"Woo~Woo~~"

Accompanied by a few long horn sounds, several warriors in white robes blew the horns in their hands on the tower of the palace. Then, with the sound of kicking and stomping, a large group of soldiers wearing armor and holding spears rushed out of the palace, and then lined up neatly on the steps on both sides. Then a group of nobles and officials in various gorgeous robes came out one after another. A young man wearing a golden crown was surrounded by about twenty-seven or eight years old, with thick hair and black hair and a little short and strong figure, but looked full of momentum.

"Mr. Li, the one who wears the crown is His Majesty Antioch!" A rest merchant beside him whispered.

Li Shun nodded quietly. After a group of people stood on the platform at the gate of the palace, Foreign Minister Agato and his two soldiers walked along the steps and rumbling a few words. Li Shun roughly understood a few words, and then waved his hand to the officials, servants and merchants who followed the team, all turned over and got off the horse. Li Shun took out a letter covered with the seal of the Emperor of Great Qin from the bag next to the saddle and handed it to Agato and said, "I am the envoy of the Emperor of Great Qin. He is a title and a fifth-rank official. He is ordered by the Emperor of the First Emperor to send his country to your country. This is the customs clearance document we have come. Please hand it over to the Emperor of Great Qin to inspect..."

While Li Shun was speaking, a Western Region merchant, a Daxia merchant and an Aquila merchant were all translated along with Jili Gulu. Although the translation was probably messy, Agato understood the general meaning. He took the document with both respectfully and turned around and walked up the steps to the gate of the palace. He handed the document to Antioch III to read it while pointing at Li Shun and others to record Gulu and talked a lot.

Antioch and a group of noble ministers were probably confused. He must have not understood the fifth-rank lower-rank nobles, but he still understood the words of the envoy ordered by the Emperor of Qin. Moreover, the well-made silk in his hand did sign and write several words, and several seals of kings were stamped. The last one was Daxia. The seal was known to both the emperor and the officials of the Anxu Empire. So Antioch and a group of noble officials discussed for a while, enthusiastically invited Li Shun and a group of officials to the palace to attend the banquet, and at the same time asked the imperial officials to arrange food and accommodation for the soldiers and entourages who came with Li Shun.

Seeing that the emperor of the Rest Empire was so enthusiastic, Li Shun and a group of officials were all relieved.

To be honest, it is indeed not easy to travel thousands of miles apart. I spent half a year in the Western Regions and surveyed dozens of vassal states, big and small, and then went on a mission to Dayuan. Dayuan is located in the westernmost part of the Western Regions. As long as I pass through Dayuan, I will reach Central Asia. In fact, Dayuan is the most convenient way for Daqin to lead the West. Dayuan is also the most developed way to the Qin Dynasty. Because of its unique status, not only has developed agriculture, but also has very developed business. Dayuan merchants drove horses and camels to and from the Western Regions countries and Daxia Sindu Kangju all year round, earning a large amount of price difference from the middle. After all, the advantage of the channel is very obvious.

There were about 200,000 people in Dayuan, and they were settled farming races, and their language was similar to those of the Western Regions. After learning that Li Shun and others were envoys of the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, the King of Dayuan received Li Shun and others in great horror. After more than a month of luxury, he finally arranged soldiers to send Li Shun and others to Kangju.

There are about 300,000 people in Kangju, and most of them live a nomadic life of living by following water and grass. Their language and appearance are very similar to those of the Western Regions. They are affiliated with the Quanrong tribe that migrated to the Central Asian region in the early days. The people of Kangju are also good at doing business and are relatively hospitalized. After staying in Kangju for two months, Li Shun and others travel south to Daxia. After staying in Daxia for three or four months, they originally planned to go to Daxia. However, because Daxia and Daxia and Daxia have been fighting for many years, the situation is relatively chaotic. Li Shun was afraid that he would be accidentally attacked and lost his life. Therefore, after hesitating for a long time, he turned west and decided to visit the Rest, known as the most powerful empire nearby.

Therefore, this round-trip trip seems leisurely and actually very hard. Although Central Asia and West Asia have been in close contact in this wilderness era, just like Daqin, the land is vast and the people are rare and sometimes they can’t see a village for a day. Wild beasts are rampant in the wild mountains and ridges, and the conditions such as food and accommodation are harsh, the delegation has already lost a three-way translator along the way, and seven or eight of the followers and the imperial guards have died. Some of them are sick and stayed in Kangju Daxia and other places for treatment and cultivation. If they cannot be cured, they will probably be buried in their lives.

But no matter how hard it is, Li Shun and others were very satisfied along the way, especially when they visited these monarchs of all sizes, when they took out the porcelain, glass and silk they carried, they could always see the extremely surprised and excited expressions of these monarchs.

Moreover, they also judged from the situations inquired from various places and the information learned from merchants that these goods from Daqin are very popular in all countries, and their prices also make them feel cautious and trembled and unable to stop.

An ordinary porcelain bowl is priced at about 30 or 40 yuan in Daqin, and the Qinghe brand is more expensive, more than 100 yuan, but it will increase by at least five or six times after being shipped from Daqin to the Western Regions. Even at such a high price, the nobles and Dayuan people almost never bargained, and they bought as much as they could. Moreover, the Dayuan people turned around and sold them to Daxia, and the price increased several times. When the Daxia merchants sold to Anxi and Shendu countries, they could only be measured by a large amount of gold.

In addition to porcelain, enamel, glass, silk and steel knives are also popular, and of course fine wine, but these types are even rarer.

Large steel weapons are controlled knives. The Ministry of Commerce does not allow trafficking to the Western Regions and other countries. Therefore, short blades can be circulated to the Western Regions. There are many daggers in the mechanical factory. Moreover, these daggers are scarce even in Daqin. Western Regions merchants are basically unable to buy them. Even if they get some, the prices are very high. They still have to find connections to go to the back door. The possibility of continuing to sell them to the West after being shipped to the Western Regions is very small. They are digested locally, and the same is true for glass and enamel silk wine.

The production of silk is low, and most of it is levied by the Shaofu and the imperial court. Very few people are involved in the private transactions. They are basically acquired by nobles such as kings, princes and ministers. As for glass enamels, there is no factory in the folk in Daqin, which is entirely due to the affiliated factories of the Academy of Sciences. The output is limited. The only one with a larger output is wine, but the loss of alcohol transportation is too great. If you accidentally encounter bad weather, you will lose all your money. Therefore, although it is easy to buy fine wine, it is difficult to traffic. Generally, merchants in the Western Regions dare not touch it. Occasionally, bring one or two pieces back is a good move, which is enough to make back all the expenses of this trip.

A bottle of ordinary wine that costs hundreds of yuan in Daqin can be sold for 2,000 yuan in the Western Regions, which is almost twenty times the profit. However, such a bottle of wine has fallen into Dayuan, and the price is close to 4,000 yuan. As for the possibility of continuing to flow westward, there is no possibility of continuing to flow westward. First, when crossing the Pamir Mountains, the terrain and climate are too harsh, even glass and porcelain are losing huge losses, let alone wine. Second, the quantity is indeed too small, and there is no market price. Carrying boxes of gold, you can't buy a bottle of great wine from Daqin.

However, the huge profits of wine will probably drop soon, because some smart Central Plains wine merchants learned that the price of wine in the Western Regions was so high, so they went to places with rich water and grass in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains to buy local grapes to make wine. Moreover, the grapes in the Western Regions are large and full, with higher sweetness, and the wines they make taste better. It is estimated that in another year, a large number of Western Regions wines will be transported to the West through merchants to make a fortune.

Therefore, what Li Shun and others saw when they were on missions to the Western countries was that all the goods from the Qin Dynasty could be sold at terrifying prices in all countries, and the supply was in short supply. If it were not for Li Shun's restraint, the imperial guards and officials who accompanied him would have sold all the enamel kettles and tea tanks they carried with them long ago.

And this is a criminal record.

When we arrived in the Western Regions, the enamel kettle and tea tank had just begun to be distributed to the two armies guarding the Western Regions. Some soldiers could not resist the temptation of money from the Western Regions merchants and secretly sold the distributed enamel pots, military kettles and tea tanks to the Western Regions merchants. The prices were extremely high. An enamel pot could be sold for three taels of gold, a military kettle could be sold for two taels of gold, and a tea tank could be sold for one tael of gold.

Because Daqin is not sold to the public, these enamel pots and kettles are extremely popular in the Western Regions. The most important thing is that they are not used to return transportation. The military camp is in the Western Regions and can be bought with money. Many soldiers have made a fortune because of this. There are even some officers of all sizes who participate in the intermediary to take kickbacks. When they see the military chief, they turn a blind eye to each other. Although they know that this may be wrong, it is not easy to manage and report, because enamel tea pots and military kettles are not weapons and are not items that must be carried and properly kept. Just like clothes and shoes, no matter if you lose it, break it or give it to someone, no one will interfere. Anyway, the court sends two sets of clothes every year, and no one will take care of you if you are willing to run naked. After all, these equipment are all systems... Well, the Ministry of War distributed it, and it doesn't cost any money anyway.

However, enamel pots, kettles and tea jars are military supplies after all, and they are relatively expensive. Therefore, if they are sold privately, they will be punished once they are discovered by the guards and supervisors at all levels. They are essential to be whipped. However, many soldiers still couldn't help but sell them secretly. If they sell them, they could use the original bamboo pot pottery bowl to drink water and eat, which did not affect their lives. At most, they could return to their previous state, but they could get a lot of money out of thin air.

This kind of enamel small pot and military kettle and tea jar are completely rare treasures for people in the Western Regions, Dayuan and other places. It not only has exquisite appearance, but also has unparalleled practical value. The focus is to prevent falling, it is much stronger than porcelain and is basically not bad. Therefore, in the eyes of merchants in the Western Regions and other countries, enamel is more expensive than porcelain, but also has fewer quantity.

So the current situation is that outside the Daqin military camp scattered in the Western Regions, merchants who come to buy military enamel equipment can often be seen sneakily. These merchants will also hire some young and beautiful local ladies in cool and exposed clothes. When they see soldiers riding horses out to patrol or hunt, they will hide in the bushes and wave: Uncle, come and have fun!

So many soldiers couldn't help but temptation, and would sneak up to the woods. After a moment or a long time, they would come back with a happy and satisfied look on their faces. There would definitely be one missing military kettle or tea jar hanging around their waists, and there would be an extra wallet on their waists.
Chapter completed!