Acapulco.

War comes quickly and goes quickly. The port villages that return to peace almost do not need to be restored and directly develop.

It was just early in the morning, and the dilapidated streets of the village were already coming and going. The indigenous workers in the brick kiln went door to door before dawn to wake up the workers from house to start a new day of work.

The hunters who went out to hunt at dawn had already returned. Some people brought their prey, while others returned empty-handed. The wild beasts in the forest were not as fast as humans recovered. They may rarely appear in this jungle in the next month or two.

The Dafu ship docked at the port last night transported the cargo from Majia Port from Zhuangyuan Bridge. Lifu smiled and told the on-duty Chief A in Spanish that he could finish the move at noon.

The Spaniards changed the pace of life of the indigenous people. In the past few decades, they have long been accustomed to going to bed late and getting up early to work hard, but it is more like a walking corpse. The arrival of the Ming army injects new vitality into this place - to do things and pay for the Ming people.

In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the indigenous people, Chen Mu and his staff spent a lot of effort. In the earliest places such as brick kilns and paper mills, even if they told the people to start wages, there were not many people who applied for it. This made them mistakenly think that the salary was too low. After all, Chen Mu priced the wages here for one cent of a work cent.

The so-called worker is the normal workload of a worker in a day. In the Ming Dynasty, the most common worker was three cents of silver.

Zou Yuanbiao asked a few Chief A, and then he learned that the indigenous people did not use silver, so it was useless to make money - their currency was cotton cloth and cocoa beans.

"One cocoa bean can be replaced with this one." Lin Manjue's servant Hei King Kong skillfully twisted the cocoa beans with one hand and held a big tomato in the other hand, saying: "Four, sometimes three can be replaced with a hexadecimal dragon, uh... the master called that little thing like that."

Hexagon, what a majestic name?

Chen Mu looked at the salamander with six beards that looked like a big tadpole, and gave Lin Manjue a thumbs up to praise his talent for naming, and said to Hei King Kong: "It's quite cheap, what can I do when I buy this?"

Black King Kong smiled and showed his slightly yellow teeth, looking very honest: "Packed with corn cakes and baked."

Chen Mu once again gave a thumbs up: "Tell me about the prices again, just use cocoa beans to buy things."

"good!"

Hei King Kong was very happy that Chen Mu was interested in their affairs and said, "One hundred cocoa beans can buy a slave or a turkey."

"Turkey is as expensive as humans?" Chen Mu raised his hand to grind his beard, showing a strange look on his face: "This is not a good price."

Lin Manjue, who was sitting with his arms folded, coughed lightly and said, "Master, this price is very fair. Their slaves are different from those we know. How can we say that, they are more open-minded?"

"The child of the slave is not a slave, and the cocoa beans of the slave have nothing to do with the master; if the slave enters the temple altar, or if he step on the dung outside the market, he will no longer be a slave."

Chen Mu listened very seriously, and suddenly Zou Yuanbiao was standing aside for some reason and was amused. He noticed that others were watching him and covering his mouth, and his shoulders shrugged. Seeing Chen Mu's eyes coming to him for exploration, he couldn't help but explain: "I think it's smelly, the master thinks it's smelly, hahahaha!"

This fool.

Chen Mu held his nose and took a few breaths, raised his hand and pointed out the door: "You go out."

That's why Lin Manjue continued.

"If they run away, only the master's family can chase after him, and others can't, and they will run away when they run away, so the slave price is very cheap. By the way, there are fake beans."

Chen Mu frowned and couldn't help laughing: "Can Douzi still make fake?"

"White ash, wet soil, and the one they ate. Dashang called it avocado and used that seed to make fake beans, so Black King Kong's fingers kept twisting the beans. I heard him say that the fake beans would break when they twisted it."

"So if you want to recruit workers, just ask the brick kiln factory to use cocoa beans to recruit workers?" Chen Mu ignored the counterfeit currency and looked at Hei King Kong and asked, "How much does an average worker's wage per day?"

"The best time in the past was one hundred." Hei King Kong was still a little restrained in the face of Chen Mu. He said something but was afraid that what he said was too general and would not like Chen Mu. He added: "One hundred cocoa beans."

The prices are not only not high, but also very low.

This is completely different from what Chen Mu imagined. If a turkey is not bad, it will be enough for a family to eat for two or three days. If it is a hundred tomatoes, it will be enough for a poor person to eat for a long time.

This was beyond Chen Mu's expectations, and he immediately asked, "Then why do the people here seem to have worked hard before coming, and they don't have enough food and clothing?"

Black King Kong shook his head helplessly and said, "Those things are worth these beans, everyone knows, but we don't have beans, nor turkeys. No one goes hunting, and hunting is also for the owners; no one sells tomatoes, and they are all delivered to Mexico City, and no one sells things."

Zou Yuanbiao poked his head out of the door and said, "Master, the student knows what to do!"

"You are outside, shut up, I know too."

What big problem can this be? There is no goods or market, and there is no value for money.

After their conversation, four shops in front of the Daojun Temple were soon opened. The first one was a bow and arrow workshop, which made bows and arrows, made arrow clusters, cut arrow shafts, sticked arrow feathers, and specialized in Mingtou bows, various iron arrow clusters and wooden arrow support. However, the bows sold by the military craftsmen selected by Chen Mu are not used in the Ming army's baggage.

The second one is the blacksmith shop, which mainly sells the Ming army's ship sailors with hand axes and swords, and also opens their business with military craftsmen.

The third one is the tailor shop. Several tailors on the ship of the Qing Dynasty came to collect cotton from the Ming army and tailored clothes for people. This should be the first private shop in Acapulco.

As soon as the three stores opened, they attracted many indigenous people. In total, there were more than 2,000 households in the big village. They knew about anything in a long time. There were endless people coming and going, but they didn’t agree to a single order. It was not that the indigenous people didn’t like it, they liked it very much.

But the shops do not accept barter and only sell them with silver. In other words, Chen Mu ordered the three stores. The indigenous people used large pieces of jujube with good quality jade to buy three iron arrows. The old military craftsman who had never seen a few taels of silver in his life was almost crying, but he just didn't dare to accept it.

The next day, the fourth shop opened, collecting jade, animal skin, turkey, corn and other items, and paying silver. At the same time, the people in the port were informed of the news that the men in the village were working for silver. They started with the men in the village and were mobilized. As restaurants and other shops opened and tailor shops received the wife of the village leader selling a whole set of shirts, jackets, shiny veils, velvets, and skirts, the women were also mobilized.

The whole village is alive.
Chapter completed!