The situation in the Western Region is unstable, and there is more opposition to the westbound trade group plan organized by the Street Lamp Pendant Union.
The Westward Expansion Business Group event organized by the Street Lamp Pendant Union has attracted many businessmen and players to participate.
According to the plan of Chairman Sun Jianguo, it is a trade route from Longyou to Dashi.
Sun Jianguo was even ambitious and wanted to go all the way west to the Byzantine Empire and trade directly with the Romans.
It's just that the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is skinny.
Even before the Westbound Group entered the Western Regions, the countries in the Western Regions were ready to take action, and news of intercepting and killing the Tang caravans came one after another.
Most merchant players have given up.
Within the Street Lamp Pendant Union, there are several factions regarding how to develop trade routes.
The Westward Movement was once the absolute mainstream. It was such a fascinating achievement to open up the Silk Road and complete the trade between China and the West.
And we have to pass through many ancient civilizations along the way, which sounds so fascinating.
But I didn't expect that as soon as I walked out of Gaochang, I would run into trouble.
The situation in Kucha was unstable, and most of the players in the Westbound Merchant Group had backed down.
Another thing that made the merchant players of the westbound business group retreat was that their companions who insisted on going north and east were all making a lot of money!
Needless to say, it goes without saying that the army of King Jianning defeated the army of the former Uighur Khan at Jinshan, and the Uighur hegemony on the grassland disintegrated.
Needless to say, the Geluolu people, of course, completely opened the market and allowed the merchants of the Tang Dynasty to dump their goods.
A large number of merchants and players from the Tang Dynasty went to the grassland with Longyou's latest products in exchange for horses, cattle, sheep, and furs. When these things were brought back to Longyou, they could make a lot of money.
Moreover, the cavalry of the Beiting Protectorate "assisted" the Geluolu people in maintaining law and order on their territory, attacking horse bandits along the way, and maintaining smooth trade routes.
The Uighurs also signed a series of secret agreements with King Jianning, and merchants sent north to establish trading posts on the grasslands.
These horses, cattle and sheep are then sold to the ranch in Zhangye, and the wool is sold to the wool spinning workshop in Longyou, where industrial scissors are used to harvest the grassland.
In addition to the northward faction, the eastward faction also made a lot of money.
The Eastward Movement faction are players who advocate opening up trade routes to the east.
In the former street lamp pendant union, the Dongjin faction had the fewest supporters.
Trade to the east, that is, to the Tang Dynasty. Although everyone knows that the Tang Dynasty is a vast market, the Central Plains is now caught in the war of the Anshi Rebellion, and the Silk Road is about to be interrupted.
But as the emperor moved to Fengxiang Mansion, consumption in the Tang Dynasty gradually picked up.
The consumption of spices and jewelry by the ministers of Fengxiang Mansion is on the rise. Although the players of the Eastward Faction only transported the "specialties" of Longyou to Wuwei City, they sold them to merchants of the Tang Dynasty.
However, this trade route is smooth, and the bandits on the road have been wiped out by the generals and players. The eastward trade route is safe and stable. Although it is not as profitable as the northward one, it also has stable long-term benefits.
On the other hand, players who are marching westward have a lot of goods on their hands. They can't even get through Kucha, let alone reach Dashi or even distant Byzantium.
[Businessman] Professional players rely on trade to make money and improve their experience. Now that the goods are in their hands and cannot be sold, naturally there is no way to improve their professional level.
Sun Jianguo could not disobey everyone's wishes, so he asked players who were willing to continue traveling westward to follow him. For players who were unwilling to continue traveling westward, Sun Jianguo also bought their goods at a higher price and asked them to buy goods in Kucha and return to Shazhou.
In the end, there were only a dozen players left in the vast westbound business group who insisted on heading west. The others sold their goods, bought some specialties in Qiuci, and returned to Shazhou City.
These merchants who failed in their journey to the west brought a large amount of specialties from Kucha. Once these merchants gathered together, they decided to hold a Western Region products exhibition in Shazhou City.
Cui Ruoyun and Jian Xia came out of the laboratory and went to the market east of Shazhou City together.
Jian Xia had not been to Shazhou City for a long time, and she was shocked when she saw the appearance of Dongshi.
"This is Dongshi? Why did it become like this?"
The original dirt ground becomes muddy when it rains. Merchants sell their goods on trucks. The smell of dirt and the stench of livestock mix into a disgusting and pungent smell.
If it wasn't for buying daily necessities or doing business, no one would want to set foot in the market.
Nowadays, the ground of the East Market is paved with neat square tiles, and the merchants' carriages and horses are parked in the stables outside the market. The air in the market is very fresh.
In order to facilitate the setting up of stalls, the officials of the market also built four parallel shelves. As long as merchants paid their taxes, they could get a free shelf, and the merchants could display their goods on the shelves.
The merchant players who returned from the Western Regions this time have already been building momentum in the forum to hold a Western Region specialty products exhibition in Shazhou.
When they entered the city, they deliberately entered through the main entrance of Shazhou City with great fanfare. The carts wrapped with red ribbons were piled with various goods, whetting the appetite of the whole city.
Then these businessmen and players spent money to print posters and promote the exhibition in the form of comic strips.
I heard that businessmen from Gaochang and Guazhou rushed to Shazhou City to attend the meeting.
When Jian Xia and Cui Ruoyun entered Dongshi, their attention was attracted by the dazzling array of stones in a shop.
This is also a businessman player, and he is dragging a native to sell these natural gems.
Jian Xia picked up a natural crystal and said to Cui Ruoyun, "The purity of this crystal is good."
Cui Ruoyun said without any interest in crystal: "Isn't this thing the same chemical composition as glass? It will be manufactured on a large scale in future generations, which is boring."
Jian Xia rolled her eyes and said, "That man is also made of those elements. Isn't he just as boring?"
Cui Ruoyun nodded and said, "Yes, I have never found men interesting."
Jian Xia said with a defeated expression: "Well, you deserve to be single."
Cui Ruoyun grabbed a black ore, handed it to Jian Xia and said, "Can you see if this is black manganese ore?"
Hearing the black manganese ore, Jian Xia immediately became energetic. She looked at it carefully for a long time and said, "It looks like it. Whether it depends on the results of laboratory analysis will depend on it."
Jian Xia immediately said to the player merchant: "Did you collect this ore in Kucha?"
This player saw the union mark of "Datang Academy of Sciences" above Jian Xia and Cui Ruoyun's heads, and immediately knew that these were important customers.
He immediately negotiated the price with the customer in front of him and said to Jian Xia: "I collected this from the slums of Qiuci. It was picked up by a child in a cave. If you two are interested in this ore, the price