"To build a railway, you need a lot of labor. This is inevitable. When it comes to technology, we don't lack it. But the labor problem is very difficult. Fan Dou said worriedly to the Minister of Finance of Dawan Kingdom. In this regard, the Minister of Finance is also very worried, the Dawan people, including the Wusun people, they have more labor involved in the mining of domestic minerals, even so, they still do not have enough labor to build the railway, after all, this is a very big problem.

"We don't have that much labor to build the railroad, you know, we don't have a lot of people in the country. The only way is to import from other countries. Minister Dawan thought for a while and said.

"I read the newspapers of your Qin people, the Yueshi people have won a huge victory, and their number of prisoners of war is also very huge, I think, are we not trying to find a way to solve it from this aspect, after all, we need more labor to build the railway." said the Minister of Finance.

"This, there are some difficulties, the labor force in some places has been ordered, at this time, I am afraid it is still difficult for us to participate in the distribution of prisoners of war, but we can think about it, after all, there are still ways, maybe our bank can lend them more money." Fan Dou said embarrassedly.

"We are asking for more and more quantity, in terms of risk, don't worry, there are still a lot of mineral resources waiting to be developed in Dawan, and they are the collateral. As long as the problem of railway transportation can be solved, all the problems can be solved. Dawan Finance Minister said anxiously. Nowadays, traffic has become the most important factor for them. Because it is impossible to transport mineral resources, the Dawan government is desperate to change the current situation.

"Hmm. I understand this, but I wonder if we should think of a way from the other direction, after all, if we concentrate on the Yue's people at present, the price of the Yue's slaves will rise very much. Fan Dou thought about it and said.

"This. I don't understand? The Minister of Finance shook his head.

"I've heard that the Kingdom of Rest is just to the west of the Kingdom of Dawan, right?" Fan Dou said.

"Yes, these Sabbatarians are still sending cavalry to harass us, and we have no way to expel them." said the Minister of Finance.

"That way, things are much simpler. We can let the Anxian people launch offensive operations, and the main targets are the countries in the west, which we Qin people don't know about, but I think that the Anxibans are so good at war, they will definitely be able to get a large number of prisoners of war, and the Dawan side can trade through trade, such as using muskets to trade. In this way, the trade can be very large. Fan Dou said.

"This. Will it work? The Minister of Finance said suspiciously.

"Know that the Sabbaths are our enemies, and they are unlikely to listen to us. Such a thing, I think, is a bit too much. The Minister of Finance shook his head.

"No, no. I think Mr. Minister understands what I mean. Fan Dou explained.

"Here's the situation. Now the Sabbatarians need supplies, all kinds of materials, which can strengthen their country, but the Sabbatarians export gold, a lot of gold, and the amount of gold is very large, if the Sabbatarians can't get so much gold at once, and they need so much material, the only solution may be to attack you. Fan Dou said.

"Any war can be resolved by the principle of exchange of interests, and if the Sabbatarians can exchange prisoners of war for the supplies they need, and if necessary, more slaves by spending money, the Sabbatarians will inevitably wage a larger war and make this transaction." Fan Dou persuaded.

"Here's a way." The Minister of Finance nodded.

"Yes, Mr. Minister, this will not only resolve the security problem to the west of the Dawan people. At the same time, we can also get sufficient labor, such a thing is really of great benefit to Dawan, we might as well solve these problems like this. If we procrastinate, it will be very bad for us. Fan Dou further said.

"However, this matter, we need to join hands with you Qin people to do it, and the most important thing is that the road transportation problem must be solved at present, without these, those carriages we bought cannot be used." said the Minister of Finance.

"This is natural, our Qin State is naturally willing to mediate such a matter, this is the only thing that our Qin State can do." Fan Dou said with a smile.

Tocharian rests on the border.

Two Tocharian merchants are discussing the problems they are experiencing.

"The gold coins handed over to us by the Sabbatarians are getting worse and worse, and the quantity is getting smaller and smaller, and if this continues, the musket business will not be able to do it." A middle-aged Tocharian said in Qin. Because the people in the Qin dialect are all upper-class people, those at the bottom can rarely understand it. But this trend is gradually changing, but it will take time, a long time to change these.

"That's what I've discovered. But there was no way. Arcelor. Another businessman said.

"We should have found out. The Sabbatarians' gold may have been almost all earned by us. They bought a large number of muskets from us, and the entire treasury of the Sabbatarians may have been emptied by us. If they trade again, there will be no money at all. When the Sabbatarians don't have money, they'll find a way to do something else, and my fear is that they'll start a war. Another businessman said worriedly.

"Archie, I see. Your fears are not wrong, but there is no solution to such a problem. Arcelor said.

"The people of Anxi don't have gold coins, and a large number of gold coins have entered the pockets of the Qin people, and we are just responsible for loading a middle price difference. It's not a lot of money at all. I think you know that. Arcelor said.

"The money of the people of the Qin State will not buy anything from us. We also don't have anything worth selling to the people of the Qin State. I listened to the Dawan people in the north digging a large amount of minerals underground for the Qin people, the problem is, there must be such a thing under our feet, we don't know where it is, there is no way to dig in vain. Archie said.

"Wait. What did you just say? Arcelor asked curiously.

"I said, minerals, minerals under our feet, if we can dig out minerals, I think, our problem will be solved very well, think about it, those minerals can mortgage a lot of money, we can make money back from the hands of the Qin people, and then buy some things that are worth buying from the people of Anxi, we sell them so vigorously, and the people of Anxi keep buying, this will definitely be a problem. I think we may have emptied the treasury of the Sabbat. Archie said.

"That's right. You're absolutely right, Archie, you're really a business genius. Arcelor said excitedly.

"What's wrong?" Archie asked, puzzled.

"I think we've got a solution. We can solve this dilemma, we can buy something that is unique to the Sabbatarians, it's just that what are we going to buy. Arcelor came up with a solution to the trade imbalance, but he didn't know how they could solve it.

"I think we have a way to buy some. People, slaves, these things, I think, the Qin people need it very much, I heard that in the south of the Yue country, they just don't listen to sell their land to the Qin people, and then the Qin country gives them a lot of arms for expansion, and then they attack the Indians in the south, the Indians can't beat the Yueshi people who are equipped with muskets, and then they keep retreating, a large number of prisoners of war were captured, the Qin people's newspapers told us this, they need more people, perhaps, we can buy more slaves from the Anxi people, The slaves of the Sabbaths were very numerous, on their west side. Archie said.

"Yes, you are right, my Archie, my good friend, you are very right, we need people, we need more people to rest in peace, these people we can sell to the people of Qin, they can help us solve such problems. The talents of the Qin State don't care about these, they need more people to solve their labor problems, and we will provide them with people, so that we can also earn the difference in the middle. Arcelor said.

"Besides, I've heard that the Sabbatarians seem to have stockpiled too many munitions lately. Their gunpowder, ammunition, and munitions and weapons are quite large in stockpiles, what is this, they will definitely wage war against the countries to the west, and the Sabbatarians are too fond of expansion. The place where they are looks very barren, and there are more rich and beautiful countries to the west, and they will definitely like it, so they will inevitably start wars, and there will be deaths, and many more will become prisoners of war in order not to die, and that is where a large number of slaves come from, and we need these slaves. The Anxittians needed these slaves to become wealth, so we bought them and shipped them to the Qin people, so that the problem was solved a lot. Arcelor said excitedly.

"It's just that, my friend, I have bad news for you, and that is that it's so far away from us, that they need to cross the whole Sabbatical country, which seems to be very large, and in that case, I believe, may not be realistic. Let's not reconsider. Archie persuaded.

"No, no. No, we do that, and the further you go, the harder it is to do business, you know. I think the musket business has come to an end. We may lose out on this biggest money-making opportunity. Arcelor said.