Although Yang Feng looked like a tall and soft-looking young man, none of the captives present dared to underestimate him, because even children understood that as the commander of a powerful army, how could such a group of arrogant soldiers be submissive without any merits, so when Yang Feng spoke, the square that was originally a little noisy immediately became silent.

"Good!"

Yang Feng nodded with satisfaction.

"I think many of you should have guessed who I am. However, I still have to introduce myself first, I am the Marquis of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire, Yang Feng, the governor of the southern capital. ”

Yang Feng didn't speak fast, this was to facilitate Avilia's translation on the side.

"It stands to reason that I don't need to see you, because you are just a group of captives now, and your fate is almost sealed, and most of you men will spend the rest of your lives in hard labor."

Hearing this, many people's faces immediately turned pale, although they had long been mentally prepared, but when they heard the moment of the "verdict", they still couldn't accept it, but then Yang Feng's words changed again, "Of course, if some of you are particularly rich, maybe you can let your family redeem you with a large ransom, this is okay." ”

You can ransom people with ransom, which is good news, but these years rich people who are willing to leave their hometown and go to a foreign land thousands of miles away to pan for gold, so except for a few people who have a happy look in their eyes, others are still expressionless.

Yang Feng, who had a full view of these people's expressions, said again: "Of course, His Majesty the Emperor of our Ming Empire is merciful, as long as you serve hard labor for more than fifteen years, you will be able to regain your freedom.

Not only that, but those who have made significant meritorious contributions during their service can also reduce their service time, or if you have the special skills we need, you can also apply to us, and we can give them corresponding positions and remuneration, and even exempt them from hard labor.

Here I would like to focus on the original officers and soldiers among you. ”

Hearing this, Castro and the other officers and soldiers immediately raised their heads, and their mood became nervous.

The square was silent except for the crisp voices of Yang Feng and Avigliana.

"Our army now needs some technical troops, especially in artillery, navigation, astronomy and geography, and if anyone thinks he has this talent, he can also bring it up, and we can exempt him from hard labor.

Allow him to join the Jiangning Army, I will grant him the corresponding military rank, and give him a salary and treatment commensurate with the military rank, my words are finished, the detailed regulations and methods will be announced in three days, during this time you can think about it, my words are here. ”

After speaking, Yang Feng turned around and left the square.

The captives in the square were silent for a moment, and then immediately became noisy.

After Yang Feng left, Avilia, who had completed her task, naturally had no need to stay here, but as soon as she turned around, she saw a person rushing out of the crowd next to her and running towards her, shouting her name as she ran.

"Avilia...... Avilia ......"

The sergeant next to him was polite when he saw this, and one sergeant did not hesitate to raise the firearm in his hand and smash the man to the ground, and then two more sergeants rushed over and beat him into a pig's head.

The visitor shouted loudly while protecting his head: "Avilia, I am your uncle Ula Wei, don't you remember me?" Help me, or they'll kill me." ”

"Ula for?"

Avilia snorted lightly, looked at Ula who was pressed to the ground, and said coldly: "I'm sorry, since you personally pushed me into the arms of those beasts who wanted to rape me that day, my uncle Ula Wei has already died, I'm sorry, I think you confessed your mistake." ”

With that, Aviglia turned around without hesitation and left the square.

Avilia had no sympathy or pity for the man who had lulled her thousands of miles to the East, because the original family affection had already been exhausted by her three or four years of hard work for him, but she could only get one-third of the salary of others, and finally the uncle who had pushed her into the fire pit with his own hands was exhausted.

So she was gone, leaving only Ulla, who had been beaten all over the ground......

Yang Feng returned to his residence and fell into deep thought as he looked at the huge map of Nanyang hanging on the wall.

After more than two years of his own efforts, the Ming Dynasty has recovered Taiwan ahead of schedule and gained a firm foothold in Luzon, as long as there is no big change, it will not take a year at most for the entire Luzon to fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the next direction of action of the Jiangning Army must be carefully considered, and advancing westward is the later Vietnam, which is now the Hou Li Dynasty. To the east, it is a small archipelago of little value, and further south is the later Indonesia.

As early as the 15th century, Indonesia was invaded by Portugal, Spain and England until the Dutch invasion in 1596, and in 1602, the "East India Company" with Dutch characteristics was established with government powers.

According to the reports collected during this period, the strength of the Dutch in Indonesia is not comparable to that of the Spaniards, and the Netherlands have built ports in Pontianak, Laute Island, Makassar and other places in Indonesia, with more than 300 permanent warships and more than 6,000 garrisons.

"If you want to take the Indonesian archipelago, it seems that the current strength of the Second Fleet alone is not very safe, but the First Fleet has to protect the mainland, and it can't transfer all the fleets to the South Seas."

Looking at the huge map of Nanyang in front of him, Yang Feng fell into a dilemma.

It was now the seventeenth century, when the Dutch navy was unprecedentedly strong, with fifteen thousand ships of all kinds and more than eighty thousand sailors, and his ships and sailors were more numerous than the rest of Europe combined.

The reason why Yang Feng stubbornly scolded the Dutch for taking the city of Geranza last time and recovering the entire territory of Taiwan was because he bullied the Dutch to be too far away from Taiwan and would not fight for the Ming Dynasty for a small city of Geranza, but if Yang Feng wanted to attack Indonesia, it would be different, and the Dutch would never give up this largest stronghold in the East so easily.

Not to mention anything else, the more than 300 fleets deployed by the Dutch in Indonesia were enough for the Fujian naval division to have a headache.

"It seems that the scale of the water division is going to be expanded again, but where can I find so many qualified water master talents!" For a while, our Yang Daguan could be said to be white-headed.