Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2467 Important transaction

  For most people, they are actually drifting with the tide. Only the fish who accidentally jump out of the river of time can vaguely see what is beyond the fog ahead.

   It may be a wonderful prospect, or a devil's trap.

   Or, nothing, still falling back to the original place...

Sbollis respectfully bowed down in front of the Hussars General Hall. His arrogance and contempt for Jarvis disappeared without a trace at this moment. His face showed a look of perfection after many years of cultivation. smile. With this smile, he will appear more kind, harmless to humans and animals, and sincere and honest.

  Combined with Sboris's language ability, this made him unimpeded in many places and achieved commercial success.

   Regardless of gender.

  Young Guliang will be intoxicated in his blue eyes, and middle-aged and elderly women will lose themselves in his endless sweet words. As for men, Sbollis has more experience, as long as he dispatches the courtesan who looks like a cow in the queue, there is almost nothing to deal with, after all, men are very specific...

   But Shi Bolis did not expect that he would suffer a serious setback at the Hussar General.

  This Han general is not interested in the "cow" that Sbollis said!

   Even if you look at it twice, you won’t be able to answer it.

   You must know that it is a real big cow!

  Sbolis has personally tested it many times, and he is sure that all men will be attracted by such a broad mind. Just now when we entered the hussar's mansion, didn't there be Han guards who wanted to stick their eyeballs directly into the deep ditch of the big cow?

   This is enough to prove that the charm of the big cow has not diminished, but the Han general in front of him just skipped his gaze and stopped looking at it. This made Sbolis wonder whether Jarvis was telling him false information. In fact, this big man likes men? After all, in Daqin, there are quite a few nobles who like men, and there are even expansion plugs and sockets in one.

  Sboris pondered, the smile on his face remained unchanged, and then he began to think that his old chrysanthemum seemed to need to be protected, or did this big man really have a relatively high standard of requirements?

Shi Bolis was upset, and then let his interpreter stand aside and pleaded pitifully to General Hussars: "... kind general, there are groups of camels outside the Yumen Pass, but there is no suitable cargo for them to carry... Generous General, we came from thousands of miles just to let the glory of the general shine in the sky... Good general, your will will be our highest guide, we have brought you the most beautiful and the best goods, In exchange for your paltry bit of silk...』

  Sbolis can actually understand Chinese, and he has stayed in the Western Regions for a while. He even understands Qiang language, Loulan language and Uzi language. After all, a business requires a certain amount of talent, and it is not something that can be made bigger and stronger by simply bringing some goods on the road. However, Sbolis usually does not easily show that he understands certain languages, which sometimes brings him some extra surprises.

  But this time, it brought shock.

  『It’s not right. 』

   Feiqian smiled and said, "Yumen Pass has never prohibited merchants from entering the pass...For example, Dawan, Yuezhi, Anxi, etc., are all unimpeded...You are blocked at Yumen Pass, I am afraid it may not be just for commerce? 』

  Fei Qian has at least played Age of Empires. I remember that there are camel cavalry in many places in Central Asia.

   Spolis's heart skipped a beat.

   This is the most important place.

  As the Han regained control of the Western Regions, the checkpoints from Yumenguan to Haixi began to operate one after another, making big businessmen like Sbolis basically unable to escape the detection of the checkpoints. To a certain extent, Sbolis did have the ability to launch a strike to destroy the checkpoints of the Han Chinese, but once he did so, it also meant that if he was discovered, he would immediately be threatened with a counterattack by the Han Chinese. Therefore, for Sbolis, it would be best if he could solve the problem with money and women.

  However, the method that is invincible in the Western Regions was found to be unworkable at Yumen Pass.

Gao Shun, the guard of the Yumen Pass, refused to take the hard way. After discovering that there were a large number of soldiers suspected of being in the camel queue of Sbollis, he refused the entry of the Sbollis caravan group, and only allowed a small number of people to enter. Inside the pass, a large number of remaining soldiers can only stay outside the pass.

  Sbolis eagerly wanted to obtain permission from Hussar General Fei Qian because of this matter.

  Besides the permission to enter the customs, the Western Region has a vast territory. Before the Han people came, horse thieves were rampant. How could people with no means organize a huge caravan in the Western Region? But a huge caravan also means a lot of labor costs. If there is no excess profit to support these expenses, how can Sbollis not only guarantee his own income, but also have enough goods to support his people? Bribe business?

So basically, what Shi Bolis wants most is Feiqian's exclusive silk sales agreement. He is willing to buy out the silk goods sold by Feiqian to the Western Regions at one time, and then hoard them to raise the price, so that Earn extraordinarily lucrative profits.

  The Silk Road has always been the way of gold, and silk is the most shining gem among gold!

  Now Shi Bolis can only be like an ordinary businessman, queuing up in the Dahan Chamber of Commerce to obtain the sales share of silk.

Sbolis' helplessness and anxiety made him unable to maintain his smile anymore, and it also made Fei Qian realize that this guy should be able to understand Chinese. After all, the translation has not been translated just now, and Sbolis's expression is a little bit Variety…

  This cunning pervert.

  The establishment of the Dahan Chamber of Commerce is for the current situation.

The court officials may not be able to fully understand the operation of business, but in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and even in many subsequent feudal dynasties, laymen still commanded experts in many cases, and they did not accept any opinions, which led many insiders to start cheating. Concealing the upper and the lower, the yang obeys the yin and violates.

  Fei Qian sometimes thinks back to these "excellent traditions" of Chinese officialdom. They are not necessarily inevitable products, but problems that have arisen in the continuous bureaucratic evolution, but they have not been corrected. As a result, civil servants were employed as technical officials, and most people’s golden learning time is in teenagers. Only very few people with strong self-discipline will maintain the attitude of learning and continue for life. Most of them are when I started to slack off after I took up an official position.

Therefore, when these civilian officials encounter technical problems, they are embarrassed to admit that they are incompetent. It just happened naturally. After all, as long as you are still doing some things at hand, you won't look cute and stupid, even if those things are useless.

   Therefore, Fei Qian would not directly give orders to the Dahan Chamber of Commerce to directly supply goods to Sbollis. This is almost something that Fei Qian hates very much in later generations.

Moreover, the Dahan Chamber of Commerce must learn to use the economy to fight in the constant running-in. Necessary restrictions and even sanctions may appear in the follow-up time. Is it driving backwards, or is it called self-destructive martial arts?

Economic sanctions, this seems to be a high-end weapon played by the United States in later generations, but in fact, it has been played very neatly during the Han period. As early as when Empress Lu was in power, he waved a trade stick against South Vietnam, prohibiting the city from entering the South Vietnam. Export ironware, mares. Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, was so uncomfortable that his neck was stuck, and he went to war with the Han Dynasty in a fit of anger. The two sides fought intermittently for several years, and the war did not cease until Emperor Hanwen came to power.

  After that, in order to deal with the Xiongnu, customs ban laws were issued one after another. First of all, "Hu city officials and people are not allowed to leave the customs with weapons and iron". At the same time, food, bows and horses are also banned.

Although there are smuggling caravans who are desperate, their number is basically a drop in the bucket. Smuggling alone cannot meet the needs of the Huns, so that the Huns are forced to obtain them only through the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, thus making the Silk Road Fully formed.

   It was also at this time that the big man began to establish his own strong position among the countries in the Western Regions. Once he was disrespectful to the big man, the business would be over immediately. This may also be the reason why the envoys of the Han Dynasty were able to be tough among the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions at that time.

Especially for the Western Regions, including Anxi Daqin and other countries in the west of the Western Regions, because of the unification of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the materials within China can be circulated well. Simply put, the counties and counties complement each other and communicate with each other. On a certain level, it is really vast and rich in resources, and does not need certain materials from abroad. Only the neck of others in the Han Dynasty, and others don’t want the neck of the Han Dynasty...

What?

   Spices?

Yes, some things, such as rose apples, flax, spices, jade, etc., are still special products of the Western Regions, but the problem is that most of these special products of the Western Regions will not directly affect the livelihood of ordinary Chinese people. He said that even without these items from the Western Regions, it would not have any impact on his life.

   What's more, in addition to obtaining these things from the Western Regions, the Han can also obtain them from the Jiaozhi area. With the acquisition of Hetao and Hexi by the Han, the water and grass are abundant, and the livestock are completely sufficient, and the south is vast, rich in spices such as **** and osmanthus. Thirteen governors' departments, more than a hundred counties each have their own specialties, and internal exchanges between goods and breeding are enough. There is no commodity that is related to the lifeline of the country and needs to be solved by foreign trade.

  The ironware, silk, tea, etc. exported by the Han Dynasty have become the necessities of the nomads, the countries of the Western Regions, and the Anxi Daqin and other places. Not to mention tea and ironware, but silk is not only the favorite of the upper-class nobles in the Western Regions, even ordinary people in the desert value a piece of silk. After all, there are no sunglasses and masks at the moment, which are breathable and light-transmitting, so that they will not be dazzling under the scorching sun. Even if there is tulle to protect the eyes, people who walk in the desert all the year round will lose their eyesight when they are old, until they reach their mission.

   It’s just that during this period of time, most people are not older than forty or fifty years old, so this kind of individual organ problems will not attract medical attention...

  Because of Gao Shun's own rigidity, Sbollis got caught in the ashes of Yumen Pass. At the same time, because Shi Bolis and others can't even talk about any business dealings with the big man in a hundred or two hundred years, so their current influence in the Central Plains is almost negligible. Even if they want to find someone to bribe, they can't find anything. access.

  Jarvis and Marcus, who came earlier, traveled to the Western Regions and the Han area several times, and they are quite clear about the Han people's thoughts...

  The great talent and general strategy of the current Han general can be said to have reversed the situation in the entire Mobei Western Region. It is basically impossible to impress Fei Qian with ordinary things and ordinary methods.

  Unless there is something special...

  Jarvis knew what it was, but because of Sbolis's attitude, he didn't tell Sbolis at all, and just waited to see how Sbolis would be deflated in front of Feiqian.

  It was obvious at the moment that Fiqian and Ben were not interested in what Sbolis brought out.

  Sbolis chattered eagerly to the translator for a while, but was interrupted by Fei Qian.

  Fei Qian looked at Spolis and said, "Actually, you should know Chinese, don't you?" Let the translation go on, some things, the more people know about them, the less safe they are. What do you say? 』

  Sboris was stunned for a moment, then fell silent for a moment, and finally put his hand on his chest, and while motioning for the interpreter to step back, he said in a rather awkward Chinese tone: "Your respect, please see the army...Report and sign..."

  Fei Qian waved his hand, motioning for Spolis to sit down.

In fact, Fei Qian is quite interested in Sbolis, of course not because he has any thoughts on Sbolis's old chrysanthemum, but whether it is Marcus before or Jarvis who came some time ago, they are all in In the Daqin political situation, it is relatively low-level. Marcus is roughly equivalent to a poor family boy, whose family has fallen and struggled to make a living, while Jarvis is a slave trader, and basically it is difficult to touch the core political circle of Daqin or Anxi.

   But the Sbolis in front of him is obviously different.

Fei Qian is not very interested in the so-called "beautiful cows" presented by Sbollis. After all, the beauties that Fei Qian has seen in later generations far surpass the contemporary people in terms of quantity and quality. Brother Chest is not very interested, and as for those gems and gold coins, he is even less interested.

  Fei Qian only made a request for Sbolis...

  『These four...』 Sbolis looked at some cloth bags brought by Fei Qian's guards in front of him, and guessed something in his heart, but he didn't dare to confirm it completely, and looked at Fei Qian with some hesitation.

   Fei Qian stretched out his hand to signal.

  Sbolis picked up the first bag, shook it slightly, and poured out something from the bag. They were some seeds, oblong, slightly narrow at both ends, with some thin hairs. Spurliss recognized the seed almost immediately...

  『Anise in peace...』 Sbolis looked up at Feiqian.

  Fei Qian nodded and said, "I need a lot... a lot of these seeds, do you understand?" 』

  After opening up the Western Regions, Feiqian also obtained some seeds of this fennel from Dawan and Xiao Yuezhi, but the quantity was not many, and it is obviously not enough to plant them on a large scale.

  After all, using those seeds to reproduce, on the one hand, is slow, and on the other hand, it is easy to degenerate. If you want to sprinkle a large piece without mercy like later generations, and even use it to pickle and store meat, the current planting quantity is still insufficient, and more seeds need to be provided to farmers in Longxi and Longyou for extensive planting only then.

  At the same time, this is also a supplementary link to the enlightenment of the Qiang people in Longxi and Longyou.

  When the herdsman becomes a farmer, isn’t it a stabilization?

Those guys from the Shandong gentry, because of the limitations of the times, made them think that the Longxi and Longyou areas are relatively dry and not suitable for planting and growing crops, but they are completely worthless, but Feiqian knows that in later generations, these lands What is it rich in, its output can even be provided to the Chinese needs of the billions of people in future generations!

  『It’s...not easy to do...』Sboris habitually started to bargain.

  Fei Qian laughed and said, "I can get this seed from anyone... It's just a matter of quantity, isn't it?" 』

  Sboris fell silent.

   What Fei Qian said is not wrong at all. This thing is available in the Western Regions, anyone who wants to carry some, there is no problem at all, it is indeed only limited in quantity. Only a big merchant like Sbolis can carry a huge amount at one time, but if the asking price is too high...

  If you have patience, the ants can also make it out.

  The only difference is the time issue of earlier and later.

  『Seeing the army... If there are a lot of them, the price will be high...』 Sbolis still wanted to struggle again.

   Fei Qian nodded with a smile, "That's right, so if there is a lot of silk, the price will be high!" 』

"No! no no! See the army! ”Sboris immediately softened, “It’s the same, me, the price is the same!” 』

   Fei Qian smiled, nodded, and signaled Sbolis to continue looking at the second bag.

  The second bag was very light, and Spolis took out a "flower" from it.

   Fei Qian pointed to the cotton and said, "This is also a lot!" 』

Almost similar to the problem of resting fennel, Feiqian's demand for cotton is extremely huge now, so that the supply of these currently planted is simply in short supply. Most of the cotton clothes produced are mainly supplied to Zhao Yun, and no one Knowing what will happen to the next wave of the Little Glacier Cold Current, and whether the weather will be colder this year and in the future winter, it is obviously not enough to simply wait for the expansion and increase of the cotton grown by ourselves, and a large amount of supplements must be obtained...

  Sboris rolled his eyes, obviously wanting to say something more, but when he looked up, he saw Fei Qian approaching with a half-smile, so he laughed dryly twice, and didn't continue to try to raise the price.

  Fei Qian nodded, expressing his appreciation for Sbolis' attitude, and then said slowly, "Very well, the next one is the more important transaction..."

  (end of this chapter)