The Tumu Fort Incident can be said to be a watershed in the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline. I have naturally heard of this history.

Ming Yingzong, a fool, actually believed the slander of eunuch Wang Zhen, and was playing with the emperor's commander. He also handed over hundreds of thousands of people to the eunuch who knew nothing. As a result, Wang Zhen was led to the scattered people and went directly into the encirclement.

The emperor of the Supreme Kingdom of the Heavenly Kingdom inexplicably became a prisoner and suffered humiliation.

The Ming Dynasty was also in a slump and was finally destroyed.

After the Tumu Fort Incident, all the border trades were indeed closed. Since then, the Ming Dynasty has lost the confidence of the Supreme Kingdom and dared not even do business with others.

In the past, if you pay tribute to me, I will open a trade with you and sell something to you.

But behind it, I didn’t dare to open the door and did business anymore, for fear that others would come to the door.

In fact, the more this happens, the more people will hit you.

The southern Japanese and northern enemy of the Jiajing Dynasty had been in trouble for decades. In order to force the Ming Dynasty to open a mutual market, the Tatar tribe attacked the border almost every year and continued to invade, which made the Ming Dynasty very annoyed.

In the end, Emperor Longqing agreed to the request of the Tatar tribe, granted Altan the tribute, conferred the title of King Shunyi, and opened eleven tea and horse markets, and then gave up.

I also know about this history of red utensils.

He couldn't help but say curiously: "Didn't the trade between the two countries open again during the Longqing Dynasty?"

Gao Jitai shook his head and sighed: "Oh, that's just a mutual transaction for the Mongolian Yuan Tatar tribe. Other places still prohibit mutual transactions. Originally, our Tianquan Liufan Treasury Department could make some meager profits to support the tribes. After this mutual transaction, the court left us alone, we directly cut off our livelihoods. Originally, our tribe had more than 100,000 people. As a result, for more than a hundred years, not only did not grow at all, but we didn't know how many people starved to death. So far, there were less than 50,000 people."

Alas, the decline of the Ming Dynasty has indeed caused many people to suffer, especially the Xuanwei Office, Xuanfu Office, Chief Litigation Office, Recruitment Office and other things in the remote border areas. That is really miserable.

That day, the sixth round of the recruitment department was quite good, at least nearly half of the population was left, such as the Cheli Xuanwei Department in the southeast, the Myanmar Xuanwei Department, the Mubang Xuanwei Department, the Eight Hundred Days Department, the Mengyang Xuanwei Department, the Lao Xuanwei Department, the Nandian Xuanfu Department, the Ganya Xuanfu Department, the Longchuan Xuanfu Department, etc. Many of them have been destroyed by their clans and disappeared!

Zhu Qizhu sighed secretly, and then cut the railway line: "Don't worry, once I succeed in the crisis, I will end this chaotic world, and rebuild the glory of the Ming Dynasty and let all countries come to pay tribute again! At that time, you border soldiers will be respected by thousands of people."

This is indeed exciting.

However, it seems a bit too early to say this now. Jingnan has not been successful yet. I don’t know when the country will go to the court. Let’s wait until that day.

Gao Jitai carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, didn't you say you wanted 100,000 war horses?"

Zhu Qizhu couldn't help but say excitedly: "Why, do you really have a way to get it?"

Gao Jiti said, "Your Majesty, I'm going to say that in recent years, in order to allow the tribe's people to survive, Mo Jiang has also done business selling private tea. Duogan and Uszang's people still know some of them. As long as the emperor can provide enough tea, it should be no problem to exchange for 100,000 war horses."

It turned out that this guy was doing tea and horse business privately behind the court!

However, this doesn't matter much. What Gao Jitai violated was the ban of the Chongzhen Dynasty, not the ban of his Yongsheng Dynasty.

He doesn't agree with the practice of closing the country. He doesn't agree with the practice of closing the country. He doesn't have any confidence at all, and it's embarrassing to say it!

Zhu Qizhi heard this and said with great interest: "So you are still in the tea and horse business. How to do this business specifically? Can you tell me in detail?"

Uh, this, OK.

Gao Jitai said a little embarrassedly: "In the past, the imperial court unified the tea, which was about 80 cents per catty. We exchanged horses and furs with Duogan and Uszang, and about 100 kilograms of tea for a war horse. After the war horse was exchanged, it was enough to hand it over to the tea salt censor. Each horse could be roughly exchanged for about ten taels of silver for food and supplies. In other words, we sent tea from Yazhou and Meizhou and other places to Duogan, and then sent the exchanged horses to Yazhou or Meizhou.

The Ting can give us about twenty cents of tea per kilogram. This private tea business is not easy to do. First of all, the tea is not easy to collect, and then the horses and furs that are exchanged for food and grass. Although the profit is higher, the risks are very high, and it is quite troublesome. It is difficult to find a seller for war horses. The reason why we have tens of thousands of war horses is accumulated over the past hundred years. Alas, if we had known that this war horse was so difficult to find a buyer, it would be better to exchange them all for cattle and sheep, and at least we could support more tribe members."

The profit is indeed high. You must know that the war horse is only 100 taels of silver per horse, and 100 kilograms of tea will only cost eight or nine taels of silver if it is 100 kilograms of tea.

The problem is that tea is controlled by the court, and it is too difficult to buy a large amount of private tea. As for selling war horses, it is even more difficult. Not those who want to rebel, there are a few who will spend hundreds of taels to buy war horses, and a few of them will think of buying war horses with the border troops. Even if they can think of it, they will not go to a remote place like Tianquan Liufan Zhaofusi to buy it!

This private tea business is really difficult to do, no wonder Gao Jitai can't even support his subordinates.

However, if he did it, it would be different.

Zhu Qizhuo said excitedly with his face: "What do you mean, a war horse can only be exchanged for 100 kilograms of tea?"

Gao Jitai nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes, just send the tea and you can exchange it for a war horse for a hundred pounds."

One hundred kilograms of tea leaves were exchanged for a war horse, plus the hard work given to Gao Jitai and others, a war horse was only ten taels of silver. This transaction was too cost-effective.

One hundred thousand war horses only have 10 million kilograms of tea, which is less than one million taels of silver!

Uh, the question, where can I find 10 million kilograms of tea?

Thinking of these tens of millions of kilograms of tea, Zhu Qizhu's face, which was originally excited, couldn't help but stagnate.

In fact, he did not have any way to do tea. He used to do the tea business, and the profit was not low. As long as the tea was transported from Fujian, Zhejiang, Nanzhili and other places to Dongfan chicken cages and handed them to the Spaniards, one hundred kilograms would not be a few taels of silver, but twenty or thirty taels, and the gross profit would be more than twice.

The problem is that he and Zheng Zhilong can’t get much tea. It would be great if they can get millions of kilograms of private tea a year. Ten million kilograms will be a few years!

Zhu Qizhu was stunned for a moment, then asked impatiently: "Apart from tea, can there be anything else to exchange for war horses?"

Gao Jitai said with a little hesitation: "Actually, they also want salt, iron, cloth and porcelain, but the amount is not as big as tea. If you want to replace it with 100,000 war horses, it is best to use tea."

Zhu Qidiao subconsciously said, "Question, where can I go to find tens of millions of kilograms of tea?"

Gao Jitai said in confusion: "Has the emperor taken over the entire Bashu? There are too many official tea farms in Bashu. Although the tea production in Bashu cannot be as exaggerated as 20 to 30 million kilograms, there should be tens of millions of kilograms?"

Yes, there are too many official tea farms in Bashu. He has taken over the entire Bashu now. Isn’t these official tea farms his own?

This Bashu is worthy of being the country of Tianfu, with no shortage of food, minerals, tea, salt, etc.
Chapter completed!