Quark came out of the small room with a red face. It took him a long time to tell Luo You what happened inside: he was semi-forced to take off his pants, and then was forced to lie on an iron bed. Then several people covered their faces.
The woman wearing a white cloth cover with only her eyes exposed came over and scrubbed his lower body from front to back with a brush dipped in potion.
Then his cleaned and disinfected part was watched carefully for several minutes, and was plucked back and forth with something as cold as pliers. Quark secretly screamed that something was wrong, but the burly man beside him made him dare not resist.
He then heard someone talking about how much body hair he had and couldn't see clearly, and then someone was discussing whether to shave him. Quark was shocked. He was not a woman. If someone knew that he had shaved his lower body, it would be a lifelong problem.
laughing stock.
He repeatedly begged for mercy in Mandarin and Cantonese, saying that he was willing to give up everything and asked them not to do such a thing that would embarrass him. In the end, I don’t know whether his pleading had an effect or whether the other party thought it was unnecessary and he escaped.
One calamity.
"...I still smelled of the potion for several days after returning from Lingao." Quark said helplessly, "These Australians are really weird guys!"
But at this time, he followed Li Luoyou out of the customs with a stern face and said nothing.
Outside the customs is another stone-paved square. While the group was looking around, suddenly a man in green clothes and a small hat hurried over:
"Excuse me, is this Mr. You who comes from Foshan?"
"It's my master." Sweeping, he kept shoveling coal inside.
From time to time, workers in blue clothes wearing rattan hats carrying tools on their backs and pushing carts passed by. Their bodies were covered with dirt and dust, but they looked full of energy. They were all strong and dark-skinned. From time to time they sang "...
"Powerful..." song. To Li Luoyu, who is accustomed to listening to low-pitched singing, this song sounded almost like howling, but it was indeed very majestic and inspiring.
The workers were very disciplined, and there were people holding red and green flags directing the work, but there were no supervisors waving whips. Everyone seemed to know what they were supposed to do. The entire construction site seemed orderly.
Li Luo looked at the construction site along the river and couldn't help but clicked his tongue. How much manpower and material resources would be invested in Lingao to control the river on such a scale? Not to mention building roads and building houses... The Australians really spent a lot of money in Lingao!
In this way, cooperation with the Australians can be discussed. Li Luoyou believes that no matter where the Australians come from, how good their goods are, and how capable they are, the most basic thing is to be able to protect themselves. If
They have no ability to protect themselves, and sooner or later they will be expelled and eliminated by either the official army or the sea masters. Cooperation will not be of much benefit to themselves.
Cooperation is only possible if they can ensure that they stay in Lingao. Just like the Portuguese, his main partner.
Now it seems that the Australians have invested a lot in Lingao. Since they have invested so much, they must also have the ability and determination to defend their property. With these two points, he, Li Luoyou, can have more in-depth discussions with the Australians
Cooperation.
Li Luoyou and his party soon arrived at the county town. He had seen enough ugly houses built by Australians along the way. The ugly houses did not mean that the houses were not strong enough or the houses were not well repaired. It was that all the houses were built according to standard geometric shapes.
, with almost no curves visible. All the houses have no decoration except for being painted white. Many houses are exactly the same in shape, proportion and size. The biggest feature of Australian buildings is that they are practical and solid. There are many buildings, not only with two floors,
And there are three, four, and even five or six floors. Li Luoyou doesn't quite understand that there are so many wastelands in Lingao - along the main road, many places, not to mention villages and towns, don't even have fields, they are all barren grass - why
Australians still need to use this method of saving land.
The city wall of the county town was already in sight, but not far from the city gate stood a circular fortress-like building.
Surrounding the castle are large areas of farmland, some of which have been planted with green seedlings, some of which are full of golden cauliflowers, some of which are full of various vegetables, and some of which are planted with unknown green crops. They are growing very well.
, much more organized and prosperous than the farmland along the road. Li Luoyou nodded secretly, this place
When the sedan was carried by, he took a careful look. The door of the castle was open, and there were several women sitting there. Some were mending clothes, and some were holding children and talking. It was a peaceful scene, but there were people holding hands on the top of the city gate.
The strong one with the spear was on guard.
"What is this place?"
"As far as I'm concerned, master, it's to learn from the farm."
"Study Grange?"
"Yes, there are long-term workers and their families living in the school fields." The servant said, "It is surrounded by Lingao school fields."
"This school is well taken care of!"
"This is a world where Australians will take over the farming."
"Australians can still farm?!" Li Luoyou was even more surprised. The news outside only said that they were "good at crafts" and "good at work" and could make many exquisite things. I didn't expect that they could still farm! This
That's huge news.
"That's right," the servant pointed, "the school fields in this area used to be a poor place, but it became like this after the Heaven and Earth Society came to do the planting. Master, you don't know something. Just put in a lot of effort before planting.
It’s scary enough.”
As he spoke, he talked with great interest about how the Australians plowed and prepared the fields and dug ditches, how they used more than ten oxen to drag iron frames to do farm work in the fields, and how they transported trucks of black charcoal and lime for spreading.
In the fields... Li Luoyou listened carefully and felt more and more that the Australians had different intentions from the Europeans. Europeans, no matter which country they came from, the most interesting thing when they came to the Ming Dynasty was trade, or simply...
Robbery and looting, I have never heard of anyone being interested in farming. Of course, it is understandable that they are not interested - the Ming Dynasty is not their hometown, and it cannot be used as a colony.
The Australians recruited exiles here, built roads and cities, dredged rivers, and carried out settlements... Although Li Luoyou had never read history books, he also knew that this approach far exceeded the needs of maritime merchants-the Portuguese occupied Macau just to seek
Now that they have a place to park their boats, the Australians are building a "little Australia"! He suddenly thought: Could it be that there is another slave building here?
Thinking about it this way, we should be cautious when cooperating with Australians.
With such a complicated mentality, Li Luoyou's sedan has arrived at the city gate. There are four or five Minzhuang armed with spears on duty at the gate. It seems that the county town is still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. But when he saw that Minzhuang remained like a monk,
With his short hair, you know that the world of Ming Dynasty is just a piece of skin.
"Show me your ID!"
Li Luoyou now knew that the brand was called "Certificate", and Saoye handed over everyone's IDs, and then handed over a red envelope that had been prepared for him long ago: two coins of silver.
"A cup of tea for the brothers."
"No need." The sentry returned the red envelope very politely. Saoye was stunned: This is only two coins! It is a lot of extra money for the four people, why is it still too little?
The sentry took the documents and checked them one by one, then checked the luggage in the car. Finally he waved his hand: "Let's go into the city."