Chapter 428: Chito

Chapter 428: Chito

  Chapter 428 Thousand Households

"Sanlang, the batch of Daheiu is good. They are all hard goods. If you process them and send them back to Chang'an Luoyang, they will make people steal their heads. You can make a lot of money by reselling them. If you sell them yourself, you can make more money. .”

   Ah Huang went to receive the carts of Hei Niu’s stuff, and when he came back, he praised them greatly.

  Qin Lang played with the dog's head gold that weighed more than ten catties in his hand. It was so golden that it really looked like a dog's head, and he couldn't hold it with one hand.

  Da Hei Niu said it was picked up in the ditch behind the mountain in their village.

  Qin Lang knew what this meant. It meant that there was a large gold mine near Da Hei Niu's village, and it must be a shallow gold mine, and it was also very rich.

  Da Hei Niu dedicated this precious dog's head gold to Qin Lang, of course he was not aware of this. In fact, Da Hei Niu wanted to cooperate with Qin Lang to develop this gold mine. After dealing with Qin Lang for a while, he felt that Qin Lang was easier to talk to than Li Xizhi. Li Xizhi is a nice person, but sometimes he is a little roundabout.

  As for Cao Wuzheng, he is a greedy guy with no integrity.

Qin Lang gave him a different feeling. His status was honorable. He was young but smart. The longer he got along with him, the more he felt that he was a good friend. He wouldn't talk about big things with you, and he wouldn't talk about China, Han and barbarians. Qin Lang I like to talk about interests and interests. He will not only consider his own interests from his own perspective, but will also consider their interests from the perspective of the **** bull and others.

   It is of course the best to cooperate with such a person, hello, hello, hello everyone.

As the leader of the Shan Man, Da Hei Niu will not only be afraid of power, but after weighing it, he feels that Qin Lang is a good person and has a good attitude towards them, protecting their interests. In this case, Da Hei Niu is not stupid, of course he is willing to give Qin Lang face.

The market is becoming more and more lively. As the leader, Da Hei Niu has fully enjoyed the convenience and benefits of the market opening to the foot of the tribe's mountain. At the same time, he also saw the huge benefits brought by some tribes starting to cooperate with Qin Lang in mining. benefit.

   There is a big gold mine at home, so of course I am not willing to be lonely.

  In the past, limited to mining technology, Dahei Niu Village could only mine gold mines in the most primitive way, which was not efficient, and did not dare to mine on a large scale for fear of attracting the government.

It's different now. Qin Lang is more particular. The **** bull is not worried that he will **** his gold mine. Anyway, it is becoming more and more difficult to mine gold by primitive means. He needs a reliable man like Qin Lang. A partner needs his technology and his power to rely on.

  Hei Niu is very straightforward.

  The condition put forward was that Qin Lang would provide the technology, they would provide the manpower, and the mined gold would be added to five, and one person would get half of it.

  Qin Lang also liked Da Hei Niu's honesty and straightforwardness. If someone else had such a large gold mine in his hands, he would definitely not say it so easily, let alone mention such a cooperation condition.

  Of course, if the **** cow dares to discuss cooperation with people like Cao Wuzheng, it is estimated that he will be swallowed up in the end.

  The foundation of cooperation is trust.

  Da Hei Niu now trusts Qin Lang more, and Qin Lang also thinks Da Hei Niu is a trustworthy partner.

The Qin family is not engaged in related mineral mining, but gold mining is actually not an advanced technology. With Qin Lang's status, he can quickly get a professional gold mining team from the Central Plains, and get a group of veterans to be in charge of technology. Guidance, and even the preliminary processing of gold.

  Now the imperial court can't help mining minerals privately, but it has also strengthened management. Whoever discovers minerals, of course has the right to mine, but also needs to apply for a license from the imperial court and pay a certain tax. In addition, for the mined minerals, the imperial court will levy mining tax and directly classify minerals.

If the mineral income after taxation is an important national strategic material, such as copper and iron, the imperial court will implement unified collection and purchase, at least 90% of which will be sold to the imperial court at the market unified purchase price, and then allocated and sold by the imperial court. , and the remaining 10% can be directly sold freely.

  These reforms are all for the imperial court to strengthen its control over mining resources, to increase fiscal revenue through mining, and to ensure the imperial court’s control over these important mineral resources.

  As before, the imperial court could not help mining privately, and there was no mining class, which led to chaos in copper mining. On the one hand, there was a large amount of copper mining, and on the other hand, the imperial copper shortage led to a money shortage. The imperial court had no copper to make coins, and the price of copper continued to rise. But on the other hand, a large amount of copper materials flowed into the copperware market, and even flowed overseas.

  Now the imperial court has strengthened the management of this area, and mining continues to be done by you, but the copper mined will flow into the imperial copper warehouse, and the imperial court will allocate the market needs.

Under this new policy, of course they own the mining rights to the gold mines in the back mountain of Dahei Niu Village, and they are still in a barbaric area outside the actual control of Zhengzhou, so their actual mining rights are even more uncontroversial .

  If they mine secretly, they don't even have to pay taxes.

  Of course, if Da Hei Niu wants to be more formal and cooperate with Qin Lang, he can actually easily obtain a mining license and pay a small mining fee.

  After mining, it is actually negotiable whether to pay the mining class or not, and it doesn’t matter much whether it is unified or not. After all, the imperial government’s unified purchase is actually set according to the market price, not robbery.

Moreover, gold is different from copper and iron. Although gold and silver are valuable, they are not included in the list of strategically controlled materials by the imperial court. Gold and silver mining only needs to pay 20% of the tax and 1% of the mining tax. The gold and silver obtained from mining is good, and the rest can be freely sold on the market.

   They can even be processed into gold and silver wares by themselves, and even weighed gold and silver ingots, etc., but they are not allowed to imitate gold and silver coins issued by the imperial court.

Of course, the Qin family is the major shareholder of the East Palace Guardian Bank, and the Guardian Bank has a special gold and silver coin factory that can mint and issue Guardian Bank gold and silver coins, which are issued according to the standard of gold and silver coins formulated by the imperial court, and a certain amount of seigniorage is required to be paid to the imperial court. .

   In addition, the Qin family also has its own bank. Although the scale is still small, as long as there is gold, are you afraid that it will not be used?

  Ivory, rhino horn, tiger and leopard skins are available in Dahei Niu, but after all, they are not goods with a constant supply of energy, and high-standard good things are hard to come by.

   But a big gold mine, if you are lucky, it can be dug for decades or even a hundred or two hundred years.

   With money, Da Hei Niu and the others can of course buy and buy in the market and live a good life. Although they can now sell their own cattle and hunted game through the market, it is not as fast as digging for gold.

  Da Hei Niu is willing to ask for cooperation, Qin Lang is very happy.

  A few days later, I deliberately ran with my army for more than 200 miles to the Yuechengling Mountains, and found the tribe of Da Hei Niu.

On the mountain where the clouds and mists are looming, the wooden houses are in a patchwork pattern, forming a beautiful cottage. The scenery on the mountain is very good, but it is also quite dangerous, especially the last section of the road. You have to climb a steep cliff that is two miles long before you arrive On a flat hilltop.

   It is simply a cliff village.

   It is really easy to defend but difficult to attack.

  The mounts stayed at the bottom of the mountain, and everyone climbed the mountain on foot. At the last section of the cliff, they could only climb up the mountain with their hands and feet, which was almost vertical.

  The villagers at the foot of the mountain blew the buffalo horn, and the humming sound echoed through the mountains.

   Soon the bronze drum sounded from the foot of the mountain in response.

  When Qin Lang and the others finally climbed to the top of the mountain, they found that in an open square, Da Hei Niu had already led many villagers to greet him.

   There are even a group of young Manzhai girls dressed up, wearing silver ornaments on their heads and brightly colored brocade clothes, singing and dancing.

  Da Hei Niu enthusiastically came up to greet him.

   "You are really dangerous here!" Qin Lang praised.

Da Hei Niu proudly declared that in the past thousands of years, their village has been standing still because of this danger. How many times the enemy tribes came to attack, or the government came to suppress them, they only need to cut down the rattan ladder, and the other party will be defeated. There is nothing to do. And there is still a lot of land on this mountain, with springs and mountain fields, and you can also raise cattle, pigs, chickens and fish, even if you persist for a few years, it will be no problem.

   Except that there is no salt and no iron on this mountain, there is everything else.

  In order to welcome distinguished guests like Qin Lang, the village has already been enthusiastically slaughtering cattle and pigs.

   One hundred cows, two hundred pigs and thousands of chickens and ducks were slaughtered in one go.

This scene made Qin Lang dumbfounded. Hei Niu's stockade is considered large, with about a thousand households, and it can be called the largest stockade in this area with a radius of hundreds of miles. However, this kind of grandeur still surprised him. stay.

  The cattle are slaughtered at the foot of the mountain, and then the villagers carry them up with their legs in baskets. The meat of tens of catties per leg seems to be no burden for them, and they climb up the steep rattan ladder as if walking on the ground.

Dozens of cauldrons were set up on the big drying ground in front of the village. The women boiled water, and the men scalded and removed their fur with water. They roasted the shaved cows and pigs on the fire until they were golden brown and slightly charred, and then cut them into pieces. Into a few catties of large pieces, thrown directly into the pot stew.

  Add some of their special mountain herbs and leaves, etc., stew like this, and finally put some salt out of the pot.

  The winding village road in the village is covered with pine needles, and broad banana leaves are spread on the pine needles. The freshly baked large pieces of meat, even the belt bones, are spread on the banana leaves all the way.

  Piles of beef, piles of pork, roasted whole chickens and roast ducks.

  The faces of the elderly, women and children in the village are all full of smiles. Although many of them look dirty, many of them are barefoot and barebacked, with missing teeth, but at the moment they are full of smiles.

  At this moment, there are no barbarians or Han people on the mountain, but only enthusiastic hosts and guests from afar.

   There are no tables and chairs, no bowls and plates. Everyone, men, women, old and young, take out a small knife and sit cross-legged on the ground, sitting on pine needles.

   "Mr. Wei, please!"

  Da Hei Niu originally asked Qin Lang to prepare a tiger skin blanket and a few cases, but Qin Lang refused.

  Sit directly on the pine needles, and let the accompanying Ah Huang and others sit down directly.

   "As you please, we respect the traditions of your tribe, and I think it's very lively and delicious to eat."

   These words made Da Hei Niu and others very happy.

   "Ah Huang, bring up the wine we brought, and dedicate it to our enthusiastic friends on the mountain!"

   A jar of wine was opened, and the aroma of the wine overflowed.

  The barbarians sniffed one by one, their eyes shining.

  The knife cuts off a large piece of meat, the mouth is full of oil, and then the mellow and intoxicating wine is served. At this moment, the mountain breeze is really gentle, and the wine is intoxicating.

   "Duke Wei, please, just let it go, if it's not enough, I'll have another hundred cows killed!"

Qin Lang hurriedly stopped the slightly drunk Da Hei Niu. These thousands of people killed a hundred cows, two hundred pigs, and thousands of chickens and ducks in one meal. Really simple, this is really willing to eat.

  (end of this chapter)