After this transaction, both sides felt secretly happy.

In Sun Quan's view, although tea is expensive, it is not very scarce after all, and war horses are the top priority. In addition to having horses with Shu, we have to establish sea transportation lines and maintain horse trading with Liaodong. We also have to guard against Tian Yu, who was stationed in Qingzhou, to avoid the Wei army's naval army sending troops from the sea and cut off the contact between Wu and Yan.

Jia Fan was also secretly happy. King Yan thought that a war horse could only exchange for 200 kilograms of tea, but he didn't expect that he could exchange for 300 kilograms, which was much beyond expectations.

Sun Quan smiled and said, "How long will it take for your horses to be transported?"

"It will arrive within seven days."

Jia Fan replied.

This is not a false statement. When Jia Fan went to the State of Wu, a cargo ship full of horses had already sailed out, but it was because the boat he was on was small, so it came quickly.

Sun Quan thought that Yan State was indeed eager to need this batch of tea, otherwise the exchanged materials had not been agreed and the war horses had been transported halfway. He smiled and said, "The envoy is here for a few days, and when the ship arrives, unload the horses, and I will order someone to load the tea onto the ship."

Jia Fan bowed to the ground and said respectfully: "Thank you, Master Wu for your hospitality, the old minister has been disturbed."

Sun Quan kept Jia Fan and asked, "I heard that Cao Shuang's ice and snow melted next year, so he was preparing to attack Yan. I wonder what the King of Yan was going to do?"

Jia Fan said: "When Lord Wu returns to the king, Yan State is weak, there is no one who is afraid of war. Even a scholar like me, who is old and stupid, is still not a person who is afraid of swords and avoids swords. When the Wei army attacks, he will fight with him. Thinking that Cao Shuang bullies the government and promotes unrighteous soldiers, he will definitely be defeated."

"The King of Yan is good at using troops and has power and strategy. His elite troops are even more brave and hard to bear. Although Cao Shuang and Xiahou Xuan hold heavy troops, they are just literati, which is not worth worrying about."

Sun Quan smiled when he stroked his beard and said that although he had never seen Gongsun Xiu with his own eyes, he became famous all over the world in the past few years. Everyone saw it. Even Goguryeo was annexed in one fell swoop. However, it was not easy to block Cao Shuang's attack. Its scale was no less than 100,000 troops, and they were all troops of hundreds of battles.

Such troops are either thrown into Shu or Wu, it is a battle to sway the country.

Jia Fan was actually confused in his heart. After all, the strength of Wei State is ten times stronger than that of Yan State. This is an indisputable fact, just to avoid losing its prestige in front of Sun Quan.

Seven days later, the Yan State ship arrived at the port of Wu State, and the leader was Liu Zhi. He stood at the bow of the ship, and saw Sun Quan, Jia and Fan, standing on the shore, immediately ordered the Yan army to dock.

The two thousand war horses on the ship were led down, all of which were tall and powerful, and they were so exquisite that they only saw Sun Quan. This was the most scarce strategic material in the Wu Kingdom. They sighed: "With this good horse, why worry about the uncertainty of the world?"

Jia Fan said: "These horses have not yet been formally trained. If your country is domesticated with elite troops, they will be unstoppable horses in the future. In previous years, when the Yan State general Deng Ai conquered Goguryeo, he ate because he was short of food and killed horses and ate no less than a hundred horses."

When Sun Quan heard this, he felt bloody and thought to himself: "Although he lacks food and food, if he does not kill horses and eats, the soldiers will starve, which is a helpless move. But if this butcher knife teaches me to do it, he will really feel unbearable."

Two thousand war horses were taken off the boat and reviewed them one by the Wu army. Zhuge Ke looked at the horses everywhere and knew that these were all adult and powerful horses, and there were no bad horses that were old, weak, sick and disabled. He immediately reported to Sun Quan: "Your Majesty, these horses are all good horses."

Sun Quan said with a "hmm" and said, "Put the tea on the boat and welcome the envoy Yan."

A war horse is exchanged for 300 kilograms of tea, and two thousand horses are exchanged for 600,000 kilograms of tea. This number is not a small number. Tea farmers in Jiangdong area produce only about 200 kilograms per acre of tea garden per acre per year.

These two thousand war horses almost picked up all the harvests of thousands of acres of tea gardens in a year.

The tea farmers picked the tea onto the bow of the boat, and the Yan army soldiers lined up in a row and went straight into the cabin. In a way that they had passed on each other, they put the tea into the cabin in basket after basket.

After the tea was loaded, Jia Fan immediately bowed to Sun Quan: "I have a chance next year, I will visit Master Wu again."

The two of them left on a boat with Liu Zhi.

When Gongsun Xiu learned that he had returned 600,000 kilograms of tea, he was filled with joy. Although war horses were also scarce for Liaodong, as long as tea was loved by herdsmen, it was still possible to exchange tea for horses. This transaction was not a loss.

The tea-horse trade originated in the Tang Dynasty and developed in the Song Dynasty. At first, it was mostly civil free trade. Although the Song Dynasty set up relevant administrative agencies to manage it, its political purpose was not particularly prominent.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang used the tea-horse market to control social stability and extended it to the political and military level.

Zhu Yuanzhang once said: "The way to control Rongdi should be reduced to its own business and value its own tea without ears. Our country should make tea, and make it easier for the country to use it."

The Ming Dynasty followed the government agencies of the Song Dynasty to manage tea-horse trade, and also established a more stringent management system to supervise the storage, trading, transportation, inspection and other links of tea. This model is similar to our current logistics system, such as warehouses, managers, inspectors, logistics distribution, etc. At that time, tea was equipped with a special tea warehouse for storage, and there were censors for inspections, and tea inspections were equipped with a special verification institute.

Of course, no profit cannot be raised early. Due to the monopoly of trade under the government, a large number of officials were generated. The merchants took risks and sold and smuggled tea to make huge profits. For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously cracked down on corruption, and even the prince-consort was directly executed according to the law.

Judging from the records of Ming Dynasty, the price ratio of tea horses is sometimes high and sometimes low.

In the 16th year of Hongwu, eighty kilograms of tea were replaced with one horse, sixty kilograms of tea was replaced with one horse, and forty kilograms of tea was replaced with one horse dismounted.

In the 22nd year of Hongwu, one hundred and twenty kilograms of tea was replaced by one horse, seventy kilograms of tea replaced by one horse, and fifty kilograms of tea replaced by one horse.

Overall, what remains unchanged is that tea is expensive and horses are cheap.

Gongsun Xiu roughly had an estimate in his mind. After all, it was a unified dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty. The basic situation was stable and there was no large-scale war. Most horses were used for equipment, transportation, and cargo, and horses would not die in battle. Most of them were normal old age.

The current Three Kingdoms period is different. From the warlords fighting each other in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, they can be said to be fighting every day. After entering the basic pattern of the coherence of the Three Kingdoms, they began to stabilize. However, there was an occasional honeymoon period. In such a great battle, war horses were the most important strategic material, and the price of their horses could naturally not be compared with the early Ming Dynasty.

Jia Fan said: "The king thought that so much sheepskin can be exchanged for so much tea?"

"It's enough. Not only can I change the sheepskin, but I can also change some horses. The next thing depends on the general's ability."
Chapter completed!