After the first hurdle of meeting Lin Dan Khan, the Ming delegation successfully settled down.

When Zheng Haizhu was still discussing Chahar's trip with Xu San and Chang Zhongxin at Xuanda, he took into account the ration prediction of the accompanying Sichuan army.

Xu San's subordinates paid money in Jizhou in advance, and bought a lot of "cake skewers" that Qi Jiguang taught Jizhou people to make, and each of the Sichuan soldiers who went out to patrol the border brought an extra half a month's amount. After the Battle of Luanhe, the small few hundred Sichuan troops who followed Ma Xianglin to Chahar received about a month's worth of bread rations.

The Jin merchants often came out with salt and vinegar cloth and dried meat.

Salt and vinegar cloth is the most common military non-staple food, the cloth strip is soaked with salt rice vinegar, dried and folded, when the soldiers eat dry food, use a knife to cut a small piece of salt and vinegar cloth, soak in water, like a bowl of delicious soup, not only to supplement salt, but also to make the hard wheat cake corn cake that can lose teeth, no longer so difficult to swallow.

In addition, Su Tai rewarded Ma Xianglin's fifty sheep on the grounds of thanking the Ming army for teaching the Zhenglan Banner a lesson.

In this way, the Ming delegation could stay in Chahanhot until the end of the first month of the new year, and Zheng Haizhu also had enough time to get to know the Chahar Ministry.

Among Lin Dan Khan's three Great Fu Jin, only Su Tai, who was literate and hyphenated and gave birth to the eldest son of the Great Khan, accompanied him by the left and right, and the other two Dafu Jin, who also enjoyed the title of "Kedun", took the army and subordinate officials to run their respective Erduo fiefdoms.

After listening to Zheng Haizhu talk about his relationship with the Yehebu woman, Su Tai's attitude became more and more friendly, which was very in line with "the enemy of the enemy is the friend".

Su Tai has a language advantage, Mongolia is not as imprisoned as the Central Plains women, for the new tea horse trade route is very excited Lin Dan Khan, so he ordered Su Tai and Zheng Haizhu to discuss directly, after agreeing on the conditions of both sides, and then the letter of state, brought back to Beijing by the Ming people.

In fact, for the first time, outside the annual reward system, the core of the trial cooperation is three points: sovereignty, military security, and trade interests.

Talking about money is a relatively easy entry point, so Zheng Haizhu proposed to Su Tai to talk about the interests of the business route first.

Su Tai was really amazingly efficient, and a few days later, when Zheng Haizhu came to Su Tai's tent hall, there were already a few more courtiers in the palace who had come from Su Tai's Erduo fiefdom.

There are men and women, most of whom are officials in charge of taxation, and they still use the name of the Song and Yuan dynasties - "Xuanjiao Promotion".

According to the statements of several Xuanjiao, Chahar is at present, as was the rule in the Yuan Dynasty, that only residential taxes were levied on merchants, and no taxes were levied.

Roughly similar, only the transaction tax is levied, unlike the Daming Canal banknote customs and Fujian, Guangdong and Songjiang, which levy transit "road money" or customs duties.

After Zheng Haizhu listened, he said to Su Tai: "Fujin, in order to attract more businessmen to take this line, in the first two years, the residence tax can be changed from 30 taxes to 40 taxes, but Chahar can set up checkpoints in the direction of Mobei Mongolia, such as our Ming Yuegang and Songjiang Customs, and collect taxes. For example, in the Song and Yuan dynasties, there was a yamen called the City Ship Division, which collected 'lottery points'. Coarse goods take one out of fifteen, and fine goods take one out of ten. Or be more elaborate, list the various names, how much black brick tea, how much green leaf tea, how much black tea, how much fur and horses, how much wood and porcelain, and so on. ”

A tax lady listened attentively and couldn't help asking, "The grassland is so vast, what if the caravan bypasses those checkpoints?" ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "That's right, it sounds like it's harder to collect taxes than housing taxes." Not really. The ultimate goal of the merchants is to sell things smoothly and safely, so they will definitely gather in the mutual market. Whether they want to enter the mutual market in Chahar or the mutual market in Daning Town, they must first hand over the tariff vouchers, otherwise they will not be allowed to trade. ”

These tax-collecting Mongols were far more economically savvy than their compatriots who herded horses and sheep or guarded law and order.

Sure enough, another tax official cautiously said to Su Tai with a little excitement: "Fujin, if this trade route prospers, there will be more and more small traders in all directions, and we can put Yinzi money for them." ”

Yinzi money, similar to usury, and Zheng Haizhu's ticket number business that Zheng Haizhu is going to let Chang Jiagongzi carry out in advance are completely two models.

But at this moment, the Indian money has become a topic change.

Zheng Haizhu then praised: "This person is a knowledgeable businessman, and he wants capital." But with the capital, there is still a trouble with how to transport the silver. For example, tea, silk cloth, porcelain, etc., often cost thousands of taels of silver, and merchants like to travel together, and the border army cannot protect them all the way. Therefore, we Mingren can share the invoice number with Fujin. ”

Using a few teacups as examples, she briefly explained to the tax officials of Sutai and Mongolia what "exchange business" was.

Su Tai's cleverness, the pattern is far above the tax officials in his own fiefdom, he thought for a moment, and said to Zheng Haizhu sincerely: "What you said seems to be more appropriate than Yinzi money." The money may not be returned, and this ticket number, if the merchant has deposited silver in Daning Town, come to my Chahar to mention it, and the silver in Daning Town is the silver guarantee. ”

"Fu Jin Hui is very good, that's exactly the case, besides," Zheng Haizhu said bluntly, "The ticket number of Fu Jin and our Chang Gongzi should be the first, but you can also allow the businessmen next to you to issue the ticket number, it's a big deal, ask them to collect a financial regulatory tax every year, isn't it another entry?" ”

To Su Tai's ears, "financial regulation", like the words "ticket number" and "tariff", is unheard of, but after the explanation of the Ming woman in front of her, she can make herself clear and bring wealth to herself and her husband.

Su Tai became more and more happy the more he talked, and asked Zheng Haizhu to write down the results of the talks in Ming Mandarin, and then ordered several tax proposals to discuss into a suitable Mongolian language, and write another Mongolian version.

Subsequently, the queen of Chahar, and the envoy of the Ming Kingdom, the two women discussed the sand table in the tent one by one on the trade route from south to north, which sections belonged to the sovereignty of the Ming Dynasty and which sections belonged to the sovereignty of Chahar, how the two countries should garrison their troops, and they must not provoke each other without permission, and they must help each other when encountering the nuisance of the Manchurian Tartar invasion.

After talking like this for a long time, after the tax officials retreated one by one, Zheng Haizhu respectfully asked Su Tai with a slight doubt: "Fujin, why haven't you seen He Zhuo today?" I also promised her how to use our Nan Zhili stitch method to sew gray squirrel skin. ”

Su Tai said with an easy-going complexion: "I want to come all the way, she is sick, she is recuperating in the temple on the mountain, the medical officer has seen it, there is no major problem, just rest for a few days." ”

Zheng Haizhu was puzzled.

She already knew that Hodra had her own tent in Chahar, as Sutai's number one trusted lady-in-waiting, and that it had been taller and more ornate than the guest tent when she had seen it from a distance the other day.

In this icy and snowy season, I have to recuperate, and I can't live in such a warm vault, and live in the Huangjiao temple on the mountain?