Those Mongolians were directly escorted to Shoukouyi's side, and the other party reprimanded him sharply in Mongolian, Zhang Han didn't understand, but Liang Hong shook his head and listened, listening, just laughing.

"This tight-lipped official is very interesting." Liang Hong took the initiative to explain to Zhang Han: "He said you fools, be careful next time, don't be caught by the Ming army again." ”

As he spoke, the smugglers had already stripped their pants, and the soldiers slammed their batons and beat them severely.

The crackling sound sounded first, followed by people's cries and begging for mercy, after all, they were all merchants, and the faces of the businessmen present were not very good-looking, and they were quite dissatisfied with Lai Tongxin's disposition.

After twenty battles, everyone was drenched in flesh and blood, but this was not over, the soldiers set up a standing cage, pushed people one by one, flailed their hands, each of them could only show their heads and necks, and the soles of their feet were not enough to stand on tiptoe, if they slept or wandered, their feet sank, their necks and heads would be tightened, and they would be out of breath.

"Three days like this?"

Zhang Han was full of shock, the punishment of the battle has made him a little unacceptable, this kind of corporal punishment is simply funny on TV, and it really looks like how cruel it is, after the twenty sticks, many people's buttocks are blurred with flesh and blood, it is difficult to stand, and the pain is very great, Han businessmen are all hard-working people who do small business, in this era, they can grow up from infants and young children, they are all people who can endure hardship, if it is not very painful and unbearable, these people will not cry so shamelessly, and they will be flailed after the blame, Looking at those people in the cage with painful faces on their faces, Zhang Han felt that everything in front of him was distorted.

"Alas, this time Lai Shen General doesn't know what medicine he took wrong?" Zhou Fengji was also very dissatisfied and said: "In the past, even if you beat it, at most you will use a flail for a day or two to release people, and most of these people in front of you will not survive with this station cage, and it would be good to survive three or five people." ”

Liang Hong said: "This time the matter is not simple, there must be something strange in it. ”

The rest of the people in the firms are also talking about it, and the punishment is too severe, completely different from usual, and the psychological impact is much greater.

Zhang Han's heart was full of shock, and after traveling so far, he deeply felt that the world in front of him was completely different from the world in his past, and even more from the law of Lin and bloody, a general guarding the fort, most of them did not even have a place in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and in the eyes of local civil officials, he was just a fart, such an ordinary military attaché dared to shackle more than a dozen businessmen to death, and judging from the words of the people around him, at most he was a little dissatisfied, and no one had any unusual thoughts at all. For Lai Shenjiang, it may be a matter of thought, and there will be no serious consequences at all.

The lower limit of discipline in Zhang Han's heart was once again refreshed......

In comparison, those methods used by oneself in later generations and those methods used to buy off officials could not be used here in the Ming Dynasty.

Ants and elephant trading, is it possible?

No wonder the Jin merchants worked hard for a hundred years to cultivate their children to become officials, and many families even did everything to ask their smart children to study and take the exam, Zhang Han didn't understand it very well before this, and now it seems that the Jin merchants and Hui merchants did this This is a wise move.

If the merchant class does not intersect with the gentry class, the more money you make, the more dangerous it becomes!

In such a country and society, what kind of so-called capitalist sprout is simply a joke...... Capital is completely incapable of independence, and cannot form an independent bourgeoisie, so where can the so-called germination begin?

"I understand, I can adapt, I can fit in, and I can change ......"

Zhang Han's face was as usual, but deep in his heart, there was a deep and real change.

It wasn't until this moment that he really crossed over to this point, to the Ming Dynasty at the end of the forty-fifth year of Wanli.

The standing cage was pushed away, the gong sounded, and the deal finally began.

The dissatisfaction on people's faces gradually dissipated, after all, everyone is a serious businessman, not a smuggler, everyone will only be moderately sympathetic, but it will not affect themselves.

A large number of Mongols came, but they did not wield sabers or iron spears, but brought with them the specialties of their own side.

Horses, cattle, sheep, mules, all kinds of furs, the specialties of the Mongols were as rough and direct as their people.

There is also a difference between the small city and the official market, the official city of the Ming Dynasty gave two silver as the mainstay, supplemented by grain and cloth iron pots, in exchange for the Mongols' war horses.

Twelve taels on the horse, ten taels on the middle horse, and seven taels on the dismount.

Datong town every official market trade, you can buy 100,000 taels of silver horses, in addition to a large number of Mongolian tribute envoys 10,000 or 20,000 reward silver, and the small market trade is to groceries for ordinary mules and horses, cattle and sheep are the mainstay, in addition to a large number of fur, and some dry goods, such as mushrooms, pine cones, but the number is not much, sometimes there will be rare things such as ginseng, that is extremely rare, Liaodong horse market has more ginseng and Dongzhu such specialties, in Datong here, mules, horses, cattle and sheep are the most common trading goods.

In addition to bartering, there are also the practice of taking off the goods and then buying goods with silver, and even some Mongolian nobles brought gold and silver to trade, but this method is only a minority, and most of the people who buy goods with gold and silver are also to buy luxury goods, rice paper, pen inkstone, silk, gold ornaments and so on.

"Twenty stone of grain for a horse, ten stone for a cow, three stone for a sheep, and skins, not for silver, just grain."

"Who wants ginseng? A ten-year-old ginseng is exchanged for twenty stone grains, and a hundred-year-old ginseng is five hundred stone grains, the quantity is not much, and those who want to be exchanged should be exchanged quickly. ”

"There is not much food, but cloth is fine."

"All kinds of herbs, medicines, too."

"No silver, just food."

All kinds of voices are very noisy, as soon as the transaction begins, the two sides are arguing with each other, and there is no need to mention bargaining, but Zhang Han did not stay in his own business, and walked around in the crowd.

Listen more, watch more, this is his biggest purpose now.

After listening to it, it was really rewarding.

Grain is the top priority of this trade. Whether it is traded with mules, horses, cattle and sheep, furs, or ginseng, the core of the exchange is grain, followed by cloth, herbs, etc., and in addition, silver taels. All kinds of groceries that were still very popular in the past, but this time the trading volume is limited, that is, some urgent necessities for needles and threads are still wanted, and the rest of the groceries are rarely asked, and not many people ask at all.

"Isn't there a catastrophe on the damn prairie? These Tartars don't want anything else, just food, it's really deadly. ”

Liang Hong was sweating profusely, commanding his men to keep talking and trading with those Mongols, and the merchants in Xinpingbao had to learn a few words of Mongolian anyway, otherwise it would be too inconvenient to do business.

Zhang Han is also learning Mongolian with an old Tongshi, but it will take at least a few months to master it.

Today and Yusheng prepared a lot of groceries, of course, also prepared a lot of food, unfortunately those groceries bidders are not many, the transaction success is even less, fortunately the price of food has soared, the transaction price is higher than the purchase price of Yusheng, whether it is in exchange for mules, horses, cattle and sheep or cash, and then out of it is another layer of interests, calculate this month's small market not only does not lose, but also has a lot of profits, can make up for a lot of shortfalls, although Liang Hong scolded in his mouth, busy sweating, his heart is actually very happy.

Zhou Fengji and the tent room in the store and the guys were also very busy, and everyone was full of smiles.

Zhang Han was naturally happy in his heart, but he didn't take the little money he earned today into account. In this way, he will save hundreds of thousands of dollars when he dies of old age, and like duckweed, he doesn't know when he offends a big person, and it may be over when a gust of wind comes.

What he wants to do is to make the family business into a big family like the Kang family Qiao family, with a stable root system, rich and rival the country, Zhang Han remembered that in the biography he had read, the Chang family of the eight families borrowed nearly two million taels of silver for the royal family during the Qianlong period, so that the business family can be talked about stable, and future generations can enjoy hundreds of years of happiness.

As for more, Zhang Han didn't think too much, he was a businessman before he crossed over, and he was still a businessman after crossing, and the pursuit of interests was engraved in his bones, but other than that, he couldn't think too much.

Today's events, the transaction situation in front of him, made Zhang Han feel that something was faintly wrong.

In the past, Zhang Han also collected some information about the small market, and grain must be the main source of trade, but tea, tea bricks, oil, salt, cloth, and even vegetables, cured meat, pickles, as well as those luxury goods, ironware, are all sought-after goods in trade.

The hardships of the Mongolians in these years are not imaginable by later generations, the Han people gather in the area is also bitter cold, but along the Great Wall a line is a water-dividing field, although it is cold on this side of Xinpingbao, there are arable land and water sources, and there are Daliang Mountains to block the more severe cold current, people have houses, there are pits and charcoal fires, as long as they are not too poor, the winter is not too sad, on the grassland, outside the yurt is the ice and snow, often a heavy snow falls, even the livestock are buried in the snowdrift, the winter has to feed the livestock, have to transfer, and the extremely cold weather will cause the livestock to die in the disaster yearIn such a place, nothing is produced except fur and livestock, so all the living materials are urgently needed by the herdsmen, as small as a needle, a jar of pickles, as large as grain and tea, cloth, are all in demand, but this time the Tartars have changed their sex, in addition to food, they want cloth, herbs and other things, this thing, from the inside is strange.

Zhang Han was wandering around, thinking at the same time, and without paying attention, he broke into a place where he shouldn't be.

A man stretched out his hand to block him: "Hey, this brute, don't go around here." ”

Zhang Han sneezed...... The taste is really punchy.

Stopping him was a Mongol soldier in leather armor and an iron helmet, with a flat face, thin eyes, a lying nose, bulging flesh on his cheeks, and a beard on his chin...... The appearance of a typical Mongolian is even the figure, short and strong, full of muscles, and contains strong strength.