Chapter 582 Free Trade Zone
Regarding the people of the Mauryan Dynasty, Ying Gao thought of a dynasty after the Great Qin Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty. By that time, China had become a great power that other dynasties in the world longed for.
This is not only reflected in the military strength of the Tang Dynasty at that time, but more because of the opening of the Tang Dynasty. The reason why the Tang Dynasty was very attractive to many Gentiles at that time was a very important point in the settlement of aliens and even becoming officials on the land of China.
In Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, at that time, there were a large number of aliens settled here. Moreover, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty may have exempted a lot of taxes for such people to reflect the demeanor of a great country. It can be said that the treatment is still very good.
Of course, there are some things worthy of Ying Gao's reference, but there are also things that need to be paid attention to.
Because the cultures received by people from other races and people from Central Plains are completely different, no matter which dynasty, people from other races themselves do not have the so-called thoughts and feelings of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism.
If you don't carefully identify such people, it will be very likely to cause a disaster in the end. For example, the Anshi Rebellion, which almost everyone in later generations knows, seems to have caused this disaster by all kinds of coincidences, but in fact it is because the emperor at that time lacks the amount of loyalty that a general can have.
So although Ying Gao also wanted to make good use of all kinds of talents from the Mauryan Dynasty, he has principles for the moment.
Just like the three people in Xianyang City who were originally successful, they all have a skill. Ying Gao requires real technology, agriculture, grazing, medical skills or other things, but if you say that you have good eloquence, or if you think you can be an official, Ying Gao doesn't want such a person regardless of whether you say it is true or not.
In other words, the Great Qin welcomes immigrants from the Mauryan Dynasty, and every city, including Xianyang City, welcomes immigrants from the Mauryan Dynasty. However, either you are here to be a commoner and enjoy the same treatment as the people of the Great Qin, or you are really skilled and enjoy the conditions that the Great Qin provides you with as good as the nobles.
But if you want to enter the decision-making level of Daqin and want to stand directly in the Qin court to see how the people of Daqin rule and want to participate, then at this stage, Ying Gao can only say sorry to you.
This is obviously Ying Gao's strategy for the Mauryan Dynasty. On the one hand, he quickly assimilated their people, so that their people could forget the dynasty before them as soon as possible, accept and recognize the rule of the Qin Dynasty, and on the other hand, he tried his best to keep the decision-making circles all over the Qin Dynasty themselves.
Of course, if a certain person from the Mauryan Dynasty was killed from the battle at the bottom like Bai Qi before, and rely on military merits to become a high-ranking noble of the Qin Dynasty, or if a young man from a Mauryan Dynasty was found to have very good talent after participating in the imperial examinations of the Qin Dynasty, he would definitely be able to rely on this career to enter the Qin Dynasty.
These are mentioned in the immigration policies issued by Ying Gao to the people of the Mauryan Dynasty. Ying Gao was obviously not afraid to let the people of the Mauryan Dynasty know what conditions they all needed to achieve what things they had.
For the people, the biggest sorrow is not how difficult it is to accomplish something, but a day when there is no hope at all. Therefore, Ying Gao gave them hope that joining the army or the imperial examination are all good opportunities for them to turn things around. Although it is not easy, there will always be someone who can achieve it, right?
With the official opening of the Western Regions and the Qin Dynasty, not only the people of the Mauryan Dynasty no longer lived in confusion, but even the people of the Qin Dynasty found that their lives became more colorful.
Everything will be pioneers. There are also such a group of people in the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty. After the unconditional opening of the Western Regions, they found a lot of things that were probably only available on the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, and there were no things in the territory of the Daqin, such as various spices that were popular with the higher castes before, and people here liked to eat and could preserve dried fruits for a long time.
As soon as the border opened, they used carriages to pull carts and other things, slowly heading from the straight road of the Western Regions to the territory of the Qin Dynasty. Their purpose was naturally to do business and make money.
When they set out, these people had basically made various preparations, such as these things were not in the appetite of most Daqin people, or they were robbed by bandits after entering the territory of Daqin, etc. After all, the unknown world is easy to make people guess something randomly.
But when they arrived in the Western Regions, they found that the situation was different from what they imagined. Even if the Western Regions were a bitter and cold place, there was a straight road that was always cleaned very flat, so that their carriages would not stagnate at all. Moreover, when the day's itinerary was about to end, either they had arrived at the next city or there was a high inn with lanterns. The inn would not be cold to them just because they were the people of the Mauryan Dynasty. Even almost every inn outside the city would have a friend from the Mauryan Dynasty. Although it was necessary to speak the words of the Daqin, this at least showed that the Daqin was really no different from the people of the Mauryan Dynasty.
In this way, when these merchants arrived in the territory of Daqin, their impression of Daqin was already very good, and even had a lot of yearning for him.
These people took their goods and inspection items and went in and out of the cities of the Qin Dynasty, big and small, and sold their specialties from the Mauryan Dynasty in the market.
Those who live in the city and can go to the market, basically in Daqin, all of them have some industries or titles. They are naturally very curious about these objects from the distant Mauryan Dynasty, so it is not difficult to spend a little money to buy some spices and dried fruits, as well as exotic clothes.
In this way, one after another, the merchants of the Mauryan Dynasty came with a load of loads, returned empty carriages, and then brought more carriages and goods. In the end, they still returned empty carriages. They did make money from the people of the Daqin, but they also greatly enriched the lives of the people of the Daqin, making the people of the Daqin realize that there is not only one Daqin in the world, not only one Central Plains. They not only bought the things sold by the Mauryan Dynasty merchants, but also learned from these people what the Mauryan Dynasty was like.
Some smart people from the Qin Dynasty also began to understand the needs and interests of the people of the Mauryan Dynasty. Gradually, the merchants who went to the Qin Dynasty no longer came back in empty cars. They would collect some objects from the places they went to and take them back to the Mauryan Dynasty, and then sell them to the people of the Mauryan Dynasty.
Although all this seemed to be the spontaneous behavior of the people of the Mauryan Dynasty and the people of the Great Qin Dynasty, gradually, more and more people passed through the straight roads in the Western Regions. The inns above the straight roads were expanded again and again. The Western Regions, where the climate was the worst in the Great Qin Dynasty and the Mauryan Dynasty, has now slowly become a place that both the Great Qin and the Mauryan Dynasty are very happy to come.
Later, from when, in the middle of the Western Regions, people spontaneously exchanged goods from the Great Qin and the Mauryan Dynasty here in a large area where grass was not growing. After that, more and more people gathered here, and finally formed a considerable scale in just a few months. The people of the Great Qin or the Mauryan Dynasty often did not want to run so far. They would come here to buy back the things they wanted to sell and then sell them at their places.
These models seem to be explored by people of this era, and they do have the ability to explore this model, but they can reach this level so quickly, and there are naturally Ying Gao and Fusu’s promoters behind this scene.
After the court this day, a letter from Fusu was already on the table of Ying Gao's main hall. In nearly a year, almost every ten days passed, a letter from Fusu would appear on Ying Gao's desk. The contents of the letters were almost the same, just to report to Ying Gao about the straight roads in the Western Regions and the situation on the free trading area.
The concept of free trading area was proposed by Ying Gao himself, and Fusu almost understood Ying Gao's meaning as soon as he saw it.
Ying Gao knew that although at the beginning, whether the people of the Great Qin went to the Mauryan Dynasty or the people of the Mauryan Dynasty went to the Great Qin Dynasty, they were all with simple purposes, just to make money by trading items.
But after a period of time, when more and more people participate in such activities, there will inevitably be people who want to take advantage of the situation. Once more and more such people appear, the relationship between the people of the Qin Dynasty and the people of the Mauryan Dynasty will deteriorate rapidly, and all the efforts made by Ying Gao will be in vain.
Therefore, after a period of trade between the Great Qin and the Mauryan Dynasty, Ying Gao decisively instructed Fusu to set up a free trading area on a large open space in the Western Regions. Such a free trading area can obviously greatly reduce the time and danger wasted by the people of the Great Qin and the Mauryan Dynasty to go to their respective boundaries. The people of the Mauryan Dynasty no longer need to go to the territory of the Great Qin, and the people of the Great Qin no longer need to go to the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty. They each saved time, time was money, and this was the same no matter which dynasty it was.
After the establishment of the free trading area, Ying Gao asked Fusu to focus all his main energy there. If there are people and things in the trading area that are inconsistent with the laws of the Qin Dynasty, they will be a warning to everyone.
Although Fusu was not very understandable to Ying Gao's original intention of establishing this free trading zone, he still knew the general purpose. So some time before the establishment of this trading zone, Fusu could have taken a heavy blow and directly threw a few guys who wanted to rely on his own power and force to bully the market and directly threw them into the prison of the Western Regions.
This suddenly made many people with ulterior motives afraid. Both the people of the Great Qin and the Mauryan Dynasty knew that this was the Western Regions, neither in the territory of the Great Qin nor the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty. If something happened here, once Fusu was arrested, it would be really a matter of being called "Dadidao" and "Dadidao" and that it would be said that every day should not be called "Dadidao" and could only let Fusu deal with it.
After Fusu's efforts during this period, when Ying Gao received this letter, all the introductions in the letter were good news. The number of merchants who came to the free trading area in the past ten days set a new high again, and new commodity categories appeared during this period. In short, it all showed that the development of the free trading area was improving, which made Ying Gao breathe a sigh of relief.
Ying Gao's previous life saw the Silk Road appear, and the Silk Road had a far-reaching impact on the entire China, so it was repeatedly mentioned more than two thousand years later, which is enough to illustrate the importance of trade in this era.
Because commerce is not only circulating goods, but also circulating with goods also circulating the situation and information of the place where the goods come from, Ying Gao's purpose was to let the people of the Mauryan Dynasty understand the Great Qin more quickly, and also to let the people of the Qin Dynasty understand the Great Qin more quickly.
At the same time, the people of the Mauryan Dynasty were able to quickly grasp the culture and language of the Qin Dynasty through commodities, which would subtly accelerate the flow of people.
During this nearly one year of trade, under the instruction of Ying Gao, the seeds of the Daqin and the Mauryan Dynasty also had a certain degree of interoperability. However, what disappointed Ying Gao was that there were no crops in the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty in this era that Daqin did not have.
However, in this letter, in addition to the matter of the Free Trade Center, Fusu also mentioned that he learned from merchants from the Mauryan Dynasty. Because Ying Gao distributed crop seeds to the people of the Mauryan Dynasty for free in accordance with the same policy as the Great Qin Dynasty, the people of the Mauryan Dynasty supported the policies of the Great Qin Dynasty more and more. Fusu also said obscurely that under such circumstances, the Great Qin rule over the Mauryan Dynasty should be able to go further.
The night after receiving the letter from Fusu, Ying Gao summoned Han Xin to his side.
It has been more than a year since he returned from the tour of the Mauryan Dynasty. In the past year, Han Xin has undoubtedly grown the most in the court. Since Han Xin took office for several months, he has gained a deeper understanding of the internal affairs of the Qin Dynasty. After understanding the internal affairs, he has also gained a lot of understanding of the Qin Dynasty's military. At least his current vision is completely different from before.
Chapter completed!