1420, the day when the caravan arrives is a festival
Yang Fan went to the Onan River to ignore the Yate people. The donkey eggs were left on the shore of Hulun Lake. There were also two boats left behind.
Arms were being unloaded on a ship. Three thousand Japanese iron cannons, ten thousand kilograms of lead bullets, and one thousand gunpowder were transferred from Donkey Egg to Salivan. Salivan was a tabunan of the Chechen Khanate, and also
The son-in-law of Shuolei Khan. He is a confidant and deeply trusted.
Shuolei Khan had already made up his mind to equip all of these muskets in his own bodyguards. He made an agreement with Yang Fan that these muskets could be used to purchase a piece of land, which Yang Fan could use to build Manzhouli City. The address was also divided.
It is located in the northwest corner of Hulun Lake, with a length of ten kilometers and a width of ten kilometers.
Yang Fan promised that in addition to building a dock in Hulun Lake, no more than a thousand troops would be stationed in the city. Yang Fan planned to develop this place into a commercial hub city.
After visiting the firearms shooting, Shuolei Khan had a strong desire to buy firearms. He planned to buy some artillery with Yang Fan. Yang Fan had a lot of tiger squatting cannons, various calibers of Ming Dynasty general cannons, and second general cannons.
Three general cannons... and even French cannons are not impossible to sell to him.
Because he proposed an exchange condition that Yang Fan could not refuse. That was sand gold.
Yang Fan has always loved gold the most, because the fee he pays for teleportation is gold.
In the case of the Napoleon cannon that Yang Fan has now popularized, the squatting cannons and the like that he captured in previous wars have no place other than to be recycled, so they can simply be sold to Shuolei.
Yang Fan has already sent a telegram asking Jeju Island to ship it as soon as possible.
After Lu Dan completed the handover, everything was fine. According to Yang Fan's instructions, the officers and soldiers could take turns to take leave. When Yang Fan came back, Lu Dan found a piece of flat land on the shore, cleared the snow, and set up a tent so that the officers and soldiers could stay here.
The herdsmen trade freely.
This made the officers and soldiers interested. They have a lot of their own personal belongings, which are good things here. The Mongols will definitely like them. And they also like the precious skins here. If they take them back, they can sell them for a lot of money. They are all servants.
People from the pirate group and some sailors from the fleet.
They exchanged their own things for the herdsmen's things, and they could make a lot of money by selling these things to Nagasaki. It was also quite cold in Japan, and the dignitaries also needed furs for the winter. In addition, the Yangban nobles in southern Korea would also buy these things.
Don’t worry about sales.
Shuolei Khan originally talked with Yang Fan about officially launching trade in the spring of next year. Because Yang Fan could not stay for a few days before he had to return. Because the river was about to be closed, the ship would be frozen in the water at night, and he could only wait until next year to return.
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Unexpectedly, the sailors brought by Yang Fan spontaneously held a flea market. They set up street stalls and took out their own things to exchange with the herdsmen. Suddenly, it caused a sensation in the entire camp.
More than half a million people spend the winter here and within a hundred miles nearby. This is the center of the winter camp. After the news spread, many nearby herdsmen came to attend the market.
Because the caravan from the Sable Road did not come this year, they were all disappointed. Although I don't know what these Han people have, after all, they are an army and not a caravan. However, idleness in the winter is idle, so you might as well come and have a look.
lively.
In fact, they are too idle in winter. It is the nature of all ethnic groups to watch the excitement, and everyone is the same. Just go shopping with your wife and children.
Wei Dahu took his general banner, a total of thirty brothers, and set up a street stall by the lake. They did not follow Yang Fan, their mission was to stay here.
What the thirty-one brothers brought out for trade were all personal items. In front of Zhang Xiao was a rag, with three towels, two pieces of soap, ten cans of lunch meat and a ten-pound bag of fried noodles on it.
These are the supplies issued to him. Yang Fan is a wealthy person, so they can't use them all. Therefore, these animals often use these things to go to the secret door.
The girls in the secret door are very rare for these military supplies. Because these things are very easy to sell and can earn much more than giving money. There are special people who buy them and then sell them to the rich people in the capital. You can’t buy these things in supermarkets.
Wherever Yang Fan's army is active, these items are in hot demand.
Yang Fan only strictly prohibited gambling, and he didn't bother to care about these trivial matters. The army is a high-risk profession, and the spirit is highly stressful, especially during wartime. The psychological pressure of officers and soldiers is high. These activities that the people of the Ming Dynasty loved to see can help alleviate
Nervous. So Yang Fan didn't care at all.
Soon, a strong man who was about two meters tall like Wei Dahu came to the stall with his wife, a son, and a daughter. He gestured and asked him what the towels were for.
Zhang Xiao demonstrated it to them, and they immediately screamed in surprise. This thing is so useful for wiping water.
"I want both of these towels. I'll give you a handful of sand gold, how about one." The strong man said angrily. This guy could actually speak simple Chinese.
Zhang Xiao was dumbfounded. What is this situation? Is the gold here so worthless?
Seeing that Zhang Xiao didn't say anything, the strong man grabbed three handfuls of alluvial gold from his pocket with his big hands like cattail leaf fans and placed them on the rags.
"Three piles of gold, yours. Three towels, mine." The strong man took his wife and children away.
Only then did Zhang Xiao react. He quickly took out the kettle, poured three piles of sand gold into the kettle, and then tightened the lid. He was afraid of spilling a little bit. Oh my god, it was eight taels of gold!
In the Ming Dynasty, one pound weighed 600 grams, sixteen taels, which was equivalent to 300 grams of alluvial gold. Although these alluvial gold was impure, 200 grams of pure gold could still be obtained.
Wei Dahu also opened a business. He sold the leather boots he made last year and exchanged them for three pieces of sable skin, enough to make a hat.
Sable, also known as sable and commonly known as big leaf, is a precious and rare fur animal.
Sable fur is a fine-haired fur. It has fine skin, strong and durable, rich velvet, flexible guard hairs, glossy color, gorgeous and soft texture, and has always been regarded as a treasure. Furs made of sable fur are warm in the wind, and the fingertips are like flames.
, it won’t get wet when wet, and it will disappear immediately if it touches snow.
In the Qing Dynasty, it was stipulated that only the royal family and princes and ministers of second or higher rank could wear mink fur. This shows how precious it is.
Compressed biscuits are also welcomed by herdsmen. They like these biscuits sealed in tinplate cans very much. By eating only a small piece, they can go without eating for a day. It is really amazing.
They graze their herds and sleep in the open, often without food. It's great to have this thing.
These animals soon discovered that the Mongols also loved sweets. Their daily rations for individual soldiers included candies and chocolates that fetched good prices.
A handful of sand gold can be exchanged for a 2-tael piece of dark chocolate wrapped in tinfoil, or ten fruit candies.
These animals sold almost everything they didn't use. Last year's cotton clothes, cotton jackets, old boots. Some even sold all their medicines. They were beaten with military sticks by donkey eggs.
