More than a month later, the expedition team returned.
Except for one soldier who suffered a sprained foot, everyone else was safe.
Sanger, the leader of the Wild Wolf Tribe who led everyone to find the tree species, said: "Because we only reached the edge of the Devil's Forest and did not go deep at all, we were fine.
If we entered the Devil's Forest, it would not be so good. " Song Yingxing brought back some rubber latex, a large number of seeds and some branches, hoping to see if he could propagate by cuttings.
Now that the things were in hand, Zhang Qian was ready to go back.
Zhou Yanru proposed that some people should stay here to make plans to contact the Yin family in various places, establish an area controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time attack the Spanish.
So the ocean fleet had a dispute for the first time.
Zhang Qianfang did not agree to keep people here, but Zhou Yanru insisted on taking people to stay here.
In the end, Zhou Yanru had no choice but to take out the imperial edict, which read: The emperor decreed: If a breakthrough can be made in relations with the locals in America, Yuanwai Lang Zhou Yanru will do it conveniently.
After seeing the imperial edict, Zhang Qiancong no longer insisted.
He called a meeting of officers, asked officers and soldiers to make it clear, and solicited soldiers who volunteered to stay here.
He thought not many people would stay, but he didn't expect that more than 800 people were willing to stay here.
In the end, Zhou Yanru retained Geng Zhongming, and Geng Zhongming selected 500 soldiers, plus a medical officer and two students.
Song Yingxing actually wanted to stay here, but he was sent by the emperor to find tree seeds and had to go back to resume his life.
Zhang Qianfang ordered the soldiers to collect fruits everywhere, especially fruits with thick skins that were not afraid of damage, as well as a large amount of soybeans and vegetables, especially pumpkins.
This crop tastes great and lasts a long time, making it a great treat for long journeys.
They waited until the corn and other crops they cultivated matured and had enough food before boarding the ship and leaving.
After walking through it once, Akito has a deeper understanding of this ocean and believes that it will only take a short time to return to Luzon.
After Zhang Qianfang left, Zhou Yanru summoned the soldiers to the Dacao Ping of the Ming Army Base.
He said: "You chose to stay here, which illustrates a problem.
You are all ambitious people.
Being ambitious is not a bad thing, and I am.
An ambitious person, Major Geng is also an ambitious person.
Only with ambition can you be motivated and want to pursue higher status and more wealth. " "The emperor once told me that this land is larger than Ming Dynasty and rich in products, but there are fewer people.
If we, Ming Dynasty, can occupy this land, then we don't have to worry about our descendants not having enough land.
Farming, everyone knows the Loop Land Use Bond It can be exchanged for land, and here, let me first say that everyone here can be allocated one hundred acres of land, and it is free and tax-free.
This is not a false edict.
This is what the edict says.
It’s easy.
In other words, whatever I say now, the emperor will agree with it in the future.”
All the soldiers cheered together.
They naturally knew how fertile the land here was.
They got a hundred acres of land for free without doing anything, and it was tax-free.
Who wouldn't want such a good thing?
Zhou Yanru continued: "Everyone will make contributions in the future.
Military merit is the most important thing in the Ming Dynasty.
As long as you work hard, I think it is normal for someone to be knighted.
And I hope that the more people can be knighted, the better.
This shows that we You have made a lot of achievements, don’t worry, the merits will be recorded by the military judge, and I can’t interfere, so don’t worry that I will take away your credit, and the greater your credit, the greater my credit will be, so why bother?”
Everyone laughed together.
Everyone felt that this civil servant was quite good.
He would say what he had to say directly, unlike some people who always said things that others could not understand.
"There is another very important thing.
Some tribal leaders said that there were a lot of women in their tribe and asked if they could marry our soldiers.
I said of course, we are all of the same race, but there are some things to be mentioned in advance.
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Chapter One is that if a child is born, they must be named according to our Han customs; the second is that if I marry you, You must slowly teach them Chinese.
This is very important.
Of course, you can also follow them and learn their language, but try to use Chinese as much as possible.
This is very important.
As for some people who already have wives, it doesn’t matter, man.
Having three wives and four concubines is a common thing, just taking a concubine.
Although the emperor doesn’t like taking concubines, it will not lead to sin. " Now the soldiers were all jubilant.
Some of them had actually hooked up with local women.
Now that Zhou Yanru said he could take concubines, he naturally won the support of everyone.
Zhou Yanru waited for everyone to calm down and said: "Okay, the good things have been said, now it is a matter of discipline.
Our Ming army has strict discipline.
Even in this remote place, everyone must not forget it.
If there is anyone who disobeys orders, he will be punished."
Those who fight in the army should be killed, and those who bully the locals should be killed."
"After General Zhang returns to the mainland, someone will come here again, and then our strength will be even stronger.
Now with our strength of 500 people, we can also destroy the country and massacre the city, not to mention we have the help of the Yin family.
I We have discussed with the five tribal leaders that we are going to establish a We need to go deep into various places to gather people from other tribes, and slowly take this area into our hands.
Maybe one day, each of you will have to take care of a large area.
I hope that even then, we will still be able to control it.
Remember we are Ming people, we come from a land of civilization and etiquette.”
The crowd applauded enthusiastically, and Geng Zhongming came to the stage and said: "Yuanwai Lang has already said all the main things, and I have a few small things to add.
One is the issue of military discipline.
The original regulations must still be followed.
The second is that the locals are Yin Shang.
The remnants, who are Chinese descendants of the same culture and race as us, must not be oppressed, and we must not always abandon women.
Third, one person can only marry one local woman.
After meeting the locals, they were asked to wash away the strange mud and other things on their bodies.
Since they are Chinese women, they are Chinese people.
Some strange customs in the tribe must be changed to what we have, like the witch doctor.
We have medical officers who are much better than their witch doctors, but we must respect the customs of other local people and not make any arbitrary comments or interfere with them.”
"The food has been harvested.
Our main task in the future is to repair the house.
After marrying a concubine, everyone must have a separate room, but food and drinks still have to be shared in the army.
We will not recognize anyone who does not change his clothes after marrying a concubine.
Your concubines, the cafeteria will not give them food then, don’t forget this
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