Chapter 471: His Arsenic, My Honey
Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Although Wu Yuanqing is not too good at governing the local area, with the help of Gao Biaoren, a person who has been a assassin, the newly occupied land of the Tang Dynasty has tended to stabilize.
Of course, this also has to say that the population on the plateau is relatively small, hundreds of occupied towns, such as Kangyanchuan, there are only more than 2,000 households and tens of thousands of people, and there are hundreds of people with few people, which is similar to a village.
The occupied land is half the size of Tibet, and the population is less than one million, and the total population of Tibet is almost two or three million according to the proportion.
And Tubo with such a small number of people is already a big country, and it has confronted the Tang Dynasty for many years in the original history, almost throughout the entire Tang Dynasty.
Of course, this also reflects from one side why Datang is the strongest, because of the large population, the leader said that there is great power in the number of people, which is not false at all.
The surrounding countries that fought with the Central Plains Dynasty either always had the advantage, otherwise as long as there were one or two big defeats, it would be the end of the destruction of the country.
This is the foundation is thick enough, and the energy consumption can be afforded, tens of thousands of people died in a failure, hundreds of thousands of people, and the Central Plains Dynasty easily recovered in a year or two, but other countries are not, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people are basically put into the old book. And then without waiting for recovery, it was either destroyed by the Central Plains countries, or by other similar countries.
This is the case in Tubo now, and he was angry and wanted to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty and took the initiative to threaten the Tang Emperor, but the Tang Emperor didn't eat his set, and fought back directly without saying anything.
Then Tubo lost half of the country in the First World War, not to mention, but also lost 100,000 elites, and the remaining 100,000 who fled back also lost their souls, and they were almost ruined.
If it weren't for the limited manpower on the Datang side, and because of the environment and climate, they didn't want to continue to expand the results, Tubo's losses would have been even greater.
Songtsen Gampo, who was like a lost dog, sent troops in high spirits, but he was dejected and returned with the remnants of the defeated army.
Nearly half of the current territory of Tibet has only been fought in recent years, and the people's hearts are fluctuating, and the situation is not stable. When the momentum is like a rainbow, it can still be suppressed, and no one dares to make trouble, but now Songtsen Gampo has been defeated, and it is a fiasco, such a performance has given hope to many disgruntled people, so the internal rebellion began to occur.
While Songtsen Gampo was busy quelling the rebellion, he sent an envoy to Chang'an to confess his guilt.
Wu Yuanqing was busy developing Kang Yanchuan's commerce on the original basis, and all the government affairs were thrown to Gao Biaoren and Wang Xuance, while Zhao Heng took several officials from Sinong Temple to investigate the situation of agriculture and animal husbandry on the plateau.
The development of commerce is nothing more than to increase the commercial and trade exchanges between Kangyanchuan and the interior of the Central Plains and speed up the circulation of goods, otherwise commerce will not develop in any way by relying on the self-sufficiency of the herdsmen.
Like in the past, the commercial exchanges between Kangyanchuan and the Central Plains mainly served the superstructure, officials, nobles, and the ruling class, but this kind of trade was deformed, and if you want to develop in an all-round way, you must also involve the lower herdsmen.
This kind of thing is very simple for Wu Yuanqing, in order to make the greatest profit, the previous caravans brought valuable luxury items, what Wu Yuanqing has to do is to change this situation, luxury goods have to be sold, but ordinary goods have to be sold, it is nothing more than low profits.
This is not a big deal, in order to really digest the occupied land, Wu Yuanqing believes that the royal family, the largest commercial giant in the Tang Dynasty, will not care about the problem of earning more and earning less, and even if it is not profitable, the royal will transport daily commodities to the plateau, and then exchange valuable things from the people on the plateau.
Well, something of value indeed. It's not gold and silver, which are buckles and cords to be offered to the Buddha, but other precious metals.
As the saying goes, after many days of visits, Wu Yuanqing found that the people here said that they were poor, that was really poor, but it was not poor and indeed not poor, because he had found a necklace worn by wolf teeth on a serf, and asked him where he came from, and the serf trembled and said that he was collected one by one on the wasteland, in other words, he picked it up.
Grandma's legs, she even picked it up, this kind of wolf tooth necklace, a wolf tooth can be sold for dozens of coppers or even higher in Datang, who likes to wear Hu clothes and Hu Feng, Well, it is very easy to sell such a string for money.
Now a bucket of rice is only 4 yuan, and a stone is only 40 yuan, and the money can always buy 25 stone rice, that is, a small 3,000 catties of rice.
This string of wolf tooth necklaces alone is enough for ordinary people to spend money for two years in Datang, but now it is worn on the neck of a destitute serf, and it is specially picked up, who will believe it.
But this is the case, through this incident, Wu Yuanqing found that the people of Tubo are not without money, but their things cannot be sold for money in Tubo, because everyone may have something, who will spend money to buy it, and who will give it value.
It's like spices, grab a lot of things on Spice Island, and if there are people there, who will think of it as something of value.
There may be no delicate handicrafts, no fancy clothes, no colorful fat powder and other things on the plateau, but here are yaks, domesticated and wild that roam and graze in the mountains.
Eating beef in Datang will be punished, but there will definitely be no one here who is wrong.
And there are snow leopards, red deer, takin, and Tibetan antelopes that are crowned with gold just by their fluff, which is a good thing that will cause rich and noble families to buy it when they get it to Datang.
Datang is now popular in the family of young sons and girls to raise lynx, now give them some new species, fluffy little snow leopard, golden monkey or something, you see if these people will rush to raise.
There are all kinds of fur, teeth and bones, in the hands of plateau people is to make a look of clothes, black lacquer, greasy jewelry, to the Tang Dynasty after cutting, polishing and carving is the best fur, with wild jewelry utensils.
People in different places have different perceptions of things, and what may seem ordinary to them is a treasure in the eyes of others. The so-called arsenic and my honey, although inappropriate, mean the same.
The royal caravan Wu Yuanqing could only write to the emperor and write to the empress, because the empress was the behind-the-scenes controller of the royal caravan.
But the Wu family's own caravan was a matter of Wu Yuanqing's letter, and sent people to Shudi, Jingchu and Lingnan and other branches to send letters, so that they could prepare the goods needed to be transported to Kangyanchuan as soon as possible.
Of course, it is also to rush to the plateau as soon as possible, and to be the first to exchange the best things from the herdsmen.
In addition to daily necessities, Wu Yuanqing also asked the caravan to prepare another good thing that would become a daily necessity for the Tubo people in the future.