8. Shocking the world (middle)
Han Wenzheng smiled and said, "I don't know much about this one, but the iron sword will be clearer." Tie Jian, how many goods did we bring with us this time?" Sun Tiejian stood up and saluted Han Wenzheng and said, "Father, do you need me to report to everyone here the quantity of goods we have brought?" "Tie Jian, our Yanhuang clan has always been upright and upright, and the eldest husband has nothing to say to others, what can not be said? However, Han Wenzheng also felt a little disgusted from what he said in his heart, Gao Xian, do these hypocrites also deserve this title?
The others had colored eyes on each other, and they were also curious about how much property the other party had. Sun Tiejian said: "Father, because the Great Wall is not big, (the aristocratic officials present scolded in unison: "The Great Wall is not big, then what kind of ship is big?") and we are also coming to the Western Continent for the first time, so the cargo loaded is quite less, only two million pieces of large and small porcelain. 500,000 pieces of silk, 1 million pieces of silk clothes, 10,000 tons of tea, 300,000 pieces of wooden handicrafts, 500,000 pieces of rune paper, 1,000 pieces of good weapons, 10,000 pills, and some other small pieces of goods, needless to say, the number is not large. โ
Someone almost had a heart attack, but fortunately, his cultivation was profound, and his fighting spirit was strong, so he barely let his heart beat slowly, and they were also frightened, this amount is really amazing, its value is far beyond their estimates, it is really an amazing fortune, everyone is eyes are red, if it is not for the strength of the force that Han Wenzheng showed before, they really dare to give an order to rob, it is really an amazing wealth, this wealth is afraid that even the emperor of the empire may not be able to have it.
A piece of porcelain, according to the price sold by the Xihai Sea Clan, even a small wine glass is worth more than 10,000 gold coins, if it is a set, the value will have to be turned several times upward, it can be said that the value of porcelain alone is definitely more than 30 billion gold coins, as for 500,000 pieces of silk, the price of each piece of silk is more than 500,000 gold coins, and the value of silk clothes is more than 25 billion gold coins, even if there is no sky-high price of 5 million gold coins, even if it is reduced by a zero, 500,000 gold coins, the value is also more than 50 billion gold coins. Tea, oh my God, that's what is sold in grams, and the price of each gram of tea reaches ten gold coins, that is, 10,000 gold coins a kilogram, 10 million gold coins a ton, and the value of 10,000 tons of tea is 100 billion gold coins. The rest is not yet understood, but, thinking about it, the value is also very high, it can be said that the value of the cargo of the Great Wall is enough to buy dozens of Shengbu Port, even if it is more than enough to buy a few principalities.
Count Marberney was also dizzy, and he was still very faint, although he did not have the intention of robbery, but at the thought of trading so many goods in Shengbu Port, and it seemed that the Yanhuang clan would not be the master of not paying taxes, then, how much was the tax revenue of the Yanhuang clan for this transaction? A billion gold coins or ten billion gold coins, and how much benefit could he get from it? He was about to faint with happiness.
Han Wenzheng smiled and said: "A little bit of goods, it's really insignificant, it's just a drop in the bucket, it's nothing, Lord Marberney, I want to hold an auction in St. Buluogang, and auction the goods I brought, I don't know if you approve it?" The Earl of Marberney, of course, agreed.
A banquet was dispersed, of course, this is only the surface, but in fact, it is also a few happy and a few worried, as for who is happy and who is sad, it has nothing to do with Han Wenzheng, he just went back to your hotel to rest, but he didn't know what his arrival brought to the Western Continent.
There are so many goods of the Yanhuang clan, although there are many rich people in Shengbuluo Port, but it is impossible to have much purchasing power, so Count Marbernie very wisely asked Han Wenzheng to ask for the auction to be held in half a month, waiting for the arrival of more big merchants and nobles. This kind of good thing that can earn more gold coins Han Wenzheng of course agreed, and in this way, the Yanhuang clan also had half a month of free time.
The troops of the first battalion on the Great Wall went ashore, they wandered around on the streets, on the surface they were curious, came to a new continent, they were not curious, they couldn't say it if they weren't curious, and they were allowed to observe the landscape and civilization of the New World on the street, but in fact, the people of the Yanhuang tribe were collecting all kinds of intelligence, and they could see the management level of the city from all aspects of a city, and they could also see things such as a country, race, and culture.
The sanitation on the streets is still relatively good, not very dirty, it seems that the management level of the city is also very good, and the Count of Marberne has been able to sit on the throne of the lord of St. Buloon for thirty years, which is his level. There were also many shops on both sides of the street, and the goods sold were relatively complete, and there were many ships in and out of the port, which proved that commerce was relatively developed, which also showed that the rulers of the western continent did not restrict commercial activities. There are large areas of agricultural areas on the edge of the city, and the crops in the land are growing very well, and it is estimated that the grain output is also at the level of 500 catties per mu, which can be regarded as good; according to the area of cultivated land on the western continent, there is no shortage of grain on the western continent, and the grain production is also relatively sufficient.
Generally speaking, the people's lives are still passable, at least, because of the abundance of grain production, ordinary people should not starve to death on a large scale, which plays a vital role in the stability of a country. Judging from the production mode of some handicraft workshops in the city, their production mode is still quite backward, there is no mechanical power, everything is still very primitive, and the output of a workshop is not very high. From the point of view of the consumption of the aristocracy, the life of the aristocracy is very luxurious, living a life of extreme poverty and luxury, drunk and dreaming of death every day. It can be seen that the aristocracy has completely decayed and is not adapted to this era. It can be seen from the educational facilities in the city that the Western Continent still attaches more importance to education, and when facing the aristocracy, all the educational facilities are unconditionally open, and when facing the commoners, only some students with better qualifications are recruited, and slaves have no right to education, so it can be deduced that the literacy rate on the Western Continent should not exceed 30%, or even less. The subjects of education are only the education of force, including the education of magicians and samurai, as well as the promotion of chivalry, etc., the educational content of natural science is very small, showing that they despise natural science, however, there is a special discipline called alchemy, which has a little taste of natural science, but there are not many apprentices, and the requirements are very high, and there may not be a qualified alchemy apprentice among 10,000 people, which shows that the Western Continent has lagged far behind in natural science, and there are many subjects about theology, as well as art, but they are only one-sided pursuit of art, and there is no need to pay attention to more placesใ
The eyes of the slaves who cultivate from the private land of the nobility are very empty, they are numb, they do not have a little spirit, so to speak, they are just the existence of the walking dead, that is, the slaves have existed for a long, long time, and the slaves have lost the courage to resist, have no right to be educated, have not learned the knowledge of force such as magic and fighting spirit, the slaves do not have much wisdom and no strong force, so they are also powerless to resist at all, it can be seen that slavery will exist for a long time, if no one changes itใ
It can be seen from the laws of the empire that the laws are all for the service of the nobles, and the nobles only need to pay a little gold to kill the commoners, on the contrary, the commoners kill the nobles, and they have to repay it with the lives of the whole family, therefore, the nobles have a lot of privileges, and even, in their own private territory, the nobles also have very absurd powers such as **.
The supremacy of force, this is the principle of the Western Continent, and it is also the only law, with a strong force, you can have everything, there is no legal constraint, some strong people can act arbitrarily, they can kill people at any time without punishment, they can want to rob what they want, no one opposes, and no one dares to object, the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle is vividly reflected here, under such a law, morality is naturally corrupt, and the nature of obeying the strong also makes them not have much loyalty at all, and correspondingly, the strong naturally do not have the consciousness to protect the weak, so there is a lot of power is built on the body of the strong, when the strong die, the force will also disintegrate.
The moral concept of the Western Continent is very different from that of the Yanhuang Clan, and there is no way to do it, Han Wenzheng naturally would not think of using the moral concept of the Yanhuang Clan to ask the people of the Western Continent, he was just thinking about it, in case of war with the Western Continent, there is a place for the civilization of the Western Continent to be used, and sometimes, the loopholes in civilization and thinking are much more terrible than fighting a big defeat.
After five days of observation, the situation that should be understood is basically understood, on the Great Wall, Qiushui leaned on Han Wenzheng's arms and said: "The people on this Western Continent are really barbaric, I really don't know what they are doing to develop such a population." โ
Han Wenzheng smiled and said, " In fact, there is basically nothing in the universe that is the best of both worlds, the morality of my Yanhuang clan is only suitable for my Yanhuang clan, and their morality is only suitable for themselves, if we force them to change, it will only be a disaster, so we don't need to change them, morality can not be formed in a day or two, just as the loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness of my Yanhuang clan are not formed in a day or two, the causes of civilization are different, and it is normal for the formation of moral values to be very different, we cannot say that we are more advanced than their civilization, if we insist on dividing the superiority, the civilization of our Yanhuang clan is more inclusive and can accommodate all kinds of civilizations, and their civilization is more aggressive and much more dangerous, so in the face of such a neighbor, we must always be ready for war. โ
Qiushui said: "Fujun's analysis is very reasonable, but I still hate this kind of civilization, and he makes people very insecure. "Yes, it is because they are insecure that they will keep attacking their opponents until they take everything into their own hands, until nothing can threaten them, and I have a hunch that in the future we will have a big war with this neighbor, a war aimed at conquest. Han Wen was looking up at the stars in the sky and said in a tone that sounded powerless.