When he came out of the Heshutmo tribe, the 5,000 catties of wine that Kakar brought had turned into 100 war horses.

And this was not enough, Kings placed an order for 50,000 catties of wine from Carral, but Karal refused, and finally only gave him a place of 30,000 catties.

It's not that Yunzhou County can't get so much wine, but I said before that there is little wine, and in the blink of an eye, you can give as much as people want, doesn't this make people find out that you are fooling him?

So there is still a need to bargain, and although Kings is dissatisfied with not meeting his requirements, he also understands that spirits are scarce and there are not so many normal reasons, but he did not say anything.

The number was finally accepted.

And the same as Karar, the people who were assigned to sell wine in other medium-sized tribes also returned with a full load, and 25,000 catties of wine were sold for five tribes in exchange for 500 high-quality war horses.

And the Great Khans of those tribes, like Kingles, placed more orders, and they all agreed.

In this way, when they returned with 500 war horses, Yunzhou County officially determined that they could exchange wine for horses, so they began to make spirits in larger quantities.

After all, there is a shortage of 160,000 horses in their warhorses!

That's only 500 horses, which is far from enough to meet their needs.

But at the same time, after a simple calculation, Fan Zheng, who was in charge of this matter, suddenly realized that he was thinking too simply.

2,500 catties of liquor can only be exchanged for 500 horses, which means that he needs to use 8 million catties of liquor to exchange for the war horses he needs.

That's eight million catties!

Not 800,000, not 80,000!

The amount of food required for such a huge amount of food is enough for nearly 100 million grains!

Even if you are willing to produce so much, there may not be so much wine in the Kannai, and the turbid wine alone is an astronomical amount, although there is stock in the Kannai, but it is not so stocked, and buying it in large quantities is likely to attract the attention of the Kannai.

And with so much wine, even these small and medium-sized tribes can't digest it.

So I had to think of some other way to trade with each other with just spirits.

So what else is there that will not increase the opponent's combat effectiveness, but also what the opponent desperately needs, and can also be given out by himself?

Fan Zheng pondered for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he immediately went to the Yunwang Mansion to seek authorization.

After listening to his proposal, Zhao Jun directly agreed.

So, when the first generation of "salesmen" of these grasslands went to the grassland with the second batch of spirits, in addition to the spirits, they also brought another commodity - tea bricks!

That's right, even if it's a tea brick, you don't need to have a lot of good tea, you just need to make tea bricks made from the tea residue of those teas.

Because of the diet, the grassland people will extremely need tea to relieve greasy, and the supply of tea is still available on the Naturalized Tatar side because of the backing of the Great Song Dynasty.

But for the Outer Tatars, tea was what they longed for, and they originally obtained it through the four major families.

But later, the smuggling of the four major families was solved by Zhao Jun, and the Tatars in the southern steppes lost their access to tea.

Later, the entire small tribe of the southern grassland was almost robbed by Yunzhou County, and the people were all pulled back as slaves.

Even the largest tribe was beaten by Yunzhou County, and even the medium-sized tribe was inferior.

In this way, the Tatars of the southern steppes are no longer troubled by tea, and there is no need for tea when people are gone.

However, the newly migrated Tatar tribes, such as the Heshutmer tribes, needed tea, but they could only obtain a certain amount of tea from the royal court each year.

The royal court had access to tea from the Central Plains.

But that is far from enough, every year too many people in the tribe because of the lack of tea, and because of long-term meat eating, serious illness or even direct death.

When these first-generation "salesmen" brought tea bricks, which no one would even look at in the Great Song Pass, that is, ordinary people were unwilling to drink, to the tribes, it immediately caused a sensation.

Compared with spirits, tea bricks are what they need more urgently, and even many times in the history of the northern grasslands, it is because of the lack of tea that they have started a war against the Central Plains.

And now the Great Song Dynasty will have a certain amount of tea flowing to the grassland every year, such a large quantity, do the Great Song Dynasty officials really not know?

No! They knew, but they acquiesced.

As long as it is not blatant and there are too many of them, the Great Song Dynasty officials acquiesce most of the time, which can also better stabilize the bilateral situation.

Compared with the calm when bringing the spirits, when the "salesmen" took out the tea bricks, the material of these tribal khans was instantly like a June day, and the faces of children changed.

Smiles instantly piled up on their faces, and the "salesman" became a guest of honor.

All sorts of specialties are served, and even if the "salesman" is willing to spend the night in the tribe, several of the tribe's best-looking women will burrow into your felt tent in the middle of the night to make you comfortable all night.

And all they want is a larger share of the tea bricks.

Like wine, they also have restrictions on tea bricks.

Therefore, in order to be able to obtain more share of tea bricks for their tribes, these tribes can be said to have done their best.

And the "salesmen" are also very acquainted with each other, and in the end, they reluctantly increased the number of tea bricks sold.

The price of tea bricks refers to the fact that a horse sold to the grassland in other parts of the Great Song Dynasty can be exchanged for 120 catties of tea, which is 12 grates, while Yunzhou County only promised to exchange 10 grates for the price of a horse.

(Grate - one of the ancient units of measurement, is the meaning of a bamboo basket.)

The reason for this is that the grassland people do not know how to count, so in order to facilitate the calculation, they use bamboo baskets to calculate the weight.

A bamboo basket is about 10 catties, but due to the different goods, the weight will continue to differ. ）

For this price, the tribes that are extremely scarce in tea bricks have no objections, and it is good to be able to exchange for tea bricks, as long as it is not too excessive, they are all acceptable.

As a result, in addition to spirits, the tea brick trade in Yunzhou County became popular again on the grasslands.

And because of the large number of products brought this time, the customers of the "salesmen" are no longer limited to medium-sized tribes, but also those small tribes are their target customers.

After all, mosquitoes are small, but they are also meat!

Yunzhou County needs a lot of war horses, and it is not enough to rely on medium-sized tribes alone.

It still takes a large number of small tribes to be able to provide the big heads.

In this way, unconsciously, the small and medium-sized tribes of the entire southern grassland have become customers of Yunzhou County.

The tea and wine trade and tea and horse trade between the two sides were very numerous and became popular.

The new big tribes in the southern steppes didn't know anything about it, and they were kept in the dark.

Everyone had a tacit understanding to hide from them, and quietly made a deal with Yunzhou County.

And Yunzhou County successfully exchanged a large number of war horses for the county through this tea and wine trade!

The abundance of war horses also allowed the cavalry units, which were originally limited by the shortage of war horses, to quickly expand and train.

Everything seems to be on track......

(End of chapter)