At this moment, a team of businessmen from Youzhou extended an olive branch, and they had nothing else to do with money.

So after the interest alliance was reached, we began to invest in the cultivation of cotton, and the good part of the investment by cotton merchants in the Western Regions was more than 500,000 guan.

After all, investment is risky and no one-month investment project has been launched. Businessmen are also reserved. If the investment is judged correctly, you will make a profit. If you lose money, you will be insatiable.

Merchants would not put eggs in the same basket, so they were optimistic about cotton projects in the Western Regions but did not really invest all of them.

If you invest in projects within Youzhou's forces, you will not have this kind of trouble.

Safe transportation is the most important issue in the Western Regions trade routes.

According to the Youzhou cooperation agreement, all the cotton grown will be sold to Youzhou. The planting is of scale. If there are a small amount of countries in the Western Regions, they will still need to lose money.

Commercial cooperation means mutual benefit between the two parties, and Youzhou also stated that it can make acquisitions based on the negotiated acquisition value.

If the countries in the Western Regions were responsible for transportation, the profit would be higher.

However, the situation in the Western Regions is quite special, and they may not be able to meet the transportation requirements, so they may not be able to earn this part of the shipping fee.

The conditions are clear, and whether you can make more money depends on your ability.

Li De did this to allow the countries in the Western Regions to be able to join forces and stabilize after being tied up for interests. Cotton, as a strategic material and the basic needs required within a few years of daily needs, must be provided by the countries in the Western Regions.

I hope they can do their business well and benefit each other.

The frequent travel of several caravans on the Western Regions Trade Road left marks along the way, some of which were marked with stones.

Some built road signs with wood, and they were all in all forms.

Adventurers in Youzhou also built some stone roads with stone and cement in their way on the trade route.

You can determine the direction when you see such a section of road. In addition, they have built simple stations along the way, some of which are invested by adventurers.

In the future, there will be more caravans passing by this commercial road, and there may be a landmark building to develop.

Materials can also be provided at that time.

The idea is good, but no one really wants to run it in such a place.

However, what they thought did not happen, but there were really people running the station.

Someone is really doing things that adventurers have made temporary plans. After listening to it, I learned that the person who runs the station was a businessman from Shuofang named Cui Hao.

In the past, all the material reserves at the post station were provided by Shuofang, mainly for the preparations of the troops patrolling the Shuofang.

They didn't know that Li Yuanji was gradually expanding his sphere of influence to the Western Regions.

The post station is his material outpost.

Cui Hao's idea of ​​replenishing supplies with the caravan was Cui Hao, otherwise this would not be a post station but a fortress.

It is specially used to station troops, but at this time it has only changed a business model. There are still soldiers living in Shuofang around the post station, but the post station is open.

Li Yuanji wanted to reach the scope of influence of the power so that he could be warned in advance and have a preparation time for Shuofang.

Another advantage is that if you operate well in the future, you can expand the station into a city. This idea is actually very similar to Ningzhou's layout.

The essential difference is that one is the station of troops and the other is the place of residence provided for herders.

In terms of function, it is almost the same. The stations arranged in Ningzhou have developed more and more solidly.

Shuofang's development is limited, so it cannot be blamed for Li Yuanji for building only one station, or based on the projects of Youzhou adventurers.

Instead of losing money to the adventurers, they received compensation from Shuofang, which actually made some money.

After the people sent by the merchants from Youzhou returned, they told the story of establishing a post station in Shuofang, which attracted the attention of the city guard's mansion.

Li De knew at the first time that Li Yuanji was really better at doing this. He operated a post station on the commercial roads in the Western Regions and sent troops to garrison one to prevent foreign invasions, and also to provide material supplies to the caravan.

This is a business method. For passing merchants, they can also master first-hand caravan entry and exit information.

Don’t underestimate these materials. If someone who is specifically responsible for statistics can calculate the amount of goods when he sees the size of the caravan, it is no longer a secret that there is cotton in the Western Regions.

With enough information, you can know the commercial shipment volume and thus know the benefits of the caravan once.

If the commercial interests of cotton in Youzhou are controlled, there will be no advantage in the information field.

If the Tang Congress formed a competition, the answer would be OK driven by interests. As long as they were given time to develop, they would not be sold to Youzhou.

If he was the one who dealt with this matter, he would use the simplest means of raising the acquisition price to leverage the distribution of interests of the countries in the Western Regions.

The purpose is not to acquire cotton at a high price, but to destroy it in the interest alliance. As long as the kings of various countries do not cooperate with each other for the sake of their interests, the interest alliances of the Western Regions will immediately collapse.

At that time, we will give enough benefits to support the war between the countries and obtain them once they win, and the winner will definitely be the supporters behind it.

Where can one of the unique cotton planting companies be planted in cooperation with high benefits?

The construction of Li Yuanji's inn is really good, and it will be helpful to the caravan from the perspective of merchants.

If there are more appearances along the way, the caravan can move the place and replenish supplies in the future. This will speed up the speed when the caravan is able to travel.

One disadvantage of this is that money will be earned by Shuofang’s merchants.

I have to say that this businessman named Cui Hao is very smart.

In Li De's opinion, this is true, but these problems are nothing to the Youzhou caravan. After all, the caravans sent out each time are very large in scale, and there are no worries about supply.

It is better to replenish supplies at the post station and then go to the Western Regions countries. At that time, many adventurers will naturally like the meat.

Li De really hoped that small-scale caravans would appear on the Western Regions Trade Road, so that business transactions would be done without saturation.

In this way, merchants can choose to trade normally, and there will be more exchanges between the two places.

The only thing to solve to achieve this level is the security issue. It is also a good thing that Shuofang sent soldiers to station in the first half of the Western Regions Commercial Road.

The second half is the most dangerous. How to solve it? It would be easier if someone could unify the countries in the Western Regions.

He had such a desire to post but didn't really want to give help. After all, the distance was too far. With Youzhou's influence, there were not many resources that could be provided.

It would be impossible to unify the Western Regions in the name of Youzhou, but it is not realistic, because the distance is too far and difficult to manage.

However, if a business alliance can be promoted, then you can control the countries in the Western Regions with the economy.
Chapter completed!