Over the next three days, Sulu's harassment not only had no effect, but instead left behind more than 300 corpses and more than 100 seriously wounded, who were almost dead. The people, protected by wooden fences and the army, used saws and axes to advance into the forest, and large swaths of towering trees fell to the ground and turned into building materials.

During this period, it rained heavily, but when it rained, Wang Xinyu took the soldiers and the people to hide in the barracks.

The Sulu people took advantage of the rain to attack the Ming army camp once. However, the muskets and bows and arrows of the Ming army hiding in the tent could still be used, and the tiger squat cannon placed in the wooden tower could also be fired. And the Sulu people, who were struggling to advance in the rain, could not even approach the barracks of the Ming army. Later, some natives tried to destroy the unfinished earthen city, but they were slashed and killed by the long sword soldiers who rushed out.

After the rain passed, Wang Xinyu walked out of the barracks with the soldiers and the people and continued to work.

"Over there! Ikuban came out of there! Suddenly, one of the guards shouted.

Wang Xinyu turned his head and looked at the open grass to the north, only to see three Sulu people coming out of the jungle, one in the middle was wearing light blue linen clothes, holding a white flag in his hand, and two Sulu warriors wearing animal skins and wearing standard waist knives around their waists.

"Isn't it a bunch of students? How can there be such people? Li Rui asked puzzled.

Wu Zhudan said: "It's different from what we've seen these days." ”

Wang Xinyu replied according to his own judgment: "It may be that these people with a bit of status in the life, I remember that it seems that only the upper class can afford to wear clothes, and the high-level samurai have animal skins." ”

The Sulu man at the head walked up with a white flag and shouted in Cantonese: "Don't shoot!" We're here to negotiate! ”

"Cantonese? Are there any of these students who can speak Cantonese? Lin Rui, who knew Cantonese, was stunned.

Although Wang Xinyu couldn't speak Cantonese, he could tell that the Sulu man spoke Cantonese because the tone was too familiar.

At that time, Zheng Jiajun, whether it was the military or the people, used Hokkien. However, there were many Cantonese children in the army, so Zheng Jiajun used a mixture of Hokkien and Cantonese. As for Zhang Huangyan's Zhejiang army, the language used was the official language of the Ming Dynasty: the Jianghuai dialect. Originally, Wang Xinyu didn't know the Jianghuai dialect, but the residual memory of this body made him understand the Jianghuai dialect when he came here. And the Mandarin he was familiar with, but no one in the south understood it.

In fact, the later Mandarin was the Jingshi dialect of the Ming Dynasty, which was only used in Beijing and Beizhili, and the Jingshi dialect and Jianghuai dialect were mixed in the Ming Dynasty palace. However, the Jingshi dialect is slightly different from the current Mandarin, and the modern Mandarin is mixed with Liaoyang dialect, as well as some of the pronunciation of Jurchen dialect. Because the tongues of those ethnic minorities in the north could not adapt to the Jianghuai dialect with rich pronunciation, and the relatively simple Jingshi dialect was loved by them, so it was forcibly promoted throughout the country to become the current Mandarin.

The Jingshi dialect is relatively close to Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Shandong. In fact, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty first entered Beijing, the civil and military officials still spoke Manchu when they went to the court, but later there were more and more Han officials, and the proportion of officials who knew Manchu became smaller and smaller, which made the Qing court have to use Beijing dialect as the official language of the court. By the end of the day, few people understood Manchu.

Wang Xinyu asked the Cantonese translator Lin Rui: "Go and call the Sulu envoy!" ”

"No!"

The Sulu envoy walked in front of Wang Xinyu and was about to bow his hand, but he heard Lin Rui shouting: "When you see our Shangguan, don't kneel down!" ”

"The general is on top! Villain Sunday, knock to the general! Then the messenger of Sulu replied.

"How do you use a name like that?" Wang Xinyu felt very strange, and then he turned to Lin Rui and said, "Let him stand up!" ”

After listening to Lin Rui's translation, he replied on Sunday: "The father of the little family often goes to Manila to do business and lives in Manila for a long time. Later, when the mother gave birth to the villain, it was a bishop in Manila who gave the villain a name, because it was born on Sunday. ”

Wang Xinyu thought to himself: No wonder, most of the Filipinos used Spanish names later. He then asked, "Then how do you know Cantonese?" ”

"Because the villain has been in Manila for a long time, you Ming people over there speak Cantonese. The clothes on our bodies, the clay pots, and the dishes we use are all made by your Ming people. The villain's father can speak Cantonese, and the villain also has contact with those Ming merchants, so he can speak Cantonese. Sunday replied.

Wang Xinyu nodded: "Okay!" You came here on Sunday to talk to General Ben about something? ”

Sunday replied, "Honorable general, when you build a castle on our territory, our king is very worried, afraid that you have cut down all the forests. We Banshiran people live on the forest, and without the animals and fruits of the forest, we would all starve to death. So we asked, General, are you going to cut down all the forests in Banseran? ”

Wang Xinyu laughed a few times, suddenly stopped laughing, a cold light shot out of his eyes, and stared directly at the Sulu envoy: "We are so many people, and the territory we need is not large, how can we cut down all the forests?" But you didn't even send anyone to ask, so you sent troops to attack! We have suffered so many casualties, how are we going to settle this account? ”

"As long as you don't continue to cut down forests, our king says we can negotiate peacefully."

"We don't have a lot of forests to cut down, it's just a negotiation, how can we negotiate? We have suffered so many casualties, so many ammunition and arrows have been consumed, how can we calculate these accounts? You need to pay us the corresponding compensation! ”

The Sulu messenger was astonished: "But we have more dead!" ”

Wang Xinyu sneered: "But you provoked the war!" You who die are doing it to yourself! And what about us? Those of us who died are innocent! ”

After listening to Lin Rui's translation, the Sulu envoy broke out in a cold sweat, his entire back was soaked, and beads of sweat the size of beans were dripping from his forehead.

Wang Xinyu continued to threaten and lure: "If you are sincere, we can negotiate and settle peacefully!" Although you need to compensate us for the gold, we can do business in the future! We can sell you the linen, silk, ceramics, salt, spices, glassware, and even ironware you need! But if you continue to harass us, I don't mind setting fire to the forest! Know that the dry season is coming soon, and if we start a fire, the forest will be burned down! ”

Wang Xinyu knows that although the lunar calendar is not yet August, the Gregorian calendar is September, and the next half a year will be a dry season.

The Sulu envoy knew that it was already the ninth month of the Gregorian calendar, and there was less than a month to go, and the dry season was coming. When the dry season comes, as long as the Ming people really set fire to the forest, I am afraid it will be a catastrophe for them Banshilan!

"You want us to compensate for the gold, this is a big deal, the villain can't make his own decisions, and he needs to go back and report to the king." Sulu emissary said.

Wang Xinyu nodded and agreed with the Sulu envoy to reply: "Yes!" You can go and reply to your king! But you are not allowed to act in any hostility against us during this time! Otherwise, we will see you continuing the war! So what the consequences will be, I don't know! ”

As soon as the Sulu envoy returned to report to the king of Banshilan, the king's face immediately turned pale. He knew that if the forest burned down, they would lose their hiding place and flee to the forests controlled by other tribes. But when they went to other people's side, it was strange that the other tribes who had been eyeing them for a long time did not kill all their men and snatch all their women! If that happens, you will be killed, your wife will be robbed, your property will be robbed, and your son will become a slave.

But when he heard that the people of the Ming Kingdom could trade with him, the mood of the earth king, who had fallen into the valley, improved again.

Trade, what does that mean? Not only can you get luxury goods at the cheapest price, but you can also get sharp weapons, and with those weapons, isn't it easy to clean up other tribes?

"Yes! We can agree to their conditions! As long as the price they offer is not too expensive, we can give them gold! "The king of the earth asked the envoy to negotiate again.

The Sulu envoy returned to the Ming army and began formal negotiations with Wang Xinyu.

Wang Xinyu's conditions are actually not excessive, he only needs 24 square kilometers of land in Yanping Port District, and currently only 6 square kilometers for the time being, which will be used to build castles, build shipyards, develop farmland, build breeding farms, etc., this emerging city will be named Yanping City. As for compensation, Wang Xinyu's demand is not high, as long as the Sulu people compensate themselves with two thousand taels of gold. But from then on, the Ming would trade with the Banshirans, who would provide cloth, ceramics, silk, salt, glass, and weapons to the Banshirans, and the Banshirans would provide gold and copper ore to the Ming. The price offered by the Ming people is much more favorable than that of the Spaniards.

Listening to Wang Xinyu's offer, the Sulu envoy was overjoyed, he didn't expect this Ming general, who looked so vicious, to give himself such a favorable price!

In fact, even if it is a preferential price, Wang Xinyu has already made a lot of money. It can only be said that the hearts of those Spaniards are too dark, their prices are too high, and the poor natives do not know the price of gold compared to other commodities. Even those Chinese near Manila know that the natives don't know the price, and they are all over the place, desperately trying to make money. Whether it is a Spanish or a Chinese, what is sold to the indigenous people of Sulu is ridiculously expensive.

"General, by doing this, we not only cut off the financial routes of the Spaniards, but also affected the business of those Ming people in Manila." Lin Rui reminded Wang Xinyu softly.

Wang Xinyu said: "Those businessmen in Manila are also our people of the Ming Dynasty!" This general will not learn the so-called "not competing with the people" of the first emperor, I not only want to compete for profit, but also let us earn more! The first emperor just refused to compete with those profiteers and corrupt officials, and as a result, they were so harmed that they went to the coal mountain crooked neck tree! ”

Although I heard Wang Xinyu say that the first emperor was not, these soldiers were all trained by Wang Xinyu himself, and no one felt that what he said was very rebellious.

Chinese businessmen in Manila? They do other business too! Moreover, their business with these natives was only a small part of it, and most of it was sold to Europeans.

In fact, both the Spaniards and the Chinese merchants, because the things they gave to the natives were too expensive and the slaughter was too ruthless, so the trade volume with the natives was not large.

Wang Xinyu sold things to the Banshilan tribe at a relatively cheap price, so that the people of this tribe were addicted to buying things, especially those iron tools, which were easy to use and sharp, and after the Banshilan people became addicted, let them exchange them for stone tools, would they do it? You can only exchange it for gold! Sooner or later, their gold will run out. At that time, the Banshilans will use the sharp knives and guns provided by the Ming to rob other tribes! In this way, Wang Xinyu is tantamount to using the Banshilan people to exterminate other Sulu natives.

As for the weapons sold to the natives, they are all knives, guns, bows and arrows eliminated by the Ming army, although they are not very sharp knives, not particularly good spears, and not strong bows and iron arrows, but these weapons are already excellent weapons for the Banshilan people, and they are used to attack other tribes, which is simply a one-sided massacre!

Outside, the big ship was full of cargo that was originally destined for Manila.

Because of the successful negotiation with the Banshilans, many ceramics, silks, and linens were unloaded at Yanping Port and exchanged for golden gold.