When Zhang Biao and the others saw this scene, they laughed loudly, and then continued to drive the carriage deep into Jidu, scattering the golden sand all the way. Seeing these crazy people, they finally understood the meaning of wealth not returning home, just like walking at night in brocade clothes.
Zhang Biao and the others scattered golden sand along the largest street in Jidu, and the people of Jidu quickly learned about it. They swarmed around Zhang Biao and the others, so much so that the street was blocked by them!
Zhang Baiqi and the others in the teahouse on the second floor looked at such a crazy scene and said with a smile: "After today's incident, the number of people going to the New World this year will definitely exceed one million! And we don't need to spend too much energy. This hundred million is so worth it!”
Lei Damu said regretfully: "This is 100 million."
He still feels a little distressed!
Yang Feng smiled and said: "The more common people who go to the New World, the better it will be for us. This is worth hundreds of millions of dollars!"
The gold sand that Zhang Biao and others spread was provided by Zhang Baiqi, and their purpose in doing so was to attract the people of Jidu to go to the New World. Judging from today's situation, it is obvious that their plan was successful!
However, Zhang Biao's actions were quickly stopped by the officials of Jidu. As more and more people gathered, several nearby streets were blocked, and the people who were tempted by the gold also became a stampede. If the government officials hadn't stopped it in time, many people in Jidu would have died today.
Zhang Biao and the others were also imprisoned by the Jidu Prefecture for taking pictures of the chaos in Jidu. Because of this incident, Zhang Biao and the others were a bit pretentious and became idiots.
After Xu Wei learned about this incident, he summoned Zhang Baiqi and others, scolded them, and ordered them to compensate the injured people.
But this kind of thing also spread throughout Da Gan. Whether it was the act of spreading gold or being imprisoned by the court later, Zhang Biao and others interpreted what the new generation of rich people are. Many people in Da Gan despised them and at the same time envied them what they had. With wealth, the New World has become an enduring hot spot for people in rural areas and cities to exchange gossip.
A large number of people who want to get rich bid farewell to their hometowns and embark on the journey to Jidu!
In the thirteenth year of Daqian, March 10th!
Zhang Baiqi and others led hundreds of ships and more than 50,000 adventurers who were full of fantasy about the New World on the journey.
After these heroes left, Wang Guojun began to implement his rights as prime minister and build Daqian according to his own ideas!
Daqian's enthusiasm for the New World slowly declined after these adventurers left.
But less than half a year after such peaceful days, a sensational news spread to Daqian and Jidu.
That is, Liu Bei completely eliminated King Satavahana, the overlord of southern Tianzhu, and is now leading his army to destroy other small countries in southern Tianzhu.
In the past few years, news about Tianzhu has continued to spread to Jidu. The people of Jidu also know that except for King Satavahana, the other small countries in Tianzhu are only three or five cities. They are not as good as even a county in Daqian. They will be wiped out. These countries are easy for Liu Bei to conquer.
And if Liu Bei really wipes out all 10 countries in southern Tianzhu, Liu Bei will become the new overlord of southern Tianzhu, and a large country with a population of more than 10 million and a land area of more than 1 million will slowly take shape.
The people of Jidu admired Liu Bei a little. Not only did he suffer repeated defeats, but he was still able to go to a foreign land to rebuild a great man when he was nearly sixty years old. This legend is not even much worse than their rule.
Of course, if this was the case, the news about Tianzhu would no longer become a hot spot in Jidu. Liu Bei's actions in Tianzhu aroused the anger of the Kushan Empire, the real overlord of Tianzhu!
The Kushan Empire declared war on Liu Bei's forces. Their king led an army of 100,000 people to the south to attack Liu Bei. The battle of more than 100,000 people had never happened again after Daqian pacified the world, so it attracted the attention of the people of Jidu.
Among them, merchants are particularly relevant to this war. To a certain extent, the interests of Daqian maritime merchants have been tied to Liu Bei.
Before Liu Bei went to Tianzhu, although they had already come to Tianzhu, their annual transaction volume was only a few hundred million yuan, and they might be cheated by the princes and nobles of Tianzhu and lose all their money. Tianzhu's trade routes were not important to them. friendly.
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And after Liu Bei conquered Tianzhu, the transaction volume between Tianzhu and them quickly exceeded 10 billion, half of which was profit. Now Tianzhu has become the largest trading country in Daqian and the largest financial backer of these maritime merchants.
They most hope that Liu Bei will continue to expand his territory in Tianzhu, and they are even looking forward to Liu Bei annexing the Kushan Empire.
If Liu Bei could really do this, a superpower would emerge with a territory that is not much different from Daqian and a population that is not much different from Daqian. It is unimaginable how much commercial interests such a big country has! Even if Liu Bei can't The annexation of Kushan, as long as the war continues, is also a very good thing for these maritime merchants.
Daqian continued to reduce the size of his army, and used flintlock guns to replace swords and other cold weapons. It can be said that Daqian had millions of sets of iron armor, steel knives and other unnecessary weapons in his arsenal.
Now, most of these weapons are sold by the Daqian court to the various pioneering areas of Daqian at low prices, but even so there are still a lot of surplus. Jidu's arsenal of light crossbows and arrows exceeds tens of millions, and these The imperial court sold weapons to maritime merchants at low prices. As long as they sold them to Liu Bei, they could resell them at several times the profit. So the war was also an opportunity for them to make a fortune!
In addition to these businessmen, the senior officials of Daqian were also very concerned about Liu Bei's movements! They gathered together to discuss the direction of this war!
Wang Lei, who had just returned to Jidu and was appointed as the new chief of staff, was the first to ask: "What is Liu Bei's current strength?"
Li Gang said: "After Liu Bei went to Tianzhu, he copied our Daqian system. In addition, when he was in Tianzhu, the number of soldiers increased rapidly. It is said that he now has more than 500,000 troops, including 30,000 armored troops. This is Most of the remaining elite force of Liu Bei are farmers who have just put down their farm tools. They are not strong in fighting ability. In addition, the people of Tianzhu are not good at fighting. With my strength, I only need to send 100,000 troops to destroy Liu Bei!"
Xu Wei looked at Zhang He and asked: "How strong is the Guishan Empire?"
Zhang He has been deeply engaged in the Western Regions for 20 years. This time he retired with meritorious service. Zhang He also resigned from the position of General Zhenxi and returned to Jidu to retire. Because he knows things about the Western Regions, he was called this time!
Zhang He thought for a while and said: "Guishang is the dominant country in the Western Regions, with a population of more than ten million, and its army is said to be one million. Although this is an exaggeration, the Western Regions have a system where all people are soldiers, so the actual army of the Kushan Empire
The number will not be much different, and the Kushans are in the Western Region and have many cavalry. If Liu Bei does not have the means to deal with them, there is almost no possibility of defeating the Kushan Empire!"