Chapter 181 Where the Gold Came from

I'm not interested because I'm not good at math. However, old Cheng's words, let me on how to divide the territory of the grid kingdom tribe have a quasi.

To allocate territory, it is natural to choose a geographical environment that is easy to identify, so I took mountains and rivers as the boundary and divided the map into 53 points.

After finishing, I pointed to the kingdom in the center. "Uncle Cheng, I know you have to stay here. I'll leave the kingdom's cities and land to you."

"All right, all right." Old Cheng was very satisfied. "I collected some disciples last night, and I will be able to settle down the people on this island in time."

"There are no slaves left. What are your plans for the future?" I wonder how he'll settle down here.

"Don't I still have land?" Cheng tapped on the map. "You can count on it. You'll know the result in a year."

He won't say much, so I won't ask. Start making alternate arrangements with him. Like taking control of the island's copper mines, speeding up the production of currency, and so on.

Everything is done and the day is over.

The grand masters of the things which have been done and which we have ordered, are waiting outside the hall.

Open the doors of the hall and let them in. I put the big map on the ground and identified their respective territories. When they entered the city, those who surrendered first were made Kings, and those who surrendered later were made minor Kings.

The difference in rank also represents the difference in area and quality of the territory.

Although some of the great masters were not convinced, but did not dare to express their own opinions, all silently accepted my enthronement.

The next day I began to make some great moves, and took away all their bows and spears. He gathered all the artisans in the tribe and began to mass-produce household utensils. On the other side, Li Ding and Luci were also responsible for mass production of two kinds of copper coins with different sizes and denominations in the rear hall of the palace with our people.

Zhang Yutong and Cui Bin are responsible for, to the slaves arrangement. Let them go back to their original tribe, or into a new tribe.

I soon also got unexpected harvest, the great masters in order to please me, contributed nearly a hundred jin of gold utensils.

This gave me the idea of melting a third of the gold and making it into a "divine right of Kings" coin.

After arranging everything, I went to inspect the copper mine in the back mountain of the kingdom under the leadership of Nath and others. Because of years of mining, a large pit has been dug out. It is an open-pit copper mine. Such content was the capital to maintain the kingdom's mass production of copper ware.

On the way back, I asked, "Where does all your gold come from?"

"It was all bought through trade." Nath said, "I have no gold, only the masters have it. It is said that there is a king who has a lot of gold. But they had no other metal and needed to trade it with other kingdoms. We only make copper and we need to get other metals from other tribes. It must be mixed with other metals before it can be used."

I nodded. I knew this. Single metals are soft when purified, and need to be mixed with other metals to increase their hardness. We can make hard copper coins directly out of copper because copper is already made of alloy.

"You don't mean to attack the great kingdom of gold, chief?" NAT asked excitedly.

I shook my head, the next step I should go to another world looking for Li Wanxue, where to look for what gold. And gold, pleasant as it was, was of so limited use on such a desert island that it did not interest me.

"By the way, do messengers from other kingdoms come to your island every year?"

"Yes, every year, and we go there every year. But people in our position can't trade with them."

"When they come again, you can tell them to go to Uncle Cheng." "You are one of the people I trust most," I said. "Your estate is near the royal city, and I have increased your population. Don't disappoint me."

NAT dropped to his knees and promised me his loyalty.

Back at the palace, I went straight to Lao Cheng. Tell him to seal off Copper Hill from now on, on a regular basis.

"This......"

"Don't bother." I said, "I've arranged everything. I'll have someone stay to protect you. Some of them would be taken from the slaves. After that, these people will live on public grain and do not have to work for themselves. They will be loyal to us."

"That's all right." Lao Cheng said, "Lu Fei, you have to go back. From now on, let's send one person to each other's place once a month to exchange messages. I'll send people in the first half of the month, and you in the second half."

"This is good." I laughed and said, "There will be a lot of traffic between the two islands."

"Exactly." As he spoke, Old Cheng looked around from time to time.

I feel like he's obsessed with his spiritual leadership. Secular things don't seem to want to talk too much. Take a good leave.

Then I went to see Wuwa and Muka. Having called the couple together and sat down, I explained my intentions. I want them to stay and protect Cheng again. When you say protection, you also mean surveillance.

Zhebe was originally considered, but zhebe is young and impulsive, and may not be able to handle the relationship with Lao Cheng and the various kingdoms and tribes. Easy to breed sophistication.

The two were quite different. They had both been leaders of small tribes, and Muka had also been slaves. He had been through too many things and his temper had been honed. I was quite relieved to let them stay.

"But I don't want to part with you." Wu Wa sighed sadly.

"Wuwa, this is the leader's trust in us." Muka held her hand and said, "We can meet for a long time."

Wu Wa nodded, completely displeased.

See them promised, I put the attention to detailed account again. Let them manage all the affairs of the island, the Jedi can not let Lao Cheng interfere in the secular affairs outside the faith, the kingdom and tribes had conflicts, to help the weak side, really can not suppress, quickly sent someone to inform us. And let them teach us how to make bricks to the kingdoms and tribes.

After I had spoken to them, I asked NAT to find me some men who could write, and to write a recruitment letter and send it out.

The idea of holding the town and doing no labor was a godsend to the slaves, and soon after it was published, hundreds of people applied. My quota is 300. In the investigation of their affiliation, the extraction. After the recruitment in place, by The Wuwa couple command and training.

On the other side, the work of civilizing all the people in the kingdom did not stop a day. I had to make it clear to them once and for all that they should accept the rules and conditions of the island.

We spent a month on the island trying to figure it all out. Statistics of the kingdom's products, a rough distribution.

When the effect was felt, I summoned the Kings and chiefs of 52 kingdoms and tribes to the palace hall.Many people failed to get a seat and had to stand in the back.

After a quick glance at everyone, I said, "Before you go to live on your own estate, I wanted to give you something."

As soon as I finished, Zhang Yutong opened the wooden box containing the gold and copper coins of the Divine Right of Kings.

I took each piece and said, "You see this. This is my token. Only the kingdom and the tribe that possess it can be protected by me. Now I give one to each of you."

Zhang Yutong and Luci respectively went up to issue, only NAT, brown mu. Aden and a few men were given gold coins, and the rest were given copper coins.

After all of them received the "God grant of Kings" coins, I made a tax for them. Each year, the tribe that received the copper coins had to pay twice as much tax as the tribe that received the gold coins. The extra double was generally shared among the gold tribes, the other half was given to Lao Cheng, and the rest was all paid to our island of Cucu.

And they'll have to take turns visiting me on Bukgu once a month. Those who did not, the "divine right of Kings" coin would be taken back, the tribe's territory would be given to other tribes, and the tribe's people would become all the other tribes with only a copper coin to use a rainy or dry season cheap servants.