At first, netizens were questioning whether Yu Xiaoxiao’s dance was hyped up by Datang Fengyun Games, who deliberately used real people to shoot promotional videos and faked them to look like in-game scenes.
How could there be such a realistic game? The scene of the Tang Dynasty in the dancing background is more realistic than in the movie. What game can achieve real-time CG rendering of real people?
This Tang Dynasty is another domestic web game with false propaganda, right?
But as players of Datang Fengyun continued to upload videos, netizens began to wonder, does such a game really exist?
Otherwise, a huge amount of money would be spent just for the videos of scenes in these movies! How can any game be promoted like this?
The forum of Datang Fengyun suddenly received a large influx of visitors. If Li Yan had not set it up that only official players could speak, the forum would have been overcrowded.
Many players have made their first pot of money by recording game videos, and now they are more enthusiastic about playing games.
The Lantern Festival is approaching. The people of Guazhou are living a good life this year, and the streets are also very lively.
At this time, in the East Market, a group of players were sitting in Sun Jianguo's knitting shop to discuss matters.
King Jianning issued a new mission to go to Shazhou, and players signed up one after another to organize caravans to go to Shazhou. The game will finally open a new map!
Shazhou is the most prosperous city in the east of Longyou Road. In later generations, it had a resounding name, Dunhuang.
Cui Tao took the chalk and stood on the podium and said: "Shazhou is the Dunhuang of later generations. It was the military center of the Tang Dynasty on Longyou Road."
"The Doulu Army is stationed outside Shazhou City. It is currently the most powerful force in the east of Longyou Road, with a total of five thousand people."
"Shazhou is Shangzhou. It has 20,000 military and civilian households. It is also an important commercial town with many merchants. This is a prosperous big city!"
Cui Tao added: "The current governor of Shazhou and the strategic envoy of the Doulu Army, Jia Sishun, is a veteran of the Tang Dynasty. He has served as the governor of Shazhou since the Kaiyuan Year and has an outstanding reputation in Shazhou."
The players nodded one after another. Cui Tao was invited by Sun Jianguo to give a lecture to everyone. After introducing the situation in Shazhou, he sat back.
Sun Jianguo stood up with a loud voice and said: "Cui Sima has introduced to everyone that Shazhou is a place where merchants gather."
"I have inquired about it. The purchase price of a one-size-fits-all sweater by those Hu merchants in Dongshi is 20 yuan, but as long as they transport it to Shazhou, they can sell it for 200 yuan or even 300 yuan!"
Players denounced: "These profiteers!"
Sun Jianguo continued: "The straight-line distance from Guazhou to Shazhou is only 160 kilometers. I thought we might as well organize our own caravan and send the goods to Shazhou to sell. What do you think?"
Many profiteer players nodded one after another. They had worked so hard in production, but in the end the bulk of the profit went to those rogue businessmen. It was really annoying.
Seeing that everyone had reached a consensus, Sun Jianguo said: "However, running a business in ancient times was not as good as in modern times, and there were still some dangers along the way. So this time we have to cooperate with adventure players to smoothen this trade route first."
Sun Jianguo took out a map and said: "The route is also simple. Go west from Guazhou, enter Changle County halfway for repairs, and then continue west to the official road. If everything goes well, you can reach Shazhou in seven days."
Sun Jianguo added: "However, things are not peaceful around Shazhou. The biggest danger on this road is in Sanwei Mountain. There are many horse bandits on this mountain and they often rob passing merchants."
"In addition, now that the New Year has passed and the ice and snow have melted, a small group of Tibetan troops will cross the snowy mountains and harass Shazhou. The caravans are also the targets of their plunder."
When it comes to Tubo, everyone cheers up. The first battle the player enters the game is against the Tubo people. The powerful fighting power of the Tubo people is deeply memorable to the player.
After Sun Jianguo's introduction, everyone knew that this trade route was full of dangers and opportunities.
For merchant players, Shazhou is a huge market, and they urgently need to sell goods to Shazhou.
For those adventure players, Shazhou is a brand new map. When the bandits near Guazhou have been almost wiped out, they urgently need a new map to earn contribution points.
And what excites these war-mad players is that in addition to bandits, they may also encounter the Tubo army!
Those are not bandits, but regular troops!
Players have long known Tubo's ambitions towards Longyou Road based on historical data.
A few years later, Tubo united with the Uighurs and completely annexed Longyou Road.
Today's military operations are a test of the Tang Dynasty's military strength. The Tubo "bandits" operating in Longyou Road in recent years are actually the regular Tibetan army.
Both Tang and Tibet knew this tacitly, and the current temptation was to prepare for the future war.
Just to put down the rebellion in Anlu Mountain, the elite troops from Longyou have been mobilized since last year. As a result, the Tang Dynasty can only be on the defensive now.
The players in the first test are still brooding about the battle with the Tubo team outside Guazhou City, and they are clamoring to annihilate them next time they meet.
King Jianning also responded to the player's request and added a task to bring back the heads of Tubo soldiers in exchange for contribution points. The contribution points of a Tubo soldier are three times that of ordinary bandits!
Adventurer players are gearing up for the new map and have signed up to participate, while merchant players also want to stuff their goods into caravans.
There are no middlemen to make the difference! Don’t you want to buy your own products directly from Guazhou?
Sun Jianguo continued: "The goods we brought to Shazhou this time are going to be famous as Guazhou specialties! Datang is very aware of the origin. As long as the product image is raised, it can easily be sold at a high price!"
Sun Jianguo's wool business must go to Shazhou, and now his business has also encountered a bottleneck. There is not enough wool in Shazhou.
The sheep in Shazhou will be bald by Sun Jianguo! Without raw materials, the wool spinning wheels will stop working, and the supply of wool will be cut off. Then the thousands of women in Guazhou City who are waiting to make money by making sweaters will stop working.
Shazhou is Shangzhou. Sun Jianguo went to Shazhou this time to discuss cooperation in purchasing wool and see if he could stably purchase wool from Shazhou.
Sun Jianguo even had ambitions to move Guazhou's business model directly to Shazhou and establish a wool guild in Shazhou.
In addition to Sun Jianguo, several businessmen and players are also gearing up.
At this time, Jiang Lun, who had just been appointed by King Jianning to know the affairs of the Railway Bureau, stood up and said:
"I have also inquired about the lack of ironware in Shazhou. In the past, merchants from the Western Regions brought it from Central Asia and sold it, but the price was not high enough. Now we also have high-quality ironware in Shazhou. This time our Railway Bureau will also use high-quality and low-priced ironware.
Cheap Guazhou ironware opens up the Shazhou market!"
Jiang Lun had just taken over as the director of the Railway Bureau and was eager to make some achievements.
I thought that high-quality ironware would be something that big food merchants would compete to buy, but I didn't expect that these big food merchants collectively refused to buy Shazhou's ironware.
It turns out that the Abbasid Emperor, who was dressed in black and had a lot of food, required all the food merchants to buy several pieces of ironware that were in black clothes and food and sell them along the way before going to the Silk Road.
The price of these ironware is higher than that on the market, which is equivalent to the iron tax levied by the Abbasid Emperor on merchants.
However, these iron items can be sold at high prices when sent to iron-deficient towns like Shazhou. In addition to accounting for the weight, the merchants will not lose money.
There are many smart people in this world. Jiang Lun is determined to use steel trade to defeat these big food merchants this time!