Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 237 This Ming Yuan Is Really Easy to Use (Unedited)
Mahle Gobi is an ordinary Yuan man who lives near the Liaohe River. He was originally a nomad of a tribe and had his own horses, cattle and sheep, but later because of the war, all his cattle and sheep were flattered by the court. It was collected.

But Mahle Gobi has one of the biggest characteristics, that is, it is indomitable. It has grown so big on the grassland, and it has never seen any difficulties.

What if there are no cattle and sheep?Then steal, then rob.

In this regard, Mahler Gobi can be said to be quite proficient in business.

It didn't take long for him to re-accumulate his wealth.

However, no matter how many cattle, sheep and horses there are, there is still a very important problem, that is, he does not have clothes to wear, or can drink tea, etc., which are the necessities of life.

The clothes are fine, it would be good to just wear the fur of the beast.

But for tea and other things, there is really no way.

The key is that it is necessary for survival, especially tea and salt. Although drinking tea seems to be just a drink, for the peoples on the grasslands, there are very necessary elements in tea.

If this element of life is lacking, they are likely to get sick, so drinking tea every day is a must for them, not to mention salt.

As before, Mahler Gobi wanted to obtain tea and salt by stealing or robbing, but there was no way at all.

You can only wait for the caravan to come to trade, or wait for someone in the tribe to come back with these things to trade.

And these prices are often very expensive.

After all, they also spent a lot of effort to snatch it from the Ming Dynasty, so it is naturally not cheap.

However, when he heard that the mutual market trade was about to open, Mahler Gobi was also in high spirits when he heard about it.

If the mutual market trade is really opened, then take your own cattle, sheep and horses to the border and sell these scales to people from Daming, and then buy the necessary salt and tea from Daming.

In this way, a lot of risk is also reduced.

However, whether this mutual market trade can be opened is another matter.

Mahler Gobi doesn't have much hope anyway, since Daming and Beiyuan are fighting so fiercely, it can still be said that opening border trade will open border trade.

After all, this is the first border trade, and everyone is very cautious.

I don't know if there is any conspiracy or trick in it, so I didn't go there together and let everyone move at will.

Instead, each tribe sent some representatives, and then the Northern Yuan court organized them to go there together.

It's like a caravan sent by the country.

Mahler Gobi set off with such an organization, and because of fear of danger, Mahler Gobi can be said to be fully armed.

The cattle, sheep and horses on hand did not bring a lot.

Mahler just casually owed a few heads to check on the situation. Anyway, if the border trade is open, it will continue, and it will not be too late for the trade next time.

Mahler Gobi thought so in his heart, so he followed his tribe members and soon arrived at the border trade place.

The trading place here is not very far from the place where their tribe is located, and they arrived there after only three days of walking.

And those people from other tribes, they had obviously arrived here before them.

Then there were also many people from Daming who went to the border.

Compared with the prairie side, most of them are leading cattle, sheep and horses, and the Daming side can be said to have rich products.

There are not only carts of silk, but also boxes of all kinds of exquisite goods, as well as what they need most, tea and salt, which are necessities for survival.

As for those colored glazes, they were naturally sold to rich people.

And these ordinary people, they came here to stare at clothes, salt and tea, these three things.

It is also what they need most. If there are still some conditions, they will naturally buy a pot.

After all, it is not easy to make a pot on the grassland.

Even with this forging ability, the Beiyuan government couldn't just let the common people buy it in the market in the grassland where metal is scarce.

All the metal was used to forge weapons.

And Mahler Gobi also happened to see a place selling various stoves and pots in the market. Mahler Gobi looked straight at that time.

They wanted this pot before, but they had to sacrifice their lives to get it back.

Now it can be bought directly in the market, what kind of paradise is this!

However, Mahler Gobi did not bring a lot of property this time. Even if they wanted to buy all these products home, they were powerless.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, I have a lot of cattle and sheep, and when the time comes, I will go back and bring a group of them, and I will buy everything that should be bought next time.

Mahler Gobi thought so in his heart, and then he walked to a place selling tea and casually asked about the price.

Originally, I thought that the other party would be willing to barter with me directly. After all, everyone usually does this when they trade.

But he didn't expect that when he proposed to exchange tea with him, the other party nervously waved his hand and refused.

While waving his hand to refuse, he said cautiously:

"There is a rule in our business, that is, you can't exchange things for things. If you want to buy my tea, you have to bring money."

"banknote?"

Mahler Gobi was a little confused when he heard this new term.

What is this banknote?How did he know?

The other party quickly took out a brand new Ming Yuan banknote, and then showed it to Mahler Gobi, and then explained in detail how to obtain this banknote.

To put it simply, a bank was opened at the place where the border trade was located.

In addition to the savings business, this bank also has a new business, which is pawn.

People on the prairie, if they want to get banknotes, take their things to the bank to pawn.

Then you can go to the market to buy things with the converted banknotes.

And in the market, there are Jinyiwei, no, it should be called the customs department to patrol, just to prevent those merchants and people on the grassland from trading privately with each other.

Mahler Gobi didn't expect things to be so troublesome, but he could only abide by Daming's rules.

Who made this mutual market dominated by Daming?

Bite the bullet and go to the bank with his cattle, sheep and horses first, hoping to get a good price in exchange.

I still look forward to this bank in my heart, but don't treat yourself like a pig.

If it's cheap, I'm not really willing to sell them.

Thinking about Mahler Gobi in this way, I soon arrived at the gate of the bank, only to see a lot of prairie men already queuing up here.

And before they went in, they all had the same worried expressions as him.

After all, I have to exchange my own cattle and sheep for banknotes, and I don't know if it will be worth money, so naturally I feel worried in my heart.

But when I came out, I saw the expressions on everyone's faces were very happy, and they didn't seem to be at a disadvantage.

Seeing everyone's reactions, Mahler Gobi felt relieved. At least judging from everyone's reactions, this bank is not a scam.

I walked in quickly, and there was a tall counter in front, which seemed to be ordered differently, and a young man was sitting behind the railing, looking down at the account book in his hand, asking questions without raising his head. road:
"Is it to save money or to mortgage?"

It was the first time for Mahler Gobi to deal with a bank, and he was still quite nervous.

However, according to the other party's inquiry, he answered honestly, of course he was selling the cattle and sheep in his hand for banknotes.

As for the mortgage, Mahler Gobi never thought about it.

After hearing what Mahler Gobi said, the staff of the bank quickly explained it to him in detail.

Our bank is not in the business of trading. We can’t dissect the cattle and sheep, fur or cut the meat to sell them for money, so we mortgage them.

Mortgage is naturally very simple. The cattle and sheep are with us, and we will keep them for you for the time being. As for how to deal with them, it is our business.

Give you a certain amount of banknotes. If you want to take these cattle and sheep back one day, then just bring gold, silver and jewelry to exchange.

It is definitely not the original cattle and sheep that are returned, but the number will not be wrong.

The words are clear, but Mahler Gobi feels a little strange when he hears it.

I came here with cattle and sheep to exchange paper money, and I don't know what to do with these papers, but if I want to take the cattle and sheep back, I have to bring gold, silver and jewelry to exchange the cattle and sheep.

That is to say, once in and out, in addition to getting a pile of waste paper, I also took in a lot of silver and gold.

Doesn't this mean that I exchanged these banknotes for silver and gold?
But if you think about it again, you can also go to the market to buy various commodities with these banknotes.

It's not a loss, but it's a bit troublesome to get silver and gold to redeem these cattle and sheep.

To put it bluntly, this is a typical example of bringing gold and silver to Daming, and then releasing Ming's banknotes for use by neighboring countries.

Over time, it will be possible to control gold and silver, send banknotes to other countries as mainstream currencies, and then manipulate the economies of other countries at will.

Marle Gobi naturally didn't understand so much, he quickly returned to the market with the banknotes, and bought those tea leaves with the banknotes.

Satisfied, they went back with the tribe. After the few of them went back, they naturally talked about the border trade.

It turns out that the border trade here is real and the goods provided by Daming are also very rich.

Even iron pans and shovels, which are usually prohibited from transportation, can be bought.

You must know that these iron pots and shovels can also be made into weapons if they are smelted.

Normally, Daming would never allow iron pots and shovels to flow into Beiyuan.

As for the Beiyuan executives, they naturally tried their best to buy these things.

But now that there is an open side market, other high-level executives will no longer stare at these iron pots and shovels.

Because as long as they can take out enough Daming banknotes, they can buy scarce resources such as ironware and minerals from Daming.

By the way, Daming's current bank has opened the business of exchanging gold and silver for banknotes.

If there is enough gold and silver in the top management of Beiyuan, they can be exchanged for banknotes.

Maybe some people are going to say, if you give away the gold and silver banknotes, then they can buy all kinds of things from Daming with these banknotes.

This is equivalent to taking gold and silver to buy scarce resources from Daming, no different from before.

This is what you don't quite understand, as long as Daming's banknotes are more and more in Beiyuan territory, and finally reach an irreversible form.

This is the purpose of Liao King Zhu Qi, and when he wants to buy other people's things, he only needs to print money.

Because the official banknotes over there are already Daming's banknotes, even if they don't want Daming's banknotes, there is nothing they can do.

In this way, on this grassland in Beiyuan, there are countless people like Mahle Gobi, who help Daming accomplish the great goal of controlling Beiyuan's economy invisibly.

But this process is still very slow, at least it will take two or three years, and Zhu Qi has time to wait.

Anyway, the war with Beiyuan couldn't be resolved within two or three years. In fact, in history, Beiyuan existed even longer than the Ming Dynasty.

Although the imperial family of the Northern Yuan Dynasty has existed in name only, this name has been preserved until the Qing Dynasty annexed Mongolia, and it was officially declared dead.

In other words, since the Ming Dynasty, only the group of people on the Beiyuan Grassland has been completely suppressed.

But there is no way to completely destroy the country, let alone completely control the grassland, and Zhu Qi's current economic strategy is to pave the way for controlling the grassland.

After Zhu Qi has been busy dealing with these matters, it has already arrived in June of the 13th year of Hongwu.

And Zhu Qi stayed in Yingtian Mansion for half a year, if he didn't go back at this time, those ministers would really have trouble.

And Zhu Qi didn't want to stay in Yingtian Mansion for a long time, even though he didn't want to leave Yingtian Mansion and go to Liaodong because he was afraid of war.

But the current security situation in Liaodong is already very stable. Although there are wars in all directions, there is Azashili on the grassland, and there are puppets supported by Ming on the Korean peninsula.

Not to mention the Jurchens north of Changbai Mountain, they are now loyal allies for Daming.

If you think about it this way, Liaodong is very safe.

Zhu Qi also wanted to go back quickly, away from the disturbing voices in the Great Ming Dynasty Hall.

It is also to reassure the eldest brother Zhu Biao, don't really let others talk about it, thinking that he is going to rebel.

And Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that the third child could no longer stay in Yingtian Mansion, which was not in compliance with the rules, not to mention that the third child Zhu Qi went to Liaodong to preside over the border trade, which was more in line with the current interests.

After careful consideration, Zhu Yuanzhang also chose to let him go, and ordered Zhu Qi to leave for the fief some time.

But before Zhu Qi left, Zhu Yuanzhang also gave him a hint that Daming would send troops to continue to attack Beiyuan and Goryeo in a few years to solve the problem thoroughly.

Before that, let Zhu Qi make all the preparations, the most important thing is to mess up the domestic demand situation in Beiyuan.

After controlling Beiyuan's economy, it will be too easy.

(End of this chapter)