Tuo Xiong took the boat at about ten o'clock in the morning came to the pier in Nambu, after disembarking did not first go to the textile factory to find Zheng Yuming settlement of payments, but with the youngest daughter Tuo Jing wandering around the pier, Tuo Jing every time she saw her father and brother go out and want to follow, Tuo Xiong from his daughter to grow to the age of ten years old, feeling that his daughter is too wild, it will be locked up in the tribal cottage, not allowed to run around, want to teach his daughter to be as gentle and cultured as a woman in the northern Dacheng City. He wanted to raise his daughter to be as gentle and educated as the women in the city of Dacheng in the north.
There are a lot of cargo ships moored at the pier of Nambu, the laborers are unloading the cargoes, some old women are washing clothes on the stone steps of the pier, and there are four or five cargo men selling all kinds of daily necessities on the shore, and each of them is surrounded by some villagers. The villagers who bought the small commodities were either older or younger. The young and strong villagers had all gone to work.
"Pops! I want to buy this." Tuojing rummaged through the cargo man's stretcher and found a hairpin made of purple mahogany, which was carved into the shape of a brocade bird, and the workmanship was exquisite, and the brocade bird was so vivid that it came to life.
"Dongjia, how many Wu coins does this wooden hairpin cost?" Tuo Xiong felt his pockets, today, because he could settle the ore payment from Zheng Yuming, Tuo Xiong didn't bring many coins on him.
"This lord, your lady has a good eye, this wooden hairpin is the best thing in my stretcher, just one gold, 100 Wu coins." The cargo man looks at Tuo Xiong wearing an elaborate jacquard printed cloth summer coat (a gift from Zheng Yuming) and smiles as he quotes the price, people in this time and space basically don't haggle, and most of the merchants who sell their wares set their prices depending on the market demand. The price is usually not too outrageous.
"100 Wu coins!" Tuo Xiong heard the cargo man address him with an adult, his heart was very comfortable, even though he was the head of a clan, when he arrived in Wu, his status was not as high as that of a commoner in Wu, and the people in the northern part of the Yangtze River generally looked down on the tribesmen in the southern part of the Yangtze River as unenlightened barbarians.
Originally, Takuo was in a pleasant mood, but when the cargo man quoted the price, Takuo was embarrassed, he went out and casually grabbed a handful of Wu coins and put them into his pocket, the number was obviously less than a hundred.
"Dad, give the money to the goods man ah!" Tuojing looked at the wooden hairpin over and over again, the more she looked at it, the more she liked it, this wooden hairpin not only has good carving work, the material chosen is also good, holding it in her hand, her nose can smell a fresh fragrance.
"Ah Jing, this wooden hairpin is not good, not as good as a gold hairpin, Ah Dad will buy you a gold hairpin later." Tuoxiong couldn't say that he didn't have enough money in his pocket, so he had to think that the thing wasn't expensive.
"A gold hairpin? Is a gold hairpin as beautiful as this wooden hairpin?" Tuoba Jing held the brocade bird hairpin without giving up.
"Gold hairpins are certainly prettier than wooden ones."
The cargo man re-examined the pair of father and daughter in front of him, feeling that the pair of father and daughter in front of him looked dark-skinned and looked like southern barbarians, but those who could afford to wear calico could never be southern barbarians, and the chiefs of the southern barbarians were all poor as peasants as far as he could remember.
Printed cloth is more expensive than silk, and silk is more expensive than gold, this pair of father and daughter wearing the same printed cloth are definitely not ordinary commoners, they must be nobles from some part of Dar City. "If your lordship wants a gold hairpin, the even family can bring it for the lady in three days."
"Yeah! Good! You must come three days later, and the gold hairpin must be more beautiful than the wooden hairpin!" Tuo-Qing put the wooden hairpin into the cargo frame, she grew up to thirteen years old although she was as active as a boy, but a woman's innate nature to love beauty didn't become lost because of being active.
"Ahem! How many gold coins does this gold hairpin cost?" Tuoxiong didn't forget to ask the price like his daughter, people in this time and space believe in promises, what is said is like signing a contract in modern times, those who don't keep their promises will be despised, and whatever you do in the future will be questioned because you once broke your promise. If you say you want the gold hairpin now, Takao will definitely come here to trade it three days later.
"It's not expensive, just ten gold!" The cargo man held his palm out in front of Takao and flipped it over, indicating two gold pieces.
"Ten gold!"
Just after the voice of the cargo man fell, it startled Tuoxiong. He did not want to lose this 'lord' status because of the cargo boy's honorific title, and was embarrassed to let the cargo boy know that the 'lord' did not even have a single gold on him, so he could only excuse himself for wanting to buy jewelry that was more expensive than the wooden hairpin, and he thought that the cargo boy wouldn't have anything that expensive, but he didn't want the cargo boy to here He thought that the cargo man would not have such expensive things, but did not want the cargo man here to have them at home. If he had known, he would have refuted the Cargo Man's name, and directly said that he was the chief of the Southern Barbarian Tribe, in which case the Cargo Man would not have been interested in doing business with him.
Tuo Xiong often come to Nangbu wharf to trade goods with people, before there is no iron ore to sell to Zheng Yuming, Nangbu wharf, some of the cargo men do not pay much attention to this southern barbarian chief, the Eagle Tribe, although it is a large tribe, but it is also a notoriously poor tribe. The cargo man who came to sell wooden hairpins today is a newcomer who came here to do business after hearing about the good business in Nanbu.
"Pops! Is ten gold very expensive?" Tuo-Jing blinked her big, ebony eyes, she wasn't too sure about the value of currency.
"No matter how expensive ten gold is, it's not as expensive as the clothes on the lady's body, lady, the two outfits for you and your ah father will cost a hundred gold at the very least." In the end, the cargo man was a businessman, and knew the market for all kinds of goods very well.
"A hundred gold?" Tuoxiong originally felt that God on the jacquard thin summer clothes to wear on the body is very cool, now by the cargo man so said, only to feel that the clothes like fire like branding his body, his body actually wear a few boats of black stone. A wooden boat of black stone can be sold to more than ten gold, the entire tribal labor force to dig on a month, but can dig to twenty or so boats, tribal people rely on this twenty or so boats of black stone sold money for food for daily necessities to live.
"Eh, my lord, do you want the even family to bring the gold hairpin in three days?" The cargo man looked at Takuo's face that had become distorted and couldn't help but reconfirm this order.
"Bring! You bring it here in three days, and Takao will definitely bring ten gold to pick it up." Takao rubbed his clothes with one hand while gritting his teeth and popping the promise out word by word.
"Good! My family will definitely bring over the most exquisite gold hairpin for the lady in three days." The shopkeeper confirmed the order and was happy that there were so many rich people here in Nambu.
And the cargo man made a verbal agreement, Tuohsiung forbid his daughter to shop the cargo stretcher any more, dragged Tuoh Jing and went in the direction of the textile factory.
"Pops! What's the point of running so fast?" Tuojing was disgruntled, she was here today to stroll around the docks.
"Let's take the clothes off our bodies and exchange them for gold with Lord Zheng, and we'll get enough gold to buy you ten gold hairpins." At the thought of several shiploads of black stones on his body, Tuoxiong couldn't catch his breath.
"No! Ah dad! I don't want to change out of this outfit, this outfit is the best looking, I wear out the whole cottage people say that Jing looks good." Tuo Jing's mouth turned up and her nose was high. Zheng Yuming only sent a jacquard thin cloth to Tuohsiung, Tuohsiung has two sons and a daughter, the most favored at home is Tuoh Jing, only enough to do two outfits of jacquard cloth can only be given to the head of the family Tuohsiung and the most favored Tuoh Jing first.
"It looks just as good in green cloth instead." Takao turned out to not even be able to afford to wear Dacheng green cloth.
"No ...." Tuo-jing was dragged by her father, protesting as she walked, she would rather not have the golden hairpin than change her clothes, father-sama can't be this stubborn!
"Change your clothes to gold?" Jung Yuming looked at Takio, whose face was flushed red, with his mouth open.
"These clothes are worth several shiploads of black stones." Tuo Xiong was very embarrassed, the clothes he was wearing were not exchanged for iron ore, but a gift from Zheng Yuming, and now exchanging gold with Zheng Yuming seemed like a bummer. "Lord Zheng, we only need fifty gold for these two outfits. The clothes were just made yesterday, we just wore them today, and they are new when washed." Tuo Xiong spoke lower and lower.
"Chief Tuo, you don't need to change your clothes to gold, your Eagle Tribe will get 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 was full of sincerity.
"Lord Zheng, how could our Eagle Tribe get richer and richer in the future?" Tuoxiong let out a long sigh.
Eagle Tribe in more than ten years ago and do not live in the opposite side of the Nambu, Nambu long river on the other side of the rolling hills, not much flat land, of course, there is not much arable land, the Eagle Tribe's original fortress in the southern part of the hills, where there is a large piece of plain, fertile land, even if the tribal planting is a slash and burn way, each year from the land can still be harvested to maintain subsistence food, coupled with the Eagle Tribe warriors can also be hunted, the fortress on the There is a little surplus food, and can exchange daily necessities with people elsewhere, the people of the Eagle Tribe consciously live a very happy life.
But because there is a fertile land, attracted by the nature of the ferocious tiger tribe of the coveted, the tiger tribe than the eagle tribe is powerful, tribal people are ferocious, the eagle tribe of all the warriors, although they try to defend their homes, ultimately due to the strength of the disparity between the aggressor tiger tribe to pay a great price, their own due to the loss of heavy losses, and had to give up the homeland, relocated to the northern part of the plains of the hills in the residence. Takao's father is the old chief, in the war against the Tiger Tribe in those times was wounded, led the surviving tribesmen to move out of the plains, the old chief died because 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. Eagle Tribe settled down in the hills, the population is only half of the original, captured the plains of the Tiger Tribe also reduced by one-third of the population, the two tribes because of the fight for the plains of the great injury, both sides do not have the power to start a war again, across the hills, in the next ten years, the two tribes each cultivate their own peace and prosperity, each other. Tuo Xiong's eldest son Tuo Su, was born in the first year of the tribe's migration to the hills, the tribe called the original plains called 'Su' land (Zheng Yuming estimates that 'Su' should be 'Su', the Eagle Tribe) There is no writing, Nambu half-tone culture people translated it into the word Su), Tuoxiong misses his homeland, and named his eldest son after the name of the plains.
The living environment in the hilly area is not as good as the Su Plain, but thanks to the hard work of the people of the Eagle Tribe, they planted food on the gentle slopes of the mountains and hunted wild animals in the hills to cross the river to exchange food with Nangbu (meat can be exchanged for more food). The people of the Eagle Tribe survived on the other side of the river, and after more than a decade of rest and recuperation, the tribe's population returned to its former size.
The Eagle Tribesmen were of a milder disposition, and the Nambu people did not reject such southern barbarians too much.
"The Eagle Tribe couldn't dig up more black stones, and everyone in the tribe, except the old men and children, went down to the cave to dig up stones." Tuoxiong also wanted to dig more stones in that cave, but the cave with black stones was halfway up the mountain, and when they dug black stones in the cave, they had to be transported down the mountain in baskets on their shoulders, which was very labor-intensive, plus the tools for digging stones were very simple, and Tuoxiong had no spare capacity to increase production.
"Chief Tuo, your tribe has worked really hard to dig up rocks for Nambu." Zheng Yuming spoke with a bit of deliberation.
Tuo Xiong raised his eyes and looked at Zheng Yuming, his heart was touched, this Lord Governor of Nambu and the Eagle Tribe had always given the tribe respect in their dealings.
Eagle Tribe is in a year ago found in the cave in the black stone, no one in the tribe know mining, tribal people in half a year ago to Nambu Iron Workshop with the blacksmith to exchange things, inadvertently said their own tribes have than the blacksmiths use the color of the iron ore deeper stone. Nambu blacksmith because of the lack of iron ore refining, immediately on the heart, let the Eagle Tribe to bring that kind of black stone to him to identify, if the black stone contains iron, the blacksmith will use the price of iron ore in the Dacheng area to buy.
Facts have proved that the quality of the Eagle Tribe's iron ore is much better than that of Dacheng, but because the ruling class of Da Qin has a very strict control over iron ore, and is not allowed to trade it privately, the blacksmiths and the Eagle Tribe's iron ore trade has always been sneaky, and the amount is very small, and the tribe only needs to send a couple of people into the caves every month to dig up minerals in order to fulfill the amount of trade, until Zheng Yuming took over Nambu, the amount of Eagle Tribe's digging up minerals skyrocketed.
Just because of the sharp increase in the volume of iron ore trade, the Eagle Tribe has been living a very comfortable life these past few months, and many of the elders say that the tribe's standard of living has returned to the level it had when it was in the Composed Plains.
"Since it's too hard for your tribe to mine, let's raise the black stone purchase price by 30% in the future."
Takio was being touched by Jung Yuming's consideration for the Eagle Tribe, but below, he was being brainwashed by Jung Yuming's initiative to raise the price.
"Raise it by 30%?" Takio, after Jung Yuming said this, hurriedly calculated how much he could increase his monthly income by taking out chips from his coat pocket.
"That's the price for this shipment of black stones."
"No! No! Lord Zheng, how can this be! If we want to raise it, we have to wait for the next time, the black stone shipped this time was set at a good price." Tuo Xiong waved his hands repeatedly, Zheng Yuming's kindness made him a bit overwhelmed.
"Chief Tuo don't be polite with Nambu, Nambu will have to cooperate with the Eagle Tribe for a long time in the future, so don't push back on this price increase, and with the money from the price increase, your tribe can purchase the latest coal digging tools."
"The Eagle Tribe has coal digging equipment now." Tuo Xiong dug his head, the Eagle Tribe's shovels and logs for coal digging were all purchased from Nambu, so why are they now being asked to purchase new equipment?
"The coal digging iron weapon this time is of very good quality, strong and lightweight, it can make coal digging much faster." The new iron weapon provided by Zheng Yuming was the one that the valley had created from the iron ore of the Eagle Tribe.
"It'll speed things up, good, then buy more." Tuoxiong rubbed his hands together. More mining means more gold, it seems that his daughter's gold hairpin can really be bought several times.
"In fact, the low manpower can be exchanged for food to help you mine." Zheng Yuming provided new ideas again.
"Right! Why didn't I think of that! The several small tribes around us are poor and don't have enough to eat, so if we give them food, they will definitely be happy to come and help us mine!" Tuoxiong slapped his thighs and was enlightened.
Tuoxiong with more than one-third of the payment of money and new tools back to the tribe, back to the tribe and his son to discuss, immediately called the tribal chiefs to open a secret meeting, to determine the N to improve the production of black stone program, to participate in the meeting of the chiefs of the struggle to run to the well-being of the soon to be dispersed, Bisu plains of happy life in front of them.