The six countries sent me as a spy, and the contact person was Qin Shihuang

Chapter 280 What is border trade?

Yu Ziqi was slightly surprised, but now he basically understood.

Ying Zheng was originally not worried about the final disposal of the batch of weapons from the Six Nations.

But who is going to pursue this matter?
"I am worried that the real black hands hidden behind the scenes will take advantage of our mutual intelligence gap to fish in troubled waters." Yu Ziqi said.

Ying Zheng waved his hand and said that things would be straightened out in a while.

Then it must be left to Jiang Bai to handle.

"What do you think about trade with the Huns?" Ying Zheng investigated.

Yu Ziqi frowned: "I originally opposed it, but now I can't come up with a good solution."

But he proposed that Wuzhi could send people to contact the Huns.

"Then it becomes a conspiracy. If Da Qin wants to conquer the world, it cannot conquer people's hearts with conspiracy, but must rely on upright conspiracy." Ying Zheng waved his hand to let him go first.

After a while, Ying Zheng put on special joint clothing and went to find Jiang Bai, who was making kitchen utensils.

He remembered various cooking utensils used by the Mongolians in later generations, as well as some things used by foreign nomads.

There is a hanging pot that can be hung and is easy to make, which should be very popular among the Huns.

"The Huns today actually use copper utensils. This kind of thing is not good for the health. You can tell them clearly," Jiang Bai said to Wu Shiluo. "But there should also be iron stoves. We don't know what they use." What kind of style it looks like, but it should be imaginable.”

The material used in this kind of hanging pot is not the same as that used to make iron pots. After experiments, it can be determined that if it needs to be re-melted to make weapons, the Huns will die at a loss.

"Selling this kind of thing to the Huns? I'm afraid they won't be satisfied!" Wu Shiluo was worried.

Jiang Bai said: "How can we let them buy it directly? This kind of cooking utensils is a way for us to explore the secrets of the Xiongnu population. In addition, it is also a barometer for the march of the grassland army. Before they let the tribes meet their daily necessities, they should We will not refuse the circulation of this kind of pot, but when they decide to go south, they should pay more attention to our other kind of pot."

At this time, Ying Zheng came to see him.

Jiang Bai laughed when he saw him: "You want to take advantage of the trade with the Huns again?"

Ying Zheng smiled and said, "We are also poor."

"That's easy to handle. In the future, trade with the Huns will be concentrated in the border trade yamen. You can register your trading company name in Xianyang." Jiang Bai had already considered it. "Then, you have to send yamen offices at the border and the court to accept Supervision, we will release some goods, and after paying the tariff, you will be allowed to sell them to the Huns to earn the price difference."

Ying Zheng now knew what was going on.

Use a special government office to manage this matter?

OK, I remembered.

But the border is almost non-existent and you can't stop people from smuggling.

"We have to set up a special army to crack down on border smuggling of materials that are even allowed for trade by the imperial court. This is not only a political act, but also an economic act. Because it involves paying taxes, it is impossible for the foreign court to oppose us." Jiang Bai said, "What do you want to trade?"

Ying Zheng never thought about it, and after thinking about it for a while, he said sincerely: "I think it would be better if we could sell pots and pans from Daqin and war horses, cattle and sheep from Xiongnu." "Then what you think is so beautiful, Not to mention whether the pots and pans are suitable for the grassland people, if you can buy war horses from the Xiongnu nobles, can you transport them to the country?" Jiang Bai said, "I'll give you a suggestion, you can organize a group of people, Trade tea and fine salt with the Chest People.”

tea?

"Yes, I am considering establishing tea gardens in the south, such as Kuaiji County. This is a good thing. It is rich in trace elements that many people need," Jiang Bai said. "In addition, there is also sucrose that can be traded to foreign countries in the future."

Ying Zheng immediately pulled away and left.

I thought I had considered it comprehensively enough, but I didn’t expect that Taifu would consider it more comprehensively than me.

Just selling iron pots to the Huns is nothing. Selling products mass-produced in the Central Plains to them at high prices and making them economically dependent on the Qin Dynasty can finally integrate the Huns into the Qin Dynasty.

Jiang Bai didn't care about anything else. He thought about it for two days before coming up with a relatively complete but messy border trade proposal.

First of all, Daqin will set up special checkpoints in border counties and counties, which are responsible for taxing border trade and combating border smuggling.

But that wasn't enough, so there was a second move.

Jiang Bai suggested: "Strict punishments alone are not enough to make adventurous businessmen obey. Only by inducing them in terms of economic interests will they be willing to comply with the court's requirements and honestly go out of the pass through the pipeline to control the Huns." trade. This requires the court to upgrade infrastructure such as roads."

According to his thinking, when merchants take small roads and risk beheading for smuggling, the benefits are far less than the benefits of carrying out large-scale border trade normally in accordance with the requirements of the court, so they will obey the rules and regulations of the court.

Li Si and other ministers disagreed with this naive idea.

"If the profits from the smuggling business are enough to exceed their expectations, they will not be ambiguous." Li Si said.

Jiang Bai had already predicted this. He predicted that many desperate businessmen would get involved with the anti-Qin gang and take the opportunity to send weapons and personnel to the Huns' territory at any cost.

In this way, with the help of the Huns, they could use their familiarity with the Central Plains to launch a plan to openly train the anti-Qin army.

But so what?
"Is it possible to keep these people in the Central Plains to prevent them from rebelling?" Jiang Bai asked in advance in his suggestion, "But if these people can be allowed to fight their way out, it is needless to say whether they can survive on the grassland. Just among these people, how many people who are familiar with the grassland can be used by me in the future, it will be a very good deal."

The officials were dumbfounded.

The trouble we anticipated turned out to be the benefit that Taifu thought?

Ying Zheng was happy. He was originally worried that anti-Qin organizations would come to the grassland.

Looking at it now, Taifu was absolutely right.

Let them train, let them concentrate on the grassland.

Concentrated enemies are the easiest to deal with.

Moreover, do these people have to be members of the anti-Qin organization?
Couldn't Qin's intelligence be sent in?
In the future, Great Qin's war to completely conquer the grassland will inevitably require a large number of grassland guides.

The group of people who happened to go out can definitely serve as the vanguard of our army. Moreover, they are used to living on the grassland and can continue to live on the grassland in the future, driving more Central Plains people into the depths of the grassland!
"I can see that in the eyes of others, border trade is completely a business trade, but in the eyes of the Taifu, it has completely turned into a plan to encroach on the Xiongnu and the grassland." Ying Zheng sighed in his heart. He sighed, "You said these are all human beings, how can the Taifu have such a far-sighted vision than others?!"

(End of this chapter)