Villager of Daming

Chapter 1178: Multi-layered encirclement

After a few sips of beer, you will find it really delicious, especially the slight bitter taste of hops. If you drink it all the time, you will become addicted, similar to coffee, tea and cocoa.

For Chahahan and the twenty-one others, the re-roasted meat tastes better than before. The key lies in the seasoning. When they roast the meat themselves, they can only cut it and dip it in salt, and they try to crush the large grains of salt as much as possible.

The dipping sauce now contains fennel, pepper powder, cumin, refined salt, and cornel powder, but no mustard or chive sauce.

Even so, Chahahan and his friends still ate with a happy look on their faces. Chahahan took two bites and said: "Liu Chaoguan, why is your salt not bitter?"

Liu Sheng: "..."

He hesitated, then responded, "The salt we give you is mainly to match the original taste of seawater. The salt we eat has been processed in some additional ways, so it's actually not too bitter for you to eat."

"What Liu Chaoguan said is right. It's better than the salt we ate before. The salt back then was bitter, more bitter than the salt now. Do you want to sell this salt now?"

Chahahan understood that the prince ate all good food, and it was impossible for him to eat the same thing as himself and others, so could he...

Liu Sheng shook his head: "It's not worth it. The price is twice as high. Are you willing to eat it? Now a pound of salt is sold for three cents in the market. Anyone who is close to the Ming Dynasty can buy it, but others cannot."

He specifically mentioned that the other party had never seen the product before and it was obviously purchased from somewhere else and had passed through several hands, so the price was expensive.

This shows that Chaha Khan is not as capable as Adozha, who sells intelligence and is relatively close to the Northern Yuan Dynasty. Although he has few people, he works very hard to trade and act as a spy.

Judging from today's reaction, Chaha Khan does not want more people outside to know the situation in his tribe. He thinks that by hiding, he can avoid danger.

In fact, he had to take sides. As long as the Ming Dynasty wanted to expand, it would be useless for him to stay anywhere. He could either take the people in the tribe to a place further northeast, but there was the Haidong Jurchen tribe there, which was even larger.

The tribe of the child with rickets that Chahahan mentioned is a group that everyone wants to win over.

In such tribes, there are usually all kinds of jobs, including farming, herding, weapon making, smelting, carpentry, bricklaying, etc. It is even normal to burn a kiln.

"This salt shop charges three cents per pound? It used to be only five cents? Great! How much can this leather be exchanged for?"

Chaha Khan knew that salt had become cheaper. It used to be five cents, five cents, huh! Now it has dropped a lot, but he didn't know how much his product could be sold for.

The skin he was talking about was a deerskin, relatively intact. The spear flew into the head and pierced through the two eyes. The skin that was peeled off in this way was the best.

Before anyone else moved, Zhu Chong stood up and walked to the deerskin and measured it with his fingers, measuring only the main trunk, ignoring the other four parts and the head. That's how the department store got its harvest.

The leather of the main trunk can only be used to make leather jackets and leather shoes. The scraps are difficult to handle. Many people lack experience and use the main trunk to process according to the mold.

Generally speaking, if the fur is not of particularly good quality, just follow this procedure.

Good mink skins, Siberian tiger skins, bear skins, and this complete deerskin require separate negotiations.

The sergeants in charge of department stores have the power to set prices. They will try to keep prices as low as possible. Otherwise, after they give a price and put a number on it, when they take it to a higher-level department store and others review it and say it is not worth the money, it will be troublesome!
What is most suspicious is that he deliberately offered a high price, and then the seller split the money with him secretly, enriching himself at the expense of the public interest.

There is another situation where this thing is worth one hundred coins, but he gave sixty coins. When he reported it later, it was reported as one hundred coins, and he got the forty coins himself.

Therefore, the reward for reporting is very high, so high that if you report successfully once, you can enjoy decades of life. No matter how good the relationship is, everyone is waiting for others to make mistakes. "We will give you 210 coins. You have to deal with it now. Otherwise, according to your kind of things that are only covered with plant ash, it will not be in good condition and cannot be sold at a high price."

Zhu Chong gave a quotation, and when he spoke he looked at the people in Xiaqiu Village.

There is nothing much to say about the people in Xiaqiu Village. They are unskilled and they do not receive goods at the grassroots level. They are only responsible for collecting accounts and auditing.

"What? Two hundred and ten coins? Damn Adozha, when he collected it before, he only gave thirty coins for the same thing, saying that he couldn't sell it at a high price, and he would be bullied after he went there.

He didn't even give us money. They would buy us whatever we wanted, or they would exchange it for us from the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

He gave us salt at 11 wen per pound. Sometimes when we gave him more, he said he was losing money and gave us salt at 10 wen per pound. "

Chahahan gnashed his teeth. He could still hold back when he talked about salt before, but now...

"He deserves to die!" Ma Fei, the magistrate of Gaizhou County, agreed. He thought that the entire tribe should be arrested for buying a large amount of black bread and running to report the news.

Chahahan nodded to Ma Fei and looked at Zhu Chong: "Your Highness, Prince Qin, how much salt can you exchange for?"

He is now thinking about exchanging it for salt. The salt he used to eat was too expensive. A deerskin like this can only be exchanged for three kilograms. If he had known earlier, he would have brought people there to buy and sell things.

"Uh..." Zhu Chong was in a dilemma. How much should he sell it for? His team was not here to buy or sell. What price should he ask for...

"Your things must be presented as tribute to our princes, and then our princes will reward you. We will go back to the village with you and take out all your good things."

Ling'er came up with a solution at the critical moment. There was no way to trade with the other party without buying or selling. The two sides were not equal. How could they buy deerskin and sell salt under the guise of a ceremonial guard?
Liu Sheng was afraid that the other party would not agree, so he immediately agreed: "tribute and reward are good. I remember when Your Highnesses first arrived at Dingliaoduwei, a child offered his steamed buns to Your Highnesses. Your Highnesses thought it was good and rewarded them with a lot of salt and soap."

"Oh! Yes, let's listen to Liu Chaoguan." Chaha Khan was not stupid enough and agreed to the exchange.

After the meal, no one was full, so Chaha Khan and his twenty-one companions led a large group of people back to their tribe.

Sure enough, the tribe was not far away. In the evening, a large group of people were seen standing there, looking vigilantly at the surrounding Ming army.

"Look, they've come to your door, haven't they? Thanks to our team, they've surrounded your tribe and are asking you for their child with osteomalacia.

Once we arrive, we will surround them. They are few in number, a tribe of 3,000 people, including men, women, old and young, plus slaves willing to fight, and we can only mobilize 500 people.

Can your tribe win? You don't want to contact the outside world, but the situation won't wait for you!"

Xu Da was talking to Chaha Khan with a smile. When he was about to come over, the scout discovered the small tribe here. At the same time, he also saw a large group of people surrounding the tribe and planning to attack.

There is nothing to say about that. The Ming army will surround the enemy with a few more layers from the outside and see if they can break out.
The other party's purpose was very simple. He said that Chahahan's tribe killed the child and asked him to give an explanation.

As for where the child is, it doesn’t really matter.

(End of this chapter)