Chapter 1522: Chapter 1521 Jina_1

After submission, the tribes of the Grassland expressed their willingness to trade with Daqi, replacing raids with cows and sheep for barter.

Trade was acceptable, and Yang Wenxiao opened a market at the border between the two sides, assigning Imperial Guards to guard and oversee the market order.

However, trade did not mean everything was for sale. Yang Wenxiao explicitly stipulated that Daqi’s iron implements were not allowed to flow into the Grassland.

The people of the Grassland were always relatively valiant and skilled in horseback archery. They had swift horses and brave warriors, and if they were to have iron weapons, they could quickly grow stronger and eventually launch incursions into Daqi once again.

He issued orders prohibiting the sale of iron weapons to the Grassland and also forbade the large-scale sale of food, allowing only the trade of some everyday goods.

Under these circumstances, the tribes of the Grassland had not seen much development for years. Wishing to attack Daqi but lacking the strength to do so, and not attacking meant their own lives were hardly decent. As Qiao Xiaomai put it, they “wished to plunder but were willing though weak.”

When their own lives were hardly decent, yet they still exchanged cattle and sheep for Floral Dew–this Jina was really…

Powerless to criticize.

If this had happened in the past, Tong Sanlang would definitely have dropped a “those not of our race must have different hearts,” and concluded there was no need to treat people of foreign races as humans, that it was fine to plunder them at will.

“Those not of our race must have different hearts,” not treating people of foreign races as humans–this was indeed the view of many aristocrats in Daqi.

The aristocrats of Daqi disdained even the Yang Family for lacking culture and refinement, let alone the people of the Grassland–whom they considered to be entirely composed of Barbarian Tribes.

Barbarians were considered non-human.

Easy to exploit.

This way of thinking was very prevalent in the upper echelons of Daqi society. Qiao Xiaomai was aware of this, but as someone from a future era, if the other was human, she would certainly treat them as such, especially since they had married into Daqi, making them a Daqi person.

Besides, she had good deeds to do.

Heaven would definitely treat all beings as humans; it wouldn’t discriminate against anyone. For the sake of Divine Liquid, she couldn’t cheat Jina.

“These are just ordinary Floral Dew and don’t have any special effects. If you’d like to try some, I can send you a couple of jars to taste,” Qiao Xiaomai said.

“No, no, no, I, I have money,” Jina quickly shook her head.

Her Daqi language was not fluent, and upon hearing Qiao Xiaomai’s comment, she mistakenly thought that Qiao Xiaomai was looking down on her for not having money to afford it.

The family Jina married into was just a middling Aristocratic Family, not powerful, and the direct son she married was not favored, with no significant assets, only receiving a monthly allowance of silver.

Yu Zizhou’s monthly allowance was a mere thousand taels, and Jina’s husband received even less, just five hundred taels.

Five hundred taels could only buy half a jar of Floral Dew.

However, Jina herself had money. The Grassland was poor, but that was only in comparison with the Aristocratic Families of the Capital City. Jina’s father was a chieftain of the Grassland, and as the daughter of a chieftain, she could hardly be too poor, especially since she was the first to marry into Daqi from the Grassland, and her dowry was quite substantial, including gold, silver, jewelry, and also landed property. With landed property came cattle and sheep, and she was willing to exchange cattle and sheep for Floral Dew.

Floral Dew was made from petals and Spiritual Water. Spiritual Water was precious, but for Qiao Xiaomai, it was an inexhaustible and constantly available resource. It was essentially equivalent to trading water and petals for cattle and sheep.

It was daylight robbery.

However, seeing Jina’s excited demeanor, Qiao Xiaomai thought for a moment and said, “You come from the Grassland as a guest, and you are buying this for an elder in your family. I’ll give you a discount.”