"Mr. Su Hou, the merchants outside have been waiting for three hours and are still unwilling to leave. They have drunk a tank of water. I don't know how many times the fuku-hailing period is released, but I still don't want to leave. Some people have taken out the dry food they brought and started eating it like this. Judging from this attitude, they will never give up until they achieve their goals!" This is the sixth time that Liu Rengui has come to Suning's office to report the actions of the merchants to Suning.

These days, it has been almost a month. This is the 15th day collective petition for these merchants. Chang'an City has not been settled these days. A huge amount of goods can be seen everywhere, and then loaded the car and headed towards the western Turkic region to the northwest. The number of vehicles coming and going is astonishing. The people are purely curious, while these merchants regretted and have the intention to commit suicide. They missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and those who have grasped this opportunity may have already been rich!

In fact, it can be said that in the past month, Suning has shipped 23 times in total, almost every day. For a long time, the Turks and the Central Plains have cut off commercial trade exchanges, and their lives are hard, so they have no resistance to the inflow of goods from the Tang Dynasty. They do not understand what economic wars are or what trade barriers are. It is really easy to deal with such countries. Their upper class is the big part of the consumption of goods from the Tang Dynasty!

Almost everyone has a set of luxurious furniture from the Tang Dynasty. With relatives like the elders and aunts and some important officials who have made great contributions, they have given countless rewards and gifts, as well as high-end clothes made of silk and satin in the Tang Dynasty. It is so comfortable to wear on them, making these shoddy clothes that are used to wearing easy friction on their skin no longer willing to take them off. They buy them one by one at home.

The food from the Tang Dynasty was also made to slap them. Now Weixianju is no longer something ordinary people can come. They are either rich or noble, and they occupy all the Weixianju's actions all day long. A sheep and a cow are used to pick up all these living things to the military ranch. The army can take part as food to reduce the transportation burden of the court. It is best to eat this all the time. At worst, a part of the vegetables in Weixianju will be left for the army when they come.

The merchants of the Tang Dynasty reached a consensus with the army that some goods would be stored in the military camp when they needed to be hoarded. At the same time, merchants would pay money to the army as compensation, or it might be materials needed by the army. For example, Weixianju uses cattle and sheep and other meats as compensation for the army, and the army grazed cattle and sheep for Weixianju. Try to raise pigs, and then Weixianju will allocate about one-tenth of cattle and sheep for the army as special supplies as their food.

In the Turks, they must follow the customs of the countryside. The nomadic peoples have strong physical health and also have the impact of the habit of eating whole meat. Suning also plans to give the army here a special training for eating whole meat, anyway, it will be a rotation every year. At that time, these troops will definitely be fat and strong when they go back, and they will definitely be a powerful cavalry and the main force on the battlefield in the future.

Anyway, on the huge grassland, there is a Tang Dynasty market around the Western Turkic royal court. There are also people from different countries coming here, such as the Western Regions. This makes the officials of the garrison of the Zongheng Division very concerned. When encountering such customers, the officials of the Zongheng Division must talk to him and then understand which country he belongs, his detailed customs and territory.

These Western Regions merchants just came to see how rich the products of the Tang Dynasty were, because the dynasty in the Central Plains was hundreds of years ago. They had only heard of it but never seen it before. Now they saw it, they were naturally shocked. For these issues, they only regarded it as mutual communication, and never thought about what the officials of the Zonghengsi had.

They naturally knew everything. The officials of the Zongheng Division were chatting and laughing with them on the surface. When they returned to their residence, they began to record their own experiences and hear in detail, and wrote them all, and even drew out the general territory of some countries they knew. There were 30 officials of the Zongheng Division who entered the Western Turkic Republic with the caravan, all of whom were new. They only learned some Zongheng Division. Suning sent them here to make a transition and prepared to transfer them back after the formal training was completed. However, on-site learning and application were obviously better than book learning, so this time they made great contributions.

They summed up the news and brought it all back to Chang'an and handed it to Suning. Suning was very surprised. He held a meeting of Zongheng Department overnight and announced the news about the countries in the Western Regions that they had obtained so that the officials could compare the specific differences between the current Western Regions and the Western Regions through previous Han Dynasty documents. For this reason, they devoted themselves to it for half a month. They turned a blind eye to the merchants who came to ask for their visit and did not care at all. They left them there, kept drawing maps of the Western Regions, and discussed the issues of the Western Regions.

What Suning hopes is that when the Tang Dynasty could send troops to the Western Regions, the Western Regions would have been touched to the sky, and even the underwear of their king's princess could know clearly. At that time, the Tang Dynasty would be 100% sure of sending troops. All Ban Chao and Ban Gu could smile. The Western Regions would officially become the administrative region of the Tang Dynasty, not a vassal state. This place should be controlled, and it would depend on it to deal with Tubo!

But those businessmen were so persistent and so persistent. Suning deeply understood the temptation of money on these businessmen. If they could not gain political power, they could only get into the money. At that time, they hoped that money could be exchanged for political loosening and let them move their muscles well. Naturally, Suning could not let them do this. The forty caravans that set out in advance would not agree so easily. If there were such a good thing, they would like to take over the whole family alone, and where would they be willing to join?

Just establish a business management committee. Let these merchants who were expeditioning to the Western Turks set up a business management committee themselves and take the lead and control the committee is equivalent to controlling the Tang Dynasty's trade with the Western Turks. All merchants who wanted to go to the Western Turks to do business must participate in this committee. They accept the control of the committee and pay a considerable amount of money regularly as protection fees. Otherwise, other merchants will expel them together and make business by commerce.

Thinking of this, Suning thought it was a good idea, so he put down the work at hand and said to Liu Rengui with a smile: "You go out and tell them, I'll go out to meet them later."

Liu Rengui asked curiously: "What is Su Hou's plan?"

Suning smiled and said, "They want to go, yes, absolutely. If such a big prairie is taken over by those forty caravans, it would be a real bad thing. The emperor would also be suspicious. Those caravans would not be able to finish their duties. They would be too much money, which would not be a good thing for anyone. The emperor would doubt it. Once the emperor doubted, it would be difficult to do this. Therefore, letting most people participate together, make money together, and grow together. To grow clearly is the best strategy."

Liu Rengui thought for a while and nodded, "What Mr. Su said is very true, and the humble position will be conveyed immediately."

After Liu Rengui finished speaking, he went out. Suning looked at some information in front of him. He touched his face, rubbed his face, and relieved his lower body. He was busy all these days and was almost crazy. Although he was very fulfilling, he was definitely exhausted. The military training of the military academy students was about to end in one month. At that time, he would have to run at both ends of the military academy Zongheng Division. There were so many things!

He shook his head, stood up, moved for a while, took a sip of ice water, and walked out slowly. Next, he had to deal with the merchants, a group of greedy guys, from the small to the big, he could know how terrible it was to let the merchants do whatever they wanted. It is said that the Xia Dynasty and Shang Dynasty in ancient times still encouraged the development of business, especially the Shang Dynasty, which was named "Shang". But why did it become more important to agriculture and suppress commerce later?

It must be that the merchants were greedy and wanted more things. Human desires were endless. Business would expand people's desires infinitely and to a certain extent. Merchants would pursue political power, state power, etc. At that time, the ancestors of China discovered this and severely attacked merchants. They discriminated against them for thousands of years. This brought the social atmosphere of ancient China, but this was also a double-edged sword. Sure enough, God treated everyone fairly. Whatever they wanted was to get...

We must never repeat the same mistakes. Now there have been voices opposing the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks' trade relations. The current reason is that these military families occupy a major position. Civil officials feel very unhappy and spontaneous conflicts of interest. When this conflict expands due to the expansion of commercial scale, it will trigger conflicts between commerce or suppress merchants. Suning cannot support commerce, nor can it support commerce suppression. This needs to be considered and practiced.

Moreover, at that time, the Confucian tyrants would definitely take the opportunity to attack the Zongheng family. On the issue of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, the views of various schools of thought were actually similar. Moreover, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce was proposed by the Legalists, not by the Confucians. This is already a social atmosphere that cannot be changed or promoted, but needs guidance. The current task of the Zongheng Municipal is very heavy, very dangerous and important.

When he walked to the outer hall, Suning saw a nest of about 30 ordinary-dressed men sitting in the outer hall, almost filling the entire outer hall. The laws of all dynasties did not allow merchants to wear silk and satin, which was a means of low-key businessmen, but this did not prevent these merchants from eating well, living well, and growing well. They were all fat and looked like they were not good things at first sight. That was right, how could good things make money?

When the merchants saw Suning coming out, they knew that this was Suning. Such a young superior, there was no one else in the court except Suning. So they stood up one after another and saluted Suning: "Have you met Su Hou!"

Suning waved his hand and smiled, "No need to be polite, no need to be polite, please sit down!"

The merchants bowed again and sat down one after another, and Suning also sat down. Liu Rengui presented a cup of Fufang Drink. Suning took it up and drank two sips before saying, "These days, Zongheng Company has been busy with official business, and I have not returned home for more than ten days, so I have been a little negligent about you. I hope you don't blame me."

The merchants were indeed unhappy, but how could they dare to say it? They were the marquis, extremely noble, they were even less than a commoner, and they were just a little bitch away from the bitch. How could they dare to be dissatisfied with the marquis? A little dissatisfied would be the end of exile. They knew the consequences of the two businessmen who snatched women from the marquis Su. They were disrespectful to the following, and they were thwarted by the marquis, and their property was confiscated, and they were exiled to Lingnan. They were almost dead and had no way to survive. So how dare they disrespect to the marquis Su?
Chapter completed!