When Tian Wen brought Feng Tan to visit Dai Yan, Dai Yan did not avoid it because he had a grudge against Tian Ying, but received the two very warmly.

Tian Wen, as the new generation of "virtuous sons", the future Meng Weijun, and the ancestor of the underworld in later generations, is completely different from the tall and burly image in Dai Yan's imagination. This man is short in stature and has a lewd character. At least in Dai Yan's view, there is no aristocratic demeanor.

But perhaps because of this, he is not like Tian Ying who refuses to be thousands of miles away, but can mingle with the travelers of the Qi Kingdom and get their allegiance.

For Feng Tan next to Tian Wen, Dai Yan naturally had no impression. Because he had never met this man, and he had no idea that his first policy in Taoqiu was to turn this man into a lost dog, and he had formed a mortal enmity with him!

Although Tian Wen and Feng Tan beside him were very polite to Dai Yan, Dai Yan could still detect a kind of hostility from their subtle emotions, which also made Dai Yan always vigilant when interacting with them.

Fortunately, Tian Wen's visit was just an ordinary routine visit, and Tian Wen purchased some luxury goods unique to Taoqiu from Dai Yan, while Feng Tan deliberately emphasized that he wanted to buy Taoqiu's high-quality iron farm tools. For such a trade, Dai Yan naturally would not refuse, and agreed to it one by one.

After the business talks, the two took their leave.

Soon after Tian Ying and Tian Wen arrived in Taoqiu, Qin Xiang Zhang Yi also came to Taoqiu with a huge team.

Unlike the down-and-out scholar that Dai Yan saw in Chu many years ago, Zhang Yi has now become the powerful Qin Xiang, and he already has a power in his body, so that Dai Yan has to avoid his edge. But on the whole, Zhang Yi is still a slippery person who likes to play tricks, as soon as he saw Dai Yan, he immediately got out of the car and gave Dai Yan a deep salute: "Wei Zhang Yi has seen Cao Gong!" ”

After meeting Dai Yan, Zhang Yi said to the soldiers of the Qin army who were guarding him to the Qin State: "In the next year in the Chu State, I framed the jade thief for Chu Yin Zhaoyang, if there was no Cao Gong to rescue, I Zhang Yi would have been in the Chu State back then!" Cao Gong is my Zhang Yi's savior! ”

Meng Kuan, the general of the Qin army who arrived with Zhang Yi on the side, said: "I didn't know that Xiangguo was still so down!" ”

Regarding Zhang Yi's words, Dai Yan only smiled slightly: "Xiangguo can achieve today's achievements because of his outstanding talent, which can be regarded as the dragon and phoenix among others!" Even if he didn't rescue Xiangguo on the next day, Xiangguo would still be able to leave Chu State and be in a high position in Qin! ”

When Dai Yan said this, it was definitely not a boast, but his heartfelt approval! Who is Zhang Yi? From a poor man to the face of a great country, the person who teased the king of the world in applause!

Later generations always think that Zhang Yi is a liar, but Dai Yan doesn't think so at all! If a person is able to deceive ordinary people for profit, he is indeed a liar. However, if a person can deceive the king of a country and change the foreign policy of another country, such a person is not a liar, but a strategist!

Of course, there are strategists who are not only able to fool others, they can also fool their own people! For example, the famous director of the North American War Bureau in later generations is such a famous strategist, under his magical prophecy technique, he successfully fooled the powerful American imperialist commander, and as a result, the Celestial Empire obtained a ten-year development space and became unstoppable.

Zhang Yi is not a strategic fool like Director Zhang, this Wei native is a powerful talent who really helps the Qin State! Just look at the Qin State in his hands, and now by fighting and pulling, you can know how much land he has acquired!

As for Zhang Yi's gratitude, Dai Yan didn't intend to accept it! There is a famous psychological trap in later generations: those who are kind to others are more attentive to others, such as parents to their children; And those who receive favors from others look at others unpleasantly, such as those who owe money to their creditors.

Although Zhang Yi is now Qin Xiang, if he needs Dai Yan's help in trouble in the future, will Dai Yan help or not? The help back then was just to form a good relationship, so it was regarded as a long-lasting venture capital. Dai Yan thought silently in his heart.

Subsequently, Dai Yan personally welcomed Zhang Yi into Taoqiu and arranged the best guest house as a palace. After everyone sat down to greet each other, Dai Yan began to want to receive the return on the investment that year.

Dai Yan introduced several big businessmen around him to Zhang Yi and said to him: "Qin Xiang, several of you here are all big businessmen from my Taoqiu. Some of the businessmen used to have business in the Qin state, and they also knew Qin Xiang when they came to Qin. I don't have many other things in Taoqiu, but there are many merchants, and if the merchants have no business, they will have nothing to eat. Qin Xiang is a celebrity in front of King Qin, if he can speak well in front of King Qin, let my Taoqiu merchants be able to legally enter Qin State to do business, I will definitely be grateful! ”

When it came to such a big matter, Zhang Yi also let go of his usual slippery attitude, and asked Dai Yan with a cautious attitude: "Gong Cao, among the businessmen you recommended, I know that Yi Wei is the one who buys military rations for my Qin State, which will naturally have an effect on my Qin State." As for the other merchants, Zhang Yi wanted to know what they were selling before she could make a decision. Cao Gong should know that my Qin country is heavy on cultivation and warfare, suppressing businessmen, and it is different from other countries! ”

After hearing this, Dai Yan immediately said: "Qin Xiang doesn't have to worry, what my Taoqiu merchant sells is definitely something that is of great use to the Qin State!" The Qin State is heavy on farming, but I Taoqiu has the best farming tools in the whole world! Whether it's an iron sickle, a hoe, or a wooden curved plow, a wooden rake is something that can improve the efficiency of farming!

Xiangguo has a far-sighted vision, he should have heard about Zhao Houyong's northern expedition to Linhu last year, right? And the weapons equipped by the Northern Expeditionary Army of Zhao State are all produced by my Taoqiu! My Taoqiu's weapons are of excellent quality and fair price, and they are definitely the best weapons on the battlefield! ”

It's no wonder that Dai Yan promoted Taoqiu's products in front of Zhang Yi like Wang Po selling melons, but Dai Yan knew too well what it meant to enter Taoqiu's goods into the market of Qin!

For a country like Qin, which has strict laws and an incomparably strong bureaucratic executive power, its suppression of the development of commerce is not just a joke, but can be effectively enforced. The laws of the Qin State restricted the development of commerce, and it was naturally impossible for the Qin State to produce large merchants. However, the demand for items has always existed, which has made Qin form a blank market!

Such a market must be extremely huge, and the profits it brings are definitely very lucrative!

Just like the famous capitalist Dr. Hammer of the later US imperialists, he chose to trade with the Soviet Union when Western countries imposed a trade blockade with it, and as a result, he reaped huge profits. Later, in the early days of the reform and opening up of the Celestial Empire, this strange man once again made a decisive move, aiming at the advantages of the early opening up of the Celestial Empire, and came to invest, and as a result, he created the largest Sino-foreign joint venture in the early days of the Celestial Empire's reform!

Qin's policy of suppressing commerce, like the Soviet Union and the Celestial Empire, which implemented a planned economy, was certainly unfavorable to the merchants in its country. However, for outsiders who are interested in breaking into their domestic market, such a policy is extremely advantageous! Because it has taken the initiative to create a monopoly market and let this monopoly market out, as long as outside businessmen can enter this monopoly market, then the huge profits brought by the monopoly will all belong to it!

How much profit should it be to monopolize the agricultural tools of such a big country as Qin, and even the weapons of Qin?

Although Dai Yan had a good relationship with Zhao State, Zhao State did not suppress commerce, but implemented market development, and Taoqiu merchants could not monopolize the entire Zhao State's agricultural tools and weapons market!

And if you enter the Qin State, and because the Qin State and Taoqiu are far apart, there is no conflict of interest between the two at all, and the Taoqiu merchants only need to deal with the King of Qin, then they can completely monopolize the market of the entire Qin State!

Under Dai Yan's boasting, and Zhang Yi also admitted that Dai Yan was kind to him, it was not easy for the Qin people to completely ignore the promotion of Dai Yan as a dignified monarch. Subsequently, Dai Yan took out Taoqiu's farming tools and handed them to Zhang Yi to watch, so that he could determine the excellent quality of Taoqiu's farming tools. As for the Qin general Meng Kuan, who escorted Zhang Yi here, Dai Yan also asked people from several major military factories to take him to visit the various weapons and equipment produced in Taoqiu!

It has to be said that after several years of development, Taoqiu has an advantage in manufacturing. As a prime minister, Zhang Yi not only manages the diplomacy of Qin, but also knows very well about Qin's internal affairs and even military affairs.

And the Qin general Meng Kuan, after seeing the weapons produced by the Taoqiu Military Factory, completely fell into a state of frenzy!

As a barbarian state on the western border, the Qin State has always been relatively weak compared with the Central Plains civilization. And this backwardness is not only reflected in the barbarism of the Qin people, but also in the backwardness of the Qin people in smelting technology, weapon manufacturing technology and other aspects!

In later generations, there were always some people who praised Qin Jian's sharpness, and Qin's crossbow could destroy stars with its ultra-long range. However, in fact, until Qin Shi Huang unified the world, the standard equipment of Qin was still bronze weapons, which was not the same as the large-scale equipment of iron weapons in Zhao, Han and other Kwantung countries!

The standard divine crossbow produced by the Taoqiu Military Factory, as well as the iron crossbow arrows that were matched together, left a deep impression on Meng Kuan! He only tried the power of these weapons slightly, and he could conclude that if the Qin State was equipped with such advanced weapons, then the combat effectiveness of the Qin army would be greatly improved!

Seeing that these things in Taoqiu were indeed of great effect on the Qin State, Zhang Yi also did a favor and used his power to purchase a large number of farm tools and infantry weapons in Taoqiu. As for Dai Yan's request to let the Taoqiu merchants enter the market of Qin, this required him to return to Qin to discuss with the King of Qin.

Dai Yan was extremely satisfied with this. Zhang Yi's purchase this time, the transaction volume easily reached the scale of 500,000 gold, which is far greater than the previous purchase of any country in Taoqiu when the five kingdoms were kings!

After all, the princes only purchased a limited number of luxury goods, although the price of a single item far exceeded the price of farm tools and weapons, but farm tools and weapons are huge quantities of necessities, and in terms of total transaction value, luxury goods are certainly inferior to these necessities!

And Dai Yan also has other thoughts, if these goods enter the Qin market, then other follow-up things like whale oil, porcelain, and glass will definitely continue to exist in the Qin country, and the sales will definitely be better than other countries! After all, the strength of the Qin army, Dai Yan knew about it from the history of later generations or what he saw and heard in this era. For a country that can continue to win, the country's wealth will inevitably continue to rise, and of course it is necessary to cooperate with such a winner to do business!

As for the Qin state, it was given advanced agricultural tools to make its agriculture more developed; Got advanced equipment to make its army stronger, Dai Yan is not worried at all! The Qin State does not border Taoqiu at all, and the Qin State is strong, and the victims must be the Wei State, the Korean State, the Zhao State and the Chu State that are close to it, what does this have to do with Taoqiu?

Dead friends don't die poor, the world's most reasonable saying!