Chapter 455
As soon as Li Chen said this, the Kushan envoy felt like he was in a dream. Why, this task is so simple, why did I overcomplete it?
You know, the purpose of Kushan's sending envoys this time is very simple. The main thing is to make sure that Daqin has no intention of attacking Kushan, and of course it would be great to be able to trade with Daqin. But who knew that Daqin is now going to send people to help build cities and roads, which is too enthusiastic.
"Nao Shang, I didn't expect that the marquis's character was so noble." Thinking of this, the Kushan envoy gave Li Chen a lot of rituals: "The noble Ronglu Hou, I wish you a long life to protect you. We, Kushan, are willing to make friends with Daqin forever and be neighbors and friends forever."
"Okay, okay, the same is true for me, Daqin. We are all people who love peace." Li Chen said with a smile.
While talking politely, Li Chen was thinking in his heart: "Don't be neighbor forever. When I recover, you will be a county in Daqin by then."
"Then the matter is settled for now. The messenger can go around the city first. I will ask someone to list a transaction price list for the messenger in two days. At that time, the messenger can bring the price list back to Kushan." Li Chen said.
"Thank you, Marquis. Once I go back, my Kushan merchants will definitely come to Yuecheng to trade. I hope the Marquis will take care of you." The Kushan envoy said.
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. In order to build the grassland and prosper together, it's okay for me to suffer some losses." Li Chen said with a smile.
After chatting for a while, the Kushan envoy left with great gratitude. Now they were all excited, thinking that Li Chen was so easy to talk to and had no airs of a marquis at all.
"Mr. Marquis, why do we promise to build roads and cities for them?" Wang Li asked inexplicably as soon as the Kushan envoy left.
In Wang Li's opinion, it's nothing to do with them, because the one who made a profit in the end must be Daqin. The road construction can be said to be more convenient for trading, but what is the purpose of these Kushans to build cities? The Kushan built a tall city wall. So when Daqin attacked Kushan in the future, it would be much more difficult.
Wang Li believes that Li Chen will not do this. As for Li Chen's plan to invade Kushan, he doesn't believe that Wang Li will kill him. If Li Chen has no intention to attack Kushan, he will not believe that he will. If Li Chen has no intention to attack Kushan, unless the sun strikes the west.
"What do you think of building roads for?" Li Chen asked at Wang Li.
"For the sake of business communication? After we built the road with Kushan, Kushan merchants came to our side faster, and we can make more money." Wang Li said for granted.
When Li Chen heard the boy's answer, he couldn't help but be stunned. The boy was still on the first floor, but he was already on the fifth floor.
"Building roads is not just for the purpose of opening up trade, but for the purpose of sending troops faster one day. Trading between us is indeed a road that both sides need, but if a war starts, this road is far more important to us than the Kushan people."
"Kurshan is mostly cavalry. There is not much difference between walking on the road and walking on the grass. But we are different. We have infantry, artillery, and baggage. This road has greatly improved their marching speed. Especially for this cannon, each one is extremely heavy. With this road, we still need to prevent him from falling into the soil?" Li Chen explained.
"We are using their money to build roads. We will use it to attack them in the future. The Marquis is really easy to plot, and it is easy to plot." Wang Li suddenly realized.
"But, just build the road. Why do we build a city for him?" Wang Li asked another question that he didn't understand.
"After seeing Yuecheng, once both sides engage in trade, the Kushan people will definitely purchase materials from the Qin Dynasty to build the city. Instead of letting them build it themselves, it is better for us to make this money. When the construction is done, our craftsmen will leave some back-ups on the city wall to make the city wall seem indestructible. But for our Qin Dynasty, it is not easy to enter and exit," Li Chen said with a smile.
"elder brother......"
"Marty, you are so awesome." Wang Li looked at Li Chen with admiration.
With the skills of the Qin craftsmen and some methods were used on the city wall, this group of indigenous Kushan people could not find it for eight hundred years. Li Chen had already made plans, and now he left some secret passages in the city wall, and then hit several critical nodes in the city wall, and buried gunpowder in it.
After the war between the Qin and the Kushan period begins, it is best if they can enter the city from the secret passage and catch them off guard. If it doesn't work, then they can also use cannons to bombard the blasting nodes left behind, and the city wall will collapse in an instant.
When Li Chen thought of this, he felt that Kushan should not move for the time being. He wanted to let them develop and develop, and with the help of Daqin, he would be better to move Kushan after he had done all kinds of infrastructure. The principle of fattening and killing is very simple, let alone Li Chen. Even the farmers in Daqin knew that the animals raised at home had to be fattening and killed during the Chinese New Year.
The Kushan envoy visited Yuecheng for a few days. The more he walked, the more he felt that Yuecheng was prosperous. The more he walked, the more he felt that even the royal capital of Kushan was just a garbage dump compared to Yuecheng. Most of the Yuecheng were smooth bluestone roads, and even the rough cement roads. After it rained, not to mention mud, there would be no water accumulation. Thinking about the yellow mud roads in Kushan, the rainy roads in the city, it was a deep and shallow step when walking.
As the saying goes, people are so angry that people are so angry that they have to throw away money and goods. The more they look at Yuecheng, the more they like it, and they also think of Li Chen's promise to help Kushan build a city. He felt that he had to persuade the Kushan people to build a new capital, and he had to repair the capital if he was not as good as Xianyang of the Qin Dynasty. Their Kushan capital, not to mention that they are comparable to Xianyang of the Qin Dynasty, must be the same as this Yuecheng.
Since its establishment, the Kushan Empire has had an extremely serious internal struggle for power and profit. The Kushan emperor had extremely low control over the country. The Kushan envoy knew that if he wanted to build a new city, he had to come up with something that interests everyone.
This Kushan envoy was also a smart man. These days he hired the best painter in Yuecheng to copy the entire Yuecheng on the painting paper. In order to better convince the emperors and ministers of the Kushan Empire, in addition to realistic, the painting also added a little artistic repair. In the Yuecheng in this painting, it seemed like it had become an immortal palace.
The artistic ingredients added in this painting seem to be no less than the 180-degree beauty of the beauty camera in the previous life.
The Kushan envoy's painting was just finished, and Li Chen's quotation was delivered. There seemed to be something indescribable among them, but the Kushan envoy did not think much about it. After getting the quotation, he rushed to Kushan in a hurry.
Chapter completed!