From Chief to Ball

It was only when he was punished to do hard labor on the ship that he remembered that there was Da Ming behind him, and maybe Da Ming could send troops to rescue him.

It was only at this time that he thought of the concept of the country, but all of this was in vain.

Even if the governor of Luzon and the archbishop agreed to return some of the undead merchants and their finances, they had been handed over to Fujian, but he was not included.

The stinky bottom cabin seemed to be his final destination. Like those captured black slaves and native slaves, he spent the rest of his life in this stinky cabin, and when he got sick, he was thrown into the sea and became food for fish schools.

Those black slaves or natives had resigned themselves to their fate, neither dared to resist nor wanted to resist, but Li Dan did not resign to his fate.Tian Xingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement. He believes that his fate will not be like this. He believes that since he can go to Manila for trade when others are afraid to go to sea, and have a world of his own, then his fate will never end. In this foul-smelling cabin.

Relying on the advantages of being proficient in Spanish and indigenous languages, on the one hand, pretending that he has accepted his fate, working hard and flattering like a slave every day, on the other hand, quietly inciting a chance to defect.

He quietly observed the voyage of the ship, recorded the path of each voyage, and finally took the fate into his own hands when the ship returned from Japan.

He stole two gold bars, snatched a small boat in the dark, and despite the turbulence of the wind and waves, he handed everything over to his unyielding fate who did not believe that he would die in the sea so uselessly.

Not for revenge, nor thought of revenge.What supports him is only because he wants to live, and wants to live with his own destiny, that's all.

Even in the boundless sea where his own efforts are meaningless, he still did not give up.

Maybe it was the blessing of the ancestors, maybe the benevolence of the Buddha, maybe it was the grace of God, or maybe it was the benevolence of the emperor. Li Dan, who was on the verge of death, saw a strange big ship in the distance, heading towards him.

Holding up his extremely weak body, he calmly hid the two gold bars in the secret pocket sewn long ago under his crotch, looked at his torn clothes and vicissitudes of face with the reflection of the sea, and endured the gold bars. Suffering from the pain of holding his own egg ball, after making sure that no flaws could be revealed, he struggled to stand up...

When he saw the ship coming this way, Li Dan exhausted his strength and lay down in the small cabin.

Looking at the blue sky, white clouds, and scorching sun, he shouted in a hoarse voice: "God! Want me to die? How can it be so easy! I not only want to survive, but also live better than before. better!"

After shouting, he laughed loudly, his dry throat cracked and blood came out from laughing, but the laughter couldn't stop.

Chapter 72 This fashion is a small person ([-])

The ship Li Dan saw, the ship that rekindled his hope, was Chen Jian's flagship.

When he lowered the boat to rescue him, Chen Jian didn't know it was Li Dan, or maybe it didn't matter whether he knew it or not.

Maybe it was that Li Dan, maybe not.

Or maybe it's just a representative of a small person who goes up and down with the times.

It doesn't matter whether it is Li Dan or not, representing one of the countless people along the coast of Daming who are constantly striving for self-improvement, eager to make a fortune, and travel thousands of miles to explore the sea.

Whether it is true or not, they all have similar fates.

They are the lowest class in the country, eager to make a fortune outside, but were massacred by foreigners, and escaped by luck, dreaming of a comeback.

The ups and downs of fate in these years made them believe in one thing more: businessmen are lambs waiting to be slaughtered at home, and the same goes outside.

After these ordeals, the only way they thought of was to build a good relationship with the feudal class, hug each other tightly, and make friends with the powerful and upper class.

They are bold and timid.

For the sake of wealth, they can not be afraid of storms, but they never have the courage to overthrow the feudal rights they depend on. All they think of is to build a good relationship with the rights and avoid repeating the fate of being massacred in Manila.

Chen Jian didn't even know that the person in the small boat was a businessman, and he was a businessman who escaped from the Spanish sailboat boldly and carefully.

But since at sea, if you see someone in distress, you must always rescue them, unless it is an enemy. This is the rule.

The sailors knew the ruthlessness of the sea, and they held in their hearts that good people will be rewarded with good rewards, and that when they are in distress, they will be rescued.

At this time, Chen Jian was accompanying several people to visit the cabin and gunboard, and told the sailors who rescued him to find out the ins and outs of this person.He didn't say much else, it could be seen that he was in a good mood at the moment.

The sailors agreed, and rushed to save people, and the sailors were in a good mood.

It is not a coincidence that Chen Jian's flagship can appear here. The reason is that the people behind him are in a good mood because they are Shanghainese who have traveled thousands of miles to learn arithmetic geometry and shoot guns.

The sailors are in a good mood because there are many women bought from Fujian on board, who can be dewy couples for a year or two, so as not to have nowhere to release the pressure all year round, and going ashore to visit prostitutes is expensive and troublesome.

About a year ago, after the site had been selected at Tamsui, the helpless people who had come with the boat and who should have died in the catastrophe were allowed to carry stones and build the fort.

In view of the fact that the number of people is not enough at this time to form a quantitative crush, and the grassroots organization has not yet been established, we should first get along with the local aborigines in a friendly manner.

Sending money and giving away goods, half buying and half cheating, enclosing a piece of land, and establishing a trade market, there has been no conflict with the local aborigines for the time being.

The local aborigines were still in the Stone Age, and there were priestesses in the village community. He had seen this kind of thing a lot, and he knew how to deal with it. There was no conflict between the two sides for the time being.

The victims transported here from Fujian all had families. Chen Jianyou strictly forbade the soldiers to do anything that caused conflicts because of the crotch. Many people who followed him out to sea for a while had green eyes.

These sailors or soldiers followed him all the way, and they saw a lot of women.I slept with Dutch girls, I slept with black girls, and soldiers or sailors got sick.

On the island, the natives did have women, but the soldiers couldn't bear it after all.

Relative to their cultural proximity, they are more accustomed to Ming Dynasty women who are similar to them than to the native inhabitants of the same origin as these brown people in Madagascar and southern Africa.

This is a big problem. To solve the needs of soldiers in this area, either rely on drugs and rubber sleeves, or rely on political commissars.The latter is unrealistic, and the former has no skills. Chen Jian had no choice but to think about going to Fujian to buy some women. Just two years ago, the White Lotus Sect broke out in Fujian, and the officers and soldiers slaughtered them.

The place where the incident happened was in Ouning, which happened to be next to the river. As long as you have a good relationship with the general soldiers, buying it with money is also a feasible way.Whether it is true or not depends entirely on the general soldier's mouth. If you say you are you, you are, and if you say you are not you, you are not.

Temporarily gaining a firm foothold at the mouth of the Tamsui River, and when the castle began to be built, Chen Jian named it "Wangbei City".

The warehouse took shape, and it happened to be going to Vietnam and Thailand to buy rice and transport it back for storage, so I explained the matter of Wangbeicheng, and took a few boats to Thailand, planning to go to Fujian after buying the rice.

There will be another major flood in Fujian next year that will affect tens of thousands of people. This is an opportunity to attract refugees. If you prepare in advance, you can receive them in large numbers.

It is not worthwhile to spend money to buy it now, not to mention whether there are any fanatics of the White Lotus Sect, there will be countless people running here without spending money when the flood occurs next year.It's just that the needs of soldiers and sailors must also be addressed, and that's all.

Another thing is that the Dutch business house in Thailand also asked someone to bring a letter, hoping to negotiate with Chen Jian, suggesting that Chen Jian help them capture Malacca in the form of mercenaries.

Once captured, fortresses can be built. The Republic pays [-]% and the Dutch express their willingness to pay [-]%.

Needless to say, the ownership of the fortress is in the hands of the Dutch.It was obviously a fraudulent business. Malacca was irrelevant to Chen Jian. Knowing what the Dutch were thinking, he said that he had sent ships back from the Pacific Ocean to pick up some fleets and troops.

In fact, it is a refusal. Because of the distance, the Indian company in the Netherlands does not know the domestic form.But Chen Jian knew that Spain and the Netherlands were about to cease fighting, and it would be meaningless to delay the signing of the armistice agreement.

The Dutch can't do anything now, so they can only watch Chen Jian settle down in Taiwan, but now that spices have not been monopolized, they really don't have the heart to compete with Chen Jian.

Chen Jian then sent people to sign a secret agreement with the Dutch Indian Company in Pattani. With Pattani as the boundary, Chen Jian's fleet would not get involved in the affairs of the Spice Islands and Malacca. Similarly, the Netherlands was not allowed to set foot in Taiwan for a generation.

This is a compromise under the balance of power. Both parties know that the signing is for the purpose of tearing it apart, but they can only raise their glasses together to express their willingness to work together to fight against the Spanish and Portuguese forces.

It is impossible for the Dutch to come here from Europe around the ends of the earth within a year; Chen Jian can directly cross the Pacific Ocean from Fujian City. This position can be regarded as the limit of the power projection of the two sides at this time. The boat, that's all.

As for the business with Thailand and Vietnam, it is even simpler. Chen Jian bought his own private property with real money.On the one hand, in order to prevent too many victims from surviving, on the other hand, after the disaster next year, the price of rice will skyrocket. There is no problem in making money back. He is already familiar with this kind of speculation.

On the way back, I made another trip to Quanzhou. By coincidence, I encountered a group of Japanese pirates who were blown away by the hurricane. After a few shots, they fired twice, killing more than 40 people and arresting more than 80.

This is considered a big gift, just after landing, he asked about the situation and planned to give away these more than 80 Japanese pirates.

Gift giving is also a science, and Gao Cai sent a message, saying that he hoped that Chen Jian would send these Japanese pirates to Zhu Wenda, the Fujian general, instead of Xu Xueju.