Corn, barley, tea, and ironware are probably the most popular Han products among the grassland people.
The herdsmen eat corn, and the barley is bought back to make wine. As for tea, the big and small tribesmen will certainly consume it, and the slightly wealthier herdsmen will also buy some mid- to low-end tea to enjoy, but it will be difficult for ordinary people.
Needless to say, iron tools, from iron nails, meat cleavers to large iron pots, are almost in short supply. The large blacksmith shops in the north of Xiazhou City are overwhelmed with business, and they rush to work, and the fires are not extinguished all night long. There is even a person who has a booming business.
, sent people back to his hometown to call his former brothers over, and we all opened a shop together to earn money from the prairie people.
Blacksmith is probably one of the most popular professions in Dingnan four states today.
After several years of development in the four prefectures of Xia and Sui, the two major grain production bases in Sui and Yin prefectures have begun to get on the right track. Not counting fruits and vegetables, in the four years of Zhonghe, a total of more than 1.1 million dendrobium of millet and wheat was harvested.
More than 100,000 dendrobium beans. In addition, Shao Shude also used external procurement to attract grain merchants from Yifang, Xining, and Guanzhong to transport grain, and then sold war horses, cattle, sheep, and medicinal materials, and bought a lot more.
Among these grains, the amount of grain that flowed into the families of the sergeants reached 600,000 dendrobium. Considering that they received a large number of cattle and sheep rewards (four goats were worth one reward and two lambs were worth one reward of silk), the food consumption was greatly reduced.
Therefore, there is still a lot of millet and wheat flowing out of the market in Xiazhou, and the destination is naturally the grassland.
Not to mention that the grassland herdsmen have sheep to eat. In fact, if the Han people are willing to exchange grain with them for livestock, no one will refuse. Of course, the ordinary people in Xia Sui still don’t have enough food to eat. The only ones who can directly or indirectly trade with the grassland people are the sergeants.
Families, they are also the largest consumers of various commodities in the four states.
Shao Shude is also paying close attention to this trading event. He feels that he may be the commander who pays the most attention to the price and transaction volume of each commodity in the entire Tang Dynasty. He is already planning to go back and ask several wives and concubines to make a statistical table to see.
Which products are most popular among grassland herdsmen, and which products are more popular in Han areas, then go back to the shogunate officials for targeted guidance.
By the way, the Feng sisters are still compiling a basket of commodity price lists recently. That is, based on the surveyed prices of dozens of commodities that people in Xiazhou need for their daily lives, they analyze their trends to see if there is any concern about inflation. In short, the principle is
Let commodity prices remain stable or even fall, reducing people's daily living expenses. For now, food prices and meat prices have fallen, as have silk and cloth prices. This is all caused by war horses, cattle and sheep trade.
Effectiveness.
The only hidden worry is that the ongoing war in the Guandong region has affected the grassland commodity sales market. He now particularly hopes that Guanzhong, with a population of more than 2 million, can maintain relative peace and continue to produce enough food, silk, tea,
Various commodities such as porcelain and iron materials are exchanged with the prairie commodities that are the main products of the four prefectures of Dingnan for mutual benefit.
Damn it, if anyone makes trouble in Guanzhong next time, I will lead my troops south to kill you and maintain "free trade".
After the heaven-sacrifice meeting, some of the chiefs from various tribes planned to go to Xiazhou for a few days, while others went back directly. Shao Shude, Wei Cai Sudu, Ye Li Jingchen, and Wu Zang Qingxiang went south together.
There are houses in Xiazhou, and I plan to leave after the New Year.
The Dangxiang people also celebrate Han festivals at this time, mainly Hengshan Dangxiang who farm. They use December as the beginning of the year, so the most important festival for them is the Winter Solstice Festival, and the second most important festival is Cold Food
Festival. As for other festivals, they are not so common, and may not be uniform among various tribes.
After the founding of the Xixia Kingdom, there were many more festivals when Emperor Taizong's surname was Zhao and his name was Deming. Not to mention all of the four o'clock and eight festivals, maybe half of them were celebrated. Shao Shude also planned to slowly let the Dangxiang people celebrate more Han festivals.
With the frequent exchanges of trade and people, he felt that this was very possible. It was not difficult for advanced civilizations to assimilate backward civilizations.
Moreover, the Dangxiang people, how should I put it, are different from the Uighurs, Tatars, Shatuo, Khitan, Xi and other peoples north of the Yinshan Mountains. They are deeply influenced by Chinese and Tibetan culture, and many of their daily customs are similar or similar.
Speaking of similarities, Shao Shude felt that if he had to choose a target for assimilation, the Dangxiang people would definitely be easier to assimilate than the Uighurs and Khitans.
After returning to Xiazhou, it was almost the New Year, and Shao Shude didn't plan to do anything else. He stayed at home and enjoyed family happiness. His two children were very cute, and he was so happy that he rummaged through ancient books all day long, trying to pick out a gift for them.
Good name.
During the period, Zhe Silun and his family came to stay in Xiazhou, saying that they wanted to spend the New Year with his younger siblings. Shao Shude called Zhe Siyu from the army, and together with Princess Zhe Fangmei, entertained Zhe Silun and his family.
Zhe Silun's eldest son, Zhe Congxue, was only four years old. He was very articulate and would call him uncle (there was no such title as "uncle" in the Tang Dynasty). Shao Shude gave him a piece of jade as a gift, and Zhe Fang'ao gave him a jade he made himself.
sachet.
As Shao Shude's status continues to rise, subtle changes have taken place in the Zhe and Shao families. If Shao's status was still inferior when he married his wife, it is completely reversed now. He lives in Linzhou.
The Zhe family has gradually been reduced to several positions. Even if Zhe Zongben can now obtain the position of Zhenwu Army Jiedushi, the population, economy, and army are still far behind.
Upper decision decided by the economic background.
The so-called strong armies and strong towns without economic support are all fake. They are paper tigers that can be broken with one poke and cannot withstand a defeat. This is also the fundamental reason why Shao Shude worked so hard to manage the four states of Xia Sui. In the cruel merger and war for hegemony,
, repeated stalemates and tug-of-war scenes are bound to occur. At this time, anything that can win by beating the blood only exists in novels and movies. The main factors that determine the outcome of the war are cold numbers: population, food production
, ordnance production, mobilization capabilities, logistics system, military quality and diplomatic relations, etc.
War is three-dimensional.
The gap between the Dingnan Army and the Linzhou Army is now like an adult and a child. The winner has been decided. Shao Shude used to be a little wary of the influence of the Zhe Family in the Pingxia Party. After the Heaven Sacrifice Conference, he looked at the attitudes of the various ministries.
, I think it is unnecessary. The leaders are not stupid, they know who is strong and who is weak, and who is more suitable to take refuge.
On the last day of the twelfth lunar month, Shao Shude personally visited Qiu Weidao, Weicai Sudu, Yeli Jingchen, and Wu Zangqingxiang, and gave many gifts. It was the New Year, and these were very important people to him, so etiquette could not be exceeded.
Que. Song Le, who was far away in Yinzhou, also received his gifts and letters of condolences. The development and stability of the town's undertakings were largely due to the Song governor, and Shao always remembered this.
After doing this, he returned home and seemed to have nothing to do.
The appearance of the family has also changed greatly now.
The maids are all new faces. The Weicai family, the Yeli family, and the Wuzang family have all become his concubines. They are no longer maids. Zhe Fangmai selected more than ten upright-looking girls from the Zhe family from the Linzhou Zhe family.
Acting as a maid in the county prince's palace.
Shao Shude took a look and found that the quality was acceptable. How many people are there in the Zhe family? A few hundred? More than a thousand? He deeply doubted that at least half of the Tibetan people in Linzhou were named Zhe. Otherwise, how could they have selected so many qualified maids?
?
I’m not afraid of eating it myself! Shao thought.
Of course, this is from his point of view. If you look at it from the princess's point of view, she might rather he eat the girls of the Zhe family secretly. It should be noted that people's energy is limited. If you can vent your excess energy on these maids of the Zhe family,
If you have more energy, you may be able to avoid going out to snatch other people's wives and daughters.
Of course Shao is still very well-behaved now. He would rather watch Xiao Feng's sword dance.
The dance is graceful and heroic, but also has a delicate and cute feeling.
"My lord, aren't you afraid?" Xiao Feng finished dancing with his sword and said breathlessly: "I used my sword to cut it off... so that you could humiliate me in the first place."
Xiao Feng said this in an angry tone, but it was more of a flirtation than an anger. Shao liked her silly look with a bit of coquettishness the most, and her steady and steady demeanor.
Sister is completely different.
After taking Xiao Feng into his arms, he wiped the sweat from her forehead and said: "I will humiliate you like this for the rest of my life, and I will not stop until my hair turns white. Well, we will have to share the same acupuncture point after death, and we will be together."
We cannot separate. If anyone obstructs me, I will kill him."
Xiao Feng lay comfortably in Shao Shude's arms. After resting for a while, seeing that no one was in the room, he cautiously hugged Shao Shude's neck and leaned his face against his chest, slowly turning red.
The two of them were alone. Such a private space was not common. Xiao Feng was able to make some intimate gestures that he would normally be too embarrassed to do.
“Mr. Lang, let me sing you a song.”
“Okay, which one do you want to sing?”
“What does Mr. Lang like to hear?”
“Let’s change this time and sing “Weicheng Song”.
“Does Mr. Lang want to leave Yangguan in the west?”
“That’s right. If someone has ambitions to conquer the world, he will naturally leave Yangguan in the west. These great rivers and mountains must be conquered one by one.”
“Yesterday, Yu Niang said that Lang Jun not only likes to conquer rivers and mountains, but also likes to conquer other people’s wives.”
"Ahem..." Shao Shude didn't expect Xiao Feng to speak so boldly, and suddenly became a little embarrassed, saying: "Nonsense. The city of Youzhou was destroyed, and more than ten female members of the Tuoba family fell into my hands. What did I conquer... That's all.
Don’t mention this, let’s sing.”
The heavy snow falling outside has fallen, and the five years of neutrality are already very close.
