Soon Ennia and his people were pleasantly surprised to find that the Tang seemed to be able to offer more and better goods than the British. Pens, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info The British provided the Creeks with basically all the crude metal tools, mostly pig iron, and the quality was very poor.

Because the Tang people were responsible for a lot of construction work, and there were also trade considerations, they brought a lot of things with them. Xu Daorun quickly selected some representative products and handed them to Enya to see.

Ennia first chose an axe, before the metal axes of the European colonizers, the Indians were very troublesome to cut wood, they used stone axes to cut down a tree for a long time, with metal axes this efficiency was significantly improved. The Tang people's axe is compared with the British, from the appearance of a lot stronger, first of all, this axe is steel, obviously much sharper, and has been surface treated, it looks cold and faint, immediately feel that it is a very powerful thing, and even the wood of the axe handle has been better polished, not at all like the British sold so shabbyly.

Ennia wielded an axe and struck a piece of wood, and suddenly found that the axe entered a great distance very lightly, believing that it would not take a few strokes to cut the wood, which was much sharper than the axe of the British.

"If it's logging, it's probably better with a saw." Xu Daorun recommended that he naturally would not sell the chainsaws used by the Tang people to the Indians, but there were not too many problems with ordinary saws. The Indians experimented with it, and sure enough, it worked very well, and the wood was sawed off in three or two clicks.

Next came textiles, which the Indians had a relatively low ability to weave, although the temperatures in the southeast were relatively high. But the Creeks also need some protection from the cold. It is also to prevent the body from being scratched by something. Obviously, there is still a gap between the Tang people and the British in terms of textile ability. The main reason is that Datang now only has a local flax production area, but there is no stable cotton production area. A batch of cotton that had been brought from the United States was immediately processed into cotton cloth and cotton clothing, and many of them became military supplies. However, linen is very breathable, and it is also a good thing for Georgia, Florida and other places where the climate is relatively warm.

More importantly, the level of textile printing and dyeing in Datang is stronger than that of the British, so there are various colors on linen. It looks much more showy, which is obviously more to the taste of the Creeks. In the past, they bartered for British textiles, but many of them were old clothes and the colors were relatively monotonous.

Ennia touched the linen shirt spun by the Tang people, and felt that it felt very good, and the key was that it was also very good-looking. He put it on his body, and felt that it was really much more comfortable, and he was very satisfied with his expression.

The Tang people naturally had things like grain, but they didn't dare to sell too much to the Indians, because their own needs were relatively large. Liu Fangwu, commander of the expeditionary force, has already made a preliminary decision. When Pensacola stabilized, he would send merchant ships to Mexico and Cuba. Purchase some of the necessary supplies to subsidize the use of the expeditionary force and the colonial government.

In order to improve the support capacity of the army, the logistics prepared a huge amount of Spam luncheon meat and canned fruits, which were regarded as the non-staple food of the soldiers, and Xu Daorun also took out a little for Enya.

Using the can opener to open the can of luncheon meat, Enia still felt a sense of luxury, the Tang people actually used metal as a container, it was really unimaginable, the tangy aroma of luncheon meat made him swallow his saliva, and then cut a piece with a knife and put it in his mouth to chew.

"Oh, what a delicacy this is...... "The Indians are not as good as that, so Enya also thinks that this kind of thing is very good, and of course there is not only meat and salt, but also metal cans, which are also very valuable.

As for the sweet and sour canned fruits, they are very popular with the Indians, and it is obvious that such things cannot be consumed by ordinary Indians, and must be enjoyed by people with higher status and better economy.

Because Xu Daorun didn't count how to exchange the Tang people's things for the Indians' deer skins in the case of bartering, fortunately, the Clio translator roughly knew how the British traded with them in normal times, so Xu Daorun completed the transaction with Ennia according to the usual exchange ratio of the British. This apparently surprised the Creeks, who, in their opinion, had a higher value and better quality of goods, and they feared that the bundles of deerskins they had brought would not be exchanged for enough.

Xu Daorun's transaction this time is not a loss, even according to the price at which the Tang people sell these things, it is still a little profitable. After all, the productivity level of the Tang people is relatively high, and the production of some metal tools, spam, canned fruits, these are not valuable things, and linen textiles are more expensive, but Xu Daorun did not sell much to Ennia.

In fact, the strategy of winning the southeast region also has the consideration of developing the cotton textile industry. Alabama and Mississippi are both cotton-producing regions, and of course they are still full of Indians who drive wild animals, but then the Tang people will grow cotton on a large scale here, and then cities like Pensacola will set up cotton mills to produce cotton cloth directly locally and sell it to South America or the United States.

To Ennia's dissatisfaction, the Don did not seem to be willing to sell his musket to himself, but he got some sharp knives and spearheads, and the Don did not have rum. Western colonists brought rum into Indian society, which immediately made many Indians drunkards, and the consumption of rum was huge. The Tang people did have some mild rice wine and wine, but it was obviously not strong enough for the Indians to get drunk.

Xu Daorun secretly wrote down that Datang also brews high-grade liquor in his own country, and he can get some to sell to the Indians later.

After the acquisition of white-tailed deerskin sent back to China, after processing can be called relatively high-end leather products, and in recent years, the leather products of the Tang Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty are very well sold, the southern merchants brought the Tang leather goods to the north, and soon became the new favorite of the rich and nobles in the north, the style of the leather clothes or bags with excellent workmanship, some are worth dozens of taels of gold, and a bag is hard to find.

Through this trade, the Tang Dynasty made initial contact with the local Indians, and it seems that the Indians had no objection to the existence of the Tang people. The similarity in skin color is partly due to the fact that the Tang people can provide better goods than the Europeans, and it is more advantageous to do business with the Tang people, and the Indians are not stupid, so naturally it is impossible to delay themselves for the British. (To be continued.) )