Dozens of small boats rowed into the Tamsui River and docked on the bank, and Wang Xinyu walked into the small village with his own soldiers.

"Why did all the people in the village run out?" Wang Xinyu was reported by his own soldiers and confirmed that he was safe, so he landed in a small boat and came to this small village.

Li Rui replied: "Go back to the big handsome!" This village must be the village of our Han people! The items used in the village, as well as the iron-making furnaces and tile kilns here, are not something that the local natives can make. Maybe they thought we were pirates and ran away. ”

"Let Shi Fu's Bobcat Camp go to the nearby mountains and find them." Wang Xinyu asked his soldiers to take a small boat to deliver the order.

Not long after, Shi Fu took dozens of personal soldiers and went ashore in a small boat.

Seeing Shi Fu, Wang Xinyu gave him an order: "Shi Fu, you take dozens of people to the nearby mountains to look for it, and play the banner of our Daming!" These villagers dragged their families and brought pots and pots, and it was impossible for them to run far! There are still cannibals in the mountains, and they are in danger after a long time in the mountains. Find them, tell them that we are Ming people, and let them come back. ”

"No!" Shi Fu arched his hand and took his own soldiers to the mountains.

Sure enough, as Wang Xinyu expected, the villagers dragged their families with their mouths, with pots and pots, with covers, and some people led ploughing cattle and drove pigs and sheep, so it was impossible to go too fast. Shi Fu led the soldiers and led the hunting dogs to chase. Not far away, the hound noticed the smell of the villagers passing by, and took Shi Fu and them to chase them into the mountains.

The Qiongzhou army raised hunting dogs, which were very effective, and could guard the gate of the barracks at night to prevent the Qing army from stealing the camp; When pursuing the Qing army in the mountains of Jiangnan, the hunting dogs also made great achievements, and the hunting dogs chased from the mountains with the bobcat battalion, captured many lone Qing soldiers, and provided fresh coolies for the Qiongzhou Iron Mine, the Annam Coal Mine, the Dingguo Bay Castle and the Singapore Fort.

The hound followed the trail and chased it over, and after chasing it for more than ten miles, a stockade appeared on the hill ahead.

The soldiers of the Lynx battalion did not dare to enter the stockade rashly. Rather, it is observed from the outside. Shi Fu stood on a big rock, looked at it for a moment, and wondered in his heart: Isn't this the village of the local people? Why did the Han people come here?

It turned out that this was a village of Shufan, and the local Shufan had trade with the Han people, who exchanged food, wine, salt, cloth and iron tools with the Han people with prey, furs, mountain goods, gold, silver and copper. For hundreds of years, the relationship between the acquaintances here and the Han people has been good. This time, Shi Fu and the others were in a hurry, and the fleeing villagers thought that the pirates would not let them go, so they fled to the local cottage for refuge.

"You guys, go and shout and tell them. We are the Ming army, our own people, and there is no hostility towards them! Shi Fu called out to a few pro-soldiers.

"No!"

Eight pro-soldiers stood on a big rock, folded their hands into a trumpet shape, and shouted at the cottage: "Folks, we are officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, not pirates, and we have no ill will towards you!" Come out, folks! ”

Who knew that after shouting for a long time, the people in the cottage not only did not come out. On the contrary, it is like facing a great enemy. Several natives walked to the wall, babbling words that Shi Fu couldn't understand at all. After a while, an old Han man with gray hair stood on the wall and glanced outside. Then he turned and walked away.

"Let's take a look!" A pro-soldier said.

Shi Fu shouted: "You throw away the weapons and go over again, show your sincerity!" ”

Eight Ming soldiers put down their weapons and approached the gate with their hands raised, but they didn't know that they had not yet come to the front. Several feathered arrows were shot from inside the gate, and stones and wood fell down, startling the soldiers. He turned around and fled back.

In the cottage, Xiaohu just saw that the Ming army under the mountain had no malicious intentions, and they all came up empty-handed, so he turned his head and asked his father: "Dad, they are our Ming officers and soldiers!" Why don't you let them in? ”

"You know a fart, kid!" Zhao Dapeng said angrily, "As the saying goes, bandits are like combing soldiers!" These officers and soldiers are even more hateful than bandits and bandits! You are not sensible, you don't know, when your father was young, he was in the Central Plains, and Zuo Liangyu's soldiers were a hundred times more hateful than those who broke into thieves! The thieves are just coercing the people, and Zuo Liangyu is killing good people! ”

Shi Fu hung his head and went back to report to Wang Xinyu: "Handsome! The end will be incompetent! The Han people here have entered the local cottage, and we just went to shout, but they beat them back with random arrows and rolling wooden stones! ”

"In this way, Ben will go in person, without weapons, I will go to their cottage empty-handed to convince them!" Wang Xinyu said.

Luo Xiang and the others were shocked, and hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Dashuai, this is too dangerous, let's let the humble go there!" ”

"Dashuai, let's let the lowly post go!" Li Rui said.

Wang Xinyu looked around, made a gesture and said, "Get up!" Brothers, stop arguing! I have made up my mind, and General Ben will go up the mountain himself to convince them! Rest assured, they won't hurt General Ben! ”

"Dashuai!" And they fell to their knees, and refused to rise.

"Dashuai, it's too dangerous for you to go! In case they want to harm you, who will inherit our great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty! Li Ruiyang begged.

Wang Xinyu said categorically: "Okay, don't say it!" You go and get the general's red python robe, they see that the general is the king of the county, and they will not dare to detain it! When General Ben sees them as a prince, it is easy to convince them! ”

Everyone had no choice but to take the python robe and let Wang Xinyu change it on.

"Folks!" Wang Xinyu, who was dressed in a red python robe, appeared outside the cottage, his personal soldiers and troops followed a hundred steps away, he raised his hands alone and shouted at the cottage, "This king is the king of Nanhai County in the Ming Dynasty, and this king goes to the cottage alone to show his sincerity!" Don't let your arrows go! ”

Seeing Wang Xinyu wearing a python robe and wearing a three-color seven-bead crown of the county king, and then looking at the army behind Wang Xinyu, I saw that this Ming army was huge, the armor was distinct, and the banner of the county king was played, and all the Han villagers in the cottage were stunned.

"Is he really the prince?" A villager asked.

"It's the prince! I used to watch a big drama when I was in Jiangning, and it was such a costume! Zhao Dapeng replied. Of course, he hadn't seen the prince and the king of the county or anything like that when he was in the mainland before, but he saw this kind of costume when he watched the play. At that time, there was no Peking Opera in the Ming Dynasty, it was generally a southern opera, and the costumes of that year were almost the same as the real official clothes, but the difference in material and texture, so the common people could see the difference between officials of different grades at a glance.

Another villager said: "It must be that the prince can't fake it!" Who dares to pretend to be a prince! That's the capital offense of the Nine Clans! ”

"It's the prince! You see there is also the banner of King Yanping behind! Zhao Dapeng saw that there was a banner of the king of Yanping County behind Wang Xinyu. At that time, most of the Han people in Taiwan still knew about the King of Yanping, defeated the Dutch, and beat the Potbelly Kingdom to the brink, how could such a big thing not know!

But someone said: "Now that the Tartars are about to dominate the world, the Ming court is crumbling, what is the great thing about the Ming prince?" Who is still rare this Ming prince? ”

Zhao Dapeng glanced at the man: "Then there will be no one to fake!" Is it necessary to fake the worthless prince? If you are caught by the Tartars and cut off your head, isn't it too wrong? ”

After all, the majesty of the county king is there, although the county king of the Ming Dynasty is no longer valuable, but there are a few ordinary people who can witness the county king with their own eyes! Zhao Dapeng said to the indigenous Ah Leopard: "Ah Leopard, since the prince wants to come in alone, let him come in!" Maybe the prince is here, and it will be good for you and us! ”

"Good! Then let him in! Leopard nodded. They, a small tribe in the north of Taiwan, were not only suppressed by the Potbelly Kingdom, but even some nearby big tribes and cannibals came to bully them. After all, the reputation of the king of Yanping is too loud, if he can get the help of the king of Yanping, then do you need to be afraid of those small tribes?

The door of the cottage opened, and Wang Xinyu walked into the cottage alone.

"The king of grass people!" The Han villagers felt that this person was domineering, and there was a kind of majesty of a king, and they all knelt down one after another.

Seeing that the Han villagers who had trade with them on weekdays all knelt down and bowed, these local indigenous acquaintances also knelt down. It was still the head man Ah Leopard who reminded: "Go to a few people and close the gate of the village!" Don't let the officers and soldiers in! ”

At this time, the natives came to their senses, and several natives with red bodies, surrounded by leaves, and armed with stone spears, walked to the door and closed the gate. Although the prince in front of him seems to have no malicious intent, but those soldiers outside are not good at stubble, if those soldiers are allowed to rush in, if this prince turns his face, how can he stop the fierce officers and soldiers with those rudimentary weapons in the hands of the natives!

"Everyone, get up!" Wang Xinyu smiled and beckoned the Han villagers to get up.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!"

Wang Xinyu looked around and asked, "Which one here is the head of the village under the mountain?" ”

"The grass people are the head of the Han village under the mountain." Zhao Dapeng stood up, knelt on the ground and arched his hand.

Wang Xinyu said with a smile: "Hurry up!" ”

Walking into the bamboo building, the Han villagers and the indigenous people served a plate of fruit and put it on the table. Wang Xinyu sat down in the middle, and a circle of villagers stood around, with Zhao Dapeng, the head of the Han people, and A Bao, the head of the indigenous people, standing on either side of Wang Xinyu.

"You don't have to be restrained, sit down!" Wang Xinyu greeted.

Then Wang Xinyu said his intention: "Everyone, this king is here today to send wealth to everyone!" ”

"Send rich?" Zhao Dapeng was stunned.

Although Ah Bao is an indigenous, he has been in contact with the Han people for a long time and knows a few words of Chinese. When I heard the word "wealth", my heart moved.

"This king can provide you with fine salt, fine iron, cloth and fine ceramics at a good price! That's right! Here are some spices from the South Seas, sprinkle some of them when you roast game, they taste very good, you can take them and try them! If it is good, this king can still provide it for you. Wang Xinyu turned his head to look at Ah Bao, took out a bag of powdered spices from his arms, and lined it up on the table. (To be continued.) )