The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Wang Jiaping smiled and handed Hai Rui a piece of paper.

Full of suspicion, Hai Rui picked up the piece of paper and read it.

"Goat, the purchase price is 2 taels of silver each?"

"Goat skin, half a tael of silver a piece?"

"Goat horns, half a pair?"

"What is this?" Hai Rui frowned, "Why does it look like a price list?"

"That's right." Wang Jiaping said with a smile: "This is Mr. Yan Ge, who asked me to convey a message to the fur and meat merchants in Daming, and to the Mongolian caravan. It is to buy goats at a high price!"

"Are you crazy?" Hai Rui looked at Yan Song extremely dissatisfied: "Everyone rides on us, shit and shit, why are you buying goats at a high price? A goat can be sold for nearly 3 taels of silver! This price is almost twice as high as the price of grassland sheep raised by Mongolians now!"

Now, if a Mongolian sheep is sold to Daming, the purchase price is only one tael of silver, plus the value of the fur, at most one and a half taels.What happened to Yan Song asking Tianjin merchants to buy Mongolian goats at a high price?

Hai Rui was full of complaints, could it be that Yan Song took good care of Mongolia?Have other ideas?

Yan Song smiled slightly and said: "If you say you are uneducated, you really don't understand anything‖!"

Hai Rui said in disbelief, "Nonsense! When it comes to farming and raising sheep, who among the Ming officials is better than me?"

This is not Hai Rui bragging.

Because Hai Rui was clean and honest, he was never greedy for money, he didn't even want normal ice and charcoal respect, and he didn't accept money for fire consumption, so it was naturally very difficult to rely on the 100 taels of silver a year to support the whole family.Later, Hai Rui started farming and raising sheep, chickens and ducks at home, and sold them in the market.This Hai Rui is good at farm work, and he is famous for his skill.

"Oh? So, do you understand?" Yan Song smiled and said, "Then tell me, what's the difference between goats and sheep?"

Hai Rui snorted coldly with disdain: "Goats and sheep actually have their own strengths. But goats have a high reproductive rate, mature early, and have strong fecundity. They have the characteristics of multiple births and prolificacy. Most breeds of goats can produce 2-3 lambs per litter. [-], making its reproductive efficiency much higher than that of sheep. Mongolians now raise goats. If you buy goats at such a high price, Mongolia will quickly breed goats in large numbers. Within two years, there will be goats on the grasslands and highlands of Mongolia figure."

Yan Song nodded. As expected of the old farmer Hai Rui, what he said about the habits of goats and sheep was quite correct.

"But I still don't understand that goats have a higher reproductive rate than sheep. If you do this, the Mongols will get rich." Hai Rui said dissatisfied.

Yan Song laughed loudly: "The Mongols used to be brave and ruthless because they were poor. Now we make them rich. They can make a lot of money through breeding, but they will definitely lose their fighting spirit. If they can make money lying down, why should they carry it?" Earn money from people's heads?"

"Huh?" Hai Rui cried out, "Is this a reason?"

Yan Song smiled and said: "You still have a habit of goats, you are not right. That is, when goats eat grass, they will habitually use their hooves to dig out the grass roots and eat them. The so-called past, no grass will grow. And sheep never eat grass roots .According to the ignorance of the Mongolians, seeing me buying goats at such a high price, they will inevitably breed them in large quantities and export them to us. Cough cough, guess what will happen to the Mongolian grasslands in two or five years time?"

Hai Rui and Wang Jiaping were stunned.

And this kind of operation?

They have never observed the difference between goats and sheep eating grass.

Without further ado, Hai Rui ran out in a hurry, and after half an hour brought a goat and a sheep, put them on a piece of grass, let them graze, and observed their habits.

Don't tell me, there is really a difference.

The sheep stuck to the ground very obediently, ate the tenderest part of the grass, and then moved the grass, instead of eating in one place.Therefore, in a large grassland, the number of sheep that can be raised at the same time is limited.

Not so with goats.

The goat just presses down on one place, eats the tender grass, eats the grass stalks, eats the grass stalks, and uses its sharp hooves to dig the ground vigorously, digging out the grass roots and eating them. eat grass.

In this way, in a short period of time, the number of goats that can be fed per unit area of ​​pasture is greater than the number of sheep.

But Wang Jiaping and Hai Rui are not idiots, they felt chills on the back of their necks.

Yan Ge's old trick is ruthless!

Mr. Yan Ge lured the Mongolians to raise a large number of goats with twice the high price. In fact, he was letting the Mongolians lose their children and grandchildren!

Because the reason why the Mongols can survive is that they occupy the grassland.It can be said that grass is the sky of the Mongols, and it is the bowl for the Mongols (the king's) to eat.For a long time, grazing sheep only takes a few months to restore the water and grass to the grassland without causing serious damage to the environment.

Today, Mr. Yan Ge used more silver to lure the Mongolians to raise a large number of goats that are extremely destructive to grasslands!

The grass that goats have eaten has not been restored for a few years.

Even in such an ecologically fragile area as the Mongolian Plateau, raising a large number of goats is tantamount to making the Mongolians commit ecological suicide!

Hai Rui, an old farmer, doesn't even know the difference between goats and sheep.That goat, which looks naive and gives birth very quickly, is actually so destructive to the grassland?

".〃You, you are an out-of-the-box scheme!" Hai Rui looked at Yan Song and smiled wryly.

He had seen the horror of the plan.

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Chapter 628 Mongolia colludes with the Mughal Empire [5]

Hai Rui: "How could the Mongols refuse to raise the purchase price so high? They will definitely reproduce, and the goats reproduce fast, and within two years they will cause devastating damage to the Mongolian grasslands. This move is too cruel. It hurts the peace of heaven, but if you are not of my race, their hearts must be different!"

Yan Song nodded: "This Mongolia must be our future enemy. Since they can send caravans to mess with us and smash our brand, why can't we give them a little color?"

"Just destroying the grassland is actually useless." Hai Rui was still a little unconvinced: "Maybe, they will discover the habit of goats eating grass in two years, so they won't raise goats anymore?"

Yan Song said lightly: "That's not afraid. The problem is that these Mongolians will definitely make a lot of money in the past two years and live a good life. In addition, the Mongolian tribes are divided, and Altan Khan is only a formal leader of the tribal alliance. Specific affairs that affect most tribes. It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Mongolians are used to living a good life, but can they still endure the past life of having no food and clothing and sleeping in the open?"

Wang Jiaping's eyes lit up, and he suddenly realized: "It turns out that this is the reason why Mr. Yan Ge insisted on opening Tianjin to Mongolia. The Mongols have enjoyed the benefits brought by the exchange, and they must be addicted to it. They will gradually become independent. The economy has become my Ming’s raw material origin and product dumping place! It has been gradually incorporated into my Ming’s economic system and has become our economic vassal state. For example, we can use the price baton to easily command the various tribes of Mongolia by remote control to produce for us All kinds of things. Two years later, even if the Mongolians find out the danger of goats, they will not stop, they will move around to raise goats, and continue to maintain high income."

"Isn't this drinking poison to quench thirst?" Hai Rui was dumbfounded: "They Mongolians are so stupid?"

Yan Song said indifferently: "Right now, they won't be fooled. Because their connection with us is not close enough. In the future, I will instill in them a more luxurious and depraved lifestyle through the opportunity of importing goods!"

Yan Song's approach to Mongolia is the root cause of Mongolia's complete degeneration in the future.