"Betting, of course you can bet. The key is how to bet and how to go about the process. It's no use talking empty words!"
Xia Abacus is now worried about things, and only money is in his eyes.
Can futures be done?
He didn't dare to care, so why not gamble? So what if he didn't gamble?
As long as the facts are beneficial to the Wu Dynasty, it can disturb the hearts of the prairie Jurchens, and as long as things are not done too harshly, in his opinion, there is nothing that cannot be done!
Impact, hidden dangers, consequences, etc...
Could it be that if Wu Dynasty didn't do anything, the barbarians on the grassland would be able to let Wu Dynasty go?
The people who should cause trouble will still cause trouble!
Those who are not of my race must have different minds. The barbarians obeyed the force of the Wu Dynasty, rather than obeying any benevolence, righteousness and morality.
Futures, if it really has the effect of exchanging space for time, even if it cannot exchange for wealth, as long as it exchanges for strategic time, it can be done.
"If I remember correctly, there is a buffer zone between the border of our country and the Xianbei grassland. Within this zone are the three guards of Yanshan and the seven of Yinshan, commanding more than 300 tribes from the east and west!"
In Kyushu today, there is order amid chaos. In order to avoid irritating the hostile parties, the major forces have established buffer zones between them.
Yanshan Mountain and Yinshan Mountain both run east-west and are the natural dividing line between Kyushu and the grassland, as well as the natural buffer zone.
Yanshan Sanwei, formerly known as Yangshan Wanhufu, was established during the heyday of the Xianbei people. With Yangshan as the center, it controlled pastures three hundred miles north and south. It combined military and animal husbandry. At its peak, there were more than 500,000 people. It was the Xianbei people's peek into the Central Plains. outpost, but time can wash away everything. The end of Xianbei and the rise of Jurchens, Yangshan Wanhu Mansion became the refuge of the Xianbei royal family. During the more than 100 years of refuge, Yangshan was changed to Yanshan, and Wanhu Mansion was split into three guards.
The situation is the same for the Seven Yin Mountains. They were all losers in the past grassland competition. During this period, there were Wuheng people, Mongols, Jurchens, and even Tatars.
These ten people and horses, speaking of being weak, are all composed of soldiers and animals. Under stress, each party can gather 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry.
If it were strong, people from all over the world would have eight hundred minds, just unite to survive.
"In the direction of Yanshan, the major department is thirteen, the minor department is sixty-one, the Yinshan department is seven, the major department is nineteen, and the minor department is one hundred and forty-three!"
Old Man Xia is very knowledgeable about border data.
Under normal circumstances, the life and grassland of foreigners are based on households. A family has about ten people including the herdsman, their children, and herd slaves. With the yurt as the center, the surrounding grassland is several miles or ten miles away.
Above the household is the flag, which is divided into large, middle and small depending on the number of households, and is divided into left, middle and right depending on the ownership.
What is a small department?
With a household size of three hundred, the tribe usually has three to four hundred people who control the strings. In wartime, it can recruit a thousand people and has its own four-season grassland. This size and grassland can be called a small tribe.
What is most?
There are more than a thousand households, and there are thousands of people who control the strings on weekdays. In wartime, they can recruit tens of thousands of people. The tribe has an independent winter grassland, which can be called the majority of the grassland.
In addition to large and small tribes, plus some dependencies, the most basic situation of the grassland is formed.
"How many of the people here are on good terms with us, and how many are close to the city?"
The main thing about futures is not the goods, but the high-quality commodities as the benchmark, which are turned into standardized sales contracts through financial means.
Hype is a contract value. When developed to the extreme, it can be operated in vain. It does not need to rely on goods at all. On the contrary, the value of goods is affected by its contract value.
But this is an advanced way to play, but you definitely can’t do it at the beginning.
Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the source of the goods.
"To put it bluntly, how much do we have complete control over?"
"For the big ones, four, for the small ones there are a few more. They can be controlled even if they are close to Hushi!" Old Man Xia said in a low voice.
Buffering, the space left is not just for people to use as a wall. Unordered buffering is not only troublesome, but God knows what stabs you. Only orderly buffering is in the interests of all parties.
Regardless of the two to three hundred large and small tribes on the border, the Wu Dynasty, the Jurchens, and the Mongols all know who belongs to whom and how they will stand when war comes.
Even if something goes wrong on a small scale, it will not affect the overall situation.
"Can their annual output be found out?" Fang Fang asked again.
"If you want to, you can definitely do it!"
Old Man Xia nodded.
The Documents Department is the number one intelligence organization in the world. If you can't find it in the depths of the grassland, that's for sure. If you can't find it in the buffer zone, it's really a ghost.
"If it can be done, then it can be done!"
Fang Fang responded with an affirmative look and began to explain, "As we all know, for grassland sheep herding, the lambing season begins after the twelfth lunar month. After that, ewes begin to give birth on a large scale in February. The newborn lambs are fed in March and fattened in April. In theory, the summer harvest Once the winter solstice passes, the lambs of that year can continue to be slaughtered!”
Hearing this, Huang An and Old Man Xia both nodded.
The development of animal husbandry in the Wu Dynasty was much more prosperous than agriculture. Twenty copper coins could buy a pound of mutton. Behind this was the continuous output of countless large ranches.
As a warrior and an official, if you don't know the season for picking up lambs or how long it will take for the lambs to grow up, then you are really seeing a ghost!
"But herdsmen generally don't do much because the pastures have to be bred and waited for the coming year. Eight-month-old ewes are most likely to become pregnant, while meat sheep are mainly fattened, and the meat tastes best in July!"
"Sheep that are not fattened enough are boring to eat!" Huang An laughed.
"The news of the opening of the household market has now spread. No matter what the future of the war between our three countries will be like, as long as the household market has sufficient profits, merchants should come or come back, especially the big trading houses of the Song Dynasty, no matter where they are. They will not miss the purpose. Now that we have formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, the sea lanes have opened, and the large merchant houses of the Ming Dynasty will probably have a hand in it. The Liao Kingdom and the Later Tang Dynasty are not within the scope of the war. They will take a long way back, at least not as much as originally expected. many!"
Since ancient times, Hu City has been a seller's market. Goods from the Central Plains can be sold no matter how they are transported to the border. It is only a matter of time and profit.
"The war is just a detour and will not affect the income. We just need to ensure that we don't take action. The seven major cities in this dynasty are still attractive!" Mr. Xia said with a smile.
Merchants have no country and only have interests in their eyes. The nobles of the Song Dynasty were very greedy. They could use food to drain the Wu Dynasty of food, but at the same time they also wanted to get involved in the household markets of the Wu Dynasty.
The profits of the household market are too explosive.
The grassland herdsmen are short of money, but the grassland leaders are not short of people. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Sui and Tang Dynasties, for more than two thousand years, the grassland must go south in troubled times. No matter how many times there was chaos, the grassland was robbed, and how much gold was robbed. When it comes to silver jewelry, no one can give a definite number.
The grassland leaders do not like the culture of the Central Plains, but they like the products of the Central Plains. The more luxury goods they have, the more they will be available in the grassland market.
The Wu Dynasty had blocked the household market for more than two hundred years, and this desire increased instead of decreasing. Joking aside, it meant that the Wu Dynasty could not supply it. If it could supply it, the Wu Dynasty would not have a financial shortage.
Now that it is open to the public, everyone can predict a consumption trend originating from the depths of the grassland.
Not to mention fighting, blinded by interests, as long as it is not a knife from the sky, there is a way to come, and the Wu Dynasty will open the ports in the next year!
