Chapter 761: The Conqueror
Wu Sangui has experienced countless ups and downs, from the once loyal and filial piety of the Ming Dynasty, to the young and promising upstart in the Ming Dynasty army, and then to defeat again and again. When the Ming Dynasty fell, he was very angry in his heart, angry that the object of his allegiance no longer existed, and also angry that the Wu family had been operating for two generations, and finally became the general gate of the Ming Dynasty, but as soon as the Ming Dynasty died, the Wu family also collapsed.
He refused to be recruited by the new dynasty, he led his troops to raise troops, and even eventually fell to his former enemies and fought against Han together. However, he failed in the end, he finally had to accept Zhao'an, and even charged for the Han Dynasty, but as soon as the traitor was broken, he was immediately abandoned by Liu Jun as a broken foot, and he was expelled from the Central Plains and exiled to the East China Sea Island.
Wu Sangui has always felt that he is a loyal minister, but the country is destroyed. He felt that he was a natural general, but unfortunately there was no place for him in the army.
In the end, he became only a merchant who drifted at sea all year round.
In the past few years, the Wu family has done well in Taiwan and has gained a firm foothold, and the imperial court does not have so many restrictions on them. Aside from not being able to move back to Middle-earth, they're doing well. The children of the Wu family have also been reunited, and the family's business is also very successful, buying land to build a manor to build a sugar factory, running a fleet to run trade, and secretly doing some smuggling and slave trafficking.
The development of the Wu family's business was unexpected, and his father even said that the Wu family was born to do business, and there was business blood in their blood.
My father seems to be happy with his life now.
But Wu Sangui was not satisfied, he was very reluctant to stay in the manor, in the past he commanded thousands of troops and horses, but now he can only command a group of hired laborers. He prefers to sail on the sea, although he can only command a few small merchant ships at sea, but the feeling of riding the wind and waves makes him feel more comfortable.
Once, he thought that this might be the end of his life.
No one could have imagined that God would give him another chance.
Footsteps sounded behind him, and his cousin Zu Zerun came to him. The sea breeze was blowing, but both of them were excited.
"The Central Plains is still in the Spring Festival at this time, but it's summer here, it's really wonderful. I heard that the southern continent is even more peculiar, it is completely opposite to the Central Plains, the winter in the Central Plains is summer, and the Central Plains is winter in summer, and the summer in the Central Plains is winter, the world is so big, it is really strange. Uncle, do you really believe that there is a southern continent? ”
Feeling the sea breeze with a fishy smell on his face, Wu Sangui kept a smile on his face, "Of course I believe that the Southern Continent is actually not a secret, and many people know it." In particular, many of the indigenous people of Java may have been visiting the southern continent more often than a thousand years ago, but they didn't know how special it was. ”
The Southern Continent, a magical new continent.
Wu Sangui felt that it was God's favor for him that he could get such an opportunity unexpectedly. Not long ago, Wu Sangui discovered that the slave trade began to rise in Nanyang, and the slave trade was very profitable and the business was very hot. So Wu Sangui also began to organize a fleet of ships, recruit adventurers, and then began to sail through those seas in the South Seas, looking for those backward islands, looking for those primitive tribes, raiding them, capturing young and strong, and transporting them to underground slave markets in various places to sell.
By chance, while searching for an indigenous tribe, Wu Sangui found a merchant ship stranded on a desert island and found a group of embarrassed Dutchmen.
Those Dutchmen were excited to think they were saved, but Wu Sangui only planned to capture these Dutchmen and sell them. The Dutch were worth much more than the natives, and when the Dutch learned of his idea, they offered to exchange a precious secret for their freedom.
Their secret is New Holland, a beautiful story.
But these Dutchmen actually have the charts of the routes of this New Netherland, and there are many information about the New World, which is so detailed that it is hard to believe, but it is hard not to believe.
Wu Sangui spent a lot of effort and finally understood that he had picked up a big treasure.
It was at that time that Wu Sangui suddenly had a bold idea, he wanted to occupy this New Netherland, he wanted to conquer this New Netherland, he wanted to establish his own power here, he wanted to establish his own country, he wanted to be king here.
As soon as this thought came to him, it immediately grew uncontrollably, and his whole body was completely filled with this thought.
In such a vast New World, undeveloped virgin land, only some natives who only know how to use javelins and stone axes, and do not even have clothes, can definitely conquer them themselves.
Instead of being a wandering merchant and a farmer in the East China Sea, why not go to the New World to fight for your own piece of the world? Even being the king of a group of barbarians is better than continuing to be such a merchant.
Rather for the head of a chicken, not for the tail of a phoenix.
"When we arrive in the New World, we have this slave hunting team, which is enough to occupy a harbor and establish a stronghold." Wu Sangui was full of excitement, he couldn't even sleep for the past few days, and his dreams were full of future pictures of him establishing a new dynasty in the New World and becoming the conqueror of the New World.
Zu Zerun was also very excited, he was Wu Sangui's cousin and Zu Dashou's eldest son. used to be a general of Guanning, but he was later captured and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and he was also mixed well. But now, like Wu Sangui, he has become an exile and can only be a businessman, and he is just as unwilling in his heart.
As soon as Wu Sangui told him about the idea of wanting to do something in the New World, the two hit it off.
Now, the two of them are leading five slave catcher ships and more than 500 slave catchers, and they are going to the New World with great ambitions.
"According to the information gathered by the Dutch, the north of the New World is uninhabitable, it is arid and barren, and we have to go to the east coast, especially the southeast, which is quite suitable for settlement."
"But the north coast is the closest, especially the north-eastern end, and there is only a narrow strait from the southern tip of the island of Papua. But if you go to the east coast, or the southeast coast, it's very far away. Zu Zerun said.
Wu Sangui said with a smile, "I think it's better to stay farther away, we have limited manpower now, if we establish a stronghold on the north coast, it will be too easy to be discovered, even if we establish a stronghold on the northeast coast, it is not easy to keep it secret." And if we choose the southeast coast, then stay away from the South Seas, which will be less likely to leak news. This is very helpful for us to conquer the New World, especially in the early stage, if the news leaks, with our current strength, the Han only needs to send a warship over, and we can be solved. Such a fat piece of meat, if the court knew about it, it would definitely be nothing for us. ”
"It's still the eldest uncle's thoughtfulness, and it is indeed the most important thing to keep it secret."
On the deck, a group of white men with chains on their hands and feet were wiping the deck, and there were several vicious men with whips on the side to supervise the work, cursing a few words from time to time.
Those white people were the people on the hapless stranded ship, the same people who told Wu Sangui the secret of New Holland. They originally wanted to exchange this secret for their freedom, but they didn't expect that after Wu Sangui learned such important news, it was impossible to let them go.
didn't kill them, that is why Wu Sangui felt that these more than 100 people were still useful, and when they arrived in the New World, these people would be excellent laborers. When they arrived in the New World, they would never want to leave again for the rest of their lives.
On deck, there were also many sailors, each with their own duties.
These people are not only the old men of the Wu family's fleet, but also many of them are newly recruited slave catchers this year. These slave catchers are all knife-eaters, bold and black-hearted outlaws, and there are all kinds of people. There were pirates in the South Seas, there were also some natives who fled from crime, and there were also some guys who wanted to make quick money, in short, white, black, yellow, brown, Han, Malay, Indian, Persian, European, all kinds of things.
All of them are ruthless, and after catching slaves many times, they may still have a conscience in their hearts, but now they have all become murderers.
The job of scrubbing the deck was done by the captives, and many of the crew members seemed to be relaxed even on duty, leaning on the deck and chatting, and even gambling and fishing.
On the mast lookout stood a thin man with a black blindfold over one eye, dark skin, and a short stature, making it easy to tell at a glance that it was a Malay.
This Malay monkey was standing on the lookout post at this time, not looking at the distant sea, but had been quietly looking at Wu Sangui and Zu Zerun on the deck. One of them stared at them sneakily, with a pencil in his hand, and a sheepskin in the other, which was written from time to time, and there were many drawings on the side.
The one-eyed Malayan monkey is inconspicuous on the slave fishing boat, and usually can't even speak a word in Chinese, only a few simple Cantonese words. When catching slaves and looting, this person was also very cruel, after breaking through the tribe's villages, he did some **** things, such a murderous villain, no one could have imagined that he actually had another identity.
Wu Sangui never imagined that the imperial court had never let him go.
Jin Yiwei set up a special file for him, and installed a lot of eyeliner around him, in his home, in his manor, and on his ship, there are Jinyiwei's eyeliner.
Wu Sangui's every move was actually under the surveillance of Jinyiwei. It's just that Jin Yiwei is really powerful, he has been just watching, and he hasn't made any moves, so he doesn't know that he is actually under Jin Yiwei's control.
The Malay monkey spy didn't expect that he would sneak into Wu Sangui's slave trap ship and discover such an amazing secret.
A new continent, and Wu Sangui's ambitions.
It's a pity that the time is in a hurry, and I only have time to leave a little clue, and I don't know if I can receive this information above.
"Wu Sangui, it's really a white-eyed wolf who can never be fed, it's a pity, heaven is evil, it is still violated, people are evil, and they can't live!" (To be continued.) )