Chapter 680 Niuwei shows determination (please vote and subscribe)

At the end of September in the first year of the Han tribe's Jianyuan period, this was the first time Niuwei had grown so big and went out to sea by boat.

The blue sky was filled with white clouds, the sun was hanging high in the sky, the light blue sea was rippling with the waves, and the sea breeze was a little salty, blowing the sails to ride the wind and waves.

Flocks of white seabirds circled in the low sky, and from time to time they dived down, and in the blink of an eye they picked up a silver knife fish and rushed out of the sea, spreading their wings and soaring again .

Some were tired of flying, so they stood on the tall ship's side to take a rest for a while, and then were knocked down by a shirtless sailor with a stick, and the fish and the bird were seized together

. "Hahahaha, there will be silverfish stewed with bird soup for lunch."

"Remember to pluck the row of flight feathers on the wings, which are used to make arrows and can be sold for money."

"I know, don't worry." The sailor neatly packed up his harvest.

Niuwei stood at the bow and looked at them enviously, then burped and touched his belly. After sailing on the sea for a few days, he found that he had gained weight.

The food resources on the sea were really rich. Whether it was fish in the water or birds in the sky, as long as you had a boat, you would not worry about not making money, because you could easily feed a group of people no matter what you did.

Unfortunately, this was the privilege of the Han tribe.

After two days at sea, the weather at the end of September was clear and cool. The windy season and rainy season had passed. This was the best time of the year.

Many fish in the sea had reached the mating and spawning period. At this time, the fish were the fattest and liked to gather in groups.

Niuwei had seen with his own eyes that the sailors of the Han tribe casually cast a net and caught a full net of silver fish from the sea. The weight was so heavy that several people could not pull it up. In the end, they had to use the ropes and pulleys on the boat to pull it up. Hundreds of people on the four boats ate it for two days and didn't finish it. It was too much.

Moreover, it would be really delicious

if the Xin tribe also had a boat. Well, the Xin tribe couldn't have a boat, because it wouldn't be long before even the Xin tribe would be gone.

Niu Wei had only discovered this in the past two days. From the perspective of the Han tribe, fishing at sea was too profitable. If he were the leader of the Han tribe, he would definitely decide to vigorously develop the marine fishing industry.

However, the inland location of the Han tribe was too far from the seaside, so if they wanted to fish on a large scale, they had to build a forward base near the seaside. Zhudao was the best choice. As long as they turned it into the Han tribe's, it would be the simplest and fastest way.

So with this reason, the attitude of the Han tribe towards the Xin tribe could only be described as determined to win.

Perhaps, I should consider things from the perspective of the Han tribe in the future, and think about what ways could make the Han tribe rule Zhudao faster?

Niu Wei stood at the bow and thought for a long time, until someone called him to eat, he didn't figure it out, because he suddenly found that he didn't understand the Xin tribe now. He hadn't been back for more than a year, and he didn't know what the Xin tribe had become now under the interference of the Han tribe.

Put aside those chaotic thoughts, you can't use your brain when eating. Is the rice not delicious, or is the fish in the sea not fragrant?

After having a delicious meal at the Han tribe, it felt so good to eat for free. Niuwei lay on the straw mat on the bow, basking in the warm sun at noon, and soon he began to snore.

The fleet continued to sail for seven days, and finally arrived at the estuary of Qingshui River in Zhudao on the afternoon of the eighth day after departure, which was the station of the Han tribe delegation in Zhudao.

Shouya had received the notice in advance and brought some officials of the delegation to greet them in person.

Of course, it was not to greet Niuwei, but to greet the craftsmen and materials who came from afar to assist him in his work.

The delegation had a lot of work to do, and they were really short of tools.

As for Niuwei, welcoming him was just a side job.

Niuwei did not go home directly after getting off the boat. He planned to stay at the Han tribe delegation for a few days to observe first.

Seeing Shouya directing the crowd to unload supplies from the boat, although it was very tiring, everyone was smiling. They had been waiting for this day for a long time.

Iron ingots were hung down in baskets, followed by various tools and a large number of coins packed in sacks. The mission was going to establish a bank on Zhudao Island and issue the currency of the Han tribe. This was decided long ago, and now it was finally going to start.

Who knows, a mint might be opened on Zhudao Island in the future. So Niu Wei's thoughts diverged.

If the Han tribe wanted to promote coins on Zhudao Island, it would be unrealistic to expect to transport them from the back all the time. The population of Zhudao Island was not much less than that of the Han tribe, and the number of coins needed was very huge, so it was almost certain that a mint would be built on Zhudao Island in the future.

But once the Han tribe promoted currency on Zhudao Island, what would the Xin tribe do? Boycott, or issue their own currency?

After all, the Xin tribe also had copper, and the quantity was not low, and the copper casting technology was not low. Although the Han tribe could not make the exquisite stamped coins, it was not a problem to cast a few coins with words, so the Xin tribe's plan to make its own coins could not be ruled out.

But in this case, would the Xin tribe prohibit the circulation of the Han tribe's currency on Zhudao Island, and would the Han tribe's bank recognize the value of the Xin tribe's currency? How will both sides react? What can they do and what benefits can they get from it?

Niu Wei, who has been in contact with currency in the Han tribe for more than a year, has a certain understanding of the use and circulation process of this thing.

If the Han tribe promotes brass currency in Zhudao, it must recognize the value of the copperware of the Xin tribe, because the two are originally the same material. Your copper is money, why is my copper not valuable? If you do not recognize that my copper is valuable, it is equivalent to telling others that your own copper coins are worthless.

This is unavoidable, so what will the Han tribe do to solve such troubles? If this problem is not solved, the currency of the Han tribe will definitely not be promoted. However, if the value of the copperware of the Xin tribe is recognized, then they will bring their own copper hoes to the Han tribe delegation to exchange for goods and coins. Will the Han tribe exchange them? If they

don’t exchange, there is no way to promote it. If they exchange, the Han tribe will definitely lose money. What should they do?

Otherwise, I can go to the commander-in-chief and persuade him not to cause trouble for the Han tribe. Now the two tribes are in the honeymoon period of cooperation. It is better not to destroy the relationship because of this matter. Now we should seize the opportunity to develop ourselves.

I don't know if the commander-in-chief believes it or agrees to it.

This matter cannot be rushed. No, I have to go to Shuya to talk to him and ask him about the plan of the Han tribe and whether I need to cooperate.

Well, it seems that it is time to show my attitude. Time waits for no one.

Seeing that it will take a long time to load and unload the materials, Niuwei didn't want to wait there, so he found someone to lead the way and take him to see and visit the resident of the delegation.

After more than half a year, the resident has become a small city, but there is no city wall. The rest of the houses, houses, shops, markets, warehouses, docks, factories, government offices, and even a bank built of stone bricks are all there. Now there is only a school missing, plus a circle of walls, and it will be no different from the cities of the Han tribe headquarters.

As for why they didn't build a school, considering that the Han tribe didn't have enough paper, and the paper made by Takeshima was still in the material preparation stage, even if they built a school, how could they ask others to go to school?

But why didn't the mission build a city wall?

Maybe they still want to continue to expand the scale of this station, Niu Wei thought.

There are many people in the market created by the mission. There are groups of local natives who come to trade. They bring their own chickens and eggs, or carry grain on a shoulder pole to sell. There are also people who come to sell livestock, mainly sheep and pigs, which are the most common livestock and poultry in people's homes.

You can exchange a lot of things here, although they are all small tools, such as needles and thread, because the Xin tribe doesn't have them, so they can only buy them here. Some people come to buy needles and drive a pig to exchange them. The mission said that there is no change and it can't be changed, so it can't be sold.

The native who sells the pig asks to exchange all the pigs for needles and thread, and then he carries it back home to share and exchange with the elders and villagers in his hometown. If someone wants to get goods from him, he can only exchange them with things.

The needles and threads in the hands of the delegation have obviously become something like currency, and they have begun to be exchanged and circulated as items of value preservation

. It can be seen that Zhudao still has a demand for currency.

Seeing the people of the Xin tribe rushing to trade with their own things in an endless stream, Niuwei feels very novel, because the Xin tribe was not like this before. At that time, the people on Zhudao had almost no expenses. Except for exchanging things for salt, the rest were basically self-sufficient. It was a real small peasant economy.

But the Han tribe seemed to have magic. Since the delegation began to stay here, the actions of the surrounding people have become more and more frequent. They not only come to the market here to buy things from the Han tribe, but in fact, many times their transactions are completed between the natives themselves.

The delegation is purchasing chickens, eggs, pigs, sheep and other foods, but the number of members of the delegation is limited after all, and it is impossible to keep purchasing these foods endlessly because they can't eat them all. However, those people who came from afar and finally drove the pigs and sheep here can't just return empty-handed, so most of the time they will choose to sell them themselves at the market.

Such sales are not bad, because the market where the mission is located is very famous, so many people come. Even if they don't sell to the mission, the local natives who come to the market have strong purchasing power and don't worry about not being able to sell things.

Over time, more people are willing to come.

Of course, there is another situation, that is, those who come to sell hemp skin.

Because the mission built a hemp fiber textile factory here, but the current production of artificially planted hemp grass in Takeshima is still very limited, so in order to maintain the operation of the textile factory, the mission can only purchase wild hemp fiber from the local area. Now that there is no currency, they use cloth to exchange. Of course, if the people don't want cloth, they can also get a wooden sign for counting from the mission. When a certain amount is accumulated, such as a total of several hundred kilograms of hemp skin, the sign can be exchanged for a spinning machine here. From the simplest to the pedal-powered ones, they are all exchanged here.

If you give away enough hemp skin, you can even get a waist loom, which is a simple loom that can weave half a meter wide cloth at most. However, there are also frame looms for sale here, but there is no shuttle on it, you can only throw the shuttle manually, and the width can only be woven one meter at most. However, such things that have been eliminated by the Han tribe are still very popular here in Zhudao, even Commander Xin is no exception. It is said that the guy asked someone to buy one, saying that he would go back and give it to his wife. Well, of course, it is also possible that he took it back to imitate it.

However, since the Han tribe agreed to sell it, they naturally would not worry about this. Let's imitate it. Piracy is more conducive to dissemination and promotion.

However, this large loom is obviously not something that ordinary families can afford, and there are no special families on Zhudao, because everyone is equally poor, except for those elders.

But if you say they can't afford it, that's not right, because they all bought it through crowdfunding.

Normally, the natives would go to the wild to collect various hemp grasses in the village. After the hemp fibers were fermented in different categories, the men of the village would come to the delegation under the leadership of the patriarch to exchange for looms.

Generally, a village would exchange one or two frame looms, and then the rest of the families would all purchase spinning machines, so that they could start working after returning, because if each family had a loom, they would not be able to start working without sufficient hemp thread.

A village would only buy one or two looms, and the remaining families would work together to spin hemp thread, so that the hemp thread produced could be used for the two looms.

So there are still many people who come to buy looms.

In addition, Niuwei also found that many people came here to sell food, mainly soybeans and corn. Of course, there were only these two types of food in Takeshima, and the largest buyer of food was the delegation of the Han tribe.

The natives used the harvested grain to exchange for various vehicles at the mission, such as wheelbarrows, two-wheeled carts, two-wheeled flatbed carts, small flatbed carriages, and buckets and basins.

The mission used the harvested grain to pay the hired laborers, and the harvested soybeans were used to make tofu or press oil, and then sold to the natives to continue making money.

This formed a virtuous circular economy. The grain came from the hands of the people, the people exchanged for what they wanted, the mission obtained the grain, the mission recruited laborers to work, the mission obtained labor, and the laborers obtained food. In this way, it was circulated, and in the process, everyone got what they wanted. This is the economy.

After working until dark, it was finally time to stop work and take a break. Shouya was about to go back to take a shower, eat something, and sleep, but when he was halfway there, a man holding a calcium carbide lamp stopped him on the opposite side.

"Elder Niu? What are you doing?"

"I don't know if it's convenient for the Han envoy to talk to me. I have something I want to discuss with him."

(End of this chapter)