Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

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Taiwan Island is beautiful in late summer. The green forests extend from the foothills to the seaside. The winding river meanders from the distant horizon. The grass on the river bank is dotted with some brightly colored wild flowers.

The breeze blows on your face, bringing the salty water and the fragrance of wild flowers.

Qin Hao was lying on the bank of the river, his bare feet making small ripples in the clear flowing river water. The warm sunshine shines on your face, making you sleepy.

A magnificent war horse snorted happily beside him, licking its wet tongue on Qin Hao's face from time to time.

Qin Hao obviously didn't like this friendly way of greeting, so he kicked it and drove it to its real owner.

Although the temperature was only 20 degrees, Qin Hao still felt waves of heat on his body under the sunshine at noon: "Go and find Wang Jiu!"

The soldier who was called answered yes and went to find someone.

Qin Hao originally planned to take only cavalry and slashing soldiers with him when he set out, so that he would appear concealed along the way. But within half a day of setting off like this, he found that he was lost. Fortunately, some of the soldiers remembered to go back, otherwise he would have died before he was born.

After thinking about it, he decided to find a local to lead the way, so he asked Zhuge Xuan to look for him.

Wang Jiu was the one who came here. As soon as he heard the news that Qin Hao was going north, he volunteered to sign up.

In view of his identity as a Shanfan, Zhuge Xuan did some research and found that he did know the situation on Taiwan Island relatively well, and no one among the Han people was familiar with the road to the north, so he recommended him to Qin Hao.

There was nothing wrong with him along the way, and he could still find some beautiful scenery to rest and enjoy.

Wang Jiu had been waiting not far away. When he heard the adult calling him, he hurried over, followed by a hunting dog. He was covered in black and looked docile.

Qin Hao originally had a lot to say, but when he saw it was Wang Jiu, he swallowed his words as soon as they reached his lips. He was afraid that what he said was too complicated and he wouldn't understand, so he kept the story short: "Where are we now?" Qin Hao said He said, shaking the "map" in his hand.

This was a sketch that Zhuge Xuan quickly drew before setting off for the second time. It contained a rough route for the northern end of Tai Island. Qin Hao saw that the drawing was good and took it with him.

"Sir." Wang Jiu looked at this map and felt it was magical. He scratched his head and looked at it for a while before he understood a little bit. Pointing to a certain area on the map, he said, "Here, the direction should be correct. We should be able to get here in one day."

Looking at his hesitant tone, Qin Hao didn't hold out much hope and just followed him. Fortunately, he spoke Chinese well and there was no problem in communicating, otherwise he would have had a headache along the way.

There are rivers all over Taiwan, and you can encounter them every few miles of walking. At noon, the troops encountered such a small river again. This time it was not as easy to cross the river as before. It took a lot of effort to cross the river with a few baggage trucks. Less energy.

Although the water in the river was barely above the knees, the mud on the river bed was very thick. Once a heavy vehicle got stuck, it would be difficult to pull it out.

Qin Hao asked people to check along both sides of the river, and the result was that the river was very long, with no end in sight and no way to go around it.

In desperation, they had to let the soldiers unload everything from the cart first, and then gather a few draft horses and hitch them to one cart, and then they pulled the five carts across the river one by one.

After the vehicles crossed the river, the items were loaded onto the vehicles, and the horses were harnessed back to the carts. After the people yelled at the horses and the horses neighed, an hour had passed.

The soldiers had been walking all morning and had just crossed the river, so they were a little tired. However, they were all elite soldiers walking on the battlefield, so they could still overcome this level of difficulty.

But Qin Hao couldn't bear it. Looking at the scorching sun in the sky, which was at its strongest moment, he asked Wang Jiu to find a shady place to rest and have lunch.

Although ordinary people have had the habit of eating three meals a day since the Song Dynasty, this was a prosperous age when there was food and money. Now in the late Ming Dynasty, we happened to encounter a small glacier that was rare in hundreds of years. The food was not planted by bandits. To seize means to have no harvest due to drought and floods. It is good for ordinary people to have one meal a day, but how can they get a second meal.

Qin Hao drank the cold boiled water boiled with clean spring water and chewed the crispy dried deer with relish.

After a few mouthfuls, he could clearly feel his body reacting. Looking at his crotch, Qin Hao smiled lightly, secretly very satisfied with the benefits of the system's transformation, which made him grow a few centimeters for no reason.

This person, especially a man, doesn't he just care about his own affairs? Qin Hao is the same. When he has money, he wants to go to Jiangnan like Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. He has no other ideas, just for Appreciate the scenery of the motherland.

Just when Qin Hao was immersed in the beauty of Jiangnan, a sudden sound shocked him back to reality. When he was about to curse, he found that it was Wang Jiu who wanted to get close to Qin Hao, but was stopped by the guards around him.

I didn't know what he was going to do, so I called him to my side and asked, "Why don't you come here to eat well if you don't stay here?"

"Sir, I have something to report."

Households and Zhuge Xuan and others have different relationships with Qin Hao, so the officials are called "Your Highness", and the households like Wang Jiu are called "Sir" to show their closeness.

"What's the matter?"

"Sir, I was not from Zhulin Village before, but was the chief of a tribe on the mountain. Later, when I saw that the Han people got a lot of food from farming, I got the idea and summoned the tribe to come down the mountain to farm. I also married a Han woman. "

Qin Hao knew everything he said, and even knew that Wang Jiu had a 3-year-old son. Before taking him on the road, he checked all the information, for fear that something would happen to him.

Qin Hao didn't have the slightest grudge about his identity. He had long said that as long as the people under his rule were willing to obey his laws and obey his orders, they would be treated equally regardless of whether they were Chinese or foreign.

Wang Jiu even persuaded many Shanfan people of all ethnic groups to come down to farm, which greatly helped Zhuge Xuan's work.

"I know all this, just keep talking." Qin Hao knew that what he was about to say was not that simple. It should be that he had some special experiences, otherwise he would not have volunteered to be a guide.

"Actually, I didn't originally stay on the mountain over there. My tribe is at the northern end of the island, which is where the team is going tonight. We were originally trained there.

Just a few years ago, a red-haired ghost suddenly visited our tribe. I was not the tribe leader at the time, and the old tribe leader warmly entertained him. Unexpectedly, he brought out a lot of grain and salt.

It was said that as long as we attack other tribes, these things will belong to us, but more than a dozen of our tribes have been living together. Although there are conflicts from time to time, we are in peace and don't want to cause trouble, so the chief of the tribe was very angry. He coaxed away. "

Speaking of this, Wang Jiu sighed deeply, tears welling up in his eyes, as if he was remembering that unbearable past.

"Not long after, that person will lead other tribes to attack you."

"Yeah." Wang Jiu was surprised for a while. He didn't know why the adults knew it, and he didn't hide his sobs: "Just a few days later, people from other tribes fled to us, saying that they were attacked by the nearby Hawa tribe. Well, the Nahawa tribe is a relatively large tribe in our area. Apart from the fact that they don’t communicate with us on weekdays, it’s a bit strange, but they haven’t done anything strange before.

The tribe leader didn't believe it, so he took a few people to check it out that night. No one expected it, and that night the tribe was attacked by the Hawa tribe.

For a while, everyone didn't react, and many people were killed. Later, when I led people to resist, I found that their weapons were very good, not the ones they used for hunting before. There were many iron weapons such as knives and spears, and we couldn't defeat them at all. "

Speaking of this, he lowered his head in shame, unable to wipe away his tears no matter how hard he wiped them away.

From the moment he heard Wang Jiu's story, Qin Hao knew the result. This was a common trick used by European colonists to lure different tribes into killing each other in order to reap the benefits, but it was a pity for the innocent tribesmen. People suffer in vain.

"You mean that area is unsafe now."

"Well, as long as they are not from their tribe, they will kill everyone they see, even the elderly and children."

Qin Hao tilted his head and glanced at him, then asked, "Then why do you want to go back?"

"I have a younger brother who got separated when we escaped. I want to go back and see him again."

"I understand. If your brother is still alive, I will bring him back."

After receiving Qin Hao's approval, Wang Jiu was so happy that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed violently to thank him. He knew the strength of your soldiers. Even if the Hawa tribe was equipped with iron swords, they would not be an opponent. Dealing with them was a piece of cake.

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