After these lovely boys drank their wine, they all talked more.

His face was flushed, and his eyes looked like he was about to fall asleep, but he was trying to keep them open.

The more they talked, some people began to cry when they remembered their parents, who had forgotten what they looked like. The venting of emotions came quickly, but went slowly, and the whining cry lasted for a long time.

Liu Yu simply gave them a holiday, so that they didn't have to go to class these days, just pack up the items to prepare.

sent a few henchmen to follow, and took care of the lives of these children after going there.

I thought of sending one more henchman to Europe to lure Harrison, who had already made the H1 marine clock, over.

But after thinking about it, although the British side gives rewards buckle ropes, but the technical blockade is very set, and the British have always been like this: I can't get it, but if you want to get it, I will try to disgust you.

It is estimated that even if you come up with 20,000 or 30,000 pounds, it will be difficult to make the trip.

In addition, the thing was completely handmade, so it was too difficult to learn and could not be mass-produced at all, so I hesitated for a long time and finally gave up.

The treasures of longitude measurement are all pressed on the star map and the nautical astronomical calendar, and I only hope that Euler will give a little strength and lay a good mathematical foundation for the astronomical almanac as soon as possible.

As the monsoon approached, all the preparations were completed.

Liu Yu didn't believe in ghosts and gods at all, but before setting sail this time, he still took the officers on the Free Trade to Long Island in Yantai.

In front of the Mazu Temple of the Xianying Palace on Long Island, I worshiped carefully and prayed for the blessing of Mazu Niangniang.

This event was of great significance, and if successful, would arouse the interest of maritime merchants in Europe; If it fails, not only will his most henchmen in the navy die, but it is likely that the plan of the Dashun maritime merchants to get out of Malacca will completely fail.

The officers on Weihaiwei and Liugong Island saw Liu Yu go to the temple to worship the gods for the first time, and they all knew that this time was of great significance, and they could also guess the danger.

Even if Bering and others wanted to explore the Americas, Liu Yu never burned incense and prayed for blessings, which shows the weight of this voyage.

Returning from Xianying Palace, the wind direction changed in October, and Liu Gongdao set off a long list of artillery battles.

The steamed buns boarded the ship and set sail, first to Songjiang, where they were loaded with tea and silk, and then to Fujian, where they were filled with porcelain and rhubarb.

and two Swedish merchant ships formed a flotilla and set sail from Fujian on this journey to Europe.

At the same time as the Free Trade set sail in Fujian, a Chinese merchant ship bound for Batavia was counting its heads.

This ship has nothing to do with Liu Yu.

More than 100 ragged and dull-eyed bankrupt peasants continued the road to Nanyang since the opening of the Dashun trade.

The bow of the ship is familiar with the road, and I don't know how many times I have run Batavia.

The bookkeepers are checking the contract, and these illiterate poor families who go to Nanyang want to listen to the bookkeepers read the contract clearly.

"Taixing eighteen years, months, days. Because his family was poor and had no way to make a living, he went to Nanyang. The arrears of the ship fare will be paid by the host's family after arriving in Nanyang. Advance the ship's fare and repay the ...... for the work in the future"

After reading the contract, which was almost a contract slave, and making sure that all the people understood it, the poor and illiterate people put their handprints on it.

They don't know what fate will befall them, but they know they can't survive on the shore.

The land is gone, and there is little land in Fujian, even if Fujian popularized sweet potatoes as early as the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is still not enough to eat.

Wives and children can sell everything they can sell, of course, most people don't have it at all, except for going to the South Seas, there is no other way to make a living.

I heard that going over there, taking care of food and housing, is to work for people, chop sugar cane, boil sugar, and sound okay, at least better than starving to death here.

With a glimmer of anticipation for the future, the poor set foot on the boat to Batavia.

The difference from the slave ship is not very big, a group of people are densely packed in the small space, pooping and peeing need to queue up, and the smell of fishy and filthy smell is all over the cabin.

There wasn't much cargo in the ship, and the captain would come every day and throw the sick into the sea.

I just hope I don't die too much.

Now the business in Batavia is not good, so I point to selling some slave labor to make a little money, and when I come back, I will bring some spices and so on.

Since the Austrian Ostend Company collected a wave of tea hoarding here a few years ago, causing the Dutch to abandon Batavia as a transit station and send a China Trade Commission from Amsterdam instead, Dashun's switch policy has completely made the original maritime merchants who were second-way dealers have no way to live.

The Dutch buy tea directly in Guangdong and Fujian.

On the other hand, the Batavian side often seized merchant ships, so that the maritime merchants could hardly make money going to Batavia, and could only sell some people to avoid empty ships.

Instead of selling to the Dutch, the Dutch were worried that the increasing number of Chinese in Batavia would be difficult to control, so they introduced various policies to control the entry of Chinese in Batavia.

Rather, they are sold to local "compatriots", and that is the one who really buys slave labor.

In the bumpy cabin, the captain drank wine, ate wine and food with a few deputies, and said with a smile: "These poor ghosts are on the boat, but they can't get off!" When I got there, I didn't have a residence permit for the Dutch, so I had to work in the sugar cane plantations. Dare to run, dare to ask for more money, how many years has the owner of the family been there? Just tell the Dutch that if you don't have a residence permit, you have to dig the river embankment and do the hard work, or you might as well work in a sugar cane plantation for the rest of your life. ”

A few deputies also laughed, anyway, when they got to sea, those deceptive faces didn't need to be kept anymore.

In order to prevent the Chinese from having the power to resist, the Dutch "mercifully" exempted the Chinese from military service, but had to pay a poll tax.

As a result, the Chinese are almost a herd of pigs and sheep to be slaughtered, with no experience as a soldier and no strong organization.

I found some wealthy Chinese businessmen to be tax collectors, indirectly ruled, and used China to control China, and the bitter hatred and contradictions were all pressed on those tax collectors who were dogs, and no one would soberly tell them that the truth of cruel oppression was the Dutch behind them.

The sugar cane plantations invested by wealthy Chinese businessmen required a large number of laborers.

Chinese laborers, on the other hand, need to apply for a cumbersome residence permit, and secondly, they need to pay a poll tax.

Under the tax package system, it is impossible to collect the poll tax from everyone, and the Dutch do not have such grassroots control in Nanyang, so they can only rely on the tax collector to collect it.

The plantation owners concealed the slave laborers and did not need to pay a poll tax, but only paid a bribe to the tax collectors.

In the same way, if these slave workers can't stand the pain and want to run, they will be beaten by the tax collector with people, or they will make an example of the Dutch, and a few troublemakers will be caught by the Dutch, and as a black household without a residence permit, they will have to work as slave labor for the Dutch, build dikes, and die.

The small merchants and peddlers in Batavia hated the rich merchants and tax collectors who were used by the Dutch as a way to pass on the contradictions; The slave workers in the sugar cane plantations also hated the owners of the plantations, who were all compatriots and spoke the same dialect.

At the instigation of the Dutch, the Chinese in Nanyang almost became two ethnic groups, and they were completely scattered: rich, educated, and capable people were dogs; Those who have no money, many people, and the strength to protect their lives, but they hate the dogs first, and no one tells them that the real oppressors are hiding behind them.

The owners of the ships in Batavia couldn't make a fuss about these things, and they didn't care.

They know what they're selling. But to them, it's just a business.

The Dutch went directly to Guangdong and Fujian to buy tea and porcelain, and Batavia no longer needed these maritime merchants to do transit, and they could sell and sell people, and it was better to be empty in the past.

But before setting sail, they saw the free trade number of the trading company, which brought some shock.

"I said, have you seen it? That trading company's galleon? When will they be able to build such a big ship? It's bigger than the big ships of the Westerners. ”

Taking a sip of wine, the captain sighed at what he had seen before setting sail in Fujian, the huge shadow of the big ship making his sea ship look like a small boat.

"Then there's still something you can't see? Stop and pretend to be tea in Fujian...... Otherwise, people are big dealers. Damn, if you can sell tea to those Western ghosts, who wants to sell people? ”

"That ship is so big, if you go to the Western Ocean, it won't cost 100,000 taels of silver?"

With seven points of envy and three points of sourness, these people on the ship were also unhappy.

The arms can't twist the thighs, the Westerners have such a big company, guns, cannons and warships, where can they, the scattered shipowners, compete with the Westerners? Unless someone organizes it, but the court does not organize it, and it is taboo to organize it privately.

A few years ago, when I went to Batavia to transport tea, I was detained by the Dutch, and seeing that the interest rate was increasing day by day and the tea was gradually aging, I could only sell it at the low price given by the Dutch.

Although he made an oath, he will only go to Batavia to transport tea in the future, but it can only end here, and this anger can only be swallowed, otherwise what can he do?

"Those big businessmen and women all ran to Songjiang a few days ago to buy shares. It's a pity that we don't have a lot of money, and by the time we get the news, the shares will be all divided. Think about it, if you can do this, who will do this kind of business? ”

The owner of the ship talked sourly about the turmoil caused in Fujian a few days ago, and several deputies also muttered: "No way, the people over there have the ability." Zhangzhou helped Fuzhou help those people who ran to the East, they all lost their temper, what can they do? Who is behind the scenes? Fuzhou Gang and Zhangzhou Gang run the backstage of the East, how can they compare to others? ”

"Let me say that this business is getting harder and harder in the future. Selling people is not very profitable, and it saves empty ships. Have you heard that the price of sugar in Bacheng has dropped again? ”

They hadn't studied much economics, but they knew that if the price of sugar dropped, it would be difficult to do the sugar plantation.

Sugar cane plantations are difficult to make, and the price of slave labor is low, and it may not even be sold. Slave laborers can't be sold, so they have to make a single trip to Batavia, and they can't make a few dollars if they make a single trip.

The owner of the ship said helplessly: "Take a look, if the business really can't be done after a while, take the boat to Songjiang and see if you can buy stocks or something?" When there are many people, there is great energy. Why are Westerners? Isn't it just because there is a big company with a lot of people, a lot of money, a lot of ships, and a lot of guns? ”

"Always stop our ship, do you see if they dare to stop the free trade?"

The Free Trade is just an armed merchant ship, and it really can't beat the cruiser that Liu Yu has been complaining about.

But such a large ship, and it is also a Chinese ship, appeared in the South Seas for the first time since Zheng He, and may even go to Europe for the first time, which still brought a great impact to the maritime merchants of the South Seas.