And as the breath of spring became stronger and stronger, and the weather became warmer and warmer, when Chen Xu was busy preparing for the two chemical plants, the Western Regions, thousands of miles away from Xianyang, were still in the cold winter of ice and snow.

Now the nomads in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains around the desert and the states of the Western Regions have all submitted to Daqin, and all the kings have received the canonization edict of the Great Qin Emperor, and they are all very obedient under the care of 20,000 Great Qin iron horsemen and tens of thousands of servant troops. In exchange for extremely high profits.

An ordinary porcelain in Daqin, the purchase price is only tens or hundreds of dollars, but if it is resold to a merchant in Dawan, the value will immediately skyrocket by five or six times, and the merchant of Dawan will resell this kind of porcelain to merchants in Daxia or the country of poison and rest, and the value will soar ten times again, and the price of an ordinary colored porcelain with a simple color drawing will be as high as twenty gold coins in the Rest Empire at this time.

This exquisite and mysterious porcelain is said to have come from an extremely distant and mysterious eastern country, which has a very strange name called Qin.

Hardly anyone had heard of this country before, but there were occasional word of mouth from merchants who had traveled to and from Dawan or who had poisoned them, and that it was an invincible empire whose iron cavalry had crushed the foot of the towering snow-capped mountains in the east, and who had now conquered Dawan if it had not been for the plateau, and perhaps even appeared before them.

For the strength of Great Qin, the rest people have no concept, because they never knew that there was such an unknown country in the far east, and the east they knew was only the towering snow-capped mountains and bitter cold desert grasslands.

Orient? Isn't the end of the East the snowy mountain that can never be climbed?

But now, they suddenly learned from the mouths of the merchants that there was a powerful country on the other side of the snow-capped mountains, full of mysteries and unknowns, they had sharp weapons and excellent armor, and they had also invented stirrups, saddles, and horseshoes, and these magical equipment had spread to the rest of the country with the merchants, and even to the countries of Europe further west.

Daqin? Could it be that Great Qin was more powerful than Carthage, Greece and Rome?

In 247 B.C., the Parthian governor of the Seleucid Empire rebelled and established himself as king, and the Parthian Empire (rest) was established, and in the same year, far east, the chaotic Central Plains Dynasty Great Zhou princes Qin also ushered in a new emperor, his name is Zheng, is the year, Qin Wangzheng was thirteen years old, he was still a minor when he ascended the throne, and the minister of the state Lü Buwei was regent.

In 238 BC, Qin Wangzheng officially ascended the throne and took control of the power, and launched a war to unify the six countries of the Central Plains, and at this time, the Anxi Empire had been recaptured by the suzerain, the Seleucid Empire, the capital Parthia, and the king fled, and when Qin Wangzheng conquered the six countries to unify the Central Plains, it was also the most chaotic time for the Anxi Empire, because at this time, Egypt, the Seleucid Empire were fighting between Anxi, and the Fourth Syrian War was also in full swing. Antiochus III, who had just ascended to the throne of the Sabbatarian Emperor, was attacking Israel and recovering lost territory, and had no energy to care about the affairs of the East.

But it was in the chaotic situation of the Middle East and West Asia that after the unification of the six kingdoms of Great Qin, a magical imperial prime minister was ushered in, and he boldly promoted various reforms, developed various cuisines, invented and created various magical machinery and exquisite porcelain, pottery, tea, and wine, and in a few years has conquered all the unstable tribes and races around him, and has inserted a sharp sword into the eastern foot of the Great Snow Mountain, and at the same time, he is constantly preparing to hold back a big move to open up the passage to the West.

After several years of expansion, the current Sabbath Empire is not strong enough to completely control West Asia, and it depends on the eyes of the Seleucid Empire, but the territory under its control is already very large, and the East has bordered the body poison, Great Xia and Dawan, and at this time, some merchants who come and go to the East have transported a beautiful item called mystery to Sabbath, and sold it in the market at a price that makes all Sabbatarians almost pee their pants.

However, when this thing called porcelain was placed in front of Antiochus III, he realized that it was indeed worth the money, this kind of porcelain bowl that was a hundred times more exquisite than the most exquisite jade, delicate, smooth and snow-white and hard, with colorful flowers, birds, insects and fish patterns, was like a mysterious artifact from the gods, making him feel that the gold tableware he was proud of on weekdays was as inferior as a chicken and a dog.

"I want more porcelain, tell those merchants who came from Great Xia, I will buy more gold from them!"

Sitting in his royal palace, Antiochus III showed the fine porcelain bowl to the ministers and nobles seated on either side, which shimmered with a seductive glow in the sunlight shining through the window.

"Your Majesty, this kind of porcelain is easily damaged, I heard from the merchants who came and went, to be transported from the Eastern Empire, only one of the ten is intact, and twenty gold coins are too expensive, twenty gold coins can buy a hundred slaves and twenty camels, and our Western battlefield and the Egyptians are also at war, you can't spend your money on this extravagant porcelain, otherwise you will go bankrupt!" The Chancellor of the Exchequer stood up and said.

"Haha, don't worry, how can it be bankrupt, I will sell them to Seleucus, Egypt, Carthage, Greece and even Rome, thirty gold coins each, those nobles will inevitably rush to buy, now we are in the middle of the East and the West, whether it is Daqin in the East or Rome in the West, merchants who come and go need to pass through our territory and tell the governors everywhere that from now on, merchants who come and go from east to west will have to pay three times more taxes!"

"Your Majesty, you are wrong to do this, so that those merchants will stay away from us, without merchants, we will not have enough taxes, and then we will all go bankrupt!" A young nobleman stood up and retorted loudly.

"My dear Uncle Torrevas, why are you so unenlightened, this is the best time for us to make money, now porcelain has just arrived for us from the Great Qin in the East, whether it is a Roman and Egyptian merchant, or a merchant who is poisoned in Daxia, they need to pass through our territory, unless the merchants of these countries in the East do not want to sell it to make money, and once we sell porcelain to the West, I think the nobles of Rome and Egypt will beg us to help buy it, and then it will be said that the tax will be increased by three times, even if it is increased by five times, The merchants will still come and snatch these fine porcelains like wolves, well, this thing will be arranged! Antiochus III interrupted his uncle impatiently.

"Your Majesty, I heard that this kind of porcelain is everywhere in the Eastern Empire, and it only takes a silver coin to buy it, so why don't you send envoys to ask the emperor of the Great Qin Empire to buy it, and even force them to submit to you and hand over the method of making this porcelain, so that we don't have to wait for those merchants from the East to come all the way!" Interior Secretary Antua stood up and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I heard that Alexander the Great conquered Poison and Great Xia at the beginning, and only had to withdraw his troops due to illness, we have inherited the Emperor's will in peace, and now it is easy to conquer Great Xia with strong soldiers and horses, and then continue to the east If you conquer Great Qin, then these porcelains will all belong to us, the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Carthaginians, Jews, they can sell them as much as they want, and they can earn countless gold ......"

"yes, instead of spending money to buy it, it's better to grab it!"

"Yes, we're the best at stealing things, it's a good idea!"

A group of nobles below were very excited to start discussing, and even some nobles stood up and expressed their willingness to establish an army to cooperate with the imperial army to carry out the journey to the east, and many ministers also expressed their support, after all, a piece of porcelain that can only be bought for twenty gold coins is indeed too tempting, and the porcelain bowl in front of them, which was brought by the merchant from tens of thousands of miles away, shimmered with colorful seductive light in the sun, and everyone who was stimulated couldn't take their eyes off.

"Hmph, are you trying to make the rest chaotic again?" The Foreign Secretary stood up and snorted.

"Agato, how can you talk like that, we are not for the empire to be strong, as long as we conquer the Great Qin in the east, we will be able to get a large amount of porcelain, and we will be able to earn mountains of gold from the west in the future!" A nobleman snorted dissatisfied.

"I'm afraid you still don't know how powerful Great Qin is, let me show you a weapon from Great Qin!"

The Foreign Secretary took a short blade from his waist, and on the outside was the usual leather scabbard, which was well made, but not the usual scimitar, but in a straight shape.

Agato opened the clasp and pulled out the blade, the shiny blade glittering in the sunlight.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a weapon from Great Qin, I heard that this weapon can be bought two for a silver coin in Great Qin, and ordinary civilians in Great Qin can buy and use it, in fact, it is far more than that, I heard that this weapon is just a toy of the Great Qin people, and their civilians wear weapons ten times longer than this one every day, everyone is a warrior, and they can often fight on the street......"

"Agato, you better tell me what is so powerful about this weapon, who wouldn't fight?" A burly aristocrat interrupted the Foreign Secretary.

"Okay, I'll show you Daqin's toy weapons!"

Agato glanced around, looked at the spear raised in the hand of the palace guard standing next to him, so he ordered the guards to come, and then raised the dagger and slashed at the copper spearhead, and with a snap, as the dagger slashed at the spearhead, the seemingly sharp spearhead was directly cut in two.

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