Xinkou. This is an important pass. An infantry company of the Republican Army took control of the place.

In the mouth. There are a large number of Wuhuan tribes gathered here, and they are the collateral of the Wuhuan tribe's troops. If the cavalry of the Wuhuan tribe does not return in time, or if the debts are repaid, the old and weak of these tribes will become slaves of the Republican Bank, and they will be auctioned off to the coal miners.

The Wuhuan tribe is in great demand, they need winter clothes, iron pots, and all kinds of daily necessities. Around their tribe, there are all sorts of merchants peddling these things every day, and they pay for pieces of paper. That is, the paper money used by the Republican Army. They don't know that this is money. In their opinion, these things can be exchanged for these things.

And these banknotes are what their men can only get by spending their lives. They needed to fight with the Huns, attack, attack the Huns, capture the Huns in exchange for these. What the men don't know, what the women don't know, what they do know is that they have to live here.

The goods provided by the Han merchants were very good, with beautiful flower cloths, fine food, and exquisite daily necessities, but these required money to buy. There are too few things that the tribe can sell. For example, they can only sell some cattle and sheep to buy the weapons that men need, iron. Wishing their men a safe return.

"Dumplings, delicious dumplings, you won't get sick after eating dumplings in winter." **Laughing and selling. In winter, it is best to eat a bowl of dumplings filled with mutton.

He is a native of Hedong, and there are three children in the family, the youngest of whom is sixteen. I went to work in the factory. The oldest are twenty-five. It's a pity that the daughter-in-law didn't find it, twenty-five, and they are all old singles in this era. In desperation, ** can only come out to do business. He wants his children to marry a wife. This is the greatest wish of all fathers.

“**。 Two bowls of dumplings. The two big men sat down and said.

"Alright." **Say it out loud. Dumplings come from the Republican Army, and the Republican Army ate dumpling soup at the beginning, and after eating dumplings and drinking dumpling soup, the taste was very delicious, but when it came to the people, people began to like to eat dumplings, because dumplings can be full. In addition, dumplings have a lot to do with the promotion of wheat, so those who come from Hedong are basically the first to promote dumplings. Dumplings are also gradually coming here.

"Fight, fight the Huns." Just when I was ready, I suddenly heard such a voice, **look over.

A cavalry of the Wuhuan people entered, and there were Republican sentry posts watching it closely. In the distance, there is also a gun emplacement, and the artillery is aimed at the tribe of the Wuhuan people, and once the Wuhuan people make some undesirable movements, the artillery will immediately come over. I don't know how many such gun emplacements there are, but it is certain that the Wuhuan people will definitely not dare to make any deviant movements, because the Wuhuan tribe will be beaten into ruins by the artillery all at once. The Wuhuan people are well aware of this. Therefore, the Wuhuan people will not act rashly. And they didn't have such a reason to move, the tribes are not too connected to each other, and the power of the various tribes is still weak, and it is easy to be controlled by the Republican Army, and the worst thing is the artillery of the Republican Army. It is said that an artillery unit of the Republican Army was secretly transferred here. But no one knows exactly where, and the unknown is the most powerful threat.

"Huns?" Many people put down their dishes and chopsticks and said this.

"Don't panic, don't panic, those are just Hun prisoners of war." A middle-aged man shouted loudly.

"The policy of the Republican Army is good, these Hun prisoners of war can be bought and sold." The middle-aged man shouted loudly. Many people nodded, and some people came to their senses and understood what was going on at once. Labor, cheap labor. Under the control of the IRA, the repeal of the slavery bill made it unlikely that the IRA would use slaves for work, and at the same time, factories had to raise wages and a series of other restrictions. The situation of workers has improved greatly, but at the same time it has pushed up the cost of labor, as well as the restrictions on the use of some wrongdoing.

Coal mines, in particular, are in great demand and have very large profit margins. But mining requires more cheap labor to support it. No one can do that. And the prisoners of war of the Huns, they could do these things.

The Wuhuan people soon attacked the tribes of the Huns, and a melee formed between the two sides. The capture of prisoners of war became the most advantageous condition. Both sides are desperately trying to do such a thing. Once the prisoners of war are captured, they are transported back. Waiting here are the banks, the merchants, who will take the paper money and buy it, and then the paper money will return to the Wuhuan people again. They need to buy more and more goods. Iron, ironwork, weapons. Trade down through such a circle. The Wuhuan people became part of the commercial activities of the Republican Army, and it is not known whether such a thing is a good thing or a bad thing. In short, a lot of times, people feel very different.

"The world has changed for the better. In the past, these Huns were very fierce. But now, they have today. A local Han man who eats said. And the state army can fight though. But throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty, many places were lost. Yanmen was occupied by the Huns. In the east, Hengshan County is also controlled by the Wuhuan people. It can be said that the territory of the Han people has actually shrunk a lot. Moreover, these few nomadic tribes go south from time to time to harass. attacked the Han gathering area, and captured many Han people. Those who have been taken away are rarely able to return. In short, the Han people only had their share captured, and the Han people never had the share of a few nomadic tribes. In such a situation, the locals have resigned themselves to their fate.

But after the IRA took control of here. It seems that everything is reversed.

Perhaps, the way of the world has really changed. That's what many people in the local area think. Seeing the captured Huns, they were very happy to eat dumplings. Dumplings are just delicious.

Lijiazhuang. It was still the busiest place for the IRA.

"Here are some of the reports provided by the businessmen's parliamentarians. They want us to take some of the necessary steps to deal with what's happening, and most importantly, we're going to target the unreasonable business taxes in the surrounding area. Jia Xu handed over the report to Shang Wu.

The problem of the market can be liberalized, but it is followed by unreasonable commercial taxation, which has always been very prominent, and it is difficult to solve, and the root of the problem is that business will inevitably bring a lot of profits, and this profit will bring another kind of greed. Under the huge profits, the officials want to go up and take a bite, because it is enough to bring them a lot of profits, which is understandable.

But herein lies the problem. With the fierce competition in internal commercial activities, Handan merchants faced favorable competition from Hedong merchants, and the goods from Jizhou needed to expand the market and earn a larger market, so some price reductions had to be taken, and to a certain extent, this was due to the partial saturation of the market. To a certain extent, saturation naturally forms a situation of fierce competition with each other.

Therefore, in order to expand the market, businessmen need to reduce the existence of all kinds of unreasonable rules.

Obviously, the high tariffs dealt a serious blow to the expansion of the trade of the Republican Army. They believe that this is the most unreasonable place to drive up the price of their goods and reduce their competitive advantage.

"It's hard to solve this problem." Shang Wu said helplessly after reading it. Shangwu was also helpless, because he knew what the consequences would be. Because they simply can't do that. A lot of things are really unreasonable, but they can't do it in some cases.

"So, we need to solve this problem, if we can reduce some taxes in the surrounding area, expand our market, and meet the political needs of merchants. It can still be done. Jia Xu said.

The parliamentary system gives businessmen the opportunity to express their needs, and they also need to express some of their political ideas and political interests.

For example, expanding the market and reducing taxes. That's what they're looking for right now, and that's a very reasonable point for them, because they're doing a lot of things, and they're meeting some of their needs.

"There are officials of the imperial court over there, and when the general situation has not changed, it seems that we can't do this, I think, you should also know that we really can't do many things in this situation." Shang Wu said helplessly. It seems impossible to change some of the current situation. Shang Wu knew very well that the situation in the Luoyang Imperial Court in the south had not changed much, and their emperor was still very hostile to this existing separatist force, and if the republican army openly launched an attack, or if it was a disgruntly disgruntled move, Shang Wu could be sure that the other party would definitely make a move that surprised them very much, and in such a situation, many of their things actually had a great disadvantage, and this situation made their situation appear in an unbelievable situation.

"There is nothing we can do about this, and perhaps, we can achieve some of our demands through other aspects, such as the north. Or it is the business needs of Guanzhong. Shang Wu said. Shang Wu had no choice but to do so. Obviously, the development of the South has reached a certain level, but it is difficult to solve it. And the situation in the north seems to have some optimism. The same is true for Guanzhong, which is the only place where they have gaps.

Jia Xu nodded. He was also well aware that there were not many reasons to develop reasonable conditions specifically for the changes in the situation in the south. The situation is so unfavorable.

They can only look for some gaps to make up for it.