Chapter Twenty-Four: The Indigenous Attack
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"Deputy commander, those guys are too ignorant! We were kind enough to help them, but they just wanted to take advantage of us! Administrative Officer Li Decheng said with some anger. He is in his fifties, he has been a pirate all his life, and when he was young, he was also a man who fought at the forefront with a steel sword. It's just that when I get older, I gradually converge! If he was young, if he faced Liu Mingde in Balan Village's attitude, he might have drawn his sword a long time ago!
"Uncle Li, don't pay attention to them! Now it's not us begging for them! Soon they will recognize the reality! Long Yufei said. He knew what Liu Mingde would do again, but he would never let them succeed! What he wants is those Chinese in Balan Village to strengthen his own strength. But if they didn't agree, Long Yufei wouldn't be reluctant. After all, the life of the Chinese people is not easy now, as long as the Flying Fish Company develops here, do not ask those Chinese not to come to take refuge!
Li Decheng nodded, and now the Flying Fish Company is thriving, which makes him, an old pirate, very satisfied. Before this, he had never imagined that the pirates of Flying Fish Island would have such a day! All they thought about was how to survive! But now? Maybe they'll make it and make the leap from pirate to human being.
As the administrative officer of Flying Fish, Li Decheng is also very busy now. The construction of Flying Fish City is begins, and with the reclamation of new fertile land, he also has a lot of work on his hands. After saying a few words to Long Yufei, he said goodbye and left!
After Li Decheng left, Long Yufei couldn't help but feel a little emotional, foreigners said that a Chinese is a dragon, but a group of Chinese has become a group of worms. The spirit of unity of the Chinese really cannot catch up with the foreigners. Shaking his head, Long Yufei turned around and left, he was also very busy now. I'm preparing to make a replica steam engine. Once successful, the development of the flying fish company can be guaranteed in terms of technology!
After Long Yufei and Li Decheng left, the atmosphere in the hall was a little awkward. Wu Yongxing's attitude towards Liu Mingde is also a little disappropriating!
"Brother, what's wrong with joining the Flying Fish Company, at least the safety of the compatriots is guaranteed! The Flying Fish City we are building now will be able to accommodate tens of thousands of people by then! The village of Balan should not miss this opportunity! Wu Yongxing persuaded him!
"Okay, Brother Wu, you don't have to persuade me anymore! I know what to expect! Liu Mingde said with a smile. Then, he said, "Brother Wu, don't mind taking us around!" ”
"Alas, what a shame!" Wu Yongxing sighed, and had to stop persuading. Anyway, he has done his best, and it is the people of Balan Village who have to live a hard life by themselves, and they can't blame him!
Wu Yongxing acted as a guide and took Liu Mingde and his grandson Liu Wu around Flying Fish City. At this moment, Flying Fish City is a big construction site. The construction of the outer city wall is under intense intensity, but the progress is somewhat slow due to insufficient labor. The roads and factories in the city are still being improved. In addition, because many Chinese have joined the Flying Fish Company, it is also necessary to build houses for them. The more than 500 indigenous slaves before were completely insufficient!
"Grandpa Wu, do you still have natives here?" Liu Wu asked, pointing to the indigenous who was moving stones.
"They're just slaves! Last time, the Buena tribe dispatched more than 2,000 people to attack Wujia Village, and our Wujia Village was almost wiped out by them! Luckily, the Flying Fish Company appeared, otherwise we would all have been killed! The Flying Fish Company helped us defeat the Buena tribe, killing more than a thousand enemies and capturing more than 500 captives. Because we don't have enough labor, we use these natives as slaves! It's just a small part of it, and most of it has been sent to the mines! Wu Yongxing explained!
"Grandpa Wu, aren't you worried that the natives will retaliate by doing this?" Liu Wu asked, in his opinion, those natives were quite vicious, and the Chinese did not dare to provoke those natives at all. Otherwise, they will be attacked by these natives. The strength of the Chinese is not comparable to that of the natives at all, so they can only swallow their anger every time. Even in order to survive, they had to donate money and goods to the natives, even women, and lived a very aggrieved life!
"Ha Lu Ha! Get you back? We're waiting for them to come! Lord Dominion has been complaining lately that the number of slaves is too small, and there are no enough slaves at all! If these natives come, we will let them come and go! Wu Yongxing said proudly.
"Brother Wu, it seems that this Flying Fish Company is not simple! Do you know the details of them? Liu Mingde asked.
Wu Yongxing glanced at him, and then said, "This is not very clear. But what does it matter? As long as the Flying Fish Company can lead us to live a good life without being bullied by the natives, that is enough! ”
Liu Mingde smiled wryly and said no more.
"Here, our steel mill is now able to produce 5,000 catties of steel per day! As the scale increases, this production will increase a lot! Wu Yongxing pointed to the steel mill in the distance and introduced it to Liu Mingde's ancestors!
"Five thousand pounds? Or is it every day? Liu Mingde's grandfather opened his mouth wide, a little shocked! Mindanao is rich in iron ore, and there are also blacksmiths in Balan Village, who can also smelt and make blades and farm tools, but that is just a small fight, compared to the steel mill of the Flying Fish Company, this is simply a heaven and an underground!
"Brother Wu, what kind of place is there? How can there be soldiers guarding it? Liu Mingde asked. Flying Fish City wasn't big, so they quickly walked around where the Arsenal was located!
"There's an arsenal, it's where we make weapons!" Wu Yongxing said.
"Do you also produce muskets?" Liu Wu asked.
"That's natural! That's why there are soldiers guarding it! Wu Yongxing replied!
"Brother Wu, can we go in and have a look?" Liu Mingde asked.
"Brother Liu, I'm afraid this won't work! The arsenal is the important place of the Flying Fish Company, and without the consent of the commander, no one else is allowed to enter, and those who violate it will be directly killed! Wu Yongxing said.
Liu Mingde nodded, looking a little disappointed. It was Liu Wu, who was a little disdainful.
"By the way, Brother Wu, have many of your big bulls also joined the Flying Fish Army? Is the Exocet really that powerful? Liu Mingde asked.
"That is, I have passed the assessment of the Flying Fish Army, and now I am the platoon commander of the Flying Fish Army, and I am in charge of dozens of people! Of course, the Flying Fish Army is powerful, far from being comparable to those natives! I'm afraid it won't be long before we take the initiative to attack the natives and make them repay the blood debt of these hundreds of years! Wu Yongxing said. As one of the senior executives of the Flying Fish Company, he is the master of the Flying Fish Company. As the labor gap grows wider, Flying Fish is trying to attract other Chinese to join Flying Fish on the one hand, and on the other hand, it has to fight those indigenous ideas. There are a lot of natives in Mindanao, and these are all good slaves!
Liu Mingde smiled, looking a little disbelieving. The Chinese have been oppressed by these natives for two or three hundred years! The natives were small, poorly armed, and fearless to death, and familiar with the island's environment. To be able to resist the attack of those natives, it is already thankful, and taking the initiative to attack the natives is even more delusional! In Liu Mingde's view, Wu Yongxing is simply boasting about Feiyu Company!
Wu Yongxing took Liu Mingde's ancestors and grandchildren to look around in Flying Fish City. However, the real core, they really can't reach! In particular, the arsenal is the top priority, and outsiders can't get in at all!
At this time, Long Yufei was facing the complaint of Zhao Xingchuan, the director of the steel plant.
"Control, we've done our best, but the steel mill is only producing fifty tons now! It's not because of the equipment, it's because of the serious shortage of manpower! Now there are only about 300 natives in the mine, and they have to mine both iron ore and coal mines, and copper mining cannot be put down. This has seriously restricted our development! Zhao Xingchuan said.
"Second Brother Zhao, I know the way! Now I'm having a headache too! However, the output of fifty tons is enough for us for the time being! Once the recruits have finished their training, we will take the initiative to attack the natives and capture more slaves! Long Yufei said. The development of capitalist industry and commerce is full of blood and tears. If the Flying Fish company wants to develop, it will definitely step on countless corpses. However, anyway, Long Yufei didn't treat those natives as human beings, and let those natives pay for the rise of the Chinese, which can be regarded as making them atone for the sins they have created in the past two or three hundred years!
"Hmmm! Control. You said that the last time the natives suffered a big loss, we killed and captured thousands of people, and it has been more than a month, why haven't they reacted at all! Zhao Xingchuan said.
"Who knows? But even if they don't come, we'll go for them when we're ready! Long Yufei said. There is no possibility for the Chinese and the indigenous to coexist peacefully, between the two, either you die or I die, and there is only one winner!
At this time, the military officer Niu stormed into Long Yufei's office.
"Domination, the natives are coming! It's only about ten miles away from us! There are so many natives who come, there are tens of thousands! Niu Meng reported to Long Yufei! Since the end of the last battle, they have been guarding against the attacks of these natives, and have sent shrewd hunters to infiltrate the forest as scouts. Now, the natives have finally launched an attack, and they have also invested tens of thousands of people at a time, which is a big deal!
"It's good to come! Order the troops to be ready for battle! And withdraw all the people! Long Yufei immediately gave the order!