At this time, Dr. Quan asked Wei Hong:

"How many people do they have now?"

Wei Hong: "In the core part, there are more than 2,600 formal tribal warriors, and the entire tribal population is 15,000 people, and it is still increasing. ”

Dr. Quan: How is the equipment of the tribal warriors?

Wei Hong listened and said with a smile: This is amazing, in the past, all the cold weapons of the garrison, armor, including the three-eyed fire gun from the Ming Dynasty were given to the Luoka tribe, so they have the conditions to conquer the tribe at the foot of the Tatamyrao Holy Mountain, and now the entire Xin'an River is about eighty kilometers long from the source here, and now the area of about ten kilometers on both sides of the river is controlled by the Luoka tribe, including the jungle area, so for Xin'an City, the Luoka tribe control area is a relatively reliable security barrier.

Dr. Quan: Well, it's pretty good that a tribe can do this in such a short period of time......

At this time, Wei Hong responded that the main reason is that weapons and silver are working, in fact, the level of tribal armed equipment on Timor Island is very poor, on the whole, the tribal warriors still use iron-tipped wooden spears as their main weapons, and there are very few bows and arrows, as for the armor, there are almost none, most of the warriors are naked and have a piece of animal skin apron, and the Loka tribe has a lot of iron and armor, so both combat effectiveness and morale are higher than other tribes.

In addition, the Luoka tribe has silver, the most important thing is that now the daily livelihood and life of the tribe are integrated with us, and now more than half of the women and men in the tribe are begging for a living in Xin'an City, the free porters on the dock square, the female workers in the ammunition factory and the workers in the sugar factory are mostly from the Luoka tribe, and recently Brother Hou also recruited more than 300 people from the tribe through the introduction of Father Luoka, forming a fixed construction team - this is the construction team that Brother Hou has always dreamed of.

In addition, half of the soldiers of the Sin'an garrison are native, although these soldiers are not all indigenous to the Loka tribe, and some of the men of the scattered tribes in the eastern part of the island have been defeated in the tribal conflict, lost their souls and wandered to other lands, and they have been rescued by the Loka tribe in the jungle.

Because these people are real soldiers, I asked Daddy Loka to select some honest and obedient ones to send to me, Daddy Loka also thinks that only we Australians can control these people, and now every once in a while there are such recruits to be sent, I throw these people into the boot barracks, let the teaching company train them for at least three months, and then officially become part of the Sin'an City garrison.

Doctor Quan glanced at the soldier standing guard at the door, judging from his appearance and figure, he was an indigenous warrior, so he nodded and said, In this way, the Luoka tribe should be really powerful and rich......

Yes, if you have silver, you can buy wine and food, and you can get all kinds of materials from us and the Portuguese, and then, the Loka tribe can use these materials to annex the small tribes in the jungle and collect the stragglers in the jungle - a while ago, there were various tribal conflicts in the jungle, and the Loka tribe recruited rebels, and its strength was really much stronger.

There is another phenomenon I have to tell you, now there are many women in the Luoka tribe who grow vegetables on the edge of the jungle outside Xin'an City, and then take them to Xin'an City to sell, and there are also cassava growers, since Sun Lao taught Luoka Daddy how to make vermicelli with rice and cassava milling flour, many women in the Luoka tribe are reclaiming wasteland - unexpectedly, because of our influence, a jungle tribe that lives by hunting and gathering has become a tribe with agricultural elements!

And such a thing? Dr. Quan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, then nodded and said, "But I have heard Dr. Zhu say that there is already a lot of primitive agriculture in Nanyang natives today, but women are engaged in this work more, and men are still hunting......

Or war......

Yue Chu answered beside him.

That's right, so I'm going to create a special Indigenous company in the garrison, equipped with weapons from the jungle, and of course with weapons like the Federation One Handguns, and then do special training......

Before Wei Hong finished speaking, Yue Chu slapped Wei Hong's shoulder next to him and shouted: "Jungle Special Operations Force!"

That's right! It's a jungle special operations unit, whose main task is to engage in reconnaissance and raid operations, and cooperate with frontal operations, do you think my idea is reliable?

When Wei Hong said this, he looked at everyone with blazing eyes.

Doctor Quan pondered for a moment and said, who will train?

Myself, of course.

Wei Hong replied proudly.

The people in the jungle are used to being free and loose, so they must be disciplined and reliable......

At this time, Zhou Rui came out next to him.

Is this, I have thought about it for a long time, and now there are three candidates for squad leader, let them bring seven or eight clever indigenous soldiers respectively, and these three are all Brother Xiao's brother-in-law......

Hearing this, Doctor Quan sneered, laughed and coughed: I didn't expect you to have a relationship with the Luoka tribe, but I don't know if these people are reliable or not, in short, you have to be cautious, for the natives, I think it is better to break up the mix......

Soon, the carriage was escorted by a platoon of soldiers of the garrison out of the wooden wall in the south of the city, and then walked along a riverside dirt road for a few minutes to the construction site of the Xin'an River Dam, located two kilometers outside the wooden gate in the south of the city.

The construction site was very lively, far away, the whole doctor saw Hou Xianglin and Kangda sitting on two stone piers, behind them there were two natives holding a huge oilcloth parasol for them, in the distance there was a row of garrison soldiers standing guard around with real guns and ammunition, from time to time someone around him ran over to ask for instructions, the two of them commanded with command, up and down the earthen dam, about a thousand workers attached to the ants were busy there.

Is this their daily routine?

Doctor Quan turned around and asked Wei Hongdao.

yes, every day......

Wei Hong replied.

Hou Xianglin and Kangda received Dr. Quan and his party in a pergola made of mahogany near the stone pier, and the latter was very surprised to stroke the hard mahogany with water patterns and said to Hou Kang and the others, this kind of high-grade wood actually gives you a rest shed on the construction site, is it a little wasteful?

Hou Kang and the others just smiled faintly and said that the most valuable wood on the island is sandalwood, which is simply used as firewood in the eyes of the locals......

Wei Hong also said next to him that even if it is sandalwood, it is valuable in the eyes of the mainlanders in the northern hemisphere, so the Portuguese only do this business, otherwise they will not be taken too seriously.

Zhou Ruiyue and Chu brothers were chatting with a middle-aged southerner who looked like a Chinese steward at this moment, because the brothers just found that the southern accent of this Chinese was a little close to their hometown, so they learned after talking that this person's surname was Jiang, his name was Zuwang, and it was really a province, but the Chinese was talking about the state and county, and the place was not far away.

Although Jiang Wangzu only looked like Zhou Ruiyue and Chu brothers in their hometown, it was already a tearful thing to hear some familiar hometown accents in this foreign country, so the three of them talked quite speculatively.

At this time, Hou Xianglin came over and introduced to Zhou Yue and the two that this Mr. Jiang Wangzu was a native of Yangzhou, and later joined the apprenticeship of cloth merchants in Jinling City, Hongguang broke the country, ran south to Guangdong, and did cloth business with Hongmaoyi, because he was bilingual in Portuguese and Dutch, he bought Chinese books for Li Chengdong's army, Li Chengdong's army went to Macao after his defeat and death, and then recruited for Pimont, still a military Chinese book, Xin'an City opened a port, met me, Mr. Jiang is one of the first four Chinese to follow him, and is now the chief business assistant and translator of the chairman.