Ye Fan felt secretly happy. The constipated expressions on the faces of these Tubo people made him feel particularly comfortable!
I just like this feeling that you hate me so much that you can’t get rid of me!
He half-reclined, leaning on a soft pillow, with a weird smile on his face.
Tsering was a little anxious. He didn't want to lose such a business partner and bring himself such a powerful enemy as Liang Chuan!
This time he made a mistake in judgment!
I underestimated Liang Chuan, and even more underestimated Ye Fan, a handsome young man!
Judging from his radiant energy in the woman's arms yesterday, he looked like one of the masters in the romantic world. People like this usually spend too much time on things, they just look like goods. What abilities can they have?
Ye Fan stared at the elder's old face for a long time, which made Tsering feel a little embarrassed and joking, and then he said leisurely: "The previous quotation is outdated, I can't see the sincerity of you guys. , I have seen your hypocrisy! Show some attitude to impress me!"
Tsering looked to the left and right, and saw that the big Mangkang people behind him got up and left the table one after another. He and Deji were the only two people left in the entire hall!
Then Tsering clapped his hands, and the girls from yesterday filed in again!
The two aunts who were waiting for Ye Fan were obviously familiar with the taste, and immediately greeted Ye Fan. Unexpectedly, Ye Fan was frightened by Wang Dui, and he was already afraid of these two girls, and asked quickly: "Which one of you is Qu Zhen?"
The two girls didn't understand what it meant, but they understood it well and knew that it was definitely not their names, so they immediately shook their heads.
This is not the attitude that Ye Fan wants. He is not a lustful ghost who wants women every day? Besides, if you can get this woman, you may be a good wife from a certain family, but she made a mistake and went out for a while, and then her husband chased her!
"You two go down first, I have something important to discuss with the Great Elder!"
The two of them did not dare to go against Ye Fan's words, and turned to look at Tsering. Tsering nodded, and then the two of them slowly retreated!
"The Great Elder is too scheming to let these girls come to have fun with us first, and then let their husbands come to bring us misfortune!"
Tsering quickly explained: "I misunderstood just now..."
"No need to talk anymore, forget about the past, let's talk about business now!"
Ye Fan paused and slowly said to Tsering: "The price we discussed before does not count now, I want to add more!"
What!
Liang Chuan was a little surprised when he looked at Ye Fan. This kid has a really big appetite!
It turned out that Ye Fan wanted to charge Tsering three times the profit of tea. This sky-high price was already unacceptable. Just because Wangdui stepped in, he doubled the price. Liang Chuan no longer dared to look at Tsering's face. The old face can be said to have a complicated expression!
Tsering has never been so angry and calm like now!
The choice is not in his hands. He can only restrain himself if he feels aggrieved at the moment. Years of practice have given him good Qi-nurturing skills!
Otherwise, Ye Fan would have asked him to make a magical weapon long ago!
"Okay, I hope this is your last price increase!"
Tsering actually agreed!
Of course Tsering has to agree!
Apart from Ye Fan's caravan, he couldn't find any other caravan to help them sell their backlog of pink salt in the past few years, let alone obtain tea from the outside world!
It is precisely because of the blockage of trade routes that they have been using sky-high price tea. Now the tea they are drinking is not only four times the profit, but at least five times the price!
Those tea sellers are even more hateful than Moda on the plateau. When someone takes a knife and they fiddle with their abacus, all the wealth they have accumulated will be wiped out!
Ye Fan chuckled and said: "Of course, we gentlemen can't chase you!"
Tsering finally breathed a sigh of relief and forced a smile on his face, but before he could smile, Ye Fan gave him a critical blow!
"Every time I come to Mangkang, I take away three thousand kilograms of pink salt. I don't want a kilogram of other salt!"...
The Tubo people themselves like white salt the most, and the price of local white salt is much higher!
But white salt is also very popular
A problem!
Because salt is not in short supply on the plateau!
The Tuyuhun tribe in the north has larger salt ponds and higher yields. The green salt that the Dangxiang people rely on comes from this place!
Now they don’t even want white salt!
How many kilograms of pink salt can be sold this year? What else is there to do in this business? Why not just focus on buying the tea they send, and simply change your career to become a second-rate dealer, and maybe you can earn more!
"Would you please reconsider if we are willing to lower the price of salt..."
What's so rare about white salt? Ye Fan from Dali didn't even look at white salt. Smuggling salt in Dali is legal, and the government won't interfere. So they can have as much salt as they want, why bother traveling all the way? Come to the plateau to buy white salt!
"No need!" Ye Fan immediately rejected the great elder Tsering's kindness in a very firm tone, and then he made a request that surprised everyone!
"I want you to provide leather goods and beef tendons. I will take as much as you want!"
Liang Chuan didn't react for a moment, and his mind was full of doubts. Why did this kid want to be a fur goods merchant? It's interesting. The profit of this thing will be higher than that of salt?
The expressions of Tsering and Deji were extremely solemn.
They know what these two things mean!
Liang Chuan is indeed brave, but it seems that the one who is really difficult to deal with is the seemingly playboy Ye Fan. This person is the real master!
On the plateau, there are a lot of leather goods and beef tendons, which are their local specialties!
Yaks can produce countless amounts of fresh milk every year, which provides Tibetan people with a large amount of dairy products.
Not every plateauer eats beef every meal. According to ancient productivity, if there were no natural disasters or plagues and everything went smoothly, it would take almost two years for a sheep to reach adulthood, and one sheep would produce about one hundred kilograms of meat. At this time, after slaughtering, about forty kilograms of mutton could be obtained.
Someone has calculated that a nomadic tribe that can provide a hundred troops should maintain a total population of at least four to five hundred people. Based on the average per capita eating three sheep per month, it will consume 1,200 sheep per month, which is That works out to 15,000 sheep per year.
This is just a small tribe.
A force like Tubo can mobilize more than 100,000 soldiers for each foreign war. These soldiers are often the main labor force of the family. Even if they are recruited, the survival of their families must be ensured!
Even if there are 200,000 people, that’s six million sheep a year!
How can we raise six million sheep? The situation in Tubo is far worse than in other regions!
The temperature here is always several degrees lower than in other areas, and the area where grass can grow for grazing is quite limited! Large areas are covered with perennial frozen soil! And even if there is grassland here, it is not the endless northern grassland, but a mountain grassland, which is steeper than Dali. Not only animals are in danger of survival, but also people!
Therefore, when Tubo was at its most glorious, it did not rely on livestock to make its fortune, but started farming!
Cattle and sheep can produce a large amount of fresh milk, which can be eaten by both humans and livestock. Together with some wild animals, such as hares, deer and antelopes, this is the source of food for most Tibetan people!
After eating the cattle and sheep, the rest is not all garbage, but all the rest is treasure!
The first thing to bear the brunt is these leathers and animal sinews!
The reason why the nomads are so powerful is because they ride and shoot!
This is the unparalleled talent attribute of the Han family! Just like they can't compete with the Han people in farming, everyone has their own unique skills!
The skin can be made into leather robes, which can withstand the cold on the plateau, and the animal tendons can be made into bows and arrows! Arrowheads can be polished with animal bones, and animal sinews can be made into bowstrings after being tempered. Together with their own war horses, these conditions can create a large army. Such a group of people can even defeat the unbeatable in the field. Tang Jun!
What a fighting force the Tang Dynasty troops had! Even if the combat power of the Tang Dynasty declined seriously in his later years, it was still hundreds of times stronger than ordinary troops!
So when Ye Fan proposed to purchase leather goods and beef tendons,
, Liang Chuan doesn’t understand the meaning behind this, it’s impossible for the two elders to not understand it!
What they have to consider about this business is whether it will have any counter-effects on them in the future!
Buying and selling these things may bring them money, or they may raise a tiger!
If these things are made into weapons and used against them in the future, it will be a big problem!
But as soon as the two of them had this idea, they immediately gave it up!
Ye Fan is from Dali. Do Dali people fight? Isn’t this nonsense!
The Dali people also have their own pastures and their own cattle and sheep. They can also produce these leather goods and tendons themselves, and now they have to buy them from the Tubo people.
What's the purpose of this?
The only ones who can use these things now are the two sides at war in the south!
This guy doesn't want to sell these things there. .
It's possible!
The Song Dynasty would not need these two things.
They have more advanced crossbows, and their annual output is very stable. There has never been a decrease in output due to shortages of beef tendons and skins.
There is only one way to go, and that is to the Li Dynasty in South Vietnam!
In recent years, South Vietnam has made more and more moves, and a large area of land south of the plateau has been brought under its control. Now their ambitions are so swollen that they dare to plunder the tiger beards of the Song Dynasty!
If there is chaos in the South, who will benefit?
It must be Tubo and Dali! Because these two forces are closely adjacent to South Vietnam, the weaker the south is, the more stable development space there will be for these two forces!
Moreover, South Vietnam is not as good as the Song Dynasty. Their demand for ordnance is greater, and their output has not been able to increase. The reason is that the raw materials are made from raw materials!
The South Vietnamese have no chance to directly find them, the Tubo people, because there is Dali in the middle. If they intervene, South Vietnam will drag both Tubo and Dali into the water. In this way, the nearly hundred years of peace between Dali and the Song Dynasty will end, and Tubo will To deal with Dangxiang, the alliance formed with the Song Dynasty will also be burned to the ground. This situation is obviously something that no one in power wants to see!
If you support it secretly
Based on this analysis, in this transaction, they have to sell these things to the South Vietnamese, making this game as chaotic as possible!
"How many leather goods and beef tendons can you buy with one step? We are extremely cautious when buying and selling these things! I believe you should know the reason!"
