"This is the legendary New Mongol City, huh? Abba, that's the wall! It's as white as a snow-capped mountain, so high! Ulan took Abba's hand and pointed to the new Mongolian city with the city wall exposed in the distance.

"Yes, this is the legendary city of happiness, the city of wealth - the city of New Mongolia. Sit down, Ulan, the rented carriage of all the wealth is very useful, and it won't let you get out of it, but it will break your ass. "Although Lu Khan was the leader of the tribe, he was not the best warrior, because he was born to do business, and when he did business with Khitan merchants and Han people from the south, he was elected as the chieftain.

This time, he poured all his resources into bringing all the most valuable gems, golden sand, horns, and furs of the tribe, hoping to exchange them for salt and iron tools that the tribe urgently needed. The whole clan is pinning their hopes on him, and the pressured Lu Khan hopes that this fabled new city will really trade fairly and provide everyone with the supplies they need.

The carriage slowly approached the city, and the shanty outside the city walls slowly came into view. If you look closer, you'll see that they're all yurts and wooden shelves made of fine leather. The pungent smell of nitrate leather, the smell of spirits, yogurt, blood (slaughtering cattle and sheep), the smell of sweat, and the strange smell of grass (herbs, brick tea) penetrated his nostrils.

After most of the day of inquiries and conversations, Lu Khan finally let go of his hanging heart. Although the things I bring are very popular, they will not be caused by the price of similar products that pour in at the same time. In order to protect the interests of all parties to the transaction, the managers of the new Mongolian cities are free to purchase various grades of grassland specialties at fixed prices, and also sell scarce and in-demand commodities of the grasslands at fixed prices. Any hoarding of goods can be costly with the skillful skill of the manager. A senior merchant of the Barbarian tribe who had spoken to Lu Khan kept bragging about what he had seen, and constantly hinted at Lu Khan not to have some undesirable thoughts by emphasizing the strength of the city managers.

The bodies of dozens of bandit bandits who tried to wait for the weak to leave the city to commit robbery were hung on gallows by the gates of the city. These hideous-looking corpses with miserable deaths seem to warn those who come after them not to learn from themselves, lest they die and regret it.

After a day's journey, I hope to have a good rest with several descendants of my clan and my daughter Ulan who escorted the goods, and Lu Khan, who went to trade after dawn the next day, was dragged by his seniors. I only went to the home of my seniors who had worked hard for more than half a year. After entering the city, he found that his eyes were not enough, and the strict inspection of entering the city impressed Lu Khan, not only to check whether he was a criminal, whether he had a serious disease, but also to pay money from his predecessors to guarantee that he would not break the law in the city. The predecessor Baqiaoshan kept telling the things that need to be paid attention to after entering the city. For example, you can't spit, you can't make trouble after drinking, and you can't offend the patrolling cavalry. Once a mistake is caught, the guarantor's guarantee money will be confiscated, and in serious cases, it will be deported forever.

After hearing that spitting would be fined and whipped, Lu Khan held back a mouthful of old phlegm for a long time and spit it in the designated garbage can. Only the deeply favored Ulan entered the city together, and the rest of the clan rented a vacant land in a shantytown outside the city, set up tents and set up temporary trading points.

After a delicious full meal filled with spicy sauces, Bachoshan told the truth. Chen Hui developed from Nanjing Road to Zhongjing Road, and was tired like a dead dog every day, so he established four large bazaars for the purchase of special products in the hands of the Khitans and many Han people, and sold the industrial products of the Great Song Empire. Zhao Long, the fourth elder who built the new Mongolian city, easily built a new city near Ulaanbaatar in the later days on Shangjing Road, and the city was completely a city used for commerce. There were no entry taxes, no garrisons, no places of worship, and the whole city was filled with shops and inns for lodging. The markets outside the city are open all night every day, and as long as the goods of the specified variety are sold in the designated area, they only need to pay a 1% of the turnover of the symbolic booth fee for one month. If you want to operate forever, you have to go into the inner city and pay a lot of money to buy or rent a shop.

Zhao Long attracted tribes throughout the Mongolian plateau with abundant goods and low taxes, and maintained order with harsh regulations and punishments. Chenji Group is not well-known in the grassland, the reason is that the tribes on the grassland are illiterate, can not read the trademark and instructions, the industrial products bought are such as iron pots, cloth, pottery, tea bricks and other simple goods, the use of slightly more complex such as hand-pushed human lawn mowers, balers, grass presses, milk mixers are only in large tribes by the outermost subsidiary of the Chenji Group of the partner family trained by the expatriate technicians to guide the herdsmen.

As for the exquisite stirrups, horseshoes, parsnip kerosene lamps, and spices and condiments that everyone loves, they are even more priceless, and the quotas of each tribe are sky-high, and in the hearts of these tribal merchants who initially have a sense of speculation, every quota ticket is precious, and in order to acquire enough tickets, they have to prove that their tribe has the population and power corresponding to the quota. As long as you have enough family registration certificates, you can receive a ticket for the corresponding number of people on a monthly basis.

In order to obtain the tickets, these shrewd merchants had to truthfully report all the population of the tribe, and each tribal herdsman family had established a set of household records, on which each person's fingerprints, simple genealogy, and family property were recorded. The small book issued by each person is the voucher for receiving the ticket, and only the book can receive the ticket.

These books are the lives of the herdsmen, and the merchants, chiefs, and impostors of other tribes who dare to steal tickets and goods will die at the hands of angry herdsmen. This book is both a source of wealth and happiness, as well as a source of order and peace. It not only ensured the equal distribution of supplies in the steppe, but also prevented blood revenge and endless tribal wars. Zhao Long, who had established the initial order, distributed less than 100,000 registration books similar to cloth stamps for receiving grain stamps, and firmly held the grassland in his hands. He was busy setting up weather stations and the tasks of establishing observatories as explained by his teacher, and the affairs of commerce and city management were handed over to the councils of elders elected by many large tribes in the steppe. As long as Zhao Long controls the road and logistics source from Xijing Road to New Mongolian City, everything is fine.

The large tribes, who agree on the purpose of the distribution of interests and resources, want to peacefully annex the smaller tribes and get more people to collect the tickets. Gangs and alliances became the mainstream of the steppe, and wars and bloodshed seemed to be gone forever.

After understanding the cause and effect, Lu Khan also understood the intention of his predecessor Baqiaoshan, if his small tribe of less than 500 people was merged into the large tribe of Baqiaoshan of 3,000 people, he could get benefits beyond his original scale. There are always discounts for bulk purchases, so large tribes get more tickets, and wholesale goods can naturally get certain discounts, while small tribes do not have discounts brought by scale.

"Let me think about it again, after all, I can't have the final say on this major matter of the merger clan alone, and the elders and people of the tribe must be notified before they can be discussed and approved." Although Lu Khan was moved, he did not make reckless promises.

"Well, the brothers have worked hard today, rest early, and tomorrow morning, I will take my brother to the bazaar to sell the goods he brought at a good price, and I am going to buy all the goods you want. Then just go around, there are so many good things here, you can't stop for a day. ”

Lu Khan politely thanked Liaoba Qiaoshan for his hospitality, and went back to tell Ulan what had happened, and the family members of the tribe who came with him also couldn't sleep. Lu Khan, who hadn't slept well all night, came together in the morning and saw the anxious Baqiao Mountain waiting outside the tent. It was not yet dawn, and it was only five watches.

"Let's go, I'll take you to breakfast, there are Han stalls in the market outside the city, and the food is good."

Lu Khan, who was very enthusiastic, followed behind Baqiao Mountain with his daughter and a few relatives, and saw the stalls along the road, and the goods were moved out of the tents and put away, and the goods that he had never seen before passed his eyes. Pots and pans, ceramic bricks and tiles, needles and threads, all the way to the morning stall, there are no less than seven or eight hundred kinds of goods.

Baqiaoshan took out a few bills and copper coins and handed them to the stall owner of the breakfast, picked up the wrapped breakfast and handed it to Lu Khan and the others, "Sit in the tent over there and eat, there are warm stalls and low tables in it, as well as free mash and mare's milk to drink!" ”

Lu Khan, who was happy, entered the tent of the breakfast stall, unscrewed the curtain and a burst of heating came to the surface, and the smell of fragrant mash and mare's milk came from the large wooden barrel in the corner of the tent. Picked up a long-handled spoon and sat on the side of a low table with a pottery bowl of mash, opened the bag and looked stunned. "Brother Baqiaoshan, what is this? How do you eat it? ”

"This is called glutinous rice dumplings, the outer bread is glutinous rice made of glutinous rice, and the middle is fried pastry, which is very delicious, just eat it directly!" After tasting two bites, Lu Khan was immediately conquered by the taste, and while still chewing, he slurred his words and exclaimed, "It's delicious, this is the best thing I've ever tasted." ”

Lu Khan and others, who have never eaten sugar, are eating glutinous fried dough sticks wrapped with sucrose sugar, while drinking mash that they have never drunk, and after eating, Lu Khan and others, who are sweating profusely and satisfied, followed Baqiao Mountain to all the markets outside the city, and the daughter Wulan left an uncle and an uncle on the right shouted affectionately, and the people who feasted their eyes and mouths at the end of the day basically understood the rules and wealth here in Liao. A city without a garrison alone is enough to shock a grassland turtle that speaks with strength. In fact, for their own long-term interests, everyone who does business can pick up a knife and fight desperately with the blindless bastards who dare to rob.

Lu Khan, who returned to the garrison after a day, found that the remaining relatives had sold all the goods, bought all the goods on the purchase list, and got dozens of extra silver coins. After being shocked, I asked my relatives to know that there were businessmen who specialized in acting as intermediaries in the bazaar, and the goods of dozens of horses were considered bulk wholesale.

Lu Khan, who originally thought that it would take many days to complete the task, immediately thought of what Baqiaoshan said: "This is a merchant's paradise, there is nothing that money can't do here, everyone here pursues fairness and efficiency, everyone here has the opportunity to make a fortune and succeed, welcome to the new Mongolian city!" ”