War Ends
Chapter 1052:War Ends
It was precisely because of this idea that the purpose of the exploration fleet was to find plants, not to occupy the whole of America, under the premise that there was no direct opposition to the Maya, and the Mayans were not taught at the same time, and they did not dare to deal with the navy, which formed a basis for peace.
If it had not been the ruling iron before, it would have been possible to talk about it, and now, with more than 400,000 people killed and injured, as well as a large number of nobles and civilian casualties, this is a huge problem, with some internal and external factors, this ruling quickly lost its rights, then the rest of the people, the head is not so iron.
Not iron, willing to sit down and talk, this is very consistent with the strategy of the Navy, there is not too much requirements, soon, under the translation, in the stumbling exchange, the two sides reached a simple agreement.
Non-aggression, the Maya recognized the Navy for the port, for the city's occupation, these lands, bounded by the Rocky Mountains, extended to the vicinity of Mexico.
For this, the Maya have concessions, but not much, the Maya control of the sphere of influence, mainly in Mexico, the southern United States also have, but only a small part of the tropical region, the Rocky Mountains near the Pacific side, not their concern, this place to the Navy, there is nothing reluctant.
One side took out the land, the other side, the victorious navy, also promised that it would not lightly start the end of the war, but asked for compensation.
The compensation is certain, the war was lost, it is necessary to be honest, the fierceness of the Navy also scared the Mayans, the Maya people seem to be particularly real, in the fixed navy proposed compensation, directly brought a lot of gold and silver.
Before, Zhao Xin once said that the entire Americas, the reserves of gold and silver are very huge, the Maya as the hegemony of the Americas, the control of the region is very large, and the American gold and silver is also a lot, not to mention the later colonizers, simply Spanish, 300 years, from the Americas to obtain 2.5 million kilograms of gold and 100 million kilograms of silver, not to mention Portugal, France, Britain and a series of countries, they rely on the silver of the Americas, to have the basis to open the industrial revolution.
Enough money, enough raw materials, and a certain amount of manpower, these are basically essential.
Now, no more than a few hundred years later, the Maya are the oldest people in the history of the Americas, they were active in Central America in 2500 BC, and then continued until the 13th and fourth centuries, before being replaced by later empires, in this period of thousands of years, the Maya accumulated great wealth.
Later generations, the Mayan pyramids, a large number of funerals, and gold and silver cast statues and things like that, these are huge gold and silver.
When the war was lost and compensated, the Maya were also quite generous, and soon gave the compensation they prepared for the fixed navy.
5 million two silver, and 400,000 two gold, although the purity of these gold and silver is not very high, not high purity, but together, the total amount is actually quite a lot.
According to the comparison of gold and silver in the northern Song Dynasty, one or two silver can be exchanged for more than one copper coin, and the price of gold and silver is about 1:10, so that it is calculated according to 1.2 always equals one or two silver.
5 million silver, equivalent to 6 million, and 400,000 two gold, equivalent to 4 million two silver, so it is close to 5 million, the two add up, tens of millions of coins.
This money is indeed a lot, add up to nearly 11 million, although for the fixed Navy's income and finance, is not what, because the Navy, in billions of units, and not billions of billions, but hundreds of billions, pure fiscal revenue, are more than 10 billion, 11 million compensation, is nothing.
But if you put it in the Northern Song, it is one-third, or even more years old, this money, the Maya so easily out, this is enough to prove that the Americas have more gold and silver.
This is very clear, Spain and Portugal, in the Americas to obtain a huge gold and silver, this can develop, the two countries together, may be in the Americas to obtain more than 4 million kilograms of gold, more than 4000 tons, as for the silver, that is at least 15 to 200,000 tons of total.
In fact, this is actually from the 14th century, the whole world, from China to Europe, gold and silver began to appear in large numbers of the roots, before that, Europe and China, basically are not gold and silver as the standard, but after the 14th century, the gradual emergence of gold and silver as the standard of existence.
In the middle of this, it must be said that China, which has always been the copper standard before tomorrow, has begun to appear a huge amount of silver in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, gradually replacing the status of copper coins.
European colonists, it can be said, relying on colonization, relying on the Americas, obtained a huge gold and silver, they changed their own drawbacks, with a large number of gold and silver coins to replace the original currency, but in China, also rely on the terrible trade surplus, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, obtained a large amount of gold and silver.
In the past, only silver appeared as a precious metal, or an equivalent of high-end trading, became a general currency, whether it is taxes, or other ways, can be settled with silver.
In this sense, the wealth of thousands of miles is not a large number for the Maya, and it can be easily taken out.
Gold and silver, for the fixed navy, is of no use for the time being, although gold and silver, in the world, in the vast majority of countries, are hard currency, are directly in exchange for the existence of things, but in the fixed navy, there is no d
Now set the Navy's fixed sea currency, is a credit currency, stainless steel, and still relatively high hardness of this kind, as long as the Navy, do not give this to spread out, relying on the hand bow to obtain the possibility of stainless steel, almost zero, perhaps in the future, when the world, as well as some of the civil society to improve the level of technology, the ability to make stainless steel, only to take into account the anti-counterfeiting.
However, in the current cattle vigorously for the smelting research results, stainless steel, in general, can only use the blast furnace, with small crucible production, the efficiency is not high, the cost is huge, even if they can produce, their cost is higher than the cost, so that the thing that can not be paid for, there are not many people to do it.
To a certain extent, the fixed sea currency composed of stainless steel in the Navy can be used for at least a few decades, in the future, or into the era of gold and silver coins, or into the era of credit currency, before this, the role of gold and silver is not large.
The Navy does not need gold and silver, does not mean that gold and silver do not play a role, the Mayans have been soft, willing to come up with such a huge amount of compensation under the premise, there is no need to chase such a blow, of course, the necessary things are still needed.
The Navy did not hesitate to accept such a batch of gold and silver, but under the premise of receiving gold and silver, more conditions were put forward.
Gold and silver received, and other, the Mayans in charge of the negotiations have some headaches, this money, it seems that the Maya so generous out, but in a sense, this is already the Maya can take out the largest amount of funds, if you want to get it, it really has some problems.
But gritted teeth, from other places, in the mobilization of some words, a scrape together, you can also get out of half of the way, but it depends on these people, whether there is so much appetite.
The Navy does not know that the messenger thinks so, if you do, will certainly blackmail a sum, gold and silver may have no effect for the current fixed navy, but the future, or useful, the bank of the navy, has been collecting gold and silver, in this case, gold and silver is still useful.
The requirements for other aspects of the Navy were very simple, and did not require gold and silver, requiring them to collect enough seeds and plants, especially some of the plants they planted and cultivated were said to be very good.
This opinion, to the Mayans did not think, they did not think that the other side actually wanted such a strange thing.
This is easy to accomplish for the Maya, the Maya themselves are relatively good in farming, in the long run, the cultivation of a lot of plants, these plants, let the Mayans live a rich life, but in the Mayans thought, there is not much effect.
Soon, the Mayan messenger sent a series of plants, in the middle, they chose, are they more valuable, among these plants, the botanists of the Navy, did not find the desired target, Zhao Xin to find the target, had to order them to find, find more plants, the dealer, and the ordinary kind.
The second time, the third time, there are hundreds of kinds each time, and in the third time, there is a discovery.
Pumpkins, cotton, tobacco leaves and sweet potatoes are among them, in the middle, to mention sweet potatoes, this way, with Zhao Xin recorded, there is a big difference, the sweet potatoes of the future generations, which is after years of cultivation, production, and the aspects of the day before, are very good.
There is a big difference between the Mayans and the current ones.
Things found, these four, are regarded as Zhao Xin to find within the scope, find seeds, and even get a planting of this old farmer, this time, for the American continent, for the Mayan Raiders, finally came to an end, in order to determine the Navy's harvest, dominate.
In fact, the plants obtained are not so few, because some crops, Zhao Xin forgot, or ignored the origin of the Americas, so it is not painted in the picture, told these botanists to explore the fleet, and later, after statistics, this time the plants obtained, in addition to the four above, there are other crops.
Noun, peanuts, both of which are oil crops, with their words, can come out of a single soybean oil, although the Northern Song has sesame seeds, but the yield of sesame seeds is too small, not enough to support the huge oil consumption, that is, after the widespread planting of soybeans, this popularized the North Song and the Navy's oil consumption.
In addition to the first two, two other harvests, respectively, tomatoes and peppers, the former, is a very broad, delicious dish, the latter, simply is Zhao Xin's favorite.
Before the introduction of chili peppers into China, although China had a spicy taste, but at that time relied on juju, or mustard, which made future generations accustomed to the Sichuan cuisine Zhao Xin is very unaccustomed, but he seems to remember that chili peppers are transmitted from the western region, and they put their mentality in which side, rather than in the Americas.
Chili peppers and tomatoes, which among the Mayans, are relatively high-end, they are not found to use value, but ornamental value, whether it is the red fruit of the pepper, or the tomatoes, are relatively beautiful, this time, more in the way of ornamental plants.
Because of Zhao Xin's instructions, these early personnel did not let go of any plant, all of them, even if they did not know, also spent the effort to send back, in the botanist's research, Zhao Xin saw, such as the treasure.
Tomatoes are also poured, more famous is so many dishes, the most famous is only tomato scramb eggs, but also just a home-cooked dish, but chili peppers are not the same, with chili, it can be said that in Sichuan cuisine, most of the classic dishes, can be restored, and not only in Sichuan cuisine, there are spicy dishes, in Xiang cuisine, expensive vegetables, and several other local dishes, peppers are also a more common ingredients.
At the beginning, when the designated navy put forward plant requirements, the Maya preconceivedly believed that the Navy was not satisfied, and this was already shown in the first and second time.
It seems that their carefully prepared food can not enter the eyes of the Navy, it seems that it is to find fault, but they still make unremitting efforts to send, because they still hold a little hope, if they get the satisfaction of the other party, so that they can save a lot of money.
Although the Americas are more gold and silver, but the Mayans gold and silver, not the wind, have tried their best to take out so much premise, and then take out, but to break the bones, and now, finally reached the requirements of the Navy, found the right plants, which makes the Mayans very happy.
The Mayans were wary, they were the losing side, the other side so easily defeated them, in a certain period of time, they also have some sense of fear all day, but the Navy is very regular, after the Maya took out the compensation, the initiative to withdraw the two sides out of more than 200 miles, both sides carefully maintained the current alert posture.
The Mayans were wary and not vigilant, the Navy did not know, although the Navy was also vigilant, but it was only a fixed lookout, anyway, the Mayans could not fly over, and during the day and night, they could have early warning.
They came to the North American continent, the biggest purpose is these plants, now found Zhao Xin described the above plants, but also happy, quickly to the compensation of things, to the far-fetsend in China, including not only Zhao Xin specifically mentioned those plants, but also these North American special, they do not know, do not know what it is, but still sent.
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