2067 road building is not a trivial matter
For a long time, the Xiongnu have always been a strategic object of concern of the Qin army, as long as the Xiongnu have a southward movement, the Qin army will inevitably go all out to defend, if necessary, tactical offensive actions can be taken to stop the further southward activities of the Xiongnu. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
But the Huns went through a severe blow, as well as a long-term material blockade, plus the Qin army, as well as the blows of various armed forces. It was difficult to recover from a major injury, and serious internal strife broke out within the Xiongnu, which further deteriorated the situation of the Xiongnu, and it was difficult for the Xiongnu to threaten the Qin army and the various federal states occupied by the Qin for a long time.
Faced with the need for trade, the Qin state also relaxed trade restrictions on the Xiongnu, and there was a large trade gap between the Xiongnu and the Qin state. The Qin State had a great advantage in trade, and this advantage allowed the Qin people to use a variety of ways to deal with the Huns, and the Huns were in an extremely disadvantageous position, and many of their materials needed to be obtained from the Qin people, for example, important iron resources, the Huns needed to take out a lot of cattle, sheep, and leather in exchange. This kind of trade was very beneficial to the Qin state.
"Tocharians?" Wang Ben asked from the reaction of a businessman who went to the Western Regions to do business.
Wang Ben's task is not only to eliminate the horse bandits in his military area and the Western Regions Restoration Army, but also an important task is the Western Regions, which is an important factor for the Qin army to swallow troops here.
"Tocharians. What kind of person is this? We've never heard of it before. Wang Ben's attention was mostly focused on the purging now, and the warriors couldn't get his attention to the situation of the Tocharians, but he knew that there was something strange about it, and the Yueshi people had already surprised them. Now there is a Tocharian, and they have no idea what kind of Tocharian this Tocharian is. I had never seen it before, and I had introduced it, and this Qin State was very surprised.
"Sir, I have a suggestion." The chief of staff on the side suggested at this time.
"What's the matter?" At this time, Wang Ben asked.
"I think we'd better leave the Tocharian affair alone for the time being, and we can't take care of it ourselves." The chief of staff said.
"Hmm. That's true. Wang Ben thought of the current situation and nodded.
"My view is that we should focus on the banditry, and in addition, we need to lay cables to the border and extend through the border, and we are too far behind in the dissemination of information. In addition, in terms of transportation, if we want to use troops against Tocharian or the Sabbatarian Empire in the future, the situation is very unfavorable for us, you know, we are at least more than a thousand miles away from our borders, and we don't know how far the other side is. And in the meantime, we need to try to avoid such a thing, and let our allies weaken the Sabbath as much as possible. In addition, we should also collect as much information as possible about the other side and get to know each other better, so that we can avoid being strategically passive for a period of time in the future. "The chief of staff suggested.
"That's right, that's it, recorded in the memo, and at the same time sent a telegram to the Ministry of Defense, asking the Ministry of Defense to solve this matter. Such a thing as road construction should be in the hands of the Ministry of Defense, right? Wang Ben asked the chief of staff.
"Yes, it does." The chief of staff nodded.
"Good. Just send a telegram to the Ministry of Defense. Wang Ben nodded in agreement.
Xianyang, Qin State. Within the Ministry of Defense.
"Building roads is not a trivial matter." Wei Yu, the defense minister, said after seeing the telegram sent by Wang Ben.
"The Ministry of Defense doesn't have a lot of military spending to build roads, and it's already spent a lot of money on building mines. Let Shang Wen handle this matter. As he spoke, he drafted a telegram and put it aside and sent it to Shang Wen.
Zhao Guo Handan, House of Commons.
"The money to buy the land seems to be very cheap, but I think that there are cheap things, we still don't want to do it, you know, the current government financial situation is very bad, plus the continuous opening of railway projects, if we buy land, although we seem to be able to take it as long as we give these mountain Qiang people some materials, but if the scale of funds is large enough, do we have to continue. How to solve this money, it will definitely be taxed from us, and once the business tax is raised, what kind of benefit will this have for us? A businessman councillor stood up and raised his objections.
Hearing that taxes were to be levied, some sensitive businessmen frowned, at this time, it was no longer a patriotic thing. It is related to their vital interests, everyone knows that the government does not have this money, and it is impossible to come up with this money, military spending is very low, how can such a thing be possible to buy land with a sum of money. The only solution is to levy taxes, and if they do so, they merchants will definitely not be able to escape, why? Because they are the richest, as long as the tax on everyone is raised by one percentage point slightly, or this problem can be solved, but businessmen will spend a lot of money, the current business is easy to do, everyone is desperately doing business, at this time to raise the business tax, the businessmen will definitely not agree,
"This, I won't agree, I still don't want this land." A businessman who had been a strong supporter leaned back in his chair and began to hesitate and lean towards dissenting opinions. Because they have to pay for the purchase of land, this has seriously damaged their interests, and they are still not happy about their own interests.
"The finance will definitely not be able to come up with this money, and without this money, how can we buy land? Moreover, everyone should also pay attention to the fact that it is some mountain Qiang people, if other mountain Qiang people are dissatisfied, what about it? The merchant councillor asked aloud at this time.
"They will attack us, and if they do, will we be able to lose such land for nothing? Impossible, our only way is to send troops to fight them, the place where the Qiang people live in the mountains, but the barren plateau, the land can not grow food at all, only cattle and sheep, such a place, we have to fight them. This will make our military spending high, and in the end the treasury will not be able to come up with the money, and it is we businessmen who can solve the problem, and the problem will still be attributed to us in the end, and the price of such a patriotic act is too high. The councillor shouted.
For such vital interests. The councillors began to worry, they feared that something was going to happen to them, and that they ended up spending their money and occupying a place where birds don't, and that kind of place was a loss-making business for them.