The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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"Since my brother can earn so much this time, he has connections. How about this, let me introduce to my brother, how about joining our Chu Chamber of Commerce?" Li Shang introduced.

"Chu Chamber of Commerce?" Asked suspiciously.

"Yes, it's the Chu Chamber of Commerce, a federation of merchants from Chu State." Li Shang introduced.

"It is mainly organized for the interests of Chu merchants in various countries. After all, Chu will not think of a way for our interests. We can only rely on our own strength to protect ourselves." Li Shang introduced.

"Oh." Negative Chu nodded.

"How?" Li Shang asked.

"Brother, is there anything else that needs to be explained?" Li Shang asked.

"Yes. This is the Chu Chamber of Commerce. At first, I thought about reducing domestic commercial taxes and tariffs. But, you know, there is nothing we can do about it. We don't earn much, so we can't pay. So , We want my brother to join us, so that our Chu Chamber of Commerce can play a bigger role and contribute to our Chu merchants." Li Shang said with a smile.

"Oh." Negative Chu felt that the strength of the Chu Chamber of Commerce was too small.

"I'll take a look first, first look." Negative Chu said.

"This. Alright." Li Shang nodded helplessly.

After speaking, Li Shang entered a large private room with negative thoughts. There were several tables of wine and food in the private room, and many well-dressed Chu businessmen were talking on the tables.The negative cud is arranged in the front row.And Li Shang sat on the side and introduced it to Negative Chu.

"Oh☆Brother." A businessman with a round head and big ears bowed his hands in salute.

"Oh, brother. How's the business going?" Li Shang asked.

"Oh, no." Brother Chen replied.

"The price of silk is rising every day, why is it so difficult?" Li Shang asked curiously.

"No, okay." Brother Chen kept dragging.

"This man is the No. 100 person in the silk business in Xinzheng, South Korea. He owns twelve silk shops, each of which is very large. It is said that his assets have exceeded [-] million gold." Li Shang whispered beside him. Introduced to Negative Chin.

Hear here.Lu Chu was taken aback, he didn't expect the other party to be so rich.

"Why is that?" Li Shang asked at this moment.

"Oh, brother, don't ask. You know it too." Brother Chen took a sip of his mulled wine as he spoke.

"It's not because of the tariff." A skinny old man sitting on the side spoke up.

"I don't know why Mr. Guo is doing this?" Li Shangming knew that the problem of tariffs was very big.But he still wants to speak on this issue.

"It's not the grandsons of the nobles." Old Guo said bluntly.

"It's really not a thing. The sugar business is small and easy to do. These nobles have repeatedly taxed a catty of sugar. The five and a half taels finally arrived in Xinzheng, South Korea, and the price has reached three gold. This is food. Candy? This is eating gold." Mr. Guo said bluntly.

"If it wasn't for the people of Qin to buy these sugars to make white sugar, or sell them directly to people from the Western Regions, I think no one in the world would want to eat this white sugar." Mr. Guo said angrily.

"He is in the sugar business, and has a lot to do with the sugar merchants in Qin State. The sugar he handles is at least ten thousand catties every year. This is the largest sugar merchant in Chu State in Xinzheng, South Korea." Li Shangxin introduced. .

"Oh." Hear here.Negative Chu nodded.

"The sugar you traded today should probably be in his hands." Li Shang said.

"He has a lot to do with selling sugar to the people of Qin." Li Shang continued.

"Oh." Negative Chu nodded.

"But this tariff is really annoying." At this time, Lu Chu followed the words of the businessman.

"Oh. What this brother said is true. This tariff is really not a thing. The Koreans collected very little in the Northern Wei Dynasty. In some places, they saw that I was selling sugar and gave me a free license. Encourage me to sell sugar at their place. Why, because we pay taxes, and we can meet all kinds of needs. But the grandsons of the nobles of Chu State are really nothing. They even increased taxes by hundreds of times. Such If we do business, we won't make any money at all." Mr. Guo said indignantly.

"Don't look at the tens of thousands of gold we sell sugar back and forth, but in the end, we may still lose money. Why, because [-]% of the price of sugar is these damned tariffs. It's a damned tariff. I'm full Those noble grandsons." Guo Lao said very angrily.

"Old Guo calm down, calm down." Li Shang hurried forward to persuade him.

2030 Negative Views

Negative Chu listened for a long time. ?He understood what kind of group this Chu Chamber of Commerce was.They are actually a team of merchants, and they are all engaged in the business of Chu's special products, such as sugar, silk, tea, and some non-ferrous minerals, such as copper, tin, and tungsten mines discovered by the people of Qin, etc.These are all transactions that Chu merchants want to do, but the hateful thing is that the nobles of Chu are involved in these businesses.The aristocracy has a huge monopoly advantage, and this advantage is also added to their right to levy taxes. As a result, the businessmen of Chu have less and less room for development, and their business is becoming more and more difficult.Therefore, they can only complain inwardly, but there is nothing they can do. This is also an important reason why the merchants of Chu State cannot develop, their strength is too weak.

However, Lu Chu saw an opportunity. In his opinion, he found a source of funds to support his coup d'état.Because of the relationship between development, all the nobles have their own businesses, and the source of income is very strong, so the nobles of the Chu state are equivalent to having their own country, coupled with a steady stream of taxes, this makes them even more unscrupulous.

And negative Chu, because he is the prince of Chu, he has his own fief, but compared with those nobles of Chu who have been in business for many years, his strength is too weak. He wants to seek the support of those nobles, but it is impossible.Because his political views have great conflicts with those nobles, such conflicts make it difficult for him to obtain strong funds.And the support of the powerful Chu nobles.At best, he can only get the support of some smaller nobles. In this case, there is no way for him to come to power through a coup.

But these businessmen can, and they have a lot of money in their hands.With such financial support, at the same time, with the help of Qin and South Korea.It is not impossible to achieve such a requirement through a coup.It's all too likely.

Merchants have money, but no status, plus they have no power, and many of their interests cannot be guaranteed. For example, the taxation of the nobles of Chu State has such behavior.But the merchants of Chu State had nothing to do.They have no representation for them to appeal their political claims.

In Qin State, the government is the spokesperson of the merchants, and the interests of the merchants are greatly guaranteed.On the other hand, Chu State did a very bad job in this regard.It can be said that businessmen have reached a harsh point.

"Everyone, everyone." At this time, Li Chu stood up and said.

"Forgive me for my lack of talent. I think what everyone said makes sense," said Ling Chu.

"However, if this goes on like this, what kind of solutions do you have to solve the problem?" Negative Chu asked everyone.Everyone looks at me at this time, and I look at you. It seems that Lu Chu has reached a point all of a sudden.

"Nowadays, many countries rely on the power of merchants to make the country a lot stronger. For example, Qin State. The strength of Qin State itself is great. But after Qin State uses merchants, it will quickly expand its territory by a hundred times. Even The Huns in the north were all conquered by the people of Qin. The Western Regions were several times bigger than our Chu State, but they also belonged to their Qin State. There is also South Korea, which is almost about to perish. But the queen of South Korea quickly reused businessmen and developed Business, how is it at present, South Korea's strength has greatly increased, and today's South Korea has become an important power." Negative boasted.Hearing such words, the merchants of Chu State felt extremely comfortable, because no one had ever said such words. Their merchants did have a lot of money, but apart from having money, no one said that the merchants were good.But what Lu Chu said made them feel that their status had risen a lot.

"In my opinion, in the future, if Chu State wants to grow and become a powerful country, it needs to rely on our businessmen to maintain it." Lu Chu said.

"Yes. This son is very correct." A businessman stood up and supported.

"Yes. That's right, Chu will have to rely on our Chu merchants in the future." Other merchants raised their arms in support.

"Since everyone thinks this way, I think it is not an option for us to complain here. Think about it, if we continue to complain like this, can those nobles be able to reduce taxes, or in other words, those nobles can let go of these trade passages?" Is it?" Negative Chu asked at this time.

"This." The businessmen were a little anxious, but they did talk a lot, and they continued to complain like this, and they couldn't solve the problem at all.This is the crux of the problem. They are not complaining about the problem, but want to solve the problem. The businessmen themselves are very practical. If they want to understand this, they all nod their heads. Bringing huge profits, such a thing, they should do it this way.

"People in Qin State value merchants, and Koreans also value merchants. The Northern Wei Dynasty and Zhao State are all strengthening the power of merchants, but our Chu State is far behind. Our Chu State's merchants should unite and establish a strong organization based on the Chamber of Commerce. The political party, do something in the Chu country to let the people of the Chu country know about us, in this way, we can quickly develop. Let the nobles of the Chu country have to value us, and in this way, our status will be solved a lot." Negative Chu said.

"Yes. That's right. Why didn't we think of it. Everyone has money, but what's the use of having more money. But it's different when we have power. The status of our businessmen has been raised a lot. This The brothers are right." A businessman agrees.

"Yes. That's right." Others praised one after another.

"Brother, keep talking, what should we do next? We listen to you, you continue to talk." A businessman stood up and waved his arms to signal Negum to continue talking.

"Okay. I'll just go on with my opinion." Negative Chu said.

"My opinion is that we Chu merchants should set up a party. This party is more advanced than the nobles of Chu." Negative Chu said.

"Then we will recruit soldiers from Chu State to form an army and form a huge Wu Lizhi. We can support a high-salary man to replace the current king of Wude Chu." Negative said loudly.

Hearing this, the merchants were shocked.This is something they didn't dare to think about before. Is the power of their merchants so great?Some businessmen smiled wryly, others laughed, but more people were shocked, they had never thought of it this way.

"We can use the power of Qin and South Korea to put pressure on the nobles of Chu. In this way, we can quickly obtain our rights and maximize our interests." Lu Chu continued.