In just over two weeks, they built a small walled city with pointed timber and completed the logging of the passage between the port and the quarry. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Of course, this high speed is not without cost, and in just over two weeks, they have successfully reduced the number of "black apes" from about 1,000 to more than 700.

But at this moment, another Taixi merchant ship came to Zhenyuan Bay and brought a boatload of "black apes".

"Where do you say these Tessie people come from so many obedient black slaves?" Chang Le also asked Yang Chaodong about this question.

"Oh, I've heard, after going further east from here, all the way through India, well, you know India?" Yang Chaodong asked.

"I know, it's the place where Master Xuanzang went to learn the scriptures." Chang Ledao.

Chang Le's answer made Yang Chaodong a little surprised, he glanced at Chang Le, and said: "After India, and further west, there is Da Shi, which is the hometown of those who believe in Islam. ”

"I know, I learned it in geography class before. I know that from there further south, we will go to Africa, where our Three Treasure Eunuchs have been before. Those blacks are there. I just don't understand how those Tessie people managed to get so many obedient black slaves. What the hell did they use to make these blacks so obedient? Chang Le said.

In fact, calling these blacks "black apes" is just for the hypocrisy of both sides, how could Chang Le, who has received the education of the factory protection team, not know that these blacks are essentially like those white-skinned, golden-haired, green-eyed Tessie, and are also a kind of human beings? Chang Le also knows that if the Han people are allowed to do the logging and road opening and quarrying work behind, most of them will also kill a large number of people, so it is not a bad thing to let others die for the Han people. It's just that he has to give a lot of money to those Tessie people for this, but it makes him feel a little distressed. In fact, there are many natives on this nearby island, as well as on the nearby islands. It's just that these natives are often very rebellious, and when they are caught, they often resist very fiercely, so it is not easy to catch the lively, capable middle-aged men. Even if they are caught, they are very dishonest in their work, and will always look for opportunities to escape or resist. In short, it costs a lot of effort and the benefits are limited. Judging from the price accepted by those Taixi people, they trained these black slaves well, but they definitely didn't spend so much effort, so Chang Le was very curious.

"So that's what you said." Yang Chaodong said, "I really don't know about this." As the saying goes, if there is no three, two, three, you dare not go to Liangshan. People who can do this kind of business must also have unique skills. It's just that it's not easy to ask about people's ways to eat, even if they ask, most people won't talk about it. ”

Chang Le listened, nodded and said, "But that's exactly the truth." I'm afraid that this method will also be passed on to sons and not to daughters. ”

If Zheng Sen was here, he would probably laugh when he heard this, but in fact, the Taixi people trained black slaves and ensured that the low cost method was not too complicated. It's nothing more than a sowing discord and killing people with a knife.

When the European colonizers first caught slaves in Africa, they also used to organize their own slave hunting teams, but the blacks would also resist desperately, and the result was just like the people who often wanted to capture the soil, with a large investment and small returns, and they could not get along. So then the Europeans changed their tactics, on the one hand, they stirred up relations between different black tribes, and encouraged them to attack each other, and on the other hand, they bribed the leaders of the black tribes with all kinds of things such as glass beads, muskets, etc., and used these things to encourage them to attack other tribes, and used these things to buy from them the blacks who had been captured in the tribal wars. In this way, without the European colonizers themselves shedding a drop of blood or even a drop of sweat, a large number of black slaves were in their hands.

Although black people at that time seemed to be generally not highly educated and relatively straightforward, they were not really incomprehensible to such a strategy. It's just that there are some pits that you can't hide from when you can see them. Because if you're the head of a black tribe, you'll find that what's best for your tribe isn't the same as what's best for the whole of blacks. It would be best if all the black chiefs could righteously reject the colonists, but what happens if you refuse and others don't? Naturally, when you wake up one morning, you find that the blacks of a neighboring tribe are coming at your tribe with axes, machetes, and even muskets from the European colonizers, and your people only have sharpened sticks in their hands, and at that time, even if you shout "Negroes will never be slaves", you will only be knocked to the ground, tied up, and dragged by the same black people to the slave ships of the European colonizers. So, the best way for you is not to reject those evil Western colonizers with righteousness, but to become his accomplice, although this is the most detrimental to the black people as a whole, but considering that even if you don't do it, someone else will do it, so you can only say "for the tribe" to yourself, and then accept their axe machetes, and then attack other black people, and then exchange them for more axe machetes and even muskets.

However, this trick is not very useful on the Nanyang side, because the natives here are either too advanced and have already developed a country, or they are too backward, and a tribe is only so hundred men. And as locals, it's easier for them to run away or something, and their willingness to run away is naturally higher. Therefore, even in the Americas, the European colonizers did not use the Indians as slaves, but transported black slaves thousands of miles away.

As for why the Europeans were able to train these black slaves so honestly, in fact, the Europeans did not train them much, and the cost of training them was too high, so the European colonists were unwilling to pay such a cost, they relied on screening.

Generally speaking, the bravest and most rebellious blacks would die in tribal warfare, and the rest would have been terrified by tribal warfare, and then sent on terrible slave ships and subjected to all kinds of unintentional abuse. Yes, most of this abuse is not deliberate, but only necessary measures in the pursuit of greater money-making efficiency.

For example, the more black slaves there are on each ship, the less freight it will average and the more money it will make. So in the cabin of a ship of no more than 100 tons, it is often possible to shoehorn in 300 to 400 black slaves, and the whole cabin has no window, and the black people are crowded in it and cannot move, just like the Swedish canned herring, so many people, crowded inside, eating, drinking, and lazing all in it, and the taste in the cabin is not much different from that of canned herring. So, the more thoughtful, mentally numb black people will basically die on the road, and in general, a seventeenth-century slave ship will lose more than two-thirds of its "cargo" on the way. Some of these blacks were sick and died, some were just sick, and before they could die, they were all thrown into the sea. This behavior even led to sharks following slave ships for long voyages. During the months-long voyage, the blacks saw people carried out every day, then thrown into the sea with a thud and then separated by sharks. Look, look, slowly, everyone gets used to it, and they all become like wood, and some black slaves even naturally get a tall thing called "Stockholm syndrome". Then when they arrived at their destination, the rest of the black slaves were, of course, all very useful black slaves.

The new black slaves were quickly sent to the construction site, and under the supervision of the white overseers, they began to level the road and prepare to mine the rock near the volcano.

But neither the white overseers nor the black slaves at work noticed that there was a pair of eyes staring at them in the forest.

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It was also when the construction of "Zhenyuan Port" was in full swing, an inconspicuous dhow sailed into Anping Town. After the boat was parked in the harbor of Anping, a Tessie missionary disembarked from the ship with an old servant and said to the soldiers who came forward for interrogation in a fluent Cantonese: "I am Peter, a Jesuit missionary, and I have been old friends with Zheng Dashuai for many years. ”

The soldier listened, and said, "It's Pastor Peter." The marshal knew that the gentleman was coming, so he sent us to wait here. Sir, please go this way. We have prepared the carriage for the gentleman. ”

"It's so hard." Pastor Peter arched his hand towards the soldier like a Chinese.

Peter took his servants and followed the soldiers for a while, when he saw a carriage parked there. Peter thanked the soldier who had brought him again, and took the servant into the carriage. Then the coachman drew his whip in the air with a crisp sound, and the carriage moved slowly along the bluestone-paved streets.

Peter and the servant looked out from inside the car.

"Mr. Harvey, you see, over there is the castle built by the Zheng family in Anping, it is a typical European-style fortress, very beautiful and very strong." Peter pointed to the outer fortress and said to the servant-like man.

"It's beautiful, and it's sturdy." Harvey replied, "I just hope that in this negotiation, General Zheng's attitude will not be as stubborn as this fortress......"

Then the carriage turned another turn, and stopped at a vermilion-lacquered gate. When the two got out of the carriage, they were greeted by someone, who said a few words to Peter, and then led them into the Zheng family compound through the corner gate next to the gate.