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Chapter 523 The Prairie (1)

The sky is vast and the wilderness is vast. The wind blows the grass and sees cattle and sheep.

This is a very common beautiful scenery on the prairie in the northern part of the Seyat.

Without war and fighting, even the conflicts between tribes disappeared, and the prairie entered a peaceful period that had been rare for many years. This is the luck of the nomads on the grassland and the luck of the people in the Central Plains!

Because the current peace in the grasslands is closely related to the efforts of the Central Plains dynasty for many years.

When peace really came to the grassland, many people truly felt the influence of the imperial court on the tribes of the grassland.

Very deep, really deep!

Because the grasslands today are so different from those in the previous years.

In the battle between Liao and Jin, both sides ignored the grasslands. Even after the Jurchens defeated the Khitan, they focused more on the Central Plains and ignored the grasslands.

As long as the grassland tribes can be "be sane", they will turn a blind eye.

Perhaps for the Jurchens, the fighting between the various ethnic groups on the grassland was actually an opportunity to weaken the various ethnic groups on the grassland.

So in those years, the tribes on the grasslands in the northern border fought and plundered each other, and stretched for thousands of miles from the south of the desert to the north of the desert.

However, the leaders and nobles of the tribe had a hard time, so the life of the lower-class herders would be even more in danger.

Not only do they have to resist the enemy on the battlefield, but they are also forced to be oppressed and exploited by the nobles above. What they consume in the war is not only human life, but also the power of the entire tribe - such as war horses and livestock.

A noble man can still fill his stomach, but what about the herdsmen at the bottom? It is really a luxury to fill his stomach.

When winter comes, I encounter heavy snow and white disasters again. In those years, I don’t know how many tribes have disappeared into the vast snow...

Think about the days that the tribes on the grassland are now living.

The nobles all sat in luxury tents, including wine, meat, tea, big fish in the sea, fruits, vegetables, grains and rice in Jiangnan. Even if the fish is pickled or air-dried, the fruits and melons are just dried fruits, but this kind of luxury is something that the nobles of the grassland have never experienced for another five hundred years.

Some leaders of major tribes even had cooks hired from the Central Plains and medical officials sent by the court!

What a luxury this is?

As for ordinary tribal people, they naturally do not eat as well as those of nobles, but there is no problem with eating and clothing, and they can even improve their lives every now and then.

The dairy products they produce, horns, tendons, skins, air-dried jerky, and wool cashmere can all be bought at a good price in the trade zone!

The imperial court opened a trade zone at the junction of multiple grasslands and plains, which is different from the previous market. Whether it is a seller or a buyer, the trade freedom of both parties is completely unpredictable.

The cattle, sheep and animal skins that are not valuable on the grassland can be exchanged for a lot of daily necessities when they get them in the trade zone.

Cheese and wool cashmere are also expensive.

No tribe does wool spinning on their own, because just one (plus) washing is a big problem that they cannot solve.

The textiles that the grassland tribes can produce themselves are still felt with fishy smell.

Therefore, using their own wool cashmere and leather to trade areas to exchange cloth is what every tribe is doing.

Whether it is expensive silk and satin, fine cotton and cotton that have been reduced in price, or coarse linen, these textiles from the Central Plains are quickly plundering the entire market of the grassland outside the border.

At the same time, compressed military rations, a large number of tea bricks, and iron pots were also imported by the Central Plains!

Since entering the grassland area, military dry food has become a necessity for Zhao Song to relieve grassland tribes for years.

It is small in size, is hungry and resistant to hunger, is cheap and is easy to transport. In the eyes of grassland people, this thing is full of advantages.

What about the Central Plains' production of military rations? It is also increasing day by day.

With the increasing development of the South China Sea and the large number of Nanyang rice and a large number of sea fish caught in the Central Plains, the cost of compressing military rations has not only not increased, but has become smaller.

All tribes on the grassland like this thing. If they have a certain market, it means certain interests. As long as they have money to make money, there will naturally be someone doing it!

As for tea bricks and tea leaves, drinking tea to relieve greasiness and relieve stomach and intestines, this is the truth that the Uighurs and Khitans understood very early.

The grassland tribes did not understand the benefits of tea, but when the Khitans were in power, they had no way to obtain a large amount of them.

Now the Central Plains has not only opened up sales, but also specializes in producing relatively low-priced tea bricks, which has expanded the popularity of tea from high-level nobles from various tribes to middle and grassroots.

I won’t talk about the profit level for now. I just talk about the habit of drinking tea among millions of grassland people, and then there are more ways to check and balance the Central Plains.

The last iron pot is an invincible weapon that has been proven by history!

In the Ming Dynasty in the original time and space, didn’t the Mongols fight and reunite with the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years just for a single pot?

Although this rumor can't help but feel a bit funny, the reality is that once the iron pot was promoted on the grassland, it really spread on the grassland as quickly as the wind.

Cooking and cooking for daily use, both the upper and lower parts think it is a strange product!

It is precisely because of the increasing trade between the two sides that the people of the grassland and the various tribes of the grassland are becoming richer. The Central Plains' control and influence over it are becoming more and more profound.

Especially those tribes near Yinshan are closer to the trade zone, and they are all very rich regardless of size. Because they not only sell their own tribe's supplies, but also go deep into the grassland and become second-dea dealers.

There are also ethnic groups close to those cities on the grassland - the cities built by the Liao people on the grassland. They are now all the bases of the Song army, and they are also the first to get the moon near the water.

Therefore, no nomadic tribe dares to have a strange intention, and no one dares to easily destroy the current environment.

On the grassland today, this is the big trend.

Zhao Song appeased the tribes of the grassland, from near to far, like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger. Now that the overall situation has been decided, the general situation has been achieved.

Perhaps some tribal leaders still have unpredictable intentions in their hearts, just wanting to hide their minions for the time being and wait for the time being.

But after waiting for more than ten or twenty years, when the Central Plains' economic invasion of the grassland tribes is more thorough, when the grassland people are already accustomed to eating, drinking, and eating, and getting used to the prosperous and stable living environment brought by bilateral trade (relatively), do they just want to jump backwards and still be able to jump?

This is a foresight beyond the times!

This is a vision that a time traveler will inevitably have.

However, no matter how smart the grassland barbarians of the same era are, they would not have thought of this.

The "peaceful" living environment also attracted Buddha and Taoism to the prairie.

Zhao Gou did not suppress Buddhism because he felt that the spread of Buddhism on the prairie would be more reliable than Taoism. After all, history has proved this.

Even though the Buddhism that entered the grasslands was mainly Central Plains Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism was just a small group of them.

The latter is mainly from the legacy of the Khitans and Dangxiang people.

Although Zhao Gou was impatient when he saw them, he couldn't tell them to disappear, right?

And he knew very well where Buddhism, which was once popular on the prairie, came from!

Zhao Gou did not have much confidence in whether the spread of Han Buddhism on the grasslands could be successful. It is also impossible to add a little Tantric Buddhism to Han Buddhism!

However, the Tantric Buddhism at this time was not the Tantric Buddhism in the Qing Dynasty during the original time and space, and the difference between the two was still very large. Nyingma, Kagyu, and Zhao Gou had never heard of it.

Zhao Gou had no idea whether they could succeed on the prairie.

What's more, Taoism has a foot in it. These immortal brothers are Zhao Song's national religion.

Let’s learn about Lin Lingsu’s great achievements, and everyone will also know about Zhao Xuanlang’s identity!

Now they are rushing to the prairie, what will happen? Zhao Gou doesn't know.
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