"Big brother." Huang Laigui straightened the hood on the top of his head, and the heavy iron helmet pressed him quite uncomfortable, he said: "I've been out for more than ten days, you just came out, how is your father?" ”

"Okay, very." Huang Laifu said with a smile: "My father and mother used cotton to repay thirty percent of the arrears, and the king has not collected the field endowment for the time being, they are very high-spirited, and it is useless for me to persuade them, so I have to buy them another cow and two horses, they are thinking of opening another piece of land." I said, don't open it again, our brothers can't go back to help, don't get tired. ”

Huang Laigui said with a smile: "There are two private cows, a mule, and two horses, a total of less than four top land, it should be fine!" ”

In the previous development of the Eastern Domain, Xu Zixian did not set up official fields like Zheng Chenggong and collected heavy endowments. That would affect the cultivation of ordinary people, weaken the motivation of immigrants, and slow down the development process.

All the acres of land are the people's own, but the people have the status of official households, and they need to pay taxes to Xu Zi first.

Even if he wanted to develop the mines in the central part and establish settlements in the north, within three to five years, the population of the Eastern Domain would increase to 300,000 to 500,000 people, absorbing many landless and poor people on the Fujian Road, and then growing slowly, increasing to more than one million in twenty or thirty years, which should not be too much of a problem.

Of course, the Huang brothers don't know much about the big policies and strategies, but they know that their lives are getting better and better, and this is the most real thing.

Huang Laifu is a boatswain of a warship, and his annual income has been more than 300 yuan, and he also has a pension that continues to be deposited in the public account, which is also quite generous.

Huang Laigui's income is slightly lower, but the monthly salary, bonuses, and rewards of the officers of the water division add up to more than ten a month, and the income is so high that he didn't dare to imagine it before.

There are also four jia land, that is, one hundred and twenty acres, fifty acres of cotton fields, and the rest are tea plantations, sugar cane fields and bean fields.

The Huang family did not plant rice, and they had to dig their own diversion canals to plant rice, and from time to time they had to stay up all night to see the water, and they were extremely tired when planting seedlings.

The Huang family's family income has been hundreds of yuan, and before that, even if Huang Laifu was a sailor, he couldn't get a few yuan a year, and the days of poverty and embarrassment seemed to be still yesterday.

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The Huang family brothers, Luo Fangxiao and others are all on vacation, and when everyone went out of the cabin and got off the boat, they gathered a lot of partners, Luo Fangxiao and Huang Laifu are both big households, and they made an appointment to go with them and go to eat together.

"Is there any news on the rogue?"

"Not yet, the king has arrived at Qizhou Port, and the merchants and people of Nan'an, as well as the newly recruited soldiers and horses, are all evacuating."

"Qizhou, Eastern Domain, you have to arrange a lot of people at once, and it's busy enough."

"So we're here too." Luo Fangxiao pondered: "The cotton cloth went out smoothly and got back one hundred hundred thousand yuan, which is very helpful to His Highness's plan." ”

A group of sailors and officers disembarked from the ship, and it was dark at this time, but the interior of the dock to the port was still quite lively.

The moon rises and shines on the sea, the boats are still busy, the sea ships are not able to accurately calculate their arrival time, even if it arrives in the middle of the night, there are also small boats towed into the port, there are some anxious cargo owners, the goods are full of is in a hurry to leave, and there are many people who leave the port after dark. Take advantage of the wind and night voyage, you can go out of a long distance overnight, the sooner the goods arrive, the sooner the profit arrives, the owner of the goods is to use the shortest time to get rid of the goods, and then buy the favorable goods that you want to buy, the shipment and purchase have a stable source of goods, this is the most profitable way.

The whole port is like a collection of prosperous market towns, after dark, many restaurants lit up the wine tricks, the Japanese people learned Chinese characters, there are about seventy percent of the Chinese characters in its text, the general meaning is almost the same, some are the opposite, but the word wine is still obvious.

There are also a lot of hot springs on the road, which are used by sailors who are at sea all year round to bathe, and sailors really like it.

There was a squeaky music everywhere, which sounded rather strange, and like the wonderful people of the Wa people, their music also had a unique sense of depression and pessimism.

The soldiers of the government army and the sailors walked side by side, Luo Fangxiao and the Huang brothers made an appointment, and after drinking the wine for a while, they found a good soup spring to soak, although they only went to sea for ten days, but the sailors were used to this enjoyment.

There are many pedestrians along the way, all kinds of exotic people rubbing shoulders, all kinds of strange hats, robes, and all kinds of strange appearances. The dark-skinned, deep-eyed, high-nosed Nanyang people, the short Burmese, the Siamese people, and the Han people are similar, but the black and thin ones are not good, and the teeth are not good, and the white-skinned and high-nosed people are Tianfang people, who wear white robes and are quite conspicuous. The same white skin, but with blue eyes and more conspicuous hair color are the Taixi people, who generally wear short robes, and are unusually tall, generally taller than the Wei people. They usually carry long swords with pointed ends and a short musket with gunpowder and projectiles stuck in their waists, which makes their status even more prominent.

Luo Fangxiao knew that most of these Tessians were Dutch, and they were much taller than the Spaniards, with whiter skin, and many of them had golden hair.

This group of Great Wei sailors and government troops are also quite eye-catching.

They were all tall and well-proportioned men, not as good as the Taixi, but much taller than the Japanese and the Nanyang. The shoulders and back are thick, and it can be seen that after hard training, the muscles are convex, and the waist is a bear waist, with thick shoulders and a thin waist, which is a typical martial arts body shape. Then the thighs are thick and straight, and they have a fairly powerful feeling when they walk.

Everyone wears red tasseled hats, in fact, this is the military hat of the government army, and they don't have to wear it when they are resting, but everyone is used to wearing it, and if they don't wear it, they feel uncomfortable with the light on their heads.

The gray short military robe, cut quite well, has a nameplate on the chest, there is a bronze star on the shoulders of the officers, there are decorative copper buckles in the middle of the chest, the waist is a very tight leather belt, hanging knives, purses and other things, the corners of the short robe are tied to the thighs, and the lower body is pants and black military boots.

Since they were out drinking, no one brought a long sword, but almost everyone had a knife hanging from their waists.

The dress of the soldiers of the government army is roughly the same, if a person is dressed like this, at most people can take a look or two, and I feel that he is a very imposing and excellent martial artist, but the dress of more than ten or twenty people is the same, it is quite eye-catching, and even many people have been watching, as if they have seen the most strange things in the world.

The Taixi people, the people of Nanyang countries, the Japanese people, and the heavenly people all gathered separately, looking at these Wei warriors, many people talked carefully, discussed, and discussed in private, and gradually had a solemn or awe-inspiring look on their faces.

"Steps, steps, you watch their steps."

A Dutchman with blond hair, thirty-five or sixteen years old, with his arms in his arms, the original nonchalant look on his face gradually disappeared, he lowered his arms, poked his partner next to him, and said, "Nick, have you noticed their steps?" ”

Another Dutchman is also about the same age, like his partner, tall and strong, with straight legs, both of them are more than six feet tall, and they are also tall in the north of the Great Wei, and in the Wei team, only Huang Laifu is about the same size as them. The two Dutchmen were of similar height, unusually burly and muscular, and they were armed with swords and several short muskets filled with gunpowder and projectiles, which the Tessians had loved ever since, especially the navigators who dared to venture abroad, and almost each of them possessed several of these firearms.

The current firearms are still quite crude, and the short muskets of the two Dutchmen are clearly an early product, and the rather rough short barrels are made, not even the trigger, but the fire rope is clamped, and when the gun is fired, it is necessary to hold the fire rope in one hand, and release the ignited fire rope with the other hand out of the medicine pool, igniting the gunpowder to fire.

This short musket was made by the Italians, called Shiopi, which means pistol, and is considered to be the prototype of the earliest pistol.

Now the French have been making short muskets with triggers, which can be fired with one hand, and the fire rope is pressed into the medicine pool with a curved hook, saving a lot of operations, and the transformation from the fire gun to the arquebus can be regarded as a big revolution in firearms.

If the action is fast, the power of this short musket is not weak, although the performance of gunpowder has not been improved yet, but the short musket was originally used at close range, each musket is stuffed with several projectiles in the barrel, and after erupting within ten steps, it penetrates deep into the human body, and can make a very deep blood hole, which can make people seriously injured in an instant, and lead shots, gunpowder can make people infected, after being injured at close range, only a few people may survive.

This is not a children's toy, and it is a source of self-confidence for both Dutchmen.

Originally, they were quite contemptuous of the natives of Asia.

Two Dutchmen, one named Van Nick and the other von Nilco, were typical navigators and adventurers of this era.

Their temperament is also quite revealed, robustness and bravery are also appearances, and the inner fierceness, boldness, and indifference, and even cruelty are the most fundamental things.

After seeing the soldiers of the government, both Nilko and Van Nick restrained their conceited expressions on their faces.

Even if they were in the Wa Kingdom and only had a few dozen companions around them, and there were only a few hundred Dutch people in the entire Wa Kingdom, they would always have that kind of conceit and pride on the side of the daimyo's mansion or the samurai's Japanese sword.

The Japanese call themselves civilized, and their civilization is indeed impressive, but for the Europeans of this era, it is just a little exotic.

Could it be that those dwarves of the Wa Kingdom who did not cover their bodies and shaved their heads were very civilized? Those samurai, who were only half their size and often wielded swords in their hands, were the warriors of a civilized country? The geisha had to scrape the powder on their faces with a knife, but the Japanese themselves listened to the music and were very happy to see the geisha half-concealed, which made the Dutch feel quite weird.

Only these soldiers of the government army in front of them, these soldiers from the Great Wei, made these Taixi people impressed.

Military uniforms, military boots, leather belts, the same ornaments, coupled with the fierce and brave physical appearance, and the uniform weapons, these things can easily make people feel that this is a strong army, and not those brave skirmishers.

"Their steps are uniform, every time they get up and down, there is a considerable rhythm, well, it is simply a rhythm of strength and beauty, like the most harmonious piano music."

"Look at their faces. That kind of pride, conceit, and a little bit of violence, that's something that only the elite warriors of the long-time warrior have. ”