After staying in Dayuan for seven days, the joint caravan completed a huge amount of trade.

Ma Yuan also took his men to rest in Dayuan, replenish food and water, and then carefully selected a group of official business travelers to follow him to do business in Kushan. Most of the other business travelers were allowed to go south to Shache and go to the country to go to Shache to go to the country for business, and the troops were divided into two groups here.

After Ma Yuan and others complete their mission in the Kushan Empire, they will return to catch up with them.

Some of the caravans who set out on the return journey carried thirty high-quality BMWs and more than 500 inferior-quality horses obtained from Dayuan, and slowly embarked on the return journey.

Except for two excellent sweat-blooded horses, these horses will be sent to Luoyang and to Guo, and the rest will be sent to Longyou Horse Racing Farm and Bingzhou Horse Racing Farm for use as stallions.

After the preparations were completed, Ma Yuan and others set out under the leadership of the envoy of the Dayuan King. The King of Dayuan said that he would ask the envoys to send them to the Lanshi City, the imperial capital of the Kushan Empire.

Ma Yuan and others followed the envoy of the Dayuan King to walk through many mountain roads, which was very difficult.

After about half a month, Ma Yuan and others finally arrived at a checkpoint with a group of Dayuan business travelers.

There are city towers at the gate and guards, who seem to be inspecting and collecting taxes on business trips entering the gate.

The envoy of the Dayuan King could speak Chinese, and after giving a explanation to Ma Yuan, he went forward to talk to the officer guarding the pass.

The two of them talked for a while, and the officer was obviously a little surprised. Then he followed the envoy of the Dayuan King and watched Ma Yuan and his large number of caravans.

Seeing that Ma Yuan's appearance was indeed different from most people he had seen, the officer believed that what the envoy of the Dayuan King said was the official caravan from the Wei Empire, the great power of the Eastern Kingdom.

I believe that Ma Yuan and others came to Kushan and Kushan people to do big business.

The Wei Empire has historical heritage, and naturally there are Kushan. As a descendant of the Yuezhi people, the Kushan Empire also had some interactions and frictions with the Han Empire a long time ago.

Although not everyone knows it, there are definitely people who know it.

They also knew the existence of the distant Han Empire, because they were also using silk. What they didn't know was that the Han Empire no longer existed, and the Wei Empire was now ruled by the Central Plains.

But for them, it is naturally not very important, just as Mr. Guo doesn’t know what the Kushan emperor is called today.

As long as it doesn't hinder the business.

Ma Yuan is not a formal official envoy, nor a professional diplomat, but without the premise of a professional diplomat, he can barely play a guest role as a diplomat.

Looking at the huge caravan that could not be seen at first glance, the Kushan officer swallowed and waved his hand to express his permission to let go, and did not even ask for the usual blackmail.

After leaving the pass, Ma Yuan felt a sudden enlightenment.

After trekking on the mountain road for many days, I suddenly came to the flatter ground and felt really comfortable to walk.

After moving forward, there were not many days. Ma Yuan looked at the endless plain and saw a city that looked very large on the horizon.

"That's the Lan family city, it is the capital of the Kushan Kingdom. Their king is there. The city is very big. Apart from the city in Liangzhou, I have never seen such a large city. There are many people inside. If I go shopping, it would be very convenient."

The envoy of the Dayuan King introduced the Lan family city.

Ma Yuan nodded.

For a big country with a population of millions and hundreds of thousands of troops, his attitude must be different, and he cannot treat the vassal states of the Wei empires like those in the Western Regions.

Guo Peng also specifically explained that these countries should not be treated as vassals, but should be taken seriously.

The Wei Empire would take the initiative to interact with them in a friendly manner instead of military confrontation or want to be reincarnated as vassal states. The order of magnitude of a country with millions of people is completely different from that of the countries in the Western Regions, and the distance is still so far, it is definitely not something that can be concluded by a simple military confrontation.

The two countries can establish friendly exchanges, communicate with each other and make money together. Don’t think too much about other things now.

Along the way, the envoy of the Dayuan King was constantly introducing the Kushan Kingdom he knew to help Ma Yuan understand this country better.

The commercial trade in Kushan was very developed. Unlike the Wei Empire's overly pure emphasis on farming production, Kushan not only has agricultural areas, but also special animal husbandry economic zones.

This is a country that values ​​both farming and animal husbandry.

Cereals, fruits, handicrafts and weapons are transported to livestock areas, furs, livestock, textile raw materials, meat and dairy products, etc., and are sold to farming areas.

They help each other and use their strengths to help each other's weaknesses, so that agricultural products and meat and milk obtained from animal husbandry can be purchased in any city in this country.

Their merchants are also quite active, and in addition to domestic trade, they are also very active in international trade.

They headed west to Ali and Rome and east to China, and were very qualified middle-aged merchant roles, bringing the specialties between China and Rome to each other's countries.

They also have a very good level of hand-metallurgical, good at textile and jewelry processing, not only that, but also good at coin minting.

Before Ma Yuan took the caravan into Lan's City, he was trading with some curious Kushan business travelers on the roadside. They were very surprised to learn that Ma Yuan and others were from China in the East, and then immediately expressed their hope to do business with Ma Yuan.

In this era, in addition to professional spies, business travelers always have the most information. They immediately understood where Ma Yuan and others came from, and then immediately saw the business opportunity and immediately expressed their hope to do business with Ma Yuan.

After asking about the envoy of the Dayuan King, Ma Yuan decided to start business with them and learn about the local prices.

So on the side of the road, Ma Yuan set up a formation to make a deal with these Kushan merchants he accidentally met.

Because they didn't know how to exchange each other's goods in equivalent amounts, Ma Yuan took out the gold and silver blocks he carried. When the Kushan businessmen saw it, they also took out the Kushan gold and silver coins they carried, as well as copper coins.

Ma Yuan handed over his gold and silver to Kushan Business Hotel to check the purity, and he also took Kushan gold and silver coins to check the purity.

While sending someone to check the purity, he looked at the gold coin he was holding.

On the front is a bust of a person. On the other hand, you can see some statues of unknown characters, and there is a circle of things like text that you have never seen before.

Although I can't understand it, it does not prevent Ma Yuan from giving a good score to the country's metal smelting level.

At least they did a good job in minting gold coins.

The patterns of the gold coins look exquisite and there are many advantages in the details, which shows the craftsman's good intentions.

The quality is good and it is very valuable in your hand. It is a very good gold coin, proving that the economy of the Kushan country is very good.

Moreover, the coin minting technique is very high.

Ma Yuan silently gave this country a score in his heart, believing that the country's technology is very good. If he had the opportunity, he would like to have a technical exchange with this country.

See what techniques can be learned in this country.

This was also what Guo Peng told me to see if there was anything that the Kushan Kingdom could use on the Wei Empire, which was not available in the Wei Empire itself.

Now it seems that coin minting technology is very interesting.

Unfortunately, gold was not generally circulated in Wei State, and copper coins were circulated, and legal currency was just copper coins.

Although precious metals such as gold and silver also have the function of currency in a certain sense, they basically only appear in the commodity trading process, or exchange of interests in the upper class, with fewer and fewer times.

Their joint caravan was to facilitate bulk transactions, so Guo Peng took out a lot of gold for them.

It is indeed less, not enough, and it is completely inefficient. If gold and silver are used to circulate, deflation will take the life of the Wei Empire in minutes.

But speaking of this, the Kushan Kingdom seems to have a lot of gold?

Ma Yuan still understands that such minted gold coins cannot be circulated without sufficient gold reserves.

If there is no sufficient gold, silver and copper in Kushan, it is impossible for gold, silver and copper coins to be allowed to circulate in the economic field.

The Wei Empire could not use gold and silver to circulate because the reserves of gold and silver were insufficient and I could not afford it. If silver really wanted to circulate in the currency field, it would be until the Ming Empire period.

With the great geographical discovery in Europe, the original capital accumulation developed to its peak, and hundreds of years of triangular trade accumulated a large amount of wealth. After that, a large amount of American silver and gold were imported into the Ming Empire through the commercial activities of Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Then the Ming Empire had enough silver to make the silver standard, allowing silver to enter the field of economic circulation.

Before this, it was really impossible.

Even the circulation of copper coins was a bit tight, and Mr. Guo even remelted hundreds of millions of Dong Zhuo's small coins to mint them.

Mr. Guo once had the idea of ​​using copper cast cannons to develop gunpowder weapons. Later, he calculated the copper reserves he had and the prospects for future economic development. In the end, he decisively dispelled this idea.

The Wei Empire lacked precious metals in the country, and even the reserves of copper were not that sufficient.

With the development of the economy, the demand for copper coins in the Wei Empire further increased, and in a sense, the Dongchang was also established by Guo to avoid deflation.

He needs a professional team to start mines efficiently and accurately according to his will.

The economy is developing so well, and it would be interesting if deflation is caused by insufficient currency circulation.

Ma Yuan knew all these things, and Guo Peng said it during the meeting with them, so Ma Yuan knew Guo Peng’s desire for gold, silver and copper.

Mr. Guo is really eager for a large amount of precious metals such as gold, silver and copper.

Ma Yuan also knew that in the past, China used a lot of gold in the Western Han Dynasty. There seemed to be a lot of gold at that time, but later these gold disappeared.
Chapter completed!