Da Qin: Self-destruction and time travel, I will extend my life for Qin for a thousand years

Ying Zheng led his men to directly surround the Wen family. Wen Buqun, who was still in a coma, probably never dreamed that his impulse caused by greed would actually bring such a terrible disaster to the Wen family.

"What happened?"

"My lords, our Wen family has always been respectful. Is there any misunderstanding here?"

"If you have something to say, everyone has something to say."

Wen seemed to have noticed the movement. In fact, it was very difficult not to notice such a thing. Soon, five figures wearing gold and silver appeared in the mansion, as if they were Wen's talkers.

They looked at the menacing Da Qin servants around them, and they couldn't help but fight with each other.

Unlike the county government officials they knew, these servants of Da Qin all had fierce eyes, and it was obvious that they had really touched human lives on their hands!

A person who can follow the First Emperor and protect his safety is naturally not a weakling who can be easily manipulated.

Although they are not as good as the black bird guards of Heibingtai, they are still top-notch experts. For the captive servants of the Wen family, this is a dimensionality-reducing blow.

"Zhou Fa, I leave this matter to you. All matters related to spices must be investigated to the bottom of the matter!"

Ying Zheng ignored the questions from those Wen family members and did not bother to talk to them given his status.

The reason why I came here with Cui Yuan was just to see if I could catch the so-called envoy of a great power with my own hands. Now it seems that there is no possibility.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Fa quickly bowed and agreed. It wasn't until Ying Zheng took Cui Yao away that he straightened his back.

When he looked at the frightened Wen family again, the corners of his mouth were already full of sneers!

Since he took office as the magistrate of Wu County, he has been targeted by the Wen family.

Although Mrs. Wen gave him spices and various treasures, this did not mean that Mrs. Wen had looked at him seriously.

These are not bribes at all, but a warning!

If you listen to me, you will have glory and wealth. If you don't listen, just wait for Wen's revenge!

Although Wen didn't say these words explicitly, this was actually the situation. Even Zhou Fa's servants were the only ones who were behind the scenes.

And now, thanks to His Majesty and King Qin, this hatred has finally been avenged!

"Come here, take everyone in the Wen Mansion to the sky prison, and I will interrogate them one by one!"

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"Speaking of Cui Yuan, what exactly is this so-called spice brought by the envoy from the great country?"

In Liulicongfang, the two people who left Wen's mansion were drinking leisurely, with Mo Xue waiting on them.

Murphy is a person who pays great attention to details, because he thinks that this visit to Lingnan may take a long time and it will be difficult to go back in a short time. So I specially brought a carriage of distilled liquor.

This also gave Ying Zheng and Cui Yuan something to eat. After they came to Lingnan, they hadn't had any good wine for a long time.

In order to travel to survey the terrain of the Yellow River, they brought a lot of drinks, but most of them were in Handan County.

I was in such a hurry when I came to Lingnan that I didn't have time to bring them all, and there was no need to bring them all.

So these days, the two of them, let alone Cui Yuan, have been drinking the local wine that was as light as water.

Even Ying Zheng, who had been drinking for decades, was not used to him after trying distilled liquor.

"spices?"

"Actually, to put it bluntly, this thing is a plant powder that can be smelled by the sense of smell or scented by the sense of taste."

"Probably, it's similar to the sandalwood we have here. It emits a peculiar fragrance after burning."

Cui Yuan drank while shaking his head and explained: "It should be regarded as a relatively rare thing."

After Ying Zheng heard this, he became even more interested in this object. He immediately took out the sachet handed in by Zhou Fa: "It is comparable to sandalwood. In this case, isn't this object very precious?"

Although there are still many sandalwoods in this era and are not as endangered as in later generations, the price is already very high because of its peculiar fragrance.

Even a small piece of a small table can be enough to keep an ordinary person busy for several months without eating or drinking.

"If you say it's precious, it's still precious. If you say it's not precious, you can actually say it's not precious."

Cui Yuan gave an ambiguous answer, which made Ying Zheng stare, thinking that this bad guy was amusing himself again. After all, Cui Yuan had done this kind of thing the most before.

But this time, Cui Yuan was indeed not deliberately entertaining Ying Zheng, but was telling the truth.

As he spoke, he took the sachet and started to play with it: "It is precious because it has indeed been sold at an extremely high price in world trade for a long time."

"Just like the Ming Dynasty that your Majesty and his ministers visited not long ago. According to historical records, the Ming Dynasty existed for a total of 286 years. During these nearly 300 years, and even in the Song Dynasty and Tang Dynasty before that, the price of spices has always been It’s so high that it’s almost comparable to gold of equal weight!”

"At that time, a pound of saffron could be exchanged for a horse, a pound of ginger was worth a sheep, and two pounds of nutmeg could be exchanged for a cow!"

“And these saffron, ginger and nutmeg are the names of spices!”

"Especially the top-notch products, such as ambergris, are worth ten times more than gold. They are only provided to future emperors!"

"For ordinary people, just possessing it is a sin of ten thousand deaths."

"In order to obtain Xiangke, countless people risked their lives and went into the vast sea of ​​​​people to seek the legendary Spice Islands."

"Because of this, an ancient trade route was opened up. Thanks to this trade route, the Arabs and Italians made huge profits, while the European nobles on the other side of the ocean had to pay bags of gold one after another. Throughout the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later, this spice route was almost the entire world trade route.”

"It's so exaggerated!?"

Ying Zheng showed obvious shock. He really didn't expect any of this.

When he first heard Wu County Magistrate Zhou Fa say that these spices could be worth a thousand taels, although Ying Zheng had no expression on his face, he was full of doubts in his heart.

These powders have such a high value. Are you crazy? Am I really crazy?

But now, after hearing Cui Yuan's story, Ying Zheng realized that this was actually true.

In the future, some people will actually spend thousands of dollars to buy these spices!

"Why! This is too exaggerated!"

"Is it possible that the fragrance emitted by these spices can make people become immortals on the spot after smelling it? Soar for a hundred days? Or can it extend life span? Can people live to be a hundred years old?"

"It's even more expensive than the same weight of gold. Why are these spices so valuable?"

Ying Zheng's mind was full of questions, and he couldn't understand why these spices were sold so expensively.

"It's because I was hyped~"

Cui Yuan seemed to be a little drunk, and he was not so scrupulous when he spoke: "Brother Zheng, this is the same as what we did in Ming Dynasty. We fired up the originally worthless Liuli."

"Obviously the glaze workshop can produce a thousand kilograms of colored glaze a day, but we only auction dozens of them every ten days, which adds up to not even a hundred kilograms." "The price of spices is so high for the same reason. , because the big countries behind those big country envoys are artificially inflating the price of spices and deliberately creating a shortage of spices."

"Obviously these spices are all over the mountains and plains, but they only leak out a little bit every time, causing countries around the world to go crazy about it."

Compared with spice marketing, diamond marketing are just imitators.

The most obvious example is ginger. This condiment was available in every household in later generations. In its heyday, a pound of ginger was worth a sheep!

If this is not madness, then nothing in this world is madness.

Cui Yuan's explanation made Ying Zheng's mouth twitch.

Ying Zheng only recently fully understood Cui Yuan's Liuli marketing methods.

At this moment, he finally understood why the price of spices was so outrageous.

He and Cui Yuan can raise a pile of sand to the sky, so why can't the Maurya Dynasty also raise the price of spices?

"You can't do business without adultery, you can't do business without adultery!"

Ying Zheng was very emotional and completely understood the essence of business - buy low and sell high!

The same is true for colored glaze, and the same is true for spices!

Ordinary things, after a series of operations, can be sold for sky-high prices!

Then a flash of inspiration flashed across Ying Zheng's eyes, and a bright light burst out in front of his eyes, and his whole spirit changed! "Cui Yuan! I suddenly thought of a very interesting thing!"

"Oh? What's the matter?" Cui Yuan listened attentively.

"Do you think that after conquering this so-called big country in the future, can our Great Qin also open this so-called spice road?"

"Selling spices from big countries to European countries at high prices? Earn huge profits?"

Ying Zheng's eyes were very fiery, and such a terrible benefit made his heart really excited.

If they wanted to attack the Maurya Dynasty before, it was mainly for revenge.

So now in addition to revenge, there is also a touch of greed!

The common man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade!

A small slave country that has not even entered the feudal system yet possesses such treasures. How can it not make people jealous?

"Your Majesty is wise! This is indeed possible!"

When Cui Yuan heard this, he was mostly awake from the wine, his face flushed, and he was also very excited.

If after the Mauryan Dynasty is captured, the Spice Road will also be in the hands of Qin, plus the Maritime Silk Road that is about to open in Lingnan, and the real Silk Road that originally started from Xianyang.

With the three roads integrated into one, does Daqin still have a reason to become a world trade center?

At that time, the world's gold, wealth and various resources will continue to flow into Daqin through these three roads!

Cui Yuan simply couldn't imagine how far the Qin Dynasty would be extended if rubber was planted and steam trains were built!

"Colonize the Maurya Empire, and then let them open the spice route, and all the people will grow spices to make money for us!"

"Oh my God! Nothing has ever been so wonderful!"

Cui Yuan was so excited that he even told the Maurya Dynasty that he would no longer hide it as a big country.

Anyway, the war conditions prepared by Great Qin are sufficient now, and there is no need to hide it from His Majesty.

And Cui Yuan had a hunch that His Majesty had actually known who was behind the scenes for a long time, but he had just kept it secret.

"Not bad! It's indeed wonderful!" Ying Zheng looked at him with a smile, and he was also excited about the wonderful idea he had come up with.

As long as it succeeds, Da Qin's treasury may need to be expanded to accommodate so much wealth.

Just when the monarch and his ministers were having beautiful thoughts, on the other side, Zhou Fa's torture also came to fruition.

The people of the Wen family didn't have any strong bones, and Zhou Fa didn't even use torture very much, so they explained all the ins and outs.

Although he was disappointed that he could not take revenge, Zhou Fa rushed back to Liulicongfang as soon as possible, wanting to personally report the news to His Majesty and King Qin.

When Zhou Fa first came back, it was already night, and Ying Zheng and Cui Yuan were having dinner.

When Zhou Fa arrived, both of them were shocked.

"Will there be results so soon?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zhou Fa nodded, and then slowly told the results of his torture.

Ying Zheng and Cui Yuan listened, and Murphy and Mo Xue were also standing by. Everyone's faces gradually changed from curiosity to confusion.

There is no other reason than that the story of Wen and the Mauryan envoy is too abstract.

It turned out that in addition to bribing Zhao Tuo and Ren Xiao, the envoys of the Maurya Dynasty also came to the Wen family, hoping to use the Wen family's power to disrupt the situation in Lingnan and shake the rule of the Southern Expedition Army.

This plan may seem contradictory, but if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that it is completely consistent with the invasion intention of the Maurya Dynasty.

The purpose of launching the locust disaster in Handan was to divert the attention of the Qin court and artificially create a large number of refugees.

In the same way, disrupting the situation in Lingnan is also to pave the way for the invasion of the Mauryan Dynasty's army in the future. After all, the 300,000-strong southern army is really an exaggerated force.

The Maurya Dynasty's army came from afar. If they wanted to defeat the Southern Conquest Army, they could only let it fall into civil strife first.

The plan was perfect, but a minor accident occurred.

That was Wen's attitude, which was too arrogant.

Even after accepting the gift, he completely ignored the Peacock Messenger and the remnants of the Six Nations, treating their words as deaf ears.

Typical of taking benefits and doing nothing!

This almost made the remnants of the Six Kingdoms and the envoys of the Maurya Dynasty so angry that they had cerebral hemorrhage!

Even Zhao Tuo and Ren Xiao did things after taking advantage.

How dare you, an aristocratic family, do such an unethical thing? Although it is indeed very influential in Lingnan, it is too much!

The Wen family, who was used to being arrogant, had a very simple way of handling this matter, that is, they immediately dispatched their servants to arrest the envoys of the Maurya Dynasty and the remnants of the Six Nations who reacted the most violently, and imprisoned them all in Wen's private prison.

Then let the remaining people go back to the Mauryan Dynasty and bring more wealth to redeem people!

If they cannot come back within a year, or cannot produce enough wealth to satisfy the Wen family, then all these people will be executed.

After listening, everyone present was stunned.

This Wen family...

It's too fierce! (End of chapter)