After issuing the monarchy to encourage childbirth, it can be expected that in the future, a large number of newborn babies will be born, and these babies will also occupy a part of the existing labor force!

Supporting and developing the country's military and civilians requires a lot of resources, and resources require labor to develop.

Therefore, Yang Song decided to use local indigenous people. As long as he persisted in the initial input stage, his output would experience explosive growth in the future!

But the most investment required in this early stage was food, so the caravan formed by Zhou Wu and Changsun Sheng!

Yang Song also thought about launching a war and plundering!

However, there is insufficient external intelligence, greater investment in war and greater consumption. If the output is insufficient in the end, it will be unpaid.

Just say that, war is just for politics, and war without interests is meaningless!

If you don’t need war, then use a soft knife! Use goods to plunder!

But now, Yang Song looked at the red patch on the map, was he forcing him to start a war?

...

In the north, the caravan advanced straight to the north according to the instructions of the compass.

Along the way, there was no need to avoid the road, and following the simple road, the caravan had been north for five days and passed several small villages on the way.

"Mr. Changsun, it seems that the civilians in this place are much better?"

The scattered items purchased by the territory were sold.

Changsun Sheng heard Zhou Wu’s question, frowned, stroked his beard, and replied: “The owners here still have some ability to make ordinary villagers smile!”

He recalled the caravan selling in that small village just now.

The caravan came outside the village, stopped, and shouted: "I've sold the goods, I've sold the goods~!"

The villagers in the village also saw the arrival of the caravan. Seeing so many people and holding weapons, they thought they had encountered robbers at first, but when they heard the shouts, they realized that this was a caravan!

The villagers saw that these people did not enter the village, but took out some things and started setting up stalls, and finally confirmed that this was really a caravan.

Soon, the villagers gathered around and saw that the items on the stalls were filled with daily necessities such as wooden cups and wooden bowls, as well as some puppets and toys. The most valuable one was the exquisite white salt.

When the villagers asked about the price, except for the fine salt, they were all very cheap. The most important thing is that if there were not so many coins, they could also use low prices for grain!

This made the villagers very moved. In the past, they had to transport the grain they had worked hard to the city, and they could only sell a little money.

Now the people from this caravan have a price of their grain, which is one pound of three copper coins, which is one copper coins higher than the price they transported to the city to sell to grain dealers.

The villagers agreed, and in the end they all used low prices for grain and no one bought it directly with coins. They could still calculate this simple account.

This is also why Changsun Sheng is willing to purchase grain at a fair price. The ultimate goal of their caravan is still food!

For these useless products, in order to make a move as soon as possible, the caravans sold some of them half-sell and half-get.

But because the total amount is still so large, and the villagers' purchasing power is very limited, they didn't buy much in the end.

...

Zhou Wu looked at the city in front of him, which was completely different from the small city he had seen in the past. Even the City of Tianqi is only comparable to the size of the city in front of him!

This city can be regarded as a city, and it has exceeded the size of the city!

"Mr. Changsun, this place is really prosperous!"

Zhou Wu sighed, just as he sighed, a small caravan came in front of him.

This small caravan has two simple convertible two-wheeled carriages, with the carriage full of goods carried by ropes. It seems that they are going out of the city to do business!

When passing by Zhou Wu and the others, the people in this small caravan were all a little alert and a little curious. It was rare for them to have such a large caravan!

It’s not that there are many guards, but that there are very few large carriages. Four-wheeled carriages are not uncommon, but a large four-wheeled carriage of sixty cars is really rare!

Zhou Wu didn't care about this curious little caravan, but looked at the city in front of him and asked Changsun Sheng: "This is the main city of the Shangdaotang?"

Changsun Sheng looked at the environment in front of him. In front of the mountains, a city stood up and looked left and right, with endless mountains. He replied: "It should be that, the environment here is right!"

Changsun Sheng also opened the map and looked at the location.

Out of the Heavenly Cage Pass, there is Kevin's territory in the mountainous area. To the north, there is a small plain. To the north, there is another mountain that they see now.

It seems that there is a basin outside Tianqian Pass, but it is still a basin that is close to the sea!

if……

Changsun Sheng did not continue thinking, but said to Zhou Wu: "Let's go to the city!"

This time, the caravan successfully entered the city after paying a tax on entering the city.

I asked passers-by to ask about the situation of this city and learned why this city is so prosperous!

It turns out that Changsun Sheng’s speculation is very correct. There is a basin between the pass and these mountains, with a total of seven territories of all sizes!

And why this territory is so prosperous? Of course, there is a passage connecting the northerly here!

If the seven territories want to go to the main civilization in the central mainland, they must pass through this. Indeed, this place is also known for its commercial service industry!

There is not that there are no other roads to go out, but that the other roads are very rugged. It’s okay to say that there are few people. If the caravan of Zhou Wu and others wants to go north, they must walk here!

After knowing the reason, Changsun Sheng sighed: "I didn't expect this to be a remote place!"

He was not sorry for anything else, but lamenting the weakness of Xia State! The less than 100,000 soldiers and civilians had no influence even in this small basin, let alone the main civilization of the outside world!

After sighing, Changsun Sheng suggested to Zhou Wu: "Let's find a hotel to settle down first, and then sell goods!"

Zhou Wu also thought this was the first, so he agreed and said, "Okay, no problem, it's time to repair it. I've been traveling in the wild for more than half a month!"

The name of this business road leader is probably also derived from the role of this place, so there are many shops such as hotels and taverns.

But because their caravan is too big, there are still few hotels that can be accommodated. There is no way, so the caravan has to book a medium-sized hotel, which is more convenient!

In the hotel lobby, Changsun Sheng suggested to Zhou Wu again: "Captain Zhou, repair your day today and go to the stall area tomorrow. Remember to take it earlier, otherwise there will be no good stalls!"

The owner of this intelligence hotel said that when the boss saw the caravan, he knew that he was here to do business. For the sake of the caravan's generousness, he also accompanied it with some information about the streets.

Zhou Wu thought for a while and agreed, "Mr. Changsun said, then do it like this!"

Zhou Wu discovered that although the caravan was still giving orders, the one who made the decision basically became Changsun Sheng.

But there is no way, who made him less smart than the other party? And he also knew that the caravan was mainly based on the other party, and he was only responsible for protecting the safety of the caravan and supervising the emperor!

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Chapter completed!