Chapter 315: Let Me Taste Your Wine! ”
On this day, the observation post on the hilltop of Ha Long Bay suddenly noticed three sea boats coming from afar...... They immediately waved the flag and told their teammates down the hill. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After Captain Guo Beyu received the report, he was a little puzzled, it was not that there were no merchant ships, but most of them were one, just to see what could be traded.
The living materials sent from the Badaohe area were originally very rich, and they were completely enough to use all of them, and there was no need to purchase them.
However, Captain Guo Beyu would rather exchange their rice for a lower price, and moreover, give them some more sea salt, so that the other party feels that he has earned money.
This period of Annam, strictly speaking, was not a period of valuing maritime trade, and they were far less important than the Cham people who valued maritime business.
Therefore, Captain Guo Beyu just wants to follow the example of Zhang Guoan's island master and use profits to attract others.
In this space-time, salt, like linen, can be seen as the equivalent of trade.
He also used this to recruit laborers, and the price he paid was really not low...... It's sure to be able to recruit people.
Sure enough, there are people who have taken the initiative to come here to work, but there are not too many of them now.
Captain Guo Beyu: They feel that there are more wild fruits here than in the south of Liuqiu...... They had found a large wild plantain forest in the inland area more than ten kilometers away, and there they also saw a so-called elephant road, in fact, they did not need to be told in advance by the Champa merchants, they also knew that this must be the path of elephants, because the pile of on the side of the road showed that no other animal could pull out such a large lump.
The warm and humid weather here creates good natural conditions for the growth of plantains, and the taste of plantain here is not ordinary, with a crisp mouth, a sweet taste when chewed, and a fragrant aroma when chewed.
Not only did they eat it themselves, but they also collected it in large quantities and cut it into slices and dried it. After being shipped back, it can be used to make wine.
They also found a pineapple grove, which also tasted good.
If there is no miasma here, it must be a paradise on earth.
But Captain Guo Beyu actually has a miracle medicine that can heal people who have been hit by miasma!
A few people who played the pendulum drank the extremely bitter medicinal soup more than a dozen times. It can get better slowly!
This stunned the Tan people...... If you have a miasma and get a cold fever, they can be cured?!
There are many prescriptions for treating cold and heat in this time and space, but they basically can't cure it, so in the eyes of those Tan people, Captain Guo Wuyu is a miracle doctor!
Of course, Captain Guo Wuyu will not explain the reason to them, it is not mysterious at all, the secret of the cinchona tree is only known to them, the houseboys and the main family......
This sense of mystery made the hired Tan people extremely obedient. The project is progressing very well.
But now it's here.
Later, the observation post on the hill came with even worse news, saying that it was a three-way warship!
Captain Guo Beyu hurriedly organized manpower, part of the defense base, and part of the ship quickly hoisted the sails and set sail to meet them.
At this time, their ships were clearly faster than the other ships on this plane. The lieutenant general in the distance was startled, he didn't expect that there would be a warship that could move so quickly!
But he wasn't afraid. He took with him five hundred soldiers, and three ships, and no matter how fast they went, they could only two.
He wore a battle uniform, and most of the soldiers under him were neatly dressed and imposing.
He frowned at the other man's speed and the skillful movements of the sailman...... These are pretty good trolls.
When they get closer. The lieutenant shouted proudly, "Who are you?!" Dare to dig indiscriminately on the coast of my southern country!! ”
Captain Guo Beyu saw that their three warships were full of soldiers, but there were no bows and arrows, but there were also bed crossbows, but none of them were opened.
He walked to the bow of the ship and said, "This general is begging for people in the next stream...... Here the coal is excavated. It is good to make fire for cooking, and people have been sent to send ten stones of refined salt before, and the people of Zhijiao Prefecture have even left the salt car.
So, I think I'm ready to mine......"
"Haha......" the lieutenant general laughed loudly and said, "This place is deserted and has not yet been placed under the jurisdiction of the Jiaozhou Mansion...... You're messing around, which one is allowed?! ”
In fact, the deputy general was still a little disappointed in his heart, it turned out that he was not from the Great Song Dynasty, but from the Ryukyus!
Then they are far less wealthy than the Great Song people......
"Oh, isn't that just right?!" Captain Guo Beyu reacted suddenly, and said, "Even if you give away the refined salt of Lord Zhizhou for nothing, if this place is originally deserted and unmanaged, it is better to allow you to dig ...... below."
When the adjutant general was leaving, his commander said, see if there is any oil and water, it is not necessary to kill people, now that the peace has been peaceful for a long time, the army is short of funds, and the army is still preparing to cause some friction with Champa, so as to seek expenses......
In this time and space, the people of Champa and the people of Annam are not the same thing at all.
The people of Champa are generally curly-haired and dark-skinned, and they are originally of Malayo-Polynesian race, believing in Brahmanism or Buddhism, and developed from the rebellion of the independent Linyi state in Xianglin County, Rinan County, in the Han Dynasty
The main ethnic group of Annan is a Luoyue people of Baiyue, which is close to the Zhuang and Dong people ethnically and linguistically, in fact, it is also mixed with the blood of the Great Song people, and culturally it has also accepted a large number of Great Song culture, and the original place is Jiaozhi County and Jiuzhen County in the Han Dynasty, which is the northern and central Vietnam of the world.
Previously, they fought too hard with the Great Song Dynasty, and never dared to easily invade the border, and by the time of the Chen Dynasty, they launched border trade activities with the Great Song Dynasty, mainly on land trade.
At the same time, they set their sights on the Champa city, which was far weaker than the Great Song Dynasty, and always wanted to actively expand their territory to the south. The lieutenant said, "You can cook on the fire, so what can I get?!" ”
Captain Guo Beyu immediately said: "I have sea salt and wine!" And the fine linen ......"
When the lieutenant heard it, he said, yes, these objects are good goods...... He waved his hand and said, "Speak from the shore!" "This is going to the docks......
Of course, he is not afraid of any accidents here, the Ryukyu country, he has heard about it a long time ago, but it is just a few small islands
What can be in the island?
When he stepped on the pier, he felt a little different, and said, "Are you mining these boulders?" ”
Captain Guo Beyu had to say: "It is very troublesome to let the craftsman chisel it little by little......
"Haha, stupid of you, some of you can use big wood, not big long stones...... But it's sturdy and durable. The lieutenant told the soldiers not to get off the boat first, and he led a dozen of his men and followed the young man in
Base, the deputy general is still thinking, the Ryukyu Kingdom is really empty, get a half-sized child to fill the matter, look at the grass on their clothes...... It's time to play in the jungle!
He walked into the base with a large thorn, and these people really put in the effort to make a small stockade so tight, but what was the use of that? A mere war elephant can knock down the wall of the stockade, presumably they haven't seen a war elephant yet......
At this time, a sense of pride rose in his heart, the Ryukyu country, but a small country and a widow, can compare with my big country.
He sat down on a chair in a long wooden room, slapped the long table, and shouted, "I saw just now that you seem to have hunted a wild deer...... Pick up some and let me taste your wine! (To be continued.) )