The fleet sailed in the established direction and arrived in the southern port of Gran Iba an hour later.

Grand Iba was a British colony in the Caribbean, and after the Chinese hired British ships to transport Chinese laborers, the British agreed to open the Caribbean colonial ports to the transport fleet for berthing and repair, and did not charge the docking fee for the transport fleet.

The waiver of parking fees was a side benefit of the British's deal, and the Chinese certainly wouldn't refuse to be able to spend a sum of money.

Gran Iba is sparsely populated, as Rio Grande do Sul has seen a certain increase in population due to the large-scale transport of Chinese laborers.

Near the port, a group of black freedmen and Indians under the command of the British, pulled the reins and fixed the anchor point of the ship, and groups of Chinese laborers who cut off their braids lined up to disembark and go to the place designated by the Chinese soldiers to repair.

After all the Chinese workers disembarked, Chen Sen and Hou Taiyuan left some soldiers on guard before they finally stepped off the ship.

There were originally no buildings in the southern harbor of Great Inagua, but some time ago more than a dozen free Chinese came to the island, and they cut down the small trees on the island and soon built two simple wooden houses to entertain the convoys of consignments.

After the Opium War, the two-hundred-year-old maritime ban policy was abolished under the opposition of the great powers, and for more than 100 years after that, the Chinese, mainly the working people of the southeastern coastal provinces, went abroad on a large scale to earn a living, with an average of more than 100,000 people per year, and a cumulative number of more than 10 million people going abroad, covering the whole world, forming a pattern of "overseas Chinese everywhere in the sea."

Chinese workers in North America are mainly located in the United States, and there are also some Chinese workers in Canada.

In February 1865, the first Chinese laborers hired by the Americans set foot on the railroad construction site. In the following years, the Americans recruited Chinese laborers from the mainland on a large scale, and by the time the convoy was operating in Cuba, there were about 30,000 Chinese laborers in the United States, of whom more than 90 percent worked at railway sites and gold mines.

Compared with Cuba and Peru, Chinese workers in the United States were in a slightly better situation, and some Chinese workers who had completed labor agreements were freed and began to operate as free men in the Americas.

The number of Chinese workers in Peru and Cuba in South America is much higher than that in the United States, and it is relatively close to Rio Gran do Sul.

The U.S. Pacific Railroad project will end next year, and they won't allow Chinese workers to leave until then, so they will have to wait until next year to bring in Chinese workers from the U.S.

The dozen or so new free Chinese on Great Inaba did not come from the North American continent, but from other islands under British jurisdiction.

The Caribbean colonies of Great Britain were dominated by blacks and Indians, and the number of Chinese was only a small part.

The leader of the more than a dozen Chinese is a middle-aged man named Liang Xing, who came to the British Caribbean colony of Jamaica more than ten years ago to earn a living, and after hard work, earned a solid family business, and married a woman of mixed white and Indian descent as his wife.

The family, children, property and business are all in Jamaica, so after hearing that the Chinese were established in Rio Grande do Sul, Liang Xing did not make up his mind to immigrate to Rio Grande do Sul, but took the opportunity of the transport fleet anchored in the island of Great Inagua, while opening a small business inn to obtain new income, while inquiring about the inside information of Rio Grande do Sul.

"Gui Xin, don't be busy fiddling with your shaved objects, come and help me calculate the account books."

Liang Xing checked the goods in the merchant house and shouted outward.

"Liang Dongjia, I'll be here soon."

The man outside said that he had placed the shaved object and limped with his right leg.

Liang Xing took the abacus to the account book, saw the man who walked in, and said: "Lao Chen, I see that you are busy, don't you see that the Chinese workers outside are all bald?" Their braids are all cut off, and without braids, who will come to you to shave your head? ”

"This is not the mainland, and even if you are a pig, you dare to cut your braids, but when the Taiping Army rose up, those people were much bolder."

The man touched the top of Guangguang's head, then looked at the Chinese workers outside, and sighed.

"Let's settle down on the island occupied by the British, and we don't have to be afraid of the court's investigation, why do we still have ugly braids."

"Yes, it's better to be here, if you don't keep braids on the mainland, you will be beheaded!"

The man said and observed Liang Xing's expression, and found that there was no abnormality on his face, and said tentatively: "I heard that in this newly established Rio Gran do Sul, the lord of the country is the son of Li Shixian, the king of heaven, Brother Liang never thought of going there to beg for a living. ”

"Long hair separates men and women, and if I go to Rio Gran do Sul, what will Ana and Marie do?"

Liang Xing knocked on the abacus and didn't look back.

"The Kingdom of Heaven will not implement the separation of men and women after the capital of Tianjing, and the rumors outside are all Tartars' slander of the Kingdom of Heaven, Brother Liang should not be gullible."

The man's tone was excited, and the inconvenient left leg took a step forward, revealing a section of wood under the wardrobe, and it turned out that the man's right leg was a prosthetic leg made of wood.

"Brother Chen refuses to talk about his past, and I don't want to ask too much, but presumably Brother Chen had something to do with the Taiping Army before, otherwise he wouldn't be so excited, I don't know if I'm right?"

Liang Xing put down the abacus in his hand and looked at the man with both eyes.

The man was stared at by Liang Xing, as if he had a feeling of being seen through. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, I have joined the Taiping Army before, and I was injured and amputated in a battle, and I came to Jamaica from Hong Kong in order to avoid being hunted by the Tartars. ”

Telling his true identity, the man felt much more relaxed: "Brother Liang treats the younger brother sincerely, the younger brother should not have hidden anything from the eldest brother, but the kingdom of heaven failed, hundreds of thousands of brothers were killed, and the younger brother really didn't want to mention the sad past, and asked the eldest brother to forgive me." ”

After the man finished speaking, he suddenly felt that someone was watching him from behind, and turned his head to look, only to find a familiar and strange person standing five or six meters away.

"Brother Chen! Is that you? ”

"Wait five." The man subconsciously shouted a name.

"Brother Chen, it's really you, you're still alive!" The people outside the business inn looked excited, ran to the man's side in a few steps, held the man's hands, and said happily: "Brother Chen, I am Hou Wu, Hou Taiyuan, I haven't seen you since the fall of Tianjing, I thought you were also sacrificed in Tianjing City!" ”

When the old people met, Hou Taiyuan was particularly excited,

"Brother Chen, the prince of the prince has taken the Heavenly Brothers to establish a country in Rio Grande do Sul, and in the future, the Heavenly Brothers will no longer have to live a hard life of hiding and wandering overseas."

"Good, good! I'm going to see the son with you! The man's eyes were red, and he said three good words in a row, but when he finished saying this, his expression suddenly became decadent.

Hou Taiyuan noticed his mood change and was about to be persuaded when out of the corner of his eye found that the right leg of the eldest brother he used to worship turned out to be a prosthetic.

"Brother Chen, why is your right leg gone!"

"When the Kingdom of Heaven fell, I took a team of brothers to cover the retreat of the Young Heavenly King, and I was injured in the right leg in the battle with the pursuing Tartar soldiers, and then I had no choice but to amputate my right leg."

The man shook his head, looked at Hou Taiyuan as if resigned to his fate, and said, "Xiao Wu, I am not the personal guard of His Royal Highness the East King now, just a useless waste.

You go, just as we never met. ”

"Brother Ah Chen, no matter what you become, you are the eldest brother I admire Houwu, if you don't recognize me as a brother, I will always kneel in front of you!"

Hou Taiyuan can understand the pain in Chen Xingui's heart, but it is precisely because he knows the damage of losing his right leg to a warrior that he can't continue to watch his former big brother decadent.

Hou Taiyuan knelt straight in front of Chen Xingui, looking at him earnestly.

"Wait five, you ...... You're forcing me. ”

Chen Xingui looked at Hou Taiyuan who was stubbornly kneeling on the ground, with a complicated expression.

"You are an elder of the Heavenly Kingdom, and the younger brother Gao Pan will call you Brother Chen." When the two were at a stalemate, Chen Sen stepped forward.

Persuaded: "Brother Chen's loss of his right leg to cover the retreat of the Young Heavenly King is something worthy of the respect of every Heavenly Kingdom soldier, and Brother Chen's right leg was lost for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom, and he is a hero of the Heavenly Kingdom."

For example, there is no one in the country today, and His Royal Highness the Prince earnestly hopes to reunite with a great man like Brother Chen to create a great cause. ”

"Brother's kindness Ah Chen has received it, but my current body can't help His Royal Highness the Prince of Servants!"

Chen Xingui was a little moved by Chen Sen's persuasion, but when he thought of his current appearance, he refused in frustration.

"Brother Chen is wrong.

The brothers of heaven create a great cause, you don't have to charge ahead, you have a disease in your right leg, you can't go into battle to kill the enemy, but you can teach your brothers combat skills.

Ah Chen Chen Gui's new kung fu and fists and feet are famous in the kingdom of heaven, even if you are missing a leg, you can still teach batches of outstanding soldiers, turn them into new Ah Chen, and fight for our new country. ”

"Yes, Brother Chen, His Royal Highness the Prince is different from the previous Heavenly Lord, he treats his brothers sincerely, on the way to the thousands of miles, the injured and disabled brothers did not leave a single person, but specially sent a force to escort them in, and now those injured and disabled brothers are arranged by the prince, some of them have become civilian officials, manage local affairs, some are instructors, help the army train recruits, and one is even more powerful, He Yanliang - Lieutenant Colonel He, he was originally a second lieutenant of the broadsword team, and later entered the wounded barracks after the amputation of his left hand, Now not only has he returned to the field troops, but he has also been promoted four levels in a year.

Brother Chen, these are all things that Hou Wu has heard from the mouths of various brothers, and he will not lie to you. ”

"What you say is true?"

"It's all true, if it's a lie, I'll screw my head off and give it to my eldest brother."

"Hou Wu, I believe you, His Royal Highness the Prince of the World treats the brothers of the Kingdom of Heaven sincerely, and I, Ah Chen, will not drag the son of the world back even if I lose a leg!"