The Number One Catcher In The Capital, You Call This A Dog Leg?

Chapter 775: General Equivalents On The Grassland

After all, Zhongyuan is actually quite generous most of the time, although the words used are either reward or gift, which are obviously superior to others.

But what you give is real!

So whether it is a reward or a gift, it is the best to get it in your own hands.

, they are busy with the civil war, and they can't even take care of their own country, let alone accept the surrender of several tribes on the grassland. They don't have that effort at all.

If the grassland people want to obtain food, they can only go to merchants and the court to buy it, and exchange it with war horses, cattle and sheep.

What's more damning is that in the past few decades, the imperial courts of the two countries bordering their grasslands are not ordinary stingers, they are stingers who have created a new Realm!

All the tribes on the prairie couldn't take advantage of it due to the energy of haggling.

How much silk cloth and grain a war horse is exchanged for, you can bargain for the price, and you can't bargain any more.

As for the merchants in the past, not to mention, they have reached a new height compared to the imperial court.

Merchants are profit-seeking, friendship does not exist, they just want to maximize profits, they are even more willing to bargain than the court!

So they couldn't help but began to envy the place bordering Zhao State.

Look, in the past, people were all vassal states of the Central Plains, and the Central Plains said one thing and they dared not say the other, but now?

Turned over to become the master, and let Zhao Guo, who belongs to the Central Plains, cede land again and again. Although they have also surrendered to Zhao Guo now, but Zhao Guo is so generous.

Year-old offerings such as year-old coins and year-old cloth are paid on time every time, which is more generous than when the Central Plains was complete.

They don't want these two tempers who are now on the border with them to be more stinky than the other and talk about things with their fists at every turn!

It is too difficult!

But don't worry now, because God has already sent someone to save them.

That was Xu Qing and Xiao Ye who were riding their horses towards a small tribe, and many shadow guards on horseback.

It can be said that these shadow guards represent the pinnacle of Chu's light cavalry.

Don't even think about the heavy cavalry, they couldn't afford it, and they were disbanded long ago.

Xiao Ye rode on the horse and looked at Xu Qing and said, "Brother Xu, we are almost reaching that small tribe on the map, shall we charge over there?"

Xu Qing shook his head and said: "There are only more than 400 people in the tribe, and there are no horses. If we rush to kill them in this round, how many living people can they have for us to recruit?"

Xiao Ye thought deeply; "Brother Xu is right, you really can't do that."

Xu Qing said: "Nowadays, in order to maintain the foreign war, the Wanyan tribe and the high-level dignitaries plundered the resources at the bottom, which made the people on the grassland miserable. It also has a certain deterrent effect on the powerful, and the ordinary herdsmen basically don't feel it, just like the tenants in the Central Plains don't know the Jade Seal of Chuanguo."

"So we just need to use a few people with strong martial arts skills to sneak into the place where the dignitaries who lead this tribe live, perform a beheading operation, and then distribute all the cattle and sheep he gathered to the herdsmen below, and these herdsmen will naturally rise up. It will also be echoed."

Xiao Ye said: "Brother Xu, you have already said that the Yan tribe has plundered a lot of cattle and sheep from other tribes in order to maintain the war. Even if there are cattle and sheep, they will definitely hand them over. How can this small tribe have enough cattle and sheep?"

Xu Qing shook his head and said, "Brother Xiao, don't worry, there are absolutely, and there are plenty of them."

Xiao Ye asked suspiciously, "Why is Brother Xu so sure?"

Xu Qing said: "Although Wanyan Khan collected a large number of cattle and sheep for military funds in order to maintain the war, it is absolutely reasonable to distribute it to each tribe. Wanyan Khan, if he doesn't understand governance at all, he will only fight blindly , he can’t unify the entire grassland.”

Xiao Ye wondered: "Brother Xu also said that the tribes on the grassland were oppressed by the Wanyan tribe? Isn't that contradictory?"

Xu Qing shook his head and said: "It's not contradictory at all. Although a lord like Wanyan Khan will not overly oppress the people under his rule, what about the officials he sends?"

"Let me give you an example, Brother Xiao, to understand. For example, I am a khan on the grassland. In order to maintain the war, I give an order that each household has to hand over three sheep as military expenses, but if it is passed down, the first-level will become Ten, then down to the first-level will be fifteen, and so on..."

"And the worst thing is not these first-level officials in the middle, but the small officials who can directly contact the herdsmen at the bottom. They can directly exploit the ruled, and it is precisely because of this that they are even more unscrupulous in squeezing wealth. Being able to directly turn into fifty sheep is not groundless, this is human nature."

Xiao Ye was surprised: "It's so?!"

Xu Qing said: "That's why, don't look at the smallness of the officials, the means of making money are not small at all, these talents are often the most Damn it, and the oppression of these people will directly make the people below think that the ruler is cruel, Then people will instigate a rebellion, and the high-ranking ruler will fall into self-doubt. He is obviously working hard every day to govern the country, so why did he end up with the reputation of being a stupid king in the end."

Xiao Ye fell into deep thought when he heard this: "Brother Xu, what you said is not limited to the grasslands, is it? Is it the same in our Chu country, just like the last disaster relief, father and uncle even All reduced military expenditures to allocate funds for disaster relief and even purchased grain from Zhao at a high price. Obviously, the grain was enough for disaster relief but it just couldn't reach the people, so wars broke out frequently.

Xu Qing said: "It's not just the Chu country, it will be like this, and it happens by coincidence. Brother Xiao, I can't solve the worries and problems of the people, so I can take this as a warning."

Xiao Ye heard this and immediately said to Xu Qing cupped fist; "Brother Xu's words, Xiao Ye has been taught!"

Xu Qing said with a smile: "Okay, this time fighting for the country doesn't talk about political affairs, and the grasslands don't use money, what do they rely on to become ordinary equivalents?"

Xiao Ye said, "Prairie people usually trade salt and tea leaves. My father asked me to bring a lot of them this time. I still have a few bags with me."

As he said that, Xiao Ye took out a bag and handed it to Xu Qing.

After taking it, Xu Qing opened the bag and said in a daze, "Just this tea? Isn't this too bad?"

Xiao Ye spread his hands and said, "That's what I asked my father at the time."

Xu Qing asked: "And then?"

Xiao Ye said: "Father said he was afraid that the tea would be too good for them to drink."

Xu Qing; "..."

He suddenly understood the meaning of Agula's strange expression when he came to drink tea last time.