Chapter 36: Arrival in Kalimantan
Guo Yu looked at this black and strong man, about thirty years old, one meter eight tall, no shoes on his feet, the only difference with other pirates may be that he wears a shirt.
"Tell me about your situation, identity, and origin, I'm curious about the pirate profession." After Guo Yu asked, he took out a cigar, and Erzhu dared to take out a lighter and light it.
The thin black man hesitated for a moment, and then said: "My name is Ma Lian, our station is on Black Shark Island, so it is called the Black Shark Pirate Group, I am the leader of this pirate group, sir, since you have defeated us, we will dispose of it, but please spare the old man and children on the island." After saying that, Ma Lian lowered his head. All the pirates also bowed their heads, probably fearing that their families and children on the island would also suffer.
"You're pirates, haven't you ever thought about such a day?" Guo Yu said after looking at the tables of these pirates.
Ma Lian raised his head, looked at Guo Yu and said, "Sir doesn't understand the suffering of the Nanyang Chinese, and we have no choice but to become pirates." ”
"Uh, you're Chinese?"
"Yes, we are the Chinese of the original Lanfang country, and then the country was wiped out by the Dutch, we Chinese began to be displaced, the land was occupied, and the Chinese were hunted down and killed by the local natives, I was still young at the time, and my family took us to live a difficult life at sea, and then there was no way, so I became a pirate."
"Lanfang Republic, have you heard of it, tell me about the specific situation now." Guo Yu became interested.
"Lanfang was wiped out by the Dutch thirty years ago, and the land was divided by the Dutch to the local natives, it turned out that Lanfang had a population of nearly two million, mainly Chinese, and now they are scattered all over the place, and now they are all owned by the Dutch, managed by the local natives, and the aborigines mainly have three major tribes of Jiadashan Dushun, Bayo, and Maolu, and they have about two million people, these are all sued by my father a few years ago, and my father was originally an internal affairs official of the Lanfang Republic."
Guo Yu touched his chin, it seems that he needs to find some local Chinese to understand the situation, the current situation in Kalimantan Island is by no means the words in the textbooks of later generations, there will be a big difference, and the real situation must be understood in order to prescribe the right medicine.
Guo Yu looked at Ma Lian: "You have two ways now, one is to be shot directly, and then feed the sharks, and the other is to be my subordinate, which one do you choose." "This is too high-level, who wants to die, isn't there only one way left to go.
Ma Lian hesitated slightly, then knelt down on one leg, stroked his chest with his right hand and said, "I am willing to follow Mr., Mr. Xie will not kill." "When those pirate soldiers saw that the boss was on their knees, they knelt down and swore allegiance.
"Ma Lian, how many people are there on your island, and how do you usually live?" Guo Yu took Ma Lian back to the captain's room and asked about the situation on Black Shark Island. The other pirates were taken to rest by the Great Pillar.
"Master, there are more than 600 people, all of them are old and weak, women and children, life on the island is difficult, there is no land to cultivate, they can only live by fishing, usually the old people and children also have to go to the sea to fish, and then we grab some money to go to the port to exchange food." Ma Lian has been allegiant, and now he has changed his name to Lord.
"Then don't live on Black Shark Island, pick up all the people, go to Machen, and then all go to the manor to work and live, so that you can settle down." Guo Yu said.
"Thank you, sir, this is great, but Machen also has local indigenous lives, how can we get the land?" Ma Lian was a little puzzled.
"I've bought a lot of land, enough for hundreds of thousands of people to farm and live, and we're still in business, and we need more people in the future."
After saying the good thing, everyone began to get busy, pulled the boat on, and headed for Black Shark Island, a few hours later, saw a small island in the distance, Ma Lian pointed and said that it was Black Shark Island, the island is not big, there are cliffs all around, only one beach can go to the island, the big boat can no longer come forward when it comes here, everyone puts down the wooden sailboat and life raft, and sails to Black Shark Island.
I haven't stepped on land for more than 20 days, and I feel so comfortable when I step on the sand. The people on the island had already discovered the fleet, but with Ma Lian's guidance, a group of old and young women and children in tattered clothes stared at Guo Yu and his party, not knowing what these people were here for.
Guo Yu and the others walked into the village, one after another low thatched huts, dried fish on the bamboo frames, the smell of fish, everyone was shriveled and black and thin, and no one wore shoes, this is a pirate den, it is simply a refugee camp.
Guo Yu's original curiosity of fighting pirates and digging treasures disappeared all of a sudden, has there ever been a treasure like this?
He was not interested in exploring the hidden world, so he directly ordered Dazhu and Ma Lian to organize people to get on the ship, and don't bring any worthless rags, broken pots, broken furniture, etc., just this pirate den, it is estimated that there is nothing valuable.
A few hours later, everyone was finally loaded onto the big ship, and the fleet set off again, and Guo Yu also found Ma Lian's father, an old man who was said to have been an official in Lanfang.
"Old gentleman, I heard Ma Lian say that you have been an official, so do you still know the general situation of Kalimantan Island?" Guo Yu hopes to learn more about the situation on the island and make a reference for future decisions.
"Master, that was thirty years ago, and in the past few decades, many situations have changed, I can only talk about what I know now, I hope it will be useful to my lord." Then the old man started slowly from the Lanfang Great Unified Republic, anyway, he was bored on the road, so he should listen to the commentary to relieve his boredom.
talked a lot, although the timeliness is a little poor, but it also gives Guo Yu a general impression of Kalimantan Island in his heart, which is still somewhat useful.
Now there are about one million Chinese people in Kalimantan Island, mainly the original Lan Fang people and the Chinese workers who worked here later, these people generally have a low standard of living, and there are not many Chinese families on the island, and the Chinese families in Nanyang are mainly concentrated in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other places. However, there are quite a few Chinese in the whole Nanyang, which should be about 20 or 30 million.
Two days later, the wind was mild and the sea was not wavering, and a huge fleet sailed into Kalimantan's Machen, the third largest port in Southeast Asia in later generations, and now Xiaoyu Bay, the peace was broken.
The port of Malchen is not a large deep-water port, but it has the advantage that the bay outside the port is very suitable for mooring ships, but this requires a second loading and unloading of tugboats, which is a little more troublesome, but not a big problem.
Guo Yu stood on the bridge of the ship, looking at the port in the distance, and his heart was full of heroism.
The 740,000-square-kilometer island of Kalimantan, an island the size of China's Qinghai, will set sail.
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