Western Regions. Li Xin's jurisdiction. The business road leading to the country of Dawan.

"The carriage is impassable. Only some horses and donkeys can pass. Others are unlikely." A Qin army engineer armed with his rifle warned that most of their soldiers were strengthening the road.

"Oh. It's okay. We are all horses. Those carriages are our supplies. We can share some of them so that we can pass." The captain of the horse team said to the soldiers with a smile.

"Yeah. Go ahead." The soldier waved and said. They know what these horse teams are transporting. Musketeers, a lot of musketeers, the road has just been opened, and a large number of caravans pass by here. It can be said that some impassable places have been reinforced by the caravans themselves. Because there was news from Dawan that Dawan was attacked by the Parthians, they urgently needed a large amount of gunpowder and weapons to protect themselves. Guns and artillery were transported from here to Dawan. Those arms dealers have long thought of a good way to solve all the difficulties they encounter, and the guns can be exchanged for a lot of gold. Artillery is a rare thing. It can kill the rest cavalry on a large scale and is an important weapon for defense.

The horse team passed one by one. The engineers can only watch that the benefits of the arms trade are thousands or tens of thousands of times their salary. The soldiers also want to do this, but the risk of doing this is too high. It was this way that many people did not come back alive. He saw a team of horses with their own goods falling off the cliff. It must be impossible to live. This is just the risk. If they are not registered, smuggled, and eaten by the other party, the Qin government will not be able to find them.

The sale of arms has become a business approved by the Ministry of National Defense. But there must be a government license. Without a license, the military cannot guarantee their safety, of course. Taxes on the arms business are also different. In order to limit the smuggling of the sharpest weapons to various countries.

Of course, countries will always find ways to get some weapons that they can't get, such as revolver machine guns, which are all old-fashioned machine guns. But defense is still very effective. But these weapons are within the scope of the Qin Army's embargo, but the price given by the other party is very high, which does not rule out the possibility of their smuggling. Moreover, the tax collected by the government is relatively high. A grenade can be exported, but the tax is ten times the cost of a grenade, but that's it, this weapon is still being exported. Because he can bring huge profits.

Only when the Ministry of National Defense or the government actively assists a country. The price can only be lowered. At this time, the merchants will hoard the goods, because once the government stops assisting, the ammunition demand will make them a lot of money. This kind of business is done most at the border of Qin State. The people of Qin State sell arms and weapons, but earn a lot of gold. In contrast, the profits of other daily necessities are not as good as arms. Qin has become the largest arms exporter in the Western Regions. Qin is relying on these arms to support Qin's military industrial enterprises and the government.

Rest and Tocharan border, because of the presence of the rest of the cavalry. The trade was not going smoothly, but in terms of smuggling, it was extremely hot.

"Today we checked a group of smuggled arms caravans. They sold weapons that were supposed to be equipped with the Tocharian militia to their enemies, the Parthians, because the Parthians have a large amount of gold in their hands, and their gold coins are of high quality. , Even our soldiers themselves are also collecting." Qin Jun Second Lieutenant Officer. Li Mao wrote in his diary.

"The Tocharians don’t seem to care about this at all. The smuggling of arms comes from their upper-class nobles. Because gold coins can bring huge profits, the guns we Qin people sell to them are a gold coin and a rifle. The price of the rifle is four gold coins for one rifle, and the bullets are calculated separately. This is a huge profit, even in the Yueshi army. They will secretly sell the weapons we equip them. This is naked theft. But this kind of behavior cannot be banned at all, because it is huge profits, and no one can ban huge profits. I suspect that the border officers and related soldiers are involved. This country really opened my eyes." Li Mao wrote Tao.

"The Parthians need muskets. The quantity they need is quite large. We don’t know what the Parthians want to do. In addition, the demand for artillery is also very large. The Tocharians simply cannot meet their needs, but they do their best for gold coins. It is possible to increase the number of artillery they searched. The demand for artillery is increasing the scale of the smuggling trade. It will not take long before the entire trade will become a smuggling trade." Li Mao is just an ordinary military officer, he is stationed in the spitfire Luo observes the situation of the Tocharians. But what he found is not enough to change the current situation. However, the military's top management is sufficient to reach this point.

In Meng Tian's office, an officer submitted a report. This attracted Meng Tian's attention.

"The Yueshi people’s demand is due to the war, but the increase in the amount of munitions on the Tochara side is astonishing. In the past few months, they have purchased more than 1.5 million muskets, and the number of ammunition has reached A staggering 95 million rounds were delivered. The number of artillery pieces delivered was only more than 300, but their order exceeded 1,500. With such a huge number, we suspect that there is a big problem." Officer Speaking anxiously.

"Yeah." Meng Tian nodded looking at the report in his hand. This indeed exceeds the needs of the actual population of Tocharo. The population of Tocharo is more than one million at most, but their arms needs far exceed everyone's imagination. The number can arm all the Tocharians twice, and the firepower is strong.

"This is very abnormal. We suspect that the Tocharians are trading with the Shamans, and the number of transactions is very large." The officer speculated.

"Well. Find out this matter. I think it is very possible. If necessary, we can restrict their exports, but this matter needs to be told to the Prime Minister's House. How to deal with it depends on the situation of the Prime Minister's House." Meng Tian Nodded and said.

Qin can control the development of the country through anomalies in the arms trade. This change in the situation can arouse Qin's security, because the equipment of firearms will form a great military power in a short time. This is a great threat, and it has caused great hidden dangers to the surrounding security situation of Qin State.