On the other hand, the caravans that followed Liu Jin to the grassland were already busy.

A huge open space where merchants put out all their goods.

Snow-white, snow-white Changlu snow salt, a large iron pot produced by Miyun Iron Factory, rice from the south of the Yangtze River for generations, white noodles from the north, and tea bricks and tea cakes, all things are placed together, so that these herdsmen on the grassland know at once that they are here to do business.

This time, there were a lot of caravans that followed the grassland, a caravan of several thousand people, and the goods they carried were also enough and rich enough.

So many things were put on display, and it also attracted the herdsmen of the Nabarian tribe at once.

A large number of herdsmen gathered and looked at the salt, iron pots, tea leaves, etc., and their eyes lit up.

The exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and the grassland have always been very frequent, but many times, because the grassland people often go south to plunder, so the Ming court is also strictly forbidden to trade with each other, and merchants are strictly prohibited from smuggling goods to the grassland.

Especially in recent years, the little prince of Tatar has gone south every year, and the ban on the side of the Ming court has become more stringent, and at the same time, border smuggling has been continuously cracked down on in the border areas.

Under such a policy, materials on the grassland are very scarce.

Salt, iron pots, tea, grain, etc., these things are the most scarce goods on the grassland, especially salt, tea and iron pots.

The grasslands don't produce salt, but people can't eat it without salt.

In Daming, a pound is a pound, that is, dozens of pounds, and now after several price wars, the best snow salt in the Changlu Salt Field is only a dozen pounds.

But on the grassland, the price of a pound of salt can reach hundreds of Wen a catty, of course, there is no need for Ming copper coins on the grassland, and many times the grassland people are bartering.

Often, cattle and sheep need to be exchanged for salt, and the price is higher.

But even so, salt is still very scarce in the grasslands.

The Jin merchants in Shanxi basically started by smuggling goods to the grasslands, and the profits in them were greater than the profits of sea trade.

In addition to salt, iron pots are also a sought-after item on the grasslands.

The grassland people can't smelt iron, let alone build an iron pot, and an iron pot can even marry a grassland girl on the grassland, and it is not a problem to change a few cows.

Because if you don't have an iron pot, you can only cook and eat barbecue.

It's okay to eat one or two meals of this barbecue, eat it every day, and if you eat it every day, no one can stand it, and there is no way to drink delicious mutton soup.

From here, you can know the value of the iron pot on the grassland.

The iron pot of the grassland people has been passed down from generation to generation, and it is a family heirloom.

At this time, a large number of herdsmen gathered over, looking at these iron pots, salt, tea bricks, etc., with bright eyes, they needed these things so much.

"Eji, it's an iron pot and salt~"

Qiqige looked at the things that these great people put out in front of him, and couldn't help but excitedly pull his mother's hand and said.

"I know~"

Anmur nodded solemnly, and then tremblingly came to a merchant's stall, pointed to an iron pot and asked, "How much does this cost?" ”

"Zhang An, hurry up, I don't understand grassland dialect~"

Zhang Lei is a steward of the Sangong Trading Company, and this time he was also ordered to buy wool on the grassland, brought a lot of things over, and also hired a guy who understands the grassland dialect.

The Ming Dynasty and the grassland have close contacts, and there are many grassland people who understand the Ming dialect, and there are also many Ming people who understand the grassland dialect.

"What do you want to buy?"

Hearing Zhang Lei's words, a young man came over and asked Anmur with a smile.

"How do you sell this iron pot?"

Anmur asked a little nervously.

The iron pot is too expensive, when she was a child, her father bought an iron pot from Mingren, and it cost a dozen cows to buy an iron pot.

The reason why she wants to buy an iron pot is because her family's iron pot has rotted last year, and there is a hole at the bottom, and the grassland people can't mend the pot, so until now, she doesn't have a pot at home.

originally hoped that last year, her husband would be able to go south to grab an iron pot, but who knew that the little prince of Tatar stayed in Daming forever and never came back.

Later, I learned that the Tatar army that plundered in the south was completely wiped out, and even Dayan Khan died in the Ming Dynasty.

Now she urgently needs an iron pot, because without an iron pot, the family can only eat barbecue, without an iron pot, it is difficult for her son to get married.

Although the grassland people are not as particular as the Ming people, if there is no iron pot, they still have a great influence.

"As long as three taels of silver~"

Zhang An hurriedly replied.

"Three taels of silver?"

Anmur was slightly stunned, how can it be cheap?

She knew that the Ming people used silver and copper coins, and although silver was valuable, it was really very cheap for three taels of silver.

"Yes, it only sells for three taels of silver." Nine peaches

"You are a barbarian and belong to our Daming, we are a family, if this iron pot is in our Daming, it will be less than one or two silver, we have worked hard to pull the grassland people, sell you three taels of silver, and make a hard-earned money."

Zhang An nodded with a smile and said.

"I don't have any money, can I exchange cattle and sheep, or horses."

When Anmur heard this, he immediately became excited, the other party said it so clearly, this time, these things are very cheap.

"Okay, of course, we want cattle, horses and sheep, can you sell me some wool?"

Zhang An agreed very happily.

When he came, Liu Jin had repeatedly told him that in the future, when doing business with the grassland people, everyone should be sincere, the price should not be outrageously high, and the focus should still be on the wool, so that the grassland people can habitually shear the sheep and sell the wool to everyone.

"Wool?"

"Take something that no one wants in our grassland, or I'll send you some cashmere, it's all the cashmere of this year's new lamb."

When Anmur heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded, there is really no one who wants wool on the grassland, and everyone will collect the cashmere from the lamb to make clothes.

"We want wool, as much as we want, I can pay for it, and if I have cashmere, I want it."

Zhang An replied.

"Okay, I'll let my kids go back and see how much wool there is, and pull it all over."

Anmur nodded, and then commanded his daughter Kikige beside him.

Soon, Kikige rode back to her house in a hurry, and it wasn't long before she and a teenage boy arrived with dozens of sheep, five cows, and three horses.

"You look at how much these dozen sheep, five cows, and three horses are worth."

Anmur pointed to the cows, sheep and horses that he was still driving over.

Zhang An was not familiar with this, but there were people in Sangong Trading who knew this very well, and they immediately looked at it carefully, and the results were quickly revealed.

"These three horses are very good, they are good horses, I can give you thirty taels of silver for each horse, these five cows, I will give you five taels of silver each, these sheep are very fat, I can give 300 wen apiece."

Zhang An replied here.

Cattle and horses are very valuable in Daming, especially now in the Beijing-Tianjin area, needless to say, cattle have a very high status, and they cannot be slaughtered at will, as well as household registration.

Horses have always been a strategic resource of the imperial court, and the price is expensive, and now in the Beijing-Tianjin area, the four-wheeled carriage is very rising, and more and more horses are needed to pull goods and people, which has also led to a sharp rise in the price of horses.

A horse can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver casually in Daming, and if it is a good horse, it is also possible to sell hundreds of taels or thousands of taels of silver.

The price given by the Sangong Trading House here is quite fair, almost divided by three on the Ming side, a horse gives thirty taels of silver, and a cow gives five taels of silver.

As for sheep, they are not very valuable in Daming, and there are many sheep in Daming, and sheep can only be used for food, not for work, so the price is very low.

"Thirty taels of silver for a horse, three horses are ninety taels of silver, and you can exchange them for thirty iron pots~"

"Sell ~ Sell at this price ~"

When Anmur heard this, he calculated carefully, and suddenly the whole person couldn't help but say excitedly.

One horse can be exchanged for ten iron pots, this price is really fair, I don't say.

"Well, these three horses are ninety taels of silver, five oxen are twenty-five taels of silver, and these dozen sheep are almost ten taels of silver, a total of one hundred and twenty-five pieces of silver."

"You can look at it casually, pick it at will, the price of our Sangong Trading House is very fair, the goods are definitely the best goods, if there is any leftover, I can give you silver."

Zhang An said with a smile.

"This iron pot is three taels of silver a piece?"

Anmur nodded, the count was not wrong, she pointed to an iron pot and asked.

"Yes, this only costs three taels of silver."

Zhang An nodded again and again, then pointed to other types of iron pots and said: "This kind of iron pot costs five taels of silver, and this kind of small one only costs two taels of silver with a lid." ”

"Bring me an iron pot, no, bring me three mouthfuls of this iron pot, and three of these small ones, and three of these ones with lids."

Anmur's eyes lit up, he originally only wanted to buy one iron pot, but now when he heard that these iron pots were very cheap, he thought about it and bought nine large and small pots at once.

With such a cheap pot, there may not be this store in this village after that, so how can you buy more?

"How many pots are you going to buy?"

Zhang An was slightly dumbfounded, the other party actually opened his mouth to buy five pots.

"Right~"

"Hurry up and give me the pot~"

Anmur was afraid that the other party would regret it, so he hurriedly said.

"Okay~"

Zhang An saw that he was determined to buy a pot, so he hurriedly took the pot for her according to her instructions, and then said: "Do you want to take a look at these salts, they are all the best long reed salts, snow-white, snow-white, you can taste it." ”