Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 775 The Slave Ship

Grandma nodded, this is a more appropriate way.Yang Shixiang paced back and forth, thinking that after Xuanchun officially became Liu San's concubine, the relationship between his family and the elders had deepened a step further, but unfortunately his children were too young to marry the elders...

He suddenly remembered, didn't his wife's third cousin have three daughters?After all, they are all their own nieces.It can be regarded as my own family, and there is no head of the family, there is only a little boy, so everything is at the discretion of the family?These three girls are of the right age, and they are from country gentry families. They are well educated and reasonable, and they are not bad in appearance.It is said that a veteran is about to marry the niece of a local landlord.

Yang Shixiang seemed to have discovered a new world, and his excited fingers tapped on the teacup. The grandmother felt strange and asked, "Master, what is so happy about?"

"Of course, there is a good thing." Yang Shixiang laughed and covered up the matter first.

When a brisk two-masted sailboat passed through Luhuitou Cape and sailed into Dadonghai, the noon sun in Sanya was scorching the earth.The sky was blue and the sun was blinding.It was a brig of about two hundred tons,

The wind was in the right direction, and the ship was sailing fast. The dilapidated appearance showed that it had been wandering on the sea for a long time and experienced a long journey.The cracked wooden hull that was scorched by the scorching sun in the South Seas, on the surface it is a ship that has been sailing on the seas of Southeast Asia for a long time.And the second mast barely held by ropes, the sail full of holes, the holes and scorching marks on the hull all showed that it had a difficult journey.

On the mast, a pennant has been hoisted - this is Lingao's navigation permission flag.Ships with such flags are allowed to enter ports controlled by the Lingao regime.A strange flag fluttered at the stern: the bottom of the red and white stripes, the upper left corner of St. George's cross in England - this is the flag of the British East India Company.

When the ship sailed to the second beacon light at the entrance of Dadonghai, it was still far away from An Youyue's wharf, all the sails were removed, and there was a sound of fast sliding of the rope at the anchor chain port, the ship broke down, and the sailboat swayed A few seconds later, when the anchor line was finally taut, it was still.

A steam-powered boat was emitting black smoke, and came suddenly from the area around the Luhuitou Navy Pier.Seven or eight sailors on board were on guard with armed guns and live ammunition.

"This group of Australians built such a big pier here." A bearded European standing on the poop deck said excitedly.He gazed into the distance, looking greedily at the piers and towns along the bay.It can be seen that this place has not been developed for a long time, a bit like the British colony in the New World-but the scale is much larger.The fort on the top of the mountain made him amazed.

"God! This ship can sail by itself!" The captain standing beside him exclaimed. He was tall, thin, and with a haggard face.He was a white man, but the sun had painted his face the color of tobacco leaves from years of wandering in the East Indian Sea.He was wearing a tattered long-breasted coat. The cuffs, which were originally white, had become black and shiny because they had been used as napkins and handkerchiefs for many years. Several buttons were missing, and the rest could not tell what color it was.Around his waist was a nondescript belt of bright red Chinese satin, and hung a golden Mughal-style saber with an ivory handle and gold carvings.On the feet are a pair of tattered boots.Sighing, he rubbed snuff under his nose—years of snuff had left him with two yellow mustaches under his lips.

"This group of Australians are very capable, what is this?" The people who were watching were all smiling, "What date is it today?"

"December 1630, 12." The captain sniffed the snuff and said with a frown. "You have asked me ten times."

"Thank God! You let me and the ship arrive on time and safely!" The one who thanked God devoutly was Quark Poong, who had obtained the patent for the slave trade in Sanya from the Senate, or in official terms: John Quark.

As a British businessman under the British East India Company system, John Quark received an unexpected gift during his trip to Lingao: a patent certificate for the slave trade.Of course, Quakeqiong would not give up this great opportunity to make a fortune. Before returning to Macau, he had discussed the specific implementation rules with the elders of the colonial trade department.The Ministry of Colonial Trade gave him the specific latitude and longitude of Sanya, issued a certificate of authorization and a certificate of entry and exit, and also gave him a certificate of limited exemption from import and export duties and a flag of navigation permission to enter various ports in Qiongzhou.

John Quark managed to get on a boat to Banten as soon as he returned to Macau with the treasures in his arms.

The British Commercial House in Banten was one of the most important strongholds of the British East India Company in the East India region, second only to Surat in importance.This is also the most important stronghold for the British to break into the Spice Islands. The Dutch have been trying to completely conquer Banten.But the British, with the support of the King of Banten, have always controlled the shops and trade here.

In Banten, his action of raising shares was not smooth-the news of a new sea power emerging on the coast of China has been vaguely spread to Banten, and the British East India Company's trading station in Banten has been obtained. The message, but the message was vague and ambiguous.Nobody knows the exact details. John Quark's arrival was the first to bring definite news about the so-called "Aussies".Including their amazing iron ships, auto cars and terrifying cannons.

When john quark was in Banten, many people came to visit him every day and listened to his stories about "Australians". However, everyone did not fully trust quark's knowledge—especially the big iron boats and automatic cars. The relevant documents and certificates presented by John Quark are also suspected by many people to be forged.Even the businessmen sent by the East India Company to the trading station were not interested in John Quark's slave trade plan.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of the most ambitious adventurers among merchants engaged in ocean-going trade. Under John Quark's advocacy, he finally found 11 shareholders-including 2 Dutch-money has no motherland.Raised a large sum of money and began to implement his plan.

John Quark rented a British merchant ship "Jamaica" locally and sailed to Batavia. He quickly bought enough slaves-the conflict between the local Javanese and the Dutch was extremely sharp, and when small-scale armed conflicts It happened, Javanese captives were sent here for hard labor.The Dutch thought they were useless - the Javanese were notoriously unruly among the native East Indies.So much so that the Dutch usually do not allow the Javanese to enter the city of Batavia, and when hiring local aboriginal support staff, they mainly use the Makassar people.

Quark's request for slave trading was immediately approved by the Dutch authorities, and he then bought 350 captives.

Then the Jamaica sailed to Sanya—johnquark firmly remembered the deadline before 12.30.The deadline was a bit tight for him, as he spent too much time in Banten raising funds and wasted even more time at sea.

After experiencing storms at sea and being attacked twice by Portuguese ships, the Jamaica finally arrived in Sanya safely. There were still 250 slaves in the cabin-the loss ratio was not very high, and such a voyage distance could not be compared with compared to the transatlantic slave voyage.

After the corporal who boarded the ship for inspection knew that it was a slave ship with a patent trade license, he immediately reported to the police - all the other elders in the Sanya area, except Xi Yazhou and Ji Runzhi, had all returned to Lingao Went to the annual meeting.

He Fanghui also wanted to go back to Lingao——he had been arguing about the transfer. The news of the Hong Kong occupation made He Fang change his intention to become the governor of Hong Kong, but he sent a telegram back and asked many people to test him out. As a result, he was not transferred back. information.He Fanghui originally wanted to take the opportunity of the annual meeting to go to the event in person, but lost in the lottery, so he had to stay behind.Xi Yazhou, who voluntarily stayed in Sanya, patted He Fanghui on the shoulder with a smirk: "Isn't it good to stay in Sanya for the New Year? Going back to debrief and hold bullshit hearings, it's better to be free here."

At this moment, he is in the engineering construction headquarters, supervising the progress of the project together with Ji Runzhi - there are no holidays in Sanya, and Tiandu's iron ore must be produced as quickly as possible.This is the consistent policy.

"What? A British ship?" He Fanghui turned around in surprise, and asked the soldier who came to report, "Where's the certificate?"

He is aware of John Quark's patent on slave trading - the Ministry of Colonial Trade sent them a memo, of course they would like to have consumables such as slaves, especially when they will soon enter the high-mortality work stage of mining Therefore, it is much more cost-effective to consume slaves in Southeast Asia than to consume hard-working and trained laborers.

He checked the certificate, yes, the name on the certificate was the British businessman mentioned in the memo: John Quark.

"Great," He Fanghui greeted Ji Runzhi, and hurried to the pier to make arrangements.

On the deck of the Jamaica, there was a gloomy scene. The surviving 250 slaves were released from the bilge in batches of two and three.They blinked their yellow eyes and crawled out of the hatch driven by whips. The rags of these slaves had been programmed with a pile of rags during the voyage.The slaves were weak one by one - the only food John Quark provided them during the voyage was sweet potatoes.

(End of this chapter)