Chapter 52: The New World
Zhang Huaisheng and Killian got up suddenly, pushed open the door and ran towards the deck.
The sailor standing on the lookout waved the monocular in his hand and cheered loudly: "Mr. Zhang, I have seen the land, we have finally arrived in the New World!" ”
This long journey of twenty days has made everyone suffocated.
Every day I go back and forth to the cramped cabin, surrounded by sea water or seawater, and my clothes don't seem to dry at all...
Even in later generations, everyone has a mobile phone, and ocean-going seafarers still feel that life is difficult.
Zhang Huaisheng grabbed the side of the boat and tried to look.
At the end of the sea level, there was a dull yellow earth.
The originally ugly color was far more moving in Zhang Huaisheng's eyes at this moment than the blue sky and the blue sea.
"Mr. Captain, is it Texas ahead?"
The smile on the captain's face couldn't be suppressed at all: "According to the measurement of the sextant, there should be no mistake." Next, we just have to sail along the coast to reach the Port of Houston. ”
"That's great."
The Port of Houston (Dun) is the most developed port city in Texas, with a certain industrial base, and their destination is not Houston, but they must dispose of the goods there, exchange them for building materials, supplies, fresh water, guns, and find a piece of land to establish a congregation (castle) and settle down.
Of course, it would be better if you could buy a cannon, even if it was some old-fashioned cannon with solid bullets.
The ship quickly stopped outside the harbor.
In the harbor, armed patrol boats flying the Star-Spangled Banner stopped the Hanseatic.
The captain led several sailors to row a small boat ashore to complete the formalities, and the Hanseatic was admitted to the port.
The sailors got out of the boat and immediately ran to the pier in the harbor with cheers.
But living at sea for too long has made them obviously uncomfortable with the sudden "calm" ground.
For the first time in 20 days, everyone was delighted by the feeling of being down-to-earth.
Zhang Huaisheng stood on the side of the ship, looking out at the dusk land from afar, and the Houston urban area, which looked far less developed than a big city like Hamburg.
This is Texas, the Lone Star State.
A place full of gangsters, Ku Klux Klans, cowboys in brown jeans and revolvers, stowaways from Mexico.
He disembarked with Killian, who was already impatient.
The wharves flocked to the wharf, all black, dressed in torn yellowed shirts, barefoot, and seemingly organized, which alarmed the sailors.
A black man stood at a distance that was not too sensitive, and shouted to them: "Dear gentlemen, do you have any goods to carry?" ”
Manpower handling?
The sailors looked at each other, and in the big ports of Europe, almost all models of cranes had been popularized, and it seemed that manual handling was a long time away from them.
That's it, or the largest port in Texas?
The porters were all black, but Zhang Huaisheng did not expect.
Although blacks had been nominally emancipated since the Civil War, they were only nominally emancipated in southern states with a broad tradition of slavery.
On many plantations, black slaves were still used in large numbers, and even free blacks could not be guaranteed the safety of their lives and property.
The blacks who can work as porters are already a relatively decent existence in the southern slave states, and more are still chained to the plantation like wild beasts.
Zhang Huaisheng was not interested in helping the blacks to complete their self-redemption, he stood in front of the sailors and said:
"Before I think about hiring you, I'd like to ask you a question."
"Do you know where werewolf colonies are nearby? Moreover, have you heard of the legend of the Black Knight? ”
With that, he took out a shilling and threw it far away to the black man who had come forward to ask.
Werewolf Colony and Black Knight are the targets he is looking for at the moment, and the former is the key to his play.
There's nothing better than blending into a werewolf colony and living with a werewolf.
As for the latter, although there is still a long way to go before he is promoted to Sequence 7, it is a fine tradition of the Chinese to take precautions.
The Black Knight is a rare monster, even rarer than a vampire of a higher sequence.
Waiting until the breakthrough is about to be found, delaying for a year and a half is simply commonplace.
The black man took the silver coin and smiled.
"Thank you for your generosity, my lord."
"Allow me to correct one of your mistakes, werewolf settlements have no specific location to follow, they are like the wind raging in the desert, and they never stop somewhere."
"I guess this should be the philosophy of survival for werewolves, and even they devils know that America is white people's territory."
Zhang Huaisheng asked quietly, "What about the black knight?" ”
"I'm sorry, my lord, I would love to be able to help you, but I've never heard of a black knight, and if I insist on saying anything like that, I only know about the white knight."
Zhang Huaisheng was puzzled: "White knight? ”
"What's that?"
The black man's face showed obvious fear and hatred: "They are a group of demons who are all dressed in long white robes, wearing pointed white hats with hollowed out eyes, and torches and shotguns in their hands, robbing and killing black people." ”
"The devil?"
Zhang Huaisheng quickly reacted, the devil here should be an adjective.
As for the White Knights in his mouth, it should be the Ku Klux Klan, a pure white supremacist who began to rise after the Civil War ended in defeat for the South.
It is now in its heyday, with millions of members throughout the United States.
The black man looked at Zhang Huaisheng carefully.
Since he did not wear a fisherman's hat, he showed a typical Donghua appearance.
"People like you can also be dangerous, so I advise you to leave as soon as possible after you sell your goods, and America belongs only to white people."
In fact, there are many fair-skinned people in Donghua people, but the so-called white supremacy of the Ku Klux Klan has little to do with skin color.
Because they are not only anti-Indian, anti-black, anti-Chinese, but also anti-Semitic, discriminatory against Irish, Italian, Slavic...
The so-called white supremacy is only the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxons, at most plus the Germans and the French, because they are the same race from the perspective of kinship.
To put it bluntly, it is still a trick of the majority to discriminate against the minority, do you see that in Quebec, do the Anglo-Saxon people dare to discriminate against the French?
(Quebec was originally a French colony and belonged to the French-speaking region.) )
Zhang Huaisheng curled the corners of his mouth slightly, a little disdainful.
The Ku Klux Klan may have transcendentals, but as a secular organization, it is highly unlikely that it will have a mid-sequence.
Although Zhang Huaisheng is only Sequence 8 now, but with full play, the vast majority of Sequence 7 will be hated, how can he be afraid of a 3Klux Klan?
"Thanks for the reminder."
"But for the time being, we don't plan to unload the goods, because we haven't found a buyer yet, and when we come back from the city, there will be a time when we need your work."
Zhang Huaisheng consulted with Ms. O'Connell and Captain O'Connell.
In the end, it was decided that the captain would lead someone to find a buyer for the mobile phone device, and Houston had a certain industrial base, and because the base was not high, the factory owner should not look down on the large number of second-hand machines they brought.
Historically, Houston was developed because of oil and gas resources, but in the steam age, it could only rely on coal.
Ms. O'Connell and Zhang Huaisheng plan to go through immigration procedures.
At this time, the United States has already introduced an immigration restriction law, and it may be difficult to handle the immigration of the whole ship.
If you can do it, you can do it, and if you can't do it, forget it.
It's a big deal to be a black household.
They had planned to find a wasteland and establish their own settlement, rather than settle in a city.
It's just that there will be some more trouble.