"Building a railway requires a lot of labor. This is inevitable. In terms of technology, we do not lack. But the labor problem is very difficult." Fan Dou said to the Minister of Finance of Dawan State with concern. In this regard, the Minister of Finance is also very worried. The Dawan people, including the Wusun people who want to do more, have more labor involved in the domestic mining of minerals. Even so, they still do not have enough labor to build the railway. After all, this is a very big problem.

"We do not have such a large labor force to build railways. As you know, our own population is small. The only way is to import from other countries." Dawan Finance Minister thought for a while and said.

"I read your Qin people's newspaper. The Yue people have won a huge victory, and their number of prisoners of war is also very huge. I wonder if we should find a solution from this aspect. After all, we need more labor. Build the railway." The Finance Minister said.

"This is a bit difficult. Labor in some places has already been ordered. At this time, we may not be able to participate in the distribution of prisoners of war, but we can think about it. After all, there is still a way. Maybe our bank can lend them a loan. More funds." Fan Dou said embarrassingly.

"We are asking for more and more quantity. In terms of risks, don't worry. There are still a lot of mineral resources waiting to be developed in Dawan. They are collateral. As long as the railway transportation problem can be solved, all the problems will be solved." Minister Wan said anxiously. Now the traffic has greatly become their most terrible factor. Because the mineral resources cannot be shipped out, the Dawan government is eager to change the current situation.

"Yeah. I understand this, but I think, do we think about a solution from another direction? After all, if we concentrate on the hands of the Yue family, the price of the Yue family's slaves will rise very sharply." Fan Dou thought about it.

"This. I don't understand?" The Minister of Finance shook his head and said.

"I heard that the Anxi State is to the west of the Dawan State, right?" Fan Dou said.

"Yes, these Parthians are still sending cavalry to harass us. For this, we have no way to expel them." The Minister of Finance said.

"In this case, things are much simpler. We can let the Parthians launch offensive operations. The main target is the western countries. We Qin people don't understand these countries, but I think that the Parthians are so good at war, they will definitely get a large number of prisoners , And Dawan can trade through trade, such as trading with muskets. In this way, trade can be very large." Fan Dou said.

"This. Can it work?" the Minister of Finance said suspiciously.

"You know, the Parthians are our enemy, and the enemy is unlikely to listen to us. Such a thing, I think, has done a little too much." The Minister of Finance shook his head and said.

"No, no. I think Mr. Minister understands what I mean." Fan Dou explained.

"The situation is like this. Now the Shabbats need materials, all kinds of materials, these materials can strengthen their country, but what the Shabbats export is gold, a lot of gold, the amount of gold is very large, if The Parthians can't produce such a large amount of gold at once, and they need such a large amount of materials, the only solution may be to attack you." Fan Dou said.

"Any war can be resolved through the principle of exchange of interests. If at this time the Parthians can exchange prisoners of war to get the materials they need, if necessary, they can also spend money to get more slaves. The Parthians are bound to Launched a larger-scale war and conducted this transaction." Fan Dou persuaded.

"This is a way." The Minister of Finance nodded.

"Yes, Mr. Minister, this will not only resolve the security problems in the west of Dawan. At the same time, it will also get sufficient labor. Such things are really beneficial to Dawan. We might as well solve these problems like this. Good. If we delay it, it will be very unfavorable to us." Fan Dou further said.

"However, for this matter, we need to work with you Qin people. The most important thing is that the road transportation problem must be solved at present. Without these, the carriages we bought cannot be used." The Minister of Finance said.

"This is natural. Our Qin State is naturally willing to mediate such things. This is the only thing our Qin State can do." Fan Dou said with a smile.

Spithoro rested on the border.

Two Tocharan businessmen are discussing their problems.

"The gold coins handed to us by the Shabbat are getting worse and worse, and the number is getting less and less. If this goes on, the musket business cannot be done." A middle-aged Tocharian man said in Qin. Because people in the Qin dialect are all upper-class people, few people at the bottom can understand it. However, this trend is gradually changing, but it will take time, a longer period of time to change these.

"I also found out about this. But there is no way. Arcelor." Another businessman said.

"We should have found out. The Shaman’s gold coins may have been earned by us. They bought a large number of muskets from us, that is, the entire Shaman’s vault, which may have been emptied by us. If they trade again, There is no money at all. When the Shah people have no money, they will find ways to do other things. What I am worried about is that they will start a war.” Another businessman said worriedly.

"Archie, I see. Your worry is not wrong, but we don't have any way to solve such a problem." Arcelor said.

"The Parthians don't have gold coins, and a lot of gold coins have entered the Qin people's pockets. We are only responsible for installing an intermediate price. This will not make much money at all. I think you know this." Arcelor said.

"Qin people don’t buy anything from us with their money. We don’t have anything worth selling to Qin people. I listened to the Dawan people in the north digging a lot of minerals underground for the people of Qin. The problem is, there must be something like this under our feet. Things, we don't know where, there is no way to dig in vain." Archie said.

"Wait. What did you just say?" Arcelor asked curiously.

"I said, minerals, the minerals under our feet. If we can dig out the minerals, I think our problem will be solved very well. Think about it, those minerals can mortgage a lot of money, and we can get it from the people of Qin. Earn money, and then buy some things that the Shabbats are worth buying. We sell so hard and the Shabbats keep buying. This will definitely go wrong. What I think is that we may have moved the Shabbats’ vaults. It's empty," Archie said.

"Yes. You are very right, Archie, you are really a business genius." Arcelor said excitedly.

"What's the matter?" Archie asked puzzledly.

"I think we have found a solution. We can solve this problem. We can buy something unique to the Shaman, but what are we going to buy." Arcelor thought of a solution to the imbalance of trade. However, he himself did not know how to solve this problem well.

"I think we have one way to buy some. People, slaves, these things, I think, the people of Qin are in great need. I heard that in the Yue Kingdom to the south, they just sold their land to The Qin people, and then the Qin country gave them a large amount of arms to expand, and then they attacked the Indians in the south. The Indians could not beat the Yueshi people equipped with muskets, and then they kept retreating, and a large number of prisoners of war were captured. The newspaper told us this. They need more people. Perhaps we can buy more slaves from the Parths. The number of Parthsmen's slaves is very much to the west." Archie said.

"Yes, you are right, my Archie, my good friend, you are right, we need people, and we need more people to rest. We can sell these people to the people of Qin, and they can help us. To solve such problems. Qin’s talents don’t care about these, they need more people to solve their labor problems, and we provide them with people. In this way, we can also earn the intermediate price difference.” Arcelor said.

"Furthermore, I heard that the Parthians seem to have stored too much ammunition recently. They have a lot of gunpowder, ammunition, and munitions. What is this, they will definitely wage war against the west. The Parthians like expansion too much. The place where they are located looks very barren, and there is a more prosperous and beautiful country in the west. They will definitely like it. Therefore, they will inevitably start wars, and people will die in wars, and more In order not to die, many people can only become prisoners of war. There is a source of a large number of slaves. We need these slaves. The Parthians need these slaves to become wealth, so we buy them and ship them to the people of Qin. Then the problem will be solved. A lot." Arcelor said excitedly.

"It's just that, my friend, I have a bad news to tell you, that is, it is far away from us, and they need to span the entire Sabbath country. The Sabbath country seems to be very large. If this is the case, I believe it may not be realistic. Shall we reconsider." Archie persuaded.

"No, no. No, we just do it. The more we go, the harder it is to do business, you know. I think the Musketeer business has done it well. We may lose this biggest opportunity to make money." Arcelor said .