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"Five hundred shells!" Someone shouted that in an indigenous village to the east of Orchid Island, a large number of natives were frantically bidding for the last few tools they had gotten from the Chinese. An indigenous man almost frantically raised a piece of natural sulfur in his hand and shouted, "I will give out a hundred catties of sulfur, and the last three hoes are all round!" ”

"Go," the local natives immediately sneered, "We also have a lot of this stuff here, and we can pick it up for a hundred pounds and come out." ”

"I'm ready to let people bring the goods from this island here, where do you need to collect them everywhere like you? Just ask someone to move by the sea. The native blushed and shouted. And if you refuse to sell, we will go to the Chinese to buy it, they will definitely have it there, maybe there are weapons! ”

Of course, his idea was fanciful and completely impossible to realize, knowing that according to the requirements of the Senate, the only things that the natives could buy directly through retail were agricultural tools, from hoes, sickles, shovels, pickaxes to iron crows, but any weapons that could be used directly into battle, whether spearheads, daggers or machetes, should not be thought of, and they were not even brought in the list of goods.

"Well, one hundred and fifty pounds of sulfur, three hoes!" The chief tapped it with a small hammer on the table and said loudly, "If you can accept it, you can trade directly, and if you can't accept it, you can go directly to the Chinese!" ”

Sun is not far behind, and the ball catches the most troublesome skills

Sun Buyuan is the most popular after the ball catches the trick "Yes, but first of all, it is necessary to be able to promote paper money." Hong Jie said heartlessly, Guo Hao didn't care about his words, "I know that paper money is a good thing, which can be used for consumption in China, and precious metals can be used for international trade, which can maximize commercial benefits." ”

His words are very deterrent, you must know that the indigenous native Chinese are absolutely incomprehensible, only the scalpers and a few Phi Island drifting from the Wu Dynasty officials and soldiers, so all transactions with the Chinese must go through the chief. Even if they themselves might be able to bring a few people from their own islands who stumble and speak the official dialect of the martial arts, the pronunciation and specific meaning are far from the original meaning, and the communication between the two sides is simply like a chicken and a duck, which makes both sides miserable.

The chieftain now took the position of broker, earning some from the Chinese and some from the natives, and it didn't take long to discover that money was a very important thing. The goods brought by the natives often ranged from inconspicuous ores to slaves, from green bananas to green mangoes, but someone brought a lot of pepper, but the Chinese didn't want it, so it was left on the beach and no one wanted it. There was no uniform price for these miscellaneous goods, let alone a general equivalent to exchange, so they had to start using the more popular currency of the nearby islands in the earliest period, the shell.

Of course, it is not a random shell that can be picked up on the beach and used as a money, this shell must be a scallop with an almost conical shell, which is very demanding and the yield is very small. However, this brings up another problem, the money is not enough to meet the value of the goods on the market. For example, when someone offered 500 shells at the auction before, this sentence was directly ignored, because the shells circulating on the entire island were only three or two thousand, if he could take out 500 shells in one go, then he could basically buy half of the island, why bother to buy three hoes?

Therefore, most of the natives on the island can only use the most primitive business model - barter to trade, which naturally brings all kinds of troubles, storage of goods requires space, and high-value transactions Low-value goods are often finger-sized for a bunch of taller than people, both sides are annoyed, but now there is no way, can only use this method to trade, otherwise there is no way to continue the transaction. But now the Chinese promised to set up a trading post here, regularly send cargo ships from the port of the East for transshipment, and they also promised to bring currency from the port of the east to trade, so that they would not continue to use shells to continue their commercial activities, but until the arrival of the Chinese cargo ships, they could only use this primitive way of commercial trade.

"Alright! One hundred and fifty pounds is one hundred and fifty pounds! The sulphur mine owner immediately made a decision, signaling for his subordinates to take the chief's men to pick up the goods, and soon the chief's men came back, and whispered a few words to the chief, and the chief's face suddenly became very exciting, and in an instant he changed from the cold eyebrows at the beginning to the current sunshine, he quickly stood up, trotted quickly to the side of the sulfur mine owner, and whispered, "I still have a shovel and six sickles and three crowbars here, and I will pack them for you at one time, and you will give me the rest of the sulfur?" ”

The mine owner glanced at him with some confusion, "Isn't it?" Start hitting my cargo idea? "Of course I know you're going to sell it to Chinese," said the chief with a hippie smile, "and you've brought so much sulphur that you won't keep it for yourself, and only Chinese here will be able to eat it, or I'll eat all your goods, three hoes, a shovel, six sickles, and three crowbars, plus the next time you Chinese the goods you will pick first, and I'll give you six more hoes."...... ”

The mine owner was stunned, of course he knew that these goods were worth more than these tools, but the problem was that the Chinese left thousands of soldiers on Lanyu, leaving only a few patrolling fast sailing ships to patrol nearby, and the other cargo ships unloaded the materials and loaded the goods collected before returning to the eastern port. Nowadays, the Chinese camp is surrounded by mountains of various ores and minerals, and the Chinese soldiers will not even look at these goods, which means that before the cargo ship returns, the goods they bring are equivalent to worthless. The family's mine had just been bribed from the chieftain of the island, and the slaves were borrowed from several nearby families, so if the pit hadn't been filled in early, who knew if the sheikh would have resold the sulphur to someone else? Now although the value of the tools sold in exchange for a little low, but it is not less, at least these tools can be sold back to their own island for a good price, definitely profitable, if they delay more time here, the family will worry about whether they are shipwrecked at sea, maybe they will be rushed into the door by the creditors to tear down the house, and do not guard the slaves to work, who knows if the slaves will rebel or be lazy? It's a way to make money! You can't get out of the half-point spread pool! Thinking of this, he nodded heavily, stretched out his right hand and spat on it. The chief of Lanyu also nodded heavily, stretched out his right hand and spit on the palm, and then the two of them clasped their hands together strongly, and the deal was done.

"What's going on over there? Why is it so noisy? Hong Jie looked to the east with some annoyance, but he couldn't see anything but the green leaves. Fan Han next to him hurriedly said, "Chief, they are local natives, and they are auctioning the goods they brought on the east side of the island. ”

"Auction?" Hong Jie was stunned, "What are they auctioning?" What's there to auction? Isn't everything to be sold to us at the end of the day? ”

"Yes," Guo Hao said angrily on the side, "The tools you gave out before are now being sold everywhere by those natives, and I have seen a natives climbing trees and harvesting bananas with sickles a few days ago." ”

"That's a good thing!" Hong Jie smiled and lay down on the marching bed and said, "The natives know how to use good tools to produce better results, and they will come to us to buy more and better tools in the future." ”

"It's easy to say," Guo Hao was obviously not happy, "They now directly skip us to trade bulk commodities, the ore transported by the natives of the outer islands to Lanyu must first be traded in the eastern trading field, and then they can be sold to us, we have bothered to build a trading post, but let the local natives sit back and enjoy the benefits." ”

"It's also a good thing to sit back and enjoy it," it was Zhan Jie who spoke, holding a medical book he had brought from Dongfang Harbor in his hand, and said as he read it, "Although the principle of letting some people get rich first sounds bastard, it is quite useful, and when you have money, your mind will be lively, and they will find a way to attach themselves to us and suck blood, just like leeches." ”

"It's nice to be bloodsucked, isn't it?" Guo Hao was unhappy, Zhan Jie shook his head, "Of course it's not fun, so you have to control the quality, the money can't be earned, if you earn all the money in your own pocket, then who can afford to buy things and afford to live?" Is it our ultimate goal to be like the one-man planet that Liu Cixin said? You see where we came from, how many years have the Americans been hegemonic? He began to contribute money and efforts to fight wars and plunder supplies, but after a few decades, a Bretton Woods monetary system controlled the whole world in his hands, and the world's transactions had to be carried out through dollars, and he only needed to print dollars at home, and he could take a cut of the world's trade. ”

"That's it...... Well, what kind of forest system is that? Hong Jie obviously didn't understand what Zhan Jie said, and hurriedly asked, Zhan Jie glanced at him, "The Bretton Woods monetary system refers to the international monetary system centered on the US dollar after World War II, which was established by representatives of major Western countries at the United Nations International Monetary and Financial Conference in July 1944, because the meeting was held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, so it is called the "Bretton Woods system." "The General Agreement on Tariffs, which complemented the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 and together with the agreements adopted at the Bretton Woods Conference, is collectively known as the 'Bretton Woods system', that is, the multilateral economic system with foreign exchange liberalization, capital liberalization and trade liberalization as its main contents, which constitutes the core content of the capitalist bloc. The Americans smoothly pegged the dollar directly to gold through this agreement, and then the currencies of other countries were pegged to the dollar, remember the scene where the villains of Die Hard ransacked the vaults on Wall Street? Because the U.S. dollar is pegged to gold, other countries have to keep gold on Wall Street to ensure the stability of the exchange rate. ”

"I don't understand," Hong Jie immediately raised his hands and put a lid on his eyes, "I might as well sleep." ”

"You talk more," Guo Hao was interested, "In other words, I have always just thought that commercial trade is to buy at a low price and sell at a high price, but I didn't expect to use such a method to manipulate the market!" If we can build our Oriental Port monetary system in the future, then we can also sit at home and print money in the future? ”

"Yes, but first and foremost, to be able to promote paper money." Hong Jie didn't have the heart to catch up with a sentence, Guo Hao didn't care about his words, "I know that paper money is a good thing, paper money can be used for consumption in China, and precious metals can be used for international trade, which can maximize commercial benefits." ”

Enemy and hatred of science and technology, Sun Cha learned skills from Yang Mo

"Well, that's right, that's it," Zhan Jie nodded, "In fact, the main work of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade at this stage is to open the world trade market and destroy the monopoly of the Medeno people on world trade. ”

"It's really lacking in virtue," Hong Jie muttered a little boringly, "but I like it." ”

Sun Di Ke Ke Du Hou Surgery by the cold far away

"One, two, one! One, two, one! "Hundreds of Foreign Legion soldiers in the playground of the camp are practicing, they are turning in columns and columns on the playground according to the requirements of the drill code, they are no longer like the previous New Army when they had to shout the command of one-two-one-two to turn, but only need to follow the command of the officer leading the troops to be able to turn in a very beautiful formation. The Foreign Legion soldiers in bright red uniforms were now lining up on the playground one fan after another, then evolving into columns, and then turning back to horizontal columns.

Outside the playground were a large number of indigenous children and women, and the drills of the soldiers on the playground seemed extremely tempting in their eyes. One by one, the women screamed and waved at the soldiers on the playground, waving their hands wildly at the soldiers they had all looked at. The military uniform is different from ordinary men's clothing, the military uniform is basically reflected in the strength, perseverance and courage of men, these soldiers may not be any different from the natives after taking off the military uniform, but at the moment wearing a straight military uniform, the double row of silver buttons on the chest and the high hat on the head, especially the white armed belt, make these foreign legion soldiers look extremely handsome, and for a time became a style on Orchid Island.

The land is a lonely place

The women who were sent by the natives had returned to the Oriental Port with the return of the Oriental Port, but at this moment, more women had come, lingering around the military camp on Orchid Island, wanting to meet these red-clothed soldiers on the island for a tryst, which also became the biggest worry in the hearts of the battalion commander Nguyen Van Ngoc and the chief of the general staff Maruyama Naoki.

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