However, although Sun Jianguo is the president of the Green Light Pendant, the Players Union is not a strict organization and cannot force players to do anything.
Sun Jianguo could only say: "You're here, let's take a stroll around Qiuci City. Maybe there are any opportunities to make a fortune?"
After saying this, Bo Yang immediately said: "The president is right. I have worked hard to get here. It would be a waste if I didn't take a stroll in Kucha City. I will consider it after inspecting the market in Kucha.
How about continuing westward?"
Many businessmen and players nodded. Sun Jianguo and Bo Yang were right. They finally came to Qiuci, so they had to earn back their capital before going back. Otherwise, their trip would be in vain.
Waiting until the next morning, Ma Bijiu knocked on Sun Jianguo's door and said, "Mr. Sun, I just found out the news. The Qiuci gathering at the end of October will be held as usual."
"The fair is about to start?" Sun Jianguo woke up immediately and asked quickly: "Didn't it say that Tu Shiqi was invading the border? Has the fair been stopped this month?"
Ma Bijiu said happily: "Guo Duhu led his troops to pursue Tu Shiqi. I heard that Qiuci has stabilized, so the gathering opened as usual."
It turned out that Sun Jianguo was also very happy that the Kucha Gathering could be held smoothly and that he could attract more players to stay in Kucha and support his westward expansion plan.
As the main figure of the Westbound Faction, Sun Jianguo himself is committed to exploring the West, which forms a vague competition with the mainstream Eastbound Faction of players.
In addition to professional divisions among today's players, what remains is the debate on the direction of development, which is also the so-called faction.
The mainstream of players today is the faction that advocates eastward development.
As long as the northern grasslands remain subservient, we can maintain this peace and use trade to bind the power of the Mobei grasslands.
The Eastward Movement faction advocated heading east out of Hexi, occupying Liangzhou and then advancing into the Central Plains.
According to the strategy of players from the eastward faction, although the Tang army was able to regain the two capitals this year, it will take another four years to quell the Anshi Rebellion.
If you can get out of Hexi and occupy the Hetao area, you can directly attack the An thieves' lair eastward.
With the credit of countering the rebellion, he has the political and military capital to fight for the throne.
After the Battle of Jinshan, the threat of the northern Uighurs was temporarily lifted, and the player successfully occupied the Beiting Protectorate.
In addition to the eastward-moving faction, there are also some players who advocate going north to control Mobei. King Jianning's army can march in Mobei and go around An Qingxu's home base, Fan Yang, and use this method to quell the An-Shi Rebellion.
Although this faction's idea is a bit fanciful, after careful consideration, it seems that there is a real possibility of success.
In addition to the northward and eastward factions, there was also the southward faction that advocated attacking Tibet first, and the westward faction advocated by Sun Jianguo.
The idea of the Western Advancement School is also very simple. They advocate advancing into the Western Regions, imitating the Eastern and Western Roman Empire, and establishing the "Western Tang" after occupying Longyou.
These players believe that as long as they defeat Dashi, they can establish a large empire in Central Asia spanning East and Central Asia.
These players even proposed the idea of annihilating the Byzantine Empire, drinking horses on the Rhine River, and establishing a super empire spanning Asia and Europe.
Although this westward-moving faction has been criticized on the forum, since everyone is playing games, there are naturally some fun-loving players who support the westward-going expansion.
If you want to advance westward, it is naturally necessary to march into the Western Regions. This is why Sun Jianguo formed a westward business group.
Since the Kucha Gathering is open as usual, the players will temporarily stay in Kucha City to wait for the Gathering.
Sun Jianguo took Bo Yang around the city of Qiuci.
Boyang looked at the exotic buildings in Kucha City and said, "This Kucha building is quite unique. Why do they like to dig holes in the mountains?"
Ordinary houses in Kucha are similar to cave dwellings on the Loess Plateau. Residents dig holes in the mountains and mounds to live. Even the royal palace in Kucha was built halfway up the mountain, and the main body of the palace is also within the mountain.
Sun Jianguo said: "Maybe it's because the summer in Qiuci is too hot, so it would be cooler to dig a hole in the mountain."
Bo Yang nodded and said: "Qiuci City is built on mountains and rivers. The location is indeed very dangerous. No wonder the Tang Dynasty wants to occupy this place."
"Yes, during the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Tang Dynasty and the Turks fought for Kucha many times. When the Wuzhou Dynasty regained the Western Regions, the first place the Tang Dynasty attacked was also Qiuci. It guarded the passage in and out of the desert and was the bridgehead for marching into the Western Regions."
The two continued walking along the street. Qiuci is a city with a very strong commercial atmosphere. Their houses are built in the mountains, but the shops are Tang-style wooden buildings. There are all kinds of shops on the streets.
Sun Jianguo walked into a shop selling spices, and the boss greeted him warmly.
"Dear guests, the spices in my shop are the freshest on the street. What spices do you need?"
From the size of this shop, we can see how prosperous this shop was originally. The two open shops display various sun-dried spices, but there are not many customers in the shop.
There was not a single clerk in the shop, only the boss himself entertained the customers, which showed the depression of the whole shop.
Before An Lushan's rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, spices were an excellent business.
The dignitaries of the Tang Dynasty purchased a large amount of spices every year. It is said that Yang Yuhuan, the emperor's favorite concubine, liked spices very much. The spices purchased by the Daming Palace every year amounted to an astronomical amount.
However, after the Anlushan Rebellion, the emperor fled in panic, the new emperor ascended the throne in Lingwu, and the entire country's finances were used to quell the Anlushan Rebellion.
Although the extravagant style of Fengxiang Mansion is on the rise now, compared with before the war, the consumption of spices has dropped to the lowest point.
Without buyers from the Tang Dynasty, the spice merchants in Kucha City would have a hard time, with a large amount of spices piled up in their shops.
Seeing the extraordinary appearance of these two people, the boss first took out some cloves and pepper and said: "This was just shipped from Tianzhu last month. You two gentlemen can smell it. We have the freshest spices in our store."
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Sun Jianguo picked up the dried cloves and pepper. These tasted similar to the spices used in cooking in later generations, but in this era they were used almost like perfume.
Scholar-officials made sachets and stuffed various spices into them to wear on their bodies.
The richer scholar-bureaucrats would also burn incense wood or incense to fill their homes with fragrance. Before the Anlushan Rebellion, the noble families of the two capitals competed to buy incense. The burning fragrance was a symbol of wealth and power.
A wealthy family that can support burning incense day and night is also called the Zhilan House, and is considered an elegant and well-established family.
However, after An Lushan invaded the two capitals, the aroma of the prosperous Tang Dynasty that lingered in the two capitals was wiped out, and the spice business in Qiuci also declined.
Looking at these dried spices, Sun Jianguo asked: "Seller, do you sell fresh spice seeds here?"