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The boat that Tuoxiong was on arrived at Nanbu Wharf around ten o'clock in the morning. After disembarking, he did not go to the textile factory to ask Zheng Yuming to settle the payment. Instead, he took his little daughter Tuojing to wander around the pier. Wanting to follow, Tuoxiong felt that her daughter was too wild when she was ten years old, so he locked her up in the tribal village and forbade her to run around.

There are many cargo ships moored at the Nanbu Wharf, the coolies at the wharf are unloading, some old women are washing clothes on the stone steps of the wharf, and there are four or five peddlers on the shore selling various daily necessities, and each peddler is surrounded by some villagers.Villagers who buy small department stores are all older or younger.All the young and strong villagers went to work.

"Father! I want to buy this." Tuo Jing found a purple mahogany hairpin on the seller's stretcher. The purple mahogany wood was carved into the shape of a brocade bird. The carving is exquisite and the brocade bird is lifelike.

"Boss, how many Wu coins do you need for this wooden hairpin?" Tuoxiong touched his pocket, because he could get ore money from Zheng Yuming today, Tuoxiong didn't bring many coins with him.

"My lord, your girl has really good eyesight. This wooden hairpin is the best thing in my luggage. It only costs one gold, 100 Wu coins." gift), and quoted the price with a smile. People in this time and space basically do not bargain, and merchants who sell things mostly depend on market demand.Prices are generally not too outrageous.

"100 Wu coins!" Tuo Xiong felt very relieved when he heard the shopkeeper address him as an adult. Even though he was the head of the clan, after he arrived in Wu State, his status was not as high as that of a commoner in Wu State. People in the north of Changhe generally looked down on the south of Changhe. The tribesmen considered them uncivilized savages.

Tuoxiong was in a happy mood at first, but when the salesman reported the price, Tuoxiong was embarrassed. He went out and grabbed a handful of Wu coins and put them in his pocket. The amount was obviously less than a hundred.

"Father, give the money to the shopkeeper!" Tuo Jing looked at the wooden hairpin over and over again, and the more she looked at it, the more she liked it. This wooden hairpin is not only well-carved, but also made of good materials. You can smell it when you hold it in your hand. Fragrance.

"Ah Jing, this wooden hairpin is not good. It is not as good as a gold hairpin. Dad will buy you a gold hairpin in the future." Tuoxiong couldn't say that he didn't have enough money in his pocket, so he had no choice but to think that things were not expensive.

"Golden hairpin? Is the golden hairpin as beautiful as this wooden hairpin?" Tuo Jing held the golden bird hairpin reluctantly.

"Gold hairpins are certainly more beautiful than wooden hairpins."

The salesman looked at the father and daughter in front of him again, and felt that the father and daughter in front of him looked dark-skinned and looked like Nanman, but the one who could afford calico was absolutely impossible to be Nanman, the leader of Nanman was in his impression All as poor as farmers.

Printed cloth is more expensive than silk, and silk is more expensive than gold. The father and daughter wearing the same printed cloth are definitely not ordinary civilians, they must be nobles somewhere in Dacheng. "If my lord wants a golden hairpin, my family can bring it to the girl in three days."

"Okay! Okay! You must come in three days, and the golden hairpin must be more beautiful than the wooden hairpin!" Tuo Jing put the wooden hairpin into the box. Although she was 13 years old, she was as active as a boy, but Women's natural beauty-loving nature has not changed because of restlessness.

"Ahem! How many gold coins does this golden hairpin cost?" Tuoxiong didn't forget to ask for the price like his daughter did. People in this time and space believe in promises, and what is agreed is like signing a contract in modern times. Those who don't keep their promises will be despised. Everything you do in the future will be questioned because you have broken your promise.Now it is decided to get the golden hairpin, and Tuoxiong must come here to trade in three days.

"It's not expensive, only ten gold!" The salesman stretched out his palm in front of Tuoxiong and turned it over, indicating that it was two pieces of hardware.

"Ten gold!"

As soon as the salesman's voice fell, Tuo Xiong was startled.He didn't want to lose his status as an 'adult' because of the salesman's respectful title. He was embarrassed to let the salesman know that the 'adult' didn't even have a single piece of gold on him, so he could only shirk and wanted to buy jewelry more expensive than wooden hairpins. He thought that the salesman would not have such precious things. , I don’t want the shopkeeper to have it at home.If I had known it earlier, I would have refuted the name of the shopkeeper, and directly said that I was the chief of the Nanman tribe. If this was the case, the shopkeeper would not be interested in doing business with him.

Tuoxiong often came to Nanbu Wharf to trade goods with people. Before there was no iron ore to sell to Zheng Yuming, some peddlers at Nanbu Wharf didn’t pay much attention to this Nanman chief. Although the Eagle Tribe was a big tribe, it was also known as a poor tribe.The shopkeeper who came to sell wooden hairpins today is a newcomer. He came here to do business after hearing that the business in Nanbu was doing well.

"Father! Is ten gold very expensive?" Tuo Jing blinked her big black eyes, she was not very clear about the value of money.

"No matter how expensive ten gold is, it is not as expensive as the clothes on a girl. Girl, you and your father's clothes cost at least a hundred gold." After all, the shopkeeper is in business and knows the market of various goods very well.

"Hundred gold?" Tuo Xiong originally thought that the jacquard thin summer dress on the gods was very cool, but now that the salesman said so, he felt that the clothes burned his body like fire, and he was actually wearing a few boats of black stones .The black stones of a wooden boat can be sold for more than a dozen gold. The labor force of the whole tribe digs for a month, but they can dig more than [-] boats. .

"Um, my lord, do you want my family to bring a golden hairpin in three days?" The shopkeeper looked at Tuoxiong's distorted face, and couldn't help confirming the order again.

"Take it! When you bring it here in three days, Tuoxiong will definitely bring ten gold to pick it up." Tuoxiong rubbed his clothes with one hand, while gritting his teeth, he promised word by word.

"Okay! My family will definitely bring the most exquisite golden hairpin for the girl in three days." The salesman confirmed the order and was very happy. Sure enough, there are a lot of rich people here in Nanbu.

After making a verbal agreement with the shopkeeper, Tuoxiong forbids his daughter to shop around anymore, dragging Tuojing to the direction of the textile factory.

"Father! What are you doing running so fast?" Tuo Jing was dissatisfied, she came here today to visit the pier.

"Let's take off our clothes and exchange them with Mr. Zheng for gold. The gold you get is enough for you to buy ten gold hairpins." Tuo Xiong couldn't breathe when he thought of wearing several boats of black stones on his body.

"No! Dad! I don't want to change this dress. This dress looks the best. Everyone in the village says Jing looks good when I wear it." Tuo Jing raised her mouth and nose.Zheng Yuming only gave Tuo Xiong a piece of jacquard thin cloth. Tuo Xiong has two sons and a daughter. Tuojing does it first.

"It's as good-looking as a green cloth." Tuo Xiong couldn't even afford to wear Dacheng green cloth.

"No..." Tuo Jing was dragged by her father, protesting as she walked, she would rather not have a gold hairpin than change clothes, father, please don't be so stubborn!

"Exchanging clothes for gold?" Zheng Yuming looked at Tuoxiong who was blushing with his mouth open.

"The clothes are worth several boatloads of black stones." Tuoxiong was very embarrassed. The clothes on his body were not exchanged for iron ore, but were presented by Zheng Yuming. Now exchanging gold with Zheng Yuming seems like a rascal. "Master Zheng, we only need fifty gold for these two sets of clothes. The clothes were just made yesterday, and we only wear them today, and they will be new after washing." Tuo Xiong's words became lower and lower.

"Chief Tuo, you don't need to change your clothes into gold. Your Eagle Tribe will become richer and richer in the future. As long as you work hard, everyone in the Eagle Tribe can wear calico in the future." Zheng Yuming's face was full of sincerity.

"Master Zheng, how come our Eagle Tribe will become richer and richer in the future?" Tuo Xiong sighed.

The Eagle Tribe did not live on the opposite side of Nanbu more than ten years ago. There are continuous hills on the other side of the Nanbu River. There is not much flat land, and of course there is not much cultivated land. The original village of the Eagle Tribe is in the south of the hill, where there is a large plain. , the land is fertile, even if the tribe's planting is slash-and-burn farming, they can still harvest food from the land every year to maintain food and clothing. In addition, the warriors of the Eagle tribe can also hunt prey, so there is a little surplus food in the village, which can be exchanged for daily necessities with people elsewhere. People in the Eagle Tribe feel that they are living happily.

But because of a piece of fertile land, it has attracted the covetousness of the ferocious Tiger Tribe. The Tiger Tribe is stronger than the Eagle Tribe, and the tribesmen are cruel by nature. After the Zhehu tribe paid a huge price, they had to give up their homes due to heavy losses and moved to the hills in the northern part of the plain.Tuoxiong's father was an old chief who was injured in those wars against the Tiger Tribe. After leading the surviving subordinates to move out of the plain, the old chief died of inflammation of the wound.

After the death of the old chief, the people of the tribe elected Tuo Xiong to succeed his father as the new chief of the Eagle Tribe.The Eagle Tribe settled down in the hills, with only half of its original population, and the Tiger Tribe who captured the plain also lost a third of its population. The two tribes lost their vitality because of the competition for the plain, and neither side had the strength to start a war. , In the next ten years, the two tribes cultivated and thrived on their own, and lived in peace.Tuoxiong's eldest son, Tuosu, was born in the first year when the tribe migrated to the hills. The tribe called the original plain "Su" (Zheng Yuming estimated that "Su" should be "Su", the Ying tribe has no characters, and the Nanbu half-tone When translated by a cultural person, it becomes plain characters), Tuoxiong missed his homeland, and named his eldest son after the place name of the plain.

The living environment in the hilly area is not as good as that in the Su plain, but thanks to the hard work of the Eagle tribe, they planted food on the hillside gently, went to the hills to hunt wild animals and crossed the river to exchange food with Nanbu (meat can be exchanged for more food).The people of the Eagle Tribe survived tenaciously on the other side of the South Port. After more than ten years of recuperation, the tribe's population returned to its previous size.

The people of the Eagle Tribe are relatively gentle, and the Nanbu people don't have much repulsion for such southern barbarians.

"The Eagle Tribe couldn't dig out more black stones. Except for the elderly and children, everyone in the tribe went down to dig rocks." Tuoxiong also wanted to dig more stones in that cave, but the cave with black stones was halfway up the mountain. After digging black stones in the cave, it is very labor-intensive to carry them down the mountain in baskets on the shoulders. In addition, the tools for digging the stones are very simple, and Tuoxiong has no spare power to increase production.

"Chief Tuo, your tribe has worked extremely hard to dig stones for Nanbu." Zheng Yuming spoke with some discretion.

Tuoxiong looked up at Zheng Yuming, and was very moved. The Governor of Nanbu had always respected the Eagle Tribe during his interactions with the Eagle Tribe.

The Eagle Tribe discovered black stones in the cave a year ago. No one in the tribe knew about mining. Half a year ago, the tribesmen went to the Nanbu Iron Workshop to exchange things with the blacksmith. A stone with a darker ore color.Because of the lack of iron ore for refining, the Nanbu blacksmith immediately became interested and asked the Eagle Tribe to bring him the black stone for identification. If the black stone contained iron, the blacksmith would buy it at the price of iron ore in the Dacheng area.

Facts have proved that the iron ore quality of the Eagle Tribe is much better than that of Dacheng. However, because the Daqin ruling class strictly controls iron ore and prohibits private transactions, the iron ore trade between blacksmiths and the Eagle Tribe has always been sneaky, and the quantity is low. It is very small, and the tribe only needs to send a few people into the cave to mine every month to complete the transaction volume. After Zheng Yuming took over Nanbu, the mining volume of the Eagle tribe soared.

Because of the sharp increase in the trading volume of iron ore, the Eagle Tribe has lived a very comfortable life in the past few months. Many old people said that the living standard of the tribe has returned to the level it was in Su Plain.

"Since mining is too hard for your tribe, the purchase price of Black Stone will be increased by [-]% in the future."

Tuoxiong was moving Zheng Yuming's understanding of the Eagle Tribe, but the next one was dizzy by Zheng Yuming's initiative to increase the price.

"Increase by [-]%?" After Zheng Yuming finished speaking, Tuoxiong quickly calculated how much he could increase his monthly income with the money he took out of his pocket.

"The black stones shipped this time will be calculated at this price."

"No! No! Master Zheng, how can this work! If you want to improve, you have to wait until the next time. The black stones shipped this time have a fixed price." Tuoxiong waved his hands repeatedly, and Zheng Yuming's kindness made him a little at a loss.

"Chief Tuo, don't be polite to Nanbu. Nanbu will cooperate with the Eagle Tribe for a long time in the future. Don't shirk the price increase this time. With the price increase, your tribe can buy the latest coal digging tools."

"The Eagle Tribe has coal digging tools." Tuoxiong dug his head. The shovels and picks used by the Eagle Tribe for coal digging were all bought from Nanbu. Why do they need to buy new tools now?

"The quality of the coal-digging irons this time is very good, strong and light, which can greatly speed up the coal-digging speed." The new ironware provided by Zheng Yuming was made by the valley using iron ore from the Eagle Tribe.

"You can speed it up, okay, then buy more." Tuoxiong rubbed his hands.More mining means more gold mining. It seems that my daughter can really buy several gold hairpins.

"In fact, if you have a small number of people, you can use food to replace people to help you mine." Zheng Yuming offered a new idea.

"That's right! Why didn't I think of that! Several small tribes around are very poor and can't even get enough to eat. If you give them food, they will definitely be willing to help us dig mines!" Tuoxiong slapped his thigh, enlightened.

Tuoxiong returned to the tribe with one-third more money and new tools. He returned to the tribe to discuss with his son, and immediately called the tribe leaders for a secret meeting, and determined N kinds of plans to increase the production of black stones. The leaders who participated in the meeting broke up with the goal of striving for a well-off life soon, and the happy life of Bi Su Pingyuan was in front of their eyes.