Chapter 303: Who Are the Black Slave Traders?
Zhu Gaoxian asked the interpreter to ask, how did these blacks come to Java? Are there any other people in Java?
After the interpreter asked, he told Zhu Gaoxian, "They were caught by a group of barbarians and transported by boat, and there were many of them, and many of them died on the way here, and every day people died and were thrown into the sea, and they were lucky." ”
The interpreter said to Zhu Gaoxian, "Your Highness, these people should have some problems in their brains, and they can't speak clearly, but their subordinates have asked clearly, they were sold to the King of the West." ”
"Where do they remember where their hometown is? Or, let him tell you what are the climatic characteristics of their hometown and what to eat? What are the customs? What is Faith? ”
The interpreter has absolute trust in Zhu Gaoxian, His Royal Highness is not very old, but his knowledge is extraordinary.
After some exchanges, the interpreter reported the information to Zhu Gaoxian, "Your Highness, they said that they come from a very hot place, where it rarely rains, and it is a God-given land, and you can have food without labor. Their food is all buns plucked from the trees. They lived by the sea, and suddenly one day a group of very white-looking people came, and they had in their hands a weapon that could make fire, and it hurt a lot after hurting people, and these people tied them to the boat and sold them a lot. ”
There's a lot of information here.
The "bun" in the mouth of the interpreter is called bread on the Eurasian continent.
As for the area where baobab trees grow, at least the African continent will have it, where there is little rain, the climate is hot, there is a lot of vegetation, and there is food without labor, which is indeed a godsend for Africans.
Africans are like God's spoiled children, and it is because they have ready food that nourishes their laziness, and they end up being the most backward and poorest region in the world.
Before South Africa's oil was extracted, of course.
People who look very white, as far as Zhu Gaoxian's limited knowledge goes, he only knows that the main distribution of Caucasian people is in Europe.
Perhaps, of course, that these blacks were not necessarily taken captive by the whites of Europe.
This is Zhu Gaoxian's helplessness, as a science student in his previous life, his knowledge of history and geography is very limited, so he cannot make a more accurate judgment, and in view of the historical events of the Great Voyage Period, Zhu Gaoxian decided to judge the white breed of these black people as Europeans.
At this time, Britain had not yet risen, and the act of robbing colonies everywhere had not yet begun, and Portugal was on the east coast of the Atlantic, that is to say, the coast of the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south, and it was also the European country with the longest colonial history, that is, Portugal sailed much earlier than the history recorded in the books.
Zhu Gaoxian stood on the white clean sand, the sea breeze blowing his robe, the sea water gently surging, over and over again, gently caressing his bare instep, his young and deep gaze seemed to cross the boundless sea, and saw those European powers located in the Western Hemisphere.
"What are their ships made of?" Zhu Gaoxian asked one last question.
After the interpreter asked Maha again, he said in an incredulous tone, "Your Highness, they say that those white people's ships are also made of iron. ”
It seems that the course of history has changed a long time ago, but I don't know it.
It's really curious when it started to change!
At this moment, Zhu Gaoxian's mind sounded with that disgusting mechanical female voice, [World News: Joao, the founder of the Avish dynasty, founded a nautical school to contribute to the nautical cause, and the beautiful man system rewarded him with a beauty]
Zhu Gaoxian stood on the ground as if he had been struck by lightning, unable to digest the news he heard for a long time.
Although, he did not know, what was the "...... of the Aveish dynasty"? He had never heard of who "Joao" was, and a potato was nothing, but the "beautiful system" made him vigilant, and he heard for the first time that there were other systems, and he always thought that the system he had was unique and unique.
This means that the world is not as peaceful as he imagined.
Is it because he has a system that someone else has a system? Or, in the past, there was originally such a hanging king?
Zhu Gaoxian took a deep breath, he tried to communicate with the system, "Why didn't you report the world information before?" ”
Without any surprise, the system does not give an answer, just like the first time the system rewarded him with a bag of sweet potatoes, he searched everywhere and couldn't get it, and repeatedly asked the system, but the system did not respond.
This is a dog system of one-sided communication.
Zhu Gaoxian gasped, he unconsciously thought, I don't know how the system world will inform Joao about him if he crosses news with each other?
Also, What is the name of this dog system he has?
Eastern system? Da Ming? Zhu's? I'm sorry, but he can't think of a poetic name comparable to "The Wonderful".
Zhu Gaoxian cleaned up his mood, since this world is no longer normal, very crazy, he also has to get out of the comfort zone that thinks that the Ming Dynasty took the lead on the road of industrialization, he must also speed up the development of industry, and at the same time protect the natural environment of the Ming Dynasty, and grab land and resources with those European colonizers and powers as soon as possible.
And what makes Zhu Gaoxian even more difficult is that the black man was sold here, which means that the other party has been able to sail from the Atlantic Ocean and cross most of the world to the Indian Ocean?
At this time, the rise of the Ottoman Empire in Eurasia blocked the land Silk Road, making it more dangerous and impossible for Europeans to cross to Asia by land.
The world news released by the system made Zhu Gaoxian very nervous, and the time suddenly became urgent, and he had the idea of going to the European continent to see.
In the next few days, after the base was set up and fences were installed to guard against wild beasts, the people of the Ming Imperial Academy and the Ministry of Engineering began to install drilling and oil refining equipment, and the dog led the black slaves to build a dock on the seaside.
Maha has a very good water nature, and he actually has good eyesight in the water, which makes Zhu Gaoxian very surprised.
As long as it is a talent, Zhu Gaoxian attaches great importance to it and cherishes it, so when the interpreter handed him a rope and asked him to tie it around his waist, and then went into the water, Maha's black and white eyes actually revealed some abnormal red.
In fact, this is just a habit of Zhu Gaoxian, respect for life.
The oil field soon produced oil, and it deserved to be the oil village of later generations, and every household could drill a well and produce crude oil. Zhu Gaoxian chose a shallowest place from the surface to drill a well, and at a depth of less than 300 meters, crude oil was spewed.
The black gold flowed into the oil refining equipment, and Zhu Gaoxian breathed a sigh of relief.
The power system of the warship has also been replenished, Zhu Gaoxian has no intention of staying here, he urgently needs to settle the affairs in Southeast Asia, go to Australia as soon as possible, and after building a base there, find a way to understand what is happening on the European continent?
Zhu Gaoxian called Meng Shan and Lu Wei to his room, although it was very simple, it was already the best decorated room on the base.
He said to Meng Shan, "Those black slaves, I have already asked, were transported from a very far away place from here......
Zhu Gaoxian pointed to a world map on the simple desktop, on the map, West Africa was close to here, but after Meng Shan and the others followed Zhu Gaoxian to sail, they knew how difficult it was to cross the ocean and sea.
"They also have ironclads like us, and I really can't imagine that they can cross the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to come here."
Zhu Gaoxian's tone concealed a killing intent that was not easy for him to detect, and they actually had firearms.
The guns of the West were brought to them by Genghis Khan's army during their expedition to the west, and after the Qing Dynasty closed the country for more than 200 years, the West opened the door to China with artillery.
Meng Shan had two guesses in his heart, but he didn't take the initiative to ask.
Zhu Gaoxian said, "I will ask the imperial court to make you the governor of Java Island, you stay here to ensure the safety of the base here, and then the interests of the Ming Dynasty here." “
Meng Shan followed all the way, of course he knew what Daming's foreign policy was like, if Java was a normal country, then Daming would definitely have to establish diplomatic relations with Java through the normal process.
The Western King's attack on the Ming Dynasty made Java Island lose such qualifications.
"Yes, the last general obeys!"
Zhu Gaoxian left behind a battleship, a cruiser, and enough artillery supplies, and then led the remaining fourteen warships back to the Sunda Strait and landed on Sumatra Island at the Palembang pier.
The Barisan Mountains dominate the western part of Sumatra, stretching from northwest to southeast, across the island, with numerous rivers and peat bogs to the east.
The conditions were much worse than Zhu Gaoxian imagined.
Even if it is to rob the weak, it also needs to pay a lot of price, and those Western powers should have paid a lot of price when they crossed the ocean to establish colonies, but once they defeated the risk, they would be more than 100 times more profitable, so that they would take risks.
Sumatra Island was divided to the Lu family, Zhu Gaoxian's warship and the warship escorting the Lu family to Sumatra Island converged, He Shou stepped from the warship to Zhu Gaoxian's main ship, and he was followed by the Lu family's people.
Zhu Gaoxian was still very worried about Lu Longqi's retreat, who knows, the other party was very excited, and after saluting Zhu Gaoxian respectfully, he said, "Your Highness, there is a very easy road to the base built by the small people, we have built houses, and we have also established contact with the local residents, and the small people can hire local people to do things here, and the remuneration they want is very low, only two to three yuan a day." “