Chapter 167: The pigeon books travel thousands of miles, and the Tao books come into thousands of families. The war begins!

The people who came to offer the goods this time were merchants from more than ten countries in the Western Regions. Although Yang Zaixing never demanded contributions, according to the experience of these merchants in Daxia and Dalia, if they could offer tribute to the lords of their country and the city lords of the trading place, they would gain a lot of convenience in their subsequent transactions and short-term residences. Therefore, it has become a common practice. When they traded in Jincheng, they carried more than 400 camels and horses. Naturally, they had to pay a little tribute to Yang Zaixing in order to be safe during their stay in Jincheng.

Yang Zaixing looked at the dozens of Hu merchants in the hall with interest, compared with the memories of later generations, and judged that these should be Arab merchants. But they didn't know how many Arab countries there are in Central Asia and West Asia now, but according to their actions, they were all Muslims. They were just mixed words and did not listen to them. One or two people could serve as general translators, and most of them were not expressing their meaning. Hong Hao, who was sitting by the side, murmured, murmured. Yang Zaixing only heard the four words "turning foreign barbarians". Most of the merchants presented them with gold, silver and jade, Arabic gold and bronze nations, with a full religious flavor, but Yang Zaixing did not pay much attention, but finally there were things that interested him: a living thing in a big cage made a "gurgling" sound.

"Pigeon! It's actually a pigeon!" Yang Zaixing smiled and said, "How do you use this thing in your country? Is it for viewing or eating?"

This made everyone in the Jincheng Yamen feel very embarrassed. Hong Hao bowed and said to Yang Zaixing: "Sir, this thing is available in both the Song Dynasty and the Xia Kingdom. It is just a thing for idle people to enjoy. If they leave home, they will always tie their bells to their feet and move, but they are not foreign objects in foreign countries. More than a hundred years ago, the Xia people used this thing to report the news, ambush the King of the Song Dynasty and kill tens of thousands of men in our dynasty. Don't you know?"

Yang Zaixing was shocked. I have never heard of this before.

However, since the Song Dynasty, I have never heard of using pigeons to convey information. Is this thing still just a toy and cannot deliver letters? Hu Shang, who presented this thing, had a short and fat face and beard. At a glance, you can tell that it was a Muslim in West Asia. However, after hearing the translation of Hu Shang in Hu Shang communicated with Hu Shang who presented this thing for a moment before saying to Yang Zaixing: "Dear Lord Di. Sadam said that this pigeon is used to deliver letters in Baghdad. If it is released from here, it will take years and months to go back to Baghdad. Sadam uses this pigeon to bring letters to his home every month."

Yang Zaixing and Hong Hao were both surprised when they heard this. Hong Hao naturally did not expect that this object could be transmitted to such a faraway place. Yang Zaixing went to know that the pigeons that could fly thousands of miles could not be trained day and night. However, Sadam brought a large number of pigeons, and even more than ten were offered. I don’t know how it was trained. So I had a sudden idea: If this object could be used in the Jincheng army, wouldn’t it be possible to send the letter directly to Jincheng from Shangjing, Lin'an, Kelie's troops, Qiongzhou and other places? How can I not use such convenient means?

At this moment, the Hu merchants from Yang Zaixing went to the tribute banquet for a big banquet, but privately called Nasadam and the translator into the Houya and directly proposed: "Yang is willing to buy all the pigeons in Sadam. It's okay to pay a high price, but you have to tell me how to train these pigeons so that they can pass on letters thousands of miles away."

After the translation of the translation to Sadam, Sadam was worried, but became more and more anxious. Later, he almost started arguing with the translation. Later, he didn't know how the translation discussed with him, but he turned anger into joy. It seemed that he had reached an agreement, so he was asked to report to Yang Zaixing: "The adults wanted pigeons, and there were some Baghdads. At present, the city of Baghdad and other city-states were sent by pigeons. The king ordered that the pigeons be sent to all parts of the country within a few years. Therefore, there were many people who could train pigeons, but Sadam was away for many years, but he didn't know how to train pigeons. It was useless to stay here. However, he brought a maid this time, but he knew how to train pigeons. I don't know if the adults could buy this maid and train pigeons."

Yang Zaixing was very happy. He immediately discussed the price and bought the maid for 120 shovels, and handed it over to Gao Lin to manage the pigeons. Sadam did not worry about losing a maid, but was happy about taking off the cage. Like a fat golden magpies flying out of Yang Zaixing's hand, jumping and jumping out of the yamen. When the book contract was handed to Yang Zaixing, it was dinner. Yang Zaixing was in great enthusiasm and started cooking mutton in the government office. He ate happily with Yang Zhiyuan. Seeing the book contract, he couldn't help but spit out a piece of mutton. It took him a long time to recover. It turned out that the maid was actually called "Qi'erxi"!

In March of the 15th year of Shaoxing, Ze and Luzhou naturally put agricultural affairs first and were busy everywhere. Yue Lei's tasks in Luzhou Prefecture were even heavier. After all, the Song people were dispersed too widely, and it was quite difficult to gather them one by one. The troops under his command were not only responsible for defending, but also had to go to the land to farm. Yang Zaixing did not have these worries. The military affairs and agricultural affairs were handed over to Gao Lin and Hong Hao, but he focused on carrying out trade with the Daxia and the Kelie tribe. In early March, the second batch of Kelie tribe horses arrived.

In Jincheng, the elderly cavalrymen in the army came to fight. Although Gao Lin had already discussed with the generals and schools early on, the old ones who rode bad horses were given priority to redeem the old ones, but there were always dozens of particularly powerful horses in each batch, which were the favorites of the army. Therefore, the soldiers who robbed horses were not at all inferior to a big battle. On the one hand, they had to choose the horses they liked from more than a thousand horses, and on the other hand, they had to be careful of their usual good brothers taking the lead, so they were nervous.

Yang Zaixing laughed happily. These horses were almost the same as the previous batch. Although they lost some weight in winter, they were still higher than the average level of war horses in the original Yue family army. The Mongolian land horses were indeed better than the horses from Xixia. Compared with the horses traded from Dali and Tubo in the Song Dynasty, they were even more in the sky and underground.

"Master Yang" Hong Hao was also very happy: "Does this horse go to Jiangnan? Do you know what it is worth?"

Yang Zaixing shook his head. Although he knew something when he was in the Yue family's army that once the Song Dynasty could not buy horses from Daxia and Jin Kingdoms, he had to buy horses from Dali and Tubo at a high price. However, the foreign countries there refused to charge cash. Like the Mongolian Krei tribe, they only wanted to collect tea, silk and other items, but they didn't know the specific price.

"In the early years, when the Song Dynasty was not defeated, it was traded with various countries, and they used thirty kilograms of tea to make a horse. After the southward transition, they lost the main horse buying market. The horses of Xia Kingdom could not enter the Song Dynasty. Since the Jingkang year, they had to buy horses from Dali and Tubo. At first, they used 80 to 90 kilograms of tea to make a horse. Now it has increased to 200 kilograms of tea to make a horse, which is a hidden worry for the Song Dynasty. However, the opposite is true in the north: tea is expensive and horses are cheap, so General Luo can make such a good horse with 20 kilograms of tea. If such a horse came to Jiangnan, it would not be four or five hundred kilograms of tea to make a horse!" Hong Hao listed the advantages of the north and south horse trading, and Yang Zaixing was moved when he heard it.

"Sir, this is what I said, if we go south to exchange for tea and then north to exchange for horses, wouldn't we benefit from both sides?" Yang Zaixing asked.

Hong Hao stroked his beard and laughed: "Sir, don't talk about the plan to fight against the Jin Dynasty. Just look at the soldiers in front of you. Who would ask you to send such horses to Jiangnan?"

Yang Zaixing was silent: Although there must be huge profits in this, there is actually a powerful cavalry in the Jincheng army. With these two batches of 2,000 horses, the number of war horses that can be used to train cavalry in Jincheng has reached nearly 7,000. But if you really have to go to the formation, you can charge to the position but less than 4,000. This is not a gradual injury and elimination. If you want to go to war with the Great Jin Kingdom, the army can sweep Hebei hundreds of miles a day. Twenty thousand good horses are indispensable. If you have less than 40,000 horses carrying baggage, how can you quickly flatten the ground in Hebei? At the current speed, nearly 1,000 horses will be added every month, and it will take two years to make a difference. If you export horses to Jiangnan again, it will definitely greatly affect the construction of the Jincheng army!

Then, more than 300 inferior horses carried heavy iron saddles, then carried tea, returned to Daxia along the old road, and then went to the Weifu Army of Heishan. They traded with Iyan there. When this transaction reached the third time, everything was already sophisticated. Ren Dejing just firmly controlled the 10,000 kilograms of fine iron that he deserved, and let Yang Zaixing arrange the rest without interfering. Daxia had originally had a ban and was not allowed to export copper and iron to the Mongolian tribes. But Yang Zaixing also hid the gnome iron from the Mongolian tribes and passed through the border of Daxia in a saddle. Three hundred horses. More than 30 kilograms of fine iron were hidden on each horse's back. Each month was also a 10,000 kilograms, which solved the urgent need for the Kelie tribe.

In March, the inner tribes of the Wanggu tribe quietly reported to the Kelie tribe. Although the entire Wanggu tribe was under the jurisdiction of Wanyan Liang, it was necessary to join forces with the Tatars to attack the Mongolian tribes, especially the most important part of the Kelie tribe, even the Wanggu tribe, some people could not stand it. According to these tribes of the report, the Tatars had obtained a large amount of iron tools through the Jin people, and they did not rest in winter and were busy building military armor. If it weren't for the fact that the Kelie tribe had Han cavalry hidden inside, they would have been attacked. But in April, the Tatars would definitely step onto the ground of the Kelie tribe through the Wanggu tribe's grassland.

Lu Heikhan naturally would not be afraid. While Guerhan accompanied Luo Yan throughout the journey, he created various handy weapons to replace the scimitars that were really unbearable to use. On the other hand, he sent messengers to various ministries on the grassland to report the news and asked the Mongolian ministries to help. Luo Yan got Yang Zaixing's letter and knew the key points. On the one hand, he wanted to make the Kelie tribe confrontation with the Jin people as much as possible, and consume the attention and strength of the Jin people. On the other hand, he wanted to establish a deep ally with the Kelie tribe, which had the most hope of becoming the largest tribe among the Mongolians, and eliminate a possible enemy for future battles against the Jin people.

There is another reason why Yang Zaixing could not make any statement and dare not leave a record: decades later, the Mongolian elites would ride armor in the world, and the scene of the Jin people traveling south would repeat. If the Mongolians and Jin people were allowed to consume more, the Xia people might be able to eliminate this fateful battle. Of course, a blacksmith must be hard. If there was no powerful Han country, the northern nomadic tribes would sooner or later flourish and head south, but this could not be resisted by human power.

"Ruotian is pitiful. Let our old Yang build a powerful Han territory on the ground in Hebei before closing his eyes. Maybe it will truly rewrite history!" Yang Zaixing sighed to the sky in Jincheng, as if he could hear the sound of ironclads on the grassland, Luo Yan led the crowd to build earthen houses and build armors, and then the ironclad sounds came from thousands of miles apart.

At this time, there was also a sound of ironwork in Jincheng, but it was Guo Blacksmith who led his disciples to make various metal movable types, wood plates and clay plates needed for Hong Hao to manufacture the various metal movable types needed for printing books. Hong Hao tried them one by one. The biggest problem with wooden movable types is that they will deform when they encounter water. In addition, the materials of the wood blocks used to carve are different, and even the wood is different. Once the ink is glued, it will be a bit uneven. The clay characters are easy to be fragile and sticky, and it is inconvenient to install. The most useful one is a pair of pottery movable types, which can actually print thousands of books without major damage.

With these experiments, Hong Hao naturally devoted himself to it and had printed some books and sold them to Daxia and Shangjing merchants at a lower price. Although the carvings were not exquisite, they had price advantages. So Jiangnan merchants also began to place orders with Jiangnan's branch numbers, asking to buy such "pirated" books that could be sold for twenty or thirty months. Although Chen, Lin'an, also heard some news, Chen Yunliang read several new books with Jincheng branch numbers and couldn't help but sneer: "Can you still read such a sample book? Regardless of the paper, this carving is really shameful! Hebei man has not read a few poems and books, but he started to learn to print books, and he doesn't know where to hire a craftsman. Yang Zaixing spent money this time!"

However, although there are not many people in Jincheng, there are more and more people buying books from Jiangnan to Hebei. The scholars of Jiangnan who had been buying books from Lin'an, at first stood firm: "Reading is an elegant thing. Such books are shoddy. If they are placed on the desk, wouldn't they lose the price?" So I would rather pay a high price than buy cheap books from this business. But in the end, some scholars were not very well-off at home. I heard that they could buy complete content at a price of less than 30% of the market price, but only classics with slightly worse carvings.

But he couldn't care about his face, so he could only care about his stomach. There were many poor Song people who had never dared to ask their children to study before. Now that the price of books has dropped sharply, he didn't care about elegance or not. He also took out a few copper coins, bought the Master's poems and books for his children, and began to dream of sending children to study. Hong Hao was very pleased to see that the books he had printed in Jincheng were in short supply in Jincheng, and even worked overtime, he refused to refuse, but the beautiful maids at home took care of them less.
Chapter completed!