Blood from Daming

Chapter 507
Marshallier, the chief assistant of Manchuria, who is familiar with the situation in Taiwan, told Xue Yun that Xingangshe is a village close to the castle of the Dutch Promincia. On the plain of Xingangshe, there are Xiaolongshe, Madoushe, and Mujialiu. Several larger villages in the Bay Society, this Xingang Society should be an ally of the Dutch.

Then the Scarlet Blood Princess and Marshallier talked with Xue Yun about the cooperation between the Manstabana Kingdom and the Xue Family Army. Xue Yun responded positively to most of the matters, and the Scarlet Blood Princess and Marshallier left very satisfied. Xue Yun's ship was the three-masted battleship "Yangtze River".

After the Scarlet Blood Princess and Marshallier, Xue Yun went into the cabin to see Miss Liya for a while, then took his own soldiers off the "Yangtze River" battleship, took several small boats and landed on the beach on the left wing of Luermen Port. Under the support of the soldiers of Yusi's department, Xue Yun walked towards Yusi's camp along the edge of Hejiang Inner Sea.

Before Xue Yun arrived at Yu Si's camp, Yu Si and Luo Erwa, who got the news, went out to pick Xue Yun up more than three miles away. Xue Yun came on foot, and when he saw Yu Si and Luo Erwa, he complained. Said: "What are you doing, such a big battle, aren't you afraid to attract the Dutch warships?"

Yu Si and Luo Erwa blushed and didn't know what to say when they heard this, Xue Yun continued: "Forget it this time, you must pay special attention to it in the future. As a general, you must consider your own safety, because your life safety is related to your actions." The survival of the generals and soldiers even affects the safety of the entire Xue family army, understand."

Yu Si and Luo Erwa quickly said, "Understood."

Xue Yun chose a small path with deep grass and dense trees to detour into the camp of Yu Si and Luo Erwa. Xue Yun came to the main tent and looked at the distance to Hejiang Inner Sea and said: "This is still a little closer to the Dutch warships in the Inner Sea. The Dutch warship fired near the shore, and it is likely to hit near your camp."

Yu Si and Luo Erwa hurriedly said that they would move camp immediately, Xue Yun entered the main tent and sat down, and Yu Si reported to Xue Yun: "Master, it is the East Plain Xingang Society that came to help the Dutch this morning. More than a hundred guys ran away, and the others were either captured or killed."

Xue Yun frowned and asked, "What weapons are these community members using?"

Yu Si replied: "Young master, they are all knives, guns and sticks, and a few old-fashioned bird guns. They can only be scattered nearby. Not long ago, the president of the Xingang Society came to the camp to ask for an interview. The villain put him in the barracks." It's outside."

Xue Yun asked: "Are these people from the Xingang Society devoted to serving the Dutch?"

Yu Si said: "Master, because of the contradiction between history and reality, the Xingang Society often fights enemies with the Xiaolong Society, Madou Society, and Mujialiuwan Society. Because of the small number of people, the Xingang Society took refuge in the Dutch under the recommendation of the missionaries. , They are getting bullish now with the support of the Dutch, and this time the Xingang Society came to help when they heard that the Dutch were fighting, but it’s hard to say whether the people of the Xingang Society are determined.”

Xue Yun thought for a while and said, "Bring the president of Xingang Society in and meet him."

Yu Si immediately ordered his men to go down and bring the president of the Xingang Society. After a while, a limping old man with a white beard entered the main tent and met Xue Yun.Yu Si and Luo Erwa bowed after accepting their heads. Xue Yun motioned to Yu Si, and Yu Si understood how to ask questions through his subordinates who understood Taiwanese dialect.

Yu Si roared: "You are the president of the Xingang Society, you wild mountain people dare to resist the army of the Celestial Dynasty, aren't you afraid of crimes and nine races?"

The white-bearded old man begged: "You guys really don't know that the Chinese army is coming, but those Dutch people are kind to our Xingang Society. I heard that the Dutch came to see if they could help us. They never dared to resist the Chinese army. Speaking of which, my ancestors are still from southern Hokkien, we are all family members."

Xue Yun was amused when he heard this, the white-bearded old man could climb the pole very well, Yu Si said loudly: "Don't deceive the general with your rhetoric, your community members have already confessed, it was the Western pastor Gan Zhishi who discussed it with you Yes, this is admitted by many people, you should go back and wait for your youngsters to collect the corpses."

The white-bearded old man panicked when he heard this, and quickly expressed his willingness to offer a hundred deer skins, ten fat pigs, twenty picks of rice, and a hundred chickens and ducks, begging Yu Si to forgive the young man of Xingang Society, and then the chicken pecked at the rice General non-stop kowtow.

When Yu Si heard the white-bearded old man take out the thing stuck between his teeth, his nose was crooked with anger. The old man was purely embarrassing himself in front of the young master. Yu Si stretched his legs in anger and kicked a stone bench away. Flying past the ear of the old man with white beard, the old man with white beard was so frightened that his face was blue and black, and he almost peed out of fear.

Luo Erwa shouted: "I have an army of [-] soldiers and a thousand warships. These things are not enough for the uncle to squeeze between his teeth. Why don't I take someone to Xingang Society to get them, where the old man will be rambling here." .”

The white-bearded old man kowtowed anxiously, bleeding out. His forehead was swollen like a small head, but this old man was not simple. Seeing the three court officers sitting, one officer had not spoken, although I don't know how old this officer is, but it seems that the youngest officer in his attire is the most important, so the old man with white beard threw himself at Xue Yun's feet with a gamble mentality and begged bitterly.

Yu Si and Luo Erwa were dumbfounded when they saw it, so they had to stand aside and dare not speak. The old man with white beard peeked at him and knew that he was hugging his thick leg, so he twisted Xue Yun with snot and tears. He refused to let go anymore, and Xue Yun didn't have the idea of ​​beating Xingang Society to death.

Xue Yun said: "Old man, get up and talk."

The old man with the white beard showed his true behavior again, and when Yu Si and Luo Erwa got angry, the old man with the white beard realized that the young general was indeed a high-ranking official, so he stood up pretendingly, and did not forget to give Xue Yun another go One more ceremony.

Xue Yun could see that this white-bearded old man was a little bit of an act, but Xue Yun didn't bother to care about these grassroots people, so he said to the white-bearded old man: "If you submit to Ming's wing, this general can consider pardoning the prisoners of Xingang Society, then Are you, Xingang Society, willing to pledge allegiance to the Ming Dynasty?"

The white-bearded old man quickly said: "Yes, yes, our Xingang Society has always been devoted to Daming, and it was because the Ming court did not come to drive away those red ghosts that our Xingang Society had to compromise to deal with the Dutch."

Xue Yun said: "Well, I hope you Xingang Society can prove this in the future."

Seeing that Xue Yun's tone was loose, the white-bearded old man quickly hit the snake with his stick and asked, "Master General, can the younger generation of our Xingang Society be released?"

Xue Yun said: "It is a capital offense for them to attack the Ming Dynasty's army. The general exonerated the law and exempted the death penalty. However, although the death penalty can be avoided, the court wants to build a mansion for the officials, so it will punish the sinners from the Xingang Society to build it for the court. The Walled Fort, when the Walled Fort is built, they will be released and go home."

The old man with the white beard was surprised when he heard this, and said, "General, this won't work. No one grows the crops of our Xingang Society."

Xue Yun said: "The general will not force the prisoners of the Xingang Society. If you are willing to build a fort, you will prepare food for them. If you are not willing to build a fort, you will be cheaper. You don't have to prepare food for them."

The white-bearded old man couldn't turn his head around and asked: "General, can those who don't want to build the fort be allowed to go back?"

Xue Yun said: "Okay, please bring more community members to carry their bodies tomorrow."

The white-bearded old man trembled when he heard this, and promised to let the captured Xingang Society children build a castle for the Xue family army. Xue Yun asked Luo Erwa to take the white-bearded old man surnamed Fang to persuade the prisoners of the Xingang Society Let Yu Si go to Xingang Society for a walk, choose a piece of land for Yu Si, and ask Yu Si to start building the fort tomorrow. After the fort is repaired, it can largely control the Taiwanese to trade by the sea.

Xue Yun asked Yu Si to pay attention to building a good relationship with the nearby villages. The leaders of the villages can be sent to the boat to meet each other. Each society has labor and is willing to participate in the construction of the fort. The Xue family army can pay in kind or silver coins. In short, speed up the construction of the village. Send Yu Si experts who are familiar with building the fort, and try to let the officers and soldiers live in it before the New Year.

When Xue Yun left, he took the pastor Gan Zhishi who served in the Netherlands with him. At first, the priest Gan Zhishi thought that the people of the Ming Dynasty were going to execute him, and refused to leave without yelling, but the Zhishi Gan was no more stubborn than Xue Yun. This scene was seen by the prisoners of the Xingang Society. They thought that the pastor of the Ganzhi priest would undoubtedly die, and they were even more afraid of the Ming army. For a while, the prisoners of the Xingang Society were obedient a lot.

On the way back, Xue Yun carefully looked at the Dutch ships in the inner sea of ​​the Hejiang River. Those Dutch ships were all leaning towards Promincia Castle. The ships and the castle were back to back. They would all be flanked by the Dutch, Xue Yun was thinking in his heart, is there any way to make a deal for the Dutch ships.

(End of this chapter)