After checking out the pools among the tribes, I took a boat with a group of people and headed for Waterfall Mountain. Together they arranged the large wooden trough, which had already been prepared, across the cliff behind the waterfall and at the entrance of the canal.
When the three large wooden troughs were put in place, the water flowed over them, leaving only a tenth of the waterfall still falling into the channel.
The water that flowed into the canal was soon muddy and yellow, and after a few hundred meters, it was completely soaked into the soil.
"Chief, why is there no water?"
"Is there some kind of supernatural animal hiding down here?"
The aborigines stood on either side of the canal, peering in horror.
"There is not so much water in the surface of the earth, so the water will naturally soak in first. It won't be long before there is water." Li Ding explained with disgust.
They nodded and continued to look puzzled.
Because the surface is highly receptive to water, water moves forward very slowly. I don't have the patience to wait. Led everyone back to the tribe by boat.
It took three days for the village to report that the water from the waterfall had flowed into the village along the canal. But it was so cloudy that they had to wait a few days to get water.
Meanwhile, the wooden boat brought back important news. It was Nath, the first to receive the title of chieftain, who came to tip him off.
When they met in the Council room, he said excitedly, "Chief, the Yellow Kingdom has sent someone to do business. Tzung Mu and the Great King of Tinya have managed to keep him here, and sent me to inform them. Ask the leader to go and meet him."
I was in a hurry to expand trade and develop the economy, and such a gift was naturally welcome.
Li Ding and Cui Bin were immediately sent to make arrangements separately, carrying what we could trade and a hundred men with guns. While trading with El Dorado, I will show them how powerful I am. Otherwise, el Dorado would have the ambition to annex the island of brass, which is divided into many smaller kingdoms and tribes.
"How many of them are here?" I asked NAT.
"Three hundred and fifty ships." Nath held out his hand. "This happens every time they go to sea."
"Do they have anything to trade but gold?
"Lots of stuff. They're good at dried fruit, sugar, tuna, jewelry. But the most expensive of all is gold. But they are very expensive. Before, only our royal family and grand masters could afford some."
"They don't have currency, do they?
"No, we always barter. Because they have gold, we lose every time."
"Don't you have copper?" Although gold is much more valuable than copper, it is precious when it is scarce.
Nath waved his hand again and again. "There's no comparison. They can't get copper from us.
"What else did you sell them besides copper?"
NAT thought for a moment before he said, "Skins, stone carvings and corn. There's not much to trade. It takes a thousand corn for one piece of gold."
Such exchange ratio, in modern society, is really big. But in the indigenous world, belonging is losing money.
I'm done talking to him. I'll let him rest. As soon as we're ready, we'll leave for brass Island.
In the afternoon, Cui Bin and Li Ding got together to return the favor. We collected hundreds of suits of clothes and more than 100 bottles of sweet potato wine. There is nothing else. And what they collected, they owed the clan money because they had no money to pay for it.
I ran home and persuaded Li Yunna to bring her more than ten jars of pickles.
Originally I don't want to take a woman to go, with Zhang Yutong and Luci must follow me, as long as all with.
After dinner, we boarded the boat together, checked everything out, and set sail together.
While resting in the isolation room of the boathhouse, Li Ding came running over.
"Brother Fei, do you know how much the crew makes a month?"
"How much?" Although the shipping work has been going on for months, I have never asked about the business.
"They do four or five trips a month. Four coppers at a time, that was twenty coppers a month, and they did a great deal of business at the Island, and sailed almost every day when they were there. If they work hard enough, they will bring in at least fifty coppers a month, and if they take money for carrying goods privately, they will have seventy or eighty dollars a month."
"That income is also ok, so hard, 70 or 80 yuan is enough to support the family." I don't know why Li Ding was so surprised.
"Don't you think they're overpaid?" Li Ding was puzzled and asked, "It's been a few months, and we haven't seen any dividends yet."
"Boat money, probably what?" "I asked, turning to Lucie, who had been handling the books.
"It looks like three or four hundred months of profit." Lucie wasn't sure. "I'll have a better look when I get home."
Li Ding immediately said: "This work than the boss earn more ah."
"Very good, they are also very hard, worthy of this income." I went on to tell Lucie, "Go back and pay them all the money we borrowed from them to build the boat, and the tribe owns the boat. All subsequent profits will go to the Treasury."
"Fly elder brother, not say good become a shareholder? How is it a loan again?" Li Ding was anxious.
I look at him with blank expression: "you ask Cui Bin answer does not agree, he also does not agree, return calculate become a shareholder."
Li Ding was confused and thought for a long time. She got up and walked away.
"Brother Lu Fei." Zhang Yutong whisper of say: "I feel in this matter, Li Ding is right."
I nodded without explanation. I can understand What Li Ding thinks. He can only stand in the "boss" point of view of his own small calculation. But I can't. I have to make all the arrangements for the development of the tribe. Therefore, sometimes I feel helpless for Li Ding, as a senior management, who is filled with the most secular selfishness in her mind.
Before long, Li Ding ran back, a little dejected. Say you're cool with it, do what I say. And there's no hurry to pay them back. He knows I can't give them much at once.
I smiled and said thank you. I knew Cui Bin could talk to him.
Later in the night it began to rain, and the waves were strong enough to make the ship shake a little. I don't think we get enough rest. The next day it was still raining, so everyone went back to their beds to catch up on sleep.
The next morning, just before we landed, I called everyone together.
Let Cui Bin and Li Ding, Zhebie three people respectively, go to each kingdom and tribes to inform them to take a part of their tribe to the king's city, to participate in the trade. And raise a temporary army of 1,000. Led by the kingdom's tribal people themselves, all gathered together to accept the leadership of Cui Bin.
Be assembled in the King's city by dawn the next day.
On shore, Nutter rushed back to his tribe, bringing dozens of alpacas with him. After the three of cui Bin left separately, we entered the city together.
Nate and I rode side by side. "Chief, are you going to receive the People of El Dorado tomorrow?"
I nodded. "Go and say hello to the two great Kings."
"I have sent a message. Soon they returned to the king's city to meet him." Mr Nath said.
I kua a few sound good, feel this boy handle affairs still quite stimulate, quite quick of.
In front of the palace hall, Lao Cheng's men were guarding it. They're not letting us in, they're not letting anyone in until they've been informed.
"Impudent, this is a leader. Is the master more valuable than the leader?" NAT stepped forward and snapped.
They looked at each other nervously, and one of them turned and ran back. The other bowed and said, "Chief, these are the rules of the Lord. If we don't obey them, we will be punished."
I waved my hands. "It's okay. We'll wait a minute."
"Chieftain, even if he is the master, he cannot be higher than you." NAT said angrily.
I laughed and said nothing. But it's impossible to get away with nothing. At this rate, Cheng would be the boss of the two islands. Although I still have the actual power. But he will be a true spiritual leader.