After listening to Zhao Dan's idea, many of the Zhao ministers present suddenly shone with their eyes.

You should know that the customs of Zhao, or Shandong, are different from those of Qin. Although the social status of merchants in Zhao is not high, at least they do not directly discriminate in the form of legal provisions like in Qin.

In fact, it is not uncommon for great nobles to participate in business in Zhao State, but these are generally controlled by their relatives, and the great nobles themselves will not come forward.

But even so, as the big bosses of their own industries, these big nobles still have a very good understanding of their own industries.

As Zhao State continued to conquer various countries over the years, the original industries of various countries were either taken by these great nobles, or bought by the nobles at low prices, or obtained from Zhao Dan through rewards.

But although there is an industry, the population is a big problem.

Zhao Dan controls population transactions very strictly.

After all, Zhao Dan knew very well that aristocrats were the most likely place to hide their population. Once the population was taken away by aristocrats in the form of ministers and concubines, the Zhao State would have a crisis of labor and military sources.

At this point, Zhao Dan received full support from the Zhao military and general support from the Zhao people, so even many great nobles were dissatisfied, they still dared not disobey Zhao Dan's order that "the Zhao people cannot be slaves."

Under such circumstances, the expansion of the industry of the great nobles was inevitably curbed.

Now that the heavy officials of Zhao State were naturally moved when they heard that there was so many people in this distant "India" country that could serve as labor.

To be honest, these great nobles still have a little insignificant guilt and embarrassment, but if they want to exploit alien Indians thousands of miles away, it can be said that they have no psychological pressure.

For Zhao Dan, there is even less psychological pressure.

In later generations, how did Western countries develop? That was not to rely on exploiting the entire world, allowing African blacks to be slaves, and making America and Asia a place for commodity dumping. Even the Qing Dynasty became a semi-colonial, and the Qing Dynasty’s customs management rights were even obtained by the British.

What a ridiculous thing this is, but others have the final say in their own customs, import and export goods and tax collection!

Then push the timeline back to the era before Zhao Dan traveled through time. The reason why the American imperialist could dominate the world and the American dream was really because of the superior social system of the United States?

Of course not. The reason for this is that the United States has ensured its hegemony through a series of means after World War II and the Cold War, and was able to continuously absorb nutrients from the global economy and truly achieve the goal of exploiting the entire earth. This is why the American Empire's life is a desirable one.

History tells Zhao Dan that the happiness of some people always comes at the cost of the misfortune of other people. The saying that everyone develops together and creates a better tomorrow is basically just to deceive children.

Since this is the case, the people of Zhao, or the Chinese nation, will definitely not be able to bear the misfortune, so we can only ask the San and the Seleucids who are now ruled by Central Asia and West Asia to sacrifice a little.

Zheng Zhu couldn't help but speak at this time: "King, if you look at this map, it seems that it is closer from this place called the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Why did the King choose to go to the Western Regions and then go south to India from the eastern Seleucid region?"

Zhao Dan looked at Li Mu with a smile.

Li Mu understood and said, "Zheng Qing didn't know that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is much higher than the Central Plains, and there is a mountain that runs thousands of miles across the south, which is very difficult to pass. The biggest challenge is that if the Central Plains men often suffer from strange diseases after entering the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, they will experience many symptoms such as headache, brain fever, breathing and lack of physical strength."

"What?" Zheng Zhu's face showed a look of surprise: "There is such a thing? If this is the case, will this area be unable to be conquered in the future?"

Li Mu said: "It's not the case. According to the current situation, even if the Qiang people in the West Sea area go to the plateau, they will not have this symptoms. They only need to station their troops in the West Sea area and let the army get used to this climate. As early as five years or seven years later, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau should be able to fully join the king's command."

"Five years, seven years?" This time obviously cannot satisfy all the great nobles present.

It's like a factory receiving a lot of orders, and the bosses are looking for workers all over the world. At this time, an intermediary told them that the workers had one, but they had to wait three years first...

You can't wait for three months!

It is necessary to talk about the customs of Zhao. At this time, the State of Zhao was as Sima Qian said in the Records of the Grand Historian, "The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit." The so-called "The king of thousands of vehicles, the marquis of thousands of families, and the king of hundreds of families is still worried about poverty, let alone the people who have households!"

This is enough to prove how the business ideas in this era, or the idea of ​​loving the poor and loving the rich, were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, even the rulers of the princes and kings and kings, were inevitably greatly affected.

Of course, this actually only exists in the six Shandong countries with developed commercial business. If everything was swept away by the Qin Dynasty like in history, merchants could only lie silently and continue to be the tyrants of the nobles.

But no matter what, after such explanations and explanations, all the important officials present at Longtai expressed their clear support for the plan for the Western Expedition.

According to this plan, Li Mu will lead at least 50,000 cavalry to the Western Regions along the Hexi Corridor at the beginning of next spring, striving to drive the Huns out of the Western Regions in a battle, and then sweep the entire Baktria region and open up the road to India south.

Although the one who ruled the Mauryan Dynasty in India now is the most powerful king in Indian history, Zhao Dan still has enough confidence in his victory.

After all, the gunpowder weapon possessed by the Zhao army is a unique killer weapon in the world, beyond the times. No matter how wise Ashoka is, no matter how brave the soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty under his command are, they can only retreat in front of many gunpowder weapons such as the sky-shaking thunder and grenades.

Zhao Dan gave a final explanation of today's meeting in words.
Chapter completed!