Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 731 Two birds with one stone

"You are injured, get up quickly!" Liu Hongjian said with a smile.

"Bangchui, go get this strong man a bowl of meat!" Liu Hongjian said again, thinking that the three people who had entered the city had stayed in the city all night without eating.

If it wasn't for the language barrier, he really wanted to take this guy into his personal guard camp.

"Oh, by the way, General Qin, immediately honor my promise and allocate one hundred stones from the Beiyang navy's military rations, no, two hundred stones, and send them to the Gaoshan people." Liu Hongjian thought for a while. Again.

"My lord, just after receiving the report, their people have already arrived." Qin Gongming walked to Liu Hongjian and said.

"Oh? Then let them come to the Governor's Mansion. I want to entertain them well." Liu Hongjian thought to himself that he probably came here because he was worried about the safety of his people.

But what Qin Gongming said next made Liu Hongjian very embarrassed.

"My lord, they are here to ask for food, and there are quite a few people here." Qin Gongming's face was not very good-looking, in his opinion, this group of people were too ignorant.

Even if you promise to give them military rations, at least you have to wait until the settlement is settled before settling accounts. Now that the battle has just ended, there are still many places in the city that have not had time to extinguish the fire, so you are here to ask for accounts?

Daming is a country that pays attention to etiquette. It is very embarrassing to be asked for a bill at the door of the house. Besides, they didn't say they would renege on the bill, did they?It just doesn't make sense.

"Ah? Oh, come on, come on, go to Huotouying to slaughter the livestock collected in the city. The soldiers have worked hard today, let's eat meat!" After Liu Hongjian finished speaking, he walked towards the governor's mansion that had just been cleaned up. go.

He is different from Qin Gongming. He understands the principles of the Ming Dynasty, and he also understands the temperament of the tribes who live in the deep mountains.

Although they were in a bit of a hurry to ask for food, the reason was very good, and Liu Hongjian didn't feel that it was a disadvantage. In fact, if a hundred shi of food could be exchanged for an island, he would be able to include Nanyang into the territory of Ming Dynasty without bloodshed.

Sure enough, when the Gaoshan people saw Liu Hongjian, they asked for food straight to the point.

There are quite a lot of people here. The Gaoshan people are actually the general term for the aborigines in the Central Mountain Range in Taiwan. In the mountains, they are divided into the Taroko, Babusa, Leilang, and Monkey tribes.

Da Duo and the dead Sabu came from the Taroko tribe, and Wa Dan came from the Leilang tribe. It was Basuo of the Taroko tribe and Jacques of the Leilang tribe who came to ask for food.

"I will not give you any less food. In view of the heroic performance of the Gaoshan people in the local battle, I will give you double the food, that is, two hundred shi!"

Qin Gongming and others next to him didn't have a good face, but Liu Hongjian talked about it with eloquence.

"Two hundred stones!" Basso was delighted when he heard this.

Although there are more than a dozen tribes in the Central Mountain Range, the total number of all tribes is less than 2. The Taroko and Leilang tribes are considered large, with a combined population of about [-].

On weekdays, these tribesmen rely on mountains to eat mountains, hunting, wild fruits, and fishing are enough to feed the tribesmen. Two hundred shi of rice and grain are used as reserves. When dealing with irresistible disasters, it is a life-saving talisman for a tribe.

"More than that, the three members of your clan have made great contributions in this battle, and this king specially rewarded each of the three clans with 500 taels of silver, a thousand catties of rice, and ten bolts of cloth.

The king will also carve giant stone statues for the three warriors in the city of Zeelandia. Taiwan belongs to the Ming Dynasty and was brought down by the Han people and the Gaoshan people. For this, you should be proud. Tonight, we will not be drunk and will not return. ! "

Basso happily explained to Jacques who was behind him, and Jacques also had a smile on his face. In order to reassure them, Liu Hongjian immediately allocated food from the Beiyang Navy's military rations and piled them outside the Governor's Mansion.

After a while, Huotouying finished stewing the meat. Liu Hongjian entertained several Gaoshan people in the Governor's Mansion, and implicitly expressed his wish to conscript the Gaoshan people into the army.

Although Basuo is the spokesperson of the Taroko people, he is only the confidant of the old patriarch and cannot make a direct decision. On the contrary, Danone, the son of the Taroko patriarch, did not object when he heard the words.

When Jacques heard that the clansmen who joined the Ming army could not only receive half a stone of rice grain every month, but also a military salary of three taels of silver, he immediately decided to go back and start preparing.

This made Liu Hongjian overjoyed. It was rumored that the more indifferent the indigenous tribes were, the more stubborn they would be. It seemed that the rumors were not true.

As long as you are a human, the first problem you face is survival, and the Gaoshan tribe is no exception. Members of the tribe can not only share the pressure of survival of the tribe, but also feed back more tribesmen. This is a good deal.

Liu Hung-chien looked farther away. The biggest reason why he made such a big deal about the Gaoshan people was because of the importance of the geographical location of Taiwan Island.

His plan is to keep Qin Gongming and the [-] white soldiers he brought with him as Taiwan's garrison, and the Gaoshan tribe as a supplementary source of troops. After all, there are too few Han people here, and immigration cannot be achieved in a short time.

And if people from the Gaoshan tribe can join the Ming army, it doesn't need to be many, dozens or hundreds of each tribe is enough. If there is a strong enemy coming, can these tribes just sit back and watch?
He is killing two birds with one stone. First, he can replenish the local garrison with soldiers, and second, he can also strengthen the connection between the Han people and the Gaoshan people.

That night, Liu Hung-chien wrote a letter to Zhu Cihong, in which he briefly described the situation on Taiwan Island and his military deployment here, and suggested that Zhu Cihuang make Taiwan and its surrounding Penghu Islands a province, and It is emphasized that the court should spend at least [-]% of the tariffs on building more warships.

The Beiyang Navy currently has only 3 soldiers who can go to sea to participate in the war. He took away [-] by himself, and the rest has to defend the coastal security of Daming, which is really stretched.

After Taiwan Island was captured, Liu Hongjian suddenly discovered that Ming had no extra warships to garrison.

What about in the future?How many islands are there in Southeast Asia, and how many strategic locations, where can there be no warships?

Alas, one bite really won't make you fat, Liu Hongjian sighed, it's not easy for Daming to be able to do what he is doing now.

It was thanks to myself that I took the lead in forcibly masturbating those civil servants, otherwise, if I were to play Tai Chi with them, God knows what the court would look like now.

Qin Gongming temporarily took over the first governor of Taiwan Province, and he will make another call after the official order of the imperial court comes down. At the same time, Liu Hongjian also entrusted him with a special task-to build a naval base.

Again, the geographical location of Taiwan Island is too important. It can defend Jiangsu and Zhejiang on the inside, and guard the countries of Southeast Asia on the outside. It is not enough for the Ming Dynasty to have only one Beiyang navy.

In time, Weihai, Shanghai, Quanzhou, and Taiwan were all considered by Liu Hongjian.

If you want to earn more money, you must first have strength. Colonial plunder is bound to confront the European countries, so it is better to prepare early.

The next day, the Beiyang navy returned to Quanzhou to replenish food, grass and ammunition. On the sixth day of June, the Beiyang navy headed south all the way to Sulu.

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(End of this chapter)