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Chapter 128: Letter of Credence (please vote!)
The "account" of a grassland tribe is equivalent to the "household" in the Central Plains. An adult grassland man serves as the account owner, and the women he owns, all his underage children and his slaves form an "account".
The account owners on the grassland owned slaves, pastures, horses, cattle and sheep. The class level corresponded to the small landowners with land and tenant farmers in the Central Plains, rather than to the common people in the Central Plains.

And because they had slaves to help them with the work of herding horses and sheep, the only task of the tent owners was to win the various grassland battles.
Therefore, these account holders practice their killing skills whenever they have time. In addition, there is no shortage of meat, so they are all strong and skilled in bow and horse.

On the grassland, the size and strength of a tribe is measured by how many tents it has, because one tent means an elite soldier!
When Emperor Shao Wu unified the world, Yelu Zaku also began his journey to unify the grasslands. He first led the Donghu tribe to conquer other grassland tribes one by one, making Donghu the grassland overlord with control over millions of people, and called himself "The Great Khan".

Later, he became even more ambitious and led troops to invade the Wei Dynasty several times, but he did not gain any advantage in the hands of Emperor Shaowu. Of course, he did not suffer a big loss!
It is precisely because the two sides are evenly matched that there is temporary peace and equality between Wei and Donghu.

However, both Emperor Shaowu and Yelu Zhagu knew that there would be a battle sooner or later between the Wei, Donghu, Central Plains and Grasslands to determine the strength of the two families!At that time, either the grassland surrendered to the Central Plains, or the Central Plains sought harmony with the grassland.

The peace treaty letter written by the Great Khan of Donghu to Emperor Shaowu can be roughly classified into four contents:
First, the Wei Dynasty is the lord of the Central Plains, Emperor Shao Wu is the emperor of the Central Plains, Donghu is the lord of the grassland, and the leader of the Donghu tribe is the Great Khan of the grassland. In fact, both parties recognize each other and have equal national character.

The second is the hope to change the hostile relationship between Donghu and Wei, and in order to show his sincerity in the peace agreement, Yelu Zaku gave Emperor Shaowu a gift - two hundred stallions, five thousand war horses and three hundred kilograms of gold.

The Wei Dynasty and the East Hu Dynasty were in a hostile relationship, but you couldn't kill me, and I couldn't kill you. There were no large-scale wars, and small conflicts continued every day on the border.

Third, after the peace negotiation, Yelu Zaku hoped to set up a market for sale in the border area between the two sides to carry out mutual trade. Donghu hoped that the Wei would increase the trade volume of grain, medicinal materials Coptis chinensis and tea. Of course, Donghu would also increase the number of horse trades.

Fourth, Yelu Zaku hopes to marry Yelu Buluo, so as to ensure peace between the two countries through marriage.

After reading it, Emperor Shao Wu handed the letter of credence to Queen Lou, and then said to Bu Luojin:
"I already know the wishes of the Khan of your country. I have accepted the gift. I have also prepared a gift for Khan Donghu. The prince can take it with him when the time comes." He paused as he said that.
"However, it is very important to set up a market in the border area and carry out mutual trade. I will make a decision after discussing with the ministers."

Emperor Shaowu said this, but in fact he had already made up his mind. He accepted the gift, set up a market for sale, and did not agree to carry out mutual trade;
At this time, Empress Lou also finished reading her credentials. She put down her credentials and looked at Yelu Bulojin, "As for the reconciliation between the two countries, it depends on whether you, Bu Luo Jin, can please me, Princess Wei."

The two couples went back and forth and swallowed the advantage Donghu gave to Dawei. As for the benefits to Donghu, they only let out a few words-that is, the marriage can be discussed.

As for setting up a forum and opening a mutual market, which are obviously more beneficial to Donghu, they will definitely not agree to it.

In fact, the Wei Dynasty and Donghu have always had sporadic trade exchanges. For example, the Wei Dynasty exported grain, ironware, porcelain, spices, coptis, tea, etc. to Donghu...

Donghu exported horses, leather, beef tendons, ginseng, deer antlers, etc. to Dawei...

Moreover, in the early years after the founding of the Wei Dynasty, the impoverished Emperor Shaowu dared to sell anything and did not prohibit private smuggling. Of course, it is possible that he could not prohibit it either.However, with the stabilization of the Wei regime, especially after Emperor Shao Wu established several royal racecourses in advance and the racecourses began to steadily supply war horses,

He immediately drastically reduced the scale of exports of grain, ironware, spices, Tianqi, tea, etc. to Donghu, and even strictly controlled the quantity of Tianqi and tea, down to the kilogram!

Not only did he set up a special department to be responsible for transactions with Donghu, he also severely cracked down on private smuggling. To this end, Emperor Shaowu also ruthlessly uprooted several smuggling families.

And he did all this to weaken Dong Hu's power!
As a counterattack, Donghu also banned grassland stallions, war horses, leather, beef tendons, etc. from entering the Wei Dynasty. However, in general, Donghu suffered even more from the trade war between the two parties!
Because the supplies exported by the Wei Dynasty to Donghu are all necessities for Donghu, and Donghu people cannot survive without them. Donghu needs food and ironware, and Donghu needs Coptis chinensis and tea even more!
Why, because Donghu cannot produce food and ironware or the yield is not high, and because Coptis chinensis and tea are two laxatives!

People in the grasslands eat more meat and milk and less vegetables, so most of them suffer from indigestion and constipation, and the grassland nobles are even more serious because they have meat and milk every meal, while ordinary herdsmen may not have meat every meal!After all, livestock are important assets in the family.

Therefore, for the grassland nobles, Coptis chinensis and tea are life-saving medicines!

Emperor Shao Wu was cut off, but that would not cost their lives. For this reason, Donghu organized more than [-] tribal troops to attack the Wei border more than once, just to force Emperor Shao Wu to let go of the trade of these two things. At the same time, some people with less than [-] people The little harassment never stops,

But regardless of the scale of the grassland invasion, they were all blocked by the Wei Dynasty.

Yelu Zhaguyi seemed to be very tough, as if he was trying to see if he could become softer, and that's why Bu Luojin's trip to the Wei Dynasty happened.

This time Bu Luojin wanted to take advantage of the natural disasters in the Wei and Donghu territories to ask for the princess of Wei and sign a contract.
Yelvzha Dagu was very supportive in his heart, so he specially asked Bu Luojin to give Emperor Shaowu [-] stallions, [-] war horses, and [-] kilograms of gold.
This is almost the number of transactions between the two parties in the Wei Dynasty and Donghu in one year after Emperor Shao Wu strictly restricted transactions with Donghu. This gift is not a light one!And he asked his son, the possible future successor, to deliver it in person, and his attitude was very low.

He gave such a heavy gift just to see if it would work on a soft road. Moreover, the gift was so heavy, the posture was so low, and the requirements were not low. As the old saying goes, when you treat others with courtesy, you must ask for something.
At the end of the letter to the Wei Dynasty, Yelu Zaku said that the grassland was affected by disasters this year, and hoped that Emperor Shao Wu would take the initiative for the sake of the "friendly" relationship between the two countries.

I hope that Dawei will sell to Donghu this year [-] shi of grain, [-] jins of ironware, [-] jins of medicinal materials Coptis chinensis, and [-] jins of tea.

Of course, Donghu will buy these materials at the same price or even at a higher price!He also promised that if "peaceful" transactions could continue, Donghu promised not to disturb the Wei border again.

"Whimsical!" This was Emperor Shaowu's first reaction when he saw the request at the back of the credential.

(End of this chapter)