When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 183 Trade Negotiations with Qi Fang
After the greetings were over, the food and drinks were served.

But this time, Xinqu took some time to filter and blend the wine.

Used tangerine wine, water, chrysanthemum wine, salt and honey.

Therefore, it tastes sweet and sour in the mouth, and the alcohol content is not high, just like a drink.

After just one sip, the eyes of this group of Qifang people obviously changed.

"This is……"

"Autumn flowers and fruits smell." Xinqu took a sip and asked, "How does it taste?"

Gulu Xiaogui was full of praise for this wine.

The taste is not bland, after all, Xinqu also added a little salt and honey to forcibly enhance the taste.

As for the cost?

It just doesn't hold up well to storage.

After all, it is a blended drink. Apart from the slight alcohol content, it is really just refreshing.

"Autumn brings the fragrance of flowers and fruits? Is this kind of wine only available in autumn?"

"Yes." Xin Qu smiled slightly, "It is only available in autumn, and can only be stored for half a year. Drinking it in spring and summer will easily cause sourness."

"Is this true? But that's right. Only after autumn will there be enough grain to make wine."

After two more sips, it was sour and appetizing. Paired with the kebabs in front of me, it was soft in the mouth and smooth in the throat.

"Ahem, to be honest, this wine has a unique flavor. I wonder what the price is?" Good wine is Wei Shanzhou's hobby.

Xinqu has been asking widows and unmarried girls to take turns these days to try to use the hobbies, goals, and skills of this group of Qifang people, and the effect is also there.

At least get a lot of information.

For example, Wei Shanzhou likes to drink, but his taste is very picky. Sweet and sour green plum wine is his preference.

But for green plum wine, you need to wait until summer when the plum trees start to bear fruit before you can pick them and make wine.

The only thing that can meet his needs now is the wine that needs to be blended.

Blending was a job that Xin Qu tried for the first time. He simply had good skills and was able to blend wine that was drinkable.

Just like cooking and making condiments, I experimented with the ratios little by little, and finally came up with this recipe.

The entrance of the wine immediately aroused Wei Shanzhou's greed, which would be a good foundation for the subsequent negotiations.

"Hey, that's what you said. Go and get the small bucket of autumn flowers and fruits from the storehouse. Give it to our friend who has the Xin family."

Xin Qu directly said goodbye.

Wei Shanzhou was overjoyed at first, but when the wine was delivered and saw a small bucket, weighing about ten kilograms, he was a little disappointed.

"This……"

"This wine is not easy to make." Xin Qu shook his head, "You have to choose a five-year-old orange tree, cut the tangerines on it, and separate the pulp and peel, each weighing one hundred pounds.

The pulp is made into jam, then mixed with fermented rice and steamed in a pot.

After steaming, you need to cut the zhizi skin into strips, one layer of skin and one layer of rice, and then wrap them together in a clay pot.

Place it over charcoal fire and steam slowly for about a day.

Then set aside to cool.

Wait three days, add other wine that has been brewed, and then continue to give it time. "

Hearing the brewing method of Xinqu's nonsense, Lu Jia, the only one present who witnessed Xinqu's blended wine, almost touched the ground with his toes.

He watched Xin Qu prepare it bit by bit.

They used the bitter oranges harvested by the tribe this year. After all, there was a severe drought this year and the vegetation was hard to bear. Do you expect them to provide water for the oranges?
However, Xin Qu said seriously that this wine is the best of the best. The whole clan got a hundred kilograms, and ten kilograms was the limit that he, the clan leader, could directly use.

The rest is for sale.

Roughly ten kilograms can be exchanged for the price of one hundred deer hides.

After hearing this, many people in Qi Fang thought that the price was very reasonable. After all, the wine was indeed delicious.

But as an old traveler, Wei Shanzhou would not simply listen to Xin Qu cry miserably. He shouted loudly, so there must be a high premium.

But the only problem is, this is wine, not other food.

No matter how low the value is, it cannot be any lower.

Therefore, Wei Shanzhou calmed down his impatience and said calmly: "Thank you Xin for the gift of wine! I'm really... flattered." Xin Qu saw him smiling and looking at him, and he immediately understood that this guy was planning to make himself miserable. We're in a good position.

After all, I said that this wine can only be stored for half a year.

Then there is bargaining power.

Xin Qu smiled: "You're welcome, I have the Xin family and I'm very willing to be friends with Qi Fang. After all, I've also heard that our old witch from the Xin family is from the same clan as the witch from your tribe.

The old witch who worked so hard for me and the Xin family to survive was respected by everyone in the Xin family.

Therefore, if you help the old witch, you are helping me to have the Xin family. I send you some gifts to express my feelings. I just hope that you will not dislike it. "

hiss……

This young man controls the rhythm!

Wei Shanzhou realized immediately that by giving him a jar of wine, Xin Qu was repaying the favor owed by the old witch.

A few words directly brought the possible asymmetries between the two sides to the same level.

Next, I won't be able to deal with the debt of favor owed by the old witch.

After all, what the old witch owed was Qi Fang's witches, who were all members of the Wuxian clan.

After the Xin family gave some benefits this time, the favor was thin. If Weishan Zhou was used again, it might be OK, but one more time would be pushing the envelope and would affect the diplomatic relations.

There are really very few young people who can sit in the position of clan leader.

Of course those hereditary ones go out.

Wei Shanzhou laughed loudly: "Clan Chief Xinqu is too polite. Help is necessary. We are all tributary countries under Dayi Shang, and each other's shamans are members of the same clan. We should have contacted each other earlier. But it is a pity that during this period , Dayi Shang's east-west wars were not very fruitful.

We, Qi Fang, as the Fang State in the eastern part of Dayi Shang, are mainly focused on dealing with the Dongyi who are huddled among the mountains and the sea, so we have no energy to go north to make friends with your tribe.

But now, God has brought us together like this.

How about taking advantage of this moment to form a trade alliance?I, Qifang Bucai, am a trader on the Zhouhaihai Islands, with the eight tribes of Dongyi and the twelve Huaiyi clans. Of course, I also have some contact with relatives of the Xin clan in Henan.

If we make an alliance with Qifang for trade, I think the Xin family will be able to obtain all the resources your department wants faster.

Especially - bronze. "

Xinqu, who was holding the wine cup and preparing to take a sip, suddenly paused.

The person in front of me really spoke directly and stopped beating around the bush with him.

"Then, what price do I have to pay to have the Xin family?"

"It's very simple. The most popular thing in the North is just fur. The Xin family provides [-] deer skins, [-] sheep skins, and [-] cow hides every year. I can provide bronze to the Xin family in the same way. Well, with Your department’s unit of measurement is almost three thousand kilograms.”

As soon as these words came out, the leaders who were accompanied by Xin's family felt the value of "US dollars" for the first time!
It's almost two pounds of bronze for one piece of leather.

But that's not what Xinqu was thinking about. Is the bronze really worth it?
And whether I can find iron ore during this time.

After all, the steel that was most suitable for mining in his memory was now controlled by Wu Zhongmi.

Asked him to buy a mine, he would not agree.

The smelting of pig iron is not a technical problem. What is difficult is how to turn it into steel on a large scale.

Pig iron is no harder than bronze. On the battlefield, bronze is more lethal than pig iron.

Moreover, based on thirty kilograms of half-body plate armor, three thousand kilograms can make one hundred collars.

For every hundred more soldiers of the Xin family, they can defeat more enemies and have more combat power.

But fur is also important.

Especially in winter.

In the era before cotton, fur was almost the last guarantee for surviving the winter.

"Clan leader..." Most of the clan members were moved.

Three thousand catties!
"Strange, shouldn't all transactions in the south be done in shell coins? How come they use bronze to calculate prices?" Xin Qu said "confused", unhurriedly.

"It's true that there are shell coins. However, the value of shell coins is different in the north and south, so the conversion is quite troublesome."

"That's right." Xin Qu shook his head slightly, "I have a sheepskin from the Xin family, which costs about two shell coins. Bronze is more expensive, almost ten coins."

"!!!"

(End of this chapter)