Wang Yuanfang and Ruchi don’t know that the “Discover” among the two British boats opposite was the famous “Captain Cook” on the boat back then, while George Vancouver was an intern officer under Cook.

In short, after some tentative contact, Vancouver finally confirmed that the other party was the mysterious "Seris" he had heard of in India. However, he immediately realized that the sudden appearance of this group of people would have a significant impact on the situation in the northwest region of the North American continent.

From the 16th century, Spain claimed that it had long-term sovereignty and navigation rights in the northwest of North America. When the famous "Captain Cook" came to North America for an expedition fifteen years ago, in 1778, the Spanish who learned the news quickly sent a ship north to build a permanent stronghold, Fort San Miguel, on the island of Nutca, northwest of Vancouver Island. Later, many British merchant ships that came here for fur trade were seized, which almost led to a war between the two countries.

In order to resolve the dispute, Britain and Spain signed the Nutka Treaty three years ago and signed another claim treaty on seizing ships in February this year.

In the first treaty, Spain agreed to transfer all the islands and related buildings, including the Bay of Nutca, to the United Kingdom. The parties also agreed that neither party shall establish new institutions on any island near the east and west coasts of South America occupied by Spain. Both parties reserve the right to land on the coast and islands and build temporary buildings for fishery-related purposes. In addition, the above provisions are valid only if there is no institutions established by subjects of any other country in the relevant coastal areas.

In the history of another time and space, it was precisely because of the signing of this treaty that laid the groundwork for the century-long sovereignty dispute between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. It should be noted that later Argentina was only the jurisdiction of the Governor General of the La Plata River under the rule of the Kingdom of Spain.

The British extended their tentacles into the northwest of the North American continent and promoted maritime fur trade in the Pacific. This is a huge triangular trade network connecting the northwest coast of the Pacific Ocean, between China and the Hawaiian Islands; it provided sufficient capital for the New England region to transform from an agricultural society to an industrial society, made Hawaii famous, and also made Guangzhou's position in international maritime trade more prominently.

Let me put it this way, the purchase price of a complete sea otter skin in northwest North America is 6pence, while one pound is 240p, so 6pence is converted into silver is 0.0445 taels. When we arrived in Guangzhou, the purchase price soared to 100 Mexican silver dollars - 72 taels of silver, and the best quality can even reach 85 taels.

With a profit of more than 1,600 times, the profits of the Pacific fur trade are so high!

Otherwise, why would Russian merchants in East and West Siberia betray the Queen and be loyal to the town of Beihai? And the British would rather risk going to war with the Spaniards than to get a stronghold on Nutca?

However, for the Qing Dynasty, fur trade could not only allow the emperor and the powerful to get more sea otter skins, but also allow Guangdong Customs, which can be called the "Southern Cushion of the Emperor", to receive more taxes and silver, but nothing else. After all, the Qing Dynasty had "rich treasury and rich in the world"...

Today, on the northwest coast of North America, the Spaniards, Russians, British, and Americans come and go. Well, now the Cyrius suddenly reached into one foot and even forcibly occupied the Kinmen Strait.

Captain Vancouver really wants to ask the other party's commander, are you not afraid of the Spanish's revenge if you do this recklessly?

Although the Spanish Empire has declined, their strength in the Americas is still very large, and even Britain dares not provoke it easily. The huge fiscal expenditure caused by the war alone is not in line with interests. Moreover, there are too many places in northwestern North America where there is no flag planting, so there is no need to use force if you can negotiate.

But he didn't know that if Beihai Town dared to come to North America, he was ready to go to war with Spain. As long as Zhao Xin, the "transportation captain", it would be useless for the Spanish to come!

What's more, as long as the Spanish dare to declare war, Zheng Wenxian's fleet will immediately shell Manila and impose a maritime blockade on it!

When the Northern Navy took over Bacheng, due to insufficient estimates of the situation of the Chinese in Southeast Asia and the huge VOC power still existed, Zhao Xin and Deng Fei and others had to stop the plan to send troops to Manila after repeated discussions.

After learning the news, Maquina, the Governor of Manila, was afraid that Beihai Town would come over for their massacre of the Chinese thirty years ago, so he immediately sent a special envoy to deliver an olive branch. Not only did he bring in compensation for 100,000 Mexican silver coins, but he also verbally apologized for his actions that year, and expressed his firm statement that he would guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of the local Chinese.

However, Deng Fei did not ask for compensation at that time. He felt that if he accepted it, he would be sorry for the 100,000 Chinese people's spirit in heaven. You should know that since the 31st year of Wanli, the Spanish have carried out five massacres against Chinese in Manila, and this account must be recovered!

He quietly warned the messengers of Manila to let them take care of themselves. If there is any oppression of the Chinese, the North Navy will shell the city of Manila.

It’s different now. The Dutch are out of here, West Borneo has also been nominally obtained, and Europe is also full of war because of the French problem. There is another two or three years of transition period, when the situation in West Java and India is stable, the Northern Navy will have enough troops to occupy the Luzon Islands and completely drive the Spaniards out of Asia!

Of course, the Tampa Kan gold-copper composite mine that Zhao Xin has coveted for a long time will naturally also be obtained.

A day later, the Discovery and Chatham arrived in Monterey George Vancouver immediately asked for California Governor De Ali Laga. His main task of this trip was to implement the territorial handover issue in the Treaty of Nutca with the other party. Unexpectedly, the arrogant interim governor not only disappeared from them, but also refused to go ashore, on the grounds that the official responsible for the docking of the matter was not there, and I had no time... Oh, no, I will talk about it next year.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Faced with the Spanish shirk, George Vancouver was so angry that he thought that the treaty had been signed for two years and was still unwilling to handle it, and he was too unwilling to take the British Empire seriously. In anger, he wanted to make the Spanish fall into a big fuss. He did not mention the Thor at all. After completing the supply, he took the fleet to Hawaii for the winter.

Two more days later, Governor De Alilaga finally met Lieutenant Desora and Monk Verez who rushed back from Santa Clara to report. When he learned that San Francisco was invaded by a group of Orientals, he was shocked. He immediately summoned the army and decided to lead the army to fight on his own, advance by water and land, and drive away the group of unknown guys.

On the other hand, when Ruqi and his friends arrived at the Kinmen Strait on the seventh day, his "good deeds" of releasing the Indians began to ferment. Because Li Shi tried to save trouble, he sent an outdoor emergency blanket to the Indians who were put back, and returned to the tribe with silver light, which immediately aroused the great interest of the Indians.

When the Spanish came, the most common thing they did was to fool them with some necklaces made of glass beads. Over time, the Indians were not so easy to deceive.

But this thing is different! It’s bright and shiny when put on it, it’s thin and warm. You can sweat on your head after standing under the sun for a while.

So the nearby Miwauk tribes brought animal skins and various preys to the fortress, and some even brought torn pieces of blankets, and said and called them. Since the Spanish had been colonizing here for more than ten or twenty years, many of these tribes could speak Spanish.

In fact, simple communication between different groups of people does not necessarily require being proficient in each other's language. Especially when doing business, you can often understand what's going on with a little gesture.

“Sinae!Sinae!”

Facing a dozen Miwak people wearing animal skins or feather capes, conical sea otter skin hats, and shell necklaces hanging around their necks, Ruchi, wearing masks, first pointed to the Northern Navy red flag on the flagpole, then patted his chest, and then gestured at the people from the overseas corps, indicating that we were Cyris.

"Chochenyo!Chochenyo!" Well, this is a tribe from the East Bay.

"Ramaytush!Ramaytush!" The tribe where Katata is located also came, including her father.

"Tamyen!Tamyen!" This is a tribe from the Santa Clara Valley.

Although there are only three tribes in total, each tribe has dozens of villages, which means that almost all the Miwak people around the Kinmen Strait have arrived.

Seeing the piles of fur brought by the Indians, Ruqi almost laughed out loud, thanks to him wearing a mask. He thought he was going to make a fortune now, let alone silver, we have both gold and silver! Gold escapes the summer heat and silver keeps warm.

Let the tribe chief's family give a gold piece, and the tent is shining with golden light, which shows your identity and status.

Although outdoor emergency blankets are easy to use, this thing is easily scratched by branches, weapons, or if they are stained with saline and alkaline water, they will dissolve. They have to buy them again at that time, which is a profitable one. In the end, the price he negotiated with the Indians was to exchange for five sea otter skins or bison skins, while the gold one would double.

In order to make up for the little uneasiness of conscience, Ruchi decided to invite all Indians to have a free meal in the open space outside the fortress, stewed sea fish in iron pot, and greet them casually, and rye noodles and steamed buns.

Because there were not many tableware, the people in the cooking squad decided to dig a field stove in the open space and then took the pot over to make it directly. Unexpectedly, an Indian made a whispering sound when he saw the iron pot, and then a group of people surrounded him. Everyone looked at the big iron pot raised by the cooks with both hands and their eyes were straightened. Some even reached out to touch it a few times, and their eyes suddenly shone.

The cooks surrounded by the middle were confused and thought to themselves, "Do you still eat?"

Several Indians were about to see Ruchi immediately, and they decided that they would also want this!

Ruqi talked and gestured for a long time, and finally made these people understand that if you want to buy this, you can finish it first, and the price will be negotiated later.

So a group of Indians squatted beside the earthen stove, staring at the cooks, fearing that the iron pot would run away. However, they were soon swallowing their saliva by the aroma of the oil, and looked at the cooks with curious greetings to the pot with a handful of green onion and ginger on the left and pepper on the right.

After the large chunks of salmon were put into the pot, the cooks poured several bags of homemade dried vegetables from Beihai Town, a pot of chopped potatoes, flipped them with a large wooden spoon a few times, and then covered them with a lid and started gurgling.

The old saying goes, stew meat on low heat and stew fish on high heat. The fish meat mixed with spices and vegetables gushes in a large iron pot, and soon becomes fragrant, causing the Indians around to swallow their saliva.

Katata's father Bai Bai finally couldn't help it. His name was "woodpecker" in Miwaukee. The man stood up and walked to the stove, raised his hand to lift the lid. The cook was ready, so he reached out and held it tightly, and then shook his head at him.

Baibaixin said that I would eat all the raw fish, and the meat would be rotten after cooking, so he nodded and gestured to eat.

Unexpectedly, the cooker still shook his head. He was not for anything else. The potatoes were not cooked yet, and it would be poisonous if they were eaten raw. If something happened, he would be in trouble.

The two of them kept shaking their heads and the other kept nodding. The other Indians thought these two were really interesting and laughed.

On the other hand, Ruqi was also thinking about the price of iron pots. You should know that large iron products are more expensive in this time and space, not to mention that the products brought this time are all for self-use and spare, and the inventory is not large. So how should we price a 60-cm diameter firewood pot?

After thinking for a while, Ruchi finally determined a price that he thought was very "conscientious".

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! More than twenty minutes later, when a group of Indians finished eating steamed buns and used their hands to clean up the meat and vegetable residue in the iron pot, Ruqi appeared.

He pointed to the iron pot with a little soup left, stretched out his hands, and then turned it over twice - thirty otter skins, and only two bites - that was the two bites that were cooking for the Indians. Malier took it away and didn't have to wash it anymore!

After completing the transaction with Indians from several tribes, Ruqi asked Li Shi to announce something to his subordinates. In order to reward everyone's hard work, Ruqi decided to give five sea otter skins from the fur they traded; those who are willing to discount can also be paid to their subsidy account according to the landed price in Guangzhou, which is 1,750 Beihai silver dollars. Now the soldiers of the overseas corps are all smiling and earning salary for several years.

When the Jaguar left two months later, the cabin was loaded with more than 2,000 sea otter skins and more than 500 bison skins, but the smell of disinfectant was so irritating!

When Zhao Xin learned about the incident from the telegram, he thought it was so bad that the thing he had sold for eight yuan was actually turned into huge profits. It seemed that the move to Ruqi in North America was right. If he didn't say anything, he would have to ship it to another 100,000 pieces, plus a thousand iron pots of each number!

The news spread among the Indian tribes at the same speed as the wind. By the spring of the following year, Ruchi simply opened a market in the east of the Kinmen Fortress.

In the years that followed, this kind of thing, which was praised by countless people as the "Chinese magic carpet" almost spread throughout North America. Chiefs of major Indian tribes were proud of having a golden "magic carpet". The most outrageous thing was that some fur merchants actually brought this thing to Guangzhou and sold it at a high price of 300 taels, which was definitely exported to domestic sales.
Chapter completed!