Everyone will become a rich man!

For Wang Linfeng, who was born in a small trader family, he thought about this sentence all night. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Tens of thousands of acres of land!

Even worthless wasteland is full of attraction for the people who regard the land as their lifeblood, although he knows that the land is wasteland, and maybe there are barbarians living in those lands, and he needs to protect the land with guns, but it is a wealth, a wealth that can be passed on to future generations.

Wang Linfeng, who had been sleepless all night, finally fell asleep, and in his sleep, he dreamed of that land, an endless land, where golden wheat was grown, and when the wind blew, the ears of wheat swayed in the wind, making a moving rustling sound, and in the wheat field, you can also see some people with dark skin, only their teeth and eyeballs are white, and they are black.

No, that's the slaves, they are cultivating the land for themselves, cultivating the land that belongs to the officers, and he, as an officer, will continue to defend that new land, which belongs to China, and also belongs to him, to his descendants.

When Wang Linfeng woke up, he heard the whistle at the dock, from where the ship would set sail for Africa with 536 captives.

Now, they're on their way!

If yesterday was about colonization, Wang Linfeng didn't know what it meant, but now, he has understood.

For many people, it means a new life!

It means a new life, a new beginning!

On this day, at a cold dawn and a gray sky, Li Laoliu and 536 "bandit" prisoners were driven out of the wooden barracks. Then they walked towards the wooden trestle, and around them there were armed gendarmes, whose mouths sounded from time to time with orders:

"Hurry up! Hurry up and get on board! Hurry up! Embarkation! All on board"

In about half an hour, these dazed "bandits" crowded the cabin of this sailing ship, which can be said to be extremely crowded, so that everyone had to be half-sideways, and Li Lao Liu was lucky to squeeze to the side of the cabin, but it was more spacious, through the wooden fence above his head, he could even see the stars and moon in the sky, and he could also see the bloodless faces around him.

As soon as they were on board, the fence at the top of the cabin was closed, and only a thud was heard, and the lock clicked, and a sailor shouted:

"Shut it off!"

Overhead, the four lattice windows with wooden grilles let in the glimmer of dawn. Hundreds of pairs of eyes looked at each other in silence. Not a single person turned. Soon Li Lao Liu began to fidget, he struggled to stand up straight among the people, climbed past the two men to the middle of the ship, tucked his face between a few sticks, and shouted loudly to the nearest sailor.

"Hey, hey, where are we going? Is this going to bring us there? ”

The sailor did not answer his question, and Li Cheng, who was standing on the ship, listened to the shouting in the cabin, at first, he did not answer the question, until more people shouted loudly, he did not speak.

"Xiyangzhou!"

Where is Xiyangzhou?

The people in the cabin did not know, in fact, for Li Cheng, he only knew that Xiyangzhou was on the coast of East Africa, there was a trading post there, in the trading post, there were dozens of employees and soldiers of the company, and he would become the first governor of Xiyangzhou, in fact, there was nothing there at all, except for the trading post, all he had was more than 500 prisoners and a platoon of soldiers who accompanied him to "Xiyangzhou".

"What will Xiyangzhou look like?"

When the boat slowly drove away from the wooden simple trestle, Li Cheng looked at the water of the Yangtze River and thought silently, he knew that soon the boat would sail through Yangzhou, did the people of Yangzhou know that there was another Yangzhou tens of thousands of miles away?

"Xiyangzhou? What is that place? ”

"Ding Li, aren't you from Yangzhou? What is there in Yangzhou? ”

"No, I haven't heard of it......"

"Hey, whatever, anyway, as long as he doesn't kill our heads, he goes there......"

Listening to the voice coming from the cabin, the kind of words that seemed to accept fate, the corners of Li Cheng's lips couldn't help but rise, when they arrived in Africa, when they faced the wilderness of Xiyangzhou, would they accept their fate like now?

It's okay to accept your fate in the place, but don't give up on yourself, and accept your fate to those! When the time comes, how will he "turn Africa into a new land of Kyushu!" as the lord demanded! ”

No, in these years, who doesn't want to be an uncle?

Thinking about it in his heart, Li Cheng was relieved, he walked to the stern, looked at the captain and asked.

"Captain, where are we next? Is it Chongming or? ”

"Guangdong!"

The equally young captain replied directly.

"After replenishing supplies at the dock at the mouth of the Pearl River in Guangdong, we will sail directly to Africa......

In the berth area of the Pearl River estuary, when Shao Wu stood on the bow of the ship overlooking the sea, he was the first batch of graduates of the Guangzhou Merchant Marine School, and as early as last year, he had become the captain of the "West Africa", the captain of the 1,875-ton steam clipping ship, and also the first batch of Chinese captains on Western ships -- last year, with the appointment of 15 Chinese captains by the Far East Merchant Shipping Company, the Far East Merchant Shipping Company has since gotten rid of the situation in which the captains and officers are all outsiders, and this year 23 people have become captains, as many as 600 officers. It also makes the Far East Merchant Marine Company slowly become a real Chinese merchant shipping company.

Shao Wu, who was wearing a short suit for seafarers, looked very calm, his cheeks were deep, his face was dark, his back was straight, his body was thin, his arms were hanging down, and his palms were facing outward, as if he was a statue. His eyes were fixed on the iron anchor, which held the ship firmly there.

"Captain, when are we leaving?"

Li Zuoyi asked the ship, as the first mate on the ship, he is a senior crew member who has just been promoted this year, maybe by this time next year, he will become a captain, maybe even earlier.

"Wait until the goods arrive!"

Shao Wu said casually.

"Has the cabin been refitted?"

"Yes, it has been modified and can carry 1200 people!"

The so-called "goods" in their mouths are actually people, immigrants to be precise.

As a cargo ship, the West Africa is also a migrant ship, and in the future voyage they will send 1,200 migrants along the route to Europe to six settlement points along the African coast, in fact, every merchant ship of the Far East Merchant Marine Company sailing to Europe has a similar mission.

It's just that in the past, there were only a few dozen immigrants on their ship, but this time, they had to transport more than a thousand immigrants at a time.

"How come there are so many immigrants this time?"

"Captain, didn't you read the newspaper?"

Li Zuoyi said casually.

"The rebel army captured Nanjing and captured hundreds of thousands of Taiping soldiers, and I heard that there were more of those Xiguan machine owners, not only they were exiled, but their families were also exiled!"

Deliberately lowered his voice, Li Zuoyi said.

"Those who have done this will be exiled to Africa!"

"So many people? How long does that take? ”

"It's good to have more people! For us, more people is not business! ”

After a lazy conversation, there was silence on the ship.

And Shao Wu's whole person fell into deep thought, staring blankly into the distance, he didn't want to do anything at this time. For him, these things are too far away from him, and in his opinion, those machine owners are not worthy of pity at all, and they should think of this day when they made trouble.

was used by traitors like that, and it was really wronged.

If you want to blame those traitors, blame them!

"Look ahead!"

After letting out a long sigh like this, Shao Wu didn't say anything more.

A week later, several small steamboats carried thousands of passengers to the "West Africa", among which the men looked depressed, the women were mostly with tears in their eyes, and the children among them looked at the ocean ship with more curious eyes.

For them living in Xiguan, they do not feel unfamiliar with foreign ships, as if it is the first time they have stepped on this foreign ship, and this ship will send them tens of thousands of miles away.

"Abba, where are we going!"

Holding his father's hand, Zhao Yun opened his eyes and looked at everything on the ship curiously. Except for him, he didn't feel that his life was going to change drastically.

"Africa!"

Zhao Litang spit out two words, his face was dazed, but more annoyed.

Two months ago, he was the little master of the Zhao family, but now, he had to bear the reputation of "after the traitor", his father became a traitor, although his ignorance was not punished by death, but was exiled to Africa, as early as a month ago, his father and eldest brother left Guangzhou by immigration ship.

"Where can I see Grandpa?"

Zhao Yun asked with some expectation, he didn't know that the Zhao family was not exiled to one place. Instead, he was exiled to several places.

"I don't know, maybe I can......"

"And what does Africa look like?"

How do you answer your son's question?

Zhao Litang didn't know, he just took his son's hand and looked at his wife, who was holding his daughter beside him, with a hint of shame in his eyes, she also had to be exiled to Africa with him.

But what is Africa really like?

Who knows?

The sun was sinking in the west, dusk was falling on the Pearl River, and a row of lights appeared on the shore. The lighthouse shimmered and flickered, and it stood like a tripod on the platform. The lights of the boat swayed on the channel of the river, and the bunches of lights were erratic.

"Anchor!"

Shao Wu suddenly spoke and said to the passengers on the boat.

"Look at Guangdong again! I'm afraid I'll never see it again. ”

The captain's shouts made people all look towards the land, this is Guangdong, this is their hometown, they can no longer see this.

Finally, I don't know who started crying.

"Grandma......"

Amid the cries the people shouted loudly at the land, and many of them regretted why they had been instigated and bewitched in the first place.

Amid the cries of the people, the "West Africa" slowly sailed out of the river and headed towards the sea, the sailors lowered their sails, and the ship became faster and faster under the blowing of the wind......

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