Cut off my army's food supplies? I'll open a portal between the two worlds and max out my

"What is soap?"

The people surrounding the station were mostly business people; ordinary citizens wouldn't come to join the crowd at this time.

"That's a good question!"

Black Stone took out a small sample of soap and handed it to the other person to smell.

The merchant immediately moved away; he dared not smell something of unknown origin.

Black Stone wasn't annoyed. He smelled it himself in front of everyone and exclaimed, "It smells amazing! It's like a natural floral scent! The fragrance lingers for a long time after using the soap, and that's not even the most useful part of the soap..."

The most powerful feature of soap is its cleaning ability.

People in the Western Regions generally don't like to be clean. Even some nobles have very obvious smells and marks on their bodies.

It's not that they don't want to be clean, but their lifestyle and surrounding environment force them to be.

Roasted beef and mutton were indispensable staples at these aristocratic banquets in the Western Regions. When they were enjoying their meal, they liked to grab the meat directly with their hands. They also liked to grab the meat directly with their hands when eating on ordinary days.

This results in them often having oil stains and grime on their bodies, and also smelling bad.

Even with some cleaning tools, it's not clean enough and it's very troublesome, so over time they just make do with it.

If you use soap when you take a shower, wouldn't that remove most of the body odor?

Who wouldn't want to be a clean-cut nobleman!

This principle also applies to the women in noble families, and they would definitely buy it even more frantically!

As Blackstone was presented to numerous businesspeople, various images began to flash through their minds.

"How much is this soap?"

A Persian merchant asked in a strange accent.

The Persian merchant's question echoed the sentiments of everyone present.

Everyone looked at Black Stone.

"Yes, how much?" "Such rare items are definitely not cheap..." The crowd began to show troubled expressions.

Black Stone said calmly, "Please rest assured, everyone. Her Highness the Princess has already set the price. This box will only cost 120 coins."

"120 yuan? Cheaper than rose perfume!?"

"This soap looks better than the rose perfume!"

Some merchants who specialize in the spice business couldn't help but remark.

In fact, what shocked them was not this. After Heishi casually lifted the red cloth, the merchants all gasped in surprise.

Under the sunlight, the glittering packaging boxes reflected rainbow-colored light.

If a modern person saw these soap boxes, they wouldn't linger for long. After all, they've seen these kinds of things all the time in dollar stores; they're just modern handicrafts.

But these merchants from the Western Regions had never seen anything like it before!

"Glass?! No! The texture is wrong... but it's beautiful! It has a very noble aura..."

In other words, it can be sold to nobles for an extra fee.

These packaging boxes were handicrafts that Li Wen ordered from Yiwu for a few hundred yuan. They were enough to fool these ignorant nobles from the Western Regions with their appearance.

Soon, some customers couldn't resist placing large orders, but Blackstone shook his head and refused, saying, "I'm sorry, these soaps are only for retail, not wholesale, and you must have noble status to purchase them..."

This was also one of the rules Li Wen set in the early stages: not to cheat the poor.

Based on the purchasing power of that era, the cost for a family of three was only sixty coins a month. How could an ordinary person bear to spend two months' worth of food on luxury goods?

But the nobles didn't care.

Although the number of nobles in the Western Regions was not large, they controlled a great deal of wealth.

Even Ariels understood this principle, let alone these merchants.

Therefore, they were somewhat alarmed when they heard that they were not qualified to buy, and with some people adding fuel to the fire, they immediately wanted to rush to the trading site.

Blackstone remained completely calm, taking a slight step back, and a large number of fully armored knights appeared behind him.

In Tongcheng, the only legion with such excellent equipment is the Imperial Guard brought by the Prime Minister.

In the distance, Ariel, perched in the attic, couldn't help but sway gently, her veil fluttering along with the silver bells by her ears.

The girl's joyful movements represent her mood at that moment.

The girl couldn't help but feel admiration for Li Wen. The general was indeed amazing! He hadn't lied to me at all!

Li Wen had predicted the scenario that would occur when the soap was launched today, based on their collaboration nearly a month ago, and everything he said turned out to be correct!

As expected of a great general!

The prime minister, who was not far away, was slightly stunned by what he saw. He had not expected that the soap could have such a great impact.

Based on his many years of experience, the value of a product that can elicit such a strong response from merchants is absolutely no less than that of silk and porcelain imported from the East.

Perhaps... she really can fulfill her bet with her father.

When the Prime Minister had this thought, he was startled.

"Hey everyone, don't worry! Although I can't sell them to you in Tongcheng, you can buy them from the production site. However, you'll have to go through a bit of trouble, carrying these things to the Great Zhou to sell them."

If we could sell soap in the Great Zhou Dynasty... that wouldn't be hard work at all, it would be like robbing people!

There are more powerful and wealthy people there.

The merchants understood the meaning behind Heishi's words, and one of them took the lead in asking, "Where is this Anxi Town you mentioned?"

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Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

After the trading station opened, the soap's reputation spread throughout the entire city.

Moreover, this trend will gradually spread to the entire White Elephant Kingdom as soap becomes more widespread.

Most nobles were curious to see the soap after hearing about its reputation, since the princess had said that it was something only people with aristocratic status could buy.

Soap suddenly carries an additional meaning: it can elevate your status.

Some nobles were unhappy, like the group of nobles that the obese city lord had gathered earlier, who were now all looking worried.

They pooled their resources to buy a lot of rose perfume from Persia, intending to target the perfumes distributed by Ariel... but after discovering the existence of soap, they realized that there was no point in targeting them at all! Their rose perfume was completely inferior to Ariel's.

But we still need to pay for the orders we have.

"Hey! You haven't paid for this box of rose perfume yet."

The escort couldn't help but urge them on.

Already displeased, Xun Gui, urged on by a servant, immediately flew into a rage, shouting, "You lowly slave! How dare you speak to me like that! Do you know who I am?!"

After saying that, he drew a knife from his waist and held it to the waiter's neck.

The man in front of him wasn't afraid at all; on the contrary, he was extremely arrogant: "I don't know who you are, but my master is the city lord!"

His arrogance has its reasons.

Killing the city lord's servants outside is tantamount to slapping the city lord's face; these people are masters at using this kind of power.

Clang.

The knife in Xun Gui's hand fell to the ground.

What?! All the goods I bought were shipped from the city lord's store?!

Two days later.

The scene of Li Wen and Jiang Tian riding horses to inspect the outskirts of Anxi Town.

The wasteland on both sides of the town entrance has slowly turned green, and crops have grown in the newly planted fields.

Moreover, it is growing very well.

This made these migrants, who had farmed for years, begin to doubt themselves. Their lifelong experience in farming was not as effective as the few methods the general had taught them.

However, their self-doubt was quickly dispelled by the members of the Anxi Army.

"Our general is a reincarnation of the God of Literature! What are you comparing yourself to a deity for?"

Later, the refugees gradually came to understand this truth: their general was a god from heaven! Why should we bother with such things?

"How's the special forces training going?"

Li Wen turned his head on his horse and asked.

Jiang Tian's face was filled with barely concealed excitement: "General, the brothers have fully adapted to the immortal artifact!"

The "immortal artifact" that Jiang Tian mentioned was naturally the batch of weapons that Li Wen had obtained in Peshawar.

Although the Blackstone incident was a misunderstanding, Li Wen, with the spirit of "since we're already here, and we've already paid," couldn't let these weapons go to waste, could he?

So Li Wen had Jiang Tian select thirty men from the Anxi army to form a special operations team and taught them how to use weapons.

Li Wen had thought it through clearly: with his mental strength, he absolutely could not provide logistical support for a modern army, but he could still form a special operations team.

If used properly, this special forces team could annihilate even three thousand enemy troops by taking advantage of Anxi Town.

However, Li Wen did not intend to bring this trump card into the open.