Chapter 146: A Journey to the West (12)
After Saeed finished his lunch beautifully, he was so comfortable that he was completely relieved.
It is impossible to rob his ship...... Which of the boats they docked around the dock was a mountain to him!
It is impossible to sell him...... No one would be so nice to a slave to be sold.
After the meal, I also poured a big bowl of tea for them with that kind of copper skin pointed mouth pot...... Is tea something that ordinary people can drink?!
Truth be told, when he went to Cairo to sell stolen goods that the pirate gangs did not want, he had the privilege of drinking once in a teahouse owned by a wealthy Oriental...... The money spent still makes him feel distressed.
And here, drink as much as you want, you can also add.
Therefore, he must be safe, and it is not clear that these Orientals are in the same group as the Orientals in Cairo, but they are not quite like them.
Sure enough, he was received by two commanders at the same time.
He was asked a lot of questions, but fortunately he was well-informed, otherwise he would not have been able to answer.
He later learned that his men had been asked many questions individually, but none of them had as much as he had said.
The noble, strong, wealthy, and clean Orientals came from the magical island of Liuqiu, which is said to be full of gold...... You can dig it out of the ground, grow it on a tree, and even have a small bug that you can spit out!
But it's so far away that some people say that there are often angry monsters in the ocean that go there!
He was tired of answering too many questions...... The kind Governor and the General spared him and let him and his men sleep together in a tent on the beach after dinner.
In the evening, they were given some wine and delicious meat in tin tubes.
This is really the life of an aristocracy...... He fell asleep sweetly.
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding also looked at another report...... When he questioned the guy, he also sent someone to ask the guy's men.
Except for the King of the Empire, he basically never trusts anyone else's side of the story.
“…… That guy is a pirate, but it's a pity that the power is too small! ”
The Governor nodded and said:
"Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone to rob the slaves himself, and he wouldn't have passed through here. Small has small benefits, which is convenient for us to control in advance! ”
That's all I can say...... This guy is a good lead party.
As for the pirates on the Barbary Coast, they don't want to move for the time being, and they may have to use them to do some dirty work.
Those people who have no demands for justice or anything like that, but only see interests, also have their own unique uses.
The two of them roughly set a development plan, starting with Said.
The next day, Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding summoned Said, and deliberately inquired about the situation on the Barbary coast, expressing his interest in the slave market there, regardless of gender, age or age, skin color, as long as there was a little skill, there was really no skill, and pure manual labor was fine.
Said's eyes were red at that time, you said earlier, there are many guys who eat for nothing, no one pays a ransom for them, and they can't sell them for a price, and many large pirate gangs force themselves to take them and forcibly match them with stolen goods!
If you said it earlier, I went to this great lengths to catch a black woman?!
Said's expression couldn't escape Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding's eyes.
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding smiled faintly and said, "I can give out the silver coins, according to your dinar...... You can also exchange porcelain, spices and silk with you, which one do you wish to use? ”
Said wanted to kneel down and kiss the general's feet, but he blurted out and said, "Spice! Chinaware!! Silk!!! ”
Well, that's good...... The dumping operation of the Great Song Dynasty government did not completely reduce the price of these things, and they were still much more expensive than people's prices, let alone silver coins......
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding also gave him a suggestion, persuading him not to stop the broken ship for the time being...... In the future, he will be compensated for a two-masted sailing ship of the flow type, which can steer the sails and suit all wind directions.
Said looked at Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding with a puzzled expression, do you have to sell my ship?!
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding immediately explained that he would never sell or possess his ship, just leave it there...... It's just that it is really distressing to see that boat taking up so much labor to paddle, and besides, that boat can't keep up with the speed of our sea boats!
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding's subsequent offer made Saeed completely happy, and he wouldn't feel distressed if ten more boats were detained!
Slaves of a certain skill and under forty-five years of age would pay one horse of silk or a set of porcelain or a kilogram of spices for every ten men; Purely manual slaves between the ages of twenty and forty could pay three horses of cotton cloth for every ten people, or half a horse of silk, half a set of porcelain, and half a kilogram of spices...... Children between the ages of five and fifteen can be considered tech-savvy.
Said suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, they don't understand the market, children are sold together, don't let them know......
"What technology?"
"Leathermians, carpenters, blacksmiths, stonemasons, plasterers, anyone who has a craftsman's character on it...... Even if you can graze and farm, it counts! ”
"What do you mean by a kilogram?"
"Well, a big bag ......"
"And how do I get back?"
"You go back on our ship first...... We will directly exchange the required goods with your labor! ”
Said said calmly: "Even if your boat is big, one boat is not enough ......."
"Then we'll send three boats!"
"Two of them, not enough for three boats of slaves...... Will you want it again in the future? ”
"It's always going to be ...... It will not be stopped for several years. ”
“…… Can I just let my men do this? ”
"It depends on your grades......
"Generous and noble general...... You have Saeed's eternal loyalty! ”
At this time, a cannon shot was heard from the sea...... Saeed had been frightened by the two cannon shots before, why did he come now?!
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding said casually: "That sound can only be a whaling cannon...... It's used to catch the big fish in the sea that can spray water......"
“……”
Said swallowed a mouthful of saliva, how could he not have seen such a big fish!
You can catch that kind of big fish......
After a while, there were three more loud bangs on the mountain, and Said was really trembling...... It was the loudest he'd ever heard!
Lieutenant Colonel Wang Ding said casually: "That's blowing up the mountain to get stones...... Engineering explosives, of course, should be louder and cannot blow up people. ”
“……”
Mountains can also explode......
The sailors who helped them translate were already citizens of the Federal Empire, and he looked at Said proudly, and of course, he was also frightened, and today he can finally see that others are afraid!
Saeed then saw a large fish on the beach, and the wound on the back of the big fish was shocking...... He felt a cool breeze run up his back.
His men were all faceless, and they said that they had just seen the nice rock wall of the mountain, and after a few loud noises, it all collapsed...... Even the strongest fortress in the world may not be able to withstand those Orientals.
"I know there's something called gunpowder in Cairo," Saeed said...... I thought it was a terrible weapon, but compared to them, ......"
One of his men said, "I saw them shoot at the great fish...... If it is shot on our ship, no one will escape ......"
Well, it's better not to give them a chance to use these horrible things on themselves.
In fact, they really didn't mean to scare people, there was no such arrangement at all!
The stone must be there, and it still needs to be blasted...... There are so many whales in the sea, and there are even some sent to the door, you say you can not catch them when you see them!
PS: Thank you for the book friend who ran naked and JIDE1209 for the reward...... The third watch, the third watch!! 8)