"You're hurt, get up!" Liu Hong smiled gradually.

"Bang mallet, go get a bowl of meat for this strong man!" Thinking that the three people who entered the city stayed in the city all night and didn't eat, Liu Hongjian said again.

If it weren't for the language barrier, he really wanted to incorporate this man into his personal guard camp.

"Oh yes, General Qin, immediately fulfill the promise of this king, allocate a hundred stones from the military rations of the Beiyang Naval Division, no, allocate two hundred stones, and send them to the Gaoshan people." Liu Hong gradually thought about it and said.

"Lord Wang, I just received a report that their people have come." Qin Gongming walked to Liu Hongji's side and said.

"Oh? Let them come to the governor's palace, and the king will entertain them well. Liu Hong gradually said that it was estimated that people were worried about the safety of their own people and made a special trip to have a look.

But Qin Gongming's next words made Liu Hong gradually embarrassed.

"Lord Wang, they are here to ask for food, and many people have come." Qin Gongming's face was not very good-looking, in his opinion, this group of people was too ignorant.

Even if you promise to give them military rations, but at least you have to wait until you settle down before settling the account, now that the battle has just ended, there are still many places in the city where the fire has not had time to be extinguished, so you have to ask for the account?

Daming is a country that pays attention to etiquette, and it is very shameless to be asked for an account to be at the doorstep, and besides, they didn't say that they would repay the account? It just doesn't make sense.

"Huh? Oh, come on, go and give an order to the Huotou camp, slaughter the livestock collected in the city, the soldiers have worked hard today, let's eat meat! After Liu Hong finished speaking, he walked towards the governor's mansion that had just been cleaned up.

He is different from Qin Gongming, he understands the reason of the Ming Dynasty, and he also understands the temperament of the tribes who live in the mountains for a long time, most of these people do not understand human feelings, and the most important thing is commitment.

Although they were a little anxious to ask for food, but the reason was extremely sufficient, Liu Hongjian did not feel a loss, to be honest, if a hundred stone of grain could be exchanged for an island, he could be bloodless to divide the South Seas into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Sure enough, when the Gaoshan people saw Liu Hongji, they went straight to the point and asked for food.

There are quite a lot of people coming, the Gaoshan tribe is actually the general name of the natives of the central mountain range of Taiwan, and it is divided into Taroko tribes, Babsa tribes, Lei Lang tribes, monkey tribes and other tribes in the mountains.

Dado and the dead Sabu were from the Taroko tribe, and Vadan was from the Railang tribe, and it was Basso of the Taroko tribe and Jacques of the Ralang tribe who came to ask for food.

"The king will not give you a penny less of food, in view of the heroic performance of the Gaoshan people in the local battle, this king is the master to give you double the grain, that is, two hundred stones!"

Qin Gongming and the others on the side didn't have a good face, but Liu Hong gradually talked eloquently.

"Two hundred stones!" Basso's face was overjoyed when he heard this.

Don't look at the more than a dozen tribes in the central mountain range, but the number of all tribes together is less than 20,000, the Taroko tribe and the Lei Lang tribe are considered large, and the two tribes together are about 5,000 people.

On weekdays, these clansmen rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, hunting, wild fruits, and fishing to see if they are enough to feed the tribesmen, and 200 stone rice grains are used as reserves, and when they are treated to irresistible disasters, it is a life-saving charm for a tribe.

"Not only that, but the three members of your people have made great contributions in this battle, and this king has specially rewarded them with five hundred taels of silver, one thousand catties of rice, and ten horses of cloth for each of them.

This king will also carve a huge stone statue for three warriors in this city of Reranza, Taiwan is the Ming Dynasty, it is the Han people and the Gaoshan people who fought together, for this, you should be proud, tonight, we are not drunk and do not return! ”

Baso happily explained to Jacques behind him, Jacques also had a smile on his face, in order to reassure them, Liu Honggradually immediately allocated food from the military rations of the Beiyang Navy Division and piled it up outside the governor's palace.

Less leaning, the Huotou camp stewed meat, Liu Hongjian entertained a few Gaoshan people in the governor's palace, and vaguely expressed his hope to recruit Gaoshan people into the army.

Although Baso is the spokesperson of the Taroko people, he is only the confidant of the old patriarch, and he cannot decide directly, but Danone, the son of the Taroko patriarch, does not object when he hears this.

As soon as Jacques heard that the clansmen who joined the Ming army could not only receive half a stone of rice grain every month, but also three taels of silver salary, he immediately decided to go back and began to prepare.

This made Liu Hong gradually overjoyed, and it seems that the more the indigenous tribes who do not care about the world, the more stubborn they become, and it seems that this rumor is not true.

As long as it is a human being, the first problem faced is survival, and the Gaoshan tribe is no exception, and the clansmen can not only share the pressure of the tribe's survival, but also feed more people, which is a good deal.

Liu Hongji's gaze is farther, and the biggest reason why he is so interested in the Gaoshan people is that the geographical location of Taiwan Island is too important.

His plan was to leave Qin Gongming and the 10,000 white pole soldiers he brought with him as the garrison of Taiwan, and the Gaoshan tribe as a supplement to the source of troops, after all, there are too few Han people here, and immigration is not something that can be done in a short time.

And if the people of the Gaoshan clan can join the Ming army, it doesn't take much, it is enough for each tribe to draw out so dozens or hundreds, if there is really a strong enemy coming, can these tribes sit idly by?

He killed two birds with one stone, one could replenish the local garrison, and the other could strengthen the connection between the Han people and the Gaoshan tribe.

That night, Liu Hongjian wrote a letter to Zhu Cihong, in which he briefly talked about the situation on the island of Taiwan and his military deployment here, suggested that Zhu Cihong set Taiwan and the surrounding Penghu Islands as a province, and stressed that the imperial court should spend at least 20% of the tariffs to build more warships.

There are only 30,000 soldiers in the Beiyang Naval Division who can go to sea to participate in the war, and he took 20,000 with him, and the rest has to defend the coastal safety of the Ming Dynasty, which is really stretched.

After the island of Taiwan was defeated, Liu Hongjian suddenly discovered that the Ming Dynasty had no extra warships to garrison.

What about later? How many islands are there in the South Seas, how many strategic points are there, and where can there be less warships?

Alas, you really can't eat a fat man in one bite, Liu Hong gradually sighed, it is not easy for Daming to be able to do this in a hurry.

Thanks to himself for taking the lead in forcibly stroking off that group of civil servants, otherwise if he played Tai Chi with them, God knows what the court is like now.

Qin Gongming temporarily took the first governor of Taiwan Province, and after the official decree of the imperial court came down, he made another transfer, and at the same time, Liu Hongjian also gave him a special task - to build a naval base.

Again, the geographical location of Taiwan Island is too important, it can defend Jiangsu and Zhejiang inside, and it can defend the Nanyang countries outside, and it is completely insufficient for the Ming Dynasty to have only one Beiyang naval division.

In time, Weihai, Shanghai, Quanzhou, and Taiwan are all under Liu Hongji's consideration.

If you want to earn more silver, you must first have strength, and colonial plunder will inevitably have to fight with the countries of Europa, so it is better to prepare early.

The next day, the Beiyang Naval Division returned to Quanzhou to replenish grain, grass and ammunition, and on the sixth day of the sixth month of June, the Beiyang Naval Division went all the way south to Sulu.

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