Anmul looked at the snow-white salt in front of him and asked in disbelief.
In the past, the salt obtained on the grasslands was the same as the salt here in Daming. It was sea salt with large particles, many impurities, and a bitter taste. However, even this kind of salt was still difficult to buy on the grasslands.
"Of course, you can try it and see~"
Zhang An said with a smile.
When Anmul heard this, he dipped his finger into a little salt and tasted it, and his eyes suddenly couldn't help but squint.
Good salt, the taste is very pure, without a trace of bitterness.
"How much does a pound of salt cost?"
Anmul asked quickly.
"This salt is so cheap~"
"Only fifty cents per pound~"
Zhang An said.
"Fifty cents per pound?"
Anmur was dumbfounded again. This was too cheap. In the past, even when it was the cheapest, it would cost a sheep to exchange for one pound of salt on the grassland.
Now this sheep can be exchanged for almost ten kilograms of salt, and it is this kind of high-quality snow salt.
"Buy~buy~"
"Give me ten pounds of salt, no, I want a hundred pounds of salt~"
Anmul said quickly.
"One hundred pounds?"
This time it was Zhang An's turn to be dumbfounded. The other person's words were worth a hundred pounds of salt. This was too arrogant.
"Yes, give me a hundred pounds of salt~"
Anmul nodded solemnly and said, again, salt is so cheap, why not buy more.
One sheep can be exchanged for ten pounds of salt, and one hundred pounds is only ten sheep.
"Okay, okay, one hundred pounds of salt~"
Zhang An nodded quickly and asked someone to quickly weigh one hundred catties to Anmul.
"These are the freshest tea bricks and tea cups this year, and they are also very cheap, only thirty taels of silver a piece~"
After selling out the salt, Zhang An continued to sell it.
"Buy, here are ten tea bricks~"
Anmul said very proudly that a horse can be exchanged for ten bricks of tea. This tea is very cheap.
People in the grasslands all eat meat. If you eat meat for a long time without eating vegetables and fruits, you will suffer from indigestion, so tea is also a necessity on the grasslands.
The tea leaves at Anmul's house have been used up a long time ago. They have been eating meat for a long time without tea leaves, and their family has indigestion, so when they see the tea leaves, it is like seeing the lifeblood.
In the past, it would take a horse to buy one tea brick, but now one horse can buy ten tea bricks, and this time the tea bricks look very big and heavy.
"Okay, ten tea bricks~"
"Do you want to take a look at other things? This is snow sugar. You can try it. Add some sugar to it when you drink tea. It will taste very good."
"It's not expensive. This candy only costs one tael a pound. It's very sweet. It's the best sucrose produced here in Ryukyu. It's great to buy home for your children."
"And these pieces of cloth are also very cheap. It only costs one tael of silver per piece of cloth. You can buy a few pieces and go home to make new clothes for the children at home."
"Do you want this mirror?"
"This mirror is expensive. The smallest mirror costs one hundred taels of silver~"
"When our Ming Dynasty daughters get married, they all have to buy this kind of mirror."
"Do you want these grains, rice, flour? Eating meat every day is very tiring. Buy some rice, use a small pot like this, put some water in it to cook porridge, and add some meat to it, it will definitely be good."
"It's not expensive, it's not expensive. The rice is only twenty cents per catty, and the white flour is also twenty cents per catty. Your sheep can weigh more than twenty catties."
Zhang An constantly promoted every kind of goods brought from Ming Dynasty. The types of goods were very complete and the prices were very reasonable.
Zhang An sells one, and Anmul buys the same one, and once he buys it, he buys a lot.
Soon, the cattle, sheep and horses brought by her daughter and son were replaced by iron pots, bags, bags of salt, grain, cloth...
There were so many things that even their horses couldn't bring them all back at once.
At the same time, Anmul had no intention of stopping. This time, the Ming merchants brought too many things, and there were many good things that she needed to buy.
“It’s so cheap~”
Anmul took his children and rode a horse to pull a large amount of things back to the pasture where his home was located. He met other herdsmen along the way and quickly spread the word.
The other herdsmen were furious when they saw that she packed small bags with a few horses, a few cows, and a dozen sheep in exchange for so many things.
From all directions, the Naiman tribe herdsmen who received the news rushed towards the Naiman tribe headquarters with their cattle, sheep and horses.
Business is very booming.
Things are very cheap, the price is very fair, the quality is very good, and they are all goods that are in short supply on the grassland.
A large number of herdsmen came here driving cattle, sheep and horses, and then returned happily and laden with a lot of things.
Just like Anmur, everyone was eager to buy up everything in the hands of the Ming merchants.
They all feel that there is no such store after this village. If we don’t seize the opportunity to buy more, we may never be able to buy such cheap good things again.
Anmur dragged a large amount of things back to his pasture.
He quickly became busy.
This time, she was very extravagant and used five pots to cook at the same time.
In the largest iron pot, she directly slaughtered a sheep and stewed it with water; then she used a small pot to get some rice and more water to cook porridge.
One pot is used to boil water directly to prepare tea; the remaining two pots are used to stew mutton soup and the other to cook noodle soup.
This is the most extravagant experience she has had since she was sensible.
She had never seen anyone cook with five pots at once.
It’s meat, soup, rice, and tea. It’s so luxurious.
As the fire burned more and more intensely, bursts of meaty and incense aromas continued to spread out. Around her, the children's eyes were already shining and their saliva was drooling.
In the past, when her husband was still alive, he would go south to rob every year and always be able to grab a lot of good things from the Ming Dynasty.
People in the Ming Dynasty are different from them. They eat meat. People in the Ming Dynasty eat rice and noodles. The noodles are used to make noodle soup and the rice is used to cook porridge. They all taste great.
There is also salt. The lamb and lamb chops cooked in clear water and sprinkled with a little salt are extremely delicious. If you can add some seasonings such as pepper, it will be even more luxurious.
Now, these things are available.
And there were a lot of them. Looking at the inside of his tent, it was filled with good things that he had just exchanged from Ming merchants.
Soon, the water boiled first.
Anmul extravagantly knocked off a large piece of tea brick and threw it in. As the boiling water was boiling, the tea leaves gradually bloomed and turned into green leaves. At the same time, bursts of tea fragrance came, which made people laugh.
I couldn't help but swallow my saliva.
It’s really hard to live without tea.
I had indigestion and no way to supplement vitamins, and I couldn't even pull out a large penis.
After the tea is boiled, Anmur immediately adds fresh milk. When prairie people drink tea, they must add milk.
Fresh milk and tea are mixed together and kept boiling. The aroma of tea and milk is mixed together, making people swoon for a while.
Anmul filled his son with a cup from the porcelain cup he had just bought. Then he seemed to remember something, and quickly found the snow-white sugar, added a few spoonfuls of it, and stirred it.
“Delicious, so delicious~”
Her son was not afraid of being burned. He just took a sip and couldn't help but squint his eyes and praise it.
Qiqige couldn't wait to drink it. It was also sweetened with sugar, milk aroma, tea aroma, and the taste of sugar, which perfectly blended together and opened up her taste buds.
Anmul smiled, took a sip, and immediately opened his eyes slightly.
I have drank a lot of milk tea, but this was the first time I drank it with sugar. I didn’t expect it to taste so wonderful.
Soon, the entire pot of milk tea was consumed by their family, including the tea leaves.
After finishing the milk tea, the noodle soup and rice porridge were ready again. At the same time, the mutton and mutton soup were almost cooked. The family was very satisfied with the mutton soup, rice porridge and mutton.
"Maybe it's right to rely on the Ming Dynasty. You can get these things from the Ming Dynasty people without going south to plunder. It would be great if you could do it before."
After eating and drinking, Anmul couldn't help but think of her husband.
On the grassland, everyone is used to seeing life and death.
The grassland people have long been accustomed to this and have already made mental preparations for it.
Thinking about the past, every time her husband went south to rob, she would be on tenterhooks. Although she was able to gain a lot every time, she went there last year and never came back.
She became a widow, just like countless people in the Naiman tribe. There were many widows in the entire Naiman tribe, and there were many women, but there were not many adult men in sight.
In last year's battle, the entire Tatar tribe was severely weakened.
Life must go on.
After eating and drinking, she started to get busy again.
"Can this wool really be sold for money?"
Soon, when she was tidying up the sheepfold, she saw a large amount of wool, and she collected the wool with hesitation. All the wool was picked and collected.
There are too many things like wool on the grassland, and they are things that no one wants.
A sheep needs to shed its wool many times to grow from a lamb to a big sheep. It is summer now, when the lambs grow up rapidly, and the wool is shed very frequently and there is a lot of wool.
In the past, herdsmen on the grasslands would throw away these wools casually. Only the cashmere from a few lambs would be collected, and only the sheepskins peeled off when the sheep were killed would be kept.
I didn’t expect that these Ming people would buy wool now. This wool is dirty and messy. What use can it be?
With a trace of confusion, Anmul also began to collect wool.
It's useless stuff anyway, so it would be nice to be able to exchange it for something.
When she just started shopping, she still wanted to buy a lot of things, but she ran out of money.
She was going to collect the wool, catch up with some cows and horses, and bring back some things.
Many books also say that the wool of the sheep here is too rough and is not suitable for weaving. Well, I think it is fine here~
