"Sir, shall we do it?" A South Korean Marine wearing a straw hat made of flowers and plants asked in a low voice. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"What's the hurry?" Zhang Rang put down the telescope in his hand and said.

"Wait until they're gone. Let's do it again, and now they haven't gone far. There is no hurry. Zhang Rang said. Then he continued to observe and monitor the departure of the Chu army.

"Oh. Got it. Sir. The soldier nodded, then cautiously climbed back into his place.

Zhang Rang looked at his men, who were all hidden in low-lying ditches. This is very good for concealment. His men seemed to be very relaxed, though, some sleeping, some eating canned food, but more often wiping down their rifles. There was no way, who made his troops a company of sharpshooters, because they were equipped with fixed-loading rifles. This rifle is much more powerful than a trap rifle and has a long range. The Marines formed such a company with specialized marksmen, whose main task was to shoot and kill the opponent from a distance.

"Sir, I'm too annoyed to wait for this." Private Zheng Zhong said angrily. His rifle had been disassembled several times, and he couldn't wipe it anymore.

"Be patient, you kid, you're good at marksmanship, but you're a little impatient." The second platoon leader Zhai said.

"Yes, sir." Zheng Zhong suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart at this time and said. He was Orion born. Maybe it's because of the long-term use of bows and arrows, his marksmanship is very accurate, especially in rapid shooting, no one can keep up with them, but in static shooting, after a long wait, his hit probability has dropped a lot, and the second platoon commander later learned that this kid is very impatient, which is also the reason for his fast shooting speed. Although the second platoon commander intended to train him, this kid changed very little.

"Sir, when we can do it, I can't wait." Zheng Zhong said.

"I guess it'll be after dark at the earliest." Zhai said.

"Ah, it's been so long. I'm sitting here and my ass hurts. Zheng Zhong said.

"It's okay, you just eat canned food, didn't you be given a lot of canned fruit? You kid is willing to eat this, what? I don't want to eat it. Zhai asked.

"No, it's not fun to just eat all the time." As he spoke, Zheng Zhong took out a can of food from his backpack and opened it.

"Sir, you eat, this is canned oranges. It's very sweet. Zheng Zhong said with a smile.

"I don't eat it, you can eat it, I'm willing to eat this cookie." Zhai said and took out the compressed biscuits.

"Sir, this thing is very dry, it's better to eat some canned food and drink some sweet water." As he spoke, Zheng Zhong poured the sweet water from the can to his chief. Zhai also takes special care of Zheng Zhong, so Zheng Zhong also has special respect for his chief, in his opinion, this is his brother.

"Alright." Zhai He took the cup and said.

"Sir. On this mission, we will not be able to fight alone. I see that there are a lot of Chu troops, almost more than 5,000 people, is this all our dish? Zheng Zhong said excitedly. Because, as a rule, they are equipped with only one base number of bullets, that is, one hundred and twenty rounds. Ordinary soldiers sometimes have only sixty rounds. But this time, they got about 200 rounds of ammunition, especially for him Zhengzhong, who received special care from his platoon commander, and there were 300 rounds of ammunition, and he had 200 rounds on him, and there were 100 rounds of ammunition in his backpack, these 300 rounds of ammunition really made him excited all night, he knew. With so many bullets, it must be a big war. And to be able to shoot so many bullets at once. Zheng Zhong couldn't sleep excitedly.

"Hmm. You're smart kid. Zhai said.

"Boy, listen, this time, we are a company that eats five thousand of his Chu army." Zhai He lowered his body and said to Zheng Zhong in a low voice.

"We." Zheng Zhong was a little floating, he couldn't believe that the above actually let them fight.

"How?" Zhai He asked with a smile.

"Don't worry about the battle, have a good rest, and prepare to see it tonight." Zhai said.

"Just." Zheng Zhong calmed down at this time. Some embarrassed looked at Zhai He.

"What's wrong?" Zhai asked.

"It's just that, I think, the bullets are a little less, only 300 bullets, what, you have to give me 500 bullets. In this way, I will have the confidence to fight them. Zheng whispered.

"you." When Zhai heard such a reason, he couldn't help but scold him.

"Three hundred rounds of ammunition is enough to sink. Five hundred rounds of ammunition, you still don't shift positions. That's it, the bullet thing, you can talk about it after you finish the 300 bullets. Zhai said and gave Zheng Zhong the first time, and got up angrily to check the post. Zheng Zhong smiled at this time. In his opinion, 500 rounds of ammunition is really not enough.

Western Regions and Northern Frontier. Inside Li Xin's headquarters.

"Really, we can take care of everything, the Dawan people need a lot of sugar, tea, these things The merchant also sent us a telegram for us to solve." Li Xin said with some annoyance. These material reserves are the businessman's business, and they are not managed by Li Xin at all.

"This telegram was forwarded to the Prime Minister's Office and asked them to solve it. We're in charge of the military, or we're handing it over to the local state government, so don't give it to me anyway. As he spoke, Li Xin threw the telegram to his chief of staff.

"Sir. I think we should take care of it. At this time, the chief of staff picked up the telegram and said.

"Why?" Li Xin asked.

"We can also participate in the business with the Dawan people, but we are short of goods, and our current material reserves are not enough. A lot of supplies are hoarded in various train stations, but they just can't reach us. This situation is very bad for us. The chief of staff said.

"You mean, Wang Ben's drill stopped the train?" Li Xin asked.

"Not exactly, it's mainly because of the rebellion of the people in the Western Regions over there. However, I heard that a large number of cavalry were mobilized to conduct a search this time. I don't think it's a big problem after all. The chief of staff said.

"That's right. The problem was solved quickly. There is no need to worry about this. Sugar, tea, these are not strategic materials, and they are not things that our soldiers can manage. Li Xin said.

"It's just that these two businesses are very profitable, and I hope the general can get involved." The chief of staff suggested at this time.

"Moreover, they are not strategic goods, and that's exactly what I think, we should be involved in, or in the name of the military." The chief of staff suggested to. In fact, this is also the meaning of the chief of staff, a large number of troops stay in the northern Xinjiang region, although they have rich booty to harvest, but the number of wars is getting less and less, many soldiers began to lack money to spend, compared with the previous large-scale operations of the Qin army, the Qin army's income at this time is much lower. In order to increase the income of the soldiers, the chief of staff had to think of doing business, but the arms business, and such a business as military training, needed great opportunities, although he knew that Wang Ben in the south had already done so. But he doesn't think he can make much money doing so. So he began to pay attention to the dynamics of the merchants, at this time, he found that tea, sugar, silk these three business is relatively large, and such things do not belong to strategic materials, other things, such as glass mirrors, ironware, and other daily necessities, these things have profits, but relatively not very large, as long as someone does it, you can make money, but tea, sugar, such a demand is very broad, as long as you master the source of goods can make money. The chief of staff meant to let Li Xin do such a business.

Hearing this, Li Xin began to understand what his chief of staff meant. He must have meant to let himself call the shots and participate in the specific trade.

"This. Something isn't right. Li Xin knew what the chief of staff meant, and he wanted to involve himself in the business.

"Do business, the army does business, something like that. I'm afraid it's not good. It's easy to get out of here. Li Xin said with some concern. He knows that border trade can make a lot of money, for example, the price of gold is rising now, and border trade is the flow of goods, and a large amount of gold comes in, and even silver, which was not used much, began to appear at this time. The price of gold and silver is rising, so it is easy to make a fortune. Many merchants on the border are doing this kind of business.

"Sir, I think so, the sir, set up a trading company in his own name, and we, the officers and soldiers, can buy such shares to participate in it, and if we operate, we all have ready-made things anyway. Just get the goods and you're good to go. The chief of staff persuaded.

"In addition, we can also do other businesses, for example, to develop some local resources, make some things and sell them to those Dawan people, those Dawan people's money, it is very profitable, and now the brothers can't fight, in this case, it is difficult to feed the family." At this time, the chief of staff suggested.

"This. I'm just afraid of the above check. Li Xin said with some concern.

"Sir, there is no problem with this, General Wang Jian has his own arsenal, and they all have profits, even Zhao Gao, the chamberlain next to the king, has his own factory, a trading company, and it shouldn't be a big problem for us to do this." The chief of staff then persuaded.

"Yes. You're right. They have it above. We can also do it below, and I heard that Wang Ben in the south has also set up such a trading company himself, and neither the General Staff nor the Ministry of Defense has issued an order to investigate, so in this case, I, Li Xin, can also do the same. Li Xin decided. In his opinion, the treatment of soldiers does need to be improved, although the Qin army's treatment is very high, but there is no war to fight, and their income cannot be increased, there are many reasons, but there is only one result. Now the only way to solve this problem is to do business, and they are naturally willing to do so.

"So it was decided. I'll sign up, and we'll finish it as soon as possible, as for tea, sugar, and so on. I think we can get our hands on it. You go to the warehouse in the back to see how we can do it, if it really doesn't work, you can get some other goods. Li Xin said.

"Sir. I think we can hand over the specific business to specific businessmen, who understand that we have the resources in our hands and can be shareholders. Specific operations, those businessmen will do. Let them take the position of manager, so that the money will come faster. "The chief of staff suggested.

"It's a way." Li Xin nodded in agreement. In fact, such things have become the norm in Guanzhong, and the right to operate and the ownership have begun to separate, which is more conducive to the management and operation of the company.

Sinzheng, South Korea.

"Specific colonial divisions. You can find it yourself, not necessarily in the direction of Qin, our Qin State is just providing specific investment intentions. You can think about it for yourselves. Shang Wen said with a smile to the delegates of various countries.

"If that's the case, our Wei State has a lot of choice. We can choose to cooperate with Qin, or we can choose to cooperate with South Korea, in short, our trading company should be bigger. As long as the project is good, I think we can get enough funding. Zhang Er's finance minister whispered to Zhang Er.

"What do you think we can do in the specific direction?" Zhang Er asked.

"We set up a trading company with the Qin State to do business in the Western Regions, and we do business in the South Seas with the Koreans, after all, our Wei State is in the middle, and both businesses can be done." The Minister of Finance advised.

"Hmm. Not bad. Zhang Er nodded.

Prince Dan, who was not far away, shook his head constantly.

"Colony, now Yan has no money at all, if what they say is true, there is a project that can be supported by Qin State funds, in that case, our Yan State problem can indeed be solved, but such a thing is not easy to do, we need money to open a colony, we have no project, the north has always been barren, in this case, it is difficult for us to develop." Prince Dan shook his head and said. Although the Minister of Finance thinks that this is an opportunity for Yanguo, he also knows that there is a big problem with how to attract investment in Yanguo, there are no projects developed in Yanguo, although there is gold, but there is a certain amount of gold mining, and it is possible to grow grain, but the climate in the north is cold, and the price of grain is at a low price. There is not much point in investing. Doing business, don't mention it. Goguryeo in the south was harassing Liaodong in the Yan Kingdom. Doing business. First of all, it was necessary to solve the problem of Goguryeo, so that the safety of the merchants could be guaranteed. Otherwise everything is impossible. The Minister of Finance also knew this, so he had no choice but to keep shaking his head and saying that there was no way.

And Li Mu noticed Yan Guo's side at this time. At this time, he remembered that Shang Wen had told him about the development of northern Liao, and for now, Zhao Guo could get a lot of financial support from the Qin people, and these funds were mainly shares of the company. And the key to getting financial support is to have a good project, he thought about it carefully, the location of Zhao has been surrounded by Qin, Yan, and Korea, that is to say, he has become a landlocked country, and there is a great danger for such a country to develop colonies. That is, his colony can easily be cut off by the other party, however, Zhao can avoid such a thing on his own, mainly in the choice of strategic direction. Li Mu suddenly realized. Liaobei may be a good direction for the development of Zhao.

First of all, the strength of Yan State is relatively weak, and Zhao State can also open up the main passage to northern Liaobei with all his might. Second, Liaobei has not yet been developed, so they have the opportunity to develop Liaobei and develop colonies, although in the eyes of others, Liaobei is barren, it is very wrong to establish a colony here, and the funds are invested in vain, but it is impossible that nothing can be done in this land. Li Mu thought.

Secondly, the direction of northern Liaobei is relatively biased, but it can contain the Qin army from the east, and the geographical location is also relatively good. Li Mu felt that Zhao Guo could choose such a place as one of his development directions.

Finally, for the development of northern Liaoning, Li Mu believes that the surface of northern Liaoning looks unfavorable, but no one can see the underground minerals, such as in the Western Regions, where there is jade and gold, in addition to various rare minerals, such as chrome ore. Through popular science, Li Mu knew the importance of chromium, he always wanted people to look for chrome ore, but did not find it, but he thought that there might be one in northern Liaoning. After all, it is not developed there. A lot of resources are not discovered. Li Mu decided to take a gamble. Therefore, he set his direction on Yan Guo.

In fact, Zhao Guo still has many choices, but think about it, there is actually only one direction that Zhao Guo has chosen, and that is Liaobei in the northeast. The Qin state was in the Western Regions, and the southwest was a plateau, which was not conducive to large-scale immigration and development. The Koreans chose to go south. The direction of Qi's development is not clear enough, but it may also be roughly the ocean route, after all, Qi has a great maritime advantage.

Zhao is the same as Wei, but Wei can be in the middle and can respond anywhere. That leaves one direction. This direction is only northeast. Therefore, Li Mu turned his attention to the northeast.

"It doesn't seem to be long before our banking business expands a lot." Meng Yi said.

"But we also have to be prepared to give the banks sufficient financial support, and I have decided to cut interest rates again and increase the support of the banks, and in addition, the Bank Reserve Committee should also give more financial support, otherwise they will not be able to proceed." Shang Wen said.

"That's true." Meng Yi nodded.

"Our banks need more funding so much." Meng Yi said.

"Did you notice that?" Shang Wen said to Meng Yi at this time.

"What?" Meng Yi looked at Shang Wen puzzled.

"Li Mu's eyes have been staying in the direction of the representative of Yan Guo, I think that maybe Zhao Guo has a tendency to develop towards northern Liaoning." Shang Wen said to Meng Yi with a smile.

"Really?" Meng Yi was a little unconvinced.

"Yes, I watched it specifically." Shang Wen said.

"Isn't that nice?" At this time, Meng Yi said.

"Didn't you always hope that the two countries of Zhao and Yan would develop Liaobei?" Meng Yi said.

"Since the other party can meet such a requirement, I think we don't need to interfere too much, and we can let them participate in it themselves." Meng Yi said.

"Hmm. Their affairs, we will not be involved in the specifics, we can care about our own affairs. There is no need for us to be too nervous about them. Shang Wen said lightly.

A hundred miles west of Jimo City in Qi State, the Chu army officially set up camp and rested. They walked all day and felt very tired.

"Damn it. I'm dying of exhaustion. Walked for such a long time. After Chen Bo entered the tent, he casually threw his musket aside and shouted.

"His grandmother's." Yan San, who followed behind, also complained.

"I'm dying of exhaustion. I used to walk more than a hundred miles without any problems, but now, I'm fucking exhausted. I walked so far in one day. Really. Those nobles are like life-urging ghosts. It's really unlucky. Bah. Yan San spat as he spoke.

"I'm just dying of exhaustion. I really don't know what the above thinks, but it's really damn that we came to escort these goods. When the other soldiers heard this, they said. They walked all day, and only after dark did they begin to set up camp. Such a long trip was very tiring for them.

"Come on. Come a few people. Just then, a junior officer walked in and shouted loudly.

"Pick up the food, go to bed after eating, and I'll have to go early tomorrow morning." The officer said with a big grin.

"Ahh The soldier was amazed when he heard this. They walked one day and had to get up early the next day.

"Ahh At this time, the officer scolded loudly.

"His grandmother's. Give me the truth, this is the order from above, if you get up late. Lao Tzu pumped him a few military sticks. The officer waved his arms in fright.

"You, you, and you." Saying that, the officer pointed casually, Chen Bo, Yan San, and another soldier were pointed.

"You three, go to the vigil and keep watch." The officer casually pointed and ordered the three men. And left.

"Fuck." After the officer left. Uncle Chen was the first to scold.

"Looks like I can't sleep well tonight." Yan San shook his head a little helplessly and said.

"No matter what, Lao Tzu must sleep and walk for a day. You want me to go to vigil, damn it, I can't stand it. With that, Uncle Chen picked up his blanket and walked out, he had already thought about it. He went to find a place to sleep, Fan Zeng himself had already been gone all night. Nothing can be done. Walking a hundred miles a day is enough. He didn't know why he had to walk so much in a day, but he knew that he was tired, and if he was tired, he rested. Saying that, Yan San and another soldier also went out with blankets. They figured it out, too. No matter.

In fact, the nobles sped up the speed in order to trade as quickly as possible, and in their opinion, a hundred miles a day was not too far, on the contrary, they felt that it was very slow. They were eager to rush to Wei as quickly as possible and deal with the goods in their hands, so that they could get what they wanted. For the morale of the soldiers, exhaustion, they don't have to care at all, in their opinion, this is how it should be. It's worth it to be tired, as long as their goods can reach their destination smoothly, and nothing else can be asked.