Chapter 16 Taking advantage
Now there is no need to be so troublesome, Chen Wenhui can buy it directly from the Xi family's workshop. Of course, buying from the Xi family is definitely more expensive than making it at home. However, Chen Wenhui calculated that although the price of the Xi family's glass was a little more expensive, it saved the money for long-distance transportation, which meant that it was not expensive.
It's so convenient, but it costs a little money. The last thing Chen Wenhui lacks now is money. Therefore, she lavishly installed glass windows throughout her sprawling mansion and expanded the length of the glass corridors. Let the entire glass corridor enclose the garden of the mansion. In winter, you can enjoy your entire garden in the glass corridor. You must know that in Chen Wenhui's garden, there is a small lake. This is particularly precious in Divan, which lacks water in the northwest.
This alone is not enough, Chen Wenhui in order to be able to eat rich vegetables and crisp melons and fruits in the coming winter, and also enjoy pleasing flowers, she also built two large glass conservatories, one for planting fruits and vegetables in winter, and the other for migrating those precious flowers into it in winter. In this way, when winter comes, Chen Wenhui will not be bored, and she will not eat badly.
Chen Wenhui is not short of money now, since he is going to stay in this bitter cold place in the northwest for ten years, he must be fully prepared and give himself the most luxurious and comfortable enjoyment.
Chen Wenhui's mansion, after more than two years of construction, was finally completed. This is still the result of Chen Wenhui's willingness to spend money, use a large amount of labor, and start work everywhere at once, or not. Such a huge project may not be completed in five years. Chen Wenhui herself sighed, it is really rich to make ghosts grind, and it is good to have money to do things.
When autumn came, when it was another season of depression, Chen Wenhui invited those wealthy families in the three northwestern provinces, and the leaders of the large and small tribes on the grassland who had a good relationship with Dachu to come to his mansion as guests, this huge glass corridor, and the wine banquet of rich melons, fruits and vegetables. A huge glass room where you can see it. This shocked these people.
In addition to being shocked, they also followed Chen Wenhui's example in their own homes to also make glass corridors, glass flower houses or vegetable and fruit conservatories. As a result, the Xi family's glass window business is booming. Once again, the head of the Xi family was very happy.
Another glass workshop of the Xi family. It also brought great convenience to Chen Wenhui.
With a large supply of glass cans and bottles from the Xi family. Chen Wenhui's canned meat factory has developed faster. In the first winter. As soon as Chen Wenhui arrived at Tiebi Pass, he began to use the grain he had already bought in his hand, as well as a large amount of silver tickets. A large amount of beef and mutton were exchanged with the major pastures in the northwest and the tribes outside the Saiwai.
An order was also placed with them. I will buy it in large quantities in the coming year. The price given is also good. This makes the major ranches, especially the tribes, happy. Because when they used to graze, they didn't raise too many livestock, as long as they had enough to eat. If there is more of this meat, it is not easy to sell, and there is no place to sell it. Now it's good that there is a place to sell this meat, and it can be exchanged for food, and it can be exchanged for silver. This silver can go to Tiebi Pass or Shanhai City to buy salt, warm quilts, beautiful silk, delicate porcelain, and tea bricks that are good for the body.
What made them even happier was that the wool that had been thrown away by everyone in the past was also purchased by the county lord of Wenhui, and the price given was quite good. Also, the wolf skins, cow skins, horse skins, and sheepskins that are inexhaustible in those tribes are also purchased by Dachu merchants. In this way, it is really a good thing to feed livestock, and the whole body is full of treasures, which can be exchanged for money.
These were the thoughts of these tribal leaders lying in the comfortable mansions of Shanhai City in the second year after Chen Wenhui arrived. They made up their minds to urge the tribesmen to graze more cattle and raise more livestock in the days to come, and at the same time, they also remembered everyone's thoughts when the Northwest Duke and his wife had just arrived at Tiebi Pass in the autumn of last year.
At that time, I heard that the imperial court was going to send a northwest prince to take charge of the three northwest provinces, as well as the large grasslands outside Tiebi Pass. Temperate the many tribes of the steppe. For the arrival of the Northwest Duke, all the tribes in the grassland have resisted it, and everyone knows that this Northwest Duke is the son of the Zhao family army who defeated the barbarians at the beginning, and even the first general to break through the barbarian royal court. He's here, and everyone's good days are definitely gone.
All the clans on the grassland are already secretly discussing how to give the Northwest Duke a dismount, anyway, they can't let Da Chu dominate the grassland so quickly. Just kidding, the current tribes on the grassland have been suppressed by the barbarians for thousands of years, and now it is easy for the barbarians to be defeated by Da Chu, and the mountain above everyone's head has arrived, it is just a good time for development, if it is suppressed by Da Chu again, then everyone is not happy in vain, when will everyone come out.
However, these plans were disrupted by Chen Wenhui's large number of acquisitions. If you have money to earn, who cares about anything else? There are many furs in the tribe that have accumulated for many years, and there are a large number of livestock that cannot be eaten, and in previous years they could only watch these things mold there, but now it is good that someone wants to buy these things, which makes these leaders suspicious.
At this time, everyone didn't care about the previously discussed matter of giving the Northwest couple a dismissal, and the focus was on whether this acquisition transaction was true or not.
However, the news came from two sides. On the one hand, there are some tribes in the grassland near Tiebiguan, who sell animal skins and livestock to Tiebiguan. They got money, food, and naturally they couldn't help but make a big fuss. The tribes are all connected, either enemies or in-laws, so the news spreads quickly. The second source of information is that the Northwest Army sent teams to inform the tribes in person, so that the news of the two sides was disseminated, and the tribes in the entire steppe knew about it.
At first, everyone still didn't believe it, especially if it could be sold for money with wool that everyone didn't use, it was really a fantasy. Therefore, they were all cautious, afraid that it was the conspiracy of Da Chu to trick everyone into coming to Tiebi Pass, so that the people of Da Chu could be caught in one go. They all thought that they were still thinking about giving the Northwest Duke a dismissal, could people not want to give them a dismissal? Maybe this is the first conspiracy of the Northwest Duke. As a result, several tribes resisted the propaganda of the Northwest Army.
More tribes were skeptical, so they took a tentative attitude and sent some shrewd tribesmen to bring some wool, livestock, and furs to the Iron Wall Pass to trade. Of course, the number of belts is relatively small, accounting for only a fraction of the tribal inventory. Their plan was that even if it was a conspiracy of Great Chu, it would only be to lose a few clansmen and lose a little something. These things, compared to the things of the entire tribe, are basically negligible.
However, after they came to Tiebi Pass to trade with Da Chu, they found that Da Chu really bought a large number of these furs and livestock as advertised. And the price is very fair, you can exchange it for food, you can also exchange it for silver, and then take the silver or silver ticket to buy salt, buy silk, cotton, cotton jacket, porcelain, tea bricks.
In fact, Da Chu has not traded with these tribes for many years, and these tribes all like Da Chu's goods. There is also the grain of Dachu, although these grassland peoples all eat meat, but it is not okay for people to always eat meat, and they also need some rice, flour and vegetables and other spices. Therefore, the grain of Da Chu is particularly precious. In previous years, even if Da Chu traded with the tribes, he only sold them porcelain, silk and other things, grain, and this kind of strategic material had never been sold.
That's because, in the past, Da Chu himself didn't have enough food to eat, so where could he sell food to the barbarians and steppe tribes who were still enemies. However, now, after the Northwest Gong came, Tiebi Pass was actually opened to sell grain, which really surprised all tribes.
Those tribes who responded quickly regretted that they had brought too few things to trade, and that the silver and things they exchanged for were too little food. They are busy organizing people and preparing a large number of transactions. However, at this time, it was snowing, winter had arrived, and it was difficult to transport, so I had to give up.
The leaders of these tribes regretted their deaths. They were all thinking about a question. Da Chu is so open to buying things, exchanging grain for money, how much can he buy? The grassland is so big and there are so many tribes, if everyone goes to trade, will Da Chu be able to buy it? It's better to say something else, these livestock are not war horses, and if they get it, they will be slaughtered and eaten.
There are many people in Da Chu, but they can eat these meats. However, transportation is a problem. Therefore, in this transaction of Da Chu, these meats were also bought to supply the people of Tiebi Pass. And the Northwest Army. How much is that? Although there are many people in the inland of Dachu and strong consumption capacity, meat is different from fur, which cannot be stored or transported. If the live livestock are transported to the interior and then slaughtered, how long will it take? Didn't they go away when they were little lambs, and when they arrived, they all became old sheep?
Therefore, the leaders of these tribes all felt that Da Chu might have taken advantage of the winter when a batch of meat was about to arrive in Tunshang, and when it snowed, the meat would not be easy to rot, and it could be calmly transported to the interior of Da Chu. Therefore, this autumn, the livestock traded in the winter, Da Chu may have been transported inland. When spring comes, Da Chu will not be so open to buying livestock. If you want to make a purchase, it will be the autumn and winter of the following year.
Thinking about this, the leaders regretted their deaths, and if they knew that this was the case, they should have let the tribesmen bring more livestock, and if they missed this, they would have to wait another year. However, these leaders thought that by the time spring came, Da Chu had already transported all the frozen meat, and the people of Tiebi Pass still had to eat it, and the army still had to eat it. Therefore, I will definitely buy it again when the spring begins. However, it must not be purchased for a long time, because in the summer, there is no way to put the meat, so it should not be purchased. So whoever rushes to trade first will take advantage. (To be continued......)