"Oh? Is this all there is to it? ”

"And the sausage song!"

"What song? Sausage? Food? Is it a military music made by a group of foodies? ”

"Oh no, Brother Hou, this is the march of the French Foreign Legion, I burst into tears when I heard it, and I always felt that there was some kind of mysterious fate with me......"

"Okay...... Why did you get involved with the French military song? ”

"It's not why, when I was at home, Ren Ke and I wanted to choose Britannia's "March of the Grenadiers" to do military music at the same time, but we didn't give in on either side, and finally the brothers of the Huotang Club said, just use the fist to decide, who wins has the right of first choice, and then, Ren Ke won the ...... with the fist."

Well, this is the group of people in the Huotang Club, sometimes they are very serious, and sometimes they are really child's play, Hou Xianglin couldn't help but complain in his heart......

A few days later, with the assistance of Hou Xianglin, Wei Hong finally obtained from Duchess Margaret six children, ranging in age from eight to twelve, three of whom were of mixed Portuguese and indigenous descent, two were black children, and one was an orphan of the local aborigines, all of whom were descendants of slaves on the Duchess's estate, some orphans, some of whom were still parents, all boys.

They were all children born and raised on the estate from an early age, and according to the Duchess, they were very honest and reliable.

Hou Xianglin also told Wei Hong that the children were selected, they belonged to the more prominent ones in the church choir, and they had a certain musical foundation, and when they heard that you were going to form a military band, the duchess quickly decided to hand over these children to you to cultivate, hoping that they would have a chance to get ahead in the future.

As for sending priests to do music training, it is not possible now, the reason is that there are no special priests, and these priests can sing hymns, but in terms of musical instruments, it seems that in addition to playing the organ, they are completely amateurs, so the duchess has no choice, it seems that she can only wait for Xiao Pingguo to come.

Obviously, with this little person, it is definitely not enough to engage in a military band, looking at these innocent children, Wei Hong had an idea, he immediately found Uncle Luoka, the leader of the Luoka tribe who was working on the construction site, and asked him to recommend a few children to join the military band of the garrison.

Papa Loka gladly agreed to his request, and immediately gave him six boys, between the ages of eight and ten, for the simple reason that Loka readily agreed: in addition to eating better there, there was also an important reason that the garrison paid the children.

Today, the Loka tribe has almost broken away from the jungle tribe way of life, and an important sign is that Loka himself and some of the women in the tribe have developed the concept of money, and these people have accepted silver taels as a reward for their labor, rather than just food, clothing, and physical goods as in the past.

It turns out that the environment can change people's perceptions.

During this time in Xin'an City, Wei Hong had become quite familiar with the natives of the Luoka tribe.

First of all, Wei Hong has great respect for the old man, a small tribal chief who has experienced many vicissitudes, and calls him "Daddy Loka" according to the local customs.

As an orphan, Xiao Wei seems to always have some tenderness for amiable old people, probably because his childhood has been growing up under the care of his grandparents, in the depths of his memory, it was his happiest and happiest life.

Until one day, both grandparents died in a car accident, and for the young Wei Hong, his sky collapsed......

For these six indigenous teenagers, Wei Hong indignantly promised Father Loka that no matter what happened, he would always take these children with him and give them a bright future......

Anyway, the military band of the garrison has set up a shelf, and now it is waiting for Teacher Xiao to teach this group of children, after the telegram was sent that morning, to Wei Hong's surprise, Xiao Pingguo actually called back in person and said that he was very willing to come, and he also wanted to bring a batch of musical instruments and sheet music.

Xiao Da musician said that he wanted to make your military band into a military band, and Wei Hong, who received a positive reply, was very happy, and said that it seems that Mr. Xiao, the "Sun and Moon School" of the Vegetable Garden Club, has finally found a feeling, and sure enough, people also want to do a career, after all, this is his favorite music career......

Time came to the end of March 1658 in a blink of an eye, and Wei Hong, who was gradually getting on the road in various tasks, was now busy, and Hou Xianglin was even more like this at this time, in addition to directing construction and military training, the two of them had to regularly report to Mornington Island on the progress of the construction project of Xin'an City and about Pimont's mining on Timor Island.

Today, the island of Timor is very unpeaceful, in the vast jungle, between the Portuguese and the tribes, between tribes and tribes, because of the mineral deposits, is playing a treacherous battle drama.

Pimont now forms an iron triangle with Degus and Margaret, and the three parties not only have shares in the "Portuguese-Macao Company", but also have a lot of shares in the "Diao Mining". Therefore, in order to obtain the ore and timber of Timor from the natives, Pimont used all the visible and unseen means.

Plans and conspiracies were largely conceived in the vaults of the Doge's Palace in Pimont.

Of course, although these plots are not necessarily from the hands of the Duchess, but Pimont knows that all this must be known to the Duchess Margaret, and only by letting this powerful woman know, the Australians can better cooperate, after all, Pimont is not blind or deaf, of course he understands the relationship between the Duchess and the Australians, especially the ambiguous relationship with the respected Speaker of the Australian Federation.

Therefore, whatever the duchess knows, Zilia will know, and then her Hou brother will naturally know it immediately, although Pimont will not hide anything from Hou Xianglin, but unless Hou Xianglin takes the initiative to ask, he will not say it, and the situation reported by Pimont is relatively rough and "slightly modified".

In any case, all the secrets surrounding the recent struggle for mineral resources on the island of Timor were soon turned into telegrams for the people of the Red Mansion to fully know.

One morning at the end of March, Pimont sent someone over to deliver a letter to Hou Xianglin.

The letter said that in three days, about 150 tons of iron sand ore from the Chagan Basin would be transported to the Xin'an wharf, and the letter also told Hou Xianglin that the tribes that controlled the Chagan Basin had produced a new leader, and the new leader would be happy to cooperate with us in mining Yunyun.

However, Hou Xianglin had already learned some more specific details from Margaret a few days earlier, such as the fact that the new chief of the Chagan Basin was actually one of the many sons of the old chieftain, and because this capable son had successfully suppressed a rebellion in the tribe, what about it...... Then he took the opportunity to imprison the old chief!

The old chieftain was imprisoned for a simple reason: he was in the way of his son's wealth.

Because the old chief had always disapproved of the young people of the tribe digging for the so-called ore in the basin, the old man insisted that doing so would anger the mountain gods, especially since digging the stones would destroy the forest and water sources, which would definitely bring disaster to the tribe.

Apparently what happened did not fulfill the old chieftain's wishes, and his eloquent son, after receiving a hundred loads of rice, twenty jars of rum, two jars of sweet potato wine, and fifty iron sickles and ten arquebuses from Pimont, engaged in a "palace conspiracy" to kill his other half-brothers under the pretext of suppressing the rebellion.

In the end, the son who cleared the obstacle abolished Lao Tzu, and after several twists and turns, he finally made himself the king of the Chagan Basin Tribal Alliance.

This result was very satisfying to the Portuguese, and now the people of Chagan, especially the young people, were very supportive of the new chief, because the more than 1,000 young men and women of the Chagan Confederation only had to go to the mines every day, and transport the ore to the seashore to the Portuguese merchants who were moored on the boats, and each of them would receive the equivalent of two catties of rice and two taels of brown sugar, and one-tenth of the refined salt every day, and most importantly, Every other month, the tribesmen received an additional dozen jars of rum and two small jars of sweet potato spirits.

These fabled Australian drinks are now popular in the bush, where both men and women alike enjoy both, especially the latter, which fascinates every tribe with its strength and sweetness, and is said to have an aphrodisiac effect, making it a favorite among tribal chiefs.