However, their livestock, fur, etc. are much more convenient to sell, and even the price is better than before.

Many herders don’t understand the reason behind it, but they only know that it is really good now. Sometimes, if there is no suitable cattle and sheep for sale, or there is no fur or money, but there is a merchant who wants to buy, the merchants are willing to pay you credit. Although the interest is available, it is not unacceptable. In short, the herders think it is quite cost-effective.

For example, the salt tea that every family needs was poor in quality and expensive in the past. Now the salt is white without impurities and is not bitter, and the salt bricks are better, but the price is cheaper.

If you get tired of milk every day, you can make milk into cheese, dry milk, milk tofu, etc., and then sell it to merchants and exchange it for rice, flour, salt and tea. Rice and flour are shipped from the Central Plains, but the price is quite affordable.

Many herders now often buy some rice and flour at home, which can not only change their taste, but also prevent any disasters that cause famine.

Even many herdsmen began to believe in the original Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism here became more and more popular. Anyway, tribal leaders were beginning to learn Chinese and let their children learn Chinese culture.

Many noble children have long been overjoyed after they went to the Central Plains Capital.

It seems that everyone thinks it is better now than before.

In fact, it was just because after several wars, there was no overlord on the grassland, and there was a layer of direct oppression and plunder on their heads, and the opening of trade also improved everyone's lives.

There may be only one real impact on the grassland, that is, it has been castrated and it is difficult to produce a powerful overlord.

When the 20th year of Zhenguan, the emperor personally visited Lingzhou and convened all the foreigners, the leaders of the Western Regions and the northern deserts actively went there.

The leaders of the tribes brought their children, tribe specialties and tributes, and also brought many to trade.

The leader of the Uighurs, the leader of the Pugu, the leader of the Pugu, the leader of the Gou, the leader of the Gou, the leader of the Gou, the leader of the Gou, the leader of the Gou, the leader of the Gou, the leader of the Gou, the leader of the Gou, the leader of the Luo, the chief of the So-called Chief of the So-called Chief of the So-called Chief of the So-called Chief of the So-called Chief of the So-called Chief of the So-

There are more than 200 governors of the Thirty-six Governor's Office in Mobei, none of them are absent.

In contrast, the Western Regions are worse.

The south of Tianshan Mountain is now directly controlled by the Tang Dynasty and changed to a civil prefecture. Officials have been sent to station troops, so there are no kings now. The royal families, powerful nobles and other countries have basically been moved to Chang'an and Luoyang to live in the two capitals. This time, those with identities in several countries have long been summoned to Lingzhou to attend the meeting.

The area north of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions is now mainly a sect represented by Ahanahelu. He ruled the area east of the Saiye River. After losing the countries south of the Tianshan Mountains, Yipisak Khan became much more honest and once again submitted a letter to the surrender.

But Yipi Shekui can no longer command the Western Regions.

The nine kingdoms of Zhaowu in the river are now out of control of the Western Turks. Before, Yibidulu attacked the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu and defeated the United States, but he died due to internal strife, and the United States also took the opportunity to restore the country.

The Sogdians from the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu united and drove away the old subordinates of Yipidulu, closed the door and lived together.

The farther Tochar region was once a region that was conquered and controlled by the Western Turks, but now it is a situation where the twenty-nine countries are united. The Western Turks' Tochar Yehu could only barely control the countries, but he refused to obey the orders of the Western Turks Khan. Anyway, the Western Turks changed the number of the Western Turks like a revolving lantern in recent years.

As for Khasayehu, who reached the Volga River further west, these former Western Turks subordinates are now like Tochar and are basically semi-independent.

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty personally visited Lingzhou and summoned the leaders of the Western Regions of Mobei to come. Not only to appease Mobei, but also to take the opportunity to attack the Western Regions.

The situation in the Western Regions is not clear now. The opposition between Ashinahelu and Yipissakkkhan made the regional situation unstable. In addition, the situation in Tochar, Khasa and Zhaowu made the Western Regions out of control at any time.

Li Shimin hopes that the Western Regions can become the second northern desert.

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 Tochar, or the more distant Western Turkic Khasa tribe, but the tribes of Western Turkic surnames that have been established in the Western Regions for nearly a hundred years.

Their strength is still very strong.

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Luzon.

Qin Lang sat in San Francisco Harbor, and a fleet slowly sailed into the port.

"Go back with a full load!"

The retainers following Qin Lang happily looked at the treasure ships with deep water.

Lower the sail and lower the anchor.

Qin Lu, the mint director who came down with the ship, excitedly reported the harvest of the trip to Qin Lang and transported back 1.58 million kilograms of copper.

"These copper is accompanied by silver. We transport it back and smel it first, and we can get a lot of zero silver."

Qin Lang was surprised to have transported so much copper back in one go. The copper in Japan is called copper. There are many copper ores found and the output is also very high. However, it is not easy to transport so much copper back in one go. This is not only commercial trade, but also involves higher-level licenses.

The Qin family's treasure ship has thousands of materials, a displacement of thousands of tons, and can carry one million kilograms of goods at a time. The copper material is shipped back from sea, but transportation is relatively convenient.

One hundred and fifty-eight thousand kilograms of copper, only two treasure ships were loaded.

But it is not easy to buy so many.

"Our Qin family has invested a lot of money in Japan in recent years. We have used our technology and capital. The Japanese powerful people have mines and people. Of course, this cooperation will be good."

Japan produces a lot of copper, but their mining technology has always been ineffective.

The Qin family took the initiative to come to discuss cooperation, provide exploration mining and smelting processing technologies, and underwriting, which has a very high profit.

Although the Japanese state was in power at this time, the Emperor was only a nominal monarch. In fact, the major tyrants were in power in the local area, and even the Yamato court was basically controlled by a clan like Suwo.

In recent years, the Yamato Dynasty led by the Suwo family has fully emulated the Tang Dynasty's reforms, and has made considerable progress in all aspects. The court has gradually recovered a lot of power from the powerful and local tyrants.

The implementation of the bantian system and other systems has indeed made the court a little decent.

But the reform was not smooth, especially as the mainland faction, the Suwo family had always had friendly relations with Baekje and led the attack on Silla. This decision made his relationship with the Tang Dynasty in crisis a few years ago. Many plundering ships authorized by the Tang Dynasty plundered the coast of Japan, and the blockade of maritime trade almost collapsed the Yamato court, which had just begun to reform and flourish.

It even triggered several coups in the North Korean and Central Korea.

Fortunately, the Suwo family finally took the initiative to bow to the Tang Dynasty to admit their mistakes, and with the efforts of sea trade factions like Qin Lang, the Tang Dynasty began to reduce the suppression and blockade of Japan.

It was in this situation that the Qin family brought technology and capital into Japan, which not only opened up the Japanese court, but also actively cooperated with local tyrants.

On the one hand, the treasure ship returned and imported a large amount of industrial and commercial goods needed by Japan. On the other hand, it cooperated with the powerful people from all over the country to collect silver and dig copper. The powerful people needed the goods from the Tang Dynasty, but the goods from the Tang Dynasty were too good, and the trade was all in a deficit.

In this case, they had 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 production and sale of silver and copper mines.

"Now not only our Qin family, but also many powerful Tang tyrants have entered Wai to mine. There are thirteen copper mines in this area. The Japanese copper mine has rich reserves. The Chikigu copper mine we invested in is only one of the mine caves in Kumano copper mine. More than 400,000 kilograms were mined last year!"

"The Zuwei copper mine produced more than 700,000 kilograms last year, while the largest Bezi copper mine produced more than one million kilograms last year."

In contrast, Datang copper is mostly produced in remote southwest places, and the output is relatively low. What is even more troublesome is that the copper mines dug out are not easy to transport and export, and the quality of Yunnan copper is still poor and often cannot be minted.

Since the pre-Qin period, to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the money shortage has never stopped.

Money shortage leads to business restrictions, and even bad money drives out good money, and copper is more expensive than money. In recent years, the Tang Dynasty has taken multiple measures, but precious metals, gold, silver and copper have always been scarce.

So now, the goods that the maritime merchants in the Central Plains like to trade outside are gold, silver and copper.

If you transport a ship of goods to Japan, you can earn twice the profit. If you transport another ship of copper back, you will get two or three times the price.

If the Qin family goes directly to work with the Japanese to start mining, they will make more money.

The Qin family not only jointly mined in Japan, but also refined and transported it back, but also reached an agreement with the Japanese court. The Qin family also cast the copper transported back into copper coins and then transported it back to Japan for sale for them for circulation.

Japan is now even short of money than the Tang Dynasty. With the rise of maritime trade, Japan's money shortage has become more serious, and the lack of money has seriously restricted their industrial and commercial trade.

The first thing is that they have no skills in minting coins, and the second reason is that the cost is high, so the Japanese like to use copper coins from the Tang Dynasty. The Kaiyuan Tongbao is of good quality, which is loved by Japanese merchants and people.

There is no goods in Japan, only gold and silver.

Japan is very embarrassed in international trade. They want to buy all kinds of goods brought by Tang Ship, but they don’t have what the Tang people want.

So I had to pay it with gold and silver, but Japan's gold and silver mining volume was insufficient before.

"The goods we shipped this time were sugar, tea and silk, and the profit was three times higher." Qin Lu said happily. This transaction not only brought back more than one million kilograms of copper, but also made three times higher in the goods he brought.

"It took only ten days to set off to return to Hong Kong, and it took only ten days to stay in the middle." He was excited. In ten days, the money he earned was more than one year's tax income in a state. How amazing.

What's more than one million kilograms of copper can not only get a lot of silver after processing and refining, but also if it is minted into Kaiyuan Tongbao through a mint, the Qin family's technology can obtain at least 10% of the net profit.
Chapter completed!