Dai Wang stood on the top of the city directly opposite Weng City, holding a torch in his hand. The hidden light shone on his sandalwood mask, making his whole person look even more eerie and eerie, making them shudder.
"Sure enough, I didn't underestimate your courage. I just came here with a hundred and eighty people. You also look down on me, Dai Wang, who has been operating in India for two full years and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Guan, how can I let me capture just a hundred of you?"
The two of them were silent for a long time, and Gao Gai said helplessly: "The winner is the king, the loser is the bandit. We have nothing to say. We both deserve it and are willing to suffer the consequences, but can you let go of the person I hired?"
Help brothers, they are just here to make money."
Dai Wang raised his head and laughed, lowered his head and said contemptuously and coldly: "You don't even know who you are provoking and offending, and you dare to say that the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. It is really ridiculous!"
"Who have we offended?" Cold sweat broke out on Lu Xiu's forehead. He looked around at the soldiers on the city. These men were wearing iron armor and holding powerful crossbows. They were undoubtedly the attire of the Tang army.
"You can all transfer the Tang Army under the nose of Qunu City, the capital of North India." Gao Gai nodded in realization: "I understand."
"Now that you understand, let's go on the road safely! Shoot the arrow!"
The captain of the Quy Nhon Military Academy gave an order, and the soldiers buckled their strings in response. Round after round of arrows pierced the bandits sitting on the horse. They fell to the ground, groaned, crawled back and forth and got under the horse's belly. However,
The horse ran back and forth in pain even after being hit by the arrow, and the horse was trampled on the ground like a sandbag.
When the deserted silence returned to the scene, Dai Wang waved his hand and ordered everyone to go down to clean up the scene and carry out the corpses. A steward covered his nose and stood in the pile of corpses, looking up and asking him: "Master, what should I do with so many corpses and horse corpses?"
"
"It's not easy to dispose of the corpses. Bury them in my pepper garden. They will be used as fertilizer and can't be wasted!"
The corpses were carried onto carriages, slipped out of the city gate, and ran into the dark night.
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"More than a hundred people were killed and buried by me. At that time, I felt that it was too cruel. They were just doing it for money. Fortunately, this incident happened in Tianzhu, otherwise I would have made a lot of trouble for you.
Big trouble."
Li Siye stood next to the pillar, turned around and said: "Since the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, you have been a businessman, and you must always think and do things in a businessman's way, so you don't need to ask how much trouble you have caused to whom, you just need to
Weigh, will I make money or lose money if I do this? If I lose money, then I won’t do it. If I make money, I can do it.”
"Isn't this tantamount to being obsessed with money?"
"Yes, this step must be taken. Everyone in the world is chasing land and power, no one is chasing money. People who are chasing land just want to turn the people around them into their slaves, and their children and grandchildren will farm for their family.
Those who pursue power are thinking about how to scheming and seizing power from top to bottom. Only those who pursue money have the lowest threshold. As long as their desires are stimulated and they obtain enough wealth, they can exchange wealth for power and use wealth to influence others.
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Dai Wang shook his head: "I don't quite understand. I always feel that you are very ambitious. Your idea of using money to do business may be okay in this barren Western Region, but it won't work in the fertile Central Plains. The imperial court does not want people to move around."
, I don’t want them to leave the fields and chase money.”
"That's right. I don't want too many people to play with money, but they are also indispensable, so what we have to do is to gather all these people to me and let them be used by me."
"Let's not talk about this anymore," Li Siye turned to ask him: "What is the current monthly shipment volume?"
"Thirty-five stones per month, an average of one stone per day."
Li Siye raised his head and did some calculations. It was four hundred and twenty dan per year, and the total price was 2.52 million guan. After deducting the cost of operating the station and the monthly salary of all personnel, at least 20% would be deducted, leaving a full liang.
Millions of dollars.
Maybe such a high profit can only be earned for one year. From next year to the year after, the inflated price of pepper will drop slightly. Their profits generally remain at around one million guan a year, which supports the Anbei and Beiting armies.
The military expenditure is more than enough, and we can even spend money on other things.
Dai Wang suddenly asked: "Should we set the terminal of the trade route to Tingzhou City?"
Li Siye asked him in surprise: "Why do you think so? Tingzhou and the southern route are not the same road at all. If you choose the distance instead of the distance, the transportation cost will increase exponentially."
"Yangguan is really too eye-catching. It is located on a traffic artery. There are so many people coming and going every day. Too many people know about it. It will be targeted by some people in the DPRK. It is really unsafe."
Li Siye patted his knees and said: "Don't worry about the affairs of the court. This kind of thing cannot be hidden. It's better to show your strength. I will handle the pressure from the official side for you. The pressure from other places,
You have to figure it out yourself."
He suddenly thought of another thing and said instead: "After the last month of this year, we will suspend it at the beginning of next spring. Because Gao Xianzhi will go on an expedition to Jishi Kingdom next spring, you ordered all Xiaobolu's westward stations to start storing grain.
When Gao Xianzhi goes on an expedition next year, it will also be good for you if you take the opportunity to donate food and perform meritorious service to gain Gao Xianzhi's favor."
"Here," Dai Wang replied solemnly, crossing his hands, completely treating himself as his subordinate."
Gao Xianzhi did have plans to start an expedition to Jie Shi Kingdom, which was a country relatively close to Xiao Bo Lu and also located in the Kashmir region. However, the king of Jie Shi was determined to join Tubo. Even when the Tang Dynasty defeated Xiao Bo Lu,
The chicken was not frightened.
The existence of Jie Shi Kingdom threatens the safety of Xiaobolu, and they must take preemptive strikes to resolve the crisis in advance. Li Siye also strongly agrees with Gao Xianzhi's expedition to Jieshi, because Xiaobolu and the post station leading to India are not far away from Jieshi Kingdom.
It affected the safety of the trade routes. Therefore, Li Siye supported it unconditionally and wrote a long letter to Gao Xianzhi, expressing his willingness to participate in the expedition with him.
The content of this long letter is that there are indeed some official backers and forces. After they approached these officials, they learned from their channels that the forces behind Dai Wang's Western Region Chamber of Commerce were the current Beiting Jiedu Envoy and Longyou Interview Envoy.
, Qun Mu Envoy and Recruitment Envoy Li Siye, this official is not a big deal in the court, but in the entire Longyou Road, it is considered to be the highest. Even Hexi Jiedushi An Sishun and Longyou Jiedushi Ge Shuhan were not willing to
Offending him, let alone for the sake of making money for several of their merchants.
Although one of these two is a Sogdian and the other is a Tuqi Shi, because their fathers were generals of the imperial court and have been completely integrated into the value system of the Central Plains, they do not think highly of businessmen, let alone