Slowly, the headhunters were caught.

However, there are also some who are killed because of fierce resistance, which is also something that cannot be helped.

Lu Yan ordered someone to bring Aya over, and because he was dragged a distance after being hit by a lasso, he was covered in tatters, and there were blood stains on his face.

"Why did you attack our people?"

Lu Yan asked Ayadao.

Aya snorted coldly, turned her head and didn't answer.

A smile appeared on Lu Yan's face, it seems that this kid has quite a personality.

"My lord, why don't we kill them."

Meng Kuo said.

"No, we will first carry out labor reform and teach them to read and write, and then make a decision after a few years when they get used to our life."

Lu Yan said.

These headhunters are also compatriots, and they cannot be treated as one with those widows and whites.

Meng Kuo pursed his lips, even if this was Lu Yan's decision, he couldn't refute anything.

After leaving Aya, he had some of his soldiers escort the captives back to the pirate village.

Then they set off again for the tribe of the headhunters.

Soon followed Li Kuiqi to the front of the headhunter's village.

It is a very beautiful village, with a small clear river flowing not far from the village and rice fields as far as the eye can see.

Headhunters actually have farming, but their farming skills are very backward, and they are much worse than those of the Han people.

Looking at these rice fields, Lu Yan's face moved slightly, if they occupied these rice fields, then they would definitely be able to save them a lot of effort.

To be honest, it's a little late to open up the wasteland.

Some headhunter warriors outside the village saw so many cavalry, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly ran into the village.

Today, the chief's son went with more than a hundred brave warriors of the clan to drive away the outsiders, and how did he attract those outsiders?

Soon there was a commotion in the village, and a large number of soldiers continued to come out of the village and gather at the entrance of the village.

There are old and small ones, and it is obvious that their quality is much worse than the quality of the headhunters who fought them just now.

Lu Yan watched all this quietly, and did not stop their movements.

It didn't take long for a man who looked like a leader to walk out.

After seeing Aya being tied, the leader looked very excited, and he let out a loud roar at Lu Yan.

"That is their chief, and he told us to release his son immediately, or else we will cut off our heads and go and sacrifice to their gods."

Li Kuiqi translated for him.

Lu Yan sneered, and then let go of Aya.

Aya looked at him puzzled, why did he let him go, could it be that he was afraid of his father.

"Go tell your father that we must stay here. I asked one last time if he would like to live peacefully with us. If you want war, I'll give you war now. ”

Lu Yan said with a flat expression.

Aya looked at him with a complicated expression, and then limped towards the village.

These outsiders seemed to be very powerful, and the warriors of the tribe did not seem to have the slightest power to resist in front of them.

He felt that it was better to persuade his father to reconcile.

After Aya left, those Qi family's gunners immediately began to line up.

Xuanjia Jingqi and Cowardly Xue are lined up on both sides.

Almost all of them are full of faith, just some natives, and if they can't win, they can all die.

Soon, Aya quarreled with his father.

Aya had just seen the power of the firecrackers, so she didn't agree to go to war with these outsiders, at least if she planned to go to war, she should join forces with the other tribes.

But his father disagreed, and like the baby at the bottom of the well, he not only did not know how powerful the cavalry was, but they might not even have seen a firecracker.

Seeing that his son dared to speak up to him, the enraged leader whipped him a few times with the spear in his hand, and then let several people take him down.

Out of an abundance of caution, he inquired about the priests of the lower tribe.

But the priest told him that these outsiders had angered the gods.

Go to war, and the gods will bless his loyal warriors.

After receiving the assurance of sacrifice, the leader was even more confident.

Soon the warriors of the tribe were ordered to start charging.

Seeing this, Lu Yan shook his head.

"Shoot!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

“……”

There is no better weapon against these natives than a firecracker.

They had little armor on their bodies, and their bows and arrows were shot at close range, making it almost impossible to outwhelm these musketeers.

As long as Qi Jiajun's lead shot hits the other party, it will make a big hole in the opponent's body, and the other party will basically not have the possibility of surviving.

Watching the warriors of those tribes die one by one under the fire of the enemy, the leader's mouth simply opened in surprise.

Could it be that these people have mastered the power of the heavenly thunder.

The priest sat down trembling in terror, and then prayed incessantly to the gods, and the headhunter warriors soon dispersed.

Seeing this, everyone lowered their heads and laughed secretly, these headhunters are really too weak.

They've probably encountered the weakest enemy they've ever encountered.

"My lord, what should these people do?"

Deng Zilong asked.

"Arrest them all, force them to labor, and let them integrate into the Han nationality as soon as possible."

Lu Yan said.

Deng Zilong nodded, and soon those Xuanjia Elite Riders and Cowardly Xue rushed into the village.

After a not-so-fierce battle, all the headhunters were arrested.

"There are a lot of rice fields in this village, and I think we can move some people to come and farm, which just saves the effort of clearing the wasteland."

Lu Yan said.

He cares more about these rice paddies than those headhunters.

It was a little late to open up the wasteland, and his army had been growing in numbers and needed more food to meet their needs.

"But if we do so, we may anger the nearby headhunter tribes."

Deng Zilong said.

These headhunters are already extremely aggressive, not to mention occupying the villages that belong to them.

"Then fight, we will never be afraid of war."

Lu Yan said coldly.

War will not make him weaker, it will only make him stronger and stronger, and his opponents are these weak headhunters.

Everyone nodded, feeling that Lu Yan's words were reasonable.

After returning to the pirate village with these captives, Lu Yan told Zhang Juzheng about this idea.

Zhang Juzheng also felt that this method was feasible, and after he took some of his men to see the village in person, he agreed.

So the next step was to move some of the inhabitants and slaves to that village, and all the houses, furniture, and farmland were ready-made.

Of course, the Pirate Village is not to be abandoned, and its proximity to the coast makes it an excellent place to build a city.

Lü Yan received about 1,000 points of merit in this battle, which was exactly 50 Mongolian heavy cavalry to protect them.

To deal with these natives, you don't need any elite troops, these Mongol heavy cavalry are completely enough.

Moreover, Mongolian horses are notoriously easy to feed, they will not lose fat when they eat grass, and it is enough to feed them a little grain, in addition to milking cows and improving people's nutrition.

While relocating the residents, in order to obtain a relatively stable safe zone, Lu Yan once again embarked on a diplomatic journey against those headhunters.

Only two tribes accepted his kindness, and the other tribes were full of malice towards outsiders.

They kept sending people to attack Lu Yan's men, so Lu Yan had to send troops to exterminate the nearby headhunters.

After about a month of campaigning, the security situation in the vicinity was finally stabilized temporarily, but Lü Yan also gained a lot of labor, and the pace of building the city was greatly accelerated.

In the days that followed, Lu Yan's situation was generally good, and because the Taiwan Strait was a busy waterway, his robbery was in full swing, and he was able to rob a large amount of goods basically every day.

But this was accompanied by a large consumption of gunpowder and ammunition, especially chain bullets, which were consumed the most in order to capture the opposing ship and destroy the enemy's sails.

Although a small amount of replenishment can be obtained after capturing those Western merchant ships, it still cannot make up for the huge consumption.

Therefore, how to obtain ammunition supplies must be put on the agenda, and it is impossible to buy them from the Ming Dynasty.

And now that he has thousands of people under his command, it is inevitable that some people will get sick, and these people will need all kinds of medicinal herbs when they are sick.

In addition, the pace of building the city was beyond his expectations, and the axes and farm tools in his hands were not enough.

Lu Yan felt that he needed a lot of material supplies now, and there was only one country that could provide these material supplies, and that was Da Ming.

When I think of Daming's maritime ban policy, Lu Yan is the first two big.

Now is not the afterlife, if you want to buy something, you can just click on the Internet, but now is the age when money can't buy things.

The Westerners fought each other for the purchase of the goods of the Ming Dynasty, and soon after, the British and the Dutch would form a coalition of 16 ships and 1,024 men to fight a fierce battle between Macao and Portugal, an excellent place for trade with the Ming Dynasty.

Before long, the Dutch would occupy Penghu, and their aim would be to beg for a trade.

Lu Yan was actually full of inexplicable affection for the Ming Dynasty, the last dynasty of the Han people, and he assassinated Sun Degong back then, but he also had the intention of helping the Ming Dynasty, so he didn't want to conflict with the Ming Dynasty.

But if he can't get the materials he needs, he will have to start a conflict with Da Ming.

For this reason, Lu Yan had to find Li Kuiqi and Zhang Shiyu.

"How did you sell stolen goods before? Borrow that channel for selling stolen goods. ”

All pirates had their own way of selling their stolen goods, because they needed salt, clothing, and farm tools, all of which needed to be exchanged for looted goods.

Lu Yan believes that they have their own channels for selling stolen goods in Daming.

It would be a good thing if he could get the supplies he needed through this channel.

Li Kuiqi and Zhang Shiyu glanced at each other, and Li Kuiqi first said: "I came to sell the stolen goods through the Lin family in Quanzhou." ”

After speaking, he introduced the Quanzhou Lin family, which is a well-known local family.

The ancestors once produced several jinshi, which is a very remarkable thing in Fujian, where the literary style is not prosperous.

Even in this generation, there are still people in the Lin family who have been admitted to the Jinshi.

Although it is only a county order now, it also has a bright future, and the officials of Fujian are very face-saving.

Although his family is a well-known family, there are many people in Fujian and few places, and the same is true of their family.

If you want to ensure the longevity of the family, it is necessary to obtain enough silver taels to ensure that the children of the family can study.

It was impossible to feed on the land, so they, like almost all other great tribes, began to rely on the sea to eat the sea.

Therefore, the Lin family inevitably became involved in overseas trade, and they not only organized their own fleet, but also colluded with a large number of pirates.

Under the pretext of selling the stolen goods on behalf of them, they not only saved their own fleet from robbery, but also hired pirates to rob their competitors.

Sometimes, they would even have some pirates ashore to help them kill some opponents who were inconvenient for them to attack.

After hearing this, Lu Yan knew in his heart that this was the ancient version of the collusion between officials and bandits.

Zhang Shiyu also talked about his backstage, but his backstage power is obviously much smaller.

"So is there a way for the Lin family to help me get gunpowder, refined iron, tin and lead, and medicinal materials?"

Lu Yan asked.

"I'm afraid this is a bit difficult, if you want to get these things, there are too many joints to unblock, and the cost is too great."

Li Kuiqi said with some embarrassment.

Gunpowder and the like are definitely real military supplies, and it takes a lot of risk to get them to pirates.

"But it's probably not a problem to get food and medicinal herbs."

"It's not bad to be able to get food and medicinal herbs, you can contact the Lin family when you go back, and ask them to send someone who can speak here, I want to see him."

Lu Yan said.

Now that there is a shortage of all kinds of materials here, and he has grabbed a large amount of materials that cannot be realized, he feels that it is time for him to think about how to sell the stolen goods.