Zheng’s people and goods,

The three families are also followed by many in-laws and friends. Anyway, in the southwest, it is like robbing money.

"Erlang, you shouldn't be idle here, right?"

"I'm not as capable as your father. Besides, although Shuofang is destroyed, there are Turks to the north. We have to be careful. If we are not careful, the situation will collapse."

Wu Huaiyu's main focus now is to maintain stability. As for making money, of course he has to make money, such as buying land for farming, opening salt fields, mining, and trading.

They have been advancing slowly, but they are definitely not as heroic as Cheng Yaojin and the others were in Luzhou.

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On the Shuofang Silk Road, camel caravans came one after another on the road.

Wu Huaiyu and Cheng Chumo, together with a group of officials, stood by the Wuding River and watched these camel and horse caravans.

"So many live sheep?"

"Well, these sheep are part of the border market agreement that our Xiazhou Governor's Office has just reached with Yu Sheshe. They are driven from Hetao along the Yellow River to Shengzhou Yulin, and then along the Great Wall to Yinzhou."

This route happens to be on the important branch line of the Northern Trunk Line of the third line of the Silk Road.

This route was first developed in the Northern Wei Dynasty and was called Tongguanyi Road.

Now Wu Huaiyu is also taking advantage of Ashina Momo, the Turkic Yusheshe who occupies Dongtao, to be at odds with Jieli Khan. It happened that the Turks were having a hard time this year, so they took advantage of the relationship they had established with Yusheshe when they were in Yanzhou.

Several large deals were negotiated.

Before it snows, live sheep are transported from Hetao to Shuofang, and after it snows, frozen sheep are slaughtered and transported.

These live sheep are generally called hot sheep by the Turks.

At this time of autumn, there is still grass to eat along the way, so it is still more convenient to drive the sheep to Yinzhou with little loss.

Yinzhou is an important midpoint that Wu Huaiyu wants to build. It goes north to Hetao via Yinsheng, or the Tujue Yinshan Khan Court, and to the west it goes to Lingzhou and Lanzhou to Hexi via Xiayan. To the south, it goes to Yanfangfang.

, colleagues arrived in Chang'an.

The intersection of Yulin River and Wuding River is the Rulin of Yinzhou Prefecture within the Great Wall. Huaiyu established a new border city Yulin City at the northern point of this point.

The biggest trade in Yulin City now is sheep, live sheep.

Some Han merchants went directly to Hetao to sell sheep, and some Turks directly drove sheep to trade, which was very prosperous.

"We Chang'an people have the habit of eating mutton after autumn. Every year after autumn, the demand for mutton in Chang'an will increase greatly. Sheep are usually sacrificed during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the past, during peacetime, Chang'an would have consumed hundreds of thousands of sheep during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Already."

"You want to eat so many sheep?" Cheng Chumo was surprised.

"The Mid-Autumn Festival is a big festival, and there is a huge demand for sacrifices and rewards. Do you know that there are over 100,000 soldiers in the imperial guard in the capital, plus how many officials there are?

For example, there are three nobles in your family, so according to the rules, sheep are given as rewards every month, and there are additional sheep given during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Your Cheng family has a big business, so you have to buy a lot of sheep, right?"

"That's fair to say."

"During the Mid-Autumn Festival, even ordinary people in Chang'an City will find ways to get two kilograms of mutton to pay for their family, not to mention that there are so many merchants and scholars in Chang'an."

The demand for mutton in Chang'an is huge, and Guanzhong's own supply is insufficient. The situation this year is obviously better than last year. Although Shandong is suffering from drought, at least Guanzhong has recovered this year.

Their Xiazhou Governor's Mansion is close to the Turks, so they must make a fortune from this resource.

In fact, in July, businessmen began to sell sheep from the grassland to Guanzhong.

Wu Huaiyu just consolidated resources, scaled up the transaction, cleared checkpoints along the way, and ensured smooth flow all the way, and established the Yangyangtong.

When Turkic sheep enter the territory of the Xiazhou Dudu Mansion, they need to register, and then issue a sheep pass, and they can go all the way smoothly. Government offices in various places, and even local powerful people are not allowed to collect money at all levels. The Xiazhou Dudu Mansion sent

Specialized sheep patrol light cavalry patrol.

In addition, sheep farms have been established along the way to provide convenience for these sheep traders.

Finally, these sheep are gathered at Yulin Border Market in Yinzhou, where they can be traded directly to sheep buyers from Guanzhong, or they can continue to Guanzhong after resting.

"These merchants are very powerful. Two sheep workers drive five hundred sheep into a group. Ten groups of sheep make up a house. When walking, each group sets off one after another, two or three miles apart. The whole group of sheep is twenty or thirty miles apart. The front

If any sheep of the flock fall behind, then those behind gather in.”

Cheng Chumo didn't know there were so many things to consider when selling sheep, "Is it profitable?"

"If I don't make money, would I be so mobilizing?" Huaiyu pointed to Yulin City in front of him, which has now become the largest sheep trading market in northern Shaanxi. And relying on such a large flow of sheep, Wu Huaiyu is still planning a sheepskin and wool processing workshop area.

, we have even set up a slaughtering workshop, a frozen sheep processing workshop, and even planned to make sheep tripe wraps for the coming winter. This way, we don’t have to worry about not being able to traffic live sheep on the road in winter, and we can continue to transport the mutton to Guanzhong.

Even because of the large flow of sheep in this market, many sheep customers from Beijing now come here to buy sheep, and many sheep traders who used to sell sheep from beyond the Great Wall to the south are more focused on selling sheep from the grassland to trade here instead of continuing south.

This journey.

What Wu Huaiyu mainly does is a platform. Once the platform is established, it is impossible to just buy and sell sheep. It will definitely also drive the sale of cattle, horses and camels, and even the sale of furs and medicinal materials, plus the sale of Chinese pots, bowls, pans, boots, cloth, salt and tea.

These.

"Then I am not getting a huge advantage. As soon as I took office, I got such a huge benefit from Yulin Bianshi?"

Huaiyu smiled and said, "The stage has been set up for you, and it's getting up now, but you still have to work hard later."

Sheep are not valuable in Turks, but once they are transported to Yinzhou, their value has doubled. If they can be successfully transported to Chang'an and still have fat, they are very valuable.

People in the Tang Dynasty regarded mutton as a precious meat. From the royal nobles to the merchants and common people, they all regarded sheep as valuable. Even if the poor could not afford mutton, they could buy sheep offal and bones to eat.

There are more than 50 kinds of sheep-related snacks in Chang'an. It is simply a black hole of sheep. There is never enough to eat. The sheep supply is often in short supply, making Chang'an sheep very expensive, but the supply still exceeds the demand.
Chapter completed!