If he can't help, he naturally can't accept other people's things. Before the sack was opened, Han Jin hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the mouth of the sack and grabbed the mouth of the sack with both hands.

"Don't, you have to spend your life to make money. I can't agree to your affairs. If he didn't know the inside story, he would naturally exchange things with the tribesmen here without any burden, and he wanted to see that the two brothers didn't want to harm him, so he told him the truth.

Despite these truths, I can find out after I have suffered a loss and worked hard and spent time. But now that he knows the inside story, if this thing is not done well, he will have to lose his life, where will he agree.

Han Jin didn't agree, and Gru's hand holding the sack stopped there. His heart was in a panic, and his Adam's apple was rolling hard.

"You think about it, what do you need? Whatever our tribe can find for you, we will find it for you. Unn said without giving up.

Han Jin shook his head firmly, then looked at the shepherd and the child in the distance.

Gru followed his gaze and said, "He is the witch doctor shaman of our tribe, that is, the doctor of your Han people. The child who followed him was his grandson. The shaman will not stop us from trading with you, nor will he tell the truth. ”

It will be difficult for herders to survive the winter without food, and it will also be difficult for them to change to high-priced grains. These reasons were made clear to him by the Gru brothers. Despite the embarrassment, Han Jin refused.

"Think about it!" Gru's eyes reddened. His father was the patriarch of the tribe, and in order to hunt tiger skins, bear skins gave gifts to the adults in the barracks, so that their tribe could get some food and tea fairly, so he led a few tribal warriors into the mountains.

The skin was hunted, but after being carried back, his father's body was also half crippled. If there was a way, he wouldn't have made this decision with his brother. Afraid that things would get worse and worse, and he would cause trouble for others, his father wouldn't let him come, but he still begged the shaman and came with his brother privately.

"Whether you and we exchange things or not, you have this thing." Unn said, lifting the sack forward. In his heart, he hoped that Han Jin would agree. They talked to Han Jin in private, just to hide from the military camp and the local villagers, and secretly exchange.

After taking a few deep breaths, Han Jin said, "I'll discuss it with the elders." Don't get your hopes up. The elders probably won't allow me to exchange things with you. There is no merit, and I can't take things down. ”

The two parties excused themselves and went back and forth for a while, but Han Jin resolutely didn't ask for anything. Fearing that he would be angry, the Gru brothers took the sack back. The most valuable thing is a century-old ginseng, and the rest are chestnuts and other mountain goods picked in the mountains, of which chestnuts are the most.

If Han Jin doesn't come back, Master Fu San will have to bring someone over. The others were curious to know what the two young herdsmen wanted to do.

In order to cover up, Han Jin said cautiously: "Your brother came to me and talked to me for a long time, but he didn't do anything in exchange. What do you come to me for, the people with me will be curious. If anyone does not know the importance of the matter, he will pass on the information you are looking for me to someone who should not know. Even if I didn't do it, if the people in the barracks knew about it and suspected me of doing it, they would trouble me again. In this way, I will put on a little rice and noodles with you today as a cover-up. …… Come with me. ”

Han Jin took the two Gru brothers to the ox cart. Li Yao asked him, "What?" ”

"I'll talk to you later."

In the end, the two brothers exchanged some rice and salt, and they had nothing else of value except the contents of the sack, so they gave Han Jin the sack containing the mountain goods.

Han Jin looked at the contents of the sack and took out the ginseng plant, asking them to keep this valuable thing properly and not put it so casually. The two brothers came out in a hurry today, so they hastily brought this ginseng out, and they also listened to Han Jin's reminder.

After sending the two brothers away, Ji Moxuan couldn't help but ask Han Jin curiously: "They have been talking to you for so long, do they just want to change such a thing?" ”

People who have the same questions as him are curious about it.

Han Jin was also good-tempered, and he didn't continue to get angry with Ji Moxuan, he explained: "Not really. Their tribe wants to exchange winter food from me, and I am not the only merchant here, so why did they find me, a newcomer? I felt that something was wrong, so I didn't agree. Later, I thought that I didn't have that much silver to buy myself, so I made this deal with their tribe, so I resigned. But they kept pestering, and they didn't tell me why they had to exchange with me, so I planned to go back and inquire about it. ”

These people who don't know the suffering of the people are not very clear about the things in the business. Seeing that Han Jin said calmly, they themselves didn't know about the business themselves, so they believed it.

After the ox cart moved again, what Brother Gru said to him, Han Jin couldn't help but think deeply again.

Before there was no Tai military camp stationed in the area, the local tribal herdsmen exchanged things with nearby villagers. It is a win-win situation to exchange your own excess materials for what the other party does not have. For this reason, the local herders and villagers get along quite well.

Of course, there is a gap between the neighborhood here and the neighborhood that we used to think of.

Except for a few military households that were newly stationed nearby and close to each other, the villages were not close to each other. If you ride a horse from the tribe or Tunzi to the village, it will take half a day to reach the village.

After the military camp was stationed in the local area, the exchange of supplies between the tribal herdsmen and the local villagers slowly changed. Since Emperor Xuande's father, that is, Emperor Xuanhui, many of the people who exchanged materials with herdsmen were stationed in local military camps.

Until the early years of Emperor Xuande, this situation was still maintained. In the twenty-sixth year of Xuande, Shi Lin changed the general army. Since then, the barracks have not allowed the exchange of grain and tea between herders and villagers, and nothing else. Nowadays, the military camps are becoming more and more domineering, and even the things produced in the mountains and forests are somewhat restricted from the exchange between herdsmen and local villagers.

This is fine, but the barracks have increased the asymmetry of the exchange of goods with the herders. For example, in the past, a batch of horses could be exchanged for one or two hundred catties of tea, but later it could only be exchanged for half or even less than half of the original number of tea.

Nomads are accustomed to eating meat and milk, rarely eating vegetables, and the food mix is not balanced. For this reason, they also need tea from the Central Plains to drink with milk. This is the well-known herdsman's milk tea. Nomadic habits: one meal a day, but three meals of tea. So tea is a necessity for their lives.

There is humanity, tea is not food, and if you don't have a full stomach, isn't it okay not to drink tea? But it didn't!

Only by drinking tea can they relieve the oiliness of eating meat for a long time in their stomachs, and they can also replenish the vitamins and other substances needed to eat less vegetables. Otherwise, you will get sick and feel unwell. Of course, this is the conclusion reached by later generations. Nowadays, they just follow the rules of their ancestors, and at the same time, they have to drink milk tea from their own physiological needs.

After telling the story, Gru said helplessly: "We need food and tea, but we can't suffer such a big loss." The local merchant also knew about the situation. But even if they dared to exchange grain and tea with us privately, it was still not much different from the exchange price given by the military camp. The exchange price will only be a little lower than that of the barracks. In this way, we worked hard for a year to graze the herds, but in the end, because we gave more in exchange for things, but in exchange for less, and we could not eat enough, which made our tribe more and more embarrassed. This has been going on since my grandfather was still alive, but now the barracks and local merchants are getting more and more excessive! ”

Thinking of Gru's words, Han Jin had a touch of helplessness on his face.

The local military camp and the merchant have already made the situation like this, if he breaks the rules, harms the interests of these two parties, and offends these two forces, how will they spare him, how can they let him stand alone in the local area?

He is a powerless and powerless outsider, and he is obviously unable to confront these two forces. If he doesn't want to get in trouble, then he doesn't want to meddle in it. So even if he knew that the barracks and local merchants were unfair to these herders, he couldn't help them. (To be continued.) )