"So if I can provide you with 10,000 cows after the beginning of spring, can I raise the price a little?" Jin Chenbai said his purpose directly.

"I don't know where your Helda Suo Division is." Liu Mingqi said, "After I bought your cow, can you send me Dakang smoothly? If it's more troublesome than if I entrust them to buy it, the price may not be cheaper."

"Our Heldasu tribe is near the Heishui River in the northeast of the Qiyan Plateau, a little far from Dakang, but we can guarantee that we can send the cows to Zhangjiakou smoothly and you can just receive the goods there." Jin Chenbai said.

The northeast of the Qiyan Plateau?

Isn’t that going to get close to Manzhouli?

Liu Mingqi thought, "Cash on delivery, this is fair. How much do you want?"

"We know that the offer they gave you was thirty taels of silver." Jin Chenbai said, "How about you give twenty-five taels of silver when we ship it to Zhangjiakou?"

Twenty taels of silver will be sent to the Imperial Palace all the way. The freight and expenses will be solved by spending three taels of silver.

It is calculated that it is two taels of silver cheaper than selling it directly to those merchants.

But this was not enough to impress Liu Mingqi. He shook his head and said, "If I just saved thousands of taels of silver, I don't need to be so troublesome."

"Okay, how about the twenty-two taels of silver?" Jin Chenbai said, "But I have a condition."

He dropped three taels of silver in one breath, but in fact he made less than 30,000 taels of silver.

In a poor place like the grassland, 30,000 taels of silver is a lot.

Liu Mingqi said calmly: "What conditions do you want to talk about first?"

"We want to pay half of this batch of goods in advance and then exchange it for honeycomb coal. Do you think it's OK?" Jin Chenbai said.

Honeycomb coal?

Liu Mingqi was a little surprised when she heard this, but not surprising.

Although it has been almost two years since he came to this era, many of his living habits and ideas are still in modern times.

For example, there is no cruel situation in the world of modern times. Liu Mingqi never expected that in the cold areas of the north every year, not only would there be tens of millions of livestock to death, but also tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of lives to death.

The northernmost part of Dakang, namely the Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou defense line, is not the coldest just to the southernmost part of the three eastern provinces.

The two provinces in the north, including the Qiyan Plateau, the northwest Xiqiang, etc., are at least minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius in winter, which is definitely not a place that normal people can stay.

In this way, you can also understand why those grassland people are determined to enter the Central Plains.

They also want to spend the winter in a warm place, and they want to live without death in winter!

Therefore, Liu Mingqi immediately understood the intention of Jin Chenbai to make honeycomb coal.

To be honest, honeycomb coal is definitely a magical thing.

It is not only in modern times, but also in ancient times.

Usually, one family can keep warm by using two or three honeycomb coals a day. Even if it is used to boil water and cook, five or six are more than enough.

It's up to twelve quotas per day.

Even if it is used like this every day, it will only cost 720 yuan in one winter for about 60 days.

This necessary emergency reserve is something that every family must have.

Liu Mingqi calculated the accounts, and the money was not too much, and basically every household could afford it.

If there is something that cannot be afforded, then reduce the amount by half and there is no problem in getting through the winter.

If there are fewer...

I'm sorry, Liu Mingqi really can't control this thoroughly now.

Compared with these inland towns in the north, if there is actually no blizzard, that would be fine.

For example, people from Sichuan, Lianghu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places basically use honeycomb coal to cook and work part-time to keep warm.

It’s different in the north. You have to have magical objects like honeycomb coal to help you survive the winter.

Since they are all like this, it is really conceivable what functions can honeycomb coal have in these places further north and closer to Siberia!

Absolutely against the heavenly divine thing!

Around the Spring Festival this year, honeycomb coal showed its power, and the news spread around.

However, in summer, honeycomb coal is not very useful. Many ordinary people are willing to go to the mountains to chop wood to burn. After all, a honeycomb coal costs two cents, which is also money!

Only in winter, when burning firewood in the house is not very convenient and the warmth level is not enough, is the time when honeycomb coal works.

But by October this year, the number of people ordering honeycomb coal has increased significantly.

Fortunately, I stored enough honeycomb coal in summer, so I don’t have much panic now.

Jin Chenbai lifted the honeycomb coal, obviously for the people of his tribes in the north.

Liu Mingqi has no sympathy for the enemy.

Even the men on the grassland are enthusiastic, generous and honest when they don’t fight.

But once they fight, they will massacre cities everywhere and will not be ruthless at all.

So in this era, it is better for everyone to have their own destiny.

Therefore, the young man shook his head directly: "I'm sorry, lord, I have always sent goods only when I see money. Even my relatives in the royal family, I do the same."

Liu Mingqi did not lie about this.

As the saying goes, brothers settle accounts clearly. He admires the woman who was printed on a bottle of chili sauce. Learning that she does not owe money or blames her is the minimum respect.

Therefore, when the royal family does business, they always ship the goods at the payment, without exception.

If you have less money, buy less goods and then talk about it after you sell it.

Of course, there would be people gossiping at the beginning, but after seeing this straightforward way of doing business, they stopped talking.

Jin Chenbai smiled, "Your Highness, we are our long-term partners... For example, we still have some tricks, so don't you think about it?"

"What method?" Liu Mingqi became interested.

"We can provide you with at least a thousand top-notch begging for the Yan-begging horses, which have not been cut by a rude man. How about it?" Jin Chenbai said leisurely.

Dakang lacks horses, that is what everyone knows.

Especially the horses that have never been cut are even short of them.

Although there are actually people who secretly sell horses to Dakang on the grassland, even if they are cut off, they are still at a high price.

If it is not slandered, it will be a sky-high price.

After all, everyone knows that once Dakang has enough horses, he will definitely break into the grassland and kill them completely.

They will definitely not do such things that are so powerful that they can do.

As long as things like horses are not cultivated on a large scale, hundreds or thousands of horses will be sold, and there will be no big problem.

You should know that there are thousands or even tens of thousands of wild horses on the grassland, including Uighurs, Western Qiang, Qiyan, Shiwei, who doesn’t have millions of horses?

Only in an environment like the grassland can it be suitable for the survival of horses.

No matter how majestic the horses that enter Dakang are, they will gradually degenerate after one or two generations.

Now you know?

Why did I buy almost five or six million horses in the past hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, but still haven’t built a large number of cavalry!

This is the reason.

Therefore, when those small tribes secretly sold some horses to Dakang and earned some living expenses, the large tribes on the grassland turned a blind eye and did not move.

But there is no other company that can provide thousands of horses like Jin Chenbai in one breath except for the small tribe alliance in the northwest.

Liu Mingqi was indeed interested when she heard this.

Isn’t Qiyan Horse the breed that later generations rely on to thrill Eurasia?

Although it is very short, it has strong durability and is particularly good at long-distance raids, which makes the West's tall and big horses flutter.

However, among the horses purchased by Dakang, there are not many beggar horses, and the tall horses from the Western Qiang and Uighurs are mostly high-headed horses.

But in Liu Mingqi's view, the advantages of Qiyan horses are also outstanding. If they can be hybridized with the northwest horses in large quantities, I wonder if there will be any good changes?

After all, the famous horse breeds in later generations were all obtained through hybridization.

Europeans are best at doing these things.

Cows are one aspect, and war horses are the other aspect.

They can cultivate heavy horses weighing more than one ton.

Liu Mingqi felt that with herself, there was no reason why Dakang could not cultivate a good Malay.

When he thought about it, he said, "One thousand is too small, or five thousand? If it is five thousand, I will give you honeycomb coal in full."

Jin Chenbai laughed and said, "Your Highness, your appetite is too big. I have to go through some means to reach Zhangjiakou. If you take five thousand pieces like this, wouldn't it be a bad thing for me to betray me? How can the beggar Yan people recognize me as a compatriot?"

"Three thousand pieces!" Liu Mingqi said, "How about a piece of twenty taels of silver?"

It only costs twelve taels of silver to sell a horse from the small tribe alliance.

Liu Mingqi took out the price of twenty taels of silver, which was definitely higher than the market price.
To be continued...