Two hundred and sixty-one. The first pot of gold
The vanguard of the Dawen Empire successfully landed on the Somali Peninsula, and soon after the landing, they came into contact with a local tribe, but there was no war, which was a bit unexpected by Li Rujin. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The black charcoal heads in Africa are indeed backward and barbaric, and full of killing and cannibalism, tribal conflicts, and genocide, resulting in the average life expectancy of the black charcoal heads here is less than 25 years.
In this continent full of danger and murderous intentions, if a tribe wants to survive, in addition to its own strength, the necessary survival skills are also necessary, and the tribe encountered by the vanguard of the Dawen Empire is a relatively smart one.
When the vanguard of the Dawen Empire landed on the African continent in a landing craft, they met the people of this tribe, and the leader was the leader of this tribe, a black charcoal head who couldn't see his age, the age of the black charcoal head was really difficult to see, and the appearance of them after they became adults did not change much until they were old.
So it's really not easy to tell the age of a black charcoal head from its appearance.
The language of the two sides is not comprehensible, when there is one thing in this world that is common to everyone, and everyone can understand it when they see it, that is, the expression, when the vanguard of the Dawen Empire saw this group of black charcoal heads, they saw their smiles with big white teeth.
If you don't laugh, you can't do it, the fleet stopped at sea, the tribal leader can still see it, although he doesn't know what that ship gun means, but his instinctive feeling tells him that he can't afford to mess with this group of yellow-skinned guys.
Stretching out their hands and not hitting the smiling person, the two sides communicated with each other through gestures, but after a long time, it was like a chicken and a duck talking, the exchange failed, and in the end, the vanguard took out the real thing, a piece of gold, and the black charcoal head only understood that the Dawen Empire was like this.
The tribal leader and the black charcoal head behind him muttered something, and soon a few black charcoal heads turned around and ran back to the tribe, and after a while, the black charcoal heads came over with a small pile of things, and at a glance, the gold was shaking, and it turned out to be a small pile of gold.
Although it is only a small pile of gold, the specific gravity of gold is 19 times that of water, but the weight is considerable. The vanguard of the Dawen Empire would never have thought that the black charcoal head would carry out a pile of gold like this, and for a while, they were all stupidly there!
Gold has a special meaning in African tribes, but it rarely performs the function of currency, and is more used as a sacrificial object or to give gold a special meaning, so in African tribes, there are basically a large amount of gold reserves.
A small pile of gold was placed in front of the vanguard like this, and it was taken away with a swagger, and the soldiers of the Dawen Empire were really a little embarrassed, although they came to Africa to be robbers, but the soldiers of the Dawen Empire had not yet changed their identity.
The commander of the vanguard immediately sent a soldier back to report the situation, while groping around on his body, hoping to find something to exchange, and all kinds of small bits and pieces were placed in front of the black charcoal head.
Then he began to compare again, and showed the same demonstration to the black charcoal head, but there was no verbal communication, and the comparison still couldn't be compared clearly, and then the commander suddenly thought of something, this thing, the black charcoal head must like it.
The commander untied the dagger to his leg and placed it in front of the tribal leader.
The tribal leader's eyes lit up visibly at the sight of the dagger, and he gave out a look of joy, and the commander saw that he knew that he had given the right thing. The tribal leader took the dagger, played with it in his hand, and from time to time chopped a few small branches with the dagger.
The military dagger of the Dawen Empire, the sharpness is needless to say, it may not be possible to sharpen iron like mud, but cutting a few branches, isn't it like playing!
At this time, after receiving the report, Li Rujin rushed over in a traffic boat, everything that happened here made him very interested, and also gave him a lot of inspiration, if you can replace killing with trading, isn't it more in line with Li Rujin's mind?
Li Rujin had a brief understanding of the incident and knew that some things had been done, but this communication problem had become a difficult problem between the two sides.
The Dawen Empire paid the price of five daggers and exchanged this small pile of gold in its hands, although there was only a small pile, the total weight had reached sixty-two kilograms. That is to say, the five daggers of the Dawen Empire bought several million.
A military dagger costs only ten yuan, and five daggers are only fifty yuan, but in exchange for millions of yuan worth of gold, this is the real book of ten thousand dollars!
Li Rujin did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the soldiers to contribute all the daggers on their bodies, exchange them for gold with the black charcoal head, and set the price, one dagger for ten kilograms of gold!
The Dawen Empire had a large number of daggers, but the black charcoal head did not have enough gold to trade, and in the end, the Dawen Empire exchanged twelve daggers for nearly 110 kilograms of gold from this tribe. Among them, there were two daggers, which were given by Li Rujin to a tribal leader.
One hundred and ten kilograms of gold, which was contributed by only one tribe. When the news came back to the fleet, the whole fleet was boiling, what was the purpose of their coming here, wasn't it just to find gold for the empire? Today, without much effort, one hundred and ten kilograms of gold were exchanged from the hands of a tribe, and the Dawen Empire only paid twelve daggers, which is simply a good start!
The vanguard is still in that tribe, and there is no gold in this tribe, but that doesn't mean there are no other treasures! In addition to being rich in gold, Africa also has diamonds, copper mines, precious trees, etc., which are all mountains of gold, waiting to be discovered by the Dawen Empire.
The vanguard returned to the tribe's territory with the black charcoal head, and sure enough, the vanguard did not disappoint, and diamonds were found on the ornaments of the tribal women.
With the rapid popularization of machine tools, cutter bits have become a scarce commodity, and the Dawen Empire is now unable to make high-quality alloy cutter heads, let alone any coated cutter heads and the like.
Or mainly diamond cutter heads, the output of diamonds in the Dawen Empire is extremely low, and it cannot meet the requirements of industrial development at all, the Europa Empire is rich in diamonds, but the Europa Empire uses diamonds as a strategic resource and does not sell them to the Dawen Empire at all.
This Dawen Empire is sad, there is not enough diamond cutter head, so it has to be replaced by tungsten carbide cutter head, but although tungsten carbide cutter head has high hardness, but the toughness is too poor, and the damage rate is high in the process of use, resulting in the high cost of cutter head, which greatly affects production costs and work efficiency.
Therefore, in the plan to invade Africa, diamond was also the focus of the Dawen Empire.
In the eyes of the black charcoal head, diamonds are just shiny small stones, and they are not very useful, but this thing is indeed relatively rare, so the Dawen Empire has only obtained dozens of diamonds in this tribe.
But a good start is a success, this is the first day that the fleet of the Dawen Empire arrived in Africa, and it has obtained such rich results, which is already extremely rare!