[Happy New Year, I'm out for the Spring Festival, I didn't have time to update, forgive me]

The Chinese merchants of Yamaguchi-yo rioted because they were dissatisfied with Almudin's exploitation. ’

It took only two days for the news to reach Kuching, and it was not delayed for a moment, and after another two days, the envoys sent by the Chinese businessmen were already standing in the public hall of the Kuching camp.

Liao Yun looked up and down at the people who came, medium in stature, with dark skin, if it weren't for the introduction that this was a Chinese merchant from Yamaguchi, some people would believe it if it was a coolie in Hong Kong.

The black strong man saw Liao Yun and made a fixed salute.

"The villain Mao Hong has seen the envoy."

That's a good job. ’

Liao Yunxin said that this person had only arrived in Kuching for a day, and his official position as a transit envoy in West Borneo had not yet been officially reported, so he inquired about it, so it was no wonder that Yamaguchi Yang would send this person to Kuching. Moreover, there are five or six sergeants standing in this hall, all of whom are tall in the Fubo army, and they meet with local businessmen on weekdays, and those people will tremble a few times when they are looked at, but now this one is acting as usual, without the slightest fear, just in terms of this courage, this Chinese businessman from Yamaguchi Yang has chosen the right person.

Although the work of the Kuching camp was not carried out smoothly, Liao Yun's ability is obvious to all. After all, Liu Dawu is in charge of the navy, even if Kuching will leave the Fubo Army to garrison, as the actual commander-in-chief of the navy, Liu Dawu will not live here permanently, and at most he will have to return to Brunei with the ship in a month. Therefore, after discussing with the political affairs hall, it was still felt that it was most appropriate to hand over the affairs to Liao Yun.

Two days ago, his identity as a transit envoy from West Borneo was also officially decided, but the transfer department was newly established, and not many naturalized people knew the news, let alone a so-called envoy from outside, so Liao Yun was also really impressed by this means of inquiring about the news, and he spoke more cordially.

In addition, the one standing next to him is also a long-admired daimyo, it is Aruna, the precious son of the chief of the Lundu tribe.

Aruna said: "My father is not good at Chinese, so he sent a villain to bring the owner of Mao to meet the envoy. ”

"Oh? You brought the people? ”

"Exactly, Mao Dongzhu also has some business dealings with our department, this time he arrived at the villain's village first, and it was his father who sent the villain and several warriors from the clan to escort him to Kuching."

Liao Yun pretended to be puzzled and said: "All the way from Lunduxi, it is under the control of the Fubo Army, why do you still need to escort it?" I don't know what happened to the proprietor Mao? ”

That Mao Hong looked shocked, and arched his hand, "I came here for the crisis of my Great Song Dynasty in Borneo." ”

When he said this, Mao Hong himself was a little weak-hearted, originally he was just a Yiren like a Francophile, and it was good to ask these self-proclaimed Song people to come forward and fight with Almudin. But since I reached the outside of Kuching, I was shocked by the scene here.

'How many days have these people been in Kuching?' It took half a day for Aruna to take himself around Kuching City, and the strength of the Great Song Dynasty was no longer the boast of the young master of the Lun Du Division, but the real sight in his eyes, the construction site in full swing, the orderly and prosperous market, and the mighty soldiers who lined up. This one finally understood why the Lun Du Ministry, who had been very close to his own family in the pepper business, would risk turning his face with Sanfa to introduce himself to meet this Liao Yun envoy, and he didn't even let himself pay for the cost of opening up the local general joints. Therefore, the original set of rhetoric seems to be really alarmist, but it is not easy to change the words after thinking about it all the way.

"My big song?"

Liao Yun listened to it and asked, he obviously felt funny about this person's statement, if the current good situation of the Great Song Dynasty in Borneo is in danger, then wouldn't the natives on the island be in danger? But anyway, I also came to ask for help, and the alarmist Su Zhang's arguments must be there, and I must say a few more words if I am pleasant. Everyone claims to be the people of the Great Song Dynasty, are you too embarrassed not to help? It's just that Liao Yun is inconvenient to talk about this, so he continued to listen to what the Mao proprietor on the other side said.

"The envoy doesn't know, the ancestor Mao Peng is the ancestral hall member Wailang during the Zhenghe period, Xiuzhou Zhizhou, after Yashan, the family crossed to the south, and it has been rooted in Borneo for more than 300 years, and the villain is the fifteenth grandson of Mao Peng."

"I see, it's rare that your native accent hasn't changed." If you listen closely, the accent of this Mao proprietor is indeed strange, and it is a little different from the Ming immigrants seen in Brunei and the local area.

The means of climbing celebrities have been in all dynasties, this Mao Dong is mainly close to the Great Song Dynasty, so it is naturally best to take this opening, but it is not easy to find a celebrity surnamed Mao in the two Song Dynasty, this one is attentive.

'It's a pity', Liao Yun said in his heart.

After all, it's still a little worse, if you change the Ming Dynasty official to listen to him say this, and then give him a handful, maybe he will really help out of this, but although he is a Chinese businessman, he is not a fellow transfer department to say otherwise. The Han people in Nandu are doing business and working in Borneo, and it is not uncommon for thousands of villagers to gather together and then oppress the local aborigines. Even though the geography of the surrounding mountains and rivers is fairly well understood, the intertwined relationship between the local natives, Han Chinese and Taisiyi is also the reason why the Transit Division, which is now a thin army, is reluctant to get involved too much.

With hundreds of elite soldiers running for hundreds of kilometers, such a soldier can not support a few times in the rainy season, but Sanfa there, whether it is a native or a Han people, is not the scale of a few hundred people, it is really difficult to clean up. But since someone has come to the door, it's not a bad thing to know something.

Liao Yun asked: "This official has just heard about the matter over there in Sanfa, although all the affairs of Borneo should be under the jurisdiction of my Great Song Dynasty, but after all, the time for the imperial court to return to the north is still short, and the situation in the place of detention is not clear, since the owner of Mao has a heart, why don't you tell the official about the current situation of Yamaguchiyang?" ”

Mao Hong said: "Sanfa ground, originally there were not many natives, our remnants from the late Song Dynasty to the south, here is also considered to be self-contained, the rest of the indigenous people are also from the surrounding countries after Yongle immigrants, but we Han people should be counted as indigenous." ”

Since the gold mines of Sanfa Ground, there are many natives from Sumatra, Java and even farther Siam and Burma who come here to pan for gold. Just as the enemy report from the headquarters said, the three generations of the Almudin family also crossed the sea from the Pengjialuo country, probably in the later Bengal area, because of the proximity to the port of Bago in Burma, and the people of the place have always been good at business. Speaking of the time when he came to Sanfa is not necessarily earlier than the ancestor of the Mao owner, who claims to be the lord of the country and collects taxes from logging and mining in the local area, in fact, in Liao Yun's view, he is just an armed leader, and the Chinese maritime merchant group entrenched in the five islands of Japan during the Jiajing period is of the same nature.

Because the Han goldsmiths have their own secret methods, they are more skilled at mining than the local natives, so the natives mostly lend gold mines to the Han people to collect rent, and they are happy to reap the benefits. However, there are also such greedy people who are unwilling to be mined by the Han people, and they also invite people from Siam and Burma to teach the method of gold mining, and even let the Chinese Turks personally go into battle, which will cause conflicts between the Han people and the natives, so there are not a few people who attack and kill each other.

"The climate of Shankouyang is suitable here, the surrounding fields are fertile, and there are good timber and placer gold in the mountains, so after Longqing, the Guangfu and Fulao people who came to the south mostly lived here, and over time it also had some scale, and we, the local remnants, gradually converged in the past."

"That Almudin calls himself Su Tan, but in fact he is just a bandit, and he relies on a gang of outlaws to set up cards on several roads in Sanfa to collect taxes, and also sends people to collect annual silver from Chinese merchants in Yamaguchiyang."

"On weekdays, we don't want to make trouble, so we all send some things away, and we all have our own livelihoods to do."

"In the past, the old man also wanted to get involved in Kuching, but once the Chinese businessmen came to Kuching together, the natives and cannibals in North City were not easy to get along with, and they couldn't get a bargain after trying a few times, and now they are only in three places and one place."

Liao Yun heard him say this and asked, "Since Almudin can't even do Kuching in the past, why has it become a crisis for my Great Song Dynasty today?" ”

Mao Hong was prepared for a long time, and said: "In the past, this old man was weak, although he could recruit tens of thousands of troops in Sanfa, but they were all rabble, and they couldn't be compared with the heavenly soldiers. However, there were only 2,000 Chinese merchants in Yamaguchiyo, and they could not compete with it. ”

Liao Yun nodded lightly, it seems that this Mao Hong is not confused, and he did not coax people with nonsense. The transfer division is inherited from the camp, and the intelligence collection will naturally not be interrupted, and there are still many Chinese businessmen in Yamaguchi's heart, as for the men and horses in the hands of Almudin, more than 10,000 native soldiers can still be had, but it is also all the men and horses in his hands, and this combat power is estimated to be no higher than that of ordinary people, and there will be situations of robbery while the fire is burning, but there are very few estimates who really want to work hard. Han immigrants are different, not to mention those who have settled here for many generations, even if they have recently abandoned their families and businesses to come here, they are not all good people, not to mention those who work in the fields, there are many ruthless roles in gold diggers, not to mention that most of them are fellow villagers or even relatives and relatives, and they will never be unified.

I heard Mao Hong continue: "Speaking of which, although the old goods also had the idea of Kuching in the past, they would not ignore the fundamentals, and the scale of his Lao Tzu when he was still fighting was only a few hundred or thousand. ”

Liao Yun had a keen mind and asked, "These nearly a thousand native soldiers are the foundation on which he relies for self-reliance, right?" ”

"The envoy is wise, it is true, although the old thief claims to have more than 10,000 soldiers, there are actually only 1,000 people who can fight."

'If he has more, he can't afford to raise it,' Liao Yun said in his heart, which is also in line with the truth.

"But this time, I heard that there was Hongyi's instigation behind it, and the old thief was already afraid of us Chinese, plus the Great Song Guang retro Jin, this is a real threat, so I don't hesitate to purge the Chinese in my mountain pass first."

"A few days ago, the tax collector of the old thief faction in Yamaguchi-yo got into a conflict with a Han family over trivial matters after drinking, and the two sides used knives. The matter was so big that the natives surrounded the stockade the next day. ”

"The old thief put down his words and said that he would hand over the Han people who killed the tax collector, and he would also ask Yamaguchi to demolish the wall."

"You just said that there was Hongyi instigating?" Liao Yun has his own concerns, the contradiction between the natives and the Han people, the interests dictate, not to mention that this Almudin himself is also a maritime merchant who crossed the river, and the business in his hand conflicts with the Chinese businessmen a lot, now there are more and more Han people who go to Shankou Yang and Sanfa to pan for gold, and there are constantly villages from the mainland, plus Kuching has a new force that calls itself the Great Song Dynasty, and if he is a native, Liao Yun will probably have a bad heart. Therefore, as mentioned earlier, the dispute between Han and Turkey is not necessarily who is bullying whom, and it is inconvenient for him to express his position. But the European colonizers were doing things locally, which is another nature, and in any case, it is necessary to eliminate the influence.

Mao Hong said: "Next to the port of Shankouyang, there is an earthen city built by Hongyi, in which there are nearly 200 soldiers. ”

"Dutch?" This question is a bit redundant, most of the Hongyi here are Dutch, but Mao Hong may not be clear.

Mao Hong was really a little stunned when asked, but Xuan said again, "This group of Hongyi originally only opened a trading station in Shankouyang, specializing in trade, and we Han people panned for gold and textiles in the local area, but after a long time, they gradually became a little dirty." ”

"How many real Yi are there in this gang of red yi?" Regardless of Liangya or the Netherlands, in addition to the big ports such as Manila and Goa, the actual maintenance capacity of the strongholds in the Far East is very limited, so the population of a trading point will not be too much, and half of them will rely on locally recruited soldiers, Mao Hong said that the population of Hongyi here is more than 200, if it is not that he deliberately exaggerated, it should be the recruitment of local natives. Liao Yun asked this question, but he didn't want to be despised by Mao Hong, so he directly figured out where the joints were, so that the other party wouldn't easily want to hide it.

Mao Hong said: "Fortune Envoy Mingjian, Zhenyi is actually less than fifty, and the rest are locally recruited natives, and some of them are hired from the old thief, so the two families are linked." ”

It is not uncommon for the Turkish chiefs of Nanyang to not only sit on the land to collect taxes, but also to lend their native soldiers and slaves to collect commissions. But fifty or sixty Dutch soldiers were professional soldiers at that time, and in terms of combat effectiveness, hundreds of natives were not necessarily their opponents.

After a few questions and a few words, he grasped the initiative of the dialogue, and Liao Yun also began to guide the direction of the topic.

"Then the proprietor Mao is here just to ask for help?"

Mao Hong said: "Putian is not the king's land, my Hanmin in Shankouyang is dedicated to the Great Song Dynasty, and I hope that the king will recover the Sanfa place as soon as possible." ”

Liao Yun was embarrassed, "Don't hide it from the proprietor Mao, there are only a few hundred Fubo troops stationed in this Kuching city, and it is not ......enough to defend themselves."

Before Liao Yun finished speaking, Mao Hong said: "Don't worry about the labor movement, the villain came this time to warn the police, and the second is to seek a name. ”

Thinking about it, he said, "The Lun Du Department has always been loyal and diligent, and this time the Apisa chief is also willing to rescue Yamaguchi Yoshi." ”

Aruna listened to it for a long time, and when it came to his role, he hurriedly said: "My father has repeatedly explained that my family is willing to be the leader of the king." ”

"Okay, as long as the three rounds are pacified, this official will guarantee you a barbarian inspection."

Happy to be a favor, at the beginning Aruna brought Mao Hong to ask for a meeting, Liao Yun felt that something was wrong, and now listening to him say this, he can guess seven or eight points, maybe this instigation is also from the hands of these tribes. When it comes to annexing territory, the interest of the natives is much higher than that of Hongyi. From a strategic point of view, the natives of Nanyang do have to be underestimated, but when it comes to cunning, they all look like old foxes. In terms of population, it can't be compared with Sanfa, but with their family, the surrounding departments are attached, and the number of people will not be much less than that in Almudin's hands, but Liao Yun is not stupid, he said that he recommended officials for Aruna, but he didn't say anything to his son.

Naturally, the Fubo army could not move lightly, and the surrounding Qingxiang and Jicun merged with the tun still relied on the official army to sit in Kuching, but the newly built militia of various departments really needed to be checked, and sent away Mao and A, and Liao Yun called his own soldiers.

"You go to the barracks and invite the two leaders, Tian and Huang, to come."