Li Mingxun could not refuse the olive branch sent by Baron at all. The Huwei Long Club has proved its strength in force. If a war with them starts at this time, the pace of development will slow down. After all, the trading club does not have enough strength at present. If it can defeat the enemy, the final result will be an alliance.

"Of course, we have formed an alliance with the six surrounding villages and communities, and your Huweilong Club can also join in. Of course, in order to avoid the destruction of the Red-Farewell Yi, we should make a secret alliance and not let other villages and communities know that the template for alliance will be based on the blood contract of the Seventh Society. How about it!" Li Mingxun couldn't suppress his excitement and asked.

Baron sat cross-legged on the ground, took out a piece of animal skin with the content of the Qihe Blood Deed. The strokes should be copied by people who do not understand the words. This also proves the scout ability of Huweilong Society. He can silently run to the stone tablet and copy these treaties, and can also enter the Jialuo Village and cut off the heads of several important figures.

Li Mingxun sat opposite him and explained one by one that there was little change except for setting up a trading venue in the upper reaches of Bazhang River. However, Baron asked to add a few new items, which were about the types of trading goods. In the market, the iron tools traded mainly include axes, sickles, scissors and other production and daily necessities, while Baron asked to add swords and spearheads and iron armor to the trade with Huweilongshe.

On the basis that Baron has promised not to harass trading companies and to form village clubs with trading companies, Li Mingxun feels that there is no problem. In order to limit the number, Li Mingxun requires that weapons trade can only be settled in Sands, and Baron can only agree.

"Shopkeeper Li, don't worry, I won't use these weapons to fight against the Dutch. The reason I bought these weapons was to deal with the high mountain barbarians and the arrogant big belly fan!" Baron said seriously.

"If this is the case, we can also cooperate in the future." Li Mingxun said with a smile. The bloodthirsty and cruel Gaoshan barbarians are the enemies of all coastal villages, while the big belly fan in the north is a sharp sword hanging above the head of the trading company. It has dozens of village fans. Once the big belly fan with more than 20,000 males go south, it is not something that the trading company can stop.

Baron suddenly pointed to the wine pot hanging beside Gao Feng and said, "Shouldn't we have a drink at this time? Don't you Han people celebrate with wine and meat?"

Gao Feng took off the wine pot and threw it to Baron. Baron drank most of the time in one sip and said satisfied: "Shopkeeper Li, you are the second Han man I have ever seen."

"I'm very curious, who is the first one?" Li Mingxun asked.

"That was when I was young. My father took me to a Han party. Is it about twenty miles north of here? People called that man, the sea master, but he is much stronger than you. He has thousands of warriors, tens of thousands of blessed men following me, and there are also big ships on the sea that cover the sky and the sun!" Baron said with some fascination.

Li Mingxun fell into deep thought and suddenly thought of Yan Siqi, who was called the King of Kaitai. After the failure to conspire to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, this man came to Taiwan to explore fifteen years ago and recruited thousands of people from Fujian to cultivate. He was also the sea lord who was rampant at the time. Even Zheng Zhilong was a small leader under him.

"Then... is the sea lord still there?" Li Mingxun asked. It would be great if there were tens of thousands of Han people twenty miles north.

Baron shook his head: "The Lord of the Sea died fourteen years ago, and the warriors left. The Fugu could not bear the harassment of the North Big Bow, so he left some. Five or six years ago, the Master came to a Master and took all the remaining thousands of Fugu to the Master."

Li Mingxun felt very sorry when he heard that the place had become an unmanned land again, but suddenly realized that tens of thousands of Han people had cultivated there for more than ten years, and they must have had ready-made fertile land, which saved him from draining water and reclamation.

The two sides reached an agreement, and they were naturally happy. After drinking the wine, Baron took out the deer-skin pocket filled with golden sand again, handed it to Li Mingxun, and said, "I want to exchange these golden sands for you alone."

"It's him, this cowardly but cunning old thing." Baron pointed to the hunter guard beside Li Mingxun.

The guard obviously did not want to follow him and threw a begging look at Li Mingxun. Li Mingxun felt that Baron didn't look like a man who would take revenge because of a few quarrels. When asked the reason, Baron said: "I won't hurt him, I want him to teach me the language of your blessed guys!"

Seeing that Li Mingxun was a little unwilling, he said: "Two months, only two months."

"Can you learn our language in two months?" Li Mingxun asked in surprise.

Baron said: "Hmph, the real king in the jungle is not a strong black bear, but a smart wolf! In order to avenge the high mountain barbarians, I only learned their language in one month. The language of your lucky guy is more complicated, and two months is enough."

Li Mingxun naturally would not object. As one of its allies, Huweilong Society has the most powerful force, and it is necessary to deal with it in the future. Different languages ​​are obstacles to communication. If Baron does not learn his own language, he will learn theirs!

On the way back to Jialuo Village, Li Mingxun felt something was even more wrong. He thought about this matter carefully, especially Baron's every move, every word and every action, as well as the strong Huweilong warriors, the tense scenes and the final happy ending. Li Mingxun suddenly had an idea that he might have been used by Baron. Since the beginning, Huweilong Club had no intention of going to war with him. The reason why he created such a tense scene and captured himself alone might be Baron's negotiation skills.

The deeper he thought about it, the more he felt that he had been fooled. Fortunately, he has always been a cheerful person and was quite satisfied with the ending without taking advantage. Not only did he not move one soldier and one soldier solve a huge threat, but he also learned that Yan Siqi was in the location where Taiwan Bengang was located, which was also a great harvest.

After returning to Jialuo Village, the senior executives of the trading company were extremely excited to see Li Mingxun's safety, especially the alliance between Huweilong Society. Because it was a secret alliance, it was limited to the senior executives' knowledge. However, Li Mingxun arranged the secret transaction once every half month with Baron to Ah Hai.

Ah Hai is a trustworthy person, and he is also a child, so no one cares about the whereabouts of a group of children.

Half a month later, Li Mingxun took Ah Hai to the agreed location and made the first transaction. He traded the newly cooked salt and some swords and spears to deer skin and golden sand. Only then did Li Mingxun feel at ease led the fleet to the south to the senior officials.

The sea surface of the Taiwan Strait in early February was very calm. The two bird boats heading south raised all their sails, and they walked in a zigzag south. The speed was very slow, but it still made people hope, because the two days before going to sea, there was no wind at all. The cabins of the two bird boats were full of fish, but most of them were pickled sea fish and shellfish. The truly valuable cargo was only a small amount of deer skin, deer skin and camphor. Among the fish caught, only aconite roe was considered a high-value product. Although the two ships of cargo combined with dozens of tons, their value was not high. In fact, the warehouses of the trading houses in the Jialuo Village were full of deer skin, but those were wealth that could not be shown to others.

When Li Mingxun went south to Dayuan Port, the most important thing was the Dutch dock, followed by trade. What Li Mingxun wanted to buy was not only the best-selling iron farm tools, pepper, spices, sugar sugar and other seasonings in the big market, but also the most important thing was sugarcane bagasse.

Although this year, that is, after 1640, the output of the most important commodity, deer skin, was greatly reduced due to excessive hunting in Taiwan. The Dutch East India Company began to expand other goods, and a few years later, large-scale migration of the Han people to Taiwan to plant sugarcane, but in this era, the Han people near Dayuan Port had already planted sugarcane on a large scale, using the produced black sugar and white sugar instead of gold and silver, and paid many taxes to the East India Company.

Li Mingxun aims at the useless sugar residue left after the sugarcane of Dayuangang is produced. He only needs to put these things into a wooden barrel and mix them into yeast. After twenty-four hours, the alcohol in it can reach 50 or 6 degrees. At this time, the sugarcane bagasse of Dayuan can be pulled to Jialuo Village, and then repeatedly distilled in the winery that has been built to obtain raw wine with an alcohol content of more than 90%.

The distillation technology used by Li Mingxun is Tianguo, which is a technology that can be distilled by using two iron pots, so we also need to purchase some iron pots this time.

In the distance, you can already see the fort on the sandbank outside the Dayuan Port. Song Laoqi proved his identity to the Dutch patrol boat. The two bird boats guided the two bird boats into the inner harbor. He walked on the deck and saw Li Mingxun looking at the fort in the distance and asked: "Big shopkeeper, the Dutch is ready. Should we let the boat go in first and say hello to Ma Wei?"

Li Mingxun glanced at him and asked, "Manager Song, do you think Ma Wei will accept the Tenglong Trading Company and accept the situation we formed in the north?"

Song Laoqi was slightly stunned, and then shook his head. Ma Wei was not a broad-minded person, especially if he was not in dealing with Li Mingxun, he would neither accept the reality of Li Mingxun accepting Lin Cheng's power nor rely on the Tenglong Trading Company. Li Mingxun asked again: "Then do you feel that this time I enter Hong Kong, should I win him over or showdown with him?"

Song Laoqi did not rush to answer this sensitive question. He knelt the pipe on the railing and reinstalled another pot of tobacco. Many thoughts flashed through his heart. In terms of personal feelings, although he was a bit stumbling with Ma Wei, he still supported this old brother. But in terms of interests, it was not that simple. Song Laoqi is already over forty years old. He is not a young age at sea. He can walk the sea for at most ten years. If he follows Ma Wei, his best destination is to be a big boss in a port where Chinese people live in Nanyang, but it is different with Li Mingxun. In the past two months, Li Mingxun has proved his ability and showed his ambitions. Now he is in charge of the trading company, with a salary of 3,000 taels per year, and he will also pay dividends at the end of the year. He can get tens of thousands of taels of silver in three or five years and become a powerful man.

Suddenly, Song Laoqi heard the authentic Guangdong accent of the sailor on the boat, and suddenly realized that one thing was something that was not something he could say. This time, the two ships went south, and the people on the boat were hired by the generals. During this period, Li Mingxun had already figured out the relationship network of Lin Cheng's lineage, and no one was brought to him. This was not the way to reconcile with Ma Wei, nor did he seem to want to win him over.

After thinking for a while, Song Laoqi grinned and said, "Big shopkeeper, to be honest, you can't win over his power, and it's not advisable to show off with him at this time."

"This is reasonable!" Li Mingxun said seriously. If he could choose, he would definitely delay his current relationship with Ma Wei. In another half a year, even in three months, the situation would be very different.

After smoking a bag of cigarettes, Song Laoqi put away his eyes and said, "Big shopkeeper, if you want to maintain the current situation, I have an idea."

Seeing Li Mingxun's permission, he lowered his voice and said, "Ma Wei is a man with a high spirit and a proud man. Especially for you, it's better to send someone to find Ma Wei. He said that now you are acting as the shopkeeper and asked him to come to the boat to pay homage. This guy must not come. Since he doesn't come, it's like he has no chance to tear his face, right?"

After thinking about it, Li Mingxun felt more and more that this was a good idea, so he put down a small boat and asked someone to do it.

As Song Laoqi said, Ma Wei could not accept Li Mingxun's arrogant attitude, so he called out the sent people and refused to meet with Li Mingxun on the grounds of physical discomfort, allowing him to rely on his own actions.

Li Mingxun did not take his heart and successfully entered the inner port of Dayuan Port, but found that it was much more prosperous than before, and there were a lot more ships coming and going. After inquiring, he found out that the war between the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong came to an end. The two sides had re-business negotiations, redistributed their interests, and reconciled.

The maritime merchants are not concerned about this result at all, obviously this is the norm.

One day, Li Mingxun arranged for his subordinates to unload goods, trade and pay taxes to the business specialist of Chi's East India Company, and was very busy. At night, he became a guest of honor for He Bin, a Dutch official.

Li Mingxun knew very well that the man in front of him was a member of Shibazhi. His ex-pirate leader naturally would not be polite. He brought enough gifts, Jinsha, Yinyang and some valuable gifts he bought. When bribing He Bin, Li Mingxun spared no expense at all, and He Bin was also extremely surprised by Li Mingxun's gift. He asked the women and servants in the family to retreat, and did not put away the gifts. Obviously, he wanted to figure out Li Mingxun's purpose first.

"Mingxun is a person valued by Brother Lin, so I have made it straight to the point. Although I can speak from the Dutch, it is not possible to do anything. Let's talk about it first, what's important!" He Bin closed the suitcase full of gold mountains and asked with a smile.

Li Mingxun smiled slightly and said, "Since Lord He said this, I won't hide it anymore. I want to contract the taxes for Jialuo Village and the six surrounding Hongya Villages. I heard that Lord He has a friendship with the Governor and the Extreme Senior Commissioner, so..."
Chapter completed!