Lu Ming

Chapter 503 Taipei ([-])

After a muffled "dong", the slave who was swinging the pendulum was hit on the back of the head with a hammer, and then the slave lay there motionless.

Don't underestimate this hammer: it is necessary to end the target's pain at once without causing the brain to splatter with blood. The strength in this hand must be mastered well, and ordinary people cannot hit this kind of five-star sap.

"Carry it away, quickly carry it away."

After Wu Sanye hit the killing blow, he waved the hammer in his hand and made a general waving gesture with a blank face, and then two strong slaves carried the body out of the hut.

Do not use knives, which will cause blood to splatter, pollute the grass shed, and attract terrible mosquitoes and various insects.Although the straw huts will burn down intensively after a period of time, there are still many batches of newcomers to live in before they burn down, so don't be careless.

So Mr. Wu and the others usually use hammers.

After dealing with the sick slave, the third master lowered his head slightly, and got out of the not-so-tall hut.Then he watched as the bodies were carried onto the cart. There were already several bodies on the cart, which would eventually be thrown into a sinkhole nearby.

Standing in the mountain depression in the northern section of Taiwan Island in the [-]th century, looking around at the beautiful natural scenery around, Mr. Wu's face is full of deep sorrow.

He reached out his hand to touch the pocket of the army green cotton training uniform, and found that the cigarette was gone, so the third master stretched out his hand: "Take a cigarette."

"Fuck your feathers, old man."

The person who spoke was a young man with a pale face, a gentleman, and even a little handsome: "You old man doesn't smoke enough cigarettes. If you don't have enough, you come to ask for it. The salary of the young master is blown by the wind?"

Wu Sanye, who is usually a leader, is actually able to stretch and bend at critical moments, so he was not angry when he was bullied, but put on a bearded smiling face and said: "Our three-acre land, which one I don’t know that Master Yusheng is a real rich man, how many cigarettes can make him poor?”

"Hmph, well, don't worry about the young master's pension money all day long. It's just a matter of whether you can live to that day in this ghost place."

After the young man named Yusheng heard the third master's compliment, his complexion improved a lot.Although he was still nagging, he took out a blue tinplate cigarette case from his pocket and threw it over.

As soon as the third master raised his hand to take the cigarette box, he first opened the box cover and took out two middle-grade Taijiang cigarettes, and then took out a silver-cased ZIPPO carefully preserved in a velvet cover. After a "ding", he lit the two cigarettes together. After smoking, he handed one of them to the young man.

"Don't worry, I won't smoke you in vain. When I get my compensation for the demolition, brother, your good days will come."

Hearing the third master talking about the illusory demolition money again, Yusheng sneered while exhaling smoke: "Then, as a younger brother, I have to work hard for another thirty or fifty years, and I will probably be able to enjoy my brother's money." Blessed."

The next moment, seeing the two foremen smoking and chatting, several people in training uniforms standing around took out their cigarettes together.The supervisors started a rare time of Xiaotian on the slope of the valley outside the dense forest in Taipei.

Jinguashi is an administrative region located in the northeast of Taiwan Island. Later, it was subordinate to New Taipei City. It is located between the northern branch of the Snow Mountain Range and the coast at the northeast corner.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side, the Jinguashi area was once prosperous because of gold mining.

In the 16th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1890), when a railway bridge was being built on the Keelung River, some workers found placer gold in the river, and then the gold diggers flocked all the way up the river to look for ore veins.Finally, after 3 years, a Chaozhou-born farmer surnamed Li discovered the small gourd golden vein near the Jiufen mountain area.

Not long after the little pumpkin was discovered, the gold diggers also found a big pumpkin outcropping nearby. The place name "Jinguashi" is named because the mountain shape of big and small pumpkins looks like pumpkins, which is what is called "golden melon" in Taiwanese.

Keelung Mountain, which was originally quiet, opened the glorious years of Jinguashi mining industry in the future.

For the time travelers, in fact, during the early time travel, everyone agreed that Jinguashi should not be developed.

The reason is simple: there are gold mines everywhere, there is no need to spend a lot of human life to feed mosquitoes in the primeval forest - everyone is precious in the time-traveling regime at that time, and it cannot afford to be "wasted".

However, in 1630, three years after the time traveler came to Daming, the situation changed fundamentally.

In addition to the continuous improvement of the most important industrial base and the general premise of rapid increase in social wealth, the number of slaves from all over Southeast Asia has also shown explosive growth.

The vigorous development of the slave trade is an inevitable process of social development.Unlike in history, the colonists who came to East Asia suddenly discovered in the past two years that they no longer have to worry about trade?

No matter who it is, as long as it transports a ship of slaves or other goods needed by the public, it can be exchanged for any one you want immediately, immediately, fairly, and without any obstacles in the large warehouses along the Taijiang River. Kinds of goods - unlimited quantity, unlimited types.

The only thing merchants need to worry about is whether they have enough silver coins in their pockets.

Raw silk, which had been at the top of the colonists' list of most desired goods for countless years, has now dropped to the top ten, because there are many "magic" things whose value has far exceeded that of raw silk.

For example, bleach can save the life of a boat or a city.

For example, sealed in a wax pill, the mysterious pill that can cure sailors from scurvy.

For example, the church's favorite oil lamps and kerosene can bring light to believers in the long winter in Europe.

These dazzling but expensive commodities immediately emptied the pockets of all visitors.

Merchants from various countries who have adapted to this new trade model quickly discovered the crux of the problem: everyone no longer needs to spend their energy on finding the source of goods from the Ming Dynasty and fighting each other, because no one can monopolize and buy short in the hands of others. of goods.

The only thing that needs to be done now is how to quickly and efficiently transport the goods needed by the cross-country to the damned and tempting Taijiang Port, and then use those magical goods to make a fortune in Europe.

Therefore, due to the tightening of money in Europe during the 30-year war, the Spaniards, who had lived a miserable life, launched a large-scale battle never before seen in history against the natives of the Philippines half a year ago: the Battle of Santa Ceta.

And the red hair entrenched in the Spice Islands is not far behind.

Originally, the greatest governor of the Dutch East India Company in history, Jan Petersjohn Cohen, died of dysentery at the age of 43 during the siege of Batavia by the indigenous Matalan Sultanate last year.

And on this plane, because bleach was sprinkled in the water cellar of the Governor's Mansion, Governor Cohen survived in good health until the Sultanate was withdrawn from the siege.

This year, the Dutch, who had recovered their breath, launched a new round of campaign against Mataland under the command of Cohen: both for revenge and to capture slaves.

So, suddenly discovering that there were a large number of unplanned slaves in their hands, the high-level officials turned their attention to the well-known Jinguashi mining area in the mountain nest in Taipei.

There are not only gold mines there, but also copper mines, which is the most valued by the time travelers.

(End of this chapter)