Country and Beauty

Ma Kusi's face was covered with the signature aristocratic smile, as if the whole world was under my control. He said indifferently, "The Chinese have opened up the Silk Road, earning a large amount of gold and silver through the Silk Road. Although they have made a lot of money from the Silk Road, it is because the Land Road is too far away and its power is limited, it has a limited impact on our Roman Empire. "But now, they have put the Silk Road at sea, and used a great shipping capacity. If this goes on, the interests of the Roman Empire will be seriously damaged!"

Ni Ka asked in confusion: "Now that the Qin State have controlled the Malacca Strait, it is impossible for us Romans to enter the fertile lands of the Qin State, and now that they have placed obstacles in the way, preventing our goods from entering India and the Gupta Empire, this place is very prosperous, in a bustling area with wealth everywhere, the Qin State have refused us entry into this place, what should we do?"

"What should we do?"

Ma Kusi laughed indifferently: "There are too many people here, in order to effectively control the life veins of this place, the Qin State deliberately destroyed the local industries here. Right now, with a population of twenty to thirty million, we need to buy the goods from the Qin State to live, but the Qin State is putting most of our energy into building their country, we simply do not have the ability to satisfy the huge market, so this is our chance! How much tax does Qin State want to collect, we give? "

"Here!" Ni Ka said uncertainly: "If we give them fifty percent of the additional tax on goods, we will be losing! If we raise the price, and we do not have the quality advantage of the products from the Qin State, is that enough to make us lose out to the people from the Qin State? "

"Stupid!" Ma Kusi was not angered by the situation and laughed: "We will be tricked by the people of Qin State if we increase the price. We will not have the advantage in terms of technical quality, if we continue to raise the price, the people of Qin State will completely occupy this continent's market!"

"But if we don't raise the price, we will lose a lot!" Ni Ka said anxiously.

Ma Kusi pointed to the direction of the port and said: "This is a wonderful place. There are many hardworking people here, and people who are almost as strong as the Qin State. This is the biggest trading area in the Qin State, and also the source of Qin State's overseas income. Do you know how many troops the Qin State has used to protect this piece of fat meat of theirs? "

Ni Ka was Ma Kusi, of course he knew that although on the surface, Ma Kusi was here to trade on behalf of the Roman Empire, he was actually just a sharp person who explored the world at Rome. The main thing was to investigate the intelligence of the main opponent, the Qin State. Ni Ka said: The Qin State has arranged more than 100,000 elite troops on this continent. The Qin State's army is different from our Roman army, although they are only a single legion, they have 15 Roman army soldiers, and their cavalry is more numerous than our Roman legion. The Qin State's cavalry is equivalent to the cavalry of our 100 Roman legions!

Ma Kusi shook his head and said: "What you said is not entirely true. In the Indian Ocean region, the Qin State still has two large fleets, each with hundreds of large warships, more than sixty thousand navy, and their ability to move the Qin State's maritime force is extremely strong, they can transport the Qin State's army on the Kala Peninsula and the acanthopanax's army here within a month, and within three months, they can send reports from the South Central Region as well as troops from the South Region to here. It can be said that if Rome is at war with the Qin State, we have to send out seventy odd Roman legions!"

"Oh!" "God!" Ni Ka said with his mouth agape: "Oh my god, this is simply a nightmare!"

"That's right, a war with the Great Qin is our nightmare!" Ma Kusi said indifferently: "The Chinese have a saying, 'One mountain cannot two tigers'. Since Rome has entered a bottleneck, in order to be strong, there is only one way: Expansion. If Rome wants to be strong, the Qin State wants to be strong.

"Is it because the Great Qin infringed upon our interests in Rome?" Ni Ka asked quietly.

"It's not for benefits!" Ma Kusi said: "It's because of God!"

"As long as the sun shines on a place, it must be bathed in the light of God. There can only be one Emperor, the Emperor of Rome, and only one God, God!"

Ni Ka asked in puzzlement: "Are we related to the competition for the Qin State's trade then?"

"Why doesn't it matter! Starting from tomorrow! As long as the Buddhists convert to Christianity, and as long as they become loyal believers of God, we will give them food and clothing on behalf of God for them to live on! " Ma Kusi said: "Sometimes, the goods in our hands are actually more powerful than the swords in the hands of Knights. We can use our cheap goods to make the pagans have a good impression of us, and when the seeds of this good impression take root in their hearts and grow into towering trees, they will become the vanguards of the Roman Empire!"

"Your Grace, do you know how much we'll lose in a month like this?"

"How much is it?"

"It'll cost at least six hundred thousand gold coins per month." Ni Ka said emotionally, "It's six hundred thousand gold coins, not sixty thousand gold coins, nor is it six gold coins! Six hundred thousand gold coins a month, going this far in the past, it's simply not worth it! "

Ma Kusi sighed, the plan in his mind had just been formed and it had not even been implemented yet. He organized his thoughts and asked patiently: "Do you know? The Indians are very xenophobic. Although the Qin State is strong, they did not directly conquer this place, and using their agent like King Jia Lituo, who is a puppet in the hands of the people of India, to pacify their xenophobic nature, if two to three thousand of them were to resist, even if the Qin State has seventy legions, they would still be unable to pacify the rebellion here. The Qin State is naturally afraid that this place will become a mud pit in the Qin State, so they have adopted a gentle policy.

"If we want to conquer a place, just relying on force is far from enough. We need to make our Roman civilization enter, make the Buddhists habitually believe in God, get used to the way we live in Rome, and make sure that all the Gupta people no longer reject us, so that we can use the smallest price to conquer this place at the right time!"

"Is it worth it? The price we have to pay is too big! "

"As a person, you have to keep a long-term perspective, don't fuss too much about it!"

The soldiers of the Qin Army and the Arabian weren't doing it smoothly. Due to Ma Kusi's ulterior motives, they were able to pay the tax. But the people of Arabian were different, at this time, the kingdom that was established in Arabian had not been formed yet. Be it An Xi or Gui Shuang Country, they were both pretty much similar to Arabian in terms of habits and habits, maybe from their roots, they might be close relatives, but at this time, the people of Arabian were still half nomadic, half farming and half farming.

The ruthless and brutal ancient Arabian people were not as easily bullied as they were now. In the past two hundred years, Rome had launched nine large scale crusades, but all of them ended in failure. The wisdom of the Arabian people, especially in the ancient times, was one of the most shrewd people in the world.

The people of Arabian were different from the Roman. They only sold things like furs, war horses, knives, tables and chairs to the Indian subcontinent. Although the cost was not high and the price was not high, the profit was relatively low. However, the Qin State had actually collected a lot of taxes from them, so they naturally would not agree to it. The people of Arabian were not as easy to talk to as the people of Roman, and there was also no inconvenience for them to travel so far. Furthermore, the people of Arabian at this time did not have the wisdom and foresight that they had afterwards.

A group of Qin State cavalry soldiers escorted a few mounted tax collectors from the Yan City's Chief Supervisor's residence as they roamed the land. Their goal was to find a caravan of Arabian people. Suddenly, a sharp-eyed cavalryman said: "Captain, look! There's a caravan up ahead!"

This was a typical Arabian caravan, the group wasn't too big, there were more than two to three hundred people in it, holding onto close to a thousand mature Arabian horses and a dozen cars. The leader of the caravan was a middle-aged man, wearing a white scarf on his head, lazily lying on the carriage, humming an unknown song!

The cavalryman said, "Tell them that the goods need to be taxed!"

"How much?"

"Not much, each of you will have to pay a head tax of ten Qin dollars, a total of 327 people, a total of 3270 Qin coins, and the horses will have to pay a total of 2385 Qin coins, at least the alcohol count will be lower, 6800 Qin coins, I will not have to pay any more, just 34,000 Qin coins will do!"

When the middle aged Arabian heard this, she wanted to cry, but no tears came out. In total, his goods could only earn a few thousand or eight hundred gold, and Qin currency was equal to the price of silver. The middle-aged Arabian Merchant cried: "Masters of the Qin State, we are only doing small business, we will pay the human head tax, and we will exempt the protection tax, we will protect ourselves!"

The middle-aged man had planned to pay more than 300 gold taels for the protection tax. Although his profit had been greatly reduced, he could still make a profit.

"What?" This is the new rule of Great Qin's Business Tax Law, you play around with it like it's a child, if you say it's less, it's less! "

"Give it up, we have to give it up. We can't even lose a single person!"

The middle-aged man said, "We rely on this for our livelihood. After paying taxes, there will be no way to survive! I hope that everyone can be forgiving! " As he said this, he quickly handed over a bag in his hand. Inside the bag were gold coins, and the gold coins he gave off were at least fifty kilograms in weight. Everyone, please have some wine! "

"No!" We have to pay taxes, it doesn't matter if we don't have money. Let's make up for it with these war horses.

These cavalry soldiers of the overseas army had quite the grandeur of the later generation of Town Security. As they spoke, they jumped off their war horses, led their horses, lifted wine and wine, and were extremely busy!

The middle-aged man saw that the Qin Army actually took half of his war horse and all the alcohol. This was all he had. Without these goods, his entire family would have no chance of survival! The middle-aged man pondered for a moment before his head turned hot.

"Since you won't let me live, I'll let you die first!" Saying that, he stabbed the scalpel into a Qin State tax official's chest. The blade did not reach the handle, but went straight to the heart, seeing as how much Qi he had, he could not live anymore!

"They actually dare to defy taxes and kill officials! Brothers, kill them all!" The captain of the Qin Army cavalry commanded.

As the Qin Army was not used to the fervor of India, these soldiers were not dressed in bright armor clothing, so their casualties were even greater than the battle itself. A small party of 50 to 60 cavalry soldiers had suffered half of the casualties in one go!

In the headquarters of the Qin State's army, Meng Tianhu was so angry that the teacup in his hands fell to the ground with a thud, "How dare you, turn the tables!"

Huan Wen said: "General, why are you so angry?"

Meng Tianhu said angrily: "Look, these Arabian people are really the reverse of the heavens. Within two days, they actually sent seventeen batches of merchants to kill tax resistance officers. Our overseas army has over five hundred casualties.

Huan Wen said: "There's nothing to say, let's do it! There were no rules, so if they wanted to force the Roman and the merchants to obey them, they had to have rules! His Majesty had ordered the General to guard the continent of India. If he couldn't subdue these merchants from the Arabian, how could he defend? "

Meng Tianhu was so angry that he started to calm down, and said slowly: "It's not enough to just use force to threaten them, everyone has their own thoughts, although we have taken their money, but they might not take the risk, there are no lack of fugitives in this world, what will happen to Qin State if everyone resists?"

Huan Wen squinted her eyes, and said: "Then the next step we should show our gratitude, if we want to control these merchants, we need to use methods that are together with kindness. After we establish our might, we need to show our gratitude, we can't push them all back, the Arabian does not want the Roman, they not only have many people, once they join hands to rebel against us, the lonely Gupta Empire might even cause a bit of a storm!"

Meng Tianhu thought for a while and said, "For now, this is the only way. We can intimidate them and show our gratitude later. First, we have to subdue our enemies, then we can establish rules and allow our Qin State to rule over all the countries. Only then can we have an effective method. To deal with Arabian people, we have to do the same thing as we do with Gupta people. We have to pull groups of people together, divide them, and isolate another group. Only then will we be able to have the best effect! "

"Right now, let's first suppress the problem of Arabian's tax resistance. As for what exactly to do, I think we should ask for Chang An's permission!"

After he had the electric suit, although the Qin State did not teleport directly from Chang An to India, he could teleport from the warship to the sea and on the land, he could teleport from station to station like a beacon. This way, although the later generations could not teleport quickly, but compared to the bumpy months on the sea, the speed would be much faster.

At the same time, the Qin State began her grand operation to build the road. A railway line along the Silk Road through Europe began to be constructed in sections. This railway line was practically the only difference from the future generations, it was simply a very luxurious parallel railway. Since there was no time to control the train using a computer, there might be an accident, so it was built into two tracks at once. What made Xie Fei even more surprised, was that the railway department had actually built a one-way four-lane road beside the railway line at the same time.

Not only did he build a highway, but after Xining, he also began to build a small city by setting up a railway station in a place with abundant aquatic plants! These small cities were not very big, they were specially prepared for the Qin State's construction regiment. Each small city district was four miles long and two miles wide, and within the city district, there could be thirty to fifty thousand people stationed.

Although there was a large number of Gao Juli s. Xin Luo, Baiji, Pirate State, Luzon and the other vassal states of the Central South Peninsula all sent out slave labourers, but they still did not have enough manpower. At this time, Xie Fei also ordered the second and third string armies of the Qin Army to participate in the railway construction as well.

Even if each slave worker only had one kilogram of food, which could barely ensure that they wouldn't starve to death, the citizens of the New Luo Kingdom, who were used to being under the cruel oppression of the Xianbei member for a long period of time, were all grateful. When they were in the Korean Peninsula, not only did they constantly guard against the worry of being eaten alive, they also had to work hard to get rid of ordinary bark and grass roots.

Now, although their physical strength and labor were strong, they finally had food to eat, so they wouldn't starve to death! Especially those who had become supervisors, their standards of quality were even more harsh than the Qin State craftsmen's. As long as there were any flaws, the big stick would beat them to death, and many people were beaten to death like this. Pirate State's supervisors used whips, they were similar to the Koreans, very enthusiastic!

Those supervisors, in order to gain the appreciation of their masters, had adopted a cold-blooded and ruthless method towards their fellow workers. Not only were the quality requirements strict, but the progress was also very fast.

With regards to the railway construction speed, Xie Fei was very happy! Although Xie Fei was relieved, there was one person who could not fall asleep!

"The Duke of Lu Kingdom, Xie Tian, was one of those who could not sleep at all!" The Persian Kingdom's Grand Marshal! What does Your Majesty mean by this? " Xie Tian muttered in his heart, could it be that Xie Fei found out that he secretly helped Xie Yong to ascend the throne? Was Xie Fei doing this on purpose? Xie Tian was confused!

As long as they asked for help from his strategist, Zhang Bin, he would have to work himself to death in history because of him. However, in this space and time, because he had removed the heavy burden very early on, he had no official nor light body, so Zhang Bin had lived for many years. At this time, the aged Zhang Bin stared at it for a while and revealed a wry smile: "This old one really cannot see through your majesty's intentions. If your majesty knew what you had done, he definitely would not have relaxed you! Of course, it is also possible that His Majesty wants to exile you! Because you have definitely been in control of the imperial guards for more than twenty years, and now that the situation in the imperial guards has become unclear due to your management, it is possible that His Majesty intends for you to leave the imperial guards! "

"However!"

"But what?"

Zhang Bin leisurely said: "Your majesty truly loves this place, so your majesty isn't queued up to take over Central Asia either!"