The price of silver in the Ming Dynasty was quite high at the moment, and ten thousand taels of silver was indeed a huge sum of money. It was natural that he could not afford to give it away, so Gao Pragmatic stopped worrying about this and asked again: "Since you are selling it to the frontier army, how can the frontier army pay it?"
The limit is tight, can they afford the money to buy the horse? Can you resell it at cost price?"
"The cost price is not enough, I still have to lose money." Cao Gan said with a smile: "Even if the horse is in my hands, it will take some time, so the horse feed, care and other expenses will have to be spent.
Money, plus the border army often has to delay for a while to get enough goods, how can I give them the cost price? But generally speaking, my sales are not expensive, just about two taels more for a horse.
After all, you have to worry about your friendship with the border army, right?"
He paused and continued: "As for whether the Bianjun can get the money, the young master doesn't know. It would be quite difficult for the Bianjun to directly use the money to buy horses. Anyway, in the past few years,
The border troops rarely give cash. They usually use other supplies to offset the payment. These items range from a wide range of things, such as the silks, cloths, cottons, needles and threads, ropes, combs, rice, salt, etc. that I just mentioned.
They would bring candies, tassels, otter skins, sheepskin boxes, etc. to offset the price... This was one of the reasons why Xiao said he couldn't sell the horses to them at the original price: their goods were too miscellaneous, and they couldn't just collect the goods themselves.
Trouble, it is very troublesome for us to calculate the price here, and we will waste a lot of time. Those who have little money to raise horses cannot pay for it themselves, no one is stupid enough to do this kind of business."
Gao Pangshi suddenly understood and asked: "And you took these goods to trade with the Mongols?"
"That's right, anyway, Mongolians want all kinds of things." Cao Gan said: "But in fact, there are some things that the little ones don't like to buy, such as those cheap items such as ordinary needlework, because the small ones don't like to buy them, generally
The prices for border troops are very low."
Gao Pragmatic was slightly curious: "Why don't you want them? Don't Mongolians lack these little things?"
"Mongolia is in short supply, but the people who can sell horses to young people in large quantities are all well-established people in Mongolia. How can they be interested in buying those things like needlework? What they want is silk and silk.
Such good things. As for the things that ordinary Mongolians need, most of them can only be exchanged for cattle, sheep, furs, horsetails, etc. And for some reason, Mongolians have not been very fond of selling cattle in recent years."
"Oh?" Gao Pragmatic frowned slightly: "Why don't you sell the cow? Do you know the inside story?"
Cao Gan touched his bald head and said hesitantly: "I haven't thought about it carefully, but I guess it has something to do with the White Lotus sect's bandits coercing a large number of Han people from the border areas to move to Mongolia to cultivate fields."
Oh, that's the thing... Gao Pragmatic knew about this situation in his previous life. To put it bluntly, it was just that some Han people in the border areas couldn't survive for one reason or another, and some White Lotus cultists tried every means to get them to reclaim wasteland for farming in southern Mongolia.
.Although Mongolia is dominated by grasslands, it does not mean that there is no land that can be cultivated. Therefore, there are such places allocated to the Han people under their rule, and even the so-called "bansheng" was created.
The incident of Bansheng City was often used in later generations to criticize the Ming Dynasty's unpopular rule. The main argument is that the Ming Dynasty's farming technology and some handicraft techniques and even city-building techniques and medical skills were "spread" to Mongolia, making the Han people themselves
Competitiveness has declined.
Gao Pragmatic's view on this is: fart.
Why?
Don’t you know the term “cultural export”? Gao Pragmatic hopes that the Mongols will be faster, accept more Han culture, and increase the intensity of building cities and settlements - so that it will be easier for Han rule in the future!
If the Mongols could always maintain the nomadic style of thousands of miles, there would be little technological development, but if the Han people want to have a long-term and stable frontier, they will basically have no chance - the weaker their productivity, the more they will have to rely more and more on coming to the Han land to harvest grass and grain.
They come here to make a living, but they mainly rely on cavalry, so they can grab a wave and then leave. Although your Great Wall is long, can it really be fortified for thousands of miles?
The Ming Dynasty was often snatched away by the Mongols. When the Ming army arrived, they could only clean up the battlefield. Why? You can't outrun them! The Mongols didn't intend to rule the places they conquered for a long time. They simply just
In order to rob some daily necessities, without any thought of occupying the city and occupying the land, what can you do?
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic was not opposed to the Sinicization of the Mongols at all, and even wished he could personally plan for them how to speed up the Sinicization! So although the Ming court was very annoyed by the border people fleeing north, Gao Pragmatic was not annoyed at all. Not only did he not
Annoyed, I even thought of another thing.
Every time Mongolia applied to the Ming court to open a market, they also asked the Ming court to give them Buddhist scriptures, and even sent the great lama from the capital to preach in Mongolia. However, the Ming court seemed to have no interest in this and always ignored it.
Looks like this - this is like refusing to do any good business that comes to your door!
If Gao Pragmatic can take power, he will definitely try his best to print more Buddhist scriptures and send more lamas to preach to the Mongolians! Because for Mongolia, Lamaism is basically a suicide cult, or at least a self-mutilation cult. This is not to say that Lamaism makes Mongolia
A cult that causes people to commit suicide or self-mutilation is of course a serious religion that encourages people to do good, but from a national level, advocating the Lama Church seriously damages national strength and enterprising spirit.
Don’t you see that after Lamaism flourished in Mongolia, the glory of the Mongols completely disappeared without a trace? Although in the original history, there was still the influence of the Qing Dynasty’s reduction policy, Lamaism caused the Mongols to abolish their martial arts.
It is also an important reason.
Therefore, looking at all circumstances, Gao Pragmatic does not think that the Ming Dynasty needs to conquer Mongolia by force at all - Mongolia can be turned into a big sieve only by relying on economy and culture, and then a certain amount of force can be guaranteed to deter it.
Collect it for your own use.
Why not!
As for you saying that the contradiction between Mongolia and Han is sharp and irreconcilable? That is simply ridiculous. In the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, there are countless Mongolians who have served the Han people one after another!
Just to give a few examples, such as the famous Battle of Tumubao, the Ming army claimed to be 500,000 (actually about 200,000) and lost 70,000 soldiers. A large number of the losses were Mongolian soldiers. Many of them changed their surnames to Han to defend
The Ming army retreated and fought with their Mongolian compatriots until the last moment. Some people in later generations jokingly said that the Battle of Tumubao appeared to be a fight between the Han court and the Mongols, but in fact it was more like a civil war between the Mongols.
During the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty came to Korea twice to fight against Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Japanese invading army. Among them, the Xuanfu Datong was a Ming army, and its main force was the Mongols. At that time, the four generals of Xuanda were: Yang Dengden, Xie Qingdeng,
It's quite expensive, and all four of them are Mongolians.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were tens of thousands of Mongolians serving the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong. When the Ming army failed in the Songjin battle, there were still more than 3,000 Mongolians who defended the Ming army until the last moment. On the contrary, after the Han surrendered, the Mongols had to be
They were captured and eventually killed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatism, who is well aware of the inside story and developments, is quite "open-minded" about the board's rise.
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