Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 294 Kucha Fair

The situation in the Western Regions was unstable, and there were more opposition to the plan of the Westbound Business Group organized by the Streetlight Pendant Trade Union.

The westward development business group activity organized by the street lamp pendant union has attracted many merchants and players to participate.

According to the plan of the chairman, Sun Jianguo, it was a trade route from Longyou to Dashi.

Even Sun Jianguo was ambitious and wanted to go all the way west to reach the Byzantine Empire.Trade directly with the Romans.

It's just that the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is skinny.

Before the westbound group entered the Western Regions, the countries in the Western Regions were ready to move, and news of intercepting and killing the Datang caravan came one after another.

Most merchant players retreated.

There are also several factions within the street lamp pendant trade union on how to develop trade routes.

The Westward Movement was once the absolute mainstream. What a fascinating achievement it is to open up the Silk Road and complete trade between China and the West.

And there are many ancient civilizations along the way, which sounds so fascinating.

But I didn't expect to run into trouble right after I walked out of Gaochang.

The situation in Kucha was unstable, and most of the players in the Westward Merchant Group retreated.

And another thing that made the merchant players of the westbound business group back down was that the companions who insisted on going north and eastward at that time were making money!
Needless to say, going north, since the army of King Jianning defeated the army of the former Uighur Khan in Jinshan, the hegemony of the Uighurs on the grassland disintegrated.

Needless to say, the Ge Luolu people have completely opened up the market and let the merchants of the Tang Dynasty dump their products.

A large number of merchants and players from the Tang Dynasty took the latest products from Longyou to the grasslands, and exchanged them for horses, cattle, sheep, and furs. These things could make a lot of money when they brought them back to Longyou.

Moreover, the cavalry of the Beiting Duhu Mansion "assisted" the Ge Luolu people in maintaining law and order on their territory, cracking down on horse bandits along the way, and maintaining the smooth flow of trade routes.

The Uighurs also signed a series of secret treaties with King Jianning, and merchants sent north to establish trading posts on the grassland.

These horses, cattle and sheep are then sold to the pastures in Zhangye, the wool is sold to the wool spinning workshop in Longyou, and the grasslands are harvested with industrial scissors.

In addition to the Beishang faction, the Dongjin faction also made a lot of money.

The Dongjin faction is the player who advocates opening up trade routes to the east.

In the former street lamp pendant union, the Dongjin faction was the faction with the fewest supporters.

To the east, that is, to trade with Datang, although everyone knows that Datang is a vast market, but now the Central Plains is caught in the flames of the Anshi Rebellion, and the Silk Road is about to be interrupted.

However, after the emperor moved to Fengxiang Mansion, the consumption of Datang gradually picked up.

The consumption of spices and jewelry by the ministers of Fengxiang Mansion is on the rise. Although the Dongjin faction players only transported Longyou "specialties" to Wuwei City, they sold them to merchants from the Tang Dynasty.

But this trade route is smooth, and the bandits on the road have been wiped out by the generals and players. The trade route going east is safe and stable. Although it is not as profitable as going north, it also has stable long-term benefits.

On the other hand, the westward players had a lot of goods in their hands, and it was nowhere in sight to even pass through Kucha, let alone reach Dashi, or even far away Byzantium.

【Businessman】Professional players rely on trade to make money and improve experience. Now that the goods are in their hands and cannot be sold, naturally there is no way to improve their professional level.

Sun Jianguo couldn't go against everyone's wishes, so he asked players who were willing to continue westward to follow him, and for players who were unwilling to continue westward, Sun Jianguo also increased the price to buy the goods in their hands, and asked them to buy goods in Qiuci and return to Shazhou.

In the end, the mighty westbound business group left only a dozen or so players who insisted on going westward. The others all sold their goods, bought some specialties in Qiuci and returned to Shazhou City.

These merchants who failed in their westward journey brought a large number of special products from Kucha. Once these merchants gathered together, they decided to hold a Western Region product fair in Shazhou City.

Cui Ruoyun and Jian Xia came out of the laboratory and went to the market in the east of Shazhou City together.

Jian Xia hadn't been to Shazhou City for a long time, and she was shocked when she saw Dongshi's appearance.

"This is Dongshi? How did it become like this?"

The original muddy ground became muddy when it rained, and the merchants sold their goods on trucks. The smell of the mud and the stench of the livestock mixed into a disgusting and pungent smell.

If it is not for buying necessities or doing business, no one will want to step into the market.

The ground of the East Market is now paved with neat square bricks, and the merchants' carriages and horses are all parked in the stables outside the market. The air in the market is very fresh.

For the convenience of setting up stalls, the officials of the market also built four parallel counters. As long as the merchants who paid the tax could get a free counter, the merchants could display their products on the counter.

This time, the merchants and players who returned from the Western Regions had already been building momentum on the forum, and they wanted to hold a Western Region specialty product exhibition in Shazhou.

When they entered the city, they deliberately entered through the main entrance of Shazhou City with great fanfare. The carts wrapped in red ribbons were filled with various goods, which whetted the appetite of the whole city.

Then these merchants and players spent money to print posters, promoting the fair in the form of comic strips.

I heard that there are also businessmen from Gaochang and Guazhou who came to Shazhou city to attend the meeting.

When Jian Xia and Cui Ruoyun entered the East Market, they were attracted by an array of stones in a shop.

This is also a merchant player, and he is pulling a native to sell these natural gems.

Jian Xia casually picked up a natural crystal, and said to Cui Ruoyun, "The purity of this crystal is pretty good."

Cui Ruoyun was not interested in the crystal and said: "Isn't this thing the same chemical composition as glass? Future generations will be able to manufacture it on a large scale. It's boring."

Jian Xia rolled her eyes and said: "The man is not made of those elements, is he just as boring?"

Cui Ruoyun nodded and said, "Yes, I've never found men interesting."

Jian Xia said with a defeated expression: "Well, you deserve to be single."

Cui Ruoyun grabbed a black ore, handed it to Jian Xia and said, "Take a look, is this black manganese ore?"

Hearing the black manganese ore, Jian Xia immediately regained her spirits. She looked at it carefully for a long time and said, "It looks like it. Whether it depends on the results of laboratory analysis."

Jian Xia immediately said to the player merchant: "Did you collect this ore in Kucha?"

This player saw the "Datang Academy of Sciences" trade union mark on the heads of Jian Xia and Cui Ruoyun, and immediately knew that they were important customers.

He immediately negotiated the price with the customer in front of him, and said to Jian Xia: "I collected this from the slums of Kucha, and it was picked up by a child in a cave. If the two of you are interested in this ore, what price Very negotiable."

(End of this chapter)