Yuanmeng grassland, the autumn grass is lush. It is a rare grassland that no longer needs to purchase straw bales. This will be a rich autumn. The herdsmen on the grassland will only have to raise their own cattle, sheep and horses until later.
, the Han caravans entered the grassland, and exchanged with them sufficient daily necessities, this winter will be a rich winter.
In the past few years, the Central Plains has been peaceful and stable. Although there have been wars for many years, there have been no major natural disasters. The disaster suffered by Liu Xiu has been a rare disaster in recent years.
The situation here on the grassland is the same. The herdsmen have also had a stable few years without the snow disaster they feared most.
For a long time, unless the fight between the two sides is really fierce, Li Xiang will not absolutely block the mutual trade between the two sides at the border. The grassland people are very interested in the salt, cloth and tea of the Central Plains, while the Central Plains are interested in the cattle and horses of the grassland.
Shepherd is equally interested.
It is not a bad thing to establish mutual markets for both sides on the border, so that each can get what they need. This is beneficial to both sides.
Don't even look at the constant war between Xizhou and Yuanmeng, which caused Li Xiang to close many openings for trade with the grassland, but it was still not completely blocked and a few remained.
A war will be a war, but the pace of economy and construction will never stop.
After all, the profit from trade with the grassland is so huge that Li Xiang can't stop it even if he wants to. Horses brought from the grassland can be sold in the Central Plains, and how much can be sold in the south, and from the south
How much profit can be made by putting the tea leaves and cloth on the grassland?
Even if Li Xiang has blocked commercial and trade transactions between the two parties, merchants have been seeking profits since ancient times. Will they really stop trading with the grassland because of this? I am afraid that by then they will try their best to open up trade channels with the grassland. Even if
He would not hesitate to risk the lives of his whole family.
This kind of thing has been around since ancient times.
Therefore, instead of blocking the trade channels between the two sides, it is better to open up a few openings so that all trade transactions can be controlled to a certain extent within one's sight.
Moreover, among the many taxes in the Jin Dynasty, commercial tax was the highest. Especially when they were short of money after a war, if the trade channels of these merchants were blocked, where would the Jin Dynasty get money?
If we don’t tamper with commercial taxes, is it possible to tamper with agriculture?
Among the several forces in the grassland, even Temujin, the most powerful one, does not mind if the war horses on the grassland flow to the Han to a certain extent. All Temujin needs to control is the speed and quantity.
After all, where do you think Temujin got his iron tools from before he discovered the iron ore on that grassland? Temujin was also the beneficiary of the trade exchanges between the two parties!
Moreover, Temujin knew very well that even if he exported a certain number of war horses to the Han Dynasty, they would not be in the hands of the Jin army, because the Jin army did not need them. The Jin army had its own horse farms, which were enough to supply its own needs.
Then continue to purchase from outside. What the Jin army is interested in in the grassland is not the war horses, but the cattle and sheep, especially the cattle that can cultivate the land.
All the princes in the Han Dynasty, Temujin, believed that the biggest threat was the Jin army. Even if a group of war horses were imported into the Han Dynasty, there was a high probability that the horses would eventually fall into the hands of princes other than the Jin army. Even very likely.
To a large extent, it will eventually be used to deal with the Jin army. Why wouldn't Temujin do it?
Temujin thought so, and Tuoba Wei and the Manchu Qing also maintained a general idea. The northern princes connected to them all had their own horse farms. Even if they were doing business with the Han Dynasty, the final import of these war horses would be the Central Plains princes and the southern princes.
will not be used against them.
Why do merchants start trading with the grasslands? Isn’t it just to make a profit? After they buy the war horses from the grasslands, how can they sell them to the northern princes, and how much money can they make? They can only go to the princes of the Central Plains, or even farther away.
It would be in the greatest interest for the southern princes to make some moves.
As for several tribes near northern Xinjiang, because the next wave of trade climax is about to come, many herdsmen showed a hint of laughter at this time.
These people were not born robbers, and they had to risk their lives to rob the Han Dynasty. Not to mention that they had not had any advantage in the numerous small battles with the Jin army over the years.
If there are enough daily necessities, even a lamp of lamp oil, then why would anyone use knives to rob them? They grassland peoples also want to live a peaceful and stable life.
Since ancient times, grasslands have had the habit of plundering like those in the Central Plains, not because they like plundering, but because they have to plunder for survival.
"The Han caravan is coming, so what should I exchange for?" Lying in the pile of wool, Lao Wumeng counted on his fingers: "This pile of wool can be exchanged for twenty bags of rice from the south.
Calculated this way, my whole family will have delicious rice to eat this winter."
Looking at the fattening sheep in the distance: "The Han businessman has said that one sheep can be exchanged for three kilograms of salt, so including the sheep that has developed leprosy, I need to exchange at least one hundred kilograms of salt. In this way
Once this happens, you will be able to eat delicious lamb all winter long.”
"Also, my grandson has just been born. His delicate skin is always red because of the thin and tender sheepskin. He needs to be replaced with a piece of cotton or silk to make him a small dress.
have……"
There are indeed too many things that I need, and I need to exchange them with the Han caravan before I move pastures and find a place to spend the winter.
When will the Han caravan arrive?
After all, the Han Dynasty has been established for hundreds of years, and Li Xiang's Jin Dynasty has only been established for a long time. In addition, Li Xiang has not yet completed the unification. In the hearts of the grassland herdsmen, the south of the grassland is still Han people, not
He is from Jin.
While Lao Wumeng was thinking about this, smoke and dust were already rising in the south, which made Lao Wumeng excited. Looking at the scale, this caravan is huge. They will bring countless rich commodities. He is close to the water first.
With Deyue, you will definitely be able to buy what you need most at the cheapest price.
So Lao Wumeng shouted to the tent behind him: "Silly boy, quickly take out our hada and salt, prepare to serve kumiss, and welcome the arrival of the Han caravan."
His old son rushed out of the tent excitedly and delivered a white khata into his father's hands. He also picked up one, stood behind his father, and strode towards the oncoming caravan.
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What came face to face was not the caravan that the two men had imagined, but a densely packed army.
