In fact, without waiting for the leaders of the eight tribes to see Chen Mu, Bai Ma's mind went smoothly.

Unlike the mestizo natives of Acapulco, the leaders of the tribes such as the White Horse were not only pure-bloods, but also indigenous people who had always lived in their own villages, and had contact with the Spaniards only to conquer and be conquered.

Hakuba had no concept of invaders or colonists, and he asked the port people why they didn't rebel against such high prices, only to learn that these people only needed to work for a day's work for twenty treasures, and even as a hunter, sometimes they could get more in a day than they worked.

Hunters are high-income people in the port, and sometimes they are lucky enough to earn hundreds of treasures in a day, and there is a surplus after a meal in a restaurant.

The people of the port have repeatedly recommended that Baima must go to the restaurant to taste the meat made by the Ming people, but Baima has no money, what should I do?

He didn't sell the cocoa beans he had saved so hard, and after some inquiry, Master White did a difficult math problem.

It is known that porters can earn a treasure by pushing a cart of goods from the port to the warehouse, and 20 carts can be earned by pushing 20 carts in a day, ask: How much can a 140 people earn in a day?

Bai Ma took a small wooden stick and counted and calculated, and finally simply poured a field of cocoa beans, forcibly counted out the number of two thousand eight hundred, and then converted it, and asked Shao Tingda a question.

"You go to exchange for cocoa beans, and twenty tongbao can be exchanged for more than three hundred?"

Shao Tingda definitely gave an affirmative answer, cocoa beans have become the most worthless thing in Acapulco, but I heard Chen Mu say that these things should be sold at a good price in Daming.

Before he could react, he saw the ecstasy on Bai Ma's face, and the two clapped their hands and said a few words to their subordinates in their own words, and turned around and said, "Help me, let's go to the port to move things, how many, how many we move, quick!" ”

Bear, sold; turkey, sold; skins, sold; All the goods except cocoa beans and horses were sold, and the Tongbao he brought was handed to Shao Tingda: "Help me buy cocoa beans." ”

Shao Tingda saw that the aboriginal brothers who were fighting side by side had their brains in water, and hurriedly advised earnestly: "Don't be a white horse, this thing is the least valuable, what are you doing with all the money you have bought these?" ”

Chief Baima looked left and right, took a few steps back, raised his hand next to his face and greeted Shao Tingda, and waited for the reckless insect to pass before he whispered: "This bean, it is expensive in other places, the further north it is, the more expensive it is, while others don't know, I will use the beans to buy all the things of other people's tribes!" ”

Bai Ma calculated that his people could earn 40,000 or 50,000 cocoa beans a day, another 100,000 in two days, and 200,000 to transport back to the tribe, where they could buy countless livestock, hides, and grain from others.

The eyes of the Indian chieftain shimmered with the brilliance of a rich man!

Can it still be like this?

Shao Tingda felt that the idea of Baima was really good, but he vaguely felt that this matter would make Chen Mu feel unhappy.

The reckless worm understands his brother, what is it like for Chen Mu to lose money in trading, this is the same as losing the city and losing the land, but it is conceivable how unhappy he will be if he asks others to earn money.

On the one hand, the brother who is rich and rivals the country, and on the other hand, the comrade-in-arms who is so poor that he only has cocoa beans, Shao Tingda's expression became extremely complicated for a while, and the two villains began to fight in his heart, saying that it would not hurt for the white horse to earn this money, and on the other hand, the villain who had grown into a little Chen Mu kept rubbing his fingers and frowning.

Fortunately, the stalemate did not last long, and not long after Bai Ma decided to start his cocoa bean trade, the sick Yang'er had already returned from the port yamen on horseback and conveyed Chen Mu's meaning.

"Five taels of the West Horse's mother, and one slave of eighty Tongbao."

Chen Mu's prices are still as black as ever.

But at a relatively high price, Shao Tingda said to Bai Ma: "The handsome man wants to see you, your people are going to the port, I will let the sick Yang'er take them, and I will take you to the port yamen first." ”

No one has any objection to this, even if it is an Aztec, when you go to a place, you have to visit the owner there first, and now the owner of Acapulco is Chen Mu, and it is only natural for the white horse to visit him.

On the way into the village, the white horse and the remaining seven tribal leaders watched the black-clad patrols maintain law and order, and the village people in various clothes walked in groups on the streets, everything was full of novelty.

It was only then that he finally put his heart back in his stomach, and it seemed that the Akito had no intention of enslaving them, and these people seemed to be free to hold weapons, and some of them were still leading their horses.

Under the Spanish rule, Indians were not allowed to ride horses or hold weapons, which was an absolutely strict law, but under the Ming people, this does not seem to be the case.

When Bai Ma expressed his doubts to Shao Tingda, Shao Tingda patted the general's belly and smiled: "The marshal allows anyone to ride a horse, and allows anyone to hold weapons other than bird guns and artillery, there are shops in the market that specialize in selling weapons, an iron arrow only costs five treasures, bows and crossbows are more expensive, but spears are very cheap." ”

"You see those who are riding horses, they are lieutenant chiefs, and the port is twenty-three lieutenant long, and we have provided them with horses, and we don't need money."

Shao Tingda paused as he spoke, Bai Ma didn't know what the lieutenant was, but it seemed troublesome to explain, he simply said: "You will know when the time comes, you know that we defeated the Westerners, and the marshal summoned you not just to trade with you." ”

"So what's going to be done, to make us surrender?"

"Surrender?"

Shao Tingda was reluctant to use such harsh words, but it seemed to mean that, he nodded slowly: "Da Ming wants to sign an agreement with Spain to demarcate the land here, and he wants to give the leader of the people the opportunity to sign an agreement with him." ”

"As long as you respect the Great Emperor, obey the orders of the imperial court, use the laws of the imperial court, and pay taxes to the imperial court, the Ming army can protect everyone from the enslavement of Westerners."

The white horse's footsteps paused in front of the port yamen, the sun shining on his body cast a short shadow on the ground, he turned his head to watch the people pushing the wooden cart full of goods pass by, took a long deep breath, and then walked into the yamen with several leaders.

If you are not enslaved by the Westerners, you must be enslaved by the Ming, even if the Ming people pay them, this is not good, but it is just the right of two evils - the white horses have not forgotten that this is the land of their ancestors.

Chen Mu finally saw Bai Ma and his leaders, and to be honest, the mixed and matched clothing tastes of the eight leaders made it difficult for him to appreciate them.

The white horse went straight to the point, looked left and right with alert eyes, and said to Chen Mu: "We have sixty-four mares, and we can sell twenty." ”

The chieftain, who had mixed and matched fancy clothes, raised three fingers and said to him, "If you will trade my horses for your horses, I can sell three, nay, sixty, but you will at least give me another twenty taels each." ”

In the long-term relationship, Shao Tingda could understand the inaccuracy of the white horse's expression of the quantity, and he explained to Chen Mu on behalf of the white horse: "He means to exchange sixty mares for sixty of our horses, and we will give him another sixty taels of silver." ”

The Aztecs were very good at their own things, and they used to have extraordinary math and astronomy, but they couldn't communicate with others...... Whether it is the Ming or the Spaniards, everyone uses the decimal system, but they use the decimal system.

Their important measure word is 'a person', which is used to express the number twenty because a person has ten fingers and ten toes.

At the same time, Shao Tingda also informed Chen Mu of the news of Baima's resale of cocoa beans, waiting for Chen Mu's answer.

Chen Mu swept his gaze over the eight leaders of the White Horse Alliance sitting in the hall, and finally froze in the porcelain cup he held in his hand, which was filled with hot cocoa drink, and the corners of his mouth slowly hooked.