Chapter 72: A Journey to the South Seas (3)
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The closer to the equator the population, the lazier it is, and the less likely it is to produce great civilizations.
As an agrarian civilization, the Chinese are undoubtedly better at working and accumulating wealth than the locals. But the Chinese are undoubtedly outsiders and minorities. As a result, the Chinese became the object of envy and hatred and plunder of the local natives.
Compared with the accumulation of hard work, how can there be a strong robbery to be pleasant and easy?
The village under the moonlight is peaceful and peaceful, and only on the wooden floor of the village's walled gate will there be a few sounds of bamboo sticks reporting safety. In the distant jungle, the occasional night owl cries are also far and near.
It was as if it was a night that could never have been more ordinary.
But the depths of the village are not peaceful at all, although it is just the words of one person, but it is related to the survival of the family and the village, and it is necessary to treat people with a view that they would rather believe what they have than what they don't. The men of the village had already gathered. In the last conflict, thunder and lightning killed the leaders of nearby tribes, and judging from the hundreds of years of experience of the Chinese people in dealing with the natives, the nearby indigenous villages will definitely not rest on their laurels.
The natives will surely have a more powerful revenge than the last time. Both for revenge and for money, food and land. The process will not end until one of them admits defeat.
The Chinese are not inherently weak, at least for more than a hundred years, this Chinese village, which is a gathering of fellow villagers, has been at loggerheads with the surrounding indigenous tribes. The indigenous people are numerous, while the Chinese also have high walls and deep barriers, sophisticated weapons, and the unity and cohesion of the same people and clans are also extraordinary.
Liao Chen sometimes thinks that if it weren't for the forcible entry of Western colonizers, maybe these clans would definitely be able to establish a Chinese kingdom in Nanyang one by one. It's just a bit of a long process.
Successes are also clans, and defeats are also clans. The unity between clans has allowed the Chinese to gain a firm foothold, but the xenophobia between clans and the alliance between the Chinese are difficult.
There is also a lack of an indisputable leader and coordinator among the Chinese clans.
As long as Daming can return here and give some support, the establishment of a Chinese kingdom will definitely be much easier.
More than 100 years later, won't there be a Chinese republic in Borneo?
A few distinctly mournful cries of night birds broke the tranquility of the night in an instant, and Lichen, who was meditating quietly in the bedroom, opened his eyes at the same time. A frown looked out the window.
It's finally time to come!
On the wooden tower of the village, the sound of gongs sounded loudly. The villagers, who had been preparing for a long time, took up their weapons and walked out of their homes. In an instant, there was a cacophony of voices everywhere in the village. The light of the torches also illuminated the night.
The village is not badly armed, swords, guns, bows and arrows are always available, and even there are dozens of muskets. It is estimated that they were all traded or smuggled.
It is estimated that the natives did not expect to come in the middle of the night, and the village opposite seemed to have been prepared. Seeing that the sneak attack failed, he could only replace it with a strong attack.
This time, they gathered dozens of surrounding villages to gather. The crowd is overwhelming, and it is natural that the enemy will not be afraid of discovering it. Seeing that the city wall had been prepared, he simply generously set up his own people, hoping to rely on the number of people to give this Chinese village a dismount first.
The weapons of the natives are obviously inferior to those of the Chinese, except for a few who have an iron knife, the rest have everything, and even some run over with wooden sticks.
But after all, there were thousands of adult men, standing outside the village, looking at it in the moonlight, it was so big.
Even if you don't take anything! It can also make the Chinese upstairs in the wooden city gasp.
"Second brother, is what the Immortal Chief gave us really reliable?" On the wooden city tower, the patriarch took the three elders of the village and a few outstanding juniors to look at the outside of the city with ugly faces and roared, making all kinds of strange movements, trying to scare the natives in the village. An old man who looked to be the same age as the patriarch quietly stepped forward and asked worriedly.
"Probably not! Why did the immortal chief lie to us? The patriarch himself replied with some certainty.
"Just try it?" Another old man interjected.
"Scattering beans into soldiers, that's the method of the immortal family, that immortal chief is really so powerful, isn't that a living immortal?" Someone questioned.
"How is it impossible, listening to the people who have come from Daming in the past few years, don't Daming have two land immortals now. Although Wudang Zhang Zhenren has not been seen for a long time, isn't there still a national teacher in Qingcheng Mountain? What about those whose mana is profound! The mountains and seas are overwhelming, and the mana is boundless, how can ordinary people like us speculate? ”
"Huh! The Taoist in our village didn't say that he was from Qingcheng Mountain, could he be the apprentice of that immortal. But he doesn't look very old, and he can't come here from Daming thousands of miles away, and he must not be a mortal! ”
"Immortals are immortal, in fact, I can see it? But I still don't think it's very reliable! Now I hope that reinforcements from several surrounding villages will come soon. If the stockade is broken, we will not be good, the last time Li Zhuangzi was broken by the dog day, and none of the hundreds of people survived. ”
If the Chinese here are still a rabble, the natives over there are not even a rabble, and the whole attack is chaotic, not only the formation is scattered, but even the weapons to attack the wooden fence around the village are lacking.
With the shouts of killing outside, the old and weak women and children in the village also lost their minds to sleep one by one. This time, the indigenous attack was fierce, just listen to the strange shouts and killings outside.
"Master, the group of people outside won't attack in, right?" Zhu Zaikai was also awakened by the noise outside, but the little guy was much calmer than ordinary people out of trust in Chen's long-term cultivation. And Zhu Zai Kai has really been on the battlefield. Although I only played a round of soy sauce, I didn't touch a single hair of the enemy, and I didn't touch any of my own hair.
Now Zhu Zaikai is worried about the people in the village.
"In extraordinary times, nature does extraordinary things. The Chinese people here need a leader, and if the Ming can't give it, how about letting them produce it themselves? Lichen picked up a cloud and gently tapped it on the celestial stars on the chessboard.
Although the Chinese kingdom thus created will not necessarily be close to the Ming Dynasty, and may even become the enemies of the Ming Dynasty because of their own interests.
But so what?
At least this rich land can be owned by Huaxia, and if this new country still wants to keep its basic territory, it is bound to open its door to every descendant of Yan and Huang and the people of Huaxia. Not, as in later generations, Han Chinese were second-class citizens, both at home and abroad.
"Point the soldiers and order the beans, all things turn into spirits, the gong ginseng creates, the beans are soldiers, and the urgency is like the law, edict!" Lichen sat in the bedroom, picked up dozens of soybeans from the nearby porcelain bowl, chanted words in his mouth, and after a breath of spiritual energy blew, Lichen casually sprinkled the soybeans on the chessboard.
A magical scene appeared, the soybeans on the chessboard did not become heavenly soldiers, but were erected one by one, forming horizontal rows on the chessboard, like a military formation, which can make people see that their eyes fall out.
What's even more amazing is that the soybeans were spilled from the dust here, and on the wooden city tower of the village, at the same time, the soybeans in the porcelain bowl in the hands of the patriarch also flew out on their own, and flew down the city tower in the consternation of everyone.
A white mist appeared out of thin air, then disappeared abruptly. With a burst of golden light, a team of golden bean soldiers appeared under the castle tower of the village.
The battle array is forested, and the golden light is bursting. No matter how effective the soybean soldiers are, at least at this moment, they are like soldiers descending from heaven, so powerful that people can't resist.
There was an instant silence on the battlefield, and the natives who had been unable to swarm up and storm the wall were frightened for the first time. And the Chinese villagers, who were still struggling to resist, were also stunned. Under the moonlight, it is obvious that there should be a bunch of soldiers in the world who suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and the power and shock are a little worse than the arrival of the true god.
Jia Ye Sensen, the bean soldier stood up with his spear and moved slowly. It was slow at first, but at last it grew faster and faster, until the first hapless native died unresisted by the bean's guns, letting out an inhumane howl. That's when the natives reacted.
"O true god," the natives began to flee for their lives, and the attack they had just launched collapsed in an instant.
The victory came so suddenly, and the process of victory was so magical, that most of the villagers felt as if they were in a dream. I can't react for half a day. When the cheers thundered outside, the village gate opened violently, and the villagers began to clean up the battlefield, the bean soldiers also suddenly disappeared in pursuit. Leave only a little bit of powder on the battlefield, flying with the night wind.
"Immortal Chief, Immortal Chief, your old man is really a fairy!" The patriarch didn't look like an old man in his sixties at all at this moment, he was as excited as a child, and he ran quickly to the front of the house where Chen lived. There were a lot of villagers behind me.
"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! Poor Dao is not a god. Don't get me wrong, this is just a two-handed illusion," explained with a smile.
But in the eyes of the patriarch and the villagers, it was the immortals who were pure and humble.
Compared with last time, this time the villagers really believed in the Dust Immortal Law, and their attitude was also very respectful, and it seemed that there was a hint of fanaticism. As soon as he saw the dust appear, Ulala fell to his knees. Lichen had to quickly persuade him to talk about something tomorrow, and then walked into the room with the patriarch.
If you have something to talk about, you naturally have to start with the patriarch.
There has always been only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days. Although the Chinese in this land are only a minority, they are not unable to form a local advantage, divide the territory, and divide the land and rule. As long as there is a consolidated Chinese regime among the Chinese, a relatively sophisticated army, and a steady stream of support from the mother country, it is not possible to avoid the tragedy of the next century in this land.
The patriarch came here in the hope that Chenchen would give more "god beans". If there are children in the clan who worship under the immortal sect and learn a few hand Taoism skills, the village will naturally be worry-free for thousands of years.
When Lichen heard the intention, he hurriedly laughed and said to the patriarch: "The Dao is not enough to hold, and it is difficult to learn the Dao, how can it be so difficult"
The patriarch was visibly disappointed. Lichen didn't care, but talked about something else.
"Poor Dao wants to ask the patriarch, is it still possible for the Chinese to live in harmony with the natives here?" After the two of them sat down, they asked straight to the point.
The patriarch was stunned for a long time, and then sighed deeply, shook his head and replied, "It's easy for a while, but it's difficult for a long time!" ”
"The natives are lazy, greedy, and not good at business. Therefore, as long as the Chinese stay a little longer, most of the Chinese are rich, while the natives are poor. At first, it was good, but it was just a matter of giving up some possessions and taking a good fate. But later, the local people's appetite became bigger and bigger, and they became more and more fierce, and they were particularly hostile to the Chinese, and after decades of constant fighting, it was impossible to coexist peacefully," the patriarch hurriedly explained, seeing that Chen seemed to be unconvinced.
"Don't suffer from widowhood, but suffer from inequality, not from poverty, but from insecurity, what is true!" Lichen nodded.
"The same is true of the nearby Chinese villages?" Lichen asked.
"It's all the same, between Huayi, after all, it's not my race!" The patriarch sighed.
"There are Xiyi troops nearby, and they haven't been here?" Lichen asked.
"Immortal Chang is referring to Xiyi foreign devils?" The patriarch asked curiously.
"Yes!"
The patriarch smiled bitterly and said, "Lao Er has seen it, but it is far from here, and Lao Er was also engaged in business when he was young. Seen some. Recently, I heard from maritime merchants that they have begun to enclose land and are very kind to the Chinese. If there is a Xiyi army here, the natives dare to do so! ”
"That's what you haven't seen Western colonizers slaughter. The current kindness, Anzhi is not the poison of differentiation? In this case, why don't you join forces with the nearby Chinese to establish a country, and everyone is of the same race and fight against other places, isn't it just right?" ”
"Why don't we want to unite! It's just that they are far away from each other, and it is difficult to have people who serve the public, and there are inevitably gaps between some clans, how easy it is to talk about! The patriarch sighed.
"If the Ming Dynasty approves of the governorship or the republican system, are you willing?" Lichen asked suddenly.
"Ahh The patriarch was frightened at this time, and it took him a long time to react, and he asked in disbelief: "Is what the Immortal Chief said true?" ”
Lichen nodded.
The patriarch saw that Chen nodded in confirmation, and immediately cried and said: "Since the war at the end of the Song Dynasty, the ancestors have been displaced here, and they are in a barbarian land, why don't you want to return to your hometown one day, if you have to return to China, An Neng will not like it?" ”
"The stakes are serious, and the imperial court also needs to consider it holistically, and the saints are benevolent today, so they will naturally treat their overseas people well. Poor Dao traveled to Nanyang, and when you and the nearby Chinese discussed it completely, it was written into a framed seal, and after the poor Dao returned, it would be transferred to the imperial court, presumably within a few years, when there was a Ming official sent here. Can the patriarch be trusted to be poor? ”
"Immortal Elder is merciful, Lao Er An dares not to believe it," the patriarch hurriedly nodded.
"The matter of deliberation is troublesome to the patriarch. As long as the patriarch is dedicated, the poor Dao will definitely ask His Majesty for his behalf, and he will be rewarded for his kindness. The patriarch is relieved that "the dust promised."
No matter what attitude the Ming Dynasty intends to take to return to Nanyang, at least the Chinese here are a nation, and they should reward the meritorious and make them return to their hearts, and appropriate benefits should still be given. Without the support of the local Chinese, it may not be easy for the Ming Dynasty to open up in the South Seas.
Lichen talked with the old patriarch for a long time, and the patriarch left with a thousand thanks. As soon as Lichen picked up the teacup, Zhu Zaikai walked over from the next room.
"Do you have any questions to ask Shigong now?" Lichen looked at Zhu Zaiqi and asked with a smile.