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"City Master Liu, there are dead people everywhere in the village, you don't want us to collect their corpses, do you?" Cheng Huailiang said a little dissatisfied.He was really afraid of the hot and humid weather in Borneo, so he wanted to leave immediately, so he was very dissatisfied with Liu Kata's request that they go to the village again.

"Haha, General Cheng was joking. Naturally, the wild beasts in the forest would clean up those native corpses. As for why we went to the village again, it was because we were in a hurry to treat the wounded, and it was already dark, so we shouldn't be in the bloody place." I spent a lot of time in the village, so I didn’t have time to take some of the spoils!” Liu Kata smiled happily, and a golden light flashed in his eyes.

"The spoils of war?" Hearing this sensitive word, Cheng Huailiang and his soldiers were shocked. According to the regulations of the army, they can share [-]% of all the spoils of war, and the rest need to be handed over. After all, after a war, the soldiers The weapons and armor of the army will be greatly damaged, and there are also supplies, etc., all of which cost money, and the army should take a lot of money.

"Master Liu, did you make a mistake? Although the Dangu tribe is a large tribe nearby, they seem to be very poor. When we went in yesterday, we didn't see anything valuable at all except some food and furs." Things!" Just as Liu Kata finished speaking, a team member behind Cheng Huailiang said with a smile.

"Yeah, even those grains and furs were burned by us yesterday, not to mention that these things are not worth much, and it's not worth our trip at all." At this time, another team Zheng also spoke.Capital Datang 636

"Hey, everyone doesn't know that the Dangu tribe used to be the overlord of the neighborhood. Small and medium-sized tribes like our Kata tribe need to pay tribute to them. After so many years of accumulation, they have a very deep net worth. It's just that outsiders It's just hard to find!" Liu Kata said with a smile, as the leader of the tribe, he naturally knew where the wealth in the native tribe was hidden.

While everyone was talking, they had arrived at the village of the Dangu Tribe, but compared to yesterday, most of the entire village was reduced to ashes, and some unburned places were still emitting a few wisps of black smoke, only occasionally Several untouched houses still tower above the ground.

As soon as they approached the village, Cheng Huailiang and the others frowned, because the village was full of corpses.Coupled with the burning of the fire, the familiar smell of barbecue permeates, and the stench of some internal organs.Makes you want to retch.

Although the smell was bad, Cheng Huailiang and the others were not ordinary people, so they still walked steadily into the village.Then led by Liu Kata, he soon arrived in front of the temple in the middle of the village.

Unlike other houses made of wood and thatch, this temple of the Dangu tribe is made of stone.Although they look very simple in Cheng Huailiang, they are considered to be the highest architectural level of the Dangu tribe.

However, the area of ​​the temple is actually very small, only a few steps in length and width, and there is nothing inside except for a stone altar on which sacrifices such as rice and animal meat are placed.

"City Lord Liu. Where are the spoils you mentioned?" Cheng Huailiang followed Liu Kata into the temple, and then walked around the altar in the middle, but still found nothing.

Liu Kata walked to the altar with a smile on his face.Then he stretched out his hand and lightly knocked on the stone on the altar, then raised his head and said to Cheng Huailiang and the soldiers behind him: "Everyone come to help and tear down this altar, the things inside will definitely not disappoint everyone of!"

Hearing Liu Kata's words, Cheng Huailiang and the others suddenly came to their senses.The temple is the spiritual sustenance of the native tribe, and it is also the most important place in the whole tribe.It was natural for them to place all their wealth under the altar as a token of offering to their god.

When Cheng Huailiang and other officers and soldiers worked together, when they used the long knives in their hands to pry open the stones on the surface of the altar, they soon found a glimmer of golden light inside, followed by grains of naturally formed golden sand and colorful stones. 』appeared in front of them, and although those gems had not undergone any processing, the transparent feeling made it clear at a glance that the quality of these gems must be very good.

"Haha~, I've made a fortune. I didn't expect such a tribe of several thousand people to hide so much gold and precious stones." Cheng Huailiang shouted with ecstasy, his eyes glowing with gold.The reactions of the other soldiers were similar. The value of those gemstones could not be estimated for the time being, but so much gold piled up together weighed at least one or two tons. I really wonder how the natives of the Dangu tribe collected it?

In fact, one or two tons of gold seems to be a lot, but because of the large proportion of gold, the volume is not very large, and it is probably larger than ordinary computer cases in later generations.Of course, the sand in front of Cheng Huailiang and the others is not pure, and is very loose, so the size will be larger.In addition, judging from the appearance of these golden sands, the Dangu tribe may have discovered a gold mine, but it is a pity that Cheng Huailiang and the others killed all the people, otherwise they could "force" to find out the location of the gold mine.

Cheng Huailiang and the others transferred the gold and precious stones to the ship, and Liu Kata made a record. After returning, the gold and precious stones would be sold by the army at a valuation, and they could get [-]% of their own, and then Cheng Huailiang, who was the chief officer, would distribute the gold and precious stones. .

In the afternoon of that day, Cheng Huailiang took the ashes of the soldiers who died in battle, and then began to return.Compared with going upstream when they came, the return voyage was downstream, so the speed was very fast, and it even took half the time of coming, and when they returned to Kata City, the other two teams were already in the city. Waiting for them.

Compared with Cheng Huailiang and his team, the tasks of the two small teams are easier. Although they have fewer people, they also have fewer opponents, and they are also closer to Kata City, so they can complete the task earlier than Cheng Huailiang and the others. task, and the casualties were not heavy, the number of people killed in each team was only a dozen, and there were not many injured, which were all within the tolerable range.

Under the guidance of the guide, the other two teams also discovered the treasures of two small tribes, but naturally the treasures of this small tribe cannot be compared with the Dangu tribe, and can only be regarded as better than nothing.

Cheng Huailiang's unit was only one of the action teams in this sweeping operation, and there were six or seven of them who came out of the same batch. In addition, Changqiao Island served as the headquarters of this operation, and several batches of action teams were sent out in the follow-up, and The number of each batch is more than the first batch, and finally reached more than 30 teams.

The number of these teams varies, but generally they are not too many. After all, when fighting in the jungle, it is difficult to show the superiority in numbers, so each troop is an elite squad.In addition, the missions of these teams are not exactly the same. Some of them, like Cheng Huailiang, exterminated the target tribe in order to deter other natives. The army threatened the tribes, asking them to surrender to the Qi Palace, etc. These missions have different goals and cannot be decided due to local conditions.

However, although the goals are different, the ultimate goal of this clean-up operation remains the same, that is, to clean up the natives in Borneo who do not obey the rule, and to remove all the unstable factors found, so that the security of Borneo will be greatly improved. , and lay a solid foundation for the next step to start Borneo.Capital Datang 636

And it's not just Borneo, the situation in Jinzhou is similar to that of Borneo. Therefore, after the cleaning operation in Borneo, Cheng Huailiang and his team did not rest, but immediately showed their fangs to Jinzhou. It took several months to finally wipe out the natives who did not obey the rule on the two big islands.

Speaking of which, the Nanyang islands have been in the hands of Li Yin for several years. The reason for the sudden attack on Borneo and Jinzhou is that apart from the need to collect various information before, there is another very important reason, that is, in the After opening the route to the Americas, plants such as rubber trees and cocoa in the Americas are very suitable for planting in Nanyang. Therefore, the safety of the Nanyang islands is in front of Li Yin.

It was also under the impetus of starting Nanyang that Li Yin made up his mind to start this sweeping operation, cleaning up the two largest islands in Nanyang, making it difficult for the local natives to become a climate. The big plantation owners who got the hint also rushed to Borneo or Jinzhou to buy land and prepare to start their own big plantations.

It is also worth mentioning that the plague in Java has finally come to an end. Countless natives on the island have died of illness, and some bold Han people have begun to land on the island, buying a large amount of land on the island at a price that is almost free. They are also planning to open plantations, but because the number of local natives is too small, these plantations are buying slaves on a large scale. Among them, the Kunlun slaves in Africa are the most popular, and there is also a relatively rare slave, namely The number of white slaves gradually increased.

The so-called white slaves refer to Caucasian slaves. This kind of slaves have also appeared before, and most of them were prisoners of war in West Asia. After being a cannibal prisoner of war, he later arrived in Tubo, where he was a slave at first, and later became Songtsen Gampo's bodyguard.

However, with the collision between Datang and Dashi, and the signing of the four-nation covenant, the exchanges between the East and the West suddenly became closer. Of course, this can be regarded as a good thing from all aspects. In addition, The number of white slaves in Datang and Taiwan also began to increase. Li Ke, who was in the industry, witnessed the source of these white slaves with his own eyes.