It's OK to do business with the herdsmen, but it's better to consider what kind of business to do.
The most scarce things over there are salt, tea and iron.
Salt can make people strong and healthy, so Xie Zhifeng doesn't want to exchange salt with people over there. People over there grew up on horseback and are good at riding. When necessary, they can even fight all the people. Xie Zhifeng doesn't want to invest in enemies and make them stronger.
On the surface, they exchange things from their hands for cooking pots. In fact, they will return these irons to the furnace and use them to forge weapons to kill their soldiers.
How could Xie Zhifeng exchange iron with them?
The only things that can be exchanged are tea, cloth and so on.
Although the profits of these things are not as big as those of the former two, it is also a stable financial path under the condition of small profits but quick turnover.
Moreover, not only did they sell things to the Western barbarians to earn a lot of money, but they also made a lot of money by transporting the things they exchanged from the herdsmen to the mainland.
The fur of the Western barbarians is very popular in the mainland, and their cattle, sheep and horses can be used to eat and make animal power. Naturally, they are very popular in the mainland. Mutton is a tonic. Many rich families like to eat sheep, and the most important horses.
In fact, what Xie Zhifeng wanted most was a good breed horse of Ximan. This kind of horse has strong endurance and is tall, big and strong. What is suitable to be a military horse.
It's a pity that the Western barbarians are not idiots. On the one hand, their upper class nobles used all kinds of methods to take good breeds of horses from the herdsmen as army horses, on the other hand, they also used strict laws to force the herdsmen not to trade with good breeds of horses. Although occasionally they could buy some horses at a high price, Xie Zhifeng's desire to buy them in large quantities was just like a fool's dream.
Although it is impossible to buy a large number of improved breeds of horses, the ordinary grassland horses they can buy are much better than those in the mainland. Although the offspring produced by the combination of improved breeds of horses and ordinary grassland horses are not as good as those of pure breeds of good breeds of horses, they are also much better than ordinary horses. Using these horses as army horses can also make their army horses not lag behind the Western barbarians too much.
If he wants to do business with the herdsmen, he has an advantage over everyone. After all, he is in charge of the scouting camp.
I believe that if he works hard, he won't make less money than qiao'er, so that he can't lift his head in front of her because qiao'er makes more money than him.
When Xie Zhifeng is thinking about his plan to make a fortune, Du Qiaoyun is still thinking about why Xie Zhifeng should specially emphasize that he will talk about it after February?
Xiliang is no better than the mainland. February hasn't thawed yet. Even Xie Zhifeng, who has just come to Xiliang, knows something about it?
"After February? My husband, why should we wait until February? " Xie Zhifeng sees Du Qiaoyun's puzzled face and can't laugh or cry.
The girl talked about getting married with him as soon as possible before, but now the day is fixed, but she doesn't remember it!
"Why February? Have you forgotten what day is the second day of February? Now that you have spent all your money, what shall we get married with? I want to marry my qiao'er, but I don't want my qiao'er to be wronged. "
Originally, qiao'er lived in his house without marriage, and had already suffered all the gossip outside. If their wedding ceremony was hasty and simple again, the world would think that he didn't care about qiao'er, so he despised her. No one can look up to her any more.
He loved her as much as he could, how could he bear her such grievances?
When they got married, he not only had to marry her in a big sedan chair with eight legs and ten li red makeup, but also had to do his best to have a big banquet, so that everyone could know that Du Qiaoyun was a man of Xie Zhifeng's heart, and no one could neglect her!