At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

With such a large population on the other side and such a small population on our own side, in addition to allowing the Han people to take concubines and giving them quite generous benefits to encourage childbearing, it is estimated that they will have to accept some of the native barbarians to become their own strength.

Otherwise, it is estimated that it will be difficult to gain a firm foothold here.

After all, he couldn't rely on the steel knife in his hand and [-] soldiers to kill all these millions of people. That would be too cruel and inhumane.

And he can't expect Guo Jin to be willing to send him more people, such as 100 million or something.

Although what he did was quite inhumane, but as a person who received a higher elite education, doing this kind of thing itself was not the first choice.

In this way, admitting the elite group among the indigenous people who are willing to cooperate into the political system of the Principality of Xishu seems to be the inevitable path.

If the other party is willing, Guo Jun feels that she must allow this phenomenon to occur, and cannot stick to sectarian opinions.

In the future that can be seen by the naked eye, Guo Jun knows that no matter how much he lets go of taking concubines, no matter how much he encourages childbirth, the population is limited after all. If he wants to expand rapidly and lay a large enough territory to survive, there are some things Also had to do.

However, while accepting, one must also guard against it.

After all, they are not from their own clan and have no common blood and cultural traditions. Who knows what they are thinking?

Accept the elites of the opponent, but also accept them in a limited way. Use them to indirectly control the people at the lower level, and then do it yourself, firmly grasp the local economic lifeline, and pinch their seven inches.

Then it is still necessary to carry out assimilation. Only those who are of the same blood are worthy of trust.

But that's all in the future, the most important thing right now is to do business and sell their sophisticated weapons,

Wang Haibo's contact with the people of this small country as a merchant was nothing at first, but after he came into contact with the upper ruling class of this small country step by step as a foreign businessman who came across the sea, he was a little surprised.

In the past, his scope of activities was very narrow, and he never realized that there existed such a country with a relatively complete culture and system in this northern land some distance away from him.

There are kings, ministers, generals, soldiers, systems, and norms.

And it seems that their existence is not so strange.

After a difficult negotiation between the two parties, including gestures and guesses, and dog-headed translators, Wang Haibo was surprised to learn that this small country paid great attention to overseas trade, and that ships once arrived in the Lingnan area of ​​the Han Empire by sea.

Of course, they haven’t gone that route for a long time, and now they are going further west, trading with merchants from there, and doing business to make money, because it’s not easy to do business in the east since decades ago, it seems to be in chaos .

So their vision is not narrow, and they have learned a lot about the outside world, and even know that there is a big country in the west of them, across the ocean.

Isn't that the Roman Empire?

Wang Haibo was very surprised.

When they confirmed that Wang Haibo was from the ancient eastern country that had traded with him, they were very friendly to him and asked about the national conditions and current situation of the ancient eastern country.

Wang Haibo said that the war has subsided, the ancient country has restored peace, and began to do business with the outside world again. Afterwards, Wang Haibo showed the gifts and commodities he brought.

After seeing products such as silk, tea, porcelain and iron pots, the dignitaries of the small country liked him very much, welcomed him even more, and provided him with very generous treatment.

Wang Haibo was even a little flattered.

Wang Haibo didn't know any trade between the Han Empire and this small country, but he knew that this small country didn't appear in the history books repaired by the Wei Empire for the Han Empire, and that was enough.

He doesn't even know the name of this small country.

Then through further exchanges between the two parties, Wang Haibo learned from the pronunciation conversion that this country is called "Zhu Nian Kingdom".

He is not very interested in what the other party's name is, because he knows that this country will be annexed by Guo Jun sooner or later, and he is still alive mainly because Guo Jun is not ready yet.

So he faithfully carried out his mission - to sell the goods he brought to the other party.

Zhu Nianguo was very interested in this. They felt the smoothness of silk, tasted the taste of tea water, felt the purpose of iron pots and the beauty of porcelain lacquerware, and all felt [recovering the past] .

They also had trade relations with the Han Empire, but they were lost for a long time.

Now, it is still a familiar feeling and a familiar taste.

They have expressed that they can try to buy it, and then try to trade with each other.

Because of this tradition, they didn't feel that the people of Wei came here directly for colonization and plunder, and they maintained a certain degree of goodwill towards them.

After Wang Haibo sent back such news, Guo Jun was overjoyed.

He didn't expect that the Zhuian Kingdom would have such a past with the Han Empire.

This is convenient.

So he decided to organize a larger-scale "caravan" to carry all kinds of goods to trade, and by the way, bring a wave of weapons to sell to the other side to see if they can be sold.

He felt that nine times out of ten it could be marketed.

As long as the opponent sees the huge difference between the weapon on their side and their original [weapon].

Any ambitious political entity does not mind making its military force stronger.

And once the opponent gets this weapon, it is obvious what they will do.

Guo Jun handed over the task to Wang Haibo, and this task was completed quite simply and brilliantly.

Wang Haibo pretended that he looked down on the other party's weapons, angered them, and then induced them to use their own weapons to fight Wang Haibo's weapons, only to interrupt the other party's weapons.

The opponent was greatly surprised and looked at Wang Haibo's weapon squarely.

Wang Haibo took the opportunity to sell the weapon he brought to the other party—the Wei Jun-style ring-shoulders, and let them try it out.

After they tried it, they were astonished as heavenly soldiers, and they didn't want to let go of it after holding it.

After the improvement of the manufacturing process, the standard weapons of the Wei Empire completely surpassed the products of the Han Empire and surpassed this era. Even the quality of the weapons of the Roman Empire could not be compared with the standard weapons of the Wei Army.

If Rome can't compare, then a small country like the Zhuan Kingdom is far inferior to the Wei Empire in terms of technology and productivity, let alone the quality of weapons.

Seeing them like this, Wang Haibo knew that the deal was almost done.

Then Wang Haibo started to sell, saying how his weapons took a lot of time to build and how they were delivered, mainly for making money and not for anything else.

Of course, you can give me too much food and other supplies, let’s just calculate according to the price, and we will definitely not let you suffer, and of course you should not let me suffer either.

For my side, if you buy more, I will count you as cheap, and if you buy less, then we will follow the original price. Of course, if you buy it for the first time, I will give you a friendly price.

The price we negotiated is no more, no less, you can’t buy it at a loss and you can’t be fooled. Don’t think I’m lying to you. You can see the quality, right?

If you are worried, I will bring the goods, you can inspect the goods, and you will pay ten for fake ones!

Needless to say, this Wang Haibo is really a talent for doing business. He fooled the other party regardless of the north and the south, and almost immediately finalized the first order.

The other party does not want to trade precious metals for the time being, and proposes to exchange food for weapons.

It just so happened that Wang Haibo didn't lack precious metals, but mainly food, so he agreed.

The two parties agreed on two catties, exchanged the weights and measures of the two parties, and finally decided to exchange one hundred catties of grain for a handful of [Shenbing].

In order to show our sincerity, we will pay a deposit of [-] catties of grain first, and let Wang Haibo bring the goods over, and we will inspect the goods on the spot.

In order to show his sincerity, Wang Haibo did not take away the three [Sacred Weapons] he brought, but gave them away for free.

How about it, are you earning blood?

The other party really felt that he had earned his blood, and the king of the Zhuan Kingdom awarded three [Sacred Soldiers] to the three bravest warriors.

The three warriors were so happy that they hugged the magic soldier in their arms and did not let go. Judging by their posture, they were even more precious than their own newborn sons.

Not bad, not bad, it is possible to do this.

Wang Haibo was very happy and asked his subordinates to pull the grain truck back to tell Guo Jun the news.

Guo Jun was also very happy, and immediately gave Wang Haibo a hundred Wei Jun-style ring first knives and asked him to sell them.

Exchange [-] catties of grain back.

Then I discussed with Wang Haibo about how to get along in the future.

What Wang Haibo means is that if someone from the other side sees that we are a large military camp, then the other party must be wary, so it is enough for us to maintain a part of the army on alert.

Others can continue to practice, but they have to change into regular clothes and pretend to be a military business community, as long as they come to do business.

Those slaves don’t really care about the other party, they just say that they violated us and were defeated by us, and take them as slaves, as long as they don’t let them see the whole picture.

The other party must have done the same when they captured prisoners of war.

The law of the jungle and the like are not a tribe or a family, so don't worry.

Guo Jin felt that such a statement was acceptable, so she sent an order to the soldiers to work in two shifts, with some serving as soldiers and the other wearing regular uniforms to do other things.

It is indeed not good to always treat this place as a big military camp. In the future, it will always be normalized, and it will always be necessary to live a normal life.

The families formed by these soldiers and their concubines must be the first residents of the first city of the Principality of Xishu in the future.

After everything was arranged properly, Wang Haibo set off for the Zhuian Kingdom, bringing a batch of weapons to trade.

The king of Zhuren Kingdom was very satisfied with this, very happy, immediately delivered the grain, and then equipped these magic soldiers to his most elite guards.

Wang Haibo said that if they are used to it smoothly, they can come to him for a deal again.

They not only deal in weapons, but also in other fields. Everyone exchanges what they need and establishes a good relationship of peaceful coexistence.

The king nodded in agreement, and then turned his head to think about finding a place to try these weapons to see if they would work.

After paying so much food, we must be able to recoup the cost, right?

Don't even talk about making money, I always have to pay back, right?

So he found his old enemy, the Zheluo Kingdom in the west of the territory.

Chapter 1498 One thousand four hundred and eight In a sense, Guo Jun is very business-minded

The Zheluo Kingdom and the Zhuren Kingdom belong to the same Tamil ethnic group, and they are divided into two different countries. There are frequent frictions, causing wars, hurting each other, and plundering each other's population.

Now they are hurting each other too.

Isn't this the best target?

The king made up his mind to let these [magic soldiers] bloom their own light.

Then, a small-scale battle took place on the grasslands on the border between the two countries. The two parties involved in the war were the Zhuren Kingdom and the Zheluo Kingdom. It was mainly provoked by the Zhuren Kingdom, and the Zheluo Kingdom was forced to fight.

The battle goal of the Zhuren Kingdom is to defeat the army of the Zheluo Kingdom and seize a mine they have mastered. This mine will bring great benefits to the Zhuren Kingdom, and they have been coveting it for a long time.

Several raids in the past were unsuccessful, which led Zhe Luo to deploy more troops to defend here.

This time, King Zhuren armed this powerful commando death squad using new weapons, preparing to defeat the mine guard army in one fell swoop and seize the mine.

As soon as the battle started, it was still the traditional mode of the past, that is, chickens pecking at each other.

Both sides let the chickens with mediocre or even inferior equipment come forward to peck at each other, holding inferior weapons and yelling at each other, just like gangsters fighting in gangs. The chaos in front of the battle can't be done by anyone, and the whole battlefield is noisy.

You come and go, you shoot arrows, I hold up the shield, you attack with elephant soldiers, and I also use elephant soldiers to fight back. If you kill me alone, I will kill you alone. Almost.

This model can't kill many people.

You can't die much, and I can't die too much. That's why there is a saying that the whole army will collapse if [-]% of them die in battle.

After fighting for about an hour, both sides were a little tired. At this time, both sides showed their true chapters.

The rookies are there to consume each other's physical strength and military strength. They are peasant soldiers and slave soldiers who are not full-time or half-time off-duty.

Then when the rookies on both sides wield inferior weapons and hit a stalemate, and no one can do anything to the other, the two sides will send out truly elite off-the-shelf standing soldiers to start the real duel.

The number of off-duty standing soldiers will not be large, and if there are too many, they will not be able to support them.

The scale of hundreds of people followed the powerful generals to launch a group charge, which was hard to beat.

As long as one side overwhelms the other side's full-time standing soldiers, the victory will be established. When the rookies see that the elite have been defeated, they will immediately retreat.

The elites of the victorious side can lead their own chickens to swarm up, beat up the opponent's desperate chickens, and win.

Veterans can only fight with the wind, not against the wind. Once they fight against the wind, they will be defeated, and they will never insist on fighting to the death.

Therefore, the chance of decisive victory depends on whose off-duty standing soldiers can win the final victory.

The elite of the Zhuren Kingdom quickly launched an assault, and met the elite of the Zheluo Kingdom on the battlefield, and the two armies fought fiercely.

In the past, the two sides were at least evenly matched, and they fought each other without losing the wind. In the end, it was perseverance, courage, and endurance that they fought for.

But this time is different.

The elites of the Zheluo Kingdom brandished their weapons and fought against the elites of the Zhuyan Kingdom. After fighting a few times, they were shocked to find that their blades were broken and cut off abruptly.

With a bang, the long knife was split into a short knife. When the elite of Zheluo Kingdom was stunned, he was beheaded by the elite of Zhulan Kingdom, beheaded and died.

Such a situation is not a single one, but a large area.

A large group of people brandished long knives to fight each other, and then the weapons of one party were chopped off by the other party...