However, did the three tribes of the steppe really take advantage? It seems that on the surface, it is really as Wang Li said, the three tribes of the grassland have taken a big advantage.

Wang Li really couldn't understand Li Chen's operation, or most of the Qin people couldn't understand it, but even though they didn't understand, even if they didn't understand Li Chen's decision, they still chose to obey.

"Wang Li, think about it, now Donghu and Dayue have to pay us back a sum of money every year. But they had no money, so they let them use horses. If we let them arrive at one time, then we can't pick out how many good horses we can't pick if they are squeezed and scrapped? But now it's different, every year, for ten consecutive years, we can go to their horse farm to vault. Li Chen looked at Wang Li and said in a deep voice.

"And if you think about it, if there is a first time for this kind of thing, then there will be a second and a third time, since the Dayue people and the Donghu people have opened this hole, then the account they owe to our Daqin will never be replaced." Li Chen said with a smile.

"I see, I see, is it the same when the city is built?" Wang Li asked.

"The city was built to facilitate Daqin to better control them, saying that it was for them to build a city, but the soldiers in the city were all ours. And one more point, we are not so much building a city as providing a standard. Li Chen said.

"What do you mean?" Wang Li felt that he was being more and more vague by what Li Chen said, just like the monk of Zhang's second brother couldn't figure it out.

"We're not building a city for the Huns, we're not building a city for the Huns, we're giving them a standard of living. For thousands of years, they have lived in tents. The standard of living of this nomadic life was set by their ancestors, and they could achieve self-sufficiency without relying on the Great Qin. ”

"But once they live in the city, then they enter the standard of living that Great Qin has set for them. Food, clothing, housing and transportation will completely enter the same era as the standards of Daqin. From the carriage at home, to a bowl and a scoop, all of these things have to be purchased from the hands of the Qin people. Li Chen said with a smile.

As soon as Li Chen said this, Wang Li also reacted completely. For example, when they were nomadic, the steppe people could burn cow dung to keep warm. But now that I live in the city, I can't do it, and the smell of cow dung is burning in the city, so it's not a mess. Since cow dung cannot be burned, then charcoal can only be burned. Where did this charcoal come from, wouldn't it be bought from the Qin people?

In the past, most of the steppe peoples rode horses, and even if there were carriages, the distance between the axles varied. Anyway, there are roads everywhere on the grassland, and the axles are completely arbitrary, but it is not possible to live in the city. How wide the road in the city is and what kind of carriage to take, this is the standard of the Qin army. Your chariot is too big to enter the city. This carriage is going to be bought like the Qin people again, and such things are still heavy in life.

"Awesome, awesome, brother, you're so powerful." Wang Li stretched out his thumb to Li Chen.

Seeing Wang Li's unseen appearance, Li Chen said in his heart: "This is amazing, you haven't seen the so-called aid project in your previous life." The standard is outrageous, although it is nominally to help friends build infrastructure, but after this infrastructure is completed, they have to buy even a screw from us. This kind of ability to make rules on a screw is really powerful. ”

Li Chen has always been a doer of Daqin, and he is not only a doer, once the businessmen of Daqin see the benefits, they are also doers one by one.

Nowadays in the business world of Daqin, there is such a sentence, there is Rong Lu Hou not Rong Lu Hou, it is the God of Wealth. In short, whoever can rely on it will definitely get rich. It is said that if you are lucky enough to take a look at Rong Luhou, then you can pick up a few taels of silver when you go out today.

No, Li Chen's side had just occupied the Hetao region, and all the merchants of the entire Great Qin were rushing over. The business of these three Hans has taken advantage of the merchants of Xianyang, and this Hetao can no longer let them take advantage.

Especially when I heard that Li Chen was going to build a city on the grassland, the original grassland lacked all kinds of materials for building a city. It can be said that there is a shortage of everything, and there is nothing to spare, but since these merchants came, these materials were transported to Yuecheng one after another, and then they were transferred to the construction sites of Donghu, Dayue, and Xiongnu.

Winter on the grassland will come much earlier than in the interior, and in winter, not to mention the snow, the wind is also scary. Thinking of this, Li Chen knew that there was not much time left for them to build a city. In any case, it is necessary to race against time to show the speed of Daqin, and strive to build the outer city and residential houses before winter comes. As for places like commercial districts, they can be built slowly at a later stage.

There are merchants of Daqin who transport all kinds of building materials to the grassland, and the Ministry of Industry of Daqin and Li Chen have provided enough skilled craftsmen, and there is really no shortage of coolies on the grassland now. At this time in the past, the Dayue people and the Donghu people were herding sheep and horses. But now most of their sheep and horses have been robbed by Li Chen, and now they have more people and fewer sheep, since the sheep can't be put away for the time being, then naturally they can only do coolies to build a city.

"Master, these are bricks."

"Is this really made of clay?"

"The soil is so soft, how can it burn such a hard thing."

"Master, I don't read much, don't lie to me."

On the construction site, a half-grown Hun boy was helping the craftsman master to start, while working, but his mouth kept asking.

The mason said, "You doll, you are not very old, why do you talk so much?" This brick is burned by the method of Hou Ye, which is cheap and easy to use. ”

"Boy, remember, as long as it is invented by Master Hou, it is definitely a good thing."

"Master, is this called cement?"

"So is this water or mud?"

"This thing can really be harder than stone when you add water."

"I don't believe it, Master, you must think that I don't read much and want to bluff me."

When the cement was used, the little doll began to ask one after another. The mason felt that he was going crazy, how could he give himself an apprentice who broke the casserole like this and asked to the end.

"This cement was also invented by Hou Ye."

"I don't know why it's harder than stone when water is added."

"In short, you just need to know that Hou Ye is very powerful." The mason said angrily.

"Master, why is Master Hou so powerful?" The Hun boy continued to ask.

"Can Master Hou be mortal? Master Hou, that's the reincarnation of the gods in the sky? The mason replied.

"Master, then you say that Hou Ye is the reincarnation of that immortal in the sky?" The Hun kid continued to ask.

Mason: "? ”

"If you are talking, I will use a brick knife and cement to smear your mouth."