Li Si and Wang Ben soon entered the palace.

Arrived with the two of them, as well as Mozi, who studied the internal history of growing grain, and Mozi, who studied the scientific exploration of the middle class of the kindergarten, and even the prime minister Wang Xuan, who was in a state of semi-retirement due to his age, was invited over, and was supported by the people of the small temple lightly, and slowly walked into the hall under the courtesy of everyone.

The small temple people led everyone to their seats. Tea cups and papers were placed on the table in front of them.

"Your Majesty wants to open up the Silk Road?"

Wang Xuan stroked his beard lightly.

He is already in the age of sixties, and his energy is not as good as before, although he still has the name of prime minister, but most of the government has been handed over to Li Si, the court captain, to take over, and he raises flowers and grass at home, and his life is extremely comfortable.

His Majesty knew that he was at ease in his old age, so he rarely bothered him with political affairs, and only when this kind of foreign use of troops or changes in national politics would he let the guards invite him out of the palace and listen to his analysis and suggestions.

Wang Xuan spoke slowly, "The old minister has heard His Majesty mention this matter more than once, and the things that can be talked about by His Majesty from time to time must be things that can change the national politics and people's livelihood of Great Qin." "

"The Silk Road leads to all countries, and Your Majesty can export the goods of the Central Plains to foreign countries, and then exchange them for foreign things and sell them to the head of Qian, China."

"This road is a road to make money, but the future is unknown, the language is not clear, if you want to successfully open the Silk Road, I am afraid it will not be easy." Wang Xuan shook his head lightly, "Although the world is peaceful in Kyushu, and General Meng has also seized Henan, it doesn't mean that there is no war in a foreign country, if other countries are in war, how should the caravan sent by His Majesty deal with itself?"

Wang Ben raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Prime Minister, that's why I'm sitting here today." "If it weren't for His Majesty's plan to open the Silk Road, how could I be captured by His Majesty in a different way?"

"That being the case, the old man has a few words to ask the general." Wang Xuan looked at Wang Ben who was smiling.

Wang Ben made a gesture of invitation to Wang Xuan, "Prime Minister, please speak."

"How many men are the general going to take? Three five thousand? Or thirty or fifty thousand?"

Wang Xuan's face was serious, "How long is the general going to travel?" March and May? Or three or five years?" The time of the soldiers and horses is uncertain, and how much rations should the general bring? And how do you transport supplies?"

As a prime minister who mainly cares about the people's livelihood, he hates the generals fighting at every turn, and then opens his mouth to ask him for food, people and food are not conjured up by him out of thin air, they have to grow from the ground,

It takes three or five years to accumulate food, and it takes more than ten or twenty years for people to cultivate, and it is not something that the generals can give away as soon as they open their mouths.

"General, don't forget, Your Majesty's policy at this time is to recuperate and recuperate, and lightly pay taxes, instead of mobilizing more than 100,000 or 200,000 Qianshou to transport grain to the general!"

Wang Xuan's voice was slightly deep, "You need to know that the route of the Silk Road is extremely long, even if it is the rations of more than 10,000 people, it also needs 50,000 people to transport, and these 50,000 people need to eat and drink on the road, and the food will be spoiled by bad weather when the weather is bad, if the general needs one million stones of grain to open the Silk Road, then the loss on the transportation road will be more than five million stones."

"Five million stones!"

"This is much more expensive than General Meng Tian's attack on the Xiongnu in the north!"

"Before the Silk Road was opened, five million stone of grain had been spent, and 50,000 Guizhou had been used to transport grain, and as for the gold and silver goods, they were even more incalculable."

Wang Xuan questioned Wang Zhi, "With so many manpower and material resources, how many trips does the general have to make on the Silk Road to earn it back?"

"Of course, the Admiral could have said that the Silk Road was a golden route, and he could fill up all the previous expenses in one trip, but did the Admiral know their language? Do you understand what they're saying?"

"If you can't even understand them, how can the general do business with them?"

"Take another 10,000 steps back, the general is talented, self-taught, and can communicate with them fluently, but does the general know their customs and habits? What are they taboo and which are not? Do these generals know?"

"If you offend their customs, will the Admiral still do business with them?"

Li Si frowned slightly.

In the end, it is the old prime minister, who speaks to the point, and pokes the needle in the place where the ruler is most worried, if the ruler is an emperor with a heart, after listening to such words, I am afraid that I will no longer be able to raise the heart of opening up the Silk Road.

Fortunately, the ruler of Great Qin was an unprecedentedly decisive and wise emperor, and these words would have made the emperor a little worried, but not so frightened that he would not dare to think about the Silk Road again.

But the old prime minister's words are not groundless, the things he is worried about are real, His Majesty has just issued an edict, no longer large-scale construction and large-scale use of troops, the leaders of the Qianqian have not been happy for a few days, and His Majesty suddenly has an idea about the countries of the Western Regions, such an order is changed overnight, I am afraid that the leaders of the Qianqian will no longer believe in the edict issued by His Majesty in the future.

Ying Zhengfeng's eyes narrowed slightly.

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- He knew that Wang Xuan would use this set of rhetoric to reply to him.

Wang Xuan has been a prime minister for many years, and he and his father have been generals for many years, and they have been officials in the same dynasty for decades, so they have already understood each other's backgrounds clearly.

Wang Xuan is the prime minister of the head of a hundred officials, focusing on the government and people's livelihood, for the generals who ask him every day for money, food and people, he has always been extremely disgusted and even hated, usually not obvious, many years of officialdom ups and downs make this old fox smile when he meets people, see him and his father, and politely call the general, but if it involves asking about war, when it comes to money, food, and people, this good-tempered prime minister can change his face in an instant, regardless of three, seven and twenty-one, first took his own estimated consumption and scolded their father and son to the blood.

Father is one of the few good-tempered people in the general, for Wang Xuan's criticism, his father always has a good temper, patiently explained to Wang Xuan, he doesn't need so much money, food, and horses, and he has a faster way to win, yes, yes, the prime minister is not easy, yes, yes, the prime minister is right, yes, yes, when will the prime minister allocate grain, grass and soldiers?

Every time, his father first made Wang Xuan happy, and then changed the conversation and asked Wang Xuan for a number far lower than his expectations, so that although Wang Xuan was dissatisfied, he had nothing to say, and while persuading his father to kill less, he sighed and prepared what his father wanted.

This habit continued into his generation.

But he didn't have the good temper of his father, and he was notoriously tainted with the vices that all noble children would have—arrogance, arrogance, and arrogance.

"Oh, it costs so much?"

Wang Ben sang and sighed, "Since the cost is so much, then the Silk Road will not be opened, save some money for Your Majesty, and I will rest for two years, and follow Your Majesty to recuperate in Shanglin Garden."

Wang Xuan was slightly stunned. - Why doesn't this kid play his cards according to common sense!

Wang Ben rested his elbows on the dining table, crossed his hands to support his chin, looked at Wang Xuan opposite, and his voice was lazy, "Speaking of which, Cheng is a few years older than my father, my father has already driven to the west, but the prime minister is full of energy, and his body is extremely healthy.

Wang Xuan was silent. How many generals who lick blood from the knife can have a long life?

Thinking of the old general Wang Jian Wang, who was quite compatible with him, Wang Xuan sighed, even if he didn't like the generals to kill people, but he had to admit that he was an extremely admired general, from ability to character to the attitude of educating children and grandchildren, people couldn't find a trace of fault even if they were picky in the eggs.

But such a minister can be sent thousands of miles

Fu Ketuo was a lifelong genius of the heavens, but in the year of the unification of Kyushu, the oil ran out, and he never even saw the day when His Majesty called the first emperor, let alone the prosperity of the world at this time.

"Old General Wang dedicated his life to Great Qin."

Thinking about Wang Jian in the past, and then looking at Wang Ben who was casually picking in front of him, Wang Xuan couldn't help frowning, and even more disgusted Wang Ben, who was about to lead the troops to open the Silk Road, "As the son of General Wang, the general should inherit the legacy of General Wang and learn the good qualities of General Wang, instead of being like this, and treat the major affairs of the military and the country as child's play!"

Wang Ben spread his hands, "I want to be like my father, but the prime minister doesn't allow me to be like my father."

"The prime minister said that this also costs money, that also costs money, the money of tossing the Silk Road is far more than the money earned by the Silk Road, even so, I might as well listen to the prime minister's admonition, don't engage in any Silk Road, stay in Shanglin Yuan honestly, have nothing to do with Your Majesty to hunt, drink, isn't it better than running thousands of miles to go to a country where the language and customs are completely different from Daqin?"

Good boy, feelings are waiting for him here!

"It's okay, the general agrees with the old man's opinion, don't mention this Silk Road."

Wang Xuan smiled angrily, and arched his hand to Ying Zheng and said, "Your Majesty, there is no money, no food, and no generals are willing to go, you might as well put the Silk Road in your heart along, and when the treasury is full and the young generals grow up, it is not too late to explore the Silk Road."

Ying Zheng lazily raised his eyebrows, "Let it go?"

"Yes, let it go."

Wang Ben's dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.

Li Si's head is as big as a fight.

One is arrogant and arrogant, the other is pedantic and upright, and the two get together, it's a disaster!

"Prime Minister, you have lived to this age, why are you still angry with a junior?" Without waiting for Yingzheng to speak, Li Si hurriedly mediated, "Besides, the general's temper is unknown to others, don't you know?"

"General Wang is full of loyalty, several sons died in battle, only the general survived, General Wang's white-haired man sent the black-haired man, the general was alone at a young age, even if you look at the face of the general's brothers who died in battle, you should also take care of him."

Wang Xuan's heart trembled.

Wang Ben's brothers are all enthusiastic and publicized Guanzhong children.

Under the king's order, these Guanzhong sons galloped to the battlefield, cherishing their family and country and blood, but they slept in a foreign country for a long time, so far

Not even the bones have been recovered.

Wang Jian died in the war for the country, but he felt that the tragic death of his sons also had a certain impact. No matter how accustomed to blood and death is, he cannot remain indifferent to the bad news of his sons.

Wang Xuan closed his eyes and said to Wang Ben, "That's it, you have not been raised by a father or brother since you were a child, why should the old man be like you?"

"That's right, this is the bearing that Prime Minister Daqin should have."

Li Si breathed a sigh of relief, "The prime minister is the person who grew up watching the general, and he is the uncle and elder of the general.

Win Zheng's eyelids raised slightly.

Wang Ben sighed.

Zhisu Neishi and Juzi changed their faces together.

- Can Prime Minister Wang mention the matter of raising the young general with him? That is the unbearable past that Prime Minister Wang Cheng most reluctant to mention in his life

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But Li Si is not a native of Guanzhong, let alone a person who served the Qin kings in the early years, he is the latest to come to the palace, and he knows very little about the grievances between Wang Xuan and Wang Ben, and only vaguely heard a few mentions, saying that Wang Ben has been raised under Wang Xuan's knees since he was a child, and has a great relationship with Wang Xuan, but later Wang Lao General got older, Wang Ben also grew up, and he needed to go to the battlefield to share the war for Wang Lao General, who was already a little powerless, so he had a faint relationship with Wang Xuan.

Although it is light, the friendship between the two families on weekdays is also excellent, and the general Wang Ben, who has the vices of a noble child, is contemptuous to everyone, and only when he treats Wang Xuan is he a little serious.

- Of course, there are but not many, otherwise he would not be a general piled up in the splendid splendor.

With this in mind, Lees continued, You teach him to read and write, you teach him to be human, you teach—

The prime minister must not talk nonsense, the general's temperament is not something that an old man can raise!

Wang Xuan sneered and interrupted Li Si's words. "As for the thing that brought him with him back then, it was the most stupid thing the old man had ever done in his life!

The prime minister's words are bad, how can this be the only stupid thing you have done?

Wang Ben spoke slowly, "Oh, it's because you're old and forgetful, and you forgot all the foolish things you did, so you are not ashamed to say that you have only done one stupid thing here.

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It's not, it's

Is it a person who is raised as a son to the attitude that the one who raised him? Although the folk customs in Guanzhong are strong, they are not so wild and uninhibited that people can't understand it? !

Li Si was confused.

- The general who said that he had a lot to do with the old prime minister! How can the news he spent a lot of money to find out not be close to the facts at all?!

Although the old man is old and forgetful, it is better than the general's revenge.

Wang Xuan sneered, "If General Wang's spirit in the sky sees the general like this, most of them will regret why the person who survived on the battlefield is the general and not other sons, if it is other sons, they will never be like the general, and the ancestors will be disgraced!"

Wang Ben lazily raised his eyebrows, it turned out that the old general still remembered-

"General, be cautious."

Ying Zheng's eyes were slightly dark, and he interrupted Wang Ben's words, I announced that you came here to discuss matters, not to make you speak quickly.

"Yes, the minister knows his mistake."

Wang Ben got up and bowed his hand to Wang Xuan, and apologized perfunctorily, Old Prime Minister, I am the one who lost my words, you don't remember the villain, don't be like me.

Ying Zheng came forward in person, although Wang Ben's attitude was not good, but in the end he also apologized to himself, and Wang Xuan reluctantly apologized for his embarrassment to accept Wang Zhi, on

If only the general knew.

The temple was restored to the situation of discord between the face and the heart.

For this situation, Ying Zheng has encountered it too many times, and it is easy to deal with it, he looked up at Wang Xuan, and was very sure of his proposal, and the prime minister was reasonable.

"Opening up the Silk Road is huge, and it is contrary to our current policy of recuperation and recuperation, and if the policy is changed and forcibly opened, it will not only cause dissatisfaction with the Qin government of the world, but also make the leaders of the Qianqian resist the future policy.

Ying Zhengdao, changing the order of the day is a taboo in decision-making.

Your Majesty can think like this, it is really a blessing for all the people. Wang Xuan's heart warmed and was quite comforted.

However, the next moment, he heard the emperor's deep voice slowly sounding, with a tone that could not be denied, so that he, the prime minister who mainly cares about the people's livelihood, instantly retracted his evaluation of the emperor-

Therefore, I don't plan to change the order overnight.

Ying Zhengdao, how many rich people are in the world? We can let them explore the way first, and our armies will protect them

Escort to help them smoothly travel between Great Qin and the countries of the Western Regions.

"If we do this with them, they should be responsible for the expenses of the army."

Li Si understood in his heart, Yes, the Golden Road of the Silk Road, only let them be responsible for the cost of the army, and he is already very sympathetic to them.

"But the minister felt that there was no business in the world, and His Majesty did not have to do so, and when he made an edict, the money of the previous years could go into their pockets, and a few years later, the Silk Road would be taken over by His Majesty's Shaofu, and it had nothing to do with the merchants.

In this way, His Majesty can not only use the Silk Road to fill the treasury and provide money and food for future expansion of territory, but also make those merchants who were originally wavering make up their minds to join the Silk Road as soon as possible.

After all, there is a time limit for traveling to and from the Silk Road, and if you go late, you won't be able to earn money.

Wang Ben thought so, It is thousands of miles away to go to the countries of the Western Regions, and it is normal for some nights to be a little small on the road.

"If those merchants who do not want to go with us are plundered by the young people, then it can only be said that their lives should be like this, and who told them that they are reluctant to spend even the money to buy their lives?

A herd of beasts!

Is this something that the Great Qin monarchs should discuss? As a wise and martial emperor and a loyal courtier, how could he harm a businessman like this?

Wang Xuan deeply spit on everyone's actions, and then quickly joined them-

Not only the merchants of Guanzhong, but also the businessmen of Kyushu in the world can be gathered, especially the businessmen of the original six countries, if there is no funding from these people, how can those remnants of the six countries make waves many times? Even almost endangered His Majesty's life?

When it comes to these merchants, Wang Xuan hates them so much, For these merchants, His Majesty is very generous not to break them into pieces, and now he still wants to take them to make money, if they have a little conscience, they should be grateful to Your Majesty and swear allegiance.

The decision to let the businessmen pay for the way was unanimously approved.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Si sent out the decree to recruit merchants.

This is something he prepared early in the morning, he knew that Ying Zheng had ideas about the Silk Road, and when Meng Tian recovered Henan, he would send people to open it, so as early as the day when Meng Tian went to the north, he made several proposals for the emperor to choose.

It turns out that Yingzheng's vision is far above him, and he doesn't need to mention it, he can think of the best one, he only needs to submit what he has done before, and after the emperor's instructions, he can circulate Kyushu.

br />Of course, as an outsider but a person who is highly regarded by the government, Li Si certainly did more than that, after Meng Tian set out on the expedition, he began to screen the merchants and finalize the merchants who traveled with Wang Zhi for the first time.

These businessmen must have enough financial ability, the ability to be good at communication, and the ability to do business from a distance. After finalizing the merchants, he communicated with these people in advance, and told them to start preparing now, and when the decree was issued, these merchants who had been preparing for many days would come to apply, and then set off with Wang Ben to the Silk Road.

What was supposed to take three or five months or even one or two years to complete was compressed to a very short time under Li Si's operation, but in ten days, the merchants were able to set off with Wang Ben, and at this time, Wang Ben also ordered the generals, with five thousand elite soldiers, and swept out of Xianyang City.

- It's just to explore the way first, you don't have to bring too many people, if there are too many people, it doesn't look like it's going back and forth to do business, but it wants to annex the countries of the Western Regions.

Of course, this is indeed what Ying Zheng thinks. After seeing the globe, who will be confined to Huaxia Kyushu?

Looking to the future, the unification of all the land is his ultimate goal.

And Wang Ben did not live up to his expectations, not long after Wang Ben left, there was good news, saying that there was a small country king extremely arrogant, language barriers, and unwilling to be patient to watch them gesticulate, the general Wang Ben never used to anyone, drew his sword and cut the king, this land less than the size of the county of Huaxia into the bag, accompanied by officials stationed here, and left 800 elite soldiers, enough to deter this piece into the territory of Daqin.

And here, it is just the beginning, followed by Wusun, Dawan, Dayueshi, Qiuzi, these countries in the Western Regions have either established diplomatic relations with Great Qin, exchanged business and exchanges, or become part of Great Qin, and are directly led by officials left by Wang Ben.

A steady stream of goods and good news came to Xianyang City.

Dawan's sweat and blood, the grapes of the Western Regions, and the things that were not originally available in the land of China, gradually appeared on the land of China with the spread of the Silk Road.

"The Admiral is amazing!"

Hehua ate sweet and sour grapes, and the worship of Wang Ben in his heart was even more than before, although the current grapes were not at all comparable to the grapes given to her by the teacher, but for Daqin, who was short of fruits, grapes were already very delicious, If there was no him, I would not have been able to eat such delicious grapes.

With such delicious grapes, I have to leave some for Sister Pheasant. Hehua asked Zhang Han, By the way, is Sister Pheasant busy today? When will I be able to come back?

The strange woman really didn't lie to her, Lu Pheasant is really powerful,

Even Prime Minister Wang Juan and Tingwei Li Si are full of praise for her, and now she is working under Zhisu Neishi, helping to deal with taxes and finances.

"Today, she came back with a message in advance, saying that she was not too busy and would be able to come back before it got dark."

When Wang Ben traveled, Zhang Han was seriously injured and did not recover, and could not go to the Western Regions with Wang Ben, at this time he was staying by Hehua's side, peeled the grapes that the maids had washed, and handed them to Hehua with a silver fork, After she came back, she went to the palace with the princess, and the princess was stuffy in the palace for so long, and it was time to go out of the palace.

Recently, a lot of Hu businessmen have come, bringing a lot of strange things, if the princess sees it, she will like it. The light in Zhang Han's eyes flashed slightly, If you are lucky, you may be able to meet the person the princess wants to see.

"Who I want to meet?"

Hehua tilted her head in confusion, but soon, she remembered - the man who saved Zhang Han's Zhiduo Demon.

"He's finally back in touch with you?!"

Hehua was overjoyed, he couldn't even care about eating his favorite grapes, took the silver fork with grapes handed over by Zhang Han, and asked excitedly, Where is he now? How's it going? Why did you suddenly change your personality and suddenly contact you?

"It's not like a sudden return to contact."

Zhang Han smiled, "Actually, I always knew what happened to him, he had no hope of revenge, he was quite decadent, and his life was not satisfactory."

By chance, he met Lu Pheasant, who had just come to Xianyang, and the two did not know each other, but they became friends.

"Maybe it's because of Lu Pheasant's persuasion, maybe it's because of the prosperity of Xianyang City and the prosperity of Kyushu in the world, he finally relented and was willing to listen to me say a few words.

"I thought this was a good time, and I might as well take the princess with me."

Zhang Han said, Even if he is obsessed with revenge, it doesn't matter, the princess can fulfill her wish and no longer miss this person, so she will not live up to this side.