The leader took the team to an empty field outside the village and asked them to rest here. This Li village is completely different from the Li villages in Hainan folk tours that everyone has visited in later generations. First of all, it has no village walls.
From the outside, it looks like a slightly larger ordinary village. Surrounding the village are densely planted thorny dwarf trees, which are also covered with all kinds of vines and bamboos. Not to mention people, not even a rabbit can get through it.
In the past, this was the first time for everyone to see such a wall.
Secondly, the iconic boat-shaped houses of the Li people that everyone learned from the folk village are nowhere to be seen here. This kind of house has people living on top and livestock below, which makes people look very "ethnic" at first glance. The current village is pyramid-shaped.
A straw-thatched house. The walls of the house are made of fences made of bamboo slices and covered with mud. It looks very special. This Nanan Village is the "capital" of this cave.
The so-called Lidong in Hainan are generally divided based on natural terrain, and generally consist of several villages. The owners of the caves have been recognized by the government, have hereditary positions, and are issued with seals and bronze medals. The owners of the caves, earthen houses, etc.
The Li people's local officials are, firstly, to suppress the Li people and maintain local security and social order; secondly, they are to complete various assessments sent by the government on time every year. There are official taxes and officials' personal "lucky money". Of course, they are indispensable.
Their own income - no matter how big or small the local officials are, the government does not give them any salary and they have to collect it on their own. In other words, as long as you pay the various official and private "membership money" on time every year
Now, the native officials can do whatever they want in their own territory. They are basically the emperors of the native lands.
Those who stayed outside the village were uniformly managed by Zhang Bolin. Everyone was relaxed outside and tight inside, and took the time to rest. Lu Rong, Wen Desi and Mu Min were led by the leader into the village to meet the owner of the cave.
There were many curious people inside and outside the village, pointing and looking at the roadside a little further away. Wen Desi saw a few old ladies sitting on the roadside stones and weaving rattan. Their faces were densely covered with tattoos.
The black pattern and the mouth are all black, which is really scary. I thought this is the "old lady looks like a monster" among the Eighteen Hainan Monsters. Sure enough, it is better to meet people than to be famous. If you pay attention, you will find that almost all women have it.
Tattoos, except for the underdeveloped little ones. This completely shattered everyone’s fantasies about ethnic minority women.
"This custom must be revolutionized." Wei Aiwen muttered. In his original plan, recruiting Li soldiers was only the first step. Then he would take control of the team by serving as the commander of Li soldiers - the most important thing.
One part of his plan was to marry the daughter of a Li leader - the Li girl in his impression was based on the image in the movie. However, the scene in front of him seriously shook his plan.
If a leader really betrothed his daughter to him, would he accept it? It was really troublesome. Moreover, the women here got tattoos as soon as they reached adulthood... He just became worried about the bubbles in the air for no reason.
Not to mention the leader, not even ordinary Li people have taken a fancy to him. To the people of the Li ethnic group, these are a group of scary people: they heard that these people have powerful "pink guns" in their hands, and they can shoot continuously, even at intervals.
People can be beaten to death from a long distance. People who escaped said they could only hear continuous gunshots, and a large area was covered when a person died.
Lu Rong and his party were taken into a large house in the center of the village. This house was taller than ordinary houses and was built on a stilt. Except for the corridor in the middle, the three sides of the house were made of bamboo beds, which were used for everyone.
Sit and lie down. The fire pit is on the back wall, with bamboo rafts hanging on it, used for smoking food. There are windows on the side of the roof, but the lighting is still very poor. As soon as you enter, you will feel dark in front of your eyes. It took a while to get used to it.
The master of the cave was an old man, his hair had turned white, and his face was not very good. Later they found out that the master of the cave was in his early fifties, but according to the standards of the 17th century, he was considered an old man anywhere. Lu Rong presented a specially prepared
Gift: a bottle of Red Star Erguotou, a pack of rock sugar and two folding knives.
Among these three things, Erguotou in a glass wine bottle attracted his attention the most - liquor had been popularized in the Ming Dynasty, but wine packaged in pure, colorless glass flat bottles was of no use to anyone in this time and space.
It has a great visual impact. Obviously in modern times, glass bottles, which are only used as packaging for goods, have much greater value in his eyes than wine.
As for the two folding knives, the owner of the cave played with them a lot and scratched a few times on the wooden board with admiration in his eyes.
"You can't buy such a good knife even in the county town." The owner of the cave raised his head and looked at them, very surprised, "Where are you from, Qiongshan?"
Wen Desi started playing his Australian maritime stuff again. He had practiced this stuff a lot and was very familiar with it. The owner of the cave didn't know much about the outside world. He had only been to Lingao County in Han District.
In his eyes, the "big officials" in Qiongzhou Prefecture - the magistrate - were the highest officials. But when he heard that they were not Ming people, but Han people from overseas, he obviously felt more relaxed and ordered people to get wine.
To entertain guests - rice wine brewed from Shanlan glutinous rice grown by the Li people. This wine developed into a local famous local yellow wine "Shanlan Yuye" in later generations.
Shanlan wine is the simplest glutinous rice fermented wine. The brewing period is only seven days. The alcohol content is very small, similar to later generations of wine. All three of them drank a bowl.
With wine as a lubricant, it was much easier to talk about things, and I also took the opportunity to ask a lot about the local situation. The surname of the owner of the cave was Zhu, but this Zhu Ke had nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang. Their family was called: "Bajiao's
"Child". He has been the leader of this village for generations. When the Ma Ya riot occurred in the Wanli year, many Lidong residents in Lingao were also involved. Only his family was not involved. After the incident subsided, all the neighboring villages were merged into one.
A cave, the owner of the cave is sealed. The entire cave consists of seven villages, with more than 2,000 men, women, old and children. It is a very large cave in Lingao.
Mu Min asked how many Li people there were in Lingao. Zhu Dongzhu himself couldn't tell clearly. In addition to this cave, there were more than ten caves in Shuli in Lingao. Some of them compiled the capital map, and some didn't. The number of people was much smaller.
One hundred, one or two thousand more. After passing Fanbao Mountain and further south is the place where Li people live. In addition to them, there is also Li Dong called Gamoli nearby. In short, the Li people are also quite complicated because of different languages and living customs.
Just the same, they don't interact much, and they don't even intermarry much.
As for the government, Zhu Dongzhu said that the last two county magistrates have been easy to talk to, and they have not asked for much. They have given the regular money every year, so they will not be verbose. However, the road has not been peaceful in recent years, and there have been fewer Han hawkers coming to Li District.
A lot. Salt was already expensive, but now the price is even higher. If the merchants can transport salt, they will have as much as they want. They are willing to exchange it for animal skins, red and white vines, betel nuts and cattle. Then the talisman that they bribed
People suggested that it would be best to sell some iron tools, as farm tools and knives are in short supply here.
These conditions were all expected, and Lu Rong agreed. Salt and iron cannot be manufactured yet, but they will be put into production in the near future, so supply will not be a problem. In comparison, Li District can provide quite a lot of useful things.
: Timber, cotton, animal skins, vines, pigs and cattle are all in urgent need of them.
In terms of price, Wen Desi decided not to use the method of high-price exploitation - doing business like those small traders who carry and push things can indeed make huge profits, but the result is that there are very few things that can be sold. Of course, in ancient times
The level of productivity is low, the transportation capacity is low, and there are risks on the road. The method of making huge profits at high prices is still reasonable. But it is not suitable for people like Chuan Zhong who have mastered large-scale industrial production capabilities. The price of salt is too high, making profits
It is very large, but people will reduce their salt consumption to the lowest level to survive. As a result, they will still not be able to sell much salt. Once the price is low, people's consumption of salt will immediately increase.
The price of salt he quoted satisfied both Zhudong Zhu and the leader. It was only one-third of the price of the small traders. However, even at this price, Wen Desi felt that it was a profiteer. The measurement of salt was temporarily done in Guan Dou.
Units of weights and measures - Wen Desi decided to make a batch of weighing instruments immediately after returning, and promote the weights and measures units of travelers as soon as possible through trade. As for the price of iron tools, he was not yet aware of the market price of pig iron in the Ming Dynasty, so he only promised that it would be better than that of merchants.
They are low.
After some bargaining, the two parties finally reached the first trade agreement with Nanantong after coming to this time and space. It is known in history as the "Nanan Village Trade Agreement". The agreement stipulates that the Travelers can sell all goods to Nanantong, but
Each trade must carry a certain amount of salt and iron tools. Nanantong exchanges any items needed by the travelers, but does not include population.
The 80 kilograms of salt brought this time were exchanged for more than 70 pieces of cowhide, deerskin, wild boar skin, 40 pieces of cloth and a buffalo. The piles of things in the empty yard made everyone feel like they were profiteers. They
I don’t know that a hawker who specializes in Li District can exchange one pound (old pound, 594 grams) of coarse salt for a pig of twenty or thirty pounds.
The Li people also felt that they had benefited: there were many animal skins in every village, and they considered them easy to obtain; while the women spun and used the jiongbu themselves, so it was not worth much money.
The owner of the cave gave another twelve pieces of Gebu. Gebu was a famous product of Hainan in the Ming Dynasty. Because it absorbs moisture and dissipates heat, it is a high-grade fabric for summer clothes. Each captive who was returned was given a pig as a thank you for their release.
All parties were happy. Lord Zhu Dong sent a message to all the Oyas in each village to come and drink. He took out two arrows at the banquet. He first asked people to read the contents of the agreement loudly, and then chopped off nine arrows.
knife, and then gave Lu Rong another arrow.
"You can cut nine times." Mu Min told him: This is the ceremony of cutting arrows, which means that both parties must abide by each other's rules. If they violate the agreement, they will be fined ninety cows and ninety taels of silver.
After cutting off the arrows, they drank a few more bowls of rice wine. Both parties also designated contact persons: Lu Rong for the traveler, and Oya Fu Dayou for Nandong. Wen Desi took the opportunity to propose again, hoping to
They stayed in Nandong for a few more days to see what local products they needed. If found, they could use these local products to offset the price of salt and iron in the future. This request was readily agreed to.