"They're first-rate plays: they imitate us as soon as we cough or yawn or do some other weird thing. Our Datang soldiers glanced at them and turned away from them; But one of the young Australians (his face was painted black, with no white except for his eyes) managed to make an even more ridiculous grimace. They can repeat exactly every word we say to them, and they can remember those words for a long time."

Excerpt from Zhang Quandan's "Captain's Navigation Log", the second year of Zhenguan

The natives are small in number, looking like the natives of a village, and these swarthy Australian aborigines with only palm leaves wrapped around their waists are still uncivilized virgin land.

Cheng Chumo was very bold, and ordered his subordinates to take some gadgets made of glass from the boat, glasses, glass balls and the like, these things have now been flooded in Chang'an, and the price has dropped to dozens of dollars, of course, this has something to do with Xu Yang's large-scale manufacturing of glass items.

Holding the cloth bag containing the glass balls, Cheng Chumo stood in front of those natives with a compassionate expression and said: "I have the virtue of a good life in the Tang Dynasty, and I am a barbarian, and I have not opened my wisdom. ”

A native standing at the front said vaguely, "Cunning second-class." ”

Cheng Chumo was furious when he heard this, "You dare to be rude to Ben General?!" ”

When Xu Yang heard this, he laughed and said: "Chu Mo, don't bother with it, they don't understand what you say, show them the glass balls, and let them tell us where the gold comes from." ”

Sure enough, as soon as this sentence came out, Cheng Chumo immediately turned into a rich slave, his eyes were full of golden light, and he looked at the gold and silver jewelry on the hands and necks of those natives with ill will.

I saw him take out a handful of small glass balls from the cloth bag, and the glass beads scattered in Cheng Chumo's hands shone in the sunlight, which immediately attracted the attention of those natives.

"Abuka, Murdow, Abuka!" The natives standing in front of them all let out a strange scream, and the natives they saw behind also echoed, and for a while there were voices such as Abuka and Murdo everywhere.

Cheng Chumo saw that there was a play, and the eager expressions of these people indicated the possibility of exchanging glass for gold and silver.

"Your, um, my, swap." Cheng Chumo turned into a profiteer, took out a small glass bead, pointed to a gold bracelet on the hand of the young native standing in the front, and pointed to the glass ball in his hand, hinting at trading with him, only to see that the young native was flattered, and then hurriedly took off his gold bracelet and handed it over.

Cheng Chumo also took out a small glass ball and handed it to him very fairly, and the two of them finished the transaction, both of them smiled.

I saw that the young man took the glass ball as if he was holding a holy relic, played with it in his hand, and finally looked at it vigorously at the sun, and the glass refracted a colorful light in the daylight, which made the native intoxicated, and muttered "Abuka, Murdor." "Kind of words.

The deal caused a stir among the natives, and many female natives shouted "Murdau, Murdau" and squeezed forward.

Several natives beside Cheng Chumo were even closer to the water, and they replaced their gold bracelets with glass balls as soon as possible.

Cheng Chumo was already happy at this time, and his hands were full of all kinds of gold utensils, although the production was not very good, but a glass ball worth only a few dozen cents could be exchanged for more than one or two gold, such a transaction would make people feel like they were living in a dream.

The natives were enthusiastic, and they crowded around Cheng Chumo, and the natives on the periphery also looked at the Tang soldiers who were standing straight with curiosity, and seemed to be able to feel the murderous aura on the soldiers, and they were all far away from the soldiers.

"Boy, are you deceiving these natives like this, aren't you afraid that they will ask for compensation after they know the price of the glass balls in the future?" Niu Jinda said with a little worry.

"Hehe, Uncle Niu, the buying and selling is voluntary, I didn't rob or steal, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, this can't complain to me, besides, I think eighty percent of these natives are going to keep mining workers in Australia in the future, as mine workers, they don't have much freedom to say." Xu Yang looked at these cheering natives with the eyes of a slave.

Niu Jinda swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said with some confusion: "This is not good, my Tang Dynasty is a state of etiquette, for the uncivilized slaves, as long as they do not cause harm to my Tang people, they have the responsibility to educate Confucius and Mencius, so that they know honesty and shame, and know etiquette." ”

Xu Yang couldn't deny it, but said with a smile: "Uncle Niu, when our fleet returns to Datang, we will know how short of people my Datang is now, I don't dare to say more, but the slaves in the mine need at least one million." "Later colonies, those British are also in the discovery of a large number of mineral deposits before tearing off the veil of hypocrisy, colonization, slavery, trade, the accumulation of primitive capital are all condensed with blood and tears, and most of these blood and tears are those who died in the mining deposits of the mining workers, according to incomplete statistics, at that time in the African mines and British factories in the black slaves about 200,000, these are still tired slaves, and there are many living slaves are countless, At that time, the plundered population accounted for one-third of the total population of Africa.

"A million." Niu Jinda also changed slightly when he heard the news, Xu Yang's prediction was very accurate, along the way, whether it was the ocean current or the monsoon, whether it was an island or a reef, he could clearly point it out, which was simply praised as a miracle in the fleet, when he said that the Tang Dynasty needed a million slaves, although Niu Jinda was full of discussion in his heart, but he was convinced.

"I need so many slaves to mine and smelt iron, but where can I find a million slaves? These are not the fruits of a tree, pick one and have one, these are living people, although they are not civilized, but they need to be nurtured for eighteen years from birth to maturity. Niu Jinda said worriedly.

"Uncle Niu, the world is big, remember North America, South America and Africa on the map? Where will the Tang Dynasty find enough and sufficient cheap labor, when the scientific and technological civilization of the Tang Dynasty reaches a certain height, the surrounding Goryeo, Tubo, and Turkic, their lands will be occupied by us, and their people will become the slaves of the Tang Dynasty. Xu Yang smiled faintly.

The sunlight shone on his young face, looking like a harmless sunshine for humans and animals, but it was this Xu Yang that made Niu Jinda shudder, the young man in front of him had already considered conquering the world in the future from the time he sailed to the sea, could this be the ability of the disciples of Guigu to reach the sky?! RS