Ling Qingyu rolled his eyes, and told the iron guards to put the ten bolts of silk and some unbroken porcelain on the ground, and then smiled at the woman.
The woman raised her thickly drawn eyebrows, signaling to the maids to move things in, and shortly thereafter, the maids brought out a lot of gold and precious stones.
After pocketing the gold and precious stones, Ling Qingyu pointed at the Indian warriors and said, "Make way."
The warriors didn't move, but Yan San's sword trembled on the golden man's neck, cutting a bloodstain.
The golden man yelled loudly now, and it was a series of words, which made the woman's face darken as she listened, and then pointed to the Indian man who had been hiding aside and said a few words.
The man rubbed his sweat and walked in front of Ling Qingyu, and began to gesture again, first pointing to the golden man, then to the pile of wrapped gold gems, and then made a big gesture.
Does this mean to exchange gold and gems for his freedom? Ling Qingyu suddenly thought of the famous story of a room full of gold, so he smiled and pointed at the golden man, then at the stone house, and made a gesture of filling.
The woman laughed, and turned to look at the golden man, her eyes full of ridicule.
The golden man yelled in dissatisfaction, Yan San's hand shook again, and another bloodstain was cut out.
"Think about it, we'll wait for you where you land." Ling Qingyu said with a smile.
Yan San escorted the golden man to the front, forcing the warriors to retreat, and the group slowly exited the hall.
"Wait." The woman also followed, yelled when she saw Ling Qingyu and the others were about to go to the square, and then pointed to another remote path.
Ling Qingyu nodded and asked Yan San to take the lead with the Jinren, and Yan Qi to take the lead. A group of people quickly retreated from the small road to the outside of the city.
The way the woman pointed avoided the crowd celebrating in the square, and only the feathered Indian warriors followed them along the way. When they were outside the city, the man gestured again to exchange gold for the freedom of the golden man.
Ling Qingyu led people to a post station beside the main road, pointed to the room of the post station to indicate to fill it up, then compared two fingers, took out the gold gems and a silver bar given by the woman and put them on the ground.
This time the golden man nodded. Ling Qingyu signaled to the man, you go get ready, we walked back slowly, when will the ransom be paid, and when will he be released.
Yan San escorted the golden man in the middle, Xiao Ke led the team in front, followed by a large group of Indian warriors with feathers. A group of people walked slowly towards the shore.
After walking for two days, the coastline could already be seen. Ling Qingyu asked people to stop and wait for the ransom. When camping in the wild last night, those Indian warriors launched an attack. The iron guards who were allowed to kill were let go of the shit He went back, and the golden man was also beaten up. In the next day, only a small half of the Indian warriors remained honest, and followed behind at a distance of several hundred meters.
Let Xiao Se be sent back to the boat first, Ling Qingyu and others waited for another day before the ransom delivery team arrived, and the first one was actually a beautiful woman sitting on a shoulder.
The woman didn't lower her shoulders, but watched other Indians pile up baskets of gold, silver and precious stones on the ground. After a while, they piled up into a huge pile.
The golden man's complexion was very strange, as if he opened a dyeing workshop, with shame, anger and fear intertwined.
Asking Xiao Ke to take the spoils back to the boat, Ling Qingyu thought for a while and said to him: "Bring a hundred bolts of silk and a few baskets of porcelain from the boat."
Although there were people in the Andes who wanted to call them attention, and here the golden man acted first, but Ling Qingyu always felt that these Indians were actually very kind, and those ordinary people would provide them with food and water, and would smile at them, so As a nation, Ling Qingyu doesn't want to destroy their culture and system.
From the pile of items, I picked out some utensils and artifacts that seemed to be used for sacrifices and put them aside. Ling Qingyu asked them to move mostly gold, silver, gems, and gemstones.
Those rough gemstones are all big and wrapped in quartz, but Ling Qingyu seems to see the sparkling emeralds at a glance. It is said that the Chibcha people have mined emeralds for a long time. Because of the Spanish invasion, they lost their wealth It was all thrown into a lake, including many large gems. Seeing such a large raw ore now, Ling Qingyu felt that the legend was probably true.
The woman looked at Ling Qingyu very meaningfully, watched her pick out those exquisite gold utensils, watched her take those beautiful silk and porcelain and those gold utensils together from the men who turned back, and then looked at After she finished cleaning up the things, he motioned for them to be given to her.
Um? send me to? The woman understood Ling Qingyu's meaning, and she laughed unconsciously, letting people put down their shoulders, walked up to Ling Qingyu, and asked a question.
Ling Qingyu picked up a rough emerald, then pointed to the gold utensils, indicating that these were for exchange, and then pointed to the silk and porcelain to indicate that they were for you.
After making gestures a few times, the woman understood, she covered her mouth and laughed a few times, and after giving some instructions, the maid behind her brought up a big basket, which was full of rough gemstones, and the big one was as big as an adult's fist. The small ones are the size of pigeon eggs. Although they are all rough stones, they have not been peeled and cut, and the green color is already exciting.
Before Ling Qingyu had time to marvel, the maid brought up another basket, this time it was real gold nuggets. Those utensils are absolutely precious to the Indians, but they are not pure gold, but a gold-copper alloy. Its greatest value lies in its craftsmanship and its ability to worship the gods, but Ling Qingyu does not want to destroy their culture , I can’t take these back and melt them again. When it comes to judging this artistry, Ling Qingyu feels that she still likes pure gold! So in her eyes, a basket of pure gold is much more valuable than such a large pile of gold utensils.
Ling Qingyu smiled happily, and the woman was also very satisfied with keeping the goldware in her temple, not to mention that the other party actually gave so much cloth and porcelain, both parties were very satisfied. And Mr. Meat Ticket Golden Man who was the initiator of this transaction has returned to his few remaining samurai in great frustration.
Far away from the coast of Colombia, Ling Qingyu still couldn't recover. Perhaps this time was the most amazing time in her three years of experience. I don't know why this conflict arises.
"Xiao Ke, if there was no order at that time, you couldn't kill even if you were killed?" Ling Qingyu couldn't help but asked Xiao Ke.
"They can't kill us." Xiao Ke said seriously.
Ling Qingyu was dumb for a moment. It is true that the combat effectiveness of these iron guards is actually far superior to her crew, but this is not the point, is it? Then asked: "What if they can kill you?"
"Didn't you allow us to kill people?" Xiao Ke was a little strange. Could it be that I heard it wrong
"Well, I mean, if I didn't give the order at that time, and the other party could kill you, you wouldn't fight back?" Ling Qingyu coughed and asked.
"The iron guards of the Xiao family must obey the master's instructions in every move. If there is no master's order, even if the knife is cut on the neck, they will not be able to move." Xiao Ke laughed. Follow Ling Qingyu's instructions, but the head of the house doesn't seem to have this awareness.
what! Is this the absolute loyal dog? But it must be very hard for such a person to follow that arrogant brat, right? Ling Qingyu looked at Xiao Ke sympathetically, at Xiao Se who was dancing on the boat and telling Shiliuye about their experience, shook his head and walked away.
Back at the camp on the coast, Gulu had waited anxiously for three or four days, and he was relieved to see them come back.
He has already traded back from Cusco, and also brought back a large amount of gold and silver, and at the same time, there is information that he has been summoned again.
After putting the things on board, Ling Qingyu and Gulu talked about the recruitment matters. After talking about the business, Gulu couldn't help complaining that Ling Qingyu left as soon as he said it, and didn't leave him any news.
Ling Qingyu smiled and talked about going to Columbia, and said after finishing speaking: "Actually, I haven't figured out what's going on yet."
"You met the Qibucha tribe," Gulu said with a smile, "their priests and chiefs are inherited by women directly, but the property and fields of warriors are inherited by patrilines, so that woman should be the chief and priest. The person wearing gold jewelry is the actual manager of their property. You said that the items used by the young man cannot be owned by a sacrifice. It should be the priest who allowed him to be buried in his own tomb first. Those items are the chief’s funeral objects, so it’s no wonder that the man is angry, according to their rules, the chief will marry him, and the daughter they give birth to will be the next chief, and the son will be the next property owner.”
what! This makes sense, but the golden man is so irresponsible and afraid of death, no wonder the female chief looked down on him, and the female chief wanted to give the boy the precious cloth she bought, which aroused the man's anger Anger turned on them. I don't know whether the item that was finally traded belonged to the chief or the Jin man.
"Gulu, please help me go to Yinshan and call my subordinates back. It's time to go back." Seeing that Gulu's expression was wrong, Ling Qingyu smiled again: "I also want to go back to get enough for you to hire people again , Next time I send a fleet over, I will hand over the transaction and Yinshan here to you."
"Don't worry!" Gulu said, patting his chest.
Gulu went back and forth very quickly, half a month later, the large group of people returned to the camp on the coast with a large amount of silver.
In the past half a month, Ling Qingyu put the plants in need into thousands of pots, and collected many seeds if they could collect seeds. Xiao Se and Su Ce walked up the river to collect all kinds of plants that they had never seen before. Fortunately, the Chimu people are very friendly, and Xiao Se didn't make trouble, and brought a batch of business back.
Leave all the remaining goods on the ship to Gulu, and ask him to build this port to facilitate future trade. In addition to gold and silver, the mines here also need to find copper, tin ore and iron ore. This requirement is gold. Jing and Zhou Tan mentioned that they were still thinking about minting money.
There seemed to be endless explanations for many matters, but it was almost September, and the ocean current had turned. If you want to go back sooner, you can't miss this time.