Chapter 209 What a lot of female apprentices
Cheng coughed so violently that he was afraid to speak again.
No more questions, I turned and went out. Although subjective morning oh and Lao Cheng did not want to deepen or magnify the contradiction between each other. But this is already happening.
They were given land, but they did not work. Three hundred people around him. That's ridiculous. If our population were in the hundreds of thousands, that would be fine, but there are only 30,000 of us.
Three hundred people is a small tribe. Now they are parasites. It has a great impact on production. With the expansion of Lao Cheng's religion, there will only be more people engaged in educational affairs in the future. As leader, I cannot allow that to happen.
After standing at the fence for a while, I saw the messengers coming on their alpacas. More than 100 people came, and none of them walked. This shows a fact. The island of Brass was weak and underdog to them. Even to trade, brass Island has to give a very high standard of reception.
When they reached the square, they saw more than a thousand soldiers lined up on either side. The leaders were moved. He kept looking over his shoulder.
When they were only thirty meters away from the small square, I glanced at Cui Bin. At his command, a hundred men simultaneously raised their guns and fired into the air.
Huge noise, frightened the king and leaders around me very uneasy. One of the messengers fell off the hump of the sheep, and the others were on horseback.
"Come down." Li Ding and Zhebie came forward together to shout loudly.
The chiefs, no longer seeing the slightest dignity, descended from the sheep's humps and walked forward.
They were all wearing black hats with feathers, and they were all dressed in cloth. All wore gold ornaments on their hands and necks.
Zhang Yutong at the side of the non-stop music: "they are scared to death."
"Anyone who sees it will be afraid."
The first three men came under the fence and bowed together.
"And this is the new leader?"
I nodded, smiled and said, "Three envoys please come up."
When the three men moved, they were immediately followed by others, each carrying an iron spear nearly two meters long. They do not seem heavy to the prince; they are hollow.
He led them into the rear of the temple and seated them in the order of honor.
The chief of the three emissaries was a middle-aged man, and the other two were in their twenties or thirties.
"The three of you have gone. Let's have a drink."
The three thanked him graciously. I looked at Zhang Yutong one eye, she carried up three cups of sweet potato wine.
As the three drank, their faces varied.
The middle-aged emissary put down the cup and asked, "What is this drink, chief? It tastes strange."
"Is it good?"
"It suits my taste."
"There's a strange taste. I can't get used to it." The young emissary stuck out his tongue and shook his head.
"It's called wine," I said. "We make it. Some people will enjoy it, some people won't adapt. Because if you drink too much, you get drunk. You have to have these things for banquets and events."
The middle-aged envoy took another swig and sucked his lips. "It suits me very well. Please sell us some."
"I can sell you some, but not much. It costs too much. We sell them for fifty coppers."
"Fifty coppers? What's a copper coin?" He looked puzzled.
I was about to speak when NAT got up and enthusiastically helped him explain.
The three emissaries listened with relish, said that this thing is good, later to buy things can not be replaced with goods, can save a lot of effort.
"Perhaps we can make gold coins to trade with you, chief."
There was a look of astonishment on our faces. Gold coins are riding on something special here. If they had gold, all our coppers would be change.
"Do you have a lot of gold there?" I asked.
"We have a large mountain of gold, but it is not easy to collect, so gold is very valuable." The middle-aged chief explained.
I oh a sound, touch out two different denomination of copper coins, let Zhang Yutong take the past to him.
The three of them enjoyed playing for a while, and all showed envy.
The middle-aged leader raised his head, held up the copper coins and said, "Chief, your copper coins are very beautiful. Can you sell some to us?"
I directly waved my hand: "Our copper coins are used to buy things, how can they be sold as goods."
"Then you can buy our things with copper coins." He immediately responded.
"This will do, of course. But we don't have many coppers. It's hard to make. Some goods still need to be bartered." Even if we have, they don't have things, I can exaggerate a little bit.
He waved his hand and said, "We don't need too much. We just want to take it back to show our king."
"No problem. We can squeeze out some coppers for you later if you like." I pretended to be generous.If they go back and do make gold coins, I will ban the horde from trading with them and will not allow gold coins to circulate on the island. If the gold coins come to power, our side of finance will be completely destroyed.
Even though in modern civilization money is not equivalent, it makes perfect sense to be convertible. But I didn't know that much about finance and couldn't figure out the system, so I had to solve the problem in a stupid way.
Thanking him, he added, "Chief, we have spent too much time on the island. We wish to resume trade as soon as possible."
"Well, trade will be done in the square. In the morning we prepared separately, and in the next few days we traded freely." I paused. "Where else do you go after you trade with us?"
"We still have three kingdoms and seven tribes to go."
"Can our men go with you? We also have a lot of trade to do with other people." I want to take this opportunity to find out where the other kingdoms and tribes are.
"Of course." "But when you come with us," he said, "you cannot trade the same things as we do. And you have to send your own boat."
"No problem." These are not terms at all.
When they agreed, I personally saw them off.
Back in the deviant, I asked who would be willing to trade with the golden Isle. Trade is all about finding the way.
Several Kings and chiefs at once agreed to go. They all saw it as an opportunity to make money. Having chosen two Kings and chiefs for my own purposes, I appointed Zeber with them, and gave him three hundred men, fifty of them my own men with guns.
Probably did not think I would give him such a task, Zhebie very excited, repeatedly expressed that he would complete the task.
After the meeting, everyone went off to prepare for the trade.
After arranging cui Bin and them to rest, I took Zhang Yutong and Li Yunna to the seaside to carry our own goods.
We also carry a lot of wooden carts and alpacas, so we don't have to rely on people to do a lot of manual work anymore.
Dozen horse in the past, I asked Zhang Yutong did not see wuwa couple, this time over, has not seen them.
"No, they've gone to the tribe to sort things out." Zhang Yutong said: "DO not know when to come back, but should have received information, know we have come."
"It is also hard for them to help us guard such a vast land." Then I turned to Li Yunna and said, "Yunna, why don't you stay in the royal city for a period of time?"
"Why, don't YOU need me to make kimchi?" Li Yunna did not understand the blink eyes, the eyes of the clear water is very god.
"You can make it here, too." I then said, "Why don't you stay and take care of Uncle Cheng for a while and learn how to make paper from him?"
"Let me learn how to make paper? Li Yunna pointed at himself, completely can not accept and do not believe the expression.
"You're smart. Believe in yourself." I'd like to send the others, but I'm sure the others will be on guard.
"Can't uncle already make paper? Why do I have to learn it?"
"How can you not understand? Uncle Cheng is old and has a lot of teaching duties now. You have to help him out a little bit. Besides, since Uncle Cheng is gone, we can't live without an heir." I tried my best to encourage him: "You quietly learn, do not let Uncle Cheng know, we will make paper to give him a surprise."