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The capital, Ulaanbaatar, is magical to the Mongols. If they can't survive on animal husbandry, they come to Ulaanbaatar to survive. Herders who are unable to move their families to the cities, who usually have 80% of their income to the Mongolian Natural Parks Committee and do not have enough livestock at home to sustain themselves, have set up yurts and waited for tourists.

At the suggestion of the embassy staff, Fan Wuzhi and others also came to a yurt area, paid 1,000 US dollars, and rented dozens of large yurts.

"Hehe, it's a lot cheaper than staying in a hotel." One of Fan Wuxi's subordinates said with a smile.

"You can choose to stay in a hotel." Fan replied.

The subordinate immediately stopped talking, he had just gone to see the environment of the hotel, rather than live there, it was better to live in a yurt, at least it was cleaned up here, and it was a little fresh.

The hotel in Ulaanbaatar is really unsatisfactory, and the difference between it and the yurt is probably that one is made of bricks and cement, and the other is not.

In fact, strictly speaking, a yurt is not a tent, it has its own characteristics. The roof is supported by connected wooden grilles and poles, which are filled with felt mats as insulation. A yurt weighs about a tonne and needs to be carried by a cart and pulled by a few cows or three or four camels. Tourists, such as those who come to South Korea, can participate in the daily life of the herders and set up yurts with them. The roof is supported by two pillars, and the average living room is about 20 square meters. The gate of the yurt is generally facing south, so you can get the sun.

The price of renting such a yurt for a day is only five dollars, and Fan Wuxi, a large number of dozens of people, rushed in, but they were very happy with the rented Mongolians, plus food and drink, it took forty or fifty people to spend a thousand dollars to get it, which must be said to be very cheap.

"Mongolia has a homogeneous economic structure, and has relied mainly on imports for energy for nearly a century. Rosneft, which supplies 90 percent of Mongolia's crude oil, has raised prices twice in the past three months, with an average increase of 20 percent each time, while domestic wheat prices have nearly doubled since last year. Mongolia is extremely short of water resources, the basic water conditions of ordinary people are very poor, and on the other hand, there is no good urban drainage system, and every time the river overflows, the city will accumulate garbage and poor sanitation. ”

Fan Wuxian nodded and said, "From the place I passed by just now, I can see those wooden houses and other things, which shows that the lives of the people in this place are really not good." ”

There are some rich people in Mongolia. Otherwise, Rolls-Royce is expensive, and the mainland is not very common, but at the same time, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening at an alarming rate, and now Mongolia's economic lifeline is basically in the hands of a few oligarchs.

In the northern suburbs of Ulaanbaatar, there is a famous villa street in Bayinbolek, where the villas are varied, colorful, all European-style, very beautiful. Those Mongolians who have money and leisure draw and design their own villas, and there are almost no duplicates of the five or six thousand villas in the entire area.

Stretching for dozens of kilometers, there are mountains on the east and west sides, there are forests on the mountains, under the blue sky and white clouds, the roofs of various colors reflect each other, just like entering a fairy tale world, and the ordinary Mongolians who can live here are already living a paradise-like life compared with those who struggle in the urban slums or steppe yurts.

According to embassy staff, even in a country like Mongolia, where grasslands are vast, there are frequent incidents of grazing pastures. Sometimes, nomadic herders have to graze their livestock into protected areas again and again.

Small garden facilities allow residents to eat healthy food in times of economic hardship. Any new ideas have been well received, and the nomads' staple foods are still meat and dairy, but at least now they add wild vegetables and fruit to the menu.

"When guests come from afar, they are willing to take the time to receive them, because life on the grassland is boring for them." The embassy staff told Fan Wuxian, "Their usual entertainment is to listen to the radio, most of the nomads have a radio that can receive foreign radio stations, and they also like to listen to the news from the outside when they come to travel." ”

The yurt where Fan Wuzhi lived was an older Mongolian, and the owner was happy to receive an additional 100 dollar bill from Fan Wuxi, and the old man's whole family dressed up to attend the welcoming ceremony, passing it on hand with lit tobacco, according to the embassy staff, it used to be a kind of ceremony to welcome guests, but today I am afraid that only older people know about this kind of ceremony, which means that the guests come with friendly wishes.

Then the old man's family was humming some song in words they didn't understand, which sounded very melodious and tactful, and from the feeling of Fan Wuxi, in this high-latitude city, it feels like the sky is pressed very low, and living in this environment for a long time, the mood is naturally more depressed, so grazing sheep on the vast grassland, it is very necessary to have something to do and roar two more voices, and over time, not only has raised a nation on horseback, but also raised a nation that can sing and dance.

It made Fan Wuxian feel very surprised, the old man's family can actually speak English, and there is no slightest obstacle to conversation, and the oral level is very passable!

Fan Wuxian communicated with them for a while, and then he realized that Mongolia's favorite people today are tourists from Europe and the United States. These people are generous and not bad, much better than the rough Russians, and they are not like businessmen from Chinese mainland, who only know how to extract surplus value from them, so they are seriously learning English and vigorously developing tourism.

The old man said that one of his sons worked with the correspondent of the United Nations Right to Food Project, and his income was quite good, but the place of work was far away from the capital, and it took a long time to come back.

In fact, since 10 years ago, Mongolia has completed a complete transformation from a planned economy to a market economy, and most local companies have not survived. The old man's son followed the UN Right to Food project correspondent to Mongolia to collect information and report on the hunger of the people there in large and small towns in Mongolia.

Now they are conducting research in Selenga Province, more than 200 kilometers from the capital and near the Mongolian-Russian border, where milk powder is produced, but the interests of the surrounding herders are difficult to protect because most of the milk comes from nearby Siberia, where cows are healthier. Milk production is also higher, and the country's companies are uncompetitive and the price of the product is half as high as Siberian milk powder, so the workers here earn only a bite to eat, and there is little sustainable development.

Because yurts are mobile, the system in Mongolia is similar to that in Russia, and as long as you don't build a permanent house in the center of the city, you won't be in trouble if you don't put the yurt on the road.

But many people are taking advantage of the trick of locating their yurts not far from the road to attract more passers-by or truck drivers who need a break.

There are 50,000 kilometers of roads in Mongolia. However, there are only more than 1,000 kilometers of hardened pavement, and the rest of the pavement is a sandy dirt road pressed by long-term driving of cars. On the road to the western Altai Mountains, the highest point reaches an altitude of more than 4,300 meters, and the fuel tanks of cars often freeze. At this time, the old Soviet imported truck showed its advantages, and the driver could melt the gasoline by lighting a fire under the car.

Nowadays, Mongolians like Japanese cars, and many people make a fortune by reselling Japanese and Korean second-hand cars, but in the eyes of drivers who often travel to snowy mountains and dirt roads, the quality of old-fashioned Russian cars is more reliable.

Winter life in the mountains is extremely difficult for the nomads here, with temperatures often dropping to minus 35 degrees Celsius, the permafrost is not enough to grow any crops, and many families have to slaughter livestock in large quantities during the winter if the winter stocks are not sufficient. Cattle and sheep are cut into small pieces and cooked. According to tradition, the bones should not be cut off during the whole process. While eating their favorite leg of lamb, the family may be thinking about whether they will also go to support a few yurts, raise a few horses, and switch to tourism next winter.

Fan Wuxi had doubted before, whether he could stand the fishy smell of mutton, because he found that when people here cooked mutton, they didn't put any ingredients, just put a little salt, but when the mutton was cooked, the rich aroma surprised him.

When drinking the broth, Fan Wuxi was also surprised to find that it was so delicious and had no smell.

When asked about the embassy staff, he said that the grassland here is of good quality, and the cattle and sheep do not need to eat feed, so the pure natural high-quality mutton is of course the most delicious, and there is no need to use it as a material to remove any smell.

"It's a pity that I didn't find two cooks with Donglaishun and bring all kinds of ingredients together." After hearing this explanation, Fan Wuxi was extremely remorseful in his heart. If you have prepared for it, then the innermost thing you eat is the most delicious mutton shabu in the world, which is how many times stronger than just drinking mutton soup without ingredients now?

He sighed there and didn't say anything, he heard the noise outside, but he didn't know what was happening, but when he saw the old man's eyes, something was wrong, as if he had encountered something very troublesome.

"What the hell is going on?" Fan Wuxian was puzzled, but he still grabbed a leg of mutton and bit off a large piece of the fattest meat.

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