At noon, in the south of Yue'an City, a grass market that had just appeared a few days ago was crowded with people, and the barbarians who came out of the mountains came to the grass market with all kinds of mountain goods, and exchanged all kinds of materials with merchants with unfamiliar accents, and the scene was very lively.

The grass market originally refers to the regular market formed spontaneously in the countryside, which is generally located in the areas of water and land arteries, Jindu, post stations, etc., and is a good place for people to sell and buy materials in various places.

Yue'an is the governor of Huozhou, south of Dabie Mountain, if it is a peaceful season, there are often barbarians in the mountains out of the mountain, come to Yue'an to exchange mountain goods and locals for salt, iron and other scarce materials, so in the southern suburbs of Yue'an City, there will be a grass market regularly.

In order to encircle the Shanman, the Huozhou government fixed the grass market, which was a "barbarian market", so that the Shanman could exchange for necessary goods, reduce the impulse of the other party to send troops out of the mountain to plunder, and also attract merchants from all over the world to sell goods here and increase the tax revenue of the state capital.

However, there are no businessmen and no traitors, and most of the merchants who come to Yue'an Barbarian City to do business with Shanman pursue huge profits, so the kind of shoddy and price gouging is very common in the barbarian market, and the barbarians sometimes can't bear this breath, and have disputes with the merchants, and then the mouth will evolve into a move, causing death.

Therefore, Yue'an Barbarian City is open and closed, and with the turbulence of the times, the merchants who are willing to come to Yue'an gradually decreased, and the Barbarian Market in the southern suburbs of Yue'an City has not been opened for a period of time, and this time the reopening of the market, in order to avoid causing the unhappiness of the mountain people, the new government no longer called it "Barbarian City".

At this moment, the grass market has become the "Huangzhou Small Commodities Fair", and the merchants and the leaders in the mountains talk with the help of "general affairs" to bargain for the price of barter.

The businessmen in Huangzhou are very experienced in doing business with the mountain people, they know what the other party wants, and they also know what the other party can provide.

The so-called mountain goods, is the general name of the mountain products, the Dabie Mountains are so large, stretching in the mountains there are many things that can be sold at good prices in the mountains, such as leather goods, precious stones, precious herbs, rare animals and plants, etc.

There was even gold and silver, which could be used as hard currency everywhere you went.

The barbarians also need a lot of things, and Huangzhou has produced them, so it is a good time to do business, and many merchants directly ask the men to show the goods they have brought, first of all, the iron pot.

Iron pot, is the first in the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion boundary appeared in the kitchen, appeared a few years, since the government took the south bank of the Yangtze River Yingzhou (renamed Ezhou), in Daye to open the mountain to smelt iron, the output of the iron pot is getting bigger and bigger, selling well all over the place.

Cooking with an iron pot is better than using a kettle and retort to save firewood, and it can also "stir-fry", of course, this must be accompanied by a stir-fry spatula, and how to show the benefits of the iron pot, there are two routines.

First of all, the comparison, put the same amount of water in the iron pot and the kettle, and boil it with the same amount of firewood, and the result is naturally that the water in the iron pot is boiled first.

The second is on-site cooking, where the chef uses various fancy actions to show what stir-fry is, so that the onlookers are stunned.

This kind of sales routine, the merchants have been familiar with it, three or two to attract many mountain people onlookers, with the fragrant dishes out of the pot, let the mountain people taste after the taste, everyone has the most direct feeling of the performance of the iron pot.

Then it was a rush to buy, exchanging the mountain goods he brought for an iron pot.

In addition to iron pots, there are all kinds of iron products, such as hoes, shovels, sickles, axes, and small iron products such as embroidery needles, fish hooks, scissors, awls, hammers, pliers, etc., which are all necessities of life, but they are in short supply in the mountains, because there is a shortage of iron in the mountains.

Lack of iron does not mean that there is no iron, but precious iron is used in weapons and farm tools, how can the barbarians have so much iron to sharpen needles, many people use bone needles or even wooden needles for sewing clothes, bone hooks are used for fishing, and as for scissors, they are heirloom treasures.

And now, in the face of a dazzling array of cheap and high-quality iron products, the barbarians did not hesitate to take out the mountain goods to exchange, but this was not enough, because the merchants still had good things in their hands, that is, flower cloth.

The flower cloth of various colors and patterns is obviously washable than the general flower cloth, and its colorful patterns dazzle the cottage barbarians, and the homespun cloth they spun by themselves is simply overshadowed by it.

However, among the mountain goods brought by the barbarians, there is a kind of cloth that makes the merchants have a strong desire to buy, and that is the zebra.

Spotted cloth, that is, batik cloth, this is a unique batik process dyed cloth in the cottage, with a beautiful pattern, can be sold at a good price outside the mountain, so the merchants and barbarians take what they need.

In addition to cloth, there is another kind of goods that the mountain people have never heard of, and that is lard, and many barrels of lard are placed in front of everyone, and these lard is salted and boiled into ointment, which can be stored for almost a year.

If there is no oil and water for two meals a day, the food in the stomach will not be hungry at all, although the prey can also boil some oil, but for those ordinary mountain people, it is impossible to eat a mouthful of oil.

The grass market opened by the new government sells all the necessities that are desperately needed in the mountains, and for the mountain people, the most shocking goods are not iron products, but salt.

Mountains of salt, snow white as frost.

The salt is not mixed with sand, and its price is at least 30% cheaper than the sand-mixed salt sold by profiteers in the past.

People can't afford not to eat salt, and if they don't eat salt, they have no strength, but it is difficult to get salt in the mountains, and in order to get salt, the cottages have to endure the exploitation of profiteers, and the result of swallowing their anger is to buy all kinds of inferior salt mixed with sand.

And now, they can have as much refined salt as they want, provided that they bring enough mountain goods.

Tian Yuanxian, the master of the wind, looked at the white salt in his hand, looked at the mountain of salt bags in front of him, swallowed his saliva with difficulty, poured the salt back into the bamboo tube, and saluted to Xiyang Wang Yuwen Wen on the side:

"Yamanomura Futian, I don't know the king's hard work, and he tried to turn himself in according to the danger, he really deserves death, and he asks the king to surrender!"

Yu Wenwen held Tian Yuanxian with both hands, and laughed: "Don't be like this, this time the old lord will lead the people to return to the court again, and it's too late for the widow to be happy, where will there be any crime?" ”

He coughed dryly, and Tian Yilong, who was standing next to him, hurriedly stepped forward, and through Yuwenwen's introduction, let Tian Yuanxian know that this official and army general from the mountains would lead troops to be stationed in Yue'an for a period of time in the future, no matter what the problem was, Tian Yuanxian could find Tian Yilong to solve it.

In other words, Tian Yilong's shopkeeper is the "general agent" of the Huangzhou business group in Huozhou, and Huozhou, headed by Tian Yuanxian, can find Tian Yilong's shopkeeper to 'place an order' if he has any needs.

The opening of the trade route is a win-win result for the Huangzhou business group and Huozhouman, which is Yuwenwen's soft knife against Shanman.

How to deal with the mountain barbarians? It's not difficult to say, it's just to treat each other with sincerity, but Yuwenwen doesn't plan to impress Huozhou Man's chief Tian Yuanxian with a sincere gaze, he has a more sincere way, that is, salt.

Let the other party understand that cooperating with the King of Xiyang, there are real benefits to salt and iron, if you dare to rob indiscriminately, then wait for the King of Xiyang to send 'volunteers' to destroy the cottage.

No one is born a murderer, and even if there is, that person is not Tian Yuanxian, or rather, there is no such evil star in the Dabie Mountain Range, so Yuwen Wen believes that he only needs to ensure the supply of salt, so that the barbarian chieftains of the cottage can sincerely submit to the imperial court.

The so-called big business has a big expense, and the demand for salt in large and small cottages is "just needed", Yuwenwen, who can supply salt stably, is not the enemy of the barbarian chieftains, why should the other party do it against Yuwenwen?

The question is, where do you get so much salt?

The Yuchi clan and the Yuwen clan broke up, and the salt of Hedong Chi and Shudijing were under the control of the Yuchi clan, so the only reliable source of salt on the territory of the Yuwen clan was the sea salt of Lingbiao Guangzhou.

A large amount of sea salt obtained by the salt drying method was transported to the north and distributed after crossing the Yangtze River, and it was a bit reluctant to meet the needs of various places, let alone use it to buy people's hearts, so the method that Yuwen Wen and Wang Fei pondered in Yecheng was to exchange Ruyin for the sea salt of Chen State.

To dominate the world, you can't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, and having enough troops in your hands is the king's way, so exchanging Ruyin for salt, and then exchanging salt for soldiers, by the way, buying and stabilizing people's hearts is Yuwenwen's strategy.

Chen Guo exchanged a large amount of sea salt for Ruyin, Yuwenwen gave up a city, but exchanged salt for many soldiers, in the face of a large amount of salt, Huozhou Man, Lujiang Man, Jin Ximan and other large and small barbarian chiefs did not hesitate to send barbarian soldiers to help the war.

The combat effectiveness of the brute soldiers is not good, and the military discipline is poor, but they are also soldiers, it depends on how to use them, looking at the trading scene in full swing in the grass market in front of him, Yu Wenwen couldn't help but look forward to it.

If the situation between the two Huai is also in full swing, I don't know what Wei Chidun's expression will be?