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Chapter 334 Bloody Night
Chapter 334 Bloody Night
Facts have proven that there are many smart people out there, but less than a month and a half since the Shipping Bureau started issuing contracts, [-]% of these smart people have died out. The people from the Municipal Shipping Department and the Governor's Pay Office were invisible, but the black sailboat was coming.
They appear from time to time on the two waterways from Luzon to Fujian. When they encounter ships coming back, they will inspect them. As long as they find that the ratio of cargo and silver loaded is wrong, they will not mention a word of money and tie everyone up on the spot and take them to Fuzhou Pier. , knelt in a long line and stabbed each one to death with a sharp knife. The goods and silver were confiscated, and the ship was auctioned by the shipping company.
It doesn't matter who you are connected to. The general in black said that he called the navy and only listened to the emperor. Even if the Fujian chief envoy was on the ship, he would still stab him to death without blinking an eyelid, and he would stab him twice more. Then he cut off his head and sent it to the capital to receive credit.
When talking about role models, people always think of heroes. In fact, they can also be role models. The former is called encouragement, and the latter is called warning. It doesn’t take much, as long as a ship is captured and a group of people are killed, most smart people will retreat. Because they are smart and know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
Lin Haisheng was quite smart to begin with. He had already arranged the boat, set the approximate time and sea area, and planned to build a plank road to visit Chen Cang secretly. However, his third son Lin Liang is too stupid and extremely stubborn, and refuses to obey his father's arrangements.
If it were the other three sons, Lin Haisheng wouldn't have to fight. Just with his big hands, which he had used to pull the hemp rope from a young age, he would have been able to beat the little bastard until he couldn't find his home. But this time he didn't take action. He sat alone at the door and pondered for half a night, and he actually followed the good advice.
Ordinarily, the third child is not a younger son, and he has no great potential. He has never even been out on the sea once, so he shouldn't be taken so seriously. Indeed, the reason why Lin Haisheng finally changed his original intention was not because of his love for his son, but because of the black sailing boat.
When Lin Liang went fishing last year, he encountered a strong wind and was blown away. The wind stopped and he could not find the shore. He happened to be hit by a passing black sailboat. Without saying a word, he and the boat were towed back to the port. .
Ever since he was forced to board the notorious black sailboat, Lin Liang's eyes had never blinked, and everything he saw was new. In just a few hours, the young man who had lived on the beach for twenty years felt like he had lived a lifetime away. What's even more coincidental is that the leader of the black sailing boat is actually from Chaozhou.
Although Chaozhou Prefecture belongs to Guangdong and Zhangzhou Prefecture belongs to Fujian, the two places are not far apart, the languages are similar, and the locals move around each other frequently, and they can basically be regarded as half-townsmen.
After a brief chat with Huang Gangshou, a completely different world suddenly appeared in front of Lin Liang's eyes. Things that I thought were unattainable and far away seemed to be around me, and further away there were things I didn’t know before, which were more worth pursuing.
What do you mean by young people? The most obvious feature is that whatever you want to do, you have to do it immediately, there is no overnight fart. Before even landing, Lin Liang took the initiative to sign up for the Ming Dynasty Navy...reserve service.
Lin Liang didn't fully understand what reserve service meant. Anyway, he knew that every ten days he would go to the Zhenhai Guard Qianhu Station near Haicheng to report for five days of training. After half a year, after passing the assessment, he could put on black clothes and become an official navy officer.
Because of this, the young man was beaten with a stick by his father from the village to the entrance of the village after he returned home. Eating a soldier's meal, isn't this a fucking trap for yourself? Not only will you suffer, but your whole family will be imprisoned in the military household, and you will never be able to stand up again. You can beat him to death even if you cheat!
Of course, Lin Liang was not beaten to death because he did not need to join the army to become a navy man. This was said by hundreds of households in Haicheng. They also said that if your son is lucky enough to be a military household in Qianhusuo, he will bring money to beg and no one will accept it. Those are the emperor's personal soldiers, so be content.
After listening to his third son's advice, Lin Haisheng did not take risks. He took the sugar and sugar cane wine collected by more than a dozen families to Manila, and successfully exchanged them for a shipload of good lumber.
After I came back, I didn't go to the Shipping Department to deliver the goods. Instead, I went directly to the Navy's water village and made a lot of money. The main reason was that the wood met the requirements and I didn't have to pay any points. The Navy took it all. With his first success, Lin Haisheng discussed with the dozen or so merchants and pooled the principal and profits to replace the sugar and sugar cane wine with raw silk. This thing is the most popular in Manila and the profits are higher.
But when I came to Manila Port again after two months, the situation changed. Local gold, ore, timber, and rice are out of stock, prices have skyrocketed, and profits have dropped significantly.
Many merchant ships from Guangdong have left the port to find new buyers elsewhere. Only Fujian merchant ships are still here, trying to solve the supply problem through fellow villagers who have settled in Manila.
Lin Haisheng's ship was also parked in Manila Port, waiting for fellow Fujianese to help find the source of goods. After waiting for ten days, what was waiting was not gold sand, copper ore, wood and rice, but hordes of bandits.
Almost several thousand natives and Japanese took advantage of the darkness of night to attack merchant ships anchored in the port in small boats. At first, these people were just robbing goods, but after encountering desperate resistance from merchant sailors and casualties on both sides, the robbery gradually evolved into killings and arson.
Since they had been anchored in the port for a long time, most of the merchant ships were from Fujian and even knew each other, so they were crowded together like a small town. At this time, it was almost impossible to untie the cables, pull up the anchors, and raise the sails to escape.
The sailors on the merchant ships were killed, the cargo was emptied, and then turned into fireballs floating on the sea. Shouts, wailings, and calls to kill came one after another. The firelight illuminated most of Manila Harbor, and the sea water was dyed red by the firelight and blood.
Lin Haisheng was not very familiar with the Zhangzhou fellows who settled in Manila. He arrived late and had little capital, so he did not try to crowd in. Instead, he parked on the outside side by side with a Chaozhou merchant ship.
Youdao is a blessing in disguise. The original disadvantage of being at the back of the queue and not being able to get the first bite of good goods has now become a huge advantage. As long as the anchor is lifted and the cable is untied, both ships can move. .
But the robbers are not stupid either. Since they have already started killing people, they plan to catch them all in one fell swoop. More than a dozen side-frame boats used by the local natives have already rushed over. As long as they are entangled in them, it will be difficult for the heavy and slow merchant ships to escape.
Faced with this situation, Lin Haisheng and the Chaozhou people made surprisingly consistent choices. The captains of the two ships, together with the older sailors and merchants, put on leather armor, picked up spears and steel knives, climbed down the rope net to the small boats, sang songs from their hometown, called the names of their relatives and rushed to the side frame. boat.
They must use their lives to block the pursuers and buy time for the younger generation to raise the sails and speed up their escape. As long as a merchant ship can move, it will be mercilessly crushed into the bottom of the ship even if it is blocked by a side frame boat.
"Larry, put Grandpa down. Save the boat, and the Lin family can survive!" Just like Lin Hai shouted to his eldest son when he got off the boat, if the boat is saved, the family and even the entire clan will still have hope of survival.
This is the fate of contemporary ocean-going merchants and sailors. The more times they go to sea, the ending is the same. They are either swallowed by the sea or killed by pirates. But life has to go on. Even if I die, I still have my son, and if my son dies, I still have my grandson. Life goes on, tenacious, tragic and helpless.
(End of this chapter)
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