Jin San went out to greet him, and entered the living room with Chen Xizhi, saying, "Sir, I have invited Xizhou to send Lord Lian to the inside. Please give me some face. You are kind and don't have a dispute, so that I can't look ugly."

Chen Xizhi's face was gloomy and nodded.

The people in Gaochang area value money, and merchants with a lot of wealth have a higher status. Jinsan is a large merchant. He was able to become deputy envoys of Kaifeng tribute before, and his status was still above Chen Xizhi and Lian Cheng. Without this status, he would not have hired two envoys.

After entering the living room, Lian Cheng, who was sitting in his seat, bowed coldly to Chen Xizhi, turned his face and stopped looking at him.

After a separate meeting with Chen Xizhi, Jin San ordered someone to take hot water and said to the two: "The tea drinking customs from the Central Plains are different from ours. Today I will make tea for the two, shake hands and make peace. At least in Shengzhou, don't have any disputes. I'll live in this city for several months and know that Du Jieshuai is not comparable to ordinary people. If you have trouble under his rule, it will not be uncommon to get them directly into a cell. At that time, not only the two will be humiliated, but even Xizhou and Yizhou will be implicated."

Lian Chengdao: "Du Jieshuai defeated Khitan and Dangxiang in a row, and his troops were so powerful that they were all over the world. However, no matter how powerful he was, could he really send troops to Xizhou thousands of miles away? No matter how hard the Song army could fight, they would have to eat and drink. How could they transport food and grass over?"

Jin Sandao: "When I came to Shengzhou, I took a train from Hezhou, right?"

Lian Cheng nodded: "No, a train is really a magical thing, a place that can be reached for thousands of miles a day and night. It is not a pack horse, it is really magical!"

Jin San smiled: "I am bluntly, the most powerful thing about the train is not to run fast, but to run thousands of miles day and night, without stopping and resting, nor to replenish food and grass, and there are many goods. Just like this railway from the Central Plains to Shengzhou, there are no less than 300,000 soldiers and civilians on Hequ Road, and they can be raised from the Central Plains, and they don't even need to farm here. I heard that the railway will be built next year to Heishui City, and it is not difficult to garrison 100,000 troops there. How many miles from Heishui City to Xizhou? You can calculate it yourself, can the Song army arrive?"

Lian Cheng listened and remained silent. Heishui City has more than a thousand miles from Yizhou. If the railway is really connected, it can be reached in more than a day. As long as you arrive in Yizhou, what is Xizhou hundreds of miles away?

The forces in the Western Regions rely on long roads. Not only are the Central Plains far away, but they are also thousands of miles apart. It is useless to send fewer troops, and if there are too many troops, the logistics will drag themselves to death before the war is fought. If the railway arrives, the materials in the Central Plains can be continuously flowing, and all previous experiences will be useless. During the prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties, at most, they could only maintain 10,000 or 20,000 troops. Organizing a war of 30,000 to 50,000 people, all forces in the Western Regions must work together, send troops and produce things. It has never happened before that the Central Plains army with a scale of more than 100,000 in scale appeared in the Western Regions.

Seeing that Lian Cheng didn't say anything, Jin San smiled and poured tea for the two of them, saying, "I asked someone to buy this tea from the capital, but Shengzhou can't buy it. One or two of them have a taste of it."

Lian Cheng drank the tea and said, "The taste is too light and has no fragrance. It cannot refresh the mind. How much is it worth it!"

Jin San said: "Sir, now people in the Central Plains drink tea, but they don't want to make it hot, and they don't want to add ginger, medicine, etc. If you drink tea like that, it's hard to distinguish between good and bad tea. The wealthy and noble families have changed it long ago. Although the taste of this tea is light, after drinking it, there will be a faint sweet leaves. I would like to say to the two adults, listening or not, both of them. Since the Song army entered Shengzhou, not only Hequ Road is different from before, but even Mobei and the Western Regions are different from before. Under the Khitan rule, the Tatars lived and scattered, and the Song army was not easy to start. The Western Regions are different. Although the places are vast, the people and households are concentrated around several cities. As long as the Song army built the railway, no one can make the sky. I am bluntly saying that as long as the railway is built to Heishui, the Song army will definitely build the railway into the Western Regions. If it doesn't enter the Western Regions, what's the use of Heishui City?"

Chen Xizhi nodded: "The railway is so useful, I think I will definitely enter the Western Regions. What are the plans for the official? "

Jin Sandao: "What we people in the Western Regions value most is money. As long as we have money to make, our wealth and life can be sold, not to mention the people in the city and land. If I were to ask the court more for money. As long as the money was in hand, I would not care about business or do other places to do good fortune. Isn't it all a place to enjoy wealth? For a few cities, the Song army was at the city, and the wise would not take it."

Lian Cheng sighed: "Although the words make sense, where can the Song army enters the Western Regions? If you make money by becoming a businessman, you can take away all your wealth with just one word from the government. It is not a long-term solution."

Jin Sandao: "I was in Shengzhou for several months and looked carefully. Du Jieshuai was not that kind of person. As long as the Song Dynasty court did not commit crimes, merchants would let them be free. What are these people? In the Central Plains, those rich businessmen often had a wealth of wealth, so they could live like gods."

Lian Chengdao: "Xizhou was ruled by King Khan for hundreds of years. If we have everything left, we will have nothing to do. How could the Khan be willing to give up? Alas, let's discuss this matter later. I am just an envoy and cannot do such a great thing."

Jin San said: "Today I am just talking to you. How can I make the decision for the temple? You are the first to come and don't know the situation here on Hequ Road. Since you are from Gaochang together, you should tell me something about it. As for what the future will be, what does it have to do with us! My place has specially built a reception for envoys and merchants from the Western Regions. When you were in Shengzhou, you can come and sit there when you feel bored. After a while, I took you to the shopping mall next to you. By the way, I bought some gifts. When the two envoys returned, they brought some friends to officials who had some friendship with me, which was also a great deal."

Chen Xizhi said: "I don't know what the shopping mall in Shengzhou is? I need to go and see it specifically."

Jin Sandao: "That's a good place, everything in the world is available. If you don't go there, you will not be qualified to do business. Especially for merchants in the Western Regions, you will lose money if you are not careful."

Lian Cheng felt strange when he heard this: "Why? Since the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions trade routes have been around for more than a thousand years, and the transactions of goods are almost the same."

Jin Sandao: "It's different now than before. After all, it's because of the railway. The railway leads to Mingzhou. The goods from sea can now be easily transported to the capital. Although there are many winds and waves on the sea and many risks, they are still much cheaper than land. Many of the goods we traffic in, and the prices make us cheaper. Some even sell from Shengzhou back to the Western Regions and still make money."

Lian Chengdao: "Mingzhou, the official said, is not sure where it is. I think it is a big port on Zhongyuan Tonghai Road. I just don't know which goods are there, and our Western Regions merchants also sell them."

Jin Sandao: "The biggest one is, such as spices. This thing is not produced in the Western Regions. It is sold from other places and then sold to the Central Plains. There are a lot of this thing coming from the sea. Now it is cheap. If you do this business, you will have no money to make money. For example, treasures such as coral and tortoiseshell were originally produced in the sea. Now someone is transported directly into the Central Plains. If you do this business, you will probably lose money. What money is made and what is not made, you have to see it in the mall."

Whether it is the land Silk Road or the maritime Silk Road, the most important thing is to connect the Central Plains and Europe. The Western Regions are actually transit stations, and there are not many local products. In this era, Persian merchants flourished and sea routes began to flourish, and the importance of the Western Regions had already declined.

Most of the bulk goods transported from the Western Regions to the Central Plains, except for jade, were transported from Persia, but the Central Plains were not known in the past. For example, for a long time, people in the Central Plains believed that spices were produced from the Western Regions, where they came from and what trees they produced were serious. In fact, the Western Regions did not produce them, but were transported from the Persian area. Corals, pearls, ivory, jade, etc. are mostly like this. The maritime trade is booming, and the transshipment status of the Western Regions will inevitably decline.

These days, Jin San traveled to the mall almost every day and soon discovered this problem. Some traditional goods sold in the Western Regions had lost their advantages in the Central Plains and could not continue to be made. The most typical one was spices. The treasury of the Song Dynasty had a large amount of inventory and no longer wanted to buy them from the Western Regions.

As conditions change, the content of trade will of course change. Jin San's keen sense of businessman made him think of another problem. Once the railway is opened, transportation will become easier, freight is saved a lot, and new business opportunities will appear. Now there are advantages in sea routes. If the railway is constantly being built to the west, trains will replace camels and horses, and traditional Silk Road trade will be another situation. At that time, perhaps the advantage of land routes will exceed that of sea routes.

This is also the reason why Jin San, as a businessman in the Western Regions, advised the two envoys not to fight against the Song army and to advance westward, and it would be best to give up the city. The Song Dynasty successfully built the railway, and he did not care about how many forces died. The opportunity to make money came the most important thing.

Several so-called Western Regions powers can gather up to 30,000 to 50,000 troops, but they are not qualified to fill the gaps in front of the Song army, which is often hundreds of thousands of troops. What else can you fight? Suppose your country as soon as possible, and don’t delay the big merchants making money.

Compared with land, which one is higher and the other is lower, it has been changing with time. In this era, camels and horses are of course cheaper than sea boats. Therefore, the bulk goods sold on the Central Plains of the Land Silk Road have always been silk, and the Central Plains have entered the Super League compared to the Western Regions. However, the bulk goods on the Maritime Silk Road are porcelain, and the Central Plains have relatively out of Super League. It is conceivable which commercial road is more popular. Once the land Silk Road is replaced by railways, it is another situation and you can grab the business of the Maritime Silk Road.

Jin San is a businessman and has figured it out for a few months. In the future, merchants will attach to the commercial road formed by the railway. Whoever blocks the railway from the west will block the merchant's wealth will never be allowed.
Chapter completed!