When he came out of the Heshuotemo tribe, the 5,000 kilograms of wine that Kakar brought had turned into 100 war horses.
And this was not enough. Kings placed an order for 50,000 kilograms of wine with Carral, but Carral refused and finally only gave him a quota of 30,000 kilograms.
It's not that Yunzhou County can't bring out so much wine, but because you said before that the wine is short, you can give him as much as he wants in the blink of an eye. Doesn't this make people realize that you are deceiving him?
So there was still a need to bargain. Although Kingsley was dissatisfied that he could not meet his requirements, he also understood that spirits were scarce and it was normal not to have so much, so he did not say anything about writing.
Finally accepted this number.
Similar to Karar, those who were assigned to sell wine to other medium-sized tribes also returned home with a full load. Twenty-five thousand kilograms of wine was sold to five tribes in exchange for 500 high-quality war horses.
And the great khans of those tribes, like Kings, placed more orders, and they all agreed.
In this way, when they returned with 500 war horses, Yunzhou County officially confirmed that they could exchange wine for horses, so they began to produce spirits in larger quantities.
After all, their war horse gap is as large as 160,000 horses!
This is only 500 horses, which is far from enough to meet their needs.
But at the same time, after a simple calculation, Fan Zheng, who was in charge of the matter, suddenly realized that his thinking was too simple.
2,500 kilograms of spirits can only be exchanged for 500 horses, which means that he needs to use 8 million kilograms of spirits to exchange for the horses he needs.
This is eight million pounds!
Not 800,000, not 80,000!
The amount of food needed to consume such a huge amount would be enough to reach nearly 100 million!
Even if you are willing to pay so much, there may not be that much wine in Guan Nei. Just the amount of turbid wine is an astronomical amount. Although Guan Nei has stock, it is not that inventory. Buying in large quantities is likely to attract Guan Nei's attention.
And even these small and medium-sized tribes cannot digest so much wine.
So I had to think of other ways, and I couldn't just use spirits to trade with the other party.
So what else is there that will not increase the opponent's combat effectiveness, but is also extremely needed by the opponent, and that I can give it to myself?
Fan Zheng thought hard for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he immediately went to Prince Yun's Mansion to seek authorization.
Zhao Jun immediately agreed after hearing his proposal.
So, when these first-generation "salesmen" from the grassland brought the second batch of spirits to the grassland, in addition to spirits, they also brought another product - tea bricks!
That's right, even for tea bricks, you don't need very good tea leaves, you just need to make tea bricks made of tea leaves.
Because of their diet, the grassland people are in great need of tea to relieve fatigue. The naturalized Tatars still have a supply of tea because they are backed by the Song Dynasty.
But for the foreign Tatars, tea is what they long for. Originally, they obtained tea through the four major families.
But later the four major smuggling families were eliminated by Zhao Jun, and the Tatars in the southern grasslands lost their channels to obtain tea.
Later, the entire small tribe in the southern grassland was almost robbed by Yunzhou County, and everyone was pulled back as slaves.
Even the largest tribe was beaten by Yunzhou County and was not as good as the medium-sized tribe.
In this way, the Tatars in the southern grasslands no longer have the trouble of tea. Since the people are gone, there is no need for tea.
However, the newly migrated Tatar tribes such as the Heshuotemo tribe needed tea, but they could only obtain a certain amount of tea supply from the royal court every year.
The royal court had channels to obtain tea from the Central Plains.
But that is far from enough. Every year, too many people in the tribe become seriously ill or even die directly because of the lack of tea and long-term meat eating.
When these first-generation "salesmen" brought things like tea bricks to various tribes that no one would even look at if they were placed in the Great Song Pass, and even ordinary people were unwilling to drink them, it immediately caused a sensation.
Compared with spirits, tea bricks are what they need more urgently. In the history of the northern grasslands, they even started wars with the Central Plains many times because they could not get tea.
Nowadays, a certain amount of tea from the Song Dynasty flows to the grassland every year. With such a large amount, do the Song Dynasty officials really not know about it?
No! They knew it, but they acquiesced.
As long as it is not blatant and there are too many, the Song Dynasty officials will acquiesce most of the time, which can better stabilize the bilateral situation.
Compared with the calmness when the spirits were brought, when the "salesmen" took out the bricks of tea, these tribal khans instantly looked like the weather in June, and the faces of children changed at any time.
Smiles instantly appeared on their faces, and the "salesman" became a guest.
Various special delicacies are served, and even if the "salesman" is willing to spend the night in the tribe, several of the most beautiful women from the tribe will get into your tent in the middle of the night and make you comfortable all night.
But all they want is just more shares of tea bricks.
Like wine, they also have restrictions on tea bricks.
Therefore, in order to obtain more shares of tea bricks for their tribes, these tribes have tried their best.
The "salesmen" were also very sensible and reluctantly increased the number of tea bricks sold in the end.
The price of tea bricks is based on the fact that a horse sold to the grasslands in other places in the Song Dynasty can be exchanged for 120 kilograms of tea, which is 12 grates. Yunzhou County only agreed to exchange 10 grates for the price of a horse.
(Grate - one of the units of measurement in ancient times, which means a bamboo basket.
The reason for this is that people in the grassland do not know how to count, so they use bamboo baskets to calculate the weight for convenience.
One bamboo basket weighs about 10 kilograms, but due to different goods, the weight will continue to vary. )
Regarding this price, the tribes who are extremely scarce in tea bricks have no objections. It would be good if they can exchange for tea bricks. A little more or a little less as long as it is not too much, they can accept it.
As a result, in addition to spirits, the tea brick trade in Yunzhou County once again became popular on the grassland.
And because they brought more people this time, the customers of the "salesmen" are no longer limited to medium-sized tribes, but small tribes are also their target customers.
After all, although mosquitoes are small, they are still meat!
Yunzhou County needs a lot of war horses, and the medium-sized tribe alone is not enough.
It still takes a large number of small tribes to provide large heads.
In this way, without knowing it, all the small and medium-sized tribes in the southern grasslands became customers of Yunzhou County.
The tea wine trade and tea horse trade between the two sides were very frequent and became a common practice.
However, several new large tribes in the southern grassland knew nothing about this and were kept in the dark.
Everyone had a tacit understanding to hide it from them and secretly made deals with Yunzhou County.
And Yunzhou County successfully exchanged a large number of war horses for the county through this tea and wine trade!
The abundance of war horses also allowed the cavalry troops, which were originally limited by the lack of war horses, to quickly expand and train.
Everything seems to be on track...
(End of chapter)
