The carriages crowded in front of Yulin Guanguan City were filled with bundles of wool. These wools from the grassland were just waste in the past, but now they are the best products on the grassland. Even the Qing Dynasty relied on the production of tens of millions of kilograms of wool every year to exchange for various goods such as cloth, iron pots, tea, etc. from the Ming Dynasty.

If there have been any changes in the Ming Dynasty's clothing in the past seven years, besides the popularity of casual clothes similar to military uniforms, knitted sweaters have been popularized in this cold era. In fact, at first, knitted sweaters were also military uniforms. This kind of sweater wool yarn is lighter than a jacket and has good warmth performance. Whether it is warm in spring and autumn, or winter, it has a good effect. It is also because of this that in the past few years, it has quickly become popular all over the country.

Even hand-woven clothes became part of female workers in needlework, textile, embroidery, etc. The raw material of wool was wool. In the early Ming Dynasty, wool came from military families in Liaodong, and now it comes from Mongolia and Qinghai.

Although most of the wool from Mongolia and Qinghai are thick wool, they are still widely used to make various products such as woolen wool and wool. They are very popular among the people because of their good cold resistance. This also stimulates the enthusiasm of merchants. Thousands of merchants are driving Liao-style four-wheeled carriages to purchase wool. This is also the first time that the Ming Dynasty's footsteps have truly penetrated into the grassland...

If you want to conquer, you must first understand!

If Su Wu and one vassal state after another went deep into the Western Regions, without the maps and bibliography they drew, would it be possible for the Han Dynasty to conquer the Western Regions?

Of course it is impossible!

At most, the army is overwhelming, the Tatars attacks north, and then the army withdraws, the Tatars attacks back... This is repeated, so many years!

If you want to conquer the grassland, first understand the grassland!

The first step to understanding the grassland is to go deep into the grassland.

When the sun crawled out from the southeast again, Li Chengyuan, who had emerged from under the carriage, looked into the distance. The grassland in front of him became even more vast. The distant mountains were endless, and the peaks of the mountains were flashing with golden light, looking like a mountain of gold.

However, that's not Kingsoft.

Instead, the snow-capped mountains reflect the golden light reflected by the sun. The weeds on the grassland are waist-deep, but they are all dry and yellow. Even further away, there are even a large group of wild sheep eating grass there leisurely. They ignored the caravan at all.

He had no intention of notifying his companions to escape.

That was the unique antelope in Qinghai. It was gentle in nature and delicious in meat. In autumn, when the meat was the fattest and the hair was the thickest, but Li Chengyuan and the others did not have the idea of ​​hunting.

The reason why they went deep into the grasslands of Qinghai was to do business with the herdsmen here.

"Okay, everyone hurry up and wash up and set off later to try to get to the destination in the afternoon!"

Hao Laoliu shouted loudly.

The vendors immediately got busy, but whether they were cooking or washing, they were carrying muskets, and without exception, they were carrying double-tube flintlocks.

In the past, Han vendors often did not dare to go deep into the grassland because they were worried about being robbed by herdsmen. After all, facing those herdsmen who rode horses and archery since childhood, even small groups of soldiers could only be beaten, but the emergence of muskets changed everything.

Muskets allow Han vendors to easily kill several skilled herders with archery and horses.

Of course, more importantly, Gushi Khan, who now ruled Qinghai, dared not offend the Ming Dynasty at all. As early as the second year of Gansheng, he sent envoys to express his surrender to the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, he agreed to the Ming Dynasty's request to protect business and travel.

Gu Shihan refused to agree. After all, the Qing Dynasty during the Western Expedition had already seized the Tianshan Mountains. If he had not entered Qinghai a few years ago, destroyed Ketu Khan and controlled the entire Qinghai area. Later, he annexed Tibet, he might have been annexed by the Qing Dynasty.

Although he had sent envoys to surrender to the Qing Dynasty more than ten years ago, in the face of the real threat, he chose to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. After all, compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was as threatened as a dog with a broken family.

It is also because of this that in the past five years, the vendors of the Ming Dynasty have even gone deep into Lhasa and other places. Caravans of all sizes are spread throughout the snowy area. The caravan where Li Chengyuan is located is a small caravan with only a dozen caravans.

But it was through such a small caravan that the Ming Dynasty's footsteps traveled all over Qinghai and even Tibet...

For a whole day, the caravans were rushing on the grassland, and everyone was anxious. After all, it was already autumn and they had to return to the Ming Dynasty before winter came.

At around 3:00 p.m., just as the vendors were anxious, a large flock of sheep appeared on the grassland out of thin air.

Flock of sheep!

There are as many as tens of thousands of heads. They "float" on the withered grass like white clouds.

At this moment, everyone was shocked. They even forgot to cheer.

Where there are sheep, there must be shepherds. Such a large flock of sheep means wool!

There are at least hundreds of thousands of kilograms of wool!

All the sufferings encountered along the way can finally be rewarded!

Before they could recover from their shock, they saw several Tibetans wearing wool sheepskin clothes rushing towards each other quickly. Seeing their dressing, except for the leading ones, the others were all serfs. However, even serfs, their equestrian skills were amazing. When they approached about thirty or forty steps, the people in front held bent bows and looked at them vigilantly.

"Customers from afar, where did you come from!"

The leader shouted loudly in Mongolian.

The Mongols are now the rulers of Qinghai and Tibet. In the past few years, Gushikhan has successively conquered Qinghai and Tibet and established the dominance of the Glu sect here. It is precisely because of this that Mongolian is the common language in Qinghai and Tibet.

Hao Laoliu replied in Mongolian.

"We came from the Ming Dynasty of the Central Plains. We traveled thousands of miles just to share the goods with our friends! We brought tea bricks, iron pots, and cotton cloth..."

brick tea!

Nowadays, tea bricks are common goods on the grassland. The bulk tea leaves handed over to merchants by tea farmers were large in size, light in weight, and inconvenient to transport. It was also quite depleted to put the tea into a bamboo basket, press it firmly, and then carry it. In order to adapt to the needs of trade, brick tea production appeared. Once brick tea was launched, it went deep into the Mongolians on the grassland and was welcomed by Tibetans. After all, they never cared about the taste of the tea, and the tea bricks that were easy to carry. Once it was launched, they were sought after by them.

When he heard that there was a tea brick, the expression on the man's face was stunned at first, and then he smiled.

"You are from Zhongyuan. This is the first time that the Ming Dynasty merchants have come here. I have heard that the Ming Dynasty merchants have come to the grassland, but I never thought that you would find us and welcome your arrival..."

While expressing his welcome, he turned around and shouted a few words to the slave beside him, ordering him to send back the letter quickly, saying that a distinguished guest was coming from afar. Then he reached out and made a gesture to the vendors for invitation.

Then a group of people followed them to the place where the smoke from cooking was floating in the distance, and along the way, they always turned their eyes to the flock.

Wool!

That's silver!

But as they walked towards the herders' tents, the vendors were stunned.

wool!

Piles of wool were thrown randomly on the grassland, without any combed, and were thrown randomly on the ground like rags.

They were all stunned when they saw the white wool thrown away so casually. At the same time, strange magic burst out in their eyes!

This is wool, it is clearly silver!

It's silver!

Piles of wool on the ground were all pieces of silver. Li Chengyuan could even hear his heartbeat, and he shouted excitedly.

"Brother Xu San..."

"Don't talk, listen to Brother Six..."

Xu San shook his head, and he even forced himself to look at the wool that was discarded randomly on the grassland. At this moment, he knew that he had made a fortune!

The herdsmen they met didn't know the use of wool, let alone it... it was valuable!

In an instant, Xu San smiled, his smile becoming brighter.
Chapter completed!