When Ma Yuan said this, Cao Xiu felt that this idea was not bad, if the other party really had so many people.

But it seems to be quite difficult to really do it.

"The Kingdom of Rest, the Kingdom of Guishan, and the Kingdom of Great Qin, well, they are all quite familiar, the Western Regions are still going west, how far is that? I'm afraid it will take about a year for you to go all the way and come back, right? ”

Cao Xiu looked at Ma Yuan.

"I don't know, if you want to go to the Guishan Kingdom, it may be more than that, but for Your Majesty, you don't care about this, being able to open up the trade route through the countries of the Western Regions is the greatest merit for us and us, and it can be regarded as living up to Your Majesty's expectations, and if this trade route is opened, it will also be convenient for us to rule the Western Regions."

Ma Yuan smiled.

"Yes, yes, it makes sense, if you open up trade routes, you can move more people over, and it will be convenient for us to manage the Western Regions, anyway, I feel like this, and instead of engaging in any Western Regions to protect the government, it is better to directly set up prefectures and counties."

Cao Xiu looked Ma Yuan up and down, looking very appreciative.

"In that case...... It seems to be a bit difficult. ”

Ma Yuan touched his chin: "The biggest problem is the population, as well as the traffic, the traffic is not good, the population will not come, the population is not large, the state, county and county are not realistic, in a short time, such an idea is just an idea, if you want to completely control the Western Regions, you have to complete the repair of the Great Gallop Road." ”

"You're quite knowledgeable."

Cao Xiu looked at Ma Yuan with some surprise.

"A little humble opinion, the general smiled."

Ma Yuan smiled humbly.

The combined caravan rested in Yanaka City for a while, and made a small business with the residents and garrisons of the city, selling some dishes and chopsticks and cloth and other things, which was a small opening.

Then, Ma Yuan decided to take the north road first, pass through the Shanbei countries, turn south, return along the Shannan countries, go around in a circle in the Western Regions, and then return to Yumen Pass.

So the first destination of the combined caravan was the charioteer.

Cheshi is one of the big countries in the Western Regions, with a population of tens of thousands, and obviously has a little more purchasing power than those small countries with thousands of people.

Cao Xiu sent someone to inform the chariot master in advance, so that the chariot master knew that the combined caravan of Wei was about to arrive.

After learning the news, the kings of the front and rear of the chariot division immediately became restless, and began to prepare one after another, mobilizing almost all the manpower and material resources to meet the combined caravan of the Wei State.

In order to compete for the first soup, the two sides argued, and each other thought that they should first engage in a mutual market in their own territory.

Because the controversy was too intense, the two sides even wanted to fight, but under the mediation of Cao Xiu's envoy, they chose to jointly receive and hold a large bazaar at the junction of the two forces.

This is the official caravan of the Wei State, and it is said that there are many people, a large number of goods, and the amount of money carried is also extremely large, so it is conceivable that the purchasing power and the purchasing power are particularly strong.

There is no doubt that this is a major positive.

Historically, the two divisions of the two divisions, which were entangled with the two Han Dynasty wars, trembled and made all-round mobilization arrangements, and did not dare to do the best in various security measures, and did not dare to miss the slightest.

Then the combined caravan arrived under the leadership of Ma Yuan.

A huge team of merchants, as well as a huge fleet of mules and horses, the boxes and truckloads of goods and money, the charioteers are dazzled, unable to distinguish between the east and the west, and even have an inexplicable desire.

In the end, it was Ma Yuan who lined up with seven hundred knights, so that this group of people stabilized their minds and distinguished the south, east, and west.

The two kings before and after the chariot master visited Ma Yuan together, and Ma Yuan held the official talisman granted by the emperor, which basically represented the identity of the envoy of the Wei Empire, and was the official envoy, and the caravan also had a semi-official nature.

The two kings did not dare to slack off, and entertained Ma Yuan and other core figures with good food and drink, and the subordinates they brought soon began trading with the Wei merchant team.

In addition to the joint team of the Cao clan and the Mi clan caravan, there were also many private business teams of other families, and everyone set up stalls and started a ten-day mutual market.

Porcelain, pottery, lacquerware, and bronze ware from the Wei Empire were very popular and were bought a lot.

The livestock raised by the chariot master was also very popular, and it was also bought by the Wei merchants.

Camels became a very popular commodity for the combined caravanserais, and more than three hundred of them were bought and equipped for the caravans.

Ma Yuan thought that those handicrafts and hardcore goods such as silk were the most popular, but to Ma Yuan's surprise, the iron pot was a cooking utensil, which was greatly interested and favored by the car masters.

They bought a lot of iron pots, not even less than silk lacquerware.

The reason is that when the joint caravan was cooking and stir-frying in an iron pot, it was seen by the coachmaster, and the coachmaster asked what it was, and the merchants replied that it was an iron pot, and it was also a kind of commodity, which was used to stew vegetables, stir-fry vegetables, cook soup or something, which was very convenient and not easy to damage.

The charioteer was very interested in this, and watched the caravan people stir-fry, stew, and cook soup in an iron pot, and after the cooks operated like a tiger, the hot meal was completed.

A new type of cooking is emerging before their eyes, unlike the existing ones.

This incident surprised both the two kings before and after the driver.

The food culture of the Central Plains was introduced to the Western Regions from the Western Han Dynasty and was widely sought after by the nobles of the Western Regions, and by the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people of the Western Regions were basically familiar with the food culture of the Han people.

The people of the Western Regions know that the Han people use pottery, bronze or lacquerware as eating utensils, and the main cooking methods are steaming, boiling, stewing, and roasting, but they don't know that there is also a way to fry in an iron pot.

Ma Yuan explained that this was a cooking method invented by His Majesty Wei Tianzi during the march, thinking that this could prepare what the soldiers wanted to eat faster and more conveniently, save time, and not be easy to damage and easy to carry.

The mode of stir-frying in an iron pot has long been popularized in the army, and it has been almost ten years.

Before and after the founding of the Wei Empire, the iron pot began to enter the homes of ordinary people, and now there is basically no one in the Central Plains and Hebei who does not know the iron pot stir-frying, and they also generally accept the iron pot and use the iron pot.

Stir-fried cuisine is a new type of cuisine that has gradually entered people's lives, and stir-fried food has also occupied a place in newly opened taverns in major cities.

The driver began to try to use the iron pot to make stews, and then tasted the taste, and after getting his hands on it, he found this cooking utensil really interesting.

It is not easy to be damaged, easy to carry, and can be easily used in the field, which is very suitable for long-distance travel, so I expressed my willingness to buy a batch.

In the end, more than 400 iron pots were purchased by the Che Master, which was the highest number of all the goods sold.

After Ma Yuan looked at the sales list, he felt a little interesting.

Because of the government-run policy of salt and iron, iron pots can only be sold in official stores, and if the people want to buy them, they can only buy them at officially designated shops, and private caravans and shops are not allowed to sell iron products.

Moreover, the iron pot casting technology is still strictly kept secret, and only the official can produce the iron pot, and the official can sell the iron pot.

Therefore, if this part of the business is done, it can make a lot of money for the Wei Empire.

As far as Ma Yuan knows, now the iron pot is more than what it was at the beginning.

A thing called an iron pan also began to become popular in Luoyang, and it is said that it was also a news circulating in the palace that Guo Peng liked to fry a whole piece of meat in an iron pan to eat.

As a result, all major households in the capital have sought after the frying iron pan, and the eating method of frying a whole piece of meat in a flat subway pan has become popular.

In short, the iron pot has increasingly become one of the indispensable daily necessities of the people of the Wei Empire, and if it can open up sales channels and sell the iron pot to the Western Regions, it will also be a great business.

Ma Yuan felt that he had found some kind of business opportunity.