open sea

Chapter 801
The market in front of Daojun Temple became more and more prosperous. The stonemason Xu Lu'an suggested to Chen Mu to dig deep into Asian antiques, which made the chiefs of the local people who came to Changsheng Huimeng a small fortune.

No matter how far these tribal leaders are, everyone has some treasures handed down from generation to generation. For example, the jade masks, crowns, or obsidian knives that they carry with them are not very valuable in their own eyes, but they have more or less history.

In Xu Lu'an's shop, as long as they can talk about some history, they can exchange eight hundred Tongbao to three taels of silver, plus the exchange of other goods, almost all the leaders can earn some money for them in the future. Winning overhead.

If we talk about who is the richest person in Changsheng County at this moment, excluding the Ming army, then the leader of the Indian tribe is undoubtedly the leader of the white horse.

Baima's business talent made him already have a huge net worth of 600 taels of silver when other chiefs were still complacent about owning Ten Thousand Tongbao.

A shrewd businessman would not only make money on one side. He not only sent his men to take cocoa beans to the tribes in the north to do business, sweeping all the goods in other tribes, but also sent people to Taxco.

That's right, it was the Silver City, Taxco, which originally belonged to the Spaniards.

The business logic of Baima is very simple. If the price of this product is low here but high in other places, I will sell it elsewhere, and vice versa.

Silver has extraordinary purchasing power in Changsheng, so why don't I just bring the silver over here?
Taxco’s mines and towns are still under the control of the Ming army cavalry left behind by Heiyunlong. The hundreds of households left behind there have been organizing local people to mine, but because he needs to find ways to guard against possible Spanish troops, he recruited a local army A 300-man infantry unit was drilled for battle.

There has been a serious shortage of manpower in the mine, and the people from the White Horse Department have come to make up for this shortcoming, but they have a condition. The silver they dug will be separated separately, and a quarter will be taken away as a reward for the tribe.

Among the more than 400 tribal leaders, even those who originally brought silver products to Changsheng trade are not as rich as Baima.

Of course, Chen Mu felt that he had made a fortune, because Baima exchanged the silver brought by his tribe to Changsheng for Tongbao, and many tribal leaders already knew that Wanli Tongbao would be the currency in circulation in Asia in the future.

In any case, everyone feels that they have made money, which is a win-win situation.

"You can change your name to Bai Tao. In our history, there was a great politician and businessman named Tao Zhu Gong because he was enshrined in Taoqiu. You have the same talent as him."

Chen Mu said this to the white horse, and said: "How many leaders have been elected by the White Horse Alliance to join me in signing a treaty with the Spaniards?"

Today's White Horse Alliance is not a White Horse Alliance with only eight leaders at the beginning. Now this alliance represents all the tribes south of the boundary marker, and has more than [-] tribal leaders, but its overall strength is the weakest among the three major tribes in Asia.

Because this is Mexico City, many tribes have middle-aged men who were transferred to the Potosi silver mine, and some of the large tribes with more than a thousand people were killed in the previous war with the Spaniards.

But Chen Mu appreciates the White Horse Alliance very much, not only because the White Horses can do business, but also because most of them can speak some Spanish, which will facilitate their learning Chinese in the future, and they can speak the Aztec language, so they can learn Chinese well. , Baima people can go to other tribes to teach Chinese.

They can take on the responsibility of carrying on the culture.

"white pottery?"

Master Baima, who was dressed in a fancy dress, didn't have any special feelings about the name, neither resisted nor delighted, he just nodded flatly. Compared with his own name, he was more concerned about another question: "There are six leaders, but why should we fight with you?" Sign a treaty together?"

At this time, the white horse has understood that the previous war was not a war between the Spaniards and the Spaniards. Although he has not yet figured out why the Ming people went to war with the Spaniards, he is now clearly on the side of the winner.

"It's not us and you, but us and them." Chen Mu smiled softly, and said, "They are all citizens of Ming Dynasty, why should we divide you and me? The leader will come with me to see the dejected look of the defeated."

"Your ancestors left the north and crossed the Blackwater Islands thousands of years ago. Now I have brought cavalry and farming technology. We are one again. There is no need to worry about it anymore. You only need to learn two things."

Chen Mu raised his finger: "Respect the emperor and the imperial court, thrive here, and live a good life."

"Okay, I'll tell them."

Not long after the white horse said goodbye, Yang Tingxiang came out from behind the house, looked at Chen Mu for a while, and then asked, "Commander, did they really come from the north through the Blackwater Islands thousands of years ago?"

"And I heard from Acosta that he has seen the horses of the natives, which are different from those of the Westerners, but somewhat similar to my war horses. They are going to the northeast."

Chen Mu leaned against the seat and closed his eyes, squinted for a moment and said, "Just listen carefully, no one knows what the ancestors did thousands of years ago, at least they don't."

Apart from designing warships for the Ming army, Yang Tingxiang did all the historical research on the indigenous people. Chen Mu's attitude of making him listen seriously made it difficult for him to do so.

"Don't look at me like that, I don't know if I'm right, but I think so, and since I think so...then it is so."

This is different from referring to a deer as a horse. The people around Zhao Gao can tell which is a deer and which is a horse, but the people around Chen Mu can't tell which is a tomato and which is a cactus, because they have never seen it before.

Chen Mu said what he said.

"Besides, I'm not lying. It doesn't matter whether people in the north have horses or not. Everyone has seen horses now, but I did bring them cavalry. As long as you write like this, the books that will be handed down in the world will think that horses are ours. We bring not only horses, but also advanced technology."

"I know you all think that I have bad intentions by pulling the leaders of the natives to sign the treaty at this time. I just want the Westerners to hate them. If the natives are on my side at this time, the Westerners will hate them more than me. , everyone is like this."

"It's not fair to them." Chen Mu still closed his eyes, talking intermittently like a dream: "But for them, joining Daming is already the best result, following the white people, they will be killed sooner or later. "

"They have a lot of people. There are not so many people in any country in Europe. No matter who they are, they will all be afraid, and the fear will go crazy, except for us."

"We are more than them, and we are still very similar to them. Even if they are mixed with Westerners, they still look more like us. If they intermarry for a long time, they will be no different from us. We can truly accept them, but Europeans cannot. , all they can bring is carnage."

"Never underestimate the inferiority of people, especially those people. People will never show their true nature when they are rich, but only when they are desperate...they are always hysterical."

(End of this chapter)