"Su Hou, those merchants outside have been waiting for three hours, and they are still reluctant to leave, this water has been drunk in a jar, and I don't know how many times I have been out of the road, but I still don't want to go, and some people have taken out the dry food they brought and ate it like this, look at this situation, they will not give up if they don't achieve their goal!" It was the sixth time that Liu Renliang had come to Suning's office to report the actions of those businessmen to Suning.

These days, it's almost a month, this is the fifteenth day of the collective petition of these merchants, these days Chang'an City has not been settled, everywhere you can see a huge number of goods to Chang'an City, and then loaded and then to the northwest to the West Turks, the number of vehicles is staggering, the people are pure curiosity, and these businessmen are repentant, want to commit suicide, they missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and those who have mastered this opportunity, maybe they have been wrapped in thousands of dollars!

In fact, it can also be said that in the past month, Suning has shipped a total of twenty-three times, almost every day, for a long time the Turks and the Central Plains have cut off commercial trade, and their own lives are poor, so there is no resistance to the inflow of goods in the Tang Dynasty, they don't know what is called economic war, they don't understand what is called trade barriers, it is too easy to deal with such a country, and their upper level is the bulk of Datang's commodity consumption!

The luxurious furniture of the Tang Dynasty, they almost have a set of hands, plus relatives such as the seven aunts and eight aunts and some important ministers who have made great contributions, and there are countless gifts of rewards, as well as high-end clothes made of silk and satin of the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention how comfortable it is to wear on the body, so that these Turks, who are accustomed to wearing shoddy clothes that are easy to rub against the skin, are no longer willing to take them off, and buy them one by one at home.

The food of the Tang Dynasty also makes them eat and don't let go, now Wei Xianju is no longer an ordinary ordinary person can come, either rich or expensive, all day long to occupy all the actions of Wei Xianju, a sheep and a cow to Wei Xianju here, Wei Xianju is to send all these living creatures to the army pasture, the army can take a part of it as rations, reduce the burden of transportation in the imperial court. It's best to eat this all the time. It's a big deal, when the vegetables from Wei Xianju come, some of them will be reserved for the army.

The merchants of the Tang Dynasty reached a consensus with the army that some goods would be hoarded in the barracks when they needed to be hoarded, and at the same time, the merchants would pay money to the army as payment, and it may also be the materials needed by the army. For example, Wei Xianju took meat such as cattle and sheep as a reward for the army. The army grazes cattle and sheep for Wei Xianju. Try to raise pigs, and then Wei Xianju will allocate about one-tenth of the cattle and sheep to the army as a special supply, as their rations.

In the Turks, it is necessary to follow the customs of the locals. The nomads are physically strong and also have the influence of the all-meat eating habits, Suning also plans to give the army here a special training of all-meat, anyway, one rotation a year, when these troops go back, they must be fat and strong, strong and incomparable, they will definitely be a strong cavalry, the main force on the battlefield in the future.

Anyway, now on the huge prairie, the fact that there is a Tang market around the Western Turkic royal court has been completely spread, and some people from other countries come here, such as the country in the Western Regions, which makes the officials stationed in the Zongheng Division very concerned, and when they encounter this kind of customer, the officials of the Zongheng Division must talk to him, and then understand which country he is, the detailed customs and national borders.

These merchants from the Western Regions just came to see how rich the products of the Tang Dynasty were, because the dynasty in the Central Plains was hundreds of years away from them, and they had only heard of it before but had not seen it, but now that they saw it, they were naturally shocked very much, and for these problems, they only regarded it as an exchange with each other, and never thought of what the officials of the Vertical and Horizontal Division had in mind.

They naturally knew everything, the officials of the Zongheng Division talked and laughed with them on the surface, and when they returned to their residences, they began to write down in detail what they had seen and heard, and even drew the general territory of some countries they knew about the Dao, the first batch of officials of the Zongheng Division who entered the Western Turks with the caravan had thirty people, all of them were newcomers, but they had just learned some longitudinal and horizontal techniques, Suning sent them over just for a transition, and they were ready to transfer them back after the formal training was completed, But it is obviously better to learn and apply it in the field than to learn from books, so this time they have made a great achievement.

They put these news together, all brought back to Chang'an and handed over to Suning, Suning was like a treasure, very surprised, held a meeting of the vertical and horizontal division overnight, announced the news about the countries of the Western Regions that they have obtained so far, and let those officials compare the current Western Regions with the specific differences between the current Western Regions and the original Western Regions through the previous Han Dynasty documents, for which most of the month's energy was invested in it, and those merchants who came to see them turned a blind eye and didn't care at all, so they hung them there, Drawing a map of the Western Regions and discussing the issues of the Western Regions.

What Suning hopes is that by the time the Tang Dynasty can send troops to the Western Regions, the Western Regions have already been touched, and even their king's princess can know what color underwear she wears.

And those businessmen are so persevering, so tenacious, Suning deeply understands the temptation of money to these businessmen, there is no way to get political power, can only be a fierce man into the eyes of money, when the time comes, I hope that money can be exchanged for political loosening, so that they can do a good job of activities and bones, this Suning naturally can not let them get their wish, the forty caravans that set off in advance will not be so easy to agree, there are such good things they can't wait to take care of alone, Are there any new people who are willing to join?

It is better to set up a commercial management committee, let these merchants who went on an expedition to the Western Turks set up a commercial management committee on their own, and take the lead themselves, and controlling this committee is equivalent to controlling the trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks, and all merchants who want to do business in the Western Turks must participate in this committee. Accept the control of the committee, and pay a considerable part of the money as a protection fee on a regular basis, otherwise the other merchants will expel them from the gang and make up business.

Thinking of this, Suning felt that this was a good idea, so he put down the work at hand and said to Liu Renliang with a smile: "You go out to tell them, and I will go out to meet them in a while." ”

Liu Renliang asked with some curiosity, "How did Su Hou plan to do it?" ”

Suning smiled: "They want to go, they can, they can." If such a large prairie were to be taken over by those forty caravans. That's really a bad thing, the emperor will be suspicious, and those big caravans will be too big, and there will be too much money. It's not a good thing for anyone. The emperor will be suspicious. As soon as the emperor suspected, this thing would not be easy to do, so. Let the vast majority of people participate together, earn money together, grow together, and grow clearly is the best policy. ”

Liu Renliang pondered for a while, nodded and said, "What Su Hou said is very true, and he will convey it immediately." ”

After Liu Renliang finished speaking, he went out, Suning looked at some of the information in front of him, touched his face, rubbed his face, and eased his face, he was about to go crazy these days, although he was very fulfilling, but he was definitely tired to death, the military training of the military academy students was about to end in a month, and when the time came, he would have to run at both ends of the military academy vertical and horizontal division, there were so many things!

Shook his head, stood up, moved, drank a sip of ice water, and walked out slowly, next, I have to deal with that group of businessmen, a group of greedy guys, from small to big, you can know how terrible it is to let the merchants behave indiscriminately, it is said that the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty in ancient times The country still encouraged the development of commerce, especially the Shang Dynasty, so it was named "Shang", but why did it start to focus on agriculture and suppress business later?

It must be that the businessmen are not greedy enough, want more things, people's desires are endless, business will expand people's desires infinitely, expand to a certain extent, businessmen will pursue political power, state power, etc., at that time, China's ancestors found this, hit the businessmen hard, and discriminated against them for thousands of years, which brought the ancient Chinese social atmosphere well, but this is also a double-edged sword, sure enough, God treats everyone fairly, what do you want, What do you have to pay......

We must not repeat the mistakes of the past, now the Tang Dynasty and the opposition have appeared against the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turkic trade, the current reason is because these military families occupy the main position, the civil officials feel very unhappy, spontaneous conflict of interest, and when this conflict expands because of the expansion of the scale of commerce, it will lead to the conflict of heavy commerce or suppression of businessmen, Suning can not support heavy business, and the same can not support the suppression of business, this still needs to be considered, but also practiced.

And at that time, those Confucian wealthy families will definitely take the opportunity to attack the Zongheng family, on the issue of heavy agriculture and suppression of business, the views of the hundred schools of thought are actually similar, and the heavy agriculture and suppression of business is proposed by the Legalists, not Confucianism, this is already a kind of social atmosphere, can not be changed, can not be promoted, but need to be guided, the current task of the Zongheng Division is very heavy, very dangerous and important.

Walking to the outer hall, Suning saw a nest of about 30 men in ordinary clothes but with "strong" bodies sitting in the outer hall, almost the entire outer hall was occupied, and the laws of the past dynasties did not allow businessmen to wear silk and satin, which was a cheap businessman's means, but this did not prevent these businessmen from eating well, living well, and growing well, all of them were full of brains, and they were not good things at first glance, yes, how could good things make money?

When the businessmen saw Suning coming out, they knew that this was Suning, such a young superior, there was no one else in the Manchu court except Suning, so they stood up one after another and saluted Suning: "I've seen Suhou!" ”

Suning waved his hand and smiled: "No need to be polite, no need to be polite, please take a seat!" ”

The businessmen bowed again, sat down one after another, and Suning also sat down, Liu Renliang offered a cup of Fufang drink, Suning took it up and drank two sips, and then said: "These days, the Zongheng Division is busy with official business, and Ben Hou has not been home for more than ten days, so I have been a little snub to you, and I hope you don't blame Ben Hou." ”

The businessmen are indeed unhappy in their hearts, but where dare they say it? People are Hou Ye, extremely noble, he is a businessman, not even a small people, he is just a line away from a slut, where do you dare to be dissatisfied with Hou Ye, a little dissatisfied is the end of whipping and exile, at the beginning, the fate of the two businessmen who robbed women with Su Hou Ye They all know the fate of the Tao, the following offenses, big disrespect, whipping fifty, confiscation of family property, exile in Lingnan, almost a dead end, there is no way to live, so where do they dare to disrespect Su Hou Ye?

A white-haired businessman stood up, it seemed that he was the oldest and most representative here, and Suning would not do anything to him when he was old, so he would stand up and speak on behalf of the businessmen here: "Su Hou, my intention to come here Su Hou must also know the Tao, it is useless to say more, and the old decay will get straight to the point, when Su Hou sent someone to persuade me to wait, I only know that the wild land of Lu Dao is very dangerous, one is not good, that is, I can't come back if I go, with this kind of thought, That's why I rejected Su Hou's kindness, but now it's too late to regret it, I just hope that Su Hou will give me another chance, as long as Su Hou agrees, we are willing to pay any price! (To be continued......)