Chapter 287: I am a lion now

Zhao Xing slowly restrained his smile and said coldly: "The Buddha also has the 'gry Vajra' - you just said that those canoes are all your citizens? That's great. My Song Dynasty merchants have been attacked by pirates in this sea area, and even my boats have been attacked frequently. I look for these pirates everywhere. At the beginning of the year, Chameng Kingdom did not want to hand over those pirates. I destroyed their country. Are you sure that the pirates outside are your citizens?"

How did the officials of Boni Country answer this? If he admits that those people belong to his own citizens, then Zhao Xing has reason to go crazy; but if he doesn't admit this, he will watch Zhao Xing massacre on the dock outside the capital.

There is no such thing in the world. There is no way to block people's doorsteps, massacre passing people everywhere, and clamoring that they are here to do business. Officials from Boni Country asked angrily: "Sir, if you do this, don't know how history will tell you?"

"History is written by the hand holding the knife," Zhao Xing tore off his disguise and replied coldly: "Although the words of history are written with a pen, they are written by the hand holding the knife in the end by the hand holding the pen - this has always been the case, without exception."

The official from Boni Country gasped for a long time and asked angrily: "What do you need by sir?"

Zhao Xing replied slowly and leisurely: "To put it simply: extraterritorial legal power. If you have to explain it in detail, then I can tell you: I heard that my Song merchants have been here for a hundred years, but they are not qualified to purchase industries in Boni Country. Many Song merchants must find a Boni man and put their property in their name. In this way, the Boni man frequently embezzled my Song merchants' property, and it is legally embezzled.

This time I came here to seek "extraordinary legal rights". To put it simply: I, or the Song merchant, bought your land, managed it yourself, and then paid taxes to you as required. Of course, if you think this behavior is a bit complicated, let's think of a simple way: rent it out.

Along the Brunei River, the Song Shang Gathering Area is about three miles long. You rent these three miles to us. I pay you rent every year, including a piece of tax. The concession is managed by ourselves. You must not use any means to prevent people from entering and leaving the concession - this is my requirement, simple, and it is not troublesome to implement."

The Boni officials did not expect that Zhao Xing's request was so simple. They were stunned for a moment, thinking about it, but couldn't see clearly what trap was hidden in Zhao Xing's request. After pondering for a moment, the official replied: "Sir. Do you have obtained the permission of your country's officials when you do this?"

Zhao Xing gritted and replied: "I forgot to tell you that I am a businessman and an official. The business matters in the Guangnan area are just under my control. I have approved me to do this. Do you have any questions?"

The official gasped and replied: "Sir. We can consider your conditions. From my personal point of view, we can promise you that is not the question of money (rent)? But please stop the artillery fire, please give us some time, and let us formally answer you."

Zhao Xing nodded, and with his wave, the artillery fire of the entire fleet stopped.

The officials of Boni State bowed and said goodbye. When they landed on ashore, he saw several Song Shangs sailing towards Zhao Xing's ship in small boats. When the Boni official's ship was intersecting with Song Shang, Song Shang opposite bowed and saluted him. The Boni official glared and passed by Song Shang angrily.

The uneasy Song merchant climbed onto Zhao Xing's boat. Zhao Xing warmly greeted the merchants and poured a cup of fragrant tea for the Song merchants with a teapot in his hand. Then he asked with a smile: "Have you prepared all the stone fat I need? This time, our fleet can take away about 6,000 pieces (3,000 tons). Are you enough goods?"

Song Shang first carefully answered Zhao Xing’s doubts about the goods, and then asked more carefully: “Sir, we just saw the Boni Officer leaving angrily. Will they cause trouble for us later?”

Zhao Xing returned to his seat, stretched his waist lazily, and replied: "There is no equality between the lion and the lamb. Now I am a lion, and they have no choice."

A businessman said carefully: "But, after the adults left..."

Zhao Xing shook his head and replied: "I plan to buy the land three miles along the Brunei River and set up an "Overseas Trade Division" on this land. The officials of the Dasong Maritime Department will provide a supervisor to be in charge of local tax payments. In this way, although you are overseas, you are under the Dasong Dynasty, and it is not considered stranded and unrepatriated. At the same time, I allow you to hire soldiers to defend yourself. When you encounter infringement, you can ask for help from the Guangnan East Road Management Office."

Several Song merchants were still nervous when they were facing each other. Zhao Xing picked up his teacup and said with a smile: "Conquest is a complicated matter. But first of all, cultural conquest. I am going to build a 30-meter-high bell tower here, and the room under the bell tower is used as an official office of the Boni Overseas Trade Leadership. I plan to build this bell tower in an extremely majestic place, and also add lightning rods and other equipment.

This bell tower is used to reflect our cultural advantages. What is culture? It is our creativity. We have the ability to build a tower that reaches the clouds so that all the erectile dysfunction people will be respectful of our culture from the heart when they look up at this tower. This is the land I should do, and the rest is what you should do.

There are two aspects to do: First, try to show your culture to the people of Boni, such as our festivals, our food culture, our opera, our melodious and vivid singing and music; Second, it is necessary to allow the elites of their country to receive our education and influence, so as to develop a sense of identity and belonging to our culture from the heart.

The specific method is: the court's float parade on four festivals of the year, and the boni should also be carried out in a big way, and we should fully demonstrate our civilization inheritance to the local area. In addition, you can support some people in the boni country to come to our Song Dynasty to study.

I can give you twenty to one hundred study tour places every year, and I can use your ordinary businessmen to support Chief Boni's children. This money, including all the holiday expenses in front of you, can be deducted from taxes. I can make accounting and reimbursement for you...

The government offices set up in Boni are mainly managed by you and recruit guards to maintain local public order. In other words, the officials are sent by me, and you can go out to the officials themselves. This place is also managed by you. The soldiers you recruit can be regarded as the official soldier in Guangnan. I recognize their status as an official in the Song Dynasty...

You need to establish good relations with the local area, and even recruit some local people to help you maintain it - I will not interfere in the specific way. You elect a mayor yourself and manage all matters in the city. I will give him a ninth rank official. He needs to cooperate with the supervisor I sent, but our supervisor does not manage specific affairs. His existence is first of all supervision, and second of all, reflecting the existence of the Song Dynasty government..."

Zhao Xing briefly described Guangnan's plan to Boni, and then waved and ordered the Song merchants to retreat. When the Song merchants retreated, they were still worried and asked nervously: "Sir, you blocked the port and bombarded the fishing boats, and the officials of Boni Country will..."

Zhao Xing waved his hand and interrupted him. He replied: "I just said that conquest is divided into several aspects. You can help me realize the "literary attack", but all the "literary attacks" in the world require force protection. What I show them now is force.

Don't worry. They will respect this agreement better after knowing that our force is our agreement. Because this is the agreement between the lion and the lamb. Only by grasping this agreement can the lamb protect their lives and let you do whatever you want."

Shortly after the group of Song Shangs returned, Zhao Xing's ship began to put down his boat and landed on the Boni Song Shang's house. The team entered the Song Shang's house. The soldiers reported: "Sir, Boni City has sent troops, and it is so dark that there are countless people!"

Zhao Xing smiled and said, "Don't worry. They dare not fight. You lead people to set up a strait line and order their troops to stop advancing. I will give you the right to fire freely."

Shortly after Zhao Xing's order was issued, merchants from Boni Song City had surrounded him around the house. Soon, the sound of the Song army's cannons outside the street market started to sound, and the artillery fire rumbling through three rounds and gradually fell down. At dusk, the Song army led two Boni Generals and the Boni officers who had previously talked with Zhao Xing into Zhao Xing's room.

When Zhao Xing saw these Boni officials coming in, his eyelids were not raised. He continued to chat with Song Shang. A Boni general took a furious step forward and shouted loudly: "Your Excellency, is this still our land? Why can't our army enter this land?"

"No more," Zhao Xing replied lightly: "Within the range of my cannon, the truth is written by me."

"Sir, we haven't agreed to rent this land just now," the Boni official who just met with Zhao Xing replied.

"I'm an impatient person," Zhao Xing honestly admitted: "I'm very busy and I can't afford it, so I'll let the army ashore first and realize my rule."

Another Boni officer reminded Zhao Xing: "Your Excellency, we have a lot of troops, but I think you have only brought a few hundred men."

Zhao Xing pointed to the sea outside the dock, where most of the ships had already anchored. He said calmly: "There are thirty warships outside this port, and there are thousands of people on it. If this is not enough, a little further away, I have 100 million people and 100 million people in the Song Dynasty. Isn't this enough?

I just said, I am here to do business. Boni is a small country with a history of writing for only two hundred years and a population of only more than 300,000. However, the Song Dynasty has a history of writing for more than two thousand years. We have a population of 100 million and a culture of 2,400 years. We only want to seek a fair treatment for our country's merchants: fair right to trial and fair property rights. I don't think this is too much - you Boni merchants receive super-national treatment in our country. Don't you know the reward?"

A Boni officer replied: "Sir, we feel humiliated and unfair to reach a land agreement under the sword."

Zhao Xing narrowed his eyes and looked at the senior officials of Bonito. The three of them were wearing silk clothes from the Song Dynasty. The weather was hot in Bonito, and they were all wearing shorts and a vest. At this time, Islam had not yet arrived here, so Bonito was written in Indian Brahman, and his dress was like an Indian, wrapped in a big bag head.

The conversations of these people have subverted Zhao Xing's original understanding of Boni. In his imagination, it seemed that the Boni people in the Ming Dynasty still seemed very ignorant. Unexpectedly, their conversations were already very organized in the Song Dynasty.

This is the Su Shi era in East Asia, that is, the "Flamingo era in East Asia" - a lifestyle that likes generosity, fanaticism, boldness and unrestrainedness.

Zhao Xing didn't know that the group of people in front of him had been interacting with China as early as the Tang Dynasty, but they finally belonged to the category of genocide and cultural extinction. They eventually failed under religious invasion, and later culture developed again. It was not until modern archaeological excavation that it was re-established that the people on Boni Island were originally deeply influenced by Indian culture, had a high level of civilization, and had their own writing and philosophy...

Zhao Xing said slowly and arrogantly: "Sorry, your opinion is different from mine. I think that the agreement reached under the sword will last for a long time. Dear lords, what I give you is an agreement between the Song people. Our Song merchants suffered grievances and humiliation, but I am still very humble. I humbly ask you to allow the Song merchants to purchase the land they live in, and humbly agree to continue paying taxes or paying rent for you.

A few adults, you all know what kind of treatment your businessmen enjoy in our country. I only ask for equal treatment. Everyone, isn’t this a gentleman agreement? In my opinion, this is simply too gentleman. As for my cannon, it is an endorsement for this gentleman agreement.

Adults, let’s put aside your resentment. It’s only one day, and the resentment of my Song Shang has lasted for a hundred years. But now we are not a good time to talk about the past. Let’s talk about the future: in the future, you sell this land to us or rent it to us. We don’t have to trouble you to manage it, send someone to manage the entire market, and then humbly recognize your rule, and bow to your authority in the form of rent or taxes.

Isn't this enough? I believe you also know that your city walls are like paper in front of my cannons, and your soldiers are like scarecrows in front of my soldiers... Let's decide, if you want to fight, my soldiers will notify the ships on the sea to evacuate after giving you the greatest damage. However, when those fleets come back, they will lead an army that you can't imagine. The upper limit of the number of this team is the population of my Song Dynasty: 100 million.

Come on, adults, sign, the world is unfair, but now I am willing to lower my head and humbly sign an equal treaty with you. What are you waiting for, are you waiting for my anger?"

The Boniu Man really couldn't bear the anger of the Song Dynasty.

The 300,000-strong population is more like a city than a country. Because the tropical material is really rich, most 100,000 people are lazy, and they do not have the courage and willingness to fight to the end. These three 100,000 officials were just to maintain their last face. Without giving in, they persisted for a while and surrendered.

"Well, sir, we can rent the land along the river to the merchants of your country. For this reason, you need..." The Boni official hesitated for a moment, as if worried that Zhao Xing would have objections to the rent.

Zhao Xing did have objections. He cut off the words of the erectile squad and interrupted: "One hundred thousand copper plates - I think this price is fair, there is no need to discuss it!"

One hundred thousand copper plates sound scary, but in fact they are only one hundred coins.

This is justice under the cannon!
Chapter completed!