They were ruthless, wielding knives and wearing leather armor, and went deep into the island in groups to kill the savages everywhere.
Even those who didn't want to go had work to do. They rushed to the Spice Islands and looked at the various spices all over the mountains and plains. First they shouted, and then they went forward with linen bags to pick wildly.
All kinds of spices basically grow on branches. You can pick them off and put them in a cloth bag. This is money.
Knowing that there was no danger nearby, Li Yunze simply agreed and allowed the sailors on the ship to disembark and land on the island to pick.
According to the agreement before departure, in addition to the basic salary, everyone will receive spices equal to their own body weight as a reward.
In order to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for work, Li Yunze announced again before everyone disembarked that as long as they turned in one hundred kilograms of spices, they would get an extra kilogram of spices as a reward.
Based on the current price of spices in Datang, a pound of spices is worth much more than a pound of copper coins.
Under such strong stimulation, everyone naturally strives to be the first.
The only one who was not so excited was Li Yunze himself.
On the one hand, it is because he is not short of money, and on the other hand, it is because he knows that when a large amount of spices are put into the market, the price will collapse.
As for hoarding it and not selling it, that's impossible.
There are so many spices on the Spice Islands. After picking them this year, we will come again next year. If we buy so many every year, whoever dares to stock up will really be hoarding their wealth and life.
After several days of madness, everyone on the island finally took a breath and regained some sense.
After struggling to drag two bags of spices each weighing more than a hundred kilograms onto the boat, Ma Zhou, whose eyes were no longer so red, took a breath and walked towards Li Yunze.
At this time, Li Yunze was lying on a deck chair with a parasol held up beside him.
Although it is winter, the sunlight near the equator is still very poisonous. When those who went to the island came back, they all looked like black coal.
Li Yunze, who was lying on the recliner, was reading a book. Ma Zhou, a sharp-eyed man, glanced at the cover and vaguely saw the word "Golden Vase."
Putting away the book calmly, Li Yunze gestured to the lemon juice on the stool next to him, "Want a glass?"
"I"
Just as Ma Zhou was about to say that I happen to be thirsty, he saw Li Yunze reaching out and taking away the lemon juice, "Not thirsty? If not, forget it."
Taking back his outstretched hand, Ma Zhou scratched his head and said, "Master, why do you want to wipe out all the natives on the island?"
"What?" Li Yunze, who seemed to be smiling but not smiling, raised his eyebrows, "Are you soft-hearted?"
"no."
Ma Zhou shook his head repeatedly, "It's just that the weather is too hot. The camps on the island are full of heads. The smell is really unbearable."
"You can go back to the ship if you can't stand it." Li Yunze drank the sour lemon juice. "Don't make these useless excuses. I know what you mean."
"What do you think of these islands?"
Ma Zhou was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the island not far away, "Are you okay?"
"It is said that food is the most important thing for the people. After the large-scale popularization of spices in the future, the demand will be very huge." Li Yunze said earnestly, "These islands are natural spice warehouses, and these places will also be included in the jurisdiction of China."
Ma Zhou, who listened carefully, was still confused, "We can use the teachings of saints to civilize these natives."
"These savages are all illiterate. They don't know who the saint is, and they can't understand what they say." Li Yunze narrowed his eyes. "And they are lazy and cruel by nature. They always greet people from the Middle-earth who come south with butcher's knives.
His despicable and cruel
With a bad nature, it looks like it doesn’t look like a human being.”
"Savages like this will only leave endless harm to future generations." At this point, Li Yunze stretched out his hand and knocked on the stool beside him. "Although we are working harder now, we can leave a clean place for future generations."
The land will not be given to these barbarians to slaughter
The sword's opportunity is to cut the weeds and remove the roots."
Ma Zhou was not a pedantic person, but he just didn't understand why Zhuangzhu Li, who seemed kind in Guanzhong, turned out to be so ruthless when he got here.
There are so many islands here, and almost every island has dozens, hundreds or even thousands of savages.
This is too cruel.
Ma Zhou couldn't figure it out because he had never seen how cruelly these savages treated the Chinese.
Li Yunze had seen it before, so he simply didn't give them the chance to kill the people who were oppressing Middle-earth.
He was too lazy to explain to Ma Zhou, and simply said, "It's hot, remember to let them dig a hole and bury it. When we come back next year, there will probably be more spices here."
Ma Zhou sighed lightly, knowing that it was useless to say anything more, so he could only say goodbye and leave.
"Another one who is stupid because of reading." Li Yunze, with his eyes closed, drank lemon juice and hummed, "Treat outsiders as cold as the cold wind, and treat your own people as warm as the spring breeze. You don't understand this, what the hell are you reading?
Book."
Li Yunze really wanted to intervene in related education, but whenever he had this idea, there would always be traces of mythical beasts looming in the horizon.
In order to avoid his journey through time being forcibly terminated, he could only choose to give up.
There is no way, the saint is too powerful.
There is no danger on the sea in this era, especially during non-stormy periods like this.
Of course there were pirates, and they even followed us all the way.
But their strength is too weak, and they are definitely no match for a fleet with ten large ships and thousands of young men.
As for the local aboriginal savages, who used sticks and stones as weapons, how could they be the opponents of the Tang people.
The colonists of Europe. Just kidding, no trace at all.
In order to increase efficiency, not the efficiency of picking spices, but the efficiency of cleaning up the indigenous people on the islands, Li Yunze dispersed the fleet and went to different islands to do the cleaning work.
The people who come here are all brave men who dare to take risks. Whether it is spices or savages, everything they see is money, and everyone puts great enthusiasm into their work.
However, as the fleet dispersed, the pirates who had followed them from a distance as early as the Champa Kingdom sensed the opportunity.
Organizations like pirates have existed for a long time.
With the rise of the Maritime Silk Road, there are more and more pirates on the ocean.
Not only did they attack merchant ships, they also often landed and plundered villages and towns.
Due to the lack of early warning capabilities, by the time the officers and soldiers arrived after receiving the news, the pirates had already looted and fled.
Pirates are difficult to eradicate, and their numbers are increasing, making them a very serious scourge.
This time Li Yunze took the fleet south, and it was so large that it naturally attracted the attention of a large number of pirates.
The pirates were shocked and extremely coveted by the huge ships in the fleet that were like moving castles.
Many pirates think that if they can have such a giant ship in their hands, wouldn't they be able to roam the oceans without restraint?
It's just that Li Yunze's fleet has ten ships, and most of them are strong men, and the ordinary pirates know enough to dare not provoke him.
When Li Yunze was repairing in Lingnan and in the Champa Kingdom, pirates of all sizes in the Southeast Asia had already gathered together and decided to be the big one and steal these treasure ships.
The following fleet traveled thousands of miles southward and deep into the ocean. Ordinary small groups of pirate ships simply could not keep up. Only a few large groups of pirates had large ships that could barely hang on at a distance.
The only pirates who could chase them all the way here were the largest groups of island owners, with five to six hundred people on board the three ships.
They must now seize the big ship, because the pirates' supplies are not enough to support their return to the shore, and they don't know how to change the way back.
If you don't want to stay on the island here and become a savage, you must take action to seize the ship.
Li Yunze separated the fleet and gave them a chance to take action.
That night, the moon was dark and the wind was high. Three sea ships took advantage of the cover of night to quietly approach the ship where Li Yunze was.
The hull of the big ship is very high, and it looks as tall as a city wall.
The pirates skillfully threw the hook and climbed up with nimble hands and feet.
There was silence on the spacious deck, not even a night watchman.
The pirates with strong hands and feet held the sharp blades in their mouths and quietly walked toward the cabin with gestures, preparing to kill the sleeping crew members and seize the ship.
The joyful pirates slowly opened the hatch, but the smiles on their faces stopped abruptly.
Inside the cabin door, rows of soldiers were arrayed in armor and holding shields, and the swords in their hands flashed an icy sheen.
How could the pirates' primitive means escape Li Yunze's surveillance?
In addition to speeding up work efficiency, the reason for dividing the fleet is to give them a chance to do something.
Now, it is time to close the net.
A large group of soldiers poured out of the cabin, knocking the pirates in front of them to the ground like spring melting snow.
The pirates were not bad at fighting, nor did they lack the courage to fight to the death. But the problem was that they encountered regular troops, and they were all wearing armor.
The five hundred soldiers Li Yunze borrowed from Feng An completely controlled the situation at this moment.
Li Yunze, who watched Fang Yiai and others leading the generals from each government to push barrels filled with oil onto several pirate ships, then threw torches to light them, completely cutting off the pirates' retreat, and ordered Zhang Fan to speed up, was satisfied.
He walked up to Feng Zhidai and said, "The Lingnan soldiers fought well.
, each person was rewarded with a hundred catties of spices. All the armor and weapons lent to them were given away."
After hearing this, Feng Zhidai's face was filled with joy.
One hundred kilograms of spices per person is nothing. Over the past few days, the amount of spices collected on various islands has even reached the point of numbing everyone.
But those five hundred sets of armor and weapons were absolutely good things. He had never seen such good armor.
If used on a mountainous battlefield, it would be a spearhead of a rampaging army.
The pirates' ship was burned, and the pirates who had lost their way out were desperate and desperate.
But the sharp blades in their hands could not break through the defense at all. Faced with the iron wall surrounded by officers and soldiers, they quickly lost their courage after desperate resistance. The remaining ones all knelt on the bloody deck and begged for mercy.
"Let them clean the deck first."
Li Yunze shouted, "If we continue to drag out the cross-examinations one by one, those whose hands are stained with Tang people's blood will be disposed of and thrown into the sea to feed the fish. The rest, find an uninhabited island and throw them away."
"By the way." Li Yunze added, "Ask where the home bases of the island owners are."
After hearing this, Ma Zhou was surprised and asked, "Is it possible that we are still going to find the pirates' lair?"
"I don't care about them plundering foreign merchant ships, but after they landed, they massacred villages and committed countless crimes. You are still a court official, and you have never thought about avenging those wronged souls?"
Li Yunze's sense of Ma Zhou is getting lower and lower. "To cut the grass, we need to get rid of the roots!"
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