Chapter 62: Black Eats Black

When Kong Youde spoke, Yue Su and the others had already seen four merchant ships on the sea, and after Kong Youde's determination, Yue Su immediately ordered - chase!

Chasing is chasing, but the speed of Lord Yue's march was not too fast, but deliberately slowed down, so that the people on the boat would not turn around and run away in fright after seeing the officers and soldiers

The officers and soldiers were chasing along the coast, while keeping an eye on the movement of the ship, and the four merchant ships finally docked and stopped, and at this time, Yue Su ordered a quick pursuit

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Zhangzhou was not rich in the Ming Dynasty, and in the places along the river, the people mostly relied on water for draft, and there were more fishers, of course, some people would also do some business with pirates, sell some daily necessities to pirates, or exchange goods with pirates

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court forbade the sea, but just in time for the development of commerce, many merchants came here, to do some maritime trade, from here to the sea, more secret, more and more people came overseas merchants, knowing that there are merchants hoarding here, they are also willing to transport their goods to this side, or exchange with merchants in the mainland, or sell directly

As a result, this small fishing village became more and more fertile

Today, when it was almost noon, four large merchant ships slowly sailed to the shore, and after the ship stopped, twenty men with muskets on their backs walked down from above, each of them was blond and blue-eyed, but their appearance was not curious by the fishermen on the seashore, as if it was commonplace

This is due to the fact that in recent years, there have been many foreigners who have come to the country, and they all look similar, and they used to be strange, but now they all don't matter

After twenty musketeers disembarked, three more men disembarked, and in the middle was Captain George, followed William on the left, and on the right, a thin Chinese who looked like a monkey

The three of them got off the boat, and they heard George say in English: "Gao Wang, where are you talking about the buyer?" ”

The thin Chinese named Gao Wang also spoke proficient English, "Captain George, the date we set with Boss Li is today, presumably they should have arrived, let's wait for a while, it is estimated that someone will come to contact us"

Sure enough, not long after Gao Wang's voice fell, a young man dressed as a man walked out of a fisherman's yard not far away with two men in strong suits, and the target of the three was the direction where George's boat was

The young man even knew English, and said in English: "May I ask which Captain George, I am here to greet you by order of the owner, and our steward, who has already set up a banquet, is in the courtyard ahead, waiting for the master."

Seeing that the people who came could speak English, George was very happy and said, "It turns out that your people have already arrived, and it just so happens that I am also hungry, so let's go over and talk and lead the way."

"Yes," the young man agreed, turning to lead George with the musketeers, and following the young man towards the courtyard

When I came to the gate of the courtyard, a middle-aged man in his forties looked white-skinned and dressed in a red satin robe, and it seemed that he was a middle-aged man who was a trader and arched his hand in front of the door and said, "I don't know which one is Captain George?" ”

He didn't know English, he spoke Chinese, so George naturally couldn't understand his words, and the young man hurriedly translated next to him, and made an introduction, "The chief steward, this is the captain of the ship, Captain George, this is the chief steward of our host, who has made a special trip to wait here and trade with the captain."

"Very good, very good...... George nodded and said, "The work you want is now on the ship, I don't know what we want, can you have ready, and the silver"

The young man translated truthfully, and the middle-aged man listened to it, and said with a smile: "The goods and silver that Captain George wanted, we have already prepared them here, and we can trade the wine and food prepared here at any time, and we will welcome the captain to come in and talk in detail."

George listened to the young man's translation, hesitated for a moment, and said: "There is no need to eat, I am a little unaccustomed to your Daming's food, I think it is better to trade immediately, please bring your goods out, and I will also ask someone to move our goods off the ship."

This guy is the first time to come to Daming to do business, and he is worried about being hacked and eaten black, so he didn't agree to eat, just asked to trade immediately, take the money and leave, who called someone is also a robber, and he used to calculate others, how can he let others calculate

After listening to the translation, the middle-aged man immediately guessed what George meant, he looked up to the sky and snorted, and said: "Captain George is too worried, my lord has always been honest, and doing business with businessmen from other countries is not once and a half, but Captain George, there is an estimate, and it is human nature, it is not an exaggeration Since Captain George said, then let's trade immediately, come on, go and bring the goods and silver, let Captain George see"

As soon as he gave an order, he immediately agreed, and after a short time of going to pass the word, boxes of goods were moved out of the yard, and there were also boxes of goods in the yard on the side

Boxes of goods were placed aside, and then the middle-aged man said again: "Captain George, these are the goods you want, please check the back, because there are too many, you have to wait for a while before they can all be moved out."

After the young man translated, George nodded, "Okay, then I'll be offended" After speaking, before walking to the container, there was a middle-aged man, who opened the box, and it contained a whole box of silk

George touched it with his hand, very satisfied, and said, "Very good, very good"

Then, one of the men opened the other boxes one by one, and in addition to silk, there were also whole boxes of porcelain and tea

That's what George wanted, he nodded, and said: "Your Excellency is really trustworthy, I like to make friends with trustworthy businessmen like Mr. I will also ask someone to carry the goods here, and wait for Your Excellency to inspect it" After speaking, George turned his head to look at William and said: "You go back to the ship now, let our people move the goods down, and let them inspect the goods"

"Yes, Captain," William agreed, and ran back with the two musketeers, and when he got aboard, he ordered the goods to be removed

On George's ship, the British, in addition to the musketeers, the gunners, and some of the sailors who operated the ship rarely worked, and the coolies who worked were all Indians and Africans, who carried boxes of goods, and the British were only responsible for carrying muskets and whips to supervise the work

As the goods are unloaded more and more, there are more and more people coming down from the boat, of course, the other side is no exception, the goods outside the fisherman's yard are piled up more and more, George saw the boxes and boxes, inspected about half, he in order to save time, he said: "This gentleman, can you move the goods to my side, you and I will check each other, after all the inspections are completed, you can trade directly, and save some time"

After listening to the young man's translation, the middle-aged man nodded in goodness, let his men carry the goods, and followed George towards the sea

Two or three people carried a box, and when they came to a distance of five steps from the other party's goods, they stopped and put the box down, and then some people returned and continued to carry

didn't leave all, and it can be seen that it is the middle-aged people's distrust of George's side, and George can also see that everyone is cautious, which is understandable

George asked the middle-aged man to come over to inspect the goods, and the middle-aged man immediately agreed, and took his subordinates to inspect whether he had any one to inspect it, and how long it would take to inspect it, so he called his subordinates to help inspect it together

George's goods were either boxes of ivory, spices, and precious stones

These kinds of goods are all sought-after goods in Daming, and they are very easy to sell, no wonder the middle-aged people have to put on a lot of silver

George will not inspect the goods alone this time, but bring his own men to inspect the goods together

After a while, a lot of goods were carried down from the ship one after another, and the middle-aged man brought four or five hundred boxes of goods at one time, which was a big deal, otherwise George would not have been able to make such a trip

Four or five hundred boxes of goods, it takes a thousand people to carry these people to the place where the goods have just been released, and the goods have been put down, and all the men at the moment of putting down the goods, they glanced at each other, and then they heard a person shouting, "Brothers, don't do it yet, wait for when!" ”

As soon as the voice fell, all the men drew out the steel knives at their waists and rushed towards George's people, and the middle-aged man who was inspecting the goods on the opposite side was not lazy, and shouted, and his men also showed their guys and rushed towards those musketeers

Those musketeers were vigilant before, but as time went by, the tense nerves gradually relaxed, but even if they didn't relax, if they wanted to fight back, it was too late, because the men under the middle-aged people were consciously leaning towards them, just waiting for an order, they drew knives and slashed people so close, how could the musket have knives that were easy to use, plus they were defenseless, they were killed by surprise, and for a while, they fell dozens of numbers

George and others, who were inspecting the goods, were even more unlucky, those men who brought the goods for the second time, when they arrived, they were deliberately surrounding George and his men, and George did not expect that the other party would suddenly make a move, and also dreamed of making a fortune, and fantasized vigorously about how much he could earn by bringing Daming's goods back to England

The other party suddenly made a move, which surprised him, and seeing that more than 20 of his subordinates were cut to the ground, he hurriedly took out a short barrel of fire and fired back

"Bang", a man was hit by a musket, killed on the spot, but the musket is not a modern pistol after all, after a shot, you have to load, where is there time to fire a second shot, seeing that four more big men rushed towards him, George could only pull out the command knife at his waist, put on a posture, prepare for battle and shouted loudly in English: "We were fooled, guys, fight with them!" ”

As a half-pirate and half-businessman, Captain George also has some skills, and the four men rushed to the front with their knives, and after a few moves, they really couldn't hurt him

At this moment, George's subordinates had already reacted, seeing that the distance was too close and the muskets were useless, they used the saber drawn from their waists to fight with the other party, fighting in a group, and the shouting of killing was earth-shattering