Gao Xiaozhuang hurriedly said: "When the little one first came to Jingshi, he was idle, and he went to help the kitchen for two days. It was said that the border army on the side of Xuanda was poor, so they had to quietly do some small business with the Mongols, selling some pots and pans and other things to the Mongols. Unexpectedly, those Mongols were afraid that they were poorer than the border army, had nothing else, and were not very willing to sell horses, so they were only willing to take some cattle and sheep to make up the number. But although the people in our border army look at a lot, they can't eat so many cattle and sheep, so they have to do a change of hands, and the Beijing division is the biggest place to buy and sell, and in the end, the price of cattle and sheep in the Beijing division fell again and again, and finally it was cheaper than pork! ”

Gao pragmatic listened to this, that was really ...... Stunned!

At present, there is no tribute, Jiubian and the Mongols are still in a state of complete hostility, and the war will start at every turn throughout the year, and the two sides will fight dozens of battles on the border line in a year, and the large number of troops will be more than 10,000, and the small dozens of people, anyway, in short, it will never stop. I never thought that there would be such a secret mutual market! This...... If this is online, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was a traitor!

However, Secretary Gao is a pragmatic person in the end, and after calming down and thinking about it, he feels that it is not strange - not that it is not strange to sell the country, but it is not strange from the economic situation of the border army.

After all, it seems that in just one or two years, there will be a tribute, and according to records, this matter was decided by Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng. Both of them were pragmatists, and they withstood the verbal and written criticism of a large number of Qingliu in the DPRK and China, and finally made the Ming court reconcile with Altan Khan on the condition of mutual markets, and ceased fighting on most of the northern borders, thus obtaining good external conditions for the future Wanli Zhongxing.

Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng's governing philosophy is actually quite compatible, the most important point is to be as pragmatic as possible, seek real results, seek practical results, and put aside the face problem unless it is completely unpassable. And if it weren't for the benefits—or even the great benefits—they would certainly not have insisted on agreeing to the matter of paying tribute at the risk of infamy.

So, where are the benefits?

Let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about the price of cattle and sheep in this area, which is also part of the benefits!

What's more, the business of selling "pots and pans" to Mongolia to obtain beef and mutton meat will itself promote the production of "pots and pans". To produce pots and pans, it is necessary to increase the output of pig iron, and to increase the output of pig iron, it is necessary to hire more workers to mine and wrought iron, which is not also a good thing? In Secretary Gao's era, this pile and stubble were all driving employment! But they are all real achievements! What's more, on the premise of stimulating employment, it has also improved the living standards of the people, this kind of good thing is put in his power, I am afraid that only the mentally retarded will be turned away, Lao Tie!

Of course, Gao Pragmatic also knows that things will naturally not be so simple, at least the private actions of the border army and Mongolia are definitely not the ability of the grassroots leaders, not to mention that this cause has been made big enough to affect the price of meat in Beijing!

As for saying that the border army only sold some pots and pans...... Hmph, Secretary Gao said, you and I just graduated from kindergarten?

But this is not something he can meddle in now—let alone meddle, he can't intervene. You know, the huge interests involved, the large number of people involved, and the wide range involved, can definitely be described by the word amazing, but I am afraid that even if Gao Gong has the heart to deal with it, he may not dare to act rashly, if he is a little fart child who dares to make up for it, I am afraid that even Gao Gong can be killed.

Forget it, I don't have the ability to take care of this matter for the time being, let's let it go for a while, and wait for Lao Tzu to become a politician in the future.

Gao Shi froze and pretended not to care too much: "Well, that's how it happened...... So, all the ingredients I need are pretty cheap, right? ”

Gao Xiaozhuang hesitated for a moment, and hesitated: "That...... Neither is it. ”

Gao Shishi rolled his eyes and asked, "But the fixative—uh, I mean, those spices are expensive?" ”

"That's so expensive!" Gao Xiaozhuang was startled and snapped his fingers and said: "What kind of ambergris, it is said that it is divided into three kinds of upper, middle and lower, the high-grade one is three points more expensive than gold, and the middle-grade one is slightly lower than gold, even if the low-grade ambergris is more expensive than silver, one or two silver can't buy the same heavy low-grade ambergris!" ”

Gao Pragmatic sighed, this is actually within his expectations, after all, ambergris itself is less, and it can only be obtained purely by luck, and it is strange that it is not expensive. Although I was a little disappointed, I was mentally prepared and acceptable, so I asked, "What about the others?" ”

Gao Xiaozhuang replied: "The beaver incense that the eldest young master said, the small one ran to more than a dozen stores, and they all said that they had never heard of this thing. Later, a Liaodong pharmacist who went to Chu Ji Pharmacy to buy goods listened to it interestingly, and came over to talk to the little one about the beaver......"

It turned out that the Liaodong medicine merchant had footprints all over Liaodong, and had seen a kind of raccoon dog living in the river in the northwest of Sisacha Hewei, the former slave Gandu, and a friend of his Haixi Jurchen told him that the fur of this kind of raccoon dog was excellent, no less than mink, and there was a special feature, that is, there was a pair of sachets in front of its anal glands, and the "sesame oil" could be squeezed out in the sachets, but the sesame oil originally smelled strange, not to mention a good smell, and it had to be dried before it could emit a strange fragrance. But Gao Xiaozhuang only heard Gao Shishi say a name, and he didn't know if it was the beaver incense that his eldest young master said, so he didn't dare to confirm it.

Gao pragmatic listened to the explanation, and suddenly remembered that the name beaver was actually wrong, this thing actually lived in a freshwater river, and in his previous life, he had changed his name to beaver, but in the spice world, because of habits, it was still called beaver incense. Moreover, the beaver species is very rare in China, and the number in Russia and Mongolia is not large, and the real main producer is Canada. Of course, there were many distributions in Europe originally, but unfortunately because beaver skins were very precious, they were killed and almost extinct.

When Gao Pragmatic heard this, he felt that this was not easy to do, it seems that no one in Daming runs the business of beaver incense, and even the people who know about this animal are probably quite few.

In fact, theoretically, he could also consider talking to the Liaodong pharmaceutical merchant about cooperation, and let him organize people to go to the beaver distribution area in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang to get incense, but think about it. After all, the value of this beaver's fur is more acceptable to the people of this age than the value of beaver incense, and if it is also exterminated by over-hunting like Europe, is he not an indirect sinner? Protecting the ecological environment, the ancients naturally did not think about it, but it was still very important to him, after all, he was a person who had been brainwashed by bombing in his previous life......

It seems that the beaver incense can't be counted on, so Gao Pragmatic had to ask: "What about the civet incense?" He didn't ask the musk first, because the musk must be sold, and although the price is not very cheap, it is not ridiculously expensive in this era when wild animals are still quite abundant. However, there is a big problem with musk, that is, it is dangerous for women.

I remember that one day Secretary Gao went home, and it happened that my mother was watching "The Legend of Zhen Huan", in which Zhen Huan was pregnant for the first time, and the emperor was very happy, but Zhen Huan was unfortunately scratched by a cat. Ling Rong, who was afraid of falling out of favor and power, tried his best to give Zhen Huan a bottle of family heirloom soothing gel, telling him that this medicine has a good effect on scarring. In fact, Ling Rong put a lot of musk in the scarlet glue, hoping that Zhen Huan would use medicine for a long time to remove the scar, and hurt the fetal baby in Zhen Huan's womb through the aroma of the drug, causing her to miscarry.

At that time, Secretary Gao was a little speechless, musk is so powerful? So I picked up my mobile phone and took a look at Baidu, and found that musk is actually very common in life, such as: plasters, perfumes, air fresheners, and even foot soaking powder, etc., almost all contain musk ingredients, the only question is, can musk really cause miscarriage? Secretary Gao read some articles quite carefully, and came up with the following comprehensive views:

First of all, natural musk and synthetic musk are different. Natural musk is the secretion of the glandular sac between the navel and genitals of the male musk deer, and it is both a precious spice and a valuable medicinal herb after drying. In addition to invigorating blood and relieving pain, opening the meridians, opening the body and awakening the mind, it can also be used to induce labor and the next fetus. Artificial musk is a kind of medicine and pharmaceutical ingredient that can replace natural musk, and the musk that Secretary Gao could come into contact with in his daily life in his previous life is usually artificial musk.

Natural musk has strong medicinal properties, and long-term contact or direct consumption does have the effect of causing pregnant women to miscarry. However, almost all of the musk seen in daily life is artificial musk, although it will also have more or less adverse effects on pregnant women, but it is far less serious than that of the TV series, and it is not an immediate miscarriage when you smell it. Generally speaking, even if it is a natural musk, only pregnant women who have been immersed in the aroma of musk for a long time will have a chance of inducing miscarriage. Occasional smell of musk perfume or musk ointment does not cause miscarriage. Of course, in the past, people cherished their children, and pregnant women must be able to ignore them.

This is the effect of musk, so for Gao Shipra, who wants to make soap and focuses on high society sales in the early stage, it is basically a declaration of goodbye to it.

Imagine this crime: "Pragmatic offering of soap, the emperor and queen, and the eternal use of it, is the heir." ”

Well, that's a lot of fun.