Chapter 625 - Monopoly Bureau (1/2)
Chapter 625: Monopoly Bureau
“Why are we not allowed to enter the pass? Did we violate any laws? We’ve been using this road for a few decades…!”
“Why should our goods be checked? Why can’t we pass through here with the wool?”
“A jin of high-grade wool for ten copper coins! That’s less than one-tenth of the price offered at Yingwei County This is robbery…!”
“The Writ of Grace! We are favored by the Writ of Grace! How can you treat us like this! We will go to the Imperial Capital and complain about you…!”
The leaders of the ten caravans were outraged They gathered at the White Stone Pass gate and clamored loudly Behind the leaders were the caravans that aiting to enter the pass The carriages and carts pulled by their rhinodrake steeds, camels, and oxen were filled with sacks of wool The seven or eight hundredaround since sunrise and it was nearly noon now As the sun rose higher in the sky, the Shatu people becarew restless and impatient
Soldiers stood solemnly on top of the lofty White Stone Pass in the distance as usual while overlooking the area below the the Shatu caravans noticed there werethe soldiers The athtly different than before
Today was the first day of the ninth lunar , the Shatu caravans were going to pass through it like they usually did However, things were different at the pass today A bulletin stamped by the Qiyun Protectorate’s Office was posted up outside the gate The summary of the bulletin’s content was as follows — Frohts to the wool trade Wool fro Plains shall be purchased by the Qiyun Prefecture’s Monopoly Bureau at a set price Shatu caravans are prohibited fro wool
To these Shatu caravans, the so-called Monopoly Bureau was like a bolt fro Plains had been selling wool happily before Despite the raging war between them and the Dark Ram Tribe, their wool business stayed unaffected
In their eyes, all these were thanks to the spinning and weaving of woolen fabric invented by the Han Chinese Without their inventions, their livestock had no use other than being eaten for food It was this discovery that suddenly doubled the value of sheep they reared, hence causing theh-demand resource on the plains
Wool was an inexhaustible resource They would grow again after being sheared All the wool froed for a lot of money when they took them to the other side of the pass Where else could they find a good business like this? The Han Chinese invented a method to weave wool into woolen fabric but the Shatu people would never be grateful to theood opportunity to put the Han Chinese traders at theiras they had wool, the Han Chinese would definitely bow to the doesn’t last forever’ Just when the Shatu people thought they could exchange the woolsum of money with the Han Chinese, they were hit on the head by the Qiyun Protectorate’s Office’s bulletin posted at the White Stone Pass today The bloas so hard that the people fro stars At first, many of them couldn’t read the Han Chinese characters on the bulletin and they didn’t understand what a Monopoly Bureau was either After hearing the explanation from someone who could read the bulletin, all of them immediately erupted