These merchants should have gone into the city to do business, so why did they stay outside the city gates? Could it be that the people of Xizhou did not allow the merchants of the Central Plains to enter? This is also impossible. For the people of Xizhou, the people of the Central Plains came to sell precious goods and then take the worthless jade away...... The people of Xizhou are crazy? What are they doing leaving these merchants outside the city? Of course, they want silk, porcelain, and spices from the Central Plains.

Both Yizhou and Xizhou are Uighur territories, and the policy should be the same. When I was in Illino, these merchants were very popular, why were they stopped when they arrived in Western State? What kind of business is this?

"Hurry up, these merchants must be in a hurry, let's go and ask what happened. Zong Xin asked Zheng Ziming to speed up, and Zheng Ziming and the wolf pulling the cart also saw the situation in front of them and immediately drove forward.

Xizhou City was in front of them, but the group drove for nearly an hour before arriving. The speed of the car should not be too fast, because there is still cargo in the car, and although the eye can see it, it is actually very far away. Even though you can see an endless place like the Western Regions, it takes a long time to reach your destination.

Passing through the town, there was a stone henge next to it, and after walking through the main road and not entering the range of the stone henge, the group came to the outside of the Xizhou city gate. The Eighteen Horsemen of Youyun and the masters of the Thunder King's Mansion immediately came to Zong Xin's side, they hadn't seen each other for a long time, and if it weren't for the protection of this group of useless merchants, they wouldn't have left Zong Xin's side for anything.

Seeing Master Zongxin's carriage arrive, many merchants were also waiting outside the city gate, ready to complain.

Zong Xin asked directly, "Old Five, what's the situation here?"

"Returning to the master, the price demanded by the city keeper was too high, and all the merchants stayed outside the city and set up camp. Lao Wu said: "In fact, the merchants who have doubled the tax can accept it, but this time the asking price is too high." They demanded a tax of fifty taels of silver for a cartload of goods, which was tenfold. If they had to pay fifty taels of silver to enter the city here, then although their trip was not in vain, at least half of the proceeds were taken by the city guard. ”

Zong Xin nodded, probably knowing what was going on. The Uighurs were so lacking in virtue that they welcomed them all the way to Western China. After arriving in Xizhou, a lion opened his mouth and forced these merchants to hand over more than half of the profits of the trip.

Of course, even after paying this money, the merchants still make money, and they still make a lot of money. But the merchants are making the hard-earned money along the way, and the Uighurs are completely white wolves with empty gloves, which is simply a robbery.

However, one thing is certain, as long as the attitude of the Uighurs is clear, these merchants will definitely hand over the money, at most they will not come to Xizhou next time, but they must hand over the money, and then go into the city to sell the goods, and then buy jade and transport it back to the Central Plains.

The Uighurs also saw this, because Xizhou was the end point of most of the Central Plains, and they would not go any further west, and it was enough to reach Xizhou. What the Central Plains needed most was fine jade, and the Uighurs needed silk from the Central Plains the most.

They also had a good idea of how much money the Central Plains people could make by taking this trip to the Silk Road, so they deliberately looked at the price of these goods and grabbed money from the pockets of the Central Plains people. Anyway, these Central Plains people also earn Uighur money, and there is nothing wrong with asking them to collect some more taxes.

Of course, the most important thing is that these Central Plains people must give, otherwise they will lose if they can't enter the city, and all the hard work along the way will be in vain. Even if they return to Illinois, Illinois will still charge high taxes, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter the city.

This is where the Uighurs lack morality, since the Central Plains people have arrived in the Western Regions, the hard work of this road is to enter the Western Prefecture to do business, for this purpose they can not bear the little suffering, to this last step, no one will give up, but there will be resistance.

"The Uighurs are too immoral ......," Zongxin said, "This is simply a robbery." ”

Zhao Kuangyin said: "No, this is collecting taxes, other people's taxes are so high, if you don't want to, you can not give it, where is the Ming robbery? I think the Uighurs are quite good, there are only so many people in the Central Plains caravan, if they want to rob openly, who can stop them?"

Zong Xin said: "Those who don't want to give it will let them go back to the Central Plains directly? Not to mention the hard work along the way, the goods on the car can't be sold, and they can't buy jade." They spent a lot of money along the way, would they really give up entering Xizhou? Not to mention fifty taels of silver, even if they asked for one hundred taels, they had to give it. The merchants of the Central Plains have no choice, they have to give, so this is the Ming robbery. ”

Zhao Kuangyin nodded: "There is some truth, this is indeed a clear robbery." This city guard is too ruthless, the merchants of the Central Plains have gone to the Uighurs to activate their economy, even if they do not collect taxes, the Uighurs have great benefits, not to mention the taxes, and they collect so much money...... I'm the person who likes to fight the most grievances, Zongxin, don't stop me, I'll go directly to kill the city guards, and then take these merchants into the city. ”

"you...... Was this a problem of the city guards? It was clearly a policy deliberately used by the Uighurs to suppress the merchants of the Central Plains. Short-sighted, only know how to seek small profits, regardless of future development. Zong Xin said: "There is no way, who has cut off the Silk Road for so many years, and they also think that the merchants of the Silk Road are all for a small profit, and they only take this trip, so they can scrape as much as they can." If the Silk Road had been smooth and trade between the two places had been going on for a long time, this would not have happened. ”

The others nodded as well, saying that the Silk Road would be a great loss to the economic development of the Uighurs. However, after the Silk Road was cut off, merchants occasionally went to the Uighurs, but only once, and never again. Although such merchants could also bring great benefits to the Uighurs, their numbers were too small to be of much use......

Therefore, the Uighurs came up with this way of making as much profit as possible from the merchants of the Central Plains, that is, to keep silent when they were in Yizhou, and when they came to Xizhou to prepare to sell goods and buy jade, a lion opened his mouth. But at this point, what could the merchants do? The Uighurs did not directly kill people and take the goods, which was enough to be morally justified.

The Uighurs were only trying to make as much profit as possible, because at this point the merchants could not turn around and go back, and they had to pay as much as they could. Silk is bought, jade is sold, but each car can get an extra fifty taels of silver, which is a lot of income.

This caravan was very spectacular, I dare not say that there were thousands of vehicles, but there were also hundreds of horse-drawn carriages pulling goods. The Uighurs could extract tens of thousands of taels of silver directly from this caravan, how could they let go of such a good opportunity? After all, these were just some merchants, not an army, and they were far away from home to do business in their own territory, so they could not bully them as much as they wanted.

It was understood that this was not a problem of the city guards or of the Uighur system. They just think that after the Central Plains merchants come once, they won't come a second time, so they scrape enough once, and they won't see each other again anyway.

The Uighur system was one of the reasons why the Silk Roads were becoming more and more lonely, and everyone could understand the fact that they were taking risks to make money. However, the Uighurs were very angry at the fact that even if they had good goods, the Central Plains merchants wanted to produce their own goods and consume them, and did not want to go to the Uighurs again to suffer this wrongdoing.

Zong Xin said: "It's easy to do, let all the merchants put a sign on their own commercial vehicles, and the sign reads 'Silk Fifty Taels of Silver a Horse', and that's about it." ”

"Fifty taels of silver a horse, are you going crazy?" Zhao Kuangyin said: "Have you ever bought anything, you know silk...... Makes sense, I figured it out. ”

Zhao Kuangyin originally thought that Zong Xin didn't understand prices, but when he spoke, he suddenly figured out that Zong Xin just wanted to raise prices. In fact, the merchants of the Central Plains had a great influence on the economy of the Uighurs, and the Uighurs were also extremely eager for the silk of the Central Plains, and of course they wanted to let the Central Plains people enter the city to do business. If the silk of the Central Plains is sold so expensive...... It's not that no one buys, it's just that there will be very few people who do.

In fact, there was no need for fifty taels of silver, and as long as they were sold for twenty or thirty taels of silver, the price of the Uighurs would increase as a result, and the poor would become poorer and the rich would be richer, which would not be a good thing for the Uighurs.

The old one: "Master, shall we just order it like this?"

"Yes, remember to make them resolute, it's also for the sake of the future. "Zong Xin didn't want to make such a damaging move, because this move is very easy to cause conflicts. The so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, others have an army and a master here, and all here are merchants, if you really fight, the soldiers and civilians of Xizhou will trample this caravan with one foot, and by the way, you can also seize all the goods here.

But if the attitude was not strong enough at this time, the Uighurs would really continue this tradition, and then the merchants of the Central Plains would not want to come a second time after coming once, and the Silk Road would always be decided in Xizhou. Of course, this is not allowed, because the Silk Road is very important, it is a bridge between the Central Plains and foreign forces, and the Silk Road must be restored in order for the Central Plains to develop better.

The Central Plains may have a lot of technology and prosperity that the Western Regions do not have, but as the saying goes, a good threesome must have my teacher. There are many things in the Western Regions that are not available in the Central Plains, and everyone can learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, so that everyone can get better development.

The old one immediately went to do what Zongxin ordered, which was a very simple idea, and everyone understood it as soon as it was said, but no one took the lead. Zongxin's words are very influential in the hearts of the Central Plains people, and this method is originally very good, so everyone agrees.

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