After listening to the report on the battle situation of Lu Jianrong, the chief of staff of the First Brigade, Eunuch Wei did not blame his ninth master for his mistakes, but instead came to the high place of the village with his hands and looked at the densely packed primeval forest from afar.

My father-in-law believed that in places he could not see, there were also people looking into the distance.

Objectively speaking, although the Pingpu people were ignorant, fierce and fierce, they were actually the real masters of this land. Although the Ming Imperial Army was just, had strict military discipline, had a glorious history, and had advanced civilization, they were outsiders of this land.

The Battle to Taiwan is essentially a battle between outsiders and indigenous people, and a process of conquest and being conquered.

Eunuch Wei did not deceive himself. His feet were actually a wild and unruly land. This land truly belonged to China and would have to wait for thirty years. The Zheng father and son, the founding ancestors, the Ming army and civilians who were unwilling to be slaves of the Tartars, turned this treasure island into China's permanent territory. Now, this place belongs to "transformation" and has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty in terms of law.

Most of the people here do not know that there is a Ming Empire over the other side of the sea, and even the Han people who migrated from the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian were unwilling to admit that there was their emperor in the far north. They came to this land just to have a meal.

My father-in-law doesn’t like to say it, but he only likes to do it. No matter how fierce the verbal blows, it is not as good as the thunder of thousands of cannons. The court cannot take care of the Han people, so how can we talk about having the power to govern this land?

The nominal "Since ancient times" is just a rhetoric in the court. True rooting is forever. What my father-in-law is doing now is actually a creation. He wants to make Taiwan truly the territory of China, and he wants to turn this treasure island into a granary to save more compatriots.

Creation will inevitably lead to bloodshed. Even the creation of a civilized society will also cause war, let alone the indigenous people of Taiwan who are almost primitive.

However, compared with the very few Taiwanese aboriginal people, tens of millions of compatriots on the mainland are more important.

My father-in-law is not a mother-in-law. He likes to use thunderbolt methods to show his Bodhisattva heart. As he always believes, if the problem cannot be solved, the person who creates the problem will be solved.

Afterwards, my father-in-law went to see the captured women and children of the Pingpu tribe and some male prisoners. Without exception, the eyes of these prisoners were full of hatred for the imperial army, even for children of a few years old.

"After the age of fourteen, the males of Pingpu people will hunt heads from different races to show their bravery, and at the same time they are also sacrifices to them for so-called ancestors. As far as their subordinates know, the ones who have been hunted by Pingpu people in recent decades are our Han people coming to Taiwan." Lu Jianrong whispered.

"Is that true?"

The father-in-law nodded. This custom is really barbaric. After inspecting, he said to his left and right: "The stubborn resistance of the Pingpu people must be severely punished, otherwise the majesty of the empire will not be able to shock the world, and the reputation of the imperial army will also degenerate from this!"

The captive Nika was taken to his father-in-law.

Nika was hit by the Imperial Army's musket while retreating and was captured. After other prisoners proved that Nika was the right hand of Aganon, the head of Pingpu, Lu Jianrong did not execute him, but asked the doctor who accompanied the army to treat his injured leg. Lu Jianrong hoped to persuade Aganon to surrender through Nika, but it seemed that Nika did not lead the Imperial Army's love.

After Nika was brought over, his father-in-law did not immediately persuade him to surrender, but asked him why the Pingpu tribe had to go against the imperial army. Could it be that he would become a subject of the Ming Empire and enjoy the rights given by the empire?

You should know that in order to pacify Taiwan as soon as possible, my father-in-law tried hard to buy a large amount of agricultural tools and seeds from all over Nanzhi. As long as these indigenous people are willing to accept the rule of the imperial Ming Dynasty, their productivity and production level will be immediately improved for several eras. Unfortunately, my father-in-law's kindness was regarded as a donkey's liver and lungs by the Pingpu people.

Nika couldn't understand Chinese. Da Qifan, the captain of the Xinsanxiang Public Security Team, was both Hanmin, and his sisters also married Hanmin. Except for the name of the family, everything else was exactly the same as the Han people, so he served as the translator of his father-in-law.

Nika was not willing to answer at first, but he didn't know what Daqiban said to him. He hesitated for a moment before he raised his chest and looked at the Ming Dynasty official in front of him, and said loudly: "We Pingpu people have lived in this land for generations. We have our mountains, forests and hunting grounds, our streams and fish. We are real ancestor warriors. We hunt in the mountains, we share food in the tribe, we fetch water in the streams, and we live here freely. We don't contact any outsiders, because then the ancestors will blame us... We don't know the Ming Empire, nor do we want to be the people of the Emperor Ming, we just want to live our lives... For freedom, we would rather give our lives!"

“Free?”

Eunuch Wei murmured these two words, Yes, freedom is so precious, and paying life for freedom is worthy of respect. However, if the price of freedom is that the tribesmen will always live in a state of primitive, backward and poor, is this freedom acceptable?

After a long time, my father-in-law smiled. Everyone has his own value orientation, so why bother him? In the bigotry, whether it is freedom or not, under the general trend of the Imperial Army, everything is insignificant. In the smallotry, the so-called freedom is probably just the wishful thinking of the Pingpu leadership class led by Aganon.

Whether it is primitive, feudal, or capital, the ruling class will always only consider its own interests, which is proven by thousands of years of history.

Yet, if Aganon chose to accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty like Shufan, perhaps his generation could continue to enjoy the privileges of the leader, but his next generation would definitely not be like this. The existence of the government is the biggest enemy of freedom for these indigenous people.

"Asanon knew that our imperial army had a large number of troops, why did he still fight?" His father-in-law told Da Qifan to translate.

"For our ancestors!" Nika answered very briefly.

"Can your tribe members be sacrificed for the sake of the ancestor spirit? In the past few days, many young people in your tribe have died. If a tribe has no young people, what's the use of having only the ancestor spirit?" Eunuch Wei spoke without making any false speech, pointing his heart.

Nika was silent for a moment, and then replied: "As long as the ancestors are here, we can go to heaven."

My father-in-law understood that it seems that the so-called ancestral spirit should be a kind of totem, and the primitive worship sect is called a symbol.

Lu Jianrong frowned and said, "Brother-in-law, it seems that this savage still refuses to surrender."

"We know."

The father-in-law turned the jade ring on his hand, sniffed, then stood up and walked to Nika's three steps. After carefully looking at the other party, he suddenly took out a short musket and hooked the machine to Nika's head.

With a "bang", Nika fell straight back, and a big blood hole appeared on her forehead. When she died, her eyes were wide open, and she looked quite nervous.

The sound of the gun was so sudden that Daqifan was so scared that he covered his ears. When he found out that Nika had been executed, he shivered instantly.

"I've given this pistol to you, well, you're cheaper, there are only a few in total." The father-in-law said as he handed the short pistol in his hand to Lu Jianrong. Then he looked at Nika on the ground, shook his head and sighed: "Death is the best destination for him, and his ancestors will bless him to heaven."

Then he looked up and glanced at the generals and turned a decisive way: "Go and ask other prisoners if you don't want to go with our family, so let them go with their ancestors."

Then, the father-in-law waved his hand and ordered Lu Jianrong to take all the captured women and children down the mountain.

"Dadfather-in-law, is this what he wants?" Lu Jianrong was puzzled.

"The tiger poison will not eat the baby. Our family will give them a last chance. If they are still obsessed, then our family will let them know what white horror is!"

When my father-in-law left, he saw a pineapple on the table and took one casually. He had to go and see his Ninth Master. Although the Ninth Master's command error caused hundreds of troops to be damaged by the First Brigade, no matter what, the Imperial Army won the battle, but it was not achieved the result of completely annihilation of the Pingpu people.

My father-in-law hopes that the ninth master can cheer up and not be discouraged by temporary mistakes, and then lose the courage and confidence to make progress.

Courage and confidence are the foundation for the Imperial Army to grow step by step. As the commander of the brigade, the Ninth Master is the soul of the First Brigade, and he is not as negative as possible.

The military order was quickly executed, and more than 400 captured Pingpu women and children were driven to the entrance to the mountain. The women did not know what the Han army was going to do to them. They both hated and feared and walked out of the village with difficulty, and walked step by step towards the direction where their husbands were.

After arriving at the foot of the mountain, officers soon came to order these women to kneel on the ground in rows. Several security team members who could speak Pingpu loudly told them that if they didn't want to die, they would call their husbands and fathers to the mountain. As long as their husbands and fathers and brothers could go down the mountain to surrender, the Ming Dynasty Emperor Army would pardon their crimes and return their houses and property, allowing them to continue to live on this land.

"If they don't go down the mountain, then you..." A young security officer looked at the Pingpu women kneeling in front of him with some helplessness, "You will be executed."

"Where is the child?"

A girl who looked only a teenager asked the security team member in horror with the child in her arms.

The security team members did not speak.

The girl understood what he meant, and her face suddenly turned white. The other women around her also became frightened in an instant.

"I said good ministers, aren't our imperial army not killing women and children? But you wanted it yesterday?... Such a thing is..."

The Ninth Grandpa, who was comforted by his nephew and great-grandson, saw this scene just after coming over. He was old and could not see such a scene, and he couldn't bear it.

"Is the great master saying that it is harmful to the heavens? Maybe, but if you use the heavy punishment in troubled times, your grandson won't teach you a lesson if you don't give the children some ruthlessness."
Chapter completed!