When Doma woke up again, he found himself in the yurt. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info His twenty or so brethren, like him, were bound and their mouths gagged.

"Brothers, are you awake? It's good to wake up, and I'll tell you about it. Let's start by introducing myself. ”

A man in his twenties, sitting in front of the yurt, began to speak. Beside him, there stood more than twenty fierce men.

"My name is Jia Lian, and I am now the commander of the first battalion of the Bukui Provincial Corps. This time, I came to the Iron Buddha with the debt collection propaganda team, and I will tell you something now. When you hear about it, you can go back and tell others, and it's better to tell your wax plum blossom head. ”

"More than 100 years ago, the imperial court signed the "Wendura Covenant" with the four major tribes of the Wendura grassland, and the two families agreed that the Iron Buddha would pay tribute to the imperial court. In fact, I didn't pay much, two thousand taels of silver a year, 200 mink skins, 100 catties of deer antlers, and 40 catties of ginseng. ”

"Is it much? Not much. The salt, iron, and tea that the imperial court gave you were all official prices, much cheaper than the market price. The court is all about money. ”

"It's really shameless to pay the tribute for 70 years. Of course, I know, and I don't blame you. It's all your leader's fault. Speaking of your leaders, we have to talk about another thing. ”

"According to the provisions of the Covenant of Windura, your leader can be chosen by himself, but in the end, it is necessary for the court to canonize him. Without the canonization of the imperial court, this head is a fake, and it doesn't count ......."

Jia Lian's line is a total of 24 people. For teams like his, Jia Min sent a total of four, one for each tribe.

Their task was to go to the tribes and ask for tribute.

Of course, Jia Min didn't expect them to get the money back, but as long as Jia Lian just said that he spread it to various tribes, it would be fine.

The central idea of these words is two. One was that the heads of the various tribes owed the court seventy years of tribute. The other is that at present, the leaders of the four major tribes have not entered the imperial court to canonize. If the court doesn't admit it, they're actually fake heads.

The four teams set out from Bukui at the same time, and they had been doing this for the past two days, and when they saw people from various tribes, they preached these words everywhere.

Although the leaders of the tribe were angry, they were helpless about it.

However, Jia Lian's mission here today is not just publicity. He has another character.

He wants to block the plum blossom at the Erdaojiang ferry.

Just as he was preaching everywhere today, he received news from an undercover agent inside the Iron Buddha tribe. La Meihua took her female soldiers to attack the No. 12 official village.

There is nothing of value in the official village, except for some farm tools, a small amount of livestock and grain storage, if you want to say that it is valuable, it is people.

Therefore, Jia Lian judged that Lamei wanted to rob people, so as to retaliate against Bu Kui's capture of craftsmen.

So, he decided to rescue the kidnapped man on the way back to Bukui.

As for the propaganda of the tribal warriors guarding the ferry, it was only incidental.

Jia Lian was talking when Qin Zhong came in.

"Battalion Commander Jia, they're back."

"Keep watching, and when they're on board, we'll attack."

At this time, it was already dark, and the faces of the people on the other side could not be seen clearly, and only shadows could be seen.

When Jia Lian and the others went out, they saw that there were already several torches on the other side of the river, and there were bursts of shouting.

As soon as you hear the voice, you know that this is the two sides at war. It should be that Bu Kui discovered the plum blossom and pursued them behind.

Jia Lian stood on the fort, surrounded by gunpowder bags and guns that had been moved from the yurt.

Although this kind of Franc cannon has been around for a long time, it is still relatively advanced. The firing range is relatively long, and the gun body can move up and down to adjust the firing angle. There are also crosshairs and illuminators for aiming. Each cannon is equipped with nine sub-guns, and the charge speed is fast, and it can be fired continuously.

"Keep an eye on those two boats, take aim, and as soon as I give the order, you will fire."

"Don't worry, Battalion Commander Jia, I promise that he will overturn the ship with one shot."

Qin Zhong replied playfully.

He's a good gunner now.

The two boats have arrived in the middle of the river, and it's time.

"Fire!"

Jia Lian gave the order.

Bang, bang, two Franc planes fired together. Immediately, a howl could be heard from inside the river. I saw the shadows of the two boats in the heart of the river, quickly drifting downstream.

"Aim, one more shot."

Two more bangs, and the shadow of the ship was out of sight.

"Leave the ship alone, aim the torches and fire at the opposite shore."

Then, it was a continuous bombardment of the opposite bank, and the screams from the opposite side were mixed with curses.

"Attention, everyone listen to my command and shout 'catch the plum blossom alive' together. Come, one, two, catch the plum blossom alive! ”

With Jia Lian's shouting, the soldiers shouted together, "Capture the plum blossom alive." While shouting, he fired a few shots from time to time.

After about twenty minutes, the shouts of killing on the other side were gone, and the torches were extinguished. Faintly, I could hear someone shouting.

Jia Lian stopped everyone shouting and heard the voice on the other side.

"I'm Chen Yejing, which brother is opposite? Lamei has escaped, and people have rescued it, so come back. ”

"Heh, it's Camp Commander Chen, I'm Jia Lian of the first battalion, okay, let's go back."

Jia Lian commanded everyone to smash the crosshairs and doors of the two Franc planes with stones, and then lifted the cannons and threw them into the river. Then he led the people upstream, and crossed the river on horseback.

After crossing the river, I saw Chen Yejing. The forty homeless people in the No. 12 official village have been rescued.

It turned out that after the recent tension with the four major tribes, the government corps set up secret posts on the official village and traffic arteries close to the grassland to monitor the movements of the Wendula grassland at any time.

As soon as Lameihua's team crossed the ferry, they were spotted by the surveillance post, so they hurried to report to the prefectural corps patrolling nearby.

Today it was Chen Yejing who led the patrol team, and after receiving the letter, he hurried to No. 12 Guanzhuang. By the time they arrived, Lamei had already succeeded and was retreating, so they pursued them all the way.

Chen Yejing led only one platoon, so the effect of chasing and killing all the way was not ideal. Fortunately, Jia Min captured the ferry, so that Lamei thought that he was in a trap, so he ordered his men to disperse and retreat. This is the end of the engagement.

After Lameihua's attack on Guanzhuang was easily successful, she quickly retreated. Although there were people chasing after Bukui, seeing that there were not many people, she didn't care too much.

This time, she brought all the 300 people of her own personal team, and she was so powerful that she had no reason to be afraid of the other party.

It wasn't until the Franc cannon at the ferry opened fire on them that she didn't feel good. I heard the other side keep shouting to capture her alive, and I thought that I had fallen into the trap of the enemy. It turned out that the other party had been prepared for a long time, waiting for her to take the bait, and wanted to capture her alive.

At this point, he had no intention of fighting, threw down the people who were robbed from Guanzhuang, and ordered his subordinates to take advantage of the night to disperse and flee for their lives.

In fact, she didn't run away, and seeing that the other party didn't chase anymore, she hid not far from the ferry and observed the movement.

Not long after, he saw someone wading across the river, and after meeting with the pursuers, he stayed for a while and then withdrew, and then asked someone to cross the river and go to the ferry to inquire about the movement.

Knowing that the other party occupied the ferry was only a debt collection propaganda team of about 20 people, I realized that I had been fooled.

But at this point, I had to scold the guards and get angry, and when I gathered the team, I found that 8 people were dead and 7 people were missing. Finally, the loss was still within his own bearing, so he scolded the ferry guards for a while and punished them for guarding the ferry for another month, and then led the team back.

At dawn, the plum blossom returned to her yurt. Although I was tired from running around for a day and a night, I was angry when I thought of returning from this defeat.

Without any further hesitation, go to Shaman Zuye.

The Zoye Shaman is old and sleeps lightly. When the plum blossom arrived, she had already gotten up and was sitting at the door.

"Zoye, didn't you say you couldn't miss the opportunity? I went, but I still lost the battle. ”

"No, how so? Tell me, how did you lose? ”

Zoye was neither in a hurry nor in a panic. is always a look of seeing through the world and being calm.

So Lamei told the story again.

"Baochai, I'm right, I told you at the beginning, 'Don't miss the opportunity'?"

"Yes, it was you who said it, and I went."

"In this battle, you lost and were occupied at that ferry, right?"

"That's right."

"It doesn't matter if the ferry is occupied, the key is that the Franc machine asked someone to take it and fired at you in turn, isn't it?"

"yes."

"I told you that you can't miss the opportunity, if you just don't listen, where is the reason to be undefeated?"

"Zuye, I still don't understand?"

"Telling you that you can't miss the opportunity is to tell you to guard the Franc machine. The Franc machine has been lost, where will it be undefeated? Got it this time, right? ”

"Oh. I see. ”

What the? Is this also a must-have?

On June 26 of the year of Ding Chou, the Yamen of Bu Kuidu Si issued a proclamation. With immediate effect, the spice trade in the South Vendura grasslands will be stopped.

Except for the incense candles used to make offerings to the gods, all spice substances, including pepper, star anise, chili, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, garlic, ginger, dried ginger, agarwood, etc., are included in the forbidden list.

These spices are not produced in the Wendura grassland, and all of them have to be imported from outside.

Spice substances, in the steppe tribes, have a wide range of applications.

Shamans dance gods, chant incantations, purify dairy products, repel insects, flavor, make incense candles, and even make medicines, all of which are inseparable from spices.

Pickled fish and meat are an important export product of various nomadic and fishing and hunting tribes, and an important source of income. In this era, there was no means of refrigeration, and in order to preserve food, it was necessary to use a large number of spices.

At this time, the lack of spices was a huge blow to the production of cured fish and cured meat.

If you want to get spices, there is only one way - smuggling.

The spice embargo marked the official beginning of Bukui's economic sanctions against the four major tribes.