Chapter 472: Golden Island
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What Jin Muchen really didn't expect was that this Belinda was not only very good at antique identification, but also had very good cooking skills.
Jin Muchen has also dated several Western women so far, but these women, in terms of cooking skills, are really incomparable to this Belinda.
Candace used to be a princess who tasted all kinds of food, and she was very specialized, but when it came to cooking, she was not so proficient.
As for Jesse, not to mention, she's more like a charlatan in the past, if you ask her to carry a gun to kill, she may be very good at it, but when it comes to cooking, it's only hehe.
And this Belinda and the two of them are very different, while Jin Muchen was tasting the delicious fish soup, she also used the simple ingredients on the boat to create a table of seafood feast with all the color and flavor.
For example, the simple fried herring, she made it very delicious, even compared to the fried herring that Jin Muchen had eaten in Morris, Sydney before, it was not inferior.
A very simple vegetable salad is also very flavorful, and it does not use too much salad dressing, just relying on a very simple hoisin sauce and olive oil to create an unforgettable taste.
Such a very simple lunch at sea, but Jin Muchen was pleasantly surprised, and this was the most memorable lunch with the taste of home he had in the West.
A meal for four or five people was solved by him alone by two-thirds, and Belinda, who had such a large amount of food, also stared at her.
"I finally understand why you've grown so strong."
Belinda waited for a pair of big sky-blue eyes. looked at Jin Muchen and said. She said so. It really made Jin Muchen feel a little embarrassed, so he could only scratch his head and hehe hey twice in embarrassment.
After lunch, Belinda continued to steer the boat and led him to the next fishing area.
She is worthy of being a veteran of sea fishing, and she is very good at choosing places, plus the fishery resources here are too rich, even Jin Muchen, the first brother of sea fishing. It's all a big gain.
In the afternoon, he caught a lot of big fish, of course, they were relatively ordinary fish, not well-known economic fish, but this also made Jin Muchen feel very satisfied.
Feeling that the sun was about to set, Belinda drove the boat back to the port with Jin Muchen, but on the way back, they saw a lot of boats driving out of the port.
Many of the ships are beautifully decorated, and there are even a few sailing ships that look like pirate ships of the past. The people on the boat sang and danced all the way. When they missed each other, there were people who kept waving to greet them and shouting something.
However, because of the distance, neither of them could hear much clearly, and it was not until they returned to the fishing port and returned the fishing boat to the owner that they inquired about the owner.
It turned out that tomorrow was the town's first golden island, the Treasure Hunt Adventure Festival, and those people were just the first visitors to the island of Lohaud, northwest of Port Dampier.
And tomorrow there will be another tourists, one after another rushed over, I heard that this treasure hunt adventure festival is very lively, today there have been many people from various parts of Australia rushed over, tomorrow should be very lively.
When Jin Muchen and Belinda heard this, they immediately became interested, originally the two of them planned to rest here for a night today, and then continue on the road tomorrow and rush to Perth, the Swan City, but now they are not in a hurry.
After returning to the hotel in the evening, the two obviously felt different.
They arrived in the town yesterday, and yesterday the town was deserted, and there were no pedestrians on the streets, but today the streets here are full of cars coming from other places, and almost all the hotels are already full.
The two found a restaurant for a simple dinner, and then returned to the hotel where they stayed, and took out the computer to check, and then they understood the reason.
It turns out that in the past two years, especially since China's economic development began to slow down, the demand for iron ore began to decline significantly, and the status of Dampier Town, as the port of Hedland, as a transshipment branch of iron ore, began to decline significantly.
With the sharp decline in orders from the mainland, Dampier's status as an iron ore transshipment port is declining, and the people in the town are also less able to make a living, and the economy is beginning to fall into difficulties.
In order to stimulate the economy, the local parents thought of developing tourism.
It just so happens that the name of this town comes from the legendary pirate captain, and in the Pacific Ocean northwest of the town, there is a Lohold Island, which happened to be the famous pirate island of the time, and it is said that one of the world-famous pirate treasures was found on that island.
And William back then. Dampier had been hiding from the storm on the island before they were hunted down by the Spanish navy and discovered the Great Australian Island.
So the mayor here came up with such a gimmick and created such a treasure hunt and adventure festival, hoping that relying on the gimmick of pirates and treasures, it can attract tourists who like excitement and adventure to travel to the town and stimulate consumption.
Unexpectedly, this gimmick was quite successful in hype, and it really attracted a lot of young people who had nothing to do nearby.
You must know that those pirates, in the world of Westerners, are very magical, and a legendary group of people, although the records of those people in the official history are mixed, but in the Western folk, these pirates have an extraordinary status in the hearts of ordinary people, just like the status of ancient martial arts in the hearts of the Chinese, all belong to a group of superpowers, very great guys.
So this gimmick of pirate treasure can really attract many young people who have nothing to do.
The two who originally wanted to leave here the next day were not in a hurry to leave, and after a few brief discussions, they also planned to go to that island tomorrow to join in the fun.
In fact, the person who really didn't want to leave was Jin Muchen, because he didn't expect that the sea northwest of Dampier was actually Lohoud Island, one of the world-famous ten pirate treasures that was discovered.
This is also what he found out when he was Google Profile, so he immediately became interested in this island.
It turned out that in 1492, Columbus's expedition was successful, the discovery of the New World, and the story of bringing back countless gold and silver treasures from the New World, which inspired generations of Spaniards.
Countless people went out to sea in search of treasure at the risk of losing their heads, and later they discovered the South American continent and, under the leadership of Pizarro, conquered the Inca Empire.
They burned, killed and looted on the South American continent, and almost exterminated all the men on the South American continent, ** where the Indian women, and left almost all of the people there with their blood.
And they also looted countless gold and jewelry from the South American continent and shipped them back to the home country of Spain, making Spain at that time the first European empire at that time.
During the Holy Roman Wars, the Spaniards were the protagonists of Europe, and the British and Dutch at that time were just bandits.
It was the success of the Spaniards that greatly stimulated the British and Dutch, and the seafarers and sailors of the two countries continued to become pirates in the Atlantic, constantly eroding the results of the Spaniards.
By the sixties and seventies of the sixteenth century, Spain's maritime supremacy no longer existed, and their maritime lifeline was seriously threatened.
Many of the choke points in the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean were controlled by the British and Dutch, and they had to open up Asian routes in order to safely transport the gold and jewels looted from the South American continent back to their homeland.
But unexpectedly, the British and Dutch, who had become pirates, flocked to it again.
In 1762, the British occupied Havana and Manila, depriving the Spaniards of the ability to organize large fleets of maritime treasures, and a large number of treasures looted from South American countries could only be piled up in Lima, Bogotá, and Caracas.
It was not until 1764, when the Spanish regained control of Havana and Manila, that they regained their ability to organize a fleet of treasure ships to send blood to their homeland.
At that time, Spain was already in a state of extreme weakness in the battle for hegemony on the European continent, so as soon as the route was restored, they ordered the governors of South America to quickly organize the transportation of a large amount of wealth plundered in South America in those years to their homeland.
At that time, they were attacking on two fronts, organizing treasure convoys in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
And in that year, there was a treasure convoy codenamed Golden Fleet, which departed from Lima......
The fleet, loaded with all kinds of gold and jewels, first arrived in Manila, and after resting in Manila, they continued to sail, but unexpectedly, not long after leaving the port of Manila, before they could reach the Strait of Malacca, they were attacked by pirates from the British and the Dutch.
The fleet was soon overwhelmed by the swarming pirates, who killed all the Spanish seamen, and dozens of ships of gold and jewels made the pirates red-eyed.
These pirates all came from different teams, and this mountain of gold and jewelry was arguably the greatest achievement of their lives, but they had a conflict over how to divide the spoils.
However, in order to avoid retaliation from the Spanish navy, they had to sail the jewel ships to an island in southern Java, which became known as the Golden Island, Lojod, before settling the issue of dividing the spoils.
Not long after the pirates arrived on the island with gold jewels, there was infighting, and only one group left the island in victory, and the island became a legend ever since...... (To be continued......)