On March 29, Wang Yun made a fire in a coconut grove in northern Luzon to make rice. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This Luzon island is located in the tropics, and although it is spring at the end of March, the sun is already scorching. Wang Yun was only wearing a short brown, but he was not constantly sweating.

At the beginning of this month, after listening to the advice of Gu Weisheng, the eldest man of the Gu family, Wang Yun took the exam for the lieutenant and the chief, and finally successfully passed the literacy and basic morality exam, and became a captain in the development of Luzon.

The so-called one Jia, ten households also. Most of the people who participated in the development of Luzon this time were young couples, and most of them were couples with one or two children, so the population of each household was only three or four. Wang Yun, the first captain, is in charge of thirty-five people. Among them, there are thirteen adults, ten strong women, twelve children, and no old people.

Wang Yun received a brief training in Tianjin, which lasted 15 days, presumably to teach Wang Yun how to open up the land and how to deal with the local natives. He doesn't have to worry about land reclamation, the ten families under Wang Yun are all veterans of rice cultivation in Jianghuai Province, and they are very skilled in land reclamation.

Wang Yun was worried about the Malay people.

However, after actually setting foot on Luzon Island and seeing the actual situation of the natives, Wang Yun was not afraid at all.

The natives were shirtless and wore trousers woven from coconut leaves, looking like savages. At first, they saw Wang Yun and others sawing coconut trees, and they kept screaming outside the coconut grove. But as soon as the Han people who cut down the trees took out the waist knife from their waists, the natives fled in panic.

In the eyes of these natives who don't have iron weapons, the sharp waist knife is too terrifying.

As for the standard rifle that Wang Yun was carrying on his back, the natives didn't know what it was at all.

In fact, the level of civilization in the Philippines is very low, and there has never even been a single country or regime on Luzon. It wasn't until after the Spanish invasion that these Malay natives really came into contact with civilization.

It is not an exaggeration to say that these Malays are not as civilized as the Indians of the Americas.

Li Zhi made a policy to allow these natives to live with the Han people in the form of tenant farmers, which can be said to be very benevolent.

These natives are very backward, but they are very sensitive to food. It seems that there is not enough food to get from hunting thornfish, and they are all skinny. After smelling the aroma of Wang Yun's rice, these natives gathered around Wang Yun's earthen stove, wanting to come up and grab the rice to eat, but they were afraid of the Han people's waist knives.

Wang Yun laughed when he saw the cowering appearance of those natives.

"Liu Lao Er, these natives are really useless. I was afraid of them attacking us, and now it seems that these natives are more afraid of us than we are of them. ”

Liu Laoer, who was sawing coconut trees, was so busy sweating profusely that he looked at the scorching sun in the sky, and scolded: "Thief God, it's only March, why is it so hot here?" ”

He turned his head and said to Wang Yun in the official dialect with a southern accent: "Chief Jia, see if your tenant farmers can come up and take our hands, my whole body is blood-red, and I am really going to be peeled off by this sun." ”

Wang Yun was stunned and asked, "My tenant farmer?" ”

Liu Lao Er said, "Just those Malays, don't you have to make them your tenant farmers sooner or later?" We gave them rice to eat and asked them to help us with the sawing of trees. ”

Wang Yun was stunned and hesitated: "This..."

Liu Lao Er wiped his sweat, grabbed the saw and walked to the depths of the coconut grove. When the Malays saw the Han people coming over, they were so frightened that they ran away. However, there was still a bold Malay who did not run, and stood there looking at Liu Lao Er.

Liu Lao Er grabbed the one who didn't run, took his hand and walked back. Liu Lao Er brought the Malay man to the saw, pointed to the saw, and then pointed to the white rice in Wang Yun's hand.

The Malay shouted something in Malay.

Liu Lao Er snorted, as if he understood the meaning of this Malay, walked to Wang Yun's side, grabbed half a bowl of white rice and handed it to the Malay.

The Malay man suddenly seemed to have delicacies from the mountains and the sea, and he didn't care about the hot rice, so he buried his head in eating it.

After swallowing the rice in a few bites, the Malay greedily looked at Wang Yun's side for more white rice, and began to follow the example of Liu Lao Er and began to saw the coconut tree.

Liu Lao Er saw that this Malay man was working instead of himself, and laughed. He walked up to Wang Yun very proudly and sat down.

Wang Yun thought for a while and said, "Second Liu, you have increased one person's food this time, and you are still lazy yourself." ”

Liu Lao Er wiped his sweat and scolded: "Captain A, why are you so stingy? This food for the natives is counted in my account. The sun is so strong on this Luzon Island, and there is a lot of precipitation, when I plant three crops of rice a year, I don't know how much rice I have to harvest in a year on my 20 acres of land, at least 40 stones, right? Even if I hire a Malay to do the work for me, I can afford it. ”

Wang Yun thought about it, felt that this was the truth, and said with a smile: "You will settle accounts." ”

Liu Lao Er looked at the rice in the pot and said, "The rice is cooked, the rice is open!" ”

Hearing Liu Laoer's shouting, the farmers who were sawing coconut trees nearby all came over and began to eat. Everyone was tired, and the rice was very sweet.

As a result, only the Malay aborigines were left in the coconut grove who was still sawing coconut trees. While he was working, he looked at the food and drink here from time to time, and his face was full of envy.

Wang Yun thought for a while and said, "It's quite pitiful for this native to work hungry, so it's better to let him come and eat with us, and then let him continue to work after eating." ”

Liu Lao Er chirped: "Captain A, don't be too kind, I see that these Malays are very thieves, and they will run away when they are full." ”

Wang Yun said: "I don't think so. He ate our white rice today, and naturally he is not used to eating roots and wild fruits, and he wants to eat our rice in the future. Then he will definitely work hard, so that he can eat rice every day. ”

Liu Lao Er looked at the native and did not speak.

Wang Yun thought about it, made up his mind not to abuse the native, and waved his hand at him.

As if the Malay had been pardoned, he immediately threw away his saw, and ran to the king's side. Wang Yun served him a bowl of white rice. The Malay man was like he had been hungry for half a month, and he gulped down the white rice.

Wang Yun smiled and said, "Eat slowly, you will come to help us work every day in the future, and there will be white rice every day..."

However, before Wang Yun could finish speaking, the Malay man finished eating a large bowl of rice, threw the pottery bowl on the ground, and ran away.

The Malays ran extremely fast and disappeared into the coconut grove in the blink of an eye.

When Wang Yun saw this scene, he looked at the pottery bowl on the ground and was stunned.

The peasants in Jianghuai Province around Wang Yun immediately burst out laughing when they saw Wang Yun's appearance. Several women even laughed back and forth, as if they were laughing at Wang Yun's stupidity.

Wang Yun looked at the women who laughed at him, and was stunned for a long time before he said stupidly: "This Malay is not trustworthy, how can I hire them to work in the future?" ”

Liu Lao Er held the rice bowl, sneered, and said: "Captain Jia, these Malays are really indigenous, how do you know what credit is?" You don't have to worry, the native ate a meal of white rice today, and will come back tomorrow. I think he'll bring other natives with him! If you let them finish their work and give them food later, you won't be deceived by them. ”

"In the future, if you hire these natives to farm, let them finish their work and then give them food, you won't be afraid of them being scoundrels!"

Wang Yun looked at the pottery bowl on the ground, heaved, and shook his head helplessly.