Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

Standing beside Li Mu is a smiling middle-aged man. Like most business representatives, this middle-aged man has a fat face and small eyes. Smack smile.

At this moment, the middle-aged man was shouting loudly: "The Lu Chamber of Commerce offered [-] yuan! Is there any further price increase?"

The merchants seemed to be hesitant, and some people whispered: "[-] yuan is just a small amount of money, but if it's just such a small oasis, it doesn't seem to be worth it."

The middle-aged man turned his gaze, and suddenly raised his voice: "Everyone, please think about it, this is the first supply point to enter the desert from Qilian Mountain, and it is also the last supply point to leave the desert from the Western Regions. Do I need to say more about the importance? Besides, everyone, please look at the water and trees here. As the saying goes, although the sparrow is small and complete, isn’t it an excellent place? If you win this jackpot, it will be a great place for The future reputation of your chamber of commerce must be greatly beneficial."

"Okay, let's continue the auction now. Lu's Chamber of Commerce is [-] yuan, is there anyone who will continue to increase the price? If there is none, then the eligibility will be determined after the last three calls! Lu's Chamber of Commerce is the first time, Lu's Chamber of Commerce"

Before the words finished, someone suddenly said, "Thirty-five thousand dollars!"

The middle-aged man cheered up, and immediately raised his voice to a higher level: "Very well, the steward of the Chen Chamber of Commerce raised the price to [-] yuan! [-] yuan, is there any steward who wants to continue to increase the price? "

"Thirty-eight thousand dollars!"

Yi Qusheng was standing beside Li Mu, looking at everything in front of him with some doubts.

Yi Qusheng thought that he knew Li Mu quite well. Except for fighting, this great general generally didn't like to get involved in other things, especially this kind of business.

You must know that although everyone in the current Zhao State society is after profit, the overall class of society does not welcome merchants.There are often people in this industry who only know how to hoard and compete with the people for profit.There are also many people who criticized that due to the opening of various textile factories and iron factories, many farmers in Zhao State began to enter the factories, and the number of people working in the fields began to decrease, and so on.

All in all, with Li Mu's status as a monarch, there is no need for him to do so.

"The third time for [-] yuan! Deal!" The middle-aged man announced the news beamingly, and then handed a piece of paper to one of the managers of the chamber of commerce: "Manager Zhao, please sign here with your seal. Lord Wuxiang will also use his seal on it in the future, you only need to go to the Ministry of Commerce to stamp the seal once after you return to Handan, and from then on this oasis will belong to your Gucheng Chamber of Commerce!"

Yi Qusheng watched Li Mu stamping on the piece of paper with a smile, then reached out and patted the shoulder of this manager Zhao, then chatted with this flattered manager Zhao and encouraged him, the sense of disobedience in his heart became more serious up.

After all the merchants resigned and left, Yi Qusheng couldn't help but said: "Governor, why are you so polite to these guys?"

Although it is said that Li Mu should be called the general or Wu Xiangjun now, Yi Qusheng is still more accustomed to calling him the governor.

Li Mu smiled, and said, "You may not know that [-]% of the [-] yuan sold belonged to our Protectorate of the Western Regions."

"The Protectorate of the Western Regions?" This new term obviously made Yiqu Sheng a little confused, but he was immediately attracted by other meanings in this sentence: "Wait, [-]%?"

"Yes." Li Mu nodded with a smile, and said, "Not only that, from now on, all commercial taxes, land taxes, oral taxes, etc. in the entire Western Regions should be sent to Handan's income, and the Western Regions Governor's Office will You can keep [-]%.”

Yi Qusheng opened his mouth wide, and suddenly remembered something: "Wait a minute, Commander, I heard that there are hundreds of oases, large and small, in the Western Regions. Are you going to give them all?"

"That's right." The smile on Li Mu's face became more intense: "But not all of them. Your Majesty asked to keep [-]% of the oasis this time, and sell the rest first if they can be sold."

Yi Qusheng couldn't help but start to calculate.

If there are 160 oases in the Western Regions, then sell 160 of them first. If calculated at [-] yuan, it will be [-] million Zhao coins. The third achievement of [-] million is

"48?" Yi Qusheng gasped.

You must know that this price is a small amount. After all, this oasis is so small, and other oases should be larger than this one, so the price that can be sold will be more.

In general, it should be very easy for the Protectorate of the Western Regions to pocket 70 to [-] yuan in the end.

That's not a small fortune.

Considering that this is only half of the oases, if all the oases are sold, it will be doubled, and there will be 130 or 140 million.

And this is only the five-year use right of these oases!

Yiqu was counting the odds, and suddenly felt a little dizzy.

What is the concept of these money?

For example, Yi Qusheng now has a total of 30 standing troops under his command. This [-] standing troops cost about [-] yuan a year, including military pay, maintenance, feed and equipment.

In other words, just relying on this account, Zhao Guo can easily support a cavalry force of [-] people in the Western Regions for a long time!

If you add other income from business taxes and so on, then [-] or even [-] cavalry stationed in the Western Regions for a long time is not a dream.

Think about it, if [-] cavalry were stationed here, who else in this world would have the idea of ​​attacking the Western Regions of Zhao State?

"Wait, Chief Governor. How can these guys be so sure that there must be business in this place?" Yi Qusheng couldn't help raising doubts in his heart.

Li Mu laughed, and said in a low voice: "If there is any business to do, of course you have to ask the soldiers of our side cavalry regiment. Otherwise, why do you think the governor brought these soldiers all the way here? of?"

Yi Qusheng thought for a while, and suddenly understood completely.

That's right, as long as the city is breached, there will always be slaves, right?There's always loot, right?There will always be all kinds of things that are not convenient to carry but are very valuable, right?

By that time, wouldn't these merchants come in handy?

Among other things, just the fact that there is a shortage of labor in Zhao Guozhong, and just arresting tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of barbarians from the Western Regions, I am afraid that they can make a fortune, right?

As long as Zhao Jun keeps heading west, even if they are just doing slave business, I am afraid that these merchants will be able to make a lot of money!

And these merchants always have to pay taxes when they make money?By that time, wouldn't the tax paid be able to feed back to this so-called Protectorate of the Western Regions?

At this moment, Yi Qusheng suddenly admired the King Zhao who was far away in Handan.

Li Mu glanced at Yi Qusheng, and smiled meaningfully: "After the Huns are completely expelled, the Western Regions Protectorate will be established, and this governor will become the new governor of the Western Regions Protectorate. If you also If you want to get a good position in the Protectorate of the Western Regions, then you must start working hard now!"

The first thousand and twenty-seventh chapters are scattered, the team is not easy to lead (first update)

Chu State, Yingdu.

"The Zhao people's army has arrived in Dengcheng?" Hearing the news, Chu State Commander Yin Liyuan's face was very ugly.

To be honest, it was not the first day that Li Yuan knew that Zhao State was going to attack Chu State, but when Zhao Jun had really arrived at the north bank of the Han River and would enter the border of Chu State in a few days, Li Yuan There were still bursts of panic and fear in my heart.

That was an invincible army that swept across the entire Central Plains and swallowed up the other five countries. The great reputation of this army was not blown out, but fought out with the corpses of countless enemies.

Now, this army is staring at Li Yuan's door, and may rush in at any time and swallow Li Yuan's skin and bones. How can Li Yuan not panic?

"15 Zhao Jun, there are so many 15 Zhao Jun!" Li Yuan gritted his teeth and slapped the table hard, venting the anger in his heart, and the few traces of fear contained in the anger.

In fact, Li Yuan is also very clear that the number of 15 is really not much.

If the king of Zhao State in Handan is willing, an army of 50 can appear on the border of Chu State at any time.

But the problem is, even with this "mere" 15 people, the current Li Yuan can't resist it.

Li Yuan took a deep breath and asked the cronies in front of him, "How many soldiers and horses are there in Yingdu now?"

Several cronies looked at each other in blank dismay, and it seemed that they didn't dare to speak.

Seeing this, Li Yuan felt even more irritable, and once again slapped the table in front of him fiercely: "Say!"

Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, the confidants could only reply: "Go back to your lord, there are about [-] soldiers and horses in Yingdu."

"Thirty thousand?" Li Yuan's eyes widened all of a sudden, "Only thirty thousand? How could it be only thirty thousand?"