Acapulco.

The war came and went as quickly as possible, and the port villages, which had returned to peace, hardly needed to be restored and developed directly.

In the early morning, the ruined streets of the village were bustling with people, and the aboriginal workers of the brick kiln went door to door before dawn to wake up the workers to start a new day's work.

The hunters who had gone out to hunt at dawn had returned, some with prey, others empty-handed, and the beasts of the woods had not recovered as quickly as humans from the effects of war, and they would have seldom been found in the jungle for the next month or two.

Last night, the Dafu ship that docked at the port transferred the goods to Majiagang from the Zhuangyuan Bridge, and Lifu smiled and told the captain on duty in Spanish that it would be completed by noon.

It was the Spaniards who changed the rhythm of aboriginal life, and in recent decades they have long been accustomed to going to bed late and waking up early to work hard, but it was more like the walking dead, and the arrival of the Ming army injected new vitality into the place - to do things for the Ming people, to pay.

In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the aborigines, Chen Mu and his staff took a lot of effort, even if they told the people the starting price when recruiting workers in the earliest brick kilns and paper mills, there were not many people who applied for the job, which made them mistakenly think that the reason for the low remuneration was too low, after all, Chen Mu set the salary here as one penny of silver.

The so-called one worker, is the worker's normal day's workload, in the Ming Dynasty, the most common type of work is three cents of silver.

Zou Yuanbiao asked a few chiefs, and learned that the aborigines of the people did not use silver, and it was useless to earn this money - people's currencies were cotton cloth and cocoa beans.

"One cocoa bean can be exchanged for this." Lin Manjue's family, Hei Jingang, skillfully twisted the cocoa beans in one hand, and held a large tomato in the other hand and said, "Four, sometimes three can also be used, for a hexagonal dragon, uh...... That's what the owner called that little thing. ”

Hexagonal dragon, how majestic is the name?

Chen Mu looked at the salamander with six whiskers and looked like a big tadpole, gave Lin Manjue a thumbs up to praise his talent for naming, and said to Black King Kong: "It's very cheap, what can I do if I buy this?" ”

Black King Kong smiled and showed his slightly yellowed teeth, looking very honest: "Wrap it in corn tortillas, bake it and eat it." ”

Chen Mu gave a thumbs up again: "Tell me about the price again, that is, to buy things with cocoa beans." ”

"Good!"

Black King Kong was very happy that Chen Mu was interested in their affairs, and said, "A hundred cocoa beans can buy a slave or a turkey. ”

"A turkey is as expensive as a man?" Chen Mu raised his hand and rubbed his beard, with a strange look on his face: "This price is not good." ”

Lin Manjue, who was sitting with his arms crossed on the side, coughed lightly and said: "Dashuai, this pricing is very fair, their slaves are different from the slaves we know, moreover, how to say, more enlightened?" ”

"A slave's child is not a slave, and the slave's cocoa beans have nothing to do with the master; A slave is no longer a slave if he enters the temple altar, or if he tramples on dung on the ground outside the market. ”

Chen Mu listened very carefully, and suddenly Zou Yuanbiao was stupid and happy on the side, noticing that others were looking at him and covering his mouth, shrugging his shoulders, and seeing Chen Mu's inquiring eyes at him, he couldn't help but explain: "It's stinky, the master stinks, hahahaha!" ”

This idiot.

Chen Mu held his breath and gasped a few times with his nose, raised his hand and pointed out the door: "You go out." ”

That's why Lin Manjue continued.

"If they run away, only the master's family can chase them, others can't, they run away, so the slave price is very cheap, yes, and fake beans."

Chen Mu frowned and couldn't help laughing: "Can beans still be faked?" ”

"The white ash, the wet soil and the one they eat, the big handsome call it avocado, and use that seed to make fake beans, so Black King Kong's fingers have been twisting beans, and I heard him say that fake beans will break as soon as they are twisted."

"So if you want to recruit workers, let the brick kiln factory use cocoa beans to recruit workers?" Chen Mu ignored the counterfeit money, looked at the black King Kong and asked, "What is the daily wage of an average worker?" ”

"In the past, the best time was a hundred." Black King Kong was still a little restrained in the face of Chen Mu, and he was afraid that what he said would be too general and dislike Chen Mu, so he added: "A hundred cocoa beans." ”

Prices are not only not high, but they are also very low.

This is completely different from Chen Mu's imagination, if a turkey is not bad, it is enough for a family to eat for two or three days, and if it is a hundred tomatoes, it is enough for the poor to eat for a long time.

This was unexpected by Chen Mu, and he immediately asked: "Then why does it seem that the people here are very hard before they come, and they can't eat enough and dress badly?" ”

Black King Kong shook his head helplessly, and said: "Those things are worth these beans, everyone knows it, but we don't have beans, we don't have turkeys, no one goes hunting, and hunting is also for the master; No one sells tomatoes either, they are all sent to Mexico City, and no one sells anything. ”

Zou Yuanbiao poked his head out of the door and said, "Dashuai, the student knows what to do!" ”

"You're out there, shut up, I know it too."

What can be a big problem, there is no goods and no market, and money has no value.

After their conversation ended, four shops in front of the Daojun Temple were soon opened, the first one was a bow and arrow workshop, making bows and arrows, making arrow clusters, sharpening arrow shafts, sticking arrow feathers, and specializing in Ming bow and all kinds of iron arrow clusters and wooden arrows, but at present, the bows sold by these warcraftsmen selected by Chen Mu were not needed in the Ming army's baggage.

The second is a blacksmith shop, which mainly makes and sells self-defense swords and agricultural tools such as hand axes and swords used by sailors on ships of the Ming army, and is also open for business by military craftsmen.

The third is a tailor shop, several tailors on the boat of the Linqing Dynasty brought cotton cloth on credit from the Ming army, tailor-made clothes, it is said that this should be the first private shop in Acapulco.

As soon as the three stores opened, they attracted a lot of aborigines, a large village with a total of more than 2,000 households, and they knew everything in a long time, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going, but none of them were negotiated-not that the aboriginal people didn't like it, they liked it very much.

But the shop does not accept barter, and it is sold only in silver, that is, the three shops were ordered by Chen Mu, and the aborigines took the jujube and the jade in good condition to buy three iron arrowheads, and the old warmaker who had never seen a few taels of silver in his life was about to fall into tears, and he just didn't dare to accept it.

The next day, a fourth shop was opened, and jade, animal skins, turkeys, corn, and other goods were collected, and the price was paid for silver, and at the same time the people of the port were informed of the news that the various factories were working to give silver, and the men of the village were aroused, starting with the opening of restaurants and other shops, and after the tailor shop received the wife of the village chief, who sold a whole set of shirts, jackets, shawns, gowns, armors, and skirts, the women were also mobilized.

The whole village is alive.