Chapter 209: Arquebus for Buffalo
The crown prince of Zhongshan Kingdom had expected to hang a group of pirates, because he had already seen the corpses hanging by the river. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
As a result, Zhang Guoan sentenced most of them to several years of hard labor and went to work......
At this time, the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the Badaohe area were harvested again.
With the help of a large number of struvite stones, organic fertilizers, organic pesticides and other technical means, even if it is a freshly burned raw land, it is still the most fertile dry land in this time and space!
Now, this is the second harvest.
The members of the Liuqiu Guard, armed with their smoking arquebuses, escorted the convicts to dig potatoes and sweet potatoes......
Zhang Guoan stood in the field and watched this harvest scene, his heart was full of joy...... No matter what time of year, a good harvest is always a joy.
Zhang Guoan looked at the potatoes and sweet potatoes dug up now, and the yield was higher than that of the first batch of harvests, which was the highest yield in the dry land at the moment, and he looked at the hillside again, next year, wait until the non-toxic red heart cassava there is also a bumper harvest, and the world's three major potato species are all together.
Cassava is just right for hillside land, and this thing is afraid of waterlogging.
As long as there is a safe and peaceful life, there will be no more famine for mankind...... He was just about to go to see how cassava was growing on the hillside, when the prince of Ryukyu Nakayama Province arrived.
Zhang Guoan knew from his introduction that their population was only 200,000, and the other two countries together could probably catch up with Zhongshan.
Zhang Guoan had no choice but to stay and talk to him.
The prince of Zhongshan said: "I am willing to ask Zhang Chuanshou to go to Zhongshan to trade...... I personally led the way......"
Zhang Guoan smiled and said, "How do you exchange your country with my island?" ”
The prince of Zhongshan said: "My country can give Huizi, there are also copper coins, and there is a thing, which is needed here...... Buffalo. ”
Zhang Guoan agreed at that time...... This prince of Zhongshan is very accurate.
He knew that Nakayama was the largest island in the Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa in the world.
That little place. He didn't want to know that agricultural production was impossible.
Then the prince of Zhongshan said, "......How about one buffalo for two arquebuses?"
The people of this time and space, the closer they are to the Great Song Dynasty, the stronger the commercial spirit becomes, and this is the bid.
Zhang Guoan returned the price at that time, saying that an arquebus would be exchanged for a cow and a pig or a goat.
The prince of Zhongshan Kingdom smiled slightly and said, "I heard that the Great Song Dynasty has this thing, and it is not a trouble to make it." I can ask the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty to make it...... The black fire/medicine can also be bought in the Song market. ”
The black fire/medicine of the Great Song Dynasty has long been a secret, and their firecrackers have been exported.
Zhang Guoan said: "Hehe, the black fire/medicine is different, now, only my black fire/medicine and the Great Song Dynasty weapons can be used, don't believe it, you can try it yourself......"
Of course, he was confident that the purification technology of this time and space was ...... I really didn't expect the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty to find a way, other than that. It's all scum.
Moreover, it is impossible for Da Song to divulge their purification technology, in fact, they still don't quite understand the real reason.
So Zhang Guoan said in his heart, boy, this is the only choice.
The prince of Zhongshan looked at Zhang Guoan's bow expression, but still chose to believe it.
He said: "The people of Zhongshan are not easy to feed buffaloes, pigs and sheep, and I ask Zhang Chuanshou to take a step back-------
Zhang Guoan appreciates that he does not pretend to be forced or generous. At least for the sake of bargaining for the people, it is also a step back. One arquebus for a buffalo, three pigs, four goats can also be swapped out.
However, the crown prince of Zhongshan Kingdom whispered some requests.
"Zhang Chuantou, Ryukyu was originally a family, and it was divided into three kingdoms a hundred years ago. Over the years, they have fought each other several times, but they have never been completely unified, and I don't know what to do? ”
Zhang Guoan thought about it for a while, what benefits a unified Ryukyu would have for here.
The benefits are quite obvious. You can borrow it.
After all, it is not Shengbo, and it worships the Great Song Dynasty culture, which can be used by me.
The disadvantage ------ hehe, at the level of hundreds of thousands of people, plus all islands, the productivity is extremely backward, what can be powerful?!
He said, "If I can help you unify the Three Kingdoms, how will you repay here?" ”
The prince of Zhongshan was greatly surprised, and said: "I am willing to take this place as a brother, and I should treat him as a brother!" ”
"Okay, can you represent Zhongshan Country?"
"Absolutely! Why don't you send a merchant ship to Zhongshan with me and seal my oath with my father's jade seal!! ”
This deal is a must, and even Zhang Guoan may need it more than the other party, this spring ploughing production must rely on animal power, otherwise, his agriculture cannot be further developed.
Without a material basis, he could not recruit people on a large scale.
In the plan, he will expand to 50,000 in the summer of next year, and Da Song now has hundreds of millions of people in the household registration, but many of them have not been registered.
Zhang Guoan smiled and said, "Okay, I promised you, I can send my plenipotentiary to talk with you in Zhongshan." You see, what more could you want to trade with your country? ”
"Mule and horse cement, skins, potatoes, sweet potatoes!"
"Romanesque cement, it is impossible to trade in three years, it is more needed here, and other things can."
Zhang Guoan knew that he had traveled some places in the past few days, and obviously did not know the yield of rice, nor did he know about cassava and corn.
However, Roman-style cement, his vision was accurate again, but it was useless, there were so many rich people in the Great Song Dynasty, he couldn't transport it to sell, let alone a small Zhongshan country.
But it's really good that a little broken child can see the effects of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
The prince of Zhongshan pointed to the mountain-like potatoes and sweet potatoes and said: "This thing has produced a lot, and it has raised countless people------ for the people of the world, the grace of the gentleman, the power of life and death!" ”
After speaking, he bowed deeply.
Zhang Guoan looked at this little man who looked like a junior high school student, speechless, this time and space is really compelling and mature.
Half of his sons have learned to kill, and it is a more efficient way to kill, and he has always felt a trace of guilt in his heart, but if they don't do this, after more than ten years, they will be able to avoid the death rate of forty percent.
The possibility of innocent people being killed is extremely high!
Therefore, learning to kill people now is to prepare for not being killed in the future------ which is not the best way, but it is a more cost-effective way.
Zhang Guoan chose Hou Dongfang and asked him to negotiate with the other party on his behalf.
He took a fancy to the tiger energy in this kid, and he had a temperament that was not afraid of heaven and earth, which could just be used for foreign affairs.
Before he set off with the Zhongshan prince, Zhang Guoan talked to him alone and said some diplomatic truths.
Of course, it is also Zhang Guoan's own understanding. (To be continued.) )