Chapter 191: First Trade
After the exchange of state letters, King Atahuaba held a grand banquet in the castle to entertain the envoys of Great Xia.
The banquet was attended by key members of the Inca royal family, priests, including queens and concubines.
Heiwa and the others had been shocked by the golden walls of King Atahuaba before, and after meeting the members of the Inca royal family, they were even more blinded by their clothing.
The aristocrats wore ornaments made of large quantities of gold pieces and precious stones, such as tiaras, earrings, bracelets, etc., all over the body.
And both men and women will wear necklaces, these necklaces are made of gold and ores, such as: emerald, turquoise, sodalite, amazite, quartz, amethyst, amber, etc., made of beads in series.
What the people of Bactria didn't know was that the members of the royal family had preconceived about the richness of Bactria after seeing King Atahuaba's screens and other gifts. I put all my most luxurious ornaments on my body, and I don't want to lose my momentum.
"Tyrants, tyrants!" Yuan Wenwu and Qin Ke muttered, compared to the nobles of the Inca Empire, the nobles of Daxia could really be called simple, and they were arranged to sit on a carpet made of alpaca.
At the beginning of the banquet, a round of more than 20 people performed with a pan flute and drum ensemble, and the pan flute was blown in the mysterious sound of drums.
The sound seems to come from ancient times, with its own mysterious purifying energy, which makes people tranquil and tranquil, like sleeping in the arms of a mother.
It was so obviously different from the sounds made by the various musical instruments of Great Xia, after the song was finished, the twenty people did not come back to their senses for a long time, and they were still intoxicated.
King Atahuaba was pleased with the performance of his guests, and as soon as their Inca music came out, they were silenced.
The next step was to drink and eat meat, and King Atahuaba gave his guests a golden beaker with a flat bottom and a flared mouth. Beakers are larger than their fists, and the circle of cups is decorated with clam-like sea creatures.
Corn wine is the only alcoholic drink of the Incas, and it has a mellow and sweet taste.
Everyone drank three full cups of corn wine, except for the first sip, the rest of the corn wine was swallowed by Heiwa into the black soil of the space, he was afraid that this wine would be strong, and the group would get drunk.
Yuan Wenjie and Yuan Wenwu haven't drunk wine yet, their faces are red and dripping blood after one glass, and Qin Ke is okay with three cups. The rest of the teenagers have all had the experience of such occasions, and their waists are still straight.
I drank wine, I ate meat, and I am friends from now on! King Atahuaba gave his friend the monarch of Bactria a with a gift that was also very characteristic of the Inca Empire:
two sets of drinking vessels in the shape of alpacas, made of solid gold and pure silver;
a box of emeralds, garnets, aquamarines, chrysoberyls and other gemstones;
A number of fine fabrics are woven from the fluff of the alpaca, which are woven not only with small beads of gold and silver, but also with colorful feathers.
It may be that King Atahuaba felt that these fabrics could represent the highest weaving craftsmanship of the Inca Empire, which was a response to the embroidery of the Bactrian court.
With the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the shippers who were waiting on the docks and sea-going ships were also notified to bring their goods to Manchester City, and the first trade between the two countries began.
There were no professional merchants in the Inca Empire, and all their goods were traded by the princes of the Inca Empire, using gold, silver, painted pottery, precious stones, etc.
The official commodity of the Great Xia Dynasty, Zhong Qinbo directly traded two-thirds of it. Whether it is pastel ware, blue and white porcelain or court embroidery, the great princes of the Inca Empire are very happy.
The double-sided embroidered tanuki fan, the fat baby holding the koi purse, and the screens of various flowers and birds made the queen and the favorite concubines almost not grab the fight.
King Atahuaba has hundreds of queens and concubines, as well as dozens of princes and princesses, which is really not enough.
The taste of tea was also very popular, and the Incas used a sun-dried leaf as their main drink. This is a medicinal drink researched by their witch doctor, and the bitter taste is like Coptis chinensis.
In addition to medicinal drinks, they also have a drink that relieves fatigue after work, cocoa.
The cacao fruit was ground into powder and brewed to drink, because its taste was equally bitter, and the Incas added paprika to it, which was spicy and bitter to refresh and relieve fatigue.
The tea soup of green tea and fermented tea is obviously sweet, especially when drinking tea with the blue and white porcelain tea cup of the Great Xia Dynasty, the ladies feel that it is very dish-oriented.
After the three giants discussed, most of the official goods they brought were exchanged for gold, and a small number of them were exchanged for precious stones.
When Zhong Qinbo proposed that he wanted to exchange their corn, potatoes and other food, the imperial prince directly waved his hand, indicating that they were friendly gifts. As long as their ships are willing to load, they can load as much as they want!
Zhongqinbo: Then I'm really not welcome!
Yuan Wenjie and the eight translators have made a lot of money, and they can't do without translations in any transaction, and both sides of the transaction have to give them heavy gifts.
Or the young man has a flexible brain, looking at these eight teenagers, the shippers regret it so much, who doesn't have a few concubines? This has to be brought out, but it can come in handy.
Unlike the official goods of the imperial court, the ship merchants mainly consisted of silk fabrics, white porcelain, tea, and peppercorns.
Sichuan pepper, because Shangguan Taiyi was on the island, deworming the indigenous children, the seller asked Qin Ke and their translators to directly promote Sichuan pepper as a miracle medicine.
The prince of the empire is skeptical, what these distinguished guests said is too mysterious, and the child's stomach ache is because of bugs? However, he was quite willing to cooperate, and when he was instructed, he found more than a dozen Inca civilian children to test the medicine in a quarter of an hour.
The familiar recipe, the familiar operation, and the familiar gagging scene happened again, and finally the chief witch doctor of the Inca Empire was alarmed.
The witch doctor picked up the pepper and sniffed and chewed it, witnessing the child who had drunk the peppercorn soup pull out the roundworms. With the approval of the witch doctor, the prince of the empire immediately said that they wanted as many peppercorns as they wanted.
In addition to peppercorns, the rest of the goods were also well received, and the gold and silver were exchanged for the shippers. The value of these commodities was more than a hundred times longer than in the Great Xia Dynasty.
This one who came with peppercorns is the Great Xia clan, as soon as they make a move on the whole cargo ship of peppercorns, there is no merchant who is not envious and jealous, and there is no harm if there is no comparison!
The gold and silver they got can fit half a boat! Shudi, the origin of peppercorns, the best dried peppercorns are only 100 wen a catty.
The Great Xia clan was still unbelievable until they moved the gold and silver to the ship. The Great Xia clan is poor, they are inferior to many nobles, and the ones who can let them take dry shares are also some third-rate merchants.
The dried peppercorns brought this time are the merchants they occupy shares in secretly tossing the spicy hot pot base in the capital, but they did not succeed in tossing, and the remaining inventory.
Before they came, they also thought that there were many overseas spices, and it was possible that they would not be able to sell them. If they can return to Beijing smoothly this time, their clans will tremble!
Comic books and gorgeous puzzle toys, the little princes and princesses of the royal family watched with relish and had a lot of fun.
After Yuan Wenjie and the three of them discussed, they used half of the inventory and exchanged it for various colored gems of the Inca Empire, mainly gold and silver, and there were no gems that were easy to carry.
The gems that were exchanged for goods, and the gold and gems earned from translating, were all handed over to their father to help keep. Seeing the green flowers in the space drooling, no woman can refuse these gems!
The Incas did not have paper, and their cultural inheritance was passed on by word of mouth and knotted on a rope, and the comic strip brought more than just a reading material to the little princes.
"Paper? Bactrian script? "King Atahuaba stroked the cover of the comic strip and summoned the wisest priests of the empire. Together with the comic strips, they studied it for several days but did not find out what the paper was made of.
Not to mention the printing process on the paper, how did these people achieve the exact same pattern in the album?
None of the people who could be kings were fools, and King Atahuaba immediately realized that this piece of paper from Bactria could bring a leap of inheritance to the Inca Empire. After discussing with the priest for a long time, the eldest prince found the envoy of Great Xia.
"Want to buy more paper? Still want to learn papermaking? Hearing Qin Ke's translation, Huang Shangshu and the others didn't expect that the teenagers' small business also brought them big business opportunities.
Readers, especially those who read about them, how many of them have not personally made them, and the four treasures of the study are leisurely and elegant?
In this group of people, Master Yan, who is from a poor family, when he was a young student, the brushes and paper at home were all made by himself, and his skills were very good. Master Yan was stunned, he could still use the techniques he had to learn to save money to earn gold overseas?!
"Agreed, the country that can't make papermaking now is estimated to be the Inca Empire, which doesn't involve the production of weapons, let's boldly change!"
"I'm okay with that, this thing doesn't affect anything." The Big Three voted unanimously.
The eldest prince was happy, he was so smoothly changed to such advanced civilization technology, and he looked at Qin Ke and Yuan Wenwu, the two translators, with very kind eyes.
In front of his father, he also made a contribution, and before leaving, he gave one of the two translators an emerald gem the size of a pigeon's egg.
"Master Yan, the Inca Empire is a tyrant country, and it is such a big gem that is rewarded casually. This thing can be sold for tens of thousands of taels in Great Xia, you have to teach these people, tsk! ”
Huang Shangshu excitedly pulled Master Yan, ignoring Gao Huaiyu, who said sour words, and the two discussed with great interest the materials and tools needed to make paper.
The process of papermaking is not particularly complicated, and there are hundreds of papermaking workshops in Daxia, which is nothing more than the raw materials of papermaking, such as: hemp, rattan, bamboo, and bark, which are completed through eight processes: soaking and chopping - soaking in gray water - pounding - washing - slotting - making paper - drying paper - unloading paper.
What raw materials the Inca Empire could find, they had to go up the mountain to find it themselves.