Liu Ba said that although I don’t have any special abilities, I can do logistics, and I can also organize people to engage in mining, agriculture, and animal husbandry. I can also integrate these industries to achieve a considerable level. By the way, I plan to engage in agriculture.
Sang, buy silk for Rome nearby.
In short, Liu Ba is very good at making money and doing economics. Although he is not as good as Chen Xi, he is indeed one of the best in this era. Liu Ba has already established a fighting friendship with Rome through the Han Dynasty and has established a relationship with the Duke of the Eastern Border County.
Ganassis got in touch.
There's nothing special about it, it's just for export. Compared to the state-owned Pompianus, the price is much lower. After all, Pompianus also needs to recycle part of the funds to the country, so the price is certainly higher than what it gets from Chen Xi.
The goods are much higher.
It's just that the price of the Parthian and Kushan silks that Rome obtained in the past was so high that the Roman aristocrats are still very satisfied with the state-owned silks.
What Liu Ba means is that he is closer to Rome and the freight is lower. If he smuggles it to Ganassis, the price is 50% lower than the price of Pompianus State-run and it is still very profitable. More importantly, Liu Ba
Very interested in the Parthian pastures robbed by Rome.
Compared with the luxury goods trade between the Han Dynasty and Roman officials, Liu Ba was not interested at all. He was interested in the hundreds of thousands of horses obtained by Rome. The trade in silk and war horses was so good. Besides, he just heard about Rome.
If you don't use war horses much, it would be a waste to keep them without selling them.
Therefore, Liu Ba had already sent people to set up a line with Ganassis, and it was Li's line. The operation was very simple. After staying in Congling for two more months to set up a line with Zhuge Liang, he gave Li an innate talent that accompanied King Wen of Zhou during the Shang Dynasty.
Bagua means that this is a thing of a saint. It is a diagram made by King Wen of Zhou Dynasty. It has the ability of gods and ghosts to ward off changes.
Who is Li? To put it mildly, he is a well-established leader of the Bing Yin Yang Sect. At worst, he is an enthusiastic fan of witchcraft and divination superstition.
Liu Ba took out this thing. Li didn't believe it, but he couldn't stand it. Liu Ba said that I would activate this thing's ability to ward off gods and ghosts for you to let you feel it. He also said that every time this thing is activated, you need to bathe and burn incense.
You can only use it once a year, but the effect is super powerful.
Li was a heavy participant in feudal superstitious activities, the type that even Li You couldn't break off. So although Li thought Liu Ba was fooling him, he was naturally dubious when he saw Liu Ba's words being so stable.
Liu Ba didn't say much. After bathing and burning incense in front of Li, he took out the Xiantian Bagua Diagram accompanying King Wen of Zhou, activated it directly, and then threw out a handful of golden five-baht coins. Among the sixty-four, Liu Ba only had two coins.
Three are on the back and all others are on the front.
"Look, this is the effect of this thing. It can greatly change the Qi. If you think this is a five-baht coin with two sides, pick it up and throw a handful yourself." Liu Ba said casually, and then said
In front of Li, he picked up the five baht coins one by one and showed them to Li.
This seriously stunned Li. After careful inspection and confirmation that it was a five-baht coin and not double-sided, Li looked at the copper gossip as if he had seen a ghost.
"How about. I gave it to you. You write me a letter to Ganassis and I will buy something from him." Liu Ba said. Li wrote a letter to Ganassis on the spot, and Liu Ba wrote whatever Liu Ba said.
, for the real artifact in Liu Ba's hand, Li said that there was no pressure to sell Ganasis. Just relying on the power of this thing, he just sold Ganasis.
In fact, the above scene was of course cheating. Why throw such a low probability based on Qi? That is just a joke. Those money are magnetized money with iron added.
Although the magnetic effect is so weak due to the casting that two coins cannot stick to each other, when there is a reverse magnetic pole underground, the weak force is enough to make the rotating copper plate face up.
Fall down.
Of course, it can only be a rotating copper plate. If it lands directly from the beginning, there is nothing you can do. Liu Ba has been training for this scene for a long time. Theoretically speaking, if you are very lucky and your technique is smooth, damn,
In this way, all copper coins facing upward can be thrown out.
But it doesn't matter if they don't all turn up. Only in this way can we explain more clearly what Qi Shu means. Of course, these are just words. With Liu Ba's ability, it is very simple to deceive Li when there are facts.
Li was naturally deceived, and because this guy was a Yin-Yang general in the true sense, this "King Zhou Wen's innate gossip" increased Li's combat effectiveness by ten points.
Liu Ba ran away happily with the letter, and Li became more ferocious after equipping "King Zhou Wen's Innate Bagua". This was also the reason why Li was planning to challenge the miraculous Holy Death Rider some time ago.
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The ultimate move that can be used once a year. Calculating the time at that time, Yuanfeng will come in four years. Li has been mentally prepared, planning to use Xiantian Bagua to change his destiny, and then kill a miracle army to sacrifice to heaven, and force
Ascend to miracle status.
However, the news given by Zhuge Liang was that Ardashir had retreated. Otherwise, given Li's courage at that time, he would have bathed in incense, worshiped the innate gossip, and led the Xiliang cavalry to defeat the Holy Death Cavalry with invincible momentum.
That's right, the yin and yang of soldiers is so fierce. Since the weather is with me and the energy is with me, then I won't hurry up and kill the opponent when they are at their strongest. How long will it take?
As for whether killing the opponent can achieve a miracle, Li didn't think about it at all. No matter whether it was successful or not, as long as he could kill a miracle army, it meant that he had the combat power.
Of course, Liu Ba would definitely not tell Li that the innate gossip about King Wen of Zhou was because he found an ancient object in a tomb to fool Li...
But these things are all in the past. In short, Liu Ba successfully gained the trust of Ganassis by relying on Li's letters. Li was indeed very respectable with Ganasis, so the two sides quickly established a line.
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After confirming the price of silk, Ganassis thought that silk smuggling seemed to be very profitable. As for bartering, if he wanted to exchange war horses or something, he could just exchange it.
Anyway, Rome doesn't have many cavalry legions. The seventh and ninth are cavalry. The rest are basically reconnaissance cavalry. For the demand for war horses, Rome can just collect taxes from European barbarians.
Satisfied, there is no point in raising these hundreds of thousands of extra horses.
For the sake of Li and Silk, Ganassis agreed to Liu Ba's request without much thought. As for whether this kind of smuggling would be dangerous, in fact it was not dangerous at all. The Duke of the Eastern Border County was Ganasis himself.
Just find a way to approve a note from the Senate and that's it.
Besides, even if he was caught by Pompianus, could he still catch Ganassis? Are you kidding me? When will Rome ban the purchase of silk? When the emperor issued a ban, the nobles still had to buy it.
Isn’t this an unspoken rule? If you, Pompianus, keep trying, will you still allow us to buy some high-quality and cheap silk?
The development of this business road made Liu Ba very excited. Since he can resell war horses, he should also be able to resell war supplies after the trade road is opened. Liu Ba is still very clear about business ethics and so on.
If you dare to do anything nonsense, it's because there is an uncle above. If it were Rome, there was no Chen Xi, and those people would not even be afraid of death if they made profits of more than 100%.
"Wars are ultimately about supplies, especially wars that cannot end in a short time. Rather than fighting for the strength of the army, it is better to fight for the national power of each country." Xun sighed and said, "But fortunately, our national power
It’s still guaranteed.”
As far as Liu, Yuan, Cao and Sun are concerned, the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty represented by Liu Bei really has no shortcomings. The Yuan family has resources, but does not have the technology to convert resources into combat effectiveness. As for Cao Cao,
He had skills but lacked time. Sun Ce just didn't order those things. This is why Chen Xi could easily suppress this group of people.
"Our basic troops will be in place soon. Let's march directly to Herat then." Cao Cao suddenly said. Now the main force of the Cao family has basically arrived, including Li Dianye, who had been in Congling before.
, they all came to the Sestan area at this time.
The rest that haven't arrived yet are actually the regular troops assigned to Cao Cao by Chen Xi, but it won't be long before they arrive here.
"We haven't established a permanent defense here yet. If we advance directly, if we fail, we will easily be chased and killed by the opponent if we retreat." Du Ji said hesitantly. Cao Cao doesn't even have a residence now.
Not well constructed.
"Is Herat blocked?" Xun You, who was pretending to be a fool the whole time, suddenly said.
"Yes." Cao Cao nodded. Herat is the entrance to the Kabul Valley, and of course it is also the exit. Cao Cao's previous plan was to stand firm outside and then conquer the entire Kabul Valley step by step, but now Cao Cao feels that he may enter
Misunderstanding.
"Yes." Xun You nodded silently and said, "Our army must make a show of building a permanent settlement here, and then attack Herat with its elite troops to have any hope."
"It's difficult. Herat is the only three places on that road that can stand still and fight with ease. Kushan has already suffered a blow. It is impossible for it to still be so negligent in this regard." Cheng Yu shook his head.
He said, "Besides, there are already 60,000 regular soldiers over there, and there are more elites moving over. It will not be easy to take them down."
This is actually the biggest problem in attacking Kushan from the north. There is only one way, and there is no way to use it freely. It can be said that as long as the defender is not careless and relies on the terrain, the attacking side can only slowly grind.
