I saw that the faces and bodies of these people in front of me were all densely covered with pimples, and they looked like toads, especially under the dim torches, they looked even more disgusting, and they felt that the other party seemed to be a group of toad spirits.

However, experienced people know that these natives must be survivors of smallpox before, and when they got smallpox, these natives had no experience and broke the pus cells on their bodies, which caused this disgusting appearance.

Although these natives looked vicious, they knew how to advance and retreat, and when they saw that they were blackened, they immediately threw down their weapons and surrendered, after all, there were only seven or eight of them left, and most of them were wounded, and there was no chance of escaping at all.

It's a pity that Ma Ming, who has been in the army for many years, has no compassion, I saw a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and said with a murderous face: "Kill them all, and then send them to the city to receive a reward!" ”

Hearing Ma Ming's order, Sam and the others, who had already prepared next to him, immediately released their arrows, and after a few screams, all the surviving natives were killed. The natives on the island of Java were originally hostile to the Han people, although they experienced the disaster of smallpox, but it was still difficult to change their nature, so for the natives on the island, the Daqi official has always had only one word, that is, "kill", and even the government has specially contributed a part of the funds for this, and each native's head can be exchanged for two copper coins, which is also a lot of money.

Then someone stepped forward and cut off the head of the native, and another slave dragged the corpse outside and buried it. Ma Ming summoned the patrol team that first encountered the natives and asked about the battle between the two sides.

This patrol group was originally lined up behind Ma Ming and them, but just as they were moving along the original patrol route. The wolfdog next to him suddenly spotted the natives who had broken in, and rushed up to bite the natives. The patrol members also hurried over, but they didn't expect that there were so many natives. For a while, he was not an opponent, so he was injured by them, and the other three were also slightly injured.

In the end, Ma Ming rushed to the place where the Turen were found, and found that a large area of the sugarcane forest there had been cut down, and all of them were tied into bundles, which seemed to be stealing sugarcane.

"Brother Ma, why is this so strange, it is said that in this part of Java, it is not difficult to find something to eat. Why did these natives take the risk to come to us in order to steal a few bundles of sugar cane? One of them asked with a puzzled look at the sugar cane in the sugar cane field.

"Yes, and our plantation is so close to Coconut City, and there are several plantations such as the Li family and the Zhou family on the periphery, all of which are planted with sugarcane, why don't they go there to steal, but secretly come to us to steal it?" The other asked, similarly confused. These surviving natives generally live in the deep mountains and forests far from the Han cities, even if they come out to rob. They will only rob those plantations that are far away from the city, and I have never heard that they will pass through a few plantations and come to the edge of the city to rob, and just for a few bundles of sugar cane?

Originally, the natives themselves must have known this problem. It's a pity that Ma Ming killed people too quickly, and he didn't have time to ask. But if you don't understand it, you don't want to, anyway, people are already dead. Who cares why the natives are here? Maybe the other party is simply lost, or maybe there is something wrong with the brain.

After these dozen natives made such a fuss. Many people in the manor were woken up, especially the wounded. I also have to trouble the doctor in the manor to help bandage it, fortunately, except for the slave, everyone else is slightly injured, and it will be fine after a few days, as for the slave, it was a knife for the overseer next to him, the wound was in the lower abdomen, and it also hurt the internal organs, it is more troublesome to treat, the conditions in the manor are limited, and the doctor can only do a simple treatment, and he needs to be sent to the hospital in Coconut City tomorrow.

The others didn't have anything to do with Ma Ming, just when he remembered that there was still wild boar meat boiling in the corner tower, he invited other patrolling people to eat and drink at the moment, but he didn't dare to drink, after all, tonight's night duty is not over, and no one dares to be too careless.

It is also worth mentioning that because of the slave's previous heroic performance and the saving of an overseer's life, the Ma family is now discussing that it is likely that this slave will be freed from slavery and become a free man. This further stimulated the other slaves, and even in the following period, the cane was harvested much faster than usual.

However, the next morning, when the man who had sent the heads of the natives to the city to receive the reward returned, he brought with him a definite piece of news, which made everyone know the origin of the natives.

It turned out that just a month ago, a group of hundreds of native robbers attacked a plantation thirty miles southeast of Coconut City, but the force of this plantation was very strong, and it resisted the attack of the native people with a strong fortress, and finally the regular army sent by Coconut City came to annihilate most of the native robbers, but there were still some fish that escaped the net.

Afterwards, Coconut City sent a small force to clean up, and indeed exterminated some of the fleeing native robbers. Later, a month passed, and there was no news of the native robbers, which made Coconut City think that all the fleeing natives should be exterminated, so they relaxed, but they didn't expect that there were still fish that slipped through the net, which can be determined from the appearance of those natives and the weapons used.

After hearing the news, the people in Ma's plantation were relieved, but they didn't dare to be careless, and even sent more patrols every night, for fear that there would be any more fish that slipped through the net.

In addition, after this incident, Ma Ming, the head of the plantation's guards, deeply felt that the plantation's force was insufficient, and this time it was just a group of bandits who came out, if there was really a group of robbers with hundreds of people attacking the plantation in the future, it was likely that he would not be able to hold it.

In view of this situation, Ma Ming persuaded the rest of the Ma family to buy a batch of civilian muskets at a high price, this musket was just launched this year, and it was also the first batch of muskets to be sold to the people.

For this kind of thing, in addition to the people in the army, most of the people are only known by its name, and it is rumored that the power of this firearm has been blown to the sky, but it is a pity that whether it is Datang or Daqi, the management of muskets is very strict, and no one is allowed to hold it at all, but with the development of Daqi overseas, the civil armed forces urgently need to be strengthened, so Li Su finally decided to let the arsenal produce a simple version of the musket to sell to the people, so that the overseas Han people can have the power to protect themselves.

First of all, you must have a Han household registration, second, you must have a valid reason to buy a gun, and thirdly, when buying a gun, a household registration is only allowed to buy a gun, and the price of this gun is not cheap, and the average small rich family can't afford it. Moreover, ordinary people do not need it at all, and only those who are rich like Ma and need to be defended by force are eligible to buy muskets.

Java is a relatively dangerous area, so the number of guns purchased here is also relatively relaxed, and the civilian guns purchased by the Ma family were also delivered quickly, and there is also a large number of bullets, these bullets are the same as those used in the army, they are all paper shell bullets, and when you use it, you need to bite through the paper skin, and then pour the gunpowder into the primer pool and the barrel, and finally stuff the bullet firmly to shoot.

There are a total of forty-six people in the entire Ma family manor with Han household registration, so the Ma family can only buy forty-six guns, and then all the men, women and children in the manor must learn to shoot, except for slaves, of course.

This decision made Ma Xiaoyu, a lively and active girl, very excited, and pestered Ma Ming every day to play more, but her marksmanship was too stinky, and it was rare to hit a target once with a hundred shots. However, Thea is very talented in shooting, and she is more accurate than most adults at a young age, and only Ma Ming can beat her in the entire plantation, which makes Ma Ming very surprised, and even gave birth to the idea of recruiting Thea into the escort team. However, this was strongly opposed by Ma Xiaoyu, on the grounds that Thea wanted to go to school with her and could not stay in the manor.

As for Thea's going to school, as early as when she was still on the ship, Li Yong had already told her that she should study hard at school so that she could take her fate into her own hands in the future, so Thea has always had a strong fantasy about going to school. However, because of the new construction of Coconut City, the school was going to carry out the final construction some time ago, so the students were given a few days off, which is why Ma Xiaoyu has been staying at home, but now the school has come to notify the students, and the students can go to school tomorrow.

Mr. and Mrs. Sam didn't know what school was all about, but after coming into contact with the people on the plantation, they gradually understood the meaning of going to school, and knew that only by letting their daughter go to school could she live a better life in the future, so they were very supportive, and they didn't need their daughter to help them work now.

However, for Thea to go to school, the happiest thing is Ma Xiaoyu, because it means that she and Thea can not only play together, but also study together, especially when they go to school, because many children's families are usually on plantations outside the city, and rarely live in the city, so students usually choose to live in school, Ma Xiaoyu has long wanted to find a partner, and now she can finally get her wish.

The day before school, Ma Xiaoyu gave Thea one of her schoolbags, and pulled Thea to tell a lot of interesting things about school in the evening, and there were also things to pay attention to on the first day of school, which made Thea listen to it with relish and look forward to the school even more. (To be continued......)