Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 370 The girl from Alishan?

Chen Zuyi died.

It's just a group of pirates, just a ragtag group of people, so how can they be Zhu Chu's opponent.

If this fight is inextricable, then we are looking down too much on these pirates, and at the same time, we are looking down too much on Zhu Chu and the group of iron-blooded soldiers who conquered the Tatar grassland with him.

So just overnight, this pirate who had left a mark in history died before he even got rich.

Then it’s time to clean up the battlefield.

Xie Yu's men finally came in and found that the battle was over long ago.

Does it have anything to do with them? They had been playing soy sauce throughout this battle. They were either on the way here, or they were left behind outside the village gate to watch the excitement.

"Leave it to us to clean up the battlefield," Xie Yu volunteered and took on the dirty work.

Otherwise, they would really be traveling.

Xie Yu's people began to pull the pirates' bodies out and dispose of them.

Wang Fu, on the other hand, led his people and began to count the belongings in the village.

When Zhu Chu and the two girls arrived at the largest house in the village, they saw that a small mountain of gold, silver and jewelry had been piled up in the lobby.

The lighted lights also reflected the gold and silver, which was called a colorful place.

Even Zhu Chu, who always regarded money as dirt, couldn't help but grab a big gold brick and weigh it to test its weight.

"No wonder they take risks and become desperadoes. Pirates make so much money," Zhu Zhen said while looking outside.

The pirates make money not just because they hijacked the Xie family's smuggling ship, but it also proves from the side that the Xie family is the one who really makes money.

After all, firstly, there is no need to pay taxes, and secondly, because Ming Dynasty’s goods are so popular, bringing them to surrounding countries is like robbing money.

"Your Highness, what do you want to do with these 'stolen items'?" Gu Wen asked, especially emphasizing the word "stolen items."

Qian Gui's heart moved and he opened his mouth, but finally chose to close it.

Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "Since it is stolen property, it must be handed over to the court. After all, we are the gains from suppressing bandits. Or is this lost by the Xie family?"

"I don't dare. My Xie family has never lost such a large amount of wealth. Otherwise, I would have reported it to the government long ago. I would like to ask Your Highness for a clear warning." Xie Yu came in from the outside and took a look at the gold and silver jewelry on the ground , but dare not recognize each other.

Just kidding, you have to face Zhu Zhen if he gives you face.

Who doesn't know that this is earned by the Xie family from smuggling, and it is earned illegally.

It would be good if Zhu Chu turned a blind eye and did not pursue the charges against your Xie family. How dare you get carried away?

What's more, the bandit suppression this time was also for the Xie family. In the future, the Xie family will only gain more through smuggling.

Don't be too greedy, otherwise, not only will lust be used as a knife, money will be used as a weapon, and profit will be used as a knife. People will die, and many people will die.

"Your Highness, there are still some people for you to decide," Wang Fu stepped forward to report.

It turned out that there were many people in the village, including those from the Xie family who were captured when the merchant ship was hijacked by pirates a few days ago.

Excluding those who were killed while resisting the pirates, more than thirty people were rescued. After seeing Xie Yu, one of them burst into tears.

They were all in despair and thought they would die here, but they didn't expect that they would have the chance to see the light of day again after the disaster, and they were immediately grateful to the Xie family.

"It was His Highness who sent troops to exterminate these pirates and saved you all. Why don't you pay homage to His Highness the King of Dian?" Xie Yu was startled and quickly revealed Zhu Ming's identity.

More than thirty people were shocked. How could they be so virtuous that the prince himself came to rescue them?

No, they don't dare to say rescue.

But if it were revealed that we were rescued by the prince, that would be so glorious.

These people quickly knelt down to pay their respects to Zhu Zhen.

However, some people asked cautiously: "Your Highness Chitose, we disobeyed the holy orders and went to the sea to do business privately, which is why we have this disaster. You won't punish us, right? Your Highness, please don't misunderstand, we have nothing to do with the Xie family, we are all It’s our own idea.”

What a loyal servant.

Zhu Ming looked at Xie Yu with a smile. This Xie family is quite capable of controlling people.

Xie Yu was so frightened that he also knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists with both hands, and said loudly: "Your Highness, the Xie family will never dare to flout the laws of the court, let alone harbor evil intentions. Please be clear to your Highness, although it is my Xie family who took the lead in the smuggling matter. , but it will also bring profits to the people. To put it bluntly, everyone is just begging for food, Your Highness."

The Xie family in Taizhou Prefecture was separated from the Yu Tao family. At least in recent years, they have not had time to accumulate a large amount of land in Taizhou Prefecture.

Therefore, the goods smuggled by the Xie family are all purchased from private individuals in Taizhou Prefecture, and then the Xie family sends caravans and cargo ships to sell them.

It can indeed benefit the people.

Zhu Ming nodded and said: "Get up, I didn't say anything. Don't worry, sooner or later I will reopen the sea ban. At that time, I will issue you a pass and allow you to do business. But don't get carried away. It is okay to gain benefits from the people, but it is not okay to compete with them.”

"Yes," Xie Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the Xie family had escaped.

Otherwise, this incident alone would be enough to punish the entire Xie family.

After all, there's no point in trying to incriminate others. Are you, the Xie family, colluding with foreign countries and planning to rebel?

This single crime could even implicate Yu Tao's family and the nine clans.

"Your Highness, in addition to people from the Xie family, there are also locals, and most of them are women." Wang Fu said another worse situation.

Zhu Chu was stunned, local? Are they the aborigines of this island?

And what does it mean to be mostly women?

Zhu Xi's expression gradually became ugly.

He had guessed something, and it was exactly as he suspected.

Since these pirates have become pirates, they are naturally not good at it.

Moreover, they forcibly occupied this land, and in the process, they had conflicts with the local indigenous people.

Countless indigenous people were killed by pirates.

They even kidnapped many indigenous women and imprisoned them in the village as a tool to vent their anger.

When Zhu Ming followed Wang Fu to a specially isolated room, he saw many women locked up here. Most of them were naked. When they saw people, they hugged each other tremblingly, fearing Been hurt and violated.

"These bastards, it would really be easier for them to kill them," Tang Xin and Xu Miaojin gritted their teeth in anger.

It's a pity that those pirates have perished. Even if they want to punish them severely, there is nothing they can do. You can't behead the dead, right?

"Girls, it's okay. We have eliminated the people who bullied you. We will send you home tomorrow," Zhu Zhen wanted to comfort these poor girls.

But it is a pity that these are the aboriginal people on the island. They have their own language and culture, but they cannot understand what Zhu Chu means.

Zhu Zhen had no choice but to let people take care of these women. He also found a lot of cloth from the village to barely cover their bodies, and found food stored in the village to feed them.

Because he discovered the bestiality of the pirates, the atmosphere of victory after wiping out the pirates was broken. Zhu Zhen originally wanted to hold a celebration banquet, but now he just asked everyone to go down and rest after they had packed up, and those who needed to keep vigil, for the time being. Settled down first.

Originally, he even wanted to finalize his relationship with Tang Xin tonight, but in the end he lost his mood.

After all, he is not a devil.

On the next day, Zhu Zhen sent people to carry the dirty silver collected from the village to the boats on the shore. At the same time, he took thousands of people to escort the poor women and the excess grain stored in the village. Take them all and rush to the nearby aboriginal village.

Although they still couldn't communicate with the aborigines, the women could see that Zhu Zhen and the others had no ill intentions towards them.

Besides, they are powerless to resist, right?

Taiwan is a long and narrow island with dense mountains in the north and south. Mountains are distributed throughout Taiwan and can be roughly divided into five major mountain ranges: the Central Mountain Range, the Snow Mountain Mountain Range, the Yushan Mountains, the Alishan Mountains and the Coast Mountains in the north-south direction, as well as the northwest mountain range. Datun Volcano Collection.

Therefore, the aboriginal people here are generally known as the Gaoshan people, which are the Donghao people and Yizhou people in history.

At the same time, they are divided into different ethnic groups due to different living areas, mainly including Atayal, Saisiyat, Bunun, Tsou, Rukai, Paiwan, Beinan, Ami, Tawu, and Taroko There are 16 ethnic groups including the Kavalan, Thao, Sakilaya, Seediq, La'aluwa and Kanakanafu tribes.

Is it surprising? Isn’t it a surprise? There are so many ethnic groups in Taiwan.

However, when the new country was founded, they did not know much about the situation on the treasure island, so they were collectively called the Gaoshan tribe.

So theoretically speaking, we are actually 71 ethnic groups, and there are 70 ethnic minorities. The Gaoshan ethnic group should be the collective name for the other 16 ethnic groups. Moreover, in 2008, through parliamentary confirmation, the cultures of 13 ethnic groups within the Gaoshan ethnic group have been confirmed, and some ethnic groups have not yet completed the confirmation.

So despite the small size of this island, there are also some unknown ethnic cultures living on it.

What surprised Zhu Zhen even more was that they actually came to the Alishan Mountains along the way.

So these poor girls are still girls from Alishan?

At first, Zhu Chu didn't know that this was Alishan. After he met a village, there was an old man here. He was the owner of the village and the patriarch of this ethnic group. He actually knew some Chinese.

However, if it is said to be Chinese, it should actually be Hokkien, which is also commonly known as Hokkien.

You can think about it, an old man in his sixties, speaking with a Minnan accent, is very creepy.

Luckily he didn't say 'what are you doing' or 'ouch'.

Then Zhu Mingke is going to beat someone.

Because there was such an old patriarch who spoke so coquettishly, Zhu Zhen finally had someone he could talk to normally.

Zhu Ming first told his identity and purpose of coming: "I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty. This time I landed on the island to destroy the group of pirates who committed evil. At the same time, we also rescued the women from your village. Those pirates have been We will destroy them, so you can rest assured."

"However," Zhu Ming changed his voice and said: "You islanders have no ability to protect yourself, so why not become people of my Ming Dynasty and a part of my Ming Dynasty. In this way, our court can also be established on the island. The armed forces protect you, otherwise pirates will come today and Japanese pirates will come tomorrow. How many of you are there? Do you have enough to kill them?"

Today's Xiaoliuqiu has not yet been developed. Even if all ethnic minorities are added together, the population may not be more than 50,000.

It is conceivable that they have no ability to protect themselves.

Because Xie Yu belongs to the eastern Zhejiang region, including Ningbo, Shaoxing, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Jinhua, Lishui, Quzhou and other places, and other Zhejiang regions, such as Suzhou and Hangzhou, belong to the western Zhejiang region.

Zhejiang is now divided into two Zhejiang.

In fact, the Fujian language is not only Fujian, but also spoken in parts of eastern Zhejiang, so there is no need to worry about Zhu Zhen and the other party being unable to talk.

As a modern person, Zhu Zhen should have spoken the Mandarin of later generations, which is closer to the northern dialect. It is said that the language used in Beijing during the Ming Dynasty was almost the same as that of later generations.

But Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang's father in this life, was from Fengyang, Anhui, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty was in Yingtian, which was Nanjing.

Therefore, some people also suspect that Zhu Yuanzhang may have used the so-called Wu dialect as the official Mandarin later, and it was not until Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing that he changed to the northern language.

In fact, Zhu Chu's own language system is also very messy. He was the first to say that he could understand today's languages, including many dialects.

Including Anhui dialect, the ancestral home of this generation, and the dialect of the Jiangnan area, which is Wu dialect, also known as Jiangdong dialect, Jiangnan dialect, Jiangzhe dialect, and Wuyue dialect.

You can even talk in Hokkien.

At that time, he didn't have a system close to him, nor did he have a photographic memory. It was still not easy, right?

"What do you think?" Zhu Zhen gave the choice to the old patriarch.

The old patriarch had not yet reached the point where his eyes were dim. He looked at Zhu Zhen and did not speak for a long time.

It seemed that he had already guessed Zhu Xi's intention. To put it bluntly, he wanted to make them surrender.

After a while, the old patriarch sighed: "To be honest, although we are people on this island, our ancestors are also the queens of Yanhuang."

In fact, this village belongs to the Tsou tribe, but the Tsou tribe is the modern name, and now it should be called the Cao tribe.

There are two major sources of the surname Cao. One is that when Yu the Great was controlling floods, there was a man named An who made great contributions, so he was given the surname Cao by the great Yu.

Second, King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty granted his younger brother Shu Zhenduo a title and established the Kingdom of Cao in the area of ​​Dingtao, Shandong Province today. As a result, the descendants of the Kingdom of Cao took the country's name Cao as their surname for generations.

There are also records in the Spring and Autumn Period that Cao Shu Zhenduo, surnamed Ji, given name Zhenduo, was the sixth son of Zhou Wen Wang Ji Chang and Tai Si, the same mother and brother of Zhou Wu King Ji Fa, the first king of the Zhou Dynasty vassal state Cao State, and the ancestor of the Cao surname. .

Therefore, it is really possible that some of the Cao people here could not bear the war and moved here from the land.

The reason why they are called the Cao clan is actually to inherit the name of the Cao Kingdom to show that they are descendants of the Cao Kingdom.

The so-called Cao people?

"Now that the king has not given up and is willing to accept us again, we are naturally happy. But to be honest with the king, as early as the Song Dynasty, we had sent people to ask for instructions from the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, but the results were in vain. Song Dynasty didn’t recognize us at all. Although later a group of savages who called themselves the Mongolian Empire also wanted to conquer us, but we were defeated. The matter was settled. It’s not that we don’t want to go back, but that we are suffering.” The old village leader sighed.

Zhu Zhen looked at the other party quite amusedly.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, they actually fled all the way along the seaside, but in the end, the Southern Song Dynasty did not choose to land on the island.

It's because extravagance was common in the Southern Song Dynasty. I really don't look down on this three-acre land. What kind of environment do you have, do you think you are worthy of me?

And in its original, undeveloped state, the island really cannot support tens of thousands of people.

But did you say that they defeated the Northern Yuan Dynasty or the Mongols during the Mongol Empire?

Guess whether I believe it or not.

Speaking of which, Kublai Khan did come to the island, but what he considered at that time was the idea of ​​​​expedition to the Japanese country, that is, Japan.

But then nothing happened, and then Kublai Khan built an inspection department on Penghu Island. The Penghu Inspection Department was the first administrative agency established near Taiwan in the history of the Central Plains, even though it was in Penghu. .

Since the maritime ban policy is still being implemented, even the Penghu Inspection Department has ceased to exist in name only.

However, Zhu Chu was determined to win the treasure island.

In the future, you can argue and rebel against your old mother.

In order not to make the family scandal public, I will tolerate you.

What's more, these are our own children, so we really can't bear to use force.

But now.

Zhu Ming narrowed his eyes slightly and sneered: "Although I think these Alishan girls are very pitiful, it seems that we came early. Since you are so powerful, you should be allowed to deal with those pirates on your own. But don't worry, pirates There are plenty of them. The good guys can’t be found, and the bad guys can’t be found?”

There is something in this.

You can have pirates, even if Chen Zuyi and his gang have been wiped out, but if you want to be pirates, can't anyone pretend to be one?

The old village leader was dumbfounded and looked at Zhu Ming blankly, looking at a loss, weak and helpless.

"Old man, don't be shameless. Pirates can kill you, but I can't?" Zhu Zhen sneered. Since you don't want face, why don't you give it to me? If you have torn your face, will you still care about your life and death?

There is absolutely no need to discuss the issue of sovereignty.

He wants the treasure island, and no one can keep it.

Many people don't know, including those around Zhu Ming, who find it difficult to understand why he is so obsessed with this island.

In fact, Zhu Chu knew in his heart that Xiaoliuqiu has not yet been developed. Once it is fully developed, tens of millions of acres of land can still be reclaimed.

What is the concept of ten million acres of land?

Let's put it this way, Suzhou Prefecture, as a major tax-paying area, only has 9 million acres of land in the entire prefecture.

By then, this place will truly become a treasure island.

Moreover, the island has sufficient fresh water resources, so there is no need to worry about the saline-alkali land being too large.

It doesn't matter if there are many mountains, it only proves that there are rich forest resources here.

You might even find veins of minerals.

What's more, there are only tens of thousands of aborigines here, and there is simply wealth at your fingertips.

Not to mention that Zhu Chu has already begun to plan for overseas hegemony in the future. Once the era of great navigation and hegemony arrives, Baodao can serve as an outpost.

In addition to Baodao, there is also Hainan Island, plus Dinghai County.

It can control the South China Sea and even surround Southeast Asian countries.

In the distance, you can also find a way to go towards the Pacific Ocean and enter the American continent from the sea.

If you don't mind taking a long way around, you can enter the Atlantic Ocean and enter Europe, Asia, and the Middle East by land and water.

The most important thing is how many troops can be raised on the island once it is reclaimed?

The most troublesome thing in ancient times was transportation. How much wasted on the road when transporting grain from the north to the south?

Why was there a military garrison system in ancient times? The purpose is to raise troops locally.

He is bound to win the treasure island.

(End of this chapter)