The Weapon Tycoon Who Traveled to Great Qin

"Iron ingots are only the most primitive products. Such products are not very competitive in the trade of various countries. And a lot of wasted resources. Don't look at the production now and the demand, but the future." Li Mu heard Li Mu In the case of the left car, he also shook his head and said.

Li Mu has already had the concept of product upgrades for a long time, not only from the perspective of national defense, but also from the perspective of a country’s competitiveness. After all, the more iron ingots produced by Zhao, the more unitary the product. , The worse the competitiveness, as long as a large number of iron ore and coal mines are discovered, countries can also establish iron plants. In this case, Handan Iron Works will face price competition. Such competition is unacceptable to Zhao Guo.

"The prime minister, the key to the problem is that we need to import a lot of technical equipment from Qin. Without these equipment, we would not be able to further process it." Kuguan suggested.

"Well. We will not only introduce capital, but also technology." Li Mu nodded and said.

With this in mind, Li Mu felt that he would have to increase support for those new technology companies. At the very least, after Qin's technology companies came in, they would have to give great preferential policies. Only these preferential policies could attract Qin's technology companies to enter. In addition, we have to communicate with Qin Guo to see if we can further upgrade. This is crucial to the survival of Handan Iron Works. Thought of this. Li Mu made up his mind. Then under the leadership of Ku Guan, he visited other manufacturing workshops of Handan Iron Factory.

Qin State Western Regions Southern Frontier. In the border post camp at the westernmost edge of the Qin State, Wang Zhao was drinking tea with a calm expression. Sugar was added to the tea, which hadn't been drunk for a long time. The price of sugar in southern Xinjiang has risen a lot. Even among the remaining military materials, there is not much sugar, in order to ensure a certain amount of military material reserves. No one dared to use it. After all, this thing was investigated very strictly by the General Staff. He has no way to get a little bit.

However, there are sugar in the outpost camp here, but the sugar is not from the Qin army, but from Yueshi. They knew they were going to come here to discuss matters, so they brought some. Wang Zhao was also willing to try Yue's tea drinking method here, so he also tasted it.

Speaking of drinking tea, there are many ways to do it. Most of the Central Plains countries make tea instead of making tea. Qin State also brewed tea, but the Central Plains countries brewed tea only with spices and nothing else. In the Qin State, in addition to adding spices, salt is added to places that are not rich, such as the Western Regions of Qin State and northern nomadic areas. These places are not very wealthy. They only add table salt to their tea. Because of the convenience of railway transportation, it is not lacking. Moreover, table salt can solve many problems. At least drinking salty tea can be used. Get a great energy supplement.

Qin Guoguanzhong is currently the most affluent and core area of ​​the Qin State. In this area, from the King of Qin to the white-collar workers below, and ordinary people, they are willing to add sugar to their tea, because in their opinion, drinking and adding sugar Sugar tea is a sign of their improved quality of life, but they can indeed afford such sugar tea.

The tea from the Western Regions of the Qin State, except for adding salt, is nothing. However, a new drinking method has become popular recently, that is, milk tea. Speaking of which, this is also a brand new drinking method after the arrival of the Huns cavalry. It is said that this drinking method is a unique drink in the northern nomadic regions. Method, instead of using drinking water to make tea, they use goat’s milk or mare’s milk to make tea, and then add salt. This kind of drink not only has a unique flavor, but also replenishes energy, but this method of drinking also It only spreads among the army, because this drinking method has a great disadvantage, that is, the quality of tea is not high. It can be said that there is no tea brewing technology, as long as the tea is brewed indiscriminately. In the eyes of the Western Regions, this is a very tasteless way to drink tea. But the army is very real, because the soldiers in the army see the Huns cavalry drink very naturally, they are also willing to enjoy this drink.

But when you drink tea, you have to keep spitting out the tea, because the Xiongnu cavalry drink tea like this, after all, they all boiled indiscriminately. This tasteless tea-drinking method was the reason why Qin State Western Regions refused. No one wants to spit out tea all the time while drinking tea, and the quality of the tea is not high. Only the Huns can think of such a drinking method.

There is another way to drink it like that of the Wusun people of the Yue family. They try to grind the tea into powder, then mix it with goat milk or water, add sugar, and boil it together. This kind of tea is of better quality, or A kind of enjoyment was naturally liked by Wang Zhao.

"The tea of ​​your Yue family is better than the tea of ​​our Qin people. I don't want to leave if I drink it." Wang Zhao said with a smile.

"Oh. If the chief likes it, you can give more of these tea powder to the chief." Yeli said with a smile. He is the main official responsible for diplomatic exchanges between Yueshi and Qin, and he can make some decisions. As long as it does not harm the interests of the Yueshi people. In order to gain the favor of the people of Qin, he also specially named a Qin country named Qin Li.

"Oh. It's polite." Wang Zhao accepted such a gift for granted. In his opinion, it is normal to accept gifts like Yueshiren. Otherwise, he would not come, but this is what it is. A start.

"It's just, I don't know why the chief came this time?" Although Qin Li said very lightly, he was very worried. He worried that Qin State suddenly revealed some conditions that Yue people could not meet. If such conditions appeared, it would make it difficult for him to go back and explain.

"Oh. Actually, there is nothing wrong. This time, it can be said that it has brought you a lot of money." Wang Zhao put down the teacup in his hand and said at this time.

"Oh. I don't know what kind of financial guidance the chief has for us?" Qin Li asked with a smile. He knew that when dealing with Qin Jun officers, it was best to be straightforward, because they were all soldiers who didn't like to talk around.

"Slave." Wang Zhao said directly.

"Slave?" Qin Li looked at Wang Zhao, he didn't know how to ask questions.

"Oh. It's like this. I see your business is relatively hard. You don't know what Qin needs. Although there are many currencies such as gold and silver coins. But the transaction is very troublesome, and you also sell goods. It takes time. In this way, your money will be slower." Wang Zhao said.

"Yes, this is natural." Qin Li didn't know what the purpose of Wang Zhao's trip was. He also didn't know why the other party would say this.

"And you people from the Yue family and Wusun people don't have any specialties, even if you have them. It is estimated that they are from the Anxi Kingdom." Wang Zhao said.

"Yeah." Qin Li nodded. Agree, indeed, the place where Yueshi and Wusun retreated, the land is extremely barren, the mountain is here, and the transportation is extremely inconvenient. There is really such a reason, which allowed Wusun and Yueshi to survive. At the same time, they have to face the invasion and humiliation of the Parthian Kingdom. Such a life is very stressful for them. And the place where they are located does not have any specialties. If they are not relying on Qin's trade, it will take them a long time to accumulate strength. What Wang Zhao said was also a fact of the Yue family.

"In fact, I heard about some things about the people of Dawan in the north. I heard that you did things very smoothly with the products of the Qin Kingdom. As a result, it attracted the dissatisfaction of some people in the Apostolic Kingdom. They became bandits to **** your wealth Good. I don't know if you have anything like this?" Wang Zhao asked at this time. This incident came from a briefing from the Ministry of Li Xin. When Wang Zhao came here, he learned about it after seeing the report by the telegram.

"Returning sir, there is indeed such a thing, and it has happened many times, not only in the Shabbat, but also the Tocharians. These Tocharians are attached to the Shabbat. Many caravans are robbed or expropriated unreasonably. They do all the taxation matters. For them, we are very annoyed. However, there is no way." Qin Li kept shaking his head and said.

For Tocharo’s interference with their business. They can’t do anything about it. After all, the Tocharians are behind the Shabbat. It is estimated that Tochar is able to do this, to a large extent, because of the great reason for the Shabbat. The situation of the Yueshi is very bad. To the east of them are the people of Qin. The people of Qin are extremely powerful, and they are defeated by the people of Qin. But to the west of them is the Parthian nation. Such a country is a regional hegemon. Now the Yue people are in a buffer zone between the two hegemons. They are caught in the middle and finally survive. Their strength is very weak and they don’t want too much. Big things let them make choices.

"Yeah. Now I will show you a way to make money." Wang Zhao knew the difficulties of the Yue family, and at this time he started his goal directly.

"You organize your commercial armed forces. Organize counterattacks, attack the Tocharians, the tribes of the Shamans, towns, and capture the local residents as slaves. With these slaves, we will make a huge exchange for you. And. The benefits are absolutely. You did trade several times before." Wang Zhao pointed out this way of making money.

"This. This is not so good." Hearing such instructions, Qin Li was so scared that he was about to collapse to the ground. Although he didn't sit directly on the ground, his heartbeat was beating very fast, and he was really scared by Qin's suggestion.

"This. I'm afraid. We." Qin Li looked at Wang Zhao embarrassedly. He really couldn't think of why Qin people would come up with such an adventurous idea. He didn't know what the Qin people wanted to do, but he knew what consequences the Yue people would bring if they did this. They would anger the people of Zanxi. Such behavior would undoubtedly be suicide for them. This approach is too risky.

"Why? Are you unwilling?" Wang Zhao saw Qin Li's face embarrassed, which meant he wanted to reject him.

"Oh. No, no, no." Qin Li saw Wang Zhao accusing him. But he is not easy to refuse directly. At the same time, he couldn't accept it all. In this case, their Yueshi people's situation is very unfavorable.

"Then you just accept it." Wang Zhao said lightly.

"Oh. No, no," Qin Li quickly waved and said.

"What do you mean?" Wang Zhao asked at this time.

"This. This. We Yueshi people also have difficulties." Qin Li said embarrassedly.

"Sir, you also know that our Yue people can't provoke a country like the Parthian nation at all. Their military strength is very powerful for us. If we send troops to attack each other, we will undoubtedly go to war against each other. This is Let us in the Yue family find our own way of death." Qin Li said embarrassingly.

"How could this be a dead end? You have firearms and only a small group of attacks, and you occupy the dominant terrain. Under such circumstances, how could you lose." Wang Zhao said puzzled.

"Furthermore. I just want you to attack the border of the Parthian nation and capture slaves. With slaves, you can get more remuneration, which is much better than you simply doing business." Wang Zhao was dissatisfied with Qin Li at this time. Speaking of.

"But." Qin Li still wanted to explain, but when Wang Zhao heard that the other party wanted to continue to explain, he waved to the other party to stop talking.

"I don’t care what you think about it. Anyway, I’ve told you that as long as you do the slave trade and you are sure to get rich, you don’t care if you don’t like it. However, you people of Yue should agree with us Qin people to do this. Allow our Qin people’s business to arm you Go to where the Yueshi people. Capture the Parthians as slaves, this slave trade is very big." Wang Zhao angrily stood up and said.

"This." Qin Li watched Wang Zhao leave angrily. He knew that the other party was very annoyed, but he couldn't help it. The strength of the Yueshi people is very small. He simply couldn't withstand the random command of the people of Qin, the slave trade, and he didn't know how much profit the slave trade said would bring. Think about these. Qin Li felt that the people of the Yue family were too weak. Thinking of this, Qin Li walked out very depressed.

"Oh. Mr. Qin." Just when Qin Li walked out of Qin Jun's post, a familiar voice came out, Qin Li raised his depressed head and looked around.

"Bai. Mr. Bai." Qin Li saw his business partner at this time, and Bai Shi walked over with a smile.

"It turned out to be Mr. Qin, I thought I had admitted the wrong person." Bai Shi walked over with a smile.

The border post of the Qin army has become an important point of transportation and rest with the development of the border trade of the Qin army. Around the Qin army’s post, there are already many people from the Yue family. The people of the Qin nation live here, and it has developed into A commercial town.

"Since I met by chance, why not have a drink with me, Mr. Qin." Bai Shi said with a smile. As he said, he pulled Qin Li away. Inside a pub. Bai Shi filled Qin Li a glass of wine. But Qin Li was obviously not drinking. He just sat there, looking at the wine glass, in a daze.

Seeing Qin Li's appearance was very depressed. He didn't know why Qin Li was like this, but it was better for Bai Shi to ask.

"I don't know, what is wrong with Brother Qin?" Bai Shi asked tentatively.

"Oh. This." Qin Li also felt a little embarrassed when he heard Bai Shi asking him, but he didn't know how to say it.

"Brother Qin, you and I are business partners' partners, is there anything else that is embarrassing?" Bai Shi asked at this time.

"Well. In that case. I'll just tell the truth." Qin Li thought for a while. Then he decided to tell Bai Shi what happened today. After all, he didn't know what to do. If you can get the specific views and opinions of the people of Qin, this may be a good thing.

After listening to Qin Li's introduction. Bai Shihuan realized it.

"It turned out to be such a thing." Bai Shi raised a glass of wine and said lightly.

"I don't know what Brother Bai thinks about this matter?" Qin Li asked urgently.

"This." This is the first time that Bai Shi has heard of such an incident, and it is from the military. He needs to digest the impact of this incident. After all, this matter has the shadow of the military.

"Brother White, you and I are both partners in business cooperation. I take care of your business. Now I am in trouble. I still hope that brothers can provide me with a useful opinion. This is good for us Yueshi after all. People have a great relationship." Qin Li asked anxiously. He saw the other person embarrassed. Knowing that this matter is difficult to handle, even if it is so, he thinks he should ask the other party to refer to it, at least there is more hope.

"Oh. Brother Qin is a little worried." Bai Shi said with a smile at this time.

"I just feel that things are a bit strange, why our Qin State's military will be involved in this matter." Bai Shi said suspiciously.

"However, this matter seems to me that your Yue family members are going to make a fortune. This is a good thing." Bai Shi said when he took a bite of food easily.

"Get rich? I think we are about to suffer from the Yue family." Qin Li shook his head and said. In his opinion, Bai Shi was making fun of him.

"This is indeed an opportunity to make a fortune." Bai Shi said at this time.

"Tell you, this slave business is in great demand. Qin is now building railways in the country. I heard that the military sold all the captured Western Regions to the railway company this time, and they made a fortune. If there is a steady stream of slaves provided, I think the railway company can also digest these slaves." Bai Shi said at this time.

"Furthermore, the price of slaves, depending on the current situation, will continue to rise, and as long as the railway continues to be repaired, this demand will not be stopped. Therefore, doing this kind of business will definitely make a lot of money. Since the military lets you Do it, I think you can do it." Bai Shi thought for a while and wanted to say.

"Since we can make money, we Yueshi people don't dare to do this." Qin Li said, shaking his head.

"Why?" Bai Shi asked puzzlingly.

"Brother Bai, you also know how powerful our Yue people are, and what the Qin army wants us to attack is the Kingdom of Parth. You know how powerful the cavalry of the Parthian nation is. The current situation of our people from the Yue family is fundamentally It is impossible to attack a big country like the Parthian nation." Bai Shi kept shook his head.

"Oh." Bai Shioh said.

"If we were to attack the Parthian nation, we would suffer cruel retaliation from the other side. Our Yueshi people were already badly injured before. We originally hoped to do some business to recover, but now, your military people let us arrest them. Slaves, how could the slaves of the Parthian nation be so easy to catch? If we send troops, we will definitely encounter fierce resistance from the Parthian nation. This is a situation that we absolutely don't want to see." Qin Li analyzed.

"Oh. That's it, but, I think, this slave trade has to be done." Bai Shi said at this time.

"You Yue people don’t have any special products. I heard that the Parthian nation once attacked your caravans and detained your caravans. Even so, can’t you Yue people retaliate and arrest slaves? To make up for your losses like this, in my opinion, this is very beneficial to your Yue people." Bai Shi said.

"According to what you said, it is also correct. But we Yue people can no longer withstand the revenge of the Sabbath country. If there is another shock like this, it would be equivalent to destroying the country for us Yue people." Qin Li shook his head and said.

"In this way, this is caused by your Yue family's inability to resist." Bai Shi said at this time.

"Yeah. You can say that." Qin Li nodded and admitted. Bai Shi also had to nod his head to admit it. It is indeed difficult for the Yueshi people to withstand such a war. However, the military wanted the Yue people to obtain a large number of slaves, so that they could also weaken the Yue people through the hands of the Shah Nation, and the Yue people had clearly realized this, but they had nothing to do. If they refuse, the military will definitely be dissatisfied, and the current Yue people can't afford to provoke a monster like Qin Jun.

"Yes." At this time, Bai Shi suddenly thought of a little.

"What?" Qin Li looked at Bai Shi nervously.

"I have a way for you Yue people to develop and make a fortune." Bai Shi said with a smile at this time.

"Brother Bai said quickly, as long as this problem can be solved. Those who will make a fortune in the future will definitely need Brother Bai." Qin Li immediately tempted Bai Shidao.

"Yeah. As long as Brother Qin has a chance to make a fortune in the future, just think of brothers." Bai Shi said at this time.

"Yes, there is absolutely no problem with this." Qin Li said at this time.

"Haha. Okay. I'll tell Brother Qin." Bai Shi said with a smile at this time.

"It's very simple. You can't beat the rest of the people, but you can beat the Peacock dynasty in the south. I heard that there are many people in this country, and the countries in the south. They are usually very weak. Brother Qin’s Yueshi people, there are A lot of firearms, such sharp weapons, why don't you try it south. Put the slave business in the South Peacock Dynasty." Bai Shi smiled and put forward his own opinions at this time.

"Peacock Dynasty." Qin Li was a little puzzled. He didn't know what the Maurya Dynasty was mentioned by the Qin people? But he knew that in the south, there was a country with a large population, a population. slave. The south is weak. The addition of the firearm made Qin Li understand all of a sudden.