Chapter 24 Providence is unpredictable

The ship is there, and then there are the accompanying personnel, you must know how far the journey is, and the Marquis did not leave an exact record in his travel record, and he is really not confident that he can find the legendary Huaxia Kingdom alone.

And that's not all, the three brigs also need to be piloted by almost a hundred sailors, and without manpower, all plans are impossible.

Now that he had made up his mind to travel to China to pan for gold, James made a devastating move, that is, to sell his family's real estate and exchange it for gold coins, which he had originally intended to buy a ship, and now that he had three ships, it was just time to use these gold coins to hire risky sailors.

But in the face of the unknown journey, the sailors, who were known for their risk-taking, retreated, and none of them accepted James's threefold reward and the rich reward for success, and all rejected him without exception.

Perhaps it was time to move, and just when James was anxious about the matter, the lord of the city sent for him to be found, and they could provide sailors for free.

James, who had been busy hiring sailors, did not know that the news that he was going to venture out to find Huaxia had already reached the ears of the city lord.

The lord of the city who inherited the title also inherited the two treasures, and the two treasures had been placed in his bedroom for viewing and occasional use, just two years ago, the coconut hu used to hold wine was accidentally broken, and the lord of the city tried countless ways to put them together, and he was always haunted by this matter, and always felt that he was sorry for his ancestors.

Not long ago, when I heard that James was going to take a risk to find the legendary Huaxia Kingdom, he could be said to be the happiest one, if James could succeed, then wouldn't he have a new coconut beard?

According to the idea of the city lord, he could provide everything for the treasure, including the ships and sailors needed for James's voyage, but unfortunately before he could send someone to find James, the creditors took the initiative to provide three brigs.

But then he heard that James had not recruited the sailors needed for this trip, and that no one else was able to help him, but to the lord of the city, it was only a trivial matter, and the prisoners in the prison were caught a lot!

In this way, James embarked on a journey with eighty life inmates who had been conditionally pardoned on a journey with an uncertain future in three brigs.

After losing two ships and more than 40 sailors, the group finally landed on Sakhalin, an inhabited island.

Looking at the strange clothes of these people on the island, James burst into tears with excitement, God, he has never seen such a costume, this must be the legendary Huaxia Kingdom.

It's a pity that because of the language barrier, he can't communicate with the people on the island at all, and the only thing he can rely on is gestures, so James took people to live on the island for a whole year, during which he exchanged a lot of 'special products of the Chinese country' with the various goods of Stockholm provided by the city lord for free.

It's just that there are no two treasures mentioned before, coconut hu and sighing fish, James wondered, is this not Huaxia Kingdom.

After a year of communication, James has mastered some of the daily language of the island, supplemented by gestures for simple communication is not too difficult, when he tried his best to tell the doubts in his heart to a kind old man, the old man laughed, and gave an answer that made James want to find a crack in the ground to get into the whole party Han Yuzhi We are married Read it all.

"Hehe, this is indeed Huaxia Kingdom, but it is located in a remote area, and people who live on the mainland rarely come here, if you really have the heart to see the prosperity of my dynasty, you can continue to drive the boat to the southwest, and you will be able to set foot on the land after half a month, only there is the real heart of Huaxia Kingdom, and it is the most prosperous place in the world!" Saying that, there was a trace of yearning on the old man's face, he was so old, and he had only been to the capital once, and the prosperous situation was unforgettable for a lifetime!

The old man's words made James make up his mind, he must go to the real Huaxia Kingdom to have a look, otherwise if he returns to Stockholm, he will not be laughed at to death! Moreover, the coconut hu of the main city has not been found, and it is difficult to explain it when I go back.

As soon as he proposed this idea, it was immediately embraced by a group of prisoners and sailors, and the climate here was much warmer than that of Stockholm, which was cold all year round, and the people came and went several times more prosperously.

But this is not the most prosperous place in Huaxia, so how prosperous will he be when he falls to the ground? Is it really as gold as recorded in the book of acts?

With this question in mind, James and the others set sail again and headed southwest with a pilgrimage mood.

However, something went wrong along the way, and the half-month journey was not over after two months, and James finally realized that he might have lost his way.

On the boundless sea, once you lose your way, you can only wait until the day to grope forward from the angle of the sun, so you rely on the wind and rain from time to time to replenish fresh water, and you have to persist for more than half a month, watching the islands you encounter more and more every day, the originally discouraged people rejoice, with experience, the land is nearby.

But providence is unpredictable, at this time James and his party encountered a great storm that they had never seen in their lives, in the face of monstrous waves, the brig that had survived the wind and rain finally fell apart, and in the moment before the confusion, James hugged a broken ship.

When he woke up again, he found himself lying in a simple house, but he had floated to a small island after the storm and was rescued by a kind fisherman.

Although the language was not fluent, the enthusiastic old fisherman took good care of James, who was injured in many parts of his body, until he fully recovered two months later.

James who was almost swallowed by the sea and picked up a life regarded the old fisherman as his reborn parents, and no longer thought of finding the rich Huaxia Kingdom to make a fortune, and followed the old man to fish for a living, and every day after dinner, James, who was getting better and better Chinese, would sit in front of the old fisherman like a schoolboy and listen to him tell the rumors of Huaxia.

Day after day, James learned that many of the things recorded in the Marquis's account were exaggerated, that it was not called the Huaxia Kingdom, but the Ming Dynasty, and that the so-called treasures of coconut hu and sighing fish were really called night pots and spittoons, and they were not as full of gold as he described, and there was also a distinction between rich and poor.

Knowing this, James was bitter in his heart, it turned out that the gold rush he was looking for was only like this, and it was a pity for the eighty sailors.

The fate of heaven is unpredictable, and after three years, the old fisherman died, and James, who had no worries, planned to go to the capital to see it, and to give an account to those companions who died at sea.

After burying his father-in-law, James took his bags and drove a small fishing boat to set off on a sunny day, and according to the instructions of the fishermen on the island, he traveled east for two days and two nights to Jinzhouwei, from where he could follow the caravan all the way to the capital.

In this way, James, who has gone through many difficulties and dangers, finally found a caravan and agreed to take him to the capital to counterattack, Gossip Queen! Latest chapters. Although he looks weird, with his fluent Chinese, the bold men do not regard him as a foreigner, and tell him a lot of interesting stories and 'big things' in the world.

James was dazzled by the large towns along the way, and it seemed that the Marquis's account was not for nothing, at least the magnificence of the Ming Dynasty city was not much as recorded in his book.

When he arrived in the capital, he was dumbfounded when he saw the towering walls, this is the real city, and Stockholm is not even a small town compared to it.

The risks of the journey and the prosperity of the capital made James completely cut off the idea of returning to Stockholm, and he decided to put down roots here and give the Bond family's ice wine to the people here.

In this way, James stayed in the capital, and with the help of his fellow caravan companions, he soon found an errand - carrying a large bag. Although it was a bit hard, I finally had a place to settle down.

Another two years passed, and with the five taels of silver he had saved from frugality, James went to the city and rented a remote place to start making the family heirloom ice and snow wine, and he believed that the people of the capital would love this sweet red wine.

It's a pity that good wine is afraid of deep alleys, not to mention this new type of thing, in the Han tradition, wine is known to the world for its sweetness and spiciness, how can this sweet thing be called wine, so except for the neighbors who buy it home for the purpose of helping each other to drink as a fresh thing for the children, James's proud ice wine can be said to be unpopular.

James was reluctant to admit defeat, he believed that one day the wine would be recognized by the Han people, so although the days were difficult, he still persisted, but James was not stupid, naturally he would not hang himself on a tree, as a nobleman, he had studied painting, so this was originally just to cultivate sentiment and knowledge was used by him as another means of making a living, that is, to paint people.

The unusual painting method is much faster than wine, and in recent days, people have come to James to paint on his behalf almost every day, looking at the realistic portraits, many people voluntarily took out a lot of silver as a reward, among them, there is Ouyang Mingde.

Ou Yangmingde also came to see other people's portraits, and it took a whole day for James's brilliant pen Danqing to finish his portrait.

Looking at the lifelike self in the painting, Ouyang Mingde, who was originally holding back his anger because he was sitting there motionless, instantly laughed, praised three times in a row, and saw that he was in a happy mood, James took out his own wine to entertain him by the way.

In a happy mood, drinking sweet wine, Ou Yangmingde's eyes instantly straightened, and he stretched out his thumb and said that it was delicious.

The opportunity is not to be missed, James used the braggart and sycophants he had just learned to brag and brag for a few moments to make Ouyang Mingde flutter in the clouds, and immediately decided to buy back the hundreds of catties of wine stored by James, not only to taste it himself, but also to carefully dress it up and give it to business friends as gifts, after all, no one has ever seen this thing, and he will definitely like it.

This is not counted, looking at the portrait in his hand Ouyang Mingde felt more and more like, thinking about it in his heart There is a better way, now the news of this kind of painting in the capital is not very widespread, if he takes the painter to visit those friends, wouldn't it be better to paint a picture for them by the way.

"Shopkeeper Bang, the old man pays you a salary of two hundred taels, what do you think!" Seeing that as soon as he asked him to go out to paint, this strange-looking painter made a reflection, Ou Yangmingde immediately offered a price, in his eyes, as long as his friends in business were happy, it was not a simple matter of two hundred taels.

In fact, James also thought about how to make a price, originally thinking that he was asking for ten taels of silver, but he didn't expect that this old man was so wealthy that he directly promised to give himself two hundred taels.