Chapter 30 of the Flying Dragon (3)
[Big chapter, preparation for line change, asking for tickets and collection]
The two private ships from Guangzhou were owned by Liu Xiang's gang, and one of them carried pig iron, saltpeter and other things collected from Youyuzhou, and these things had to be transported to Sanya together, as for how to exchange these goods for the tribute ship and go back to Brunei, it was not something that Liu Xiang should know.
The same situation will happen to Huang Cheng's ship, he is only a transit, and even the two sea ships are owned by him and others, and only part of the materials will be left in Sanya for the needs of the station, and the rest will be transferred back to Brunei for reproduction.
At this moment, except for the two 'tribute ships', the lower cabins of the other four seagoing ships were densely packed with many homeless people and refugees, and the living conditions on the ships were still very unbearable despite repeated instructions from the patriarchs.
Fortunately, Fu Xiaofei took special care of these displaced people, whether it was the displaced people brought from Guangzhou, the Japanese Chezhi Dan and other redeemed slaves gathered in Macao, at this time, they were still free to go out of the cabin and lie on the deck to breathe some fresh sea breeze, so that nothing unexpected would happen because of the claustrophobic in the cabin.
Lu Ruohan had already changed to a ship of Liu Xiang's gang with a little excitement, with Fu Xiaofei mediating in the middle, Liu Xiangzi would not mind, Liu Dajiao, who grew up in Boliaozhou since he was a child, Xiyi did not say a thousand, hundreds of them have always been seen, and they would not be a little more curious about this high-nosed and deep-eyed Yiren old man, not to mention that a mere priest is a monk in the eyes of the bandits, and this kind of person has almost nothing to do with it in terms of interests, so naturally there will not be much fear.
Lu Ruohan wants to change ships with his own plans, many of those Chezhitan refugees were rescued by him from Japan, and now he has come forward to recruit them to Qiongzhou, among these people who are willing to go are originally God's most faithful 'lambs', and the reason for the trip is naturally indispensable to his Guan said, because he has not had much interest in the two ships that came out of Wangxia, those Chezhidan were already happy and convinced of him, and although the artillerymen on the ship seem to be insincere, but fortunately, they are also of the same language and species, and they don't have to spend any more time trying to get together.
On the contrary, Liu Xiang needed his deliberate attention to the Chinese refugees transported here, and now he got on the deck of the big ship as he wished, and had already calculated his plan to preach, but everything was not in a hurry, and he only made a decision after determining whether the risk of the trip was worth it, so that he could finally get to the port under the Ming Dynasty that the Australian maritime merchants said.
But at least for the time being, Father Lu was quite satisfied, that Gu proprietor was obviously not like to exaggerate like most of the merchants he had seen in the Ming Kingdom, and these homeless people were indeed not under the Chechi Dan he had brought with him, and that there were many old and weak women and children among them, and that such a demographic structure was extremely beneficial to his missionary career, and that the invisible network formed among these people, especially if women were able to establish faith, was undoubtedly the best channel for spreading God's kindness in the world. Father Lu looked at the homeless people lying on the deck again, and smiled with satisfaction as he watched the seabirds gradually fly by on the sea in front of him.
Garcia, with his thick beard and long hair, looked a little scruffy, but the gunner's face was very white from that of the sailors who had been running the seas for many years, and even less religiously than the Japanese Kishimidan on board. Not born in Portugal, as a second-generation native of Macau, he learned to be a philistine and practical in his dealings with the Chinese, and if this ability to operate a cannon is not appreciated by a certain force on the mainland or the sea, and getting a greater reward, it may be the only motivation for him to persist in recent years.
This time I had the privilege of being able to join the hands of the generous maritime merchants who were said to have come from the far south, and they were still engaged in the work of cannons, and it seemed that the place was not too far away, and it would take only two days to reach the deserted port of the great southern island of Daming, which according to the old men were inhabited by Moorish pagans, and where the future artillery instructors led by him would show their strength.
Because just half a day ago, the brilliant Mr. Fu Xiaofei, who would be the future port governor of Sanya, and who was now nominally the owner of the refugees and their artillerymen, had solemnly promised eight of his colleagues, including him, that their status in Sanya would not be the same as that of the Ming Dynasty or other Nanyang countries. The Leader of the Arts is a real military instructor who is responsible for training these helpless refugees into a decisive force to be reckoned with in the local area within six months.
There was some pressure, but Garcia felt that it was not a difficult task, and even felt that it might be an opportunity given to him by God, even though he had never made a devout contribution to the Jesuits in the East.
However, that Father Lu Ruohan doesn't seem to be a pedantic person, and even has some attainments in cannon casting and city building, so he can't say that he can help one or two in the future.
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Two days later, in the early morning, the fleet entered the Parrot Sea shortly after crossing Jinmu Point, and after a short half-day turn north, it finally arrived outside Yulin Port at noon.
The advance team has already raised the banner of welcome and renovated the wharf. As early as the night of the first day, the Liaoning started the power in advance to land in Yulin Port, where there was originally a small earthen fort for the occasional shelter of ships, the fort lived three or two families, the largest owner named Lei Wensu, a Han merchant, has been here for nearly 20 years.
When he saw the shadow of the boat from afar, he already recognized that this was the boat that had passed by here in the previous months, and the young and strong people on the boat were all brave and brave, and that time they beat the returnees of the nearby Fan Village to the bust, and they didn't think that they would come to the door again.
As soon as the people landed, the shopkeeper opened the door of the fort and greeted him with a respectful appearance.
After all, these people are not bad to the Han people, as long as they don't deliberately resist it, they will give back some benefits, and there are so many fierce people, even a slightly larger group of pirates may not have such a scale, how dare he Lei Wensu disobey, it is better to take the initiative.
Fu Xiaofei not only praised him in person, but also let the residents of the fort let the residents of the fort out in the form of cash payment, although the two hundred taels of silver were not much for the families to divide, but it was enough for them to settle down elsewhere again, after all, this place is not a rich place, even in Bitan Port, which is a port of hostage, it is a remote place.
Compared with Yulinbao, which is deep in the bay, for sail-powered sea ships, it is still Bitan Port to the west of Luhuitou - that is, the real Sanya Port in later generations. Although there is now only one city berthing division in Guangzhou in the whole Ming Dynasty is open to the outside world, in order to facilitate the docking and replenishment of tributary ships, there are still many ports along the Qiongzhou Nanbeihai Road to supply Panber, and these official supply ports are often equipped with health stations and inspection divisions, but now neither the positive amount nor the people can afford to be sufficient. There is another one outside the Baosui Township in the west of the same port Yazhou Prefecture City, called Wanglou Port, just at the mouth of the Wanglou River, when the fleet went north to Guangzhou before, it also docked there, because of the location, it suffered a lot in the last Li Rebellion, and it was even worse than Bitan.
And the inspection of these two ports, the post station is often the nearby villagers to serve, weekdays farming, in case of a boat docking, will be the native products and the merchants on the ship trade, outside the port of Bitan has already formed a spontaneous market, it is called Sanya City, but than the later generations of the city of the same name do not know how much smaller, and because of the relationship of competition for profit, often the nearby Han people, Li Min and Fan Village will have many contradictions and even fight with each other.
Ravensu and the other households in the fort were all outsiders in the previous generation, so they couldn't gain a foothold in the next door Bitan Port, so they had to choose this place to set up a village, but they only had food and clothing.
Fu Xiaofei also promised to set aside a store for each of the families in the original fort after the construction of the new Yulin Fort, although he was not too interested in the store Lei Shopkeeper here, and there was no business here all year round, and he still had to rely on a few acres of thin fields to protect his family on weekdays. But the kindness of the chiefs will not be unreasonable, it is always in vain, and in this way, in addition to delaying some time to relocate their families, their original losses are almost negligible, and even a lot of money.
Then it took only one day for the sailors to renovate the wharf before the rest of the ships arrived, and even spent some effort digging a shallow trench outside Yulin Fort to build some simple fortifications, which were naturally more to prevent the residents of Fancun in Sanyakou in the west, but the narrow water depth of Yulin Harbor would not allow ships to drill here.
When the homeless people and Chezhi Dan came down to the wharf one after another from the paddle that led to the water, although they were still full of barrenness in their eyes, they seemed to be orderly, even Liu Xiang and his personal subordinates felt breathtaking, originally Boliao Island and Shipai Township on the other side of the sea because of the rise of maritime private trade for many years, although it is not as good as Macao and Youyuzhou, but it can also be said that the sparrows are small and have all five organs, otherwise with Liu Xiang's foundation, even if they make a living as bandits, those gains are not easy to get rid of.
Time flies, in a blink of an eye, the year 1617 of the Western calendar has passed, and the forty-sixth year of Wanli is also coming, Liu Xiang and Huang Cheng have already returned to the mainland with their respective fleets, and Jin Yanze also took some soldiers and two ships to Brunei.
Fu Xiaofei prepared a considerable gift and went to Yazhou to visit Pan Daxi again, naturally the officials in the city also had a point, and it was a semi-formal imitation of Macao to set an annual levy of five hundred taels of silver, for Pan Daxi and the barren Yazhou, the tax of five hundred taels of silver was not a small amount of money, and Fu Xiaofei used this money to easily get enough military quota from the government. After the year, there will be a maximum number of thousands of households to Yulinbao to respond, and only need to make a good deal of the secret development of the Senate in Qiongzhou can officially get on track.
In just one month, the military camps, dormitories, schools and health centers in the nine middle schools in Hong Kong were built one after another, and even Lu Ruohan simply built a church there.
Fu Xiaofei, who came back from the state city, was busy preparing for the Lunar New Year activities, and the only veteran who could be discussed here was Zhang Kui who was sent to Sanya, and when the situation here opened up, more veterans would naturally be sent, but it was obviously also after the two ships of Liaoning and Changning returned to Brunei safely.
At the end of the year, even the Yazhou Prefecture has routinely locked the hall, and the Yulinbao side is even more peaceful.
Zhang Kui watched the training of the army, and the eight Portuguese artillerymen were already competent for simple daily training after his training.
In order to let all the displaced people live in a new house before the year so that he could free up his energy for preaching, the old man worked hard every day and night, and finally under his leadership, before the Lunar New Year, the new Yulin Fort was presented according to Fu Xiaofei's plan.
The day of the completion of Yulin Fort is the eighth day of the lunar month, the nearby Li people hunt birds and beasts according to the routine, some of the best ones are sold in Yulin Fort, and the immigrants who have just settled down have bought some to worship the ancestors, chasing the epidemic and welcoming the spring, it is not lively for a while, and the new hundred households of Yazhou guarding the thousand households Shi Tweezers came to Yulin Fort on this day.
Fu Xiaofei himself does not have an official position, and at most he will be given a clear eye in Tuntian, which is also the most secure plan at present, after all, obtaining the status of a military household is at least much more realistic than letting him take the exam for a Jinshi, otherwise the problem of impersonation alone will be enough to annoy him. Of course, he wants to gather troops, and Pan Daxi will only instruct the local government to send another chief officer not to do too much, although this matter is expected, but how to deal with it also makes Fu Xiaofei quite cautious, because he deliberately went to the fort with Zhang Kui early to greet him.
After all, Shi Tweezer is the nominal official in charge here, how to use this skin to make the power of the Senate bigger in Hainan depends on how to get along with the relationship with this hundred lords, although the Ming Dynasty is noble and martial, but that is the official who is talking about, it is another matter to treat a civilian or even a military household, whether to give a candy to eat first or give a dismount first, Fu Xiaofei decided to meet someone and then talk.
And in a plateau city more than 2,000 miles away, a young man also has many doubts about this military household matter and is about to be solved by the elders, so he has to talk about it again.