Part 5 Pirate Legend 26, The Golden Ark of the Covenant

Because Tridani firmly believes in the existence of "Solomon's Treasure", on this topic, Lin Feng still wants to continue to entangle with Bai Haishan, but unconsciously, it is late at night, Oretto found that his father is exhausted, and hurriedly asks the guards to blow Lin Feng and Tridani away. [Full text reading. 】

Bai Haishan was still sitting in the center of the ancestral hall, looking up at the god seat on the bar, thinking that he had wandered all his life without doing anything, and tears flowed down......

At this time, the childish child stepped forward and persuaded: "Father, please take care of your health!" Come with us to our house and rest. Seeing this scene, Oletto also began to arrange accommodation for Han Xiaoyu, Zhu Hui, Zhang Gou'er and others.

That night, Shen Mao came to the residence of Zhu Hui and others, crying about his unfortunate experience, we have mentioned in the previous document, the cat Sakurako through the mouth of Ma San, told the general process of their escape from Japan, and Shen Mao said not much difference, the only surprising thing is the origin of the cat Sakura.

Talking about "Sakura", Shen Mao began to dance with his eyebrows, and at this point, there are many things that no longer need to be hidden, so he began to tell the legend and experience from the cat Sakura:

In fact, this brave and cute cat was rescued by him and Jingmei at the Sakaicho pier, and because of this, he got acquainted with Princess Childe,......

It turned out that after Ashikaga Yoshiaki was driven out of Kyoto by Oda Nobunaga, the Muromachi shogun's imperial palace was forcibly occupied, and as the daughter of the former shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Achiko lost her home and fled to Sakai Town under the protection of her guards. At that time, Jingming and Shen Mao, who were sent by Lin Feng to Japan to seek debt from Hideyoshi, had reached the point of exhaustion and were selling coolies at the Sakaimachi wharf for a living.

One morning, a "triangular galleon" came to the pier of Sakaimachi, and Jingming and Shen Mao were crowded in a large group of coolies, rushing to unload the cargo, and surprisingly, the ship did not have any cargo, but was carrying a full ship of black people.

The captain of a slave trading ship from the Gulf of Aden, Hakim, a bearded Jew, heard that the slave trade from the coast of West Africa to the New World, and that Spanish and Portuguese merchants had all made a fortune, so he went to Ethiopia and "recruited" a group of young black men to be sold to the New World. His original planned route was to cross the Cape of Good Hope from the Gulf of Aden through the Strait of Mozambique to the Atlantic to the New World, but he was attacked by the Imperial Portuguese Navy, forcing him to cross the Indian Ocean to Malacca for the Malay Peninsula at the risk of being robbed by pirates, where he was to sell them to local plantations.

Due to the plague on his ship, rejected by the Malay plantation owners, Hakim had to continue to Manila, at that time, the Philippine Islands quelled the "Dutch guerrillas" and the forest wind gang riots, and most of these blacks had a muslim background, which was very likely to bring unrest to the local area, and the Spanish colonial authorities resolutely did not allow Hakim to go ashore, and in this way, with the help of some Japanese merchants, they finally came to Sakai Town, and most of the black slaves on the ship had died.

Just as Jingmei and Shen Mao were disappointed, the musket team of the Sakai Town Coalition arrived, and they immediately blocked the docks, boarded the ship to arrest Hakim and others, and captured the dhow, which was said to be sent by the church to sail to the New World.

When Hakim and the others were escorted out of the dock, they all twisted their necks and shouted in protest, and a cat barked after him, and was caught by the missionaries, and no one paid much attention to what the Collation was doing with the Jew, and the corpses of the black slaves brought down from the "dhow", and even many Christians prayed for these poor people on the side of the road......

After a while, Jingming found that a priest had set up an "altar" outside the harbor, and erected a cross on a high platform, and someone was transporting wood to the altar, mistakenly thinking that this was about to sentence the Jews to be burned at the stake, and they all gathered around to watch the excitement, and waited for a long time before everyone found out that the priest was going to burn the kitten that ran out of the boat.

Later, Shen Mao learned that the priest believed that the plague of the "dhow" came from this poor kitten, and suspected that it was the incarnation of a witch, and that it cursed God together with Satan to bring diseases and plagues to the world, and it must be burned at the stake to prevent these disasters from happening.

The cat was tied to the cross and let out a miserable howl, the priest in black robe held the Bible in his hand and prayed sincerely on the "altar", and the believers waved their fists under the "altar", one by one, they were filled with righteous indignation, as if they were denouncing Satan the Devil......

Suddenly, a fire ignited on the altar, and the believers began to cheer, and just as the fire was about to burn the kitten, a middle-aged Japanese samurai flew onto the cross and untied the rope that bound the kitten, and the panicked priest immediately fought with him......

The kitten, who had just escaped the summons of death, jumped off the "altar" and disappeared into the street like crazy, and the believers began to search for it......

This sudden accident made Jingming and Shen Mao lose the opportunity to earn money to eat that day, and they were squatting on the side of the street sighing, seeing that the sun was three poles and the hunger in their stomachs was unbearable, the two of them made up a total of five copper plates, bought a pack of fish fillets, and when they were eating, the cat rushed to their front and "meowed" non-stop......

No matter how much of a jerk they usually had, they still had compassion, so they took the initiative to feed the fillet to the kitten's mouth, and after a while, the child in the kimono came running with broken steps, bowed deeply to the two of them, and then stepped forward and hugged the cat, and put his face on its back......

In this way, Jingming and Shen Mao got acquainted with Princess Zhizi and took the initiative to help her design an escape route map.

After learning the identity of the child, Jingming immediately thought of Guo Yi, he said that he had a wide range of contacts in the Ming Dynasty court, and wanted to take the childish to the capital, so that she could become a Jinyiwei like Guo Yi, so that she could return to Japan in the future to take revenge.

Shen Mao proposed that his brother was a wealthy merchant who was currently doing business in the New World, and could take the Westerners' galleons to the New World, where he would recruit troops and horses in the future, and then return to the Muromachi Shogunate.

For this reason, the two had serious differences, however, in the eyes of childe, both of them were unreliable, and under the protection of the shogunate's guards, Echigo, who was preparing to flee to the north, defected to Kamikashi, hoping to support the Shogun's allied army and defeat Oda Nobunaga as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, Uesugi Kenshin died suddenly, and his two adopted sons, Uesugi Keikatsu and Uesugi Keitora, fought for the position of heir to the family governor, and an internal war broke out in Echigo, which was known as the "Gokan Rebellion".

Just as the child was in a dilemma, Hakim, who had just been released from the Chord's prison, suddenly approached the door and wanted to retrieve his kitten. Surprisingly, the kitten was resolutely unwilling to follow him and let out a miserable howl. Helpless, Hakim can only consult with the child and ask her to help remove the ankle ring on the kitten's left front leg.

At this time, a miracle suddenly happened, the kitten was able to communicate with the child, which made her stunned at the time, and the rest of the story was even more incredible......

In the ninth chapter of the Bible-Old Testament, it is recorded that on the top of Mount Zion, King Solomon built a splendid temple, and the queen of Ethiopia, Sheba, was impressed when she heard about it, and took the initiative to come to Jerusalem to worship, and was warmly received by King Solomon, and the two fell in love at first sight, and soon had the crystallization of love.

Before the queen of Sheba returned home, she was pregnant with Rolkal, and King Solomon gave her a bracelet and said to her: "If you give birth to a son, bring him with you as a witness, and let him come to Jerusalem to see me in the future." ”

Upon her return, the Queen of Sheba gave birth to a son named Abner-Hakim, which means "son of the wise."

When Abner-Hakim became an adult, the queen of Sheba gave him a bracelet and told him to go to Jerusalem to meet his father, and when Solomon saw this son, he wanted him to stay and inherit the throne and rule all of Israel in the future.

But Hakim refused, and Solomon anointed him with the holy oil of the kingship, put him back to his homeland, and secretly made him take away the golden ark of the covenant and make a covenant that only Hakim's descendants could rule Ethiopia.

As a result, Abner-Hakim became the king of Ethiopia and became known as "Menelik", and from then on, successive kings had to perform a solemn ceremony to swear that their kingship came from Solomon.

After the destruction of Israel, Ethiopia also experienced the Nubia, Aksum, Zagvi and Abyssinia dynasties, although the "Menelik" royal power has long ceased to exist, more than a thousand years later, the family is still passed down from generation to generation, when Zheng He went to the West, they established a good relationship with the Ming court.

For thousands of years, people have been looking for Solomon's treasure, as well as the legendary "Golden Ark of the Covenant" and "Sinaitic Code", especially when Ethiopia was invaded by the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire, the descendants of the "Menelik" family no longer dared to wear the "King Solomon bracelet", so they wore it on the legs of the domestic cats raised by their ancestors for generations to cover people's eyes and ears.

There was a time when legend arose that Abner-Hakim stole the "Golden Ark of the Covenant" from the temple at the foot of Mount Zion during his pilgrimage to King Solomon, and kept it in their family's temple, and some even said that King Solomon's treasure was also transported to Ethiopia, so it became fashionable to track down the "Menelik" family.

In the end, there was a traitor in the family, and it was this Hakim who used the name of his ancestor who resold the "Golden Ark of the Covenant" to a merchant, and after several turnovers, it finally reached the hands of the pirate king Zhizhi!

It seems that the judgment of the Spanish navigator Mendena was very correct, and the "Golden Ark of the Covenant" was in the "Solomon Islands" named by him!

The magical kitten rejects its original owner and calls Hakim a liar, letting the child chase him away, and reminding its new owner not to trust Jingming and Shen Mao!

When asked what it was going to do, Sakurako asked her to help find the "Golden Ark" and eventually return to the temple of the Menelik family, and at that time, a miracle would happen!

In this way, the childish child finally chose to follow Shen Mao's "advice".

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Statement: My level is limited, in the early writing, there are some problems, in order to improve the reading experience, to make the story more reasonable, during the break, a comprehensive revision. Due to the failure of the channels to synchronize in time, other channels except for the website of China Literature Group cannot be updated, and we hereby apologize. Friends who subscribe to this book are kindly requested to pay attention to the website of China Literature, thank you!

Due to my limited level, there were some problems in the early writing, in order to improve the reading experience and make the story more reasonable, during the break, I revised it comprehensively. Due to the failure of the channels to synchronize in time, other channels except for the website of China Literature Group cannot be updated, and we hereby apologize. Friends who subscribe to this book are kindly requested to pay attention to the website of China Literature, thank you!

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