"The State of Seth can guarantee your safety." A scholar translated. Then he looked at Guo Xiang and said.

Although Seth was rejected by Guo Xiang at first, they still did not give up. They still contacted scholars in the hands of Koreans many times. Through the scholars, they decided to meet with the Koreans. They needed to solve some technical problems, such as casting cannons. As well as gunpowder technology, if possible, they can get a powerful gunpowder formula.

"We can guarantee that all areas south of Basra will be allocated to you Koreans, as your trade zone, your life safety will be greatly guaranteed, but you must provide us with some technology, in return, your compensation It's amazing." The scholar continued. He glanced at the representative of Seth Country, who nodded sincerely.

"Our current situation is still under the control of the rest, we need to think about it." Guo Xiang said.

"In addition, we need a lot of things. So, we don't know what to do now?" Guo Xiang looked at the other party and said. The scholar nodded, expressing his understanding, and he immediately translated. Although the representative of the Kingdom of Seth does not understand the Korean language, he knows that the Korean side is considering their requirements. The purpose of the Koreans is very simple, and the scholars have already explained it during the communication. They want peace and don't like to participate in disputes, but their weapons can keep them in such a state. They still have a lot of things, very strange things, not to mention, their civilization is very high. High-level development is the advantage of the Koreans. The Shah people are also aware of this, so the Shah people actively cooperate with them and seek support in military, technology, and various aspects.

The Seth people also know such a thing. They know that the Shaman’s sharp weapons come from these Koreans. They come from a place called the Central Plains, where civilization is highly developed, and they can create many things they have never seen before. , This is an advanced. The Parthians need this advanced civilization, and the Seth people also need it, but what the Seth people need is that they can stabilize such an advanced situation. They don't like to fight with the Parths.

"Okay. He agrees that he can be stationed nearby. If you need him, he can come over at any time, but they still hope that you can clearly consider his suggestion. His suggestion is still good." The scholar said To.

"Yeah. I understand this. However, the situation of our Koreans is still not very good. Our safety cannot be guaranteed by both parties. You know our current situation." Guo Xiang said.

"The Shabbat guarantees our situation, and the Seth people do the same. This is because we Koreans remain neutral. Once we fall in one aspect, the other will retaliate fiercely. We cannot afford such retaliation. We are under the control of the rest, but in the future. No one can say, we don't want to have such an accident." Guo Xiang said. Then he left here. But soon Zhang Bi found Guo Xiang, and he told Guo Xiang an amazing news.

"We can send some telegrams to the country through Qin people." Zhang Bi said.

"Hazabi can help us do this, they need our help, and they want the country to know our situation here in advance, so they are willing to help us, but we must explain the situation here." Zhang Bi said.

"This is great. We can't wait any longer. I am worried that after such a situation, our situation will be very bad." Guo Xiang said.

"Yeah. I also realize that the situation here is not good, we must have our own weapons, otherwise, it won't be good for them to kill it." Zhang Bi said worriedly.

In Bangla state, the Koreans officially took over here. Most of the land in Bangla has been annexed by the Koreans. The Bangla Kingdom has only a small piece of land. Although the nobles are dissatisfied, they have lost a large area of ​​land and their strength has been compromised. Great weakening. Coupled with the continuous expansion of the Champu Nation, Bangla is powerless. The King of Bangla can only cooperate with Chu people and Korean businessmen. These cooperations are only commercial cooperation. They plant some sugarcane, which can bring a considerable amount of money. profit. Or they bought some things like tea and silk, which were provided by the people of Chu, and they could resell them to some northern city-states.

"If you join Confucianism, you can get your own land. Loyal to the monarch, you can get eternal life." A local said to several locals in a rather blunt Central Plains dialect. They were ragged and apparently from a far away place, and they had gone bankrupt. It looks like they are very thin. Encountered a great disaster.

"We can speak some Central Plains dialects. When we come here, we just want to find something that can survive." A local asked. His Zhongyuan dialect is pretty good.

"Yes, as long as you join Confucianism, Confucianism can help you get out of your current situation. Many Confucianists have already got land. Trust me, friend. We will live well." said the local. And comfort the other person. Many people nodded.

When they were desperate, they met Confucianists, which came from Chu people. They don’t know what kind of religion Confucianism is, but they are born to believe in this. For example, they are the bottom people, bankruptcy will make them enter the next caste, they will become the most humble people, inaccessible people, this is this There are deep-rooted things in society, but Confucianism can break them. They can regain the land, but only if they must join the army. Kill people, be loyal to their monarch, for example, their monarch, Liu Ji. This is what Liu Ji declared himself. The locals are very strange, some people are unwilling to kill. But they must do this if they want to survive. The loyalty of Confucianism lies in teaching them to obey the arrangements of the monarch, and only their arrangements can solve their current difficulties.

There are more and more local people going bankrupt. They are doing some of the hardest, most tiring, and dirtiest jobs on the territory of Chu people. They are struggling with death, and they can become slaves at any time. By becoming a Confucian, you can avoid this situation. Confucianism has developed rapidly, and Liu Ji already has more than 20,000 such followers. They are still expanding. They get land, and these land need to pay taxes. Liu Ji became the largest landlord.

State of Zhao, Handan. More and more ordinary people gather at the door of the bank. Before the door of the bank is illuminated, there are already quite a lot of people gathered at the door of the bank.

"What are those people doing?" Li Mu asked Li Zuoche on the side of his car. They planned to go out to inspect the troops. They didn't expect that they would be blocked on the street early and could not get out of the city. This made Li Zuoche feel very anxious. Li Mu on the side was very curious. He didn't know why such a thing happened. Generally, it is not a good thing to happen. Li Mu needs to know the result.

"They are exchanging gold coins." Li Zuoche knew something and said.

"What are you doing to exchange gold coins?" Li Mu asked unclearly.

"Well, say yes, the country needs to replace gold coins because gold coins are more valuable. Although paper money is cheap, it requires gold reserves. Guo Kai is worried about the depreciation of paper money, etc., so they require the use of gold coins. Although the bank does not encourage this, but The actual situation is that quite a few people have already done this. They took their savings and converted all of them into gold coins, and some people exchanged them on the black market. The ratio of exchange has been as high as one to thirty. Qin's paper currency has depreciated. Soon. Purchasing power may drop a lot. Many people decide to exchange gold coins in order to make their savings have a lot of value. At the very least, gold has a great preservation value." Li Zuoche said.

"This. I feel that these people have fallen into Guo Kai's plan." Li Mu said a little unhappy.

"I feel the same way. If they deliberately drive up the price of gold, then, Qin State Bank, some commercial banks in Zhao State, they can make huge profits from it. This profit is considerable, after all, these paper currencies have depreciated here. However, there is no devaluation in Qin State, and they can continue to use it. If invested in Qin State, it can bring them considerable profits." Li Zuoche said.

"What you said is pretty good. This is Guo Kai. Bank speculators." Li Mu said disdainfully.

"However, where the money comes from, this is the method they chose. I heard that the central bank will provide quite a lot of gold coins to those commercial banks, and most of our funds come from the central bank. In that case, Our navy military expenditure can be resolved. Guo Kai is considering our naval construction plan. If possible." Li Zuoche said. But Li Mu's face was ugly. He didn't want to go on.

"Our navy was built from the savings of these civilians." Li Mu said unhappily. Unwilling to see such a large number of people blindly exchange, their losses are further increasing, and such an increase could have been avoided.

But Guo Kai is a banker, and they know the tricks of the bank too well. They just changed some currencies and got quite a lot of wealth from ordinary people. This is a kind of taxation in disguise. But Guo Kai did it. Everyone is happy.

Ignorant people are happier to exchange for gold coins, and they can finally avoid shrinking their savings. On the other hand. Zhao Guo's finances have been greatly resolved. Funds gathered quickly.

In the prime minister's house, Guo Kai handled some government affairs with ease.

"Reserves, gold reserves, what do we want those gold reserves for? They are all minted into gold coins and released. Now what is needed is gold coins, not paper money. We need a large amount of gold reserves to solve all currency problems, instead of causing us a lot of trouble. Big trouble." Guo Kai said lightly.

"Yes, I understand." The assistant recorded.

"There is also the navy. Do we immediately expand and establish a navy? After all, we now have money on hand." The assistant asked.

"The Navy Department hasn't been established yet. First give them some money and send them to set up a naval military academy. The Navy Department is waiting. That money is not that simple." Guo Kai said.

"The central bank just got a lot of money. Those are just paper money. These paper money can only be spent in one place, that is, Qin. We need to spend all these paper money on Qin. Qin’s gold is not easy to buy. The people of Qin are not allowed to have so much gold flowing out of Qin." Guo Kai said.

"Prime Minister, shall we buy some stocks?" the assistant suggested.

"No, it's too risky. It's okay to buy part of it, but you can buy all of it. If there is a loss, this is financial capital. Guo Kai can't do that." Guo Kai said, shaking his head.

"I think there is only one way. That is to buy some treasury bonds, or precious metals, such as copper, which can make some copper coins. After all, no matter how many gold coins there are, the cost is still needed. This is how the copper comes. So, I think, some of this copper can be purchased." Guo Kai said.

"Us?" The assistant looked at Guo Kai puzzled.

"Just buy some copper. Others buy stocks. Yes, buy copper stocks. In this case, things will be easier to solve." Guo Kai said with a smile. And the assistant quickly recorded it.

Qin State Stock Market. There has been a very unusual rise in the market.

"What's the matter with these copper stocks?" A trader asked an investor on the side. This morning, those copper mining stocks were very deserted and no one asked, but just after lunch, they quickly The rate of increase suddenly exceeded an astonishing 12%. Some extreme stocks suddenly rose to 20%.

"Did the madman buy it all at once, or did the big dealers enter? What do they want to do?" the investor said.

"These **** copper stocks have been crazy once. After they rose, they fell. But this time. What do they want?" Investors asked curiously.

"I don't know, what I know is that they are crazy. They are crazy." The trader shook his head and said.

The other side. Inside Li Wen's office. Li Wen also noticed the occurrence of this special belief.

"Buy, I think there must be a problem with copper stocks. Buy." Li Wen said while looking at the quotation paper tape. His assistant nodded and arranged immediately. He knew that this was a tentative purchase. Li Wen felt that this rise was very unusual. For example, the rise was very fast and sudden. Many times, they didn’t know why. Such things happen, but Li Wen feels that behind these unusual things, too many quotations will develop. What he has to do is to develop such quotations.

South Korea, Xinzheng.

"We discovered the dispensation of smokeless gunpowder. It turns out that Qin State obtained it through nitrified cotton. This kind of bullet is so powerful that it can produce more bullets as long as it is manufactured on a large scale." Zhang Liang took a copy of the latest When the technical research report was submitted, smokeless gunpowder was undoubtedly the biggest achievement, because it meant that South Korea could manufacture more advanced weapons and ammunition.

"What else?" Han Shu asked after taking a look.

"However, our steel is not enough. Although some of our firearms also use fixed-load bullets, the price of copper is too high. We can't afford it. At present, the price of copper is mainly used for cable manufacturing, especially submarine cables. We know. We cannot produce smokeless gunpowder in a timely manner. The main reason is that, first, we need more cotton, which requires large-scale imports from India. There is also nitric acid, which we can only manufacture in small batches, but But it can’t be manufactured on a large scale. On the other hand, we just need a lot of copper, and the price of copper is too expensive. It’s so expensive, we can’t afford such a price. So.” Zhang Liang said.

"Damn it, we have powerful gunpowder but we can't use it." Han Shu put down the report in his hand and said angrily.

"Master, I think we have done quite well. We have already mastered quite a lot of technology. It's just that we have not done well enough in other areas. For example, steel technology." Zhang Liang said.

"Well, to start cooperation in this area. As for chemistry and technology, such as nitric acid, I think we can start cooperation with Qin people in this area. As long as we have funds, technology can be obtained. But there are other things we need. Attention." Han Shu said at this time.

"Cotton, the report I have seen is that a lot of land is planted with sugarcane instead of cotton. Let’s think about it. If these cottons are planted on a large scale, after all, what we need is cotton, not sugarcane, and those sugars. At most, it is sold together with tea. But I hate tea." Han Shu said at this time.

"The people of Chu have a monopoly on all tea trade, and they can promote tea to any region." Han Shu said.

"This. This is where the Chu people's advantage lies. They sold it together with sugar." Zhang Liang said.

"With the development of time, we will inevitably have contradictions with the Chu people. Such contradictions will increase. We should pay attention to such things. They will bring us a fatal blow. We should be careful." Han Shu said.

Tea, silk, and sugar have become the leading export products of Chu State. These products have brought huge trade profits to Chu State. Many merchant ships are actively participating in these trades. And more and more tea plantations are appearing everywhere. Tea is for them. It is the real cash cow. However, South Korea’s trade will be crowded out to a large extent. The products they export are relatively single, or their competitiveness is slightly reduced. They are all manufactured products, and there is a clear gap in the competitiveness of the two sides. This makes Han Shu very dissatisfied. This is where South Korea is hostile to Chu.