After sending away a group of Hu merchant envoys, Chen Xu thought about arranging for someone to find Xiyuehou.

The Marquis of Xiyue is the king of Zuoping of the Yue clan, and his status has enough appeal in the Western Regions, and he is also proficient in the Hu language, since he wants to completely incorporate the Western Regions into the territory of Daqin, he naturally cannot exclude the Hu people as officials, and the population of the Great Qin and Longxi regions is also mixed, and there are many Qiang Hu as bureaucrats in the local area.

In less than half a quarter, Xiyuehou came in a hurry, his forehead was covered with sweat, and he seemed to be very busy.

"Kang begs to see Zuo Xiang!" After Xiyue Hou followed the maid over, he respectfully saluted Chen Xu.

"Xiyuehou doesn't need to be polite, please sit down and serve tea!"

Chen Xu nodded pleasantly and beckoned Xiyue Hou to take a seat, and then let the maid serve tea.

"What do you have to call Xiao Hou urgently?" After Xiyuehou sat down, he asked with a little apprehension.

"Hehe, it looks like the recent market, Xiyuehou is very busy, he must have made a lot of money these days!" Chen Xu waved his hand and did not answer directly.

"This is thanks to the left minister, Xiaohou's leather sales have always been good, but after the beginning of the spring, sales have declined, the last few days are indeed very busy, many Hu merchants from the Western Regions have found Xiaohou, ask to sell their leather goods, and ...... And ......"

"Xiyuehou said that it doesn't matter, if there is any difficulty, Benhou can help?" Chen Xu smiled and picked up the teacup and motioned for Xiyuehou to taste the tea.

Xiyuehou hurriedly picked up the teacup and took a sip, his movements were as skillful as Daqin's tea guests, and after taking a sip of hot tea, he said with a wry smile: "Zuo Xiang doesn't know, because of Xiaohou's identity, recently, many Hu merchants in the Western Regions and even tribal leaders and monarchs have found Xiaohou, and asked Xiaohou to help with some silk, porcelain, glass and other goods from the Central Plains on credit, and even some people asked for loans, one or two are okay to say, Xiaohou has to agree because of the situation, but in recent days, there have been more and more, Xiaohou can't take care of it, Moreover, the situation in Xiaohou's Mansion should also be known to the Zuo Xiang, there is not much money to lend, and he is not familiar with many wealthy merchants in Daqin, so he is naturally powerless to buy goods on credit...... Alas~"

"In this way, it seems that Ben Hou did not find the wrong person this time, this task is none other than Xiyue Hou!" Chen Xu smiled and put down the teacup and spoke.

"What Zuo Xiang said is ......" Xiyuehou glanced at Chen Xu secretly, and his heart was even more worried.

"Haha, don't be suspicious, let alone don't worry, this is an opportunity for you to get promoted and make a fortune!"

"Get promoted and get rich?" Xiyuehou was confused, and was disturbed by Chen Xu's words without a head or end.

"Just a group of Hu merchants and envoys from the Western Regions found Benhou, and also hoped that Benhou could help buy some goods from the Central Plains on credit, Benhou thought that in the future, trade between the Western Regions and the Central Plains would become a norm, these Hu merchants came from thousands of miles away, and it was not easy to travel long distances and hardships, looking at the dazzling array of exquisite goods in the Central Plains could not get it back, this mood can also be understood, so Benhou wanted to find someone to deal with the requests of these Hu merchants, Xiyue Hou was originally from the Yue clan, proficient in Hu and Central Plains, and his status was enough, Ben Hou wants to leave this matter to you to deal with! ”

Chen Xu's words made Xiyuehou even more confused, and he didn't understand what Chen Xu meant at all, and after listening to it, he stammered: "Xiaohou is stupid, please tell Zuo Xiang in detail!" ”

"This matter is not complicated, in view of the abundant goods in the Central Plains and the needs of Hu merchants, Ben Hou Fang thought about it carefully, and decided to ask His Majesty to set up a commercial bureau under the household department, the main task of the commerce bureau is to manage the trade between the Great Qin and the subordinate regions and princes, these Hu merchants want to buy goods from the Central Plains on credit, in order to ensure the interests of both parties, so it is necessary for the imperial court to designate an agency to complete the signing of the credit purchase contract and follow-up matters, as well as such as inspecting the goods prohibited from trafficking, etc., the Marquis of Xiyue is highly respected in the Western RegionsIn the future, the Central Plains and the Western Regions will become closer and closer, so if Xiyue Hou is in charge of this Department of Commerce, he will definitely be handy! ”

"Really...... It's true...... I...... I ......"

Xiyuehou stood up after being stunned for a long time, his expression was so excited that he couldn't help himself, his whole body trembled uncontrollably, and his teeth lightly knocked on his teeth and he couldn't finish a sentence.

He is now an idle marquis of Daqin, dozens of domestic servants in the family, just relying on a little money and planted food, just enough for the family to fill their stomachs, fortunately, after the opening of the Keju Commercial Plaza, Chen Xu got acquainted with a few Liao merchants, and got a source of high-quality leather goods, so he earned a lot of money in the cold winter from last year to this year, and solved the temporary embarrassment, but today Chen Xu actually pushed him to the position of a three-grade agency, which made him instantly feel like he was dreaming.

The Yue clan is now gone, and there will be no one in the future, now the territory of the Yue clan has become a cool country, which is run by the second son Yinggao, and according to what he has seen and heard in Xianyang in the past two years, Daqin's rapid changes have made him have no idea about the Yue clan, it is impossible to restore the country, according to the strength of Daqin, the ten Yue clans are the strongest when they can't withstand Daqin's attack, if a war breaks out, according to Daqin's current population and material support, you can mobilize and equip millions of troops in an instant, Therefore, the Yue clan will only be reduced to a subject state or even a county rule of Great Qin in the future, and finally completely integrated into Great Qin like many Qiangrong Yiyue and other tribes.

This marquis was rewarded by the emperor, but he had no power and no power, so he could only eat and wait for death.

But if he can become even a petty official of six or seven grades, his descendants will still have the opportunity to enter the bureaucratic class of Daqin in the future, so that even if he is completely integrated into Daqin, he will not live a bleak life in the future, but in his own opinion, this hope is extremely slim, because no one is willing to help him such a foreigner, Xianyang is completely unfamiliar with life for him, and even he sent out a lot of gifts to cling to a prince and prince or even the emperor's relatives, and his son and grandson can't get the identity of a lang. Many princes and princes did not see him, and even some middle and low-level officials were too lazy to pay attention to him, and they were unwilling to accept gifts.

But after he was completely desperate and gave up, he decided to run a leather shop so that he could be an ordinary businessman completely, Chen Xu suddenly summoned him to the seat, which made him feel that he was flicked to the most sensitive part by the fingers of the gods, and the pleasure hit his heart one after another, and he couldn't stand up tremblingly.

"If Xiyuehou agrees to this matter, Ben Hou will play the emperor tomorrow, although the Commerce Department seems to have little effect at the moment, but the future will definitely be the most important department in the court no less than the six departments, and it is also an indispensable and important department to support the future development of business, so it is very important, the burden on Xiyue Hou will be very heavy in the future, and this is also a brand-new department, there is no mature experience that can be used for reference, the only thing Ben Hou can help is to deploy some assistants who are familiar with business......"

While drinking tea, Chen Xu briefly introduced the composition and work tasks of the Department of Commerce, while Xiyuehou listened and followed.

"Zuo Xiang rest assured, if Kang Qi is in charge of the Department of Commerce, he will definitely repay the grace of the Hou Ye!" Xiyuehou bowed to Chen Xu to the end.

"Okay, as long as Xiyuehou is willing, the Department of Commerce is a state affair, take care of it, and it is possible that it can even go further in the future, you go first, think about what Ben Hou just said, tomorrow afternoon Ben Hou will invite Hu Shang to watch the play at the Qinghe Theater, and at the same time, he will also invite many merchants to participate together, and then Ben Hou will work with you to smooth out this matter, as long as the beginning is done, the future will be much simpler!" Chen Xu stood up and said.

"Yes, Kang begs to retire!" Xiyuehou's old face flushed with excitement, and after saluting again, he left happily.

For Xiyuehou, this is definitely a pie in the sky.

For Chen Xu, this is also a bold and new attempt.

Now that Daqin is trying to expand through two routes, land and overseas, there will inevitably be great gains in a few years, although the customs has not been a government department in ancient times, but it is a very important department to ensure trade and national security.

Although there are almost no countries on the whole earth that can threaten Great Qin, it can control this kind of non-governmental and foreign commercial exchanges through a coordinated government department, and the most important thing is to make necessary restrictions and management on many export items, such as the army's standard bows and crossbows, such as sabers, such as saddles, as well as methods such as smelting steel, and even gunpowder and firecrackers, etc., although Great Qin has strict management, but no one will secretly sell it for money, There must be a department to carry out the necessary inspections of the exported goods.

The Western Regions are already very close to India, and India is close to the Sabbath Empire in Central Asia, as long as these things are sold to the Western Regions, they can spread to West Asia and even Europe in a year or two at most, and there will be unpredictable dangers for the future colonial development of Daqin, you must know that whether it is Sabbath or Rome, it is an extremely rich country, after Alexander the Great's crusade a hundred years ago, the advanced Greek civilization has been widely spread in places other than China, and it is not difficult to imitate these things after they are spread. In order to reduce the unnecessary casualties of the Great Qin soldiers in the future colonization, it was necessary to restrict the export of some things.

In the next time, Chen Xu asked people to find some merchants in Xianyang who dealt in porcelain, ironware, pottery, silk, tea and other items, and discussed with them the intention of giving goods to Hu Shang on credit, because Chen Xu came forward, these merchants did not have much resistance, after all, the two identities of Qinghe Hou and Zuo Xiang were enough for them to rest assured that they would not have to worry about not being able to recover the payment in the future.

Because once these Hu merchants don't pay back, the 20,000 troops stationed in the Western Regions will not be vegetarians.

And this time it was only an experimental transaction, and it was also sudden, because no one would have thought that the Western Regions would suddenly send such a large-scale caravan to Xianyang, because the population of the entire Western Regions plus the Yue clan was less than two million, and this batch of goods according to Chen Xu's guess, would eventually be sold to Central Asia and West Asia through Dawan Daxia and other countries, and in fact, this was also an opportunity to greatly promote the national strength of Great Qin, when these exquisite artifacts arrived in West Asia and Central Asia, they would definitely attract more merchants from West Asia and Central Asia. And if Great Qin's 20,000 troops want to invade Central Asia, the Pamir Plateau is a huge obstacle.

Alexander the Great's crusade to the east stopped at the Green Ridge.

And later generations of the Timurid Empire's eastward expedition to the Ming Dynasty, also because of the Pamir Plateau, of course, Timur is stronger than Alexander, because he has a map to the Ming Dynasty, but because he is too old to leg, he led hundreds of thousands of troops to successfully cross the Pamir Plateau and then reached the Ili River Valley, but he was greeted by a large vast desert, and then before he could get out of the desert, he died in the Western Regions, although Timur was seventy years old at the time, and indeed half a foot stepped into the coffin, But the most important thing is that the geography and climate of the Western Regions caused the failure of his eastern crusade.

The Pamirs, the Tien Shan, and the Taklamakan Desert are the natural barriers of the Central Plains against the Western countries.

But it was also this unique geographical climate that caused the Central Plains Dynasty to be unable to expand westward on land.

The western pioneers stopped at the Pamirs, and the eastern pioneers stopped at the Yumen Pass.

No matter how talented empires and kings in the East and West are, if they want to cross the Western Regions, the land of death, the first headache is the problem of supply.

Now Great Qin is the same, Jiang Hu and Li Xin's two armies have recovered the Western Regions countries like a bamboo, but in the face of the Pamir Plateau in front of them, they can't keep up with the supply before the altitude sickness appears, so they can only stop.

If there is no sufficient preparation to rashly cross the green ridge and face the Central Asian countries, it will be very difficult for Daqin to successfully seize a base area, so first trade and let Daqin and the countries of Central Asia and West Asia communicate with each other, so as to exchange more information, as long as these merchants bring the great Qin's powerful wealth and wealth into Central Asia and West Asia by word of mouth, and then maybe they can first send envoys to negotiate with Dawan Kangju and other countries to make them submit, so that the army can pass through this land of death without hindrance, and penetrate the tentacles into the west peacefully.

Although it is difficult to cross the Pamir Plateau, but for the merchants who seek wealth everywhere, as long as there is money to make, there are people who are willing to take risks, the Silk Road opened up by the Han Dynasty in later generations basically has little to do with the army, a large number of merchants drive camels and horses to shuttle through the Hexi Corridor and the alpine desert all the year round, and the caravans of the East and the West transit and exchange in the Western Regions, achieving a world-famous commercial miracle.

And what Chen Xu has to do is to rely on force to forcibly open up this road and take the initiative to expand the reputation of Great Qin.

Fighting and plotting in the army, and the bloodless blade is the highest state of war.

Any empire that is reckless will eventually fall on the road to world conquest.

And the larger the territory conquered, the weaker the control, and the fusion of different civilizations has always been a peace of blood and tears.

The huge Macedonian Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Timurid Empire, and the British Empire, on which the sun never sets, were all torn apart after endless splendor.

A lesson from the previous car, a teacher from the back.

Since Chen Xu knew about these histories that had not yet appeared, he would inevitably try his best to bypass this kind of military expansion and prefer to conquer the world by a more gentle means.

Now that the Western Regions are in the hands of Great Qin, the time has come to face the West, and Great Qin, whether in terms of population or national strength, will not be much stronger than those empires that have been short-lived in history for the time being.

Especially the Great Qin Empire in his memory, which appeared in a shorter time, collapsed in just ten years, and disappeared in the long history of human civilization before he stretched out his sharp claws, which is really a flash in the pan. ()

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