My Daming New Empire

The man yelled, and several people came from their line.They saw that the fabric was not unusual, but they hung glass strings on their bodies, and then tried to cut a piece of jerky that hadn't hardened with a knife, and several people shared it.

Afterwards, a few people muttered and said something, and one of them picked up the glazed skewer and ran back to their base camp by the woods.

After a while, more natives came running over. Each of them held several pieces of gold in their hands, and the strong man who looked like a leader also took a golden knife hanging from his waist. Take it down.

After putting down these things, they made another movement of sending food into their mouths, and then retreated.

Looking at the small pile of gold on the ground, Zhang Wu couldn't help laughing, turned around and said, "Have someone pull a cart of dried kangaroo meat... no, two carts."

There were more than 200 people on the other side, and a carload of jerky kangaroo meat was not piled up because it had to be air-dried. It weighed about two to three hundred catties, which was not enough to share a catty with each other.

These kangaroo meats were hunted along the way, and there was no cost at all. Marinating these dried meats consumed some spices.

Although the spices are expensive, the cost is very low. For Daming, it can be ignored.

But now the other party has put a small pile of gold, the gold is very heavy, and this small pile is probably worth more than a thousand taels.

Although there are a little more impurities in these golds, no matter how they count, they have made a lot of money.

Thinking of the cost control and profit calculation they learned in class, the higher the profit, the better.Those who do that are profiteers, and the best trade is one that both parties can earn, so that the trade will last for a long time.

So he hesitated for a while, and "generously" decided to give the other party two carts of jerky.

In Dongpu, the war in Bengkulu gave Zhang Wu some experience in fighting.But in terms of business, he is just a rookie and can only talk on paper.

But Zhang Wu was really clumsy. His transactions with the natives did not conform to the rules of commodity trading at all, but because of his honesty, he won the favor of the natives.

The natives obviously had never seen the carts, and they were very happy to see the soldiers pulling two carts of dried meat and placing them on the dry grass one by one.

At this time, a child who seemed to be only seven or eight years old saw so many dried meat, and ran over impatiently while the Ming soldiers were still unloading the meat.

The natives were shocked, and by the time they remembered to call out to the kid, he had already run to the side of the Ming soldiers, staring at the pieces of meat greedily.

The natives became nervous and made defensive movements, looking at the soldiers of Ming Dynasty.

The soldiers of Daming were also a little confused, looking at this child, they didn't know what to do with her, and finally fixed their eyes on Zhang Wu.

Zhang Wu smiled, turned to look at Zhang Wei and said, "Give me a piece of caramel on your body."

Zhang Wei liked to eat sweets since he was a child. He brought a lot of caramel from home for this expedition.When I arrived at the Old Port, I used my pocket money to buy a lot of Nanyang caramel.

Zhang Wu knew about his younger brother's hobbies, so he directly asked him for a piece of candy.

Zhang Wei laughed and said, "It's better for me to coax the child. If you go over, I'm afraid you will scare him to tears."

From the purse at his waist, Zhang Wei took out a piece of candy, then walked towards the child with a smile.

This child was much darker than Daming's child, and his arms were painted with white paint to look like a ghost.

Although it was winter, he only had a piece of kangaroo skin on his body. The hills were full of dry grass roots, branches, and stones, but they didn't even have shoes.

Walking in front of the child, he knelt down and wanted to reach out to touch the child's head, but he quickly withdrew his hand when he thought of their experiences in Majapahit.

He put the candy in the child's hand, took another piece himself, and stuffed it into his mouth.

The child quickly put the candy into his mouth, and then laughed intoxicated by the sweetness in his mouth.

He turned around and ran back again. At this time, the tension between the two sides eased, and the soldiers of Ming Dynasty continued to unload the meat.

The child ran back to his own tribe, but took out the candy from his mouth, stuffed it into a woman's mouth, let her lick it, then let the other children lick the candy, and finally stuffed it again. into his mouth.

One of the little ones started to cry, but this time, anyway, the little one wouldn't share it with them again.

But he was very smart. Seeing the child crying all the time, he dragged him towards the Daming camp.

This time, even the others did not dissuade them, wanting to see what the Ming soldiers would do.

And Zhang Wei was not stingy, and gave the crying child another piece of candy.

But he didn't expect that the other party was getting more and more aggressive. This time, more than a dozen children came all at once, all surrounding him, asking him for candy.

He simply took off his purse and gave all the candies to these children.

Seeing that he was gone, those children gave up, but they didn't have any fear of the Ming soldiers, they looked at their clothes curiously, and they climbed on the dirty cart just unloaded up and down.

Zhang Wu's heart moved, and he ordered: "Let the former army and the right army continue to explore. Today, the Chinese army will bury the pot and make food here."

With an order, in addition to more than 100 soldiers of the Chinese army staying on guard, the others found a dry ditch nearby, and then began to dig pots and stoves.

For them, it only takes two soldiers to dig a pot and stove on the edge of a ditch with a drop, and it can be completed in a quarter of an hour.

The others scattered around, either to pick up dry branches, or to cut hay, to find a clean water source.

The natives got the kangaroo meat marinated in spices, but they didn't leave the woods, they kept a close watch on the movements of the Ming soldiers.

Not long after they saw it, the Ming soldiers pulled two carts of [-] cauldrons and started cooking there.

The adults dared not come over, but a group of children became bolder. When the Ming soldiers were busy, they went to fetch water with them, and ran behind the water convoy.

A brave child climbed onto the water truck, and the soldiers of Ming Dynasty did not stop him, which made other children bravely climbed onto the water truck and sat on it happily.

A three or four-year-old child couldn't keep up and began to cry. At this time, a Ming soldier walked over, picked him up, and put him on the water cart.

The actions of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were seen by the natives. Seeing how kind they were, their vigilance gradually softened.

The row of burning pots and stoves frightened the children at first, and they didn't dare to go forward, but after a while, they walked through the crowd, looking curiously at the strange things around them.

It is winter here now, and when the smell of kangaroo broth boiling in the big pot came out, the sun was already going down.

However, at this time, those children were even more unwilling to leave. Smelling the scent that they had never smelled before, they all looked at the fragrant cauldron greedily.

"Leader Zhang, I have roughly figured it out. There are about 230 people in this tribe. There are hardly many old people. There are about forty children, one hundred and thirty forty women, and only sixty or seventy middle-aged men. According to the judgment of the subordinates , They don't seem to be split from the tribe, but they seem to have just escaped from a war with other tribes."

Zhang Wu also saw a lot of injuries on the bodies of middle-aged men, and said affirmatively: "It should be like this. The language barrier of the natives here is a big problem. If we can subdue this tribe, it will be very helpful for us to understand the situation here. But It is not an easy task to teach them to speak Da Ming in a short period of time.”

Chu Dayun on the side smiled and said: "Let the higher-ups worry about this. Anyway, as long as we can subdue them, it will be a great achievement."

Zhang Wu also laughed, nodded and said, "Come on, let's contact them again and lure them here with food."

In the long river of history, no matter any nation, it was not full of aggressiveness at the beginning.

Only later, because of beliefs and the encroachment of resources, the national character changed.

Prior to this, as long as the survival of their own nation was not threatened, no one was willing to use a knife or a gun.

Even the Mongol Yuan, who almost occupied the entire Eurasian continent, and the most famous representative of the barbaric nation in the world, because of the lack of resources and difficult survival for thousands of years, including being invaded and oppressed by other nations, finally led to Changes in national character.

There are also cannibals in the tropical rainforest. The formation of such a primitive barbaric national character is also due to the lack of resources and the difficulty of survival, which leads to the same kind of food.