Chastity Layman

"A drop of water, a piece of soil, a grain of stone, a blade of grass, a tree, an ant...all belong to us, this is a free land, and belongs to the free Barangaydatu!"

Holding the wine glass, Masur's voice was passionate, "We must unite, all the Balang Gaidatus unite together, and even if necessary, we can abandon the previous grievances and unite with those Dahuwu natives! "

"We can also send people to the country of Boni, where there are relatives of our clan, and we can also send envoys to the country of Gantuoli to ask for help. As long as they are willing to send troops and ships to help us, then we can also ask the king of Boni or Gan Allegiance to King Tuoli!"

Masur didn't care about being loyal to Boni Kingdom or Gantuoli Kingdom at all. First, the two countries are far away from here by sea. Second, with their current Datu system, when the king granted them Datu, the land was also allocated to them. Without them, the sovereignty of the land was transferred to the Datumen, and the king no longer had any economic power, such as taxation and labor.

On the contrary, the Datus enjoy all-round power, such as the right to collect one-tenth of the local products from the farmers in the territory as land rent, which is called tithes, and they can also let the people in the territory perform unpaid labor for them, such as Datu Tumen built houses, paved roads, dug canals, built fences, and more.

Not only did farmers not get paid, but they had to bring their own rations to do things, and the Datus also owned many slaves.

It is precisely because of this that the rapid expansion of the Qiantuoli Kingdom and the stability of the newly conquered lands all benefited from this. However, because of Qian Tuoli's Datu system, the Datu enfeoffed are basically based on villages and communities, with dozens to eight hundred households, so it is not easy to threaten the king.

Moreover, the king continued to entrust his brothers, nephews, etc. to help stabilize the country. At the same time, he also gave preferential treatment to the influential monk group, and also granted them land, and stipulated that the fief of the monk village belonged to the entire monk village. Belonging to individual monks, after the death of the monks, the land is still the king or the monks' commune.

At the same time, the king will also retain a large amount of fertile land as a direct subordinate.

For Masur and others, because they were far away from Qian Tuoli or Wuni country, they never even pledged their allegiance. Now that they are swearing allegiance and merging into Boni or Qian Tuoli country, it will not be practical. Impact.

But if it can be exchanged for military aid, it is undoubtedly quite a bargain.

Theoretically speaking, after swearing allegiance to join Boni or Gan Tuoli, they become subjects, the king has the right to appoint and remove Datus, has the right to make legislation and justice, and the king has the right to call Datus to lead troops to participate in wars, etc., but In fact, whether it is the power to appoint officials, judicial power or even military power, the king's influence on the Datus is very weak.

Gantuoli and Boni Kingdom themselves are also very loose confederations.

But the Qin family's request now is undoubtedly different. What they want to implement is undoubtedly a closer control relationship.

The Qin family wants to set up towns, townships, ri, and villages, as well as the Baojia system. Each Darangai is a village, and a large village may be divided into several li. The Qin family will appoint the village chief. To appoint, but also to select Baochang Jiachang, etc., to establish the village office, Baogong office, etc.

Datus are even prohibited from owning private soldiers.

It turns out that the taxes, judicial, and military privileges enjoyed by the Datus will be abolished. Their land can be kept, measured and recorded, and then they will pay 11 taxes per mu to the Qin family. If their own land cannot be cultivated, they can lease it to Others rent crops, but the rent rate must follow the rules of the Qin family.

Even criminal and civil disputes such as robbery, theft, murder, and fights must be handled according to the Tang law promulgated by the Qin family, and lynching is not allowed.

In this way, the Datus undoubtedly changed from a high-ranking feudal lord to an ordinary landlord. Who would want it.

Although the land here is vast, with few people and a lot of land, it can be mined at will, but the rules cannot be broken.

Why should the Qin family be everyone's Rajah?

The most they can do is to accept that the Qin family will also establish a residence here and become Datu, as long as the well water does not interfere with the river water. Absolutely not.

"With all of our Barangays united, even if we have an army of 100,000, a few thousand Barangay sailboats will not be a problem. We will definitely be able to defeat the Qin family and drive them away."

Gucibalang was a little hesitant. Before Ma Suer came, he was already thinking about how to give the Qin family an explanation. He planned to hand over his remaining one hundred slaves to the Qin family as compensation. And I am willing to compensate some small buffaloes, yellow wax, pearls, betel nuts, coconuts, sackcloth, etc.

Because the Qin family is too powerful, Maye Village no longer has the strength to resist the Qin family after their son's reckless sneak attack was defeated.

When conflicts and wars broke out between Barangays in the past, the losers generally made peace with compensation.

This is the practice among the Barangays, and he intends to do the same with the Qin family.

But now Ma Suer keeps persuading him to stand up and resist, saying that as long as everyone can unite, they will be stronger than the Qin family.

Gu Macilang hesitated.

If the Qin family is compensated according to the tradition, the loss of Maye Village will be too great. It has lost its heirs, 100 soldiers, 200 slaves and all the ships. If it compensates more than 100 slaves and a large amount of rice and linen Waiting for the local products, the savings of Maye Village will be empty.

Through the accumulation of generations, there are only 1,200 households just now.

"How many people are willing to join forces?"

Masur was very confident, "I am willing, Yiluo is willing, Machaas is also willing, are you willing?"

"If everyone is willing, of course I am also willing."

"That's right, no one can accept these conditions of the Qin family, so everyone will be willing, for freedom!"

"for freedom!"

The four Datu raised their glasses together.

Gu Ma Lang finally decided to join this newly formed alliance and embrace Masur as the leader together.

"Do you have any spare ships and weapons? Sell them to me. The Qin people took all my fleet, and lost a hundred Mahalika warriors and two hundred Alipin slaves!"

Masur has a very powerful fleet, such as the seven-foot-long 'powerful battleship' he brought today, there are several, and there are many other ships. Although these are all galleys, they are already powerful in Barangay.

There are also many warriors in Masur. He is nicknamed the Raider because he used to often sail boats and take his men to sea to plunder and also do trade.

His Balangeri has more than 2,000 households, more than 10,000 people, and has nearly a thousand Mahalika fighters. In addition, his Tiwama free people are also very elite trained by him. Pull out to rob.

And his family also has a class below Tiwama and above Alipin, called Oribon, who specialize in labor. Compared with Tiwama who owns their own land but does not pay tribute, Oripong Peng needs to pay tribute. Compared with the low-status Alipin Namamahei, they have the right to be exempted from labor, and even these Oribons have more skilled craftsmen, or people who can go out to do business.

Moreover, these Oribons can wear weapons and receive training.

Among the slaves in Alipinya Jijidah of the Masur family, there is also a specially trained sailor. These people are both sailors and soldiers, and their treatment is much higher than that of ordinary slaves.

The average barangay may have only a dozen or dozens of fighters, but the Masur family has thousands of fighters, and the number of young and strong in their family is much higher than that of ordinary barangays.

His family's fighters can even be subdivided into elite guards Mahalika, militia Tewama, reserve Oribon, and Alipin slave soldiers.

With a powerful fleet including several large ships, there are buffalo cavalry, wild boar cavalry, deer cavalry, spear infantry, and sword and shield infantry.

It is precisely because of such strong strength that Ma Suer is unwilling to accept the Qin family's offer.

Gu Ma Cilang sees Ma Su'er hesitate.

"I'll trade you slaves."

"I don't have many ships on hand, but since we have formed an alliance, we should support each other."

When Ma Su heard that he was willing to exchange slaves, he finally let go.

After some bargaining, Gu Macilang reached an agreement with Masur to exchange slaves for ships, and also exchanged a few boats with Yiluo and Datu.

According to the agreement, there is still one last step left.

The four pricked their fingers with knives, dripped blood into the wine, and finally drank the blood wine together. The blood became an alliance, and the agreement was finalized.

Gu Ma Cilang, who drank the blood wine, finally returned some ships, but the last few slaves were almost all divided up by the three of them, with hatred in his eyes, "Damn people from Qin, I will definitely make them pay in blood!" .”

Ma Su sat there with a smile on his ear, not minding at all that he just took advantage of the fire to blackmail Gu Macilang. "Are there no slaves if you have a ship?"

"The Qin family is constantly transporting people here. Those big ships can carry thousands of people, and some super giant ships can even transport thousands of people at a time." It's the color of greed, "The Qin family is indeed very powerful."

Scar-faced Machaas said with red eyes, "These people from Qin went everywhere to dig gold and mine, burn wasteland to reclaim fields, and built one manor after another."

"Then we will attack their manors first. There are only dozens to hundreds of people in these manors. There is no defense. As long as it is not difficult to take them by surprise, we will take them all back as Alipin slaves."

Ma Suer suggested that the four of them join forces to attack one or two Qin family farms first, and then they can use this record to contact other Barangays and even the big native houses to join the alliance.

In order to avoid conflicts, Ma Suer suggested that when the Qin family manor is conquered, the spoils should be distributed according to the strength and number of troops sent by each family. The Mahalika fighters will get more points, followed by Tivama and Alipin again.

Masur's family is the largest, whether it is Mahalika, Tiwama or Alipin, the number is more than the others, and his family has many boats, so they will definitely get a lot of money, but the other three Ratus agree, After all, if you send more troops, you should get more. This is also the old tradition of Barangay.

Now, there is only one thing left, to find a few easy targets, and then act.