Hearing Sima Fan's confession, he successfully smiled.

It has to be said that Sima Fan hit the weak point of success, which is a matter of urgent success.

The court will definitely invest, but the amount of investment cannot be too much anticipated, which is far from the great cause you want to accomplish. Therefore, if you tap internal potential and find ways to raise the funds you need, you still have to take up the majority.

Do chambers of commerce with powerful Western Regions have now?

Of course there are.

For example, Tongda Business Company with Tang Ji as the backstage, and Yuan Family with Yuan Tan as the backstage, Xue Family with Xue Ping as the descendant, and a group of Luoyang businessmen with Li Hai as the backstage.

But in the past few years, these powerful big merchants have relied on their financial strength and official backend to treat the Western Regions as their own cash machine and earned a lot of money in the Western Regions.

The problem is that they make money here, but then bring the money they earn back to the mainland and invest in industries that they think are longer-term or more competitive or require more funds to deploy.

From the perspective of the court, this is naturally understandable. These businesses have paid full taxes. As for how the merchants all allocate the money they earn, they don’t want to argue.

The senior executives of the Western Regions Protectorate had all had a relationship with these people in this way. Since they did not violate the court's laws and regulations, they would certainly not interfere.

But now it's successful.

Success is a lonely person and has nothing to do with all trading companies.

As the new Western Regions Protector, who shoulders the important task of revitalizing the Western Regions economy, this situation cannot be allowed to happen again. What I thought was that if I make money in the Western Regions, I naturally had to stay and recycle as much as possible within the country to allow money to generate more money.

But in eight years, the commercial sector in the Western Regions had been roughly divided, forming a certain inherent model. If you want to successfully leverage this sector that is very stable in the officialdom and the shopping mall, you must find another force, and this force must be local to the Western Regions. The money you earn can eventually fall in the Western Regions.

Then, based on this, other commercial groups have to increase their investment in the Western Regions, otherwise they will face the risk of being expelled from the market.

In Chang'an, forces in two directions were successfully selected.

The first one is the Sima family represented by Sima Fan.

The former Hedong family is now impossible to go back. Even if they go back, the mainland will no longer have their place. They can only seek development based on the Western Regions.

As a Tang Dynasty, the Sima family still had the most basic pride of being a Tang Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty's process of developing the Western Regions, no matter what the purpose was, the Sima family shed blood and sweated.

Therefore, I successfully feel that they can be relied on and utilized.

The second force was the former tribal leaders in the Western Regions. When the Tang Dynasty returned to the Western Regions, there were always many smart people who chose to defect to the Tang people. After years of accumulation, these tribal leaders had a lot of wealth.

However, in the past, these people were looking for survival carefully and did not dare to show their wealth at all, for fear that these wealth would arouse the covetousness of the Tang people and bring disaster to them.

The gold, silver and treasures buried underground make people like success feel heartbroken.

But the money of these people is not so easy to make.

In order to pacify the Western Regions faster and put them under the rule, the Tang people were still very generous to these people, with the purpose of attracting more people to stand up and oppose the Tubo people. Later, the rule of the Tang Dynasty became stable, and these people became more honest and it became difficult to find excuses to deal with them.

If you want these people to take out their money, the first thing you need to do is to gain the trust of these people.

To achieve this, even if you are the Protector of the Western Capital and the highest commander of the Western Regions, you will never be able to win the trust of others.

Success between these people requires an intermediary who both parties trust.

Sima Fan is a suitable candidate.

"Do you Sima still have enough funds now?" asked successfully. "You should know that what I want to do next requires a large investment, but the returns are very slow."

Hearing Successfully asked this, Sima Fan finally showed some smile on his face, because it means he had successfully passed the first level.

"We have enough funds to invest." Sima Fan did not hesitate at all, "and we don't care about the speed of the return. Our Sima family has enough patience to wait, and we have a long-term vision."

"Very good. The Hedong family once passed down from a long time ago, there is still a vision of this." Successfully nodded with satisfaction: "Tell me, how much money can you draw out now. The initial startup is the most expensive, and there is no reward at all."

Sima Fan stretched out a palm and placed it on the table.

"Five million." Successfully surprised.

This is really not a small amount. From the secret file, I successfully learned that the Sima family brought no more than one million in wealth from Hedong. Their most valuable fields, shops, and houses were confiscated at the beginning. In other words, in the past eight years, the Sima family actually earned 4 million silver dollars in the Western Regions. This was obtained under the Sima family's restrictions.

"How did you make so much money?" Success was very interested in this.

Sima Fan smiled and said, "There is no way. If we are guilty, we will not be our turn to have a good business after we arrive in the Western Regions. We don't have the courage to compete with others, so we can only do some small business."

"Can small business make so much?"

"Do you dare not underestimate these small businesses?" Sima Fan smiled and said, "Although they are all daily necessities for needles and threads, the gap in this kind of thing in the Western Regions is extremely large. And the profit is quite high. Because the Western Regions itself has extremely weak ability to produce these products, we later began to build some such workshops, digging many mature craftsmen from the mainland, and quickly occupied these markets. With the mature technology in the mainland, our cost was compressed to an extremely low level, but the price sold was extremely high compared to the mainland."

Successfully rubbed his chin, thinking about something.

"Later, their families came to their senses, but it was too late. They transported these things from the mainland, mixed tofu into meat prices, and built workshops here, which were too big to invest, and would fall into fierce competition with us. Moreover, they had a more profitable business, so they were too lazy to care about us. In this way, we basically occupied the market for these daily consumables." Sima Fan continued: "But the population in the Western Regions was limited. Later, after our production scale increased, we transported these things along the Silk Road and opened up the external market."

“How much more money can be raised from the local area?”

"It is hard to say how much money can be raised from those leaders." Sima Fan said: "After all, they are different from me. Even if they continue to talk about it, they may only make some tentative investment first. How to win the trust of them and let them truly take advantage of their wealth depends on what the Protector does in the future."

"I must be able to hold these people firmly." Successfully nodded, "In the past eight years, Xue Dudu has done a lot of effective work in naturalization, and the foundation has been laid almost. What I need to do next is deepening. These people are part of my transformation. The economy has tied them closely with the court. Now, nothing can make them look down on their heads than economic interests. Next, in my Protector's Mansion, there will be many local people with great reputation in the Western Regions, who are well-known and look forward to becoming my aides and will also hold some positions."

"The Protector is extremely concerned about it."

Successfully looked at Sima Fan with a smile: "Tell me, what do you want? When doing business, you may have the risk of losing money, so I will give you some compensation."

Sima Fan took a deep breath and said slowly: "Protector, our Sima family has not done as well in the Western Regions over the years. Although the Xue family has not done as well in Tubo, dozens of children have sacrificed their lives for the Tang Dynasty. At present, the Xue family has been lifted out of shackles, but our Sima family is still dancing in shackles. The Sima family who work in various parts of the Western Regions can be promoted no matter how outstanding the work is. Children who study in the school will be unable to get recommended to study in major colleges. I hope that the invisible ceiling that covers our Sima family can be removed."

"No problem!" Successfully answered very simply. "In fact, Your Majesty has long since he left any grudge against you. Your actions have paid a heavy price. In fact, since you entered the Western Regions, you have been no different from other people in Your Majesty. Of course, the people below are not what Your Majesty can expect. Sima Fan, Your Majesty is busy with all kinds of things and cannot take into account these trivial matters. The world is full of talents, and without your Sima family, there will be no lack of anything. I have talked with Your Majesty about this matter, so don't worry, as long as we cooperate happily this time, then there will be no ceiling."

Sima Fan stood up, clasped his fists and bowed deeply, "Thank you, Protector."
Chapter completed!