Yin vanov realized that something was wrong.

The Ming people I met were not of the same kind at all, not "explorers" like themselves, but ......

Yin Wanov himself did not know how to describe the kind of organization he encountered......

They do carry the banner of the Ming Dynasty, so they should indeed be the power of the Ming Dynasty.

But this immigration is not like an immigration, and the expedition is not like an expedition.

The ink people who poured over the mountains surrounded Yin Wanov's team in the middle.

A group of soldiers with guns approached, and Yin Wanov decisively gave up resistance.

In this kind of disparity between friend and foe, any strategy is meaningless.

The two sides don't need to clash, since it is the power of the Ming Dynasty, it should be possible to talk.

Although the situation has gone a little wrong, the nature of the matter will not change.

The two sides opened up the central continental passage of Mozhou.

Hei Jizhong rode to Yin Wanov's team and asked in a somewhat accented Daming Yayan:

"I'm Hei Jizhong, the black baron of the Great Ming Food Country, who of you is the head of this group of people?"

Yin Wanov was born in Lucia nobles, and Lucia nobles basically knew some Ming Ya dialect.

The explorers who may encounter the Ming people have specially strengthened their learning on the way to the east.

So I can fully understand the other party's words, but I was very surprised by the content of Hei Jizhong's words.

Miha'il replied in a somewhat accented, but fluent Daming dialect:

"I am the chief, I am Baron Lucia, Mikhail Yinvanov.

"Are you...... Your Excellency the Baron of the Great Food Country? Is it the nobility of the Great Food Country? ”

Mihayer couldn't believe that the Mo people could get the title of the Great Food Country, which was an identity that he didn't even dare to imagine.

Hei Jizhong knew his identity, so he explained to Mihayer at this time:

"I am not a nobleman, not a baron, but a 'black baron', and I am a slave of His Royal Highness the Great Food King.

"I also own a hundred slaves, and among all the Mo slaves, I enjoy the status of a baron's military nobility.

"Since you are a nobleman of Lucia, come with me to my father, Lord Black Duke."

Hei Jizhong felt that he had explained very clearly.

Hei Jizhong didn't feel any humiliation in saying that he was a slave, and he would even be honored to be a slave of the Great Food King.

Because the ordinary ink people below are just slaves of black nobles like themselves.

He is the slave of the Great Food King.

But Yin vanov listened to the lake.

You are a military nobleman for a while, a slave for a while, and you yourself are a slave, what is your identity?

However, Yin Vanov is very knowledgeable and does not hold on to this question here.

Because there's more important things to come.

Go see the black duke.

Settle this meeting.

The two sides then held preliminary discussions on the boundaries to be developed and the division of land.

This is a very important task, and I should find a way to fight for Lucia's interests.

Yin Wanov rode a horse and followed Hei Jizhong into the ranks of the ink people.

In the process, Yin Wanov instinctively, carefully but carefully observed these ink figures.

There were men, women, and children, and about ten of them gathered in a small group, followed by a young man dressed in black.

All of these Mohists rode horses, while only a few of the other Mohists had horses, and most of them were on foot.

More small groups will also gather together on a larger scale, also centered on a certain black-clothed ink man.

The common center of all these Momen was several large carriages.

The person sitting in the carriage should be the so-called Black Duke.

I just don't know, what is the identity of this black duke, is he also a slave?

Yin Wanov followed Hei Jizhong all the way to the middle of the team, and did not see a single Ming person.

No matter how high or low the people around them seem, all of them are ink people.

This made Yin Wanov very surprised.

When Yin Wanov came to the carriage, two black-skinned maids opened the curtain in front of the carriage.

A man in his thirties who was in the prime of his life, wearing a full set of Ming costumes, squinted slightly and a large number of Yin Wanov.

Hei Jizhong introduced next to him:

"This is my father, Lord Black Loyalty.

"He is the slave of His Royal Highness the Great Food King, and the master of all the slaves here."

Yin Wanov was stunned again.

The owner of all the slaves here is also a Mo man......

Yin Wanov didn't know what to call the other party, the main identity of the other party was too weird.

He was a slave himself, the owner of the slave, and the "black duke".

If the other party hadn't been under the banner of Daming, Yin Wanov would have instinctively laughed loudly.

A group of the most stupid and savage ink people, what kind of hellish identity is this, so what kind of black duke is messing around, right?

But the other party claimed to be a slave of His Royal Highness the Prince of Dashi of the Ming Dynasty, which made Yin Wanov dare not mess around at all.

I had to put on a respectful enough attitude, copy the original text of Hei Jizhong's introduction, and add the most general title to say hello:

"Baron Lucia, Mikhail Yinvanov, has seen the loyal Excellency of the Black Duke of the Great Ming Eclipse Country.

"I am the explorer of New Lucia, and you are the Prince of Great Food of the Ming Dynasty...... Trailblazer......

"We met here on behalf of Lucia and Da Ming respectively, announcing that we had opened up the grassland passage in the middle of Mozhou.

"I think it's something to celebrate and go down in history."

Black Loyal bowed slightly, and seemed to be quite satisfied with Yin Wanov's statement:

"It makes sense, it's a big deal, but it's more important about land and slaves.

"Since you are the pioneer of Lucia, don't go east from now on.

"The land and slaves here will belong to us in the future."

Black loyalists are interested in easy, but more concerned about land and slaves.

Although the Black Duke is the apex of the Black Aristocrat, this apex is also graded.

The lower black nobles are only three-level, and when they reach the third level, they are promoted to the higher-level black nobles.

The Black Duke is the apex, so there is no clear upper limit on registration.

If you own 10,000 slaves, you are a first-class black duke.

With 100,000 slaves, you should be able to become a tenth-level black duke.

Yin Wanov also didn't want to deal with this strange identity of the Moren.

Hearing that the other party directly changed the topic to business, he immediately took over:

"Does Your Excellency the Black Duke mean to use our current location as a clear exploration boundary between the two countries?

"In this way, our Lucia will not go east, and Daming will no longer explore and explore west."

Black Loyalty immediately waved his hand and said:

"Of course not, here, including where we stand, is our Ming, and has nothing to do with you Lucia."

Yin Wanov didn't expect the other party to be so tough:

"Your Excellency the Black Duke can't be so arrogant, we both explore here at the same time, we should use this as the boundary.

"Daming and Lucia are now partners and both members of the League of Nations.

"The problems between us should be resolved through negotiation in a fair manner."

Black Loyal shook his head and said:

"You're exploring here, we're not exploring here, we're migrating here.

"According to the regulations of the League of Nations, only when it is actually used by colonies and controlled by actual garrisons can a piece of land be truly owned.

"Our Ming slaves have arrived here, and you Lucia only have an exploration team.

"So of course this place belongs to our Da Ming."

Yin Wanov was visibly stunned for a moment.

I found that there seems to be nothing wrong with the logic of black loyalty

There are tens of thousands of Mo people all over the mountains around him, and there are men, women, and children.

It couldn't be an exploration party, it could be considered an emigrant team, and there were quite a few soldiers with guns in it.

More than 10,000 people are indeed able to take full control of an area.

Even if they went to St. Petersburg to bring rescue troops themselves, it would be difficult to transfer enough troops to defeat them here.

There are no roads in the interior of this continent......

The key is that His Majesty the Emperor is unlikely to have a conflict with the Ming Dynasty over this wasteland.

So Yin Wanov retreated:

"So, if Your Excellency the Black Duke's immigration group wants to settle here, how about using the western border of Your Excellency's settlement as the land border between our two sides?"

Black Loyal shook his head again:

"We will not settle here, we will continue to migrate west until we find your settlement."

Yin vanov was a little unacceptable.

After all, the other party is a Mo person, not a Ming person, so Yin Wanov is even more bold:

"You can't be unreasonable.

"You people are immigrants, but after all, you are only immigrants, not settled residents.

"It stands to reason that there should be a middle point between our nearest settlement and your nearest settlement as a temporary border between us.

"It is impossible to say that your migrants moved directly to our settlements and demarcated them with the borders of our settlements.

"If the criterion of occupation and control is to be the territory, although you are quite numerous, it is impossible for you to fully control the land from here to our settlement.

"If you move to settle next to our settlements, there will be a lot of land left behind you.

"Shall we continue our detour and open up behind you?

"After all, you don't occupy all the land!"

Yin Wanov felt that what he said was neither humble nor arrogant, and that he was methodical.

However, the black loyalty said:

"We are now a nomadic group, herders like the Mongols.

"We are not settled city dwellers or peasants, so why should we settle next to your settlements?

"The scope of our activities is very large, and it is impossible to be confined to one place."

Yin vanov was stunned again:

"Nomadic? It's not that we haven't seen nomads, they have more cattle and sheep than horses, and more horses than people.

"You don't have many horses here, and you don't have many sheep or cattle, but you have a lot of people.

"Your cattle and sheep will not be able to feed the people of your people."

Black Loyal but unhurried said:

"Although we are nomadic, we are not herding cattle and sheep, but slaves.

"All the Mo people around you are my slaves, and they will fight for me and hunt for me.

"They are able to supply my food as well as their own food."

Black loyalty once again gave Yin Wanov a big shock.

Yin Wanov was directly stunned.

Nomadic? Nomadism for herding slaves?

Is there such a nomadic group in the world?

But it makes a fucking sense.

I was still puzzled about what they would eat on the way to such a large population.

Rear transport is difficult to supply.

After all, this is a steppe, and there are no ready-made roads and railways at all.

Now it seems that they just rely on hunting!

There are so many animals in the savannah that once the size of humans is large enough, any animal can only be a belly meal.

If such a strange nomadic tribe were to roam the savannah, it would be too much trouble.

In addition to the residential land that you have built, it is considered these nomadic lands?

The land that nomadic groups were able to occupy and control was much larger than that of sedentary peasants.

Yovanov quickly made a decision:

"No, even nomadic groups should have their own borders at the level of the modern state.

"It can't be said that the land we haven't explored yet belongs to you naturally.

"According to the norms of the League of Nations, the key to controlling the colonies was immigration and control.

"It's useless to just mark a title on a map and erect a boundary marker that no one is guarding.

"As a nomadic people, you are always on the move, which means you are not fixed in one place.

"Now that I'm here, I'm going to leave here later.

"Here's the point, you're leaving—

"After you leave, this will not be considered land under your full control, and we may establish a settlement here.

"You will always be nomadic and unsettled, and you will eventually leave everything.

"We're going to build settlements everywhere, and in the end you'll not have any land.

"Unless you also leave people to settle here, and there are just as many of them."

Black Loyal smiled when he heard this:

"We won't settle here right away, but our companions will.

"The other slaves of His Highness the Great Eater will follow in our footsteps and settle here.

"They will settle in our nomadic lands and put down roots here......"

Yin Wanov almost burst into foul language when he heard this.

The front nomadic occupies territory, and the back immigrants come to settle down, what kind of routine does this think?

Could it be His Royal Highness Prince Daishi?

But now is not the time to dwell on this kind of problem, the key now is how to fight for Lucia's interests.

Yin vanov's mind quickly spun in circles, and he soon grasped a possible breakthrough point:

"If you are nomadic and not settled, and you will let other companions settle after you leave, then you are actually an exploration group.

"You and I are the same team, we are both a team that pioneered before immigrating.

"In that case, you have explored this place, and we have explored this place.

"The place we explore together, the place where we meet, should be the boundary of our exploration.

"As for the specific details, as well as the final borders, it should be up to the imperial courts on both sides of us to decide.

"It's not that we're both bickering here."

Hei Zhongzhong shook his head again when he heard this, and then waved his hand to the left and right and said:

"Tie up this Xiyi!"

Hei Jizhong immediately led a group of ink slave guards to rush up, and directly held Yin Wanov down and tied his hands.

Yin Wanov was shocked:

"What are you going to do? We're just talking about the scope of the temporary exploration? Why do you want to do it?

"Our Lucia and Daming are partners, and you will affect our relationship like this!"

Hei Zhongzhong said to Yin Wanov with a smile:

"Don't be nervous, Mr. Lucia, we won't do anything to you.

"We're just starting to look for a temporary exploratory boundary between us, based on your suggestion."

Yin Wanov breathed a sigh of relief, but was still puzzled:

"Then why are you arresting me? What the hell are you going to do? ”

Black Loyalty seems to be very proud:

"Your suggestion is that the place we explore together is our borders.

"And what if we take your team and continue to explore west?

"So when are we going to put you down, where is our border?

Yin vanov was almost crazy.

What is this ink man's brain made of?

How can this crooked theory come into being?

Are all the ink people trained by Da Ming have this kind of brain?

I heard that the ink people of the Ming Dynasty are all castrated, and this ink man has no beard at all, so it may be castration.

Could it be that after the castration of the Moren, there will be such a terrifying increase in wisdom?

Or should someone who can become a black duke, who can control so many ink slaves, have such wisdom in the first place?

After Hei Zhongzhong said his plan, he looked at Yin Wanov and didn't seem to be very blessed, so he continued to run and said:

"If you have a problem with this, you can also find enough men to tie us all up and drag us eastward.

"However, if you can organize so many combat forces here, you won't be here to discuss with me where the border is.

"So, in the final analysis, even if it's exploration, it depends on strength.

"We are nomads, but we are also residents.

"We will leave, but we will also arrive.

"As long as we arrive and don't leave, these places are our land.

"So, we'll get to your settlement.

"In accordance with the principles of immigration and de facto control, we will explore your settlements.

"We will not seize your settlements, and when you get there you will be free.

"For your freedom, I think you should tell me where your nearest settlement is."

Yin Wanov is now completely desperate.

The reasoning of this ink man seems to be all crooked, but it is very realistic.

In this inland prairie, Lucia really can't organize against the power of the Black Loyalty's exploration team.

Of course, this ink man has wisdom, but his greatest guard of honor is still the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

It should be said that these operations that are on the edge of the rules can be turned into reality, and Lucia, who is weaker, has to accept it.

The two exploration teams faced off, and Lucia was defeated.

In order to get free as soon as possible, Yin Wanov directly followed Hei Zhongzhong's reminder and informed Hei Zhongzhong where the nearest Lucia settlement was, and even said that he could take the initiative to take them there.

Black Loyal immediately ordered Yin Wanov to be escorted along with his companions and slaves towards this goal.