The envoys of the Northern Liang were angry again!

Your Daxing prince is worthless!

The eldest prince is the eldest prince of my Northern Liang, and the gold is expensive!

Gu Xian looked at the other party's expression, and he couldn't guess what they were thinking without reading minds, and he chuckled: "Look, you are not happy to say that your eldest prince is worthless, then you can come up with a price that can make us feel that your eldest prince is valuable, right?"

I believe that if the eldest prince is replaced by Prime Minister Gao today, the bargaining chip for negotiation will not be a thousand war horses, right? ”

They really can't refute that!

Whether it is the eldest prince or the prime minister Gao, it is not a thousand horses that can be exchanged.

[But how can the war horses of Beiliang be cheaper than Daxing people. In Beiliang, the war horses worth 100 taels arrived in Daxing, and they were sold for 10,000 gold! 】

This is the voice of all Beiliang people, what Daxing does not have, he Beiliang has it is worth 10,000 gold!

Ye Hanyu is hehe, anyway, he has nothing to do in the capital all day, or he will go to Beiliang one day to go shopping and find an opportunity to steal his eighteen thousand horses, so that the people of Beiliang will not be distressed to death!

Not to mention, once this idea pops up, it can't be suppressed!

"How can our war horses in Beiliang be compared with the war horses in Daxing, your horses are only worth a hundred taels each, and our war horses will not be sold for 10,000 taels."

Gu Xian rolled his eyes: "Okay, your war horses are worth ten thousand taels, how much are your cattle and sheep worth?" ”

Princes:...... What the hell is this guy surnamed Gu doing? said that the war horse said well, how did you mention cattle and sheep?

But one of the messengers replied, "One hundred taels of silver for each adult ox, and ten taels for each sheep." ”

Not only did Gu Xian roll his eyes at this time, but King Lianchen also rolled his eyes.

Mutton is forty wen a catty, according to each adult sheep 200 catties, the meat rate is forty percent, that is, eighty catties, plus sheepskin sheep head water bones and so on The maximum value of a sheep is at most about five taels of silver.

As a result, as soon as people opened their mouths, it was ten taels of silver, which was bullying them and Daxing people didn't know how to count?

The price of cattle is naturally also expensive.

In ancient times, cattle were very precious, not only providing people with farming labor, but also played a huge role in divination, sacrifice, military, water control, transportation and even the shaping of the national spirit.

Cattle were strictly forbidden to be slaughtered arbitrarily by law in previous dynasties, unless the cattle were too old and weak to farm, and the cattle owner applied for permission from the government before they could be slaughtered.

Even if the cattle died a normal death, if the owner wants to sell the beef, he must report it to the yamen.

Moreover, can the common people eat beef if they kill the cow?

Ordinary people don't have to think about it, beef can only be eaten by the upper class.

First, the price is extremely expensive, 60 wen a pound is it, 100 wen a pound is it, 500 wen a pound is also it, and the common people can't afford it at all.

The second is that the slaughter of cattle must be reported to the government, and when the cattle are slaughtered, the meat has already been distributed by the officials, and the rich merchants may not be able to buy it.

In ancient times, the cattle were relatively small, at most seven or eight hundred catties, unlike the modern cow that went up to two thousand catties at every turn, and the cattle of seven or eight hundred catties had about 300 catties of meat at most, and the price of buying cattle also fluctuated somewhat, ranging from thirty taels to one hundred taels.

Beiliang's horses, cattle and sheep are heavier than Daxing's, and their physical strength is better, which has a lot to do with their living environment, so it is normal for the price of cattle and horses to be more expensive, but the price of sheep is outrageous.

The value of sheep in ancient times was more than one percent lower than that of cattle and horses, and there was no advanced goat milk preservation or purification technology in ancient times.

Therefore, the price of sheep is based on weight, and the weight of the sheep is sold for more silver, and the light is less for some silver, but it is not worth ten taels and one head when killed.

Gu Xian didn't argue with them about this, because it didn't make sense, he was good at defeating magic with magic.

"The price of a war horse is 10,000 taels of silver, and the price of a cow is 100 taels of silver, since Beiliang is unwilling to exchange 40,000 war horses for the prince, then it is okay to exchange 4 million cattle for it!"

Gao Cheng almost didn't give him one on the spot, four million cows? There aren't so many cattle in their northern beams!

King Chen drank a sip of watermelon juice and almost didn't squirt it out on the spot!

Gu Xian, is this too ruthless?

Beiliang's Ministry of Rites Shangshu said excitedly: "Master Gu, this is whimsical, don't say that I don't have so many cattle in Beiliang, even if I have, it is impossible to exchange so much!" ”

Gao Cheng echoed: "We will give you 10,000 cows at most." ”

Gu Xian deeply felt that there was something wrong with the other party's brain, and he couldn't count, "Your 1,000 horses are worth 10 million taels, and 10 million taels will cost 100,000 to exchange for cattle, but now you only say 10,000 cows, you can regret what you say, and the heart of Beiliang Kingdom to negotiate is really insincere!" ”

Prime Minister Gao can see that the rhythm of today's negotiations has always been in the hands of this Lord Gu, and they should not be entangled in the price of cattle, horses and sheep from the beginning, because this problem is unsolvable.

In Beiliang, it is okay to exchange a horse for a cow, but when it comes to Daxing, they are not willing to exchange a horse for ten cows!

"Master Gu, let's talk about horses, we can't get the 40,000 horses you want, at most 2,000 war horses, this is our bottom limit."

Gu Xian: "Oh, then your bottom line is low enough, this official really understands today." ”

Prime Minister Gao: I feel that it has been connotated.

"Obviously, there are only one hundred taels of horses, and the price has been raised a hundred times when it comes to your mouth, Prime Minister Gao really let this official see the bottom line of your Beiliang people!"

After that, Gu Xian added: "Can you Beiliang people's horses be sold for fifty taels for yourself?" ”

Prime Minister Gao: Although the war horses of the Northern Liang are good things, there are too many in the Northern Liang, and almost every family has them, so when the imperial court collects horses, there are at most thirty or forty twenty-one horses.

"Three thousand! This number should satisfy your country, this official added an extra thousand horses without authorization, and I don't know how the emperor will blame it when I go back! ”

Gu Xian said: "Thirty thousand horses!" This is the bottom limit of my country, you see how generous I am, I directly reduced 10,000 horses for you, unlike you, it took two more than 2,000 horses! ”

Prime Minister Gao felt that he was going to have a myocardial infarction.

Can this be the same? The surname Gu really touched the essence of the sentence "sky-high price", he really dared to say it!

The next negotiations once reached a stalemate, Prime Minister Gao had raised the number to 5,000 horses, which was already the highest price set by their emperor, but Gu Xianyao's offer was still stuck at the number of 20,000 horses, and Prime Minister Gao was so angry that he sweated, but he couldn't even drink a sip of cold watermelon juice.

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Thanks to Big Eyes for the 10,500 starting coins for the reward!!

Thank you for the 100 starting coins for strolling around and not being confused!!

Thanks to the 100 book coins that were the most innocent reward when I was young!!

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