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Chapter 202: Crazy Mongolians

Sichuan, this is the route to trade with the Wusizang tribes.

Since Ding Maoxin brought an infantry division into Sichuan and quickly suppressed the She Chongming Uprising, the Li rebellion in Guizhou has not erupted.

Obviously, the speed of the imperial court's suppression also shocked the ambitions of the ethnic minorities in the southwest.

After receiving the imperial edict recently, Ding Maoxin began to cooperate with the Royal Trading Company in Sichuan to monopolize the trade of the Wusizang tribes. It is obviously enough to capture and smuggle the troops of an infantry division. After all, there are not many roads to Tibet, just a few. Just send some people to the road, so no caravan can be crossed.

It can be said that the border smuggling in Sichuan is the easiest to crack down on. In contrast, the smuggling merchants in Sichuan are much lucky and the court did not question them. After reading the Daming Daily, the smuggling merchants in Sichuan were already scared and sweating profusely and immediately stopped smuggling activities in Tibet.

After the Royal Trading Company established a branch in Sichuan, these businesses became a supplementary link for supplying trade goods to the Royal Trading Company.

Soon the trade with Tibet began under the official organization. The caravan organized by the Royal Trading Company headed toward the Tibetan Plateau. After a trek, it reached a trade volume of more than 3 million yuan with the Tibet tribes.

Commodities such as tea, porcelain, steel products, silk, satin, and spices were exchanged for the horses, yaks, musks, medicinal materials, furs, and wool from the Wusizang tribes.

Among them, musk is unique to Tibet. After this spice was monopolized by royal capital, the price of this luxury goods rose several times.

In the golden autumn of September, Zhangjiakou also reopened.

After several months of arrangement, Royal Capital has almost monopolized most of Zhangjiakou's industries, from leather technicians to blankets and other goods, and quickly established a factory with a group of private merchants.

On the fifth day of the September 2018, as the earth shook, the Mongolian caravans came.

What shocked everyone was that the Mongolian caravan was so huge that it was difficult to execute. The endless herd of horses came to Zhangjiakou under the drive of the Mongolians. There were also a large number of camels, cattle and sheep, and Mongolian carts, carrying a large amount of fur and wool to Zhangjiakou.

The cattle, sheep and horses were like endless. The number was really amazing.

Everyone was stunned and looked at the Mongolians in disbelief.

"I have never seen so many livestock in my life rushing to Zhangjiakou. The Mongolians brought everything they could buy and sell this time!" An old shopkeeper in his sixties said to others.

Surrounded by a group of Mongolian nobles, Lin Danhan came to Zhangjiakou happily. Looking at the Ming people in the distance, he couldn't help but smile proudly: "The Ming people must have been scared, maybe the goods they prepared were not enough for this trade."

"That's right, the Ming people would definitely not have imagined. This time, the Khan summoned our Mongolian tribes to launch trade with the Ming Dynasty. It was such a huge scale. It would definitely be the power of our Mongolians."

"The Khan is wise!"

A group of Mongolian nobles flattered Lin Danhan.

After a while, the staff of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ming Dynasty came to contact us. Mongolia handed over the list of goods to the staff of the Foreign Trade Department. Lin Wence, the Minister of the Foreign Trade Department, was shocked when he received the list of goods from the Mongolians.

He never expected that the Mongolians would be so enthusiastic about this trade, even almost crazy.

The number of horses that were officially purchased by the Ming Dynasty was the amount of war horses. However, the number of horses that were hit by the horses was 50,000, and the number of horses was 60,000.

The number of horses alone reached 140,000.

At the same time, there are 500,000 cattle and sheep, 1.6 million fur pieces, 1.2 million kilograms of wool, and some other groceries such as air-dried meat.

The various goods prepared by the Mongolians this time were worth more than 6 million taels. The reason why the Mongolians were so crazy was mainly because of the Mongolian nobles. After learning the new commodity price list, they could not stand the temptation and brought everything that could be traded in the tribe. If this trade was successful, it would mean that these Mongolian nobles would all get a lot of silver, and the tea, iron pots, and grain needed by the tribe could be exchanged, and a sum of silver could be left to buy various luxury goods.

These days, the entire tribe of Mongolian tribal nobles were their property, and ordinary Mongolians did not have much property. Of course, Mongolian nobles also had certain obligations, that is, to allow ordinary Mongolians to have basic living supplies. This is a default system. If excessive oppression is too much, it will also cause "people resentment".

In the past, the Mongolian nobles obviously did not have much money, and some tribes were so poor that they were so poor.

In this trade, the purchase price of cattle, sheep, fur, wool and other commodities was also greatly reduced, which made all the Mongolian nobles tempted, which led to such a crazy trade scale.

A group of Mongolian nobles commanded the personnel and stopped a large number of livestock. Then, under the reception of the Ministry of Trade on the Ming Dynasty, they entered the Zhangjiakou market.

When they entered the market, Lin Danhan and the Mongolian nobles all looked straight.

Those tea, iron pots, grain and other things were not good. They mainly looked at those luxury goods. As a result, they found that there were all kinds of luxury goods from Daming, and even overseas luxury goods in the market. They also had everything they could eat, drink, and play. The large amount of luxury goods made Lin Danhan and the Mongolian nobles dazzled.

"Da Khan, there are so many things here!"

"Yes! I've grown up and I haven't seen so many good things."

A group of Mongolian nobles yelled excitedly like country bumpkins. Lin Danhan coughed. These luxury goods were also very attractive to him, but they were not as ill-behaved as those Mongolian nobles from poor tribes. However, they were still very satisfied with the goods prepared by the Ming Dynasty.

The Mongolians demanded more heavily, and the price of one stone of grain is 1.8 yuan. The price of tea bricks is much cheaper. A tea brick weighing ten kilograms is only 3 yuan.

These tea bricks are actually something that the people of the Ming Dynasty don’t want. The Mongolians’ demand for tea was practical, so those tea bricks were made of older teas. The cost of the tea was scary. This kind of tea was shipped to Mongolia but it could still be sold for 3 yuan, which was just like grabbing money! But for the Mongolians, they felt that such a price was very kind.

As for the price of food, it is a little higher than that in the pass, but the Mongolian nobles discovered the business opportunities! That is, the food exchanged for cattle and sheep can support more people. The remaining silver can be used for personal consumption.

Mongolia is so large that if fur, wool, horses, cattle and sheep can be sold for money, it would be very easy to support the more than 2 million people. The excess silver can be used to consume various luxury goods. Suddenly, the production enthusiasm of the Mongolian nobles increased, and they all planned to expand the scale of grazing after going back.

In addition to consuming luxury goods, Lin Danhan also wanted steel knives and armor produced by the Ming Dynasty.

So this trade continued very smoothly with the Mongolians very satisfied.

Lin Danhan sold all the grassland livestock, groceries and raw materials worth more than 6 million taels concentrated from various tribes to the Royal Trading Company.

Then, from the Royal Trading Company, I bought steel knives and armor produced by the Royal Military Factory. Then I bought 1.5 million stones of grain, 1 million jin of tea, 50,000 iron pots, tens of thousands of pieces of silk, satin, 5 million jin of soju and more than 1 million pieces of various porcelain.

There are also things like oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, white sugar, needles and thread, which have also been swept a lot of goods.

For the Mongolians, this was a carnival shopping campaign. They had never seen such a sufficient and complete product and a grassland environment that lacked manufacturing capabilities, allowing them to live in a relatively primitive and self-sufficient environment for a long time. Suddenly, there were so many products for them to choose from, and they still had a large sum of silver in their hands, so they could not help but sweep the goods.

Lin Danhan adopted a system of unified procurement of the living supplies needed by the Mongols and then distributed them.

After a lot of sweeping, there was still nearly 3 million yuan left. Lin Danhan left behind another 1 million yuan himself. The other 2 million yuan was distributed to the Mongolian nobles according to the amount of cattle, sheep and other goods produced by each tribe, so that these Mongolian nobles could purchase various luxury goods by themselves.

The Mongolian nobles who received the silver became great tyrants one by one. These Mongolian nobles didn’t know what frugality was. They were all doing the truth for a day, and they immediately started to buy things like crazy when they had the silver.

The vast array of luxury goods made these Mongolian nobles look dazzled. No matter how much silver dollars they had in their hands, they could not withstand such spending. Soon, the Mongolian nobles squandered all the silver dollars based on their financial resources, and exchanged them for cars of luxury goods, ready to take them back to the tribe to enjoy.

It is obvious that the Mongols have never thought that their dominance was being shaken with the emergence of these luxury goods and the development of the commodity economy.

When the Mongols could expand production in exchange for more silver and buy more luxury goods to enjoy it, what would they do? Naturally, let ordinary Mongolians in the tribe increase their production scale and squeeze out the value of labor as much as possible.

If the tribe is not full and everyone is living a similar life, then that's fine. But these Mongolian nobles are all enjoying various luxury goods one by one, and this problem of not worrying about being weak but not being equal. As these Mongolian nobles become ranchers one by one, ordinary Mongolians become serfs under ranchers, class contradictions and class opposition arise.

Once those Mongolian herders discovered that they would live a better life under the rule of the Ming Dynasty and even had some aristocratic mood from time to time, it would be too simple to destroy the Mongolian regime.

Lin Danhan did not expect this problem at all. He was very satisfied at this time because through this trade, he established prestige among the nobles of the Mongolian tribes. Not only did he earn money, but he also had 10,000 steel knives and 5,000 pairs of armor in his hand. His rule over Mongolia seemed to be extremely stable. (To be continued...)
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