Chapter 1187

Marten finally got the Western army.

More than 5000 troops will be sent in advance, and they will arrive slowly in the future.

Ma Teng controlled the whole silk road. Although he traded with Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu's caravan couldn't move forward after it arrived in Liangzhou. He had to sell the goods to them in Liangzhou, and then the caravan they set up was transported to the west to sell.

Over the past few years, the silk road has been very developed, with caravans coming and going every day.

The West was very curious about the East, and they also organized a lot of caravans to come.

However, they can only be controlled and monopolized by Ma Teng in Liangzhou.

Ma Teng didn't let Zhang Yu trade directly with the West in order to eat both sides alone and make a fortune.

The Western army arrived, and the matens received him.

"General, I don't know how well you prepare your weapons and equipment. If we carry weapons and equipment from the west, it will be very dangerous if we are very heavy and can't transport much food and grass." The Western generals asked the interpreter to speak to Ma Teng.

Ma Teng said: "we have built a batch of weapons and equipment, but the size of your weapons and equipment is too large, it is not easy to build, and Liangzhou has no resources, it can only be purchased from other places, it is very difficult."

The western general with a high nose and blue eyes frowned. They came with only a few weapons.

"Show me."

The western general asked marten to show him.

"Yes, yes, very good, very good. The weapons and equipment you built are much better than those we built, but the quantity is too small."

Roman generals are very happy to see the quality of weapons and equipment, but marten has made more than 10000 pairs in total, which is not enough.

Ma Teng didn't expect that when he was preparing, they were all playing according to their own size. After playing more than 100000 pairs, he found out the fatal problem.

But it's not a waste. Marten's troops can also be used.

After that, we began to build the weapons and equipment that Roman soldiers could use, but the cost was huge, and the difficulty of building also increased a lot.

Ma Teng is rich, but Zhang Yu's trade with them is not equal at all. He usually increases the price a lot before selling to them.

Although Ma Teng makes a lot of money every year, it also costs a lot.

The food and drink of more than 200000 troops is a big problem. Weapons and equipment are even more expensive. After the blockade of biezhangyu, they are several times more expensive.

Zhang Yu sold them salt, tea, ceramics, silk and so on. But for some strategic materials such as iron ore, Zhang Yu was very stingy. He gave them less and the price was still high.

Ma Teng has been searching and mining for several times, but the quantity is too small, so he still needs to buy a lot.

Zhang Yuming gave very little, so he smuggled, but the cost of smuggling was also very expensive.

"Don't worry, general. When your 20000 troops arrive in Liangzhou, they begin to adapt to training. After a few months of training, if there is no problem, the follow-up army will come." Said marten.

Marten has been working on the schedule recently, just to let the Roman Empire send the generals as soon as possible.

Ma Teng was glad to see that they were all big and powerful.

Such an army must be strong in every aspect.

Ma Chao is also eager to try, want to try their strength.

However, these people are very tired after walking so far and need to rest now.

Ma Chao is patient, waiting for them to recover for a few days, then training for a few days, and then having a good competition with them.

If the Roman Empire's troops were such strong men, marten would think their great cause could be successful.

At that time, hundreds of thousands of Roman Empire men will be killed and invincible.

Ma Teng and Ma Chao are looking forward to it.

The powerful Roman Empire helped them unify China, and they only paid part of the price.

In fact, the price is very high. If we win, the defeated empire will control two states in China, and then trade between the East and the West.

But for Ma Teng and his son, they can't win Zhang Yu by their strength.

Now they have a chance.

More than 5000 Roman Empire warriors remained, and their strength is expected.

Zhang Yu soon received the news.

After receiving the news, he also paid close attention to the combat effectiveness of the Roman soldiers after they arrived here.

He didn't know that although he was very confident of winning the war, Zhang Yu couldn't help paying attention to it.

In the capital, Zhang Yu received the news of the arrival of the advance troops of the Roman Empire.

"It's time to impose sanctions on marten and continue to mislead them." After receiving the news, Zhang Yu plans to impose sanctions on Ma Teng in half a month.

If sanctions are imposed immediately, marten will be scared.

Because if Zhang Yu's intelligence ability was so high, they would react immediately after the Roman army arrived, which must be extremely alert to them.

In fact, Ma Teng thinks he is successful, because since he married Ma Yunlu to Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu did not attack them after he defeated Cao Cao.

At that time, Ma Teng could not resist Zhang Yu if he attacked them.

As a result, Zhang Yu stopped fighting and even began to disarm.

We will disarm 300000 main combat troops at one time, and then we will continue to do so year after year.

This makes marten very happy and thinks his plan is successful.

He succeeded in paralyzing Zhang Yu, who left him alone in order to trade with the West and make money.

Marten has always been such an idea.

As everyone knows, Zhang Yu kept him just to make use of him.

In the process of innovation, many problems did appear, and some contradictions were still relatively large. Zhang Yu spent a lot of energy to promote the innovation.

Now a little bit of innovation and experiment, the scale has not gone up, and the problems may not be serious.

When we continue to innovate, there may be more problems. In the end, more problems may break out on a larger scale.

At this time, Zhang Yu can use foreign war to solve internal contradictions.

When the Western army arrived, Zhang Yu began to plan a new round of innovation.

This time, he has to go one step and divide all provinces at one time.

The division of provinces plays a very important role. Zhang Yu can collect taxes from some relatively rich provinces, which can be used to build roads first, and also take care of some less developed provinces.

Of course, the premise is to leave enough tax revenue to these developed provinces, so that they can still develop rapidly.

Zhang Yu held a cabinet meeting.

"Now is a very favorable time to promote the provinces, cities and counties in the whole country. Where it has been completed, we will continue to divide the county and city level, and take advantage of this favorable opportunity to settle the problem in the future."

In wartime, when there are still powerful foreign enemies, there are different voices. It is natural for Zhang Yu to raise his butcher's knife.

In peacetime, it is impossible to hold up a butcher's knife and kill on a large scale.

Zhang Yu made use of the Western threat theory. Like a later country, Zhang Yu could constantly ask for military expenditure from the parliament. What Zhang Yu wanted was not military expenditure, but murder.