Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 81 Where is Nanhua (Second update, please collect, please recommend)
Facts have proved that in troubled times, people can be strong men for robbery.It can also be military rations, or leeks chopped at will.

Of course it can also be goods.Even as goods, people can be ridiculously cheap.

A P1853 rifle made in India can be exchanged for 20 people—whether male, female, infant, or child, this is the package price.According to the agreement between Wang Botao and the American firm, one hundred rounds of paper-wrapped bullets can be exchanged for two juveniles.

For Wang Botao, this is a business without capital. He doesn't care about the future fate of these people at all. Why do foreigners buy people?
What else can I do?Definitely not a good thing.But it has nothing to do with him.

For him, all he cares about is how many foreign guns, how much gunpowder, and how many foreign cannons he can change.

As for people?
Not worth mentioning at all!
"Oh, what a pity, what a pity..."

Looking at the ordinary people sent by his subordinates, Wang Botao said with regret.

"If I had known earlier that this person could also change his gun, I would have killed less. I don't know how many places inside and outside the city are empty. It's not easy to deal with people."

It's a pity to say such and such in his mouth, Wang Botao said to Zhao Shi'an again.

"Scribe Zhao, discuss with that Liu Tongyi and let them stay for a few more days. We have plenty of people. As long as they are willing to wait a few days and get tens of thousands of people, wouldn't that be an easy task?"

Now he actually misses what it was like when he first came to Jinshan. At that time, there were people everywhere, and there were tens of thousands of people in any town, so they could exchange a lot of foreign guns and cannons.

It's like now...it's a pity.

Oh, what a pity!
Sighing is sighing, business still has to be done. According to the agreement between the two parties, these people will be sent to the seaside, and then sent by boat to Tanhushan Island, which is only more than [-] miles away from Jinzhou.Although there are more than a dozen families on the island, it does not prevent Li Fugui from setting up a "waiting office" here.

The so-called "waiting station" is actually a thatched hut divided into male and female battalions, and even the guards are men recruited temporarily. Headquarters".

When a person lands on the island and enters the waiting station, he enters into a lengthy procedure—registration, physical examination, serial number, collar and change, bamboo strips with job numbers, formation, training...

All of these are the steps that the boss has set when they left Nanhua. The men are going to undergo military training here. To put it bluntly, it is to train them to obey.

"Where's the whip?"

"All cut!"

Everyone has just landed on the shore, and before they can figure out what's going on, what's waiting for them is to cut their braids, without explanation, without explanation.

Of course, for the people who are dying, they have no other choice except obedience at a loss. In the troubled times, as small people, all they can do is to survive.

In the next few days, they either walked in formation or ran around the island every day. Of course, they could also eat their stomachs-one dry and one thin, and occasionally they could eat one or two pieces of sea fish, which was barely enough. Just full.

"one two three four……"

Before the boat docked at the port, loud slogans were heard from the shore, and a gray-faced child who looked only thirteen or fourteen years old looked up and looked over there.

There was still some curiosity in the restless eyes.

"Brother Liu, those long... people sent us all to sea."

Li Lin asked curiously.

"Third young master, we don't know about this, but third young master, you have to remember, when you are on other people's territory, you have to follow other people's rules from now on. Those people...have knives..."

Liu San swallowed nervously, he was scared, he saw with his own eyes how those long hairs killed people, although he didn't know why he let himself and the people around him go, but it wouldn't hurt to be careful wrong.

"I know I know……"

Li Lin nodded.

"People are under the roof..."

Finally, the boat full of people docked at the port, and driven by the Taiping Army, the men and women who survived the knife were blasted ashore.

It's like counting the goods, counting them one by one.

"A team of twenty people, twenty people, what the hell..."

Some people were a little slower, and some people slashed at them with the back of a knife, and then there was a burst of scolding.

Seeing the chaos on the pier, Li Fugui frowned, and said to himself again.

"I don't know what happened to Liu Xiucai's boat."

……

As long as you have money, you don't have to worry about the boat.

As soon as Liu Kunpeng and Mier, who were interpreters, came to the Shanghai Concession, they only took three to five days to find several clipper ships from Citigroup. After all, not every clipper ship has the opportunity to be filled with tea. Raw silk and porcelain and other goods.

When these clipper ships are waiting for goods on the dock, they often wait for one or two months.

The next thing couldn’t be simpler, it’s nothing more than talking about the price and changing the ship—those ships also need to be equipped with multiple layers of equipment, and they must bring as many people as possible.

Of course, Liu Kunpeng was not idle either. He even registered a company in the British Concession - "American Company".

If it were last year, it would have been "illegal" to export contract labor from the Qing Dynasty. However, last year, with strong ships and guns, the British and French allied forces fought all the way to the capital. There are also clauses in the treaty that specify the employment of contract labor in various countries. At present, this is also a "new industry in the Qing Dynasty".

Mill is black, but this does not prevent him from being a "foreigner". Of course, Liu Kunpeng is just a comprador.

After almost half a month of busy work, the seven clipper boats in the Huangpu River finally completed their refitting.

On February 1861, 2, ten clipper ships left Shanghai at the same time. When the ships left, Liu Kunpeng just stood at the window of the western-style building and looked at the ships from a distance, talking to himself.

"My lord, don't worry, Liu will never disappoint my lord's life-saving grace!"

Talking to himself, he walked to the table again and raised his hand to write a letter. It was a letter to several generals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, some with the surname Zeng and some with the surname Li. The content related to the "emerging industry" of contract labor, of course, is indispensable to the extremely flexible payment method that American foreign companies can accept.

In the early morning of the next day, ten clipper boats arrived at Tanhu Mountain. Li Fugui, who had received the news, had already made preparations for the long voyage.More than [-] men and women stood blankly by the pier, looking at the eight ocean-going ships in the bay. Although they didn't know what was waiting for them, they still subconsciously felt cold—this time, I am afraid that they will never go. back.

But they didn't dare to resist, they just let out a long sigh as if accepting their fate.

"If you don't want to board the boat, then I'll hand you over to Long Mao..."

In Changmao's hands, isn't that a dead end?

Hey, I would rather be a dog of peace than a chaotic person!

With almost desperate eyes, people boarded the boat and squeezed into the narrow and dark cabin. While lying on the narrow beds, in the dim cabin, Song Yu looked at her sister and asked.

"Sister, where are we going?"

"Didn't you say, go to Nanhua?"

"Where is Nanhua?"

Nobody knows.

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