There were a lot of local chiefs, and even more ordinary indigenous men, carrying bows and spears, most of them were carrying weapons, all of them were shoddy and inferior, only the heads of the society and the guards held some decent knives and guns in their hands, which were probably also bought from Han immigrants or merchants.

Many women and old people also came out, and the children were also in groups, all of them looked like they were black and bare-assed.

Hermes-Epitek also said hello in advance, every household was full of energy, the housewives took out the ability to hang all the children, steaming and frying, and each family got some snacks and snacks that they were good at, which were purchased by the military department at the market price, which saved a lot of things for the leaders and soldiers, and also had unique characteristics, especially the children of the natives at the door, which virtually shortened the distance between the two groups.

A fat sister-in-law stuffed her steamed flower rolls to a half-sized native baby, and sighed: "Look at this child's skinny, it's all thin and out of shape." ”

This sister-in-law came from Datong, and her pasta skills were quite hard, and she watched the local children eat it in three bites, and her face was also happy.

"What kid," said the man next to him, "the beard has grown." ”

When everyone heard this, they looked closely, but they didn't look at the local man who was only the height of a ten-year-old child, and he had already grown a mustache on his chin.

If you take a closer look at other "children", there are really big and small, but most of the heights are below the Ming average, not to mention compared with the northerners.

A real child is like a little black stone, small, thin and short, without the ferocity of an adult, and his eyes are full of timid light.

The hearts of the Han people are also really soft, this look knows that these mountain natives are much worse than themselves, and it is also the tradition of the Han people to respect the elderly and care for the weak.

"Continued, is this considered Emperor Yang of Sui's practice?" Li Pingzhi frowned and looked at everything in front of him, feeling quite uncomfortable.

The Han people of this era, who have a little wisdom, must be Han nationalists, a very simple thing. In later generations, the Han people were enslaved by foreign races, the whole country was also raped by foreign powers, backward civilization, backward in armed forces, backward in all aspects of national defense, military, political, financial, science, education, culture and health, in the end, even their own raw silk industry and tea were surpassed by other countries, the ancient country of 3,000 years of civilization even lost the trouser fork, the bottom was clearly touched, the Chinese became synonymous with the failed nation, even if it later re-emerged, from the political system to culture and entertainment, in fact, it has little to do with the ancestors, Confucianism changed to national studies, It is only a fig leaf, and it cannot change the reality of the westernization of the core of civilization. Hundreds of years later, the Chinese cannot say that they lack self-confidence, but they also know that they are not alone, and the Chinese nation cannot say that they are the superior states of the Celestial Empire, and other countries are barbarians without culture.

In this era is different, looking at the north and the east, as well as the west and the south, all the countries are either the Ming vassals, or the Ming hostile to the barbarian Tatars for hundreds of years, from Korea to Japan, and then to Myanmar and Thailand in Southeast Asia, all of them have paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, many countries have called ministers, Korea is equivalent to a subject country, the monarch canonized the prince and succeeded to the throne to inform the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty agreed to be legal...... In such a situation, if the Europeans had not gradually appeared in the field of vision of the Ming monarchs and the common people, who would the Chinese put in their eyes?

In the entire Asian border, during the Tang Dynasty, there were Chinese in India to destroy one of its countries, the entire Western Regions up to the Green Ridge was once the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the troops reached Central Asia, and in the Daming it was Myanmar, Thailand and other surrounding countries were either Chinese territories, such as Vietnam was still a Chinese territory during the Han and Tang Dynasties, or it was a subject country like Korea, Japan is the most dishonest and unruly, and it has not honestly paid tribute to Daming?

The eyes of the Han people should have been bigger.

The sense of superiority of the people of the Celestial Empire is strong, but there are also counterexamples, the most obvious is that Li Pingzhi said that Emperor Yang of Sui, in order to show the national strength of the Great Sui, is also too prosperous, the barbarian envoys who went to Luoyang to eat and drink are all entertained by the government, and the trees on the side of the road are tied with silk flowers, I don't know how much national strength has been wasted to do such a stupid thing, the so-called boasting and deterring the barbarians, so that the Yuanyi to serve. In fact, there is no use for fart, the Turks are still invading, in the words of Confucianism, benevolence and virtue are not cultivated, and people from afar are not convinced, no matter how much they put on a show, they can only become a joke through the ages.

Li Pingzhi wasn't worried that it would be a joke, but he felt that it was not appropriate.

"This time it's a special case." Zhang Xuwen explained: "It is also to let them appreciate the gap with us, so that they can attract more local laborers in the future, whether they are workers or farming, they are no worse than Hermes-Epitek." And seeing the gap, when we enter the mountains in the future, we will receive much less resistance. I consumed some today, and I will make up for it tenfold and hundredfold in the future. ”

Li Pingzhi actually knew that Zhang Xuwen was telling the truth, but seeing these natives coming over to eat and drink for nothing, he must still feel a little uncomfortable.

If he had followed his temper and practice, he would have sent troops directly in, and those who were obedient would have eaten and drank, and those who were disobedient would have been greeted by swordsmen, and the mountains would have been pacified in three or five years.

However, Zhang Xuwen's method is more labor-saving, and he also intends to get used to the natives, the garrison office here is in charge of public security cases, where the natives and Han people fight, and judge the case according to the law, the natives will punish the natives if they are wrong, and the Han people will punish the Han people if they are wrong, impartial, all respect the law, Chang Wei and Sun Jingting agreed, and conveyed it to the heads of the natives, and these heads did not have a second word.

Only a few crooked ones were not very convinced, saying that they should be governed by the rules of their own society, Zhang Xuwen turned his face at that time, and wanted to push those heads away, and after some reprimand, those heads of the company at least obeyed the instructions on the surface.

There was a sound of trumpets and cannons in the distance, and Li Pingzhi lifted his spirits and said, "The Dutch are here!" ”

Zhang Xuwen smiled: "It's up to you." ”

Li Pingzhi: "The day before yesterday, I sent someone over to say that I wanted to reopen the negotiations, or I still had to go to Pinghu to talk, and I said at the time, either come to us to talk, or not to talk, but I just pinched my nose and came over." ”

After saying goodbye to Zhang Xuwen, the members of the dozens of negotiating groups were already waiting on the seawall, and now they were hugging Li Pingzhi to the beach.

Of course, the Dutch also had to meet Chang Wei and Sun Jingting, but they didn't have to go to the beach to greet them, just as Cohen and Song Ke would not have greeted the Hutchison mission.

Both sides know that they can't fight, and peace is the only option, but the Dutch have to twist and reserve, and Hutchison's side can only be left to them.

Now the ships have to be repaired and maintained, and it is not enough to put some pressure on the Dutch.

Fortunately, the other party can't hold on, and if you delay too much, you can't get along with money, and the major shareholders of the East India Company won't have much patience.

Seeing the Dutch ship approaching, Zhang Xuwen shook his head and smiled, sure enough, it was the crown prince.

Zheng Zhilong had also returned, and rushed back the day after the war.

After hearing about the extremely brilliant naval battle process, Zheng Zhi slapped his thigh angrily!

If they had come back a day earlier, they would have been in time for a naval battle, and the speed of the schooners would have been too fast, and the Dutch ships that had suffered in the port of Hirado would never have been able to catch up.

This time the war broke out on both sides of the battlefield, the Dutch suffered losses, the crown prince was pressed to the ground and beaten severely, obviously because of his physical strength, but there was no way to take a dwarf, and the control ability and reaction ability of the schooner were once again proven.

Of course, the Galen ship is not useless, from the double-deck mainstream at this time to the three-deck mainstream a few decades later, to the giant ships of more than 2,000 tons, to the ironclad ships with iron plates, and finally to the steam ironclad ships, battleships have always been the kings of naval warfare before the appearance of aircraft carriers...... It can't be said that the galleon is useless if it takes advantage of it, in fact, if it really becomes a situation of endless fighting, no matter how much the schooner takes advantage of, the two sides will keep bombarding each other, and it will only be the schooner that sinks!

The Crown Prince suffered a small loss, probably repaired it at Dayuan Port, and then hurriedly sent the mission over.

The eagerness of the Dutch was quite obvious, and in order not to delay the negotiations, they did not even have time to repair the ship, or they would not have sent a broken warship to Ben Harbor.

Because of their understanding of Hutchison, the Dutch were also relieved to send warships, on the one hand, for the sake of remaining face, and on the other hand, they really couldn't find any intact ships, whether they were battleships or merchant ships, they were all seriously damaged in the naval battle a few days ago.

"My lord," a close official suddenly whispered to Zhang Xuwen, "Li Pingzhi just had bad intentions." The affairs of the natives have always been in charge of adults, what kind of mouth does he have, and it is not that he will go out of the basket in the future to find trouble with adults. This time the matter of the Dutch mission, he was originally in control, and the scenery was all on him, and the adult made this interrogation of prisoners of war, with great fanfare, which not only showed the unique identity of the adult in the affairs of the natives, but also took away his scenery, and may also make the Dutch protest, and there was something wrong for no reason, and it was strange for Li Pingzhi to be happy......"

When this confidant official spoke, Zhang Xuwen just listened quietly, and after he finished speaking, he nodded and said: "I understand what you said, but I can't blame him, I am in a different place, put myself in his shoes and think about it, I really can't have a place." ”

Seeing the dumbfounded look of the official, Zhang Xuwen patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said: "It's like soothing the natives, you have to put yourself in your shoes and think more about everything, if you just think about yourself and don't think about others, good things will go wrong." Well, don't think about it, no matter what, just do our part well. ”

……

Looking at the sea in front of him, Song Ke looked blank, and the attachés around him didn't know what the governor's specific thoughts were.

Cohen had already planned to leave Taiwan, but when he saw the return of the badly damaged fleet and the fact that four ships had been captured, the governor of the East India Company, who had never liked to show his joy and anger, could not help but show all kinds of complicated expressions for a while.

Shock, anger, but also panic and regret.

At least from this moment on, Governor Cohen knew that his plan to integrate East Asia's trade and colonial spheres had failed.