open sea

Chapter 791
From Chen Mu's point of view, Xu Lu'an was well fed.

This "full-fed" is not derogatory. Before the age of modern people, it is difficult to have too much derogatory meaning at any time.

Famous for future generations?

It’s a great ambition. There are thousands of people in the world. People listen to Zhang Juzheng, Lu Tiaoyang, and Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang all day long. But how many of those spectators can be remembered by future generations?
Every era is preceded by ancient times, of course people don't use this word, people talk about the past and the present.

The era in which everyone lives is modern.

Shop NO.17 in front of Junmiao on Agang Road opened. The shopkeeper is Xu Luan, a little-known craftsman. The five waiters in the shop are translators and documents under the command of Yang Tingxiang, who is in charge of coordinating the history of the aborigines. They specialize in the acquisition of jade, Excavating the source, jade articles may be sold at high prices in the future.

When Chen Mu handed over the NO.17 shop to Xu Luan, he also set aside a piece of woodland outside the village for him. Chen Mu said that it would be a jade factory in the future. When the aborigines had money, Xu Luan would teach them what it means to play with jadeware. expert.

The Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans had the same preference for jade as China on the other side of the ocean. They believed that jade could communicate with gods and was more expensive than gold and silver.

But the Spaniards don't understand, this is the wealth they leaked in this new continent, Chen Mu thinks it all belongs to him now.

During the days of the truce between the two sides, Almansa, the old Spanish governor, watched Acapulco, an economically significant but actually dilapidated port village, being rebuilt day by day. He didn’t see Chen Mu setting up an altar, but it did look like Enchanted and thriving.

First, the Ming army opened a few shops outside the small temple in the north of the city, and then everything changed.

Slavery was abolished cleanly, and the mixed-race aborigines in the port responded happily. Even those who owned slaves did not dare to make irresponsible remarks to the Ming army after the victory. Thousands of people in the entire village were in In the ignorant confusion, if Chen Mu gave any order at this moment, it would be to light a guiding light for the confused people.

But he didn't give any orders, at least in Almansa's eyes, Chen Mu didn't say anything.

From his point of view, no, not only from his point of view, but from the point of view of all Spaniards, the Indians are extremely lazy and unsuitable for work. Many plantation owners even bought black slaves from Africa at any cost for this reason.

But these aborigines are spontaneously going to the factories opened by the Ming people at this moment. He saw a lazy hunter carrying a turkey into the No. [-] shop, and went out empty-handed and turned into the No. [-] shop. With an extra quiver and three feathered arrows on his body, he has been able to hunt large prey every day since then.

He saw a slave who used to be so lazy that he had to use a whip to plant corn before he would go to the ground. He entered the No. [-] shop with two green stones, and then turned into the No. [-] shop. handaxe, and took his family to the mountains.

Since then, for four consecutive days, the family dragged the cedar back every evening. On the fifth morning, they bought the second handaxe and sold the cedar to the sawmill belonging to the No. 13 shop. , They exchanged their three handaxes for a big saw in the No. [-] shop, and accepted the employment of the sawmill as workers. There are strange and complicated patterns and incomprehensible characters painted on them.

He tried to ask, but no one understood it. They only knew that such a stamped letter and name could be exchanged for five cents in silver at the No. [-] shop.

This is pure witchcraft!

Just because they can receive a letter every day, more and more people get up early and work late every day.

The corn and cotton growers stopped being lazy, and rushed to the fields all day, for fear of delaying the land allocated to them by the imperial court, and they would not be able to send grain to No. [-] shop by then.

The hunters were reluctant to eat the turkey themselves, so they obediently sent it to the No. [-] store, and then it seemed that the market was more formal. The turkey was sent to the butcher shop, and the feathers were sent to the No. [-] bow and arrow workshop. Some people even exchanged letters in private. The turkeys are raised at home, cared for day and night and waiting to lay eggs.

But having that kind of letter that can be exchanged for silver is indeed beneficial. Almansa squatted on the threshold of the Daojun Temple and smoked for a day. He believed that the man was the commander of the Indian retinue of the Ming army.

He saw with his own eyes a son of an Indian retinue commander, almost naked, carrying a few letters from where he got it, into the No. Like a person from the Ming Dynasty, he seems to have a bit of aura when he walks with his head held high.

Of course, most people will not choose this kind of custom-made and expensive clothes made of cotton cloth. Those hunters, loggers, farmers and porters seem to prefer another standard clothes from No. [-] Store, although they are also expensive. And it doesn't look delicate, and it's definitely uncomfortable to wear. It's made of canvas and dyed earth-colored trousers and jacket.

Almansa heard that the clothes were made of different materials, and the tailoring style was almost exactly the same as the shirts, middle singles, and middle pants that Ming people often wore, except that Ming people's middle clothes were mostly made of cotton, silk, and satin, and they were only white.

Workers wear earth-colored jackets and tie up their trousers and sleeves like Ming people, and put themselves into busy but rich work.

Canvas, why do they wear canvas and make clothes?Can canvas be used for clothing?
It didn't take long for No. [-] shop to release a new style, a cotton jacket, but a layer of canvas patches was added on the outside of the arms, elbows, shoulders, back, knees, and trousers, and there were many more colors. It is said that this is related to the dyes shipped from Majia Port.

Moreover, this dress is a style that Chen Mu personally ordered to increase. It is specially prepared for workers and first-class soldiers. It is wear-resistant and comfortable to wear. It is called Jinghai clothes. A piece and a canvas belt, the whole set is only sold for one or two.

Since the appearance of this suit, everyone has worked hard to be proud of being able to wear colorful, tailored, comfortable and wear-resistant Jinghai suits. Many people walked into Xu Luan’s NO.17 store with their home jade, and they did not communicate with gods anymore. , They want to communicate with Chen Mu, a piece of jade the size of a walnut can be exchanged for a Jinghai suit, and it must be a handicraft that can be exchanged for two!
Although the price of this Jinghai suit is enough for them to work for [-] days and eat corn tortillas for [-] days, people are scrambling to sell the jade at home instead of corn tortillas.

As long as I work, I will always have tortillas to eat, and sometimes I can go to the restaurant opened by the chef of the Ming Dynasty to have a meal, but Jinghai service is different.

That is a symbol of nobility, and things from the Ming Dynasty should be expensive!

The old governor, who had a dry cough, realized later that they were indeed Ming people. Although most of them had mixed Spanish and aboriginal blood, and there was no trace of Ming dynasty blood from inside to outside, they might never be the same. No more Spaniards.

This made Almansa very sad, and then he found that he had run out of cigarettes, and tobacco always smoked faster when he was worried.

Almansa, who has nothing to do, wanders around the door of No.15 store. This store sells tobacco, not only tobacco from the New World, but also Luzon tobacco brought by the Ming army from Luzon. It is said that it is a kind of tobacco leaf rolled in The smoke in the hemp paper should be smoked with the wooden cigarette holder of No.15 shop.

He also wants to try.

But the old governor didn't have the kind of letters that could be used as money, and he didn't have any money. He had nothing since the whistleblowing. If it weren't for the Ming army to take care of the food, he would have starved to death.

Finally, on the second day of his wanderings, he saw a Ming Indian retinue wearing a Jinghai suit and a Western-style breastplate enter the store and exchanged a letter for two packs of cigarettes. They were really packs, just like a Ming army doctor bandaging medicine packs. The way, the oiled paper is tied with a rope to draw the words of Tianzi. It seems that there must be hundreds of them in this bag!
The entourage had a Toledo one-handed thin-edged steel sword made in Spain in his waist, and he unwrapped it at the door of the store with pride, stuffed a few swords into his trouser pocket, and carefully put them back into his belt as if he was afraid of breaking them. , and then grinningly flattered and borrowed fire from the Ming army infantry who was patrolling with a cold face next to him.

Almansa was envious, and he weighed the pros and cons. If he went to borrow cigarettes from the infantry of the Ming army, if there were no small infantry, he would be ashamed as a governor and a nobleman. It was already very embarrassing for Bernal to lose to Chen Mu. It's a shame, he can't lose face anymore, besides, he is indeed a little afraid of the Ming army.

Even if it is a small infantryman, he will be embarrassed if he is rejected, and there is nothing he can do.

And this follower, who seems to have a little Spanish blood, should be of mixed race.

So although the old Almansa hadn't shaved for many days, he still raised his face with the pride of the colonists, and said to the mixed-race boy with his nostrils: "Give me your cigarette."

As if realizing that his tone was too blunt, Almansa softened a little, but still squinted his eyes, and said in a proper Spanish: "You have two bags, one bag is mine."

Seeing this pure-blooded face, and it was still a bit familiar, the retinue stretched out his hand almost instinctively. The corners of Almansa's mouth curled up slightly, and then froze in the next moment.

This, this untouchable, he actually retracted his hand!

He retracted!
"You want to rob me?" The young Jiashou swallowed slightly, looked around uneasily, boldly sternly, and said in Spanish with a little cowardice and mixed threats: "The imperial court's new law in Asia, the first, the third Article, guilty of robbery!"

Almansa sneered, not knowing what the idiot was talking about, he stretched out his hand and pushed the follower to snatch the Luzon cigarette pack from his hand.

"I am the Governor, the Governor of New Spain!"

The next moment, Almansa was knocked to the ground by the first kick. The first man bent over and spit out, raised his finger and pointed to a well-spoken Chinese character: "Bah, bastard!"

(End of this chapter)