After months of anticipation from the Maison, Qin Hua finally began to meet with the Maison's representatives.

The head of the Tianshui Guo family and the Anding Chen family held a meeting with Qin Hua as representatives.

Regarding the land, Qin Hua's plan was that they would lease the land to the Liangzhou Pastoral Government in the form of lease, and then Qin Hua would distribute the land to the people.

The family can get 30% of the income as rent, or they can sell the land directly to the pastoral government.

The family's main income came from land, and they naturally did not agree with Qin Hua's plan.

However, before they could refute it, Qin Hua announced another matter.

That was the establishment of the Qin Chamber of Commerce.

Qin Hua was ready to share the trade with these families and quickly expand the strength of the caravan, so that he could quickly increase the wealth of Liangzhou.

If it was only the Qin caravan to trade, it would undoubtedly be difficult to quickly establish a trade route.

However, if the family of Liangzhou is willing to join the caravan, then the caravan can be expanded on a geometric basis, and when the time comes, after forming a stable trade route, Liangzhou's financial situation will be greatly improved.

Qin Hua knew that the tax revenue brought by commerce was much higher than that of agriculture, but because of the general environment, commerce in the Han Dynasty was not developed.

Although the Silk Road has long been established, there are not many caravans along the Silk Road.

Qin Hua allowed them to join the Qin Chamber of Commerce, and allowed them to use the post stations established in the future, and also collected a certain amount of taxes from each of their trade activities.

The tentatively set tax is a commodity of one percent.

That is to say, the caravan that left Liangzhou needed to hand over the goods to the Liangzhou government as taxes, and the caravan they came back also needed to leave the goods they brought with them.

The two heads of the family did not object to this, but it turned out that Liangzhou went to trade, and they were really worried.

If the caravan can travel back and forth safely, then it will naturally be able to make a lot of money, but if something happens, it will be a loss.

Qin Hua also had countermeasures for this, and he leased the 10,000 soldiers stationed at Yumen Pass to the caravan in the form of mercenaries.

The caravan could hire a corresponding number of guards according to its needs, and half of the commission paid was given to those soldiers and half to the sheikh.

Guo Jing, the head of the Guo family, agreed to Qin Hua's plan after thinking about it carefully, firstly, they could not resist Qin Hua, and secondly, the prospects described by Qin Hua to them were indeed good, if they could really go back and forth safely on the Silk Road, then the strength of the major ones would be greatly enhanced.

Chen Shen, the head of the Chen family, didn't care about what Qin Hua said, he belonged to the conservative faction, and he just wanted to rely on those fields and the industries in the city to live a safe and stable life.

But he, like Guo Jing, knew that he couldn't resist Qin Hua, and seeing that Guo Jing had agreed, he could only admit it, but he didn't want to sell his land, let alone risk going out of the customs to take the Silk Road, he just wanted to collect the land rent in the form of lease.

After sending the two family heads away, Qin Hua called Jia Xu and the others over, and he wanted to continue to discuss the matter of the Chamber of Commerce with them.

But I didn't expect everyone to receive bad news not long after they talked.

"The Qin family's caravan was attacked?"

Qin Hua asked the soldier who came to report in disbelief, it was a caravan escorted by two hundred regular soldiers from Liangzhou.

"It's Bantianyun, the biggest bandit in the Western Regions."

"Half a cloud?" Qin Hua is still very familiar with this name, do those great robbers in the Western Regions like to use this nickname? Or is this nickname a kind of inheritance, similar to the emperor of the Central Plains?

But no matter what, the Qin family's caravan was robbed, and the soldiers were killed, it was not something that Qin Hua could endure.

Because Luoyang might change in the near future, Qin Hua could not leave Liangzhou, so he decided to let the eighteen-year-old Zhang Liao take command to eliminate bandits in the Western Regions and clear a safe passage for Silk Road trade.

Although Qin Hua trusted Zhang Liao and intended to train him, Zhang Liao was too young, so Qin Hua took Han Sui and Gao Shun as Zhang Liao's deputies.

In order to clear the Silk Road passage as soon as possible, Zhang Liao took away 30,000 troops from Wuwei this time, including the 3,000 trapped camps, plus 10,000 garrisons stationed at Yumen Pass, a total of 40,000 troops.

The purpose of Zhang Liao's trip was not only to exterminate Bantianyun, but also to show strength to the countries of the Western Regions, but he did not want to bring down the Western Regions, just to ensure the safety of the Silk Road.

Now that the country is not stable, the so-called foreign must first be settled, before solving the domestic affairs, Qin Hua has no intention of extending his minions abroad.

On the school ground, Zhang Liao was wearing armor with gold on a black background, standing proudly in front of Qin Hua.

He was also very excited now, this was the first time he had full authority to command a large army, and it was impossible not to be excited.

However, his good brother Gao Shun still had that cold expression, if Qin Hua hadn't seen Gao Shun's expression change, he would have thought that he was paralyzed.

In fact, it stands to reason that Gao Shun should be more suitable for the commander of this army, but Gao Shun died early in history and failed to show any military talent, Qin Hua did not dare to take risks, and he thought that if Zhang Liao was the main commander and Gao Shun was the auxiliary, Gao Shun would definitely do his best to help Zhang Liao.

As for the other deputy, Han Sui, Qin Hua did not doubt his ability, but after all, he was a general, and Qin Hua still did not worry about handing over the 40,000 army to him.

Now that the army has just been restructured, Qin Hua cannot guarantee absolute control over the army, in case Han Sui rebels and establishes a state in the Western Regions, or counterattacks Liangzhou, then it will undoubtedly have a huge impact on his plan.

"Wenyuan."

Qin Hua stood in front of Zhang Liao in a gorgeous costume, and when he heard Qin Hua's call, Zhang Liao immediately bowed down to Qin Hua and saluted, as did the generals and soldiers behind Zhang Liao.

This is because Qin Hua stipulated in the new military system that the general is in armor and does not need to kneel, but only salutes.

"This is a sword that has recently been refined by the craftsman of the Ministry of Works, and I call him Yum, and I am giving him to you now, hoping that you will win every battle in this expedition. Men should hold a three-foot Qingfeng sword and make immortal achievements. ”

Saying that, Qin Hua handed the sword in his hand to Zhang Liao.

Looking at this Baisheng Sword, Zhang Liao's mood was excited, Qin Hua's words really inspired him, and even the soldiers behind him were excited to hear it.

Under the new military system, they knew that if they wanted to get ahead, they needed merit. It's a little exciting to think of myself returning triumphantly in the future, returning home, and showing off in front of my childhood playmates.

"Gentlemen, let's go."

Qin Hua waved his hand, and the 30,000 army slowly left Wuwei City under the leadership of Zhang Liao.

"We must clear the trade routes before the Chamber of Commerce is established."

After sending Zhang Liao's army away, Qin Hua came to the Ministry of Industry non-stop.

Although the Ministry of Industry is only a department, they have a large territory where there are various workshops.

There are brick-burning workshops, blacksmiths' workshops, carpenter's workshops, and large tracts of land used to experiment with crops.

The current minister of the Ministry of Industry is named Luda, who is said to be a descendant of the craftsman god Luban.

However, Qin Hua doesn't care who this person's descendants are, as long as his craftsmanship is good enough, in fact, Luda's craftsmanship is really good.

Both blacksmiths and carpenters are very proficient, and Qin Hua's Meteorite Spear and the Baisheng Sword that he just gave to Zhang Liao were both forged by Luda.

In addition, Luda also designed a lot of water conservancy appliances and agricultural tools, which made Qin Hua very happy.

This time, Qin Hua came to ask Luda to prepare a construction team, and he was ready to build a post station along the trade route while Zhang Liao's army cleared out the bandits.

In the past, although there were post stations on the Silk Road, these post stations were either too far apart, or they were in disrepair and abandoned.

Qin Hua knew that in the future, most of Liangzhou's income would come from trade, and all this upfront investment was needed, and when the Silk Road flourished, there would be foreign caravans, and the post station would be able to provide Liangzhou with a little income at that time.

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Thanks to the book friend "30,000 heavy cavalry" for the reward, this book also has the first helmsman, happy. All will be updated today with a new chapter.