Chapter Ninety-Seven: Oil and Salt Don't Enter

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The next day, Mao Geng took a few disciples to the island of Taiwan to negotiate with the aboriginal nail households and make some plans for the infrastructure.

After 6 days, it rained heavily, and the negotiations with the nail households were forced to be postponed, Mao Geng thought about it for a while, and decided to simply postpone the negotiations to the third day, within these two days, Mao Geng asked Tan Xiaochun to take the lead, and built a simple pavilion on the grass where the first few negotiations with the aborigines along the way, so that the negotiations could be rain or shine. In addition, Mao Geng also wanted to let these nail households see the advanced construction technology of the Great Song Dynasty, and the message that Mao Geng wanted to convey was that compared to the shelter performance of the pavilion, the tent was simply slag, not to mention the brick house. The purchase price of the tent is high, a tent is more than six times, but the aborigines do not understand the price of the two, it stands to reason, two tents are not as good as a pavilion, Mao Geng to his own people, feel that this group of nail households may have seen the pavilion, will not insist on two tents, Mao Geng hopes that these guys can accept a shed to compensate for the conditions of a pavilion, the big deal is to add a little more code, Mao Geng's hole card, is to build a wall for the pavilion.

A lot of soldiers have now also gone to the island, a simple unloading trestle has been built by the sea, a simple wharf has been built on the bank of the river, all kinds of building materials are constantly being transported to the island, wood is naturally not lacking, cement tiles have also been transported ashore, under the organization of Tan Xiaochun, seven or eight carpenters have started together, and it took less than two days to build a simple pavilion.

Mao Geng looked at the pavilion he designed from a distance, because the material of the roof is cement powa, the herringbone structure is adopted, rather than the four-sided symmetrical quadrangular pavilion and octagonal pavilion structure, and there is no traditional cornice, so it looks a little stupid, at least the shape is not vivid enough. But the aborigines should not have cultivated a critical aesthetic taste, there is such a pavilion is already burning high incense, at least in terms of practicality, this pavilion is not inferior, Mao Geng thought.

Mao Geng finally decided to give this pavilion a name, think about the four famous pavilions in later generations, among which the Lake Center Pavilion and the Drunken Weng Pavilion in the West Lake were built in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Aiwan Pavilion and Taoran Pavilion were built in the Qing Dynasty. When the pavilion was completed, it was full of sunset, Mao Geng was originally going to simply name it "Aiwan Pavilion", but then he changed his mind, and with a stroke of his pen, he wrote three big characters - Aimin Pavilion. The name and the pavilion are very compatible, and both are not related to the elegance.

From He Dalai's mouth, I learned that these natives seem to be divided into three small tribes, the group of nail tribes is the most fierce group, they actually have iron blades in their hands, and they are the fiercest confrontation with the Song army, they have killed and injured more than 30 people, and the Song army against them also killed two people and injured seven people. Speaking of which, Song Jun only destroyed their fourteen sheds, and in Mao Geng's heart, it didn't matter if he compensated them more. However, among them, there are elderly people who have reached a compensation agreement to participate in the negotiations, so it is absolutely impossible to raise the compensation standard lightly, otherwise it is necessary to raise the standard in one bowl. If it doesn't work, it will cause misunderstanding among another group of indigenous people, so it will be passive.

On the third day, the representative of the nail household came as promised, and the old man who advocated peace negotiations on the aboriginal side came with him, the representative of the aboriginal nail household was three people, and Mao Geng's side, He Dalai and Mo Xiaoba were the natural representatives, it is said that the aborigines will become calm when they see the eye-catching swollen bag on Mo Xiaoba's forehead, and Mo Xiaoba's storage will invisibly enhance the harmonious atmosphere, and he must be there. The other is Guo Xixian, Guo Xixian is martial arts, both civil and military, if the other party wants to use force, Guo Xi can protect himself first, but also protect some Mao Geng.

The pavilion negotiated by the two sides is a hundred steps (one step and one meter five) away from the people and horses on the side of the Great Song Dynasty, which is the aboriginal nail household and their side insists on this, they are worried that the Song people will make a sneak attack, and they must be far away from the range of bows and arrows before they are willing to go to the negotiation.

Mao Geng and Guo Xixian were both wearing the official uniforms of the Great Song Dynasty, only He Dalai was neatly dressed in armor and helmet, and Mo Xiaoba was still like that, wearing armor but not wearing a helmet, and the natives were used to seeing Mo Xiaoba like this.

Mao Geng still has some confidence in this negotiation and has done a lot of homework for this. But the aboriginal nail households did not show flexibility in sending new negotiators to the Song people.

Mao Geng proposed a shed to compensate for a pavilion, and the aboriginal representatives shook their heads in unison. Well, Mao Geng decided to take a step back and drew a pattern of brick houses, proposing that it would be okay for a shed to compensate for a brick house, but the aborigines needed to build the walls themselves, and the Great Song Xiangjun would build the roof trusses, and provide doors, windows and slabs of bricks and lime, and then the aborigines would build the brick walls themselves, which would be complete brick houses, and the aborigines would just do some coolies. Seeing the dazed look of the aboriginal representative, Mao Geng had already prepared for this situation, building materials such as slabs and bricks had already been piled up next to the pavilion, and Mao Geng immediately asked He Dalai and Mo Xiaoba to demonstrate how to build a wall. After a lot of comparisons, it was easy for the four natives to understand what Mao Geng meant, but what made people hate was that they still shook their heads vigorously.

The incense in the pavilion has been renewed twice, and the incense burned here is not to show piety, but to dispel miasma, and it is equipped with medicines such as realgar to dispel miasma. Mao Geng watched one stick of incense burn out and another stick of incense burned out, and his heart began to become irritable, but Mao Geng was not discouraged and decided to use a new move.

At this time, it was already noon, and Mao Geng proposed to eat together and talk while eating. In later generations, there were more things to negotiate at the banquet, maybe these natives would also eat this set, and maybe they could even perform the magical drama of drinking as an alliance.

Song Jun had already prepared for this, and the personnel in civilian clothes brought up the wine, meat and food at a low price, but the representative of the nail household did not refuse to come to him, and when he saw the fragrant food brought up, he didn't know how to be polite, so he grabbed the food and stuffed it into his mouth. The old man was quite particular and tried to use the chopsticks to deal with the food in front of him, but after many attempts he couldn't make the chopsticks work freely, he smiled awkwardly and shook his head. Seeing this scene, Mao Geng simply threw away his chopsticks, grabbed the food and nibbled it up, and gestured to persuade the person opposite to drink.

Mao Geng's actions won the hearts of the natives, and they more or less smiled, and even the fierce-looking guy grinned, although the smile was ugly. As for drinking, there was no need for Mao Geng to persuade them at all, they picked up the wine bowl and drank wildly, bowl after bowl, which made Mao Geng dumbfounded.

Fortunately, there were a number of wine prepared in advance, and this wine was a strong liquor transported from Lin'an, Mao Geng just hoped that the negotiation opponent would be a little drunk, and he must not be drunk like mud, so the total amount of wine sent was controlled. But the guys drank too quickly and violently, and soon, two of them looked a little drunk, including the male-looking one.

Mao Geng seized the time, compared with them again, and relaxed the conditions again, this time there was no mention of letting the natives send people to build the wall by themselves, and it was completely built for them by the Great Song Xiangjun, and if they destroyed a broken shed, they would compensate for a one-square-meter brick house - slab bricks for the wall, and cement for the roof. Mao Geng thought to himself that this was the real "face for face", and this time they should be satisfied. Now the relationship has also taken a step closer, and so far, even if it is a nail household, it should be accepted when it is good.

The three representatives of the nail household muttered to each other for a while, but when they muttered, the fierce-looking guy lay down as he spoke, obviously unable to resist the strength of the wine.

The remaining two people gestured, saying that the matter had to go back to discuss before it could be decided, according to the old man's comparison, it seemed that these two people were a little tempted, but the person who was drunk and lying down was their leader, and it seemed that they were still hesitating. However, the old man said that there seemed to be a lot of hope.

This day's negotiation ended like this, Mao Geng couldn't think of any reason for the other party to refuse, it is estimated that when they meet again tomorrow, they will happily agree, and Mao Geng decided that as long as they accept the conditions, it is also acceptable to compensate them with some other things.

But the next day, the other party even the old man only three people came to the pavilion, the drunk guy did not appear, the two who came accused the Great Song of bad intentions, and their conditions, turned out to be even more crazy, the previous request was a shed to compensate for two tents, but now the request has intensified, into a shed must compensate for two brick houses.

This made Mao Geng very angry, these guys were simply determined that Da Song wanted to rush to an agreement, hum! These people are simply unreasonable! But then again, the nail households of later generations also have the same style and bones, and they are also not allowed to enter oil and salt.

This was originally a discouraging thing, but Mao Geng turned around and thought dialectically, the existing nail household also has an advantage, that is, it is convenient to ask the imperial court for policies, so as to make Taiwan, a special administrative region, the most relaxed. When I think about it like this, my heart is relieved, and I will no longer be depressed about it.