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Nahachu and the Ming Dynasty did a very smooth business. The Ming Dynasty sold all kinds of metals, while Nahachu sold the fine feed of the war horses to the Ming Dynasty.

Later, it was not just the feed for war horses, but even the reserved foods of beef and mutton on the grassland began to be sold.

In Nahatu's opinion, there is nothing that cannot be sold. Anyway, there is no war recently. Selling these reserved jerky to the Ming Dynasty can also exchange for a banknote.

Wouldn't it be better to use these banknotes to buy precious metals?

Iron ore are scarce on the grassland.

While the Ming Dynasty is willing to trade now, of course, it is to buy as much as you want to avoid conflicts later. If the Ming Dynasty is unwilling to trade, that would be bad.

Of course, there are not a few nobles on the grassland who think like Nahachi.

And the Ming Dynasty is always here. I want everything you have, such as jerky meat and other things.

Anyway, I just printed a little money at the back and bought it.

It costs a little labor or something, but there is no other cost at all.

The Ming Dynasty was naturally happy to use these money to exchange for feed and beef jerky on the grassland. As for selling the metal iron ore to the grassland, they were not afraid at all.

Anyway, with His Highness the King of Liao, now, even if he sells the iron ore metal to the grassland, the weapons he has trained there are no match for my Ming Dynasty. What's the point of panic?

On the contrary, when I bought it from the grassland, the raw materials came in more and more. At the beginning, it was just coloring materials, but later I bought it more food.

In addition to Nahachu doing business with Daming, other grassland nobles were anxious when they saw Nahachu doing business with Daming.

I hurriedly started to contact the Ming Dynasty, but the reason was that the grassland was not completely accepted by the commander of the court like the Central Plains.

The grassland is divided into tribes, which have great autonomy and can annex other tribes, and the central court often doesn't care about it.

Because of this, if the power of your own tribe becomes smaller and is inferior to others, you may face annexation from others.

At this time, the central court cannot save you, and the only thing that can save yourself is the armed forces in your hands.

So when I got there, I said that after the iron tools and other things on my hands became more, if I didn’t quickly expand my arms, it was hard to guarantee that I would not be attacked by Naha behind my back.

After all, Nahachu had used this method to sneak attack Azhasili before. Let’s take a look at the tragic situation of Azhasili back then. It is obvious to all the leaders of those grassland tribes.

It was this sense of urgency that made the nobles on the grassland begin, and the arms race with Naha began to continuously purchase weapons from the Ming Dynasty.

And when more and more sellers provide forage and food, Daming naturally had the right to choose and lower prices.

For example, today I bought a lot of jerky from Naha. If anyone wants to interfere in this business tomorrow, the price will be well discussed.

It can't be more expensive than what Nahachu sells. In addition to these, there are some other things. The tribal leaders will take the initiative to lower prices and negotiate business with the Ming Dynasty. As long as they sell metal iron ore, they can negotiate any price.

So, there were endless people from the grassland tribe coming to contact each other in the Ming Dynasty.

The prices in the Ming Dynasty are naturally lower and lower, but the price is low and the volume is not much different for those grassland tribes.

Anyway, after getting the money, I will buy metal as soon as possible.

But as they bought it, they found that the prices of these metals seemed to be getting more and more expensive.

The explanation from the Ming Dynasty is also very simple. As there are more people buying, the price will naturally increase.

I can't say the price, I'd better follow the same way, wouldn't it be a loss?

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty not only lowered the price, but also received more and more. Later, it began to arrears of payment for goods.

The so-called default on payment means that the grassland will first send a large amount of jerky, grain, and forage to the Ming Dynasty, and then give a deposit here first, and then pay in installments.

Then the grassland was naturally unhappy at the beginning, so how could it do business like this?

It must be the one hand to deliver the goods and the other hand to pay. The tribe leaders were not happy at the beginning, and some even shouted that if you don’t give the money, we will definitely not give the goods, etc.

However, their morale did not last long. One of the tribes quickly took the initiative to deliver the goods and agreed to owe them, Daming obviously reduced his business with other tribes.

Instead, we took the initiative to contact the tribe, and gave them more business, imported more grain and forage from them, and sold them more metal minerals.

To be honest, it doesn’t matter if you sell your food. If you sell your food, it’s the same thing as me.

But when they saw other tribes constantly importing minerals and weapons from the Ming Dynasty, the tribes became panicked.

As mentioned earlier, the grassland tribe and the Ming Dynasty are well organized, but they are different at all. They just nominally obey the central court, but in fact they are still fighting on their own. Various battles often occur between tribes.

If this weapon is not well-equipped enough, it will be defeated by other tribes, and it will not be possible to admit defeat.

Not only will the things from his tribe be taken away, but people will also be taken away, and the leader of his tribe may even be beheaded.

Those who can survive after being defeated are a few of them.

Because of this, when they heard about other tribes, they took a lot of weapons and equipment from the Ming Dynasty.

They suddenly became panicked, and they all rushed to get weapons and equipment. Even if they paid in installments, they were happy.

However, the Ming Dynasty is not so easy to speak. If you want to use weapons and equipment, we will sell it to you. When I was going to sell it to you before, I was not happy to do business. I just bought some food and didn’t want us to pay.

Not to mention credit on this grassland, I would be happy even if I don’t pay.

As long as the Ming Dynasty was willing to sell iron tools to the grassland, those tribes would be willing.

Soon the business of the Ming Dynasty and the tribes on the grassland became bigger and bigger.

But they did not realize that the food on the tribe was getting less and less. By winter, many tribes were almost unable to get rid of the pot, but there were a lot of iron tools, etc.

If they can't get rid of the blame, they will definitely be very frightened and nervous, but now they are not panic at all.

With so many weapons and equipment, nothing can you starve to death. Soon the tribes organized to fight Qiufeng.

Although I am doing business with the Ming Dynasty now, it is just an official exchange. People from these tribes disguised as robbers, and it is very common to cross the Great Wall to grab a village or two.

They were always able to succeed, but this time it seemed completely different.

That is the weapons in the hands of the Ming army before, which seemed to be completely different from before.

They didn't think too much about it and rushed up as they patted the horse.

Then the soldiers were beaten to death by the excellent steel weapons.

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When Zhu Qi received the battle report, he also had a confused expression. As expected, the tribes really went south to rob the people in the pass as they thought.

After all, they were originally from robbery, so it is a habit to rely on robbing what they don’t have.

This is also the reason why they are willing to sell food to the Ming Dynasty so easily.

I was already thinking about grabbing food, so why do I care about these things?

However, Zhu Qi's steel has long been equipped in Liaoyang. Many of the border soldiers in Liaodong have brought newly refined steel weapons and armor, so there is no need to say more about this combat power.

The flintlock muskets and other things have not been equipped. The armor and weapons made of steel have already beaten the people who came down from the Beiyuan grassland to fight the autumn wind.

The opponent's weapons were unable to break the armor at all. Just a confrontation with the Ming soldiers had already left the weapon gap, and some weapons of poor quality were cut into two pieces.

Is this more important? All the weapons are gone, so naturally there is no chance of winning.

And this is pretty good, at least your life will be left, but those who meet grasslands equipped with flintlock guns are not so lucky.

Under the power of the musket, it can be said that it was cleaned up in just a few seconds.

These small-scale battles seem to be just the grassland tribes suffering losses.

But when these battles were spread, they suddenly attracted the attention of the senior officials of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

Wang Baobao is not a fool. After seeing the Ming Dynasty and Beiyuan opened border trade, he has been paying attention to why the Ming Dynasty opened border trade.

Is it really as the Ming Dynasty said that people's livelihood has withered due to war, so do you want to have two more years of peace?

Although we temporarily put aside the war and carry out border trade, we are also what Wang Baobao wants.

But Wang Baobao was still investigating the war at the border, so he was surprised when he received the situation of the small troops in the Ming army.

The equipment of the Ming army was naturally not very good in the past, and at least it was not much better than that of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

You should know that the Northern Yuan Dynasty used to occupy a unified dynasty in the Central Plains. Although it was later overthrown by peasants and expelled from the pass, there were also many things that were brought out.

Including previously forged weapons and armor, etc.

Although the weapons and equipment of those grassland tribes are not much better than the regular army of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, they are at least equipped with iron equipment, and they will not suffer such great damage to the Ming army.

You should know that those small troops of the Ming Dynasty almost completely repelled them, and there were no casualties.

How powerful and strong the weapons and armor must be used to achieve this.

According to the testimony of a small number of survivors, it also proved what Wang Baobao guessed, that is, the exquisiteness of the Ming Dynasty's weapons and equipment, at least the weapons and equipment equipped on the border are no longer the same as before.

What is this situation? Is there any technological innovation in the Ming Dynasty?

Wang Baobao wanted to figure out what was going on, so it was naturally impossible to know in a short period of time, but he still instinctively noticed the danger.

Thinking of the series of events that happened this year and the Ming Dynasty's continuous purchase of grain from the grassland, Wang Baobao suddenly thought of a possibility.

Could it be that the Ming Dynasty deliberately used their iron tools to cover gold, silver and jewelry on the grassland, and used those banknotes to purchase the grassland’s grain.

The reason for doing this is very obvious. After taking away these gold, silver and jewelry, it would not be so easy for the Beiyuan to replenish food from other places.

You should know that the Northern Yuan Dynasty and other countries use gold, silver and jewelry for trade. If you take the Ming Dynasty banknotes to Central Asia, will those Central Asian countries recognize it?
To be continued...