"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, chirp..." The native priest knelt on the ground, holding up the gold nugget, and motioned to the two injured natives behind him. Tie Xuan understood this time. They wanted to use the gold as a thank you for previously treating the two natives.
"Hiss, these natives are so rich!" Vice General Wang stared at the large piece of gold, his eyes almost dropped. Tie Xuan also looked surprised. Although he was not a god, this large piece of gold was valuable enough.
No one could have imagined that these seemingly slovenly and downtrodden natives would actually carry such a valuable treasure.
"Wow wow wow..." Vice General Wang was looking at the gold nugget in trance, when he saw the two natives from before actually approaching. They looked at Deputy General Wang beaming, still wearing the old linen clothes given by Deputy General Wang. I saw them gesturing to the sackcloth on their bodies with their hands, while kneeling and saluting Vice General Wang. Then he reached into his pocket and took out two smaller pieces of gold.
"This...this!" Vice General Wang jumped up in fright. They had to exchange two pieces of gold for two pieces of tattered clothes? Vice General Wang was greatly shaken. He had never been so shaken before when he followed Zhang He to suppress the Japanese.
"Tie... Master Tie, this, this, can I... take it?" He, who was always sharp-tongued, actually became stuttering.
Tie Xuan was also shocked. He originally thought that the priest was repaying his kindness, so he specially brought the valuable treasures from the tribe. Unexpectedly, even two ordinary natives can easily exchange two pieces of gold for linen clothes... Could it be that all of these natives are rich and wealthy?
"Go get the goods prepared earlier!" Tie Xuan ordered.
After a while, the soldiers fetched the goods to be traded with the natives. There are tea, silk, blue and white porcelain and so on. Seeing these good things, these indigenous people were even more shocked. The priest looked at the simple patterns on the blue and white porcelain with a look of awe and admiration. He reached out several times to touch it, but he didn't dare. When he saw the silk, he was even more surprised that blood filled his eyes. He couldn't believe it was so noble and gorgeous. The cloth will actually be in the human world.
The other natives also looked surprised as if they had never seen the world before. After Vice General Wang told them that these things could be used for "trading", these natives seemed to be crazy and gathered around to dance.
"What does this mean?" Tie Xuan looked confused.
Vice General Wang felt the surprise in the singing and dancing of these indigenous people, and felt that the rough style of these indigenous people was very contagious. "Master Tie, they are thanking us!"
"Although these native people are a little ignorant, they are not bad people."
In the end, these indigenous people pieced together and took out a lot of gold. The gold piled up like rubble was half a box, weighing at least ten kilograms. I only exchanged it for a piece of silk, a few blue and white porcelain bowls, and some scattered accessories, cups, plates, glass bottles, etc. Things, but those indigenous people seemed to have taken advantage of them.
Tie Xuan was keenly aware of something. These indigenous people actually regarded gold as dirt. The value of gold to them seemed to be less valuable than the shells hanging around their necks and the feathers inserted in their headscarves.
"Quick, go find Commander Mao Xiang."
"There is a gold mine near here!"
Thinking of the Sado Jinshan Mountain in Japan, Tie Xuan quickly gave instructions.
Although gold is not as important as divine seed, it is still an extremely important material to the Ming Dynasty.
Take Yingzhou, for example. In the past, the imperial court proposed that merchants and people from the Ming Dynasty go to the Japanese land of Yingzhou, but there were always very few people who responded. The Japanese land is just a barbaric and barren land. Not many people are willing to leave behind the wealth of China and the tombs of their ancestors and travel across the ocean to open up Yingzhou. But when the output of Sado Gold Mountain and Iwami Silver Mountain was placed in front of the merchants and people, the people immediately changed their minds about Yingzhou: Since it was profitable, it was naturally no longer a wild land. If there is gold and silver to be earned, and if you have to work harder and leave your hometown, you can make it.
It won't work just to rely on new academics to talk about the great cause and the future. We also need to let the common people who pioneered the country truly enjoy the benefits. This is the saying that everything in the world is for the benefit of others.
Countless people began to spontaneously go to Yingzhou to pan for gold.
Fengmingzhou is further away than Yingzhou, but as long as there is news about gold mines, it can attract other immigrants from the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to come to Fengmingzhou to pan for gold, so that there will be a steady stream of Chinese people coming here and building here. Only in this way can we truly This place is really being developed.
More importantly, if you can find out where there are gold mines, and then slightly match them with the American mineral output marked with the approximate location on the Kunyu World Map... you may be able to deduce where this place is. So as to find out the route back home!
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"Master Tie, I figured it out." Two days later, Mao Xiang hurriedly brought the information to look for Tie Xuan.
"The gold mine is not elsewhere, it is right in front of us... My men were only more than ten miles outside the city. When they were washing their feet in the river, they accidentally discovered that there was gold sand in the river..." He said, and his Tiqi looked for it. The gold sand samples received and the analyzed gold deposits were shown to Tie Xuan and Zhang He.
"What kind of wild land is this? It's clearly the first-class treasure land in the world." Even though Zhang He was used to seeing the big world, there was actually a bit of trembling in his tone at this time. "The mountain we are leaning on... is a real golden mountain!"
An entire mountain is a gold mine! Tie Xuan shook in shock. He quickly came to the Kunyu Ten Thousand Kingdoms Map and narrowed his eyes to search for signs of gold mines to the west of "America". Soon, he found a suitable place. The master's annotation of this place was even more detailed than other areas, and there were two words written on it in small regular letters: "Golden Mountain".
"It turns out that Master has already named this." Tie Xuan said with admiration. "The place we are in is the 'Golden Mountain'. Then this place should be called the 'Golden Mountain Fort'."
"Route map!" Zhang He shouted.
After a while, they brought the route map they drew themselves. Zhang He squatted in front of the map of Kunyu and Ten Thousand Kingdoms, combining the two maps to distinguish them carefully. Finally, he came to the conclusion: "Yes, this is indeed the Jinshan Mountain marked by His Royal Highness King Zhou. Unexpectedly, we happened to land here...According to the undercurrent of the sea, we can return to China via Luzon."
There was no need to cover their heads to explore the route, and everyone sounded happy.
"There are other discoveries." Mao Xiang continued. As he spoke, he took out a piece of mottled bark. "The tribes that are hunting down those natives are only a bay away from us."
"Moreover, it is very likely that it is the 'Fusang Kingdom' recorded in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"..."
(End of chapter)
