Seeing that everyone's eyes were staring at him, his eyes full of enthusiasm and even greed, Li Mingxun smiled slightly, picked up the wine pot, poured himself a glass slowly, gently shook the wine in the glass, and smiled: "You ask me what I'm going to do next, is it necessary to say, naturally, make money, make big money, and make more money. Do you all here think that there is too much money?"

"Hahaha." The group of people raised their heads and laughed.

Song Laoqi said: "Then how can our trading company make money?"

Li Mingxun smiled and said, "If you say that making money, robbery is a non-substantiable deal, but you can only grab it once. I have designed three profitable deals for our Tenglong Trading Company, including salt cooking, wine making and sea trade. However, before these three deals are done, one thing must be done first."

"Oh, what else do you want to do?" Everyone's interest was also ticked.

Li Mingxun knocked on the table and said, "Even if we are like today, we must determine order! No matter what we want to do, we have to have two things, one is order and the other is human. And these must fall on the surrounding indigenous villages and communities."

Song Laoqi nodded slightly. Although Jialuo Village and the surrounding natives did not reach the point of becoming powerful, there were certain contradictions, such as hunting grounds, fishing grounds, and indigenous people's grass for the villagers. Of course, these contradictions have not reached the point of war, but there are also mutual vigilance.

"Shopkeeper, I don't know what you want to do. If you attack those villages, let alone the Dutch people are unwilling, we don't have that many people under us to fight." A leader asked.

Li Mingxun smiled: "Where we come up, we will be shouting and killing people. Let's invite the elders of the village community to have a meal first, sit down and discuss some problems that can be solved at the dinner table. Why use a knife?"

Lin Cheng laughed: "This is reasonable. Let's do it. There are six villages around us. Song Laoqi and the others go to one. Tomorrow, they will treat it as a visit to the first day of the New Year among neighbors. I'm asking the chef to prepare a table of good dishes."

Li Mingxun said: "Good wine and good food are indispensable, but we can't be here. They are natives, but they are not stupid. Even if you don't know what Hongmen Banquet is, you won't go to the village for dinner. It's better to put it in the shed in the big market. In addition, you can't let the managers here inform you that we are outsiders and have some conflicts with them. Maybe we will go but never return."

"Who will let me go?" asked a tall man in charge.

Li Mingxun said: "Let Ah Hai and the others go! First, these children understand the indigenous language, and second, they are children. They are also safe when they meet the indigenous people who have emerged. Indigenous people advocate martial arts and will never make things difficult for a child."

"Okay, let's go!" Ah Hai was the first to stand up.

Before dawn the next day, Ahai and twelve teenagers set out in groups and embarked on the way to various indigenous villages and communities. Many of these teenagers participated in the business of the previous few days. In addition to being able to speak indigenous languages, they also had friendship with some indigenous people. So when they left, they also brought short knives and axes as gifts, while Ahai also brought several snacks and two beautiful jewelry. It is said that he had hooked up with the daughter of a village elder.

Li Mingxun brought people to prepare the table under the shed in the market. When it was noon, canoes came from the sea and Bazhang Creek and stopped at the dock of the market. Under the guidance of the teenagers, many natives walked onto the land. Unlike those natives who came to trade, these natives were cleaner, wearing delicate fur clothes, and decorated with bright feathers and polished bones. In addition to the warriors holding flint knives and axes, roasted hard wooden spears, there were also a few children around them.

These children are obviously descendants of the elders and follow them to see the world. Many of Li Mingxun have seen them, who often come to the market to play, especially a girl with a red-headed rope, which was the catapult rope she taught Ah Hai to use the usual use of the indigenous people.

"Are you the leader of the Fulao? Why are we invited here for?" On the dock, a short and strong leader asked without hesitation. Before landing, he looked around. There was really no place to hide people, so he walked up.

Li Mingxun smiled, looked at the other leaders, and asked: "Do you want to talk here or go to the market to talk, where there are warm wine, roasted suckling pigs and lamb chops, and stewed meat!"

"There is wine!" The short and strong leader suddenly became excited, completely different from his arrogance just now.

He hurriedly ran into the smoking shed, looked at the table full of wine and food, swallowed hard, and the other leaders also had their eyes shining. One of them was already lying on the wine jar and smelling the smell inside, looking intoxicated.

"Ahai, give the leaders a full list!" Li Mingxun said.

Ah Hai went forward and poured wine into each porcelain bowl. Li Mingxun picked up a bowl of water and said, "Everyone, after drinking this bowl of wine, we are friends. Once we become friends, we can sit down and enjoy the food together."

Before Ah Hai finished translating, a few people drank it all in one go, and they all sat on the chair like Li Mingxun.

Several leaders praised Lee Myung-hoon's wine, and after sitting down, they feasted. The roasted venison, lamb chops and pork were served and dipped in pepper, sauce and chili. The few people ate very happily, which made the guards around them drool. Lee Myung-hoon winked, and the children around Ah Hai took these guards to the side to have a meal.

When eating meat and drinking, everyone reported their identities. Most of them were the leaders of the village or the sons of the leaders. The six villages all surrendered to the Dutch and were qualified to attend the meetings held by the Dutch and were also elders recognized by the Dutch. The six villages belonged to the Hongya tribe, among which the short and strong leader was the most powerful, so he was faintly the leader. This leader was called Bla.

"Shopkeeper Li, what do you mean?" Blai grabbed the greasy pig's trotter with his left hand and the wine glass with his right hand. He was already enjoying food and drink, but when he saw Li Mingxun stuffing things on several children, he stopped and asked vigilantly.

He wiped his hands on his body, took out a red paper bag from his daughter's arms, poured out a note with a few lines of words on it. Blai could speak Minnan and knew that this was the words of Fulao, but he didn't understand.

"What is this?" Blay asked when he saw that it was not a dangerous thing, his face softened.

Lee Mingxun smiled: "Does Chief Bly know what day it is?"

"Today is New Year!" Blay said immediately, and he said, "That is your festival. Every time you shout, eat and drink, and ignite the kind of thunder fire that will emit dangerous things. Sooner or later, the gods will punish you."

Li Mingxun disagreed with this and said, "You are right. Today is the New Year. As my friend, you are here to visit the first day of the New Year. According to our rules, you should give the younger generations red envelopes. On our side, it is usually silver and money, but I know that you Hongya tribe don't like that thing, so I gave it to this."

At this time, Blay understood that the red envelope he took out from his daughter's arms was a gift. In fact, Li Mingxun was right. The natives were not interested in gold and silver that could not be eaten or drunk. If they were not able to trade goods and pay tribute to Hongmaoyi, they would not go to hunt for gold. However, these two uses made the natives even more hate precious metals. Many leaders of indigenous villages, especially the king of Daduban, believed that it was because of the existence of Jinsha that Hongmaoyi was attracted and prohibited the indigenous people from going to hunt for gold.

Ah Hai went up and brought the red envelope note and explained: "It says two packs of salty salt, one piece of cotton cloth, and three jars of fine wine."

"What is this, this red circle!" Blay became interested when he heard that it was a good thing, and pointed to the seal below and asked.

Ahai smiled and said, "This is a seal, which represents the permission of our shopkeeper. With the seal, you can ask someone to go to the warehouse in the village to collect the things on it. If there is no seal, you will not give it. Oh, the warehouse is the largest and tallest building in the village!"

Blay nodded slightly, and he ran to the shed on the side, woke up the drunken guard captain and handed him the note. The guy staggered away, and soon he carried salt and wine.

The other leaders followed suit and quickly got the things. Blaine's face became solemn. He put down the wine pot and the meat pieces and said, "Shopkeeper Li, you treat us to dinner and give us gifts. There is always something to do. Although you are not as cruel as the Dutch, you never suffer any losses. Just say anything. According to the customs of our Hongya people, we will not admit what we promised when we are drunk!"

Li Mingxun looked at Blai deeply. This guy looked rough, but in fact he was a wise man. It was rare for him to control his desire for his mouth at this time with such a good wine. He smiled and said, "What the leader Blai said is, then Li was right out of the way."

Li Mingxun clapped his palms, Ah Hai ran to the side of the shed, lifted two straw mats, revealing a stone tablet that was eight feet high and three feet high. Blaine immediately became nervous, held the dagger at her waist, and asked coldly: "Is this your totem pole of your fortune man? Do you want us Hong Yaren to surrender to your totem?"

As soon as these words were said, several leaders stood up nervously, and the rest of the guards who were eating surrounded him. Li Mingxun shook his head and said, "Of course not. Today I just want to reach some fair and reasonable agreements with you. Someone will break the agreement in the future. These agreements will be engraved on this stone tablet and placed on the market, and will be supervised by everyone!"

After hearing this, Blai raised his hand and asked everyone to retreat, asking: "What agreement? You must know that although we, Hong Yaren, surrendered to Hongmaoyi, are not everyone who can deceive us!"

Li Mingxun smiled and said, "It's up to everyone to deceive whether to deceive or not, is it the final word for everyone, right?"

As he said that, Li Mingxun hung a piece of deer skin on the stone tablet, with a total of eighteen clauses listed. Li Mingxun first said: "First, the six villages and communities in Hongya reached an offensive and defensive alliance with our Tenglong Trading Company to deal with our common enemy. Any village and community will be attacked, and the others will have to send warriors to reinforce, and the determination of the enemy requires unanimous agreement from the seven leaders."

Out of Li Mingxun's expectations, Blay pulled his daughter over. The girl stared at Deer Skin for a while and explained carefully to the people around her. Only then did Li Mingxun realize that the girl named Mia still knew Chinese characters.

Several leaders chose to agree to the first clause listed by Li Mingxun after discussing it. After all, this clause is beneficial to them, because like Jialuo Village, they are threatened by Dadufan in the north, the high mountain barbarians in the mountains in the east, and the Huweilong Society together. As for the Dutch, they have been conquered by the Dutch. Although they are full of hatred, they dare not fight against the enemy. Anyway, only seven people believe that the Dutch is the enemy to start the war. Blay is not worried that he will be used as a gun envoy by Li Mingxun.

The principle of fighting the enemy was determined, and the following clauses regulated the conflicts between villages and communities. The most important one was to allocate fields, hunting grounds and fishing grounds to avoid mutual invasion and causing disputes. After Li Mingxun gave up a large area of ​​hunting grounds and coastal fishing grounds, all this was agreed again. However, Li Mingxun established the right to navigate all villages and communities at sea and Bazhang Creek, and regarded five hundred steps away from the coastline as a public fishing ground. Blay and others had no objection, because their canoes could not run far.

In terms of land division, Li Mingxun placed the Bazhang Creek estuary and the beach area on the north coast into the territory of Tenglong Trading Company. Blai and others did not understand why Li Mingxun insisted on these barren lands, but after confirming the free access, he also chose to agree.

However, in the negotiation of the Eighteen Rules, the most prominent part of the contradiction lies in the transaction rules. Even Li Mingxun did not expect that these natives would have so many business acumen. In fact, their business acumen was forced out. For a long time, they were in a disadvantageous position in trade with Chinese and red-haired Yi. The precious sand and deer skin were often deceived by people with a few shiny glass beads and a foot of cotton. Not only did they suffer a loss in price, but the transaction was completely irregular. Sometimes no sea boats came for a year or two.

After a verbal battle, the negotiations finally reached an agreement. In fact, Li Mingxun did not think about taking much advantage in this regard. He also wanted to formulate relatively fair trade rules. After pricing the most frequently used goods such as sand, deer skin, and deer jelly, Li Mingxun insisted on pricing people and treating work as a commodity. He also agreed with the leaders that except for religious personnel such as sacrifices, each village community shall not restrict the people of the village community from trading and work.
Chapter completed!