Chapter 47 Spices

However, Pei Xingjian's this time was different. Before leaving, Li Zhen issued a dead order and had to clear the bandits in Lingnan. Anyone who missed one would be punished severely.

So Pei Xingjian and others also became ruthless and no longer told you any reason. As long as they found out that there was a little sign, they would immediately lead their troops to attack and check after the battle. As long as they found out some evidence, the entire village would be dead. As for whether there was any wrongdoing, it would be impossible. With the nature of the barbarians and the environment of Lingnan, if they could survive by farming, who would come out to rob? Where would there be any bandits?

The problem lies in the previous few times when the village was slaughtered, the Guards could not take action against some women and children, but suffered a great loss several times. Many people died at the hands of those women and children because of their mercy. This way of death is extremely unfair. They don’t think about it, are you slaughtering other people’s tribe members? If you let them go, do you still hope they will be grateful to you?

After suffering several losses, the Guards finally realized that they no longer showed mercy when they started, and their combat losses were greatly reduced.

So don’t say that Liu Rengui is cruel and cold-blooded. In this case, you can’t help but be cold-blooded, because once you are soft-hearted, it means that you are likely to have put yourself in the most dangerous place. After all, no one knows who the person you let go is. It would be fine to stab you in the back. If someone competes this time, the stimulation is stimulated and the hatred is recorded in his heart, and then work hard to become a big trouble for the Tang Dynasty in the future. There is a precedent for this kind of thing. For example, Hitler, at the end of World War I, a soldier aimed at Hitler, but because the war was over and Hitler was injured, the British soldier felt that there was no need to have another soul, so he let him go. Then during World War II, Hitler beat Britain and France into dogs...

So, don’t think that cutting grass will not remove the roots, and the spring breeze will only be talking.

Half a month passed, and under the leadership of Zhehe, the Tang Dynasty took the Zhehe tribe as the starting point and understood the specific situations of the surrounding hundreds of miles, and successfully drew the surrounding topographic map.

Another happy news is that with Liu Lie's unremitting efforts, he finally slowly mastered a little Luzon language. Although he was not very skilled and was stuttering, the general communication was still fine. Being able to successfully communicate with the indigenous people of Luzon was of great help to the fleet's exploration mission. When Liu Rengui was happy, he directly rewarded Zhehe and Liu Lie for 100 taels of silver, which made the eyes of the other translators in the translation group red in their envy, and they worked harder to learn Luzon language. Even some people who were not translators learned automatically when they were fine. For a moment, a trend of learning was set off in the shelter, which comforted Luo Hansheng and Liu Rengui.

In the base camp, Luo Hansheng was reporting the situation to Liu Rengui: "...this is the current situation."

Liu Rengui thought: "In other words, this Tuzha tribe is the largest tribe within a radius of hundreds of miles?"

"To be precise, it is the largest tribe within 300 miles above the entire Luzon Island. Although we have not searched for tribes a hundred miles away, according to the information we obtained from the indigenous merchants, currently, there are only the Ute tribe 700 miles south away and a Momohe tribe 400 miles south away to the southeast, which can be compared with them." Luo Hansheng corrected: "At present, these three tribes are also the three top tribes on Luzon Island. Each has a population of more than 100,000, and more than 30,000 warriors. In addition, their vassal tribes, it is no problem to entangle 100,000 warriors in a short period of time. Such a powerful force is at least not something we can deal with in a short period of time. So I think it is best for us to focus on friendship at the moment."

"The problem is that people are unwilling to be friendly with us. You don't know the situation. We sent an envoy, but the envoy was broken and the gift was even snatched away by them - the Tuzhe tribe had no intention of being friendly with us at all." Liu Rengui smiled bitterly: "It seems that our estimate of the situation in Luzon Island is wrong. If we want to conquer this place, we must invest more troops, and at least 30,000 elite troops are needed.

The question is that such a large-scale military operation is just to occupy an island. Is this possible?

Don’t forget that our Tang Dynasty has just finished conquering Nanyang, and the army is exhausted. Occupying Nanyang itself also requires a lot of elite troops. The Tang Dynasty’s troops have already become vacant. Now we need another 30,000 military operations. Even if your highness is willing to send troops, will Your Majesty approve it?"

"That depends on whether the things we take out can touch His Majesty's heart?" Luo Hansheng smiled mysteriously: "Your Highness has a saying that there is nothing in the world that is willing or not. The reason why others are unwilling to do something is because you don't have enough weights."

"Old Luo, what you mean." Liu Rengui felt something: "We will show the interests of Luzon to His Majesty? But at present, we have only explored a range of 100 miles around. We have found nothing except a small copper mine."

"Who said that the only benefit is minerals?" Luo Hansheng took out something and handed it to Liu Rengui: "Mr. Liu, please see, what is this?"

"Is this...spice?" Looking at the leaves in my hand, sniffed carefully, and smelling the familiar smell, Liu Rengui's eyes lit up: "Where did it come from? How many?"

Needless to say, spices are essential raw materials, whether they are used as food ingredients to enhance fragrance, treat diseases as medicinal materials, or secondary processing into various incense, etc. In ancient China, it was not a major spice producer (most of the spice varieties are imported products nowadays, and only a small amount of spices such as cinnamon are local products), which led to the high prices of spices in ancient times. Even for wealthy families, they cannot eat meals mixed with spices.

If a large amount of spices can be found here, the value of Luzon will be immeasurable. Although it is not as shocking as the discovery of Silver Island, it is enough to attract the attention of His Majesty the Emperor - not to mention that this is an unknown spice, which will be of higher value.

"Just in a valley ten miles away, the whole valley is full of this kind of spice." Luo Hansheng smiled and said, "I asked the chefs to try it. Whether it is making soup or barbecue, it can help remove fishy smell and increase fragrance. Moreover, the doctors who followed the army also found that they have the effect of replenishing Yuanyang, warming the spleen and stomach, eliminating cold accumulation, and promoting blood vessels. The effect is stronger than cinnamon, which is very rare."
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