Chapter 130 What does it matter to raze to raze

"Han Zhonghe, you provoked the war between Sulu and its neighbors, right?" Chen Zicheng questioned again, and his tone was the same as the last time.

The color on Han Ping's plane remained unchanged, he pulled his beard, glanced at everyone, and then nodded proudly, "Exactly." ”

"Let Sulu only go to war with its neighbors, but I am afraid that I will not be able to supply the prisoners you want...... Ma Yi Zhubu, I'm afraid I won't need to fight? Chen Zicheng asked again.

"Not bad." Han Pingping did not change his color: "The younger brother has been in Luzon for two years, and it can be regarded as a small achievement. ”

Chen Zicheng slapped the table suddenly, and said angrily: "What kind of achievement is this, the big officials sent you to Luzon for education, but they didn't let you do so nonsense......

"Senior Brother Bohan, although you are talented, your means are not decisive enough, so it is Senior Brother Shibin who went to Yilan, not you." Han Ping interrupted him, and Twist sneered.

There are few disputes between the righteous boys, but it is rare for the two of them to blame each other mercilessly in public. Moreover, although competition is encouraged in Yixue, competition is required to be courteous, and we must not lose our manners for this.

"Great officials have their own wisdom of knowing people......" Chen Zicheng said this, suddenly speechless, Han Ping sneered again: "That big official asked me to go to Mayi, isn't it a wisdom to know people?" Senior Brother Bohan, you know, when the big officials asked me about my ambitions, I said that the eldest husband should be a scholar of Han Ban Dingyuan, a heroic man in a foreign land, and he should be like the Tang Dynasty King Changshi, one person destroys a country. The big officials have always known my ambitions, and they placed me in Mayi, do you think this is not the intention of the big officials? ”

Perhaps out of disgust with the natives of Southeast Asia who had done many evil deeds in later generations, Zhao and Ju sent the resolute Han Ping to Mayi, he originally just wanted to cause some trouble to those natives, but he never expected that Han Ping would stir up a big war that would almost engulf the entire Philippines. Just as he sent an expedition team to introduce excellent plant varieties from Central and South America, he did not expect to release a group of fierce tigers that burned and looted.

Zhao and Ju planted the seeds, but whether the seeds could grow as he imagined was another matter.

Han Ping's retort made Chen Zicheng sit down in a daze, and he said with some hesitation: "The big officials have always been generous to the natives, and they always have a heart of benevolence and righteousness, why...... Why ......"

"Bohan, you're too roundabout." At this moment, Yang Miaozhen suddenly spoke.

Chen Zicheng glanced at Yang Miaozhen, shook his head, and was silent. Yang Miaozhen's eyes swept over everyone, she felt that her tongue was clumsy, and she couldn't explain Chen Zicheng, and her eyes lit up when she saw Yelu Chucai: "Jin Qing, your deacon is the most fair, you can talk about it." ”

Yelu Chucai smiled bitterly, Yang Miaozhen is really good at finding trouble, but looking around, the only one who can convince Chen Zicheng is afraid that he is the only one.

"In the "Bamboo Book Chronicle", in the spring of the eighth year of Emperor Yu Xiahou's clan, the princes of the Hui Hui will kill the Fengfeng clan." Yelu Chucai did not directly say right and wrong, but quoted a canon, and then said: "With Yu Zhiren, there is still a matter of punishing the Feng clan, the local people are stupid, and it is okay to show killing, not to mention its internal disputes, that is, Han Zhonghe does not provoke, but I am afraid that it will inevitably fight each other." ”

Hearing that even Yelu Chucai agreed with Han Pingzhi's actions, Chen Zicheng was still unconvinced, he shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that we will speculate on the intentions of the officials......"

"Bohan, you forgot one more thing." Li Yunrui, who had been observing everyone, suddenly spoke.

"What?"

"It's been almost two years since Qiu Fengqing went to visit Dongshengzhou, if it goes well, they should have come back half a year ago, even if it doesn't go well, they should come back this year. Do you remember that among the specialties of Nadong Shengzhou, Dalang said, rubber, cinchona, and many other kinds can only be grown in tropical climates. The land of the Great Song Dynasty, only Qiongya can be tried, but Qiongya has an official mansion, unless our big officials are on the throne, how to plant? Li Yunrui said: "Don't mention it first, it is the cinchona tree, Dalang said that its effect is better than our Artemisia wine, think about it, how many people can be saved by this thing!" ”

Chen Zicheng was stunned for a moment, and defended himself: "Killing his people, seizing his land, and taking his wealth is not a gentleman's doing?" ”

"Confucius's deeds are not the actions of a gentleman?" Li Yunrui sneered: "When you meet a gentleman and a gentleman, you meet a villain and a villain." ”

Although he knew that he was quibbling, Chen Zicheng couldn't refute it for a while, these righteous teenagers were not originally taught by Confucius, Ren and Mengyi, and they read some "Analects" and "Spring and Autumn", or they studied on their own after completing their studies.

Seeing that he was still so stubborn, Yang Miaozhen didn't pay attention to it, and just asked Han Ping: "How sure are you and how many people do you need?" ”

"There are 300 people this year, and I am completely sure." Han Ping said conceitedly: "In the past, Ban Chao only used more than 30 people, and I wanted more than 300 people, which is already ashamed of the ancients." ”

"Now Liuqiu is developing Liunan and Bamboo Forest, Tamluo also needs to be guarded against, the freshwater matter is not moving at all, it is extremely difficult for Keelung to take people from Ziyue's hands, you go to Yilan, look for Shibin, and ask him for 500 people." Yang Miaozhen saw that there was no objection, so he made the most decisive decision: "Just remember, we don't go to expand the land, but just to occupy the copper mine, and don't fight with the natives indiscriminately!" ”

Han Ping was even more happy when he heard that he had five hundred people to use, although in his mind, with the combat power of the escort team, in the face of those natives, three hundred people would be enough to run amok.

"Slowly, slowly." Chen Zicheng spoke again, and he stood up: "Han Zhonghe, I remember that you had a serious illness when you first arrived in Mayi and almost lost your life, didn't you?" ”

"It's ......inevitable that the water and soil will not adapt to it," Han Ping pouted when he asked.

"Let's ask for the escort team, they are all trained through painstaking training, if the battle formation is lost, then it's okay, but if it's damaged because of the water and soil, then it shouldn't be." Chen Zicheng said: "The extremely hot place of Mayi is more humid and hot than Liunan and bamboo forests, and there are dense forests everywhere, and there are many mosquitoes and miasma. These 500 people were sent to it, and if they were damaged for the sake of copper mines that were not urgent, I was afraid that the gains would outweigh the losses! ”

Hearing that he came up with this reason to oppose it, everyone was speechless for a while.

At this moment, Fang Youcai, who had not squeaked all this time and was just watching the excitement, spoke: "My old man has a way to do this." ”

"Oh?" Everyone looked at him, this kind of thing, inviting him to come was just to respect his status as a housekeeper, and he had never been able to intervene.

"Don't we have Atayal warriors, they are used to fighting in the dense forest, and they grow in this hot and humid stream, compared to us who come from land, they are naturally more suitable for the climate and soil of Mayi. Now they are friendly with us, recruit some Atayal warriors, and send them to Mayi. ”

"That's a good plan!" Yelu Chucai's case was amazing.

Although the Pingpu people are almost one with the immigrants among the northern Turks of Liuqiu, their way of life is almost the same as that of the immigrants, except for some differences in language and customs, while the Atayal people work closely with the immigrants to suppress those who do not obey the Liuqiu Office. But the Atayal were too fierce and aggressive, and had a habit of killing, and with the subjugation of the surrounding tribes, they were almost useless, and although they did not dare to provoke the immigrants, they were bound to clash with the subdued tribes, which was something that the Liuqiu Office did not want to see.

"Old Fang, sure enough, there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure." Seeing that his proposal was originally going to be stillborn, but because of Fang Youcai's words, Han Ping's face turned red with excitement, and the other party praised Youcai.

"That's nature, hahahahaha." Fang Youcai laughed proudly, laughed twice, and felt that this image did not look like the resourceful Kong Ming in the script, but a little like the treacherous Cao Apu, so he stopped laughing, twisted his beard and squinted away, making an unfathomable appearance: "My old man has his own furrow in his heart, you boys, you have to learn more from my old man." ”

Only Chen Zicheng was still depressed in his stomach, which was different from Tamna, when he supported the capture of Tamna, it was because there were clear instructions from Zhao and Ju, which could provoke civil strife among the natives in Luzon, but Zhao and Ju did not have clear instructions, so he felt that perhaps Han Ping and others had misunderstood the meaning of Zhao and Ju.

To provoke civil strife among the native people of Luzon, the strategy of the flow of the multiplication mechanism was decided, and for the next month, he was busy recruiting Atayal warriors. Sure enough, as Ah Mao said, these Atayal people were brave and warlike, and when they heard that they were going to go on an expedition to a foreign country, they all enthusiastically signed up, and they recruited more than 1,000 people in a short period of time, far more than they thought before. Because of the large number of people, the Liuqiu Office originally wanted to lay out a group, but later heard that some of the unchosen people had committed suicide in great shame, so they gave up and decided to divide the natives into two groups and prepare to send them to Luzon one after another.

In April, before the typhoon season, the first batch of 500 Atayal warriors was sent to Mayi, led by two sea ships.

These Atayal warriors are now armed with weapons that are tailor-made for them by the Ryukhu Iron Field, whether it is a spear or a machete, they are made of fine steel. After six years of exploration, Liuqiu Iron Yard has been able to directly use blast furnace steelmaking, with preliminary and practical sintering, coking, rotary furnace, shaft furnace, coal injection and many other systems, the quality of the steel produced has exceeded the forged steel hammered out by ordinary blacksmiths.

There are only more than 2,000 households in Mayi, and the leader of the native people is called Datu or Hara, and the sphere of influence includes the surrounding islands in addition to northern Luzon, such as Sanyu, Baipuyan, Liyin, Dongliu, etc. There are five hundred Atayal warriors, which is enough for Han Ping. In just a few days, he swept away Ma Yi, imprisoned the leader of the natives, Datu, and ordered the islands in his name, the first thing he did was to open a road through the dense forest to the copper mines of Luzon.

"Be careful."

Ah Mao turned to the Atayal warrior behind him, he still won the qualification to come to Luzon, and became the nominal leader of the Atayal warriors, in fact, each of these warriors in the jungle is stronger than him, all he can do is actually translate Han Ping's words into the language of the Atayal people. But soon he didn't even need to come to this matter, because Han Ping's language talent was once again revealed, but after spending more than a month with these Atayal warriors, he was able to have a brief exchange with them.

The true leader of the Atayal warriors was a man named Temu, who was silent and silent, his eyes were cold, and he could hear Ah Mao's words, but he only made a gesture.

Before he could put his hand down, it immediately turned into a push, and Ah Mao was pushed by him and flew out, hitting a tree, and he was about to scold, but he found that there was an extra arrow where he was standing.

"Sea urchin!" Ah Mao screamed, grabbed his waist knife, and looked up into the forest, but he didn't see any figure.

Temu reached out and threw the javelin, and a scream was heard in mid-air, and a short man fell from the branches.

After the man fell, he still had a javelin thrown by Ironwood in his thigh, but he turned over and got up with great ferocity, grinning at the crowd. He was short in stature, almost just above the waist of iron wood, with round eyes and burnt yellow eyes, which was the native of the deep mountains called "sea urchin" by the natives.

The rest of the natives in Luzon are docile, but this kind of natives are arrogant and fierce, have the bad habit of hunting for food, and like to hurt people with hidden arrows, so the road repair team driven by the Atayal warriors has been harassed by them several times, and has to come out to eliminate them.

Temu walked coldly towards the "sea urchin" and slowly pulled out the knife from his waist, and the sea urchin roared in despair, but the shouting stopped abruptly, because Temu had already cut off his head with a knife, and a neck of blood sprayed Tiemu's face, but Temu did not change color in the slightest. He picked up the head of the "sea urchin", hung it around his waist, and muttered.

"He said there must be a nest of sea urchins around here, and he was going to take someone to find it." Ah Mao said to Han Ping.

Glancing at the blood and headless corpses on the ground, Han Ping muttered: "It's a pity, although these sea urchins are good hunters, they are not good laborers, otherwise they will definitely be driven to open mines." ”

Tiemu stood quietly, waiting for Han Ping's order, Han Ping waved his hand and said in Atayal language: "Kill the light." ”

Temu immediately left the group with more than twenty Atayal warriors, who quickly disappeared into the dense forest naked. Han Ping found a wooden stake and sat down, and saw that Ah Mao was a little at a loss, so he beckoned to him: "Ah Mao, come here." ”

Ah Mao ran to him with some frustration, when he was beside Fang Youcai, he was always scolded, but by Han Ping's side, he was not scolded, but Ah Mao also found that his own family didn't seem to be of any use.

Compared to Han Ping, these people are smart, and they are not as brave as Tiemu, and they are almost useless.

"Ah Mao, you take this corpse to those Ma Yi people to see, let them work neatly, if you are lazy, you will be like this corpse." Han Ping didn't pay attention to Ah Mao's thoughts, he ordered.

Hearing that he had something to do, Mao became cheerful again, and dragged the dead corpse's feet through the roots and vines in leaps and jumps, to the back of the line, and threw the corpse to the ground. The lazy Mayi natives looked at him in horror, and he looked for the two most unpleasant ones, and one of them went over and gave him a leg: "Work hard, and the lazy will die!" ”

He learned this simple Mayi native dialect very fluently, and those Mayi native people were frightened by the corpse, so they began to work hard to cut down trees and plow the land.

Because of the rapid growth of the plants in this area, in order to prevent the path from being covered with vines in less than two days, they had to plow it again and sprinkle sand and salt in the soil after it had opened.

The Mayi people are lazy, but under the intimidation of the fierce Atayal people, this road to the "Baguio" in later generations is still advancing day by day, and the captives sent by the southern Sulu country are also more and more month by month, although nothing has been shown now, but half a year later, when the road was built and the copper ore was excavated in Baguio, gold was discovered at the same time, Han Ping replaced the teenagers in the first and second phases of Yixue for a while, and became the name most often used by the Tamsui Primary School to motivate the backwards.

Note 1: Ban Dingyuan is Ban Chao, and Wang Changshi is Wang Xuance, the deeds of these two people do not need to be said.

Note 2: Blast furnace steelmaking, the author is a pure layman, all the information is searched, but I want to have Zhao Youju's manual as a guide, there are skilled craftsmen like Ou Laogen, there are a bunch of experienced blacksmiths, and at the same time, there is also the preliminary chemical knowledge of the righteous boy, in six years, it should be possible to make a breakthrough in steelmaking.

Note 3: The information about the Philippines in the 13th century is mainly derived from the Zhufan Chronicles written by Zhao Rushi at this time