Late Ming sea owl

Chapter 4 Ambition in the Hammock
After Lao Wang left, the atmosphere in the stilted house suddenly dropped to freezing point.Shi Wusi said nothing, and even Qizai, who was always lively, was silent.

Zhu Niang stood there for a long time holding the kitchen knife, biting her lips tightly, her long eyelashes were misty, but she did not shed any tears after all.

Suddenly she felt a big hand on her shoulder, and Lin Hai's voice came to her ear: "Zhu Niang, how much money does your family owe? I'll think of something for you."

Zhu Niang shrank her nose when she heard this and said angrily: "You have no money, so stop trying to coax me."

Lin Hai smiled faintly: "What can I do to coax you? There is really no other way. I will take you away. If you hate Lao Wang, I will kill him for you before running away to repay your kindness."

Zhu Niang turned around and stared at Lin Hai for a while, seemingly moved.The Dan people make boats their home and are inherently mobile. Although there are boat households, there are also many black households who have fled from other places.Compared with farmers who are tied to the land, the government's control over the people is much weaker.

However, Shi Wusi was timid and fearful. When he heard about the killing, his face turned pale with fright. Seeing that his daughter did not speak, he had to dissuade him personally: "You can't do it, you can't do it. Brother Lin, you...really do it. Buying and selling?”

"Seriously, I have done the murder business a few times." Lin Hai spoke the truth, his tone leaving no room for doubt.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment, and Lin Hai said again: "If you think it's feasible, then trick Lao Wang here tomorrow night, I'll tie him into a rice dumpling, and we'll run away in a small boat overnight. When we get to Lingding Ocean, we'll throw him into the sea to feed him. Fish. Then we will go to Haojing and look for an opportunity to go overseas on a sea ship..."

"Go abroad!" Qizai was very excited when he heard this plan, but was scolded by Shi Wusi.

Seeing that Lin Hai didn't listen to him at all, the old man had no choice but to ask his daughter for help: "Nanny, please advise this brother Lin... Lin Haihaohan."

"Are you really going to kill someone for me?" Zhu Niang almost scared her father to death.

"You saved my life. As long as you say kill, I will kill." Lin Hai's attitude was very bachelor. Anyway, he had just come to this world and had nothing to worry about. The only person who was kind to him was the girl in front of him.

Zhu Niang shook her head and said, "I didn't save you because I wanted you to repay your kindness. I have my own way of doing this, so you don't have to worry about it."

As she spoke, she pulled Shi Wusi's clothes and said, "Abba, come out and I'll say a few words to you."

The Shi family's father and daughter went to whisper outside the house, and Lin Hai could roughly guess why they wanted to avoid him.Although they only got along for a day, he always looked at people with a very vicious eye. There was no way that Zhu Niang would give in to Lao Wang, and most of the solutions she suggested were still applied to the old clam that had not yet been opened.

This made Lin Hai even more interested in the old clam. How much were the beads inside worth?That's what made Zhu Niang so wary of him, especially after he expressed his willingness to kill for her.

After a while of burning incense, Shi Wusi returned to the stilted house alone. Lin Hai wondered: "Why didn't Mother Zhu come back?"

"I'm angry, I'm sleeping on the boat." Shi Wusi shook his head with a helpless look on his face. He pointed to the hammock hanging inside, "That's Zhu Niang's bed. She said she would let you sleep on it." It seems that his father The two women were not having a pleasant conversation. Lin Hai was a little confused. If the old clam was really valuable, this matter should be easily solved. Why are there still quarrels?

It was a starless and moonless night, and Lin Hai lay in the hammock with no intention of sleeping.When the sounds of the Shi family's ancestors and grandchildren came from the outer room, he suddenly opened his eyes, rolled up the sleeves of his coat, and revealed the watch on his left wrist.

Using the luminous light on the dial, Lin Hai alternately pressed several buttons on the watch.Suddenly, a beam of light shot out from the dial, making him dizzy.He pointed the dial at the wooden wall in front of him, and the desktop of a dedicated operating system came into view.

Lin Hai quickly operated the few buttons and quickly found the installation file for a navigation game from the memory card. After searching for a long time, a game map was projected on the wooden wall.

This is a world map from the 17th century, which is far more accurate than all the maps of the East and West of this era. It also marks the major port cities in the Age of Discovery, as well as the main commodities and natural resources produced locally.

Lin Hai zoomed in on East Asia, his eyes wandered back and forth in the blue sea, and finally settled on the northern part of Taiwan Island.The two ports of Keelung and Tamsui are marked there, as well as the locations of Keelung Coal Mine, Jinguashi Gold Mine and Datun Sulfur Valley. The main commodities are deerskin, sulfur and placer gold.

There are no anti-smuggling police these days, and the Ming Dynasty's Southeast China Sea ban is in name only.The indigenous people here are still in the state of primitive village communities, and their civilization process lags far behind the major islands in Southeast Asia. If we build a sea ship and occupy a piece of territory here...

Lin Haizheng was thinking wildly when he suddenly noticed that Keelung on the map was marked "1626 West Occupation". 1626, isn’t that the sixth year of the Apocalypse?
Lin Hai seemed to have been poured cold water on his head. Since Legazpi, the first governor of the Philippines, the Spaniards have been operating in Asia for half a century.Based on his current start with one watch, the development time of more than a year is too short and far from enough to compete with the Spaniards.

His eyes moved northward along the Ryukyu Islands and Japanese Archipelago to Northeast Asia, where Europeans had not yet set foot.Sakhalin, Hokkaido, the four northern islands...these islands did not attract attention until more than 200 years ago, and the old man and the little devil almost lost their minds over this.

There are abundant coal, timber, fur and fishery resources here. The indigenous people are the Kiriki and Ainu people who make a living by fishing and hunting. The progress of civilization is not much better than that of the indigenous people in Taiwan.It can be said that there are almost no fatal shortcomings except that the climate is too cold and there is no ice-free port all year round.

Sakhalin is not far from densely populated Japan and North Korea, so market channels are not difficult to develop.Navigation is not a big problem. Although there is no ready-made mature route, Lin Hai can solve it through accurate longitude and latitude measurements.

To measure latitude, just use the ancient technique of pointing stars across the ocean. As for longitude, his watch is a measuring tool that is hundreds of years ahead of this era.Of course, sailing in unfamiliar waters will always face many dangers, but the word stability has never been in his dictionary.

More importantly, Sakhalin is located behind Houjin and controls the entrance to the sea of ​​Heilongjiang.Going upstream from the Heilongjiang River and southward through the Songhua River, you can penetrate directly into the heart of the Nenhorqin tribe, and the latter is the most staunch ally of the Jiannu in the Mongolian grasslands.

Thinking of this, Lin Hai seemed to feel that the blood flow in his body accelerated and his body felt a little warm.

As long as there is enough start-up capital, even a hundred people and an armed merchant ship can do a lot in that virgin land that no one cares about.

"Money, the top priority is to find a way to earn enough money to go overseas." Lin Hai stared at the map and thought for a while, finally feeling sleepy, and fell into a dream.

(End of this chapter)