Sun Jianguo also did a lot of research. For this meeting, he spent money to inquire about the surrounding situation from merchants, and also conducted sufficient historical research in the real world.
"Let me talk about the situation in Longyou Road first. The Tang Dynasty controlled Longyou Road only after Wu Zetian, Wu Zhou and Li Longji opened the border. Some areas have been annexed for less than a hundred years. The situation in Longyou as a whole is quite complicated.
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"I will introduce the current situation in Longyou from east to west and from south to north."
"First, we are located in Longyoudong Road and Shazhou Guazhou. These areas have been controlled by Wu Zetian during the period. The Tang Dynasty has been operating it for many years. Although the people are a mixture of Han and Hu people, they are mainly Han or Han Chinese.
The governor's office is set up here, which is used as a county management. It is the area with the highest degree of Chineseization and the most stable area."
"Gaochang north of Shazhou and Yiwu north of Guazhou are all such areas."
"However, these areas also have their own governor's offices and local chambers of commerce. They are also close to Shazhou and Guazhou, so our goods cannot be sold at high prices there."
Everyone nodded. Naturally, you can make more money if you travel far. Since they have decided to organize a caravan, they cannot just go to Gaochang next door.
Sun Jianguo continued: "To the north of Shazhou is the Beiting Protectorate, which is the northern section of Longyou Road. It is close to the Uighurs. The Tang Dynasty established the Beiting Protectorate and a group of Captors for the purpose of fighting here.
Uighurs.”
"But now that all the members of the Beiting Protectorate have been transferred to the Central Plains, the defense against the Uighurs is empty. These areas are often invaded by Uighur bandits, which is very unrest."
"Now the Tang Dynasty is borrowing troops from the Uighurs. The crown prince brother of King Jianning has become a brother to the Uighur prince. According to the secret agreement between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs, the Tang Dynasty court acquiesced to the Uighurs' plundering of the Beiting area."
"What?"
"Isn't the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty too bastard?"
"Is there such an emperor?"
Sun Jianguo sighed and said: "This is nothing. In the historical line of our time and space, the Tang Dynasty also made an agreement with the Uighurs. As long as Xijing was captured, the Uighurs would plunder for a day. Later, the prince persuaded the Uighur prince to plunder instead.
Come to Dongdu."
"Historical data says that the Uighurs plundered the Eastern Capital for three days and three nights, and the Eastern Capital, which was once as prosperous as Xijing, was almost reduced to ashes."
Everyone took a breath. Ordinary players rarely paid attention to the history of the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and they didn't know that the powerful Tang Dynasty had such a humiliating side.
Sun Jianguo coughed and said: "The Beiting is in chaos and it is difficult to do business. Moreover, the Uighur nomads are also very poor. It is really uneconomical to risk doing business."
The players also nodded. People on the grasslands are generally only interested in tea and salt, and the Uighurs and Tubo are similar. They are still in the era of slavery, and ordinary people really don't have much money.
The nobles on the grassland are only interested in tea horses and jewelry, gold and silver. These are primary products and cannot make much money.
Moreover, nowadays salt is a specialty of Bafu, and the purchase price is also high, so it is not cost-effective to go to Beiting.
Sun Jianguo said: "But we will still go to Beiting in the future. The Beiting Horse Market used to be an important source of war horses in the Tang Dynasty. If King Jianning can control Beiting, then we can suggest opening a horse market."
Not nearby, not to the north. Sun Jianguo's meaning was already very clear.
He coughed and said, "My suggestion is to go west, to the Four Towns of Anxi."
The Four Towns of Anxi are the four military governors established by the Tang Dynasty in Suiye, Qiuci, Khotan, and Shule.
The Jiedu envoys of the four towns of Suiye, Qiuci, Khotan and Shule were also under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate.
Sun Jianguo said: "The four towns in Anxi are on the Silk Road and have developed commerce. The military and civilians in the four towns are generally relatively wealthy and have relatively strong purchasing power."
"The four towns of Anxi were once independent kingdoms. After the Tang Dynasty destroyed these countries, it still adopted the method of rule by restraints and appointed the nobles of the old kingdom to manage the local area. The nobles of these kingdoms had a lot of wealth and could afford our products.
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"The four towns in Anxi have developed commerce and can bring us more resources, so organizing a development business group to go to the four towns in Anxi is the most beneficial option for us."
Many merchant players nodded, and the plan to visit Anxi was also the consensus of most merchant players. Sun Jianguo said this first, just to unify everyone's ideas.
Nowadays, the markets in Shazhou and Guazhou are unprecedentedly prosperous. Since the "Datang Lichang" expansion pack went online, every village and district has been developing its own specialty industries.
For example, Jucaifang, where Sun Jianguo is located, is mainly engaged in the wool spinning industry and has developed a cotton and wool textile industry based on local cotton.
There is cotton in Shazhou at this time, but the local cotton varieties are not good, and the yield of short cotton batting is not high. Clothes made of local cotton batting can only be worn by poor people.
Sun Jianguo improved the loom, but the quality of local cotton was still not high, and the cotton cloth woven was far less popular than wool.
So Sun Jianguo simply cut the cloth into a quilt cover and filled it with cotton wool and wool to produce cotton cloth.
Sun Jianguo promoted quilts in various inns in Jucaifang. He first provided them with sheets and quilts for free. If guests wanted to buy them, the inn could sell them to the guests from Sun Jianguo.
Comfortable quilts are naturally popular, and now quilts have become Jucaifang's best-selling items.
In addition, some players have invented soap and other essential "magic weapons" for time travellers, and have also achieved good sales.
However, players have produced more products, but they are gradually unable to sell them.
Shazhou and Guazhou are still too poor. The people do not have such high spending power, and there are only so many local powerful people and merchants, so players cannot sell good things.
A business group has been organized to develop the business, and the merchants are listening to the players’ common demands, and the players’ products are in a hurry to sell!
Market! Market!
Businessmen and players clamored for a new market. Under such strong voices, Sun Jianguo coordinated, and a pioneering business group composed of fifty players was formally established.
Their target is the Four Towns of Anxi on Longyou West Road. They will bring Shazhou and Guazhou specialties such as wool, glass, soap, perfume, ironware and other products to open up stable trade routes in the Four Towns of Anxi.
At the same time, at this meeting, the players also planned the supplies that needed to be brought back from the four towns of Anxi.
Including long-staple cotton seeds, tomato and potato seeds, and various spice seeds.
The merchant players are ambitious and want to conquer the four towns of Anxi through trade routes and sell goods to the four towns.
Like merchant players, official players also have the need for expansion. The positions in Shazhou and Guazhou have been almost divided. Players need more territory to have more positions.