For many days, Luzon was a rare weather.
This is quite rare in Luzon, which has entered the rainy season.
Taking advantage of the good weather, Zhang Chao borrowed his people from Li Shimin to help him build a simple wooden gate Luzon city, and on the other hand, he sent his own soldiers and horses to conquer the natives along the Luzon River.
Salute first, then soldiers, find the tribe, send a gift first, and then the translator will tell Zhang Chao's meaning.
In the future, this is the territory of the Luzon Kingdom of the Tang Empire, and all Luzon tribes should swear allegiance to King Zhang Chao.
"The Kingdom of Luzon of the Tang Empire" "King of Luzon" In one village, several dark elders muttered to each other.
If it weren't for the fact that they had just received a few beautiful silks and a beautiful set of porcelain, they wouldn't want to talk to these people.
A company commander of the Zhang family who led the team kept smiling, in fact, according to his own ideas, such a small village of only a few hundred people, he could capture this place intact alone, and even without losing a single native.
However, the king has an explanation, and he must salute before he soldiers.
It is only when these natives refuse to submit that they are used against them.
A group of native Luzon natives heard the name Luzon for the first time.
After a long time for the translator, they realized that the Tang Empire was a huge tribe on the other side of the sea.
And this Luzon king turned out to be a patriarch of that tribe.
Now they are bringing people here, to live here and build their own tribe.
"It turned out to be the home tribe of those maritime merchants."
A dry elder said.
"But this has always been the territory of our tribe, we have lived here for generations, since ancient times."
The company commander said impatiently, "If you choose to submit, then I will take the elders to meet our king."
The king will receive you, you swear allegiance to the king, and then send a batch of protons to stay, and you will be the people of the Luzon Kingdom of my Tang Empire in the future.
In the future, you will enjoy the power of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and you will also bear the obligations of the people of the empire. ” "The king will grant you land, and you will have to pay taxes to the king and be obliged to do military and hard labor.
Forced labor can be used for money, but military service is not exempt. ” One of the elders immediately jumped to his feet after hearing the translation's words.
"This place has belonged to our tribe since ancient times, why should you give it to you?
We plant our own land, why do we have to pay taxes to you, you are robbers" The company commander's smile decreased.
"Does your words represent your tribe, can I consider it the final reply?"
The elder was pulled aside by the other older elders.
"These people are not easy to mess with."
"They're so tall."
"Look at their knives, they're so bright."
"That's an iron knife."
"No, it should be a steel knife, and the maritime guards who came here before also have it.
A single knife can cut through a wooden stick with a thick wrist, which is very sharp.
It takes a lot of gold to change it, a very good thing. ” One of the elders immediately said greedily, "Each of them has a treasure sword, and if you say that we killed them all, wouldn't these treasure knives be ours?"
"No, they have so many swords, we can't beat them."
The group of elders immediately sighed in disappointment.
"So what do we do" The eldest elder said, "There are many of them, and they are all so tall, and they have so many treasure swords.
Listen to them, they have even more people by the sea.
We can't beat them, and I think we should go to their leaders first and make a decision then. ” "If there were so many of them" "Then we can swear allegiance to them and pay them tribute."
Everyone sighed again.
"We're willing to send a few men to your chief, but you'll have to send us a few knives."
The company commander has a long understanding of the greed of these natives, and he said with a dark face, "It is your chiefs and elders who have to go with me, there are no knives, and the silk can give you two more horses." ” An agreement is reached.
Holding a few pieces of silk, several elders reached out and stroked them, as if they were caressing a beautiful woman.
An elder spoke to the villagers, and after a while, several villagers came over carrying a basket.
"This is our return gift.
Your silk is very good, we return the favor with this. ” The basket was brought over, and the company commander at first thought that it would be a basket of coconuts or a basket of bananas, after all, this is not the most important thing in this place, maybe it will be a basket of dried fish.
As a result, when he opened the basket, he was almost blind.
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Several team members next to him couldn't help but exclaim.
What kind of coconut, banana or dried fish is this, this is actually a basket of gold.
No wonder I saw how hard those natives were lifting just now, I originally thought they had little strength.
Then the fuck brought a basket of gold.
It appears to be a natural nugget of gold, of varying sizes, and may not be of particularly high purity.
But this is a natural nugget of gold, such a basket, how can there be a hundred catties.
More than that, if you are a hundred catties, it is impossible for the two natives not to be able to lift it.
It is estimated that there must be two or three hundred catties, after all, gold weighs.
Before and after, less than ten pieces of silk were given, and the natives actually returned a few hundred catties of gold This long, five-year-old and three-thick, black bear-like company commander is not very good at arithmetic.
He asked the sergeant major beside him, "How much is this gold worth?"
The man with the fourth-class sergeant major stretched out his hands and lifted the basket.
"At least two hundred catties, two hundred catties of gold, even if you can refine a hundred catties of pure gold, it is terrible.
One catty and sixteen taels, one tael of gold coins contain eight coins of gold, which is worth one hundred yuan of Kaiyuan copper yuan.
Here, it is worth at least 100,000 copper coins. ” "Grass" The company commander couldn't help but burst out.
More than 100,000 yuan, he is a company commander, and the annual salary allowance and so on add up to only about 300 yuan.
This Nima is more than 100,000 yuan, and he has to do it for hundreds of years.
If this money is divided among the more than 100 brothers in their company, each of them will be able to share more than 1,000 yuan.
The company commander's face suddenly changed to a smile, and the smile was quite kind.
However, the natives always found the smile very hideous and intimidating.
"Elders, I don't know if there are still these yellow stones in your village, we are willing to exchange silk, no, I will exchange knives.
I can't exchange this sword for you, but I still have a short sword and a dagger, what do you think?"
The sergeant major saw that the company commander was so cheeky and went up, and stepped forward to remind him a little helplessly.
"Company commander, this is not in order.
Even if this elder really gives us the gold in exchange, the gold will still have to be handed over when we return to the camp. ” The company commander's expression changed, "Even if it is handed in, according to military regulations, we can get a reward."
Damn, this place is really full of gold. ” The elders were also glad to hear that they were willing to exchange their swords for gold.
The gold was actually picked up by the nearby river, but this thing was useless except for Huang Cancan's good-looking, it was too soft.
I picked it up by a river, and I picked it up so much.
I didn't think it was useful, so I didn't pick up too much.
The company commander immediately asked the elder to draw the direction, and he decided that he would definitely go there to find it later.
Perhaps, there is a big open-pit gold mine there.
If he really finds out and reports to the king, he will have to have a big reward.
A few elders really didn't think this thing was useful.
In the past, there were merchants who came here, but they traded shells, corals, coconuts, etc., and never gave these yellow stones to the merchants.
The elders thought it strange that these people liked the stone so much.
They told them where they had picked up the stones, upstream of a tributary of the Luzon River, where there was a forest, a hill, and a stream.
The company commander's attitude towards these natives changed drastically, and he longed to kiss each of them on the face.
He gave his short sword and dagger to the elders, except for his own officers' swords and sabers, he was eager to take off all his clothes and give them them.
He immediately decided to send a platoon of men to escort the elders and the basket of gold back to the camp, and then he would take the rest of the men to find the place where the gold was picked.
The elders also thoughtfully sent a few villagers, all of whom had picked up yellow stones and returned from hunting there.
The company commander directly led people to row a small boat up the river, much faster than walking.
It only took them half a day to get to that place and find the river.
There was a creek in front of them, and it was no longer possible to sail, so they parked their boats by the river and walked on foot.
The higher you go, the shallower the stream.
The water is so clear that you can see the sand and fish at the bottom of the stream.
The sun shines through the leaves and shines on the stream.
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The company commander suddenly felt so dazzling.
He lowered his head, searched carefully, and finally found the shining place, reached out and scooped it up, but it was a grain of gold sand, which was actually the size of a soybean.
Such a big piece of gold sand.
The company commander was excited, and so was the sergeant major.
The rest of the soldiers were excited.
Everyone began to reach out and touch it.
Grab a handful of sediment and wash it in water.
Their crazy appearance made those indigenous guides a little dumbfounded, are these people crazy?
"Company commander, I found a piece of gold sand, look."
A soldier shouted excitedly, it was a grain of rice-sized golden sand, lying in the palm of his hand.
After a while, several people touched the golden sand.
This is actually a river of golden sand.
There's definitely a gold mine here.
Luzon by the sea.
At this time, there were only three simple small temples erected by coconut trees in Luzon City, and then surrounded by three temples, there was a large area of tents.
Many freshly cut trees are piled up next to them.
Zhang Chao plans to build a wooden fence first, and then build some wooden houses.
The next step is to dig cisterns, build toilets, build warehouses, build palaces, yamen, and so on.
In the evening, teams came back one after another.
Some of the teams returned with strings of captives, while others came with a few elders.
Zhang Chao was very happy with these elders who were so knowledgeable.
He entertained them in his big tent, with the fine wine brought down from the ship, as well as the delicious Tang delicacies.
When a large basket of gold was placed in front of Zhang Chao, the fourth-class sergeant major told him that it was exchanged for six pieces of silk in a tribe, and he couldn't believe it.
After weighing, it was found that the basket of gold was more than 210 catties, and according to the test, the basket of gold had nearly 100 pieces of size.
The big one is four or five pounds, and the small one or two pounds.
The shapes are different, but basically the gold content is up to six or seven percent.
This gold is indeed very valuable, even more valuable than directly melting, because natural gold nuggets are relatively rare, which is no longer directly calculated in gold, but like gemstones, there is still a collection value.
It is worth more than 300,000 guan.
"They were all picked up in one place" Zhang Chao judged, there must be a gold mine nearby.
In later generations, the largest natural gold nugget was found in Australia, weighing more than 500 catties.
Zhang Chao had known for a long time that Luzon was rich in gold, and his expedition did discover several gold mines, but there was no record of the place they were talking about.
And if you can pick up hundreds of dog's head gold in one place, then this gold mine is definitely a super gold mine, and it is also the kind that is extremely easy to mine.
After dark.
The company commander finally came back with someone, and he brought back a bag of gold sand, which was half a catty.
There is so much gold sand, and it is actually the harvest that they have been digging for an hour in a stream.
He also brought back two pieces of dog's head gold, each with two or three catties.
Truly gold everywhere.
Gold Sands Creek, Gold Mine.
When the news came out, even the Emperor Li Shimin came to see what was going on.
There are a total of eighty-one pieces of dog's head gold, of different sizes and shapes.
Zhang Chao placed them in front of the Temple of Literature and sent soldiers to guard them.
Countless soldiers and civilians came to watch.
"Luzon is really full of gold, I originally thought it was just a fake news released by you Zhang Wenyuan, so as to trick those who dream of getting rich overnight to pan for gold, but I didn't expect it to be true."
Even the dignified Emperor Taishang of the Tang Dynasty has never seen so many pieces of dog's head gold at once.
Eighty-one.
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This is simply auspicious.
"Your Majesty, there are also gold mines on the Jinshan Peninsula."
Zhang Chao asked Li Shimin not to beat the idea of his own gold.
For the natives of that village, Zhang Chao also gave heavy thanks.
He took out of the ship a hundred pieces of silk, many pieces of cloth, baskets of tea, a lot of porcelain, sugar, wine, and many other goods, and gave them to the village. asked them to want knives, and Zhang Chao generously gave a hundred.
The wholesale price of a sharp Tang knife in Datang is only 500 wen a piece.
This is still a relatively good Tang knife, if it is a little ordinary, you can buy one for three hundred Wen.
A hundred, but tens of thousands of dollars.
Even if it is regarded as a foreign trade commodity, the price increase is ten times, but it is only a few hundred.
Those indigenous elders had never seen so many good things.
I was stunned all of a sudden, looking at the good things piled up in front of me, and I couldn't speak for a long time.
The natives of the other villages had red eyes with envy.
As for the company commander and his company, they traded back so much precious doghead gold and discovered a big gold mine, of course Zhang Chao wanted to reward him.
Zhang Chao directly took out 10,000 yuan of treasure money and gave it to this company.
In addition, the company commander and the sergeant major were rewarded with 500 and 300 respectively.
This big reward made the more than 100 men in the whole company almost shout out excitedly.
Everybody's got hundreds.
After the reward, Zhang Chao sent the company back to the place where the gold was found, and let them be responsible for garrisoning the gold land, and Zhang Chao would then send people to explore the location of the gold mine for mining.
Li Shimin sighed again and again, "I can't stay anymore, if I stay any longer, I definitely don't want to leave, this place is so good, it's so good."
"Your Majesty, the Jinshan in the Americas is better than here, there are also gold mines, there are also Jinshan Bays, and the Jinshan River Valley Plain is 1,500 miles from north to south, and it is two Guanzhong Plains, which is equivalent to several sizes of my Luzon Plain."
"I can't stay any longer, I can't wait to rush to the gold mountains of America to dig gold and cultivate the land." t1706231537: