Chapter 476
To Xu Shiyang's surprise, the angry words he had just said were actually caught by Jamuha.
"I'll give you your own daughter? That's fine."
Jamuka said indifferently:
"I have a legitimate daughter named Pearl, who is thirteen years old. Her heart is clearer than the lake water, and she is even more beautiful than the most gorgeous pearl. Before the New Year, tens of thousands of households grew 50,000 cattle and sheep and asked me to marry Princess Pearl. I didn't agree! But if you want, I can agree to her be your wife."
"ah?"
Xu Shiyang didn't expect to come like this. He mentioned that this really didn't want to ask for women with Mengwu people - what's the good thing about Mengwu women who deal with sheep all day long?
Nowadays, some Han people do think Hu Ji is quite charming and Gao Li maid is also good.
But in fact, all the surrounding ethnic groups think that Han women are the most beautiful - this can be seen from the price. For example, an ordinary Mongol woman who can give birth to a woman on the grassland is only worth two sheep, while a Han women may be worth a horse.
Xu Shiyang used to have some beautiful fantasies about the ethnic beauties of this era, but after seeing the living conditions on the grassland, he quickly agreed to this view.
Who would normally want to marry a Mengwu woman? What is the difference between marrying a sheep?
What's more..., let's hear how Jamuka describes his daughter: 50,000 cattle and sheep!
A princess worth 50,000 cattle and sheep is so expensive.
It's totally selling goods.
"I'm not asking you for a woman!" Xu Shiyang said with some anger: "I just made an example!"
"I heard that the prince of Qi, Xu Shiyang, is the number one warrior in the world. How can you not count on what you say?" Jamuhe frowned and said, "You don't even count on this matter. So how can I believe your previous promise?"
It makes sense, it makes people speechless.
Xu Shiyang found that he accidentally dug a hole for himself. This Mongol Tartar was really cunning.
"This matter is decided like this, but I will marry my daughter to you, so you have to give me some benefits!"
Jamukha asked in a proper tone:
"How much benefit can you give me?"
"You are not a married daughter, you are selling your daughter!"
"Don't you Han people want a betrothal gift when marrying a wife? Let's do this. Next year I will send you Princess Pearl to you. At that time, I will prepare three thousand horses, five thousand cattle, mules, camels, and 30,000 sheep as dowry! How many betrothal gifts can you give?"
Jamuha's idea is very simple. He had just hinted that his daughter is worth more than 50,000 cattle and sheep, plus these 3,000 horses, 5,000 large animals and 30,000 sheep. The dating gifts given by the handsome Han people will not be less than 100,000 animals!
Maybe it can cost 150,000? Should I start asking for a price of 200,000?
Xu Shiyang was speechless.
It turns out that if a shameless person is invincible, the world will be invincible.
However, this is the case in this era. It is not just the Tartars. Even the emperors of the Han dynasty usually do not care about the personal happiness of their own princess. It is good to marry the son of an important minister as a win over, and it is miserable to marry foreigners outside the Great Wall. This is no longer a question of personal happiness or not.
You should know that the barbarians outside the Great Wall really have the custom of inheriting the father and son!
No one cares about women's ideas, which makes Xu Shiyang's concepts seem too unfashionable.
Anyway, Xu Shiyang would not agree to trade women as goods - at least his own women cannot do it!
Xu Shiyang didn't plan to buy a woman for himself, not to mention that he had a lot of women.
"I have no intention of marrying your daughter, nor am I going to give you any betrothal gifts."
Finally, Xu Shiyang answered firmly:
"However, your livestock can be counted as what I bought. You can exchange it with you at a discounted price of 20% off the market price."
"If you want to bribe your subordinates, I suggest that the two Qi and Meng families can choose to trade quotas for each other - obey your tribe, you give them the quotas for each other, give them your fuses to trade with us, and do not obey your tribe, and we will not accept their trade without your seal."
"For you, this should be enough."
Jamuka thought about it and felt that this seemed OK.
Grassland products are very scarce and require the export of a large number of necessities from the outside, as are the luxury goods enjoyed by the nobles. Therefore, in history, when the grassland nations were qualified to negotiate conditions with the Central Plains regime, trading was a condition that must be mentioned.
Permits to trade with each other can indeed be regarded as rewards to win people's hearts.
"I agree." Jamuka asked again: "Where is the location of the mutual market?"
"Your people can easily cause trouble when they come to my territory. After this time, you may also be worried about my people going to the grassland."
Xu Shiyang responded in a contemplative manner:
"Let's do this, it's located in Datong and the Han army's Shihou, not in our territory, so that it can be opened all year round."
"Okay! That's it!" Jamuka stretched out his hand: "We swear by high-fives!"
Xu Shiyang smiled and reached out to slap the Mengwu people's khan.
"The trade volume can be larger. As long as you exchange the Han people you have plundered before, I don't actually care about selling iron tools to the grassland."
"real?"
This is a big surprise for Jamuka.
In fact, all the regimes around the grassland before: the Great Zhou of the Han people, the Great Liao of the Khitans, the Great Jin of the Jurchens, and even the Great Xia of the Dangxiang strictly controlled the input of iron tools into the grassland.
So terrifyingly, a set of iron armor was worth more than ninety livestock!
This is also an important reason why the Mongols can't beat the Jurchens: every time the bow and arrow are shot against each other, the Mongols are shot by the Jurchens, and their bones and arrows can only tickle the Jurchens' armor.
After the Great Zhou migrated south, the equipment of the Mengwu people improved a lot. They picked up many weapons left by the collapsed Zhou army, and obtained many craftsmen and iron tools from Shanshan Shihou who took the initiative to surrender.
When the Mongols were equipped with the best equipment, a set of iron armor had been reduced to only worth a camel.
But after that, the Khans of the Mongolian and the Khans continued to challenge the Jurchen army, and they always lost more than they won, and they lost a lot of iron tools.
For example, the supplement last year was in trouble again, so Jamukha was naturally very excited to hear that Qi, which is known for its strong armor and strong soldiers, was willing to sell iron tools.
"Remember, I want the Han people who were kidnapped by you before!"
Xu Shiyang reminded:
"I will only allow the iron to be exported if I give back the person to me, otherwise I won't think about it!"
“No problem in this regard!”
Anyway, Xu Shiyang could not find out how many Han people had fallen into the hands of the Mengwu people in the past few decades. Every time, he gave Qi a few hundred or thousands of Han slaves, and he could open the market and exchange iron tools.
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After reaching the agreement, Jamukha left with satisfaction.
He received the promise that Qi would no longer attack the grasslands. More importantly, Qi and Meng Mutual Market could import various materials that the Mongols were in short supply on a large scale. Moreover, Xu Shiyang clearly stated that he would only accept the caravans sent by Jamukha, so who would eat the big cake of the U-Trade is completely up to him.
Chapter completed!