8-70 Abolition
The slaves came from several neighboring African tribes, both male and female, and some were still related, and they soon found their brothers, wives, and sons in the crowd. Many people hugged each other and cried loudly, and human feelings are always the same, and the China Merchants sailors who were responsible for taking care of them were also embarrassed to see this scene.
Fortunately, the black man has a more unrestrained personality, and it is easy to forget the unhappy things, and when he saw that the enemy was arrested, his relatives saw that there was water and food again, and he immediately became happy again, dancing with his hands and feet, and humming an unknown tune in his mouth. It just so happened that Liu Ziguang came to inspect the black people surrounded by a bunch of subordinates, although the culture and economy are backward, but the intelligence is not bad, who is the benefactor and who is the enemy, they can clearly distinguish who is the benefactor, they look at Liu Ziguang's faction, they know that this uncle is the head of the benefactor, only to hear a young man yell, and then those dancing blacks bow down to Liu Ziguang together, and the rest of the black people as long as they can move all follow and worship, they take a kind of kneeling that is different from the Central Plains etiquette, the whole body is on the ground, clapping his hands in his mouth, chanting words, the first young man who gave the order does not bow down, just crazy and dances inexplicably。
"This....everybody, get up, and you'll be free." Liu Ziguang raised his hands up and said amiably, but the black people didn't understand Chinese and still worshipped, until the young man gave the order to get up.
"Is there a general who can speak the indigenous language, Benhou wants to talk to the young man, and he looks like he is a leader." Liu Ziguang said.
"Back to the Hou Ye, these blacks are all natives from Xiniu Hezhou, thousands of miles away, not to mention that no one here will say their words, even those Western sailors will not speak." One of the subordinates said with a difficult color.
"Oh, that's it, then send two clever people to communicate with them with gestures, settle down first, and then make plans, these people are still in good health, give a few full meals to eat, and they can raise a good labor force." Liu Ziguang finished speaking and left. When the blacks saw him leave, they fell to the ground again to see him off, looking very respectful.
Although Liu Ziguang is against the slave trade, he is not pure enough to send this batch of slaves back, this vote was originally intended to send the labor force of the Badawi plantation, and now it happens to stay in Temasek to enrich the population, anyway, both men and women have taken root here, that is, there are a large number of British woven cotton cloth in the port, cut into wide strips of cloth to be used as a fig leaf, since it is already a new national of the Ming Dynasty, there must be a number of courtesies, can not be so bare-chested, unsightly, of course, there is also an important factor is that everyone will always have some subtle inferiority complex when they see the big lump of things under the black buddy's crotch….
When the blacks lived in Africa, they lived in simple straw huts, and when they arrived at Temasek, a subtropical island, they found a vacant lot and built a shed with tree branches, and 2,000 people lived in a large refugee camp, divided into three or four natural villages according to tribes, and there seemed to be several leaders among them, and the young man was the leader of the leaders, and everyone saluted respectfully when they saw him. Through the gesture exchange with the black head, they finally understood what they needed to do, that is, the wharf, the movement of cargo and the construction of the city, and Temasek needed to carry out major infrastructure construction, these black people were the best free labor.
The captains and sailors of those slave ships were imprisoned by Liu Ziguang in the place where the black people once lived, their hands and feet were chained, and they were only given the minimum amount of dirty water and food every day, and they endured the high temperature and stench every day and couldn't move, and they couldn't move, and when they looked up, they touched the planks above, and died in a few days, and the body of a sailor with poor physique was parked in the cabin for a long time before being thrown into the sea, and the slave traders thoroughly tasted the feelings of the black slaves who were persecuted by them, this is not the end, just a prison sentence, according to the Ming law, their criminal tools and private property were confiscated, and in an instant, they became penniless death row prisoners from slave traders with thousands of dollars in their pockets, although the court of the Ming Dynasty only sentenced them to 20 years in prison, but they bothI know very well that in such a harsh environment, I am afraid that it will not be possible to live for even two months....
"This is retribution! Lao Tzu just wants them to survive, not death. According to the plan formulated by Liu Ziguang, he first implemented abolition in Temasek with Temasek as the core, put a few cruisers on the Strait of Malacca, and forcibly inspect all passing ships, and all slave ships will be seized in the Dutch plantation estates in Sumatra, Java and other places in Sumatra, Java and other places, and also intervene to free the black brothers from slavery.
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Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, these large islands are actually in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial state, the Kingdom of Java has been eroded by the Dutch, the commercial circle centered on Badawi is the more accessible area in the south of Dongsheng Shenzhou, many plantations provide colonists with a variety of cash crops, the local natives are lazy and greedy, and they are not qualified for any work, the main labor force of the plantation is the Chinese who immigrated in the early days, and the Chinese have multiplied in Badawi for several generations, and the population has faintly had the meaning of the locals, because the Chinese are hardworking and willing to work and the salary is low, so the Dutch always like to hire Chinese workers, but in this way, it squeezes the jobs of the locals, Java is a country of the Javanese after all, and those princely kings are thin to deathThe camel is bigger than the horse, exerting pressure on the colonists to encourage their subjects to hunt and kill the Chinese natives, the aborigines do not work, kill and rob, but the good hands have created several massacres against the Chinese in a row, so that the Badawi blood flowed into the river, the Chinese people hid in the jungle and did not dare to come out of the plantation, the serious lack of labor, and the colonists were really unwilling to hire the natives, so they had to spend money to buy black slaves, which led to the rise of the recent slave trade** every week, more than a dozen boats of black slaves were transported from Madagascar.
Badaweisheng made a strong protest against the massacre of the Chinese, but due to the limited strength of the 6th Army, it could not climb the 6th and intervene, so it could only protest a few times, and the Southern Ming court, which was thousands of miles away, did not even hear the rumors, let alone react.
Now it is different, Liu Ziguang has come to Temasek, and in just a few days, the news of the arrival of the Marquis of Zhenwu in the Ming Dynasty has spread all over the surrounding hundreds of miles, and the kings of the princely states have come to pay their respects with gifts, and the Chinese hiding in the jungle have also sent representatives to ask for help, hoping that the army of the mother country can pull them along.
Lau's capture of Temasek was originally a small project for his honeymoon, but what he saw and heard along the way made the honeymoon a little heavy, the advent of the Age of Discovery, the overseas encounters of the Chinese, and the criminal slave trade all made Lau feel that he should do something. China Merchants, an organization that is also a merchant and a military, should play a greater role, and the naval power of the Song State should also be fully utilized, since the collision with the European colonizers will happen sooner or later, then start with Java under your nose.
After a telegram contact with Xinbianjing, a battle plan was finally formulated, and the Song Dynasty court came forward to reprimand Badawi for the inaction of the Dutch East India Company, and sent sailors and forbidden troops to Temasek in the name of protecting overseas Chinese, making a posture of using force at any time, and at the same time, Liu Ziguang protested to the Badawi authorities in the capacity of the admiral of the Ming Dynasty Nanchang, protesting that they had taken in the Ming Dynasty's big embezzler, the former Shanghai Provincial Governor Cheng Liangjue and the City Boss, and the city Bo Si raised Chen Ziang's limit and ordered the Badawi authorities to immediately pay money and apologize! The most ruthless is the third move, the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty reached an agreement to prohibit the slave trade, the Song Dynasty Privy Council submitted the "White Paper on the Human Rights Situation of the Badawi Plantation" to His Royal Highness the County Lord, and His Royal Highness the County Lord read it, and was extremely resentful of this crime against humanity, and issued an ultimatum to all the slave-owning manor owners in the Badawi area, release all black slaves within three days, and give economic compensation according to the workload of the slaves, otherwise, the Song Kingdom will have to fight for human rights.
For a time, the Badawi people panicked, thinking that war was imminent, first the disastrous defeat of the Spaniards in Penghu and Taiwan, then the collapse of the British in Majia Dora, and now it was finally the turn of the Dutch, and the plantation owners and maritime traders were indignant, and they marched and demonstrated at the gates of the East India Company, demanding a war with the arrogant Orientals! However, the governor of the East India Company did not have the courage to make a decision, and he had to consult Amsterdam before he dared to make a decision.
The Dutch East India Company was a conglomerate of fourteen companies focused on the East India trade, the company was headquartered in Amsterdam, and its board of directors consisted of more than seventy people, but only seventeen people were actually in real power, known as the Seventeen Gentlemen, and the company could organize its own mercenaries, trade currency, and was the first company limited by shares, and was allowed to make formal treaties with other countries and exercise the right to colonize and rule the land.
The Dutch East India Company is the richest private company in the world, with an army of 1,000 merchant ships, 100 warships, 50,000 employees, and 10,000 mercenaries, and the company's dividends are as high as 4o%, and every time a new stake is issued, Amsterdam is always empty, and huge wealth pours into the East India Company, so to speak, the company's performance is closely related to the lives of the Dutch, and whoever wants to take the East India Company is to take the Dutchman's wallet.
The East India Company's headquarters in Java was based in Badawi, who was in charge of trade from the mainland to the Ming Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, Taiwan, and even the Japanese Kingdom, and at the same time sent rice, sugar, spices, pepper, amber, linen, cotton, tin, and lead from the local plantations in Java back to the Netherlands. If Cheng Liangjue obediently handed over the money, apologized, and then released all the black slaves, the face of the East India Company would be lost, and those obscene Orientals would definitely have to make more non-centrific demands, and then the company's business would not be carried out.
Fortunately, the Song and Ming joint sailors on the Strait of Malacca only arrested pirates and seized slave ships, and did not take action against ordinary merchant ships for the time being, so the governor of Badawi wrote a letter and asked his fastest mail ship to fly to Amsterdam to report the situation, and on the other hand, to prepare for war to prevent a surprise attack by the Han Chinese.