Chapter 1001 1092 Farming

Chapter 1001 1092 Farming

If the Sulu Kingdom wants to pay tribute, it should go to Guangzhou City Shipping Department, which is in charge of the Southeast Asian countries.

Although I didn't go to Sulu, it doesn't mean I won't go to other countries. The business of Guangzhou Shipping Company is good.

Hearing that this was the request made by King Bakr of the Sulu Kingdom, Lin Baihu didn't think there was anything wrong, so he immediately agreed.

"As long as the Lin Feng pirate group is wiped out, the king can send an envoy to the Ming Dynasty on a ship to meet with me, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Although your country has not paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty in these years, it still has this intention. I, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, will definitely be very happy and will not blame you. "

Lin Baihu also spoke beautifully at this time. He was willing to lend troops to help fight the war, so it was appropriate for him to help with his words.

What's more, even if the Sulu Kingdom did not send an envoy to the Ming Dynasty, the emperor would definitely reward the Sulu Kingdom King.

In this way, everyone is happy.

Lin Baihu reached his wish to borrow troops, and King Bakr of Sulu also took the opportunity to find a way to restore contact with the Ming Dynasty.

Contacting the Ming Dynasty and restoring tribute was not only for the various treasures rewarded by the Ming Emperor, but also had another meaning for him, which was to guard against the barbarians on Luzon Island.

He has recently felt that the blond and blue-eyed barbarians have evil intentions, but whenever he sees their warships with cannons traveling on the sea, he also feels fear in his heart.

On the island, he is naturally not afraid.

But the people of Sulu depend on the sea. Apart from the small output on the island, they mainly make a living by fishing on the coast.

The Yi people have powerful warships, which are undoubtedly a huge threat to the Sulu Kingdom.

Although the barbarian warships were terrifying, Bakr was still more willing to believe in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty had a huge fleet plying the oceans two hundred years ago. Around here, I am afraid that only the Ming Dynasty can compete with the Yi people.

As long as the contact with the Ming Dynasty is restored, the Yi people on Luzon Island will have to think carefully if they want to take advantage of the Sulu Kingdom.

In fact, even without the arrival of Lin Baihu, he was still considering whether to send envoys to neighboring countries to find merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty to visit the Ming Dynasty and resume tribute.

Afterwards, Bakr sent someone to prepare a dinner, and Lin Baihu had dinner at the Sulu King's Palace before returning to the residence arranged for them.

During the dinner, Bakr had also determined that Sulu could send three thousand troops to accompany him to Luzon to destroy the pirates. This was also the limit of the troops Sulu could send.

With more people, they can make it together, but they don't have enough ships to transport people there at once.

In this way, Lin Baihu stayed in Hele for two days, while the contemporary king of Sulu mobilized troops.

Of course, he didn't do nothing. He arranged for people to prepare supplies for another lucky ship and asked them to return to the north of Luzon Island first to look for the fleet led by Deng Zilong and report the news about them.

In this way, with a few days' buffer, they can also know approximately when they can arrive.

So, early the next morning, a warship of the Ming Dynasty took the lead in leaving the Sulu Kingdom and returned along the original route, which was regarded as a front stop.

Lin Baihu and another warship patiently waited for the Sulu Kingdom to mobilize troops and horses, and waited for the troops that their leader promised to borrow to arrive, so that they could set off together.

At this time, Deng Zilong had returned to an unknown small bay and told Wang Wanggao and others the bad news he got from Manila City.

However, the generals of the Ming Dynasty were at a loss at this time.

So far, the three fleets sent out have not returned, and it is not known whether they can recruit troops on Luzon Island.

The spies previously sent out have gradually completed the mapping of the surrounding terrain in the past few days, leaving only an area thirty miles away from Tortoiseshell City. They did not dare to get closer because they were worried about being discovered by Lin Feng's men.

This was also for the sake of safety. Deng Zilong didn't care much about it. Instead, he felt that Wang Wanggao was very meticulous in his work and did not take risks easily.

The next day, it was Wang Wanggao's turn to lead the gunboat to patrol the sea. In the evening, Wang Wanggao's gunboat entered the bay with a fleet of more than ten sea-going ships.

Deng Zilong was overjoyed after receiving the notification. Apparently a fleet had completed its mission and found the troops. How could he be unhappy?

After the fleet docked one by one and watched the Luzon Island locals disembark and arrange a place to rest, Wang Wanggao summoned the chief officer of this trip.

Soon, he learned the details from the officials leading the team.

They were quite successful because they had drawn the nearest lot, so they had been patrolling along Luzon Island. After discovering people moving on the shore, they immediately disembarked and searched for the tribes of these people.

"Sir, they also have Han people there who can speak our language."

The hundred households happily reported to Deng Zilong, "After we showed them our badges, they welcomed us. Later, they called two surrounding tribes that were friendly with them and selected a thousand people in total to follow me."

"Very good. I did a good job on this errand. I will write it down in my credit book."

Deng Zilong was very happy. He had one thousand more men under his command, which gave him the confidence to challenge the Yi people.

Although Deng Zilong had seen their equipment before, they were all spears and wooden sticks, but it didn't matter.

When the time comes, just select some strong men and give them some of the weapons such as swords and guns on the ship.

With the good news brought by the first fleet, Deng Zilong began to look forward to what surprises the other two fleets would bring him.

"Sir, after communicating with those people, I heard some things."

The chief officer said to Deng Zilong again at this time.

Soon, Deng Zilong knew what he was going to say.

In fact, it was what they had guessed long ago.

That is, since the Yi people occupied Luzon Island, they used force to force those tribes to surrender. If they did not accept their rule, they would be conquered by the Yi people.

However, after accepting the rule of the Yi people, what they wanted was not only materials, but also young and strong people, because building Manila City required a lot of strong labor, which made these indigenous people feel unacceptable.

It can be said that the Yi people plundered too much, so the natives on the island had resentment in their hearts, but they dared not disobey under the oppression of force.

And their appeal was naturally to hope that the suzerain country, the Ming Dynasty, could help them get rid of the slavery of the Yi people.

After asking about the approximate location of the other tribe, Deng Zilong felt that it was not a big problem.

Now that he had soldiers and horses in his hands, he was naturally more confident, and Wei Ge Lao's wish should have a chance to be achieved.

The biggest gain from this trip to Manila City may be to see the map of Luzon Island drawn by them in the Yi people's governor's office.

Manila is located in the middle and slightly south, while the Daimao City built by Lin Feng is located in the north.

Deng Zilong has almost thought about drawing the boundary at that time, and he proposed to draw the boundary between the two cities.

In this way, the tribes that came to help fight will definitely be drawn on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

As for whether the Yi people will accept it, this is not within Deng Zilong's consideration.

Although it is said that the Yi people have prepared more than ten warships in Luzon, so what, it is not enough for the fraction of the warships of the South China Sea Navy.

As for the warships carrying the vassal army, just like the rafts that Lin Baihu saw, they were tied together with logs and taken away. In Deng Zilong's opinion, they are not worthy of being called warships.

It should be said that Deng Zilong is still very satisfied with the several tribes that came this time. He plans to summon several leaders tonight for a meal and thank them well.

As for the future, that is a matter for the future. Admiral Yu will have to arrive in Luzon to decide what the rules are.

Speaking of which, the several local tribes that came this time not only sent people, but also brought their own food to help in the war. This is enough to show the great influence of Zheng He's voyage to the West. Nearly two hundred years have passed, and the influence is still there.

At this time, at the dock outside Manila, large and small ships have been docking for several days, unloading batches of goods, all of which are materials prepared for the attack on Daimao City.

After all, it is preparing food for thousands of people, which is not a small number.

As for weapons, after this period of rush, the craftsmen's workshops in the city have already produced them.

They are not hot weapons that Westerners are equipped with in large quantities, but cold weapons such as broadswords and spears.

It's not that the barbarians are worried that the Filipinos will rebel with firearms, but they are too lazy to teach them how to use them.

Too stupid.

Moreover, it is still difficult for Manila to make firearms now, or it is simply impossible.

To make firearms, whether it is a small matchlock gun or a cannon, a certain smelting technology is required to make enough steel for use.

Not to mention some delicate parts, which require skilled craftsmen to make.

In fact, flintlocks had already appeared in Europe at this time. About thirty years ago, Mahan, a Frenchman from a family of gunsmiths, locksmiths and watchmakers, invented it.

He improved it on the basis of the revolver musket, removed the spring steel wheel, clamped a piece of flint on the jaws of the hammer, and set an anvil next to the fire hole. When shooting, pull the trigger, and under the action of the spring, the flint hits the side of the fire door heavily, sparks emerge, ignites the gunpowder and fires.

It was about seventy years later that the firearms expert Bi Maokang made a flintlock in the Ming Dynasty.

The self-generating fire gun designed by Bi Maokang has no great difference in structure and performance from the previous bird gun. In fact, it is just an improvement on the firing device of the bird gun.

However, whether it is the flintlock made by Mahan or the self-propelled musket made by Bi Maokang, the firing rate is not high enough, because the material requirements for the spring are too high and it is very difficult to obtain.

Therefore, this directly leads to the fact that although the flintlock was developed very early, it was not really popularized and mass-produced until more than a hundred years later.

It can only be said that the time of development was too early, and the smelting technology could not keep up, so its promotion was delayed by more than a hundred years.

Moreover, even if the smelting technology of Manila City was achieved, they would not choose to equip the vassal army with so many firearms.

Well, the price of firearms in this era is still very high, and the profit will be amazing if these arms are sold to pirates or to Japan.

Now Japan is at war, and the daimyo of that place is constantly purchasing various weapons in order to expand its armaments.

In addition to the iron cannons that they have mastered the production technology, they also purchase a large number of arms from the barbarians, which is a good business.

While the Spaniards in Daming and Manila were sharpening their knives and planning to conquer Pengasilan Bay, their target Lin Feng was unaware of this.

At this time, Lin Feng was actually still in a state of complacency.

Although he failed to seize Manila from the Spaniards, he thought that his attack had frightened the Spaniards and they would not dare to provoke them again.

Therefore, Lin Feng is now farming boldly in the city of Tortoiseshell, and he also welcomes all the people from Luzon who come to him, and strives to strengthen his strength.

Lin Feng came to Luzon just to build a country overseas.

He was also a little tired of being a pirate on the sea and planned to whitewash himself.

In this era without order, strong strength is everything.

He planned to expand his own strength first, and then find a way to compete with the Spaniards for the ownership of Luzon Island.

Take Luzon Island and become the king here. At that time, no one would know that he was a pirate.

At this time, Lin Feng felt that he was really weak before.

There are so many small countries in Nanyang. If he takes any one, he can be the king. Why waste his years as a pirate on the coast of Ming Dynasty?

"Boss, the sweet potatoes we planted when we first came here are said to be ready for harvest."

Just when Lin Feng was sitting alone in the house drinking wine, with only three dishes of snacks on the table, a one-eyed man ran in and said.

"Oh, there is already a harvest in the field, so fast?"

Lin Feng was slightly surprised and asked with some doubt.

"Yes, those natives said that the sweet potatoes grow very fast. We didn't believe it at first. Today they dug a few out of the field. They are really big and fat. It looks like they can be eaten."

The one-eyed man laughed happily.

When they crossed the sea to come here, the amount of food for so many people was astonishing. Even if they took a lot of food with them when they left the Ming Dynasty, they could not afford such consumption.

Before Lin Feng led his men to withdraw and did not continue to besiege Manila City, he saw that although the city was not big, it had built a tall wall, and it was not easy to take it down in one fell swoop.

The second reason was that he was worried that if he could not capture the city after a long time, his food tasting would be cut off.

The three armies did not move before the food and grass went first. The influence of "Three Kingdoms" was really great.

Lin Feng realized something was wrong, so he chose to withdraw his troops, just to give the Spaniards a warning.

Then he walked a distance north and found a bay with fresh water to settle down.

After building some fortifications, he let the families who came with the army start to cultivate the land, hoping to obtain some crop output and alleviate the problem of food shortage in the army.

As for imitating the barbarians, or their past practices, directly robbing the surrounding tribes for food, for his dream of becoming the king of Luzon in the future, he still suppressed it and began to interact with the locals in a friendly manner.

Unexpectedly, his friendly attitude, and the experience of fighting the barbarians in Manila City, won the favor of some locals, and some people began to join them.

He accepted all who came.

Surprisingly, there were locals with sweet potato seeds among them, so under their introduction, Lin Feng asked people to clear another piece of land for planting.

According to the locals, the sweet potatoes brought by the barbarians grow fast and have a large yield. The key is that they can resist hunger when eaten, and they taste good when roasted. They are good things.

"Let's go and have a look and taste what the sweet potatoes taste like."

Lin Feng picked up the wine glass, drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, said to the one-eyed man, and got up and went out. (End of this chapter)