Chapter 27: The Iron Pot Problem
"Damn orcs! Get out!"
"Get out!"
Some children in Grizzly Village threw rocks at Dwayne Johnson, and the funny thing was that Dwayne Johnson, a large minotaur with a height of two meters and five meters and muscles all over his body, actually squatted on the ground with his head in his hands and did not dare to fight back. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Fortunately, the villagers did not have weapons on them, otherwise they could find a dung fork hoe and kill Dwayne Johnson.
Maybe it's the genes of the ploughing cow that are at work, this forest minotaur is too honest and docile to fight back at all......
Ziggy hurriedly asked Biden to protect Dwayne Johnson, a minotaur, and then take it away, and the people who threw Dwayne Johnson with stones were all children from the village, and Ziggy and they couldn't stop Aunt Mary alone before they came.
To be honest, for this minotaur slave, Zig is very satisfied, obedient, docile, maybe the minotaur orcs have inherited too many genes of cultivating cattle, too honest, too docile, maybe there is also a role in the slave trader training mature slaves.
Anyway, Ziggy has never whipped Dwayne Johnson with a whip, and he is a relatively good slave owner, and Dwayne Johnson has always done whatever he wanted, never resisting.
Hearing Jack's return today, Ziggy's heart moved, and Ziggy guessed that it seemed that the orc race of the Minotaur was quite tragic both here and on the side of the steppe orcs.
Here in the Holy Odin Empire, it is because all the tribes of the forest orcs have been destroyed by humans, and all the forest orcs have become slaves of humans, but on the grassland, why are the minotaur orcs ruled and bullied by the werewolf orcs like this?
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This question Ziggy kept in his mind for the time being, and now the important thing was that the steppe orcs had retreated, and the villagers of Grizzly Village had to bring back to the village the belongings they had brought with them when they fled up the mountain.
"Oops! What is so heavy!" Ziggy scolded, originally as the head of a village, he wanted to show his closeness and love for the people as the head of the village, and help a villager in Grizzly Bear Village move things, after all, the position of the village chief has not yet been secured, which leader does not show care for his subordinates when he first arrives?
Who knew that as soon as he carried the burden of that villager on his back, Ziggy was almost crushed to death, don't look at the burden that this villager brought is not big, it is very heavy, and he doesn't know what he has installed, which makes Zige's back wrong.
I thought it was just some gold and silver, but when I opened the villager's package, it turned out to be all food and a big iron pot!
"Why do you bring an iron pot! This thing is so heavy!" Ziggy almost screamed, and it was probably this iron pot that knocked Ziggy's back muscles into a painful pain.
"You don't know, village chief, those damn orcs love to grab iron pots and grain. "The villagers of this grizzly bear village are the neighbors of Chuck's father, his name is Anna, her husband died at a very early age, and it is not easy for a woman to pull several children.
Wok......
Ziggy heard the words of villager Anna, touched his chin and thought of one thing - Zhaojun was out of the plug.
Why did you suddenly think of Zhaojun coming out of the plug?
Because it has something to do with the living conditions of the grassland!
When Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Wang Zhaojun married the Huhan evil Shan Yu of the Huns, since then, the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu have been peaceful for more than 50 years, many people say that it is because of Wang Zhaojun's beauty that the two countries have been peaceful for so long, and they are known as the wild goose.
But Ziggy thinks otherwise,
From the establishment of the Han Dynasty by Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty in 202 BC, to the succession of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty in 49 BC, the Han and Hungary fought for more than 100 years, not counting the Xiongnu's attack on the Central Plains before the establishment of the Han Dynasty.
Didn't Qin Shi Huang build the Great Wall to guard against the Xiongnu?
Didn't King Zhao Wuling learn to ride and shoot in Hufu just because he fought with Lin Hu?
That is to say, by the time of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, the peoples on the grassland had plundered the Central Plains Dynasty for more than two hundred years.
After more than 200 years of killing each other, you killed my brothers and sisters, and I slaughtered your wife and children, how could it be possible to quell the war because of a woman? Even a peerless beauty is too far-fetched.
Therefore, Zhaojun's exit from the fortress quelled the war between Han and Hungary, and Zieg has always considered this statement unreliable.
In fact, there are many reasons, some people will say that the Xiongnu were scared, some people will say that the Xiongnu were divided, and some people will say that it may be that everyone in the Han and Xiongnu countries is annoyed.
But in Zigger's view, the main reason is the development of border trade in the mutual market!
Why did the Huns come to the border of the Han Dynasty to rob?
Isn't it just to grab something?
Isn't it because of the lack of living supplies?
There is no shortage of pots and pans, needlework and cloth! The steppe people can only graze, wear cow and sheep skins, and eat beef and mutton.
Iron smelting? This thing is too advanced for the steppe people to play!
The arrows of the bows and arrows of the steppe peoples are all ground from bones!
This did not change until the Mongol Empire, and even in the Ming Dynasty, when the Mongols retreated to the steppe, they forgot all the techniques they had learned all over the world, and continued to be the kind of primitive people who could not smelt iron and forge.
Of course, these defects of the steppe peoples have something to do with the fact that there is only grass on the grassland, but who told them to live on that land?
In terms of economics, scarcity is bound to exist, but there are a lot of scarce materials on the grassland.
After Zhaojun came out of the fortress, there was mutual trade, and the Huns wanted to exchange for living materials!
I have cattle and sheep, you have supplies, the Han Dynasty people traded a large number of cattle, sheep and horses from the Huns, and the Huns bought a large number of living and military materials from the Han Dynasty.
Soon, Huhan Evil Shan Yu came out of the shadow of defeat, defeated his brother, and became the Great Khan of the grassland again, but after Hu Han Evil unified the grassland, he did not start a war with the Han Dynasty.
Why?
Because doing business is much more comfortable than fighting, killing, and killing.
So what was life like on the steppe before there was no mutual trade?
One word, missing!
To what extent?
There are officially recorded historical materials, the Central Plains people and the grassland people do transactions, are a few cattle and sheep in exchange for the Central Plains people a piece of artifact, the Xiongnu period of the mutual trade information is relatively small, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, when the Song Liao Tan Yuan Alliance, the Song Dynasty and the Liao people on the grassland do business, a porcelain bottle can be exchanged for several horses of the Liao people!
This can be found in official historical records.
Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, this seems to be difficult to understand, as if the only explanation is that the Central Plains people are too treacherous, and the Han profiteers have cheated the honest grassland people.
Actually, no, from an economic point of view, this is completely equivalent trade!
Why?
Because of scarcity!
Don't look at the appearance that for the people of the Central Plains, a cow is worth a lot of money, but for the grassland people, cattle and sheep are too worthless, the grassland people are nomads, and the grass eaten by cattle and sheep is everywhere!
Hundreds of cows and sheep on the grassland are like a cotton flower in a green meadow.
It is normal for an ordinary herdsman to graze three or four hundred cattle and sheep, and it is not difficult for some wealthy herdsmen to raise thousands of cattle and sheep at home, and a few extremely wealthy herdsmen even have tens of thousands of cattle and sheep at home.
There is a joke on the Internet that a Mongolian college student went to report to a university in the mainland, and his Han roommate asked him, what is your family doing?
The Mongolian university students replied that their family had cattle.
Then the mainland college students sympathized with him one after another, thinking to themselves, "The cattle farmer should be a poor student, right?" So when he had dinner with this Mongolian college student, the Han students often rushed to pay.
Until one day, a few mainland students made an appointment to travel to the grassland, and the most convenient thing was of course to go to a roommate's house, which was in the Mongolian grassland, and there was no need to live in a hotel!
As a result, when I arrived at the house of the Mongolian classmate, I saw that good guys, their family had 5,000 cows, and they were rich...... In those two years, Mongolian classmates have been deliberately silent.
This is still a modern thing, in ancient times, the ecological environment on the grassland was better.
Qi Ge read on the Internet that during the period of mutual trade between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, an iron pot on the grassland could be exchanged for two hundred sheep!
Why? Because there are too many cattle and sheep on the grassland, but iron living utensils are too scarce!
If the daughter of a herdsman's family marries, if she can marry an iron pot, it will be a face-saving thing! It is the same feeling as the current Shanxi coal boss marrying his daughter and marrying 20 Ferraris!
That's definitely a local tyrant on the grassland!
So before Zhaojun went out of the fortress, why did the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu not trade with each other?
It's very simple, kill the red eye, the Han Dynasty people will kill the Huns when they see them, and the Huns will also kill when they see the Han Dynasty people!
has been killing for more than 100 years! Everyone will kill and kill when they meet, how can they be in the mood to do business?
You said that a man's father was killed by the Huns, is he in the mood to do business with the Huns? No!
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Now according to Zigge's judgment, the steppe orcs rob the iron pot when they see it, and it is estimated that it is no different from the ancient steppe peoples in the real world, and the hatred between the steppe orcs and humans is deeper, and it is said that the steppe orcs still eat people!
If you could sell the Iron Cauldron to the steppe orcs...... Hey......
Scarcity! Scarcity! As long as there is scarcity, there is a transaction! If there is a transaction, you can make money!