Zhu Beiguo nodded and said, Okay, but it's better to ask for instructions, and then picked up the walkie-talkie and informed Li Sanduo and Captain Gu who were far away on the Nicole about the situation here.

After a while, Captain Gu said on the walkie-talkie, since this is the case, then let it be, Captain Gu also said, since we are liberating the slaves, then being a good person must be done to the end, now the scene is surrounded by sea water, they must not be driven off the boat, and if they are released on the spot, this group of people will also be captured by the Sulu State after they go ashore, so simply give the broken boat to these slaves, let them row the boat and escape by sea, and tell them that they can go as far as they can, As for their fate in the future, it's up to God, and we really can't care so much......

Gu Jin finally said:

"I know you have plans to take these people for your own use, but I don't think it's in a hurry, after all, we don't know the background and origin of these slaves, and we don't know how many good people and criminals there are, so don't rush to take them for your own use.

And this Sulu country is in front of us, we want the population of this country, we have all kinds of methods, so we don't need to rush to accept these slaves of unknown origin, in a word, please don't be impatient, let's come to the future, as for these people, even if we have a good relationship with them, even if we take a boat and let them go! ”

This is Captain Gu's reply to Zhu Beiguo on the walkie-talkie, obviously all of this is very much in line with Gu Jin's usual style - be cautious.

Zhu Beiguo conveyed Captain Gu's order word for word, so Ren Kewei and Hong picked up a few axes and crowbars and returned to the bilge, and they didn't say anything, because they didn't understand the other party, they just threw these axes and crowbars and other tools into the group of slaves.

Immediately afterwards, Xue Laixiang also came to this group of people, and Yi Yi whined and spoke a native language, and Wei Hong Renke and they couldn't understand it.

However, they also saw the surprise and joy on the faces of the slaves, and knew that Xue Laixiang had conveyed our meaning in place, so the brothers simply waved their hands to the group of people, and immediately turned around and left the bilge.

As soon as the men left, there was a sound of metal pounding in the bilge, and it seemed that the slaves had begun to smash the shackles with those tools......

Half an hour later, the entire crew returned to the Pride and, with a whistle, the Pride left the pulp discharger.

At this time, the fog on the sea surface has gradually dissipated, and the whole picture of Holo Harbor is finally shown in front of everyone.

Zhu Beiguo picked up the telescope and looked in the direction of the port, at this time he could clearly observe the situation in the port of Holo, at this moment, the heart of the doctor of history was constantly exclaiming.

The rows of houses on the wharf, extending for several miles from east to west, from north to south are clustered with the tall city gate towers in the distance, these houses are usually gray walls and blue roofs, sometimes with red cornices and pink walls, it can be seen that from the city gate tower to the shops on the wharf, the architectural style here is deeply influenced by the ancient oriental power of the northern continent, the stone anti-wave protection stretches for hundreds of meters, on the wooden wharf, several trestle bridges extend into the sea water for tens of meters, where there are all kinds of ships of different sizes, although they are not called poles and masts, but they are also very dense, the smoke curls near the wharf, and the moving figures can be faintly seen in the fog.

This port is indeed one of the famous prosperous places in the South China Sea in this era, as recorded in history.

Although the Europeans had already arrived and established trading posts in various parts of the South Seas during this era, the ranking of the prosperity of each port in the South Sea Sea basically followed the basic rule that the longer the history, the higher the prosperity.

After all, these historic traditional ports have a variety of cultural and economic accumulations, and are often the capital and economic center of a country, so these ports not only have traditional trade routes, but also dense populations.

According to historical data, the ports of the Europeans at this time were indeed not as prosperous as the traditional ports of these kingdoms because of the newcomers, the coexistence of people and land, the relatively single trade variety, and the inhabitants were mainly foreigners.

For example, Batavia, Ambon and Kupang for the Dutch, Davao and Cebu for the Spaniards, and Dili Port for the Portuguese, etc., these ports are indeed not as prosperous as the traditional ports, after all, these traditional ports have a long history and some even have a history of thousands of years.

For example, in the case of the port of Holo, the history of trade can be traced back to nearly a thousand years ago - it is a port that once had a history of trade with the two Jin and Northern Dynasties and the Tang Dynasty.

As a doctor of history, Zhu Beiguo always has more historical feelings than others, but he also knows that the prosperity in front of him will soon be reduced to the dust of history, because the Europeans are coming.

The arrival of the Europeans not only brought Western firearms, clocks, glass, and other goods, but also objectively promoted trade exchanges in the South Seas, especially the commercial forces like the Dutch, the Dutch merchant fleet sold various handicrafts such as Japanese knives and lacquerware to Java and India over long distances, and then brought calico, various spices and jewelry back to the Far East and the South Seas, and the Dutch merchant ships also sold brown sugar, deer skins, seafood, and timber from Ryukyu and Dayuan Island to the mainland and the South Sea Islands, and then sold coral, Rice from pearls, cinchona, and Annam was shipped to Dongyeong and Samhan.

The Dutch tried their best to do business with the old empire on the mainland, selling the rich local products of the mainland, including ironware, porcelain, silk, tea, bamboo handicrafts, etc., to various ports in the South Seas and India, and also pouring the wood, tin, copper, gold, coral, pearls and medicinal materials of the South Seas back to the north......

In short, where there is a market price difference, there is the Dutch, who run around like industrious bees among the flowers, doing the same business as the "inverted master" in this sea area of the Far East.

In this respect, therefore, the Dutch were completely different from the Spaniards, who had come to the South Seas nearly a hundred years earlier, and the latter only used Manila and other ports as a transit point for American silver, and then incidentally bought the specialties of the Oriental continent through Chinese maritime merchants from the mainland and brought them back to Europe.

In fact, to a certain extent, the Spaniards were just porters of silver in the Americas, and a considerable part of the silver and gold from the silver mines of the Americas and the hands of the Inca and other empires (according to the research of the old world economic historians, should not be less than one-third) flowed into the Ming Dynasty, Annam and Macao through the Chinese maritime merchants, although this supported the economic prosperity of the southern Ming Dynasty and the coastal ports of Annam, but from a larger scale, The Spaniards contributed much less to the economy of the South Seas than the Dutch and the English, who followed suit, the French.

Obviously, the arrival of the Netherlands and the subsequent arrival of Britain and France completely changed the trade structure of the South Seas and even the East, the Europeans not only brought Western goods, but also brought their business rules and culture, in the history of the Old World, it did not take long for the Europeans' ports to gradually eliminate traditional ports like Holo in less than a hundred years because of the advantages of global business opportunities and relatively legally guaranteed trade systems.

Zhu Beiguo, a Ph.D. in history, also knew that the impact of these changes on Far Eastern society was very far-reaching, and that the arrival of Europeans not only caused the traditional ports of the indigenous kingdoms of Nanyang to decline generally, but also caused the northern ports such as Jiading and Quanzhou to eventually fall into decline.

Thinking of these, Zhu Beiguo at this time couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, because he had witnessed the prosperity of the past, but for these port cities in front of him, the current prosperity will eventually pass, and after the lead is gone, it will only leave a distant and vague back in the long river of history......

However, at this time, Zhu Beiguo's heart changed again:

"Now that we're here, can we change this historical trend?"