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The northwest border, Tongde Fucheng.
As an important town closest to the source of the Yellow River in the Yellow River waters, Tongde Mansion is located in the middle of the west of Dakang Dynasty.
Standing on the city wall and looking out, you can see the Yellow River water rolling in, and it is relatively clear.
Going out from here is to enter the territory of the Uighurs.
There are many countries and tribes surrounding Dakang, and most of them have a peep at Dakang.
Many of them also fought several large-scale wars with Dakang.
The most annoying of them all are the Uighurs.
The Uighurs are not a complete country, and of course Xiqiang and Shiwei are not either.
¡°However, the latter two families already have cities and have initially formed the prototype of a country.
The Uighurs have never had cities. Instead, they follow the nomadic lifestyle, mainly migrating in tents.
This is similar to the Qiyan tribe in the north.
But they were even more ferocious than any other ethnic group. Not only did they go around robbing and plundering resources, not only robbing the wealthy, they also robbed small tribes of the Xiqiang, and even the impoverished tribes on the western plateau.
Not only do they rob people, they often kill people. They have a very bad reputation in the northwest, and everyone dislikes them.
But the Uighurs are also very poor. If you beat them, you won't get much but it will cost you too much. It's like a shit stirrer, which is a bit disgusting.
In the western plateau area, in addition to the main Uighurs, there are hundreds of small vassal tribes scattered across the vast northwest, central and north plateaus.
The better places with abundant water and grass are all occupied by the Uighurs. These small vassal tribes who are related to them by marriage or have some blood ties beg for food in the surrounding areas.
Usually the Uighurs are short of food and population, so the penultimate option is to cross these small tribes and go to the western plateau further south to grab them.
If there is really no other way, their last option is to rob these small vassal tribes.
Precisely because they don¡¯t even have a bottom line, everyone dislikes them.
"But the Uyghurs are very powerful, and those who can beat them don't want to beat them, and those who want to beat them can't, so they can only lower their heads and pretend to be grandsons.
Of course, there are also a group of people who live a better life in the tribe pretending to be grandson.
For example, the small tribal alliance that often trades with Prince Yi¡¯s Mansion.
They originated from around Zhaleng Lake and Eleng Lake, which are almost a thousand miles away from Tongde Mansion. Unfortunately, in the past hundred years, the Uighurs have occupied that area of ????water grassland, and they were forced to move eastward. They arrived two miles away from Tongde Mansion. Inhabited in hundreds of miles of hills and mountain forest areas.
The terrain here is very complex, but the water sources and pastures are pretty good, barely enough for their needs.
But the key point is that there is no family planning now. The population of these small tribes is increasing, and gradually there is not enough food and drink.
With no other choice, these people can only choose to enter the territory of Dakang to conduct various sales and transactions.
There are border cities in border areas.
There was also Tongde Mansion, and they became prosperous because of it.
Under this circumstance, by chance, the caravan from Prince Yi's Mansion got in touch with these small tribes and started doing business with them.
In the beginning, they only dared to sell some cattle and sheep, cattle and sheep skins, herbal medicines, tonics and so on.
Later, as both parties were doing business every year and became familiar with each other, the output of these small tribes gradually failed to keep up with demand.
The things from the Dakang Dynasty are good.
In addition to delicious rice and flour, there are also teas that can relieve tiredness and facilitate excretion, sweet cane sugar, beautiful clothes, shoes and other supplies.
Compared with these good things, the things they sell are relatively cheap.
Cattle and sheep are very good, but the problem is that the cattle and sheep have to be transported to the capital or to the south of the Yangtze River to be valuable. There is no shortage of cattle and sheep in the border areas.
"And transporting cattle and sheep thousands of miles like this is simply too much, and eight out of ten will die. How can this cost be justified?"
Therefore, on the one hand, they could not afford what they wanted, and on the other hand, the Yiwangfu caravan was so courageous that they simply agreed to sell them iron pots. Now the small tribe became even more sensational and couldn't help but be excited. Excited.
Why?
The grassland is very iron deficient.
Even when the Qing Dynasty just started to follow General Li Chengliang of Liaodong as a vanguard, 100%?10%.
One achievement is six thousand horses.
"Don't underestimate the six thousand horses. This is the result of Da Kang's hard work for more than ten or twenty years."
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: The 3,000 horses brought back by the Yiwang Mansion every year are indispensable.
"If it weren't for their strong physiques and the horses they reproduced would also grow healthily, Dakang's military horses would never grow so fast.
Of course, these horses are not meant to be slaughtered for meat. They can also play a role in ordinary government affairs and transport among the people.
The income from the sale of these horses can in turn subsidize the huge financial resources spent on horse administration.
"However, whether in the military or among civilians, the gap between horses is still huge.
It is no exaggeration to say that if you buy a million horses in one go and distribute them to various industries in the empire, they will be absorbed in the blink of an eye and there will be no waste at all.
Take the military as an example, the only one who can ride two horses now is the emperor's personal army, the Habayashi Guards.
Since the last time the Habayashi Guards suffered a big setback and lost all 2,000 people, they have trained themselves like crazy, and their quality is far superior to other Forbidden Army soldiers, so they were able to win the honor of riding two horses during the public discussion between the DPRK and China.
After changing the sixth guards of other fields, the average of only about 10,000 cavalry, only 10,000 horses.
The replenishment of less than 3,000 horses every year allows them to have at most a thousand horses to prepare for emergencies.
With such a reserve of horses, everyone is very careful when training, for fear that the horse will be destroyed accidentally, and they will be unable to replenish it and they will be reduced to infantry.
Faced with this situation, the emperor and several prime ministers have approached King Yi several times, hoping that they can make a breakthrough as soon as possible so that they can build more and better cavalry teams.
But¡¡
Gong Chuxin sighed.
It¡¯s not easy to introduce more horses!
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Note: According to Mr. Gao Shouxian's book "Prices and Wages in the Capital (Replacement) during the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty", in the 20th and 37th years of Wanli, the price of a 2-foot-diameter iron pot in the capital was about 0.25 taels a piece, and a 4-foot-diameter iron pot. A large iron pot for making soup is 0.5 liang per square foot.
Considering that daily necessities in the capital have never been the most expensive, it is not an exaggeration to sell a large iron pot for two taels a piece in the far northwest area with little iron. After all, of the 245 iron mines in the Ming Dynasty, the south occupied 175. Excluding Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places, the output of iron ore in the northwest is almost negligible. Others transport iron pots to sell them. If the cost along the way, personnel salaries, profit calculations, etc. are added together, 2 taels of silver is not expensive.
"If we go to the grassland again, carrying such contraband and risking beheading, the price will increase by 10 times to 20 taels for an iron pot. It shouldn't be a fantasy.
In the same way, horses on the grassland were traded at the border horse market and the Central Plains court for 5-7 taels of silver each. This price was also external, and the price traded among their own tribes on the grassland was much lower. , 2-3 is not outrageous.
Therefore, based on the prices and trading locations of the above two commodities, it is set that 10 horses can be exchanged for 1 iron pot, and this is on the premise that 100 iron pots can be exchanged. The rational inference comes from this, please be informed. (I will talk about the horse price in detail later.) (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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