Chapter 348: Good Things Happen Again and Again
When Abu, who was covered in blood, was once again tied up and twisted in front of Guo Zhiyuan by the regimental training villagers, he looked even more violent than the last time, like a wounded tiger, constantly barking at Guo Zhiyuan's white teeth, and his mouth issued a vicious curse: "You devil, you burn our rice, the gods will curse you, curse you and die well!" ……”
Guo Zhiyuan glanced at Abu with a pitiful gaze, shook his head and said, "Abu Touren, are you still unwilling to surrender?" You can think about it carefully, this time the official will not let you go again! ……”
Abu spat a mouthful of blood at Guo Zhiyuan fiercely, gritted his teeth and said: "You devil, even if I die, I will turn into a demon to haunt you, even if there is only one person left in our Atayal people, we will not surrender to you, the devil, and will definitely kill you!" ……”
Guo Zhiyuan frowned when he saw that this Abu was so oily and salty, just at this time, a group of Atayal soldiers escorted a group of Atayal captives to pass by, this time the Atayal people almost went out, and there were still teenage children and women among the captives, Guo Zhiyuan's heart moved, beckoned to the group of Atayal villagers to stop, and then pointed to those Atayal child captives and said to Abu: "They should be the most carefree age, but you let them take up arms and go to the battlefield, because of your recklessness, many of your people have lost their lives, And you want them to live in hatred for generations to come, is that what you want? You're not so much cursing me, you're cursing your people! ……”
Abu looked at his people, his youngest son was among them, his wife and eldest son had died in the previous battle, if he also died, his son would be an orphan, although he was unwilling to bow to Guo Zhiyuan, but he couldn't hide his emotions, his eyes were full of tears, his lips trembled violently, and he was silent for the first time.
Guo Zhiyuan knew that it would be difficult to make Abu bow his head all of a sudden, so he could only subtly influence them, so he slowed down and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't surrender, this official will give you another chance, you don't have food for the winter, I will starve to death if I release you, why don't I set aside a place for you to live in, give you food, but you have to help me work in exchange, wait until the weather warms up next year, if I release you again, if you still have to be my enemy, we will fight again......"
Abu was stunned when he heard this, his eyes, which were already as dim as death, lit up again, and he asked in disbelief, "You... Are you telling the truth? ……”
Guo Zhiyuan laughed and said: "This official has always talked and counted, I have let you go twice, but it is only three, I hope there will not be a third time!" ……”
Abu still stiffened his mouth and sneered: "Don't you think that I will be grateful to you, at most I will spare you next time you fall into my hands!" ……”
Guo Zhiyuan didn't have time to quarrel with Abu, and waved his hand to signal the guards to take Abu away, Xie Erhu saw that Guo Zhiyuan actually let Abu go again, and said with some resentment: "This guy is simply a stone in a thatched house, smelly and hard, do adults really want to learn from Zhuge Liang to capture and win Meng?" ……”
Zeng Qisheng on the side patted Xie Erhu's shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, can you still return to the mountain if you have seen the tiger coming down the mountain?" Although he refuses to surrender now, as long as they are willing to stay and live a worry-free life like our new immigrants, he will not leave even if you let him go when the time comes! ……”
Solving the problem of life, Guo Zhiyuan can devote himself to the construction of Dongfan, and good things are coming one after another, first the second batch of inland immigrants came, Guo Zhiyuan used Zeng Qisheng's strategy before, let the first batch of inland immigrants who came to Dongfan write a letter back home, and the first batch of inland immigrants in the family letter truthfully told what they saw and heard when they came to Dongfan, and told their relatives and friends who stayed in the inland in Dongfan not only to have enough food, but also to eat meat and meat every three or five days, which they couldn't think of before. What's more, there is no one to oppress them here, they don't need to live in fear every day, and they don't even need to kneel when they see the official!
With the endorsement of these first batch of inland immigrants, Zhang Cheng's recruitment of immigrants this time was naturally exceptionally smooth, and the applicants gathered, overfulfilled the recruitment task, and the second batch of inland immigrants recruited reached 100,000 people! The arrival of the second batch of inland immigrants has also greatly alleviated the problem of shortage of human resources in Dongfan, and the speed of work in both city building and other aspects has been greatly accelerated, so that Dongfan has really entered a period of rapid development with each passing day.
The second great thing is that Guo Zhiyuan sent the sea trade fleet successfully returned, after the last time the investment promotion, Guo Zhiyuan in the name of the East China India Sea Trade Company sent a super sea trade fleet composed of 100 big fortune ships, which is almost unprecedented in the history of Ming maritime trade, before the maritime merchants ran the sea trade is a few lucky ships, such a large-scale sea trade activities are definitely the first time.
And through this sea trade, the maritime merchants who subscribed to the shares of East China India Sea Trade Company also tasted the sweetness, before they ran a single gang, in addition to worrying about pirate looting, it was completely finished when it encountered a typhoon, and now joined Guo Zhiyuan's fleet, naturally no one who did not open his eyes to the pirate force dared to come to death, even if it encountered a typhoon, other ships could also carry out rescue, so that the ship would not be destroyed and killed, and more importantly, such a large-scale fleet in the transaction with the Daxi people, the bargaining power was also greatly enhanced, In addition, Shen Yourong has been intensifying the crackdown on smuggling along the coast of Fujian, and their fleet has actually formed a monopoly position.
Of course, Guo Zhiyuan made the most money, he accounted for 50 percent of the shares of the East China India Maritime Trade Company, and this time he made nearly two million taels of silver, so that the financial crisis in Dongfan was completely solved, as long as the sea trade was not interrupted, Guo Zhiyuan basically did not need to worry about the silver.
The maritime merchants who have tasted the sweetness have now begun to regret that they had purchased too few shares before, and they have approached Guo Zhiyuan to ask for additional shares, but they have all been rejected by Guo Zhiyuan. However, the maritime merchants didn't want to give up, so they tried their best to give Guo Zhiyuan gifts, wanting him to relax, most of them gave Guo Zhiyuan gold, silver and jewelry, Guo Zhiyuan naturally didn't like it, and all of them were returned, but the gifts given by Xu Xinsu and Yang Tiansheng made Guo Zhiyuan a little unable to refuse.