Molested Zulong at the beginning

As for the countries in the Western Regions, some use gold coins and some use silver coins, which are different.

In the grasslands, the Hu people in the Liaodong area had no currency at all, and they used cattle, sheep and horses as goods, mainly bartering.

As for their resting country, silver coins are made by rolling method, with animal patterns carved on them.

The currencies, weights, sizes, and materials used in these countries are different, and various problems are prone to occur in trade. If it is purely bartering, the efficiency is too low.

If you want to have a long-term trade relationship, you must consider this issue.

After Ye Na pondered for a long time, she looked at Bai Su with a pair of blue eyes: "Then I wonder if my lord has a countermeasure?"

"Have."

Bai Su raised a finger with a smile on his face, and said, "I, Daxia, have already invented the method of money houses. Wherever the banner of the black bird flutters on the top of the city, there will be Daxia's money houses."

"I am going to sign a free trade treaty with you and establish a trade alliance. I will open a bank in your country in Daxia, and often do trade caravans. You can deposit copper coins, gold and silver in the bank in exchange for a A lightweight Da Xia Bao note, easy to carry."

"At that time, no matter whether you are in the Western Regions, the grasslands, Liaodong, or the Central Plains, as long as there is a Daxia bank, you can withdraw it at any time. I, Daxia, will guarantee the safety of your money."

"When you need to trade in the future, you can use copper coins, gold and silver, and go to the bank to exchange them for the unified Daxia treasure banknotes, and use the treasure banknotes to buy and sell things with each other."

"With a unified measurement standard, this trade will naturally be much more convenient."

"Also, anyone who saves money in my Daxia Bank will receive [-]% interest every year. That is to say, if you deposit money in our bank, not only will there be no charge, but the money will grow more and more."

"Even, people with good reputation can apply for a loan from the bank to help you with disaster relief and purchase goods when you encounter an emergency shortage of money."

After finishing speaking, he put a 50-coin denomination, Da Xia Bao, on the table.

Everyone looked at the fluffy white paper, and their brows could not help but frown.

One of them couldn't help asking: "Master, this small piece of paper, what should I do if someone forges it?"

The rest also nodded.

After all, the exchange of a wagon-load of copper coins for a flimsy piece of paper made one somewhat uneasy.

Bai Su smiled and said: "Don't worry, everyone, no matter the paper used, or the patterns, codes, and printing techniques are all unique to Daxia, other people have no ability to forge them, and after a series of procedures and verifications, it is not true. Fraudulent claims may occur."

"Take a step back, even if there is an impostor, I, Daxia, will bear all the costs and return the money you deposited to you without any change."

Hearing what Bai Su said, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

If this is the case, then Daxia's treasure notes are indeed very convenient.

After all, at least seven or eight horse-drawn carts are required to pull these hundreds of thousands of money, and it is too troublesome to trade back and forth. After you have this big summer treasure, you only need to carry it with you when you come to the Central Plains.

It can be exchanged for countless porcelain, tea, and silk.

If you don't want to buy it, you can also exchange it for copper coins, and it's really convenient to pull back gold coins.

As the princess of the Yuezhi Kingdom, Xiao Li had already worn a pair of trousers with the Central Plains. She immediately stood up and said, "That's exactly what your lord said. My Yuezhi Kingdom has already thought so, and now your lord has made a decision. I, Yuezhi, will naturally be the first to respond."

Mao Dun's green eyes glanced at Bai Su with great interest, and his red lips parted slightly: "I, the Hun, would also like to follow closely behind."

Now that there were two leaders, some people who wanted to tighten the relationship with Daxia naturally responded one after another.

However, there are also some smart people who are keenly aware of something wrong.

Ye Na looked at the thin banknote, and her slender eyebrows couldn't help but raised. This thing is convenient, but it's also dangerous.

After all, a lot of gold and silver have been replaced by pieces of paper. If you can do trade with Daxia, you can buy goods.

If Xianyang ordered to discard this batch of treasure banknotes, wouldn't the things they exchanged for countless gold and silver become worthless waste paper in an instant?

After pondering for a long time, Ye Na tentatively asked: "If I don't want to exchange this Daxia's treasure, what should I do?"

Bai Su narrowed his eyes slightly, and then smiled and said, "I have signed trade treaties with all the states to establish a free trade zone. If you don't want to exchange Da Xia's banknotes and join in, the transaction is too cumbersome, and Da Xia needs to collect extra money." part of the tariff."

"For example, the normal price of porcelain is [-] cash. If you haven't signed a treaty, you need to buy it for [-] cash. Compared with other countries in the alliance, it is more expensive."

As his voice fell, the entire hall fell silent.

In particular, Ye Na, who was the rest envoy, frowned and her face turned ugly.

Bai Su's meaning is very simple, since you want my goods from the Central Plains, there are only two ways for you.

Otherwise, you have to take out some copper coins, gold and silver, and exchange them for treasure notes issued by Daxia Bank, and use these treasure notes to buy goods in the Central Plains and trade with each other.

Or you smash your teeth, swallow it in your stomach, be levied extra tariffs, and buy it at the price of other countries.

Unless you turn around and leave, completely give up the plan to trade, and don't want the sugar, porcelain, and tea from the Central Plains.

Otherwise, there would be no third way for her to choose.

Ye Na wanted to turn around and leave, but this idea only appeared in her mind for a moment, and then she suppressed it.

After all, she has already seen from her eyes that porcelain, tea, and silk are all hard currencies, and it is impossible to completely eliminate them.

Even if she gritted her teeth and gave up the trade with the Central Plains for the sake of her backbone, there will still be merchants from the Western Regions who will travel thousands of miles to the Parthian Kingdom and continue to sell them to the nobles and royal families in their country at tens or hundreds of times the high price.

Now she has no choice but to choose to buy.

At most, keep some vigilance, and don't exchange a large amount of gold and silver in the country for Daxia's precious banknotes.

It is troublesome to exchange a small amount each time, but at least it is safer.

Other than that, she had absolutely nothing else to do.

Who let these things be completely monopolized by the Central Plains, and they can't be bought anywhere else except here.

Chapter 390 You Central Plains People Can Play

After a while of talks, Bai Su signed trade treaties with the envoys of various countries. After that, the trade with the Central Plains, or the trade between the countries in the Western Regions and the grassland tribes.

All use the precious banknotes issued by Daxia Bank as the trade standard.

After everything came to an end, these envoys also resigned one after another.

Although most of the envoys expressed their willingness to abide by the trade alliance led by Daxia, but such a major event still needs to go back and report to the king.

All of a sudden, everyone left one after another, and the noisy city of Xianyang seemed to have become much quieter.

The gate of the station.

Bai Su came to the front slowly, looked at the carriage parked at the door, and couldn't help asking: "Your Highness, are you planning to leave?"

I saw the girl who thought she had a delicate face, wearing a gorgeous long dress with the Yuezhi Guoteng pattern, with exquisite gold ornaments on her forehead, which further accentuated her fair skin.

She has long eyelashes, curved eyebrows, a delicate nose, thin red lips exuding a seductive luster, and a beautiful face with a pure smile.

It is the princess of the Yuezhi Kingdom, Xiao Li.

She looked at the young man she had been looking forward to, and now she came to see herself off in person. There was a blush on her fair face, and she said in a low voice: "Now the tribute is over, and the visiting envoys have left in a hurry. ... It's time for me to return to Yueshi as well."

Bai Su couldn't help feeling a little regretful and said: "His Royal Highness is leaving so early, I thought I would stay in Xianyang for a few more days."

Xiao Lihao bit her red lips lightly, her beautiful eyes looked straight at Bai Su, and asked, "Your Excellency, do you want me to stay in Xianyang for a longer period of time?"

Bai Su couldn't help being stunned, he just politely asked him to stay, but he didn't expect Xiao Li to answer like that.

He looked at the girl's eyes as clear as sapphires, scratched his cheeks, and after pondering for a moment, he said: "Of course, if Her Royal Highness is such a beautiful woman, if she stays in Xianyang, the whole city of Xianyang will be full of brilliance." .”

Xiao Li couldn't help but smiled: "Of course I want to stay in Xianyang, make tea and watch flowers with the adults, and see all the prosperity of Xianyang, but unfortunately, I still have something to do and I need to rush back to Yuezhi's country as soon as possible. "

Bai Su frowned slightly, and couldn't help asking: "Could it be that something happened to the Yuezhi Kingdom?"

Logically speaking, the Western Regions has Meng Yi as the Protector General, leading an army of [-] troops to garrison the Western Regions. Although there are not many soldiers and horses, it should be more than enough to stabilize the situation in the Western Regions by relying on sophisticated weapons and brave strength.

Could it be that there is a problem in trade?

Xiao Li looked at the puzzled Bai Su, and couldn't help shaking his head slightly.

She raised the blue hair between her eyebrows with her white hands, and after pondering for a moment, she said: "My lord, you are too worried. There is no trouble in the Yue family, and it is mainly because of my lord mother."

Bai Su was stunned: "Queen Yuezhi?"

Xiao Li nodded and said lightly: "Well, I don't know what's going on recently. My mother always feels unwell. I'm a little worried, so I want to go back to China as soon as possible."

Bai Su couldn't help being stunned, he didn't feel well, could it be that he caught a cold?

After pondering for a while, he said: "Well, I will ask the caravan to send some medicinal materials there in a while, and I will greet Her Royal Highness."

There was a blush on Xiao Li's cheeks, and he said in a low voice: "Thank you sir, after I take care of your mother, I will come to Xianyang to visit you, and I hope you will wait for me..."

After finishing speaking, she stood on tiptoe, and lightly touched Bai Su's cheek with her red lips.

Immediately without giving Bai Su a chance to react, the whole person got into the carriage quickly.

Bai Su came back to his senses, looked at the receding carriage, touched the softness left on his cheek, and couldn't help smiling.

White House.

When he opened the door and walked into the wing room, a woman's voice with all kinds of charm suddenly came.

"You're back……"

"Modun, you...why are you here?"

Bai Su was stunned for a moment, then looked up in surprise.

I saw Mao Dun wearing a Hu skirt, sitting in front of the table, lazily resting his chin with one hand, looking at him with interest in a pair of green eyes, holding a wine cup in the other hand, It seems to have been waiting for him for a long time.

She looked at Bai Su with a surprised face, and couldn't help but smile: "We have already concluded a marriage contract, why not I sit in my man's room?"

Looking at the aggressive Prairie Wolf King in front of him, Bai Su couldn't help shaking his head helplessly.

He walked over and sat shoulder-to-shoulder with Mao Dun, and while pouring wine for himself, he said: "You came just in time, I have something to discuss with you."

Mao Dun was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking: "What's the matter?"

Bai Su took a sip of his drink, and immediately said, "Do you still remember when I interrupted the Western Expedition?"

Mao Dun put down the wine cup in his hand, thoughtfully said: "You are talking about crusade against the Maurya Dynasty, are you ready to do it?"

After pondering for a while, Bai Su said: "Now all the nations have formed a stable alliance with Daxia with me. The time is ripe, but there is no suitable reason."

"reason?"

Mao Dun was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Bai Su with some doubts.

Bai Su explained: "The Central Plains is famous for its military use, and only a suitable reason can convince the world, so that the common people have no objection, so it is good to declare war."

Mao Dun is also a smart person, and he grasped the key point of Bai Su's words in an instant.

She hesitated and asked: "You mean to create an excuse for war, but the Maurya Dynasty is not a fool, how could it offend Da Xia for no reason?"

After all, since the opening of trade in the Central Plains, the caravans of the Western Regions have also come into contact with the Maurya Dynasty, and the mutual trade has been going on for almost a year and a half.

Although the Peacock Dynasty is not very clear about the national strength of Daxia and its specific strength.

However, it is still clear that Great Xia is a powerful country.

Since the Maurya Dynasty, since King Ashoka, its national power has been declining day by day. There are many large and small city-states in the country, and it can be said that there are great kings everywhere, short-lived and brilliant.

The monarch's control ability can only be limited to the capital area, and his status is comparable to that of Zhou Tianzi. He can only reconcile the contradictions between the various city-states, and he has no actual control ability at all.

Under such circumstances, how could the monarch of the Peacock Dynasty easily provoke Daxia, a big country in the east, and cause trouble?

The corner of Bai Su's mouth curled up slightly, and he said with a half-smile: "Whether or not their sovereign wants to be an enemy of Daxia, it doesn't matter, what matters is that we want a suitable pretext for declaring war."

"For example... a caravan with a lot of property went to Fahrenheit City, the capital of the Maurya Dynasty, to trade with them, but on the way, a large amount of silver and gold in the carriage accidentally spilled all over the place."

"It was noticed by the local city-states, which aroused their greed, which led to the killing of the envoys sent by my Great Xia, the robbery of the caravan, and the humiliation of the envoys."

"In this way, my Great Xia is originally a state of the state, and I always pay attention to dressing people well, and it is always difficult to go to war easily, but this Peacock Dynasty insults my Great Xia too much, which is tolerable or unbearable."

"Thus, even though my Great Xia loves peace and dislikes wars, in the face of such humiliation, I can only be forced to decide to fight back and dispatch troops to conquer the Maurya Dynasty."

"The arable land is three times that of my Central Plains, the grain is cropped three times a year, the local area is rich in cotton, and there are countless spices. We don't care at all. What we want is to get back the humiliated face of my Great Xia envoy."

"As for why they went straight to the capital while fighting back, there is no way around it. The army is outside, and they may not be familiar with the terrain. If they are not careful, they may go too deep. When they come back to their senses, they find that the army has already arrived. At the gate of the capital."

After Bai Su finished speaking, he clapped his hands for a while, and at the same time couldn't help but look at Bai Su in amazement.

"Either way, you people from the Central Plains are smart enough to focus on other people's arable land, cotton, and grain shamelessly, but you still say such righteous words."

"If I hadn't heard you tell me the complete plan just now, just looking at your expression filled with righteous indignation, I might really think that you, Daxia, have been wronged so much."

Bai Su couldn't help rubbing his nose, looked at the sunset in the distance, and sighed softly: "How strong a country is will determine its diplomacy, how many fair conditions it can win, weak countries... have no diplomacy."

Chapter 390 Now that you're here, don't leave

Mao Dun took a sip of his drink, lifted the black hair between his brows with his slender jade hands, and glanced at Bai Su with his green eyes: "Then you have made up your mind, who will you send as an envoy to the Maurya Dynasty?"