"Captain, the chief, and most of the people believe us, but now that noisy native doesn't believe that we are messengers of the gods, it seems that we need to come up with some means to scare these dirt buns!" Liu Kata whispered.

Lu Wan also nodded after hearing this, turned back and gave a few words to a person beside him, and then this person left quickly, and after a while, a large ship parked in the open sea slowly sailed. These natives had seen these large boats for a long time, and they usually went to the sea to fish, but they used small boats made of a local plant, which were not comparable to the Galen ships of Lüvan, and this was one of the reasons why the natives believed that they were messengers of the gods.

As the huge ship drew nearer, the look of awe on the faces of all the natives, even the young native, who did not believe it, and when the big ship stopped, everyone on the beach could see clearly that the crew of the ship pushed out a cannon from the cabin, fixed it, and aimed it at a huge reef not far away.

With a loud bang, a hot cannonball flew out, the distance between the boat and the reef was only about 100 steps, and the volume of the reef exposed to the sea was the size of a basketball court, so there was no need to aim too accurately, and a shot hit the reef, resulting in the gravel on the reef, and the scene was extremely terrifying.

When the artillery was first used in the U Kingdom, many U soldiers thought that the gods had descended, and now the natives on Chinese New Year's Eve Island were not even as good as the U people, so when they saw the power of the artillery, especially the loud noise just now, they immediately knelt down in fright, chanting in the native language such words as "God forgives sins", and even the young natives who were not convinced just now were frightened. The leader who followed them fell to their knees, no longer daring to question Lu Wan's identity.

See the effect. Lu Wan, Liu Kata and the others all looked at each other and smiled, they were already familiar with this trick. As long as they encounter an ignorant native like today, and the other party has a sense of awe, then take out the artillery or fireworks to show off, and the other party will immediately respect the other party as a god, and no longer dare to resist in the slightest.

In fact, the artillery on the ship was also asked by Yan Bei for Li Su with a dead face, originally thinking that Lu Wan and them would take them on the ship, if they encountered any strong enemies, they could use artillery to deter the other party, so that even if they couldn't beat it. Running away is still fine. At the beginning, Lu Wan did encounter a lot of merchant ships from Persia and other countries, but when the other party saw that they were Tang people, they were all very respectful, even if they were pirates from foreign countries, they didn't dare to provoke them, after all, everyone knew that this sea area was the world of the Tang Dynasty, if they still wanted to mix here. You can't provoke the Tang people, otherwise you will wait for the other party's crazy revenge.

It was precisely because of this that the artillery on Lu Wan's ship was useless, and all the people they encountered later were natives. And even if there is a conflict, it is on land, and the natives on the sea cannot withstand their impact at all. Where are the artillery still used? It was only later by chance that Lüvan discovered another role of artillery. That is to pretend to be a ghost and go down with one shot. The awe-inspiring natives will all tremble, no longer dare to resist them, and will even offer all kinds of supplies and news.

After the first time, the artillery, which was originally considered a chicken rib, finally had room to exert its residual heat, and became a pretending prop for Lu Wan's great god stick, and the effect was also excellent, almost as soon as it appeared, those natives were all respected, and even in the days to come, as long as the slave catcher team landed on the island with artillery, the natives who were deceived by Lu Wan immediately knelt down and sent their people to the ship.

Hundreds of years later, some of the descendants of the Turen who had been assimilated by the Han people proudly praised: "When our ancestors saw the cannonball fired by the seafaring pioneer, Captain Lüvan, they knew that this was the will of the gods, guiding us from ignorance to civilization and opening a new chapter for the Nanyang nation!" ”

After dealing with these natives in front of him, Lu Wan immediately asked people to take out some silk and porcelain to give to these natives, assuming that this was a gift that the gods had asked him to pass on to them. Chinese New Year's Eve Island already belongs to the southern hemisphere, and merchants from Persia and other countries have not yet arrived here, so it can be said that Lu Wan is the first batch of maritime merchants to come to the island, so the natives are also the first time to see such exquisite gifts, especially those jade-like porcelain, let them be like treasures, carefully held in their hands, their faces full of pious expressions.

This is called the combination of grace and power, the power of the artillery allows them to see their own power, and then give these strange gifts, which will only make these natives more determined to be their gods, and it will be more convenient to do things in the future.

Next, Lu Wan invited these natives into the camp, and then served them with wine and food, and after the natives tasted the delicious food made by the professional chef, they shouted one by one that this was a gift from the gods, which made Lu Wan and the others very funny in their hearts.

After inviting the natives to taste the delicious food, the next step is to get to the point, by Lu Wan asked, Liu Kata helped translate, they began to ask each other about the island, as a result, they learned from each other's mouths that this island is not only their own natives, but divided into two parts, of which the eastern part of the island where they are located is covered by forests, and the natives in front of Lu Wan live in this forest, usually hunting for a living, and occasionally go to the sea to fish, they call themselves Bapu people.

The other group of natives lived on the plains on the west side of the island, and lived mainly by fishing and gathering, although they also occasionally hunted the animals of the plains, and the Bapu people called them Yali, and the two tribes were full of contradictions and often clashed with each other. In addition, Lu Wan also learned from the other party's words that both the Bab people and the Yali people have the custom of headhunting, and they will also eat the corpses of the enemies they kill, that is to say, these two indigenous tribes are cannibals.

In fact, the so-called cannibals are not as terrifying as most people think, such as the Bapu people in front of Lu Wan and them, they usually make a living by hunting, and they eat the same things as ordinary people, but when there is a war with the enemy, they will eat the corpse of the enemy, because they think that in this way, they can get the courage of the other party.

Lu Wan and the others had also encountered a lot of cannibals before, so they didn't have any special fear of the Bapu people, and even in their opinion, these Bapu people were simple-minded, and because they lived by hunting, they were stronger than ordinary natives, so they were really good slave candidates.

After asking about the situation on the island, Lu Wan had a try-and-see attitude and asked if the other party knew about the situation on the nearby islands? Originally, he didn't have much hope for this, after all, these natives' small boats could only fish in the inshore waters at most, and they couldn't sail far at all, so they must have limited knowledge of the surrounding islands.

The leader of the Bapu tribe was originally named Bapu, but after hearing Liu Kata's translation, he pointed to the south of the island with an excited face and said a big call, while Liu Kata was dumbfounded, and even saliva flowed out of his mouth.

Seeing Liu Kata's expression, Lu Wan and the others were all taken aback, and finally waited for Bapu to finish speaking, Lu Wan immediately asked: "Liu Tongyi, what did the other party say, is there any big island in the south?" ”

And Liu Kata wiped the saliva from his mouth at this time, and said to Lu Wan with an excited face: "Captain, this time we are going to send it, according to Bapu, not far to the south of their island, there is a huge island, how big Bapu is not clear, only know that their ancestors have been there, but according to my estimate, it should be a big island no less than Taiwan, and it may even be bigger than Taiwan!" ”

Lu Wan was also very excited when he heard this, but then he thought of a question, and said with a frown: "If it's as big as Taiwan, it's just right, but don't be as big as Borneo or Jinzhou, otherwise it will be very bad for us to catch slaves!" ”

Hearing Lu Wan's words, Liu Kata and the others also woke up from their excitement, and their faces were also filled with a layer of melancholy. The Borneo island in Luvin's mouth refers to the later Kalimantan Island, and the Golden Island refers to the later Sumatra Island, these two islands are vast and populous, and they are said to be two extremely ideal places for slave hunting, but the bad is in this vast area.

At the beginning, there was a shortage of people on the island of Taiwan, Yanbei first sent people to Luzon Island to catch slaves, and then thought of Borneo and Jinzhou to catch slaves, at first it was quite smooth, and many slaves were captured, but later the natives of these two big islands learned wisely, no longer staying at the seaside, but fled to the deep mountains and rainforests, in the mountains and rainforests, these natives are like fish in water, and if the slave catchers want to catch them, they must go deep, but unfortunately in that kind of place, it is simply a nightmare for the slave catchers, not only to deal with endless layers of poisonous insects and beasts, And you have to be careful of the assassination of the natives, a team of 100 people enters, and it may be finished without even a bubble.

Slave hunting on these two big islands have suffered losses, so in the end had to wisely give up the large-scale slave hunting operation, turned into sporadic slave hunting, in addition to the transfer of most of the power to a higher degree of development, at the same time the area is much smaller Java Island, the Tang Dynasty Java Island has appeared on the island, the Tang people called it the Heling State, Yanbei often sent people to this island to land, the people of the Slave Hunting Kingdom as slaves, some time ago the king of the Heling Kingdom also sent people to the Tang Dynasty to see Li Shimin, specially raised this question, hoped that Li Shimin could take care of it, but unfortunately Li Shimin made a gesture of righteous indignation on the surface, but there was no reaction afterwards.

It was precisely with the experience of Jinzhou and Borneo that Lu Wan was worried that the large southern island described by Bapukou was too large, which would affect their slave hunting, but unfortunately Lu Wan and they could not imagine what kind of land would be in front of them? (To be continued.) )