"Impossible!"

Wu Sangui was the first to be breathless: "500 people eat and drink Lazar is not a small number, how can he feed so many people?" ”

Li Yan saluted and said: "Lord Xiao Wu, there is no shortage of food in Dongshan Prefecture, and every trading house that opens a mine will build its own camp and hoard a large amount of food. Moreover, the beasts in Dongshan Prefecture are extremely abundant, in fact, they can survive by hunting alone. ”

Wu Sangui understood that he was using the local concept of the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that the 5-year-old grain in the warehouse of Yushan City has been taken out to feed the pigs, which is fine grain, and the entire Ming Dynasty is so luxurious in Dongshan Prefecture.

There is no way, this grain cannot be shipped back to the mainland.

The land in Dongshan Prefecture is fertile, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and when the first and second batches of immigrants came to the city, they still retained the local planting habits of the Ming Dynasty. When they harvested, they did not bask in the joy of the harvest for long, because they found that they could not eat it all and there was nowhere to sell it.

After the establishment of Jinshan City, the trading houses that had cultivated countless farms and pastures immediately transported a huge amount of grain to Jinshan City in an attempt to earn the first amount of gold. The grain business houses in Jishan City all thought so, so they rolled up, and the result was that the warehouses in Jinshan City could not be filled.

Jinshan City could only build new warehouses while urging the gold mining companies to hurry up and transport all the grain.

Zhang Xianzhong grabbed this batch of grain, and he actually only had food to grab. At first, he robbed money, but later found out that the copper coins and silver ingots were rubbish, because no one dared to do business with them.

After the failure of the first encirclement and suppression, the Maritime Safety Bureau decisively warned all the trading houses and explorers: Those who dare to do business with Zhang Bandit will not be spared by the Maritime Safety Bureau!

In Dongshan Prefecture, where the Maritime Safety Bureau has mastered the only way to return to Daming, no matter how hard the hole card is, the firm can only be obedient, and the Maritime Safety Bureau is still in charge.

Now the bandits no longer robbed money and food, but instead robbed supplies, clothes, salt, containers and metal tools. There are also people, those who were snatched away and still in the service period were basically robbed and did not come back, and they all joined Zhang Xianzhong's team actively or passively.

With people having tools that can be transformed into weapons, in fact, hunting alone can feed people.

There are no people in Dongshan Prefecture except for the brown-skinned savages, and the animals here are really stupid, and they don't dodge when they see people. You throw an ear of wheat on the ground and eat it stupidly, and you find a stick and eat it with a stick.

"Li Yan, you go on."

"Yes, sir."

After seeing Wu Sangui sit down again, Li Yan said: "In fact, the damage caused by the bandits to Jinshan City is minimal, and those trading houses and explorers who were attacked are also smart at present, and many adventurers have spontaneously grouped together, and even became dart masters to provide protection for the trading houses." ”

"These dart masters basically have fire on their hands... The three-eyed guns, all of them are also equipped with martial arts, and some of them are retired veterans of the Northern Army, and the ordinary people under the command of Zhang Bandit are not opponents at all. ”

Although Li Yan almost leaked out that the dart master was illegally possessing the firecracker, everyone should not have heard it, and the open secret was also a secret.

"We know that Zhang Bandit did unite with the Brown-skinned Savages, and that he probably raised a team of about 500 people, which was obtained through the mouths of the people captured by the dart master."

"But Zhang Bandit had no base, he didn't build a stockade. The captured folkmen said that Zhang Bandit had allied himself with a tribe of brown-skinned savages in Gu'er's Mountain, and that it was his base camp. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Changbai and the three of them frowned, realizing that the matter of exterminating Zhang Bandits, why Song Yingxing didn't want the three of them to come out, it was really difficult to deal with.

Song Yingxing saw that his three students understood, and took the initiative to take over the topic: "Li Yan, is there currently something about the brown-skinned savages attacking the people in Jinshan City?" ”

"Replying to adults, no." Li Yan said: "These brown-skinned savages are also divided into tribes. In the valley outside of Jinshan City, there are several small tribes of brown-skinned savages who are not hostile to us, and they brought food and leather to trade our iron tools in the early days of Jinshan City. We talked to them, and they said that the tribes in Gu'er's Mountain were hostile to them, and that they had been driven from further east of Gu'er's Mountain many years ago. ”

"According to the will of the Cabinet, we will not interfere with those small tribes, do not enter their territory, and everyone will be fine. And the tribe that united with Zhang Bandit, listening to the people of those small tribes, basically would not go out of Gu'er Mountain, and the immortals they believed in were not allowed to come out. ”

The beliefs of the Han Chinese themselves are extremely complex, but secular power overpowers religion, but many of the neighbors around China are theocratic to varying degrees. Daming is already very accustomed to the foolish people of some ethnic minorities and believes in their so-called "immortals".

Song Yingxing frowned and sighed: "Then this is troublesome." ”

The same is true of everyone in the hall, some sighing and some frowning.

All this is because of an order from the cabinet: unless the brown-skinned savages in Dongshan Prefecture attack the Han people first, and there are human lives, the Han people are absolutely not allowed to attack those brown-skinned savages!

This order was issued at the beginning of the establishment of the city after exterminating several tribes of brown-skinned savages in the bay where the city was located.

The senior management of the Maritime Safety Administration has been instigating Xu Guangqi to appeal to His Majesty, but Xu Guangqi suppressed it, and this order has slowly penetrated into the hearts of the officials and people of Dongshan Prefecture.

Fortunately, these brown-skinned savages are basically very peaceful, and when they see the Han people, they will only stay away, and will not attack the Han people and will not take the initiative to communicate, but they will not refuse the Han merchants to exchange a large amount of leather from their tribe with rough copper and rotten iron.

Zhang Xianzhong obviously knew this, so he used unknown means to ally with the brown-skinned savage tribe in Gu'er Mountain, and now the Maritime Safety Bureau is really a bit of a rat trap to kill him.

"Li Yan, can anyone from the Maritime Safety Bureau talk to those tribes?"

"Back to the words of the adults, yes, there are many brown-skinned savages in the south of Maoshan City who are used to exchanging food from our farms, and even some farms have hired those brown-skinned savages independently, and there are many people who are interested in our Heavenly Empire, and they can speak simple Chinese."

It was not at all surprising that the brown-skinned savages were looking to me for the Celestial Empire.

From the Mongol population, the Ming already knew that the more western countries of Europa were spreading the Silk Road to the east, and that the land of the rising sun was unimaginably rich, as evidenced by the Franco, Dutch, Mughal, and self-proclaimed Ottoman merchants.

Even if because of the opening of the sea ban, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty know that the center of the world is not necessarily in my Heavenly Empire, but the number one country in the world, I am definitely the top three in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the first three are more modest statements, and they firmly believe that Daming is the first in the world.

A group of tribal savages who are even more wild than the birth of Jurchen, worship my Ming Dynasty, and it is justified.

But now the problem is that the Maritime Administration can't move these savages unless they take the initiative to attack the Han Chinese.

Seriously, the officials of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau, large and small, were extremely tired of this order, and how much they wanted to follow the example of the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate and use the many Kunlun slaves and savages in the South Seas as slaves.

There is not even a regular road between the city and the plain to the south of the mountain, and it is all dirt roads trodden by commercial houses, just because there are not enough people.

If those brown-skinned savages could be captured and used as slaves, the road between the city and the plain would have been cleared long ago.

Everyone remained silent, not knowing what to do with Zhang Xianzhong of the Brown-skinned Savage Alliance.

In the end, it was Song Yingxing who sighed and said, "Send another 500 southern troops from Yushan City to station, and don't care about that bandit for the time being." ”

"Yes."