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Chapter 266 Bilateral trade, a big tribe who knows nothing

When he came out of the Heshuo Temo tribe, the 5000 catties of wine that Kakar brought had turned into 100 war horses.

And this was not enough, Jinles placed an order for 5 catties of wine to Caral, but Karal refused, and finally only gave him a quota of 3 catties.

It's not that Yunzhou County can't produce so much wine, it's that you said before that there is not much wine, and in a blink of an eye you can give them as much as they want. Doesn't this make people find that you are fooling him?

So there is still a need to bargain. Although Jinles was dissatisfied that he could not meet his requirements, he also understood that spirits were scarce and it was normal to not have so many, so he didn't say anything.

The figure was finally accepted.

And the same as Karal, the people who were assigned to other medium-sized tribes to sell wine also returned with full rewards. The 500 catties of wine were sold to five tribes in exchange for [-] high-quality war horses.

And the Great Khans of those tribes, like Kings, placed more orders, and they all agreed.

In this way, when they returned with 500 war horses, Yunzhou County officially confirmed that they could exchange wine for horses, so they began to produce spirits in larger quantities.

After all, there is a gap of 16 horses in their war horses!
This is only 500 horses, which is far from enough to meet their needs.

But at the same time, after a simple calculation, Fan Zheng, who was in charge of the matter, suddenly realized that his thinking was too simple.

2500 catties of spirits can only be exchanged for 500 horses, which means that he needs to use 800 million catties of spirits to exchange for the horses he needs.

This is 800 million catties!

Not 80, not [-]!

Such a huge amount of food needs to be consumed is nearly [-] million grains, which is enough!

Even if you are willing to pay so much, there may not be so much wine in the pass. Even the turbid wine alone is an astronomical figure. Although there are stocks in the pass, there is not that much stock. Buying in large quantities may attract the attention of the pass.

And so much wine, even these small and medium-sized tribes can't digest it.

So I have to think of other ways, I can't just use spirits to trade with the other party.

Then what else will not increase the opponent's combat effectiveness, but is also extremely needed by the opponent, and can be given by oneself?
Fan Zheng thought hard for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he immediately went to Prince Yun's Mansion to seek authorization.

After Zhao Jun listened to his proposal, he agreed directly.

Therefore, when these first-generation "salesmen" of the prairie took the second batch of spirits to the grassland, in addition to spirits, they also brought another commodity - tea bricks!
That's right, even tea bricks, you don't need much good tea, you just need tea bricks made from the tea dregs that make those teas.

Because of their diet, the grassland people will desperately need tea to relieve their greasiness. Naturalized Tatars are backed by the Song Dynasty, so there is still a supply of tea.

But for the Outer Tatars, tea is what they long for. Originally, they obtained tea through the four major families.

However, the four major smuggled families were eliminated by Zhao Jun, and the Tatars in the southern grassland lost their access to tea.

Later, the small tribes in the entire southern grassland were almost robbed by Yunzhou County, and all of them were brought back as slaves.

Even the largest tribe was beaten by Yunzhou County, and even the medium-sized tribe was inferior.

In this way, the Tatars in the southern grasslands are no longer troubled by tea, and the people are gone, so there is no need for tea.

However, the newly immigrated Tatar tribes such as the Heshuo Temo tribe needed tea, but they could only obtain a certain amount of tea supply from the royal court every year.

Wang Ting has channels to obtain tea from the Central Plains.

But that is far from enough. Every year, too many people in the tribe get seriously ill for a long time because they don't have tea and because they eat meat for a long time, and some even die directly.

When these first-generation "salesmen" brought tea bricks, which no one would even take a look at in the Great Song Pass, to the tribes, they immediately caused a sensation.

Compared with spirits, tea bricks are what they need more urgently. Even in the history of the northern grasslands, wars against the Central Plains were fought many times because of the lack of tea.

But now in the Song Dynasty, a certain amount of tea leaves will flow to the grassland every year. Don't the officials of the Song Dynasty really know about such a large amount?
No!They knew, but they acquiesced.

As long as it is not blatant and there are too many, the Song Dynasty officials will acquiesce most of the time, so that the bilateral situation can be better stabilized.

Compared with the calmness when they brought spirits, when the "salesmen" took out the tea bricks, the tribal khan's material instantly looked like a June day, and the faces of the children changed as soon as they said it.

Smiles piled up on their faces in an instant, and the "salesman" became a guest.

All kinds of special delicacies were brought up, and even if the "salesman" was willing to spend the night in the tribe, several of the best-looking women in the tribe would sneak into your yurt in the middle of the night to make you comfortable all night.

But what they are asking for is just more shares of tea bricks.

Like wine, they also restricted tea bricks.

Therefore, in order to obtain more tea bricks for the tribe, these tribes have tried their best.

And the "salesmen" were also very sensible, and in the end reluctantly increased the number of tea bricks sold.

The price of tea bricks is based on the price of a horse sold on the grassland in other places in the Song Dynasty, which can be exchanged for 120 catties of tea, which is 12 grates. Yunzhou County only agrees to exchange 10 grates for the price of a horse.

(Grate - one of the ancient units of measurement, means a bamboo basket.

The reason for this is that grassland people are illiterate, so for the convenience of calculation, bamboo baskets are used to calculate the weight.

A bamboo basket weighs about 10 catties, but due to different goods, the weight will continue to vary. )
For this price, the tribes that are extremely scarce tea bricks have no objection, as long as they can exchange for tea bricks, they can accept more or less as long as it is not too much.

As a result, in addition to spirits, the tea brick trade in Yunzhou County once again became popular on the grasslands.

And because they brought a lot this time, the customers of the "salesmen" are no longer limited to medium-sized tribes, and those small tribes are also their target customers.

After all, although mosquitoes are small, they are also meat!
Yunzhou County needs a lot of war horses, and medium-sized tribes alone are not enough.

It still takes a large number of small tribes to be able to provide big heads.

In this way, without knowing it, the small and medium-sized tribes in the entire southern grassland became customers of Yunzhou County.

The tea and wine trade and tea horse trade between the two sides were very frequent and became a common practice.

However, the new big tribes in the southern grassland knew nothing about it and were kept in the dark.

Everyone tacitly concealed it from them, and secretly made a deal with Yunzhou County.

And Yunzhou County successfully exchanged a large number of war horses for the county through this tea and wine trade!

The abundance of war horses also allowed the cavalry units, which were originally limited by the shortage of war horses, to rapidly expand and train.

Everything seems to be on track...

(End of this chapter)