Capital Datang

Luzon Island is one of the largest islands in the South Seas closest to the mainland of the Central Plains. As early as the Han Dynasty, Luzon Island had contacts with the mainland, so it is the most well-known island in the Central Plains Dynasty.It is also worth mentioning that Luzon Island is not far from Taiwan Island. Starting from Tainan, if the wind is favorable, Shijiān usually arrives in a few days.

It is also because Luzon is too close to Taiwan, so this place has long been in Li Min's heart. When Taiwan Island needed slaves, Luzon Island was the first to be unlucky. Countless slave hunting teams set off from Taiwan and then arrived in Taiwan. Luzon, each of them began to show their talents and jinháng the business of catching slaves and selling slaves" ".

In the beginning, the slave hunting team from Taiwan did not pay attention to the method of hunting, but relied on their own advanced weapons and rich slave hunting skills to use brute force to catch slaves on Luzon Island, but this slave hunting method It was quickly proven wrong, because no matter how advanced the slave hunting team's weapons are and how rich the jingyàn is, some casualties will inevitably occur in slave hunting, and once there are casualties, the slave hunting team will Compensation of a large amount of money to the other party's family members, bijing is now scarce personnel, human life has become very valuable, may bring back hundreds of slaves to Taiwan at a time, but as long as one person is lost, the trip will be in vain.

However, since they dared to engage in such an extremely risky industry as slave hunting, the people in the slave hunting team were naturally daring, and it was these people who would often think what ordinary people would not dare to think.For example, some smart people soon discovered that a unified country had not yet emerged in Luzon Island, and even the natives on the island had not even formed the concept of a country, but formed some loose tribal alliances based on the relationship between tribes and blood.Moreover, these tribal alliances are large and small, and there are endless disputes among them.

See this happening.Immediately giving the opportunity to the wise men of the slave catchers, they began transporting goods from the mainland.And trade with some powerful tribal alliances to take care of guānxi.After completing this first step, they began to propose to the other party the content of the slave trade. Of course, the source of these slaves came from the prisoners of war obtained when this tribe had wars with other tribes.Originally, these prisoners of war would usually be killed, but now the slave hunters proposed to exchange them with goods, and the tribe naturally readily agreed.Capital Datang 443

With the first time, there will naturally be the second time, and the tribes that were captured by the slave team also tasted the sweetness from these slave trades. Bijing they only need to trade the prisoners of war they killed before, and they can exchange for many necessities of life. Even as long as they can capture enough prisoners of war, their tribe can exchange for any goods they want from the slave capture team. And life in the tribe will get better and better.

After the native tribes had this understanding, coupled with the deliberate instigation of the slave catchers, wars broke out among the various tribal alliances, and during the wars, countless middle-aged men were captured.These prisoners of war were resold to the slave hunting team.Although in this way, the slave hunting team had to pay a certain amount of goods, but it was much safer, so this method was quickly imitated by all slave hunting teams.And became the standard mode of slave hunting in Nanyang.

After two years of development by slave catchers, the current form of Yijing in Luzon is very different from before, such as after the continuous wars between the big tribal alliances. Yijing left most of the small and medium-sized tribes with no living space, or they were annexed by most of them.Either it was destroyed, and now the entire island. Yijing has formed an alliance of seven major tribes. If Méiyou is surprised, these seven tribes will form a unified country after being merged.However, this is obviously not in Li Yin's interests, so these seven tribal alliances will definitely not be able to transition to the national stage in the end.

Behind the seven tribal alliances on Luzon Island, there are actually slave hunters supporting them. It is they who provide various materials and support the endless attacks among the seven major alliances, and the slave hunters get the slaves they need .It is precisely because of this that the most powerful force on Luzon Island is not the seven major alliances, but the slave hunters behind the seven major alliances.

If the slave hunting team wants to operate on Luzon Island for a long time, it naturally needs a port, and the terrain of Luzon Island is high in the north and low in the south, and the east side of the island is hit by typhoons, so the most suitable difāng for a port is on the island. southwest side.A slave catcher discovered a huge bay here, which was originally named after a local dialect, but Li Yin personally named it Manila Bay after arriving here.

Manila Bay has a vast area and is surrounded by two peninsulas. There is also a small island in the bay, which divides the entire bay into two waterways, north and south. It is a natural harbor with excellent conditions, and it is also on the east coast of this natural harbor. The slave hunters established a settlement, also named after Manila, and after more than a year of development, this settlement Yijing has become one of the important ports in Southeast Asia, whether it is the fleet of Datang or Persia, etc. Parked here, and more and more people came to settle here, so Li Yin sent officials to manage the jinháng of Manila City, and at the same time stationed an army of 500 people.

Manila Bijing is a young city, and this is also the settlement of slave catchers. Although these people are called maritime merchants, their behavior overseas is no different from that of pirates, and they are all rebellious.These people live together, resulting in extremely poor law and order in Manila. There are fights and fights happening all the time, and even robbery and murder are common.People who come here are all cautious, and the owner of the ship will call a group of crew members to act collectively when he goes ashore to avoid danger.It is precisely because of this that Manila has another nickname, the city of sin.

Today's weather is really bad, the strong southwest wind has been blowing, and it is said that another typhoon passed by the coast on the east side of the island, so Manila Bay is very busy today, because many fleets need to find a place to go before the typhoon comes. An anchorage point, Manila Bay, surrounded by two peninsulas, is undoubtedly an excellent haven.

As the east wind became stronger and stronger, the tall coconut trees were blown to one side, and more and more fleets sailed into Manila Bay. As a result, the originally wide bay became narrower.

In Shihou in the afternoon, the wind became stronger and stronger. If an ordinary ship is exposed to this kind of strong wind, it is likely to be blown over. Even some large ships that are resistant to wind and waves may not dare to stay under this kind of wind and waves Too long shijiān.It is also for this reason that fewer and fewer fleets come in the afternoon, and in the end, even for a long time, the fleet will not come again.

Liu Banban looked at the increasing wind and waves outside, but he stretched lazily and yawned. He is now sitting in the monitoring room made of concrete, let alone this kind of wind and waves, no matter how big the wind and waves are. Double, he is also very safe here.

Half of Liu is as his name suggests, and he is indeed staying half. He is a disabled person, missing an arm and a leg, and there is also something wrong with one eye. If the other eye is closed, only Can see yidiǎn shimmer clearly.Originally, he was also a person with sound limbs, but he came to Luzon with the slave hunting team to capture slaves the year before last, and ended up leaving all his arms and legs here, and his eye was also sprayed by a poison-spraying animal in the rainforest. , As a result, his eyes were poisoned, and he has become like this now, so half of his nickname was given to him, which happened to be his real name.

Liu Banban has lost half of his hands and feet, so he doesn't have to think about begging for a wife. I'm afraid there will be no Han woman willing to marry him.However, Liu Banban is living a very happy life now. The slave hunting team compensated him a large sum of money, and he used the money to buy several women as concubines, including Silla women, Japanese women, and two local women. Native girls, and these women also bore him two sons, one of whom was pregnant and was about to give birth.Originally, he was worried that the children born to these women of different races would not be able to obtain household registration, but he did not expect that His Royal Highness Qi personally issued a decree, as long as the father is Han, all the children born are also Han, which made him feel relieved, and at the same time In the second half of Ziji's life, he planned to take a few more concubines, and strive to carry forward the incense of their Liu family.

Although Liu Banban is disabled, there is a shortage of people everywhere now, and with his current state, he doesn’t want to go back to his hometown anymore, so he just settled down in Manila and found a job in the “government”. As an inspector of Manila Bay, the job is very simple, that is, to record the ships entering and leaving the bay, so as to facilitate tax collection and search.

Liu Banban looked at the storm outside, and muttered in his mouth, although the monitoring room is very safe, but under such a big storm, he will definitely not be able to go home with his body, so tonight he can only make do in the monitoring room one night.Thinking of the unpregnant concubines at home, Liu Banban shouted in his heart that it was a waste, and he must make up for it by finding a shijiān.

Big waves several meters high rose up on the sea, and some sea water was blown up by the wind, blowing half of Liu's face through the window. close it.

But when Liu half closed the window, he habitually turned his head and glanced at the sea outside. Although he only had one eye, he was a famous sharpshooter in the slave hunting team. He and his brain are much stronger than ordinary people. For example, as long as he takes a look at the ships passing by in the bay, he can remember the characteristics of the ship, and he will not forget it for a long time.It was precisely because of this ability that he was able to defeat other applicants and sit in the position of inspector.

But today, Liu Banban's good eyesight has played a role again. Through the waves rolled up by the strong wind, Liu Banban can vaguely see that on the distant sea, there is a large fleet of ships coming here , although the wind was favorable, the wind and waves were too strong, so all the sails on that fleet were laid down, and now a few solitary masts were particularly conspicuous, and it was these thick masts that allowed him to tell at a glance where there were fleet.

The waves on the sea surface reached more than ten feet high, and the fleet was also slapped by the waves, heading towards the bay at an extremely fast speed, but when the big ship in the front was getting closer and closer, Liu Banban felt this The ship is very familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere? (To be continued.) Capital Datang 443

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