Chapter 185 A Businessman

"Ah, Yuna, isn't Zhebe very fond of you? Why are you being treated like this now?" Zhang Yutong gossip asked.

"I didn't accept him, so he started treating me like this. I guess he hated me," Li said. Never mind, I don't like him anyway."

"Husband." Lucy nudged me on the arm and showed me the bill written on the bamboo board.

After everyone else had left, we went home. There was some money left, and I put it back in the basement.

Back home, Zhang Yutong on my hand. Then I remembered that I had promised her sixty coppers a month.

When she got the money, she skipped into her room.

I don't even have my own room. I don't know where TO put my paycheck. To think, directly threw to Zhang Yutong, let her for my management.

During dinner, Lucie said, "Honey, shouldn't we go to the island in a few days and announce the new rules?"

"We'll see." I want to give them a little time to see how they're doing and how they're adapting to the new environment. After a while, problems flared up and I was able to fix them.

In addition, I came up with some new ideas. A large house was to be built on the island of Cuckoo. Because the distance between the two islands is too far, it is not practical for us to travel between them frequently.

For IT is my intention to establish an embassy system, whereby each kingdom and tribe shall send several ambassadors to the island of Bukgu, and also to recruit persons who can read and read from the island, to act as officers in charge of the property of each tribe. In this way, our new system will carry on well. Kingdoms and hordes will be more firmly in my hands.

I had to settle all the other things before I could go looking for Li Wanxue. There isn't much leisure for me to waste.

After recruiting people to build the embassy in the name of the tribe, I called Li Ding and Cui Bin to the assembly hall during working hours.

"I have a new plan. Do you want to buy into it?"

"What plan?" Both men looked puzzled.

I told them that I was going to personally build larger wooden boats and use propellers as propellers. Such ships would not only be stronger, but would sail faster and require less manpower.

"Why do they have to be private?" Li Ding was very puzzled: "You can do it with the money in the Treasury."

"Where do we get the money from?" I asked.

"We made it?"

"That stock runs out of money, so we have to build new ones."

"That's right."

"As long as there is copper, we can make copper coins indefinitely?"

Li Ding realized what she said was wrong. After a pause, she quickly waved her hand: "Brother Fei, I understand what you mean. If we keep using the money in stock, we will have to keep producing money. There will be more and more money in the world, prices will rise, and the money market, which we have worked so hard to implement, will collapse."

"There you have it." I said, "Well, we can't even build an embassy now, because our tribe doesn't have any money. From this moment on, we will be in debt."

"Then collect your taxes."

"How can we collect taxes when we have just taken so much and divided up the great tribes? We are certainly not in debt now with our monthly salaries. Because the copper coins we put into the market are still too small to cover the operation of market demand, so we have taken advantage of the above. When market order is established, we will stop producing money."

"That's right." Li Ding nodded: "But we built the ship, how can we recover the cost?"

"They can be sold to kingdoms and tribes. Wooden boats are much better than joined-up canoes. You can't buy into it."

"I'll give you two hundred."

Li Ding looked at Cui Bin one eye: "That I give 300, anyway according to weave still have salary."

"That'll do." Bring the money tomorrow.

After the two men left, I went out to recruit my own people who could do carpentry, and got over thirty of them. I told them I would be paid two coppers a day.

Having sent them to the lower part of the Plateau to cut down trees, I sent some men with me to make brass tacks as I had made copper coins.

Because we can't master good mortise and tenon skills, we can only use nails to make reinforcement tools.

The next day Li Ding and Cui Bin brought their own money. Five hundred copper coins were enough to pay the workers' wages for more than ten days, and my own money was enough.

When I started building wooden boats, I had to watch them by myself, because the natives only knew how to make canoes, and they never saw wooden boats. Needs a little guidance from me. I also drew a drawing for that. The technology is entirely in their hands.

After more than ten days of continuous work, a big wooden boat fifteen meters long and five meters wide has been molded. The day the deck was installed, we saw a boat drifting towards us.

I made a pact with them that every month a kingdom or tribe should send a man to me, counting the days.

So I stopped my work and went back to the tribe. Let Li Ding with a group of people handle outside the assembly hall, himself and two women waiting inside. Since I am here to see you, I must show my dignity.

After waiting for half an hour, Li Ding came in.

"Flying brother, not to court. It was an old woman who came to do business."

"Business?" I was surprised. It's not unusual for large tribes to have large populations and to have markets. But come to us directly to do business here, you can see a lot of courage.

"Yes, and she asked to see you, said she had brought you a present."

"Call her in, then." I'm afraid I'd like to see how good this old lady is.

Soon an old woman with a wooden box came in, leading several young men. He looked at us with a smile on his face and knelt down to pay homage.

"Get up." I got up, went up and beckoned them to their seats.

Genuflect? I canceled it. I don't know why they insist.

The old woman held up the wooden box in her hand, "Chief, I have brought you honey candy. I want you to take it. And allow me to come here and do some business."

I glanced at Lucie, who thanked me and opened the wooden box, which was filled with small pockets and smelled faintly.

Open the small pocket, there are more than a dozen brown sugar, I took a piece into his mouth, sweet and sweet, but I don't like to eat sugar, spit on the ground.

"Chief, is it my sugar that is not good?" There was a shudder in the old woman's voice.

"It's delicious, but I don't like sugar." I explained and helped her to sit down.

Zhang Yutong and Lucie a person took a piece, all said delicious.

Inquiry learned that the old woman was a slave, now free, thinking of their own business, to earn some money.

I never dreamed an old woman could be so enlightened.

"Old man, can't you exchange that for sugar?" I asked deliberately.

The old woman waved her hand again and again. The leader does not know. Only I can make this honey candy. My abba used to trade this sugar with other tribes and would always bring back a lot of things, but then he went to sea and never came back. When my amma died, I was taken as a slave. I haven't made sugar for a long time, and I don't want to give it to the lords of my kingdom."

Seeing her answer, I asked her why she could only take copper coins.

"We are now divided into kingdoms and tribes." The old woman kept on saying, "But the chief only gave the king and chiefs copper coins, and none of us had any. Everybody loves it, but they won't share it with us. And buy people to stay in slavery in their homes."

"Slaves? To be a servant, or a slave as before?"

The old woman thought for a moment and then said, "I think it is like being a slave for one year. When the time is up, we will give them some money."

"Doesn't everyone already own land? Why don't you farm your own land? Are you willing to become a slave?"

"There is not enough food to eat. If you are a slave to the king and his princes, you will have food. They are rich." The old woman said, "I don't want to be a slave any more. I have three sons."