Zhenguan paper seller

Chapter 379 Chapter 370 Six Crazy Beginnings

At the border between Tubo and Tuyuhun, Zhang Gongjin was negotiating with Lu Dongzan.

Lu Dongzan still didn't dare to wander in the Western Regions at first, so he found a small road and climbed back to the plateau at some cost.

"General Zhang, we meet again."

Looking at the heavily armored, majestic and mighty Tang soldiers behind Zhang Gongjin, Lu Dongzan showed envious eyes.

The Tubo soldiers behind him are already the most elite soldiers, they still only have iron armor, and the opponents are already in fine steel armor.

Faced with Lu Dongzan's greeting, Zhang Gongjin just snorted, which was very rude. The Tubo people were angry and wanted to teach Zhang Gongjin a lesson, but Lu Dongzan stopped him.

You can't shoot at will, otherwise they will all be left here.

The place for the negotiation was a temporary camp, and the negotiation came very suddenly, neither Ma Zhou nor Gao Shilian came, and Zhang Gongjin had all the power.

"Lu Dongzan, His Majesty ordered that the two sides cease fighting and establish a mutual market."

Zhang Gongjin looked at the other party indifferently. He was about to train the plateau commando successfully, and he would soon be able to form an elite standard army of 5000 people. A truce at this time would be a blow to him.

But thinking about the news sent by Ma Zhou, they couldn't help it.

"Yes, we Tubo..."

Lu Dongzan didn't mind at all.

"Bastard, you guys are thinking too much about the truce."

Before Lu Dongzan finished speaking, a strong man with an angry face jumped out behind him, roaring angrily.

Zhang Gongjin gave him a cold look.

A few swishes.

A dozen crossbow arrows shot the strong man into a sieve.

Lu Dongzan didn't speak, put away his smile, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "The order is passed on, Nuerge unfortunately fell when he was going down the plateau, fell off the cliff, and fell to his death."

Everything is so tacit.

Zhang Gongjin waved his hand, and the surrounding soldiers put down their hands holding the crossbow.

They are all using continuous crossbows, which are very powerful.

Lu Dongzan stared at the hundreds of crossbows, he was too rich, and Datang was really too rich.

"We can sell salt and meat to you at half price.

Products such as sweaters are also available.

Iron items are not included in the trading range. "

Zhang Gongjin treated Lu Dongzan formulaically.

"Food, we still need some food imports."

Lu Dongzan was very satisfied with these, and turned to ask another question.

Insufficient food is basically a common problem of feudal empires.

As long as it is a feudal country, there will be insufficient food, not just a day or two, but a year, two years, ten years or 20 years.

Ludongzan and Songtsen Gampo have always had a dream to transform Tibet from a nomadic country into an agricultural country.

The farming civilization of the Tang Dynasty is the guiding light in this era.

"Yes, the price can be negotiated later. The food we mainly export is finished food, which has a long shelf life."

Datang is not that stupid, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, it is impossible to sell them seeds.

Lu Dongzan nodded, and understood all of this.

They had just experienced a cold disaster on the plateau, and it was the time when food was needed, so there was no need to argue with Datang at this stage.

"Let's say it first, we need real money to trade, and the consumption of cattle can barely accept it.

The price will indeed be greatly reduced. "

Zhang Gongjin's last words made Lu Dongzan's complexion collapse.

You are blatantly discriminatory.

If it was in the past, Zhang Gongjin liked the consumption of cattle very much. They are big and can eat a stew for a long time, enough for many people.

now?
I'm sorry, it's not that they are not greedy, it's just that Datang has so much meat that it can't be stored anymore, and it's all being exported now.

In addition to exporting, Datang is still expanding the pasture, and there are already specialists studying grass planting.

Datang is now basically advancing towards industrialization.

The negotiation was very pleasant, everyone talked happily and got what they wanted.

Three days after the negotiation, the first batch of trading materials was delivered.

There are 100 carts with four horses, [-] taels for sweaters, [-] for meat, [-] carts for dried sweet potatoes and rice, [-] carts for vermicelli, and finally [-] carts for salt.

Lu Dongzan is also very generous, with gold and silver settlements.

When Lu Dongzan left on the front foot, Zhang Gongjin smiled on the back foot.

It's a good deal, and it's going to continue in the future.

Lu Dongzan did not choose to establish an ordinary mutual market, but chose to coordinate transactions like the countries in the Western Regions.

For every large transaction, the Datang treasury gets a share, and the local garrisons like them can also get a share.

There are not many people here, there are 2 people. In the transaction just now, each person can get half of the money, and the general can get a little more.

It doesn't look like much, but it's a steady stream.

Soldiers not only earn this extra money, but also earn money from the country.

Li Er has money, so he won't do anything to treat soldiers badly.

Still the same sentence, it is good to keep capital, and it is better to make a small fortune.

The price of meat in Datang has been terribly impacted. The common people can basically eat meat once a week. For some wealthy people, it has become the norm to put two pieces of meat when cooking.

Millions of 1000 million pigs, cattle and sheep, and tens of millions of chickens, ducks and geese will not be visible in later generations, which is very normal.

But here is the Tang Dynasty, in the ninth year of Zhenguan, the population is less than 2000 million, and it will reach more than 500 million. It is already scary to be able to achieve one cow, one sheep, one pig and one chicken, duck and goose per capita. up.

The farms built in various parts of Datang are slaughtering, and at least half of the livestock must be killed.

In addition to those from various places, there are also those from the grasslands and Tuyuhun.

Li Er probably didn't expect that selling meat could make a small fortune.

People eat meat, and their happiness increases dramatically.

If you use the fantasy language, at this time in Chang'an City, the fortune of the country has increased dramatically, and there are already golden dragons of luck gathered in the Pavilion of Heroes and the Pavilion of Triumph.

Another benefit of having money in the hands of the common people is that the economy in all parts of the Tang Dynasty is booming.

All kinds of commodities are in crazy sales mode.

There are basically no pure-blood Han people who are particularly poor.

We have reached the point where we have clothes to wear, food to eat, and work to do.

Some wealthy Han Chinese have started taking concubines and establishing small families of their own.

This is not nonsense, but the real situation.

Women can also make money at this time, and various garment factories are also in operation, requiring a large number of women.

The advent of factories has brought the small peasant economy to its knees.

The most basic condition for industrialization is that the people have enough to eat and the food grows on a large scale.

Although China's land is not ranked in the world, it is not comparable to the Ganges River Basin, the Mesopotamia region, the Mediterranean climate, or the Great Plains of the Americas, but the limit of feudalism can support [-] million people.

Now there are only more than 1000 million people, and food for 6000 to [-] million people has exploded, and the foundation for industrialization has initially been laid.

Coupled with the crazy popularization of technical and professional knowledge by the Tang family and the government, coupled with the support of Qianli, the initial capital industrialization has begun.

...............

Don't criticize me, I also want to build socialism, but the span is too big, and there are no foreign enemies, and no great people, who can do it.

Anyway, I can't imagine it.

(End of this chapter)