Sichuan, which is the route of trade with the Wusi and Tibetan tribes.

Since Ding Maoxin entered Sichuan with an infantry division and quickly suppressed the extravagant Chongming uprising, the Li rebellion in Guizhou did not break out.

Obviously, the speed of the imperial court's repression also deterred the ambitions of ethnic minorities in the southwest.

After Ding Maoxin recently received the holy decree, he began to cooperate with the Royal Trading Company in Sichuan to monopolize the trade with the Wusi and Tibetan tribes, and the strength of an infantry division was obviously enough to catch smuggling. After all, there are not many roads into Tibet, that is, there are only a few, just send some people to block the road, and don't think about any caravans.

It can be said that Sichuan's border smuggling is the easiest to crack down, in contrast, those smuggling firms in Sichuan are much luckier, and the imperial court has not questioned them. After reading the "Daming Daily," those smugglers in Sichuan were already in a cold sweat and immediately stopped their smuggling activities in Tibet.

After the establishment of a branch of the Royal Trading Company in Sichuan, these firms became a supplementary link in the supply of traded goods to the Royal Trading Company.

Soon trade with Tibet was officially organized, and caravans organized by the Royal Trading Company headed for the Tibetan Plateau. After a long journey, the trade volume with the Tibetan ministries was reached at more than 3 million yuan.

Tea, porcelain, iron and steel products, silk and satin, and spices were exchanged for horses, yaks, musk, medicinal herbs, leather goods, and wool from the Wusi Tibetan tribes.

Among them, musk is unique to Tibet, and after this spice was monopolized by royal capital, the price of this luxury item directly increased several times.

In the golden autumn of September, Zhangjiakou also reopened.

After a few months of arrangement, royal capital has almost monopolized most of Zhangjiakou's industries. From a leather mechanic. to the production of goods such as blankets. Quickly established a factory with a group of private businessmen.

The fifth day of the ninth month. As the earth trembled, the Mongol caravan came.

To everyone's astonishment, the Mongol caravan was too large to execute, and the endless herd of horses was driven by the Mongols to Zhangjiakou. There are also a large number of camels, cattle and sheep, as well as Mongolian carts, carrying a large number of leather goods and wool to Zhangjiakou.

The cattle, sheep and horses are as if they were endless. The amount is staggering.

Everyone was stunned and looked at the Mongols in disbelief.

"I've never seen so many livestock rush to Zhangjiakou in my life, and the Mongols brought everything that can be bought and sold this time!" An old shopkeeper in his sixties said to others.

Surrounded by a group of Mongolian nobles, Lin Dan Khan happily came to Zhangjiakou. Looking at the Ming people in the distance, he couldn't help but smile triumphantly: "The Ming people must have been frightened, maybe the goods they prepared are not enough for this trade." ”

"That is, the people of the Ming Kingdom would definitely not have thought of it. This time, the Great Khan summoned all our Mongolian tribes and set out to trade with the Ming State together, such a huge scale. Absolutely can Yang my Mongolian might. ”

"The Great Khan is wise!"

A group of Mongol aristocrats slapped Lin Dan Khan on the back.

After a while, the personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Daming came to contact, and the Mongolian side handed over the list of goods to the personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Lin Wence, Minister of Foreign Trade, was stunned when he received the list of goods from the Mongols.

He could never have imagined that the Mongols' enthusiasm for this trade would be so high, even to the point of madness.

There are 30,000 horses, which is the amount of war horses officially purchased by the Ming Dynasty. However, there were 50,000 horses on and in the middle, and 60,000 on the dismounts.

The number of horses alone reached 140,000.

At the same time, there are 500,000 heads of cattle and sheep, 1.6 million pieces of various leather goods, 1.2 million catties of wool, and miscellaneous goods such as air-dried meat.

The value of the various goods prepared by the Mongols this time reached more than 600 thousand taels. The main reason why the Mongols were so crazy was that the Mongol nobles, after learning of the new list of commodity prices, could not resist the temptation, and brought everything that could be traded in the tribe one by one. If this trade can be successful, it means that these Mongolian nobles can get a lot of silver, and the tea, iron pots, and grain needed by the tribe can be exchanged, and there will be a sum of silver left over to buy various luxury goods.

In these years, the Mongolian tribal aristocracy, the entire tribe was their property, and ordinary Mongolians did not have much property. Of course, the Mongolian aristocracy also had a certain obligation, that is, to let ordinary Mongolians also have basic living provisions, which is a default system. If the oppression is excessive, it will also cause 'public resentment to boil'.

In the past, the Mongol aristocracy apparently did not have much money, and some tribes were so poor that they clanged.

In this trade, because of the high purchase price of cattle and sheep, leather goods, wool and other commodities, and the price of commodities on the Ming side was also greatly reduced, all the Mongolian nobles were tempted, which led to such a crazy scale of trade.

A group of Mongol nobles commanded the personnel and stopped a large number of livestock. Then under the greeting of the trade department on the side of Daming, he entered the Zhangjiakou market.

Walking into the market, Lin Dan Khan and those Mongolian nobles all looked straight at each other.

Those tea, iron pots, grains and other things are not beautiful, they mainly look at those luxury goods, but they find that in the market, there are all kinds of luxury goods from the south and north of the world, and even overseas luxury goods. And there is everything to eat, drink, and play. The abundance of luxury goods dazzled Lin Dan Khan and the Mongol aristocracy.

"Great Khan, there are so many things here!"

"Yes! I've never seen so many good things when I'm so big. ”

A group of Mongolian nobles shouted excitedly like hillbillies entering the city, and Lin Dan Khan coughed, these luxuries were also very attractive to him, but they were not as out of shape as the Mongolian nobles who came out of the poor tribes. But I am still very satisfied with the goods prepared by Daming this time.

Mongolians have a relatively large demand for grain, and the price of one stone of grain is 1.8 yuan. The price of tea bricks is also much cheaper, a ten-pound tea brick, the price is only 3 yuan.

These tea bricks are actually things that the people of the Ming Dynasty don't want. Mongolians' demand for tea is a practical demand, so those tea bricks are made of relatively old tea, the cost of tea is low and scary, this kind of tea is shipped to Mongolia, but it can still be sold at a price of 3 yuan, it is simply a money grab! But such a price feels very generous to the Mongols.

As for the price of grain, it is a little higher than that of Kannai, but the Mongolian nobles have found a business opportunity! That is, the grain obtained in exchange for cattle and sheep can feed a larger population. The silver left over from it can not be used for personal consumption.

Mongolia is so big that if those leather goods, wool, horses, cattle and sheep can be sold for money, then it is very easy to feed more than 2 million people. And the excess silver can be used to consume all kinds of luxury goods. Immediately, the production enthusiasm of those Mongolian nobles went up, and they all planned to expand the scale of grazing after they returned.

In addition to consuming luxury goods, Lin Dan Khan also wanted steel knives and armor produced by the Ming Dynasty.

So the trade went smoothly with the great satisfaction of the Mongols.

Lin Dan Khan sold all kinds of grassland livestock, groceries, and raw materials worth more than 600,000 taels collected from various tribes to the Royal Trading Company.

Then from the Royal Trading Company, he bought steel knives and armor from the Royal Military Factory. Then he bought 1.5 million stone grain, 1 million catties of tea, 50,000 iron pots, tens of thousands of silk satin, 5 million catties of shochu, and more than 1 million pieces of various porcelain.

There are also oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, white sugar, needlework and other things, and they have also swept a lot of goods.

For the Mongols, it was a carnival-like sweeping operation. They have never seen such an abundant and complete range of goods, the grassland environment that lacks manufacturing capacity has allowed them to live in a relatively primitive and self-sufficient environment for a long time, and suddenly there are so many commodities for them to choose from, and there is a large amount of silver in their hands, and they really can't help but sweep the goods.

For those living materials needed by the Mongols, Lin Dan Khan adopted a system of unified procurement and then distributed by him.

After a frenzied sweep, there were nearly 3 million yuan of funds left, Lin Dan Khan left another 1 million yuan for himself, and the other 2 million yuan was distributed to those Mongolian nobles according to the number of cattle and sheep and other commodities produced by each tribe, so that these Mongolian nobles could purchase various luxury goods by themselves.

The Mongolian nobles who got the silver turned into big tyrants in an instant. These Mongol aristocrats didn't know what frugality was. It's all about doing the truth for a day, and the barbarian style of a day's money, with the silver, I immediately went crazy to buy it.

Eating, drinking, playing, and a dazzling array of luxury goods dazzled these Mongolian nobles. No matter how many silver dollars they have, they can't afford to spend so much. Soon, the Mongol nobles, according to their own financial resources, squandered the silver dollars and exchanged them for a cart of luxuries, ready to take them back to the tribe to enjoy.

It is clear that the Mongols did not think that their dominance was being shaken by the proliferation of these luxuries and the development of a commoditized economy.

When the Mongols could expand their production in exchange for more silver and buy more luxuries to enjoy. What will they do? Naturally, the ordinary Mongols of the tribe should increase the scale of production and squeeze out the value of labor as much as possible.

If the tribe doesn't have enough to eat, and everyone is living about the same, then forget it. However, these Mongolian nobles enjoyed all kinds of luxuries one by one, and this problem of not suffering from widowhood but unevenness came. As these Mongolian aristocrats became ranchers, and ordinary Mongolians became serfs under the ranchers, class contradictions and class antagonisms arose.

Once those Mongol herdsmen found that life was better under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and even a little aristocratic from time to time, it would be too simple to eliminate the Mongol regime.

Lin Dan Khan did not think of this problem in the slightest, and he was satisfied at this time, because through this trade he had established his prestige among the nobility of the Mongol tribes. Not only did he earn silver, but he also had 10,000 steel knives and 5,000 pairs of armor in his hands, and his rule over the Mongols seemed to be very secure. (To be continued......)

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