"It was a completely different world, they lived in sturdy houses, they wore all kinds of clothes, they sold things we had never seen before.

Later I learned how foolish it was for me to order my people to take their prey to Xinhua City in the hope of exchanging it for gold. It was only later that I learned why we were told that we could exchange gold for their belongings before we entered the city.

Because when our people come into contact with what they produce, our people can no longer do without it. And our stuff is simply worthless in their eyes.

I don't know if it was good or bad for me to decide to engage with them in the first place, but now I have to admit that we have become them. ”

This is what the chiefs of the first Indian tribes to enter Xinhua City said to their descendants when they recalled their past.

As she recalled, when the Indians entered Xinhua City, a whole new world unfolded before their eyes.

Xinhua City is a little different from the Central Plains City, because Zhao Weiji considered that there would not be any major wars here in the short term, so he did not build high walls around the city to defend against foreign enemies like the Central Plains City.

But out of respect for tradition, there is still a ring of walls around Xinhua City, but this wall is not too high, a bit similar to the wall of a large mansion, but a little higher than that.

However, it is precisely because of these walls that the scene inside the city cannot be seen from outside the city, and it is precisely because of such a design that the Indians who enter the city to see the scene inside the city feel that they have reached another world.

"What are they talking about?" Zhao Weiji, who accompanied this group of Indians into the city together, secretly asked Snow.

Because the performance of this group of Indians at this time reminded Zhao Weiji of a sentence, that is, Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden. From the curious eyes of the Indians, Zhao Weiji could conclude that the attraction here was even greater than he imagined.

"Back to the prince, most of what they said was the novelty and curiosity of our houses and clothes." Snow summarized the conversations he had heard, and then told Zhao Weiji.

"In that case, you take them to walk around first, there is still something to do at my city hall, take them to the unspecified restaurant for dinner later, and I will come back then."

"Okay, lord."

After explaining some matters to Snow, Zhao Weiji left the team.

Snow began to wander around the city with the Indians.

Since the people of the city had never seen the Indians either, the procession attracted a large crowd of onlookers everywhere it went.

"What are they looking at?" It's not always a comfortable thing to be watched, so the chief can't help but ask Snow what the hell these people are looking at.

"It's nothing, they're just curious about the chief and your people." Snow gave the chief a more euphemistic explanation.

"If they're curious, would they be interested in my tribe's stuff?"

In fact, the question asked by the chief made Snow a little difficult, Snow who had lived with the Han people for a long time was no longer the Inuit who had never seen anything at the beginning, and he was also very clear about what was in Xinhua City today.

To tell the truth, Snow has also seen the things brought by this Indian tribe, and if Snow is asked to evaluate these things, it will be only five words: what is it?

However, this kind of big truth naturally can't be said casually at this moment, so Snow had to perfunctory: "You can give it a try, show everything and see if anyone wants to exchange it for anything, or buy it directly with gold." ”

Although Snow only said it casually, the Indians actually did it, and immediately some of them put the goods they were carrying on the ground and displayed them.

And because of the language barrier, they also asked Snow to translate, and that scene at that time embarrassed Snow.

In desperation, Snow had no choice but to translate it.

But what Snow didn't expect was that when he translated the words of the Indians, the onlookers around looked at those things and dispersed in a hurry.

"Cut, I thought it was something new, these things aren't all leftovers for us."

"That's it, that's it, who wants the corpses of these beasts, the fur is not good, and the meat quality is not good."

"What are those trinkets made of?"

"It's made of bone."

"It's made of bones, then I don't want it."

Basically, everyone in the scattered crowd spoke something like this.

Although these Indians could not understand the Chinese dialect of the Central Plains, they could also guess from the expressions of the crowd that these people did not like their own things, so these Indians were a little difficult to accept.

So they all looked at Snow with a puzzled look, and at this time Snow also knew that if he didn't give them a reasonable explanation, it was estimated that it would be difficult to settle the matter for a while.

But how to give a reasonable explanation is a bit of a headache for Snow. However, at this time, one of the accompanying guards suggested to Snow if he could take the Indians to see the Han Chinese shop.

Let them see the similar things sold in Han Chinese shops, and maybe they will understand why their own things are not welcomed.

It may not be the best idea, but it may be the most appropriate idea in the current situation, so Snow led the group of Indians into a silk estate.

This silk village mainly sells flour cloth products, and there are also some silk satins, although not as large as the silk and satin villages in the Central Plains, but it is more than enough to deter these Indians.

Once inside, the guards went to explain it to the boss, and Snow led the chief on a tour.

At first, the chief and the others didn't know what the cloth was for, but when Snow explained to them that it was used to make the clothes he was wearing, the chief and the others were not calm.

The reason is very simple, these Indians did not have any technology to spin plant fibers into clothes, all their clothes were made of animal skins, but because animal skins could not be mass-produced like cotton and linen, many Indians did not have much clothing to wear.

While it doesn't matter to the Indians who live in the tropical regions of South America because of the high temperatures all year round, it is not the same for the Indians who live in North America.

In particular, the Indians, who originally lived in the northerner part of the North American continent, were a disaster for them, and often in winter, people who did not have a large reserve of fur could easily freeze to death.

The Indians who are now in Xinhua City migrated from the central and eastern parts of North America, because the winters on the West Coast were relatively milder.

"Snow, isn't it really cold to wear clothes made of these things on your body in winter?"

To prove the chief's question, Snow borrowed a cotton coat from the shopkeeper and helped him put it on, "This is what we wear in winter." ”

As soon as the chief put on his cotton coat, he began to sweat very quickly, for it was September and the west coast was quite warm.

"That's good." Sensing the power of the cotton coat, the chief praised it again and again, and immediately ordered his men to take out their furs and exchange them for more cotton clothes with the boss.

But the shopkeeper waved his hand when he saw the furs, for the furs taken out by the Indians were nothing more than cowhides, and rabbit skins and the like were of little value, and the best was a deerskin.

If there is a fox fur or a mink, then the shopkeeper may still be tempted, and the fur of these ordinary animals really does not interest the shopkeeper.

"He said that he is not interested in any of your things, and if you want these cotton clothes, you can exchange them for gold."

Then Snow negotiated with the shopkeeper the amount of gold needed in exchange for the amount of cotton clothes set by the chief, and told the chieftain.

This made the chief hesitate, and he knew that it was really possible to deal with things that did not look down on him because of the existence of these cloths.

However, she was still a little reluctant to ask her to use gold, but fortunately, these cotton clothes did not ask for too much gold, and the shopkeeper still had some conscience relatively speaking, and did not slander them, but gave a market price.

In the end, for the sake of the whole clan, she still paid the gold.

After receiving the cotton coats, Snow led the Indians to a blacksmith shop, where they were shown iron weapons, especially iron bows and arrows.

This kind of weapon with a range of more than 100 meters and extremely lethal power amazed the group of Indians, who really could not imagine that anyone could make such a powerful weapon.

So "bleeding" here is a normal thing.

The blacksmith was followed by the goldsmith's shop, and the delicate gold ornaments in the goldsmith's shop were the scum that hung around the chief's neck. Later, I visited a shop selling other ornaments, and the beautiful ornaments of various materials in them overshadowed the bone ornaments that the Indians were very complacent.

After a long walk, the chief could only say this to Snow: "I finally know why your people don't think much of our things at all, you have too many good things." ”

Snow couldn't deny the chief's words, but he suddenly remembered that Zhao Weiji had told him that if these people were full of desire to buy what Xinhua City could do, they must add another fire, "If the chief likes it, he can often come to this city to buy new items in the future." ”

Although Snow's words made the chief very happy, because his own products could not be exchanged for any products in Xinhua City, he paid in gold every time, which made the chief feel a little "liver pain".

But at this time, Snow spoke again: "Chief Chief, it's not early, our city lord has prepared a dinner party for you, I'll take you there." ”

After all this experience, the chief was also curious about how these people would eat differently, so the group of Indians followed Snow to the feast.