Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 240 Liao King Zhu Qi is too vicious!

The business between Nahachu and Daming went very smoothly. Daming sold all kinds of metals, and Nahachu sold the excellent fodder for those war horses to Daming.

Later, not only the feed for the war horses, but also the food stored in the grassland, such as beef and mutton, began to be sold.

In Nahachu's opinion, there is nothing that cannot be sold. Anyway, there has been no war recently. Selling these stored jerky to Daming can be exchanged for a sum of money.

And wouldn't it be better to use these banknotes to buy precious metals?

Things like iron ore are in short supply on the grasslands.

Now that Da Ming is willing to trade, of course he should buy as much as he can, lest there will be conflicts later, if Da Ming is unwilling to trade, that would be bad.

There are naturally not a few nobles on the grassland who think like Nahachu.

On the other hand, Daming does not refuse anyone. I want all the jerky and other things you have.

Anyway, just print a little money in the back and buy it.

It costs a little labor or something, but there is no other cost at all.

Daming is naturally happy to use these banknotes to exchange the feed and beef jerky on the grassland. As for selling those metal iron ore to the grassland, he is not afraid at all.

Anyway, with the iron and steel of His Royal Highness Liao Wang, even if the iron ore metal is sold to the grassland, the weapons trained there are not my opponents at all, so why panic?
Instead, it was purchased from the grassland, and more and more raw materials came in. At first, it was just coloring materials, but later it was more grain.

Except for Nahachu who was doing business with Daming, the other prairie nobles became anxious when they saw Nahachu doing business with Daming and bought so many metal parts.

Hastily started contacting Daming, for no other reason, because the grassland is not like the Central Plains, which completely accepts the commander of a court.

The grassland is divided into various tribes. These tribes have great autonomy and can annex other tribes, but the central court often does not take care of it.

Because of this, if the power of your own tribe becomes smaller and is not as good as others, it is likely to face the annexation of others.

And at this time, the central court can't save you, and the only thing that can save you is the weapon in your hand.

So when I got there, I said that after the number of irons and other things in my hand increased, if I didn't quickly expand my armaments, I couldn't guarantee that I wouldn't be attacked by Naha from behind.

After all, Naha had also used this method to sneak attack on Azha Shili before he came out. Just look at the tragedy of Azha Shili back then, it was obvious to all the leaders of the grassland tribes.

It was this sense of urgency that caused the nobles of the grasslands to start an arms race with Naha, and began to continuously purchase weapons from Daming.

And when there are more and more sellers providing fodder and food, Daming naturally has the right to choose and lower the price.

For example, today I bought a lot of beef jerky from Naha. If anyone wants to get involved in this business tomorrow, the price must be negotiated.

It can't be more expensive than the ones sold by Naha, and besides these, the tribal leaders will also take the initiative to cut prices to negotiate business with Daming. As long as they sell metal iron ore, any price can be negotiated.

Ever since, there was a steady stream of people from Daming's side, and masters from the grassland tribes came to make contact.

As for the price in Daming, it is naturally getting lower and lower, but the price is low and the volume is not much different for those grassland tribes.

Anyway, after getting the banknotes, I went to buy metal as soon as possible.

But as they bought and bought, they found that the price of these metals seemed to be getting more and more expensive.

And Daming's explanation is also very simple, as more people buy it, the price will naturally go up.

You can't talk about the price, let's keep it as before, wouldn't it be a loss.

So Daming not only kept the price lower and lower, but also charged more and more, and later began to default on the payment.

The so-called payment in arrears means asking the grassland to send a large amount of dried meat, grain, and fodder to Daming, and then give a deposit first, and then pay in installments later.

Naturally, the prairie side was not happy at first. How can there be a business like this?

It must be delivery with one hand and payment with the other hand. Those tribal leaders were not happy at first, and some even shouted, if you don’t pay us, we will definitely not give the goods, etc.

However, their morale didn't last long. One of the tribes quickly took the initiative to deliver the goods, and after agreeing to owe the money, Da Ming obviously reduced the business with other tribes.

Instead, take the initiative to contact this tribe and give them more business, import more food and fodder from them, and sell them more metal minerals.

To be honest, people don’t really care about selling grain. If you sell your grain, whether I keep it for sale or not is the same thing.

But seeing other tribes continuously importing minerals and weapons from Daming, those tribes panicked.

As I said before, the grassland tribes are closely organized from the Ming side, but they are not the same at all. They only obey the central court in name, but in fact they still fight on their own. There are often various conflicts between tribes. All kinds of battles.

If the weapons and equipment are not sophisticated enough, if they are defeated by other tribes, they will not be able to admit defeat and get the job done.

Not only the things of his own tribe will be robbed, but also people will be robbed, and he, the leader of the tribe, may even be beheaded.

People like Azashili who can survive after being defeated are a minority among the few.

Because of this, as soon as they heard about other tribes, they took a lot of weapons and equipment from Daming.

Everyone panicked all of a sudden, and everyone was scrambling to get weapons and equipment, even if they paid in installments, they were happy.

But Daming is not so easy to talk to here. If you want to get weapons and equipment, we will sell them to you. When I wanted to sell them to you, I was not willing to do business. It's not that I don't give money.

Don't talk about credit on this grassland, even if you don't pay, you are happy.

As long as Da Ming is willing to sell things like ironware to the grassland, those tribes are willing.

Soon the business between Daming and the tribes on the grassland grew bigger and bigger.

But they didn't realize that the food in the tribes became less and less. In winter, many tribes were almost unable to uncover the pots, but there were a lot of ironware and so on.

If they can't get rid of the pot usually, they will definitely be very panic and nervous, but now they are not panic at all.

With so many weapons and equipment, you won't starve to death anyway, and soon those tribes organized to fight the autumn wind.

Although they are now doing business with Daming, it is only an official relationship. It is not uncommon for people from these tribes to pretend to be bandits and rob a village or two across the Great Wall.

They always succeeded before, but this time it seemed completely different.

That is the weapon in the hands of the Ming Dynasty army before, which seems to be completely different from before.

They didn't think much of it and patted their horses and rushed up.

Then he was beaten to pieces by the sophisticated steel weapons in the hands of those soldiers.

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When Zhu Qi received the battle report, he also had a confused expression on his face. As expected, those tribes really went south to rob the people in the pass after they had weapons.

After all, they were originally from robbery, and it is a habit to rely on robbery if they have nothing to eat.

This is why they are willing to sell grain to Daming so easily.

I was already thinking about grabbing something to eat, so why do you care about it?

It's just that Zhu Qi's steel has already been equipped in Liaoyang. Many of the border guards in Liaodong are equipped with newly refined steel weapons and armors. It goes without saying that their combat effectiveness is of course.

Flintlocks and other gadgets have not yet been installed. The armor and weapons made of steel alone have already beaten those people who went up and down the Beiyuan Grassland to fight the autumn wind.

The opponent's weapons couldn't break armor at all. Just a confrontation with the soldiers of Ming Dynasty had already caused a gap in the weapons, and even some weapons of poor quality were directly chopped into two pieces.

Needless to say, the weapons are gone, so naturally there is no chance of winning.

And this is not bad, at least life is still saved, but those who encounter the grasslands equipped with flintlock guns are not so lucky.

Under the power of muskets, it can be said that they were cleaned up after three strikes, five divisions and two.

These small-scale battles, it seems that only those grassland tribes have suffered.

But when the news of these battles spread, it still attracted the attention of Beiyuan's high-level officials.

Wang Baobao is not a fool. He has been paying attention to why Daming opened the border trade with Beiyuan after he saw it.

Is it true that according to what Daming said, because of the war, the people's livelihood has withered, so they want two more years of peace?
Although temporarily putting aside the war, developing border trade is also what Wang Baobao wants.

But Wang Baobao was still inquiring about the battle at the border, so he was surprised immediately after receiving the news that those small groups of troops encountered the Ming army.

In the past, the equipment of the Ming army was naturally not that sophisticated, at least not much better than that of Bei Yuan.

You must know that the Northern Yuan Dynasty used to be a unified dynasty in the Central Plains. Although it was later overthrown by peasant envoys and driven out of the customs, there were still a lot of things brought out.

Including previously forged weapons and armor, etc.

And although the weapons and equipment of those prairie tribes were not much better than the regular army of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, at least they were equipped with iron equipment, and they would not have such a large battle loss ratio against the Ming army.

You must know that those small troops of Ming Dynasty almost completely repelled them, and there were no casualties.

It takes a lot of powerful and strong weapons and armor to be able to do this.

According to the testimonies of a small number of survivors, it also proved what Wang Baobao guessed, that is, the level of sophistication of Daming's weapons and equipment, at least the weapons and equipment equipped at the border, is no longer the same as before.

What's the situation?Could it be that Daming has some technological innovations?

Wang Baobao wanted to find out what happened. Naturally, it was impossible to know in a short time, but he still instinctively sensed the danger.

Thinking of the series of events that happened this year, and Daming's continuous purchase of grain on the grassland, Wang Baobao suddenly thought of a possibility.

This Ming Dynasty must have deliberately used their ironware to cover the gold, silver and jewelry on the grassland, and used those banknotes to buy the grain on the grassland by the way.

The reason for doing this is also very obvious. After taking away these gold, silver and jewels, if Bei Yuan wants to replenish food from other places, it will not be so easy.

You must know that Beiyuan trades with other countries with gold, silver and jewelry. If you take Ming’s banknotes to Central Asia, will those countries in Central Asia recognize it?
Obviously not, after getting the gold, silver and jewelry to Daming, Bei Yuan had no way to supplement food from other places.

In addition, if the grain on the grassland is also purchased, if a fight breaks out at that time, the raising of military grain will become a serious problem.

But after Wang Baobao thought of this question, although he was shocked, he was still glad that it was not too late for him to wake up, and there was still enough time.

The Northern Yuan court also had some food reserves, and the actions of those grassland tribes were unlikely to affect the overall situation, so Wang Baobao quickly recruited officials in charge of military rations.

Then ask them carefully how much food they have in store.

Those officials did not expect that Prime Minister Wang Baobao would suddenly ask about these matters, and all of them became nervous all of a sudden.

Wang Baobao knew something was wrong when he saw their expressions, and immediately asked to inspect the granary.

After Wang Baobao followed those officials to the granary, although he saw bags of grain neatly placed in the granary, the faces of those officials turned paler and paler.

Wang Baobao quickly asked someone to open the sack to check it carefully, but when the bag was opened, most of what he saw was sandy soil, and very few had grain.

The officials in charge of the granary saw the situation and knew that they couldn't hide it anymore, and they all knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

And amidst their cries, Wang Baobao finally knew that in the past few months, Daming had not only infiltrated those small tribes. Ever since Daming banknotes became popular in Beiyuan, These banknotes are very valuable.

Not only can it be used in trade, but even in Beiyuan, these are often used to pay each other.

In other words, Daming can print a lot of checks and then bribe those officials.

And it goes without saying what kind of stuff these NATO officials are, under the bribe of a large sum of money, naturally they can do anything.

For example, take out these grains to do business and exchange them for more banknotes.

Then use these banknotes to buy all kinds of luxury goods and useful eye stickers at the border trade, and you will really make a lot of money.

They made a lot of money, but Wang Baobao was shocked.

This is the end!
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