After a muffled "thump", the slave who was swinging was smashed on the back of the head, and then the man lay there and did not move.

Don't underestimate this hammer: that is, to end the pain of the target at once, and not to make the brain splatter blood flow, the power in this hand must be mastered, and ordinary people can't smash this kind of five-star stuffy stick.

"Carry it away, carry it away."

After Wu Sanye struck a killer blow, he waved the hammer in his hand and made a general wave gesture with an expressionless face, and then the two sturdy slaves carried the body out of the grass shed.

You can't use knives, which will cause blood to splatter, pollute the huts, and attract dreaded mosquitoes and all kinds of insects. Although the straw shed will be burned down every once in a while, many batches of newcomers will still live in before it is burned down, so you can't be careless.

So Wu Sanye, they usually use hammers.

After dealing with the sick slave, the third master bowed his head slightly and got out of the not very tall grass shed. He then watched as the body was lifted onto the cart...... There were already several bodies in the car, which would eventually be thrown into a nearby sinkhole.

Standing in the col of the northern section of Taiwan Island in the 17th century, looking around at the beautiful natural scenery around him, Wu Sanye's face was full of deep sorrow.

Stretched out his hand and touched the pocket of the army's green cotton cloth training uniform, and found that the cigarette was gone, so the third master stretched out his hand: "Take a cigarette and smoke." ”

"Smoke your bird feathers, old thing."

It was a young man with a white face, who looked sven, and even a little handsome: "You old thing smokes and doesn't count, so you come to ask for it if you don't have enough, when the young master's salary is blown by the wind?" ”

Wu Sanye, who is accustomed to leadership, can actually stretch and bend at critical moments, so he was not angry when he was scolded, but piled up a smiling face with a stubble and said: "On our one-third of an acre of land, who doesn't know that Young Master Yusheng is a real old man with a family background, and he can still make the young master poor by smoking a few cigarettes?" ”

"Hmph, okay, don't worry about the young master's pension money all day long. In this hellish place, whether you can survive to that day is not to be said. ”

The young man named Yusheng heard the compliment of the third master, and his face was much better. Although he was still nagging, his hand took out a blue tinplate cigarette case from his pocket and threw it over.

The third master raised his hand to take the cigarette case, first opened the lid of the box and took out two mid-range Taijiang, and then took out a silver-shelled ZIPPO carefully preserved with a velvet sleeve, lit the fire after "ding", lit two cigarettes together, and handed one of them to the young man.

"Don't worry, I won't smoke you for nothing. Wait for my brother and my demolition compensation to arrive, brother, your good days will come. ”

Hearing the third master talk about the illusory demolition money again, Yusheng sneered while exhaling smoke: "Then I, as a younger brother, have to work hard to live for another thirty or fifty years, and I will probably be able to enjoy the blessings of my brother." ”

The next moment, I saw that the two foremen began to smoke and chat, and several people in training uniforms who were standing around also took out their cigarettes. The overseers began a rare time on the slope of the valley outside the dense forest in Taipei.

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Jinguashi is an administrative area located in the northeast of Taiwan Island, which later belonged to New Taipei City, and is located between the northern branch of the Snow Mountain Range and the northeast corner of the coast.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side, the Jinguashi area was once prosperous because of gold mining.

In the 16th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1890), when a railway bridge was being built on the Keelung River, some workers found placer gold in the river, and then the gold diggers who flocked to the river went all the way up the river to find the ore vein. Finally, three years later, a Teochew farmer surnamed Li finally discovered a small golden gourd vein near the Jiufen Mountains.

And shortly after the small gourd was discovered, the gold diggers also found the large gourd outcropping nearby. The place name "Golden Melon Stone" is named because the mountain shape of the large and small golden gourds looks like pumpkins, which is the "golden gourd" in Taiwanese.

The originally quiet Keelung Mountain opened the glorious years of Jinguashi mining in the future.

For the traversal, in fact, in the early days of crossing, everyone agreed not to develop the gourd stone.

The reason is simple: gold mines are everywhere, and there is no need to spend a lot of human lives to feed mosquitoes in the primeval forests - at that time, everyone was precious and could not afford to be "wasted".

However, in 1630, three years after crossing the crowd to the Ming Dynasty, the situation changed radically.

In addition to the general premise of the continuous improvement of the most important industrial base and the rapid increase of social wealth, the number of slaves from all over the South Seas also showed an explosive increase.

The vigorous development of the slave trade was an inevitable process of social development. Unlike in history, the colonists who came to East Asia suddenly found that they no longer had to worry about trade.

Whoever he wanted, as long as he carried a boatload of slaves or any other goods needed by the people, he could exchange them for any kind of commodity he wanted—in any quantity, in any kind, in a large warehouse along the Taijiang River, immediately, fairly, and without any obstacles.

The only thing merchants had to worry about was whether they had enough silver coins in their pockets.

Raw silk, which for countless years had been at the top of all colonists' most desired lists, has now fallen to the top 10 of the list, because there are many "magical" things that are worth far more than raw silk.

For example, bleaching powder that can save the lives of a boatload of people or a city of people.

For example, sealed in a wax pill, it is a mysterious pill that can cure seafarers' scurvy.

For example, the Church's favorite oil lamps and kerosene bring light to the congregation during the long winters in Europe.

These dazzling, but expensive goods, immediately emptied the pockets of all visitors.

Merchants from all over the world, who had adapted to this new mode of trade, soon discovered the crux of the problem: they no longer needed to spend their energy on finding the source of goods from the Ming Kingdom and fighting with each other, because no one could monopolize and buy the goods that passed through the hands of the people.

The only thing that needs to be done now is how to quickly and efficiently transport the goods that are needed through the crowd to the damn and tempting port of Taijiang, and then use those magical goods to make a fortune in Europe.

As a result, due to the tightening of the European monetary system during the Thirty Years' War, the Spaniards, who had been living a miserable life, launched a large-scale battle against the indigenous Filipinos half a year ago. Battle of Seta.

And the red-haired ones entrenched in the Spice Islands are not far behind.

Originally, in history, the greatest governor of the Dutch East India Company, Jane? Peterszone? Cohen will die of dysentery last year at the age of 43 during the siege of Batavia by the indigenous Mataran Sultanate.

And in this plane, because the water cellars of the Doge's Palace were sprinkled with bleaching powder, Governor Cohen lived in good health until the Sultanate withdrew.

This year, the Dutch, relieved, under Cohen's command, launched a new campaign against the kingdom of Mataran: both for revenge and for the capture of slaves.

So, suddenly, he found that there were a large number of unplanned slaves in his hands, and he set his sights on the famous Jinguashi mining area in Taipei's mountain nest.

There are not only gold mines, but also copper mines, which are currently the most important among the Traversal.