Chapter 3043

January 1657, Jinshan Port on the west coast of North America.

It was cold and windy, but the fishing boats that went out to sea in the early morning had completed their fishing operations for the day and returned to the fishing port wharf when the sun rose.

The fishermen lined up to deliver the fresh seafood in bamboo baskets to the shore. After a brief sorting, they started selling them on the nearby pier.

Most of the customers who negotiate prices based on the whole basket are local restaurant owners or chefs. They wait at the fishing port very early every day in order to buy the freshest ingredients as possible.

However, in the face of their bargaining prices, the fishermen seemed very calm and were in no rush to sell their hard-earned catch.

It's winter and the temperature is low. These seafood will stay fresh for a little longer after being caught out of the water. You don't have to worry about them not being sold in the morning or quickly spoiling.

Moreover, local housewives usually come to the fishing port to purchase after breakfast time. Their purchasing power cannot be underestimated, and the retail price will be higher than wholesale to restaurants.

As for some higher-value seafood, fishermen will specially select them and put them in tanks filled with seawater to keep them as fresh as possible, so that they can be sold at ideal prices to wealthy dignitaries in the city.

Noble person.

It was freezing cold, so some customers who didn’t want to spend a long time just paid to pick up the goods and left. But there were also some people who thought the fishermen’s quotations were unacceptable. They would rather spend more time negotiating the price, or wait for the next one.

Fishing boats returned to port.

Generally speaking, local indigenous fishermen return to port later due to differences in fishing boats, fishing gear, and fishing skills.

Moreover, because many indigenous fishermen do not speak Chinese well, they often cannot communicate well with customers and do not understand the market conditions well, so they can only sell their catch at extremely low prices.

As long as they are willing to wait a little longer, the Han fishermen will take the initiative to lower their prices to avoid losing business to the indigenous fishermen who do not know how to do business.

Sure enough, when the first batch of customers gradually dispersed, several more fishing boats appeared on the sea. However, their appearance was obviously different from Chinese sailing boats. To be precise, they were not sailing boats, but large canoes.

These slender canoes are tilted at both ends and rely on fishermen to paddle wooden oars manually. Each boat has a wooden totem erected on the bow, and colorful patterns are painted on the hull.

It's a production tool, more like some kind of fancy display.

After the leading canoe slowly docked, the fisherman standing at the bow stepped onto the pier in one stride, bent down and tied the cable in his hand to the bitt on the shore.

These indigenous people all have dark skin, thin bodies, long braided hair, and the hair on their eyebrows is the same black as the Han people. The clothes on their bodies are all made of cattle, sheep or animal skins, and the accessories they wear are also various animal tusks.

It looks quite wild.

The seafood they brought was packed in large rattan dustpans, and the quantity was much smaller than what the Han fishermen harvested. They unloaded the seafood onto the shore and set up stalls near the boats.

One of them took out a cowhide tambourine, and while beating it, he made a rhythmic shout and walked around the stall.

Although this posture looks a bit like a dancing master, regular visitors to the fishing port pier know that this is how indigenous fishermen attract customers.

These indigenous fishermen can only express their asking price to customers with gestures and gestures. As long as the customer's counter-offer is not ridiculously low, the transaction can often be concluded smoothly.

They quickly finished today's harvest at a low price, but they did not leave the dock immediately. Instead, they took the wad of banknotes they had just received and went to the grocery store near the dock to buy various supplies they needed.

Fishing nets, fish hooks, iron kitchen utensils, knives, farm tools, grain, wine... They need to purchase many supplies, most of which are tools to improve production efficiency.

However, the income from selling seafood is often not able to support their arbitrary purchases. For example, today’s income is only enough for them to buy a long-awaited twine fishing net, so that the next time they go to sea, they may be better than now.

Catch twice as much fish.

With a little change left, some people chose to go to the tavern next to the grocery store to buy a glass of sweet wine to comfort themselves. Others, thinking of their families, bought a few fruit candies to take back. It is said that all children who have tasted this will...

Like it very much.

There were also a few young people who were attracted by a notice posted at the street corner.

Of course they couldn't understand the text on the notice, but there was a native like them next to the notice who was introducing the content on the notice to them.

This is a recruitment notice. All healthy young men, regardless of race and origin, can sign up to join the army. In addition to generous military pay, those who enlist in the army can also receive land rewards. Foreigners can even obtain Haihan nationality.

Become a glorious Haihan citizen and enjoy national treatment.

The native who introduced the contents of the notice to them proudly patted his stiff clothes, raised his feet to show off the shiny leather boots on his feet, and told them that these were the equipment issued after joining the army.

He then pointed to the portrait of the heavily armed Haihan soldiers on the notice and told them that this was the invincible Haihan army and a true warrior.

Of course, this is a redundant introduction. Who among the natives who are just living here has never seen the Haihan soldiers armed with live ammunition?

The first batch of Haihan people who landed on the Jinshan Peninsula four years ago were those ferocious Haihan soldiers. The muskets in their hands were far more lethal than bows and arrows. Even the bravest warriors in the tribe, holding the strongest weapons,

Even a cowhide shield can't stop the projectiles fired from the barrel.

The two tribes that initially tried to drive these invaders from their territory were wiped out in just a few days and ceased to exist.

And all their territory was taken over by these foreigners who called themselves Haihan people.

The indigenous people who could survive near the bay and were allowed to enter Jinshan Port were basically docile tribes that submitted to Haihan. The new rulers allowed them to retain their old way of life and part of their territory, and they could also trade through

Obtain various living supplies needed from Haihan.

The fishermen who came to the fishing port today belong to the Tama tribe, which lives in peace with Haihan. The Mir Valley where this tribe is located is only twenty miles away from Jinshan Port.

The two places face each other across the sea. In recent years, when the people of the Tama tribe go fishing, they can see that on the Jinshan Peninsula in the south, the Haihan people have built a town at an extremely fast speed.

What the Haihan people brought here was not only a dazzling variety of goods, but also a way of life that the indigenous people had never seen before. Soon some indigenous people were no longer satisfied with exchanging a few supplies through trade. They found that as long as they were willing

By working for the Haihan people, it is easy to get more supplies and a better way of life.
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