Western regions. Within the jurisdiction of Li Xin. On the trade route to the kingdom of Dawan.

"The carriage is impassable. Only a few horses, donkeys, and others are unlikely. A Qin soldier with his rifle on his back was on alert, and most of their soldiers were reinforcing the condition of the road.

"Oh. It's all right, we're all horses, and those wagons are our provisions, and we can share some of them, so we can get over. The captain of the horse team said to the soldiers with a smile.

"Hmm. Let's go over. The soldier said, waving. They knew what the caravans were carrying. Muskets, a large number of muskets, the road crossing has just been opened, and a large number of caravans pass here. It can be said that some impassable places were reinforced by the caravans themselves. Because of the news from Dawan, Dawan was attacked by the Sabbatarians, and they urgently needed a large number of gunpowder weapons to protect themselves. Muskets and artillery were transported from here into the Dawan Kingdom. Those arms dealers had already thought of a good way to solve all the difficulties they encountered, and the muskets could be exchanged for a large amount of gold. Artillery is a rare thing, he can kill and injure the rest cavalry on a large scale, and it is an important weapon for defense.

One by one, the horses passed. The sappers can only watch, the benefits of the arms trade are thousands of times, tens of thousands of times their salary, and the soldiers want to do the same, but the risk of doing this is too high. It was this journey that many did not come back alive, and he saw a team of horses with their goods falling off a cliff. Definitely not alive. This is only the risk, if they are not registered, smuggling, and being eaten by the other party, the Qin government has no way to find them.

Arms trafficking has become a business agreed by the Ministry of National Defense. But there must be a license from the government method, and without a license, the military cannot guarantee their lives, of course. Taxation of the arms business is also different. In order to limit the smuggling of the sharpest weapons to various countries.

Of course, countries will always find a way to get some weapons that they can't get, such as the revolver, which is an old machine gun. But it's still very effective to defend against it. But these weapons are within the scope of the Qin army's embargo, but the price given by the other party is very high, which does not rule out the possibility of their smuggling. And the taxes levied by the government are also relatively high. A grenade can be exported, but the tax is ten times the cost of a grenade, but that's it, the weapon is still being exported. Because he can bring good profits.

Only when the Ministry of Defense or the government takes the form of active assistance to a country. Prices can be lowered, and merchants will hoard goods, because once the government stops aiding, the ammunition demand will make them a lot of money. This kind of business is done the most on the border of Qin. The Qin people sold arms and weapons, and the income was a large amount of gold, and the profits of other daily necessities were not as good as arms. Qin has become the largest arms exporter in the Western Regions. The Qin State relied on these arms to support the military industrial enterprises of the Qin State, as well as the government.

Sabbatical and Tocharian borders, because of the presence of Sabbatarian cavalry. The trade did not go smoothly, but in terms of smuggling, it was unusually hot.

"Today we have seized another smuggling arms caravan. They sold weapons that were supposed to equip the Tocharian militia to their enemies, the Sabbatarians, because the Sabbatarians had a lot of gold in their hands, and their gold coins were of such high quality that even our soldiers themselves were collecting them. "Second Lieutenant Officer of the Qin Army. Li Mao wrote in his diary.

"The Tocharians don't seem to care about this at all, such arms smuggling comes from their upper nobles, because gold coins can bring huge profits, the muskets that our Qin people sell to them are a gold coin and a rifle, while the price of the rifle they sell to the Sabbatarians is four gold coins for a rifle, and the bullets are calculated separately. This is a huge profit, even the Yueshi army has done this, they will secretly take out the weapons we have equipped them and sell them, this is * naked theft. But this kind of behavior cannot be prohibited at all, because it is a profiteering, and no one can ban it. I suspect that the officers at the border, as well as the soldiers involved, are involved, and this country is a real eye-opener for me. Li Mao wrote.

"The Sabbatarians need muskets, they need quite a large number, we don't know what the Sabbatarians want to do, and the need for artillery is also very large, the Tocharians can't meet their needs at all, but they try to increase the number of cannons they loot as much as possible for the sake of gold. The demand for artillery is increasing the size of the smuggling trade, and it will not be long before the whole trade becomes a situation of smuggling trade. "Li Mao was just an ordinary officer, and he was stationed in Tocharian to observe the situation of the Tocharians. But what he found wasn't enough to change the situation. However, the military's top brass is enough to get to this point.

In Meng Tian's office, an officer submitted a report. This caught Meng Tian's attention.

"The demand of the Yueshi is due to the war, but the Tocharian side has increased the amount of munitions to be staggering, and in the last few months they have purchased more than one and a half million muskets with a staggering ninety-five million rounds of ammunition. The number of artillery deliveries was just over three hundred, but their order exceeded fifteen hundred. With such a huge number, we suspect that there is a big problem. The officer said anxiously.

"Hmm." Meng Tian looked at the report in his hand and nodded. This is indeed more than the actual population of Tochar, which has a population of just over a million at most, but their arms needs far exceed everyone's imagination. Armed all Tocharians twice in number, and with great firepower.

"This is very abnormal, we suspect that the Tocharians are trading with the Sabbatarians, and the number of transactions is very large." The officer speculated.

"Hmm. Find out about it. I think it's very likely. If necessary, we can restrict their exports, but this matter needs to be told to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and how to deal with it depends on the situation of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Meng Tian nodded and said.

The Qin state could control the development of the country through the abnormality of the arms trade, and the change in this situation could cause the security of the Qin state to be alert, because equipping with firearms would form a large military power in a short period of time. This is a great threat and poses a great hidden danger to the surrounding security situation of the Qin State.