Swords and Coins Pass Through the Territory

The sword splits the earth, and the sword and coins connect the territory. During the turbulent times of the Warring States Period, when the three families were divided into the Jin Dynasty, a blood-stained Qidao coin was picked up by a descendant of the Duanmu family. From then on, Duanmu, Bai Gui, Guo Zong, Ba Qing, and Lu Buwei, this group of merchants who traveled among the countries, used grain, iron, and cinnabar as bargaining chips, and weaved a business network that ran through the seven countries between the blades and the power. Some people insist that "business can help the country, but do not interfere in politics"; some people spend all their wealth just to transport 8,600 stones of grain to the siege; some people use "odd goods to live in" to bet a destitute proton on the throne; some people stick to the three hundred years of ancestral precepts and would rather die than let the cinnabar be stained with blood. From Handan to Xianyang, from Ironworks to Zhangtai Palace, from the 400,000 bones in Changping to the twelve golden men of the Qin Empire—— Where swords and coins flow, power changes, dynasties rise and fall, and business thrives.