"Xiqiang, finally couldn't hold on going north, and they started to migrate. It will be difficult for us to go hunting in the grasslands in the future, so our Nanqiang County has lost its largest source of income. What do you think?" Jiang Li, as a representative of the Southern Qiang

The county prefect looked at Huang Zhong and asked.

It seems that Nanqiang County gives half of the spoils to the prefecture, but those chambers of commerce who buy livestock and captives have to pay taxes to the prefecture, and ranches buy livestock and have to pay taxes to the government every year. Nanqiang County actually accounts for

The benefit is more than 70%, because the railway built in Nanqiang County was paid for by the Prefectural Mufu Government, and most of the money for the Prefectural Mufu Government came from the profits of the Qiang tribe.

"There is nothing we can do about it. In the past few years, we have captured more than 500,000 prisoners from the Congqiang grassland, and countless cattle, sheep, and horses. The Qiang cavalry has lost more than 60%. Now our railway to Dingqiang City is about to be repaired.

The construction of Qiang City is about to begin, and the Qiang tribe knows that they have no chance of recapturing the Southern Qiang, and they will only die if they don't run away," Huang Zhong said.

"But what should we do next? Continue the pursuit? This way we are too far away from Nanqiang County. Even if we rob livestock and prisoners, it will not be easy to transport them back. The income of these soldiers will have a great impact on the entire Nanqiang County." He Ye

said.

"It is inevitable that we will continue to build the city in the west and north directions. This year, the railway track leading to Dingqiang City will be built, and next year we will continue to build Wengcheng in both directions. But at our speed, we don't want to compete with the Qiang people anymore.

There is a big war between the tribes, and I'm afraid it won't be until three years later. Without the income from the spoils, how will we survive these three years?" Jiang Li said.

"Have you asked the Prefectural Mufu...or the Lord?" Fang Yue asked.

"The strategic policy of the Prefecture Mufu has been set, which is to rely on Railway County to slowly occupy the entire Qiang grassland. The livestock, cattle and sheep of the Qiang people are very important to us, but they are dispensable to the Prefectural Mufu.

So we can only consider this matter ourselves." Jiang Li said.

"I heard that Yongchang County is now forming a security corps. How about we ask the five counties to form one as well?" Guan Hai said.

"The Chamber of Commerce went to Yongchang County to make money from trading with the Parthian Empire. Why did they come to our Nanqiang County? To trade with the grassland tribes? No chamber of commerce is willing to trade with the grassland tribes. The profits are too small and the risks are too great!" Fang Yue shook his head.

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"The northwest of the Northern Qiang is the Great Yueshi Kingdom. There are many small countries to the west of the Great Yueshi Kingdom. The countries there are all surrendered to the Parthian Empire. The Great Yueshi Kingdom is the only route that the Silk Road must pass through. If we can

If the caravan is sent to the Da Yuezhi Kingdom, the caravan will definitely make a lot of money." He Ye couldn't help but said as his mind moved.

"The Prefectural Mufu Government issued an order that all members of the security group must be registered. If we let the Yizhou Cavalry escort, it would be against the rules!" Huang Zhong shook his head and said.

"We can let some of the older soldiers retire early and join the established security group, so that they will have no problem escorting the caravan on the grassland. If the Northern Qiang cavalry dares to stop us, we will take the opportunity to eliminate them." Guan Hai said.

"That's okay. Now that our cavalry battalion reserve team is getting bigger and bigger, leaving veterans can give new recruits more training opportunities. Even if the state pastoral office knew about it, they wouldn't say anything.

There is another question, how do we get those chambers of commerce to agree to go to the Yuezhi Kingdom to do business and hire our security team? What is needed in the grassland is elite cavalry. The cost of hiring our soldiers must be much more expensive than those in Yongchang County.

Otherwise, how much profit can we make?" He Yedao.

"If we want a caravan to go to Dayuezhi Kingdom, we can just form a caravan ourselves. Recently I heard that Nanjun has also established a Jiangling Chamber of Commerce. We will form a Nanqiang Chamber of Commerce and then bring our Yizhou cloth, salt, and tea

You can definitely make a lot of money by transporting it there." Jiang Li said with a smile in his heart.

This is indeed a way to make money. Now all the counties and counties in Yizhou know that in order to develop rapidly, economy is the key. If this way is successful, they will be able to obtain a steady stream of funds. In recent years, Beiqiang has been

They didn't fight very hard, and the five of them didn't think the tribe heading north could pose much of a threat to them.

After everything was discussed, Jiang Li asked Huang Zhong, Fang Yue, and Guan Hai to count the Yizhou Jingqi who could be discharged. In the end, they discharged 9,000 people in one go, and then changed hands and made these people become members of the security corps.

Jiang Li's heart was much bigger than Luo Lin's. If he wanted to do something big, he would do something big. He organized a caravan to go to Dayuezhi Kingdom for the first time, and sent an envoy to visit the country in the name of Nanqiang County, with more than 20,000 people.

Most of the caravan members were former city defense troops. Not many of the caravan members really knew how to do business. They spent more than 5 million on the spoils they had accumulated over the past few years to buy 5,000 carriages and goods. That's it.

He left Nanqiang County and headed north.

The tribes heading north were already fleeing to the northwest. They saw the Yizhou cavalry fleeing far away, but they did not stop this new caravan from going north. It took a month for the caravan formed by the Southern Qiang Chamber of Commerce to arrive.

Going north, they first sent envoys to visit the king of Dayuezhi Kingdom.

The Dayuezhi Kingdom was originally an important country on the Silk Road. They had a very good relationship with the Han Dynasty in the past. When the Han Dynasty was strong forty years ago, there were often caravans here traveling from south to north, and they themselves benefited a lot from this.

Hearing that a caravan from the Han Dynasty had arrived, the leader of the Dayue clan was very happy. He warmly entertained the envoy from Nanqiang County. Seeing that the caravan was escorted by thousands of elites, he hoped to establish long-term trade relations with the Nanqiang Chamber of Commerce.

Some nobles of the Yuezhi Kingdom were also happy to participate. They bargained with the Chamber of Commerce to purchase goods. The nobles here were basically involved in the Silk Road trade in the past. They were also willing to buy silk, cotton, refined salt, porcelain, etc. in the Han Dynasty.

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As a result, the Southern Qiang Chamber of Commerce stayed in the eastern part of the Dayuezhi Kingdom for half a month, and more than half of all the goods were sold. When the caravan entered Nanshi City, the capital of the western part of the Dayuezhi Kingdom, all the goods were robbed.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The friendly attitude of the Dayuezhi Kingdom made the caravan very happy. They saw many Han people here. The Dayuezhi Kingdom was a dependent country during the Western Han Dynasty.

With the Han Dynasty, it was only because the Han Dynasty was weak in recent decades that they had less contact with the Han Dynasty, but they have always had a good impression of the Han people.

Jiang Li in Nanqiang County was still very worried after the caravan left. They knew that the Han Dynasty often did business with the Dayue clan in the past and could make more profits from there, but they didn't know what the situation there was like now.

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If this business trip fails, it will not matter if he loses money. If he loses too many soldiers, the Prefecture Mufu will definitely blame him. He will not be removed from his position as the governor of Nanqiang County, but he will be afraid if he wants to join the Prefecture Mufu.

It's impossible.

The caravan has been away for two months, and Jiang Li is on tenterhooks every day. He really wants to know the news about the caravan, but the distant Dayuezhi Kingdom is more than two thousand miles away from Nanqiang County. With the current four-wheeled carriage, if everything goes well, a

It takes many months to get there. Going to the Parthian Empire is even further, and we may not be able to get there by the end of this year.

No news is the best news. Although Jiang Li knew this, he still asked Huang Zhong to continue to lead troops to patrol the grassland northward, and report the relevant caravan personnel as soon as he found them.

Ma Teng was very close to the Dayue clan in Xiliang, and he knew everything about Liu Xin in the Southern Qiang. Now that the Northern Qiang tribe continued to move north, Ma Teng fought more with each other. He found that the strength of the northern Qiang tribe was much weaker than before.

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All of this is due to Yizhou. More than half of the entire Qiang population has been brought under the rule of Yizhou. All Qiang people have become Yizhou civilians and live the lives of Han people.

Ma Teng also knew about the formation of the caravan by Nan Qiang this time. He was jealous but did not dare to take any action. He knew the strength of the Yizhou cavalry. The other party was now strong and seeking expansion. He wanted to fight with Yizhou.

The enemy is not a clear choice.

But seeing Liu Xin's growing power, Ma Teng was still very worried. If Liu Xin captured the entire Qiang tribe, he would surround him in the western part of Liangzhou. The western part of Liangzhou was covered with grasslands that were difficult to defend, and with the elite Yizhou cavalry,

How are they going to deal with it!

"Father, no matter how much Liu Xin has left, if he dares to invade our Liangzhou, I will make sure that he never comes back!" Ma Teng's second son, Ma Xiu, heard his father's confidence and said loudly.

"Then Liu Xin can be defeated by anyone? If it is so easy, why would my father let us discuss it here? He has more than ten generals, including Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Zhou Tai, who are all brave enough to be worthy of ten thousand men. Even if I

It's not necessarily an opponent." Ma Chao heard his brother say and interrupted him dissatisfied.

Ma Xiu stopped talking. He was very afraid of his brother. Now that his strength had just reached the top level, he could not make it through a single round under his brother Ma Chao.

"Meng Qi is right. It's not enough to deal with Liu Xinguang with enthusiasm. Now the entire Qiang tribe is almost going to be captured by Liu Xin. Then we will be in trouble!" Ma Dai said, he will always listen to Ma Chao.

"Look at Liu Xin, he would rather fight the Qiang people than send troops to capture Yongzhou or Jingzhou. His ambition is not small. Now that he has captured the Qiang people, he will definitely have to deal with our Liangzhou next. The other party has already begun to fight with the big people.

As the Yuezhi expand their trade, the land of Liangzhou will become more and more important to them, so we have to be careful." Zhang Que, Ma Teng's adviser, said.

"But they have never had a conflict with us. If we take the initiative to attack Wudu County, it will be impossible. This is really uncomfortable." Ma Tie said at this time.

"Lord, the chances of us winning the battle with Liu Xin are not high now. We might as well get in touch with the opponent first and explore Liu Xin's thoughts." Pang De said.

"Talk about Liu Xin's thoughts? What's there to talk about? Liu Xin will definitely invade Liangzhou and then attack the Central Plains from the entire west. By then, all the princes in the Central Plains will not be able to escape!" Ma Chao heard Pang De say and Liu Xin
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