The general nodded solemnly, "Of course it's true. The trading market is open in the city. After the leader pays a visit to the commander and allocates pastures, you can go to the trading market."
"Divided, divided into pastures?" Ahachu couldn't believe what he heard. He was overjoyed that Daming could accept them. He didn't expect that Daming would even give them pastures.
The general nodded, "Of course, as long as you sincerely join the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will give you a way to survive. Not only will it open up mutual markets for you, but it will also give you a dedicated pasture for your grazing life."
"The benevolence and righteousness of the Ming Dynasty are kept in mind, but why did the Ming Dynasty put the mutual trade inside the customs instead of outside the customs? If it were outside the customs, it would be more convenient to trade with the Ming, right?" Aha asked in confusion.
It would be convenient for you to keep Aha outside the customs when you watch him go out, but what if the mutual market is robbed by you? The Mongolian people are robbing people, and this mutual market has just opened, how can you leave it outside the customs?
"The leader should go and see the commander first. As for the mutual trading, the leader will know after he goes and sees for himself."
Ahachu reacted suddenly. He was busy talking and forgot that the commander-in-chief of the Ming army was still waiting. As a leader of a small tribe, he did not dare to keep the commander-in-chief of the Ming army waiting.
"Yes, yes, I don't dare to let the commander-in-chief stay for a long time. Please ask the general to lead the way." .??.
General Pian took Aha out to Fu Youde's commander's camp and asked him to wait at the door for a while. He walked into the commander's tent alone to report.
After a while, the general came out, tilted his head towards Aha and said, "Please, the commander-in-chief agrees to see you."
"Thank you, General." Aha did not ask for help from others and kept his posture very low.
After thanking the general, he followed him into the commander's tent.
I saw an old man who was not angry but was wearing armor, and his body was as straight as a handsome flagpole, sitting behind the desk.
"Commander, we have been brought here." General Pian stood up for a moment and immediately clasped his fists and said respectfully.
Fu Youde's face was serious, and he gently moved the fingers of his left hand twice, and Pian Jiang immediately straightened up and stood aside.
When Aha saw this, he quickly stepped forward and took the spear with the wolf tail hanging in his hand. He put his right hand on his chest and knelt down on one knee. "Aha from the Gulun tribe came out to pay homage to the Ming Dynasty Marshal. Today Aha led his troops to surrender."
, please also ask Ming Dynasty not to give up and take it in."
Fu Youde raised his hand to stroke his beard and said, "I am Fu Youde, Duke of Ying Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty."
Aha Chu was shocked when he heard this, and suddenly raised his head to look at the majestic Generalissimo in front of him in surprise. Fu Youde had been fighting against the Mongolian people at the border for many years, and his reputation among the Mongolian people could stop children from crying.
Aha Chu also grew up listening to the reputation of Fu Youde. Now when he saw the person he had been afraid of since he was young, his aura instantly dropped by a few percent and he became submissive.
"Aha went out to pay homage to Duke Ying of the Ming Dynasty, and begged the Ming Dynasty to give the Gulun tribe a place to stand. Aha from the Gulun tribe swore by the Changsheng Heaven to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and never betray him! If he disobeys, he will let the Changsheng Heaven
The plague was sent to dry up the water sources in the Gulun region, wither the water plants, and kill the cattle and sheep!"
"Hahaha, it's easy to talk," Fu Youde stood up happily and stepped forward to help Aha up personally. "As long as you truly surrender to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not treat you badly."
It seemed that Fu Youde was very generous, but before Aha Chu could stand up, he glanced at the general on the side.
It is necessary to say polite words, but since Aha Chu insists on swearing by the Immortal Heaven to show his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, how can such a thing be ignored simply by raising his hand and swearing?
For such a solemn event, of course, an incense burner and a sacrifice must be placed, and the oath must be solemnly made in public, preferably in full view of his tribe.
Just now, Fu Youde gave the commander a look, asking him to prepare these things.
In a square, the people of the Gu Lun tribe were gathered together. Aha stood in front of the incense table and solemnly made an oath in front of his tribe in the name of Changshengtian!
General Aha took the oath he swore in front of Fu Youde and re-swore it in front of his tribe. At Fu Youde's request, he asked his tribe to follow him in taking the oath.
After all the ceremonies were completed, Ahab looked at Fu Youde without saying anything.
Frankly speaking, Ahachu certainly did not want to lead his tribe to make such an oath. But the current situation was stronger than others. If he did not swear allegiance to the Ming Dynasty, he did not know whether his tribe could survive.
It was not impossible for Ming Dynasty to become angry and kill them all on the spot.
But now, he has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and the oath he should have made has been made. It is time for the Ming Dynasty to fulfill his promise.
Fu Youde never thought about tricking Aha out. When he saw Aha out, he knew what he was thinking. Without being secretive, Fu Youde waved his hand and shouted: "Bring up the map."
Two soldiers came forward carrying a prepared map hanging on a wooden frame and placed it next to Fu Youde.
Fu Youde pointed at the map, looked at Aha and said: "Your Gulun tribe was the first to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. This map has not been selected yet. You can choose a pasture on this map as your Gulun tribe."
The headquarters of the Ministry."
Aha Chu looked at the map, which was densely divided into pastures of about the same size. He was suddenly surprised and delighted. The pastures on the map looked about the same size, but there were also good and bad ones, and there was even a huge gap between good and bad.
After all, some places have abundant water and grass, which can easily support a large number of cattle and sheep. This is enough for most of the people, or even a tribe of tens of thousands, to survive.
But some places are so barren that they may not even be able to feed the hundreds of people in his clan.
Small tribes like the Gulun tribe, which live close to the Ming Dynasty, are no strangers to the Ming Dynasty. Not only everyone understands some daily Chinese, at least a few people understand it.
After hearing Fu Youde's words and explaining it to the tribe, the Gulun tribe members immediately couldn't stand.
Regardless of the fact that he was still in the Ming army, he called out to Aha, commanding him, hoping that he would choose that pasture.
At the same time, Ahachu and his tribe set their sights on a pasture, where there is abundant rainfall every year and lush vegetation. The most important thing is that it is just south of a mountain range that stretches for hundreds of miles. In winter, it can just protect the land from the cold coming from the north.
The wind blocked it.
When the cold winds from the north hit in winter, finding a shelter from the wind is the top priority on the grassland. Because as long as you find such a place, you can minimize the losses of cattle and sheep in winter.
This pasture originally belonged to Beiyuan Khan. In the past, not to mention small tribes like the Gulun tribe, even the Oara tribe and the Tatar tribe that they wanted to join did not dare to take advantage of this pasture.
Is this kind of pasture also something that the Gu Lun tribe can own?
Aha was not as excited as the tribesmen, but he asked Fu Youde tentatively: "May I ask Duke Ying, is it really the Gu Lun tribe's choice on the pasture on this map?"
Ahachu really couldn't believe that Ming Dynasty would let them choose the pasture that they regarded as a treasure.
Fu Youde laughed loudly, waved his hand suddenly and said: "Don't worry, these pastures are prepared for you tribes who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. And your Gulun tribe was the first to submit to the Ming Dynasty, so of course you can choose the pastures first. The pastures on this map,
It’s your choice.”
Ahachu couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart. He tentatively pointed to the best one in his mind, turned around and asked: "If the Gulun tribe chooses this pasture, will the Ming Dynasty really give this pasture to the Gulun tribe?"
"Of course." Fu Youde said nonchalantly, and then asked Aha, "Do you want this pasture?"
"Yes, I beg the Ming Dynasty to help the Gu Lun tribe." Aha couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and bowed respectfully to Fu Youde, his longing for this pasture was beyond words.
Fu Youde smiled and nodded. He did not talk to Aha anymore and directly ordered: "Someone comes and presents the seal."
Then he said to Aha Chu: "Your Gu Lun tribe only has a few hundred people, so I can only grant you a hundred households. However, since you are the first to join the Ming Dynasty, I have the final say to grant you a thousand households."
"Thank you so much, Lord Ying, and thank you so much, Ming Dynasty." Ahachu didn't have any doubts in his heart anymore, and handed over the seal with great surprise.
He took the official conferment book with both hands.
Fu Youde smiled and corrected him, "You should not thank me, you should thank the emperor for his great kindness."
"Yes, yes, Aha Chu thanks the Ming Emperor for his kindness in taking in the Gu Lun tribe. The Gu Lun tribe will always be loyal to His Majesty the Ming Emperor." A Ha Chu quickly corrected himself, turned around and kowtowed respectfully towards the south.
"It's done~"
After Ahachu straightened up, he looked at the seal and the certificate of the ranch in his hand, and couldn't help but feel anxious.
"I would like to ask Duke Ying, although Xiaobu has received this pasture as a gift from His Majesty the Ming Emperor, what should we do if someone wants to seize it in the future?"
Fu Youde gave him a comforting look, "Don't worry, since you have joined the Ming Dynasty, you are a member of the Ming Dynasty. As long as you keep your peace, if someone tries to seize your pasture, the Ming Dynasty will not sit idly by. Anyone who joins the Ming Dynasty will not do anything.
The tribes all need to graze in their own pastures and must not attack each other."
"Then, our guild will send a young man to follow you to the ranch. With him watching, if anyone dares to seize your ranch, Daming will definitely seek justice for you."
With Fu Youde's promise, the last worry in Ahachu's heart was solved. He was overjoyed and kept bowing to Fu Youde, "Thank you, Duke Ying, and thank you, His Majesty the Ming Emperor, for your gift." ??
As for whether the people sent by the Ming Dynasty were monitoring him, Aha Chu had not thought about it. After all, he was just a small tribe before, how could he think of such a complicated problem?
Besides, even if he knew that Ming was spying on him, he didn't care. He only cared that if there were people from Ming in the clan, other tribes that would submit to Ming would definitely not dare to attack him without permission.
"Go, go and see the trade market that you have been thinking about, and see what you can exchange for it." Fu Youde saw that the matter was over, and said with a smile, "Now the ranch is given to you. After the trade trade, you will take your people to the ranch to settle down.
Come down."
"Thank you so much, Lord Ying." Aha thanked him again.
At the same time, when he heard the word "mutual trading", his mood couldn't help but become enthusiastic.
After bidding farewell to Duke Ying, Aha led his tribe to the mutual market place.
Although this place is quite simple in Daming's eyes, in the eyes of Aha Chu and others, it is already considered very good.
When they walked into the mutual market, Ahachu and his tribe saw piles of various goods. The first thing that struck their eyes was flour, and the purpose of Ahachu and others was to hope that they could exchange for some goods in the mutual market.
Food so that his tribe can get through this year.
"How do you sell this grain?" Aha pretended to be sophisticated, reaching out and pinching a handful of flour, and asked the grain seller.
The clerk was recruited by the Ming Dynasty Royal Grain Industry. He has been here for almost half a month and there is no business at all. If he had been a merchant, he would have been impatient to wait, packed up his things and left.
But he was just a clerk employed by the Ming Dynasty Royal Grain Industry. The supervisor didn't tell him to leave, so he couldn't go anywhere and could only stay here honestly.
Fortunately, the wages would not cost him a penny, and the leisurely days made him very satisfied.
It was the first time that I finally saw a Mongolian person walking into the exchange market. The clerk immediately became energetic. He was not afraid of the rumored Mongolian people. Instead, he smiled and replied: "This guest has good eyesight. This is Henan."
A fat sheep can be exchanged for two hundred kilograms of fine flour."
Although the Meng Yuan people were as terrifying as gods and demons in the eyes of people in the past. However, since the Ming Dynasty drove Bei Yuan to the grassland and even completely destroyed the Bei Yuan Imperial Court, the people of the Ming Dynasty's view of the Meng Yuan people has changed.
Definitely, these Meng Yuan people who were boasted to be brave and ferocious were nothing more than this. The fear in their hearts gradually disappeared and they became indifferent. After all, when Meng Yuan fought against the Ming Dynasty, they almost always lost more than they won.
It is difficult to make the people of the Ming Dynasty fear a defeated general!
Aha Chu was shocked when he heard this and asked quickly: "Is it a live sheep?"
"Of course it's a live sheep." The man smiled and nodded.
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A big fat sheep is exchanged for two hundred kilograms of grain. It seems that Aha will suffer a loss and make a fortune, but this is not the case.
Every time the Central Plains Dynasty opened trade to grassland tribes, it was a completely condescending sales method, similar to hunger marketing.
The fundamental reason for this situation is that the Central Plains’ demand for grassland cattle and sheep is not essential. If the Central Plains buys cattle and sheep, they will only eat meat.
But in the past, the vast majority of the people could not afford beef and mutton. Therefore, the grasslands sold more and less cattle and sheep to the Central Plains, and even cut off mutual trade and sold none to the Central Plains. How should the people of the Central Plains live?
It’s exactly the same kind of life as I live.
But conversely, the goods from the Central Plains are completely different for the grassland. Which of these things, such as iron pots, salt, and tea, are not necessary for the grassland people?
With an iron pot, you can cook beef and mutton and eat it, instead of roasting it on the fire and eating it half-cooked with a knife. Among the grassland people, if you have an iron pot, it is really worthy of being passed down from family to family.
's baby.
As the saying goes, one pot is passed down to three generations, and the pot remains when people leave.
The role of tea cannot be ignored. People on the grasslands eat meat and dairy products as their staple food. If they eat too much of these things, they will be deficient in vitamins. Once people are deficient in vitamins, they will develop all kinds of weird diseases. Tea can be very good.
To make up for the lack of vitamins, drinking a little tea from time to time can even cure their illnesses without medicine.
Therefore, tea is also regarded as a miracle medicine on the grassland because it can treat so many diseases, each of which can make people miserable.
These materials of the Ming Dynasty were necessities for the grassland people, and the cattle and sheep of the grassland were dispensable to the Ming Dynasty. As a result, an inversion of trade was formed.
Therefore, after the Meng Yuan people learned about the opening of mutual markets in the Ming Dynasty, they risked their lives and decided to give it a try.
Therefore, the price that the Ming Dynasty sold to the grassland tribes in the mutual market was very high. Take food as an example. Food is not considered a necessity for the grassland people, but those merchants who secretly sold food to the grassland tribes at a very high price.
Yes, a big fat sheep is exchanged for fifty pounds of grain.
At first glance, it seems impossible for the grassland people to agree to such an outrageous price. After all, meat is also food. You can still be full if you eat a pound of meat, and the effect is even better than eating a pound of grain.
But that’s not how the account is calculated. Take sheep as an example. After a live sheep is slaughtered, after removing the fur, blood, internal organs and other things, the meat and bones are only half the weight of the live sheep. If the bones are removed, it is only half the weight of the live sheep.
Thirty-four percent weight.
If it is cooked in water, the final cooked meat will only be 2.5% of the weight of the live sheep.
If a live sheep weighs 100 kilograms, the cooked meat that can be obtained in the end is only 25 kilograms.
And this live sheep can be exchanged for fifty kilograms of grain. Just think of it as flour. One kilogram of flour plus water can make at least two kilograms of paste. In this way, fifty kilograms of grain,
It can become a hundred pounds.
It's the same food, 25 jins and 100 jins, how can the grassland people not change?
What's more, after eating too much meat, the need for food will become very strong. This also prompted the grassland people to choose to exchange even if it takes two pounds of live sheep to get one pound of grain.
willing.
And now the price offered to them by the Ming Dynasty Mutual Market is one sheep for two hundred kilograms of grain, which is directly four times that of those private traders. How can this not surprise Aha so much that he can't believe his ears?
"A fat sheep is exchanged for two hundred kilograms of grain, are you sure you're right?" This price frightened Aha so much that he couldn't believe it. After all, he had just sworn allegiance to the Ming Dynasty to Changshengtian. If the person in front of him had
If the price is wrong and he suffers a loss, that would be bad.
The waiter nodded affirmatively again, "You heard that right, and it's not that I misquoted the price. It's just a fat sheep for two hundred kilograms of grain."
Aha was overjoyed, and just when he was about to nod his head and exchange a batch of grain, he was suddenly disturbed by the voice of a tribesman next to him.