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Chapter 1181 Blood is an alliance

"A drop of water, a piece of soil, a stone, a grass, a tree, an ant... all belong to us. This is the land of freedom, belongs to the free Barangedatus!"

Holding the wine glass, Masault's voice was excited, "We must unite, and all the Barangedatus unite together, and even if necessary, we can give up our previous grudges and unite with the natives in the big house!"

"We can also send people to Boni Kingdom where our clan relatives are there, and we can also send envoys to Gantuli Kingdom for help. As long as they are willing to send troops to help us, we can also be loyal to King Boni or King Gantuli in the future!"

Masul didn't care about being loyal to Boni or Gantuli. First, both countries were far away from here, and second, with their current Datu system, when the king granted them the title of Datu, he also granted the land to them. The sovereignty of the land was transferred to the Datu people, and the king no longer had any economic power, such as taxation, labor service, etc.

Instead, the Datus enjoyed all-round power, such as having the right to collect one-tenth of the local product from farmers as land rent, called tithes tax, and allowing the people in the territory to work for them free of charge, such as the Datus to build houses, pave roads, dig canals, build fences, etc.

Not only were the farmers not paid, they also had to bring their own food to do things, and the Datus also had many slaves.

It is precisely because of this that the country of Gantuli expanded rapidly and could stabilize the newly conquered land, which was all due to this. However, because of Gantuli's Datu system, the Datu enfeoffed was basically based on villages and communities, with dozens to 1,800 households, so it is not easy to threaten the king.

Moreover, the king kept enfeoffing his brothers, nephews, and others to help stabilize the country. At the same time, he also treated influential monk groups with great favor. He also divided the land to them and stipulated that the fiefs of monk villages belong to the entire monk villages and did not belong to the individual monks. After the monks died, the land would still be the king or monk commune.

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

For Massur and others, they had never even been loyal to the country because they were far away from Gan Tuoli or the country of Wuni. Now they have sworn allegiance and have been incorporated into Bo Ni or the country of Gan Tuoli, which will not have any practical impact.

But if it can be exchanged for military aid, it will undoubtedly be quite cost-effective.

Theoretically, after swearing allegiance to join Boni or Gantuli Kingdom, they became ministers. The king had the right to appoint and remove the Datus, had the right to legislate and judicial power, and the king had the right to summon the Datus to lead troops to participate in the war. However, in fact, whether it was the right to appoint officials, judicial power or even military power, the king had a very weak influence on the Datus.

Gan Tuoli and Boni are themselves very loose confederates.

The Qin family’s requirements are undoubtedly different, and what they want to implement is undoubtedly a closer control relationship.

The Qin family must establish towns, towns, villages, and villages, and also establish a Baojia system. Each Dalanggai is a village, and a large village may have to be divided into several villages. The village chiefs must be selected and appointed by the Qin family. The guarantor chiefs and other institutions must be selected to establish village offices, security offices, etc.

Even the Datus were forbidden from possessing private soldiers.

It turns out that the taxes, judicial and military privileges that the Datus enjoyed must be abolished. Their land can be retained, measured and booked, and then paid eleven taxes to the Qin family based on a mu. If they cannot plant their own land, they can rent it out to others to plant it, but the rental rate must be based on the rules of the Qin family.

Even civil disputes such as robbery, theft, murder and fighting should be dealt with in accordance with the Tang laws promulgated and used by the Qin family, and lynching is not allowed.

In this way, the Datus undoubtedly changed from a noble feudal lord to an ordinary landlord. Who would have been willing?

Although the land here is vast and has few people and many land, it can be mined at will, but the rules cannot be broken.

Why should the Qin family be everyone's Luo Jie?

At most, they accepted that the Qin family also established a residence here and became Datu. As long as the well water does not interfere with the river, they would travel. But if the Qin family wanted to overtake Zhongbalanggu and ride on the heads of the Latus, this would definitely not work.

"All of us, Balange, even if we piece together a hundred thousand troops, thousands of Balange sailboats are not a problem. We will definitely defeat the Qin family and drive them away."

Gustrabalang was a little hesitant. Before Masul came, he was actually considering how to give the Qin family an explanation. He planned to take out the more than 100 slaves left and hand them over to the Qin family as compensation, and was willing to compensate some small buffaloes, yellow wax, pearls, betel nuts, coconuts, linens, etc.

Because the Qin family is too strong, after his son's reckless sneak attack and defeat, Maye Village no longer has the power to resist the Qin family.

In the past, when conflicts and wars broke out between Barange, the losers generally made peace for compensation.

This is the routine between Balanggai, and he plans to do this with the Qin family.

But now Ma Suer kept persuading him to resist, and said that as long as everyone could unite, their strength would be stronger than the Qin family.

Gu Ma Tsilang hesitated.

If the Qin family is apologized according to tradition, then the loss of Maye Village will be too great, and it has lost its heirs and one hundred soldiers, two hundred slaves and all ships. If more than one hundred slaves and a large amount of rice, linen and other local products are compensated, then Maye Village's savings will be empty.

With generations of accumulation, these 1,200 households have been created.

“How many people are willing to unite?”

Masul was very confident, "I do, Ilo, and Machaas is also, are you willing?"

"If everyone wants, of course I do."

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

"For freedom!"

The four Datu raised their glasses together.

Gumalangtu finally decided to join the newly formed alliance and jointly hold Masul as the leader.

"Do you have any extra ships and weapons? Sell me some. My fleet was taken away by the Qin people, and I also lost one hundred Mahalika warriors and two hundred Aliping slaves!"

Massour has a very powerful fleet, such as the seven-meter-long "powerful warships" he brought today, and there are also many other ships. Although these are all slurry ships, they are already powerful in the Barangue.

Masul also had many soldiers, nicknamed robbers because he used to take his men to rob at sea and also do trade.

His Balangeri had more than 2,000 households and more than 10,000 people, and had nearly 1,000 Mahalika warriors. In addition, his free men of Tivama were trained very elite by him and were often pulled out to rob him.

There is also a class under Tivama and above Alipin, known as Oripen. These people specialize in labor. Compared with Tivama who owns their own land but does not have to pay tribute, Oripen needs to pay tribute. Compared with the low-ranking Alipin Namamahe, they have the power to be exempted from labor. Even these Oripen also have skilled craftsmen or businessmen who can go out to do business.

And, these Auripons can wear weapons and receive training.

Among the slaves of Alipinya Jijidah in the Masur's family, there was also a specially trained sailor. These people were both sailors and warriors, and were treated much higher than ordinary slaves.

There may be only a dozen or dozens of soldiers in the general Baranga, but there are thousands of people who can fight in the Massour family, and the number of young and strong families in their family is much higher than that of ordinary Baranga.

His soldiers can even be subdivided into the elite guards Mahalika, militia Tivama, reserve Auribon, and Alipinu soldiers.

It has a powerful fleet including several large ships, including buffalo cavalry, wild boar cavalry, cavalry, spear infantry, sword and shield infantry.

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

When the ancient Ma Thorn Lang saw Ma Suer hesitating.

"I'll exchange slaves for you."

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

Seeing that he was willing to take out his slaves to exchange, Ma Suer finally gave in.

After bargaining, Gumathil and Masul reached an agreement to exchange ships for slaves, and exchanged several small boats with Ilo and Datu.

The agreement stipulates that the last step is still missing.

The four of them stabbed their fingers with a knife, dripped blood into the wine, and finally drank blood wine together, and the blood was an alliance, and the agreement was decided.

Gu Mathilang, who drank the bloody wine, finally exchanged some ships for some ships, but the last little slave was almost all divided by the three of them. He showed a hatred look in his eyes, "Damn Qin people, I will definitely let them pay their blood debts."

Ma Suer sat there with a smile on his face, not minding that he had just taken advantage of the situation to blackmail Gu Mathlang. "Are you afraid of not having a slave with a ship?"

"The Qin family is now constantly transporting people here. Those big ships can load thousands of people in one ship, and some super giant ships can even transport thousands of people at a time." Speaking of this, Ma Suer's eyes were full of greed, "The Qin family is indeed very powerful."

Scarface Machaas said with red eyes, "These Qin people are pursuing gold mining everywhere, burning wasteland and reclaiming fields, and building one manor after another."

"Then we will attack their manors first. There are only dozens to hundreds of people in these manors, and there is no defense. As long as it is not difficult to capture the sudden attack, they will be captured and become slaves of Alipin."

Ma Suer suggested that the four of them join forces to attack one or two Qin family farms first, and then based on this record, they would contact other Balange and even native people to join the alliance.

In order to avoid conflicts, Masul suggested that the Qin family manor be captured, and the spoils were divided according to the strength and quantity of troops sent by each family. The Mahalika warriors were divided, followed by Tivama, and Alipin again.

The Massur family has the most people, whether it is Mahalika, Tivama or Alipin, the number is more than that of the other families. Moreover, there are many ships in his family, so they will definitely be divided into big heads after they are killed, but the other three Latus agrees that after all, if there is more troops, there should be more. This is also the old tradition of Balange.
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