Whoever has a big fist will listen to it. This is the rule on the grassland. Therefore, the three guards of Duoyan had no resistance to the Ming Dynasty. What they care about was tribute.

Except for grazing, the Mongolians did not do other production, and the items needed were basically traded with the Central Plains. At this time, the imperial court had not set up a side market in the silence field. If they wanted to obtain items, the only way to pay tribute was to pay tribute.

They paid tribute to fur and livestock, and the Ming court gave them food, cloth, green salt, tea, etc., which was actually another form of trade.

The number of tributes a year ranges from more than a dozen to dozens of times, and hundreds or thousands of tribute people are not surprising at all. The purpose is to exchange the items they need through tribute.

The civil and logistical changes a few years ago were ultimately a huge change caused by the tribute between the Oirat and the Ming court.

However, no matter how many times the tribute is paid and how large it is, it will be almost the same as the needs of the Mongolian nobles. The daily needs of ordinary herders rely almost entirely on private trade among the people. To put it bluntly, it is smuggling.

‘Once there is a proper profit, the capital will become very bold.

As long as there is 10% profit, it will be used everywhere;

20%, you will become lively;

50%, it will lead to positive risks;

100%, it will make people desperate for the law;

00% will make people not afraid of crime or even the danger of hanging their heads.’

This sentence is very classic. The huge benefits of border trade make many people willing to take the risk of beheading.

The Great Wall at the three guards of the Duoyan area have not been in war for a long time, and the court has to take advantage of it, and the management is not as strict as that in Liaodong.

In order to appease the three guards of Doyan, they prevented them from joining the Oirat and Tatar tribes from engaging in border quarrels and provoking another border quarrel, they adopted a laissez-faire or even indulgent attitude towards civil smuggling.

The caravans, regardless of size or size, are close to each other. They only need to pay some money to the border army based on the number of mules and horses, at the price of about a hundred coins per horse, and they can enter and exit the border.

According to Zhou Qinchuan's view, this form of collecting money and releasing money has actually become the nature of tariffs.

When it is loose, the caravan can even enter and exit from the Gubei exit in a noble way. If the wind is a little tight, it can enter and exit from other piers.

Therefore, Gubeikou has become an important border trade center in North China and the largest distribution center for entering and leaving the grassland.

If Zhou Qinchuan and others want to go to Liaodong, if they don’t go by sea, they can only leave the customs from here first and then find a way to go east by themselves.

However, running to the grassland alone is not a wise move. There are many horse bandits outside the pass, and in their eyes, such single-gang runners are fat sheep, and even some tribes will not be polite.

Most of them follow large caravans or small caravans, and there must be hundreds of people before they can get out of seclusion.

It was a coincidence that Zhou Qinchuan and the others arrived in Gubeikou. A group of small caravans had just left two days ago. Now there are not enough people staying in Gubeikou, so I can only wait now.

If you are lucky, you can set off immediately after a caravan. Otherwise, you can only wait to get people together, and when will the number of people be equal and when will the departure be.

But the caravans were all about to leave the customs. No matter how many, there were always some goods. Zhou Qinchuan and the other two arrived in a hurry, without any preparation, and their hands were empty-handed.

Gubeikou is a place where caravans enter and exit the grassland, but not a distribution center for goods. No matter which caravan, they have their own ways to purchase goods, and then they work hard to transport them to the place with mules and horses. It is not easy for Zhou Qinchuan and others to make some things here to go to the grassland.

Fortunately, I was lucky. After staying for two days, a small caravan who was traveling to the single gang received an urgent report about something important to the family.

This small caravan has only four people, all of whom are uncles and cousins. No one can stay at home, and they are in a hurry to take off the goods and return home.

However, at this time, the colleagues in Gubeikou were not large in scale and did not match anyone's money. In the end, they made the three of Zhou and Qinchuan cheaper.

He only paid a price slightly higher than the other party's purchase and successfully won it.

That night at the entrance of the ruined temple, the total amount of wealth they made from the dead was as high as 500 taels. In addition to silver, there were also several ingots of gold and ingots, which were unprecedentedly rich. They took the goods from such a small caravan and sprinkled water.

Both sides are happy

I was happy that the other party made a small profit and had the money to return home, while Zhou Qinchuan and others became travelers who were about to leave the customs. As long as the goods were vacancies were vacancies, they could make at least two to three times the profit.

The thing is actually very simple, without spending much money, including tea bricks, green salt and coarse cloth, and a few iron pots.

In comparison, more than a dozen mules and horses that were loaded with goods were more valuable in the Central Plains.

These mules and horses seem to be quite a lot, but in fact they don’t take much goods. Half of them carry food. In addition to ensuring the food and drink of the three of them along the way, there are also some coarse grains. They have to be taken out from time to time to feed these livestock to ensure that they do not lose weight and have the energy to travel long distances.

None of the three of them had ever been in contact with mules and horses. At first, they were afraid of being unable to deal with them. However, these animals were tamed so well that they were strung together with ropes, so there was nothing to worry about on the road.

The two extra horses were ridden by Zhou Qinchuan and Su Yourong. Xiao Ji was a small and light-hearted person. He could ride mules and donkeys that wanted to ride goods, but he could also ride horses with Zhou Qinchuan and Su Yourong.

The number of people who came out of seclusion was not enough and could not move for a while. Several people were learning to ride horses. The two slow horses had no temper. After a few days, they looked a little bit.

Su Yourong was scared of being stolen in Luqiao Town, so she tried every means to replace the remaining silver with gold bars and sewed them into the mezzanine of the three-person clothes, leaving only a little broken silver and copper coins.

During the waiting days, Zhou Qinchuan and the other two were wandering around Gubeikou. It was a must-do every day to find out the news of the customs. However, they unexpectedly bought two items, which finally made their goods a little different, and were no longer similar tea and salt cloth.

One of them bought kimchi and pickles in the surrounding villages. The quantity was not large, just six jars. Rather than selling it, they kept it for themselves.

Although no one complained about the escape, it was really not easy.

When I went north from Jining, I had money and I had no shortage of food.

Later, Zhou Qinchuan's archery skills have improved. It is not a big problem to hit fixed targets or slow-moving targets. Therefore, the prey you occasionally encounter, such as sheep, deer, etc., can be taken from time to time. As for the prey that moves at high speed, it all depends on luck.

Therefore, even if you can't meet a small mountain village for several days, you will not lack meat.

But for several days, because I had never met the village, the salt I brought was eaten up by three people.

Thinking of the days of Wuyan, no matter how skillful Su Yourong and Xiao Ji are, they are helpless. The taste of food is hard to swallow.

This time, although there is a lot of green salt in their own goods, there is no need to worry.

But kimchi is much better than simple salt. It is good at appetizing. With it, you can eat more even if you just use dead noodles.
Chapter completed!