Fusu knew that turning Hexi into an important commercial port in Great Qin was not as simple as building a huge city, but also fully considering how to attract merchants from the Western Regions to this Ganzhou city, not only to attract them, but also to keep them.

The most important thing is to ensure the safety of these people on the way to Hexi, natural disasters are unpredictable, but man-made disasters can help avoid it.

Fusu thought of the Silk Road, so Fusu secretly decided to put the Silk Road on the stage of history in advance.

The next day, the ministers gathered in a large tent in the city of Ganzhou, which was the temporary office of Shusun Tong, and since the capital was still under construction, the tent became the best choice for temporary coping.

Taking the opportunity of the court discussion, Fusu put forward all the strategies he came up with last night to run the land west of the river:

First of all, in this Ganzhou city, the establishment of the Governor of Commerce, specifically to manage the foreign merchants who do business in Hexi, all the foreign merchants who do business in the land of Hexi, need to register in the Governor's Mansion of Governance, as long as it is a registered businessman, all the treatment is the same as the people of Daqin, it is commendable that these foreign merchants as long as they are registered in the Governor's Mansion, they no longer need to do any registration, as long as they hold the business festival issued by the Governor's Mansion (similar to the business license of later generations, but more like a combination of business license and ID card), It can be passed unimpeded in the west of the river.

Secondly, in the city of Ganzhou and the other three county magistrates, the county governments built pavilions, post merchants, warehouses and other buildings, and rented these shops and pavilions to business caravans at low rents.

The second is to form the Great Qin Protector Merchant Army, select 50,000 people from the Great Qin soldiers to form an army specially used to protect trade routes, and divide it into several teams to patrol along the trade routes leading from Great Qin to the countries of the Western Regions to protect the merchants of various countries who go to Great Qin to do business.

Finally, it was to send elite soldiers and strong generals to form 30 Great Qin missions, and sent envoys to Yanqi, Qiuzi, Wusun, Shule, Loulan and other countries in the Western Regions, as well as many cities of the Mauryan Empire, to negotiate with these countries about opening ports and trade.

Fifteen of these thirty missions were prepared by Fusu for the Western Regions, and the remaining fifteen were arranged by Fusu to go to the Mauryan Empire, and Fusu was also prepared to add ten soldiers who were good at surveying and mapping to each mission, so that they could secretly map out the general geographical information of the Western Regions countries and the Mauryan Empire for future expeditions.

After listening to Fusu's strategy for the land west of the river, the ministers didn't know what to say, except for feeling that some labor and money were wasted, they had nothing to say, because these arrangements made by Fusu were unheard of by them, whether it was the construction of a trade hall by the Great Qin State, or the dispatch of thirty missions to the countries of the Western Regions, they had never thought about it, and as for the Peacock Dynasty that Fusu said, they had never heard of it.

"Yu Gongzi, my Great Qin is the master of this world, and all the countries in the Western Regions are barbarians, why do you spend money and money to deal with these barbarians, is it too child's play." An old minister objected after listening to Fusu's plan.

"Yes, Gongzi, my Great Qin accounts for eighty or ninety percent of the world, and the remaining twenty percent can afford to send thirty missions?" Another minister chimed in.

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Subject to the lack of geographical knowledge during the Great Qin period, these courtiers did not know how big the world they were in, so they naturally thought that Great Qin accounted for most of the world, after all, Great Qin was established after the destruction of the Six Kingdoms, in their cognition, except for Great Qin, there is no country that can be as big as the Seven Kingdoms, so in Fusu's opinion, they have the arrogance of sitting in a well and watching the sky, but this can't be blamed on them, after all, the geographical cognition of "Fusu" is not comparable to them.

After listening to the opposition of the ministers, Fusu did not refute, let alone explain anything, but told the ministers that he had made up his mind, after all, the vastness of the Western Regions and the wealth of the Mauryan Empire, these ministers did not know at all, and they would not understand some until the envoys came back, and how Fusu explained at this time was in vain, because these ministers knew very little about the Western Regions and the Mauryan Empire, and the explanation was also in vain.

When the ministers saw that Fusu was determined to do these things, they did not speak out against it.

Seeing that the ministers were a little unhappy, obviously having some opinions on the resolution they had just made, Fusu glanced at these people and looked at his uncle and grandson Tong spoke.

"General Metropolitan Protection, I wonder where the fertile land I gave to these ministers before is located? Whether it is properly arranged. ”

After listening to what Fusu said, Shusun Tong immediately understood Fusu's intentions, and just now he decided on the strategy of Hexi despite the opposition of these ministers, which made these ministers dissatisfied, and Fusu immediately threw out "dates".

Hearing Fusu mention the fields that had been given to them, the ministers looked at their uncles and grandsons with blazing eyes, and their dissatisfaction was immediately swept away, and they were eager to know how the affairs of their fields were arranged.

"The fields of the princes and your lords are outside this Ganzhou City, and the minister has arranged for the soldiers to cultivate it, if you are willing, the old minister will immediately send someone to take you to see."

I saw that the ministers nodded one after another, urging their uncle and grandson to take them to see their respective fields.

It stands to reason that the current prestige of Fusu does not need to take into account the opposition of these ministers at all, and the reason why Fusu does this is that he does not want to dampen the enthusiasm of these ministers, once his power is too strong in the future, and the enthusiasm of these ministers' advice is frustrated, then no courtiers are willing to tell the truth, and it will be too dangerous for Daqin, because an emperor who has no courtiers to refute it is easy to bring the country to a situation of recklessness.

In fact, Fusu had already secretly ordered his uncle Sun Tong to arrange for the soldiers to cultivate the fields he had rewarded to the ministers, after all, he still owed a lot of money to the ministers to issue bonds of the Great Qin State, and it would be a bit too much to say if he didn't implement the fields that were rewarded to others.

Three days later, Fusu led the people to leave the land of Hexi and embarked on the return journey back to Xianyang, because the ministers really saw the effectiveness of Shusun Tong's governance in Hexi, and also helped themselves take care of the fields that Fusu rewarded him, so they praised Shusun Tong's ability to govern the border.