After Yan Yingyuan inspected the city of Colombo, he explained to Li Dingguo: "Take them all up!"

He knew everything about the situation in the dungeon when Li Dingguo went to translate.

Li Dingguo received the order and went to the dungeon.

Yesterday, some people also delivered food to the dungeon. There was no riot in the native prisoners below. When they saw the Ming army soldiers, they all went in a regular manner, either to have a bite of food or to be afraid of the Ming army. Anyway, they were still the same as before, and they were asked to do whatever they wanted.

This time, Li Dingguo went down to the dungeon again. This movement made the indigenous prisoners in the dungeon silent, looking at the entrance of the dungeon expectantly, and they guessed whether they had something to eat again.

But as a result, of course there was no food. They couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when they saw this. However, Li Dingguo stood at the entrance and spoke, "Now, all of us here have been taken over by our Ming Dynasty. We are ordered by the Governor to wait for you. Everyone must not be negligent and go up one by one. If you are injured and sick, you will be inconvenient to walk, and your companions will take care of you. If anyone cannot hide it, die!"

After the translator translated the words, Li Dingguo did not stay. He opened the door of the cell and took his personal guard back to the ground first.

The indigenous prisoners in the dungeon knew that the time had come to determine their fate, and they all became frightened. Even though the Ming army seemed to be better than the Portuguese, the words of the Ming army were always the word "death".

What will happen to your own destiny?

At this time, there was no Ming army in the prison. The crowd was in agitation, but no one took the first step because they were all very frightened.

At this moment, I heard Rablaka suddenly say loudly, "What are you doing when you are standing there? Is it worse to go up than staying here?"

After saying that, he was the first to walk out of the cell. Not only that, he also supported a companion with injuries to his legs and feet.

When others saw him like this, they thought it made sense, and they followed suit.

Labulaka was the first to leave the dungeon door. When he saw the long-lost sunshine, his eyes closed involuntarily. After adapting to the light, he was shocked to find that all the newcomers on the square and the city walls were new. And the feeling he felt was very different.

When the Portuguese were there, he could see freedom and scatter, and even felt that these people were no different from robbers; but at this time, all of these newcomers were three steps and five steps, and each of them was raised with their heads and chests, and they were full of vigor. Those who should not move, were motionless, and those who should be patrolling were lined up in line. And the military uniforms on them were all neat and consistent.

Seeing these, a thought flashed through Labulaka's mind: This is the real army!

The natives behind all came up and were also shocked to see the situation on the ground at the door.

But Labulaka came to his senses and continued to walk forward. No one needed to tell him, because the situation he saw was enough to let him know that he was walking along this road and heading to the square in front.

On the top of the city, the Ming army official who had been underground before was there, but it seemed that he was not the biggest, surrounded by another person. So Labulaka silently supported his companion and stood under the city. This place should be the closest place.

On the top of the city, Yan Yingyuan couldn't help but praise him when he saw that the first native to come out was actually supporting his companions. However, on the surface, he didn't say anything, but just kept observing these natives.

To be honest, most of these natives have nothing on their bodies except a fig leaf. Their skin color can be seen at a glance, and they are very darkened by the sun. If you just look at the appearance, you can tell whether they are from the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, in the Ming army today, some of the soldiers from Dongwu are somewhat similar to their skin color, and are caused by years of sunlight. No matter what, from the appearance, there is still a big gap with the Western Yi, and they will look more like Eastern people.

After a while, no one came up in the dungeon again. Then the Ming army soldiers went down to check and then came up to report that all the people had arrived.

After hearing this, Yan Yingyuan glanced at about two thousand natives below, but not many were intact, most of them had whip marks on their bodies. It can be seen that those allies were really teammates of the gods, providing the necessary conditions for the Ming Dynasty to stand firm here.

After scanning, he spoke loudly, "I am the Governor of Daming Dongwu, and he is also in charge of Ceylon. This place will be my Daming here in the future, and it will all be under my jurisdiction. I want to ask you if you want to live a good life in the future?"

When a few translators heard this, they shouted in their throats. There were three translators in total. Otherwise, if only one translator could not pass the words into everyone's ears after shouting.

Now, one of them is next to Yan Yingyuan, and the other two are on the other side of the square, far enough apart from each other so that each of them can have a large coverage.

After hearing this, the natives in the square responded almost the same: they didn't care about where the high-ranking official was. But Yan Yingyuan's last words were very concerned. However, because it was their first time dealing with each other, although they were concerned, they just looked at Yan Yingyuan curiously or whispered to each other.

Yan Yingyuan didn't care about this, but waited for a while before saying loudly: "Do you want to be able to live and work in peace from now on? Those who live have their own houses, those who are sick have their own medical treatment! Those who are diligent have their own careers! Those who are labor have their own gains! Those who are young have their own learning! Readers have their own school! The readers have their own help! The elderly have their own support! Those who are old have their own position! Workers have their own salary! Farmers have their own land! Businessmen have their own benefits. Be a real Ming person?"

What he said was a slogan put forward by Emperor Chongzhen, which was to allow the people of the Ming Dynasty to live a life in the future. When you say it, the meaning will be very clear. If you are willing to be a true Ming people, you can get these happy days. Is it up to you to change your master?

That's right, the Ceylon countermeasure that Emperor Chongzhen gave to Yan Yingyuan and others was to turn this place into a real territory of the Ming Dynasty. The best way to do this is to defeat the original rulers on the Ceylon land and use their fields to unite the poor and lower-middle peasants. Only by pushing down everything in Ceylon and rebuilding order, rather than relying on intimidating the original rulers to occupy Ceylon.

Because if we do that, the Ming Dynasty's jurisdiction over Ceylon was actually separated from the original rulers. In this way, its control over Ceylon actually depends on whether the original rulers cooperate. This is actually the reason why the Portuguese could not completely gain a foothold in Ceylon at all.

Even if Emperor Chongzhen did not come to Ceylon, he could calculate that it was because of the hundreds of years of war between Portugal and Ceylon natives that the local rulers would never be very good to ordinary people. This gave the Ming Dynasty a chance. In other words, by the standards of the Ming people, he had absolute strength to attract the poor and lower-middle peasants in Ceylon and let them fight to become real Ming people.

At this moment, when I heard the translator's message, all the natives were stunned. I imagined what kind of life would be like if I lived that kind of life!

In their current days, not to mention being plundered, robbed and killed by the Portuguese, they alone had to pay their daily income to the tribe leader and then hand it over to the Kingdom of Kandy.

Anyway, they are busy all night long, but they still can’t eat enough, don’t wear warm clothes, and have no support for life. Moreover, because of war, King Kandy paid more taxes from them, and after military orders, they still had to go out to fight. In short, they are the people living at the bottom, and no one cares about them.

Now, these newcomers want to give them a new life and a happy life that they can’t even dream of. To be honest, it’s really unbelievable!

The same is true for Labulaka. In shock, he glanced at the Ming army soldiers within his eyes and felt the elite aura emitted from the Ming army soldiers. He had to admit that the Ming army was stronger than any force he had seen. They had enough strength to protect them!

After being stunned for a long time, someone finally came to his senses. But what happened in the end? As long as you can improve your current situation, do you still need to choose?

So, some people began to kneel down and kowtow, and spoke in a whisper to express their surrender. Among them, the Labulaka, who was in front, spoke the loudest.

Yan Yingyuan looked down and guessed what he was expressing. But he finally pointed at him and asked: "What are he talking about?"

As soon as the translator heard this, he asked about the situation, and then replied to Yan Yingyuan: "What do he think he needs to do? He thinks, what must they pay?"

Yan Yingyuan smiled slightly after hearing this, and said, "As a commoner in the Ming Dynasty, he naturally had to pay taxes to the court. However, this is the new territory occupied by the Ming Dynasty, so the emperor has issued an order to exempt you from taxes for three years. As for how much land you can get, it depends on how much contribution you can make in the process of the army capturing the entire Ceylon!"

When Rablaka and others heard that they had a different master. Moreover, this master was stronger and might be better for them. So they hesitated, so they responded, saying that they must serve the Ming Dynasty and become a real Ming people!
Chapter completed!