When Gullit's "Horn of the Andaman" slowly sailed into the port of Batavia, there were more than 20 merchant ships of various types moored scattered in the harbor, the best berths were occupied by a few European-style brigs, and the remaining dozen or so were all Chinese-style Cantonese ships, and nearly 100 strong Chinese laborers were loading and unloading their cargo. On the side of the European brig, only a dozen Malay slave laborers were loading wooden boxes to a brig merchant ship called the Gentleman Ross.

The crew quickly docked, threw down the cables, and waited for Gurlitt to give himself a few more escarins (Dutch silver coins) after selling the entire ship's slaves, and Monte and several crew members jumped onto the trestle along the ship's board, grabbed the cables and pulled them hard to the shore, and when the boat came to a steady stop, they tied the ropes to the tethered piles next to them.

"Cassie! Kathy! Gurlitt drank some gin and got off the boat feeling a little shaky. The inferior liquor trafficked by the French was like a drain of water, but something was better than nothing, and seeing that the sail on the mast was only half collected, Gurlitt called out to the pervert Cassie disgruntlingly, "I knew that this pervert with only a toothpick in his crotch was not trustworthy, Mr. Baku, you keep an eye on this scumbag, those young and beautiful bitches are not allowed to touch it, and if she dares to disobey my orders, you will cut off the stuff in his crotch and drink it." ”

"Cassie's thing is just a pile of rotten meat, and it doesn't taste good."

"Hahahaha!" The crew on deck all heckled.

Cassie is a pervert, but he loves the glittering gold even more, and seeing that the baby in the bilge of the ship is about to be escorted away as soon as the ship docks, the greed that has been seduced for a few days is suddenly hot, and he sneaks out of the cabin while people are unprepared, runs to the bottom hatch, and can't wait to open the hatch, put down the spiral ladder, and jump down after a few steps.

Accustomed to the darkness of the day, and suddenly dazzled by the dazzling sunlight, Zhu Junyi, Gao Sheng and Nina were a little uncomfortable, and closed their eyes reflexively. The Dayas around them retreated in fear towards the bulkheads around them, revealing the three people in the middle at once.

Cassie's heart was hot, and he rushed up and knocked Zhu Junyi down on the board with one hand, and couldn't wait to tear Zhu Junyi's clothes with the other hand.

Zhu Junyi's head was slammed firmly into the plank, which made him dizzy, and he was immediately shocked by an unprecedented and great fear. Is this going to explode my chrysanthemum? Topade! I'm only four and a half years old! How vicious is this? Do you have a meowing look in your eyes?

As soon as Gao Sheng and Nina opened their eyes, they saw the scene in front of them, and the cries of surprise and panic in the bilge rang out, and everyone was frightened by this unsightly sight. Immediately afterwards, a black shadow rushed up and knocked down Cassie, who was sitting on Zhu Junyi, and fought.

Zhu Junyi jumped up from the board of the boat like a corpse, and hid behind Nina without even thinking about it, trembling with hair on his body, like a frightened bird, and his heart was even more panicked than falling into a dung pit! What the hell! If you knew it, you wouldn't lie to Gao Sheng and say anything about "Master Rabbit", this retribution will come too quickly!

Nina is sixteen or seventeen years old, older than Gao Sheng, and the only one in the bilge who can speak a few words of Chinese, the same experience, the same fear made the three quickly form a friendship, the bilge is dark, each other can't see each other clearly, Nina's younger brothers and sisters have died under the guns of the slave hunting team, and inadvertently treat Zhu Gao's two children as their younger brothers and sisters to love. Although he was just as panicked, he didn't forget to protect Zhu Junyi tightly in his arms.

After all, Gao Sheng is just a child, and all he knows is the moves of ruffians fighting in the mainland of Guangzhou, how can he beat a villain who has done all kinds of bad things? Within two or three seconds, he was pressed under him. Cassie's face was also colored, and he was punched in the eye socket, although he didn't have much strength, but he also had a black eye, and his left cheek was cut open by something, and the blood flowed, which looked particularly hideous. Cassie took out a short dagger from his boots, placed it across Gao Sheng's neck, and gestured viciously but in a low voice towards Zhu Junyi, "Little wild dog, hurry up and give me that thing around your neck, or I'll kill your friend." He kept gesturing on his neck, signaling that as long as Zhu Junyi had something on his neck. He didn't want to alarm the rest of the ship, that piece of jade Pekasi was determined to get it.

Zhu Junyi didn't understand Dutch, but he could understand Cassie's gestures, and the dagger was still on Gao Sheng's neck, so he didn't have time to make a choice, and he didn't have to choose. Although Zhu Junyi felt a strong reluctance to the jade pendant both in memory and emotion, he still pulled the jade pendant without hesitation, stretched out his chest and shook it back and forth in front of Cassie's eyes, "Release us from this sailboat, The Jade is yours." (As long as you let us go from this ship, the jade pendant will be given to you.) )

"Brother Jun!" Gao Sheng knew what Zhu Junyi was going to do, so he shouted anxiously, "That's the thought left to you by your mother!" How can you give this bunch of bad guys? I'm not hurt, and I can still fight. Dogs! There's a kind of you let go of me, and we'll fight all over again! ”

Zhu Junyi calmed down his mood and shouted at Gao Sheng: "Gao Sheng, you calm down." Listen to me, don't speak, lie there quietly, don't move, and don't speak. ”

"I can't let you lose the only jade left to you by your mother in order to save me, and when I die, how can I have the face to see your mother?"

Zhu Junyi said calmly: "It's just something outside your body, and a hundred jade pendants are not as important as your life!" ”

Gao Sheng's eyes were red, and he wanted to continue tearing with Cassie, a trace of cruelty flashed in Cassie's eyes, and he was about to stab the dagger into Gao Sheng's throat, Zhu Junyi dodged and jumped onto the hanging ladder, stepped on the hanging ladder in two steps, raised the jade pendant in his hand upward, and roared in a low voice: "Let him go!" No him ，no Jade!” (Let him go!) If he's dead, don't even think about getting the jade pendant! ）

After being frightened at first, Zhu Junyi slowly regained his senses, and found that Cassie never dared to speak loudly, and immediately understood that Cassie wanted to eat alone, since he wanted to eat alone, he must have some scruples, and the biggest scruple was naturally afraid that other people would know about the jade pendant and fight for it later.

Cassie bit her lip, and suddenly thought of an English word in her heart, and said tentatively, "Deal? ”

As soon as Zhu Junyi raised his hand, the jade pendant was thrown beside Cassie, Cassie reached out to pick up the jade pendant, happily, put away the dagger, ignored the high rise on the shipboard, got up and rubbed Zhu Junyi and stepped on the suspension ladder, showing off triumphantly, "The jade pendant is mine." ”

Zhu Junyi didn't help Gao Sheng up with Nina until Cassie was all out of the bilge, and reprimanded Gao Sheng angrily: "It's just a broken stone, is it worth your life?" Besides, do you think these murderous scoundrels care about our lives? We have to live to have any hope of escaping! ”

Zhu Junyi's words just now made him both warm and ashamed, unwilling and depressed, "I just want to keep your mother's ......"

"My whole being is my mother's own, is there a better memento than this?" Zhu Junyi was really angry, and he didn't let Gao Sheng finish his words.

"Will that bastard help?" Nina asked worriedly.

"A villain will never keep his promise, and it would be strange if I believed him."

"And you're still giving it to him? ……”

"I did it on purpose. If you don't give it to the other party, you won't be polite, and you will still be snatched away in the end, so it's better to change everyone's temporary peace. Zhu Junyi didn't explain more, pulled Nina and Gao Sheng to his side, and explained in a low voice, "Okay, the ship has docked, they will transfer us away soon, time is limited, I'll make a long story short." I've figured out how to escape, and from now on, we're going to be together, and we can't get separated. If there is a chance to escape on the road, I will remind you to remember not to stop and not turn back when you run. Do you understand? ”

Gao Sheng and Nina nodded, as if they had a backbone in their hearts, no longer feeling how scared they were, but full of hope.

Zhu Junyi breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that Gao Sheng would be stubborn, but fortunately, both of them were very obedient. He is not already in the chest, just take one step at a time, adapt to the situation, said that he has thought of a way to escape is actually just to give Gao Sheng and Nina a hope, these two people do not have three hundred years of wisdom and experience, Zhuge Liang's empty city plan is for the enemy Sima Yi to see, and his empty city plan is for his comrades-in-arms, the military spirit is still very important.

When Cassie went up, he didn't close the top of the bilge, and the sunlight was still scorching, but it made the bilge regain a little vitality, and they could see their surroundings and environment and people clearly through the daylight.

This is the first time Zhu Junyi has seen Nina in the real sense, only to see Nina's hair combed into a braid and naturally hanging behind her, wearing a fabric that I don't know if it is linen or what, the mutton fat white jade skin on the limbs is exposed, a piece of white sheep color is exposed between the fabric of the upper body and the cloth skirt of the lower body, the chest is bulging and swollen a lot, the figure is graceful, half-lying on the board, the round and slender white legs jump out of the arc enough to make the heart beat faster, except that the appearance is slightly worse, this is simply an international supermodel in later generations! No wonder there are always a few villains who want to attack her these days, and at first glance, I'm afraid that the monk can't help it!

With the experience at sea, Gao Sheng has become accustomed to obeying Zhu Junyi, who is younger than himself, naturally nothing special, Nina's feeling is really unbelievable, he knows that Zhu Junyi and Gao Sheng are children, the three of them have talked about many topics in the past few days, and the language communication in the dark makes Nina subconsciously think that Gao Sheng is four and a half years old, and Zhu Junyi should be the more mature one, I didn't pay attention to it when I was holding Zhu Junyi just now, but now in the daylight, I saw a diametrically opposite result. What's more, Zhu Junyi is proficient in Xiyi language, which makes Nina very confused and very curious.

Zhu Junyi just said while looking at Nina's convex and concave curves, but it was a large soul with a minor body, so he could only look and think about it, and his heart moved, "I...... I seem to be scared......" Zhu Junyi's face was not red, he was not panting, he put his hand on his heart, pretending to have palpitations, and suddenly threw himself into Nina's arms, hugged Nina with both hands, and arched his head on the two white rabbits, and never got up again.

Nina was stunned at first, and then sighed, after all, she is a four-and-a-half-year-old child, and no matter how talented her mind is, she is also a child's heart, so she simply hugged Zhu Junyi tightly, thinking of her younger brothers, she sadly shed two strings of tears, and unconsciously comforted Zhu Junyi softly in Daya, and kissed Zhu Junyi on the head.

Gao Sheng was born with big nerves, but he also knew that men and women could not kiss each other, although he knew that Zhu Junyi was only four and a half years old, but seeing Nina kissing Zhu Junyi's head really made him red-faced.

Zhu Junyi happily moved his body and changed to a more comfortable posture, not noticing that Gao Sheng was still quietly getting up from the board and sitting there quietly.

Nina was also concerned about whether Gao Sheng was injured, Gao Sheng just shook his head, Nina was worried and wanted to check, but there was the sound of a large group of footsteps above.

Zhu Junyi's happy time was only a few minutes, and the crew with flintlock pistols came down from the suspension ladder, grabbed everyone to the deck one by one, tied their hands behind their backs with thick hemp rope, and lined up to disembark. Only then did Zhu Junyi discover that there was a cabin where the captured slaves were held in the same cabin as the three of them, and all the men in their prime were locked up.

As soon as he was pulled onto the deck, Zhu Junyi heard Gullit's fierce scream on the trestle: "Mr. Baku, let all our prey disembark and send them to Mr. Erlang's market." If you run away with any of them, I'll get you scoundrels back. ”

Gao Sheng and Nina remembered Zhu Junyi's explanation, and sandwiched Zhu Junyi in the middle. Zhu Junyi secretly observed the environment of this port, and saw that the people in front of him were each stuffed into eight cage-like carriages, each of which was crowded with people, and he couldn't help but secretly complain.

When he was about to get into the prisoner car, Gao Sheng was just about to follow to get into the car, and Monte put his arm horizontally, "It's full, go to the next one." Gao Sheng grabbed Zhu Junyi's hand anxiously, but didn't know what to say.

Someone next to him suddenly said: "Since we want to die together, what are we doing in the way?" It was Cassie, who slapped his jacket pocket covertly against the prisoner van. Zhu Junyi nodded in response, knowing that he didn't tell the matter of Yu Pei, Cassie was repaying the favor.

Monte laughed a few times with the rest of the crew, raised his hand and ascended to the prisoner car. The three of them gathered on a prisoner cart without danger, and looked at the crew members with guns on the left and right of each prisoner cart, and began to worry about the good luck of the group.

The carriage passed in front of the fortress of the Dutch East India Company along the gravel road of the port, and Gao Sheng and the others were startled by the gloomy and towering stone castle, and in the small square in front of the castle, dozens of lowland mercenaries hired by the Dutch East India Company were lining up for shooting training, and a bearded commander gave orders intermittently.

"Reload!"

"Take out the bullets!"

"Load gunpowder!"

"Take out the strip!"

"Insert the throughbar!"

"All guns on the shoulders!"

"Aim!"

"Fire!"

Dozens of flintlock muskets rang out in all directions, and only a few of the targets made of straw poles in front of the fortress raised green smoke, and the sound of "stamping" and crashing sounded on the stone wall behind the grass targets.

Seven or eight prisoner vans were screaming, and there was a stirring in the unease of the loud noise of the flintlock guns as they were fired.

The whites who escorted the slaves laughed.

On the prisoner car, Zhu Junyi looked coldly at the shooting of the bearded commander and the mercenary soldiers, and secretly sneered, the army of this era turned out to be nothing more than this. His heart was full of disdain, so he simply sat down with his back against the cage and began to ponder the opportunity to escape.

Leaving the eerie fortress, the convoy headed for the West Side, crossing the stone bridge and arriving at its destination.

"It's like a devil's fireplace, and I wouldn't want to be in such a bad place if it weren't for the sparkling Ducat. Hello! Gurlit, I hope you'll bring me some good goods this time. As soon as he heard the dumbness of a duck's voice, Gurlitt knew that it must be Erlang, the charter commissioner of the Dutch East India Company's merchant slave trade. Erlang is a South Netherlander merchant with two beautiful French mustaches, since he came to Batavia 20 years ago, he has been in the business of buying dirty goods and selling high among many local merchants, because of his wide range of contacts and connections, he can often complete transactions faster, earlier and more profitably than others, and is called "the universal Erlang" by local Dutch merchants. Only if there is a supply but no market, this brainy gentleman can definitely sell the goods, which may appear in Africa, or be bought by the notoriously brainless Japanese in Northeast Asia for a large price. In short, anything you can't sell, he can exchange for a lot of gold in the shortest possible time, and Erlang's best goods are slaves.

For such an energetic local merchant, Gurlitt still wanted to show his amiable side as much as possible, although that only made him look more vicious and terrifying, and greeted Erlang who approached with his money bag.

"If I were you, I wouldn't be walking around in a place like this with a money bag!" Gurlitt grinned as much as he could, but his smile was like an orangutan crying.

"Who can do such a thing to me in Batavia? Could it be you? My dear Mr. Gurlit. How could I not have taken any precautions? Erlang smiled and pointed behind him. Gurlitt looked over his shoulder, and saw that Erlang was followed by nearly thirty heavily armed East India Company mercenary soldiers, all armed with brand-new flintlock rifles and flintlock pistols.

Gurlitt looked at these young mercenary soldiers with a weak heart, and said puzzledly: "How can it be from the East India Company?" ”

"The East India Company had just won the war with the princely states of India, and our great Dutch Republic had a brand new colonial city, and the East India Company entrusted me with finding some high-quality labor for them, so that my market was now a transit point for the East India Company's 'goods'. These handsome lads were ordered to protect me...... Belch...... My 'cargo'! ”

"Then you're going to have to pay more! It's not easy to catch these 'goods' at all! ”

"Alright! Old friend, let's take a look at the goods you brought back this time, and see if it's worth opening my money bag. I must state in advance that if you continue to fool me with some old and crippled people who are not able to walk steadily...... Fool the East India Company, I swear you'll never hear money from me again! ”

"How so? I'm a gentleman of integrity! Deception is a sin that God does not tolerate! These slaves are the best 'goods' in the last few batches, and I have an Oriental kid who is proficient in English, if you don't believe it, then please come and appreciate it for yourself! Baku? Bring our 'goods' to Mr. Erlang and inspect them! ”

Baku obeyed the order, desperately hoping to show himself in front of Mr. Erlang, so seven or eight prisoner vans passed through a red brick gate in front and back, and lined up in the small square of the courtyard.

All the slaves were driven out of the car, and many strong Daya men were whipped a few times, and Zhu Junyi and the three obediently got out of the prisoner car, but did not suffer from the flesh and skin.

The slaves stood in three rows, two rows of men and women, and the other row of women and children, all gathered in the center of the small square. Zhu Junyi pulled Gao Sheng and Nina with his left and right hands respectively, and hid behind the figure with the smallest figure to observe around.

It was a small irregular pentagonal square, with a gate in front and back, and a long corridor was built with stones on the north side of the square, and at the two ends of the corridor corresponded to more than a dozen large prison cages tied out of logs, each of which could easily close the appearance of forty or fifty people. The brick door that came in had been closed, and Zhu Junyi noticed that in addition to the crew brought by Gurlit, there were at least thirty thugs who looked like soldiers, each with flintlock pistols. That's not really good news.

Zhu Junyi reminded him not to act rashly with a voice that only Gao Sheng and Nina could hear, and all actions should be arranged by him, and Gao Sheng and Nina both responded nervously and quietly.

Erlang took another small leader of the East India Company and inspected the slaves who had just gotten out of the car row by row, "Good! I want all of these goods! The colony of Ceylon now needs a lot of labor, and adult men can be transported there to clear the wasteland, oh! These children and women are also better than the previous batches, and tomorrow my market will open and I can sell them for a good price! He seemed satisfied, and the little leader seemed relaxed.

"Old friend! This shipment of yours is not bad, I can pay you up to two hundred ducats! ”

"What? Is this unreasonable? God will not tolerate such a low price! Gurlitt thundered.

"They are so sluggish and malnourished, that the Lord of India will not allow his barn to be filled with such weak shrimps! He wants good slave labor that can be put to work right away, and for that I spend a lot of money on feeding them......"

Erlang looked at Gurlitt playfully, and after a few haggling attempts, he sold for two hundred and thirty ducats.

"The business is done! Congratulations! Erlang laughed.

"Nope! That's not enough money to pay off my debts! My boat needs maintenance, the steering wheel is in trouble, and I have a large group of men and cubs to raise, and business is not doing well right now! I can't let my sailors go hungry! If you only give this price next time, then the money I earn from going out hunting once is not enough for my subordinates to eat!" In front of many of his subordinates, Gurlitt shouted about his losses, the most important thing about being the boss in this era is that you have to count better than your subordinates, and only by constantly emphasizing the loss of money can you ensure that your greatest share of interests will not be reduced, as for those mixed-race slave catchers...... God testifies that when they learn to figure out how much they should share!

"You're really good at acting! My old friend! Erlang whispered in a teasing voice, and the little leader of the East India Company went to arrange for the hired soldiers to take all the adult men away, and it was estimated that they would be pulled onto the East India Company's transport ship to Ceylon.

Inevitably, some of these Dayak survivors were relatives or husbands and wives who cried loudly when they were about to be separated.

Naturally, Gurlitt didn't take a second look at this, let alone feel any guilt, he had more important things to do, "Mr. Erlang! If you don't mind, I'd like to bother you a little longer. ”

"Say it! Dear Gurlit, Of all the wealth I have, the most is time. ”

"My ship is so small, and it's costing my business a lot! I need a big job! A good job that can bring me a lot of money to buy a boat! I know you have a wide range of sources, and you know very well who and what kind of work can bring me this kind of profit! Of course, I won't do anything for the Dutch! I'm a patriot! ”

"I'm afraid the price isn't high enough, right?" Erlang once again regained his trademark smile of harmlessness to Gullit, which made Gullitt feel very ironic. "It's hard to find a job like that!"

"The price of a big ship is not low, even if you sell the 'Andaman Horn' in your hand, there is at least a lot of shortage, not to mention that no one will buy your broken ship now." Erlang did not do it.

"Alright! Mr. Erlang, don't settle this fee with me. You know exactly what I need to plant! "Of course it won't be a legitimate business, and no legitimate business can be so profitable. Gurlitt was not a good man, but considered himself a villain of villains, and he had done a lot of work that he couldn't talk about openly.

Erlang took Gullitt to a remote corner, and when he saw that there was no one else nearby, he pulled Gullitt and said softly: "Our new governor, Your Excellency Warzenir, is very dissatisfied with the current economic situation in Batavia, and is formulating a new policy, looking for some powerful gentlemen to protect the interests of the company, and will not tolerate any non-Dutch forces to challenge the rule of the Republic in Batavia, the new policy will promote taxes and trade throughout the city, and there are some inconvenient parts that need to be done." If you really want to make such a large sum of money, I can negotiate with Your Excellency the Governor on your behalf! Of course, my share is indispensable! ”

Gurlit's eyes lit up and he smiled at Erlang with satisfaction: "You are such a greedy and cunning vampire! ”

"And you, Gurlit, you're a complete villain!"

"Long live the gold coins!"

"Long live the gold coins!"

The two laughed together.

In the distance, Zhu Junyi and the other three were put into a log cage by the mercenaries, waiting for them was a big bazaar tomorrow, and the people who came to purchase were the most powerful and wealthy families in Bacheng at the moment, and the nobles of the surrounding small countries, and the goods they bought and sold were themselves in the cage.