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Chapter 97 Oil and Salt Not Entering

The next day, Mao Geng took a few disciples to Taiwan Island to negotiate with the indigenous nail households, and also made some plans for infrastructure.

But after logging in, it started to rain heavily, and the negotiations with the nail households were forced to be postponed. Mao Geng considered it and decided to simply push the negotiations to the third day. Within these two days, Mao Geng asked Tan Xiaochun to lead the way and built a simple pavilion on the grass where he negotiated with the indigenous people in the past few times. In this way, the negotiations could be unblocked. In addition, Mao Geng also wanted these nail households to see the advanced construction technology of the Song Dynasty. The message that Mao Geng wanted to convey was that compared with the pavilion's sheltering performance.

The tent is simply a slag, let alone brick and tile houses. The purchase price of tents is high, and a tent costs more than six stakes, but the indigenous people do not understand the prices of the two. According to reason, two tents are not as good as one pavilion. Mao Geng judges others by himself and thinks that after seeing the pavilion, he will no longer insist on two tents. Mao Geng hopes that these guys can accept the conditions of one shed to compensate for one pavilion. At worst, they can add some codes. Mao Geng’s trump card is to build a wall for the pavilion.

Many soldiers of the wing army have now also been on the island. A simple unloading trough has been built by the sea, and a simple wharf has been built on the bank of the river. Various building materials are continuously transported to the island. Naturally, there is no shortage of wood, and some cement tiles have been transported to the ashore. Under the organization of Tan Xiaochun, seven or eight carpenters worked together. A simple pavilion was built in less than two days.

Mao Geng looked at the pavilion he designed in a distance. Since the material on the roof was cement tiles, it adopts a herringbone structure instead of a four-sided four-angle pavilion or an octagonal pavilion structure, and it did not have traditional eaves, it looked a bit stupid, at least not vivid enough. However, the indigenous people should have not cultivated a picky aesthetic taste. Having such a pavilion is already burning incense. At least in terms of practicality, this pavilion is not inferior, Mao Geng thought so.

Mao Geng finally decided to give this pavilion a name, thinking about the four famous pavilions in later generations, among which the Huxin Pavilion and the Zuiweng Pavilion in West Lake were founded in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Aiwan Pavilion and Taoran Pavilion were built in the Qing Dynasty. When the pavilion was completed, it was full of sunsets. Mao Geng was originally planning to simply name it "Aiwan Pavilion", but then he thought about it and wrote three big characters with a stroke of his pen - Aimin Pavilion. This name is very compatible with this pavilion, and both have nothing to do with elegance.

From He Dalai, he learned that these indigenous people seemed to be divided into three small tribes. The group of Nail House tribes was the most fierce group. They actually had iron weapons in their hands. They were the most fierce in the battle with the Song army. They had killed and injured more than 30 people, and the Song army who fought against them also died and seven people were injured. Speaking of which, the Song army only destroyed their fourteen sheds. In Mao Geng's mind, it didn't matter if he compensated them more. However, among them, there were old people who had reached the compensation agreement to participate in the negotiations, so the compensation standard must not be easily raised, otherwise they would have to be equalized and all the standards were raised. Maybe it would cause misunderstandings from another group of indigenous people, and then it would be passive.

On the third day, the representative of the nail household arrived as promised, and the old man who was the indigenous side initiated a peaceful negotiation. The representative of the indigenous nail household was three people. On Mao Geng's side, He Dalai and Mo Xiaoba were of course representatives. It is said that when the indigenous people saw the eye-catching swelling on Mo Xiaoba's forehead, they would become calm. Mo Xiaoba's existence invisibly would enhance the harmonious atmosphere, and he must be present. The other is Guo Xixian, Guo Xixian, who is both martial and civil and military. If the other party wants to use martial arts, Guo Xixian can protect himself and protect some Mao Geng.

The pavilion negotiated by both sides was one hundred steps away from the troops on the Song side (one step, one meter five). This was what the indigenous nail households insisted on doing this. They were worried that the Song people would make a fool of themselves and must have the large group of troops from the Song Dynasty stayed away from the range of the bow and arrow before they were willing to go to the negotiations.

Mao Geng and Guo Xixian were both wearing Song Dynasty official uniforms, only He Dalai’s armor and helmet were neatly worn. Mo Xiaoba was still the same, but he was wearing armor but he did not wear a helmet. The natives were used to seeing Mo Xiaoba like this.

Mao Geng was still a little confident in this negotiation and did a lot of homework for it. However, the indigenous nail households did not show a flexible side to the sending of new negotiators by the Song people.

Mao Geng proposed to compensate for a pavilion, and the representatives of the indigenous people shook their heads unanimously. Well, Mao Geng decided to take a step back and drew the pattern of brick and tile houses, and proposed that it would be fine if a shed house would compensate for a brick and tile house. It was just that the indigenous people needed to build the walls themselves, the Song wing army built the roof squares, and provided doors, windows, and bricks and limes. Then the indigenous people built the bricks themselves, which was a complete brick and tile house. The indigenous people just took some cool labor. Seeing the indigenous people's confusion, Mao Geng was prepared for this situation. Building materials such as bricks had long been piled next to the pavilion. Mao Geng immediately asked He Dalai and Mo Xiaoba to demonstrate how to build the walls. After a good gesture, the four natives finally understood what Mao Geng meant, but what made people hate was that they kept shaking their heads.

The incense in the pavilion has been renewed twice. Burning incense here is not a sign of piety, but is used to dispel miasma. It is equipped with drugs such as realgar to dispel miasma. Mao Geng saw that one stick of incense burned out and another stick of incense burned out, and he began to get irritated, but Mao Geng was not discouraged and decided to use a new trick.

It was already noon at this time, and Mao Geng proposed to have a meal together and talk while having a meal. Later generations had too many business deals at banquets. Maybe these natives would also eat this, and maybe they could also perform the magical drama of drinking as a alliance.

Song Jun had already prepared. The people in casual clothes brought wine, meat and food on a priceless basis, and the representatives of the nail household refused to refuse this. When they saw the fragrant food, they didn't know any politeness. They grabbed the food and stuffed it into their mouths. The old man was quite particular and tried to use chopsticks to deal with the food in front of him, but after trying many times, they couldn't run the chopsticks freely. So he smiled awkwardly and shook his head. Seeing this, Mao Geng simply threw away the chopsticks, grabbed the food and ate it, and gestured to persuade the person opposite to drink.

Mao Geng's actions won the favor of the natives. They smiled a little more or less. Even the guy with an extremely fierce appearance grinned, although he smiled ugly. As for drinking, Mao Geng didn't need to persuade him. They picked up the wine bowl and drank it wildly, one bowl after another, which made Mao Geng stunned.

Fortunately, there were a lot of wine prepared in advance. This wine was a strong wine brought from Lin'an. Mao Geng just hoped that the negotiating opponent would be a little drunk and would never be drunk like mud. Therefore, the wine sent was controlled in total. But these guys drank too quickly and fiercely. Soon, two guys looked a little drunk, including the guy with a ferocious look.

Mao Geng seized the time and gestured with them again, and relaxed the conditions again. This time he never asked the natives to send people to build the walls themselves. The Song Dynasty army built them completely. If they destroyed one of their broken sheds, they would compensate for one square abbot's brick house - bricks as walls, and cement tiles covered the roof. Mao Geng thought that this was the real "face-changing face", and this time they should be satisfied. Now their relationship has been closer. So far, even the nail house should stop when they are better.

The three representatives of the Nail House muttered to each other for a while, but at the moment of muttering, the fierce-looking guy lay down as he spoke, obviously unable to resist the power of alcohol.

The remaining two men gestured, saying that they had to go back and discuss the matter before they could decide. According to the old man's gesture, it seemed that the two men were a little moved, but the person who was drunk was their leader, and seemed to be hesitating. However, the old man said that it seemed that there was a lot of hope.

The negotiations on this day ended like this. Mao Geng couldn't think of any reason for the other party to refuse. He probably would agree happily when he saw each other tomorrow. Mao Geng decided that as long as they accepted the conditions and compensated them for more other things, it would be acceptable.

But the next day, the other party had only three old men and came to the pavilion. The drunk guy did not show up. The two of them accused Da Song of being malicious, and their conditions became even more crazy. The previous request was to compensate for two tents in one shed, but now the request has become more severe. It has become a shed, and it must compensate for two brick and tile houses.

This made Mao Geng very angry. These guys were so determined that they wanted to reach an agreement. Humph! These people were simply unreasonable! But then again, the nail owners in later generations also had the same character and did not get into the oil and salt.

This was originally a disgusting thing, but Mao Geng thought about it dialectically and found that there was also an advantage of having such a nail household, which was that it was to ask the court for policies to make the Taiwan Special Administrative Region's policies the most relaxed. When he thought about it, he felt relaxed and he no longer felt depressed about it.
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