Chapter 540 is going to be less!

The children in the small village went crazy, and after beating a daring child into the makeshift camp and bringing back a piece of chocolate and a compressed biscuit. The temporary headquarters was transformed into a nursery by the Red Lady, and Chen Xie didn't have any way at all. Fortunately, there are not many children, that is, about twenty, all of them are around seven or eight years old. The older children are all working in the fields.

The Dengzhou battalion completely subverted the perception of these expatriates about officers and soldiers, and the children of a family would have to wait for death under normal circumstances. As a result, the red lady knew, and took the military doctor into the village with the medicine box on his back, found the child who was carried on the bed, and scolded his parents, in fact, people couldn't understand her Henan dialect. It's just laughing with you, watching the child hanging the water, still there in a daze, this can also cure the disease? Two days later, the child was well and continued to be alive and kicking.

The Dengzhou soldiers who camped on the edge of the village never entered the village lightly, and when they saw the people in the fields ploughing, many of them took off their shoes and went to the field to help plough the land, help plant seedlings, help repair ditches, etc., and could do any work. The road was not good, a group of officers and soldiers with small shovels and their own dry food to repair the road, the grass on both sides was sprayed with medicine, and not a single insect could be seen in a short period of time. When the brimstone was sprinkled into the meadow, the serpent did not dare to come. This is an officer and soldier, and the work of a soldier is better than that of the common people.

The vegetables grown in the village are sent to the door without being collected, you have to collect money, you don't need money, you can do it, you want canned food, right? Parents who don't want it, look at the children around them who are staring at the cans with their fingers in their eyes, and finally accept it.

Regardless of the location, the response of the government department is the slowest. The officials of the Kingdom of Brunei are the same, on the third day of landing, a black official similar to an African uncle came, with a group of subordinates. When he walked to the seashore and saw the fleet, he fell to his knees.

In the command tent, Chen Xie was discussing military affairs with Anthony, and decided to send clippers to Batavia and Temasek to find two detachments. Under the premise of the current traffic situation and communication level, playing this kind of technical work is basically uncomfortable for yourself. Otherwise, it was easy to become a famous general before, isn't it just a reflection of the personal temporary response ability of the general who leads the troops? The more advanced the technology, the less likely it is to become famous.

While they were discussing, the staff officer came in to report that a local official from Brunei had come to visit. Chen Xie had no choice but to come out to meet this local official, who was the leader of a small local tribe and was at the level of a township chief. The name is very long, and Chen Xie remembers the pronunciation of the word "Ba". Just call it Lao Ba.

Lin Ruhai was invited to be a translator, and he quickly understood the official's intentions. This old man replied shyly, what is the army of the country coming to a small place tomorrow? Looking at Lao Ba's legs trembling all the time, Chen Xie understood that this was frightening. Brunei has been invaded by Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch colonists, so it is more sensitive to foreign military power. The state is weak. Naturally, they are more frightened.

As the cabinet minister of the Celestial Empire, Chen Xie naturally said unceremoniously. This place is good, I plan to rent it, first rent it for ninety-nine years, you make a price. When he said this, Lao Ba's face turned white, where was this what he could do. Hurry up and report to their sultan. This Sultan of Brunei. This will be a chieftain, when Zhu Di became the emperor, he sent Zheng He to the West, and it is not clear what he wants to do. Anyway, the Ming officials of that meeting were still very reasonable, and people simply passed by. There is no intention of staying. Now that a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty has come, he is completely unreasonable, you have a good place, I want to occupy a piece. No, it's rent. But is there any difference with taking a piece?

Anyway, if you don't agree, it won't work. Just look at the fleet at sea, these people are not reasonable. Revolt? What are you kidding, more than a hundred years ago, it wasn't that no one was interested in the wealth of the Ming fleet, and the result was not good. Besides, the Chinese are still relatively easy to get along with, unlike those ghosts with red noses and green eyes.

If you don't agree to this matter, you can't do it, and the chief can't come forward by himself, so he sent one of his sons to talk to Daming. Anyway, he has many sons, more than a hundred, and one of them went and didn't come back, so just send another one. Don't think about going to war.

The prince, Kun, accompanied by Lao Ba, came to the gate of Chen Xie's headquarters and threatened to negotiate the issue of this lease on behalf of the Sultan. Chen Xie was not polite, and directly said that the place should not be too big, I want to build a port, probably so big is enough. Then he took Kun out for a walk and came back, about 10,000 acres of land came in. Lao Ba almost cried, this is his territory, basically all of it has been zoned in.

His life or death, Kun doesn't care, look at this is not a big deal, just promise. Anyway, the mission he came for was peace. There is not much oil and water in this place, and the land on the seashore is not very productive for growing crops, that is, the Chinese can persist in this generation. So be it, and then shyly answer the question of how much the rent is.

Chen Xie was also very straightforward and asked him what he wanted in kind? Or do you want money? Gold and silver are these things, which are used as ornaments in this realm, and basically have little value. Kun was also very embarrassed, rushed to lunch, ate a lunch of meat and green beans, and after seeing the iron pots, shovels and other utensils of the soldiers, he was very embarrassed and raised a finger. Then he pointed to the sapper shovel that the soldier was carrying, and then to the iron pot. Chen Xie immediately laughed and said, "A thousand sapper shovels and a thousand iron pots, right?" Okay, no problem. But I'll have to wait three months, and I'll have to send a ship back to transport it. ”

After Lin Ruhai translated, Kun's reaction was to put his finger in his mouth and bite it hard, and it hurt before he woke up. Then he counted with his fingers, fifteen, ten, fifteen, twenty, and finally smiled like an idiot, and signed the contract with his handprint. Chen Xie felt as if he had suffered a loss, but in line with the principle that he had taken a big advantage and could not be too much, he would lose a little. Steel is not worth much.

After Kun left, he immediately took his people and started to run. This was originally intended to be rented for a hundred shovels and a hundred iron pots a year. Unexpectedly, this Ming official was poor and generous, and gave ten times the price. This Nima didn't hurry up and go back to tell everyone, the Ming people were stupid and had a lot of money, so they hurriedly took gold and silver to buy ironware.

Kun went back to tell the Sultan about the results of the negotiations, the Sultan was not young, his beard trembled with excitement, and he patted his thigh vigorously and said: "It's going to be less, it's going to be less, Daming is really still that Daming, such a wasteland can be exchanged for so many iron tools." If I had known that I would have gone myself, I would have asked for at least five hundred more of each. Kun also brought back a small gift, a lot of canned food, biscuits, nail clippers and other things, and packed several bags. These things directly caused the concubines in the backyard to fight, too little, not enough points. Especially canned food, after eating the box, you can still use it to drink water, and it looks like a tall thing.

Da Ming people are kind, without waiting for Kun to publicize, Lao Ba has already brought his clansmen to the door in a mighty way. Five or six hundred, both men and women, came to trade with their goods. This thing was holding a piece of dog's head gold, and threw it in front of Chen Xie, as if throwing a stone, and then pointed to the stainless steel teacup in Chen Xie's hand, which means that I want to change this.

Chen Xie's brain crashed directly, don't bring this, okay? Lao Ba, you are a dog's head gold, do you really want to change such a stainless steel thermos cup that is only 20 yuan? Subconsciously, Chen Xie handed over the cup, and it didn't matter if he said to you. I didn't expect this product to make a big bargain, so I grabbed it and didn't let go, and I was happy to unscrew it over there.

Chen Xie reacted, this is really to change things. Think about getting people to move out all the things they don't use very often, and try to give a conscience price, after all, they have to garrison troops here. Putting away the dog's head gold, Chen Xie dragged Lao Ba into the tent, asked people to bring a box of canned food and a box of biscuits, and then said to Lin Daodao: "Sue him, the dog's head gold he brought can be exchanged for these things." ”

When the soldier directly made the trade crazy, a dagger can be exchanged for a piece of gold, where to find this business? A pack of cookies can be exchanged for a deer, plus some fruit or something. If it weren't for the fact that there was still a war, these bunnies would have almost been able to take off their panties for gold. The trade at the camp gate was a thriving mess, and with the fresh meat provided by the locals, the army's food improved considerably. The local natives are also very cool, not to mention that they went back with a bunch of good things, and these Chinese invited them to dinner at noon.

The same game was either roasted or stewed in their hands, and when it came to other people's hands, the local natives who ate the missing things almost bit their tongues. The next day was even more lively, all the young women who came, wandering around outside the camp, many soldiers did not know how powerful, saw a few not so dark, walked over and planned to tease, as a result, there were more than a dozen tragic cases of reverse push that day. The worst soldier was rounded by three dark-skinned women, his clothes were all clean, and he ran back with banana leaves around his buttocks, which became the biggest combat loss in this landing in Brunei.

After staying in this place for a whole week, the fleet lifted anchor again, leaving behind more than three hundred people, including more than a hundred sappers, who were responsible for repairing the docks here. Only three days after the main fleet lifted anchor, it received news from the cruising fleet, and still did not find the Dutch fleet, and went south along the established course, walked for about a week, and again received news that the fleet of Silaujing had been discovered. The two fleets turned, and after Xilao boarded Chen Xie's flagship, he learned as soon as he reported that this buddy had been here for two days, and he was waiting for a look. (To be continued......)