While Li Ke and Sun Simiao were chatting here, a guard came in quickly and said: "Your Highness, a tribe was found on the island. The people on the shore said they were not Kunlun slaves. The leader can speak Chinese. Do you want to bring them?"
"Oh? Let them bring them to the boat." Li Ke was a little surprised, but still nodded.
"Yes!" The guard immediately went out to deliver the message.
The way they communicated was semaphore, or it was not semaphore in the traditional sense of later generations. It should be said that it was two sets of semaphore.
A set of semaphore is similar to that of later generations. It uses red and yellow flags to transmit signals and direct the passage of ships. The other method is dialogue.
As for how to talk, I have to talk about the four-corner number dictionary that Li Ke found.
Red and blue flags are used to convey information. A few red flags are used to determine the number. After a number is raised, blue is used for intervals, and then the numbers are compared with the dictionary, and then communication can be achieved, although the communication method is a bit slow.
But sometimes when it is inconvenient to send someone there, it is okay to send a brief message.
The four-corner number is not Morse code. This thing was used in early dictionary lookups, when there were no pinyin and radicals.
The person was quickly taken to Li Ke's boat. This person was indeed a yellow race, and should be a race that would later be called a Malay.
"I have met His Highness King Qin." The other party's Chinese accent was a bit strange, but Li Ke did understand it.
"Oh? Where are you from?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.
"It was my father's generation who led our village to migrate from the islands in the west. My name is Jige, and my father said this is the language of the powerful Han Empire on the northern continent." The middle-aged man said respectfully, obviously he I know that people who speak Tang dialect come from powerful countries in that land.
"Well, it's called Datang now. How many people are there in your tribe?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.
"There are more than five hundred people," Jig replied.
"Oh. This island has been the territory of China since ancient times. Today, the Tang Dynasty has inherited the unification of China, so we want to take it back. You have two choices now. The first is to become a citizen of the Tang Dynasty. The second is to take you with me. The people will leave within three days." Li Ke said calmly.
"We are willing to surrender." Jig knelt down and kowtowed without even hesitating.
"Yes, remember this island will be called Luzon Island from now on. Do you know the situation on Luzon Island?" Li Ke pointed at Luzon Island and asked.
"We live near this river. We are familiar with the surrounding area, which is about two days' journey away. There are many cannibalistic tribes in the mountains. In addition, there is a non-cannibalistic black tribe about a day and a half away to the west of our tribe. They often exchange some supplies with us.”
"Do you know there is gold near here?" Li Ke pointed to Luzon Island over there.
"I know." Jig was silent for a moment, and then spoke, "In our village, we once found several large pieces of gold on the river, and they were in my house."
Li Ke looked at it, and then asked calmly: "It doesn't look like you are a primitive tribe."
It is impossible for a primitive tribe to know what gold is. Consider the Indians in the Americas next door. They may find gold, but they just think it is beautiful, or they don't care at all, they just think they are just stones.
But it doesn’t matter if this person knows the Tang Dynasty, and also knows what gold is. Judging from his reaction, it is obvious that he knows the value of gold, so he definitely cannot be a primitive tribe.
"Your Highness, we fled from the Yuli Kingdom, and our ancestors were from the Dandan Kingdom." Jige said.
Li Ke instantly understood that the country of Yuli was the transliteration of the Tang Dynasty, or that's what they called themselves. The fleet of the Tang Dynasty heading to Dashi called them the country of Yuli. It was located on the northern coast of Malaysia in later generations and had a population of 100,000. Not many, to be precise, the entire country's population is only tens of thousands.
The Dandan Kingdom was Singapore in later generations. The northern part of the Dandan Kingdom was the Loyue Kingdom, and the further north was the Panpan Kingdom. The three countries together did not occupy half of the Malay Peninsula, and the population of each country was only tens of thousands.
"Oh, I understand, but you don't have to worry. If you want to go back to live in Yuli in the future, it will not be difficult, because countries like Yuli and Dandan have been our Chinese territory since ancient times, and we will reclaim them." Li Ke He didn't hide his goal at all.
Sun Simiao next to him glanced at Li Ke strangely, His Highness the King of Qin today is different from the past. In the past, His Highness the King of Qin would always package a lofty goal for these purposes, but now... it is so straightforward.
"It's good for me to live here." Jig was silent for a moment, and then he said, mainly because he didn't know what to say.
"Well, I will have someone send you back later. Since you are ready to join the Tang Dynasty, you will become a citizen of the Tang Dynasty in the future. The Tang Dynasty will establish a port here. You can work according to what the port garrison said. As long as you Work hard and they will distribute food to you on time, so you won't be hungry in the future." Li Ke nodded.
"Yes!" Jig was silent for a moment. He wanted to say that we are not hungry now.
Of course, what he thought about not being hungry was not at the same level as what Li Ke said, but he had escaped from a civilized society. Although the Yuli country was also a very backward slave country, he somehow knew that he Facing Datang, there was no room for resistance.
The competition between tribes is more cruel, so he knows what he should do very well.
He waved his hand and asked the guards to send him back. Li Ke didn't need to keep an eye on the rest. Feng Ang and Huo Gang, who were still on the island, would take care of the relevant matters.
"Go, send a message to Monobe Murashita and tell him that there is a black tribe a day and a half walk west of here. He knows what to do. After solving the problem, tell them to start cleaning along the coast." Li Ke directly told the guard He spoke.
"yes!"
Monobe Murashita's fleet is about three or four kilometers away from Li Ke and the others. This distance is not too far for the sea.
A high-speed sailing ship quickly left Li Ke's fleet.
After receiving Li Ke's order, Monobe Murakata suddenly stood up from his position, with a grin on his face, and loudly said: "His Highness's order is here, tell the fleet! Take action!"
"yes!"
Monobe Murakata did not directly send ships to the destination. Instead, he personally led a part of the fleet close to the coastline and began to move towards the target. When he was still three or four miles away from the target location, Monobe Murakata directly let the ships dock. , personally led a thousand people to jump off the ship.
He didn't know how many people there were in this tribe, but he knew that this was his first mission and he must complete it beautifully.
