Chapter 1235 fully loaded
But their livestock and furs are much more convenient to sell, and the price is even better than before.
Many herdsmen don't understand the reason behind it, but they only know that it is really good now, and sometimes even if there is no suitable cattle and sheep to sell for a while, or there is no fur and no money, but there are goods they want to buy, other merchants are willing I owe you credit, although there is interest, but it is not unacceptable. In short, the herdsmen think it is quite a deal.
For example, salt tea, which is necessary for every family, used to be of poor quality and expensive, but now the salt is snow-white, free of impurities and not bitter, and the salt bricks are better, but the price is even cheaper.
If you get tired of eating milk every day, you can make milk into cheese, dried milk, milk tofu, etc., and then sell it to merchants, and replace it with rice noodles, salt tea, etc. The rice noodles are shipped from the Central Plains, but the price is quite affordable.
Many herdsmen now often buy some rice noodles at home, which can not only change the taste, but also prevent any disasters, and the livestock will freeze to death and cause famine.
Even many herdsmen began to believe in the original Buddhism and Taoism, and Confucianism is becoming more and more popular here. Anyway, tribal leaders are beginning to learn Chinese and let their children learn Chinese culture.
After many noble children went to the Central Plains capital, they have long been reluctant to think about Shu.
Everyone seems to think that now is better than before.
In fact, it is only because after several wars, there are no more overlords on the grassland, and there is no layer of direct oppression and plunder on their heads, and the opening of trade has also improved everyone's life.
There may be only one real impact on the grassland, that is, this place has been castrated, and it is difficult to produce a powerful overlord.
In the autumn of the 20th year of Zhenguan, when the son of heaven was lucky enough to call the Tibetans in Lingzhou, the leaders of the Western Regions and Mobei all actively went there.
The chiefs of the tribes brought their children, tribal special tributes, and many of them to trade.
The leader of Huihe, Runpo, the leader of Pugu, Gelanbayan, the leader of Duolangge, Mo, the leader of Bayegu, Qu Lishu, the leader of Tongluo, Shi Jian, and the chief of Sijie, Wu Sui, all came in person.
Of the more than 200 prefectural governors in the Thirty-Sixth Dudu Mansion in Mobei, none of them was absent.
In comparison, the ones in the Western Regions are worse.
The south of the Tianshan Mountains is now under the direct control of the Tang Dynasty, and it has been changed to an economic prefecture. Officials have been sent to garrison troops, so now there are no kings, and the royal families, powerful nobles, etc. of various countries have basically been moved to Chang'an and Luoyang. Living in the two capitals, this time people with identities from several countries have also been summoned to Lingzhou to attend the meeting.
In the area north of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions, the Jimi faction represented by Ahona Helu is now the main one. There are many, and he once again proclaims himself a minister.
But Yibi Shekui can no longer command the Western Regions.
The Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu in the river are now out of the control of the Western Turks. Before Yipidulu went to attack the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu and broke through the country of Mi, but he died due to internal strife, and the country of Mi also took the opportunity to restore the country.
The Sogdians of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu united, expelled the old tribe of Yipidulu, and lived in a group behind closed doors.
The more distant Tocharian region was once also an area controlled by Western Turkic conquest, but now it is a situation where twenty-nine countries stand side by side. Western Turkic Tocharian Yehu can only barely control the countries, but also Refusing to obey the orders of the Great Khan of the West Turks, anyway, the size of the West Turks has changed like a lantern over the years.
As for the Khazar Yehu who reached the Volga River further west, these former subordinates of the Western Turks are now basically semi-independent like Tocharia.
The emperor of the Tang Dynasty was lucky to be in Lingzhou, and summoned the leaders of the Mobei Western Regions to come, not only to appease Mobei, but also to take the opportunity to beat the Western Regions.
The situation in the Western Regions is not clear now. The confrontation between Ashina Helu and Yibishekui Khan has made the situation in the region unstable. Coupled with the situation of the nine kingdoms of Tocharo, Khazar and Zhaowu, the Western Regions are at risk at any time. Might get out of control again.
Li Shimin hoped that the Western Regions could become the second Mobei.
But judging from the current situation, it is not easy, or even impossible.
The biggest threat to the Western Regions is not the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu or the Twenty-Nine Kingdoms of Tocharian, or the more distant Western Turkic Khazar tribe, but the tribes of various surnames in the Western Regions that have established themselves in the Western Regions for nearly a hundred years.
Their strength is still very strong.
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Luzon.
Qin Lang was sitting in the port of San Francisco, and a fleet of ships slowly entered the port.
"It's a rewarding experience!"
A group of retainers who followed Qin Lang happily looked at the deep-draft treasure ships.
Lower sail and drop anchor.
Mint director Qin Lu who came down with the boat excitedly reported the harvest to Qin Lang, and brought back 1.58 million catties of copper.
Qin Lang was surprised that so much copper was transported back at one time. The copper in Japan is called red copper. There are many copper mines and the output is also high, but it is not easy to transport so much back at one time. This is not only a commercial trade, Inevitably higher level permissions are also involved.
The big treasure ship of the Qin family has thousands of materials and a displacement of one thousand tons. It can carry one million catties of goods at a time. The copper materials are shipped back by sea, but the transportation is relatively convenient.
1.58 million catties of copper, only two big treasure ships were loaded.
But it is not easy to buy so many.
"Our Qin family has invested a lot of money in the Wa country in the past few years. We have produced technology and used capital. The dignitaries of the Wa country have produced mines and people. This cooperation is of course good."
Wa is rich in copper, but their mining technology has always been poor.
The Qin family took the initiative to come to the door to discuss cooperation, provide prospecting mining and smelting processing technology, and underwrite sales, and the profits are still very high.
At this time, although the Yamato Dynasty was in power in the Wa country, the emperor was only a nominal monarch. In fact, the local powerful families were still in power, and even the Yamato court was basically controlled by a family like the Soga family.
In recent years, the Yamato Dynasty under the leadership of the Suga family has followed the reform of the Tang Dynasty in an all-round way. It has made great progress in all aspects, and the court has taken back a lot of power from the dignitaries and local tyrants.
The implementation of the Bantian system and so on really made the imperial court a little more decent.
But the reform was not all smooth sailing, especially before the Suer family, as a mainland faction, had always had a friendly relationship with Baekje, and at the same time led the attack on Silla. This decision put his relationship with Datang into crisis a few years ago. , Many looting ships authorized by the Tang Dynasty plundered the coast of the Wa country, coupled with the blockade of maritime trade, the Yamato court, which had just begun to reform and prosper, almost collapsed.
Even triggered several coups between North Korea and China.
Fortunately, in the end, the Su Wo family took the initiative to admit their mistakes to Datang, and with the efforts of the maritime trade faction like Qin Lang, Datang also began to reduce the suppression and blockade of the Japanese country.
It was in this situation that the Qin family brought technology and capital into the Wa Kingdom, and not only opened up the Wa Kingdom court, but also actively cooperated with local tycoons.
On the one hand, the treasure ships returned to import a large amount of industrial and commercial goods needed by the Japanese country, and on the other hand, they cooperated with local tycoons to mine silver and copper.
In this case, they had no choice but to fill the deficit by exporting silver and copper.
On the other hand, the Yamato court also strengthened fiscal revenue by imposing heavy taxes on the development and sale of silver and copper mines.
"Now not only our Qin family, but also many Tang Dynasty tycoons have entered the Wa country to open mines. There are now as many as thirteen copper mines. The Wa copper mines are rich in reserves. Only the Hinoki Valley copper mine we invested in is only the Kumano copper mine. It is one of the mines on the mountain, and last year, more than 400,000 catties were mined!"
"The Ashio Copper Mine produced more than 700,000 catties last year, and the largest Besshi Copper Mine produced more than one million catties last year."
In contrast, Datang copper is mostly produced in the remote southwest, and the output is low. What is more troublesome is that the copper ore dug out is not easy to transport, and the quality of Yunnan copper is still poor, and it is often impossible to make money.
From the pre-Qin period to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, money shortages have never stopped.
The shortage of money led to business restrictions, and even bad money drove out good money, and copper was more expensive than money. In recent years, Datang has taken many measures, but precious metals, gold, silver and copper are always scarce.
So now the maritime merchants in the Central Plains, the goods they like to trade outside are gold, silver and copper.
If you transport a ship of goods to the country of Wa, you can earn twice the profit. If you transport a ship of copper back, you will change hands two or three times.
Those like the Qin family who went directly to cooperate with the Japanese to open mines would earn even more.
The Qin family not only partnered to open a mine in the country of Wa, refine it there and then transport it back, but also reached an agreement with the court of the country of the country, the Qin family will also cast the copper that was transported back into copper coins, and then transport it back to the country of Wa to sell them for circulation.
Wa is now even more short of money than Datang. With the rise of maritime trade, the shortage of money in Wa has become more serious, and the lack of money has seriously restricted their business and trade.
Casting money by yourself is unskilled and costly, so the Japanese like to use the copper coins of the Tang Dynasty.
No goods in Japan, only gold and silver.
Waguo is very embarrassed in international trade. They want to buy all kinds of goods brought by the Tang ships, but they don't have what the Tang people want.
So they had to pay with gold and silver, but Japan had not mined enough gold and silver before.
"The goods we transported this time are sugar, tea and silk, and the profit is tripled." Qin Lu said happily. This time the business ran, not only brought back more than one million catties of copper, but also brought The goods are also directly earned three times.
"From departure to return to Hong Kong, it only took ten days to go back and forth and stop in the middle." He was excited. In ten days, the money he earned exceeded the tax revenue of a state for a year. How amazing.
What's more, after processing and refining such more than one million catties of copper, not only can a lot of silver be obtained, but if it is cast into Kaiyuan Tongbao through the mint, at least 10% of the net profit can be obtained with the Qin family's technology.
Such a large amount of copper can be minted at least 300,000 guan, which means that the profit of the copper transported back this time is 30,000 guan.
(end of this chapter)