Two days ago, a typhoon hit Luzon, but because Dingguo Bay is surrounded by mountains on the east and west and the sea on the north, it is an excellent safe haven, and Wang Xinyu's fleet did not suffer any losses.

However, the construction site of Yanping Port was flooded, fortunately there were small boats of the sailors, all the people evacuated in time, the soldiers and civilians worked together, and collected tents, artillery and gunpowder and other goods in time, so that there was no greater loss, but the wooden fence was washed away a lot, the newly built arrow tower, the lookout tower also fell several times, and a section of the newly repaired earthen city was soaked in water and soft, and a section was washed away by the flood, and the wood piled up in the camp was also washed away a lot.

Wang Xinyu was glad that he didn't leave two days earlier, if he had left for Manila two days ago, he would have been hit by a typhoon on the way, and he couldn't find a haven around, and it was estimated that the fleet would suffer heavy losses.

After this typhoon has passed, it is estimated that the next typhoon will come next year. The dry season in Luzon is just around the corner, and after late autumn, most typhoons are generated in the Southern Hemisphere. Typhoons in the Southern Hemisphere do not cross the equator into the Northern Hemisphere.

Although he did not suffer losses, Wang Xinyu was worried about the Drake and Albert, and he didn't know where they were now, if they were coming to Dingguo Bay, they would be hit by a typhoon on the way! In that case, your own losses will be too great!

In those days, there were no weather forecasts, no meteorological facilities, and what a dangerous thing it was to sail at sea!

After being delayed by the typhoon for a few days, now that the rain has passed, Wang Xinyu took the soldiers and the people to the shore to repair the barracks and rebuild the Tucheng that was washed away by the water.

While he was busy, the Sulu envoy named Sunday came again, saying that the king of Banshilan was coming to Yanping Port to see General Wang in person.

"Since it is the king of the earth who is coming, then General Ben will definitely welcome it! We're friends now! Wang Xinyu asked Lin Rui to tell the Sulu envoy.

In the evening of the same day, King Banshilan Tuwang walked into the Ming army camp in Yanping Port with his entourage and personal guards.

"It's coming, the Shengfan Earth King is here!" A soldier came to report.

Wang Xinyu stood at the door of the Chinese army's tent to greet him, and after less than a minute, he saw the king of Banshilan with two personal guards walking into the Ming army camp.

If you look closely, you may be not as dark as other Sulu people because of his good maintenance, and the clothes he wears are also delicate silk clothes with Suzhou embroidery patterns on them. At the waist of the earth king, there hung a sword, and when I looked at it from a distance, the sword was shining with gold, and it seemed that the scabbard was made of gold, and the hilt seemed to be inlaid with precious stones. However, what is very different from the body of the Tuwang is that the Tuwang wears on his feet is the clogs that Cantonese people liked to wear the most. This kind of dress is like a nouveau riche who wears a brand-name suit but wears slippers on his feet and walks on the street in later generations, looking very earthy.

Look at the two earth king guards, they are very well-equipped, wearing Spanish-style fine armor, bright red tassels on their helmets, and big red cloaks on their bodies, holding halberds that are more than a foot long, and a treasure knife hanging from their waists, which looks very powerful.

However, Wang Xinyu also knew that these equipment of the Tuwang guards must have been bought at a sky-high price, so most of the Sulu people only had leaves wrapped around their crotch, and they didn't even have to wear animal skins, and only the wealthy Tuwang personal guards had such sophisticated armor and weapons, and the number of such guards would definitely not be much, and it was estimated that there were no more than ten such guards in the entire Banshiran tribe.

The soldiers stepped forward to stop the Tuwang and his guards: "If you want to see our general, please let your guards wait outside!" ”

On Sunday, the interpreter was given to the earth king, and when the earth king heard this, he drank his guards and told them to wait outside the big tent of the Chinese army.

"Please!" Wang Xinyu invited the king of soil into the big tent of the Chinese army.

The Tuwang walked into the big tent of the Chinese army and stood next to the Tuwang on Sunday to act as an interpreter. And Lin Rui stood beside Wang Xinyu.

Wang Xinyu said: "Mr. Tuwang, you Sulu Sultan kings, all respect our Ming Dynasty as the upper kingdom, and your Sulu Sultan King has reached our Ming Dynasty, that is, the level of vassal kings. And you, the earth kings, should be at the same level as our generals, right? ”

After listening to Sunday's translation, the Tu King quickly explained: "The honorable generals, the king of the Sultan of Sulu, have nothing to do with us, they believe in Allah of the Arabs, and we, believe in our own gods, of course, we also believe in the gods brought by the Spaniards. ”

After Lin Rui translated, Wang Xinyu laughed: "Hahaha, God was not brought by the Spaniards, the missionaries they brought let you believe in God." ”

"Yes, yes!" The Tu King nodded repeatedly, "We are not the same as the Sultanate of Sulu, each of our tribal alliances is an independent country. There are now several tribal alliances hostile to us, and we have suffered heavy losses in the regrettable war between us and General Wang. I now hope that General Wang will make good on his promise and provide us with weapons as soon as possible, so that we can resist the tribes that are hostile to us. ”

"You're going to buy weapons right away, huh? I don't have a lot of weapons here, so I'll have my soldiers bring some weapons over tomorrow and sell them to you. It's good if you bring someone to trade on Sunday! Wang Xinyu decided to sell the backward cold weapons in the hands of his sailors and soldiers to the Sulu people. There are spears, short knives, plate axes, harpoons and the like that are ready to be sold. The bows and arrows of the sailor are all relatively strong bows, and Wang Xinyu does not plan to sell them to the Tuwang, and when the time comes, when he returns to Xiamen, he can get some weak bows and sell them to the Tuwang.

The earth king thanked him again and again, but made another request: "Honorable general, can you provide us with that kind of iron pipe that can breathe fire, and that kind of iron can that can breathe fire?" ”

Wang Xinyu refused Tuwang's request to buy guns: "Mr. Tuwang, I'm sorry, we don't have enough weapons ourselves. And we are also enemies on all sides, there are Dutch, there are Qing courts, there are Burmese, they all have these fire-breathing weapons! If we sell you these weapons, we will be useless ourselves! And if you want to deal with those tribes, it will be enough to use the sharp weapons we have sold you! We can also sell you some armor. ”

Wang Xinyu has some paper armor in his hand, but even if it is such a simple and cheap armor, it is not something that can be made by the natives, and those paper armors can make a lot of money by selling them to the earth king.

The bows and arrows used by paper armor to defend against other tribes are completely sufficient.

Finally, the king of the earth made another request: "The wine we bought from the Spaniards is too expensive!" General, is there any cheap wine to sell us here? ”

Wang Xinyu asked the soldier to open a jar of rice wine, pour it into a bowl, and hand it to the king of the earth.

Although the rice wine in that era was not high, Tuwang took a sip and still felt that it was too strong. He told Wang Xinyu on Sunday: "What we want is not this wine, it is a yellow wine." ”

Wang Xinyu asked people to open the rice wine again and poured a bowl for the earth king.

The king of the earth took a sip and said, "It's not this kind of wine, but the kind of wine we drink is frothy." ”

After listening to Lin Rui's translation, Wang Xinyu nodded: "I understand, it's beer!" I still have a bucket here, but on the boat, I'll have to wait a while. ”

After receiving Wang Xinyu's order, the sailor soldier transported a barrel of beer that Albert gave to Wang Xinyu.

After drinking the beer, the king said, "That's right, it's this wine!" We have a hot climate here, and this wine is especially delicious! In particular, it is even better to put the wine in the well water and ice it. ”

Wang Xinyu knew that selling beer to these natives could make a lot of money, but Daming didn't produce beer. Now you can only buy from foreigners, buy them and sell them to the natives. In the future, I will have to open my own brewery, so that there will be a steady stream of beer to sell to the indigenous people.

To be honest, the beer produced by Europeans in this era tasted much worse than that of later generations, because Europeans had not yet invented the pure yeast cultivation method. Wang Xinyu believes that if he can build a brewery and produce beer that is better than that of Europeans, he will not only make indigenous people like his beer, but also sell it at a good price on the European side. However, the production of high-quality beer needs to be stored in sub-zero temperatures for two months to taste better. There is currently no refrigeration equipment, so the brewery in Vladivostok can only be built in the future.

When the earth king came over this time, Wang Xinyu sold him 200 iron short knives, 100 iron spear heads, 100 harpoons, 100 plate axes, 1,000 sets of paper armor, and 10,000 arrows.

Strongbows can't be sold to natives, arrows don't matter, they can be sold for a good price, let them go and kill other natives. On his side, as long as the castle is built, it doesn't matter if he sells more iron weapons to the natives, and he is not afraid that they will attack him.

This time I made a lot of gold from this transaction. Coupled with the gold from the war indemnity of the Tuwang and the gold from the last transaction, Wang Xinyu has earned more than 8,000 taels of gold from the Tuwang, as well as more than 50,000 catties of brass, which can be said to be a windfall.

If this gold is shipped to China, because the ratio of gold and silver in the country is one to ten, one tael of gold can only be exchanged for ten taels of silver. Therefore, Wang Xinyu plans to wait for Albert to come back and ask about the comparison of gold and silver in Europe, and then decide what to do with the gold.

At that time, the silver in China was very valuable, and one or two pieces of silver could buy at least 400 catties of rice! This purchasing power is equivalent to seven or eight hundred yuan to more than a thousand yuan now, but one tael of silver is only equivalent to more than 100 yuan to 200 yuan. During the Ming Dynasty until the Qing Dynasty, because China only exported goods and rarely imported goods, a large amount of silver from the world flowed into China. But why is there still so little silver in circulation? Because most of the silver was collected by officials and gentry, hidden at home, and not taken out and circulated outside, even the Ming Dynasty government's annual tax revenue was only two million taels of silver, and after Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, he was able to fry tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of taels or even millions of silver from the homes of those corrupt officials.

Only by buying and selling the luxury goods from outside the country through trade can the silver in the hands of those rich people be dug up and turned into their own.

The Sulu envoy provided another message on Sunday: "In addition to the many of you Ming people in Manila, there are many Ming people over there in East Borneo, more than there are Ming people in Manila." In addition, the Sultanate of Sulu also had quite a few Ming people. ”

Wang Xinyu remembered at this time: East Borneo is Kalimantan Island, where the Lanfang Republic established by the Chinese is located. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, many people went to Nanyang to pan for gold, and they all went to East Borneo. Later, due to the ban on the Qing Dynasty, those Chinese could not return to China, so they had to stay in East Borneo, and later established a Lanfang Republic. But now it seems that the Republic of Lanfang has not yet been established. After going to Manila, you can go to East Borneo to familiarize yourself with the situation there, organize the Chinese, and build an army.

As the Tucheng of Yanping Port constituted a certain scale, Wang Xinyu left 300 officers and soldiers of the Marine Battalion of the Marine Division and 200 gunners of the Naval Division to protect the safety of Yanping Port, in case the Tuwang suddenly changed his mind, and he took the ships of the Naval Division and some of the Naval Divisions, pulled anchor and set sail, and sailed in the direction of Manila.

"Manila! I'm finally here! Wang Xinyu said.

"Sail!" Wu Haodong gave an order.

The bell rang for the opening of the ship, and the warships that had been suspended at the mouth of the Yanping River pulled anchor one after another, hoisted their sails, and sailed towards the sea.