It is precisely because of this idea that the purpose of the exploration fleet is only to find plants, not to occupy the whole of America, and under this premise, there is no direct confrontation with the Maya, who did not dare to deal with the Dinghai navy while they were taught a lesson, and this formed a basis for peace.

The Navy needs the Mayans to talk about, if it wasn't for the head of the ruling iron before, it would have been talked about a long time ago, and now, more than 400,000 dead and wounded, as well as a large number of casualties among nobles and civilians, this is a huge problem, with the cooperation of some internal and external factors, this ruling will soon lose its power, so the rest of the people, the head is not so iron.

Not iron-headed, willing to sit down and talk, this is very in line with the strategy of the navy, and there are not too many requirements, and soon, under the translation, in the stumbling exchanges, the two sides reached a simple agreement.

Non-aggression, the Maya recognized the occupation of ports and cities by the navy, which stretched from the Rocky Mountains to the vicinity of Mexico.

For this, the Maya have concessions, but not much, the Maya control sphere of influence, mainly in Mexico, the southern United States, only a small part of the tropics, the Rocky Mountains near the Pacific Ocean, is not their concern, this place is handed over to the Ding Navy, there is nothing to be reluctant to.

One side took out the land, and the other side, the Dinghai Navy, which belonged to the victorious side, also promised that it would not start the war lightly, but demanded compensation.

The compensation is certain, the war is lost, then you have to be honest, the fierceness of the Ding Navy also frightened the Maya, the Maya people seem to be particularly real, when the Ding Navy proposed compensation, directly took a large amount of gold and silver.

Before, Zhao Xin had said that in the whole Americas, the reserves of gold and silver are very huge, the Mayans as the overlord of the Americas, the area controlled is very huge, and the Americas have a lot of gold and silver, not to mention the later colonists, the Spanish family, in 300 years, obtained 2.5 million kilograms of gold and 100 million kilograms of silver from the Americas, not to mention, as well as Portugal, France, Britain and a series of countries, they rely on the silver of the Americas, to have the foundation for the industrial revolution.

Enough money, enough raw materials, and a certain amount of manpower are basically essential.

Now, no more than a few hundred years later, the Maya are the longest-ruling people in the history of the Americas, they were active in Mesoamerica in 2500 BC, and then continued until the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when they were replaced by later empires, and in this time spanning thousands of years, the Maya accumulated great wealth.

Later generations, the pyramids of the Mayans, a large number of burials, and statues made of gold and silver, these are huge gold and silver.

When the war was lost and compensation was required, the Mayans were also quite generous, and soon took the compensation they had prepared to the Ding Navy.

5 million taels of silver, and 400,000 taels of gold, although the purity of these gold and silver is not very high, not of high purity, but together, the total amount is really a lot.

According to the comparison of gold and silver in the Northern Song Dynasty, one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for more than 1 copper coin, and the ratio of gold and silver is about 1:10, so that 12 pieces are equal to one tael of silver.

5 million taels of silver is equivalent to 6 million guan, and 400,000 taels of gold is equivalent to 4 million taels of silver, so it is close to 5 million guan, and the two add up to 10 million guan.

This money is really a lot, adding up to almost 11 million guan, although it is nothing for the income and finance of the Dinghai Navy, because the Dinghai Navy is in units of 100 million, and it is not one billion and eight billion, but tens of billions of yuan, and the simple financial income is more than 10 billion, and the compensation of 11 million guan is nothing.

But if it is placed in the former Northern Song Dynasty, it is one-third, or even more of the annual income, and the Mayans took out this money so easily, which is enough to prove that there is a lot of gold and silver in the Americas.

This is very clear, Spain and Portugal have obtained huge amounts of gold and silver in the Americas, so that they can develop, and the two countries together may obtain more than 4 million kilograms of gold in the Americas, more than 4,000 tons, and as for silver, it is at least 15 to 200,000 tons of total amount.

In fact, this is also the root cause of the emergence of gold and silver in the whole world from the 14th century, from China to Europe.

In the middle, it has to be said that China, before the Ming Dynasty, has always been the copper standard, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty began to appear a huge amount of silver, gradually replacing the position of copper coins.

The European colonizers, so to speak, relied on colonization, relied on the Americas, obtained huge amounts of gold and silver, and they changed the disadvantages of their own country, replacing the original currency with a large number of gold and silver coins, but in China, they also relied on the terrible trade surplus, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, they obtained a large amount of gold and silver.

Silver, which used to appear only as a precious metal or an equivalent for high-end transactions, has become a general currency, whether it is for taxation or other means, it can be settled in silver.

In this sense, tens of millions of dollars of wealth are not a large amount for the Mayans, and they can be easily taken out.

Gold and silver, for the Dinghai Navy, for the time being, there is no use, although gold and silver, in the world, the vast majority of countries, are hard currency, are the existence of direct exchange of things, but in the Dinghai Navy, there is no d

Now the Dinghai currency of the Dinghai Navy is a kind of credit currency, stainless steel, and it is relatively high hardness, as long as the Dinghai Navy, do not spread this out, the possibility of relying on the hand bow to obtain stainless steel, almost zero, perhaps in the future, when the countries of the world, as well as some of the technical level of the people, have the ability to make stainless steel, only to take into account anti-counterfeiting.

However, according to the results of the current research of the smelting research institute headed by Niu Dali, stainless steel, generally speaking, can only be produced in blast furnaces and small crucibles, the efficiency is not high, and the cost is huge, even if it can be produced, their cost is higher than the cost, so there are not too many people to do it

To a certain extent, the Dinghai currency composed of stainless steel of the Dinghai Navy can be used for at least a few decades, and in the future, it will either enter the era of gold and silver coins, or enter the era of credit money, and before that, gold and silver will play little role.

The fact that the navy does not need gold and silver does not mean that gold and silver have no effect, the Mayans have already softened, and under the premise of being willing to pay such a huge amount of compensation, there is no need to chase such a blow, of course, the necessary things are still needed.

Ding Haijun did not hesitate to accept such a batch of gold and silver, but on the premise of accepting gold and silver, he put forward more conditions.

The gold and silver were accepted, and there were others, and the Mayans in charge of the negotiations had a headache, and the money, it seems that the Mayans took it out so generously, but in a sense, this is already the largest amount of money that the Mayans can take out, and if you want to get it again, there are really some problems.

But gritting your teeth, from other places, if you mobilize some, you can get half of it, but it depends on whether these people have such a big appetite.

Dinghai doesn't know what the envoy thinks, if he knows, he will definitely extort a sum, gold and silver may have no effect on the current Dingjun, but in the future, it is still useful, Dinghai's bank has been collecting gold and silver, in this case, gold and silver are still useful.

The other requirements of the Dinghai Navy are very simple, they do not ask for gold and silver, they are required to collect enough seeds and plants, especially some of the plants they have planted and cultivated can be said to be very good.

This opinion made the Mayans unexpected, and they did not expect that the other party would want such a strange thing.

This is very easy to accomplish for the Maya, the Maya themselves are excellent at farming, and in the long run, they have cultivated a lot of plants, which allow the Maya to live a rich life, but in the Mayan mind, there is not much role in the existence.

Soon, the Mayan envoy sent a series of plants, among them, they chose to be more valuable, among these plants, the botanists of the Dinghai Navy did not find the target they needed, Zhao Xin wanted to find the target, so they had to order them to find again, find more plants, dealers, and ordinary kinds.

The second time, the third time, each time there were hundreds of species, and in the third time, there was a discovery.

Pumpkin, cotton, tobacco and sweet potatoes are among them, in the middle, to mention sweet potatoes, this look, and Zhao Xin's record, there is a big difference, the sweet potatoes of later generations, that is after years of cultivation, yield, and the day before yesterday, are very good,

There is a big difference from the current cultivation of the Mayans.

It's good if something is found, these four are all within the scope of Zhao Xin's search, find the seeds, and even get an old farmer who planted this, this time, for the American continent, for the Mayan strategy, the curtain finally came to an end, and the harvest of the Navy was dominant.

In fact, the plants obtained are not so few, because some crops, Zhao Xin forgot, or ignored that the origin is American, so it was not drawn in the picture, and told these botanists of the exploration fleet that later, after statistics, among the plants obtained this time, in addition to the above four, there are some other crops.

Sunflower, peanuts, these two are oil crops, with them, can come out of a single soybean oil, although the Northern Song Dynasty has sesame, but the production of sesame is too small, not enough to support the huge oil consumption, that is, after the widespread planting of soybeans, this popularized the oil consumption of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Dinghai Navy.

In addition to the first two, the other two harvests are tomatoes and peppers, the former is a very expansive and delicious dish, and the latter is simply Zhao Xin's favorite.

Before the introduction of chili peppers into China, although China had a spicy taste, it relied on dogwood, or mustard at that time, which made Zhao Xin, who was accustomed to eating Sichuan cuisine in later generations, very unaccustomed, but he seemed to remember that chili peppers came back from the Western Regions, and he put more of his mentality on which aspect than in the Americas.

Peppers and tomatoes, which are relatively high-end among the Mayans, they did not find their use value, but ornamental value, whether it is the red fruit of peppers, or the tomatoes, they are relatively beautiful, this time, more in the way of ornamental plants.

Because of Zhao Xin's instructions, these early personnel did not let go of any plant, and all of them, even if they didn't know them, were sent back with great effort.

Tomatoes are also poured, the more famous is so many dishes, the most famous is just tomato scrambled eggs, but it is just a home-cooked dish, but the pepper is different, with chili peppers, it can be said that among Sichuan cuisine, most of the classic dishes, can be restored, and it is not only Sichuan cuisine, there are spicy dishes, in Hunan cuisine, expensive dishes, and several other local dishes, chili pepper is also a more common ingredient.

At the beginning, when the Dinghai Navy made a request for plants, the Mayans preconceived that the Dinghai Navy was not satisfied, and this was already shown when it was sent for the first and second time.

It seems that the food they have carefully prepared will not enter the eyes of the Dinghai Navy at all, and it seems that it is just to find fault, but they still make unremitting efforts to send it, just because they still have a little hope, in case they get something that the other party is satisfied with, so that they can save a lot of money.

Although there is a lot of gold and silver in the Americas, the gold and silver of the Mayans are not blown by the wind, and they have tried their best to take out so much on the premise that they will take it out, but it will hurt their muscles and bones, and now, they have finally met the requirements of the Dinghai Navy and found a suitable plant, which makes the Mayans very happy.

The Mayans were scared, they were the losing side, the other party defeated them so easily, for a certain period of time, they also had a feeling of panic, but the navy was very regular, after the Maya took out the compensation, they took the initiative to withdraw the troops and vacated more than 200 miles, and both sides cautiously maintained the current vigilance posture.

Whether the Maya are vigilant or not, the Ding Navy does not know, although the Ding Navy is also vigilant, but it is just a fixed lookout, anyway, it is impossible for the Maya to fly over, day and night, you can give early warning.

They came to the North American continent, the biggest purpose is these plants, and now they found the above plants described by Zhao Xin, and they are even more happy, and quickly send the compensation to the base camp in China, which not only includes those plants specifically mentioned by Zhao Xin, but also includes these North American endemics, they don't know, they don't know what it is, but they still send it over.

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