After listening to the report on the battle situation of Lu Jianrong, chief of staff of the First Brigade, Gonggong Wei did not blame his ninth old lady for his mistakes, but came to the high place of the village with his hands and overlooked the dense primeval forest.

The father-in-law believed that in places he couldn't see, there were also people looking into the distance.

Objectively speaking, although the people of Pingpu are ignorant, brutal, and ruthless, they are actually the real masters of this land. Although the Ming Imperial Army is righteous, has strict military discipline, has a glorious history, and has an advanced civilization, it is an outsider to this land.

The battle for entry into Taiwan was essentially a battle between outsiders and indigenous peoples, and it was a process of conquest and subjugation.

Father-in-law Wei does not deceive himself, and his feet are actually a wild and unruled land. It will take 30 years for this land to truly belong to China. The Zheng father and son and the Ming soldiers and civilians who did not want to be Tartar slaves made this treasure island a permanent territory of China, and now, it belongs to the "Huawai" and has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty in legal theory.

Most of the people here don't know that there is a Ming Empire on the other side of the sea, and even the Han people who migrated from the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian don't want to admit that there is their emperor in the far north, and they only come to this land to have something to eat.

My father-in-law doesn't like to talk, he just likes to do. No matter how fierce the mouth cannon is, it will not be as real as the 10,000 cannons fired at once. The imperial court can't take care of the Han people, so how can it have the right to govern this land.

The nominal "since ancient times" is just a rhetoric in the court, and it is forever to really take root, and what my father-in-law is doing now is actually a pioneering deed, he wants to make Taiwan truly become China's territory, and he wants to turn this treasure island into a granary to save more compatriots.

Creation will inevitably lead to bloodshed, and no matter how civilized society is, it will cause war, not to mention the almost primitive Taiwanese aborigines.

It's just that, compared with a very small number of Taiwanese aborigines, the tens of millions of compatriots on the mainland are more important.

My father-in-law is not a mother-in-law, and he likes to show his bodhisattva heart with thunderbolts. As he always believed, if you can't solve the problem, you should solve the person who created the problem.

Afterwards, the father-in-law went to see the captured women and children of the Pingpu tribe and some male captives, and without exception, the eyes of these captives were full of hatred for the imperial army, even children of several years old.

"After the age of fourteen, the men of the Pingpu people hunt the heads of people of different races to show their bravery, and at the same time give them the sacrifice of the so-called ancestral spirits. As far as my subordinates know, in recent decades, the most headhunters from Pingpu people have come to Taiwan for our Han people. Lu Jianrong whispered on the side.

"Really?"

The father-in-law nodded, this custom is really barbaric, and after inspecting it, he said to the left and right: "The stubborn resistance of the Pingpu people must be severely punished, otherwise the majesty of the empire will not be able to shock all the people, and the prestige of the imperial army will also fall!" ”

The captive Nika was brought to her father-in-law.

Nika was captured by the imperial army's fire gun in the right leg during the retreat, and after other captives learned that Nika was the right and left hand of Pingpu Tou Aganon, Lu Jianrong did not execute him, but asked Lang Zhong, who accompanied the army, to treat his injured leg for him. Lu Jianrong hoped to persuade Aganon to surrender through Nika, but it seemed that Nika did not accept the love of the imperial army.

After Nika was brought over, his father-in-law did not immediately persuade him to surrender, but asked him why the Pingpu clan was against the imperial army, and was it not good to become a subject of the Ming Empire and enjoy the rights given by the empire?

You must know that in order to pacify Taiwan as soon as possible, the father-in-law took great pains to buy a large number of agricultural tools and seeds from all over Nanzhi, as long as these indigenous people are willing to accept the rule of the emperor, their productivity and production level can be improved for several eras. It's a pity that the kindness of my father-in-law was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs by the people of Pingpu.

Nika couldn't understand Chinese, and the mother and wife of Daqifan, the captain of the security team of Xinsanxiang, were Han-mes-epi, and several of his younger sisters were also married to Han-mes-epi, except for the name of Fan, everything else was exactly the same as that of Han, so he served as his father-in-law's translator.

Nika didn't want to answer at first, but he didn't know what Da Qifan said to him, he hesitated for a moment before he straightened his chest and looked at the Ming Dynasty official in front of him, and said loudly: "We Pingpu people have lived in this land for generations, there are our mountains and forests and hunting grounds, there are our streams and fish, we are real ancestral spirit warriors, we hunt in the mountains, we share food in the tribe, we take water from the stream, we live here freely, we don't have contact with any outsiders, because then the ancestral spirit will condemn us." ... We don't know what the Ming Empire is, and we don't want to be the emperor's people, so we want to live our lives...... For the sake of freedom, we would rather give our lives! ”

"Free?"

Gonggong Wei muttered these two words, yes, how precious freedom is, and it is worthy of respect to give one's life for freedom. But if the price of freedom is that the people live forever in a primitive, backward, and poor state, is this freedom desirable?

After a long time, my father-in-law smiled, everyone has their own value orientation, so why should he dwell on this. In general, whether it is free or not, under the general trend of the imperial army, everything is insignificant. To put it mildly, the so-called freedom is probably just wishful thinking on the part of the Pingpu leadership led by Agannon.

Whether primitive, feudal, or capital, the ruling class will always only think about its own interests, as thousands of years of history have proved.

Also, if Aganon chooses to accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty like Shufan, maybe his generation can continue to enjoy the privileges of the leader, but his next generation will definitely not do so. The existence of the government is the greatest enemy of freedom for these indigenous peoples.

"Ask him, Aganon knows that my imperial army has a large number of troops, why do you still fight?" Translation of the public announcement.

"For the sake of our ancestral spirits!" Nika replied briefly.

"For the sake of the ancestral spirit, can you let your people sacrifice for nothing? In the past few days, many young people in your tribe have died, if a tribe has no young people, what is the use of having ancestral spirits? "Father-in-law Wei's speech is not false, but points directly to his heart.

Nika was silent for a moment, then replied, "As long as the ancestral spirit is there, we can go to heaven." ”

The father-in-law understood, it seems that the so-called ancestral spirit should be a totem, a symbol of primitive worship.

Lu Jianrong frowned and said, "Father-in-law, it seems that this savage still refuses to surrender." ”

"We know."

The father-in-law turned the jade wrench in his hand, sniffled, then stood up and walked three steps in front of Nika, and after carefully examining the other party, he suddenly took out a short pole and struck Nika's head with a trigger.

With a "bang", Nika fell straight back, a large bloody hole in her forehead, and her eyes were wide open when she died.

The sound of the gun was so sudden that Daqifan covered his ears in fright, and when he found out that Nika had been executed, he instantly shuddered.

"This handcuff is for you, well, it's cheap for you, just a few in total." The father-in-law said and handed the short pole in his hand to Lu Jianrong, then looked at Nika on the ground, shook his head and sighed: "Death is the best destination for him, and his ancestral spirit will bless him to heaven." ”

Then he raised his head and glanced at the generals, and said categorically: "Go and ask the other captives, if you don't want to go with our family, let them go with their ancestral spirits." ”

Then, the father-in-law waved his hand and ordered Lu Jianrong to take the captured women and children down the mountain.

"Father-in-law, is this what you want?" Lu Jianrong was puzzled.

"Tiger poison does not eat children, our family gives them one last chance, if they are still obsessed, then our family will let them know what white terror is!"

When my father-in-law left, he saw a pineapple on the table and took one casually. He had to go and see his own Ninth Lord, although the Ninth Lord's command mistake led to the loss of hundreds of soldiers in the First Brigade, but in any case, the battle was still won by the imperial army, but it did not achieve the result of completely annihilating the Pingpu people.

The father-in-law hopes that the ninth master can cheer up, and not be discouraged because of a momentary mistake, and then lose the courage and confidence to forge ahead.

Courage and confidence are the solid foundation for the imperial army to grow step by step. As the commander of the brigade, the ninth master is the soul of the first brigade, and he is an old man.

The military order was quickly enforced, and more than 400 captured Pingpu women and children were driven to the entrance to the mountain. The women did not know what the Han army was going to do to them, and one by one, they hated and feared their children and walked out of the village with difficulty, step by step in the direction where their husbands were.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, officers soon came and ordered the women to kneel on the ground in rows, and several police officers who could speak Pingpu told them loudly that if they didn't want to die, they would call their husbands and fathers to the mountain. As long as their husbands, fathers, and brothers were able to descend the mountain and surrender, the Ming army would pardon their crimes and return their houses and possessions, allowing them to continue living on the land.

"If they don't come down the mountain, then you," a young vigilante looked at the Pingpu women kneeling in front of him, "and you'll be executed." ”

"Where's the kid?"

A teenage girl holding the child in her arms asked the vigilante in horror.

The vigilantes did not speak.

But the girl understood what he meant, and her face suddenly turned white. The other women around them also became frightened in an instant.

"I said good ministers, didn't our imperial army not kill women and children, but you wanted it yesterday? ... This kind of thing is..."

The ninth grandfather, who was comforted by his great-nephew Haosheng, had just come over and saw this scene, and his old man couldn't see this kind of scene when he was old, and he couldn't bear it.

"Is the master saying that it hurts heaven and reason? Maybe, but in troubled times, if the grandchildren don't give the students some ruthlessness, they won't teach them a long lesson. ”

The father-in-law raised his right arm, and immediately an officer ordered the women in front of him to do as they were ordered.