As the spring atmosphere becomes stronger and stronger and the weather becomes warmer, just as Chen Xu was busy preparing two chemical plants, the Western Regions, thousands of miles away from Xianyang, were still in the cold winter of ice and snow.

Nowadays, nomadic peoples in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and the Western Regions all surrendered to the Qin Dynasty. All the kings received the enthronement from the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty. They were all extremely obedient under the care of 20,000 Iron Cavalry of the Qin Dynasty and tens of thousands of servants. Not only that, these vassal states are still particularly restless now. Even if the mountains are covered with heavy snow in the cold winter, there are also caravans who come and go between Dayuan and Yuezhi in the West without fear of the severe cold and wind and snow. They cross the plateau and cross the canyon between the snow-capped mountains, and travel thousands of miles away from the traffic and cargoes in exchange for extremely high profits.

The purchase price of an ordinary porcelain in Daqin is only a few dozen or hundreds of dollars, but if it is resold to a merchant in Dayuan, its value will immediately soar by five or six times. The merchants of Dayuan sell this porcelain to merchants in Daxia or Shidu and Anxi, and their value will soar by ten times again. An ordinary colored porcelain with simple color drawings will be as high as twenty gold coins in the Anxi Empire.

This exquisite and mysterious porcelain is said to come from an extremely distant and mysterious Eastern country, which has a very strange name called Qin.

Almost no one has heard of this country before, but occasionally there were merchants who traveled to and from Dayuan or were poisonous to speak out by word of mouth. It was an invincible empire. Their cavalry had crushed the foot of the towering snow-capped mountains in the east. If it were not for the obstacles of the plateau, they had conquered Dayuan and might have even appeared in front of them.

The Abdomen had no idea about the power of the Great Qin Dynasty, because they never knew that there was such an unknown country in the distant East. The East they knew was only the towering snow mountains and the bitter and cold desert grasslands. After Alexander the Great died in the eastern expedition, the eyes of the Western countries were forever frozen at the foot of the towering snow-capped mountains.

East? Isn’t the end of the East the snowy mountain that can never be crossed?

But now, they suddenly learned from the merchants that there was a powerful country on the other side of the snow-capped mountains, full of mystery and unknown. They had sharp weapons and excellent armor. They also invented stirrup saddles and horseshoes. These magical equipment had spread to the rest with the merchants' coming and going, and even European countries farther away from the West.

Great Qin? Is Great Qin even stronger than Carthage, Greece and Rome?

In 247 BC, the Governor of Parthia of the Seleucid Empire rebelled and established himself as king. The Parthia Empire (Sabbath) was established. In this year, in the distant east, the chaotic Central Plains princes of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Qin, also welcomed a new emperor. His name was Zheng. In that year, King Zheng of Qin was thirteen years old and was underage when he ascended the throne. The Prime Minister Lu Buwei was regent.

In 238 BC, King Zheng of Qin officially ascended the throne and took control, and launched a war of unification against the six states in the Central Plains. At this time, the Anxu Empire had been retaken by the Seleucid Empire, the capital Parthia, and the king fled. When King Zheng of Qin conquered the six states and unified the Central Plains, it was also the most chaotic time for the Anxu Empire. Because at this time, the Seleucid Empire was fighting fiercely with Anxu, and the Fourth Syrian War was in full swing. Antioch III, who had just sat on the throne of the Emperor of the Anxu Empire, was attacking Israel and recovering lost lands, and had no energy to take care of the affairs of the East.

But in the chaos of the Middle East and West Asia, after the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, a magical empire prime minister was welcomed, and he made drastic advances in various reforms, developed various foods, invented and created various magical machinery and exquisite porcelain, pottery, tea and wine. Over the years, he had conquered all the unstable tribes and races around him, and had inserted his sharp sword on the eastern foot of the Great Snow Mountain. At the same time, he was still lucky to hold up a big move to open the passage to the West.

After several years of expansion, the Silent Empire has not yet been strong enough to completely control West Asia. It depends on the Seleucid Empire's eyes, but the territory it controls is already very large. The East is already bordering the Silent Destiny, and Daxia and Dayuan. At this time, some merchants traveling to the East transported an exquisite item called mystery to the Silent, and sold a price on the market that almost made all Silents pee their pants.

However, when this kind of thing called porcelain was placed in front of Antioch III, he realized that it was indeed worth the money. This kind of porcelain bowl, which is a hundred times more exquisite than the most exquisite jade, is delicate, smooth, white, hard and colorful flower, bird, insect and fish patterns, is like a mysterious utensil from the gift of the gods, making him feel that the golden tableware he used in his daily life was as ungrade as a local chicken, tiles and dogs.

"I want more porcelain and tell the merchants from Daxia that I will buy them with more gold!"

Antioch III sat in his palace, showing this exquisite porcelain bowl to the ministers and nobles sitting on both sides. Under the sunlight shining through the window, the porcelain bowl shone with an extremely tempting light.

"Your Majesty, this kind of porcelain is easy to be damaged. I heard from the merchants who come and go that they should be transported from the Eastern Empire. Only one of the ten is intact, and twenty gold coins are too expensive. Twenty gold coins can buy one hundred slaves and twenty camels. Moreover, our Western battlefields are fighting with the Egyptians. You cannot spend money on such luxurious porcelain, otherwise you will go bankrupt!" said the Minister of Finance.

"Haha, don't worry, how could it go bankrupt? If there are too many, I will sell them to Seleucid, Egypt, Carthage, Greece and even Rome. One of them is thirty gold coins, and those nobles will inevitably rush to buy them. Now between the East and the West, whether it is the Qin Dynasty in the East or the Rome in the West, the merchants who come and go must pass by our territory and tell the governors everywhere that from now on, the merchants who come and go from now on will have to pay three times the tax more!"

"Your Majesty, it is wrong for you to do this, so that those merchants will stay away from us. Without merchants, we will not have enough taxes and we will go bankrupt when the time comes!" A young nobleman stood up and retorted loudly.

"My dear Uncle Torrevas, why are you so unconscious? This is the best time for us to make money. Now porcelain has just arrived in peace from the Qin Dynasty in the East. Whether it is Roman and Egyptian merchants or merchants who are poisonous in the Great Xia, they all need to pass through our territory, unless merchants in these countries in the East do not want to sell them to make money. Once we sell porcelain to the West, I think the nobles of Rome and Egypt will ask us to help buy it. Then, let alone increase the tax by three times. Even if it is increased by five times, those merchants will still rush to snatch these exquisite porcelains like wolves. Okay, this matter will be arranged like this!" Antioch III interrupted his uncle impatiently.

"Your Majesty, I heard that in the Eastern Empire, there are only one silver coin to buy it. If you want merchants to buy it, why don't you send envoys to ask the emperors of the Great Qin Empire for purchase? You can even force them to surrender to you and hand over the method of making this kind of porcelain, so that we don't have to wait for those Eastern merchants to come from all the way!" Minister of Interior Antuya stood up and said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I heard that Alexander conquered Zhendu and Daxia at the beginning. He had to withdraw his troops because of illness. We rest in peace and inherited the will of the emperor. Now that the army is strong and strong, it is easy to conquer Daxia. Then continue to go east. If you conquer Daqin, then all these porcelains will belong to us, Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Carthaginians, Jews, they will sell them as much as they want, and they can make countless gold continuously..."

"Yes, instead of spending money to buy it, it's better to grab it!"

"Yes, we are the best at grabbing things, this is indeed a good idea!"

The following group of nobles began to discuss it excitedly. Some of the nobles even stood up and expressed their willingness to establish an army to cooperate with the imperial army to embark on the eastern expedition. Many ministers also expressed their support. After all, a piece of porcelain that can only be bought with twenty gold coins is indeed too tempting. The porcelain bowl in front of them, brought by a merchant from tens of thousands of miles away, shining colorful tempting light in the sun, which stimulated everyone to be unable to remove their eyes.

"Hmph, do you want Anxi to be confused again?" The Foreign Minister stood up and snorted coldly.

"Agato, how can you speak like this? We are not just for the strength of the empire. As long as we conquer the Qin Dynasty in the East, we can get a large amount of porcelain and earn gold piled up from the West in the future!" a nobleman said in dissatisfaction.

"I'm afraid you don't know how powerful the Qin Dynasty is. I'll let you see a weapon from the Qin Dynasty!"

The Foreign Minister took off a short blade from his waist, and the outside was a common leather scabbard, which was well-made, but not a common scimitar, but a straight shape.

Agato opened the leather buckle and pulled out the short blade. The sharp blade flashed with a dazzling light in the sun.

"Everyone, this is a weapon from Daqin. I heard that this weapon can be bought with two silver coins in Daqin, and it can be purchased and used by ordinary civilians in Daqin. In fact, it is far more than that. I heard that this weapon is just toys of the people of Daqin. The length of the weapons their civilians wear is ten times that of this. Everyone is a warrior and can fight on the streets..."

"Agato, you should tell me where this weapon is powerful, who can't fight?" A burly nobleman interrupted the Foreign Minister.

"Okay, I'll let you see Daqin's toy weapons!"
Chapter completed!