(If you want to hear more of your voices and receive more of your opinions, search for the WeChat public account "qdread" now and follow it, and give more support to "Crossing 1630: The Rise of South America"!) "Look at the outfits of your entourage, which one is not an East Coast ......" Ángel from Lima on the banks of the Maurin River. Baron Bravo to his cousin Raul. Baron Bravo complained, "The boots, the saddle, the spurs, the belly straps, the horseshoe, the chews, the clothes you wear, the swords you wear around your waist, and even the water bottles you drink from the water, are all made by the damned East Coasters!" Look at the women's skirts, the tablecloths and curtains in the house, the stoves and iron pots for cooking, and even the bricks and tiles used to repair the houses and the gravel for paving the roads (broken by steam breakers) have to be imported from the east coast. The goods of the pagans have entered every aspect of our lives, and they control them, and we can't live normally without them, which is terrible! ”

Angel. What Bravo does not say is that, despite the previous ban of the Spanish kings, there is still a certain scale of artisanal industry in the cities of Mexico City, Veracruz, Lima, Cochabamba and Santiago. These industries were generally controlled by native-born white aristocratic families, and the local colonial officials turned a blind eye or participated in the shares, and with the broad market demand, these industries developed relatively rapidly, bringing considerable profits to the operators. However, with the onslaught of foreign smuggling (mainly from Britain, France, Genoa, and Germany), these indigenous industries began to shrink, and only a few industries that enslaved Indians in large numbers were still struggling because of cost advantages.

The fatal blow to them was the goods also from the New World, and from October 1649 the Southern Railway Company organized several ships to carry a large amount of smuggled goods to the Maolin River valley - almost all of them were produced by the people of the East Coast themselves. The influx of these lower-cost goods. It immediately ruined the last shred of the local industry of the Viceroyalty of Peru. The region's last remaining industrial workshops are gradually closing down at an increasing rate. There are also more and more East Coast goods on the market, from metal farm tools, hardware and textiles at the beginning, to iron pots, coal stoves, briquettes, medicines, glassware, wooden furniture and a series of other goods, almost covering a large part of Peruvian people's daily life.

This wave of goods from the outside world has been going on for eight months now. One of Baron Bravo's workshops was forced to close in this way, and some of the Indians who had been forcibly hired were disbanded. But he found that he didn't hate the East Coast at all, because he was a big agent of East Coast goods. I made more money in it than I had ever made before. However, in spite of the increase in the amount of money he made, as a citizen of the Lord and a Spanish gentleman, he felt that his actions had "defiled his noble soul" and that he had become a "slave to money" and an accomplice of the yellow-skinned pagans in expanding their influence, much to his great dismay. But if you want him to give up his position as an agent of goods on the East Coast, he can't do it to himself, so this sense of tearing between ideal and reality has caused the baron to fall into a manic and irritable mood, as is the case with complaining about the outfit of his cousin's servant.

His cousin spent most of the year in Port Oriente, acting as a liaison envoy between the Peruvian governor and the people on the east coast. Coordinate the relationship between the two parties and deal with various emergencies. It can be said that in fact, this Raul. Baron Bravo was the most knowledgeable of the gentlemen of the Viceroyalty of Peru about the affairs of the Eastern Republic. And it's because I know more. The little Baron Bravo knew the power of the East Coasters better than anyone else, so he not only instructed his servants to set up a trading post in Port Maurin to act as a wholesaler for the East Coasters, and then used his own mule gang to transport the goods to all parts of Chile, but his cousin, Baron Bravo, also joined the tide under his persuasion.

According to his words, since they can't stop this trend, it is better to follow the trend and make more money with this shareholder wind. Anyway, the king doesn't love New Spain, he doesn't love Peru, he doesn't love the people who live here, the king only cares about the gold and silver mines here, so they have no reason to worry about the king's interests all day long, it is better to think about the family and make more money. In the future, if there is a change in Peru or New Spain, they can also use their financial advantages to do some important things, such as liaising with some native-born elite families to protect their own interests.

"Don't complain, dear cousin, the ships of the East Coasters have already arrived." Baron Bravo Jr. looked at his cousin with a helpless look, and then said: "I can't stay here long, I have to get back to Lima by June 20." Before that, I had to do a lot of things for people, which was annoying! Unsure if he could buy enough bricks from the East Coast, Mr. Paletta built a new villa in Lima for himself and his family, which lacked a lot of building materials; Mr. Garcia had ordered fifteen hundred metal farm implements for his estate, which he knew were in great demand, but he really wanted to be able to buy them this time, because the farm was in a hurry; Mr. Leon was going to refit a few of his ships, you know, a lot of the transports off the Pacific coast were destroyed by the East Coasters in the war, and now the coastal shipping business is very profitable, but Mr. Leon suddenly found himself missing a lot of sturdy canvas ......"

Angel. As soon as Baron Bravo heard his cousin's words, he understood that there were many people who could not refuse, and asked his cousin to help him through the back door, because the gentlemen of Lima had always thought that Baron Bravo the Younger was a man of great means, and that his friendship with the people of the East Coast was not bad. Of course, in fact, this is indeed the case, this time Baron Bravo Jr. asked the Southern Railway Company to reserve some goods for him in advance, and he rushed to the area of the Maolin River to pick up the goods.

Of course, what kind of identity he is, he naturally doesn't have to do these things himself, he just needs to arrange for his servants to pick up the goods. But out of curiosity about the thriving smuggling trade, Baron Bravo decided to stay here for a few days, taking the goods away in his own ship as he left.

The realization that "even noble gentlemen are competing to buy goods from the East Coast...... this makes Baron Bravo a little uncomfortable and a little confused, but he can't do anything about it, because this trend cannot even be reversed by one person or two. He was just a baron, unable to influence the overall situation, and could only passively go with the flow, acting as a painful and happy "comprador" businessman, accumulating funds for himself - of course, perhaps the huge commercial capital he had accumulated would never have a chance to be converted into industrial capital.

"Nantieyu-004" and "Nantieyu-005", two ships with a full load displacement of 580 tons, were fully loaded with cargo, and swaggered underground anchors in the open sea of the Maolin River in the gap between the conversations between the two barons. Not far from them, two Falklands-class frigate gunboats opened their guns and guarded them from unsightly pirate ships.

As time passed, a number of small boats loaded with large quantities of cargo soon approached the shore under the auspices of the sailors, and then the Indian laborers who had been waiting on the shore for a long time swarmed up to unload the cargo. Their owners, on the other hand, were trading cash with the trade officials of the Southern Railway Company. Paying in one hand and delivering in the other hand is the most appropriate way to do so when both parties have not yet built up enough trust.

After the goods were unloaded, some Indian servants, driven by the half-breed foreman, pulled some donkeys and mules, and then sorted the goods and placed them on the backs of the animals in the same way. The goods would then be carried by pack animals such as horses, donkeys, mules, camels, and alpacas, and transported along ancient commercial roads to various colonies for sale. The respective markets of these Spanish compradors have been negotiated internally in advance, and generally no one will cross the line without rules, and this is the best way to ensure that each agent can make a sufficient profit.

Of course, there were also a number of small offshore transport vessels moored in the Maurin River, which were temporarily collected by some Spanish merchants or colonial officials. Their market was in the north, and it was too cumbersome to transport the beasts, and it was very unrealistic to have to cross the seaside of the Chalcas Inquisition, which was probably the driest desert in the world. Therefore, they decided to use these small ships with a tonnage of no more than 100 tons to transfer the goods, transport the goods back to some small remote ports in Peru, and then distribute them to various places to sell at a profit. Who allowed the ships of the people on the east coast to sail only to this part of the sea (as stipulated in the Treaty of Valladolid), and the rest of the distance had to be done by the Spanish agents themselves.

"Every month a large number of ships or mule gangs bring in all sorts of goods from all over Peru, or simply come with huge cash boxes to trade directly, in short, in the last eight months, the Maurin River basin has been transformed from a wild land full of forests and swamps into a rich town flowing with gold. The people of the East Coast would bring in large quantities of commodities every month, and then buy large quantities of livestock, leather, animal fat, guano, cane sugar, tobacco, cocoa, cinchona bark, giant logs, sulphur, and all sorts of ores. According to the information I have received, in the past eight months, the Southern Railway Company of the East Coast has swept away more than 400,000 pesos in cash and a huge amount of various materials from us, and its profits are unimaginably huge. Seeing that the trade officials of the people on the east bank had begun to negotiate with the Spanish "compradors" on the banks of the river about the import of goods, Angel . Baron Bravo couldn't help but lament: "The wealth of Peru has flowed into the pockets of yellow-skinned pagans ......" (my novel "Crossing 1630: The Rise of South America" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)