On June 10, 1632, 1,000 acres of farmland in the first production team of the Development Brigade of Dingyuanbao Reclamation Zone achieved a huge harvest, and more than 900 tons of potatoes were included in the East Coast Company's reserve granary. This batch of potatoes is enough for everyone to eat together for half a year. The lingering shadow of grain hanging above everyone's heads finally subsided.

To this end, the Executive Committee organized a huge celebration and designated June 10 each year as a Harvest Festival.

Blanco Sosa de Almeida and her entourage walked among the bustling crowds, and the streets were filled with carnival crowds. Several rude Germans sat at small tables on the street, drinking drunkenly unnamed spirits in small wooden barrels, and chatting loudly as if no one was around.

The street corner seemed to be giving away free food, and a large group of people were crowded there. Several policemen in black uniforms were there to maintain order, with copper whistles hanging around their necks and short sticks on their waists, and even the most vulgar Irish people became polite when they saw them.

As the most learned scholar of St. Vicente, Blanco discovered many things that made him interesting. The pedestrians passing through the streets obviously came from many different countries, the most were Germans, followed by Czechs, Norwegians, Finns and Irish people, which can be heard from the language they used to talk to each other. People from different countries used another unique language. Blanco was a little ashamed. He did not hear which nation or country's language was the language, perhaps Tatan?

But Father Siman Perez da Silva from the Jesuits proposed different opinions, and he believed that this language seemed very similar to the language used by the Eastern Ming Empire. Father Siman, who had been in Macau for many years, was proficient in the text of Ming Kingdom and could speak fluent dialects in the southern Ming Kingdom, and his words were very credible.

Moreover, he soon found evidence to support his argument. At the intersection ahead there was a row of newly built oriental-style red-brick and blue-tiled houses, with a wooden sign hanging under the eaves of the house, with a row of words written in some black dye.

"What are you writing?" Blanco looked at Father Simang.

"Supply...Sales...Society." Father Ximang was a little confused. He knew all these three words, but he had no idea what it means to connect them.

"Maybe it's a shop." Father Ximang said uncertainly after looking for a while.

"Let's go and see." Blanco turned his head and said, "Ricardo, Carlos, let's go and see, maybe we will find new things."

The four of them crossed the intersection and entered the "supply and marketing cooperative". The clerk looked at the well-dressed four people and was a little surprised. But she was only a little surprised. There were often ships from various countries mooring on the dock. Dirty and rude sailors, well-dressed gentlemen and even some beautiful ladies would go to the city to take a walk during the mooring period. She had seen many people of all kinds. Although the combination of these four gentlemen, priests, merchants and officers was rare, they could not arouse her much interest.

The space in the store is not large. There is a long counter at the door, and several shelves are placed next to the wall behind the counter. The types of goods on the shelves are not very rich. Blanco walked up to the shelves in the middle and looked at it and found that most of them were common European products, such as cotton, linen, wine, sugar, salt, olive oil, etc. Blanco judged that only the salt was produced by the Tatans, and the rest should be imported from Europe.

A "clang" sound came from the left. Blanco looked over and found that Captain Ricardo pulled out a saber placed on the shelf on the left.

The movement here attracted the attention of the two guards in the door. Each of the guards was carrying a medley and a similar saber was hanging around his waist. The clerk also came over. She hesitated for a moment, as if she didn't know how to speak, perhaps because she didn't know what language to talk to these people.

"Ri'an, sir. Do you need any help?" Alessia Basdean asked carefully in French. The four customers looked Spanish in their outfits and hoped they could understand French.

"Ri'an, beautiful lady." Captain Ricardo replied, "I just wanted to try this sharp saber, and I'm sorry for disturbing you."

"Sir, this saber is forged with high-quality steel and is better than similar sabers, and is very suitable for you." Alessia said skillfully. "Believe me, he is your trusted partner in both the battlefield and the duel. In fact, we have sold more than 1,000 of this knife. Now in Sweden, Russia and Brandenburg, our saber is synonymous with reliability."

Ricardo pondered for a moment, stroked the inscription on the knife and asked, "How much does this saber cost?"

"2 yuan, 5 cents, sir." Alessia immediately returned, "Do you need it?"

"Yes, I need it." Captain Ricardo paid the money and hung the knife around his waist. He exchanged some Tatan currency on the dock, knowing that 2 yuan and 5 cents are equivalent to 20 Spanish Ricardo. This price is not expensive or cheap, but Captain Ricardo really likes this knife. Men always need some special toys.

"Sir, do you need to look at other things?" Alessia finished her business and began to sell other products. "The tools and farm tools produced by our East Coast Company are also very good. Please see below, shovels, sickles, pickaxes, forks, axes, nails, hammers, butchers' knives, etc. are all very good. They are also made of high-quality steel, and the price is also very cheap."

Ricardo didn't say anything, but Blanco saw it. As we all know, the suzerain countries had strict restrictions on the industrial development of the New World colonies. Every year, they transported various production and living materials from the local area from the royal family or large companies that monopolize trade to sell at high prices in the colonies, and then transported specialties such as cotton, sugar, cocoa, coffee and other specialties from the colonies back to the local area for sale, making high profits.

In the first half of the 17th century, Brazil's main export trade products were either sucrose, tobacco leaves, cotton, indigo and other plantation crops, or animal fat, horse (beef) hair, cow horns, fur, feather and sweet wine. Corresponding to export trade products, Brazil's imported products were mainly vinegar, ironware, linen, cotton, silk satin, medicinal materials, oil, caps, wine, pickled ham and machines and other production and daily necessities, mainly from Portugal.

It can be seen from this that the colonies exported large quantities of primary agricultural and animal husbandry products, imported production tools and consumer goods. Due to trade monopoly, Brazilian native plantation aristocrats and animal husbandry aristocrats will lose a lot of benefits every year. This made them extremely angry at the Portuguese merchants in the big cities, but they had no choice but to rely on them.

As the son of the owner of the "sucrose aristocratic" manor in southern Brazil, Blanco Sosa de Almeida was very clear about this situation. Now seeing that the Tatans actually have such a complete range of agricultural tools and hardware products, I couldn't help but feel moved. If their production is enough, they can smuggle them back to Brazil through their family ships, and then use them for their own use or re-export sales. This is a sure thing to make a profit.

Moreover, these Tatans seem to lack a large amount of Brazil's surplus animal husbandry products and economic crops such as sugar, tobacco, cotton, indigo, etc., and the economic complementarity between the two sides is very strong. Thinking of this, Blanco was calm on the surface, but he had his own ideas in his heart.

The four of them looked at it for a while and found that there was nothing new, so they left the store. They had asked clearly how to go where they were going, and as soon as they left the door, they headed straight to their destination.

After walking north along the cross for a few minutes, two waves of celebrating people arrived in front of a three-story red brick building with a wall. This is the tallest building in the entire city and the only high-rise building, made of red bricks and prefabricated cement boards, just like rural buildings that could be seen everywhere on China in the early 1990s.

This is the newly built administrative building of the Executive Committee. After the original office wooden house was demolished, the construction company built the building on the original site and used the latest steel cement prefabricated panels produced by the brick kiln cement prefabricated panels. The entire building has three floors and eighteen rooms, covering almost all administrative agencies that travel through the crowd.

At the entrance of the fence, there were eight policemen from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there were three scattered squads of 24 policemen, which was considered to be very well guarded. There was a reception room at the door, and a time traveler was working inside, and an interpreter was also surrounded by him.

The translator is a Frenchman. After listening to Blanco's introduction, he then transferred it to the time traveler in English.

"You said you are Brazilian? Come here to buy weapons and equipment?" Li Le asked, "What equipment do you want to buy?"

"We need the high-quality plate armor you produce, the powerful light artillery, and of course, the sharp sabers." Blanco said, "I have been authorized by the Governor of Bahia and we can establish a long-term partnership."

"I can't make the decision on this matter." Li Le took out a piece of paper, wrote a few strokes, and then said: "The sale of plate armor and cannons requires joint permission from the Army, Navy and Materials Commissioners. Unfortunately today, they all went to the west to attend the celebration ceremony. So, take this list and go to the Port Authority upstream of the dam, and they will arrange for you to take a boat to your destination. Go quickly!"

Blanco and the other four had no choice but to take the order and find the Port Authority in the city. A "Tattan" official from the Port Authority carefully checked the order, then filled in a few lines of words and handed it to Blanco, asking him to hand the order to the next official he met. Then, after each person charged a dime for the boat ticket, he arranged for them to take a small inland wooden boat for transporting supplies to the first production team of the Development Brigade.
Chapter completed!