The world is still peaceful, there is no contention between soldiers, no stench of blood, only the smell of fireworks that penetrates into thousands of households, and the constant rush of cars, horses and pedestrians on the road.

For a while, the Central Plains actually had a bit of camouflage for the prosperous world.

The official roads of various countries had been paved, and the Qin state had opened up its suppression of merchants, and commerce had prospered rapidly at the rate of savage growth.

Under the impetus of merchants, the goods of Tiannan and Haibei are transported to all corners of the world.

With the planning and completion of the grassland pasture of Zhaoguo, the processing plant of dairy products and leather products was also put into production, and the business of Zhaoguo ushered in the second spring.

A steady stream of milk wine and leather was transported from Monan, Hetao and other places to the aristocratic mansions of Handan, and even sold to Qi, Wei and Korea through official roads and water transportation.

As soon as this kind of milky wine was put on the market, it conquered everyone's taste buds, attracting nobles from all over the world to buy it, and it instantly became a luxury in wine.

Merchants from all over the world found business opportunities and poured into Zhao one after another, and started to resell milk wine and leather, and some even chose to settle in Zhao, bringing a lot of wealth to Zhao.

"I didn't expect that the grassland, which no one had noticed before, could bring such huge benefits to my Zhao Kingdom." Lin Xiangru held a list and said excitedly.

The list shows that Zhao Guo's commercial tax in the third quarter has risen by two percent compared with the second quarter.

Zhao is not the kind of country where the commercial tax can be directly ignored in the Qin State, the Zhao State extends in all directions, and the business has always been very prosperous, after the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, the business is more prosperous than before, ranking the most in the world.

Even so, it still increased by a full two percent.

This is just a commercial tax, and does not include the other benefits brought by the influx of merchants into the Zhao State.

Moreover, these milk distilleries and tanneries are all run by Zhao Guo's government, and the operating income directly belongs to Zhao Guo's treasury.

"The cost of raising these animals in the Central Plains is very large, and countries spend a lot of money to raise war horses and cattle, just for military and agricultural purposes. Therefore, sheep that cannot be used in military and agricultural use are rarely raised. But on the grasslands, the cost of raising these animals is negligible. Zhao Bao said with a smile.

These properties were all arranged by him and Zhao Mu together, and it was the first time he knew that raising horses was so cheap.

He knew how much Zhao Guo spent every year to raise horses, and even so, almost all of them were horses, which could only be used to pull carts, not rides.

Later, King Wuling of Zhao conquered Lou Fu and Lin Hu, only to get a large number of high-quality war horses, and built his own horse farm in Daijun.

Now that Zhao has conquered half of the grassland, the horse farms opened up are much larger than those in Dai County, and the cost is much lower.

"The main thing is the smooth flow of roads, which solves the transportation problem. The production of milk wine solves the problem of shelf life. Otherwise, even if we get the grassland, we will raise cattle and horses, and it will be difficult to obtain higher economic benefits. Zhao Kuo said.

Milk wine was not invented by Zhao State, but obtained from the Xiongnu after the conquest of the Xiongnu.

In addition to the Xiongnu, the tribes of Donghu, Loufu, and Linhu will make milk wine, at most, some of them are relatively clear and have no smell, and some are more turbid and have a smell.

As for who invented it, it is impossible to find out.

But now it has fulfilled the Zhao State.

The shelf life of milk is only a few days, and it is impossible to transport it from northern Xinjiang to Handan.

But milk wine is different, after it is made, the shelf life can be as short as a few months or as long as a year, which is enough to be transported anywhere in the Central Plains.

However, those merchants in the Central Plains who made a living by making wine and selling wine were afraid that Zhao Guo would be scolded to death.

The price of milk wine is not more expensive than other wines, but it has an extra milk flavor, and Zhao Guo has spent a lot of effort on publicity, and the milk wine is packaged extremely nutritious.

In just a few months, it has suppressed other grain wines and completely failed to raise its head.

As for the transportation of fresh beef and fresh mutton, the problem has not been solved, and the cold chain? Inexistent.

In the middle of summer, the shelf life is only one day, and you can't play at all.

Winter can solve the problem of shelf life, anyway, Zhao is in the north, but in winter it is easy to encounter ice and snow road closures, and it is difficult to transport.

Major ranches are already building underground ice storage, cutting down river ice in the winter and storing it for use in the summer, but the ice storage is limited and can only meet the needs of transporting meat in large quantities once or twice a year.

Now Zhao Guodu slaughtered the livestock, directly salted it, then cut it into slices and hung it in the yard to dry, and then sent it to Handan and the military camp after drying.

The soldiers didn't have any opinions, it didn't make a difference to them whether they were meat or jerky, and some of them just had to eat.

To be honest, it was already a surprise to them to have jerky to eat, most of them barely had enough to eat five years ago, and as for meat, it was impossible, let alone beef, a high-end product that the aristocracy could not afford.

However, at present, Zhao's pasture is only just on the right track, and it cannot provide stable meat.

The only thing that can satisfy all the soldiers is fish and meat, even the craftsmen of the workshop, the workers who build the road, can bring a catty or two of salted fish home every few days, and even recently it has begun to flow into the homes of ordinary people, becoming the most popular meat in Zhao State.

Now the price of fish meat in Zhao is ridiculously low, only a little more expensive than millet and rice.

It is said that Zhao Miao is also expanding the fishing fleet......

"By the way, yesterday the county came to report and found that there were merchants trading with the Donghu people, and some people even raised war horses, cattle and sheep in the Donghu land." Liu Ping said.

"Divide land in Donghu and hire Donghu people to raise war horses? The Donghu people didn't attack them? Zhao Kuo smiled.

This is a talent, running to the enemy's territory to enclose the ground.

"Donghu has no king until now, although there has been no large-scale war, but small wars continue, some small tribes can't support it, and can only be annexed by other tribes, and then this businessman named Fan Tong found a tribe that was about to be unable to support it, and told the tribal leader to give him three months, he can bring the tribe back to life, but the tribal leader of these three months needs to let him do it, and then he needs to be paid a lot of money."

"Because the tribe is the descendant of the leader, even if the position of the leader is given to Fan Tong, the tribe is still his, and now the tribe is in danger, plus Fan Tong finally said that he needs to be paid, so that the old leader thinks that Fan Tong is just for money, so he did not hesitate to give up the position of leader to Fan Tong."

"After more than two months, Fan Tong relied on his superb mind to help the tribe save the day, and took the old leader and other tribes in and out of many places, so that the other tribes around him thought that he was the new leader of the tribe, and the old leader also helped him prove it."

"When the time was ripe, Fan Tong used this tribe as collateral to borrow 3,000 troops from a large tribe, and then used these 3,000 troops to participate in a tribal battle and seize a piece of grassland." Liu Ping said slowly.

Everyone was dumbfounded, it was the first time they had seen such an operation.

"Empty gloves white wolf!" Zhou Zi said, it was even more ruthless than Tian's purchase.