The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

"Yeah." Shang Wen said at the national security meeting. Yang Duanhe attended the meeting as a representative of the staff department. National Security Advisor, Fan Zeng, Wei Liao, Meng Tian and others all came to attend. Meng Tian listened to some of the new information they received.

Report on the situation. Naofumi just nodded and said nothing.

"Regarding the situation in the above-mentioned areas, especially the Yuezhi and Wusun people who import a large amount of Qin weapons, we believe that this situation should be taken seriously. If the Yuezhi people are alive as Wusun people, they are not facing us, but the people of Wusun.

If we attack in the south, we must take advantage of this favorable situation to expand Qin's control on the periphery of the Western Region." Meng Tian said.

"The Qin army does not have many troops to use, and the maximum number of troops that can be invested in one regiment is already the limit." Yang Duanhe said to Meng Tian.

"Well, I understand this. Our idea is to build on a regiment." Meng Tian said.

"You mean, the Yuezhi and Wusun people are not attacking our area with a large number of imported weapons?" Shang Wen asked Meng Tian at this time.

"Yes." Meng Tian replied.

"Well, let's talk about the situation over there in Dayuan. I already understand the situation of the Yuezhi people." Shangwen said to Mengtian. As for the Yuezhi and Wusun people importing weapons in large quantities, Shangwen believed that the current situation of the Qin people was

There is no need to attract huge attention. The Yuezhi and Wusun people have been frightened by the Qin people. They dare not go eastward.

The Qin people launched an attack in the country. And they imported a large amount of weapons and bought so many weapons. Then there is only one direction, southward. To the west, there may be a civilized country, or a nomadic tribal country, possibly the Persian country. Shangwen tried his best to

Looking back on history, there is still no information on the Iranian plateau that can be provided for Naofumi's reference.

"The situation over there is that a commercial armed force was attacked recently. I'm afraid something like this will happen again in the future. This is not good for our future commercial activities." Wei Liao said to Shang Wen.

"Yes." Naofumi nodded.

"Are there any problems elsewhere?" Naofumi asked at this time.

"No, it's a little calm." Wei Liao said.

"Yes." Naofumi nodded.

"I have some ideas." Naofumi said.

"This is a recent report. I have summarized some myself and feel that these may have a certain relationship with our future national defense security." Naofumi said as he handed some of the materials he prepared to everyone.

Wei Liao took it and looked at it. The others looked at the copy. After Wei Liao read it, he looked up at Shang Wen.

"I don't know what this means?" Wei Liao looked at Shang Wen.

"These are things that Qin may need to pay attention to in the future. I think you have some misunderstandings on security issues." Shang Wen explained.

"What do you mean?" Meng Tian put down the report in his hand and asked Shangwen.

"Our commercial arm is not a large-scale invasion or a simple military operation. Our purpose is to develop the local market, not to participate in it and use military means to solve all problems. And I found that the military operations in the Western Regions,

In particular, Dawan's military operations may have deviated from the purpose we expected." Shangwen said.

"On the contrary, I feel that for the Yuezhi and Wusun people, things like this are closer to our goal." Shangwen said.

Hearing this, Yang Duanhe looked at Wei Liao in confusion, while Wei Liao looked at Shang Wen. He didn't know what Shang Wen meant.

"Our ultimate goal is not to expand the war, but to use war to force the other party to buy our weapons, or we can take the opportunity to sell weapons or other products on a large scale and exchange their local specialties with us. That's it.

Purpose." Naofumi said while looking at everyone.

"Everyone is very clear about our current situation. It is impossible for us to expand westward on a large scale, and the current situation does not allow it. We need a development transition time. At the very least, our transportation must be completed." Naofumi.

Speaking of.

"The way to stimulate the development of road transportation is to increase commercial cargo transportation. The increase in logistics will naturally stimulate Qin's great development of railways in the Western Regions." Shang Wen said.

"I have this idea. You said before that a large number of commercial strongholds will be established on the roads opened by Dawan. How to solve the traffic situation of these commercial strongholds?" Shang Wen asked.

"There is no way to solve it. My solution is to use railways. Railways can transport large amounts of goods and are also protected by armored trains. Once a problem occurs, armored trains can be dispatched to protect the safety of our railways and strongholds," Naofumi said.

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"The establishment of these commercial strongholds is actually to promote our products. Before launching a large-scale war, we used commercial methods to absorb their funds, put them into a period of financial difficulty, and dumped a large amount of goods to reduce their economic capabilities.

.This is our purpose." Naofumi said.

"And the situation of the Yuezhi and Wusun people just meets our requirements. We can fight, but not now. We can do business with them before the war. We can sell them backward flintlocks and smoothbore artillery.

.In this way, we can earn a lot of money, and we can also manage a large amount of military supplies orders. Our main purpose is to open up the market, not to fight them blindly. The situation of Dawan State has this meaning

Already." Naofumi said.

"Well, there is indeed such a situation. The Dawan Kingdom continues to send out commercial armed forces to rob, and they have attacked quite a few tribes. These tribes may be in a counterattack before attacking our commercial armed forces. In this case, I am worried that our commercial

The activity cannot be carried out?" At this time, Wei Liao said worriedly to Shang Wen.

"I know this." Naofumi said.

"However, there is no solution. As our attack begins, there will inevitably be some differentiation among these people. As long as we make use of these differentiations. After all, some people will choose to cooperate, and some people will not choose to cooperate." Naofumi.

Speaking of.

"The specific matter of Dawan Kingdom is the establishment of commercial strongholds. With these commercial strongholds, we can do a lot of things." Shangwen continued.

"Are we going to continue to dump a large number of flintlock guns and artillery?" Meng Tian asked at this time.

"Yes, our military industrial enterprises need a lot of military expenditures to support them. At that time, it was impossible for us to allocate a large amount of military expenditures to the army at present. What we need to do is to sell them a large number of outdated weapons to maintain Qin's military industrial enterprises.

Operation. Military products are not just products for us to open up the other party's market. Our other products can also enter it on a large scale." Naofumi continued.

"In addition to these, some local resources are also our focus. The current development of Qin State will soon require a variety of resources. We will ask for whatever resources there are in the local area." Shang Wen said.

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"If we do this, we need to make a lot of improvements. Military means are not necessary, but they are the last resort. There are many types of means that have been used before. Do we need to combine all the forces?

"Meng Tian asked Shang Wen.

"Yes. I plan to establish a large trading company to conduct foreign trade. Specific matters will be handled by each trading company. For example, we will establish a Western Region Trading Company, or a Western Trading Company. We will do it in the form of a company.

Get involved. We can’t get involved," Naofumi said.

"Yes." Wei Liao nodded. Yang Duanhe also nodded. In this way, the Qin State is equivalent to letting all outside matters go. Whether the company starts trading or seeks other ways to seek benefits is entirely up to them.

own affairs, and Qin’s interference in this is not

In many cases, how to make profits becomes a matter for the company. It also becomes a matter for the industrial and commercial enterprises themselves to worry about, rather than a matter for the Qin government and the Qin army. In this way, the Qin government and the Qin army have a great degree of freedom.

This is where Yang Duanhe nodded in agreement.

If the current method is followed, Qin Jun will not be able to complete such a thing anyway, but if Shangwen intends to leave these things to the trading company, then they will not have to bear such a thing.

"We don't interfere much with the specific ideas. It can be said that we only need to provide the corresponding registration and license issuance, and that's it. To what extent they have achieved it, we only need to understand and obtain these conditions," Naofumi said.

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"Qin's security strategy is like this. Generally speaking, our border states are in a state of alert and defense. Outside the borders, our trading companies use a variety of flexible methods to carry out trade or military strikes.

Or cooperate and train your own assistants. In short, our Qin government does not interfere much in these things, so we should let them go and boldly let them do it." Shang Wen said.

When Wei Liao heard this, he was vaguely worried, but thinking about the current situation in the Qin State, he still felt that some of Shang Wen's ideas were correct. After all, this actually did not cause much loss to the Qin State.

The meeting quickly determined a strategy, but this strategy still needs the final approval of King Qin to take effect. This strategy is to encourage Qin's trading companies to carry out trade as much as possible and provide strong support to their trade.

Interference with them is also extremely limited.

"Isn't this idea a little too crazy?" Meng Yi asked Shangwen cautiously on the way back.

"There is no way. If you don't do such a thing, someone will naturally do it. The current market in Qin is not very optimistic. We urgently need to open up the market in the Western Region. Those factory owners, enterprises, and people from trading companies are all here

Keep an eye on it. If we take charge and interfere too much, they won't get involved." Naofumi explained.

"That's not what I meant. I'm worried that if we do this, it will be detrimental to Qin. You know, if we act like this, we won't be able to control them at all. Who knows what they will do, and we will suffer in the end.

It must be us." Meng Yi said worriedly.

"Your worries are reasonable, but in this situation, we have no choice." Naofumi said.

"Qin State needs a large number of domestic markets, but we cannot provide such a large market. Qin State's domestic production companies finally started operations, and the military industry companies found a market in the Western Regions. This is thanks to the Yuezhi and Wusun people.

"Shangwen said.

"But, if we look at it from a long-term perspective, you will worry that the demand for muskets will eventually be met. For example, in the current Chu market, the number of muskets we exported has doubled before, but now it is

Large-scale shrinkage, the number of artillery exports is also decreasing rapidly. If there is no market in the Western Region, our artillery workshop will stop production. In that case, the workers will not start work, they will not get paid, and they will not

What will we do?" Naofumi asked.

Meng Yi shook his head and said he didn't know.

"They will go on strike and cause turmoil. This is turmoil within the Qin State. Such turmoil is not the result that you and I want to see the most. Such turmoil is fatal to the Qin State." Shang Wen said.

"This is definitely not the situation we want. Once the Qin State is in internal turmoil, the entire external situation will be out of control." Shang Wen said.

"And we must first maintain the domestic situation rather than the foreign situation. The domestic situation is the first priority." Naofumi said.

"The situation abroad helps us with a large number of markets and raw material supplies. The development of Qin requires a lot of raw materials. If these things cannot be effectively provided to Qin, Qin's development will not be what it is today.

Scale." Naofumi said.

"Yes. I understand." Meng Yi nodded. Shangwen considered the problem from the perspective of Qin State. Qin State's internal stability is the solid foundation for Qin State's external achievements. Such a foundation is very important to Qin State.

Shangwen first considered the internal stability of Qin, and then the corresponding external results.

"I know what you are worried about about Qin's security. You are worried that these areas are out of control and in a state of anarchy." Shang Wen said.

"Yes, if this continues, it will be very detrimental to us. If there is a rebellion, or a new threat arises, then Qin will be in a state of making enemies on all sides. I am worried that Qin will not be able to cope with such a situation. In this way

If you go down." Meng Yi expressed his worries to Shang Wen.

"Well, I know you are worried, but at present, our situation is not enough to worry about. We are very lacking in external development. It is this lack that has led to our narrow market. Factory production without market is dangerous.

Yes, what we need to do now is to develop the market and develop a large number of markets. The market is becoming more and more

The more they have, the more demand they have. If they ask for help from us, there won’t be too much turmoil. If there are a lot of purchases, the stronger their economic dependence will be. If they oppose our regime, we can crush them.

Use multiple methods to deal with it, rather than using Qin’s limited mobile forces." Shang Wen emphasized.

"Yes." Meng Yi nodded.

"I know. This is the best way at the moment." Meng Yi said.

"Yes. If we don't give businessmen more autonomy at this time, what will happen? Many things will be destroyed in our own hands. Remember that the most powerful enemy is not outside, but us

Myself." Naofumi patted Meng Yi on the shoulder and said.

"Yes." Meng Yi nodded. Meng Yi kept Shang Wen's words firmly in his heart.

"You have also seen today's materials today, right?" Naofumi continued.

"I saw it." Meng Yi replied.

"This is also the reason why I want to continue trading." Naofumi said.

"The State of Yan needs a large amount of loans, and we need to cooperate with them in finance and banking. In the future, a large amount of banknotes will be needed. But the issuance of these banknotes requires a large amount of gold as reserves. If Qin does not have such a large

If it is a reserve, Qin State cannot promote paper money to Yan State. Once Qin State promotes gold on a large scale without gold reserves, you and I know best what the consequences will be." Shang Wen said to Meng Yi seriously.

.Meng Yi stopped.

"Let's go." Shang Wen pulled Meng Yi and said.

"Qin is now a big ship, and war cannot break out easily. What Qin needs is stable development. If you want to promote Qin's influence, you must promote the influence of paper currency. Currently, Qin has a large amount of gold entering places

It’s the Western Regions, and this is one of the important reasons for developing the market in the Western Regions,” Shangwen said.

Speaking of this, Meng Yi looked at Shangwen. He did not expect that Shangwen would think of this.

"On the one hand, Qin will export a large amount of banknotes, and Qin may have to cut interest rates in the future, which means that a large number of banknotes will be issued. On the other hand, the increase in Qin's gold reserves is decreasing. If we continue to follow the current gold

What will happen if the reserve continues?" Naofumi asked.

"The situation is very bad. The Qin State lacks enough gold to maintain the current paper currency system. Once the entire paper currency system becomes uncontrollable, the entire system of the Qin State will collapse. This is what I am most worried about." Shang Wen said.

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"So Qi Guo, the materials also include Qi Guo's loans, as well as the purchase and leasing of ships, what do you think?" Meng Yi then asked.

"Make their money." Naofumi said.

"Earn their money?" Meng Yi asked.

"Yes. Why not make money from such a good opportunity? What can we rely on to sustain the development of our shipbuilding industry? Of course it is their orders. Why don't we do this? We provide them with loans and they come to our Qin Dynasty with these things.

The country orders goods, whether it is arms or cans

Well, whether it is warships or artillery, we can sell them to them. Anyway, they will eventually make money to pay it back. When they want to expand their scale, we can join a joint venture with them and adopt a cooperative approach to continue to make money. These are all

It's nothing to do with anything." Naofumi said.

"Oh." Meng Yi didn't know what Shangwen was thinking.

"Industries will transfer." Naofumi continued.

"Just like the flintlock guns produced by Qin's military industrial enterprises, the principle of the flintlock guns is very simple, and the manufacturing structure is also very simple." Shang Wen said.

"If such products continue to be produced, Qin's guns will lose their competitiveness. Without competitiveness, it will be difficult to survive. What was the situation five years ago has changed a lot from the current situation.

That's the reason for competition," Naofumi said.

"Well. If you put it this way, I think I understand some truth. What you mean is to let our products continue to compete. Although we are not involved in it, we can do a lot of things to participate. If we do this, we

It can also improve production," Meng Yi said.

"Yes." Naofumi said.

"Well. In this case, I don't need to worry." Meng Yi continued.

"So, my strategy is that in the future, the Qin State will participate in profit competition as much as possible. Such simple use of military means to expand can be done, but don't go too far. After all, war is extremely consuming.

If they are willing to do such a big thing, let them do it," Naofumi said.

Beigang of Qin State.

"Listen, the forms filled out here are the information for you to go to Qin State. You can only go to Qin State after filling in these forms. Otherwise, you will be blocked and unable to do anything." A Qin State official said.

The secretary of the state shouted loudly. At the same time, he waved a stack of printed forms in his hand. Only by submitting these forms, the Qin government would issue them passes and they could arrive in Qin to work.

"Mom, I'm hungry." A child from Chu State said pitifully on the boat.

"Child, wait a little longer, wait a little longer, and after you get here, you can eat delicious food. Qin has meat and a lot of delicious food, don't worry, don't worry." The child's mother said to the child.

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"Mom, can I really eat meat?" the child asked at this time.

"Yes." The child's mother nodded. Along the way, she heard that people in the Qin State could eat meat every day, and that some people in the Qin State were reluctant to eat meat because of it. This was what she heard from others.

She didn't know clearly, but she knew that Qin was a big and powerful country, and all these problems should be solved by Qin.

"Well, brother, we don't even know how to read this. We can't fill out this form." A group of Chu people surrounded the clerk.

"This is easy to say. I will handle it for you right away. Once you have done this, you can go to Qin to work as a laborer. But before that, you have to give me some benefits." The clerk said while rubbing his hands.

"This." Some Chu people said in embarrassment. But more Chu people looked unremitting. They were extremely dissatisfied with the Qin people's blatant behavior of asking for money. They finally got here, but they still

Seeing such a face, they were really annoyed. However, thinking that they could enter, some of them still held back. However, they were very dissatisfied with the attitude of the Qin people. They wanted to beat these Qin people.