Chapter 61: War
Relying only on their original manpower, they are no match for those headhunters, and perhaps it will not be long before they are forced to move out of Taiwan. οΌ»
Only then did Lu Yan understand that it was no wonder that Taiwan was so big and so close to the mainland, and it had never been well developed.
I just don't know if they will tolerate the presence of these outsiders.
It seems that the conflict with the headhunters is inevitable, thinking of this, Lu Yan couldn't help but sigh.
He thought for a while and said, "Go back and make arrangements, see if you can invite those two headhunter tribes to come to the banquet, I plan to invite them." β
We are civilized people, and everything we do is to salute first and then soldier, Lu Yan still plans to try to improve the relationship with these headhunters.
"Yes, my lord."
Li Kuiqi said.
"The next tasks are mainly as follows. One of them is to wipe out the surrounding pirates in order to pacify the maritime frontier, whether it is the Japanese people, the Hongmao Fan people or our Han pirates, only a peaceful maritime frontier can promote the great development of overseas trade. β
Lu Yan thought for a while and said, "My plan is to sweep away all the pirates around in two years, and then we will make a maritime order. No ship that does not fly our flag will not be allowed to pass through the sea, and if it wants to fly our flag, it must pay us taxes and silver. Of course, this was two years later. β
Hearing this, Li Kuiqi and Zhang Shiyu both opened their mouths in surprise.
This is too arrogant, and it wants to sweep away all the pirates.
Do you have the strength?
But soon they felt that maybe Lu Yan really had this strength.
With the seven giant ships outside Lu Yan, plus these elite soldiers, it is no problem to at least dominate the sea areas in this area.
If some pirates could be brought together, then this idea would not be impossible.
"Another task is to build a city and farm, this task is in charge of Mr. Taiyue, and all the slaves and refugees are deployed by Lord Zhang. The construction of the city can be slower, but the spring ploughing must not be mistaken. β
In order to avoid shocking the world, Lu Yan has always regarded Mr. Taiyue Zhang Juzheng, after all, Zhang Juzheng is too famous.
Zhang Juzheng nodded and said, "Please rest assured, I'll leave these to me." β
"The other one is robbery, which is still the old rule. When we encounter the ships of the Westerners and the Japanese, not only the ships must be detained, but the Japanese and Westerners must all be detained, and then castrated as slaves. β
Lu Yan said with a smile.
Hearing this, Zhang Shiyu and Li Kuiqi couldn't help but shudder.
Because of this sentence, I don't know how many widows and whites are going to be castrated, and it seems that the one in front of me has a special love for eunuchs.
LΓΌ Yan then instructed some other things, such as finding a way to bring in poor peasants from Fujian to speed up the land reclamation here.
After the meeting was dismissed, the people here immediately took action.
Li Kuiqi and Zhang Shiyu respectively sent some ships and the "Royal Charles", "Triumph", and "Golden Deer" to form a fleet to go out to rob.
In order to put the "Golden Deer" into actual combat, all the sailors and gunners on it were withdrawn from the "Sea Sovereign", so it was not a problem to go to sea to fight.
The others, except for the sailors on the newly recruited Western giant ships, all started a vigorous large-scale construction campaign under the organization of Zhang Juzheng.
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The Taiwan Strait is indeed a major trade route between the East and the West, and a large number of ships pass through this channel every day.
With the participation of those light clippers, it would be very difficult for these ships to escape from Lu Yan's mouth.
Almost as long as the ships were discovered, they were all snatched by Lu Yan.
In just seven days, Lu Yan robbed a Dutch ship, a Spanish ship, and two Japanese ships.
Although the whites and the Japanese people all protested against Lu Yan in strong terms, Lu Yan ignored all of them.
All the whites and widows on those boats were pulled out by him and castrated, and then became a slave of Lu Yan, and Lu Yan's slaves skyrocketed to more than 400.
In addition to these slave incomes, LΓΌ Yan also received a large amount of goods from those ships.
For example, Japanese knives, lacquerware, raw silk, porcelain, and tea from the Ming Dynasty, the value of these goods alone is worth about 100,000 taels.
Coupled with the other Ming ships looted these days, Lu Yan obtained a total of about 130,000 taels of goods and silver, not counting those ships.
Having grabbed so many things, Lu Yan was of course very happy.
As long as all these goods are sold, then Xiang Yu and their military salaries will be settled.
In addition, Zhang Juzheng is in charge of civil affairs, and Qingji Gongzi, Yang Youji, Deng Zilong and others are in charge of military affairs.
Therefore, Lu Yan does not have much to be responsible for, sometimes teasing Zeng Xiaoshuang to play, or taking his subordinates around hunting to relax, life is really comfortable.
But God didn't want to see Lu Yan so leisurely, and soon a troublesome matter came to the door.
Li Kuiqi sent envoys to the nearby headhunters on Lu Yan's orders, but those headhunters didn't seem to be interested in Lu Yan's olive branch.
Not only did they drive the messenger out, but the messenger brought out very bad news.
"What do you say? He told us to hurry up and get out of the ** bay. β
After listening to the words of the pirate messenger, Lu Yan's face was black.
Nima Laozi kindly invited you to a banquet, if you don't agree, it's just that, and let me get out of ** Bay, it's really unbearable Uncle can't bear it.
"That's right, they said that if you don't get out of here with your men quickly, they will attack your men."
The pirate said with an aggrieved expression.
Usually, those headhunters are kind for the sake of the farm tools they sent.
But I didn't expect it to be so vicious this time, and it was obvious that Lu Yan's large-scale entry made them feel threatened.
"So they chose war."
Lu Yan said with a sneer.
"I think so."
The pirate said.
"Then I will give them war."
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But starting a war is not a hasty matter, Lu Yan discussed with Qingji Gongzi and them, and decided to launch an active attack on the head hunter clan the next day, and it was not Lu Yan's personality to sit back and watch the enemy attack.
Perhaps knowing that there is a war going on today, the sky has become particularly gloomy.
The refugees from Liaodong began to get up and cook, and Lu Yan also ordered his subordinates to leave immediately after breakfast.
As for the vast majority of the slaves who had just been captured, after all, men, without that thing, it would inevitably hurt their vitality, and Lu Yan was still very sympathetic to his slaves.
As for the white slaves and Japanese slaves who were captured very early, they began to cut down trees before they ate, and Lu Yan called it morning exercises.
For Lu Yan's capitalist exploitation, almost all slaves hated it, but their arms couldn't twist their thighs, and in the face of the soldiers' knives, guns and sticks, those slaves could only helplessly dedicate their youth and labor to Lu Yan.
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