Ma Teng finally waited for the army of the West.

The advance army of more than 5,000 people will arrive slowly in the future.

Ma Teng mastered the entire Silk Road, although he traded with Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu's caravan could not continue to move forward after arriving in Liangzhou, and had to sell goods to them in Liangzhou, and then the caravan formed by Ma Teng and them was transported to the west to sell.

In recent years, the Silk Road has been very developed, and there are caravans coming and going every day.

The West was very curious about the East, and they also organized a lot of caravans to arrive.

However, they can also only be in Liangzhou, and they are also controlled and monopolized by Ma Teng.

Ma Teng did not let Zhang Yu trade directly with the West, just to eat both sides alone, and then make a fortune.

Western troops arrived, and Ma Teng and his son received them.

"General, I don't know how well you have prepared your weapons and equipment, if we carry weapons and equipment from the West are very cumbersome and we can't transport much grain and grass, it will be very dangerous." The generals of the West asked the translator to speak to Ma Teng.

Ma Teng said: "We have built a batch, but the size of your weapons and equipment is too large, it is not easy to build, and Liangzhou has no resources, so it can only be purchased from other places, which is not easy." ”

The high-nosed, blue-eyed Western general frowned, and they only brought a small amount of weapons and equipment with them.

"Take me to see it."

The Western general asked Ma Teng to take him to see it.

"Not bad, not bad, very good, very good, the weapons and equipment you have built are much better than those we have built ourselves, but the number is too small."

The Roman generals were very happy to see the quality of the weapons and equipment, but Ma Teng had built more than 10,000 pairs in total, which was not enough at all.

When Ma Teng was preparing in the early stage, he didn't expect that they were fighting according to their own size, and it was only after hitting hundreds of thousands of pairs that they discovered this fatal problem.

But it's not a waste, Ma Teng's soldiers and horses can also be used.

After that, he began to build weapons and equipment that Roman soldiers could use, but this cost was huge and the difficulty of building was much more difficult.

Ma Teng was rich, but Zhang Yu's trade with them was fundamentally unequal, and he usually sold them at a high price.

Although Ma Teng makes a lot of money every year, it is also very scary to spend.

The food and drink of more than 200,000 troops is a big problem, and the weapons and equipment are even more expensive and scary.

Zhang Yu sold them salt, tea, ceramics and silk and other supplies openly, but for some strategic materials such as iron ore, Zhang Yu was very stingy, the amount given was small, and the price was high.

Ma Teng went to find and mine by himself several times, but the quantity was too small, and he still needed to buy a large number of them.

Zhang Yuming gave very little on the surface, so it was through smuggling, but the cost of smuggling was also very expensive.

"General rest assured, your 20,000 troops arrived in my Liangzhou, began to adapt to training, training for a few months, if there is no problem, the follow-up army can come." Ma Teng said.

Marten has been grasping progress recently, just to get the Roman Empire to send troops over as soon as possible.

Ma Teng saw that they were all tall and powerful, and Ma Teng was delighted to see them.

Such an army must be very strong in each of them.

Ma Chao is also eager to try and want to try their strength.

But these people have walked so far, they are already very tired, and now they need to rest.

Ma Chao was patient, waited for them to recover for a few days, and then trained for a few days, and then had a good competition with them.

If the armies of the Roman Empire were all such strong men, Ma Teng felt that their great cause could succeed.

When the time comes, hundreds of thousands of men from the Roman Empire will be killed, and they will be invincible.

Ma Teng and Ma Chao are very much looking forward to it.

The powerful Roman Empire helped them unify China, and they only had to pay a part of the price.

This price is actually very large, if it wins, this fallen empire will have to control two states in China, and then trade between the East and the West.

But for Ma Teng's father and son, there is no way to win against Zhang Yu by relying on their strength.

Now they have a chance.

More than 5,000 warriors of the Roman Empire remained, and their strength was expected.

Zhang Yu soon received the news.

After receiving the news, he also paid close attention to how much combat power the soldiers of the Roman Empire still had after arriving here.

He didn't know that although he was very confident of winning this war, Zhang Yu couldn't help but pay attention.

In the capital, Zhang Yu received the news of the arrival of the advance army of the Roman Empire.

"It's time, there is a reason to impose sanctions on Maten and continue to mislead them." After receiving the news, Zhang Yu planned to sanction Ma Teng and them half a month later.

If sanctions are imposed immediately, this Ma Teng will definitely be frightened.

Because Zhang Yu and their intelligence ability is so high, after the Roman army arrives, they will react immediately, it must be extremely wary of them.

In fact, Ma Teng thought that he was successful, because since marrying Ma Yunlu to Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu did not attack them after defeating Cao Cao.

At that time, if he attacked them, Ma Teng would not be able to resist Zhang Yu at all.

As a result, Zhang Yu stopped his troops and even began to disarm.

The main battle army of 300,000 will be disarmed at one time, and then it will be disarmed for many years.

This made Maarten happy and considered his plan a success.

He succeeded in paralyzing Zhang Yu, and Zhang Yu let him go in order to trade with the West and make money.

Ma Teng has always been such an idea.

As everyone knows, Zhang Yu kept him to use him.

In the process of innovation, there are indeed many problems, and some contradictions are still relatively large, and Zhang Yu has spent a lot of effort to promote innovation.

Nowadays, a little bit of innovation and experimentation has not yet gone up on a scale, and the problems that may be exposed are not serious.

As we continue to innovate, there may be more problems, and eventually more problems may erupt on a larger scale.

At this time, Zhang Yu was able to use external wars to solve internal contradictions.

When the Western army arrived, Zhang Yu also began to plan a new round of innovation.

This time, he wants to divide all the provinces in one step.

Dividing provinces plays a very important role, Zhang Yu can collect some relatively wealthy provincial taxes to build roads first, and can also take care of some underdeveloped provinces.

Of course, the premise of this is that these developed provinces have enough tax revenue to allow them to still develop rapidly.

Zhang Yu convened a cabinet meeting.

"Now is a very favorable time to promote provinces, cities and counties throughout the country, and where it has been completed, we will continue to divide the county and city levels, and take advantage of this favorable opportunity to make a final decision and solve great troubles in the future."

In wartime, when there are still powerful foreign enemies, there are different voices, and it will be natural for Zhang Yu to raise the butcher's knife.

In peacetime, it is not okay to raise a butcher's knife and kill on a large scale.

Zhang Yu took advantage of the Western threat theory, like a certain country in later generations, if he made a *****, he could constantly ask the Congress for military spending, and what Zhang Yu wanted was not military spending, but killing.

(End of chapter)