The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Western Regions has been established, and the four counties of Hexi are under its jurisdiction, namely Wuwei County, and the county is Zang Taishou Jia Hui. Zhangye County, the county is too guarded by Zhang Qiao. Jiuquan County. The county is governed by Lu Fu Taishou and restores the land branch. Dunhuang County, the county governance of Dunhuang is too shou Zhao Ponu. In addition to the four counties, there are four major governors' mansions, Juyanze is set up as the governor of Juyan, and Yi Jixuan is the captain. The most likely to be infested by bandits is set up at the head of the pond to protect the merchant Captain, and Gao does not know that he is the Captain. Shangguan Ji led 10,000 troops to garrison Yumen Pass and was the captain of Yumen. Li Ling led 10,000 troops to garrison Yangguan and was the captain of Yangguan. In this way, the establishment of the four counties in Hexi has basically taken shape.

Then the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion led the military administration of the four counties, and there were two left and right Changshi people in the palace with a rank ratio of 2,000 stones, which were held by Dongfang Shuo and Du Yannian respectively. There are six divisions under the rank of Qianshi, which are the Department of the Interior, and the Commander-in-Chief is the decree of the Metropolitan Governor's Office. The Department of Foreign Affairs is responsible for the external affairs of the Metropolitan Governor's Office and the countries of the Western Regions. The Finance Department coordinates the money, food and equipment of the Metropolitan Governor's Office. The Department of Agriculture and Commerce is responsible for the business and travel tariffs under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the agriculture and water conservancy. The Department of Officials is responsible for the appointment, dismissal, promotion and dismissal of officials under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Office. The Department of Criminal Prisons is responsible for the arrest of criminal prisons.

Zuo Shi Dongfang Shuo led the three divisions of internal affairs, foreign affairs, and officials. Right Shi Du Yannian led the three divisions of finance, agriculture and commerce, and criminal prison. The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion set up six divisions, and a strict power system with Metropolitan Governor Huo Guang as the top of the pyramid was fully formed, and the rights of the four counties in Hexi were all gathered in Huo Guang.

Yangguan and Yumen Pass are two passes built by Huo Guang with all his might, and the name of the pass is actually a huge city with a radius of more than ten miles. At this moment, outside Yangguan and Yumen Pass, countless merchants and travelers on both sides of the city pass converge outside the city, and the merchants who want to enter the pass and enter the west of the river are stagnant, and they are hesitant to go out of the pass to the Western Regions.

"What's going on? Is this still a way to live? Isn't it a loss-making business to impose a tariff of 10 taxes and 1 tariff? The merchants and travelers outside the two city gates looked at the edict issued by the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and they were all excited, eager to find Huo Guang to theorize.

Shangguan Ji and Li Ling stood on top of the city pass they guarded, looking indifferently at the more and more business travelers gathered outside the city gate on both sides.

"Pass the order, guard the city, and if anyone dares to break through, kill him!" With the military order of the two town guards issued, earth-shattering footsteps instantly sounded in the city pass, the footsteps were uniform, and every step fell as if the earth trembled.

The originally noisy merchant brigade instantly quieted down, and then under the gaze of the merchant travelers, an infantry formation of thousands of people appeared on both sides of the city pass in smoke and dust.

An infantry formation armed with a giant shield and spear appeared in front of the merchant brigade, and the giant shield in the front row slammed into the ground, and the "bang" seemed to make the earth sink down a lot. The business travelers were intimidated by the momentum and couldn't help but retreat a few steps back.

The army lined up in front, making the merchants look at each other. Immediately afterwards, a rather solemn voice on the top of the city tower read out a document: "According to the decree of the Dadu Governor, anyone who carries goods in and out of Yumen and Yangguan will be charged customs duties according to ten taxes and one for the goods. Anyone who carries smugglers will be punished with confiscated goods once they are investigated. In addition, except for the blades and armor required for guards, other gongnu weapons and armor are not allowed to be taken out of the customs unless there is a document from the Metropolitan Governor's Office. ”

"Hmph, this is simply not giving people a way to live, it's a big deal that Lao Tzu won't go out, let's not go out, I want to see what money the metropolitan governor can receive?" On the side of the Han merchants, a big businessman with a high status said agitationly.

This man had a great reputation and some prestige among the merchants, and when he said this, many people echoed him. "Yes, as long as we boycott together, even the Metropolitan Governor will have to change the tax rate in the end, let's go back to Dunhuang."

Merchants began to return to Dunhuang with caravan goods one after another, and during this period, the Western Han Dynasty exported mainly silk brocade and paper tea to the Western Regions, which could be stored for a long time, and they did not worry about storing them for too long.

When the Han merchants chose to fight against the high tariffs and did not go out of the customs, the Hu merchants in the Western Regions who wanted to enter Hexi also made a similar choice. Their main offerings to the Han were spices, gems, gold and silver utensils, and these Hu merchants set up temporary tents outside the Yumen Pass and Yangguan Pass.

When the Han Shang and Hu Shang chose to confront Huo Guang, the events that happened in Yumen Pass and Yangguan had already been reported to Huo Guang's Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

"It seems that all this is really not as Wan Guanhou expected! I don't know how to break the game next? Dongfang Shuo looked at Huo Guang and Lu Shu with calm faces, not only were they not surprised at all, but even Lu Shu had already expected today's situation.

"It's time to look at Wan Guanhou next." Huo Guang was in the main position, and he looked at Lu Shu with an expectant smile on his face.

"Lord, please rest assured, this time the subordinates have been preparing for more than two months, not only more than three times more goods than in the past, but even some goods that have never appeared in the Western Regions." Lu Shu took a sip of the chilled grape juice in front of him, and said as if he was in control.

When the Han merchants returned to Dunhuang, everyone found that a huge caravan in Dunhuang that had never been there before was being replenished and repaired. This caravan numbered more than two thousand, and there were as many as six or seven hundred guards alone, and the goods they carried filled the entire Dunhuang City.

"Look, this caravan is going to go out of customs, and I'm afraid that so many goods will be worth ten thousand gold, right? This escort team is too big, isn't it? Even if you destroy those small countries, it will be enough" The unprecedented caravan slowly drove out of Dunhuang City, heading towards Yangguan.

Among the 36 countries in the Western Regions, there are large countries such as Wusun and Dawan, with tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 soldiers, and small countries such as Pu and Jingjue, which only occupy one city, with no more than 10,000 people and no more than 1,000 soldiers. Such a small country would be more appropriately called a city-state.

With six or seven hundred well-equipped Han Chinese guards, it is really not difficult to destroy such a small country as Jingjue. However, these small countries are often located on the main transportation routes in the Western Regions, and the front and back are the vast desert and Gobi, and the caravans need the supply of these small city-states, so they have the value of survival.

"Keep up, this is Wan Guanhou's caravan. Let's go and see if they pay the tariff, if they do, it's just that, if they don't, the Metropolitan Governor's Office will have no prestige at all! "Some particularly shrewd merchants saw that this unprecedentedly large caravan belonged to Lu Shu, and they wanted to see if Lu Shu's caravan could pay such high tariffs, and if they didn't pay these merchants, they would find the handle of the Dadu Governor's Mansion. They didn't believe that such a large caravan was willing to pay such high tariffs.

Lü Shu only arranged one caravan this time, and went from Yangguan to Shanshan, along the southern trade route of the Western Regions to Dawan and then to the Tiaozhi country further west. Because Huo Guang proposed that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty rejected Wusun's request for peace, the two countries have now severed diplomatic contacts, and Huo Guang was also worried that Wusun would be in the way of the trade route, so he did not arrange this caravan out of Yumen Pass, and at the same time, this unprecedented huge caravan also had another task, which was to contact Dawan to form an alliance to attack Wusun.

Dawan is a large country west of Wusun, with more than 70 large and small cities, a population of nearly one million, and tens of thousands of soldiers. Huo Guang never thought of reconciling with Wusun, there would be a war there sooner or later, as long as Hexi developed to a certain extent, he would wave his army to the west, and the first target was Wusun. And making friends with Dawan from afar and attacking Wusun at close range is a major strategy for Huo Guang in the next five years.

Downstairs in Yangguan City, Lu Shu's westbound caravan stopped outside the gate in a neat and orderly manner, and the officials of the Agricultural and Commercial Department of the Dadu Governor's Mansion had already begun to check and count the goods out of the customs one by one. After a rigorous and orderly necessary formalities, the caravan steward handed over more than 1,400 gold tariffs to the Department of Agriculture and Commerce under the gaze of countless merchants who watched the excitement, and then the Yumen Pass was opened, and under the strict protection of the Yangguan garrison, this unprecedented caravan slowly sailed out of Yangguan and began the westward journey in full swing.

"Really paid so much gold, how much value is the caravan caravan carat? This is almost the sum of nearly three months of trade on the entire Western Regions trade route in the past, what should we do now? Some of the merchants already had a look of struggle in their eyes, and their hearts began to shake as they watched the Lu Shu caravan go out.

"Wait and see, I don't believe in how much money can be made in the end with such heavy tariffs and the cost of hiring such a large team?" However, some businessmen initially estimated the profits that the caravan goods could bring according to the previous situation, and then discussed the conversion of these personnel consumption, and found that although Lu Shu's caravan was huge, it would not make much money in the end, and it was even possible to lose money.

When everything was normal in the land of Hexi, the merchants who gathered in Dunhuang finally waited for the first team of the Lushu caravan to return after nearly two months of anxious waiting. During this period, not all of the huge caravans went on to trade, but they returned one after another after completing transactions between cities, and the number of caravans that really went to the end should be only a hundred people.

The first team to return did not bring back the goods of the Western Regions at the same time, as usual, and they returned to Yangguan with light equipment, but they did not enter the customs immediately, but found the Hu merchants outside the customs who had been unwilling to pay the high customs duties for a long time. After some bargaining, this team bought the goods in the hands of Hu Shang at a price lower than the original market price, and then after paying the import duties again, this team crossed the Yangguan with a full load of goods from the Western Regions and entered the territory of the Han Dynasty.

When the caravan returned to Dunhuang for repairs, the merchants who stayed in Dunhuang began to use various connections to inquire about the profits of the caravan.

However, under this inquiry, a news that shocked the whole world spread. It turned out that Lu Shu's caravan took advantage of the delay of other merchants to go out of the customs, and took the opportunity to raise the price of goods in the Western Regions, because the goods of the Han Dynasty were all luxury goods, and they were generally purchased by the upper class of the Western Regions.

At first glance, the first team to return made about three times as much profit from selling the goods they carried. And there is no doubt that the value of these commodities will rise over time. At this time, no merchant could sit still, and they urged the caravan to go to Yangguan and Yumen Pass, scrambling to pay the customs duties and leave the customs.

And the Hu merchants of the Western Regions are not stupid, when some of them sell their goods cheaply to the returning caravans, some people have already discovered that on the Han side, their Western Regions goods are likely to rise in price, and these people also took the initiative to pay customs duties and enter the customs.

At this time, everyone understood why Huo Guang and Lu Shu were not worried about these merchants not paying customs duties at all. If they don't pay, it means that Lu Shu will completely monopolize the trade in the Western Regions, of course, this is impossible, so the merchants have no choice but to continue to trade on this trade route, and to offset such a huge tariff, they can only organize a larger caravan and expand the distance of trade to farther in order to earn greater profits, and the result is that the trade route in the Western Regions is becoming more and more prosperous, and the land west of the river is becoming richer and richer. ()

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