Volume of Changning Kingdom: Chapter 8 Landing in Shiria
This partner, who had been a prisoner of the Dutch and a slave in Bar City for more than three years, would have adapted to the life of being a prisoner of the Australians. He said that if he was given a full meal every meal, it would be okay to join them directly. After all, Australia
Most of the people have Chinese faces, and their speech is easy to understand.
But so far, the Australians have no intention of asking them to join the team. They just want them to work every day. Now they have been allowed to work on the dock and load various goods to the ship: the Australians hired a Dutch ship here.
The brigantine purchased a lot of rice and other daily necessities through the Dutch merchant house.
Lin Laowu's shoulder was injured when Huang Lu's poor marksmanship passed by him. He was unable to carry heavy objects, so he was assigned to do light work such as cleaning and scrubbing. His life was quite fulfilling, at least he didn't have to worry about his life. It's just that
I am always worried that I have the capital I have accumulated through years of hard work in my "old nest".
While cleaning and carrying goods, Lin Laowu heard some of the thieves guarding them speak the dialect of his hometown. Lin Laowu thought this was an opportunity, so he looked for an opportunity to talk to the guard during his break. Unexpectedly,
The two people's hometowns are really very close. The villages are less than ten miles apart. Speaking of people in their respective villages, there are acquaintances. If we talk about it in detail, they are probably related to Guaman. The other party will probably call him his uncle.
So he found an opportunity that he thought was ripe, and expressed the hope that the other party would let him go for the sake of his fellow villagers, and said that he would "repay the consequences." Unexpectedly, his fellow countrymen reported him in the blink of an eye.
That night, Lin Laowu's buttocks were spanked and a bucket of sea water was poured on him. The pain was so painful that he almost fainted. Then the Australians announced that because he was trying to escape, he would have to wear shackles when working in the future.
Lin Laowu's plan to escape with a fellow villager got nothing but a pain in his butt for seven or eight days and a pair of shackles that made it difficult for him to move. He was so angry that he yelled at this fellow villager that "a fellow villager meets a fellow villager."
A knife in the back."
In this way, they parked at Mara Port and loaded goods for five or six days. In addition to loading goods every day, today they led about 40 or 50 Nanyang people to the Dutch ship. When Lin Laowu saw it, he secretly sighed.
:Are Australians also involved in the slave trade?
Although the slave trade is not a particularly big business in Southeast Asia, it is still a profitable business. He heard from the shopkeeper that there was a British man who specialized in supplying slaves to Australians and made a fortune in a few years. In the past few years,
In 2000, the demand from Australians dropped significantly, and the Dutch had great demand again.
However, the Australians themselves have never had a hand in this business, and it has always been the exclusive preserve of the British.
However, now that the people have been put on the ship, they cannot wait too long. The living people are being held in the bottom hold. Even if they have water and food, they will not be able to last long in this South Sea, so the ship will set sail within a day or two at most.
The facts confirmed his suspicion. The Australian fleet had been busy since the afternoon. Some people on the deck climbed up the tall mast and were busy untying the sails, and some were arranging the cables. On the smaller black gunboat
Black smoke also began to emit from the large cylinder.
Upon seeing this, Lin Laowu hurriedly ran down to the cabin and found Tao Liliu, who was cleaning the bottom of the cabin. He was a young man in his early twenties, his fellow pirate, and his current "comrade in distress." After the Great Shark sank,
Being locked up together, we can be considered friends in times of need as we get along day and night these days.
According to Tao Liliu himself, his home is on Borneo. This is not surprising - there are Fujian people from all over Nanyang who went to Nanyang to make a living. Lin Laowu didn't bother to know specifically how he became a pirate.
"Xiao Liu! Xiao Liu! The Australians are going to leave by boat, what should we do?! How can we escape after being out of the sea?!" Lin Laowu said, "Aren't you a local? We two brothers
Run away quickly and see if you can find someone you know to hide..."
"Escape?" Tao Liliu paused for a short while with the rag in his hand, then turned around and continued to work. While cleaning the floor, he muttered: "Where can we run after we get off this boat?
?My home is in Borneo, but it is far away from here. You are not allowed to get on the ship again? You are not working to make a living anywhere. At least the food here is good. Brother Lin, did you eat as good on the ship as here?"
"This..." Lin Laowu couldn't refute this. He had to lift the shackles on his feet and said: "But we are locked up prisoners. We don't know what this group of thieves will do to us. This group
There's something weird about people everywhere, brother, I really can't see through it..."
Tao Liliu said: "Brother, I don't have much knowledge, but from what I've seen in the past two days, everyone in Australia is pretty good. I'm thinking that if we can rely on the Australian docks, it's a way out - look at the treatment they give to their men, it's comparable
Shopkeepers and foreigners from all walks of life have come up with a lot of force."
It was not that Lin Laowu had never thought about joining the Australians, but he felt heartbroken when he thought that he would not be able to get back the money he had hidden to marry his wife. He planned to take Tao Liliu and find an opportunity to run away. Unexpectedly, it had only been a few days.
Tao Liliu was thinking of joining the Kun thief.
He originally wanted to find some words to try again, but suddenly a shadow appeared above his head.
"Don't be lazy! Work quickly!" A passing Australian sailor interrupted the chat between the two with a loud shout. Lin Laowu shrank his head, nodded, and rushed out to climb onto the deck to work. Although he could not hear clearly.
I understand what the Australian is saying, but you can tell clearly by looking at the whip in the other person's hand.
The rest time in Mara took longer than expected. After all, the efficiency of society in the Middle Ages was low, especially when it came to building a career on the Nanyang Islands with loose folk customs.
Huang Lu and Ng Ting Wei had a very long process of submitting their credentials to Brunei's 10th King Sudan Abdul Jariru Aba who was in power at that time. Thanks to the Dutch people's management here for many years, the meeting went smoothly.
After submitting his credentials and presenting gifts, less than three days later he received the notice to enter the palace for an audience.
As a country that had a deep connection with the Ming Dynasty two hundred years ago, Brunei was quite shocked when the Senate issued a declaration of sovereignty over the Ming Dynasty and the South China Sea. The reputation of the Australians had spread throughout the merchant fleet a few years ago.
Having arrived in Southeast Asia, it is the first time that the Australian fleet has come to Cotabatu (the predecessor of Bandar Seri Begawan City), so naturally a banquet and reception is inevitable.
The tribute activities between the Ming Dynasty and Brunei have stopped for many years, and it seems more like a distant legend to Ruaba. So he does not care too much about the end of this relationship. It is not uncommon for Chinese businessmen and immigrants to frequent this place.
They were not ignorant of the situation in the Ming Dynasty. The Dutch and British merchants who often traveled here also brought news of major events such as the Australians' conquest of Hainan and the invasion of Guangzhou. The Ming Dynasty was no longer the one with countless giant ships in the past.
The empire that rides the waves of Nanyang.
Since the Spaniards invaded Brunei in 1571, successive sultans have adopted a cautious and friendly attitude towards foreign merchants. Although the outsiders have ulterior motives, they have also brought trade and prosperity. The Australians have
The newly rising maritime powers took the initiative to visit, and the Sudan was naturally the same. What's more, the various exquisite gifts given by the Australians really made people feel happy.
Among the documents of the Senate, the first choice was to declare the "Great Song Dynasty" - the Senate replaced all the power of the Ming Dynasty on the South China Sea. However, the Senate did not pursue the past "tributary" relationship, nor did it need to be in name only.
To accept canonization, title of vassal, etc., it only requires both parties to formally establish consular relations and promise to ensure the safety of merchants and people under the Senate system in their ruling areas. The second step is to obtain a series of commercial rights for the Nanyang Company, including preferential tax treatment and leased land.
Waiting for a package deal.
After some operations on and off the stage, especially by taking advantage of Mr. Basten’s relationship with the Sultan’s court and close ministers that he had managed for many years, Huang Lu and Wu Tingwei finally successfully achieved the purpose of their trip. Not only did they sign the consulship agreement for both parties,
Through the diplomatic agreement, Brunei also obtained various commercial privileges granted to Nanyang Company as expected - especially the development and management rights of Seria and surrounding areas. All parties were happy.
After Huang Lu became familiar with all the brothels in Cotabatu (Sri Begawan City) (there were only two in total), the exploration team was finally ready to set off. The "Hailan", "Ye Feng" and
A fleet of two-masted sailing ships hired from the Dutch cut through the blue waters of the coast of Borneo. Seagulls circled around the tall mast of the Ocean Blue, moving forward in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. For more than a day
After sailing, we stopped outside a beach.
"Report to the chief! Report to the captain! We have arrived at the designated coordinate location! North latitude 4°37'00"! East longitude 114°19'02 , please give instructions!" (Coordinates of the 1 Billion Crude Oil Monument)"
After hearing the pilot's report, Huang Lu looked at the white sandy beaches and dense mangroves on the coast and said with some doubt: "Is this really it? The beaches are the same all the way. Don't make a mistake."
"Our sextant has an accuracy of arc seconds. Although errors such as gas differences are difficult to eliminate, the conversion is only two to three kilometers at most..." Cui Yunhong said after confirming the coordinates again.
"Two or three kilometers is not too small. You might just miss the oil field." Wu Tingwei frowned, "There is no reference...these more than 100 kilometers are exactly the same coastline...it's really painful..."
Cui Yunhong fiddled with the map of the Siriya area brought by the original time and space, compared it and said: "I see that more than 500 meters to the west is the Siriya River, and then there is the mouth of the Malai Yi River further away.
According to the calculation on the map, the length from the Billion Crude Oil Monument is 15.44 kilometers. Further to the west, there is a larger Balan River at Cape Mili which is quite obvious as a landmark. How about we go there first based on the locations of these three rivers?
Come back and calculate it carefully? Anyway, with two to three hundred people, we have to solve the drinking water problem first."