"Rice is grown here very quickly, and it has only been a few months, and it has already matured for two seasons. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Lao Jiu said excitedly looking at the rice in the field.

"No, this time, none of us have to worry about food." A middle-aged man on the side also looked at the rice in the field with a happy face.

They were all Chu people who had smuggled out of the Chu State, and because they could not bear the increasingly heavy taxes at home, they had to take a boat to break overseas. There were also more than a hundred other people who brought with them a large number of seeds, farm tools, and agricultural techniques on their bodies. Because the areas to the north have been occupied, many of them have become lords, and they are not allowed to look further south, and they are also lucky. They arrived at the historic Champa region, which is the southern part of Vietnam, which is very suitable for growing rice, and if it weren't for the fact that their rice did not use the technology of rice transplanting, their rice could have reached three crops a year or four crops a year, which is an astonishing yield. For these Chu peasants who have been fed for a long time because of taxes, this is a result worthy of a bumper harvest.

"More than 100 of us, it's okay. With this rice, I think we can eat it for a whole year. Lao Jiu said excitedly.

"Hmm. However, I think we still need to reclaim the outer areas, so that our rice yield can still increase. The middle-aged man nodded and offered his opinion.

"But in that case, we won't have enough manpower. When we came, more than 500 acres of land were reclaimed at once, plus we reclaimed one after another, this is more than 2,000 acres of land, and if we continue to reclaim, we may not have enough manpower. Lao Jiu said worriedly to the middle-aged man.

"I said, Mr. Chen, you have read the book, think of a way, more than 100 of us, all listen to you." Lao Jiu said sincerely to the middle-aged man. Lao Jiu is an authentic Chu State peasant, and he came here just to live well. And this middle-aged man of Mr. Chen is different, he came here to do a career, and it is precisely with such an arrangement of scholars that their lives have changed a lot. Lao Jiu is also willing to believe in such people.

"Hmm." Mr. Chen nodded. said that he agreed to this matter, but Lao Jiu still didn't dare to look at Mr. Chen slackly, in his opinion, Mr. Chen can only solve this problem after making a decision.

"Do we still have muskets in this piece?" At this time, Mr. Chen asked such a question.

"Well, there is. When we came, we pooled our money and bought five muskets, plus a hundred rounds of ammunition. Lao Jiu thought about it and said. When they came here, they knew that there would be natives in these wild places, and in order to solve the harassment of these natives, they bought a batch of munitions when they came, but unfortunately they had very little money, and they could only buy five muskets, and the bullets were also exchanged for some things by them.

"When we came, the natives here had a good relationship with us. It's not used, this thing is too expensive, and one bullet is missing, so it's useless now. Lao Jiu said.

"Hmm. Are those natives okay with us? At this time, Mr. Chen asked Lao Jiu.

"It's okay, after all, there are some small contradictions, mainly to ask us for some food, they all eat some wild fruits, or hunt some things, they also learn to grow rice, but it seems to be planting wild rice." Lao Jiu said truthfully.

"Oh." Mr. Chen just nodded.

"Mr. Chen, I don't know what kind of way you can expand our way of growing rice here, there are too few people here. Moreover, the ships only came to us to replenish food and water, and there were very few ships that stopped. Lack of staff is a big problem. Lao Jiu said worriedly. In fact, what he was worried about was that there were more than 100 children in his family, only a third of them were women, and most of them were already married, and their children were already fourteen years old this year. In a few years, I will have a family. If this continues, it will be difficult for his son to find a daughter-in-law, and he will not marry the women of the few tribes.

"Hmm. That's a problem. Mr. Chen frowned. He didn't have a good idea of what he wanted to solve, and he thought of attacking the local natives as a source of labor, and the idea came from the beginning, because he had heard that in some of the northern colonies, the people there used this method to expand their labor force. For example, some states have discovered minerals, and in order to greatly expand the production of minerals, they continue to capture local people to open mines. Of course, it's mostly gold.

No one has used these slaves on the level of land reclamation, but if they can cultivate a large amount of land, and at the same time use these slaves to grow rice, then their rice production can increase rapidly several times, and the population problem will be solved a lot. However, this requires a large number of weapons to rely on. There are only more than 100 of them now, and the weapons cannot form a great suppression, and under such circumstances, Mr. Chen is very unsure that he can use such a method to obtain sufficient labor. If they do, the natives will take revenge on them.

"Daddy, Daddy. There are boats coming. Daddy, come on. A ship is coming. At this time, a boy of about fourteen waved his arms excitedly and shouted loudly in the distance.

"Got it." Lao Jiu shouted excitedly. It was really his son who came to call, Xiao Jiu. They will have some ships here from time to time, mainly the ships of the Chu State, if it were not for the Chu people who migrated south, few people would be able to take the initiative to stay, mainly they are in groups, and they also hope that they can reclaim some of their own land. Therefore, after the ships came, most of them docked to replenish some food and fresh water, and most of them exchanged some supplies on board, which were also things they urgently needed. This kind of trade has also formed a characteristic.

"Daddy, come on." Xiao Jiu shouted loudly.

"Here we are. Here it comes. Lao Jiu shouted loudly.

"Let's go, since a ship is coming, let's go and have a look." Saying that, Mr. Chen went with Lao Jiu. Most of the Chu people who came here to settle here established their strongholds on the coast, and then expanded from the coast to the interior, so that they could receive assistance from sea supplies.

And when Lao Jiu and Mr. Chen arrived at the location of the improvised dock, he saw a group of vulgar people, coaxing them to prepare meals, and they were also carrying a large number of weapons. These weapons were all well-armed muskets, and they kept shouting, and Mr. Chen couldn't help but frown when he saw this.

"Don't provoke them, they may be pirates, these people have guns, it's not for us to mess with." After Mr. Chen read it, he entrusted Lao Jiu.

"Get our weapons ready, if they do, we're welcome." Mr. Chen said to Lao Jiu seriously.

"Yes. Be. When Lao Jiu saw such a person, his heart was also tense. What he was most worried about was such a group of people on the shore, who ate it. Not to mention, sometimes they even snatched some women. They are all pirates at sea, but they are also from Chu, and sometimes they don't do too much, food or something, and they give it up. There's nothing to feel sorry for.

"You're in charge?" When Mr. Chen looked at the origin of these people, a vulgar Chu Guoren shouted loudly. The stench of his whole body had not yet approached before Mr. Chen heard it.

"Just give us food, don't bring us wine, isn't this the hospitality of our Chu people?" The vulgar Chu people came over dissatisfied, grabbed the collar of Mr. Chen's shirt on his chest and asked.

"Hey, so vulgar, stop." At this moment, a man who looked like a captain of the captain came over with a smile, and the vulgar Chu native reluctantly let go and looked at Mr. Chen viciously.

"Isn't it good enough for us to give you food?" Mr. Chen said disdainfully.

"Huh. The gentleman misunderstood. Misunderstanding. The captain-looking man walked over with a smile, then pushed the man away and said with a smile.

"We're just here to borrow food. The gentleman was overwhelmed. The captain said with a smile. The captain said that these borrowings were actually taking, and they didn't exchange them anyway.

"It's okay to borrow food." Mr. Chen looked at the people around him, and then softened his face and said. He suddenly thought of a good idea.

"As much as you need, I can provide you with as much as I want." Mr. Chen said unhurriedly. And when Xiao Jiu heard such words at this time, he was angry and wanted to stand up and accuse the other party. When Mr. Chen saw this, he shouted loudly.

"Xiao Jiu, go and take out our wine and entertain them." Mr. Chen shouted loudly at this time.

"Mr. Chen. This. Xiao Jiu looked at those people unconvinced. He knows the hard work of growing these grains, and although they have a lot of food, he also knows the truth that food is not easy.

"Go, don't stay here. Just go. Mr. Chen waved his hand impatiently. Xiao Jiu saw Mr. Chen scolding him loudly, and left helplessly. And those crew members were very excited when they heard that there was wine, and they were not allowed to drink on the ship, because alcohol could boost the morale of the crew, and it was okay to drink, but it would never let you get drunk.

"Good. Happy, my old gun is here to thank Mr. Chen. "The captain of the ship thanked him.

"Since Captain Gun is happy, I will also tell you my conditions. We can lend the grain to the old gun captain. But we also have some things that Captain Old Gun needs help with. Mr. Chen sat down and said.

"Oh. Mr. Chen is a happy person, so let's say, as long as the brothers can do it, they will definitely agree to Mr. Chen. "When the old gun saw that there was wine to drink, he didn't care about it.

"That's right, we have some natives nearby, and these natives are okay, but we need these natives to help us plant and expand some land. But we, the people, there are too few of them, and there are not enough weapons to defeat them. Mr. Chen said.

"Seeing you coming, I thought I could do you a favor, of course. It's not in vain. We can provide you with food. And if you need it, we can provide you with food in the future. But those natives must be left behind for us. Mr. Chen said. He saw that the other party was not an ordinary person, these people did not leave their weapons, they must have done a knife licking blood business, and his own people were all immigrants, they all came here as a last resort, let them kill people and set fires, they must not do much. And at this time, there is just such a group of people, it is better to use them to loot those natives, those natives don't look at getting along with themselves now, but everyone knows that if it takes a long time, it will definitely be unfavorable to themselves, thinking of this, Mr. Chen thought of using these people to do this.

"That's what happened. These natives are very easy to deal with, and this favor can help, but is this food more for us? And the women of the natives. The old gun said shrewdly at this time. As soon as they heard the old gun talk about women, the others pricked up their ears and looked at the old gun with drool.

"That's fine. These are all good words, these natives, we only need men, not women, and those women can be given to you. Mr. Chen said with a smile.

"However, thinking of this, I still have a small condition to say." At this time, Mr. Chen said with a smile.

"Mr. Chen, the wine is here." Lao Jiu stepped forward with a jar of wine at this time and said. It was followed by a few young juniors. They were holding jars of wine.

"Quick, full." The old gun saw that the wine was coming. Excitedly shouted with the bowl.

Saying that, Lao Jiu filled it up for the other party. The old gun drank a bowl of wine excitedly.

"Ahh The old gun, who had drunk all the wine, made a comfortable sound, and the others also drank the full bowl of wine in their hands.

"I'm talking about things. I wonder what Captain Gun's plans are? Mr. Chen asked with a smile.

"This matter, it's easy to say, it's easy to say, as long as Mr. Chen gives us more wine." The old gun said with a smile at this time.

"Hmm. This good book, just a matter of weapons. Mr. Chen said.

"We need to keep these disobedient natives in custody, and if they suddenly commit a rebellion, it will be difficult for our people to detain them." Mr. Chen said embarrassedly.

"Oh. These things. To be honest, there is some difficulty, our weapons, and we are not too rich. However, since Mr. Chen is willing to change, we are also willing to provide some, but the quantity is not very large. The old gun said shrewdly. If you give all the weapons to the other party, as soon as the other party's strength rises, do you still have something to do?

"We don't want much, we want twenty." Mr. Chen said with two fingers at this time.

"Well, it's not good, I can give Mr. Chen ten muskets at most. Bullets can be given more. The old gun said happily.

"Hmm. Or give me five muskets more. Mr. Chen bargained.

"No, no, no. That's too much. Five more, and my brethren would be fighting with their bare hands. The old gun shook his head and said.

"Hmm. Well, I don't want any more. Just two more, what do you think? Captain Gun still has more wine. Mr. Chen looked at the other party and said.

"Good. That's it, that's it. The old gun said excitedly.

Then raise a bowl of wine in your hand.

"For the sake of our cooperation, do it." As he spoke, the old gun drank the bowl of wine in his hand in one go. When Mr. Chen saw the other party like this, he also picked up a bowl of wine and drank it, in fact, the old gun had already made a lot of money. At least the musket in his hand was already much cheaper. More and more muskets were being made by the Qin people, especially in the arsenals of some other countries.

After Qin set up arsenals in Korea and Wei, Zhao also began to make some musket parts by himself because of the large number of iron ingots, but most of them were handmade and the prices were much cheaper. In addition, there is also the Qi country, and the craftsmen of the Qi country also imitate some musket parts, so that the cost of the musket is getting lower and lower, and the price is also declining. This allowed these Chu people to spend a small amount of money to be equipped with this cheap weapon on a large scale. Mr. Chen, they are all ordinary Chu people, and it is still far away for them to fight, kill, and kill, and they are not willing to participate in such a thing, so they don't know how much the price of the musket is dead, which also makes the old guns take advantage of the loopholes.

Then they were excited all night, and they danced and sang some unpleasant songs, which were not the hometown songs of these desperate crew members with muskets, but the lyrics they made up blindly on the ship, most of which were made up with meat jokes, mainly to relieve boredom. Coupled with the effect of alcohol, it made them even more excited.

After a night of excitement, they slept all morning, and after a full meal, they began to act. In order to complete such a task as soon as possible. Old guns, they also specialized in unloading two guns from their own ships. Because only after the artillery bombardment, the natives will stand stupidly in place and wait for them to tie up.

"Head, we're all optimistic. There were about 200 men and women of those natives, which was a large tribe. The men of the tribe would come back at night, and I thought it would be fine for us to attack at night. A skinny man came with a musket on his back and reported. He still has binoculars pinned to his waist.

"Good. Everyone prepare well, and everyone will go in together at night, and the women will be cut down by me. Lao Tzu is about to vent the fire. The old gun shouted excitedly, and the other crew members laughed when they heard it. They hastened the preparations in their hands, and it seemed to them that the capture of the natives at night became a matter of catching women. Because they have been away from land for a long time. Everybody was suffocating.

At night, a bright moon rises, and there is a bonfire in the tribe, and the men and women of the tribe are sitting around the campfire, and the old guns and their own people have surrounded the tribe.

They came to capture the natives as prisoners of war this time, this is their purpose, and the old gun knows this, but more often than not, he wants to end the battle quickly. After all, it is very simple to deal with these extremely backward natives.

"Head, it's all set." A gunner whispered to the old gun.

"Alright. Wait a while, two cannons go down, both rushed to me, the men resisted, protested and hacked to death, and those who did not resist were beaten to death, but there was one thing for me to remember, that is, the woman, one was also run away for me. The old gun said as he drew his matching knife and shouted with the pistol in his hand.

Everyone nodded in understanding.

"Fire. Fuck it. The old gun shouted excitedly.

"Boom. Rumble. Two cannon shots rang out, and the tribe in the distance was blown up in two big breaths, and the natives let out a miserable scream. It seems that a cannonball landed accurately among the tribes. But no one thought about this at this time, and the crew rushed in excitedly with muskets, some of their muskets were loaded with bayonets, and those without bayonets were solved with the butts of their guns.

"Kill." The crew shouted excitedly and charged into the Horde. The battle soon began. But after a few shots, they stopped ringing out.

"Mr. Chen, can they beat these natives?" Lao Jiu asked Mr. Chen worriedly.

"No problem, these people, none of them are human, they specialize in this kind of thing." Mr. Chen said as he looked at the indigenous tribe in the distance.

"Oh." Although Lao Jiu was a little worried, he was relieved when he heard Mr. Chen say this.

"It's just, why didn't the gunshots go off?" At this time, Lao Jiu asked worriedly.

"Hmm. In my opinion, the battle is probably coming to an end. Let's go over and have a look, and get those natives back by the way. Saying that, Mr. Chen said to Lao Jiu.

"Good. Here it goes. Saying that, Lao Jiu nodded, he waved his arms, and several young juniors rushed out with their weapons. They soon reached the tribe, and what they saw made several young offspring vomit.

There were several corpses in the tribe, but the corpses seemed to have been knocked off by shells, and the severed limbs of people were everywhere, and one corpse had its stomach broken. The internal organs flowed all over the ground, and a young student saw such a scene, and crawled on the ground in disgust and vomited. The crew member who was in charge of guarding the native men next to him looked at the young juniors with disdain. Such a scene can be spit out, which is really disdainful for them to watch.

And those natives who were squatting on the ground and holding their heads were all trembling and squatting on the ground, they all looked at the ground helplessly, not daring to move. Not far away, the crew gathered around, they laughed, and the screams of the native women kept coming.

"Dad, what did they do?" The curious Xiao Jiu asked his father.

"Go. The children went on one side and stood on the other side. Lao Jiu knew what the people over there were doing, but his son couldn't say it clearly, so he could only let his children stay where they were and not move.

At this moment, a native suddenly stood up and tried to resist, but was knocked to the ground by a crew member with the butt of a gun, and then beat the other party frantically. The other party who hit was covered in blood.

"What are you doing here, hurry up and tie these up." A crew member commanded with disdain.