Wu Yuansheng stood at the bow of the ship, watching the ship cut through the waves and sail at an amazing speed that he had never seen before, and he was very emotional. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe name of the 3,000-ton Datang cargo ship is "Yuanqing", which is the cargo ship that stayed in Hong Kong and waited for Lin Youde to depart. The Yuanqing is one of the newest of all Datang cargo ships, originally a Norwegian merchant ship, although the tonnage is not large, but it is a fast freighter, with a maximum speed of 20 knots, which is why it is this ship that left Lin Youde behind.

The Yuanqing was loaded mainly with herbs and spices, including dozens of boxes of opium. Of course, Lin Youde imported opium from Guangzhou and Nanyang not for drug trafficking, and the extract of opium can be used to make narcotics such as morphine, which is an indispensable thing in modern medicine.

Wu Yuansheng appeared on the Yuanqing, in fact, as a special envoy sent by Lanfang Company to Datang to meet with Datang officials. Although Lan Fang has been pinched in the palm of Hu Fakui's hand, it is still necessary to let these people know what kind of powerful existence the Datang Republic is, and seeing the strength of Datang will also deter their bad intentions, and follow Datang to do a good job.

Just boarding the Tang people's freighter was actually shocking enough for Wu Yuansheng. Wu Yuansheng raised affairs in his hometown in his early years, and finally fled to Nanyang and founded Jusheng Company, which was later surpassed by his subordinate Luo Fangbo. However, Wu Yuansheng is still one of the people in the history of overseas Chinese who deserves special mention. During the Republic of China, Liang Qichao wrote a strange book of "The Biography of the Eight Great Men of Chinese Colonization", including Wu Yuansheng. After the establishment of the Lanfang Company, Wu Yuansheng was slowly marginalized, and then he killed the tyrant of Dai Yanguo in Borneo. He was proclaimed king by the people of Dai Yan, and after his death, his wife was Queen Dai Yan. Later, Wu Yuansheng's son and grandson succeeded to the king's throne respectively.

However, historians generally regard Dai Yan as part of Lanfang's great system. (As an aside, the common map of Lanfang's "Republic" on the Internet often covers the entire state of West Borneo, but in fact it is not accurate, and Lanfang's control has never covered the entire region.) The area around Pontianak is dominated by Ho Thuan and the Dutch forces, Lan Fang has three ditches in Dong Wanlu and Seminis. These three are also the three strongest companies in West Borneo)

Wu Yuansheng's dispatch to Dai Yan was in itself a kind of Luo Fangbo's deliberate marginalization of him. In the first battle of the three shots, Wu Yuansheng broke off for Luo Fangbo, but he didn't have eggs. Both Luo Fangbo and himself were caught. Although Luo Fangbo has been verbally thanking Wu Yuansheng, in the blink of an eye, Wu Yuansheng handed over his strength and sent him to Datang to let him understand the strength of Datang. More practically, it is a kind of marginalization.

Wu Yuansheng is more sincere. I didn't dwell too much on these things. He also remembered Luo Fangbo's explanation and planned to take a good look at Datang. Just the Yuanqing freighter had already shocked him greatly. The three-thousand-ton ship was the largest ship he had ever seen, and it sailed two or three times faster than an ordinary ship. He naturally thought that if the sea was full of Tang cargo ships, then the other Westerners' merchant ships would definitely have no way to survive.

The Lanfang Chinese were also bullied by the Dutch in West Borneo, and Wu Yuansheng saw the huge clippers of the Tang people. He also witnessed the combat power of the troops equipped with advanced muskets, and for a while he also thought that if Lan Fang could have the protection of Datang. Then it will be safer and develop better.

"Mr. Wu, are you still used to ocean sailing?" Lin Youde came to Wu Yuansheng's side and asked with some friendliness. After Wu Yuansheng broke off for Luo Fangbo that day, he was still very admirable in temperament.

Wu Yuansheng smiled and said: "Lau Lin Taipan is worried, such a storm is much smaller than that of ordinary sailboats, when I took a boat from Guangdong to Borneo, I was frightened all the way, and I almost vomited all my internal organs." This Yuanqing is big and stable, and the sea voyage is like walking on the ground, so there is no discomfort. ”

Lin Youde nodded with a smile and said, "That's good." ”

Wu Yuansheng asked again at this time: "I don't know how long it will take to arrive at the Tang Dynasty?" ”

Wu Yuansheng learned that Datang was 20,000 miles away from Borneo, and it would take more than a month to sail from Hong Kong to reach Los Angeles, the capital of Datang. However, Wu Yuansheng felt that 20,000 miles was too far away, and the Tang people said that more than a month was probably just a joke.

Lin Youde said: "There are still about ten days to go, but we will stop in the Hawaiian Islands on the way, and we still have some space on our ship to see if there is any cargo that needs to be shipped back." ”

Wu Yuansheng asked curiously, "What is this Hawaii?" ”

"Hawaii is an archipelago in the ocean, the area is very small, and it can't be compared with Borneo, and my Tang Republic has established a colony on one of the islands, Oahu, to contact the local indigenous people to grow tropical crops together, such as coffee, sugar cane and other things."

Wu Yuansheng said: "Then the climate and soil are similar to Borneo. ”

Lin Youde smiled: "That's true. ”

After sailing for more than a day, the Yuanqing came to the Hawaiian Islands, but as the Yuanqing approached Pearl Harbor, it found more than one ship anchored in the harbor. There are still warships of the Datang Navy moored in Pearl Harbor, as well as some ships of not small tonnage.

Wu Yuansheng saw this scene and said: "Can't you imagine that just a small colony has so many big ships stopping?" ”

Lin Youde was also a little puzzled, and said: "Usually there are not many ships going back and forth between Hawaii and my Datang mainland, because the local production is limited, and the plantation has just been built, so there should not be a large output so quickly." And the two ships over there, the warships of my Datang, should be what kind of military operations the Navy has here? ”

Wu Yuansheng immediately froze and said, "Is that the Tang Dynasty using troops against this place?" Maybe it was to suppress the local natives, so let's take this opportunity to observe the military strength of the Tang people. ”

The majestic Yangwei cruiser in the harbor was quietly docked there, and next to it was the frigate Yu Dayou, Wu Yuansheng found that this Tang warship was different from ordinary cargo ships, it also had sails, but there were also two huge chimneys on the deck. As the Yuanqing approached, he could see the canvas-obscured cannons on the warship, as well as the specially set gun windows on the gun deck. Wu Yuansheng had seen the armed merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company before, and compared to the Yangwei, it was nothing at all.

"With such a ship, I'm afraid it's enough to dominate the South China Sea, but the Tang people have the help of incense thieves in the South China Sea, even if the foreigners are not weak, I'm afraid it will be difficult to compete with the Tang people." (To be continued.) )