Late Ming sea owl

Chapter 39
Early the next morning, Lin Hai found Shi Bi and Miguel and asked them to each choose a few agile and steady brothers to go to the island, leaving Zheng Tingqiu and other sailors to guard the ship.

Shi Bi then picked five people, including Feng Yidao and Scarface, who wanted to get off the boat last night, and the bull-eyed junior who had cursed Commander Jiang on the last boat.Miguel also brought his Portuguese friend and two tall and strong black slaves.

Lin Hai called Shanglun No. [-], Lu Tiedan and Zhang Yong. The group all put on iron helmets and chain mail shirts, and each got off the ship with their own weapons.

Chen Yaozu clamored to go with him, but Lin Hai ruthlessly refused: "An Xin is here, I have something else for you to do later."

Half an hour later, Lun Yi and Zhang Yong escorted an indigenous young man back to the boat.

Chen Yaozu stepped forward and chirped: "Why did you two come back first? Who is this? Could it be that he caught a young man and came back? It looks like he has one nose and two eyes, but there is nothing strange about it."

The indigenous young man was tightly tied with hemp rope and had a rag stuffed in his mouth. He kept whining and whining, his eyes wandering around, looking at the behemoth Bowang in horror.

Before Lun Yi and Zhang Yong could answer, Chen Yaozu asked excitedly: "How is it? What's there to do in Dongfan?"

Lun First took off his iron helmet and said: "Forget it, wearing this kind of clothes makes me exhausted. I walked for several miles without any human beings. I didn't expect an arrow to suddenly shoot, but it was this guy hiding in the forest. A murderer was committed. Fortunately, Tiedan was loyal and brave and took an arrow for Brother Lin."

Chen Yaozu was surprised: "Is Tiedan injured?"

Lun Di patted the fine lock ring on his body and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, with that guy's bamboo bow, shooting on this thing will only make a sound."

Chen Yaozu rubbed his hands and said: "This guy is so rude, wait until I use my fists and kicks to express my bad temper with all the brothers."

Lun Di quickly stopped him and said: "Slow down, slow down, brother, don't let me wait to hurt him."

Chen Yaozu said in astonishment: "Why is this?"

Lun Diyi shook his head and expressed ignorance. Zhang Yong, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "Eldest brother wants to do business with Sheng Fan."

Lun No. [-] nodded suddenly. Lin Hai did say yesterday that he wanted to do business with Dao Shengfan.

Chen Yaozu was even more stunned: "Doing business with Shengfan? Do they have gold and silver?"

Lun No. [-] shook his head and said, "I don't know either. Let's wait until my eldest brother comes back to figure it out."

Chen Yaozu nodded and said, "How can these students do business if they don't understand the language?"

Now neither Lun Yi nor Zhang Yong could explain why they came, so the three followers could only wait on the boat.

After another hour, Lin Hai and others came back one after another, each group bringing with them a tied-up native, and together with the one before, there were five in total.

Lin Hai ordered some of the goods in the cargo hold to be moved to the open deck. After a while, the five natives spread out in front of them were quickly filled with various objects:

Shovels, steel knives, axes, short spears, scissors, pickaxes, iron pots, homespun cloth, lacquer boxes, wooden combs, ready-made clothes, blankets, harmonicas, bells, bead chains...it's like a grocery store.The five natives, who looked like Grandma Liu, entered the Grand View Garden and looked at the various objects in front of them with curiosity. Some of them they recognized, but some they had never heard of and had no idea what they were.

Lin Hai picked up a bell and waved it in front of the aboriginal young man who suddenly fired a cold arrow. The crisp sound immediately attracted his attention.

Lin Hai put a friendly smile on his face, stuffed the bell on the young man, and then took off his bamboo bow.Then he followed the same pattern and exchanged the same thing with the remaining four people. The five people got different things.After doing this, Lin Hai ordered these people to be released.

The five natives, as if they had been granted amnesty, ran away as soon as they got off the boat.The man who got the bell ran for a while and found that no one was chasing him, so he slowed down and rang the bell in his hand as he walked, with a happy smile on his face.

Miguel watched the whole process from the side and suddenly said to Lin Hai: "Is this possible? I think they may not understand what you mean."

Lin Hai replied: "After these people go back, they will definitely talk to others about today's events. There will always be smart people who understand what I mean."

Miguel obviously didn't believe it and shook his head: "I doubt it. I don't think these animals are much smarter than monkeys."

"Pizarro should have thought so when he was in America, but I think people who can't even tell the difference between humans and monkeys are probably not very smart." Lin Hai said, suppressing his smile and said, "When this voyage is over , I plan to establish a colony in Dongfan, but my method will be completely different from Pizarro."

Miguel was once again shocked that Lin Hai knew about Pizarro, and felt that the Ming businessman in front of him was becoming more and more mysterious.

In the afternoon of the same day, several brave natives came to Bowang each carrying a rattan frame. After bargaining based purely on gestures, Lin Hai finally exchanged an axe, a piece of homespun cloth and three bells for five deer skins. , three pairs of antlers and more than 20 pounds of deer breast.

There are many other things in the rattan frames of the indigenous people, including weapons such as wooden spears, bamboo bows, and boomerangs, tools such as pottery bowls, snail cups, and bamboo baskets. In addition, there are millet, taro, and various wild vegetables. One indigenous person even I brought a tube of millet wine in a bamboo tube.

However, Lin Hai would not accept any of these things, only deer skins, antlers and deer breasts.The natives were slightly disappointed, but they were still very excited to get what they had exchanged, and left screaming and jumping.

After this wave, it got out of hand. More than 500 people, including men, women, old and young, showed up around the afternoon of that day. It is estimated that the indigenous people from several nearby villages and communities came out in full force.Prices on the Bowang were rising rapidly. By the time the sun went down, an ax would cost thirty deerskins.

To Lin Hai's surprise, the best-selling product turned out to be bells, and two indigenous youths even had a bloody fight over the bells.

Chen Yaozu was so tired that he finally understood the meaning of Lin Hai's words when he got off the boat. It turned out that he was to be responsible for keeping accounts.Chen Ershao never expected that after all his efforts to get on board the Bowang, he would end up working as a bookkeeper for Lin Hai...

However, the novelty of going to sea had not worn off yet, so he was not too repelled, and he still completed the work meticulously.The final results showed that the total purchase price of the goods sold by Bowang was less than 50 taels, and the return was more than 800 deer skins, more than 1 pairs of antlers, and more than [-] kilograms of deer breasts.

All the crew members were dumbfounded, this business in Dongfan must be so good!

Lin Hai smiled and said to Miguel: "Master Hou, you are quite familiar with the prices of goods in Japan. Can you tell me how much these deer skins and the like can be worth if we sell them to Nagasaki?"

"I think it's almost 3000 taels of silver." Miguel made a rough estimate and said excitedly: "Exactly sixty times, my God! This profit margin can make a chaste wife betray her husband and a loyal knight. Kill his lord! Oh my God, I don’t know how to describe this!”

(End of this chapter)