In the late autumn of the seventh year of Yuanyou, through the public to the picturesque Dali tour, after four or five years of development and construction, all the industries related to the Chenji Chamber of Commerce in Dali have prospered more than ten times. Settlements along the trade routes changed dramatically, with many indigenous tribes who had previously lived in thatched huts moving into well-planned towns and villages, using running water and sewerage, and wearing clothes made of brightly coloured chintz and fine linen. The various tribes of the shotgun exchange all bowed down at the feet of the rich and powerful Chenji Chamber of Commerce.

Before crossing the public business Dali, the traditional trade was mainly concentrated on the tea and horse trade and a very small amount of official tribute trade, there were few opportunities to make money, the tea and horse trade and the official trade were basically for strategic and political purposes, the profits were thin, and the exchanges were not very frequent. When the traversers discovered a large number of minerals, resources, and lucrative trade products, a large number of border merchants and gold prospectors flocked to the city.

Edible mushrooms and white medicine from Shanxian Prefecture, jade and golden sand from Qilan Division, Pu'er from Buri Division, lacquer wax from Lanxi County, and cane sugar and sisal from Shanju County. The large scale of grain, peanuts, tobacco and medicinal materials concentrated in Xichang from all over the country, the low cost of water transportation and the newly paved three-level road network have greatly reduced the transportation cost of these bulk commodities, and the profit has changed from a loss-making range to a 300% stumbling range. The rich biological resources and mineral resources of Dali have begun to be understood by the world, not only the unique light and heat climate conditions and countless valuable varieties of animals and plants, but also the specialized cultivation of alien species that have been vigorously promoted by the public. Originally, the Champa rice and various tropical cash crops that cropped three times a year could no longer obtain the greatest benefits in the areas north of the Tropic of Capricorn, but what could not stand the promotion of the public was the high-yield and high-yield varieties that met the local characteristics and conditions after countless high-tech and time-optimized after thousands of years.

The British economist T. John Denning once said: Once there is a proper profit, capital will be bold, and if there is a 10% profit, it will be used everywhere; With a 20% profit, it comes alive; With a 50% profit, it will take risks; And for the sake of 100% profit, it dares to trample on all the laws of the world; For the sake of 300% profit, it does not hesitate to risk any crime, even hanging.

In the past, no one came to Dali to do business because the profit was far less than 50% of the risk, but now the road has been built, and the grain trade with 20% profit has become very safe and stable, attracting many merchants and explorers.

It seems that if you want to get rich, the essence of road construction is to reduce logistics costs, improve the benefits of economies of scale, and make a region leap from a small peasant economy to a market economy.

At the beginning, the partners who invested in the construction of roads and terminals because of their blind belief in the crossing of the crowd made a lot of money, and many shareholders who invested a little money because of hesitation and symbolism regretted it. Only the three partners of the trading company and the Dali Construction Company and other affiliated enterprises with all their investment entered Li Ji's eyes, and became the huge wealth in the Chengdu Fu Road, Zizhou Road, and Guangnan West Road areas in Dali and the border areas. The entire Dali almost became the focus of heated discussions in the Great Song Dynasty overnight and a paradise for businessmen to make a fortune.

This area is different from the harsh environment of Tibet and the Western Regions, rich in resources, abundant products, and not very densely populated, but it is easy to buy. Duan Zhengming, the nominal lord of Dali, and Gao Shengtai, the de facto leader of real power, have both benefited enormously, not only in the development of the resources of their own fiefdoms, but also in the trade routes and many government links that they control.

In fact, the traversal crowd is not interested in whether the Duan family will have martial arts, but only whether the Duan family can continue to be a good puppet and continue to accept the remote control of the traversal crowd. When the traversal people learned that their conditions were fully accepted through the inner line of their subordinates, they immediately took action, decisively notified all the friendly tribal forces to force the Gao family to return power, and recalled the children who were placed in the eight prefectures and four counties to their own fiefdoms, comprehensively shrink the sphere of influence, and re-form a relatively balanced power structure, so as to facilitate the remote control and command of the traversal.

Under the double deterrence of the big stick of money and the great military power, no clan dared to oppose it. Five thousand miles of picturesque land were in the hands of the crossing people, with complete exemption from customs duties, judicial privileges, a series of leased lands and open cities, and the whole of Dali was almost reduced to a colony of the East India Company. (The colonial institutions in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indochina Peninsula formed by the Crossing Masses to control all the East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Indochina Peninsula east of longitude are similar to those of the British East India Company)

The export of tobacco alone earned a fortune of 700,000 yuan for the Xiangguo Gao family, who was in charge of the import and export and wholesale markets, in one year. Slash-and-burn farming, which was originally extremely backward in the planting industry, was quickly upgraded to intensive cultivation under the stimulation of profits. Even illiterate people who can't read a basket of characters know that it is more cost-effective to grow cash crops than to grow grain, and in exchange for Song money, they can buy cheap textiles, salt, and other consumer goods to improve their lives.

Don't have money to buy seedlings? It doesn't matter, the Chenji Chamber of Commerce and various merchants can give loans in the form of a deposit. Don't know how to be technological? It doesn't matter, a village will send a technician to teach and teach the club. Worried about sales? It is impossible, almost all orders can be placed in three years, and the deposits in hand are real money and hard currency such as grain and salt.

It is impossible for any Tuwang Tusi tribal chief and chief to live with money and improve the lives of his people. Once the Bai and other ethnic minority brothers who have tasted the sweetness are told that they will lose all this if they do not cooperate with the Chenji Chamber of Commerce, then every diehard who tries to oppose the annexation and the leader who intends to continue to enjoy the privileges of the old times will be torn apart by angry men and their relatives and friends.

The Gao family and the Duan family will no longer be able to use their brains when they enter this cage.

Under the double deterrence of the big stick of money and the great military power, no clan dared to oppose it. Five thousand miles of picturesque land were in the hands of the crossing people, with complete exemption from customs duties, judicial privileges, a series of leased lands and open cities, and the whole of Dali was almost reduced to a colony of the East India Company. (The colonial institutions in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indochina Peninsula formed by the Crossing Masses to control all the East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Indochina Peninsula east of longitude are similar to those of the British East India Company)

This kingdom of Dali, which is even more backward than Japan, is now only in the stage of transformation from a primitive tribal alliance country to a slave state, and it is full of primitive indigenous tribes who do not obey the king. The Dali royal family and the major princes (such as the Gao family, the largest of which was the Shanshu Mansion), could only manage the territory of bird droppings and collect taxes from the people on a small plot of land around the permanent residence. Except for a few slightly larger cities such as Dali City and Shanxian Mansion, the other settlements are all at the village level, and the differences between various places are huge, and only those who have experienced it can see how poor and cohesive Dali is that inherits the inheritance of Nanzhao.

Therefore, it is not a centralized minority regime that has to be dealt with, but hundreds or thousands of highly autonomous tribes, large and small, and an empty shell of the 'state' that connects them.

After several buffets and auctions of pearl-farming techniques similar to those of Heianjing in several large cities such as Dali and Shanxifu, the various princes and chiefs of the great tribes expressed their desire to become the dominion of the Great Song Empire like the Tibetans, nominally and completely subject to the rule of the Great Song Emperor, to fulfill their relatively free feudal obligations, and to exchange them for a large amount of trade and aid.

Traversal has always believed that a problem that can be solved with money is not a problem, and who calls them the richest group of people in the world?

From crossing the crowd into the Jianchang Mansion (Xichang) in the northeast of Dali, to arriving at the end point of Tengchong Mansion, it took a total of two months, and along the way, in addition to eating and drinking at the cocktail party, it was shopping and playing. Everything went smoothly under the arrangement of the staff of the Chamber of Commerce. The desire to shop is immensely satisfied, as if a super-rich man had bought everything in the backwoods. Cars of marble, colored stones, bronze and pewter, jade, gold and silver jewelry, Xuanwei ham and so on, as well as a whole bag of peacock feathers, cherished fur, ivory, flower seedlings and so on.

When I arrived in Tengchong, I also experienced the pleasure of smashing people with money, and the cross-cutting people who visited Weifu played a gambling game with a group of jewelers from the two countries of Dali and Dali who did not know their identities in their own jade market. The game of putting money from the left hand pocket into the right hand pocket gave the merchants present a taste of what a sky-high auction is.

The starting price of a piece of high-grade red, purple and green three-colored glass jadeite that was all the size of a juju was 500 guan, and the first bid was raised to 3,000 guan by Wang Neng, and between a few breaths before everyone could react, it was raised to 10,000 guan by Liu Jiao and Li Fei and others. When it was almost time, Li Ji ended the auction of this piece of jade with a sky-high price of 157,000 yuan. The other merchants present did not even have a chance to place a bid. Whenever someone wanted to make a bid, the traversal crowd would take the lead in raising the price, as if killing their father's revenge, and raise the price several times and several times higher, to a height that the people present could not basically afford, in order to prevent someone from knowing their identities in the future and saying that Li Ji and others were doing things like trust. The traversers who returned happily took dozens of truckloads of warehouse receipts of jadeite rough stones and raw ore and swaggered away, and the cashier's note of Chenji Bank issued on the spot also opened the eyes of the turtles present.

After visiting the absolutely original Dali Dongchuan (Cangshan Erhai) and Tubo Jiuzhaigou and other places, eating and drinking well, with hundreds of indigenous chiefs (Duan's and Gao's are just big leaders in the eyes of the traversing public, at most they are the leaders of the tribal alliance who evolved to feudal lords) handed in the allegiance of the people successfully completed this trip to destroy the country. The spotted bronze artifacts brought back to the academy by the people are all exquisite ornaments that were brought to the local coppersmith family by the techniques collected by the people through the modern times, and the raw materials are also the refined copper materials produced by the enclosure mining. There are also some unexpected catches in passing.