Therefore, food has always been very important to all grassland tribes.
In particular, the means of preserving food in various parts of the grassland are extremely limited. In addition, there is not enough salt, so even if you want to pickle meat, it will be difficult to expand the scale.
Once a large number of livestock are affected and die, most of the meat can only watch helplessly and rot.
"Your Majesty, food is extremely scarce. Our Liaozhou treasury only has enough food for a few months. The powerful people are not willing to sell more food. This method is not easy to use!" Yu Wenxun Niyan said.
Everyone knows that food is good, so there is no need to panic when there is food at home.
No matter how greedy the powerful are for money, they will never sell their own grain reserves.
"There will be more food in the future. As long as my new grain seeds are planted and harvested, we will no longer be afraid of food shortages in the future." Liu Yu said with confidence.
Seeing Liu Yu's confidence, Yu Wenxun Niyan became even more curious about those mysterious new crop seeds.
He secretly vowed that when the new crops arrived, he, the manager and pacifier, would personally see how to cultivate them.
"By the way, I want to ask you something." Liu Yu asked.
"Your Majesty, what do you want to ask?" Yu Wenxun Niyan said quickly.
"Which of the powerful tribes here in Liaozhou is most familiar with the various tribes in the Xianbei Mountains? In the future, I plan to send people to the grassland tribes to purchase goods." Liu Yu said.
"Purchasing goods? Your Majesty, those grassland tribes are all extremely poor. Apart from living animals such as cattle, sheep, and horses, there are no commodities. To collect these livestock, they need to come to Liaozhou in person." Yuwen Xunniyan said.
Liu Yu naturally understood the truth behind this.
Livestock such as cattle, sheep, and horses are all at risk of being damaged along the way. Death, old age, illness, or escape are all common occurrences. Even losing weight will affect the price.
Therefore, naturally no buyer is willing to take this risk.
Nomadic tribes who want to sell their livestock often need to drive their cattle and sheep to Liaozhou, or sell them to neighboring tribes and resell them to Liaozhou.
Apart from this, Yu Wenxun Niyan couldn't think of any other products to buy.
"I plan to purchase wool from these grassland ministries!" Liu Yu said.
"Wool? That thing is of little use except for making smelly felt." Yu Wenxun Niyan was puzzled.
"Haha, that's because the processing method is not good. I already have the best processing method. Although these wools are not of the highest quality, as long as you use my method, you can turn waste into treasure!" Liu Yu said.
His method is naturally to apply more advanced methods to process wool.
The originally smelly wool is transformed into soft and warm wool thread or woolen wool through a series of degreasing, drying and woolen spinning.
Although the sheep breeds in various parts of the grassland are not very good and the quality of the wool produced is not high, even the lowest grade wool products are still available.
"Is what your Majesty said true? Is there really a way to turn wool into treasure?" Yu Wenxun Niyan asked quickly.
"Yes, I have roughly mastered this method and it needs to be kept secret, so I just planned to implement it." Liu Yu said.
"Your Majesty, if this is true, then the grassland will be turned upside down!"
When these nomadic tribes have food and drink, they are relatively kind. Once they are reduced to poverty, they will go crazy and loot.
One of the important reasons is that these grassland tribes are too poor. The cattle, sheep and horses they raise are just enough to sustain food and drink, and they usually have no ability to save up to resist risks.
And if their wool can be turned into treasure, it will greatly reduce the poverty of many tribes, and the chances of becoming bandits will naturally be reduced.
"Haha, that's what I plan to do. Purchasing wool is not just a business. When the time comes, I will send people to visit all the ministries. While buying wool, I can also find out the situation and terrain of each grassland. If there is any trouble, we can Know it as soon as possible," Liu Yu said.
"Your Majesty is wise!" Yu Wenxun and Ni Yan also put on a high hat.
"So, I want to find someone in Liaozhou who is most familiar with the various departments in the deep grasslands to do this for me!" Liu Yu said.
In his vision, one of these giants should be selected to specialize in the purchase of wool, and then slowly develop other specialized businesses specializing in medicinal materials, horses, cowhide, etc.
In this way, if a trade problem arises, it is better to go directly to the owner for accountability.
"Your Majesty, the tribes in Liaozhou rarely send people to move around the grassland. If they do, only the Doulu clan in Liaozhou City has some business that specially sends people to various tribes to select horses for resale." Yuwen Xunniyan said.
For these Xianbei tycoons in Liaozhou who are gradually becoming Chinese, doing business with various grassland ministries is basically a seller's market. Wherever they need to work hard on the dangerous grasslands, they can just wait at home.
"The Doulu family in the north of the city, let their head of the family come over tomorrow, and I will interview them personally." Liu Yu said.
When Yu Wenxun Ni Yan heard this, he seemed a little embarrassed.
Liu Xian was a little puzzled when he saw the situation.
"What, what's the problem?" Liu Yu asked.
Yu Wenxun Niyan said a little embarrassed.
"Your Majesty, the former head of the Doulu family in the north of the city died of a sudden illness not long ago. The tribe has been in turmoil over the family property."
"What, fighting for family property?" Liu Yu didn't expect that he would encounter such a bloody plot, but he was quite interested.
"Yes, the previous head of the family who just died of illness was only in his twenties. He was the eldest son of the family, and had several younger brothers and uncles. In addition to leaving a widow, he also had a young son who was just one year old, and several brothers. The uncles are all jealous and vying for the position of the head of the family, but the final result has not been decided yet. For now, the widow Mo Lan is the housekeeper, and the family property may be divided in the future." Yu Wenxun Niyan said.
