Qin.

As the main warfare entered a stagnant state, the trade wind of the Qin State rose, and the smuggling wind in a few border areas in the northern part of the Qin State rose rapidly, and this smuggling wind can also meet the needs of the Huns.

Because of the position of the Huns and their limited cognition. This makes them unable to obtain more resources. And many resources, even if they have them, need to use Qin's trade to achieve their goals, but the Qin's material blockade seems to be able to siege each other, but in fact, the siege of commercial materials is very unwise.

The rapid rise of Qin's domestic trade brought generous taxes to the State of Qin. These generous taxes gave the State of Qin sufficient financial resources to accomplish several of the feats of the State of Qin. The northern states of Qin State are too far away from the main trading areas of Qin State, and the proportion of agriculture in the commercial sector has decreased. Although Qin State has repeatedly lowered agricultural taxes, these still cannot conceal the embarrassing position of Qin State's agriculture.

This is, Qin has more and more agricultural areas, and the various agricultural materials produced, of course, include Qin's animal husbandry areas. Qin can easily produce more agricultural products, meat products, and dairy products, but these things need to be consumed to make farmers and ranchers profit. However, none of the countries in the Central Plains has such a large consumer demand, and the consumer demand is only in Qin. One can imagine the consequences of the imbalance between supply and demand.

Farmers and ranchers cannot consume agricultural products, meat products, and dairy products to generate profits. The inability to generate profits directly led to the continuous deterioration of the financial situation of the newly established states of Qin.

Although the central government of Qin State continuously reduces tax burdens, provides interest-free loans, and various preferential policies to encourage local people to continuously reclaim wasteland and expand pastures, these cannot conceal the small status of Qin State’s agricultural market. The lack of market demand will result in the inability to expand the fiscal and taxation of these states.

The prefectures established by the Qin State all adopted an autonomous approach. If the state wants to make great achievements, it needs the state's own strength to carry out construction, but the fact is that their fiscal and tax revenue is very limited. Come to think of it, they have no commercial trade, but only a large number of livestock areas. Coupled with the downturn in the prices of agricultural products, the taxation of these states cannot be boosted at all.

If the state wants to increase its fiscal revenue, it must encourage trade, but its own trade is very weak. In addition to agricultural products, it is minerals. However, mining requires investment and construction of railways and roads. But these states have so much money to build. Railway road. As a result, public works cannot keep up. If you can't keep up, you won't be able to develop business. Therefore, the local economy cannot be improved by mining. This is undoubtedly a dead end. Although they can get a lot of interest-free loans, these loans are mainly used for agriculture, which is becoming increasingly rude. For agriculture, Qin can only use subsidies to allow Qin's agriculture to survive.

If this continues, the economies of these states will quickly decline. In desperation, these states can only target the needs of the so-called enemies of the Qin State. At the beginning, this smuggling trade was unacceptable, at least most of the new immigrants. The Qin people who came here could not accept it, but with the passage of time, and the prosperity of Qin's trade. But the local economy is extremely dying. Although they are not worried about food and drink, they are unable to develop their economy and prosper, which is unacceptable to them. So some of them boldly started smuggling trade and actively traded with these Huns.

Facts have proved that the demand of the Huns is great. This market is enough to penetrate the economic structure of the border states of Qin. The Huns need a lot of weapons, especially iron weapons. In the eyes of the people of Qin, backward weapons such as bows, arrows and knives have been eliminated. The military did not control these weapons. As a result, the border states quickly exported these things on a large scale, and these things needed some handicraft workshops to make. Because the Huns lacked such talents to make them, they needed to create arrows and let the border states of Qin quickly drive them. A large number of blacksmith shops have been set up, and the number of hand-crafted workshops has increased rapidly. The products of the Huns in exchange are also traded along the border horse brigades to the core trading area of ​​the State of Qin, and then a large number of other products are brought from the core trading area. Completed a resource allocation, and in the process of resource allocation, the border states of Qin State can get rich sailors from it.

From the commercial tax on smuggling trade, to the transaction tax generated by the workshop, and the trade tax from the core trade zone of Qin State to here. All these have brought extremely generous taxes to the border states. Although smuggling trade is an act of collaborating with the enemy, the border states also need to prosper. However, the material blockade emphasized by Qin Jun is impossible to achieve to a certain extent. In this situation. The smuggling trade has intensified. A state that cannot be prohibited has been reached. Because the state government is obviously partial to this side. Because only trade can provide more taxes. From this point, the trade law of the Qin politician is already feasible.

The war is gone, let peace come. The role of war's resource allocation is far less powerful than the role of resource allocation brought about by trade. The resource allocation advantage formed by trade has risen to a core area. Although Qin's administration was aware of this, it did not change these conditions on a large scale.