204: Chapter 204 happy Shan is willing to be the woman of His Majesty the King of Qin!

Lu Jia was speechless as he watched the leadership of the Tuan Tribe start to bicker over a single honeycomb coal heating stove.

Are you guys bullying me just because I'm a scholar?

This honeycomb heating stove was clearly brought to the grasslands by him, so how has it all become yours?

“Everyone, please listen to me.”

Lu Jia looked at them and said, “Every one of you can obtain a honeycomb coal heating stove.”

Jin Tu, Jin Xishan, and the others didn't understand what Lu Jia was saying, so their eyes all turned toward Cao Jiacheng.

With Cao Jiacheng's translation, the eyes of Jin Tu, Jin Xishan, and the others lit up.

Jin Xishan asked, “Can we use wool to exchange for honeycomb coal heating stoves?”

After she asked the question, she felt very uneasy in her heart.

Compared to grain, honeycomb coal and honeycomb coal heating stoves were more important to their tribe.

If they didn't have grain, they still had meat to eat.

They wouldn't starve to death.

But without honeycomb coal heating stoves, people would freeze to death!

If their Tuan Tribe had a large number of honeycomb coal heating stoves, then far fewer of their clansmen would freeze to death in the winter!

Jin Tu and the elders of the Tuan Tribe also looked at Lu Jia with uneasy expressions.

If wool could be used to exchange for honeycomb coal heating stoves, then they would definitely exchange wool for them in large quantities!

If Great Qin wanted cattle, sheep, and horses, they wouldn't be able to provide too many.

When spring came next year, they had to prepare a large number of cattle, sheep, and horses as tribute to the large tribes, both as protection fees and to exchange for items their tribe lacked.

“It is possible.”

Before Jin Tu, Jin Xishan, and the others could celebrate, Lu Jia said, “His Majesty the Head of State has never mistreated his own people. Do you understand what I mean?”

“As long as your Tuan Tribe is willing to submit to His Majesty the Head of State, you can not only graze in the Yinshan Pasture but also won't need to pay tribute!”

“In addition to using wool to exchange for grain, you can also use wool to exchange for honeycomb coal and honeycomb coal heating stoves!”

Jin Tu was moved.

He looked at the elders of the Tuan Tribe.

Their gazes, however, were fixed on Jin Xishan.

Jin Tu's brows immediately furrowed tightly.

He instantly understood the thoughts of these old fogies.

His daughter was the most beautiful girl in the tribe.

If His Majesty the Premier of Great Qin could take a fancy to his daughter, then their Tuan Tribe’s allegiance to Great Qin would also come with a guarantee of safety.

Seeing the tribal elders and Da turn their gazes toward her, with her wit, how could Jin Xishan not see through their thoughts?

“Da!”

“Xishan is willing to become the woman of His Majesty the Premier of Great Qin.”

Jin Xishan was a daughter of the grasslands.

Her passion was like fire.

Distinct from the reserved nature of women from the Central Plains, she was very direct.

She had always been curious about the Premier of Great Qin.

She wanted to go see the Premier of Great Qin.

If she could become the woman of His Majesty the Premier of Great Qin, then her tribe would also rise.

Jin Tu nodded slightly.

He looked at Lu Jia with a serious expression and said, “Our Tuan Tribe can submit to the Premier of Great Qin, but we also have a condition.”

“Oh!”

“Please, speak!”

Seeing Jin Tu's expression so serious, Lu Jia also became nervous.

He was truly afraid that the Tuan Tribe would propose a condition he couldn't fulfill.

The Tuan Tribe was a nail that Great Qin had driven into the Xiongnu Kingdom.

It was also a springboard.

With the Tuan Tribe as a demonstration point, it would attract more tribes to surrender to the Lord.

As they continuously recruited Xiongnu Tribes to their side, the power of the corresponding Xiongnu Royal Court would be weakened.

As one side falls and the other rises, the Xiongnu Royal Court would become increasingly easy to deal with.

“Please let my daughter, Jin Xishan, become the woman of His Majesty the Premier of Great Qin!”

Jin Tu said with utmost seriousness, “If His Majesty the Premier of Great Qin does not agree, then our Tuan Tribe will not surrender to Great Qin.”

“This is a good thing!”

Lu Jia began to laugh.

He had thought it would be something difficult to accomplish.

He felt that making Jin Xishan the Lord's woman would be quite easy to achieve.

Although Jin Xishan was a woman of the grasslands, her beauty was not inferior to that of women from the Central Plains.

In fact, because she had grown up eating meat and drinking milk since childhood, her figure was far more voluptuous than those of Central Plains women.

Girls all liked to have slender figures and ate all sorts of unpalatable weight-loss meals.

Boys, for the most part, were the opposite.

Boys preferred girls with some meat on them.

Curvier girls were also more alluring.

If there was no meat to the touch, one might as well just pinch their own flesh.

Lu Jia felt that as long as his Lord wasn't some kind of Liu Xiahui with physical issues, he would definitely be moved by Jin Xishan.

Jin Xishan becoming the Lord's woman would not only win the hearts of the Tuan Tribe but also mean that Great Qin had a hostage from the Tuan Tribe!

Great Qin could control the Tuan Tribe through blood ties and the policy of loose rein!

“Good, good, good!”

Seeing Lu Jia agree, Jin Tu was overjoyed.

He asked again, “Lord Lu, I wonder how much wool we need to exchange for this honeycomb coal and the honeycomb coal heating stoves?”

Lu Jia replied, “Two thousand jin of wool for one honeycomb coal heating stove.”

“Two jin of wool for one jin of honeycomb coal.”

Jin Tu quickly turned his gaze toward Cao Jiacheng.

Cao Jiacheng repeated it in the Xiongnu language.

“Good, good, good!”

Jin Tu was delighted.

Their tribe had plenty of wool and was very willing to make such an exchange.

The group talked until very late; Jin Tu, Jin Xishan, and the tribal elders were all reluctant to leave the warm tent.

Although their own tents also had places to burn wood, the heat value of wood was nowhere near as high as that of honeycomb coal.

The elders of the Tuan Tribe had no intention of leaving the tent.

Jin Tu and his daughter, Jin Xishan, reluctantly walked out of the tent.

After returning to their cold tent, they missed the honeycomb coal heating stove even more.

They couldn't wait to own honeycomb coal heating stoves.

The next day, Jin Tu had people gather all the wool together and let Lu Jia, Cao Jiacheng, and the others weigh it.

After a day of weighing, the total amount of wool was twenty-five thousand jin.

In addition to taking the honeycomb coal heating stove that Lu Jia had brought to the Tuan Tribe, Jin Tu exchanged for another eleven stoves and five hundred jin of honeycomb coal.

Before Lu Jia set out for the Tuan Tribe, Zhao Fusu had given him a batch of carrier pigeons to facilitate communication.

When releasing carrier pigeons, one didn't just release a single bird, but a whole batch at once.

Even if this batch of pigeons was preyed upon by eagles on the way or encountered other mishaps, it ensured that at least one pigeon could deliver the message.

At Yangshan Mountain, Zhao Fusu soon received the message from Lu Jia. When he saw that the Tuan Tribe had used all the wool originally intended for grain to exchange for honeycomb coal heating stoves and honeycomb coal, a smile appeared on the corners of his mouth.

However, as he read the following content, his smile froze.