The bump in the bottom of the boat, the roar of the engine, and the fool knew that he was on board.

Bao Chao was particularly excited, he climbed up in the Hunan army wholeheartedly, and it was the moment of fame, but he didn't expect to be caught on this unknown ship. He banged on the cabin and shouted: "Let me out, I am the Admiral of the Qing Dynasty, and you have violated the king's law by arresting me!" ”

"The surname is Bao, don't waste your strength, you still don't understand what the situation is." Li Shixian sneered.

"What do you say? Believe it or not, I'm going to shoot you right now? Bao Chao was so angry that he came over and was about to make a move with Li Shixian.

Bao Chao was just about to make a move, Yang Xiaoshan grabbed Bao Chao's arm and said loudly: "This is no longer the Great Qing Kingdom, you are nothing here, save your efforts." ”

Bao Chao and Yang Xiaoshan have moved, they have suffered from him, they know his kung fu, and they are not opponents, so their mouths were crooked, and their tone softened a little and asked, "Do you know where we are now?" ”

"If my guess is correct, now we are in the Pacific Ocean, and the ship is going to South America, and it is estimated that it will be more than two months in the Pacific Ocean." Yang Xiaoshan said loudly.

"The Pacific? South America? Bao Chao was a little dizzy, he couldn't understand these words.

Yang Xiaoshan shook his head, took the paper he had just drawn from his arms, and said to Wu Ruxiao: "Old Wu, read it to him, what is written on it." ”

Wu Ruxiao cleared his throat when he turned the paper: "This contract is concluded in Fujian, China, and I voluntarily went to Peru with my employer on the Portuguese freighter Lisbon. When I arrive, I shall obey the contract and listen to all the commands of my employer, whether it be a miner, or agricultural labor, or miscellaneous work. That is, the number of years is counted from the date of work, and the time limit is eight years. During this time, I am all at the mercy of instructions. ”

"Understand, we were all sold to Peru as slave laborers, and we will be free in eight years!" Yang Xiaoshan patted Bao Chao's shoulder.

"Lao Tzu doesn't do slave labor, I want to go back to the Qing Dynasty, Lao Tzu wants to go back to the Qing Dynasty!" Bao Chao was a little emotionally out of control, tore the painting paper to shreds, worked hard for more than ten years, and once all the fame turned into a loss, he couldn't accept it.

"What a noise, rush him!" A few sailors got down from the deck, picked up the water gun and rushed down at Bao Chao.

Bao Chao was so washed by the water that he curled up and was in pain against the cabin.

"Be honest, don't be noisy!" The sailors put away the water guns and said sharply: "If you are noisy, I will let you eat the guns next time!" Then he slammed the hatch shut.

Feng Zicai picked up Bao Chao, who was washed away, and comforted: "Lord Bao, now people are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, we are all handcuffed and shackled, so let's keep a low profile, otherwise we will be the ones who will suffer." ”

Bao Chao looked around, the water gun just now wet everyone's mats, and everyone in the cabin was given a mat to sleep, and this wet sleep was impossible to sleep. Bao Chao felt a little guilty, opened his mouth, and didn't speak again.

"These brothers are all sleeping against the lifebuoy on the wall of the ship, Lao Wu, let's give them a few places." Yang Xiaoshan noticed this situation and opened his mouth.

Yang Xiaoshan's move eased the hostile atmosphere in the cabin a lot, and there was no sense of tension at the beginning.

Li Shixian was a little puzzled, and asked in a low voice: "King Dong, why are you still helping the Qing Demons, they are our enemies." ”

"Now we are in the same boat with them, everyone has to be in the same boat, this cabin is no better than the outside, one person is sick, and the whole cabin is unlucky." Yang Xiaoshan had studied history, and in those slave ships, an average of one out of five people died on the ship, and the mortality rate was very high.

"We have to pay attention to hygiene, everyone can't huddle together, don't drink spoiled water, and be careful of dysentery." Yang Xiaoshan said again and again.

Yang Xiaoshan carefully analyzed the current situation, in this Pacific Ocean, the chance of launching a riot to seize the ship is too small, if the jade is not burned, the whole ship will die. No one in the team knew how to drive a steamer, and the route was even more black, and the risk of an uprising was too great.

Although he is now held in the cabin, his life has not been threatened. Those "traffickers" don't want these coolies to die in large numbers, although the food and water distributed every day are small, but they are still enough to sustain life, and a coolie can be transported to Peru for at least 400 pesos, and no one can get along with money.

Yang Xiaoshan thought about going, but waited until he arrived in Peru to see the situation, once he was assigned a job, he would not still be handcuffed and shackled, so that he would have a better chance of escaping.

Under the command of Yang Xiaoshan, there were hundreds of people in the cabin, and only one or two died because of physical discomfort, and no infectious diseases occurred. In addition, a few people jumped into the sea at night due to mental disorders, until they finally landed in the port of Callao, Peru, and basically all the people in the cabin survived. Unconsciously, Yang Xiaoshan established his prestige among everyone, and even Bao Chao and Feng Zicai subconsciously obeyed his arrangement to do things.

Peru became independent in the 19th century, with a population of just over 2 million, 70 percent of whom were Indians and mestizos, and white colonists needed a lot of labor to establish plantations and mines.

But the local Indians were very lazy, and they preferred the freedom of life in the mountains rather than the work of the people. The capitalists could not afford to hire white workers, Peru was located in the west of South America, and there were few black slaves here, so they liked coolies from Asia very much, especially the Chinese, who were hardworking and willing to work, and were smart enough to teach.

But after all, it is the nineteenth century, the concept of abolition is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the Peruvian country also has to consider the national image, so they come to China to recruit workers under the banner of recruiting workers, for a period of eight years, with a monthly salary of 4 pesos, and there are regulations on workers' meals and medical care, which seems reasonable, legal and formal. But in fact, in the end, the treatment of workers is entirely based on the conscience of the employer, the employer is good, the worker lives a little better, and when he encounters someone who has no conscience, it is worse than being a slave, and there is nowhere to complain. In this era, the capitalist is the hard-earned money of the workers, how can he waste the profits on the workers? Therefore, good capitalists are rare, and black-hearted capitalists are a handful.

Yang Xiaoshan's shipload was fully contracted by a Juan Ugarte mine in northeastern Peru, so it was not auctioned at the port, and all of them were loaded into horse-drawn carts and transported to the mining area.

In addition, some Chinese on board were auctioned locally, wearing newly issued clothes, usually short jackets and a pair of fat pants, standing in line on the dock.

The buyer pinched the biceps on the coolie's arm, pinched the ribs, and then turned the coolie twice like a spinning top to make sure that he was physically fit to work before bidding, usually 400-450 pesos per person, and a little worse 350 pesos can also be sold.

After the selection, the employer only needs the original contractor to sign the back of the contract to buy or resell, and the purchased coolies go to their workplace under the supervision of the foreman, and some second-rate coolies will shout "Hey, Chinese" to these coolies along the way for fun.