Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 1235 Full Load
But their livestock and furs are much more convenient to sell, and the price is even better than before.

Many herdsmen don't understand the reason behind it, but they only know that it is really good now, and sometimes even if there is no suitable cattle and sheep to sell for a while, or there is no fur and no money, but there are goods they want to buy, other merchants are willing I owe you credit, although there is interest, but it is not unacceptable. In short, the herdsmen think it is quite a deal.

For example, the salt tea that is necessary for every family used to be of poor quality and expensive, but now the salt is white and has no impurities and is not bitter, and the salt bricks are better, but the price is even cheaper.

If I get tired of eating milk every day, I can make milk into cheese, dried milk, milk tofu, etc., and then sell it to merchants, and replace it with rice noodles, salt tea, etc. The rice noodles are shipped from the Central Plains, but the price is quite affordable.

Many herdsmen now often buy some rice noodles at home, which can not only change the taste, but also prevent any disasters, and the livestock will freeze to death and cause famine.

Even many herdsmen began to believe in the original Buddhism and Taoism, and Confucianism is becoming more and more popular here. Anyway, the tribal leaders are beginning to learn Chinese and let their children learn Chinese culture.

After many aristocratic children went to the Central Plains capital, they have long been reluctant to think about Shu.

Everyone seems to think that now is better than before.

In fact, it was only because after several wars, there were no more overlords on the grassland, and there was less direct oppression and plunder on their heads, and the opening of trade also improved everyone's life.

There may be only one real impact on the grassland, that is, this place has been castrated, and it is difficult to produce a powerful overlord.

In the autumn of the 20th year of Zhenguan, when the Son of Heaven was lucky enough to call the Tibetans in Lingzhou, the leaders of the Western Regions and Mobei all actively went there.

The chiefs of the tribes brought their children, tributes of tribal specialties, and many of them to trade.

Runpo, the leader of Huihe, Gelanbayan, the leader of Pugu, Mo, the leader of Duolange, Qu Lishu, the leader of Bayegu, Shijian, the leader of Tongluo, and Wusui, the chief of Sijie, all came in person.

Of the more than 36 state governors in the [-]th Dudu Mansion in Mobei, none of them was absent.

In comparison, the ones in the Western Regions are worse.

The south of the Tianshan Mountains is now under the direct control of the Tang Dynasty, and it has been changed to an economic prefecture. Officials have been sent to garrison troops, so now there are no kings, and the royal families, powerful nobles, etc. of various countries have basically been moved to Chang'an and Luoyang. Living in the two capitals, this time people with identities from several countries have also been summoned to Lingzhou to attend the meeting.

In the area north of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions, the Jimi faction represented by Ahona Helu is now the main one. There are many, and he once again proclaims himself a minister.

But Yibishekui can no longer command the Western Regions.

The Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu in the river are now out of the control of the Western Turks. Before Yipidulu went to attack the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu and broke through the country of Mi, he died due to internal strife, and the country of Mi also took the opportunity to restore the country.

The Sogdians of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu united, expelled the old tribe of Yipidulu, and lived in a group behind closed doors.

And the more distant Tocharian region was once an area controlled by Western Turkic conquest, but now it is a situation where 29 countries stand side by side. The Tocharian Yehu of Western Turkic can only barely control the countries, but refuses to Then obey the orders of the Great Khan of the West Turks, anyway, the size of the West Turks has changed like a lantern over the years.

As for the Khazar Yehu who reached the banks of the Volga River further west, these former subordinates of the Western Turks are now basically semi-independent like Tocharia.

The emperor of the Tang Dynasty was lucky to be in Lingzhou, and summoned the leaders of the Mobei Western Regions, not only to appease Mobei, but also to take the opportunity to beat the Western Regions.

The situation in the Western Regions is not clear now. The confrontation between Ashina Helu and Yibishekui Khan has made the situation in the region unstable. Coupled with the situation of the nine kingdoms of Tocharo, Khazar and Zhaowu, the Western Regions are at risk at any time. Might get out of control again.

Li Shimin hoped that the Western Regions could become the second Mobei.

But judging from the current situation, it is not easy, or even impossible.

The biggest threat to the Western Regions is not the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu or the 29 Kingdoms of Tocharian, or the more distant Western Turkic Khazar tribe, but the tribes of various surnames in the Western Regions that have established themselves in the Western Regions for nearly a hundred years.

Their strength is still very strong.

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Luzon.

Qin Lang was sitting in the port of San Francisco, and a fleet of ships slowly entered the port.

"It's a rewarding experience!"

A group of retainers who followed Qin Lang happily looked at the deep-drought treasure ships.

Lower sail and drop anchor.

Qin Lu, the director of the mint who came down with the boat, excitedly reported to Qin Lang the harvest of the trip, and brought back 150 million jin of copper.

"The copper is accompanied by silver. We transport it back and smelt it first, and we can get a lot of silver."

Qin Lang was surprised that so much copper was transported back at one time. The copper in Japan is called red copper. There are many copper mines and the output is also high, but it is not easy to transport so much back at one time. This is not only a commercial trade, Inevitably higher level permissions are also involved.

The Qin family's big treasure ship has thousands of materials and a displacement of one thousand tons. It can carry one million catties of goods at a time. The copper materials are transported back by sea, but the transportation is relatively convenient.

150 jin of copper, just two big treasure ships.

But it is not easy to buy so many.

"Our Qin family has invested a lot of money in the Wa country in the past few years. We have produced technology and used capital. The dignitaries of the Wa country have produced mines and people. This cooperation is of course good."

Wa is rich in copper, but their mining technology has always been poor.

The Qin family took the initiative to come to the door to discuss cooperation, provide prospecting mining and smelting processing technology, and underwrite sales, and the profits are still very high.

Although the Wa Kingdom was ruled by the Yamato Dynasty at this time, the Emperor was only a monarch in name. In fact, the local powerful families were still in power, and even the Yamato Dynasty was basically controlled by a family like the Soga family.

In recent years, the Yamato Dynasty under the leadership of the Suwo family has followed the reform of the Tang Dynasty in an all-round way. It has made great progress in all aspects, and the court has also taken back a lot of power from the powerful and local tyrants.

The implementation of the bantian system and so on has indeed made the imperial court a little more decent.

But the reform was not all smooth sailing, especially before the Suer family, as a mainland faction, had always had a friendly relationship with Baekje, and at the same time led the attack on Silla. This decision put his relationship with Datang into crisis a few years ago. , Many looting ships authorized by the Tang Dynasty plundered the coast of the Wa country, coupled with the blockade of maritime trade, the Yamato court, which had just begun to reform and prosper, almost collapsed.

It even triggered several coups between the DPRK and China.

Fortunately, in the end, the Su Wo family took the initiative to admit their mistakes to Datang, and with the efforts of the maritime trade faction like Qin Lang, Datang also began to reduce the suppression and blockade of the Japanese country.

It was in this situation that the Qin family brought technology and capital into the Wa country, which not only opened up the Japanese court, but also actively cooperated with the local tycoons.

On the one hand, the treasure ships returned to import a large amount of industrial and commercial goods needed by the Japanese country, and on the other hand, they cooperated with local tycoons to mine silver and copper. The tycoons needed goods from the Tang Dynasty, but the goods from the Tang Dynasty were so good that the trade deficit was full.

In this case, they had no choice but to fill the deficit by exporting silver and copper.

On the other hand, the Yamato court also strengthened fiscal revenue by imposing heavy taxes on the opening and selling of silver and copper mines.

"Now not only our Qin family, but also many Tang Dynasty tycoons have entered the Wa country to open mines. There are now as many as thirteen copper mines. The Wa copper mines are rich in reserves. Only the Hinoki Valley copper mine we invested in is only the Kumano copper mine. One of the mines on the mountain, last year, more than 40 catties were mined!"

"The Ashio Copper Mine produced more than 70 catties last year, and the largest Besshi Copper Mine produced more than 100 million catties last year."

In contrast, most of the copper produced in the Tang Dynasty is in the remote southwest, and the output is low. What is more troublesome is that it is not easy to transport the excavated copper mines. Moreover, the quality of Yunnan copper is still poor, and it is often impossible to make money.

From the pre-Qin period to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the shortage of money has never been broken.

The shortage of money led to business restrictions, and even bad money drove out good money, and copper was more expensive than money. In recent years, the Tang Dynasty has taken many measures, but the precious metals, gold, silver and copper, are always scarce.

So now the maritime merchants in the Central Plains, the goods they like to trade outside are gold, silver and copper.

If you transport a ship of goods to Japan, you can earn twice the profit, and if you transport a ship of copper back, you will change hands two or three times.

And those like the Qin family who went directly to cooperate with the Japanese to open mines would earn even more.

The Qin family not only partnered to open a mine in the country of Wa, refine it there and then transport it back, but also reached an agreement with the court of the country of the country, the Qin family will also cast the copper that was transported back into copper coins, and then transport it back to the country of the country of Japan and sell it to them for circulation.

The Wa Kingdom is now even more short of money than the Tang Dynasty. With the rise of maritime trade, the money shortage in the Wa Kingdom has become more serious, and the lack of money has severely restricted their business and trade.

Casting money by yourself is unskilled and costly, so the Japanese like to use copper coins from the Tang Dynasty.

There are no goods in Japan, only gold and silver.

Wa country is very embarrassed in international trade. They want to buy all kinds of goods brought by the Tang ships, but they don't have what the Tang people want.

So I had to use gold and silver to pay for it, but Japan had not mined enough gold and silver before.

"The goods we transported this time are sugar, tea and silk, and the profit is tripled." Qin Lu said happily. This time the business ran, not only brought back more than 100 million catties of copper, but also brought back more than [-] million catties of copper. It also directly earned three times.

"From departure to return to Hong Kong, it only took ten days to go back and forth and stop in the middle." He was excited. In ten days, the money he earned exceeded the tax revenue of a state for a year. How amazing.

What's more, after processing and refining such more than 100 million catties of copper, not only can a lot of silver be obtained, but if it is cast into Kaiyuan Tongbao through the mint, at least [-]% of the net profit can be obtained with the Qin family's technology.

With so much copper, at least 30 guan can be minted, which means that the profit of the copper transported back this time is [-] guan.

(End of this chapter)