Chapter 572: The Role of Cigarettes

People are nervous in unfamiliar environments and situations that they can't understand.

In order to ease the atmosphere, Wang Yue beckoned: "Everyone, please use tea, this is Tieguanyin in Fujian, this year's new tea." ”

As he spoke, he took out another pack of Chinese cigarettes, opened it, took out one, handed it to the old man Lin Ruhai, and said, "Uncle, come and smoke one." ”

Lin Ruhai took the cigarette handed over by Wang Yue with both hands, and looked at the white cigarette roll, a little unclear.

Wang Yue laughed, pulled out a cigarette and lit the fire, took a puff of smoke, and said, "This is a cigarette, used to smoke." ”

In his previous life, he was addicted to smoking, and after coming to Daming to prevent him from becoming addicted to cigarettes again, he smoked very little, but he usually had a backup. There are many products that can make money in the starting point city, so they don't sell cigarettes, and Wang Yue's family has them. Now his second grandfather is also obsessed with cigarettes, and the dry tobacco pouch is also discarded.

Wang Yue came to Lin Ruhai with a lighter, Lin Ruhai lit a cigarette in the same way, and after a few puffs, Lin Ruhai's eyes lit up: "Good smoke, good smoke!" "He also smoked dry tobacco, but he had never tried the taste of flue-cured tobacco.

Seeing that Lin Zequan and the others were also staring at the cigarettes, Wang Yue said, "Let's try it too." ”

With a cigarette per person, several villagers invisibly narrowed the distance between Wang Yue and finally stopped being nervous.

"Why did a few folks come to Luzon? When did it come? Are there many Hermes-Epitek here? Wang Yue asked.

It was Lin Zequan who answered: "If you go back to Lord Shaobao, there are about three or four hundred Han people in this vicinity, and there are more than 100 people in our village. The first people who came here were more than 100 years ago, and almost all of them have passed away. The little one hasn't been here for a long time, it's eight years ago. ”

Saying that, he sighed and said, "Who wants to leave their hometown and cross the ocean." However, his hometown has many mountains and little land, and the land rent and taxes are overwhelmed, so he has no choice but to learn from his ancestors to come to Nanyang to earn a living. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Zequan said to Wang Yue with a smile: "Adults may not know, the climate of this Nanyang is warm, the land is fertile, but the local people are lazy and do not produce, many people do not need to cultivate the land and only rely on wild bananas, mangoes, coconuts, pineapples, etc. to survive. That's why a lot of land has been abandoned, and that's why we're here. ”

Wang Yue nodded again and again when he heard this, the Chinese people are very persistent in the land, and so many fertile ownerless lands in the South Seas are the driving force that attracts them to cross the ocean from generation to generation.

"With so much land, your life should be pretty good, right?" Wang Yue asked.

Lin Zequan smiled bitterly, took a puff of cigarette and said: "Lord Shaobao, although this native of Nanyang is forgetful of righteousness and vulgar and ignorant, if he knows how to benefit, he can still deal with it." But the most difficult thing to deal with were the Spaniards, who exploited them no less than the cool officials. So my life here can only be said to be better than my hometown, after all, there is more land and more output. But after all, we are outsiders, and we must always guard against the natives and Spaniards, but also against pirates coming to rob the grain. ”

Since the arrival of the Spanish 80 years ago, the islands of Luzon have been occupied and colonized by the Spanish. This is the northwestern corner of Luzon, and Spain cannot fully control Luzon with an area of 300,000 square kilometers due to its limited military strength, so it is the periphery of its power, and these Han people can still get by.

Wang Yue cut gold and said: "The hard days of the villagers are coming to an end, this time our army went to Nanyang to sweep away all the European forces in Nanyang, Nanyang will be the Nanyang of the Chinese, so Luzon will be the Luzon of the Chinese in the future." ”

When Lin Zequan and the others heard this, they immediately burst into tears: "What the adults said is the matter, the Ming Dynasty is going to take back Luzon and Nanyang?" ”

Wang Yue said: "That's right, the future Nanyang will be the final word of the Chinese, and to achieve this goal, it will also depend on the joint efforts of all the Chinese in Nanyang and our army." ”

"The country does not live up to me, I do not live up to the country! We and other overseas survivors are looking forward to Master Wang's long-term death, and my lord is really the reborn parents of our Nanyang Chinese! I, Lin Ruhai, can also look forward to today! Lin Ruhai knelt and screamed, bursting into tears.

"The country does not live up to me, I do not live up to the country!" Several villagers also knelt on the ground and wept.

They saw hope from the majestic posture of the Tiance Army, and they had every reason to believe that what Wang Yue said was definitely not a slogan.

The South China Sea is very large, there are many islands, and it is a long-term task to take all of them.

When the Tiance army entered the village, the children were the happiest, and the soldiers' compressed biscuits and candy and other foods became their favorites, so the Tiance army could always see a lot of children around.

The medical team in the army also carried medical kits into the village, where the climate is warm but mosquito-ridden, and the medical conditions are backward, so many people have some diseases.

The children of a family are playing around, and under normal circumstances, they have to wait for death. However, the medical team hung water and infusion for him, and within a few days, he was alive and kicking.

The army's spare knapsack pesticide sprayer also made a shining debut, disinfecting the whole village, this kind of sprayer has been used on a large scale in Taiwan, mainly to kill mosquitoes, Tiance Army has been very experienced in this.

The effect of this thing is not generally good, after a wild spray, all kinds of insects continue to fall in the forest, and there are many insects flying away from the area on both sides of the trail frantically, what kind of grasshoppers, snakes and the like, escape is called a fast.

Bulldozers and excavators also came down from the landing ship to remove weeds and dig ditches around the village, and a team of Tiance soldiers followed behind with sapper shovels to repair them.

The drilling machine drilled two wells for the village, which not only solved the temporary draft problem of the land garrison, but also enriched the fresh water source for the villagers.

There is only so much Wang Yue can do for these villagers, but in the eyes of Lin Zequan and other villagers, he is extremely moved.

"Master Wang, this is the real Master Wang." The old man Lin Ruhai looked at the busy soldiers of the Tiance Army and said excitedly.

"Has the continent changed so much now?" Lin Zequan looked at the strange screaming machines, both frightened and curious. The general principles of these machines were briefly explained to them by the soldiers, but they were still difficult to understand.

In order to express their gratitude, the simple villagers sent melons, fruits and vegetables, but they resolutely refused to accept money.

You don't charge money, do you? Canned fish, biscuits, and two hundred sapper shovels were pulled into piles of shovels into the village. Parents who don't want it, look at the children around them who are staring at the canned biscuits with their fingers in their eyes, and finally accept it. This sapper shovel is sharp when it looks at it, and it can be used as both a tool and a weapon, which is a temptation that cannot be refused.

Regardless of the location, the government department is the slowest to respond, and so are local officials.