Chapter 119: Agitation
"Roast meat, roast bird meat!"
The night was completely dark, and Chang Wei shouted at the top of his voice.
Everyone gathered at the door of the store, some caravan merchants heard that Zhang Han was here, admired to come to speak, after a while, Zhang Han surrounded dozens of people, Chang Wei and Liang Xing and others set up an iron frame outside, the birds that Chang Wei knocked down were peeled and washed, smeared with some honey, and roasted on the shelf, after a while, the birds were roasted all over the golden yellow, the fat kept dripping down, the aroma spread, the people who provoked the index finger moved, Chang Wei saw the crowd around his cousin The water was not clear, he was not angry, and he couldn't help but scream.
At this time, everyone dispersed, Zhang Han had a professional smile on his face, and invited Ah Cheng and the silver ingot, as well as the big bear-like Petrin to come over, everyone scattered and sat in front of the bonfire rack and sat around, although it was on the flat ground on the side of the official road, but after dark, the bonfire jumped, and there was a faint feeling of the sky and the earth, the silver ingot cut the bird's leg with a knife and chewed it slowly, and said with a smile: "This is really a little touched on the grassland, this bird meat is also delicious, but it is too little, we will go to the grassland in a few days, I will fight the yellow sheep, Let's eat roast yellow mutton together, that's really delicious! ”
Yellow sheep is fat and delicious, scattered all over the grassland, at the beginning of the founding of the Republic in later generations, the army drove trucks to the grassland to fight sheep during difficult times, and could hit hundreds of sheep a day, Zhang Han's father had eaten such mutton when he was a teenager, in Zhang Han's memory, his father once talked about eating mutton, he evoked a burst of old feelings in his heart, and after being silent for a while, he finally smiled and said: "Okay, silver ingot Taiji, it's decided." ”
"I want to eat boiled hand-handled meat," Chang Wei and Zhang Han chatted, knowing that there were still delicacies in the grassland, and immediately shouted: "I also want to dip it in wild leek sauce!" ”
"The kid knows the goods." The silver ingot said: "Don't worry, you can eat some of them." Boil the lamb ribs in a large pot, boil them until they are thin and snow-white, and then cut the meat with a knife and eat it with a dipping sauce, and the spicy is gone. ”
Speaking of food, everyone drooled, even Sun Jingting's temperament couldn't help but discuss with everyone, his Mongolian language is not bad, much stronger than Chang Wei, who has just learned for many days, Liang Xing and Li Dongxue and others are also very good, after Zhang Han determined the smuggling route, the study of Mongolian language has become the top priority, every night in the study class, not only he has to learn, but also the important backbone has to study every day, fortunately, the business hired a lot of Tartars to do things, all of them are silver ingots slowly sent over the manpower, learning the language, It is better to read a book every day than to talk to people more, and after ten and a half days and a half, you will become proficient, and after a few months, there will be no problem with the conversation.
Everyone said that they were happy, Petrin and Ah Cheng and others also began to indulge in profligacy, Zhang Han's wine was collected from all over the mainland, and the Mongolians were probably the first among all ethnic groups in China.
A group of Tartars and Lao Maozi cheered and drank, drinking all the best soju brought by Zhang Han, with the aroma of barbecue, the aroma of wine was also overflowing, after a while, everyone was drunk Obviously, Petrin praised the good wine, and said with a big tongue: "Your Daming is really a good place, much stronger than the Mongols, these Tartars only have cattle, sheep and furs, but Daming has everything, all kinds of shops are four or five miles long outside Zhangjiakou Fort, how many shops do you have, I Petrin is also a businessman, I have traveled tens of thousands of miles, through more than 100 countries." , there is no place more wealthy than the Ming Dynasty, your Zhangjiakou is just a side of the market, there are Nanjing silk shop, Suzhou and Hangzhou silk merchants, Luzhou silk, Zezhou Papu, Linqing cloth shop, velvet shop, grocery store...... I can't even remember that many ......."
Although the Mongols were not happy, there were so many commodities and economic prosperity on the side of the Ming Dynasty, even if they had prejudices in their hearts, they could not deny it, and they could only endure it at the moment, listening to this Petrin continue to speak.
“…… I almost couldn't recognize all the wool, velvet, satin, striped silk, taffeta, and gold embroidered with copper satin, all kinds of flowers, all kinds of sugar, cloves, cinnamon, anise, apples, melons, watermelons, cucumbers, pumpkins, and garlic, turnips, onions, cabbage, celery...... It's been a long time since I've eaten so many kinds of fruits and vegetables...... There are so many medicinal herbs, too many to count, ah, such a good place, why not all of us Russians......"
Petrin was already seventy or eighty percent drunk, and his speech was knotted, and there were many Russian words mixed in the Mongolian language, and everyone didn't think about it until the last sentence was spoken.
Seeing everyone looking at each other, even the Mongolian Tartars looked at each other angrily, although these Tartars fought back and forth with the Ming Dynasty, each fighting for more than 200 years, the Mongolians also thought that this land was their own, how could others come to watch? That is, those Oirat Mongols have never been of the same mind as this side, so they wear the same pants with these Rakshasas!
"That's wrong, I mean, why can't these goods also be sold to Russia, so that my people can also enjoy the light of civilization......"
Petrin woke up a lot of drunkenness, sweat flowed down from his forehead, he dared to sigh, don't say that these Mongols are very difficult, now Tsarist Russia does not have the strength to subdue them for their own use, even after a few decades, they support the Oirat Mongols A large number of supplies, thousands of guns are sent, and a lot of cannons are also given, at that time it is to use each other, and it is far from completely subdued, and the Mongol tribes in their territory are also rebellious from time to time, and they are not restless, from Central Asia to Siberia, These old hairy people still have to climb in the ice and snow for many years, establish stable supply points along various big rivers, and then slowly encroach on them, it will take at least a hundred years for them to really grasp this piece of the world, and now they want to eat a behemoth like Daming, and they don't dare to think about giving Petrin a hundred dares, but his greedy nature makes him accidentally have such a feeling, but he really doesn't have such ambitions.
At this time, China has been from the peak of civilization down for many years, from the imperial court to the people, there are many unreasonable and regressive things, whether it is the political structure or the force, or the social atmosphere of the people, not to say that it is not as good as the Han and Tang Dynasties, in fact, it is not far from the Song Dynasty, nor as the early and middle period of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but the prosperity of the people, because of the opening of the sea in Longwan, a large amount of silver poured in, which promoted the great development of the southern economy. There are a lot of absurd things in the records of Western missionaries at that time, but basically they all record the real Ming Dynasty at that time...... The people were well-dressed and well-behaved, the army was numerous, the area was vast and wealthy, and in the words of the missionaries of the time, it was a powerful and civilized country, far from the barbaric kingdoms established by the monkeys of South America and Southeast Asia.
This understanding was said by the missionaries of Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands and other most developed countries in Europe at that time, like Petrin was basically an uncivilized barbarian in their eyes, and the missionaries of those countries praised the Ming Dynasty, and it is needless to say what a lofty image the Ming was in Petrin's eyes.
Zhang Han looked at Petrin with a nervous face, this guy obviously really didn't plan to give up trade and cooperation with him, Zhang Han said angrily: "After you get rid of the Mongols along the way, come and talk to me about cooperation." ”
"When I go back, I will definitely see His Majesty the Tsar in person and agitate for trade with the Ming Dynasty."
Petrin said that Zhang Han believed that the wealth of the Ming Dynasty was not able to catch up with the Tsarist Russia at that time, and the Ming Dynasty's trade with Mongolia was the big head of horses, and then it was also fur and other things, these things are also a lot of Russia, in the words of later generations, it is called trade complementarity is very strong, if it is really open up to the trade route, it is really gold everywhere, if there is not such an idea, the tsar will not send envoys for the second time, but unfortunately this trade route is too far, Tsarist Russia is powerless, there is no strong businessman on the Ming side, and now the opportunity is there, Petrain's determination and excitement are not surprising.
In the early morning of the next day, the Mongols and Russians continued to go in the direction of Beijing, their mission had just begun, Zhang Han and others advanced to Zhangjiakou, for Zhang Han and Liang Xing and others, Zhangjiakou had come many times, without too much surprise, for Sun Jingting and others, although the wealth and prosperity here had long been known, but everything in front of him was still enough to amaze and appreciate, for many northerners in inland areas, the prosperity of commerce was almost a difficult thing to see, although there were also big cities such as Taiyuan and Xi'an, But the rich in the city are only pro-vassal and gentry, and commerce is almost monopolized in the hands of these people, such prosperity is only morbid, and will not make people feel attracted, only Zhangjiakou and Tianjin Port such as the northern commercial towns and ports, when they enter it, feel the strong commercial atmosphere, will make people faintly feel the vitality of commerce and the pride and freedom of being a businessman, of course, once you meet the government, the gentry, the border general, or the pro-domain, this pride and pride will be greatly reduced...... Unfortunately, from north to south, there are too many opportunities for such discounts, which also leads to a general sense of insecurity among the big merchants, buying land, building big houses, building cellars for storing silver, and from now to a few hundred years later, it is the only rule for successful big businessmen, such as Zhang Han is so enterprising, there are too few and too few.
As a keeper, the silver ingot is also a rare opportunity to leave his place of faith to go out, and it is even more rare to have the opportunity to enter the Ming Dynasty's Biansai Castle as an ordinary person, he is simply happy in it, more than a thousand shops of various categories Silver Ingot simply wants to visit every one, and he doesn't want to let go of any unique thing-
There have been some things in the past two days, and I was busy with my feet in the sky, and I ran to update it early in the morning, and by the way, I was cheeky and asked for votes.