For this situation, the family is very panicked, which is equivalent to being cut off from the way of wealth, being cut off from the lifeline, if this kind of thing continues, it will be over, although they despise money, saying that this is a copper-smelling thing, but in the end they are still the most extravagant people, the irony lies in this, rich people despise money, and people without money will cherish and love money.

However, they also understood that although they despised money, they should attach importance to money, as the so-called money is not omnipotent, and no money is absolutely impossible, this financial route was cut off, they realized the existence of the economic crisis, and then began to panic, a large group of family heads held an emergency enlarged meeting overnight to urgently discuss the issue of the financial route being cut off.

What they don't understand is that this matter is why it will have a connection with the Western Turkic merchant groups that seem to be incompatible, they do business with the Western Turks in the west, and it is said that they also do business with the Western Regions, but what does it matter to them that we do business with these peoples in the east and northeast? It's already very restrained that we don't provoke them, and they still come to provoke us? What is this?

"Actually, this matter, the old man will understand after thinking about it carefully, although we have never been able to insert people into the Western Turkic Business Group, and Suning's erector will not agree to let me join anyway, but since they can do such a big business with the Western Turks, the Western Turks were also the overlords of the Western Regions before, and it is inevitable that they will have contacts with the countries of the Western Regions, so that the Western Turks have done business here, and they have traded with the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible for the Western Regions not to know the way." A white-bearded old man analyzed carefully.

"But why do the tribes of Tiele and Xue Yantuo in the east also know the Dao? Still looking for them? A middle-aged man with black hair asked.

A group of people looked at him with idiot eyes: "You are the only one who is smart in the whole world? Others don't know how to go around and look around? They made the business so big, except for ordnance and steel and so on. Almost all the Datang can have taken out the Lu to trade, how many goods do you watch Chang'an City enter day by day? And how much cargo is leaving? And how many more army escorts? Old man, look, this Chang'an City is about to become a cargo transfer station, look at how many more people in Chang'an City have been there these days? How many merchants come to Chang'an City to find opportunities?

Suning's kid holds all the power, and it is up to him to decide whether the merchants can go to the Western Turks to do business, he can say yes, and if he says no, he can't, in this way, those caravans will naturally follow him, and he wants to use the Western Turkic merchants to deal with us. It's also very easy. It's good to say hello, as for the barbarians who posted it and Xue Yantuo, they should have also heard the rumors, so they went to the Western Turks. Then he established contact with Suning. ”

This analysis sounds quite rigorous. Quite a few people nodded. But someone still asked: "I have been doing business with those barbarians for several years, and the barbarians do business based on people, and there is no way for the living to do business with them." How long was the Western Turkic caravan established? How did you get in touch with them so quickly, and even cut off our trade routes? ”

At this time, a middle-aged man with black hair spoke up, "Have any of you ever been to the Western Turks?" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then shook their heads, and Cui Zhang, the head of the Cui family, said: "What, Xu family master, have you been to the Western Turks?" Suning never allowed our people to go to the Western Turks, and has always been very strict, how did you get there? ”

The middle-aged man known as the head of the Xu family said: "I have a friend who is doing business with Suning's permission to go to the Western Turks to do business, before leaving, I asked him to let him take me to the Western Turks to see, I don't know how they opened up the situation of the Western Turks, and I don't know why so many people are eager for the Western Turks, and they also want to see Suning's methods, so I asked him, I did him a favor before, and he agreed, let me pretend to be a guy and go with him, get there, count today's situation, I kind of understand why the Western Turkic merchant group can easily cut off our trade routes. ”

Cui Zhang, the head of the Cui family, asked, "Master Xu, you can say it." ”

The middle-aged man said: "You may not know the way, when I went there, it was six months ago, six months ago, when I went to the Western Turkic Royal Court, I really couldn't believe my eyes, because the southeast side of the Western Turkic Royal Court, which was originally turned into a place where Tang merchants and Western Turkic traded, has become a town, or a town of considerable scale, and all the towns are guarded by the Tang army, and the town is completely full of shops and storefronts, and the town and the military camp are less than ten miles apart. ”

All the heads of the house were shocked: "Town? ”

The middle-aged man nodded: "I was just surprised before, I didn't expect it to affect us so soon, so I didn't say it, now I think about it is indeed very terrifying, the Western Turkic barbarian land, full of grazing grasslands of cattle, sheep and horses, can actually form a town, the outside of the town is made of stones, and the inside is also imitating the appearance of the general town of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang garrison can guard here, and the Western Turks and other ethnic groups want to go in and take out the documents given by the Western Turkic royal court."

That friend explained to me that now that town has formed a very well-behaved and large-scale town, that is completely a business town, all the people are merchants of the Tang Dynasty, and the people who live there are people of all ethnic groups, because the merchants of the Tang Dynasty sometimes need a lot of people to help, and the helpers they bring are not enough, at that time they will hire Western Turkic natives, so there are many people in it, all living together, very peaceful, nothing bad happens.

At the beginning, Suning set the rules like this, he and the Western Turkic Khan made a treaty, both sides signed and stamped the seal, if there is a violation of the oath of heaven and man, so they are very abiding, the Western Turks provide a place for the merchants of the Tang Dynasty to live and do business, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty should be absolutely safe in the territory of the Western Turks, once something happens to the Western Turks and the Tang Embassy need to be dealt with together, the Western Turks cannot unilaterally try the merchants of the Tang Dynasty.

Next, the army of the Tang Dynasty had the right to station nearby, to protect these merchants at any time, and then these merchants would pay a certain amount of taxes to the Western Turks, and at the same time the conditions given were that the merchants of all ethnic groups who entered the territory of the Western Turks wanted to do business with the merchants of the Tang Dynasty and came to the towns where they did business. Then it is necessary to give the documents issued by the Western Turkic royal court, pay a certain amount of transaction tax, that is, the tax to ensure that no mistakes will be made, and once something is done, it will be judged and punished by both the Western Turks and the Tang Dynasty.

The Western Turks were the overlords of the Western Regions before the turmoil, and all the countries in the Western Regions had to pay taxes to the Western Turks, and after the Western Turkic turmoil, the status of the overlord no longer existed, but they still had some ties with the Western Regions, and because the Western Regions and the Central Plains had been cut off for hundreds of years, they could not get the rich products of the Central Plains. As soon as I heard that there was a place in the Western Turks to do business with the Central Plains. Almost immediately, the Western Turks received a large amount of taxes, and after receiving the benefits, the Western Turks gave full protection to the existence of the Tang Dynasty merchants.

Not long to stay there. But I found something. It is the money received from the Western Turks and merchants of various ethnic groups. It is definitely much more expensive than what Datang sells, and a doll that only sells ten copper coins in Datang can be sold there for a hundred copper coins or more. Therefore, the profits obtained are absolutely outrageously high, and a considerable part of the obtained cattle, sheep and horses are supplied to the garrison of the Tang Dynasty, and almost all of the 3,000 garrisons there eat beef and mutton, drink mare's milk wine, and the momentum is very majestic, only occasionally eating some vegetables and fruits, so the Tang Dynasty almost does not have to spend much money to raise troops, which is equivalent to the Western Turkic barbarians paying money to raise troops for the Tang Dynasty.

From this, I thought, this is Suning's purpose, let the Western Turks raise troops for the Tang Dynasty for free, the Western Turks will be squeezed dry one day, although their royal court has gained a lot of wealth, but the various tribes have suffered heavy losses for this, I am afraid that this situation will appear soon, so those merchants will actively do business with other foreigners, and expand the scale, as long as possible to prolong the outbreak of the crisis.

Suning's mind is very vicious, but his vision and talent are really rare in the world, a rare talent in a hundred years, according to those people, I estimate that Suning is taking advantage of the greed of other foreigners, and those foreigners have a good relationship, and then step by step with a relatively low price to take away our trade routes, the Western Turks as a transit station, all the things that cannot be sold in Datang are brought outside to exchange for a large amount of money, a lot of wealth will flow into Datang, and Datang will become richer and richer.

Now almost all the foreign tribes in the west and east of the north are doing business in the Western Turks and the Western Turkic merchant groups, this reputation is naturally there, the reputation is there, the business is there, I paid attention to it, the price they ask for when trading, in fact, is still lower than ours, so they can get the support of those barbarians, and now those barbarians are willing to trade with those merchants in the Western Turks, and are not willing to risk the intervention of the Tang border guards to trade with us, isn't this also very normal?

Ladies and gentlemen, I think that there is only one way to deal with this crisis, and that is to unite to fight against the Western Turkic merchant groups in Suning, their financial resources are quite strong, and none of us can compete with them alone, if we continue to fight separately, then we will fail, if we don't want to fail, we can only join forces, mainly to recapture the trade routes in the north and east, otherwise, we will have no strength to unite with them. ”

The head of the Xu family also seems to be a very thoughtful person, the Xu family is the tentacle family of the Cui family, and the person in charge is also in charge of the business with Xue Yantuo in the north, this time the trade route was cut off, and the Xu family suffered heavy losses, Xu Yan, the head of the Xu family, remembered the amazing scene he had witnessed before, and he finally realized that that town was the real killer of Suning, and the prosperity inside, the wealth inside, and the rules and regulations inside surprised him.

Thinking of the large number of goods entering and leaving Chang'an City, a large number of outsiders pouring into Chang'an and then leaving, the increasing prosperity of Chang'an City, and those fierce cavalry of the Tang Western Turkic garrison, all of them are tall and big, and their muscles can stretch their clothes and armor, so lean, so majestic, thinking like this, Xu Yan suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and he realized that Suning was playing a very big game of chess, and in this chess game, the Shandong family was just an insignificant piece.

These people only see the benefits and financial paths, but Suning has set its sights on a more long-term place, and even a longer time, ten years, twenty years, thirty years! These are all things they didn't think of and Suning thought of!

It's already too far behind, and it can be pulled back by relying on the old book, if it lags behind a little more, then there is really no hope! It is necessary to unite, only by uniting is the way out, to integrate the funds and resources of all the families, to form a powerful caravan, to coerce the emperor to give in, so that the emperor can let go of a gap in free trade, and use low prices and sufficient supplies to fight an economic war with the Western Turkic merchants.

There is no gunsmoke, but it is a hundred times more dangerous, the Western Turkic merchant group can afford to lose, lose the north, they still have the base camp of the West, but their own side can't lose, if they lose, it will be a catastrophe! (To be continued......)