Great Tang Southern Emperor

Yu Wenhualong bowed his head and said: "Forgive me, Your Highness, I am not crying because of this, but I am ashamed. Thinking about how much His Majesty trusted my Yuwen family back then, even I, who is a distant relative, took the position of the young minister of Honglu Temple. With great grace, who would have thought that my distant cousin would be the direct culprit in the destruction of the Sui Dynasty, and after a hundred years, the old man would really be ashamed to see His Majesty."

"Er..." It was difficult to answer these words, Li Zhen could only sigh silently, turned around and left the valley, let him be quiet.

"Your Highness, is this person trustworthy?" Pei Xingjian chased after him and asked, "I always feel that there is something wrong with him."

Li Zhen asked back with a smile: "What's wrong? What could be wrong?"

"The subordinates can't tell, they just think there is something wrong with him."

"I know, it was when he said that His Highness should treat the natives of the island well." Luo Zhe suddenly interjected, "Your Highness, you told your subordinates before that although they are all natives of Lilac Island, they basically don't communicate with each other. , and even they don't speak the same language, so why did Yuhualong plead with His Highness for those natives who have nothing to do with him?"

"Maybe he is really thinking about His Highness?" Cheng Chuliang said: "As he said, although we want to rule this place, the less than [-] natives of the Dingxiang tribe alone may not be enough. of."

"Do you really think so?" Zhang Jianzhi squinted at him: Well, it's no wonder His Highness likes to look at people with squinted eyes. Sure enough, this can better express his contempt.

"Don't forget the reaction of that Yuwenhualong when he heard that the Sui Dynasty was destroyed and Emperor Sui Yang was killed. He is obviously a loyal minister of Yang Guang. Our Tang Dynasty is the replacement of the Sui Dynasty. He can be with us. He has a high level of self-cultivation if he communicates calmly, but deep down in his heart, he may not be too good to my senses, Tang, would he consider us so much?"

"Don't talk about it, no matter what Yuhualong's plan is, it has nothing to do with us." Li Zhen stopped the quarrel among the people: "We got what we wanted, and that's enough. As for Whether Yu Wenhualong is right or wrong, and what he is going to do, is not important. It is a foregone conclusion that Dingxiang Island will be ruled by the Tang Dynasty, and under the general trend, any conspiracy will come into effect."

"Then, Your Highness, what shall we do next?"

"What are you doing? Of course I'm waiting."

"Wait?" Several people were puzzled.

Li Zhen glanced at them: "Didn't you hear? I made an agreement with Yuwen Shaoqing. I will give the island natives a chance to survive, and he will be responsible for leading us to familiarize ourselves with everything on Lilac Island. Now we The transaction has already started, and we are waiting for him to send people to take us to explore the surrounding environment, these people are the best guides."

"Yes."

Soon, people from Yuwenhualong came like a moon. There were three people in total, and one of them was an acquaintance, the Tanbin who attacked Li Zhen before and brought Li Zhen to the tribe.The other two are brothers, collectively named Bach and collectively named Bahu, and they are both about the same age as Tanbin, both eighteen or nineteen years old, and unlike Tanbin, both of them can speak fluent Chinese, This is the most important point.

In the next period of time, they will accept the employment of Datang and lead the army of Datang to explore the surrounding area.

"Why did you bring him? He can't even speak well. What's the use of bringing him?" Cheng Chuliang looked at Tan Bin dissatisfied. He had heard Tan Bin speak. Although he could speak Chinese, his voice was out of tune. Said, and word by word, not coherent at all, if you don't taste carefully, you don't know what he said at all.

As the captain of the three, Bach gave his own explanation: "Although Tan Bin can't speak Chinese, he went out with the elders of the tribe to exchange supplies with other tribes, and he can speak more than a dozen languages. It can guarantee communication and exchanges within a hundred miles, which is something we don’t have.”

"What?" Cheng Chuliang said in disbelief: "Just him? He can speak more than a dozen languages? Then why can he speak Chinese so stutteringly?"

"We are also very strange about this." Bach laughed: "But he is still the fastest learner. When the Great Prophet taught us Chinese, Tan Bin only listened to it once and learned it, but he just couldn't learn it well. And Not only Chinese, but he also stutters in other languages, which is incredible."

"Isn't this too strange?" Not only Cheng Chuliang, but everyone else, including Li Zhen, opened their mouths wide - the speed of learning foreign languages ​​is super fast, but there is no way to speak neatly. What kind of ability is this?It's too weird, right?

"Hey..." Although Tan Bin didn't speak well, he still had no problem listening, knowing that everyone was talking about him, he scratched his head in embarrassment.

Li Zhen didn't care either: "Okay, let's not talk about this, let's go, our task today has not been completed yet."

Today's task is to explore the surrounding environment of the port. The place where Li Zhen and the others stop their boat is at the top of the northern peninsula of Lilac Island. Morotai Island, and the northeast is Rau Island. Li Zhen's initial plan is to build a dock here that can bear at least [-] tons of merchant ships berthed, so that they can berth at any time in the future, instead of merchant ships or warships like now. In the open sea that still has to berth, everyone can only travel by boat, which affects efficiency too much.

In fact, there are still many large bays on Lilac Island. After all, this is a 'K'-shaped island. There are three of the largest ones, all of which are located in the cracks of the 'K'. Except for these three, Terna in the west There is also a large bay directly opposite the island.

It's a pity that the bay is not deep enough, and it is blocked by Ternate Island and Tidore Island. It is estimated that it will not be able to develop into a large port.

But this will be considered in the future. Now their only task is to build a simple port first. However, if they want to build a port, 5000 people alone may not be enough. This requires the help of the surrounding natives. ...

Chapter 843

Chapter 2 started smoothly

Li Zhen wanted to build a simple port in Yuwei Bay, so she definitely couldn't give this task to the five thousand elites under her command.

It’s not that the executors don’t know how to build ports. In fact, the structure of ports in this era is very simple. As long as there is a knowledgeable person commanding above, and a group of coolies working below, as long as there are no mistakes, the port can definitely be built. up.

Not to mention that Li Zhen's 5000 people are too small to build the port.Although Li Zhen only has 5000 people, what he wants to build is just a simple port. Let alone 5000 people, even if there are only 1000 people, a few months are enough.

The problem is that Li Zhen is the prince of the Tang Dynasty. He is destined not to stay outside for too long. Even if the wind is smooth, it will take more than half a month from the sea to here (Note: 1). It must be longer, it has been more than a month.

As the crown prince, Li Zhen has been missing for more than a month...

This is the rhythm of chaos in the world.

The emperor's wrath is inevitable, and the ruling and opposition parties will definitely discuss it endlessly.

In fact, even if he can go back safely this time, not only his subordinates will be held accountable, but Li Zhen will also write a 'review' when he returns.

Therefore, Li Zhen's stay on Dingxiang Island was destined not to be too long, and he had to leave within ten days.

For five thousand guards as his guards, he must also be brought back. He can only stay here with less than 1000 people at most.

And these 1000 people are also responsible for heavy tasks such as security guards, which requires a lot of manpower, and there are only a few hundred people who can really participate in the construction of the dock.

But a simple port is also a port, and it takes a lot of time to build it. When will it take hundreds of people to build it?

As for Li Zhen, as soon as he returns to Lingnan, he will immediately send a fleet to develop the Spice Islands. At the speed of the fleet, a fleet of [-] ships, even with the preparation time, will arrive at Clove Island. One month is enough.

If it would take Li Zhen one month to go back, plus the one month needed by the fleet, that is to say, the time left for him with the hundreds of guards would only be two months at most, and hundreds of people would build a port in two months ?

Even if such a port can be built...

But will it work?

Who would dare to use it?

Therefore, it is imperative to recruit the aboriginals. Only with enough aboriginal labor to join in can it be possible to build a simple port in just two months.

The only question now is whether there are enough natives here.

Fortunately, Yu Wenhualong gave Li Zhen a reassuring answer. Although there are not many aborigines on Dingxiang Island, there are a total of more than one hundred thousand in total. It is easy to recruit thousands of people, and most of these aborigines are distributed In the coastal area, people who live by fishing and hunting are also peace-loving tribes. As long as Li Zhen is willing to pay a sufficient price, these natives who are desperate for a bite of food all day long can sell their lives to Li Zhen.

"His Royal Highness, the cardamom tribe is located in front of us. In order to show peace, we must put this thing on our heads." Bach took out a hat made of weeds and said: "This hat represents Peace means that we are mainly here for business, if we don’t wear this hat, we will be mistaken for invaders by them, and then we will be attacked and assassinated by the cardamom tribe.”

"Hat?" Looking at the hat in his hand, Li Zhen frowned. It didn't mean that he couldn't let go of his figure and didn't bother to wear a straw hat. The problem was the color of the straw hat...

"Forget it, for the sake of future strategic deployment, let's wear it once." Finally, thinking of her future plans, this port has a lot to do with it, Li Zhen gritted her teeth and put the hat on her head.

However, in order to avoid feeling uncomfortable, Li Zhen did not really put the hat on her head, but pinned a stick to the nape of her neck, and lifted the hat high so that it did not touch her hair. The words are invisible.

"Let's go." Because of the straw hat, Li Zhen was very upset. Fortunately, everyone put on the hats, and Li Zhen's mood improved a bit—after all, a single green is not as good as many greens.

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The communication with the Cardamom tribe was very smooth, because Li Zhen had a large number of people, so they were actually discovered after they entered the territory of the Cardamom tribe, and the Hulunbuir prairie above their heads made them think it was a huge army. The caravan, so the tribal chief soon came out to greet him in person.

The cardamom tribe is a bit larger than the lilac tribe, with a total of more than 500 people. Just young and strong can transfer more than 1000 people, which almost solves Li Zhen's problem. If there are more such tribes, then But that would be great.

It’s just that Bach poured cold water on Li Zhen. In the entire Lilac Island, only the Lilac and Cardamom tribes have a population of more than 1000. In the central and southern parts of the island, it would take a long time to travel. Li Zhen immediately gave up the plan. Now that he is not familiar with the place, he is not even familiar with the situation in the northern peninsula. Let the central and southern parts be explored by the fleet.

After some enthusiastic exchanges, the two parties quickly reached a consensus that Li Zhen hired 1000, [-] young and strong from the Cardamom Tribe for three months, and as a price, Li Zhen needed to pay part of the food and luxury goods.