The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 552 Huge bounty
"No, no, Mr. Ding, you can't do this. If you do this, no country's ships will come here in the future." Priel shouted in panic.

Ding Yi waved his hand to stop the sergeant: "Then I am willing to give you another chance. What do you think is this?"

Priel blushed, thought carefully, and finally said: "I don't know, I bought it from a merchant, and it cost ten pennies."

"I've heard that it's called——what————" Priel thought carefully.

"Rubber, the pronunciation of Indians, this is called rubber." Ding Yi said lightly: "It's Native Americans, you call them Indians."

"That's right, that's right, it's called rubber. My respected Master Ding, there really is nothing to hide from you." Priel turned pale with shock. He didn't expect the Ming in front of him to know each other, let alone the Ming who knew the Native Americans.

In fact, no one called them Indians at this time. Columbus thought there was India (indios in Spanish), so he called them Indians.

"It's made of the sap of the rubber tree. Your compatriot, Columbus, was sent by the Queen of Spain to land in the New World of America. He saw it from there."

"Oh, God." Priel's complexion changed drastically, all hit, the Master Ding in front of him was like a prophet, knowing everything.

Prior knew, of course, because he had been to "San Salvador," the place where his compatriot Columbus had landed, five years earlier.

Then he followed in the footsteps of Columbus, who landed on many shores in America, dreaming of finding gold.

At that time, he got the rubber, but he didn't think it was of much use. He just brought some back to deceive foreign businessmen who didn't understand.

He didn't intend to tell Ding Yi the truth, but Ding Yi still said it.

"Plier, do you want to earn a lot of silver or gold?" Ding Yi said at this moment, his voice full of temptation.

Priel rolled his eyes and said with a chuckle, "Master Ding, please give me some advice."

"I don't care if you have been to the American continent or not. If you are willing to take a trip and help me bring back a large number of seeds of this tree, I will pay you an unimaginable reward."

"How much?" Priel's eyes suddenly widened.

Ding Yi turned around and asked Yao Xinhan in a low voice how big his boat was.

Yao Xinhan said in a low voice, it seems to be equivalent to a thousand materials for us.

"I'm willing to fill your two big ships with sugar or raw silk, or give you 1 taels of gold." Ding Yi said solemnly.

Hiss, following the words of the translation, the people around gasped. Many smart people couldn't believe it, and even those who could understand it couldn't believe it. As for Priel, they couldn't believe it.

He stared straight at Ding Yi, already evaluating Ding Yi's credibility in his mind.

When he first disembarked, he had already inquired about Mingren's reputation and the way he did things here.

They used to carry wood, reward silver, attract local tribes to help, spend money to hire tribes to help them do things, never defaulted, got the approval of the tribe, and gradually established a connection with the tribe. He felt at the time that this was obvious The chief of the people is wiser than the Dutch.

Priel is a shrewd businessman. After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth: "I want 2 taels of gold."

"Your Majesty Ding, you know that traveling thousands of miles away is a near-death experience. After I went there five years ago, I never want to go there again." After speaking, he realized that he had exposed what he had been there, but he had already said it, and there was nothing he could do about it.

"Okay, just 2 taels." Ding Yi agreed without hesitation, "But you have to protect the seeds for me, because I want to grow him in Dayuan."

There were screams all around, Zhao Dashan moved his mouth, trying to persuade Ding Yi, this shit is worth [-] yuan?Or gold?

But think about it, Mr. Ding has a reason every time he does something, so he dare not speak now.

Twenty thousand gold is a bit expensive, but if Ding Yi is to send troops and ships, the time, manpower and material resources will be consumed, which will be more than twenty thousand gold. In this era, if 1000 people go to Lower America, 500 people can come back.

And he is about to establish credibility in the hearts of nations.

2 taels of gold was just for him to establish credibility.

Sure enough, Priel gritted his teeth and said, "How can I trust you?"

I brought it back, what if you don't give gold?
Ding Yi did not hesitate: "Just because I own Tainan City, I need to establish business relations with other countries. As you said, if I break my promise with you, who would want to do business with me?"

After that, Ding Yi said again: "I happened to bring 1000 taels of gold as a deposit, and I will pay you first."

"My lord?" Everyone shouted, what if the family ran away with the money?
"No, my lord, what if he runs away?" Zhao Dashan said bluntly.

"Damn." Priel was furious: "I swear in the name of God, I will bring back the seeds for you."

Ding Yi beat the Mongols and got thousands of taels of gold, but it was useless to put them there. Foreign businessmen like gold, so they brought all of them to the officials.

This time it was just right, and he paid a thousand deposit first, and finally persuaded Prior to make another trip to America.

But Ding Yi also had a request, and he would send two people with him, and of course Prior agreed.

This trip to America is not far away, and it will take more than a year or even two years to go back and forth at the fastest. This is because Prier has been there before. If you are not familiar with it, let Ding Yi send someone to go there. It is estimated that it will take two years to go back and forth. The above may not be found.

Because there is no Suez Canal at this time, they need to go around the Cape of Good Hope, which is known as the end of Africa, and it is an absolute journey of thousands of miles.

Ding Yi told him to bring as many strange American trees, vegetables, fruits and other seeds as possible, to record interesting things along the way, and to record accurate charts.

Prior agreed.

After Purcell left, Ding Yi thought about it and asked Zhu Xiangyang to build a small house on the pier by the shore, which was marked "Reward Mission Hall" in various languages.

He remembered that there were such sections in many games.

He intends to learn to use it.

In the future, the first item above is to offer a reward of [-] gold in South Chengtai in exchange for rubber tree seeds.

He will think more about things next, offer enough silver rewards, and encourage maritime merchants from various countries to complete them for them.

In the early stage, it is estimated that everyone did not believe it very much, but as long as the credit is established, in the future, maritime merchants from various countries will be able to find all the people, things, or technologies he wants to find for him.

After Purcell left, the people around Ding Yi still couldn't believe it. Zhao Dashan was holding the rubber in his hand, pinching it back and forth, not knowing what it was useful for.

"My lord, is this thing worth [-] gold?" Zhu Xiangyang couldn't help but asked anyway.

Because he and Yao Xinhan were in charge of the civil affairs of Dayuan, they knew that since Ding Yi occupied Dayuan, white sugar was mainly used to exchange things, and it was rarely sold, so Ding Yi was always giving away money.

Ding Yi thought for a while, but he didn't know how to tell them that this thing can be called the basis of industrialization. He and oil, coal, and steel are called the four major raw materials of industry.

Right now, Ding Yi has the opportunity to gather all the four major raw materials. This is not something that can be explained in a few words, and it is also impossible to explain it to them.

"This thing is useful in many places, but I'm not a professional, but if we can grow trees in the future, it can be used as tires for carts, waterproof shoes, and raincoats. Simply put, our carts have this Such tires, in terms of speed and load, will far exceed any present horse-drawn carriage."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, it seems that this is not very useful?

But Ding Yi's majesty and ability all the year round, everyone will naturally not doubt that there is so much gold in his heart.

Ding Yi then went to a corner of the warehouse, and soon felt dizzy. There were silver crosses, crystal magic balls, and a small copper clock, but there was no timetable on it.

I don’t know if the pendulum clock was manufactured during this period. This thing is a bit like the prototype of a pendulum clock, and it is still a bit fun, so Ding Yi asked his soldiers to take it away.

He saw that there were not many things in this room, only one or two hundred, but they were basically useless. There were also many books, books from various countries, all in different languages, which were useless.

"Do we have translators from various countries in the city?" Ding Yi asked.

"All of them. According to what you said, Mr. Ding, we also have a lot of translators." Zhu Xiangyang said.

"Not only do we need to raise them, but we also need to let them teach them. We need to teach our own translators. If there is nothing to do, let them translate these books. In the future, military books, agricultural books, and technical books will all be translated."

"No." Everyone nodded.

Ding Yi took advantage of the opportunity to ask about the results of the past few months.

According to Ding Yi's request, Da Yuan white sugar is not for sale now, only for exchange.

Merchants in the Ming country like to bring people, because they know that Ding Yi likes people here, and now there are wars everywhere in Ming Dynasty, they will exchange food for some people in Daming, put it on the ship and exchange it for sugar.

Ming people are very cheap here. Before Zhu Xiangyang came, Zhao Dashan exchanged a hundred catties of sugar for an adult.

After Zhu Xiangyang and Yao Xinhan came, they immediately lowered the price. Fifty catties of white sugar was exchanged for an adult, thirty catties for a child, and twenty catties for a woman.

At this price, there are still a large number of merchants from the Ming Dynasty who come to exchange, especially from Fujian and Guangdong.

They are close to each other and deliver fast, batch after batch.

Therefore, in the past few months, the population growth of Dawei is not bad. Of course, it is still much worse than the drainage of victims in Dengzhou.

Ding Yi remembered that fifty catties of white sugar cost 2.5 taels of silver in Songjiang, the most suitable place in Daming.

In the war-torn Ming Dynasty, sometimes a bag of rice can be exchanged for a few cents for an adult.

So now merchants in the Ming Dynasty trade people for sugar.

When their merchant ship came up, it must be full of people, and then there will be extra space for cotton cloth and other supplies needed by the big people.

As for foreign businessmen, some of the things they exchange for sugar are foreign products they bring, some are rare and weird things, and some may be firearms or something.

For example, the Portuguese in Macau came over last month and wanted to exchange cannons for sugar.

Zhu Xiangyang didn't agree at that time, he went back to them and waited for Ding Yi to come, because he didn't know how much to change.

When Ding Yi heard it, well, he had thought about this artillery factory for a long time. In Macau in this era, there was a Portuguese artillery factory. The artillery of the Ming Dynasty and the Hongyi cannon were all purchased from there in the early stage.

(End of this chapter)