Chapter 1038: The Legendary Treasure of the Gentleman's Kingdom (Part II)

Zhao Xing didn't say a word, he slowly pulled out the knife, a few petals of juhua flowers on the smooth knife body flashed with silver-white light, and the mirror-like blade was in the tropical sun, with the shaking of Zhao Xing's wrist, like a bright lightning, passing in front of the king's eyes.

"It's a 'two-carcass knife' - do you know what a 'two-carcass knife' is? This is the standard adopted by the swordsmiths of the Japanese Kingdom. The Japanese people were cruel by nature, and the knives made by the swordsmith needed to be tested. How to examine, with corpses. A single knife can cut off a corpse, which is called a 'carcass knife'. If you can cut two corpses stacked on top of each other with a single cut, it is called a 'two-carcass knife'.

Ordinary Japanese knives are worth 100 gold in the Song Kingdom, and the 'one carcass knife' can already be sold for 1,000 guan, and my 'two carcass knives' are worth at least 10,000 guan. Where did you come up with this price? ”

When King Ma Yi came out, he beckoned back, and a servant stepped forward and handed him a Song-style brocade bag, and King Ma Yi untied the brocade bag and poured out five "gold beads" the size of pigeon eggs.

The only time in Chinese history that the "golden bead" the size of a pigeon's egg was recorded in the Jin Dynasty was owned by Shi Chong, who caused a fatal disaster. But the king shook his hand and took out five grains.

"Swap with you," the tongue man translates the king's words.

"Change!" Zhao Xing handed over the knife in his hand without hesitation, but he didn't take the "golden bead" in the king's hand, and turned his face and ordered Liu San: "You take one!" ”

Liu San rubbed his hands excitedly, his eyes were full of dazzling "golden beads", and his mouth was still dizzy and modest: "What's so embarrassing...... How can I ...... in exchange for things from big officials?"

As he spoke, Liu San did not hesitate in his hand, he shot out like lightning, took away the smallest grain, and then pinched the "golden bead" in the palm of his hand, and refused to let go.

"I don't know", Zhao Xing rolled his eyes at him. Pearls are pale white solids, and they can't be stored. Even if it is worn every day, the pearl will turn black after more than ten years, and become brittle in a few years, if it is not worn every day, without the moisture of sweat, the pearl will fade and lose its original pearl luster after three or five years.

Zhao Xing once saw a black-hearted jewelry merchant soak old pearls with stone carbonic acid to restore their luster in a novel, and then out of curiosity, he studied pearls a little and thus gained some knowledge of pearls.

The "pearl" of ancient Chinese legend has never been found in tomb objects because of this property of pearls - it cannot be preserved. No matter how brilliant a pearl is, it can only have the glory of this world, so its best use is to exchange it for money. If its existence causes disaster, it is not worth having.

Looking at the remaining four pearls, Zhao Xing hesitated for a long time and only carefully took two of them. Faced with the king's stunned gaze, he brazenly explained: "I only take half of it because I need your friendship and help—I need a few assistants to help me build a village to store my goods, and at the same time, I also want to go to a nearby island to see the scenery, please give me a few guides." ”

Zhao Xing picked up a wooden stick casually, drew a willow leaf shape on the deck, and then drew a crescent moon, pointed to these two figures and said: "There is no island nearby, shaped like a willow leaf, is there a bay, shaped like this last quarter moon?" ”

After King Ma Yi got the knife, he couldn't put it down, and it was not until the "tongue man" urged him a few times that he inserted the knife into the sheath, and enthusiastically called a few followers, chattering.

He wanted to try the knife, after hearing Zhao Xing say the reason for the "two carcass knives", he actually wanted to try the knife with a living person, and the translator explained to the shocked Zhao Xing disappreciably: "This is not strange, Ma Yi likes 'human sacrifice', and every sacrifice has to be sacrificed by more than a dozen living people." It was their glory to test the sword for the king, and his men would rush to bear the sacrifice. ”

Seeing Zhao Xing's dissatisfied expression, the tongue man continued to explain: "You only took half of the 'Golden Bead' and asked the king to give you friendship, the king intends to give you a piece of land, five hundred slaves, and he is selecting a guide who is familiar with the surrounding seas......"

After a while, several naked Mayi people were called to the deck, and they knelt and kowtowed to Zhao Xing, at this time, the "tongue man" explained: "Great officials, you should take off your shoes and step on the top of their heads with your bare feet to show your acceptance of their subordination, from now on, they will be your slaves." ”

After Zhao Xing did what the "Tongue Man" had said, the two newly acquired slaves climbed to the side of Zhao Xing's picture and discussed with each other for a while, and the Tongue Man translated their words and said, "They say there are these two islands. This willow-like island is in the southeast, larger than the island they are on, and it is necessary to sail past three islands, and the fourth island is this willow leaf island.

This moon-like bay is on the opposite side, and it is the largest island in the vicinity, and they say that it is the size of a dozen Mayi countries, and it will not be able to walk in a month. Both islands have some natives and no kings. The people of the island made the Balangei wealth, and each Balangei supported 30 to 100 families, and the leader of each Balangei was called Datu......"

What he wanted to say was that the islanders in these two places had not yet formed a concept of state, they were just some "Balange Alliance", and if they owned a Balange, they had one vote. The greater the number of barangei, the greater the power of the owner and the greater the power.

"Willow Island, the name is good, in the future we will call this island Willow Island, as for the super island they say, we will use the local local language - 'Manila Island' to name, that bay is called Manila Bay. And the five hundred slaves will let them go up to Manila Bay, and there they will build me a house and a port......"

After a pause, Zhao Xing seemed to hesitate, but he finally made up his mind to speak.

Before speaking, his attitude was very solemn, and he selected a few heads (boatswains) from the crew, drove the rest of the crew aside, and then pointed to the willow-leaf-shaped island to speak. Three young people from the Cheng clan in Jiangxia stayed on the sticks, and four children from Cheng Jiaao, Jin Buer, Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng's brother Xiao Qi, and Chen Yu's son Chen Buqun were all on the boat and also surrounded the guard.

"This Willow Island is the 'pouring wealth' I promised you...... Those Ma Yi people don't understand. This island is rich in copper, this is a gold mountain, it is the 'third copper mine in the world', and having it is a thousand years of wealth. You can mine for a thousand years in a row – how about it, is that 'pouring wealth'? ”

Liu San was convinced of Zhao Xing's words, he first looked at the "tongue man" vigilantly, and Zhao Xing immediately stopped his murderous attempt.

"We need them, we need tongue people to communicate with the locals, we need Wang Xiucai to hire people from the locals, and the management department is from, so they have to be involved."

Ruan Liu and Wang Yuanyu knew that they had escaped a killing disaster just now, and they were trembling all over, and cold sweat was dripping.

A leader swallowed a few mouthfuls of spit in a row, and carefully interjected: "Jin Shan? Third in the world? Can I have Shao Wujun of the Great Song Dynasty......"

Zhao Xing truncated the other party's words: "When I say 'the third in the world', I don't just refer to the 'world' of the Great Song Dynasty, it refers to the 'world' of the whole world...... World, do you know the word? To put it simply, this 'third copper mountain in the world', it contains more copper ore than the entire copper mountain of the Great Song Dynasty combined! ”

More copper than all the copper mountains of the Great Song Dynasty combined—what is this concept?

Everyone was stunned by Zhao Xing's words!

"What are you waiting for? Let's do it", Liu San beckoned: "There are some thatched huts on the shore, a torch can extinguish their country, destroy them all, and we will occupy all the copper mountains and gold mountains!" Big officials, don't you do it yet?! ”