Dai Wang stood on the head of the city directly opposite Weng City, holding a torch in his hand, and the hidden light flashed on his sandalwood mask, which made the whole person even more eerie, making them shudder.

"I really didn't underestimate your guts, so I came with one hundred and eighty men. You also look down on me too much, Dai has been operating in India for two whole years, and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, how can you let these 100 people take it for me? “

The two of them were silent for a long time, and Gao Gai said helplessly: "The winner is the king, the loser is the villain, we have nothing to say, the two of us deserve it and are willing to bear the consequences, but can you let go of the brothers I hired, they just came out to make money." ”

Dai Wang raised his head and laughed, bowed his head contemptuously and coldly and said: "You don't even know who you provoke and offend, and you dare to say that the winner is the king and the loser is the villain, it's really ridiculous!" ”

"Who did we offend?" Lu Xiu's forehead broke out in a cold sweat, and he looked around at the soldiers on the head of the city, these people were wearing iron armor and holding crossbows, which were undoubtedly the outfits of the Tang army.

"You can all transfer the Tang army to the capital of North India, Qunu City, under your nose." Gao Gai nodded soberly: "I understand." ”

"Now that you understand, let's go on the road safely! Shoot the arrows! ”

At the command of the Captain Quy Nhon Military Academy, the soldiers responded with the strings, and round after round of arrows pierced the bandits sitting on their horses. They fell to the ground, groaned, and crawled back and forth under the horse's belly, but the horses ran back and forth in pain from the arrows, and trampled on the ground like punching bags.

When the scene returned to the cold silence, Dai Wang waved his hand and ordered everyone to go down to clean up the scene and carry the body. A steward stood in the pile of corpses with his nose covered and looked up and asked him, "Boss, what should I do with so many corpses and horse corpses?" ”

"It's not easy to dispose of the corpses, bury them in my pepper garden, they can't be wasted as fertilizer!"

The bodies were carried onto wagons and slipped out of the gates into the darkness of the night.

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"More than 100 people were killed and buried by me, and I felt that it was too cruel at the time, and they were just for money. Fortunately, this incident happened in Tianzhu, otherwise it would have caused you a lot of trouble. ”

Li Siye stood next to the pillar, turned around and said: "Since the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, you have been a businessman, and you have to think and do things in the way of a businessman all the time, so you don't need to ask who and who causes much trouble, you just need to measure, if I do this, will I make money or lose money, if it is a loss of money, then don't do it, if you make money, you can do it." ”

"Isn't this equivalent to losing money?"

"That's right, this step must be taken, everyone in the world is chasing land and power, no one is chasing money. Those who chase the land only want to turn the people around them into their slaves, and their children and grandchildren will cultivate for their families. Those who chase power from top to bottom are thinking about how to intrigue and how to seize power. Only those who chase money have the lowest threshold, as long as their desires are stimulated, they get enough wealth, exchange wealth for power, and use wealth to influence others. ”

Dai Wang shook his head: "I don't understand, I always feel that you are very ambitious, your idea of using money to do business may be okay in this barren Western Regions, but it will not work in the fertile Central Plains, the imperial court does not want the people to move, and does not want them to leave the fields to chase money." ”

"That's right, I don't want too many people to play with money, but they're also indispensable, so what we have to do is gather these people for me and make them available to me."

"Don't talk about this," Li Siye turned his head and asked him, "What is the monthly shipment volume now." ”

"Thirty-five stone per month, an average of one stone per day."

Li Siye raised his head and calculated that it was 420 stone per year, and the total price was 2.52 million yuan, deducting the cost of the operation of the post station and the monthly salary of all personnel, at least 20% should be deducted, and the balance would be 2 million yuan.

It may be that such a high profit can only be earned for one year, and by next year and the year after that, the inflated price of pepper will drop slightly, and their profits will generally remain at about one million yuan a year, and the military expenses of the two armies in Anxi will be more than enough, and they can even spend money to do something else.

Dai Wang suddenly asked, "Are we setting up the terminal of the trade route to Tingzhou City?" ”

Li Siye asked him in surprise: "Why do you think so?" Tingzhou and the southern route are not the same road at all, and the transportation cost has increased exponentially. ”

"Yangguan is really too provocative, located on the main traffic road, there are so many people coming and going every day, and there are too many people who know, it will make some people in the DPRK and China target, it is really unsafe."

Li Siye patted his knee and said: "Don't worry about the affairs of the court, this kind of thing can't be hidden, it's better to expose your strength, I will settle the pressure on the official face for you, and you have to solve the pressure in other places." ”

He suddenly thought of one more thing, and then said: "After the last month of this year, let's suspend it at the beginning of spring next year." Because Gao Xianzhi is going to go on an expedition to the country of Karma in the spring of next year, you order all the post stations of Xiao Bolu to the west to start storing grain, and when Gao Xianzhi goes on an expedition next year, you will take the opportunity to offer food and make meritorious deeds, and it will also be good for you to gain Gao Xianzhi's favor. ”

"Well," replied Dai Wang, solemnly crossing his hands, and treating himself entirely as his subordinate. ”

Gao Xianzhi did have plans to start an expedition to the country of the Karma Division, which is a country closer to Xiao Bolu and is also in the Kashmir region, but the king of this Karma Division is desperate to take refuge in Tibet, and even the Tang Dynasty broke the Little Breu, which did not scare the chicken.

The existence of the Karma Kingdom threatens the safety of Little Bolu, and they must strike first to defuse the crisis in advance. Li Siye also very much agreed with Gao Xianzhi's expedition to the Karma Division, because Xiao Bolu and the post station to India were not too far from the Karma Country, which affected the safety of the trade routes. Therefore, Li Siye unconditionally supported and wrote a long letter to Gao Xianzhi, saying that he would participate in the expedition with him.

The content of this long letter is that there are indeed some official backers and forces, and after they found these officials, they learned from their channels that the forces behind Dai Wang's Western Regions Chamber of Commerce are the current envoys of the Beiting Jiedu, the envoys of Longyou interviews, the herdsmen and the recruiting envoys Li Siye, this official is nothing in the court, but in the entire Longyou Dao, it is considered to be the top of the sky. Even An Sishun, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, and Ge Shuhan, the envoy of Longyou Jiedu, were unwilling to offend him, let alone make money for a few of their businessmen.

Although one of these two was a Sogdian and the other was a Turgish, because their parents were generals of the imperial court and had been fully integrated into the value system of the Central Plains, they did not look down on the merchants, let alone offend their colleagues for the sake of the two merchants.