open sea

Chapter 922 Wang Hua
Changsheng's inspector, Pei Xiao, has disappeared for a long time. Not long after Yang Tingxiang went to Mexico City to serve as the governor of New Spain, he got a special mission of his own. He was asked to roam around Changsheng with Bai Tao, the leader of the White Horse Alliance. Win every tribe in the countryside.

He would enter the tribe with many, and when he left, some would stay there, some tribes would leave a few, some more.

It depends on the people of the tribe, not only the number of middle-aged men, but also the number of women who can use looms. Each tribe will have at least five people, and this number represents five occupations.

Teachers who teach Chinese language and writing, farmers who help people master farming skills, women who teach women to use advanced looms to weave, craftsmen who make tools for villages and take apprentices to teach them, and banner soldiers who train strong men to use weapons.

Their official name is Wuzhiwanghuashi.

The weavers are usually chosen as the wives of other dispatched personnel. Except for the Banner Army, these people are all immigrants. The land allocated to their families at the beginning of the immigration is reserved by the county government, and others are hired to farm. The harvest is directly sent to the county government warehouse. The planted crops are converted into Tong Bao and given to them by the station staff.

Five people is the standard dispatch number of [-] mature male tribes. For every [-] more than this number, the banner army will send one more, and the others will remain unchanged.

Pei Xiao's main mission is to explain to the tribes the tasks of the five-level dispatchers with the assistance of Bai Tao, so as to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings in the future.

"It is not easy to come to your tribe."

Pei Xiao raised his eyes and looked at the mountains and plateaus that were gradually uprooting in the distance. In the vast farmland, he looked at the tribal leader who was staring at the feather crown and leading the shirtless warriors from the longhouse not far away. Picking up the blunderbuss, he said in a jerky aboriginal language: "Put away your weapons, I don't mean any harm, I just want to ask for a bowl of water."

Year-round exposure to the sun made the tribal leader and his subordinates dark-skinned, and traveling through the mountains and forests made them extremely strong. Besides their strong appearance, the most striking thing was that they possessed a large number of good-looking weapons.

Needless to say, more than a dozen guards came out following the leader on European horses. These people wore breastplates of Spanish origin, and the shoulders of the armor were made of 'short sleeves' made of Asian-style woven cotton cloth. There were only one or two guards. Split sleeves, some riders also rolled the cuffs at the joint of the breastplate on the shoulders, very capable.

What they carry the most is a weapon similar to the meteor hammer. The wooden pole is connected to three leather ropes made of several strands of leather rope. The end of each leather rope is wrapped with boar intestines. Under the impact of a galloping horse, it can easily smash the concave iron armor and break the bones.

In addition to the Meteor Cable, there are also war sticks of irregular shape made of hardwood, with multiple sharp corners fixed with stones, metal or horns, which also look like armor-piercing weapons.

The remaining few riders held the heavy spears that the Spaniards used for infantry combat, and the aboriginal infantry behind them had longbows and a large number of European muskets in addition to these weapons.

They were different from any tribe that Pei Xiao had seen near Changsheng before, they were well equipped and powerful.

"water?"

The leader riding on a European horse and wearing a feather crown smiled. The scars and swollen flesh on his face made him look fierce and cold. At that time, his eyes narrowed suddenly, and he said: "White Horse, now you have brought a new helper, want to conquer me and join your tribe?"

Bai Tao cast a helpless look at Changsheng inspector Pei Xiao, handed the reins to his subordinates, took a few steps forward, and said, "Leopard, I didn't come to conquer you, I told them they had better not came to provoke you, but the outside world has changed."

In the past, Baima was the most powerful tribal leader along the Baima River. In the far north where his influence can be exerted, after crossing the small grass-like tribe in the middle, he belongs to another tribe. The leader of that tribe is the person in front of him, named Short-tailed leopard, or short-tailed tiger.

Bai Tao whispered to Pei Xiao in Chinese: "The last time I saw him was a few years ago. He didn't have so many guns back then. They used golden knives before."

Golden knife?

Pei Xiao doubted whether the golden knife that Bai Tao mentioned was the kind of shiny golden knife that he thought could leave tooth marks when he bit it, and could be exchanged for eight silver knives.

"Has the outside world changed?"

The short-tailed leopard had no intention of getting off the horse, and actually pulled out a golden knife that was less than a foot long from the horse's back. He touched the blade with his fingers, looked at Bai Tao and said, "What hasn't changed? The golden knife is not good enough. Once, a little bit, but I know a man, a Dutchman, a golden sword can be exchanged for a gun, or a steel sword, armor, and a horse from the other side of the sea."

"You don't have to tell me to join your alliance against the Spaniards. I am stronger than you. Every year, the Dutch will send me forty horses and 160 muskets. After you die, I will fight against the Spanish alone. people and defeat them!"

"Before you die, don't set foot on my territory. If you have anything to say, it's over now, go back."

The short-tailed leopard speaks very fast. Some words are in Spanish, and some are in the ancient language of the aborigines. The rapid changes made Pei Xiaozhanger confused. He could only understand Dutch, horses, muskets, and Spaniards. , but when they got together, they had no idea what the two of them were talking about.

But Bai Tao could understand it. He showed helplessness towards the attitude of the short-tailed leopard. He explained the words of the short-tailed leopard to Pei Xiao, and also explained the strange relationship between them: "My tribe and alliance are in the south of him. I saw the Spaniards earlier, he has many brave and skilled fighters, he is unwilling to join my alliance, I was defeated by the Spaniards, and I surrendered to them, before the arrival of the Ming army."

"Some Spanish teams will be sniped by him by the river after passing by my tribe. He won all of them...but that's because it's just the team. I'm not saying he's better than me, but he's also very good."

Pei Xiao listened to Bai Tao's somewhat funny explanation and nodded lightly. Bai Tao is now one of the leaders of the three major tribal alliances known to the Ming army, and he still has great caution towards the Bobtail Leopard. From this point of view, he You can see the power of this fierce warrior-like tribal leader in this land.

And Bai Tao was not impatient with the arrogant words of the short-tailed leopard. He explained: "The outside world has changed. You live on the plateau and guard the land left by your ancestors. Defeat the Spaniards, but you don't know that my tribe has left the White Horse River, and you don't know that the Spaniards have been defeated."

Following Bai Tao's words, Pei Xiao saw the expression of the short-tailed leopard on the horse's back changing wonderfully, the arrogance and self-respect disappeared in an instant, and great amazement occupied the fierce face: "You said, the Spaniards have already Defeated?"

The short-tailed leopard was breathing heavily, staring at Bai Tao with wide eyes, and his outlook was greatly impacted.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)