Heaven gave the three barbarians of the West Sea almost inexhaustible mountains of gold and silver, but did not give them copper, tin and iron ore.

Not only is the productivity low, the weapons and equipment are very inferior, can continue to this day, the local harsh rainforest environment and the big rivers have played a great role, seriously retarding the West Sea countries to develop the space to the west, coupled with the miasma pervades the swamps and dense, poisonous insects and beasts everywhere, the Central Plains people are extremely uncomfortable.

But it does not prevent the Central Plains from blockading and squeezing it, bronze and iron tools are very scarce in the local area, the countries of the West Sea take advantage of the favorable conditions of the coastline and land location isolation, from the sea, the land to strictly control the inflow of iron and copper, the border market transactions are not allowed to carry iron and bronze in and out, strictly prevent the Xiban to obtain high-grade metal smelting weapons, so for many years the Xiban iron smuggling is extremely rampant, but the price after being captured is also very huge, basically the beheading is more.

Compared with the scarcity of living materials, the scarcity of iron tools was more urgent, and Gusimi Khan wanted to lure Bailiyan to smuggle iron and arms with huge profits in order to obtain external assistance and improve the armament of the Western Barbarians.

Seeing Bailiyan's hesitation, Gusimi Khan said:

"As long as the Marquis of Yongxing is willing to provide iron tools, our clan can pay a lot of money, and it will definitely make your wealth worthwhile."

"Huh...... It is worth the money, Benhou absolutely believes, but the envoy should also know that there are naval patrols of Wei and Chen in the West Sea, and they are going back and forth in the port of Guibang to investigate, if I am trafficked privately, once I am caught, I will not be able to reveal the details, and I can only be killed. If the salty navy is escorted, the defense of the country will be suspicious of me, and even meet each other in arms, which is very powerful, and the envoy should know very well. ”

"Yes, but didn't you say that the world is round. To the west of our people is an endless sea, and to the east of the Jin kingdom is also an endless sea, if you start from the Jin kingdom, you may be able to reach our land. ”

As soon as Gu Simi Khan's words came out, Bailiyan was suddenly surprised, and he hurriedly asked:

"How do you know that this world is round?"

"It's not easy, the ship is on the sea, the farther away you can see only the mast, the closer you can see the ship, our people also have the Xianguo far-sighted eyepiece, and I found this by chance, and after thinking about it, I think that the land may also be round. After arriving in Jinye, he heard the news that the world was round, so he had a whim. ”

"Oh...... But I'm afraid your Excellency has a simple idea. The sea east of the Jin Kingdom can indeed pass through the land of Guibang, but with the Wanshi fleet of our Xian Kingdom, it cannot be reached. During this period, it is necessary to cross 10,000 or 20,000 miles of sea, and there is no possibility of crossing the sea at present. ”

Gusimi Khan was taken aback when he heard the news:

"It can be so far away!"

"Exactly, this method is difficult to achieve in a short period of time."

From the border of the Chen State in the East China Sea of the Jin State to the West Sea, the rough estimate of the distance is more than 25,600 li (about less than 12,000 kilometers in the metric system), and the total horizontal width of the territory of the three Western Barbarian tribes, the longest distance from the east to west of the Central Plains Continent will not be more than 30,000 li.

At present, the diameter of the planet is slightly larger than that of the earth, even if calculated according to the circumference of 40,000 kilometers, the latitude of the Three Barbarians of the West Sea is between 15 degrees south latitude, and the circumference is calculated as 30,000 kilometers. If there is land or continent, it is fine, if not, with the current technical conditions, there is no way to talk about crossing this sea area.

"It's not that Ben Hou deliberately deceived Your Excellency, but that the sea east of the Jin Kingdom is boundless, and it will not be possible to cross east for more than ten years, so it is better to find another way."

"Then do you have a high opinion?"

"If you want iron and firearms, it is not difficult, I can make pig iron into the shape of Xianguo new coins, and then your state will exchange silver or gold at the normal market price, and then Ben Hou will secretly add 20 percent, and then send someone to teach you a set of simple and convenient methods for making steel, so that you can make new pig iron coins into good iron."

"The color of the new currency of Xianguo is dark gold, how can it deceive the guards."

"There is no need for Your Excellency to worry about this matter, Benhou has his own way."

Wei and Chen both took visual inspections of the goods and goods, and in some cases, magnets were also used to prevent iron from being trapped. As a widely used circulation, coins are now made of copper, lead and tin, and the princes are expensive in iron, so there is absolutely no basic space for iron coinage, and the patriots would never have imagined that copper coins would be cast in iron.

Pig iron is more fluid than steel, so it is easier to first cast a coin from pig iron, the process is simpler, and the cost is lower, and then the color is electroless plating to make it similar to the shape of the Xianguo new coin.

The Western Tapir Yi used silver to buy the equivalent of counterfeit new currency, and at the same time he was able to obtain iron tools, and also built momentum for the export of Xianguo's currency and promoted the marketization of new currency, which was basically a win-win situation.

"However, the new iron currency must not be allowed to enter the market, and at that time Benhou will send someone to count the total amount and smelt it, and your state must abide by this agreement, and if there is a violation, Benhou will immediately stop trading with your faction."

"Please rest assured that at this time, we will make careful arrangements and there will be no mistakes."

Gu Simi Khan made a guarantee, and Bai Liyan nodded in approval:

"Well, Ben Hou will escort the money to your state by ship in the name of transporting money. Thinking that no matter how presumptuous he dared to defend the country, he would not dare to take away a huge amount of money to offend our country. ”

"It's a good idea, but I don't know where to start trading."

"I'm afraid this will have to wait until next year, and next year your state can send envoys to our Xianguo in the name of trade, and it will not be too late to deliver the goods after seeing them."

The two negotiated the iron materials, and then started negotiations on hand artillery and gunpowder, Bai Liyan did not mind making some trouble for Weiguo in the West Sea in the future. As for the formula of black powder, the Western Tapir already knew the composition and approximate proportion of sulfur charcoal nitrate, but it lacked nitrate, so it was difficult to get black powder.

The purchasing power of the Western Tapir is undoubtedly amazing, and its gold and silver minerals are abundant, if it was only a legend before, today I saw the shot of Gusimi Khan, and I knew what it meant to be generous.

The final settlement will be traded in gold, not only the West Tapir Yi has more gold, Xianguo and Xiban have no direct official transactions, and the trade volume of hundreds of thousands of silver has suddenly increased, but the goods are far less than the total amount of transactions, which is obviously greasy.

Gold is small in size and high in value, which is easier to hide and transfer than silver, and when it is delivered, the Western Tapir Yi will hide the excess gold in the cargo and carry it onto the ship to avoid the surveillance of Wei Guo and Chen Guo.

After negotiating the details of the transaction, Gusimi Khan turned to the recent rumors in Jincheng:

"After the contemptible people entered the city, they heard that Yuke had made a special trip to the Son of Heaven to talk about monsters, and Yongxing Hou seemed to support what Yuke said, but I don't know if this news can be accurate, can it be wrong?"

"The news is true, and it is not a lie. In the past ten years, the earth-shattering fire and black fire powder produced in the Central Plains are all imitations of the firearms on the armpit big ship, and Your Excellency Power should have heard of it. ”

"Well, yes. Although our clan is thousands of miles away, the envoy is very worried that you can come and go unhindered on this sea, and our clan's combat power is far inferior to that of the Central Plains, let alone compete with monsters. Now that the Son of Heaven seems to be indifferent to this matter, he is worried that there will be a great calamity that will affect our clan in the future. ”

Gu Simi Khan was worried, and Baili Yanton felt strange.

It is said that the location where the armpit people were found is thousands of miles away, far from the Western tapirs, and the current mainstream public opinion does not accept them.

"Why are you so worried, the princes of the Central Plains still denounce it as alarmist, the Western Tapir is thousands of miles away, why should you worry about my Central Plains."

"Alas......" Gu Simi Khan sighed, his already dark skin was as black as ink at this time, he said: "Actually, the envoy didn't believe it, but a few years ago, the wizards of our clan had a method, foreseeing that in the future, there will be monsters with long eyes under the armpits and forehead to invade the Central Plains, and there are no corpses and bones everywhere they go......

The more Gu Simi Khan spoke, the more depressed he became, and Bai Liyan couldn't help but feel furious when he listened.

If Zong Botai is just a coincidence, and the isolated evidence is not enough, Yuke obviously proves the existence of prediction, if the two intersect because of the region, and there is some collusion, then the so-called witchcraft of Xi Tapir Yi coincides with the calculation results of Zong Botai and Yuke, which undoubtedly once again verifies the authenticity and credibility of prediction.

When he was young, Bai Liyan asked:

"Can your wizard really see the future?"

"I can't say it, but I can't be wrong. But all the great disasters of the heavens, the wizards of this clan can know about it, and they have never made mistakes. I didn't believe it this time, but after entering the city, I heard the rumors, and I was also surprised, so I came to ask Yongxing Hou for confirmation. ”

"I see, then do you see what the situation in the Central Plains will be in the future?"

"There was fire everywhere, there was killing everywhere. The wizard also said that she saw a river of blood in the Central Plains blocking her eyes, so she couldn't see the coming day......"

"Yes......" The atmosphere suddenly became cold for seven points, and Bai Liyan had mixed feelings in her heart, and she didn't know what to say.

If you can't defeat the armpit people even if you can't do it, does it mean that the human race has been eliminated from the universe? After all, if the axillary man and the human race start at the same level, with the same technological starting point and development speed, the physiology of the human being will undoubtedly be completely defeated by the axillary man, and the final result can only be the total extinction of the human race.

The room was silent, Gu Simi Khan was silent, and Bai Liyan didn't know why he was so worried, at least the Central Plains was in trouble, and it was undoubtedly beneficial to Xi Tapir Yi in the short term, maybe he was hiding something.

Baili Yan wanted to ask him, and when he looked up, he vaguely saw a white light covering his right wrist by the sleeve of his shirt, and when he looked closely, he saw that it was a silver bracelet, to be exact, a bracelet made of platinum.

"Platinum? Does the Western Tapir still produce platinum! ”

Secretly thinking, Baili Yan was busy asking Gu Simi Khan:

"The envoy wears a bracelet, but it is a silver bracelet?"

Gu Simi Khan was stunned for a moment, looked at his right hand, raised a smile and said:

"Don't hide it from Yongxinghou, this is not ordinary silver, but hard silver."

Hearing the word hard silver, Bailiyan could almost conclude that it was mostly platinum.

The intuitive difference between platinum and silver is actually very large, platinum eye color is gray, whether it is cast or polished, its shape is cooled and the surface becomes more reflective, while silver is white, and there is no refraction effect after casting, which is determined by the physical characteristics of the two elements.

In addition, platinum is denser than silver, and platinum does not change color when cooled by fire, while silver turns black. Platinum is also harder than silver, making it ideal for fine jewelry.