After a delay in Korea, when Bai Gui arrived at the border between Zhao and Wei, the caravan had successfully completed the handover procedures with Chu. The state of Chu hired more than a thousand people from the state of Wei, each with a horse, and rushed to the state of Song, passing through the state of Song and then to the state of Chu.

There is no way, either it will pass through the country, or it will pass through Korea. Anyway! There were several small vassal states between Chu and Zhao.

According to Bai Gui's orders, not all goods were transported to Zhao Guo's side. Only the goods that were shipped to Zhongshan and the prairie were transported. The other goods were left in the Wei State, the Song State and the Chu State respectively.

ore, mostly left in the territory of the Chu State. Only a part of the copper ore and auxiliary ore were transported to the Zhao State. Because! Bai Gui planned to build a smelter in Linquan in the prairie, not only to smelt copper ore, but also to build a copper manufacturing plant on the prairie.

Only by building a factory on the prairie can it be convenient to sell the products to the depths of the prairie. The cost of transporting copperware from around the world is too great, and the loss on the road is too great. Furthermore! It's also not safe. If you meet a robber in the steppe, Dongdong will be robbed.

You're transporting ore, and you give it to those steppe people who won't want it. If you want it, it's useless, it's worthless, it's just like a priceless treasure.

Both Shen Buxiao and Han Jun realized that a priceless treasure is worth nothing. Valuable things are valuable. So! Han Jun and Shin Bu decided to give the coral tree to Baekyu.

Give it to Bai Gui, and the priceless treasure becomes a valuable treasure, and it becomes money. If South Korea has money, it can develop production and strengthen South Korea's military.

On the side of the Chu State, Bai Gui had several secret factories. But! None of them were entirely owned by him, and most of them were opened in partnership with hereditary nobles. So! He could keep the ore, convert it into money, and incorporate it into the factory. These ores can also be sold to other vassal states and turned into money or exchanged for goods.

At that time, each prince had its own smelting plant. Just like the development of modern society, aerospace industry, science and technology manufacturing. If you don't develop the smelting industry, you will fall behind and be beaten. And also! Your country is going to produce household utensils. More mainly! Your country is going to make weapons.

Without a smelter, your weapons must be imported from other countries. Just like in modern society, many countries cannot produce missiles and need to import them from other countries.

Only when you have smelting technology and your own smelting factory can you produce weapons in large quantities and secretly develop military affairs without other countries knowing, and it will not trigger a military competition.

So! These ores are very easy to sell, and those small vassal states are worried that they can't be sold.

For strategic reasons, if a small vassal state wants to buy ore or copper products, it must be through diplomatic channels, and other countries will export it to you. And most of the time, other countries will not export to you in order to suppress, sanction, and restrict your national development. If you want the ore of their country, you have to agree to the imposed conditions that they propose.

Sometimes! In order to win over this small vassal state, the country with ore offered to give their country how much ore or what kind of rare material it was.

So! Most of the time, it is up to businessmen to make secret purchases.

On that occasion, Bai Gui secretly transported ore from Wei to Zhao, and because of this incident, King Wei Hui was annoyed, and the situation in the first chapter of the book appeared: King Wei Hui had to assassinate before he could get conclusive evidence.

That! Bai Gui's caravan did not carry or smuggle ore. Instead, it was broken into pieces and transported to the level through other means. And then! Buy through the person in charge of the checkpoint and declare the customs collectively.

So! When King Wei Hui learned that Bai Gui was smuggling ore, he did not find the ore in Bai Gui's caravan. For revenge! only assassinated. If it was found that Bai Gui's caravan was carrying ore, King Wei Hui would kill people directly.

In fact! The modern world pattern is the same as that of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in which economic warfare, energy warfare, and military competition are being waged. Economic backwardness will be beaten, energy is not necessarily backward, backwardness must be beaten. It's useless to be rich, for example, those oil-rich countries in the East of Central 1, their country is so rich, but their military strength can't protect national security, in front of the military power of the United States, what's the use of being rich?

At that time, the Wei Kingdom had some flavor of modern rice. is a military powerhouse, and there is a general Pang Juan who can win battles. So! The state of Wei can run amok.

Ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries have the same principle: a country is too small to be alone. Either! Take refuge in a great country. Either! Form alliances with other countries, then share resources, advance and retreat together, and protect national security.

If a small country does not seek refuge in others, does not form alliances, and still thinks that it is closed, it will perish only sooner or later.

It's the same with big powers, for example! The Wei State at that time! thought that Lao Tzu was the first in the world and was domineering. Outcome! When you offend more enemies, you lose allies. Once you encounter a natural or man-made disaster, there is no one to help you.

Today's rice country will inevitably repeat the path of Wei. Once a natural or man-made disaster comes, only the stupid country is willing to help. It's okay to help out of humanitarianism, if it's a little more excessive, then! Helping their country is %%.

The culture of bandits will not be extinguished, and it will be difficult for the world to be peaceful.

So! Can't help!

It's the same as life! Where can you see a rainbow without going through tribulations?

If you don't go through hardships in life, where can you understand life?

Bai Gui was very satisfied, Chu was a big energy country, and the most goods exchanged were ores. And! It's all according to the proportion of smelting. Visible! Chu Guo made a sincere transaction this time, and there was no fake at all.

"White officials! At present, the goods handed over to us by the State of Chu are far more than 1,000 horses, almost 3,000 horses. What does the Chu side mean? Since 20,000 horses were sold back from the prairie this time, can you give them 5,000? Chu people say! Anyway, you sell horses, and they are willing to give money, and they pay a higher price than others. A shopkeeper in charge of the handover said.

"This?" Bai Gui couldn't believe it for a while: Chu State only needs five thousand horses?

But! It was quick to be relieved.

At that time, the information was backward, and the state of Chu did not know that Korea had set 5,000 horses. And! The money has already been paid. If Chu knew that a small country in Korea had bought 5,000 horses, would it be strange that they didn't buy 10,000 horses?

"White officials? Five thousand horses? Is it too much? The shopkeeper asked suspiciously.

I thought: There are nearly 20,000 horses in total. Chu Guo only bought 6,000 horses, and there are 10,000 horses!

This shopkeeper didn't know: Bai Gui was afraid that Chu Guo had bought too little.

More more! The state of Chu buys 10,000, and the state of Qi must also buy 10,000. Such! The business came alive. Now there are less than 20,000 in hand, but on the prairie, there are so many horses!

(End of chapter)