Great Song Pirate

Chapter 301 Charcoal
Xu Yi was not happy about the escape of the Japanese slaves, but there are some virgin forests nearby. Once dozens of people get in, it may be difficult to find their traces with their current abilities, but he is not very worried about these What kind of waves can the Japanese slaves make? Dozens of people drilled into the dense jungle. For these Japanese who are not familiar with the situation here, it is basically the same as courting death. It will not take long for them to be killed by all kinds of people in this forest. The danger is swallowed up, and it is estimated that there will be no dregs left, so he intends to let it go and leave them alone.

But Kong Qingxi disagreed with Xu Yi's idea, thinking that these Japanese slaves could not just sit idly by, otherwise it would set a bad example for the remaining Japanese slaves, making them unable to work with peace of mind. They escaped in large numbers.

And Yang Zaixing, Li Bo and others also expressed their agreement with him, so Xu Yi paid more attention to this matter again. However, in such a large forest, if we want to hunt down these escaped Japanese, we don't know how many people will be needed to achieve the goal. And it is likely to bring great losses to the people on his side, Xu Yi scratched his head for this matter.

At this time, Kong Qingxi came up with an idea. They are not good at tracking in the jungle, but it doesn't mean that everyone doesn't have this kind of ability. So he found the firewood from the Posang tribe that Xu Yi had left in Jilongzhai, and put this I told him the matter and let him think of a way. After Chai stayed in Jilong Village for so long, his Chinese level has improved by leaps and bounds. He has already spoken Chinese fluently. After hearing Kong Qingxi's request, he immediately agreed, saying In the forest, there is no one they can't find, this big forest will always be their world, and then immediately turned back to his tribe, Xu Yi was completely relieved, thinking, why didn't I think of this how?It's a pity to leave such a group of jungle warfare masters unused!It seems that it was a wise move to form an alliance with Posang at the beginning.

After arranging this matter, with the efforts of everyone, various houses have sprung up in the open space around Jilong Village like mushrooms after rain. Once these refugees have something to do, they gradually feel at ease. The women kept sewing clothes for their families, the children wandered around and played in the newly built village, the old people also did some things within their capabilities, and the young and middle-aged people continued to work at sunrise and sunset. Nearby trees were felled and dragged back to the village to be used as building materials.

Some of them know how to burn charcoal. When they are free, they harvest the cut branches, cover them with soil and smolder them, and make a lot of charcoal. Anyway, they don't have much use for them to keep, so they simply give them to the blacksmith workshop in the village. In the past, after knowing this, Gao Xu immediately asked people to send a lot of food such as smoked fish and bacon to these charcoal-burning families as a reward for them, thus immediately mobilizing the resources of these refugees. Enthusiasm, it turns out that you can get paid for working for these pirates, so some people who completed the house construction spontaneously went to the leaders in the village to ask, what kind of work needs to be done here? They are also idle, thinking Find something to do.

So after Jia Qian, Gao Xu and others asked Xu Yi for instructions, they took the opportunity to announce their original plan in the name of the Fubo Army, and let these refugees start relying on their own labor in exchange for their daily necessities. After discussing it for a while, these refugees felt that what they said was reasonable, and they couldn't keep supporting themselves for nothing, so the young and strong people started logging and repairing roads under the organization of the Fubo Army. The handicrafts simply joined the woodwork and ironwork as craftsmen, which was a new way of life for them, anyway, they were not very familiar with rice planting, so they felt more comfortable doing it.

After watching the situation here gradually become normal, Xu Yi also had a new understanding of the organizational abilities of Gao Xu and Jia Qian. Both of them are good at handling civil affairs, and they also have their own strengths. Gao Xu is good at grasping the overall situation, while Jia Qian is better at dealing with details. After the two of them worked together to arrange various things, they cooperated very happily, and the dozen or so scholars brought by Jia Qian were also very happy. With strengths, they were assigned to various places to do specific and responsible things, and they could be regarded as independent. After these people gradually entered the role, they cooperated with Kong Qingxi, Chang Le and others, that is, within ten days, they will The original chaotic situation was completely brought under control, and it did not arouse the dissatisfaction of the refugees. Xu Yi finally felt relieved. It seems that his original decision was good. It depends on them, the navy brothers, to conquer the world, but the governance of the place is still inseparable. Open these people who read books.

Just when Xu Yi was considering handing over the affairs here to them, and wanted to take a boat to the sea to find a new settlement in the west of Liuqiu Island, the leader of the Posang tribe led their tribe out of the forest. Come out, and sent a gift for Xu Yi and the others.

This gift was none other than the dozens of escaped Japanese slaves, and most of them only brought their heads. It turned out that after Chai returned to the tribe, he told his leader the request from Jilongzhai. People attached great importance to this matter, and immediately led the tribe's warriors to scatter into the jungle to search for these escaped Japanese slaves, and then quickly found these Japanese slaves in the jungle according to the clues they left in the forest when they escaped. Slave, these Japanese people have been starved and half fainted, and several of them have died, so they basically did not encounter any resistance from them. The Posang tribe did not take much effort to capture them all in one go, killing and catching them , Not all of them were sent back, and none of them escaped.

Xu Yi immediately took people to greet the Posang heads and their warriors in person. The meeting between the two sides was very cordial. The cage village has exchanged a lot of iron weapons and weapons, and replaced the crude weapons they used to have. Both the hunting efficiency and the quality of life have been greatly improved, and some of their sick people also Being able to send them to Jilongzhai for medical treatment has reduced their death rate a lot, so the leader of the Posang tribe is quite grateful to outsiders like them.

When they came this time, they not only sent back these Japanese slaves, but also brought a lot of game and animal skins and other gifts to Jilongzhai. Xu Yi was very happy. Both sides were very happy with the wine weapon, and this time, newcomers like Yang Zaixing and the others were allowed to taste the fruit wine brewed by the Posang tribe themselves, and they drank it again and again.

After the banquet, Xu Yi and his men took all the escaped Japanese slaves to the slave camp outside the stockade, and gathered a large number of nearby refugees, who should be regarded as islanders, here, and publicly disemboweled these Japanese slaves who dared to escape. Belly, beheaded, and then hung their heads high on poles for public display.

His purpose for this move is twofold. One is to deter those Japanese slaves and let them know that escaping is just a dead end for them. It is better to stay here and work obediently. The islanders had a better understanding of their methods, and let them know that they could do good deeds and kill people, and it wasn't that anyone who wanted to make trouble could make trouble.

Their approach also achieved the expected purpose, frightening the Japanese slaves enough, and some people who were tempted to escape immediately dispelled this bad idea. Although the life of slaves is difficult, it is better than cutting them open. The head is much stronger, and their food here is not necessarily much worse than where they used to live, and even the food these Song people gave them is better than before, slaves are slaves, save your life That's the key point. The Japanese of this era have not yet formed any bushido spirit, and they have the idea of ​​advocating the strong in their bones. They are better than them, and they are born to be slaves.

And those newly arrived islanders also have a new understanding of these people who call themselves the Fubo Army. Although they have good intentions towards themselves, these refugees, they are still strong people in their bones, and they angered them. , They really know how to kill without blinking an eye!So those who looked down on them to some extent, immediately became honest and began to set a position for themselves here again, that is, to be obedient citizens of these Fubo army honestly, and they can't bear to eat and drink Bitter, otherwise, just wait to touch their knives with your own neck.

After that, the area around Jilongzhai became more stable again. During these days, several boats transporting refugees came to Jilongzhai again. Special personnel were responsible for resettling these newly arrived refugees. Xu Yi even invited Wang Honglai Specifically responsible for this matter, his identity is the most convincing to those new refugees, and it is much more effective to let them manage and receive their fellow villagers by themselves than to let them be responsible.

After watching these refugees start to have a job and live a good life, Wang Hong and the others are now very grateful to Xu Yi and the others. They are really helping them. They are not blind. What they did That's vivid in my mind, let's not say they are dissatisfied now, it is when they hear someone complaining and they don't do it, they go up and learn a lesson, clean up those dishonest or complaining people, and immediately settled down.

Xu Yi took the Posang headmen to visit the stockade, and led them to the blacksmith workshop, and asked them to pick out some tools, knives and spears, as a reward for them. The scene here is for the Posang people to see It was very fresh. From time to time, I would ask Xu Yi and the others through that firewood. It was as if Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden. I felt novelty when I saw everything, and made a lot of jokes.

When they were about to finish their visit, a broken mulberry man suddenly pointed at a pile of coal piled up behind the blacksmith's workshop and started yelling. Xu Yi and the others didn't know what his name was, but they looked at him very well. Excited, he asked the firewood, "What is this warrior talking about? He looks like he knows these coals!"

Chai then translated it for them and said: "Our clansman is indeed saying that he knows these things. He has seen such things in a valley not far from here before. The reason why he is so happy is that he saw you He felt strange to use these black stones to set fire!"

After hearing this, Xu Yi's ears immediately perked up, and his heart beat violently. This news may not be a big deal to others, but it is great news to him. Whether Taiwan produces coal or not? He didn't pay much attention to this matter before, but now he heard what Chai Yi said, and he immediately realized the huge business opportunity. Xu Yi immediately pulled the yelling Posang man and asked, "You said you know him?" These black stones, then tell me where there are such things?"

The poor mulberry man couldn't understand what he said, so he looked at him stupidly, and said something to Xu Yi in a babble, but the two of them were confused, and immediately thought of the firewood on the side, and looked at this firewood.

After Chai babbled to the poor mulberry man first, the poor mulberry man showed understanding, then pointed his finger in the southwest direction and said something.

Chai immediately translated to Xu Yi and said: "My tribe said that the place where there are such black stones is not far from here. It takes about half a day to walk to this place. The black stone is in a valley in the southwest, and the road is not too difficult!"

After Xu Yi heard it, he immediately smiled. Good things happen every year, and this year is the most!His character exploded, and when luck came, he couldn't stop it, so he said immediately: "Then let's clean up, can you, brother of the clan, take me to have a look?"

Chai then said something to his leader, who nodded as if agreeing, and confessed to the clansman who knew where the charcoal was.

So everyone stopped delaying and immediately packed up their things. After Xu Yi explained the matter here, he greeted Li Bo and others, took more than 20 followers, and left the village with these Posang people. As a guide, entered the forest.

Liuqiu Island in early summer is extremely hot and humid, and the forest is even more uncomfortable. Even the bottom layer of the dense forest is occupied by various plants, and there is basically no way to follow. I am afraid that these people will turn away as soon as they enter the forest, so Xu Yi is very fortunate to have a group of such aboriginal residents as friends.

(After checking the information, Taiwan's coal mine reserves are still considerable, and most of them are concentrated in the northern area of ​​Taiwan. The first government-run coal mine there is located in a place called Badouzi near Keelung, and in the seventeenth century, Some people have already started mining coal mines in Taiwan, so this is not completely fabricated, it is well-founded, and it is not surprising that coal mines are found near this Jilongzhai! I hereby explain it to avoid being scolded!)

(End of this chapter)