Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 475 Storage
As the saying goes, a living person cannot be suffocated by urine!Zeelandia City is too heavily guarded. If you focus on the artillery fire and attack, you will not be able to take thousands of casualties. Now it is an isolated city. Song Qingshu is not as cruel as Dorgon, and he does not have the lives of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty to fill it. The city was surrounded.

But the entrance and exit are indeed blocked. Fortunately, don't you have more than 4000 Dutch prisoners in your hands?Excluding the old and the weak, there are still [-] people who were sent to dig canals by the euphemistic name of labor reform by the beggar army. These white lords are pampered on weekdays. This will include the three fat gentlemen who negotiated with Song Qingshu. Digging desperately with a hoe in the bitter sea breeze.

In more than ten days, the waterway of the Luermen Waterway has been significantly expanded. The original beach was nailed by wooden stakes, and then all the sand at one end of the wooden stakes was excavated. A 20-meter-wide and five-meter-deep waterway is the end of it all. completed.

And the sand dug out was not wasted. Limestone was excavated in the nearby Alishan and burned into cement, and then felled wood and burned bricks to build a two-story dormitory and a flat playground. The original owner of Taiwan was still trapped in the heat. In Lanzhe City, Song Qingshu has regarded himself as the new master, and built a typical permanent barracks of the beggar army next to the red-embedded castle.

He really regarded himself as the master. He took over all the farms and sugarcane fields in the Netherlands. They waited under the big sun with their hands tied. Under the scorching sun, their foreheads were covered with sweat.

It's really weird. Many of these people are wearing clothes made of navy blue, a color that Han people don't often wear. Many have short hair, tattoos on their bodies, and turbans made of cloth on their heads. The attires of the ethnic minorities are nothing more than those of the Miao beauties who wear silver ornaments and are bright and beautiful. These people are obviously plain and even more shabby.

In addition to waiting to pick up the bride, waiting is probably a torment for everyone. I have already boarded the boat in the morning, and I haven’t even taken a sip of water. I have been standing here respectfully for an hour. In such a pampered position, there are two fat Han Chinese who even have weak legs.

At this time, the Tempest, which had been lingering in the open sea, suddenly pulled up its anchor, turned its sails, and suddenly rushed to the city of Taiwan, which was much more flexible than the previous days. On the rock wall below the city of Zeelandia, he retreated gracefully in an instant.

Compared with the previous days, these tactical actions are obviously much smoother. The Dutch fleet is not all Dutch sailors. In the eyes of the sailors, the loyalty to the East India Company is obviously not as valuable as the real money of Jiaduobao Company, not to mention that many people are not Dutch mercenaries, they are just sailors hired by merchant ships. , Jiaduobao Company has a large number of young guys from the West who have crossed most of the Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Pacific Ocean.

At this time, the reserves of gunpowder in the city of Zeelandia were limited, and the gun towers were not hit anyway, so the Dutch didn't bother to fight back.

But the landowners who saw the headmen of the Haiquan in this wave couldn't help being frightened, and the two fat landowners even sat on the ground with limp legs when the cannon sounded.

At this time, Song Qingshu finally walked out of the captain's room surrounded by the guards under the eyes of all the people.

Taiwan is a multi-ethnic area, belonging to the Malay race. Because its main gathering places are in the central mountains and the narrow plains in the east, they are collectively called the Gaoshan people. When the Dutch ruled Taiwan, the aborigines were severely suppressed in the southern villages. He returned to the central mountain range, and extorted various villages every year to provide a large amount of deerskin, venison, medicinal materials and other mountain products. Now these are also taken over by Song Qingshu.

This time Song Qingshu is dressed formally enough, with a phoenix-winged helmet and a Wenshan armor, and a majestic red cloak on his back, and a sword on his waist. If he grows a big beard, he will definitely be scary in the Ming Dynasty It's time to be a martial artist.

"Oh my, I greet the supervisor, I greet..., uh, general!"

The Ming Dynasty's rule of culture and military affairs has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Two Han landlords took the lead, and they went up and knelt down. But looking at that expression, it was obviously a bit weird.

The two Han landlords, Song Qingshu, didn't care. Under the rule of the East India Company, there would be no such big landlords in the Central Plains. They were just village heads, managing Han farms and sugar cane gardens. Most of the southwestern plains are now begging for work. The army cavalry had already been captured, and Song Qingshu could have jumped the two of them down with just a fart.

The real problem is more than a dozen Gaoshan tribe chiefs and chiefs. Now they are the majority of Treasure Island. If they are not handled well, even if Song Qingshu takes Treasure Island by force, they will not be able to live a stable life in the future. That's why today's opening the door is a deterrent .

Judging by the effect, it was not bad. Following the two Han landlords, the leaders behind them also knelt down respectfully, praising and paying homage to the general of the Celestial Dynasty.

After deliberately letting them hang out for a while, Song Qingshu waved his hand arrogantly, without even saying please, let the leaders stand up by themselves.

"We thank the general for expelling the brutal rule of the Dutch barbarians for us. The wild people in the mountains have nothing to repay, and we offer auspicious luck to the Ming emperor to extend his life!"

This is a typical diplomatic ceremony of this era. Although Da Mingzi is vomiting blood poorly now, he still has a rich image on his face, and he has nothing to lack. What he likes are these rare events, but watching a few chiefs holding legends The keel in it is actually just some kind of big fish bone, but Song Qingshu has a feeling that he can't laugh or cry.

Speaking of it, Emperor Chongzhen in the capital is really pitiful. He is so poor that he can hardly get rid of the pot, but he has to slap his face swollen to pretend to be fat. It is said that the military salary of the frontier army can't be paid. It hasn't been broken for a month, and the image of the kingdom of heaven has to be strong. I don't know if this thing goes to the capital, and the Emperor Chongzhen will laugh when he sees it.

Thinking in his heart, Song Qingshu still had such a majestic look on his face, nodded and said: "Your loyalty and filial piety, this commander accepted it on behalf of His Majesty."

"Thank you General!"

The two chiefs with tattoos on their faces put down the big fish bones, and watched Song Qingshu's soldiers carry the fish bones in behind them, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

The diplomatic etiquette is over, and it's time to talk about some substantive things. The old man of the Gaoshan tribe in the front of the crowd with a necklace of animal teeth hanging on his clothes looked back at Zeelandia Castle, which still had the flag of the East India Company, and stroked his chest. He bowed to Song Qingshu and said: "Dare to ask the general, I don't know how the battle is going? Does the Heavenly Army need our clansmen to gather warriors from the ministry to participate in the battle?"

"This is useless! The Red-haired Fan is at the end of the road, and it won't be long before our army takes it down!"

The group of Gaoshan tribe chiefs who heard these words were relieved. They were really afraid that Song Qingshu would be anticlimactic, and they left after beating half of them. The unlucky ones would be the natives, but immediately, Song Qingshu's next sentence was to let them Heart raised again.

"However, before eradicating the Red-haired Fan, Daming needs your help to establish a government and county here!"

The hearts of almost all the mountain chiefs jumped when they heard this, and the old man covered in animal teeth was the first to stand up again solemnly, and saluted Song Qingshu: "What does the general mean, the army will not leave tomorrow?"

"Yes, Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, already incorporated it into the territory of our Ming Dynasty when the country was founded, and now this general is ordered to formally manage it."

This is pure nonsense, Song Qingshu completely regards this place as his own, even if the imperial court really sent someone, he might throw it into the sea, but he is the only one who uses the name of the Ming Dynasty to fool these native chiefs One came, and a large group of Gaoshan tribe chiefs whispered to each other for a while with stern faces.

Not to mention, these guys are quite well-informed. Song Qingshu communicated in a native language that Song Qingshu couldn't understand. A man with a tiger tattoo on his face made him look extremely fierce. , is it just to manage the Han people under the control of the Dutch, or to control the entire Gaoshan ethnic group, to design chieftains, or to set up Liuguan?"

Changing the land to return to the local people is a major test point for the college entrance examination of later generations. Changing the hereditary chieftains of the ethnic group to the officials appointed by the imperial court is the most direct rule of the central court over the local ethnic minorities, but who doesn't want to be the emperor of the land?Liuguan is the last thing these mountain chiefs want to see.

Unfortunately, Song Qingshu nodded with certainty and said, "Liuguan, the first Taiwan Observer is my commander!"

"What about our tribute?"

Although the words were spoken by Chief Tiger Face, they were the voices of all the mountain chiefs, and Song Qingshu nodded again after listening.

"The Dutch's exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes will definitely be cancelled, but following the example of the Ming Dynasty, the amount that should be paid should not be less, the same as that of the Han people!"

This is the most awkward thing in Song Qingshu's previous life. Not to mention that in this era, the army defeated the ethnic minorities, not to mention that they couldn't collect taxes, and the emperor even gave them big rewards. The whole court increasingly regarded the expansion of the territory as a loss. Buying and selling, since the Tang Dynasty, instead of expanding, the territory of China has become smaller and smaller, and even in later generations, ethnic minorities will receive bonus points, reduced sentences, ethnic minorities will be buried in burial while Han can only be cremated, etc., Song Qingshu doesn’t even want to mention it. , when this place is in his hands, he naturally treats them equally.

But the more than a dozen leaders who heard these words were even more ugly. The taxes of the southwest minorities are much less than that of the Han people. It is almost a symbolic payment by the chieftain, just like the clean fish bones just gnawed. If this is like the Han people, there are really many, especially if it means that the court's management of the tribe has passed the headman and directly penetrated into the interior.

"This general, the mountain people suffer from the Dutch because of the Dutch's tyranny. You still want to do this. Aren't you afraid that the mountain people will feel unjust?"

With a face full of viciousness, the tiger-faced chief was already threatening nakedly, but Song Qingshu just sneered, it really makes people bully, Ma Shan is ridden, and the Dutch are vicious, you are as afraid as chickens It seems that I can't wait to shrink back, I'm here, and I will give you a tax cut, but you are all men!
But with a sneer in his heart, Song Qingshu made a 180-degree turn on his lips.

"It's okay not to pay taxes!"

(End of this chapter)