God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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"That's right." Lu Qi thought about Guo Bang's experience as a horse bandit and nodded seriously.

"I'm really unwilling to let him go like this..." Li Jue said with some resentment.

To be honest, if he is already sitting here, he is an absolute bastard. Anyone who passes by here would dare not to pay him for the journey?

Regardless of whether it is a dragon crossing the river or a local snake, who is better than him? The dragon and the tiger occupy this place, covering a thousand miles, who dares not to give him face?
All domestic silk destined for the West must go to the West from this place, and naturally it will have to accept high premium taxes and fees.

Of course, as the basis and voucher for charging fees, they are not only responsible for the construction of roads from home to the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, as well as Congling, but also for the security along the way.

In this name, they can collect money legitimately, and then watch these people go west, risk their future, and then make a fortune.

As for the proportion and safety factor, compared with the past, they have increased instead of falling.

The businessmen along the way didn't understand all this at first, but later, they not only recognized it, but also strongly supported it.

There are no more dangerous horse bandits, there are smooth roads, supply points along the way, and merchants' roads along the way, spanning thousands of miles, are all classified as safe zones.

Although it is not absolutely safe, after all, there are always some people who know the law and break the law and take risks, but it is indeed much better than before.

As long as you pay a certain amount of money or wait for the corresponding time, you can follow the military from Yumen Pass to Congling.

Due to local specific factors, it is impossible to have someone protecting them every day, but after passing simple patrol troops and auxiliary troops.

On this transportation road, in addition to the patrolling troops, there is also a team of thousands of people every five days to protect the caravan moving forward.

And an army of a thousand regular soldiers is enough to stop some daring people.

In a sense, their behavior can be regarded as ensuring the smoothness and smoothness of the road.

However, Li Jue and others basically don't care about this kind of thing. As long as they pay him money or can maintain the survival of the army, they don't have high requirements in their hearts.

"But it's strange. Although Fulward leads the Desert Camel Cavalry Corps, if I remember correctly, his range of activities is not here. Shouldn't it be on the side of Khorasan?" Lu Qi expressed his doubts and was completely puzzled in his heart!

"Well, I'm not sure. We haven't collected much intelligence from the West. Why don't we ask the businessmen who have returned from the West?" Li Jue recalled his training during this period and continued to lead his troops to climb. World Summit still provides a solution.

Lu Qi nodded, which was regarded as approval of this direction.

The merchants passing through Congling actually have two tasks. One is to go to the Parthian Empire from the Western Regions, bringing extremely expensive silk with them for trade and exchange. Although the quantity is not large and the quality is not high, they cannot afford to sell it at a high price.

Because of the special nature of the Parthian Empire, these merchants were destined to have no way to trade directly with the Romans. After all, it was difficult for them to do this on the territory of the Parthian Empire.

No one will give up such a huge benefit, especially this kind of real hard currency, and it is also a monopoly-level hard currency. If you receive silk from these merchants, you can resell it to the Roman Empire at double the price. If you are unlucky, it may even be doubled several times.

The level of real comparison with gold is outrageous. Even the same weight of gold may not necessarily be able to buy the same weight of silk. The profits in this can be imagined.

As for the other task, it was incidental, which was to collect intelligence information from the West and see if saffron could be purchased.

As for having such an idea, it was only after on-site understanding that Lu Qi discovered that saffron was indeed a very important thing to the Parthian Empire.

It is not only an expensive herbal medicine, but also an expensive dye, and even an expensive spice. It can be said that even in normal use, the value is still very huge, not to mention the meaning behind it.

But it is precisely because of these attributes that it is possible to purchase it. After all, the Parthian Empire's special plan has been changed into several versions. This version of Saffron may not be available again at this time.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, there is absolutely no problem in exchanging expensive luxuries like silk for some expensive spices.

Although the quantity is small, it is impossible to affect the entire legion, but for Lu Qi, as long as such things can be collected, research and development can be carried out.

He didn't believe that future generations could push this thing to the peak level of three kilograms per mu, and rely on relevant technologies to do it in person, coupled with the materials and power that can be mobilized in this era.

The requirements are not high either, not to mention the yield of three catties per mu, but the level of half a catty...

So in addition to the finished products, Lu Qi also hopes that these businessmen will bring back some seeds. Anyway, the places suitable for planting in China are vast and sparsely populated. Planting this thing will also increase the number of employees.

Seeing the Romans walking on this path, Lu Qi felt that there was nothing wrong with the Parthian Empire's century-old plan. Just because the Parthian Empire couldn't do it, it didn't mean that the Han Empire couldn't do it.

However, the reality is that the difficulty is indeed a bit high. The finished saffron is not bad. As long as you have money, you can buy some. As long as the quantity is not particularly large, there is no problem.

But saffron seeds are not that good. Even the seven corrupt nobles still regard this thing very seriously, even if they have almost forgotten about their previous plans.

Even most people in the Parthian Empire knew that this kind of thing could not grow anywhere else except within the Parthian Empire.

But this all has a premise, that is, the place discovered by the Parthian Empire itself, so it is difficult to guarantee whether other places can be planted.

Therefore, controlling saffron seeds is almost a code among the nobles of the Parthian Empire. Even if some of them don't understand it, they will naturally abide by it after seeing that others comply with it.

Therefore, even the Parthian nobles with treasonous thoughts would not sell this thing under normal circumstances.

This has led to the fact that although Lu Qi has made a lot of research results, if he wants to carry out large-scale planting, he still lacks seeds that can be planted.

Based on this, Lu Qi is quite interested in some good things from the West.

Similarly, Congling's tax collection standards for merchants are actually very clear to many merchants traveling between the East and the West... (End of Chapter)