Chapter 139: Wu Clan's Horse
"The caravan sent to the Huns, Erchen has actually thought about it!"
Brother Win Changsheng said.
He did, already.
Even, a candidate has been found.
This person is not an outsider, it is the Great Qin Empire, a big businessman on the same level as Baqing.
His name is Wu Shilu.
Previously, Wang Jian had mentioned this person to Ying Changsheng.
For this person, Win Changsheng can be regarded as having some understanding.
This person can go in and out of the steppe, trade cattle and sheep with the Huns.
Naturally, you can, go to the Huns and sell wine.
Speaking of which, these years.
There are really not many things that Great Qin can trade with the Xiongnu.
The Huns needed the iron tools of Daqin and the excellent equipment of Daqin.
However, the problem is that Daqin is not very good at selling this thing.
The reason is simple.
This thing is a case of the country.
It's like the Hereafter.
No country will sell its own researched and most recent modern weapons.
For Daqin.
Sophisticated iron preparation, sophisticated armor, that is a major reason for Great Qin, to maintain military strength.
Although, there is some weaponism too.
However, the advantages of weapons and equipment are always much stronger than the disadvantages, right?
In such a situation.
Daqin categorically would not sell weapons to the Huns, not even iron and bronze.
As for the tea trade and porcelain trade that gradually flourished in the northern trade in later generations?
Well, this thing, in Daqin now, has not developed itself.
Nowadays, Daqin mainly uses utensils.
Except that it is bronze.
The rest, it's lacquerware!
Bronzes are a product of an old era.
It was from the time of the Xia Shang Zhou.
It is a mainstream appliance that has been handed down.
This thing represents nobility and luxury.
The identity and status of the aristocracy.
And lacquerware.
It was the Warring States period after the Spring and Autumn Period, with the prosperity of some lower-class people, coupled with the development of technology.
The lacquerware, which is extremely exquisite, and has a large number of delicate patterns painted on it, has also entered people's field of vision.
Gradually replacing people's favorites.
Incarnate into the mainstream of the appliance.
However, whether it is lacquerware or bronze ware, the Huns will probably not use it.
Lacquerware is too flashy.
Compared to those who like to make utensils from human skulls, lacquerware is really difficult, and it is really difficult for them to like it, and it is really difficult for them to buy and use it in large quantities.
And the bronze?
Daqin will definitely not sell it!
After the bronze is melted, it can be used to craft weapons.
Although, bronze is much worse than iron.
But even so, Daqin would not sell it.
As for the tea trade in later generations?
That's even more unlikely!
The current Great Qin Empire.
It's not that there is no tea.
In fact, the history of tea in China is still very long.
It's just that tea, at the moment, is just used as a medicinal material.
The style of drinking tea has not yet become popular in China.
There are not so many tea trees that can pick tea, in this case, want to go to the Xiongnu side and sell tea?
It's just wishful thinking.
In such a situation, wine is the best trade product.
This thing, not to mention the deliciousness.
It can also be used on the grassland to protect against the cold when the cold winter comes.
Moreover, it can also paralyze people's nerves.
For the Huns, it couldn't have been better.
At this moment, I only saw Win Changsheng, and Brother Chaozheng said with a smile.
"Father, from the Wu clan to the grassland, and then sell wine, isn't it?"
"Wu Shi Lu?"
Hearing Ying Changsheng and mentioning this name, Ying Zheng's eyes lit up instantly, and he remembered this famous businessman in Daqin.
Wu Shilu, of course Ying Zheng understands.
This person, through his own means, once obtained some precious war horses for the Great Qin trade.
Therefore, Win the government and canonize this person as a feudal king.
I saw it, and Ying Zheng slapped his thigh.
"Then send Wu Shilu, the trade in the past is good, but I am still a little worried, this is a good thing to sell wine, you can, buy the cattle and sheep that I need in Daqin, as for the horses? Let's not buy it, this time I'm Daqin, I have captured enough horses from the Huns, and no matter how much I have, I won't be able to raise ......"
Hearing Ying Zheng's words, Ying Changsheng bowed slightly.
Daqin, there is indeed no shortage of horses.
Well, more than 300,000 fine war horses were captured in one go.
Moreover, he successfully defeated the Huns in the north.
Brother Zheng has now asked Meng Tian to leave more than 100,000 horses in the Hetao area on the edge of the Great Wall, and then use them to establish a horse farm and raise horses by himself.
After all, horses are in the future, quite a long time inside.
They are all indispensable strategic resources on the battlefield.
Therefore, Daqin couldn't rely on buying horses to maintain his own cavalry.
You can only raise horses by yourself!
Therefore, half of the captured war horses were replenished to the army.
Used to arm, 100,000 iron horsemen.
The rest was left in the local area by Brother Zheng, and used as a stallion.
With these horses, in the future, Daqin can raise and breed horses by himself, and he doesn't need to introduce them from the Xiongnu side at all.
In such a situation, it is natural to win the government, and there is no need for Wu Shilu to exchange wine for the horses of the Huns.
Of course, in this case, the Huns could not agree - they were also aware of the importance of war horses, and they were not willing to sell them to Daqin.
Of course, if it's cattle and sheep, that's fine.
Because there are too many cattle and sheep on the grassland, you can't eat them all.
It's perfect to be able to exchange it for alcohol!
"Let the Wu clan come to sell wine, naturally, the Huns will probably agree, but I ask you kid, if you sell wine, there are a lot of Huns, can you provide enough wine?"
"Erchen can of course be!"
Win Changsheng said without thinking.
"Sweet potatoes are worthless, they are used to make wine, it is very suitable, and Erchen can build a few more pots!"
"By the way, father, the barbarians in the north are not the only Huns, we can also go to Donghu to sell wine!"
"Hmm!"
Winning Zheng heard this, and nodded slightly.
"This matter, go back and hand it over to Wu Shilu to do!"
"In addition to letting him do this, according to what you said, let him put some people from the imperial court in the caravan, and go along the way to explore the customs and customs of the grassland, and also draw a map......
Ying Zheng said.
Immediately, he frowned again.
"However, there are exactly the same scenes everywhere on the grassland, and there is no city, villages for reference, and it is not easy to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, what can you do to solve it?"