Daming has a high silver price at the moment, and 10,000 taels of silver is indeed a huge amount of money, and it is natural that he can't afford it, so Gao Pragmatic didn't bother with this piece, and asked again: "Since you are reselling to the border army, but the border army's salary is very limited, can they take the money to buy horses?" Do you resell at cost price? ”

"The cost price is not good, I still have to lose." Cao Gan said with a smile: "Even if the horse is just a hand in my hands, it will always take some time, so the cost of horse feed, care and other expenses will cost money, plus the border army has to delay for some time to get enough goods, how can I give them the cost price?" But generally speaking, I don't sell it too expensive, almost a horse is about two taels more than two taels, after all, I have to worry about friendship with the border army, right? ”

He paused for a moment, and then continued: "As for whether the border army can get the money, the young master doesn't know something. It may be quite difficult for the border army to directly take out the silver to buy horses, anyway, in the past few years, the border army has rarely given cash. They usually use other materials to offset the payment, and these things are very wide, and the small ones have just said that they will use the silk, cloth, cotton, needlework, rope, comb, rice, salt, candy, shuttle cloth, otter skin, sheepskin box, etc., they will take them to offset it...... This is one of the reasons why the little ones can't sell the horses to them at the original price: their goods are too miscellaneous, not only do they have trouble making up the goods themselves, but it is also very troublesome for us to calculate the price, and we have to waste a lot of time, and those who have a small amount of money for raising horses can't pay for it themselves, and no one will be stupid enough to do this. ”

Gao Pragmatic understood at this moment and asked, "And you took these goods to trade with the Mongols?" ”

"That's right, the Mongols want everything anyway." Cao Gan said: "But in fact, there are some small things that I don't like to receive, such as those ordinary needles and threads and other bargains, and the small ones are generally very low because they don't like to ask for them." ”

Gao Shi was slightly curious: "Why don't you like it?" Aren't the Mongols short of these little things? ”

"Mongolia is lacking, but the people who can sell a lot of horses to the small ones are people with a lot of status in Mongolia, so how can they be interested in buying those needles and threads and stuff? They wanted good things like silk and satin. As for the things that ordinary Mongolians need, most of them can only be exchanged for some cattle, sheep, furs, horsetails, etc., and for some reason, Mongolians have not been very fond of selling cattle in recent years. ”

"Oh?" Gao Pragmatic frowned slightly: "Why don't you sell cattle, do you know the inside story?" ”

Cao Gan touched his big bald head and hesitated: "The little one hasn't thought about it, but it is estimated that it is related to the White Lotus Sect's thieves who coerced a large number of Han people from the border areas to move to Mongolia to reclaim fields. ”

Oh, that's it...... Gao Pragmatic had some understanding of this situation in his previous life, and to put it bluntly, it was nothing more than that some of the Han people in the border areas could not survive for one reason or another, and some White Lotus sect members tried every means to get them to reclaim wasteland and farm in southern Mongolia. Although Mongolia is dominated by grasslands, it does not mean that there is no land to be cultivated, so there are such places that are assigned to the Han people under their rule, and even the so-called "bansheng" is made.

The matter of Banshengcheng was often used in later generations to criticize the unpopularity of the Ming court's rule, and the main theory is that such as the farming technology and some manual techniques of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the city-building technology and medical skills, were "spread" to Mongolia, which made the competitiveness of the Han people themselves decline.

Gao Pragmatic's view on this is: fart.

Why?

Don't you know the term "cultural export"? Gao pragmatic longs for the Mongols to accept the Han culture faster and more, and increase the intensity of building cities and settlements - it will be convenient for the Han people to rule in the future!

If the Mongols always maintain the nomadic style of thousands of miles, there will be little development in science and technology, but the Han people want a long-term and stable frontier is basically useless - the weaker his productivity, the more he can only rely on the Han land to fight grass and valleys at every turn to make a living, and the people are mainly cavalry, grab a wave and leave. Although your Great Wall is long, can you really fortify it for thousands of miles?

The Ming Dynasty was often robbed by the Mongols and left, and when the Ming army arrived, they could basically only clean up the battlefield, what is the reason? You can't outrun people! The Mongols did not intend to rule the territory he had conquered for a long time, they were just to loot some daily necessities, and they had no idea of occupying the city and invading the land, what can you do?

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic is not against the sinicization of the Mongols at all, and he even hates to personally plan for them how to speed up the sinicization! Therefore, although the Ming court was very annoyed by the border people fleeing north, Gao Pragmatic was not annoyed at all. Not only was he not annoyed, but he even remembered another thing.

Every time Mongolia applies to the Ming court to open a market, it will also ask the Ming court to give them Buddhist scriptures, and even send the great lama of the Beijing master to Mongolia to preach, but the Ming court seems to have no interest in this, and always looks like he loves to answer - this is simply a good business sent to the door and refuses to do it!

If Gao Shishi can take power, he will do his best to print more Buddhist scriptures and send more lamas to preach to the Mongols! This is not to say that Lamaism is a cult that makes Mongolians commit suicide or self-harm, but of course it is also a serious religion that persuades people to do good, but at the national level, advocating the Lamaist church seriously undermines national strength and enterprising spirit.

Don't you see that after Lamaism flourished in Mongolia, the glory of the Mongols completely disappeared without a trace? Although in the original history, there was still the influence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's policy of reducing Ding, but Lamaism led to the Mongols' self-abolition of martial arts is also an important reason.

Therefore, judging from various circumstances, Gao pragmatic did not think that the Ming Dynasty needed to conquer Mongolia by force - it could make Mongolia into a big sieve by relying only on economy and culture, and then ensure a certain amount of force to deter it, so that it could be used for its own use.

Why not!

As for you saying that the contradictions between Mongolia and Han are sharp and irreconcilable? That is simply the Tang Dynasty in the world, the Ming Dynasty has been more than 200 years, and I don't know how many Mongolians have gone to serve the Han people one after another!

To cite a few examples, for example, in the famous Battle of Tumubao, the Ming army claimed to be 500,000 (actually about 200,000), and lost 70,000 soldiers, of which a large number of losses were Mongolian soldiers, who mostly changed their surnames to Han and fought to the death with their Mongolian compatriots to defend the retreat of the Ming army until the last moment. So much so that some people in later generations joked that the battle of Tumubao was a fight between the Han court and the Mongols on the surface, but in fact it was more like a civil war fought by the Mongols.

During the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty twice aided Korea to fight against Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Japanese invading army. Among them, Xuanfu Datong was the Ming army, and its main force was the Mongols. At that time, the four generals of Xuanda were in the competition, Yang Dengshan, Xie Qingdeng, and quite expensive, and all four of them were Mongolians.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols who served for the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong were even more tens of thousands, and when the Ming army failed in the Songjin War, there were still more than 3,000 Mongols who defended the Ming army until the last moment, but after the Han people surrendered, the Mongols had to be captured, and finally all killed by the Manchus.

Therefore, knowing the inside story and the high pragmatism of development is quite "open" to the things of the board promotion.