Chapter 85: Mo Shuyu's flickering
With the help of the two brothers, the first batch of merchants to test the waters finally came to the Allahag Oasis.
"Thank you for your trust in Wang, but Wang has something I want to say to everyone, in fact, Wang is penniless now."
Mo Shuyu, who was sitting at the head of the big tent, took a sip of the elixir wine and said to the three merchants in the tent.
"How can this be? You still call us if you don't have money? ”
"I have long thought that it may be a liar, who in the desert will spend that money to build a city."
"It is said that Datang businessmen talk about credit, but I didn't expect it to be such a person."
After listening to Mo Shuyu's words, several businessmen were all angry, and several people whispered in the lower seat.
"Everyone, don't worry, since I, Wang Si Hurry (Mo Shuyu's name by himself to conceal his identity), invited everyone, I will definitely not do that treacherous thing. Indeed, Wang is penniless now, but everyone must have heard from the two generals, I need materials to make cement to build the city wall. ”
"What does that have to do with you tricking us?" As the largest merchant within a radius of hundreds of miles in the country of Qiuzi, although Guy is not as rich as the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, he still speaks among the merchants in the Western Regions.
This time, if it weren't for the fact that the two brothers were from the Qiuzi royal family, and they repeatedly assured themselves that the Tang merchants in the Allahag Oasis were rich, who would have come here without anything?
"I wonder if you're interested in cement formulas?"
Mo Shuyu tilted his head with a hint of a smile. Although today's businessmen are more upright, they will not cheat as they did in later generations. But no matter which dynasty or generation, the pursuit of interests by businessmen will not change.
"Mr. Wang wants to sell the cement formula to us?"
No, the few people who were still full of resentment towards Mo Shuyu just now listened to Mo Shuyu's words, and suddenly they couldn't even drink the wine in their hands, and their eyes stared at Mo Shuyu in a daze.
"Exactly, Wang wanted to settle down in the Western Regions, but he was shy in his pocket, so he had to take out the cement formula in exchange for some money, in exchange for a peaceful place in the Western Regions."
As for cement, in fact, Mo Shuyu used him as a building material from the beginning, and it was only a temporary decision for the Tang army to use it for military purposes.
At the beginning, Mo Shuyu did develop cement to defend against the Turkic cavalry, but in the end, cement did not seem to come in handy in the face of powerful artillery.
In Mo Shuyu's imagination, cement may have an impact on a battle, but it doesn't seem to play much role in his plan.
The reason why cement will become famous in the first battle is because the Tubo people have never seen cement before.
If Mo Shuyu was on the side of Tubo, there were countless ways to deal with the Tang army hiding in the cement fortifications.
In other words, the Tubo people do not need to resist the Tang Dynasty head-on at all. With artillery, it is possible to destroy the concrete fortifications with indiscriminate bombardment.
Or send stragglers wearing thick armor and rush to the cement fortifications at the risk of death, with only a few earth-shattering thunders, the entire cement fortifications and the soldiers in the fortifications will ascend to the sky together.
In this era when there were no individual thermal weapons such as firearms, cement fortifications did not play a decisive role. Perhaps the Tang Dynasty used cement fortifications to resist the attack of Tubo at the beginning, but under the attack of many parties, I am afraid it will not last long.
"Mr. Wang, I don't know how much this cement formula is priced at?"
Perhaps because he was not confident in the money in his hands, Guy directly raised his own questions.
"I don't know if you know about the elixir?"
Mo Shuyu knew that although the merchants of the Western Regions were rich, they were still a little smaller, and compared with the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that they could only be regarded as eye-catching. If you still follow the cooperation method in Datang, I am afraid that if you want to get the money to build a city from the three people in front of you, I am afraid it will be tantamount to a pipe dream.
"The agar wine has become famous all over the world in just a few months, but it is a pity that the agar wine is only bought by Datang, and the merchants who have mastered the agar wine everywhere do not sell it."
Although the agar wine is not allowed to be sold outside of the Tang Dynasty under the control of Mo Shuyu, as the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, and there will always be people who take the risk to bring the elixir wine to the Western Regions.
Guy and the others have also drunk it, and they are also very angry about the elixir wine. Thinking of the nearly 1,000 guards of this Tang merchant who heard from the two brothers in Bojin, there is a lot of elixir wine to drink every day, is it possible?
"Could it be that Mr. Wang knows the recipe of the elixir wine?"
"Exactly, but now Wang is discussing cement with everyone, not agar wine."
Mo Shuyu also knew that cement was undoubtedly nothing more than a dispensable thing in the eyes of these people compared to agar wine.
"Mr. Wang, as long as you can sell us the recipe for the elixir wine, we will definitely help you make Allahag a pearl in the desert!"
The profit of the agar wine makes all the businessmen red, and the merchants of the Tang Dynasty now divide the wealth, and the people who stand at the top of the pyramid are all people who have the right to sell the agar wine, and Mo Shuyu has only been dividing the agency of the agar wine for a few months.
"Aren't you afraid that the Tang Dynasty will know that you have the recipe for the elixir wine and send troops to the Western Regions to conquer you?"
Mo Shuyu is confident that the patent law proposed by himself has already spread all over the Western Regions, but now Datang itself is difficult to take care of, and he is afraid that it is beyond the reach of the Western Regions.
"Hmph, Datang? Is the Central Plains still the same Heavenly Empire as before? The legendary Tang Dynasty Immortal Xiaoyao Marquis also died on the way to the northern expedition to the Turks, and the Tang Dynasty is now unable to protect itself and is facing the siege of several countries. Even the countries of the Western Regions are now planning to participate in dividing the Central Plains with the Tibetan Turks, but it is just a elixir wine, what can the laws of the Tang Dynasty do to me? ”
Now that the crisis of Datang is known to the world, Mo Shuyu just mentioned it, and I want to hear what a few people think about Datang.
"I am a Han and a common person of the Tang Dynasty, is it really good for you to be like this?"
"Mr. Wang, don't take our words, Mr. Wang is a rich and noble person at a glance, and the only person with the surname of Tang Wang who can have Mr. Wang's identity is probably the Taiyuan Wang family, and the hatred between the Taiyuan Wang family and the Tang Dynasty probably doesn't need us to say more."
Mo Shuyu also smiled bitterly when he heard this, why did he say that he was already surnamed Wang.
"Haha, a few people are really discerning, this is known to you," Mo Shuyu is also helpless, in the eyes of everyone, he has become the son of the Wang family who was exterminated by the Tang Dynasty and has an enmity with the Tang Dynasty.
In this case, we have no choice but to make mistakes and avoid them for a while.
"In this case, I hope that a few people will keep this secret for Wang, otherwise Datang may not go west for cement and other things, but in order to exterminate me, I am afraid that no effort will be spared."
"Mr. Wang, don't worry, we will definitely keep this secret for Mr."
Several people also knew in their hearts that Mo Shuyu needed them to keep a secret, they needed Mo Shuyu to make money, so they would naturally keep this secret for Mo Shuyu
"Mr. Wang, I want to get the cement formula more than agar wine."