Chapter 368: Two-sided Deals
The business of 10 million livestock has been made into more than 30 million, which is the power of 5,000 top-grade Shu brocades.
Even if it is to pay for the largest number of these Shu brocades, Renzong is just thinking that it is acceptable to replace those weapons and equipment with these Shu brocades, even cheaper, after all, the number is too large, and the scarcity is expensive, and the previous 12 horses cannot be called top-notch, and they can be sold for a price of 3,000 horses, the reason should be that they are scarce and expensive, there are only 12 horses, and each one is quite beautiful, which creates a miracle.
Of course, some people have thought that they will sell at a high price, but at most they think about 1000 pieces, after all, when 12 pieces, 3000 pieces, 5000 pieces 3000 pieces, can this be the same, but so much, under the competition with each other, the price will not come down?
There are also people in the Northern Song Dynasty who see this, but there is no choice, scarcity is expensive, it is good, but it is not bad to have many dreams at night, only by making the volume large enough, can you exchange for enough resources, even if the price of each one drops, but the overall price, it should be a lot.
But Han Qi really gave them a surprise, the top 8,000 guan, and the second 5,000 guan, which means that when all these are sold, even the total transaction amount far exceeds the total price of a large number of weapons, equipment and materials before.
This is 5,000 brocades, before, no one thought that Shu brocade would be so useful, just a thing that costs people and money, but specifically judged, even if it is a tribute like Shu brocade, how much is it worth.
Shu brocade, more is handmade, more artistic, this thing, is the most difficult to price, those later generations of civilization through the ages of great painters, poets, calligraphers, their words, worth.
It's worth it, a word may have a few, dozens, or even hundreds of times, but that is an official, a scholar, a Shu brocade craftsman, how much is their craftsmanship worth, perhaps, compared to the world sales, the value is a little higher, and it will not be higher than 500 pieces of a horse, and even the purchase price of tribute is even cheaper.
But now, 10 times the income, in exchange for the most urgently needed livestock in the Northern Song Dynasty, is the opposite, according to the price of the Northern Song Dynasty, this price is terrible.
The price of a batch of top Shu brocade is as high as 8,000 guan, and a total of 5,300 head of cattle can be exchanged, that's right, it is 5,300 heads, because the price of a cow is 1.5 guan, which is still the highest top price.
But how much did a cow cost in the Northern Song Dynasty?
In Bianliang City, the price of beef is about 200 to 250 Wen, although the Northern Song Dynasty prohibits the random slaughter of cultivated cattle, and even if farmers raise cattle, they will be held accountable and even sentenced to prison if they die for no reason.
But it can't resist the public's pursuit of beef, and sporadically, some of the beef has flowed into the market, and the sales volume is not small.
According to a thousand catties of bull in the prime of life, if you can produce 500 catties of meat, the price of pure meat is as high as more than 10 pounds, not to mention others, cowhide, horns, and bits and pieces, the price of a cow is conservative more than 15 guan.
5,300 head of cattle, that is to say, a pair of top-notch Shu brocade, his price is as high as 80,000 guan, that is, 8,000 taels of gold, this price is almost 50 times that of gold, and even if it is made of gold wire, it cannot be so expensive.
This can no longer be said to be more expensive than gold, it is more expensive than gold, in Chinese history, there has never been such an expensive brocade, even if it took countless labor and creation, but it was just a tribute.
In this way, a batch of Shu brocade, the final price created, is actually more than 80,000 guan, a hundred times higher, even because of this, even in the entire palace, can not find any set of Shu brocade, and even the concubines, this year, there may not be a new set of palace clothes, but for the high-level of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is still like a dream.
It's just a success, but no matter how in the dream, this transaction has begun, before it was a transaction of 3 million yuan, almost 3 million head of livestock, has entered the territory of Lingzhou, in the pasture prepared in advance, for a short stay, but now, when 5,000 brocades are in place, Liao Xingzong can't wait to complete the transaction, 10 million head of livestock, has been prepared, direct handover.
These 10 million head of livestock, only in exchange for less than 2,000 horses of Shu brocade, or the second level occupies the majority, the same, the Liao State and crazy looting, from the Western Xia to about 6 million heads.
In other words, in just a few days, nearly 20 million head of livestock were traded in the northwest.
Unlike the previous 10 million heads, of which six or seven percent are raised, among these, the vast majority are cattle and horses of higher grades, and even among the horses, the number of good horses is even more.
Even if there is an influx of 15 million head of cattle at once, this is definitely a very difficult thing in the past, and the weather conditions are very bad as the middle of winter approaches, which is very unfavorable for living creatures.
But for Lingzhou and the entire northwest, there is no problem, the northwest plus Lingzhou, on the territory, is already much larger than the original Xixia, there is enough land, to accommodate so many livestock, as for the problem of forage, it is not a problem. Because there is no grazing and heavier during the regular meeting time, the pasture is very prosperous, not to mention a short period of time, even if it is a long time, there is no problem
Not to mention, Han Qi had already prepared, and harvested the pastures in many places before the winter, although these somewhat dry forages, although not as good as the grass, were enough for a huge number of livestock to survive the winter, and when the grass and trees were abundant, they were rejuvenated.
What is really difficult to solve for the Northern Song Dynasty is, in fact, Hebei.
At the request of Liao Xingzong, the whole transaction was divided into two parts, on this side of the northwest, 20 million head of livestock, which is already the limit, maybe in the hands of Liao, there are still a small number of livestock, in more remote places, it can still be looted, but at most two or three million, this does not contribute to the situation.
On the contrary, from the territory of Liao, where is the most concentrated place of Liao's power, where is the ability, coupled with the total amount that is far stronger than that of Western Xia, there should be no problem in mobilizing 15 million head of livestock.
The turmoil even affected Hebei, which was already the largest livestock market in the Northern Song Dynasty, but had never experienced such a huge business as 15 million heads.
Hebei's geographical environment is more agricultural, and in winter, if you want to get enough grain and grass, it is really a problem, and if you don't have a good one, you must take into account the problem of large-scale death.