The spring in the Western Regions is much later than that in the Central Plains. The season is already at the end of March, but the apricot blossoms are still not blooming, and the greenness on the willow branches is just faintly vague. However, the camel bells of the caravan have been resounding throughout the wilderness since mid-February.

Last spring, Soge launched a rebellion, first joined forces with the Turks to break through the Thunder Ye, and then went south along the Bahuan River. Wherever he passed, he burned, killed, robbed, and did everything he did. Naturally, vendors from all over the world did not dare to take their lives to gamble. The chaos army would just let them go. Naturally, vendors disappeared in the entire Western Regions.

This year, I heard that Soge had been killed. The Tang Dynasty rebuilt the Anxi Protectorate and ruled the four towns of Shule, Saiye, Khotan and Kucha. The well-informed vendors from all over the world naturally drove camels and gathered together to set off on the ancient silk road to Chang'an.

There are actually three ancient Silk Roads in the Western Regions. The shortest one is the middle line. This road, from the Geluoling Pass to the Tang Dynasty, first go to Shule to change the customs clearance documents, then go east along the north bank of the Chihe River, walk to Sanhekou, pass through Quli and arrive at Pu Changhai, and then set off from Pu Changhai to Dunhuang.

After passing Dunhuang, the vendors can completely rest assured. Not only are the bandits extinct along the way, but the merchants from all walks of life in the Central Plains can also "take over" most of the goods in the hands of the vendors, allowing them to make a fortune.

In the past, more than 90% of vendors from all over the country liked to take the mid-line when they went to Chang'an. Although there were more checkpoints on the road, they were safe and convenient. However, this year, 20% of vendors with the most sensitive sense of smell chose the North Line. That is, after entering Shule, they first went to Shuye and turned a big circle, then returned to Quli and continued to go east.

The reason is very simple. In just one winter, a kind of goods called wool appeared out of thin air in the Thunderbolt City. They are not as comfortable as silk, but are softer than gauze, comfortable than linen, and have no strange smell. After making clothes, they are also very stylish. Moreover, this thing has many colors, ranging from rose red, sun yellow, willow green to pomegranate purple. As long as the satin color that vendors have seen elsewhere before, the craftsmen in Thunderbolt City can dye it!

Vendors are all species that cannot afford to get up early. Without enough benefits, they will not go to the big circles that are thousands of miles away from the North. If you buy wool materials from Suoye City, you can not only go to the Central Plains to sell, but all tribes along the way can become their sales targets. Perhaps you don’t have to go to the sandbank to make money back. The rest, no matter what the price you sell in the Central Plains, will be pure profits.

The people of the Central Plains are well-fed and have never seen wool materials before, so the price they are willing to pay should be higher. Even if the people of the Central Plains do not like the feeling of wool being tied on their bodies, the goods are "pressed" in their hands. The wool materials are light in weight and will not rot. After autumn, vendors will transport it back to Dashi with the Central Plains goods to sell, which will not delay making money!

"Making money is a small matter. The key is that we need to take a closer look at whether this trade route can go long." As a respected caravan leader, Audrey Sabah relies on more than just a sensitive sense of smell. When walking on the road, he whispered to several young leaders around him, "If the new Lord of the Snow Leaf can sit steadily, we can even divide into two teams, one team will continue to go to Chang'an with the goods, and the other team will return to Jiling with the original route with the matte materials. In this way, everyone will have more Tang goods in the future and will have less than half of the journey."

"The new city lord can kill Soge so quickly, should he sit firmly, right?"

"You can indeed walk half of the road less. But if you just run one way, it doesn't seem to be very cost-effective. The Sailye City is just a little bigger, so we definitely can't sell much of the goods."

"The key is, how much wool can Suoye City provide? If we only produce a few thousand pieces a year, we may not be able to buy spot stock. It will not be worth running!"

"It is one thing for the new city lord to fight. Whether he can sit steadily is another thing. The Tang Dynasty is no better than other places. The city lords in other places rely on their strength. In the Tang Dynasty, the emperor gave a random order to make him give up the Shattered Leaf and lead his troops back to Chang'an!"

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Several young vendor leaders, from different families, responded from each other with their own life experience. Most of them felt that when they went to Saiye this time, everyone just made a quick money by the way, and didn't expect to gain more.

The Western Regions were too chaotic, and it had basically not stopped much in the past twenty years. The Turks, Tubos, and the great cannibals all wanted to take this land under their control, and then control the most critical section of the Silk Road and seize huge taxes from it. Some local tribes that originally surrendered to the Tang Dynasty also dreamed of turning their tribes into a country with the support of the great food, Turks or Tubo. In this case, it was really normal for a certain city to suddenly change its owner or disappear suddenly.

Therefore, Soge was the owner of Saoye City for only a few months, and his head was different, and no one would feel strange. Similarly, it is normal for the new Saoye City controller to be transferred by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty or died in a certain tribal rebellion. Businessmen pursue not only high profits, but also the greatest security guarantee. Even if the owners are frequently changed, no matter how high the profits can be provided, they should not be regarded as a long-term business goal.

"So, we need to read it carefully this time! There is an old saying in the Tang Dynasty that it is better to read it with your own eyes than to hear it by others a hundred times. We must see it first before we can decide what to do next." The leader of the caravan Audre Saba was not upset, but smiled and threw down a few words, closed his eyes, and shrank his body between the camel's peaks.

Several young vendor leaders who were skeptical looked at each other and stopped talking. However, each saw obvious dissatisfaction on the other person's face.

The caravans walking the Silk Road usually do not belong to one family. Instead, they are spontaneously formed by many businesses with the same direction and the difference in destinations. The leaders of the caravans are usually not appointed by the official, but are recommended by several of the strongest businesses in the group.

Therefore, the leader of Audrey Sabah has very limited power. When it comes to major decisions, such as temporarily changing the route and destination, they can only rely on persuading everyone to follow him instead of forcibly ordering. Obviously, Audrey Sabah's persuasion to everyone was not very successful in the matter of detour to Sabre, although everyone agreed to go with him to take a detour. There are several young leaders in the team who are strong, but they do not like him, who have too high expectations for this trip.

The spring breeze in the wilderness was still cold, and the atmosphere in the team was a little cold. Some older but only had ordinary old vendors, looking at Audrey Sabah, suddenly filled with sympathy. Some pure apprentices who had just been sent to the caravan by their families to train, did not know which side they should believe in, and looked around unsteadily.

When it is still cold, the surrounding scenery is monotonous and repeated, and there is really nothing worth seeing. However, looking around is better than accidentally getting involved in a conflict between new and old forces in the caravan.

However, as he looked, several apprentices discovered a new scenery. They pointed their fingers at the wilderness in front of the right and shouted in a low voice: "Uncle Sabah, uncle Sabah, look, what is that? There are no carriages on the carriage and it seems that there are two big knives dragging behind it."

"A chariot with a knife?" Audreshaba was stunned, opened his eyes from the camel's back and looked around. Sure enough, in the wilderness about one mile away, he saw a strange-looking but extremely large carriage. It took four horses to drag it. The wooden wheels on both sides were seven feet high. There were no carriages on the axles between the wheels, but two simple chairs, so it was fine.

Behind the chair, two strands poked out the shaft backwards. Between the thick shafts, there were two huge scimitars. Each strand looked three feet wide, bent towards the tip of the knife on the ground, making it dazzling and cold in the sun.

"No wonder the new city lord was able to defeat Soge. It turned out that he used such a powerful chariot!" Almost instinctively, Audre Sabah connected the strange-looking carriage with the war last year. However, before he could express his guess, the two emperors sitting in the carriage suddenly stood up and pushed a crossbar in front of him. Immediately, with a "bang", the two scimitars dragged behind the carriage landed at the same time. The sharp sharp tip of the knife pierced the bottom and was dragged by the carriage to continue moving forward. In a blink of an eye, two deep and long ridges were turned up in the wilderness! (Note: Horse pull plowshare, there are related videos on Youku. The advantage is the speed, the disadvantage must be large pieces of land with flatness.)

"Not a chariot!" An experienced old vendor sat upright on the camel and dented loudly, "It should be a new utensil for plowing land, like a plowshare..."

"Hahaha..." A burst of laughter immediately sounded around him. Many vendors were shaking their heads. They walked on the Silk Road all year round, and their footprints crossed dozens of countries, hundreds of cities, and there were more than a dozen plowshares they had seen. However, no one had seen them before, and plowshares would make them look like this.

It’s not considered a horse-hardening. It’s not worthwhile in the Western Regions. If you are tired, you can kill and eat meat directly, and then replace it with a new horse. Just how much iron is needed for those two "big knives"? Even if everyone is far away and doesn’t see clearly, the "big knives" are actually mainly made of wood. The blade and tip of the knife must be iron at least, right? And it must be very strong iron, or even good steel!

How much does that cost? With so many good steel, you can even make hundreds of scimitars! If you take two or three hundred scimitars and make a plowshare, what kind of prodigal son can you do it?! If you change to those small countries west of the Pamir Mountains, even if the emperor or king's son dares to do this, you will have to be beaten to death by his father, let alone the Tang Dynasty, which is a virtue of frugality!

However, before the laughter fell, many people's eyes turned into eggs. The two ridges were pulled longer and longer, and they pulled hundreds of steps away in just seven or eight breaths. However, the lords on the carriage were still not satisfied and actually shook the rope and gave a series of scoldings, "Oh, Oh, Oh...". Soon, the four horses were allowed to turn around in a circle and quickly move forward in the opposite direction before. Soon, two other straight ridges were pulled out.

"One hundred steps, at most half of the incense stick is needed to go back and forth." Audre Sabah sat on the camel's back and kept sucking the air conditioner.

Around the surroundings, laughter came to an abrupt end, and replaced by a series of sucking sounds.

If the weird thing running not far ahead is really a plowshare. It takes at most one morning to plow the wasteland with a length of 100 steps and a width. In this way, the land that can be plowed in one day is 80 acres, which is more than ten times faster than any plowshare they have seen before!

When casting a sword as a plow, Audrey Saba suddenly understood the meaning of this Tang Yan. If it were such a plow, not to mention casting it with three hundred scimitars, even if five hundred scimitars were replaced with another plow, it would not be a waste! Eighty acres a day, no matter how short the spring in the Western Regions is, it would take more than ten days for farmers to turn over the land!

Two farmers, four horses, and more than ten days of kung fu, the sky will have to be born in a small amount of land and planted as much grain. If you can buy a few plows and transport them to some countries with vast land and sparse population, what kind of sky-high price should you sell? Especially for small countries in the Tianzhu area, which are also mainly farmed, if you save a large number of farmers by imitating and using the giant plow in front of you, and then arm the idle farmers into soldiers, their national strength can be increased several times in a blink of an eye!

"Buy this! Uncle Sabah, buy this!" A young vendor leader who was not very convinced of Audrey Sabah, suddenly admired him so much that he was full of admiration. He blushed and prompted the camel to come to him and whispered, "Uncle Sabah, we must buy a giant plow. As long as we can buy it, my goods will be given to you at the original price. I will bring this and wool materials and turn back immediately."

"Uncle Sabah, buy this and this plow truck at any cost. I've given you my goods, and I'll only take one home!" Another young vendor leader also lowered his voice and discussed with him, and his dark gray eyes were full of madness.

"It is probably difficult to buy. Even if you buy it, you may not be allowed to take it out of Datang. However, if everyone feels that it is at any cost...!" Audrey Sabah nodded in thought, then quickly turned his head to his companions around him and solicited the opinions of all vendors.

The vendors did not answer his words, but nodded. Everyone's eyes were filled with the same madness, whether young or old.

No need to ask anymore, Audrey Sabah already knew what everyone meant. She shook the camel's reins gently, and then prepared to go to the plow truck to get close to the farmer.

However, before he could walk out of the camel caravan, a sudden burst of horns came from his ears, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." Immediately afterwards, a team of fully armed cavalry arrived like a flying. The officer leading the team held a short crossbow and pointed at his choking throat from afar, shouting loudly: "Stop, where are you from? Can you please pay attention to the tax deeds and customs clearance documents in your hands?"
Chapter completed!