This small hill several hundred meters high was later called "Signal Mountain" because of the lighthouse on it and the sound of trumpets and cannons every day at noon. At this time, there were no lighthouses, no cannons, only wildflowers and the sea breeze blowing everywhere. Standing here and looking south, not far away is Table Mountain, turning east and north, is a large plain covered with shrubs and weeds, interspersed with several rivers, flocks of seagulls and waterfowl on the grassland, very peaceful.

"It's a nice place, with mountains, water, woods, plains, grasslands, and sea...... If Jinhe City is built here, it may be bigger than Lin'an! Wen Nan carried a sketchpad and a leather schoolbag made for him by Hong Tao, and a pair of binoculars on his chest, really like a member of the scientific expedition team. At this time, he had already spread out his drawing board, and was holding a baleen pen as a ruler to set a scale for Table Mountain in the distance.

"yes...... It's a pity we came late, this place has a host! Hong Tao is not very interested in the scenery, he is only interested in this place, he can occupy this place, the scenery can be seen at any time, if he can't occupy it, if he wants to see the scenery, he has to ask others if they are happy. Since he reached the mountain, he did not go to pick wildflowers all over the ground, nor did he study why the top of Table Mountain is so flat, but used a telescope to scan the grasslands in the northeast with concentration, and soon had a harvest.

"Ahh Someone? Where? Carl was most anxious to take this place as a supply point, for for others it was a scenic bay, and for him it was a springboard home.

"Twenty degrees, there's a small village!" Hong Tao's eyes did not leave the telescope, he continued to search, but said casually.

"It's such a small village, I'll bring people over, it just so happens that slaves are needed to build a supply point." After several years of life at sea. Hong Tao has been accustomed to using the compass power to express the direction, and the people around him are the same, Carl didn't need Hong Tao's instructions, and after picking up the compass on his belt and facing due north, he quickly found the place Hong Tao said.

"Don't be busy, this is land, not an island. Our ships can't control the interior, and if it's a big tribe, you'd better not mess with them, or you'll still be at war when your son's son grows your age. We are not here to fight, but to stand! "Hong Tao really wants to kick Carl down the mountain, he knows how to catch slaves, catch slaves, and don't think about the consequences with his brain, anyone can catch them? Unless all of these indigenous blacks can be killed at once. Otherwise they will haunt you like maggots on tarsal bones, endlessly. In the previous life, the reason why the Dutch built a city here in a down-to-earth manner was not by killing people and being vicious, but by profit!

"Do adults understand their language?" Carl understood what Hong Tao meant, but he didn't know how to communicate with the locals.

"Lao Mai, you said that if the two groups of people can't understand what the other party says, how can they communicate normally?" Instead of explaining his thoughts to Carl, Hong Tao asked Martini questions.

"With goods. Anyone needs to buy and sell, and even more so here. I'm willing to help the master negotiate with them, all I need is a jar of sugar! Medini also saw the small village, and when he heard Hong Tao's question, he quickly put down his binoculars and answered without thinking.

"We don't need to go to them in person, it's more than ten miles away. It's not easy to walk, I'm afraid you can't walk there with your body, so you're tired and lie down, let them come to us by themselves. Yaya, don't torture those flowers. Give flags to the ships and let them fire a grenade every two quarters of an hour. Langya, take your people to build a bonfire here, and then go down the mountain to catch a seal and come back, I will roast seal meat for you to eat, that kind of play means that it is okay. Hong Tao shook his head, stopping Martini's reckless behavior. Go to the black tribe in the jungle steppe? That's not an act of looking for death, let's let them come to Signal Mountain. It's very empty here, as long as there are enough crossbows, hundreds of people will be killed, and if they can't fight, they can run to the sea, in ancient sayings, they can attack and retreat, no wonder they have to fight for the commanding heights in a war, Hong Tao feels that he has a bit of a strategic meaning now.

Is seal meat good? It's better than whale meat, don't look at their stinky baking, as long as you peel off the skin and the thick fat under the skin, the pink meat inside is still quite good. It's a pity that there is no chili noodles, but cumin is also okay, the meat pieces are threaded on steel crossbow arrows, one by one inserted next to the campfire, sprinkled with fine salt and cumin, and then brushed with yellow sauce, which tastes good.

"Sir, they are here, all of them are black, there are more than a dozen, with spears, as if they are naked, is there a fraud?" Before the roast seal meat was finished, the Marine in charge of the lookout came to inform Hong Tao that he had seen a group of black men on the grassland.

"They didn't mean it, they didn't have any clothes to wear, they didn't rush, they told the ship that there was no need to throw grenades, we just waited here, let them walk slowly." Hong Tao picked up his binoculars and stood up to look at it, and sat down again, those black people are still far away, and there is no hour to pass, so there is no hurry.

After eating the kebabs, Hong Tao still sat on the top of the mountain and drank some tea, and the group of blacks came to the bottom of the mountain, but there were only five left, it seems that he still hid ambushes in the woods below the mountain, very cunning!

"Master, I'll go down and negotiate with them on your behalf!" Martini began to invest again, this guy don't look timid, when it's time to go out, he can really go out, he understands the truth of wealth and danger very thoroughly, when to make a move, when to shrink his head, the heat is very accurate.

"Don't go yet, you're also a meat man, and you'll die if you shoot you. Langya, light a grenade and go down, forget it, don't blow them up. Hong Tao waved at the five black men at the bottom of the mountain, with a bright smile on his face and venom in his mouth.

A grenade was removed from the wooden tray behind Langya, not only was the cork not cut short, but a piece of paper twist was added, which was ignited and rolled down the hillside. Ever since they had seen the power of gunpowder in their last attack on Haizhou City, Langya's marines had added a weapon, and every time they went ashore, they would carry grenades and a few jars of gunpowder, ready to plant mines.

The "Boom ......" iron ball rolled to the foot of the mountain before it suddenly exploded, and what Lang Ya threw down was still an incendiary bomb, except for the loud noise and thick smoke, a bush instantly turned into a fireball, crackling and burning.

The five black men who had been pondering the origin of those people on the mountain were frightened by the exploding grenade, and the three of them fell directly to the ground, not dodging the grenade, but performing a ritual similar to prayer. The remaining two, even less characterless, left their companions behind, and slipped into the woods in a puff of smoke.

"Okay, Lao Mai, take out your friendliest smile, I'll let Langya bring someone to accompany you, don't be afraid, these people are not enough for Lao Lang to kill alone, you can't die." Hong Tao felt that it was enough to dismount, and if he threw the grenade again, they should really run away, and now is a good time to negotiate.

"Yes, yes...... Can I wear a piece of leather armor? As soon as Maitini heard that Hong Tao really wanted him to go down to negotiate with the savage, his legs suddenly became a little weak, he was just investing, and he didn't want to really go down.

"What kind of leather armor to wear, we don't have leather armor as big as you, come, you can take this shield, go!" Lang Ya didn't care about Martini's mood, grabbed the fat man who was several laps older than him, forcibly stuffed a whaleskin shield the size of a small pot lid into Martini's arms, and even pulled and pushed the fat man down the mountain.

"Tell the marines at the beach to get them in place." As soon as Martini left, Hong Tao gave an order to Weng Ya. As early as an hour ago, the second group of marines who landed had already arrived at the seashore, and Hong Tao had already asked Langya to send someone to inform them, hide in the sea first, wait for the signal from the mountain, and then go directly into the woods from the sea to cut off the retreat of these blacks. If the deal can't be done, then Hong Tao can only let the group of blacks and their village disappear, and resolutely can't let them run back to report the news, salute first and then soldier.

Martini, Langya, and two Marines walked to the bottom of the hill and waved and shouted into the woods, but no one came out for a long time. Still, he had one of his Marines run back up the hill, take a small jar of sugar down, send it to the edge of the woods, put it on the ground, and retreated. After a few minutes, a black man finally came out of the woods, and in a flash, the white sugar jar on the ground was gone, along with the people, and Zhennyima was agile.

After a few more minutes, two black men, who wore nothing but a few bunches of shells and leaves, finally came out of the woods, holding a javelin-like object in their hands, and slowly approached the Martini and the others, shouting incessantly as they went, presumably emboldening themselves. The distance between the two sides was about five meters, and then it stopped, and only then did the language exchange begin.

As for what they were saying, Hong Tao felt that they must not understand Medini, but Medini was worthy of being a businessman, and it didn't matter if he didn't understand the language, he took out a few pieces of whale jerky from his leather bag and put them on the stone in front of him, took out a small jar and put it on it, and took a few steps back, motioning for the two black men to go and get the things on the stone.

With the experience of taking white sugar last time, one of the black men was more courageous, took the lead and walked a few steps, picked up the jerky and the small jar and ran back, muttered a few words to the other black man, put the jerky in his mouth and chewed it, probably thinking that it tasted good, and then planned to eat the contents of the jar again. It's a pity that they won't open the cork of the thin-mouthed jar, and they shook it for a long time to know that there was something in the jar, but they just couldn't eat it, and they were a little anxious. (To be continued.) )