Chapter 39 Big-minded, generous!
"Oh, Mr. Yu doesn't know that the tea and horse transactions on the black market have been monopolized by the Fan family, one of the eight major Shanxi merchants. If the Fan family does not nod, no one dares to trade with the Mongolians, otherwise they will be retaliated against crazy and even have life worries.
The Fan family had a message before that no one was allowed to trade with the Mongolians within half a month. If they killed their spirits, the Mongolians could not stay here for a long time and would soon return to the grassland.
When they couldn't hold back, the Fan family came forward again, exchanged Mongolian horses at a relatively low price, and then sold them to the mainland at a high price, making a lot of money. This is the usual cunning method of the Fan family, but it has cheated many people!"
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As Xiao Yueyue said, the Mongolian men sold for a long time, but they didn't sell a single horse. They even took the initiative to find Han merchants, but no one dared to trade with them. These Mongolian men were so anxious that they screamed strangely, but there was no way!
These Mongolians are really pitiful if they escape the blackmail of corrupt officials but cannot escape the trap of profiteers!
"Grandpa Tartar, you take two people to stay, stare at these horse-trafficking Mongolians, and after the black market disperses, follow behind quietly to find out where they are. It is best to find an opportunity to talk to their leader, and find out which tribe belongs to and how powerful it is!"
"Yulang, are you going to cheat them?"
After spending half a year together, I have a deep understanding of Xue Yu's character and skills. Grandpa Tartar can be evaluated in sixteen words: "I am loyal, bold, ruthless, and unparalleled in wisdom!"
Being close to friends as brothers, you can live and die together, share wealth and honor, and never let them down; being cold towards enemies, you will be as cold as ice, and anyone who is targeted by him will basically have no good end!
Although they don’t know the Mongols who sell horses, they are of the same race after all. Grandpa Tartar was very worried, afraid that they would become Xue Yu’s target!
"Haha, you're too worried. I just want to help them change some tea and go back to the grassland. There's nothing else."
"You want to help them, but are they Mongolians?"
"Yes, they are Mongolians, so what's wrong?"
Although the Han and Mongolians began to trade with each other, and even in some areas of the border, there were mixed living and intermarriage, the two ethnic groups had been killed for hundreds of years, and the hostility was still very deep.
Xue Yu is also a Han Chinese and should be hostile. It would be nice if he didn't dig a hole in secret, how could he help them?
But when faced with those clear eyes, Grandpa Tartar was very sure that the young man in front of him did not lie. He really wanted to help the Mongolians. Why is that?
The answer is very simple. As a time traveler, Xue Yu has no national prejudice in his heart.
Hundreds of years later, the Han, Mongolian, Hui, Manchu, Tibetan... fifty-six ethnic groups are as close as one family. Although their living customs are slightly different, everyone speaks the same Mandarin and writes the same words, and has the same identity: a dignified Chinese!
Isn’t it a matter of helping the Chinese people?
Besides, a person's mind and demeanor directly affects the level of achievement.
If you only have the Han people in your heart, you will at most become the emperor of Han people.
Only by caring about the world and thinking about the people of all races can one become the true common ruler of the world. One such hero has appeared in history, namely Tian Khan-Li Shimin!
Xue Yu really wants to be the second one!
Less gossip, and the book is back to its original meaning!
After the arrangements were made, Xue Yu and others returned to the inn, ordered a full table of dishes, had a beautiful meal, and ordered another five hundred coins to give Xiao Yueyue, which was his reward for one day.
And he made an agreement that tomorrow morning, he would come to the inn door to report that he would continue to hire him!
Also, when paying, Xue Yu deliberately gave an extra penny. Is the purpose of doing this... Haha, I will know later!
At dusk, the madman grandfather came back first and found out the situation of "Xiao Abacus" and others. They lived five miles east of the city and booked a Gaosheng inn and a large row of warehouses!
The mad grandfather found an opportunity and sneaked in and looked around. He found that there were not only a lot of green salt and cloth in the warehouse, but also muskets, gunpowder, swords and guns, bows and arrows!
It turned out that the Huang brothers were very brave and even took away military supplies, they also did the business of smuggling weapons!
However, just a few days ago, they didn't sell much goods and were busy looking for buyers everywhere!
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At night, Grandpa Tartar also came back, carrying a strong smell of horse milk wine, which shows that he had dealt with the Mongolians and had a good deal.
"Yulang, I have figured it out that they are members of the Wanhu-Urat tribe of Ordos. The leader is Agula. He lives twenty miles east of the city and has a yurt!
They brought more than 300 horses, more than 1,000 cows, and a large amount of cow leather, horns, and tendons. They wanted to exchange tea, salt, cloth and other daily necessities, but unfortunately, they were obstructed by the Fan family and their business has not been completed!”
Xue Yu nodded, indicating that he understood the whole story.
He shook his head again, not understanding the origin of these Mongols, what is the Wanhu of Ordos and what is the Urat tribe?
There was no choice but to explain in detail the current situation of Mongolian departments, which was considered a literacy class!
After the demise of the Yuan Empire, the Mongols retreated to the northern grasslands and split into three parts:
Tatar, descendant of the Golden Family, controls the eastern part of the Mongolian grassland!
The Wala, the original people in the forest, controlled the western part of the Mongolian grassland.
The three guards of Duoyan, the Mongols who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, were placed east of the Daxinganling Mountains.
Below the three major tribes, they are divided into countless small tribes. In order to compete for pastures, water sources, livestock, and qualifications to trade with the Ming Dynasty, they fought for years and fought endlessly, and blood flowed into rivers on the grassland!
Until the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, during the Zhengde period, Dayan Khan rose in the eastern part of the Mongolian grassland. He was the fifteenth generation grandson of Genghis Khan, the direct bloodline of the Golden Family, and the courageous spirit of his ancestors!
Under his leadership, the Tatar tribe quickly became stronger, defeated the Oirat to the west, annexed the three guards of Duoyan to the east, basically unified the Mongolian grasslands, and divided the territory into two wings on the left and right, each with three 10,000 households (10,000 households are just a collective name, with an actual number of more than 10,000 households), and enfeoffed the sects as lords, establishing a relatively stable rule!
The left wing is 30,000 households in Chahar, Khalkha and Uryanha, directly ruled by Dayan Khan and stationed in Chahar Wanhu.
The right wing is Ordos, Tuman, and Yongsebu 30,000 households, and Jinnong (the deputy Khan, second only to the Great Khan) is in charge of jurisdiction, and is stationed in Ordos 10,000 households.
Unfortunately, after Dayankang passed away, his descendants were incompetent and un united. The six major households were in charge of their own affairs, and the grassland was in chaos of attacking each other.
Among them, the Ordos tribe is the head of 30,000 households on the right wing. It is stationed in the Hetao grassland area. It is very powerful and is divided into forty-two tribes. The Urat tribe, which sells horses on the black market today, is one of them. It is just a relatively weak branch, with less than a thousand entries belonging to the people!
"So that's it. It's better to listen to your words than to read ten years!"
Grandpa Tartars talked about the origin, inheritance, size of the pasture, strength, and relationship with the Ming Dynasty court for more than an hour.
Xue Yu nodded frequently when he heard this. It turned out that the Mongolian grasslands were so chaotic and the relationship between the tribes was so complicated.
One question was understood, and a new question appeared again.
An ordinary Mongolian herder at most shepherds a horse and sheep, squeeze sheep milk, etc., has very limited knowledge and cannot understand the situation of various Mongolian tribes so thoroughly.
Only nobles, and top nobles, have such insights and know so many secret things!
It is also conceivable that the origin of the Tartar grandfather must be a tortuous and bizarre story, the story of the prince’s revenge, or the sound of the candle shadow and axe?
A fire of gossip burned in Xue Yu's heart and was forcibly extinguished again without asking a single word.
Everyone has secrets. If you want to say something, you will naturally say it. If you don’t want to say something, it’s best not to ask the bottom line. This is the basic principle of being a human being!
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Next, the mouse, Baihua Snake and others also came back, with exhaustion and disappointment on their faces. They wandered around Prudentia for a day, inquiring about news everywhere, almost asking about people when they saw them, but they had no gains at all!
This is not surprising. Whether the four friends were sold to Shanxi is just a guess and are not sure!
To take a step back, even if it is sold to Shanxi, it may not be in Pradezhou!
Let’s take a step back, even if it is really in Paudezhou, there are hundreds of thousands of people here, and the situation is very complicated. It is like finding a needle in a haystack if you don’t even have a serious name!
Not found, it's normal!
Xue Yu comforted a few friends and asked them to have a good rest and continue to search tomorrow. He sat in the dormitory, closing his eyes to ponder the situation in front of him:
The Mongols eager to exchange horses for tea!
A small calculation of privately selling military supplies!
There is also the Fan family that covers the sky in Purpose!
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Chapter completed!