Seeing the goods such as sugar, Yelu Buhua had confidence in this place. Even if you don't do other business, just wholesale a large amount of sugar back to Khitan from here, which is a big business. In fact, during the Age of Discovery, the sugar business was larger than tea and porcelain, which was suitable for large-scale trade.

At this time, the production area of sugar was mainly in Sichuan and Shu, followed by the eastern part of Zhejiang. As for the Guangnan area, which cultivated the most sugarcane in later generations, it was only sporadically cultivated in the Panyu area, and the rest of the places have not yet developed. The most convenient way for the goods to come out of Sichuan and Shu is to cross the Qinling Mountains, enter the Shaanxi Road, and then transport them into the Central Plains. At this time, the geographical location of the Volcano Army is far stronger than that of Yanmen Village, with the Wei River and the Yellow River water transportation, and the freight is much cheaper.

Yelu Buhua carefully put away the sugar and continued to walk through the market.

The non-governmental trade in the border areas is different from that of the mainland and has distinctive local characteristics. Especially in the mountains, the wealth of the Tibetan households is mainly cattle and sheep, and each market has a huge livestock market. The Tibetan people came here to sell their livestock and then went to other places to buy some daily necessities.

As a Khitan, Yelu went to the livestock market without spending his life. It's very lively here, but there are not many cattle and sheep in this season, but there are a lot of donkeys and horses. The people who sold their livestock were squatting in the sun, gossiping in twos and threes, and some Han people walked around to look at the livestock. Three or five tooth men were looking for a suitable buyer in the crowd.

As soon as Yelu Buhua entered the market, several tooth people lit up. A man in a sheepskin jacket stepped forward and whispered, "What kind of livestock do the officials want to buy?" Donkey? Horse? Or a mule? The little Ma Liu, who has been selling livestock for decades, will be able to help the officials buy what they want. ”

Tao Seventeen said: "This is a distinguished officer, who hangs out here and does not buy livestock." Go away, waste your lips! ”

Ma Liu recognized Tao Seventeen, and was a little disappointed when he heard it, so he was disturbed, stepped aside, and continued to look for buyers. These tooth people exchanged tones, and after a while, they all knew that Yelu Buhua was not a buyer, and no one came up to ask.

Many people don't know how to do business, and some even don't understand the language, so they rely on their teeth when they come here. Whenever someone drove their cattle in, several tooth men rushed up, saw the animals, asked for the approximate price, and looked around for buyers. The business is done, and they take a cut of it. This is the characteristic of village markets, and when it comes to buying and selling in large quantities, there must be tooth people. The buyer and seller do not know each other, the amount involved is too large, and there is no one to match, so it is difficult to complete the business.

The government also relied on these people to manage the bazaar. For example, the Volcano Army stipulates that military horses are not allowed to be bought and sold here, as long as they are in the middle of the grid, the tooth people must first report to the government when they see it, and the government will confirm that they will buy it if they like it, and they will be allowed to continue trading if they don't like it. What the government wants to buy, it also informs the tooth people in advance, and buys the best goods with the least money.

Since the time of Taizu, it has been stipulated that there is no tax on small transactions of ordinary people such as grass markets. There are not many places where taxes are collected in the bazaar, and only those professional merchants who do a large business pay taxes. Du Zhongxiao learned from the system of his previous life, and implemented a registration system for these people, fixing the tax amount, although the tax was less, the management was convenient. The management of the bazaar is mainly dependent on the tooth people.

Yelu didn't spend time wandering around, and most of the horses here couldn't get into the eye, not to mention the military horses, and even the daily riding was not qualified. But the business was still very hot, and I couldn't help but ask Tao Seventeen: "Seventeen Lang, the horses here are all inferior, why are so many people still buying?" ”

Tao Seventeen said: "We lack horses here, and we can't compare to the north." Although these horses are unbearable, they are barely usable for pulling carts and plowing the land. The people who come here to buy are all from nearby farmers, and they buy them back to do farm work. If you have a good horse, where can you buy it in the country market? ”

Yelu Buhua smiled and said, "I only heard that oxen are used to plow the fields, and horses can also plow the fields?" ”

Tao Seventeen said: "It will be able to be used." The land here is thin, and if you plough it shallowly, you can also farm it. But it is used to plough the fields, and horses are not as good as mules, and mules are not as good as oxen. Lang Jun saw that in this market, mules were the best to sell, and the price was higher than that of horses. ”

Yelu Buhua nodded, as if he had seen and heard in a foreign land here, it turned out that the Han people still used horses to plow the land.

Horses have less pulling force and poor stamina, so they are not actually good for plowing the land. Fortunately, the soil here is loose, and some of the dry fields on the slopes are shallow and can be cultivated with horses. Moreover, horses can be used to pull carts, and this area is easy to graze, which is a good choice for farmers.

In the past, there was no need for horses to plough the land here, but Du Zhongxiao tried to use it when the fields were cultivated, giving the nearby farmers a new world. Horses were needed to plough the land with suitable harnesses, and the workshops that operated the fields made these things opened up new markets.

In Yelu Buhua's eyes, this livestock market is really lackluster, and it is far from the Khitan territory. There is no way, the Song Dynasty lacked horses, and the market naturally looked shabby. After a glance, Yelu walked to the exit on the other side.

When I got to the exit, I saw several stalls on the ground, selling all kinds of items used by livestock. When he got here, he didn't bother to glance at it, and then stopped. These stalls are very inconspicuous, but the things on them are eye-opening.

From the saddle to the sleeve to the horse's chew to the bridle, all the way to the horseshoe. Yelu Buhua could see that the saddle here was not for riding, it was too small for children to sit on, and he had not seen it in Khitan before. I couldn't help it, so I bent down and asked the owner of the seller: "Master, your saddle is so small, what is the use of coming?" He was a three-year-old naughty boy and couldn't sit on it. ”

The master looked up at Yelu without a glance, and saw that he was not a buyer, so he said lazily: "You guest is so ignorant, this is not a saddle for riding horses, but for lasing horses." Without this thing, how to pull the car? How to plow a field? ”

Yelu Buhua didn't know how to use these things, so he couldn't help but be a little sneering. The carriages in the Khitan territory were relatively rough and not as refined as those of the Song Dynasty. Jeremiah didn't think that even the horse-drawn carriages in the countryside would use so many parts. What surprised Yelu Buhua the most was that there were many iron tools here, and even the horse chews were made of fine iron, which would be very expensive if it was in the Khitan. And in this far away, there are horseshoes for sale, which makes Yelu Buhua feel incredible. The horseshoe has been invented a long time ago, but until this era, the application was not widespread, and even many military horses did not have a nail horier.

The Khitan people grew up on horseback since childhood, but most of the horse utensils here have never been seen by Yelu Buhua.

The use of livestock is not only the selection of good breeds, but also the harness used in conjunction with the use of harnesses. With the right harness, even a very ordinary livestock can make a huge difference. Without a suitable harness, the horses here were used to plough the fields, and in a day or two the horses were scrapped. The same is true for carriages, with a carriage with a suitable harness, any horse can pull thousands of eight hundred catties. Without a suitable harness, a good horse can't pull much.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. From his time in Yongcheng County, Du Zhongxiao devoted himself to sorting out a set of standard farm tools, and livestock harness was also a part of it. When I arrived at the Volcano Army, it was finally basically completed, and most of it was perfected from the impressions of the previous life.

The harness of the horse and donkey and mule is the most obvious, and through the design of each reason, the force of the horse is reasonably distributed with the harness, and the work efficiency is greatly improved. For example, Europe has used horsepower on the horse's neck for a long time, which is inefficient and harms the horse. The traditional Chinese harness is to reasonably distribute the load to the horse's back, and convert the pulling force into part of the pressure, and the horse's efficiency is greatly increased.

This whole set of harness looks like there are a lot of iron parts, but they are actually unified and mold manufacturing, and the cost is not high. These are the things that the surrounding farmers and even the families in the mountains need most, and many families regard them as important assets and make a lot of profits. The real money made by the Volcano Army in the bazaar was actually these inconspicuous stalls, which already had some industrialized characteristics.