The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 283 Debt Collection Propaganda Team
When Doma woke up again, she found that she was already in the yurt.Twenty or so of his brothers, like him, were all tied up and gagged.

"Brothers, are you all awake? Just wake up, and I will tell you about it. Let me introduce myself first."

A man in his 20s, sitting in front of the yurt, began to speak.Beside him, stood more than 20 fierce men.

"My name is Jia Lian, and now I am the commander of the first battalion of the Bukui Mansion Corps. This time, I brought the debt collection propaganda team to Tiefo, and I will tell you something now. After you hear it, you can tell others when you go back. It's best to tell your Lamei Huatou."

"More than 100 years ago, the imperial court signed the "Windula Covenant" with the four major tribes in the Wendula Grassland. The two families agreed that the Iron Buddha would pay tribute to the imperial court. 2000 taels of silver, 200 pieces of mink fur, 100 catties of deer antler, and 40 catties of ginseng."

"Is there a lot? Not much. The salt, iron, and tea leaves that the imperial court gave you are all at official prices, which are much cheaper than the market prices. The imperial court always pays you."

"It's really shameless to delay paying tribute for 70 years. Of course, I know, and it's not your fault. It's all your leaders' fault. Speaking of your leaders, you must Talk about another thing."

"According to the provisions of the "Windura Covenant", you can choose your leader yourself, but in the end, you need to be canonized by the court. Without the canonization of the court, the leader is a fake and does not count..." .

There are a total of 24 people in Jia Lian's line.For a team like his, Jia Min sent a total of four teams, one from each tribe.

Their task is to go to various tribes to ask for tribute money.

Of course, Jia Min didn't expect them to be able to get the money back, but as long as the words Jia Lian just said were publicized to all tribes, that would be fine.

In these words, the central idea is two.One is that the heads of various tribes owe the court tribute money for 70 years.The other is that none of the leaders of the four major tribes has been canonized by the court.If the court does not recognize them, they are actually fake heads.

The four teams set off from Bukui at the same time, and they have been doing this for the past two days. When they saw people from various tribes, they preached these words everywhere.

Although the tribal leaders were very angry, there was nothing they could do about it.

However, Jia Lian's mission here today is not just propaganda.He has another character.

He wants to stop Wintersweet Blossom at Erdaojiang Ferry.

While he was preaching everywhere today, he received news from an undercover agent in the Tiefo tribe.Lameihua took her female soldiers to attack Bing No. 12 Guanzhuang.

There is nothing valuable in the Guanzhuang, except for some farm tools, a small amount of livestock and stored grain, if it is valuable, it is people.

Therefore, Jia Lian judged that Wintersweet Blossom wanted to rob people in order to retaliate against Bu Kui for arresting the craftsmen.

Therefore, he decided to rescue the kidnapped people on the way back to Bukui.

As for the promotion to the tribal fighters guarding the ferry this time, it was just by the way.

Just as Jia Lian was talking, Qin Zhong came in.

"Battalion Commander Jia, they are back."

"Continue to monitor, and when they board the ship, we will start attacking."

It was already dark at this time, and the faces of the people on the other side could not be seen clearly, only shadowy figures could be seen.

When Jia Lian and others went out, they saw that there were already several torches on the other side of the river, and there were bursts of shouting.

As soon as you hear the sound, you know that this is a war between the two sides.It should be that Bu Kui found the wintersweet flowers and chased them from behind.

Jia Lian stood on the fort, surrounded by gunpowder bags and guns brought from the yurt.

Although this kind of Franc cannon is relatively old, it is still relatively advanced.The shooting range is relatively long, and the gun body can move up and down to adjust the shooting angle.There are also front sights and rear sights for aiming.Each cannon is equipped with nine sub-guns, which can be charged rapidly and can be fired continuously.

"Keep an eye on those two boats and aim, and you will fire as soon as I give the order."

"Don't worry, Battalion Commander Jia, I promise he will capsize the ship with one shot."

Qin Zhong replied playfully.

He's a good gunner now.

The two boats have reached the center of the river, and it is time.

"Fire!"

Jia Lian issued an order.

Bang, bang, two Francophones fired together.Immediately, a howl was heard from inside the river.I saw Jiang Xin's two boat shadows floating downstream quickly.

"Aim, let's shoot again."

Another bang, bang, two shots, the shadow of the boat disappeared.

"Don't worry about the boat, aim at the torch and fire at the opposite bank."

Then, it continued to bombard the opposite bank, and the screams from the opposite side were mixed with curses.

"Attention, everyone listen to my password and shout 'catch wintersweet flowers alive' together. Come, one or two, catch wintersweet flowers alive!"

Following Jia Lian's shout, the soldiers shouted together, "Catch wintersweet flowers alive." While shouting, they fired a few cannons from time to time.

After about 10 to [-] minutes, the shouting and killing on the opposite side stopped, and the torches were all extinguished.Faintly, someone shouted.

Jia Lian stopped everyone shouting and heard the voice from the opposite side.

"I'm Chen Yejing, which brother is on the other side? Lameihua has already escaped and was rescued. Come back."

"Oh, it's Battalion Commander Chen. I'm Jia Lian from the First Battalion. Okay, let's go back now."

Jia Lian commanded the crowd to smash the front sights and rear sights of the two Flang machines with stones, then raised the cannons and threw them into the river.Only then did he lead the people to go upstream and ride across the river on horseback.

After crossing the river, I saw Chen Yejing as expected.C No. 12 The forty exiles in Guanzhuang have been rescued.

It turned out that after the relationship with the four major tribes became tense recently, the Fubingtuan set up secret sentries in the official villages and traffic arteries close to the grassland to monitor the movements of the Wendula grassland at any time.

As soon as Lameihua's team crossed the ferry, they were discovered by the surveillance post, so they hurriedly reported to the Fubing regiment patrolling nearby.

It was Chen Yejing who led the patrol today, and after getting the letter, she hurried to Bing No. 12 Guanzhuang.When they arrived, Wintersweet Blossom had already captured and was retreating, so they chased and killed them all the way.

Chen Yejing only led one platoon, so the effect of this pursuit was not ideal.Fortunately, Jia Min seized the ferry, which made Lameihua think she had been tricked, so she ordered her men to disperse and retreat.The engagement was over.

After Lameihua easily succeeded in attacking Guanzhuang this time, she quickly retreated.Although someone from Bu Kui's side came after him, she didn't pay much attention to seeing that there were not many people.

When she came out this time, she brought all 300 people from her personal team. Since she has a large number of people, she has no reason to be afraid of them.

She didn't feel bad until the Francophone guns at the ferry opened fire on them.Hearing the other side kept shouting to capture her alive, I thought she had fallen into the enemy's trap.It turned out that the other party was already prepared, waiting for her to take the bait, and wanted to capture her alive.

At this point, he had no intention of fighting, and abandoned the people who had robbed from Guanzhuang, and ordered his subordinates to disperse and flee for their lives in the dark.

In fact, she did not run away. Seeing that the other party did not pursue her any further, she hid not far from the ferry to observe the movement.

Not long after, I saw someone wading across the river. After meeting with the pursuers, they stayed for a while and then withdrew. Then they asked people to cross the river and went to the ferry to find out what happened.

Only when I learned that the other party was occupying the ferry was only a debt collection propaganda team of about [-] people, did I know that I had been fooled.

But things had come to this, so they had no choice but to yell at the guards to vent their anger. When gathering the team, 8 people were found dead and [-] people were missing.Finally, the loss was still within his own tolerance, so he scolded the guards at the ferry for a while, fined them to guard the ferry for another month, and then led the team back.

At dawn, Wintersweet returned to her yurt.Although he was already very tired after traveling all day and night, but when he thought of returning from this big defeat, he became angry.

Without further hesitation, go to the Zoye Shaman.

Zuye Shaman is old and light sleeper.When Lameihua arrived, she had already got up and was sitting at the door.

"Zuye, didn't you say that the opportunity must not be missed? I went, but I still lost the battle."

"No way, how did this happen? Tell me, how did you lose?"

Zuye was neither anxious nor panicked.Always have a look of seeing things through the world and taking it easy.

So Lameihua told what happened.

"Baochai, I'm right. Did I tell you 'this opportunity is not to be missed'?"

"Yeah, it was you who said that I went."

"In this battle, if you lose, you will be taken over at the ferry, right?"

"correct."

"It doesn't matter if the ferry is taken by someone, the key is that the Ferang machine was taken away by someone, and they fired at you in turn, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"I told you that the opportunity is not lost, but you just don't listen, how can there be any reason to be invincible?"

“Zooye, I still don’t understand?”

"I told you not to lose the opportunity. I just told you to guard the Frang machine. If the Frang machine is lost, how can you still be undefeated? Do you understand this time?"

"Oh, I see."

What?This is also called an opportunity not to be missed?
On June 26 of Ding Chou's year, Bu Kuidu's yamen issued a notice.From now on, stop the spice trade to the South Vendura Grassland.

In addition to incense candles used for worshiping gods, all spices including pepper, star anise, chili, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, garlic, ginger, dried ginger, agarwood, etc., are included in the banned list.

These spices are not produced on the Wendula grassland, and all have to rely on external imports.

Spice substances are widely used in grassland tribes.

Shaman dancing, reciting mantras, purifying milk products, repelling insects, seasoning, making incense candles, and even making medicines are all inseparable from spices.

Salted fish and cured meat are an important output product of various nomadic and hunting tribes, and also an important source of income.There is no means of refrigeration in this era, and if food is to be preserved, a large amount of spices must be used.

At this time, there is no supply of spices, which is a huge blow to the production of cured fish and cured meat.

If you want to get spices, there is only one way - smuggling.

The spice embargo marked the official start of Bukui's economic sanctions against the four major tribes.

(End of this chapter)