The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

"How's the situation the last few days?" asked a Korean colonial official at the port.

"Come one, we have one, and in the past half a month, about five ships have left." A small official next to him replied.

"It's too little." The official said repeatedly.

"It's too few. But there's no other way. In this season, all the ships have gone to the south. Few can come back. It will take a few months to come back. It is estimated that when the storm season comes, If it is later, it will be difficult to come back." said the little official.

"This." The official said with some embarrassment.The higher-ups asked them to mobilize a fleet to support the northern operations, but all their ships went out.There is simply no way to complete such a task.He knew Commander Hu was very anxious.But there is no way.They have no ships in their hands.You can't do anything without a boat.

"How about the new ship?" the official asked.

"Yes. Three ships can be launched in the next day or two, and there will be two more ships in the next seven days." The little official said, wringing his fingers.

"It's too late. There are too few boats. It's too late to do this," the official said.

The small official didn't know what the higher-ups were worried about, and the official didn't say anything, and he didn't dare to ask.

"Forget it. I'll go to other places to have a look, you go and get busy." The official said at this time.The little official looked at it and didn't care.

South Korea's warships and armed merchant ships are scattered in Nanyang, and they plunder wildly for a large amount of various materials.All kinds of idle wood, spices, sea pearls, and slaves, as long as they can be sold to make a lot of money, they will do it.It can be said that they are all a pack of hungry wolves.Therefore, there will be a lot of fewer ships in Zhangliang Port on Queen Island in South Korea, unless they come back in a concentrated manner.If it is not a storm, they will rarely take the initiative to choose where to dock.Most of them will take the initiative to go to the northern Qi State, where they are a good place to sell their goods.

Qi country.

"Five and a half taels, do it or not, if you don't do it, leave." A Qi Guoxie bowed his head and said.

"Do it. I will do it." A farmer nodded and said.

"Okay. Take the tools and go to line up over there. Twenty people are enough. Let's go to work together. If you finish it, you can get paid. Go." Shih said impatiently.Then he signaled the other party to leave.

At this time, Qi State in the north happened to be in the slack season. The wheat had already sprouted, and there was not much to do in the fields.But this road is simply to level the road and then tamp it down.Then sprinkle some gravel.In some places, in order to cut corners and materials, they simply do not sprinkle.Anyway, the above will not check such things, and they can save a lot of money in their own pockets.

"Next." T-shirt shouted loudly.

On the construction site of the road, people from the nearby Qi State came one after another. They heard that five and a half taels a day was given here, so they came to try their luck. Sure enough, as long as the road was built, they would be paid. Dry, in order to make more money, some women also participated. After all, they can get three and a half taels. Although there are two less, it is still rare to get such a generous salary during this slack season.

"Good job." On a high ground not far away, Tian Heng took a telescope in his hand to check the surrounding situation.

"With such a road, our traffic capacity will be greatly improved in the future, and the four-wheeled carriages made by Qin State will be able to drive. The cargo capacity will be greatly increased, and transportation will be very convenient." Tian Hengxiao Speaking of.

"This is only a temporary solution to the freight problem. The fundamental problem is to build a railway. Without a railway, the transportation volume cannot be fundamentally improved." Lou Jing said.

"Yes. That's right." Tian Heng nodded and said.

"I also think that the railway should be built. However, the South Korean side promised to pay for the construction of the railway, and we are willing to use land and other things as collateral, but the matter of funds has passed for a long time. It still has not been well resolved." Tian Heng said worriedly.

"My lord, maybe it will take some time to solve it." Lou Jing comforted.

"I hope so." Tian Heng nodded.

"However, the greatest significance of this road is not to increase the cargo volume. It is a hypothetical cable. With the cable, the telegram can go directly to the coastal area. In this way, our country of Qi can greatly solve the communication problem." Tian Heng said.

"The biggest weakness of our country is the difference in information. The latest news we get is the news of others seven days ago, seven days, a full seven days. This takes too much time for us. With the telegram, We can save a lot of time, and the reaction will be much faster than before." Tian Heng said with satisfaction.

"This is natural. If our army is equipped with telegrams, then such information will be sent faster." Lou Jing said.

"Well. The Koreans have helped us do this." Tian Heng said.

"If the Koreans want to attack the Chu people, they must be quick in terms of intelligence and information transmission. If they don't help, they have to help." Lou Jing said.

"Yes." Tian Heng nodded and said.

Text 2106 Finance is a Big Bomb

The land of Chu State and Wu Yue. ?arts ?

"I'm sorry. We can't satisfy what you two want." A tea merchant said apologetically.

"This. Why is this?" Xiang Bo asked angrily.After the group of them arrived in the land of Wuyue, they thought they would be able to complete the purchase quickly, but what they didn't expect was that they went to many houses but failed to purchase the goods. Those merchants were very ambiguous, but they were unwilling to say more What.

"Here." The tea merchant looked outside cautiously at this moment, and then waved his hand cautiously to signal Uncle Xiang to come over.

"This is not a place to talk. This guest officer is also a businessman. Some things really cannot be discussed here." The tea merchant said in a low voice.

"If you two really want it, come with me." The tea merchant said with a smile.Then he took Xiang Bo and Xiang Liang into his back house.

"Oh, to be honest, there is nothing we can do." The tea merchant complained.

"Why is that?" Xiang Boxian asked.

"It's all done by the nobles of the Chu state, because things like tea, silk, and sugar are smuggled too much. In order to curb the source, they thought of tea certificates, that is, tea tickets and sugar tickets. What about silk tickets? Wait." The tea merchant said.

"The two of you don't have such things in your hands, so naturally you don't want to give them to you." The tea merchant said.

"This... is too unacceptable." Xiang Bo said.

"There's no way around that. People have the right to make money as they want, and we businessmen will suffer." The tea merchant said in embarrassment.

"So, how do you make money in business?" Xiang Bo asked.

"Smuggling." The tea merchant said.

"The only way is to smuggle. Let us sell it. We can sell it secretly. There are many smugglers. Everyone does this, but everyone has their own interests, so don't care about it." The tea merchant said .

"Oh. So you meant that you would not sell it to us, but in fact you still want to do this kind of business? Right?" Xiang Bo asked.

"That's right. Who doesn't make money if they have money." said the tea merchant.

"Actually, it's not easy for us. If we sell it at the price of the tea ticket, you won't make much money, and I will sell it at a loss, and all the money I make will benefit the nobles. They think very much." Vicious." The tea merchant said.

"Okay, we will accept your terms." At this time, Uncle Xiang reluctantly agreed, but he knew that if it was smuggled, the price might be much more favorable to him, and he also knew along the way that the nobles set up a large number of Forts, such forts are checkpoints, tax cards, and the reason why merchant ships stop is because these checkpoint countries have such checkpoints that lead to the impassability of commercial routes.

Smuggling has always been the preferred business method of Chu merchants. They have no choice because the commercial tax in their country is too high.Such high taxes directly lead to smuggling in their own land.It is also a last resort to say.

Later, Xiang Bo negotiated with the businessman and obtained a batch of tea leaves by smuggling, but the amount of tea leaves was far from enough.In addition, they also want to get more commodities, such as sugar, copper ore, and materials such as silk and tung oil. After some negotiations, the tea merchant agreed to introduce other smugglers to Xiang Bo. After all, the chances of such a big buyer are much less.

Inside a hotel opened by Chu people in Xinzheng, South Korea.

"From the information we got, the Koreans are indeed attacking the Chu army stationed in Qi, probably in the Langya area." An obese businessman from Chu introduced.

"Yeah. I think so too." The young master said with a nod.

"Young master, tell me, you can contact General Xiang Yan. I don't know if you can persuade General Xiang Yan's navy to go north to attack the Chu army. In this case, we can import those sugar, tea, silk and other materials by sea, and Instead of taking the 6th route, the risk of the 6th route is too great. And it is easy to be seized. Many of our brothers’ goods have been seized many times. We can’t afford such a loss.” The fat businessman was anxious Speaking of.

"Indeed, if we go on the 6th road, we really can't afford to lose, but I don't think it is possible for General Xiang Yan to attack the Chu army directly." Ling Chu said at this time.

"After all, General Xiang is also the Chu army, and the Chu army attacked the Chu army. How can such a thing explain the problem." Negative Chu said.

"If you give it to me, I'm afraid, I will be embarrassed too." Lu Chu said.