Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 102 Gold and Traps

"Thor, Thor." Tuka said silently twice, thinking that the explosion on the deck just now had nothing to do with thunder.

Seeing the doubt in the other party's eyes, Zhao Xin patted Tuka on the shoulder and said, "You will know in a few days."

At this time Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng couldn't wait to take over the huge black bear skin.

The surface of this piece of leather is extremely complete, and no wound can be seen; and the fur is shiny, thick and soft to the touch.

"This is really a good thing!" Liu Sheng sighed in admiration.

"May I find some refugee women to make you a bearskin hat?" Zhao Xin said with a smile.

Liu Sheng said hastily: "No, such a fine piece of leather, it's a pity to make a hat. Let's put it in the house as a decoration."

Zhao Xin stood up with a smile, and walked to the pile of goods to have a look.At this time, an object shining with golden light came into his eyes.

"Golden dog head? I'll go!" Zhao Xin rubbed his eyes vigorously.He didn't expect that the gold that he had dreamed of day and night could be found here, and it was a large piece of dog's head gold.

He stretched out his hands and raised it, good guy, it weighs at least twenty catties!
"Like this? I gave it to you!" Tuka walked over at some point, patted Zhao Xin on the shoulder, and said nonchalantly.

"Tuka, where did you find this thing?"

"This, I bought this from a small island in the north with a leather."

"What's the name of that island?"

"Let me think about it. There are several islands there, and we call it Kuril." Tuka stroked his beard and recalled while muttering. "I remembered. The island is called Urupu, and there are a lot of red trout in the river on the island."

After Zhao Xin heard it, he guessed that what Tuka was talking about might be the Thousand Islands, but he didn't know where it was.

(Urupu, later Defu Island. According to the detection of later generations, there are about 16 billion tons of oil, 1867 tons of gold, 9284 tons of silver, 397 million tons of titanium, 2.73 million tons of iron, and 1.17 million tons of sulfur around the four northern islands. , 36 tons of rare metal rhenium. In addition, the North Pacific fishing grounds, including the waters around the four northern islands, are also world-renowned fishing grounds.)
Liu Sheng took the dog's head gold from Zhao Xin's hand and weighed it for weight, and said to Zhao Xin, "It's really heavy. Ask him if he has any more?"

Zhao Xin then asked Tuka, "Tuka, do you still have this thing? I'll exchange it with grain and ironware, and you can make a deal."

Tuka thought for a while and said, "We have to go to the tribe in the north to exchange this thing. Do you still have this kind of wine?"

Zhao Xin blurted out: "As much as you want."

After he finished speaking, he immediately realized that this matter should not deceive people, otherwise he would be no different from those unscrupulous island country businessmen.Thinking of this, Zhao Xin said to Tuka: "Two pots, five bottles of wine, plus two bags of flour, for such a heavy piece. Do you think it will work?"

After speaking, he asked Pingtai to fetch a fifty-jin bag of flour and a cooking pot.

After Pingtai and the two sailors brought the flour and the pot, Tuka first stepped forward to lift the amount of flour with his hands, expressing his satisfaction; then he picked up the shiny stainless steel cooking pot, and lifted it with his hands. Even more satisfied after knocking.

However, the Ainu patriarch showed great surprise at the pot lid made of glass, holding the pot lid and fumbling around.

Tuka's actions also attracted the attention of the tribe members who were eating and drinking around them. A cooking pot was passed back and forth in their hands, especially the bright body of the pot reflected their deformed appearance, which made all the Ainu people What I saw was amazement.

As for the pot lid in Tuka's hand, no one took it.Just kidding, that's the patriarch's baby!

Zhao Xin saw an Ainu holding the cooking pot tightly and refused to let go, so he asked Pingtai to go to the warehouse to bring another [-] cooking pots.

Don't grab it, everyone has a share!
The group of people tossed and tossed until dusk before they dispersed.By the way, this group of Ainu people with Mongolian and European ancestry is really good to drink. It may be because of the cold climate in Ezo. Everyone in the Ainu people had to drink at least one and a half bottles. Liquor.

Finally, the group returned to the boat with a cardboard box containing a cooking pot and two bottles of wine each.Zhao Xin made an agreement with Tuka that they would come back tomorrow morning to get the exchanged food, bows and arrows, cotton armor, and a hundred bolts of silk of various colors.

In the matter of trading with the Ainu, Zhao Xin didn't think about making money, and the gold he got by accident has actually far exceeded his expectations.As for the large pile of leather goods, it was just a stepping stone for him to go south to Nagasaki to win over the merchants of the Qing Dynasty.

In order to guard against the possible sneak attack by Matsumae Fan at night, before going to bed, everyone arranged to be on duty at night, and fell asleep in a hurry.

Early the next morning, Zhao Xin didn't wait for Tuka to bring his tribe to pick up the goods. He had a premonition that something might happen, so he ordered the fifty soldiers who had been guarding the cabin to get ready, and distributed Shun knives and long guns; The few soldiers who had been hunters were also equipped with bows and arrows.

At noon, an Ainu with a wound on his face hurriedly came to report to Zhao Xin in a small boat.People from the Matsumae domain sent more than 100 people from Pingyuan (Sapporo) last night, detained Tuka and other clansmen, and tortured them for interrogation.All the pots and liquor they took back yesterday were taken away.

Zhao Xin asked the person who came to report if he knew where Tuka and the others were being held.

The Ainu who reported the message said that he escaped from there, and the location is not far from the sea, and he can lead the way.

Zhao Xin continued to ask that person, are all the more than 100 people who came here warriors?The person who reported the letter did not know; so Zhao Xin changed the question again, how many people were holding spears, and how many people were holding knives?

The Ainu who reported the message hesitated for a long time but couldn't explain why.

Zhao Xin looked at the Ainu who spoke fluently in the island country in front of him, rolled his eyes, and said with regret: "Your patriarch still has a lot of goods that he didn't take away yesterday, which is very troublesome."

The messenger blurted out, "Where is the thing?"

Zhao Xin chuckled and understood what was going on in his heart.Then he asked the messenger to wait for a while, and whispered to a sailor next to him: "Keep an eye on him! Don't let him wander around."

"What's the situation?" Seeing Zhao Xin returning to the captain's room, Liu Sheng and the others asked one after another.

Zhao Xin said calmly: "Tuka and the others may have been arrested." After speaking, he gestured to the messenger on the deck with his chin. "This guy is probably a spy, sent here to lure us into the bait."

When Liu Sheng heard this, he immediately cursed and said, "What the hell are you doing in an ambush? Are you annoying? They have nothing else to do?"

"People think it works." Zhao Xin said with a shrug.

"Just relying on their small boats, a fool would know they can't attack them. That's why they led us to land." After Ding Guofeng finished speaking, he stretched out his hands into palms again and squeezed them hard.

Zhao Xin shook his head when he saw it, and said, "It's not enough to wipe them out, it's enough to drive us away. It's better to close the country."

"Then what do you say?" Liu Sheng asked.

Zhao Xin chuckled: "The leader said, 'Reactionary things, if you don't fight them, they won't fall.' So we still have to fight them, and we have to beat them painfully."

An hour later, Liu Sheng, Ding Guofeng, Zhao Liang, and Pingtai, who had put on their gear, came to the deck.

When the messenger saw that Liu Sheng and the others were wearing bulging clothes and a big helmet with a transparent mask on their heads, they were shocked.

Except for a short man who held a samurai sword, the other three were just carrying a strange-shaped black iron on their backs, and they didn't even hold a sword.As for the things exposed from the densely packed pockets on their bodies, they don't look like weapons either.

Before leaving, Zhao Xin explained to the messenger that he didn't have a boat on his side.So I can only send these four people to go ashore with you to check and see if they can rescue Tuka first.

After speaking, he took another bolt of silk from the sailor behind him and gave it to the messenger, saying thank you very much for coming to inform us.You take this piece of silk and satin first, and there are many more on board. When Tuka and the others are safe, I will reward you heavily.

When he said "there are many more on board", he deliberately emphasized his tone.

The messenger took the silk and stroked it a few times, his face full of joy.

After the five people walked down the gangway and got into the boat, the messenger untied the cable, rowed the oars, and sailed towards the coast.

Zhao Xin looked at the boat going away, and then said to a sailor behind him: "Go and get the soldiers on deck and get ready to board."

The sailor touched his head in confusion, bowed and said "yes", then hurriedly turned and left.

Ten minutes later, when Miichiro and other fifty soldiers, led by Deng Fei and Huji, came to the gangway with weapons, a patrol boat had already parked below.

"My lord, should we let everyone board the boat now?" Hu Ji walked down the gangway and asked Zhao Xin who was standing at the end of the gangway.

"Don't worry, let's move after they get ashore."

(End of this chapter)