Chapter 156: Trading

As we all know, trade is an effective way to promote a country's socio-economic development.

It can also be proved from later facts that the Ming Dynasty did confirm this in the process of opening up the Central Plains region to exchange markets with the Jurchens.

Through trade with the Central Plains, the Jurchens really improved the development of the internal social commodity economy, promoted their own economic prosperity, and laid a solid and effective foundation for the rise of the Later Jin and the unification of the Jurchen tribal alliances.

At first, the Ming court was to prevent the Jurchens from uniting with the Mongol forces, so they used the temptation of allowing the Jurchens to enter Beijing for tributary trade and open up the horse market trade, so as to further consolidate the relationship between the Ming Empire and the Jurchens and achieve the purpose of balancing the Mongol forces.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the ultimate goal of the Jurchen exchange market was a kind of "restraint policy", which was used to win the hearts of the Jurchens, so as to reduce the threat of external forces to the Ming Empire.

On the other hand, after the Ming Dynasty government experienced the "Tumubao Change", the national military horse resources were extremely scarce, so that for the rulers of the Ming Dynasty at that time, maintaining the sufficient number of horses was a major event related to the fate of the country, so the Ming Dynasty government bought the horses transported by the Jurchens through the horse market trade at a high price.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty Empire, while solving the problem of the scarcity of national military horse resources, provided a golden opportunity for the economic development of the Jurchens, and greatly promoted the pace of internal progress of the Jurchens.

In the process of giving the Jurchens social and economic development conditions in disguise, it is not difficult for the rulers of the Ming Dynasty to find such a rule, and the Ming court has always given help to the Jurchens on the basis of their original hunter-gatherer economy.

Compared with the developed agrarian economy and civilization in the Central Plains, the attitude of the Ming government towards the Jurchens was, to some extent, a measure of resistance.

This can also be seen from the fact that the Ming Dynasty government purchased the Jurchens and transported them all some commodities obtained through gathering and hunting, such as animal skins, ginseng, and fungus.

On the other hand, the Ming government, in the process of presiding over the horse market trade, also made it clear that the Jurchens were forbidden to buy iron tools from the Central Plains, thus further "blocking" the Jurchen socio-economic model in the primitive hunter-gatherer economic model, making it unable to meet the basic conditions of agricultural production.

At the same time, this model of the Ming government could further promote the Jurchens to deepen their cultivation in the field of hunter-gatherer economy, delaying their transition to an agrarian economy.

It was precisely because the rulers of the Ming Dynasty saw this clearly that they dared to promote the social and economic development of the Jurchens.

Over time, the Jurchens gradually integrated these rare products into the mainland through trade with the Central Plains, and became an indispensable part of the daily life of mainland merchants and ordinary people.

Therefore, in a sense, the Jurchens gradually integrated their hunter-gatherer economy into the "grand alliance" of the development of the social and commodity economy in the Central Plains through the medium of mutual markets, and also formed a degree of interdependence.

In this way, the Ming court helped the growth of the Later Jin forces to a certain extent.

Since the mutual market will bring such serious risks, why does Wang Zezhi take such a big risk to open the mutual market privately?

What is Wang Zezhi's opposite?

That's because if Wang Zezhi doesn't open a mutual market, there will still be a private market among the people.

Although the Ming court issued a series of bans in an attempt to ban private markets.

However, the trade activities between Mongolia and Han are the inevitable product of the social and economic development of Mongolia and Han China.

It was not something that the Ming court could stop by using state power.

Wang Zezhi felt that instead of letting these private markets run rampant, it was better to openly market with each other and take these people into his own hands.

In addition, the opening of the mutual market is also conducive to improving ethnic relations and enabling the Mongolian and Han ethnic groups to reconcile more quickly.

There is also one of the most important reasons, that is, there is a shortage of people and animals on the grassland, and if there is no mutual market, these people will vote for the Houjin Emperor Taiji.

Now that these people have hope, it is not so easy to switch to Huang Taiji.

When the Naturalization City opened for trade, Wang Zezhi must check it.

After recovering Guihua City, Wang Zezhi called Wang Shan over as soon as possible.

Wang Shan, with a part of the staff of the finance and accounting department, is responsible for assessing the value of the goods on both sides, and then collecting taxes and fees.

In addition to this, they were also responsible for supervising the sale of iron tools.

Of course, in business, Wang Zezhi also has to take a share. Lele Literature

Therefore, Wang Shan is still in charge of the official market.

In the city of naturalization, there are official markets, private markets, and commercial markets at the same time.

Wang Shan not only brought back sweet potatoes, potatoes, and peppers from the south, but also brought back a lot of tea leaves, which were placed in warehouses in the guerrilla camps.

Wang Zezhi originally transferred 10,000 stone of grain from Datong Mansion, and later transferred grain one after another.

In order to ensure that the grain road outside the customs is not lost, Wang Zezhi ordered Xiong Jiachang, Qi Qi, Ma Fu, Li San, and Yang Guo to lead 1,000 soldiers and horses to guard them in the five places of Xuandewei, Yulin, Zhenluwei, Jiulonggou and Yunchuan outside the Datong Pass.

As for killing the tiger's mouth, he sent Ah Niu out.

Ah Niu has been following Wang Zezhi, and he has learned some means of defending the city more or less.

When Ah Niu was sent out, he danced happily, and he could finally go to the battlefield.

With this arrangement, the stability of the grain road in the naturalized city can be guaranteed.

At the same time, he ordered the fire battalion and the steel armored heavy cavalry to garrison the naturalization city, and deliberately placed two red-coated cannons and four furlong machine guns at the city gate.

It is used to deter ill-intentioned people of all races.

The other weapons and equipment used to defend the city have not arrived for a while, and they are still being transported one after another.

This road starts from the Fangshan guerrilla camp, kills the tiger's mouth as a transit station, and after leaving the customs, it is transported to the hands of the defenders everywhere, and finally arrives in Guihua City.

As for Tuomu, Wang Zezhi gave him 1,000 cavalry of the Tartar battalion and ordered them to take the city of Guihua as the center and eliminate the threat within a radius of 300 miles.

These threats are firstly the rogue on the steppe, secondly, the rout of Lin Dan Khan, and thirdly, some right-wing troops who are superficially subservient but secretly preparing sword soldiers.

If Tuomu encounters a tribe that cannot be conquered, it will be the turn of the Steelarmed Heavy Rider to strike.

Now that he got Naturalized City, he can't just let it go, he has to step up to consolidate his control here.

However, there are many herdsmen outside the Saiwai, who are used to wandering around, and it is difficult to control.

Moreover, these tribes did not really submit to the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Zezhi specially formulated a series of plans for this.

Just as he was about to implement the plan, the leaders of the Mongolian right-wing tribes came to Guihua City again, and they talked with Wang Zezhi for a long time.

Chahar Mongolia is the strongest in the Mongol tribes in the south of the desert, its leader Lin Dan Khan has eight battalions, 24 divisions, its power from the east of Liaoxi, west to the Tao River, the horses are strong, the west of the Weizhen River Loop, rampant in the south of the desert.

Now, Lin Dan Khan once again gathered 80,000 soldiers and horses, Chen soldiers on the Khalkha border, pointed directly at the right-wing tribes, and forced them to hand over the young men in the tribe to help him in his eastward expedition.

Lin Dan Khan knew that he couldn't defeat Wang Zezhi, so he planned to lead his troops to the east, attack the Alu tribe, which was thousands away, and plunder some grain, grass and population on the north bank of the Xila Mulun River.

The right-wing tribes could not bear the suffering, and the leaders of the Monan tribes had a deep contradiction with Lin Dan Khan for a long time.

They hoped to use the power of the Ming Dynasty to suppress Lin Dan Khan and get rid of his rule.

Wang Zezhi was overjoyed and promised that he would definitely help.

These people got Wang Zezhi's promise, and then they left contentedly.

It's a mutually beneficial deal.

The freeing of the right-wing tribes from the rule of Lin Dan Khan will definitely weaken Lin Dan Khan's power.

Lin Dan Khan's strength has weakened, which is more beneficial to Wang Zezhi.