Chapter 47: Seeing the World
Tang Ge stretched out his hand to hold the old sickle's shoulder, but found that he couldn't reach it, so he could only take advantage of the situation and patted the old sickle's shoulder twice, and said: "Old sickle, I know that you have not coveted our Banpo dolphin's weapons for a day or two, last time you were able to abide by the agreement and sell all the gold artifacts to Zhongzhou, which helped us a lot, so this time, all the weapons are in charge of your Erhugou, you can stay if you want to stay, and sell what you don't want to keep, we Banpo dolphins don't care about these, but you have to send us equivalent goods." ”
After a pause, Tang Ge continued: "But Lao Lian, I'll tell you the end, this kind of business is only this once!" After this time, it will be difficult for you to get the weapon from us again. And it's not just you, after this time, our Banpo dolphin's weapons will not easily leak out again. So, take advantage of your chance! ”
The sudden happiness made Lao Lian feel that he wanted to cry, and after a few snorts, Lao Lian said to Tang Ge in a snort: "But there are so many goods...... We can't eat Erhugou! ”
Tang Ge smiled and said, "I understand that if you all keep these weapons by yourself, it will be really difficult to come up with equivalent goods at one time, so I have decided to give you a discount." You can take your things with you, but make sure you bring me what I want before winter! ”
The old sickle was shocked, patted his chest and promised: "Young witch, don't worry! You just need to tell me the goods you need, before the winter, we will definitely have everything you want! ”
Tang Ge nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good!" The things we want are also simple. As long as it is eaten, used, and stored for a long time, you can only move it to us, and there are strong slaves, and we will have as many as we want. By the way, I think cows, horses, deer, and other livestock are too petty. It would be nice if you could get some elephants, they have the strength to do the job. ”
When the old sickle heard this, he smiled bitterly: "If you only need these, I'm afraid it won't be enough to empty Zhongzhou!" ”
Tang Ge waved his hand domineeringly and said, "Then go and empty Dongyi!" You Erhugou have been doing business for so many years, I believe you still have this means, right? ”
Glancing at the wooden boxes piled up like a hill, the old sickle nodded fiercely, gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, young witch!" Before winter, if you can find anything, I'll move it all for you! ”
Tang Ge nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then it's hard for you." Okay, now that things are done, I won't delay you, I guess you still have a lot of things to do! ”
The old sickle held his chest with his hands, and made the most respectful etiquette to Tang Ge, and said: "I'll go find someone to count the goods, Shaowu, you just wait for my good news!" ”
Leaving the tent of the Banpo dolphin, the old sickle felt that his body was weak and his steps were fluttering. After hurrying back to his camp, the first thing the old sickle did was to gather his men and go to the Banpo Dolphin camp to retrieve the thirty precious boxes.
In order to take these thirty wooden boxes, Lao Kao dispatched all the men of the caravan, the people on their backs, and the people who were all armed around them to be on full guard, and no one was allowed to approach.
Thirty large wooden boxes, the formation of a team is also very spectacular, coupled with the Erhugou caravan looks like a great enemy, causing the natives in the market to talk about it again, and they are speculating about what the far-away caravan has taken from Banpo dolphin.
After arranging the thirty boxes, the old sickle drove all the people out of the tent, asked them to be on guard, and then took it upon himself to open all the boxes and inspect them one by one. By the time all the goods had been seen, he was exhausted, panting and sweating profusely.
After drinking a large pot of cold water in one go, the old sickle forced himself to calm down and began to think about the gains and losses of this business.
There is no doubt that the credibility of Banpo Dolphin is reliable. Thirty boxes, whether they are knives, axes, swords, shields, or glass products, are all first-class goods, without the slightest flaw. What he has to consider is whether Erhugou can eat this batch of goods.
Erhugou made a living from trade, and several caravans traveled south and north, and over the years, they did accumulate a lot of family property. No one who does business is a fool, so the wealth accumulated by Erhugou is all hard currency. But even with Erhugou's wealth, it is far from enough to eat this goods. Since he couldn't completely eat the goods, and it was even more impossible for him to change these bronze weapons, he had to think of another way.
Banpo Dolphin is very angry, and he doesn't ask any questions, just let him take all these valuable goods, so he has no intention of deceiving Banpo Dolphin, so how to do this business should be studied deeply.
Tang Ge is right, this is indeed a big business. Twenty-five boxes of fine bronze weapons, plus those five boxes of exquisite glazed ware, the combined value of Zhongzhou is easy to empty. Even if all the five boxes of exquisite glazed ware changed hands, leaving only the weapons, the wealth accumulated over the years by Erhugou would not be enough to repay the transaction.
In fact, this matter is easy to solve, and that is to sell a part of the bronzes. Nowadays, bronze is regarded as an artifact in Zhongzhou, and any one can be exchanged for the wealth of an entire tribe. But the old sickle was sure that the elders of the tribe would never agree to the leakage of a single weapon.
In fact, the last time he sold weapons to Zhongzhou, Erhugou did not sell all the bronze weapons, but secretly left some. Moreover, after the incident, he also bought back a lot of weapons for gifts from the Yan clan in Zhongzhou through various means, but these weapons were far from enough to be distributed by the huge caravan of Erhugou. So since then, the clan elders of Erhugou have repeatedly explained that the old sickle must befriend the Banpo dolphin, and if you have the opportunity to get a bronze weapon, you must not let it go! Because of this incident, the old sickle's status in the tribe has risen greatly, and now that the matter has not yet come up with a solution, the old sickle has begun to imagine what honor the people will greet him after he returns.
It is a big problem not to be able to give up a bronze weapon and to come up with goods of equivalent value. The old sickle couldn't think of a solution even if he wanted to break his head, and in the end he simply didn't bother, as long as he brought this batch of goods back, he would complete his mission, as for how to pay for it? Leave this question to the elders to consider, presumably they will come up with a suitable solution.
On the side of Banpo dolphins, the goods brought by the caravan have been counted, the dry goods and leather goods of salt and leather are of the highest quality, and the slaves are also honest, and they are unlucky eggs whose ancestors were slaves. The tribesmen only need to sell some special furniture in the market, and they don't need any profit, mainly because they want to rely on these tables, chairs and benches to have more relationships with other tribes. After all, no matter how powerful a tribe is, it also needs to make more friends, and it may be able to use it at some point. So after Lao Yao pulled the goods away, Tang Ge had nothing to do.
Since there was nothing to do, Tang Ge pulled the big stone and went to the market. In these years, there is no police or urban management to maintain order, so the market is chaotic. Not to mention fights and brawls, even if it is a life, it is an idle matter, especially Tang Ge was assassinated once in the market, so in the market, no one accompanied Tang Ge really dared not go out.
Tang Ge was in front, the big stone was behind, and he walked all the way, watching and playing while walking, and bought anything new when he encountered it.
Bought a piece of animal skin, and the big stone stuffed all the sundries in his arms into the animal skin, and while stuffing it, he said depressedly: "You should let the dynasty accompany you." ”
"It's not interesting for them to accompany you, didn't I want to take you out to see the world." Tang Ge said narrowly.
"Humph!" Glancing at Tang Ge, the big stone tied the animal skin into a package and hung it on his shoulder.