If you start from the two aspects of Ruan's and Mo's, it is really promising.

It would be foolish to not take advantage of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for civil strife in the neighborhood.

It's just that I don't have that energy right now.

After Su Baiyi smiled bitterly, he said to Chaozong: "Very good, this news has a great use for me, in this way, after you rest for a while, turn back to Gu Zhong and the two of you, and go to Annan again, this time you don't go to the Zheng clan of the Li Dynasty, you go to the Ruan clan, if they are willing to agree to our conditions, willing to sell grain and provide land to plant rubber trees, our Ming Dynasty can mediate and let the Zheng clan withdraw from the army!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Hou Fangyu nodded in agreement.

Gu Zhong, Xu Xiake and Yang Hai in the back also gave up their hands, some shouted adults, and some shouted Mr.

Su Baiyi waved his hand: "If there is nothing else, you can retreat first!" ”

"Uh......" Hou Fangyu wanted to speak and stopped.

Su Baiyi asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Sir!" Hou Fangyu stood up and said, "At that time, on the Zheng family's side, we also met a Francose man, after seeing our soap, perfume and other goods, he wanted to do business with us, and the students brought him back together, Mr. would like to see him?" ”

"Furlan?" Su Baiyi was stunned.

But it was soon understood.

At this time, the Great Voyage had begun, and the Europeans were all over the world, South Asia, India, and the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia, they were everywhere, and a branch of the East India Company had been set up here.

The Franco-mechanics of this era should refer to those Europeans with high noses, blue eyes, and wavy hair, whether they are from Spain, Portugal, or Britain or France, and are collectively referred to as Franco-mechanics here in the Ming Dynasty.

Last time, Su Baiyi pacified Shandong, and rescued many Portuguese from the prison in Dengzhou Mansion, including Annie, who is currently the dean of the Yuyuan Institute of Materials, and his younger brother Ando, who are all Francos in the eyes of the Ming people.

"Where did you come from?" Su Baiyi was quite happy after hearing this.

After all, in that era, Europe dumped their goods all over the world, and now it must be a commendable thing to be able to crush each other with technology.

However, Hou Fangyu's next sentence, Su Baiyi, who listened directly, had a gloomy face.

"They're red-haired devils, and they say they're from the East Bay!"

Although Europeans can be called by franc machine, there are a few regions where people still have special names.

For example, the Russians are called Lao Maozi.

The Dutch, known as the red-haired devils.

The four words of the red-haired devil will naturally not cause Su Baiyi's accident, the key is "Dongwan!" ”

Where is East Bay?

Taiwan!

Speaking from facts, Taiwan during this period basically did not undergo any development, and the seat of the Ming Empire radiated as far as the Penghu Islands in this sea area, and did not reach Taiwan.

Taiwan became China's inherent territory and set up administrative offices, which began during the Qing Dynasty.

In other words, the East Bay occupied by the Dutch did not belong to aggression in the eyes of the Ming people.

Because, the Ming Dynasty did not set up a governance office in Dongwan to retain the defenders.

(I hope you don't hit me, I checked the information and said that Taiwan's official inclusion in the Chinese territory was in the Qing Dynasty, if I say it is wrong, I will change it!) ）

It's borderlands, so to speak.

But in Su Baiyi's blood, this is not a borderless place. Later generations told him that this is an inviolable part of my territory in Greater China.

"Go, call him here, I'll see him." Knowing that Hou Fangyu did not have the concept that Dongwan was the territory of the Ming Empire, Su Baiyi simply didn't say these nonsense for now.

After a while, Hou Fangyu brought a tall red-haired devil into the office of the headquarters.

The man saluted Su Baiyi, and respectfully introduced himself in proficient Chinese: "Respected Lord Su, the contemptible person is called Van Persie, and he is from the command of the Governor of East Bay Puttman. After seeing Your Excellency's soap and perfume, I was deeply impressed, I wonder if Master Su is interested in doing business with us in the East Bay? ”

"Not interested!" Su Baiyi's cold answer not only made Fan Persie stunned, but also made the surrounding Hou Fangyu, Lu Hai and others also stunned.

"Why ......"

Su Baiyi didn't wait for Fan Persie to finish speaking, and waved his hand and said, "You Dongwan?" Where do you come from? Didn't you take it from my hands? You go back and tell Putman to pack up his things early and get out, if you wait for Lao Tzu to free up his hands, he won't be able to run away if he wants to. ”

"Ah......" Van Persie said: "Master Su, why do you say this, as far as the contemptible people know, the East Bay is the land of the Borderlands, how can it be the land of your Daming, and now the East Bay is my Dutch territory!" ”

"Hmph...... Dutch territory? Su Baiyi smiled, looked at Fan Persie gloomily and said, "You just said that you are doing business, but I remembered something." ”

"Your Excellency, may I speak?"

Fan Persie was angry, and said in his heart: This Dongwan was originally a borderless land, and our first governor, Song Ke, finally fought down, when did it become the Ming Dynasty?

Although he was angry, but now in Daming's territory, he could only swallow his anger and answer Su Baiyi.

"I heard that a few years ago, you Dutch went to America?" Su Baiyi asked, tilting his head.

Van Persie shook.

So far, there are almost no Orientals who know about the Americas, so why does this young man in front of him know?

"Yes, Your Excellency!" Van Persie replied.

"You Dutch know how to do business." Su Baiyi mocked: "On a trip to the Americas, I heard that it cost two pieces of cloth and a few glass beads to buy an island from the Indians and named it New Amsterdam (New York). ”

Van Persie shuddered.

If the adult in front of him was already shocked to know that the Americas, then the adult knew that the purchase of the island simply frightened him.

"How big are you in the Netherlands?" Su Baiyi continued to point at Van Persie and said, "Spain, France, England, Austria, Denmark, Norway, which one is not bigger than your country?" Even Switzerland is a little bigger than you, let alone the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish Empire.

The country is too small, the appetite is too big, and the belly is broken by eating too much! Hmph, my Ming Empire is so big, you Europa together can't compare, just the Netherlands actually covets my Ming territory, what crime should I be guilty of? ”

Van Persie's cold sweat trickled down.

He would never have imagined that there would be anyone in the Ming Dynasty who knew so much about the West.

"So, we don't dare to do business with you Dutch, the official is afraid, I'm afraid that I will be sold by you and count the money to you!" Su Baiyi waved his hand: "You go down, go back and tell your Lord Governor, just say that Su will visit soon!" ”

A series of deception and frightening made Van Persie covered in a cold sweat before waving his hand and blasting him out.

Then he continued to discuss the situation in Annan with Hou Fangyu, and explained the gifts and letters that Lu Hai and Gu Zhong had to bring to Ruan's territory, as well as the relevant agreements, and the morning passed quietly.

The bad news has passed, and there is finally good news.

A few days later, Kong Youde and Mao Chenglu returned, bringing Su Baiyi a lot of good news: the conscription was over, and the 6,000 people were properly recruited.

Su Baiyi chose a piece of land near the Huoshentai Broken Temple as a temporary camp for the army, and then began to review the new army.

The new recruits were tall and short, fat and thin, but they were all very young. As with the previous requirements, it's basically a guy between fifteen and twenty years old.

And the number is also sufficient, a full six thousand.

Now that these three rebel generals have surrendered to him Su Baiyi, they naturally don't dare to eat so blatantly, so they don't dare to be sloppy in terms of numbers.

"Line up!" Su Baiyi waved his hand and first completed the first condition of the promise: "The military salary will be paid, and the placement fee of two taels of silver per person will be issued first, and the queue will be registered and registered, everyone will have it, don't worry." ”

The soldiers, who had not yet been trained, suddenly shouted.

In fact, they were willing to serve as soldiers, and they all came for a salary of one tael of silver a month, and they did not have much hope for the so-called two taels of silver settlement fee, but as soon as they came to the camp, this adult announced the payment of the resettlement fee, which was really unexpected.

All the soldiers' favorability towards Su Baiyi rose slowly, and everyone looked at him with a look of gratitude.

Because the system of the Ming Dynasty is a hereditary system, what profession you do, what profession your sons, grandchildren, and future generations must do, simply put, if you come to be a soldier, then future generations will be soldiers. This society attaches great importance to farming and reading heirlooms, and reading while farming is the most ideal living state in the hearts of all people, but who wants to be a soldier if there is a little bit of income in the family.

Therefore, more than 99% of the people who can come here are children from poor families, of course, it is not excluded that there are one or two stupid hats like Yang Juan who are committed to the military.

"You all know who I am, right?" After all the recruits had received the silver, Su Baiyi stood up, waved his hand to suppress the voice of everyone's discussion, and said, "This official is the governor of the railway and the president of the Yuyuan. In the future, you will be the soldiers of our railway three guards, in other words, my soldiers, my surname is Su Mingbu, from today onwards, I am responsible for training you, you can call me General Su! ”

Doing this means that there is a bit of a robbery of Kong Youde and Mao Chenglu's jobs, but there is no way.

In order to build an army that is truly loyal to oneself, it is not enough to buy money alone, but it is necessary to buy the hearts and minds of the people on the one hand, and share the weal and woe with these soldiers on the other, and it is best to bring these soldiers out in person.

As for the method of leading the troops, Su Baiyi had already thought of it.

borrowed the popular military training methods of later generations: long-distance running, cross-country running, and weight-bearing running to exercise physical fitness; Balance beams, platoons, marches, etc., exercise the will of the army, as well as things such as barbed wire, balance beam, single parallel bars, and military boxing.

With reasonable nutrition, you will definitely be an elite soldier after exercising for a long time.