Chapter 108: Cavity Circle
Chen Mu seems that Xu Lu'an is well-fed.
This 'well-fed' is not a derogatory meaning, before the era in which modern people live, it is difficult for a well-fed person to have too many derogatory meanings in any period.
Becoming famous?
is a very strange ambition, there are thousands of people in the world, people listen to Zhang Juzheng Lu Tiaoyang all day long, and listen to Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang, but how many of those spectators can make future generations remember?
Every era is preceded by antiquity, of course, people don't use this word, people talk about the past and the present.
The era in which everyone lives is modern.
The seventeenth shop in front of the Jun Temple in Ah Gang Dao was opened, and the shopkeeper was Xu Lu'an, a little-known craftsman, and the five guys in the store were translators and documents under Yang Tingxiang, who was responsible for coordinating the history of the aborigines, specializing in buying jade, excavating the origins, and possibly selling jade at a high price in the future.
Chen Mu handed over the seventeenth shop to Xu Lu'an at the same time, and also gave him a piece of woodland outside the village, Chen Mu said that it would be a jade factory in the future, and when the aborigines were rich, let Xu Lu'an teach them what it means to be a jade expert.
The Aztecs, the Incas, and the Mayans had the same preference for jade as China on the other side of the ocean, believing that it could communicate with the gods and was more expensive than gold and silver.
But the Spaniards didn't understand that this was the wealth they had leaked into this new continent, and Chen Mu thought that it all belonged to him now.
In the days of the armistice between the two sides, the old Spanish governor Almansa watched the economic but in fact extremely dilapidated port village of Acapulco grow day by day, and he did not see Chen Mu erecting an altar, but it was indeed like being enchanted and thriving.
First, the Ming army opened a few shops outside the small temple in the north of the city, and then everything became different.
The slavery system was cleanly abolished, and the mixed-race aborigines of the port responded happily, even those who owned slaves did not dare to say irresponsible remarks to the Ming army after the great victory, and thousands of people in the entire village were in a state of ignorance and confusion, if Chen Mu gave any order at this moment, it would be to light a guiding light for the confused people.
But he didn't give any orders, at least in Almansa's eyes, Chen Mu didn't say anything.
In his opinion, no, not only to him, but to all Spaniards, the Indians were extremely lazy and unfit to work, and many plantation owners even went to great lengths to buy slaves from Africa.
But these aborigines spontaneously went to the factories opened by the Ming people at this moment, and he saw a lazy hunter carrying a turkey into the No. 4 shop, and went out empty-handed into the No. 1 shop, and when he came out again, he had an extra quiver and three feathered arrows, and since then he has been able to hit a big prey every day.
He saw a slave who had been so lazy that he had to whip him to grow corn that he would go to the field with two green stones, and then he walked into shop No. 2, came out with an extra handmade hand axe, and went to the mountains with his family.
On the fifth morning they bought a second hand axe and sold it to the sawmill belonging to shop No. 6, and on the thirteenth day they exchanged the three axes for a large saw in shop No. 2, and hired them as laborers at the sawmill for two cents a day, but the sawmill did not give them silver, but gave them a piece of paper with strange and intricate patterns and intelligible words.
He tried to ask, but no one understood, only that the letter with the seal and name could be exchanged for five cents of silver in the fourth shop, and they didn't even know the huge Yazhou Wanli Tongbao Twenty Wen on it.
It's witchcraft!
For this kind of receiving a letter every day, more and more people get up early every day and stay up late.
The people who planted corn and cotton were not lazy, and they hurriedly walked into the field all day long, for fear that the land allocated to them by the imperial court would be delayed, and they would not be able to send the grain to the No. 8 store at that time.
The hunting until the turkey itself is reluctant to eat, obediently sent to the No. 4 shop, followed by the market seems to be more formal, turkey meat is sent to the butcher's shop, feathers are sent to the No. 1 bow and arrow workshop, and some people also privately exchange the letter for the turkey to go home to raise, day and night carefully care for the eggs.
But there are indeed advantages to having the kind of letter that can be exchanged for silver, and Almansa squatted on the threshold of the Daojun Temple and smoked a cigarette for a day, and he saw a lieutenant chief with his own eyes...... Sorry, Almansa didn't know what a lieutenant was, he thought that person was the commander of the Ming army's Indian army.
He saw with his own eyes the son of an Indian army commander, almost without knowing where to get a few letters, into the No. 3 shop with a small flag in front of the door, and when he came out again, he looked like a Ming man from head to toe, and his stride seemed to be a little more courageous.
Of course, most people don't choose this kind of cotton-based cut-out, and the hunters, lumberjacks, farmers, and porters seem to prefer another standard of clothing from the Third Shop, which is just as expensive, unsophisticated, and absolutely uncomfortable to wear: pants and blouses made of canvas dyed in earth colours.
Almansa heard that the clothes were cut in the same form as the shirts often worn by the Ming people, except for the different materials, the middle single and the middle pants, but the middle clothes of the Ming people were mostly made of cotton, silk, and satin, and only white.
Wearing earth-colored shirts, the workers tied up their trousers and sleeves in the same style as the Ming people, and threw themselves into the busy but rich work.
Canvas, why do they wear clothes made of canvas? Can canvas be used to make clothes?
It didn't take long for the No. 3 store to come up with a new style, a midcoat made of cotton, but with a layer of canvas patches on the outside of the arms, elbows, shoulders, back, knees, and trouser legs, and many more colors, I heard that this was related to the dye shipped from Majiagang.
And this dress is still the style that Chen Mu personally ordered the devil to add, specially prepared for workers and soldiers, wear-resistant and comfortable to wear, called Jinghai suit, tailor-made, send canvas line wrapping, wrapping sleeves and two pieces of canvas belt, the full set is only sold for one or two.
Since the appearance of this dress, everyone has worked hard to be proud of being able to wear colorful tailor-made, comfortable and wearable Jinghai clothes, many people take the jade at home into Xu Lu'an's seventeenth store, they don't communicate with the gods, they want to communicate with Chen Mu, a piece of walnut-sized jade for a Jinghai suit, that is to be a handicraft made of two bodies!
Although the price of this Jinghai suit was enough for them to work for fifty days and enough for them to eat tortillas for a hundred days, people rushed to sell their family's jade to change clothes instead of tortillas.
As long as I work, I will always have corn tortillas to eat, and sometimes I can go to a restaurant opened by a chef in the Ming Dynasty to eat, but Jinghai is different.
That is a symbol of nobility, and the things of the Ming Dynasty should be expensive!
The old governor who had a dry cough realized that they were indeed Ming people, although most of them had a mixture of Spanish and aboriginal blood, and there was no trace of Ming blood from the inside out, but they were probably never Spaniards again.
This saddened Almanza, and he found that he had run out of cigarettes, and that he was always smoking faster when he was worried.
Almanza, who had nothing to do, wandered in front of shop No. 15, which sold not only tobacco from the New World, but also Luzon cigarettes brought by the Ming army from Luzon.
He wanted to taste it too.
But the old governor didn't have the kind of letter that could be used as money, and he didn't have any money, and he had nothing since he told him, and if it weren't for the Ming army's food, he would have starved to death.
Finally, on the second day of wandering, he saw a Ming Indian Hu wearing a Jinghai suit and hanging a Western-style cuirass, and exchanged two packs of cigarettes with a letter from entering the store, which was really a bag, just like the way the Ming army military doctor bandaged the medicine bag, the oil paper was tied with a rope to tie out the Tian character, and it looked like there must be hundreds of them in this bag!
The soldier with a one-handed thin-edged steel sword from Spain in his waist unpacked at the door of the store, stuffed a few into his trouser pocket, and took them out and carefully put them into his belt as if he was afraid of breaking, and then smiled and flattered the Ming infantry patrolling next to him to borrow a fire.
Almansa was greedy, he weighed the pros and cons, if he went to the Ming infantry to borrow cigarettes, in case the small infantry did not have it, then he, the governor and the big noble, would be very embarrassed, Bernal was already very embarrassed to lose to Chen Mu, he couldn't lose face anymore, not to mention that he was indeed a little afraid of the Ming army.
Even if it's a small infantryman, it will be very embarrassing for him to be rejected, and there is no way.
And this Hu Congjun seems to have a little Spanish ancestry, and he should be of mixed race.
So old Almanza, though he hadn't shaved for many days, raised his face with the pride of a colonist, and said to the half-breed with his nostrils: "Give me your cigarettes." ”
As if sensing that his tone was too stiff, Almansa softened a little, but his eyes were still slanted, and he said in a straight Spanish: "You have two packs, one pack is mine." ”
Hu Congjun saw this pure-blooded face, and it was still a little familiar with the pure-blooded face, and almost instinctively stretched out his hand, and the corners of Almansa's mouth were slightly hooked, and then froze in the next moment.
This, this pariah, he actually retracted his hand!
He retracted!
"You want to rob me?" The young leader swallowed slightly, looked around uneasily, and said with a little cowardice and threat in Spanish: "The new law of the imperial court, Article 3, robbery and conviction!" ”
Almantha sneered, not knowing what the stupid guy was talking about, and reached out and pushed Hu Congjun to snatch the Luzon cigarette pack from his hand.
"I am the Viceroy, the Viceroy of New Spain!"
The next moment, Almansa was kicked to the ground by this Jiashou raised his legs, and Jiashou bent down and spat out, raised his finger and pointed at a mouthful of Chinese words: "Phew, bastard!" ”