"This is a hugely profitable thing. Why should we fight? Sell sweet potatoes, and with the money, even the eminent monks from Tianzhu will become my disciples!"
Then the southern army completely retreated, and several big nobles sent their heavyweight men to negotiate with Zhisi.
"Lord Zhisi, if you can sell us sweet potatoes in large quantities, we can guarantee that we will not send troops to harass you again."
When the southern representative said this, he was directly executed by Zhisi and his heads were sent back to the south.
Zhisi went to Zhuge Liang again and reported: "Sir, I have followed your instructions and killed those proud envoys directly."
Zhuge Liang nodded: "From now on, you will be the face of my great Wei in Guishang. Anyone who dares to despise you is provoking my great Wei and ruining my face as the emperor. Therefore, you must put your face first.
If anyone dares to offend, just do this and come to me if you have any problem."
After hearing Zhuge Liang's strong words, Zhisi became extremely excited!
After Zhisi returned, he called all his younger brothers over: "Pass my order and mobilize all of us to send troops south to destroy all the nobles in the south, so that the people in the south can live a happy life!"
"Anyone who has meritorious service can be an official, large or small, in the future. Those who are capable can come to serve me, or even be an envoy to travel to the Wei Dynasty!"
After the news came out, the people suddenly became excited!
After the food problem was solved, everyone naturally had spiritual pursuits and status pursuits.
Many passionate young people, encouraged by their obsession, felt that the people in the south were indeed miserable and that they had the responsibility to save their compatriots.
With this thought in mind, Zhisi once again recruited an army of 200,000 troops and made a posture of marching south!
At this time, the southern nobles no longer wanted to fight. They only wanted to make money. Moreover, they no longer dared to spend money to hire Tianzhu monks. They could not afford to pay the compensation. They could not defeat the strong men of Wei, so they had to quickly send out again.
An envoy came to negotiate peace.
This time, Zhusi took the initiative.
When the envoys arrived, they knelt down and said, "You come up with the conditions. All I want is that there will be no war and you can sell us sweet potatoes!"
Zhusi was despised and offended by these nobles in the south in the past. If it were not for the support of the Wei Dynasty, he would still be a groveling little role today.
He immediately began to show off his power and pulled the tiger skin of Wei Dynasty. The lion opened his mouth: "If you want to stop the army and make a truce, you have to send the sons of various nobles as hostages! In addition, you must recognize my status as a benefactor.
From now on, the entire Kuishang will be under my rule!"
This request was no small matter, and the two sides struggled for a long time.
After all, the children of the great nobles are afraid that their children will be tricked and executed, and even if they are not executed, they will have difficulty moving in the future and will be controlled by others!
The southern nobles could only keep delaying.
However, with the support of Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Si didn't want to delay at all, and the army immediately began to dispatch, assuming a posture of swallowing up the world!
The southern nobles who had no monks to protect them immediately gave up.
It is better to send hostages than to have their entire family wiped out!
A few days later, the southern nobles presented their children and came to Peshawar in person to see Zhisi.
In order to please Zhuge Liang, cater to the Wei Dynasty and obtain more food, and lift the people of the entire Kushan Empire out of poverty, Zhuge Si brought these southern nobles to visit Zhuge Liang.
Originally, the southern nobles were still uneasy, but Zhuge Liang directly made the Wei position clear: "We are here, firstly, to help you enrich your economy, and secondly, to help you get rid of this rough life and become richer and stronger. As for
We are not interested in your government affairs."
"We are just setting up a temporary station here to allocate food to you and help you prosper your economy. Even if you have foreign enemies, we will help you. In a word, if you are short of food, come and get it! If you are short of money, come and trade! If you are in trouble,
Find Da Wei!"
The southern nobles were immediately stunned by Zhuge Liang!
Faced with the doubts of the southern nobles, Zhuge Liang further made his trade proposition clear.
"I, Da Wei, are much more powerful than you. There are so many good things in the country now that we can't even count them. If you take out just one, you will be able to make a lifetime of wealth."
"We can indeed give you food for free, but we can only give you a basic amount to maintain people's lives. This is the bottom line. You cannot exploit their food, because without a population, there will be no development and no way to make money!
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"Actually, you think you can make money by selling sweet potatoes. In fact, I, Da Wei, can make more money by selling other things. All you need to do is organize your manpower and go to Da Wei to buy the good stuff in a steady stream and sell it to other places. Soon,
You will all make a lot of money!"
These nobles still didn't believe it: "You don't want to make money by selling sweet potatoes, so you deliberately run the bank and deceive us, do you?"
Zhuge Liang immediately laughed: "It's useless to talk more. We can't sell sweet potatoes to you in large quantities this year. Let's talk next year. If any of you wants to make money, you can send someone to visit me, Da Wei. By then, everything will be known."
Those nobles wanted to say something else, but Zhuge Liang waved them away.
"Master Da Wei is so arrogant!"
"That's right, Master Zhusi, are you sure this person is reliable? Are you sure Da Wei is reliable?"
Zhisi smiled and said: "Even if the Wei Dynasty is not reliable, it is more reliable than the previous emperors, right? I'm not like you, I just want to make a fortune for myself. What I want is to make everyone in Kushan well fed and rich."
Hua, if you are in doubt, just leave. Anyway, people have said that if you want to sell sweet potatoes again, you can only sell them next year. Anyway, our people in the north are not only full to eat now, but also making a lot of money."
These southern nobles stayed in Peshawar for a while. As they lived there, they discovered that the great northern nobles actually had caravans coming in and out of their residences.
After some secret inquiring, the southern nobles found out that the northern nobles had already had trade relations with the Wei Dynasty.
They observed it for several days, and although they could not identify many of the items, they were familiar with the large amounts of silk and fine wine, and knew that these items were extremely profitable.
Silk was more precious than gold in Rome. As long as we could return safely, the profits we could make were unimaginable!
"Damn it! People from the north are already doing business and making money, and Zhusi didn't even tell us."
"Don't be naive, Zhusi is originally from the north!"
"It's not too late now, go back quickly and prepare money to compete with the northerners for business."
Subsequently, the number of caravans to Xuchang increased greatly, and many caravans from the north and south of Guishang swarmed in!
Zhao Feng also heard about this in the capital and immediately summoned the ministers of the DPRK.
"Where is Jusuke? Why don't you see Jusuke coming to discuss matters? I still have something to ask him."
Zhang Zhao immediately replied: "Your Majesty, the Kushan people are interested in our wine and want to buy three thousand jars of it. The wine in Xuchang is not enough, so Jushou went to several surrounding counties to help. The sales volume of wine was not very large before.
Because Kushan people like to drink wine, but this time the demand has suddenly increased, so we can only ask several surrounding winemaking areas to increase production!"