Chongzhen Undergraduates

After getting the money, an indigenous laborer seemed to be walking slowly towards the recycling point set up by the Spaniards, but in the blink of an eye, several banknotes in his hand disappeared.This scene happened to be seen by Zhu Cihong's subordinates.

In fact, there are not many such things among laborers, but they are not easy to be discovered.Since the other party didn't want to be discovered, Zhu Cihong's subordinates would not disturb the other party at this time, he just silently wrote down the number on the back of this person.

"Dear Mr. Lopez, I would like to ask if I can buy a batch of slaves from you Spaniards?" Zhu Cihong went directly to the person in charge of the security company the next day.

"Buy slaves?" Lopez looked at Zhu Cihong playfully.

"Yes. I can pay you three times the price and use gold as a transaction." Zhu Cihong can talk about gold heavily.

"You know, we Spaniards don't care about gold the least. It's just that you guys are guests from afar, and this matter can still be discussed. Excuse me, sir, how many slaves do you plan to buy?" Lopez tried hard to hold Hold your own beating heart.

"How about 500 people? It can't be more, and I don't have that much gold." Zhu Cihong pretended to be embarrassed.

"500 people are too few, this is not a good deal." Lopez was ecstatic in his heart, and he decided to make a good fortune from this smart man.

"Okay then, how many people can make a deal at least?" Zhu Cihong looked very painful.

"One transaction for 1000 people. But it can only be allocated by us and cannot be selected." Lopez felt that he had calculated all the details of this transaction, and he decided to sell those old people and children who had no labor force to this bright man.

"It's not fair." Zhu Cihong immediately quarreled.

"Sir, you asked for a deal on your own initiative." Lopez looked very flabbergasted.

"You should at least give me the right to choose one hundred!" Zhu Cihong tried hard to restrain his anger.

"Yes. But the price of the hundred slaves must be doubled." Lopez was very greedy.

"Deal." Zhu Cihong immediately agreed.

At the transaction site on the second day, Lopez commanded his subordinates proudly, and kept picking from the slaves, but Zhu Cihong clearly saw that the other party picked all Native Americans, except for a few black slaves who were old and dying. , mostly Indians.

"Prince, it seems that these Spaniards don't like Indians." The subordinate reminded Zhu Cihong.

"Compared with Africans, Indian slaves are more difficult to manage. They are rebellious. Therefore, these Europeans would rather trade slaves from Africa than arrest the Incas." Zhu Cihong remembered what Zhu Youjian said.

"Isn't this in our favor?" The subordinate said with a smile.

"They didn't even know that Henry Inca handed over Colon Island to our navy." Zhu Cihong said.

After 900 ordinary slaves were selected, it was up to Zhu Cihong to send someone to select the remaining [-] slaves.At this time, only twenty or so Ming technicians came out one by one. They got into the labor team and kept looking around.

"Sir, Mingren shouldn't have any intentions?" A Spaniard reminded Lopez.

"You send someone to keep an eye on them and see how they choose." Lopez is also very thief.

But Zhu Cihong's subordinates were even more thieves. They were simply searching for the numbers of those workers in their memory, so the seemingly simple selections were actually all screened long ago.

"No problem, these celebrities seem to prefer smarter slaves. It may be that they think these people are better at work, but in fact these people are some of the most disobedient Indians." In the end, the Spaniards did not see Mingren. intention of.

"Mr. Lopez, please accept the transaction funds. I hope we can cooperate happily!" Zhu Cihong happily threw a small bag of gold to Lopez.

"Sir, if you need it, remember to call me next time." Lopez impatiently opened the mouth of the cloth bag and glanced inside, eyes full of little stars.

"If it weren't for the fear that they would get suspicious, this deal would be too small." Looking at Lopez with a frightened face, Zhu Youjian turned his head and said to his subordinates.

"Ah! If the deal is too big, how much gold will it cost." The men were surprised.

"What do you know. It was because the amount was too small that I suffered a big loss." Zhu Youjian said.

At the same time, in Mexico City, the first loan funds delivered by Ming to New Spain had already been placed in front of the Governor.This is a batch of golden bricks, each of which is marked with Latin letters.It looks very formal.

The governor of New Spain looked at the gold in front of him with a smile, and weighed it with his hands, and found that it was indeed heavy. He checked the total weight again and found no problem.

He was reluctant to melt such a good gold brick on the spot.

But what he didn't know was that the insides of these gold bricks were all tungsten.Tungsten is a metal with a density close to that of gold, but the discovery of tungsten in the West was not until the late eighteenth century, and the Spaniards do not know that there is such a metal as tungsten.Daming is the largest tungsten mining country in the world.

Chapter 753: Hometown Island

Coman was the son of a former Inca lord, but the Inca Empire ceased to exist more than 100 years ago.The so-called lord, of course, also died.

The empire no longer exists, but the Inca people still exist, and there are still many of their ethnic groups, far more than the colonists.A large number of Inca tribes were forced to hide in the mountains and lived in the middle of the Andes.

As a descendant of the former ruler, Coman understands the principle of currency, so from the first time he paid wages, he began to think of ways to hide the papers issued by Ming people.Although he wasn't sure what these pieces of paper were for, since the Spaniards were going to take them back, they must be important.

Coman walked slowly towards the port of Panama with the 1000-strong slave team, and then was divided into several groups to catch up with a large ship.All the slaves were terrified, because the Spaniards came with galleons like this.

However, since boarding the ship, it seems that better days are coming.This ship didn't hold too many slaves, at least it was much looser than the Spaniard's slave ship, at least everyone could lie down and sleep.

"Don't be afraid, as long as you get on this ship, you will be free and safe." A group of Ming men carried wooden barrels and walked in single file.

Far below, Coleman smelled potatoes and corn, which he was sure was well-crafted food, since the smell had lingered in his memory.Corn and potatoes are high-yield crops in South America, but the Spaniards are reluctant to give slaves to eat these two things.What they gave to the slaves were moldy sweet potatoes.

"Don't worry, everyone has a share." Mingren gave someone a pottery bowl and a pair of chopsticks.

But this group of slaves didn't know how to use them at all. They all threw their chopsticks aside and grabbed the bowls with their hands. They ate so voraciously that they almost choked to death on the spot.

"Hey! After getting off the boat, set up a rule for them to eat. They are not allowed to grab it with their hands. They must learn to use chopsticks." Zhu Cihong looked at the scene in the cabin and sighed.

"You, come here." Coman was eating when he suddenly saw a Ming man pointing at him and speaking in Quechua.

Coman was stunned. He didn't expect Ming people to speak Quechua.Out of instinctive vigilance, he quickly stopped eating and looked at the other party suspiciously.

"Yes, it's you. You have hidden your wages twice in a row, tell us what's on your mind." The other party stared at Coman seriously and asked.

"I didn't, I hid that thing, but I don't know how to use it, can you tell me?" Coman originally wanted to lie, but he found that this group of people was a little different from the Spaniards.

These people don't look terrible, at least they are much more pleasing to the eye than the Spaniards.And the eyes of these people are very shrewd, not easy to deceive.It's that awesome feeling.

"You don't have to be afraid, we are not Spaniards, and we will not kill you for hiding things." The other party continued to comfort Koman.

"Who are you? Why did you take us away?" Coman was full of doubts.

"Come with me, we can have a good talk." A bright man in beautiful clothes smiled and waved to Coman.

Following the crowd to a cabin, Coman was stunned.He had never seen such a nice room, clean and tidy, even more comfortable than the palace of the legendary Inca emperor.

"Please sit down. We can have a good chat." The other party pointed to Koman and himself, and said something Koman couldn't understand with a smile.

Even without translation, Coman probably knew that what the other party said was nice.

"Sir, what do you want to hear from me?" Coman suddenly asked Zhu Cihong in Spanish.

"You can actually speak Spanish?" Zhu Cihong was shocked.

"Yes. I can speak simple Spanish, and I learned it by myself from listening to those Spaniards." Coman nodded.

"It's amazing." Zhu Cihong was very happy.