In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 516: Which one is more important, face or money?
Meng Zhijing looked at them. Most of them were wearing shabby clothes, and some looked like they had been given to them by the Song Army.

Many of them were wearing coarse cloth, but some children were not wearing any clothes and were only wearing animal skins. They looked almost like savages.

Cloth and silk are rare goods here, and they are also the main items that Srivijaya used food and the Song army to exchange for.

There are more forests here and abundant water resources. Between the forests and waterways, there are grain fields everywhere. The Malays farm and survive here. Many houses are built beside the grain fields or waterways.

They looked at the Song people blankly. Although some people had seen the Song people before, they still felt that it was new and strange.

Meng Zhijing looked at these refugees and savage-like Malays, and felt a little bit unbearable, because he knew that, but the next moment, he immediately shook his head and came to his senses, this was for the Song Dynasty, for the Song Dynasty, Your Majesty, for what I have to do for myself.

"Squat down and don't kill." Meng Zhijing shouted immediately.

As soon as his voice fell, a local guide beside him shouted in Malay: "Everyone kneel down, everyone kneels down, kneel down and don't kill."

Immediately afterwards, the Song troops moved forward one after another and began to shout in Malay.

Everyone has learned a few words these days: "Kneel down and don't kill."

The scene was quickly filled with people kneeling on their knees. Of course, some people ran away and ran towards Tanjong Puteri City in the distance.

"Who asked you to shoot?" Meng Zhijing was furious.

Everyone didn't know him, but they knew that he had a father who was a senior military officer. He became a commander at a young age, so he must be well-connected.

"Don't run, everyone kneel down."

He found that people here almost didn't wear shoes. Those who could wear shoes were basically equivalent to nobles and officials, rich people, and ordinary people were really like savages.

Yan Le said: "Adults and children cannot be separated. They are all caught together. In this way, the adults will work honestly. We will raise the children and teach them Chinese characters. They will become Han Chinese in the future and they can use them when they grow up."

The sergeants brought hemp rope and tied them up in groups of ten.

Meng Zhijing didn't care and arrested people here first.

Bang bang bang, Song Jun was already fighting.

Meng Zhijing's words didn't work, but fortunately Yan Le restrained his subordinates from behind and asked everyone to obey orders, so it wasn't too ugly after all.

Song Jun brought more than fifty dogs this time.

The scene immediately exploded, and the crowd fled in all directions. Some people understood Song Jun's Malay and quickly knelt down.

But don't tell me, these Malays were running around at first, but after Song Jun fired a flintlock, the scene immediately became calm.

Now this is not Meng Gong's army, who knows him.

Yan Le shrugged: "These barbarians can't communicate with each other. If you don't shoot, you can't catch them?"

There was a scream from the opposite side and he fell to the ground.

Bang bang bang, at least three people on Song Jun's side shot at the same time. The man fell down and hit his vitals.

"Damn it, Commander Meng said spanking, didn't you hear?" Yan Le said angrily.

After the Song army tied up these people, they left half of the city guarded by more than fifty people, while the rest continued eastward.

Of course, the Song army came from the south, and there were a large number of people outside Tanjong Puteri City in other directions, east, west, and north.

Meng Zhijing's face turned green.

"Don't run, everyone kneel down."

Hit whoever runs away.

Some people ran wildly, some knelt down, and more and more people knelt down on the spot, trembling.

Meng Zhijing had been following his father Meng Gong for many years in Xixia (now Ningxia) and Mongolia (now Northern Taipei). There were all his father's old subordinates there, and everyone would give him face.

The Song soldiers bowed their heads one after another and did not speak.

He took the bow in his hand and followed the Song army forward.

"If you don't want to die, don't resist."

At this time, someone ran into the house and suddenly ran out again. Everyone looked closely and saw that this person was holding a homemade spear in his hand and rushed towards the Song army while screaming.

"Kick and kick." Meng Zhijing didn't want to kill anyone yet.

Some people tried to go home to get weapons, but were shot down by the Song army with flintlock rifles from a long distance. The Malays also understood that the Song army's weapons were powerful and could hit them from such a distance.

Seeing Song Jun moving forward, some people subconsciously turned around and ran into the house.

He was only eighteen or nineteen years old at this time. He was able to command a battalion at a young age. He was almost the youngest commander of the army in the Song Dynasty. The Song army here did not give him much respect.

Soon he saw the Song army tying up children, and immediately said: "We are also arresting children, what can they do?"

What else does Meng Zhijing have to say?

The people on the other side screamed and fell to the ground one after another. At the same time, some people in the Song army were still shouting: "Kneel down and don't kill."

Meng Zhijing's face was ugly, but he was not prone to attack. He did not bring a flintlock gun, but only a bow and a knife at his waist.

These three sentences are repeated over and over again. Many people's pronunciation is not standard, but they can almost pronounce them.

Meng Zhijing was still hesitating, but Yan Le was not polite and raised his flintlock gun: "Bang", it was a shot at close range.

The first wave of Song troops captured three to four hundred people outside the city, but more people fled back into the city, and Tanjong Puteri City also closed its gates.

Tanjong Puteri City immediately began to close the city gates.

The Song army has now become accustomed to raising dogs. They can also be used as sentries in the barracks. If there are too many dogs, they can also eat dog meat, such as Daguan, Hanzhou (Fei Lubing), Bo Ni (Yin Ni Wen Lai), these mountains have many Dogs are very useful in places like this. The enemy cannot hide at all. You can find them by releasing the dog.

There are also a large number of dogs pulling sleds in the Far East. In winter, the Song Army does not ride horses when going out, but uses sleds. Now dogs have obviously become the standard equipment of the Song Army.

When Meng Zhijing and his father Meng Gong were in Xixia and Mobei, they almost never used dogs. They were useless there and they were all Mongolian cavalry.

Now it is very strange to see that Song Jun brought more than fifty dogs.

"Are they all hunting dogs? Do they also need to hunt?" Meng Zhijing asked Yan Le.

"They are not all hunting dogs, but they can detect hidden enemies in advance. Most people cannot hide them." Yan Le explained to him that if the enemy on the opposite side is not specifically guarded against dogs, it is generally impossible to hide them.

"The smell of the Malays is also different from ours. Let the dogs smell them often and find them easily, so they will not be ambushed."

Meng Zhijing sounded a little mysterious.

But after walking for less than two-quarters of an hour, they entered a jungle, which was the famous mangrove forest here.

There is the world's largest mangrove forest here in Johor, covering a total area of ​​more than 7 million acres. Even in later generations, there are still more than 6 million acres. Over 800 years, more than 1 million acres have been cut down.

Now that there were mangroves on both sides, the visibility was not good. Song Jun was still more careful. Yan Le then signaled Meng Zhijing to go to the formation and not to be at the front.

Meng Zhijing shook his head when he heard this. As Meng Gong's son, of course he did not dare to embarrass his father. He could also see that his brothers seemed to think that he was a second-generation official and looked down on him.

He continued to move forward.

Yan Le turned around and signaled: "Zhang Daquan, lead your team to the front and lead the five dogs to open the way."

"promise."

Immediately, Song soldiers led their dogs forward. They walked faster and faster, leading most of them by about fifty steps.

Someone just let the dog go, letting it run around happily.

After walking for a while, I saw a large bright light in front of me, and I was about to walk out of the mangrove forest. Sudden.

Woof woof woof, dogs on the left and right barked at the same time.

"There's someone!" Song Jun shouted from the front.

The Song troops looked for trees one after another and hid behind them. Yan Zhile also pulled Meng Zhijing to the edge of the forest to avoid them.

"Go." Song Jun patted the dog, barking, barking, and the two dogs ran directly into the forest.

Whoosh whoosh, at the same time, an arrow shot at the dog in the forest.

Then, wow, a wave of Malays in tattered clothes got up from the ground and rushed out carrying all kinds of weapons.

These people were lying on the ground beforehand, with their faces painted with mud or unknown paint, and their bodies covered with leaves. They had all kinds of weapons in their hands, including rakes for plowing, hoes, wooden sticks, homemade spears, and short knives. What's more, there are arrows made of bamboo.

They look completely like savages, and they are definitely not regular soldiers at first glance.

Probably a slave army under a certain lord.

They wanted to ambush the Song army, but they were discovered by dogs in advance and rushed out.

Yan Le hid behind a tree and took a look. Only a few people had bows and arrows in their hands. This was the only weapon that could cause damage to the Song army.

Moreover, the bows and arrows on the other side were homemade and very simple. When I shot the dog just now, I didn't even hit the target.

"Fight the archers first."

"beat."

Yan Le gave an order, bang bang bang, flintlock guns were fired at the scene, and everyone fired freely.

On the opposite side, the natives who were beaten by the Song Army's musketry were thrown off their backs. When they rushed fifty steps to the Song Army, a large number of them had already fallen down. The rest turned around and ran away like frightened birds.

They had seen the Siamese and the people of the Xinhasali Dynasty in Java, but they had never seen this kind of weapon.

The Song army defeated them with just a wave of flintlock rifles. Many Song soldiers behind them did not have time to shoot in front, and they saw the natives turning around and running away.

The natives ran into the forest, but the Song army never pursued them, fearing that there would be traps in the forest.

At this time, a Song army picked up the spears left by the indigenous people on the ground, and walked in front with their dogs while poking at the ground.

Meng Zhijing seemed to understand after reading it for a while.

Sure enough, after a while, plop, a dog in front fell directly into a trap.

The Song soldiers cursed loudly and looked down. Fortunately, the dog was smaller and was not stuck by the bamboo stick inside, so they quickly rescued it.

The trap on the opposite side was not dug temporarily. The Song army should have been prepared for it.

Now Meng Zhijing discovered the benefits of this dog.

“How many dogs are there in the Lion City now?”

"I probably brought more than a hundred when I first came here. Now I have more than five hundred."

"..." Meng Zhijing.

"Before you came, there were too many dogs. Last month we ate more than thirty."

"..." Meng Zhijing.

When Yan Le came, there were more than 300 people and horses. Later, there were more than 500 dogs. Why would they keep them without food?
Meng Zhijing was very depressed after hearing this. How could such a dog be eaten? They are all your brothers.

Yan Le: "Commander Meng, you have never eaten it. You will know after you eat dog meat. If the dog meat rolls three times, the gods will not be able to stand still."

"Zhang Daquan."

"exist."

"Get a fat dog tonight and treat Commander Meng to some dog meat."

"Good."

"Kill Lao Hei, he is so old."

"I want to eat to bring wealth. The meat is so fat."

"Why don't you eat cowboy? The dog is not very obedient. I have wanted to eat it for a long time."

The Song soldiers were talking a lot there, and Meng Zhijing was speechless for a while.

At noon, Song Jun finally walked out of the mangroves and turned west. At this time, he could see a narrow river. There were still mangroves on the other side of the river. Everyone walked along the river bank. This side of the river was full of grain fields, and they looked good. .

"The double-cropping rice grown by the Malays. What we are growing now is the Malay variety. It seems to have been passed down from Champa. The Malays can't manage it well. The annual output is about three stones. We can get up to four stones. Commander Meng, if you look at them, they have almost no water conservancy facilities.”

Meng Zhijing nodded. He just saw the weapons that the natives dropped on the ground. Some of them were actually stone hoes, not metal hoes at all. It can be seen that this place is really uncivilized. Maybe the refining technology is still relatively poor and cannot be popularized, or maybe the territories are just looking at it. Yan, don't give slaves to the iron guys below.

When the two were talking, Meng Zhijing saw an unusual effect on the roadside. There were many strings of pearls hanging on it: "Hey, what is this?" Meng Zhijing walked over and picked one. When you smell it, you immediately get a spicy taste.

"This is pepper. Currently, we are also transplanting it. Borneo, Hanzhou, and other officials are planting it. It is said that it needs a place with relatively high temperature to grow."

In the past, Srivijaya used this as a spice, sold it to various places, and also paid tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Yan Zhijing found that Yan Le was quite proficient in the history here, and later discovered that all the mid-level and senior officers here had learned it.

In the first and second years of Jianlong of the Song Dynasty (960 to 961), King Xili Daxialitan of the Srivijaya Kingdom sent envoys to pay tribute.

In March and December of the third year of Jianlong, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, the royal family Liwuye sent envoys to pay tribute.

In the seventh year of the founding of Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, the Kingdom of Sri Lanka paid tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty, including ivory, frankincense, rose water, long-lived dates, white sugar, etc.

In the fifth year of Emperor Taizong's reign of peace and rejuvenation of the country, King Xia Chi of the Three Buddhas Kingdom sent his envoy Cha Longmei to pay tribute to the court of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the sixth year of Emperor Xianping of the Song Dynasty (1004), the king of the Three Buddhas Qi Kingdom set up a Buddhist temple to celebrate Zhenzong's birthday, and Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty awarded him a "Chengtian Wanshou" bell.

In the first year of Tianxi reign of Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty (1017), the king of the Three Buddhas Kingdom sent envoys to pay tribute to pearls and ivory to the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the sixth year of Tiansheng reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty (1029), the royal family of the Kingdom of Srivijaya, Li Diehua, sent envoys to pay tribute.

In the 1078th year of the Xining reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty (), the king of the Three Buddhas Kingdom sent an envoy Dihua Jialuo to pay tribute and was given the title of General Baoshun Muhua.

On July 3, the second year of Yuanfeng, the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, King Zhanbei of the Kingdom of Srivijaya sent Quntuo Biluo and Tuopanyali to pay tribute. Song Shenzong gave him 1,500 taels of silver and granted Quntuo Biluo the title of Ningyuan. General, Topanyali is the general of Baoshun.

In December of the third year of Yuanyou, Zhezong of the Song Dynasty, the Kingdom of Sanfoqi sent envoys to pay tribute.

In the fifth year of Yuanyou reign of Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty, the Kingdom of Sanfoqi sent envoys Pi Shi to pay tribute, and Pi Shi was granted the title of General Huaiyuan.

Throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, the Three Buddhas came to the Northern Song Dynasty many times, constantly paying tribute, and their attitude seemed to be very good.

Meng Zhijing was in disbelief after hearing the Sutra. Srivijaya respects us so much. Why do we want to destroy them now?

Yan Le couldn't help but look at this second-generation official. He really didn't understand human affairs?

"Srivijaya comes to our court frequently because they can get greater benefits."

In the second year of Yuanfeng of Emperor Shenzong, Quntuo Biluo came to the Northern Song Dynasty. The total tribute he sent was less than 100 taels of silver. Shenzong waved his hand and gave back 1500 taels of silver. At that time, the Northern Song Dynasty only produced one year. One-twentieth of the two hundred thousand taels of silver was given.

For the sake of the face of the Celestial Empire, the Song Dynasty always suffered a loss of blood, so they came often.

(End of this chapter)