Luzon has been in a rare weather for many days. This is quite rare in Luzon, which has already entered the rainy season.

Taking advantage of the good weather, Zhang Chao borrowed his people from Li Shimin to help him build a simple wooden city of Luzon, and at the same time sent his own troops to conquer the indigenous people along the Luzon River.

First, give gifts and then fighters. When you find a tribe, you will first send a gift, and then the translator will tell Zhang Chao what he meant. From now on, this will be the territory of the Luzon Kingdom of the Tang Empire, and all Luzon tribes should swear allegiance to King Zhang Chao.

"The Tang Empire? The Luzon Kingdom?"

"King of Luzon?"

In a village, several short black elders muttered to each other. If they hadn't just collected a few beautiful pieces of silk and a beautiful set of porcelain, they wouldn't have wanted to talk to these people.

The company commander of the Zhang family who led the team kept smiling. In fact, if he thought, he could conquer this small village with only a few hundred people alone, and even without losing a native. However, the king had an explanation that he must first be courteous and then soldiers.

Only when these indigenous people refused to surrender would they use troops.

A group of Luzon natives heard the name Luzon for the first time. After the translation took a long time, they realized that the Tang Empire was a huge tribe on the other side of the sea.

And this Luzon king was originally a veteran of that tribe. Now he brought people here to live here to build his own tribe.

"It turns out that they are the hometown tribes of those maritime merchants." A dry elder said.

"But this has always been the territory of our tribe. We have lived here for generations, since ancient times."

The company commander said impatiently, "If you choose to surrender, then I will take the elders to see our king. The king will meet you, and you will swear allegiance to the king, and then send a group of protons to stay. From now on, you will be the people of my Tang Empire, the Luzon Kingdom. You will enjoy the power of the Tang people in the future and bear the obligations of the people of the Empire."

"The king will grant you land, and you must pay taxes to the king and be obliged to serve in the military and labor service. Labor can be paid for the service, but military service is not exempt."

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An elder jumped up immediately after hearing what the translation said.

"This place has been from our tribe since ancient times. Why do you want to give it to us? Why do we plant our own land and pay taxes to you? You are robbers!"

The company commander's smile decreased a little.

"Can your words represent your tribe? Can I consider it the final answer?"

The elder was pulled aside by several older elders.

"These people are not easy to mess with."

"They are so tall."

"Look at their knife, it's so bright."

"That's an iron knife."

"No, that should be a steel knife. There were also marine escorts here before. One knife could cut a wooden stick with a thickness of a wrist, which was very sharp. It took a lot of gold to replace it, a very good thing."

An elder immediately said greedily, "Each of them has a sword. You said we killed them all, aren't these swords ours?"

"No, they have so many swords that we can't beat them."

The elders sighed immediately with disappointment.

"What should we do?"

The oldest elder said, "They are many people, and they are all so tall, and there are so many swords. From what they say, they even have more people on the beach. We can't beat them. I think we should meet their leader first and make a decision later."

"If they really had so many people?"

"Then we can swear allegiance to them and pay tribute to them."

Everyone sighed again.

"We are willing to send a few people to meet your great leader, but you have to give us a few knives."

The company commander had gained some knowledge of the greed of these natives. He said with a dark face, "Your chief and elder must go with me. If you don't have a knife, you can give you two more silk."

An agreement was reached.

Holding a few pieces of silk, several elders reached out to caress, as if they were stroking a beautiful woman.

An elder told the villagers, and after a while, several villagers came over with a basket.

"This is our return gift. Your silk is very good, we use this return gift."

When the basket was carried over, the company commander thought it would be a basket of coconuts or bananas. After all, this place is not the most common one, maybe it would be a basket of dried fish.

As a result, when he opened the basket, he almost got blind.

The team members next to them couldn't help but exclaim.

This is not a coconut, banana or dried fish, this is actually a basket of gold.

No wonder the natives just now felt so hard to carry. They thought they were weak, but they actually carried a basket of gold over.

It looks like a natural gold nugget, of different sizes and may not be particularly purity. But this is a natural gold nugget. In such a basket, it must be 100 kilograms.

More than a hundred kilograms, two natives would not be able to lift them.

It probably has to be two or three hundred kilograms, after all, gold is heavy.

Together, I gave less than ten pieces of silk, but the natives actually returned a few hundred kilograms of gold?

The company commander, who was big and thick, and like a black bear, was not very good at arithmetic. He asked the sergeant commander around him, "How much can these gold be worth?"

The man with a fourth-level sergeant hanged out his hands and lifted the basket.

"At least 200 kilograms or 200 kilograms of gold, even if one hundred kilograms of pure gold can be refined, it is not great. One kilogram of 16 taels, one kilogram of gold contains eight coins, and it is worth 100,000 kilograms of copper coins. Here, it is worth at least 100,000 kilograms of copper coins."

"Grass!"

The company commander couldn't help but say something.

More than 100,000 yuan, as a company commander, his annual salary subsidy, etc., are only about 300 yuan. This is more than 100,000 yuan, and he has to work for hundreds of years.

If the more than a hundred brothers in their row were divided, each of them could get more than a thousand stale money.

The company commander's face suddenly changed into a smile, and he smiled very kindly.

However, those natives always felt that their smiles were very ferocious and scary.

"Several elders, I don't know if your village still has these yellow stones. We are willing to exchange silk. No, I will exchange it with a knife. I can't exchange it for you, but I still have a short sword and a dagger. What do you think?"

Seeing that the company commander was so shameless, the sergeant went up and asked helplessly.

"Company Commander, this is not in line with the rules. Even if the elder really exchanges the gold for us, the gold will still have to be handed over when we return to the camp."

The company commander's expression changed, "Even if you hand in hand, according to military rules, we can get a reward for what we get. Damn, this place is indeed full of gold."

The elders were also very happy to hear that they were willing to trade swords for gold.

These golds were actually picked up by the nearby river, but this thing is of no use except Huang Cancan’s beauty and is too soft.

I picked up so many of them by the river. I thought it was useless, so I didn’t pick up too much.

The company commander immediately asked the elder to draw the location, and he decided to go there to search later. Maybe there was a large open-air gold mine there.

If he really discovered it and reported to the king, he would have to give it a great reward.

Several elders really don’t think this thing is useful.

In the past, there were merchants here, but they all used shells, corals, coconuts, etc. to trade, and they did not give these yellow stones to merchants.

The elders thought these people were so strange that they liked this stone so much.

They told the location where they picked up the stones, just upstream of the Luzon River near this tributary, where there were a forest, hills and streams.

The company commander's attitude towards these indigenous people changed drastically, and he wished that everyone would kiss each other on the face.

He gave his daggers and daggers to the elders. Except for his officer swords and swords, he wanted to take off all his clothes and give them to them.

He immediately decided to send a platoon of people to escort several elders and the basket of gold back to the camp, and then he would take the rest of the people to find the place to pick up gold.

The elders also kindly sent out several villagers, all of whom had picked up yellow stones while hunting there.

The company commander directly took people to row a boat along the river, which was much faster than walking. It took them half a day to get to that place and find the river.

There was a stream ahead, and the boat could no longer be sailed. They parked the boat by the river and walked forward on foot.

The higher you go, the shallower the stream.

The stream is clear and you can see the sand and gravel at the bottom of the stream.

The sunlight falls through the leaves and shines on the stream.

The company commander suddenly felt very dazzling.

He lowered his head and searched carefully. Finally, he found the shining place. He reached out and sucked it up. It was a grain of gold sand. This gold sand was actually as big as a soybean.

Such a large amount of gold sand.

The company commander was excited, and the sergeant was excited.

The other soldiers were excited.

Everyone started to reach out to touch.

Grab a handful of mud and sand and wash it in the water.

Their crazy appearance made the indigenous guides a little stunned. Are these people crazy?

"Company Commander, I found a piece of gold sand, look."
To be continued...