Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

It turned out that the salt merchant made the right gift.

The large amount of high-quality wool made the little princess, the queen and the emperor very happy. The other party thus escaped punishment and can now continue to do business in good health.

It is said that His Majesty promised him that he could continue selling snow salt as long as he could make the little princess happy.

With the success of their predecessors, many people wanted to copy them and worked hard to bring back wool from the grassland, hoping that His Majesty the Emperor would not pursue their coming to the grassland to do business for the sake of the wool, and even some precious things could be brought back.

"Is this really possible?"

Bu Hu had heard that the Emperor of Daxia doted on the two children born to the Empress, but he thought it was ridiculous that just by using some wool, which the Huns didn't care much about, the Emperor of Daxia would be happy and allowed to continue selling snow salt and tea, which he considered to be very precious.

But he has his own beloved children and grandchildren, so if they like something, he will find a way to get it. It seems reasonable to think this way.

Unable to tell how much truth there was in the Daxia merchant's words, Bu Hu pretended to be curious and continued to ask: "Then how much wool do you think it would take to impress your emperor?"

The Daxia businessman frowned and thought for a while, a ruthless look appeared on his face, and it was obvious that he had made some kind of decision.

"Lord City Lord, I still have 200 bags of tea in my hand. I will sell them all to you. You give me half of it in gold and exchange the other half for wool. Is that okay?"

The words of the Daxia merchant shocked Bu Hu, who was used to trading.

You have to know that the tea sold to him by the merchant was very expensive. A small bag of tea was equivalent to a cow, so these two hundred bags of tea were equivalent to two hundred cows.

Two hundred cows were nothing to him as the city lord, but if they were exchanged for wool, which was not worth much, even half of it would be a lot.

"Does Daxia need so much wool? Just to make things for fun?"

In response to Bu Hu's question about wool, the Daxia merchant answered very frankly.

They have a large population in Daxia, so even if His Majesty the Emperor does not need so much wool, he can sell it to the noble families and always sell it all.

If this is the case, he will not only gain the favor of His Majesty the Emperor, but perhaps those noble families will also say something good about him after buying wool from him.

Bu Hu was a businessman by nature, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with what the merchants of Daxia said. If someone sold him something he urgently needed, he would also help with some insignificant small favors.

Since he had asked clearly and found no problem, Bu Hu immediately became enthusiastic again.

He said that the price was not a problem, and as long as the Daxia merchants could bring tea to the grassland, he would take as much as they could, and the other party would not have to worry about not being able to sell it.

Seeing that Bu Hu was no longer obsessed with wool, the merchants of Daxia breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s not that he was afraid that the other party would find out anything. What he wanted to exchange for tea was wool, not war horses. Even if the other party guessed, they would not be able to guess the purpose of the wool.

What he was afraid of was that the other party was too suspicious and would rather not have the tea than give him the wool, which would be very troublesome.

Fortunately, Bu Hu was a businessman. Even though he had doubts in his heart and thought his words were too exaggerated, he still compromised in the face of huge profits.

The tea was sold very smoothly this time. After the merchant left the grassland and returned to Zhen'an City, he appeared to be looking for someone to deal with the wool, but in fact he had already entered the General's Mansion to report the situation to Zong Zhengliang.

Upon hearing that the tea had been sold, Zong Zhengliang and Ning Song did not show any happiness. Instead, their expressions became more solemn because they knew that the next step was the most important thing.

After the merchants left, Zong Zhengliang, who had previously looked like a general who could plan strategies, immediately expressed his doubts: "A Song, do you think Bu Hu will really give us Yingshan for the sake of tea?"

Ning Song calmly took a sip of tea: "Do you think this thing is not worth it?"

When the other party asked this, Zong Zhengliang didn't know how to answer.

To say it's worth it, in his opinion, tea is not that delicious. Even if it is made into something called milk tea, he can't get used to it and would rather drink water.

If you say it's not worth it, this tea is really good. He understood the living habits of the Xiongnu and even asked doctors, and knew that tea was of great significance to the Xiongnu, who had very few vegetables and fruits.

When he heard the merchant say that a small bag of tea was worth a cow, he was shocked, even more shocked than when he knew that a small can of snow salt could be exchanged for a cow.

Well, even if he knew the importance of tea, it would be impossible to exchange it for a mountain on the Hun grassland. If he were a Hun, he would never exchange it.

Another thing he didn't understand was that the Xiongnu had such a large territory and many important locations, so why did His Majesty choose Yingshan as the object of exchange?

The mountain was neither tall nor a strategic location. Apart from being close to Daxia and looking easier to defend and more difficult to attack, there seemed to be nothing noteworthy about it.

Jiang Tuan has a say in Zong Zhengliang's doubts, because he was the one who watched Jiang Qi choose this place.

The system said that a lot of energy could be obtained by expanding the territory of Daxia.

After knowing this, Jiang Qi has been discussing with his ministers which area of ​​the Huns should be occupied in order to gain more energy at the lowest cost.

But after choosing and selecting, they were not satisfied with any of them. They chose those places with very important locations because they were afraid that the Huns would go crazy and fight them to the death.

It was impossible for them to keep hundreds of thousands of troops on the grassland. Not only would they suffer heavy casualties, but they might not be able to occupy the grassland for a long time.

They did think about quickly occupying an important place of the Huns and leaving quickly after gaining energy.

However, the system is so smart that if they do that, they are afraid that the other party will take back the energy they sent out, and then the loss will outweigh the gain.

If I choose some unimportant places, I’m afraid that I won’t get enough energy and it will be all in vain.

After thinking about it for a long time and finding no good option, Jiang Qi found Jiang Tuan to see if the system could provide a solution to the problem.

When the system heard Jiang Qi's request for help, it did not give a specific solution, but only asked Jiang Tuan to exchange energy for a map, and the name of this map was: Xiongnu Mineral Distribution Map.

This map was just like the Xiongnu map I exchanged from the system last time, it was extremely crude. But this time Jiang Tuan was not so disgusted, because the map was for the people of Daxia to see, and it was fine as long as the people of Daxia did not think it was crude.

Seeing Jiang Qi looking at the map carefully, Jiang Tuan didn't dare to say anything and waited silently by the side, for fear that any sound he made would affect the other party's thoughts.

I don’t know how much time had passed, but when Jiang Tuan was almost asleep, Jiang Qi suddenly laughed. The laughter was very hearty, like the joy of having solved a difficult problem.