Seeing everyone's approval, I nodded with satisfaction, signed a name on the imperial edict, and stamped a seal, and finally finished a major event. Then, I summoned the envoy, first of all, Luo Yi's envoy, showed goodwill to me, and told me that the brother Xue Wanche, who had an old friendship with me, was staying there happily. I hope that I could give them some convenience when selling food in the past friendship.

I naturally agree with this, but there are some things to say, and it is okay to give convenience, but I can't do anything about the price. In addition, for the sake of my relationship with Brother Xue Wanche, I am willing to sell some weapons to Luo Yi at a cost price, of course, which refers to the equipment from the previous dynasty.

After receiving such a reply, Luo Yi's messenger flashed with satisfaction. Then, the messenger of Li Zitong also talked a lot of nonsense and gave a bunch of gifts to express Li Zitong's admiration for this young master.

Then, I also hope to sell them enough food. This young master naturally agreed happily. The battles last year had indeed made many heroes and heroes half-destroyed. Even Wang Shichong, who had taken advantage of the fisherman, was not much better.

The continuous wars consume not only manpower and material resources, but also caused the people's livelihood to wither under the rule of many princes. Therefore, they all need food and a large amount of food. Not only should they ensure that the people under their rule can survive, continue to create money and wealth for them, but they can also provide them with enough military strength. In addition, they also need a large amount of military ration to cope with any subsequent provocations.

Of course, every envoy showed good news to me, and even Wang Shichong sent an envoy to express a tactful criticism of the last incident, believing that the Zheng army was not targeting me but Li Yuan. Therefore, my subordinates attacked the wrong person.

Of course, the emperor of Zheng State was kind and would not care about past destruction and was willing to be good friends with the Chinese Empire. More importantly, I hope that this young master would also sell some food to them in accordance with benevolence, righteousness and morality, without any grudges, so as to save millions of people in the world.

However, there are many ministers who oppose selling grain to Wang Shichong, and there are many reasons. For example, those who despise Wang Shichong's despicable character, and some believe that selling grain to Wang Shichong is equivalent to encouraging the arrogance of the thief army. At that time, they will use this grain as military ration and will suffer losses from Guanzhong. In short, they have their own opinions and are very happy to argue.

However, Qu Tutong spoke at this time: "Zheng Jun did not lack much food. After all, he occupied Luokou Warehouse. The grain there was almost enough for him, Wang Shichong to support him for another one or two years. Wang Shichong did this just to show goodwill to us."

"Show goodwill? Could it be that Wang Shichong is afraid that we will send troops to Tongguan?" Cheng Yaojin raised his eyebrows and said. "According to Your Majesty's plan, we will need two to three years before we will send troops to Tongguan."

"Your Majesty knows, we know, but this does not mean that Wang Shichong can know our affairs." Fang Xuanling rolled his eyes speechlessly and patiently explained to this guy.

"That's true, so in this way, Wang Shichong shows us good things, that is, we hope that we will be better off watching the wall when everything happens in the Central Plains." Li Jingqing couldn't help but snap his fingers, and a smile appeared on his face. "It seems that Wang Shichong still has no intention of giving up on Shanxi."

"It's not just Shanxi, but in the south, Xiao Xian took advantage of the situation and occupied the ancient Jingxiang area. Even Nanyang County, Huayang and Huaian were in their hands. These three counties are not far from the eastern capital. After the plan to attack Hancheng failed, the 50,000 Zheng troops trained in the area of ​​Mangshan, Luoyang have been moved to Xiangcheng County, and they are afraid they want to attack the Liang army." As the intelligence director Du Ruhui's words are of great importance.

"According to the opinions of all the people, should we sell grain and Wang Shichong?" I nodded with satisfaction. These guys often quarreled in the court, but they were all right and justified and fought for the most important things, rather than learning from shrews to curse the streets here.

"I think that grain should be sold with Wang Shichong, so that he thinks that Your Majesty will watch from the wall. If he really wants to invade the Liang Dynasty in the south, and we just take advantage of the power to go south and seize the land of Lingnan. Another important thing is to open up the connection with Jiaozhi as soon as possible." Qu Tutong spoke first.

"Why is the general so anxious to contact Jiaozhi?" Wei Zheng asked in confusion.

Qu Tutong smiled and stroked his long beard and explained: "Director Wei must also know that in Jiaozhi, His Majesty has sent a large number of people to mine and prospecting deposits. At present, two huge coal mines have been discovered in the central and northern part of Jiaozhi, and an extremely large iron mine has also been discovered."

"Coal is high-quality coal, which is very suitable for making steel. The iron ore there contains as much as 60% of the iron." Qu Tutong gestured, and after hearing this, many people took a breath.

After clearing his throat, the warrior said, "The coal and iron ore reserves there are more than the mines under our Guanzhong, and the storage is very concentrated, which is conducive to mining. This year, 500,000 kilograms of iron ore have been tried to mine in Jiaozhi, and the smelting items are no less than the standard weapons and agricultural tools in Guanzhong."

"In addition, there is another more important reason." I stood up at this time. "That is sea commerce. I believe that all the Qing families know how far away the countries that trade with us are from us? For example, Tianzhu, it takes nearly half a year to take the land route. If you want to go to Xiqin, you have to make plans to spend a year on the road. But now, our ships slowly follow the Yellow River from Hancheng to Bohai County, and then can travel thousands of miles along the coast to Jiaozhi, but what is the time it takes? It's only less than a month."

This route is thousands of miles away, but it only takes so little time to reach it. Each ship only needs fifteen to twenty people to operate easily, but each ship can carry at least two or three hundred tons of cargo.

If it is converted into a horse, an ordinary horse can only carry 100 kilograms of goods to continue traveling far, then a 300 tons of goods is equivalent to 600,000 kilograms, which is equivalent to 6,000 horses for transportation.

What a terrible number? You know, the most expensive warship under my master is now only costing more than 5,000 guan or 5,000 guan. At present, at most, it is only about ten horses to buy, and it is thankful that good horses can buy seven or eight.

"... Such silk can be exchanged for gold of the same weight. You guys, do you know how heavy this silk is?" I snapped my fingers behind me, and Li Yuanfang immediately took over a piece of silk that had been prepared.

"A piece of silk is 100 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. Depending on the weaving method, the weight is as light as seven or eight kilograms, and the weight is only about twelve kilograms. In my China, the price of a piece of silk is about five jin. You must know it, right?" I picked up the silk, placed it on the table, patted it, and asked everyone.

"Yes, the price of silk is only over twenty guan, and the average silk is only five guan, while the second-class silk must be as many as three guan." The warrior is worthy of being a businessman and immediately quotes the price. "When we usually sell the lowest silk with the Western Regions vendors, the lowest silk price can reach five to eight guan, and the average silk is as many as ten to fifteen guan, while the best silk is about fifteen guan."

"In other words, our silk can be sold with those vendors in the Western Regions to get twice the profit or even three times the profit. I am right?" I nodded with satisfaction and asked again.

Seeing the warrior nodded affirmatively, the smile on my face became brighter and brighter. "You guys, I believe you should know that now, how much money is equivalent to one or two gold?"

"One tael of gold is equivalent to ten coins of money and silk. The dealers on the street know this. Your Majesty, are you asking this?" Li Xuanba couldn't help but interrupt.

"If it is twelve kilograms of gold, how much is it equivalent to silk?" I asked again with a smile.

"Twelve jin is only 120 taels, which is equivalent to 1,200 jin of money and silk." The warrior blinked and immediately gave the data.

I took a deep breath, and my eyes fell on the silk in front of me and said lightly: "Do you guys know that the silk sold in China is only fifty taels the most expensive, but after getting the countries of Xitai, I can exchange it for gold of the same weight..."

"What?" Qu Tutong widened his eyes and jumped up directly. Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling, who were sitting next to him, were so scared that they shivered.

"Impossible? One pound can be exchanged for one pound of gold? Grandma, this money grabbing is not so fast, right?" Cheng Yaojin also stood up, murderous intent, his eyes were full of green light, he was simply reincarnated by a bandit and reincarnated by a robber.

"How could I lie to you?" I replied with a smile. "Even the most inferior silk, when it comes to countries west of Xitai, you can at least get half the weight of gold."

Hiss... Everyone took a breath of cold air, and the thin air even made people feel a bit suffocating.

"God, if we transport two trucks of silk over, wouldn't we say we could get two trucks of gold?" Fang Xuanling's saliva almost dripped on his very neatly-treated beard, and his eyes were staring at the silk on my desk, with a burning look.

"But our merchants cannot pass, or it is extremely difficult to pass such a long journey. Because there is still Persia and countless countries between us and the countries of Sitai, and Persia is a powerful country, so their merchants can walk on this road without any obstacles."

"In other words, they have mastered this path of trade." My fingers hit the table again, and my tone seemed extremely solemn.
Chapter completed!