Chapter 17 Human Spirits
Life on the boat is very boring, but this law does not exist here in Liu Yifeng, and he easily taught backgammon to everyone. So you can see people all over the cabin who have made a grid on the ground with sharp weapons, and used some messy things as chess pieces to play backgammon.
"Hahaha, you're losing again, you only have water to drink tonight!"
But as long as these folks can gamble on a game, they will gamble. And as long as it comes to gambling, there is one person who can't get around, that is, Feng Shuo, who was too good at gambling and lost his job as a horse dealer and was imprisoned and became a people's husband.
"Again, again!"
"Coming back? Lao Feng, if you lose again, you won't even have water to drink. ”
"I can turn the tables!"
"So what are you betting on?"
"I still have a bedding on my bed, wait for me to bring it!"
Feng Shuo squeezed out of the crowd, picked up the futon and was about to leave, but was stopped by Aobai. Aobai dragged him to a corner and played a game with Nikantu in front of him.
"What's this trick called?"
"Double three, I learned it with my master. Boss Feng, if you use this trick, you will win! ”
"Good you stinky boy, well done!"
Hearing that it was Liu Yifeng, who invented backgammon, used a trick, Feng Shuo's confidence was greatly boosted.
It's a pity that half an hour later, he threw the futon to the other party with a gloomy face, looked at the double three on the opposite side of the chessboard, and didn't understand why the other party would do this trick.
The man returned to his bed with the futon, looked at Li Hongji, who was sitting on the bed in a daze, and said, "Li Hongji, you taught me that trick is so useful!" ”
"Really?" Li Hongji smiled: "That's what I learned from the big boss." ”
"No wonder it's so powerful!"
And Liu Yifeng, the big leader in the mouth of everyone, will not be in the dull cabin, he is sitting at a table of eight immortals in the upper cabin.
"Fifty thousand."
"Bump."
"Isn't it, this card is touched too?"
"Looks like it's going to make him big."
Suddenly, the three people in the other 3 directions of the Eight Immortals Table began to get nervous, after all, Liu Yifeng was recognized as the best person in the whole boat mahjong.
An official of the Maritime Safety Bureau glanced at the captain and master at the Eight Immortals table, and the two nodded slightly, indicating that they knew. They are ready to play a small card to send to the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau, and losing a small card is better than Liu Yifeng being a big card.
Originally, there was no Liu Yifeng on the card table, but in addition to the captain, the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau and the master, only Liu Yifeng, who could play mahjong, was exposed by chance. Others want to play, but because they can't, they will always easily let one of the three people win, so that the other two play extremely aggrieved.
There was no way, so they called Liu Yifeng up from below, so the smiles on the faces of the other three people shifted to Liu Yifeng's faces.
"Wait, I'm going to have a kong on this card."
The official of the Maritime Safety Bureau's face turned a little pale, and several onlookers hurriedly moved behind Liu Yifeng, looked at his cards and couldn't help but exclaim.
Now the fool knows that Liu Yifeng has already made a big deck, so he has to run quickly!
Liu Yifeng was not dissatisfied with the other crew members and the people from the Maritime Safety Bureau, but just looked at the captain with a smile and said, "Captain, it's time for you to touch the cards." ”
The captain is a man who speaks to his own ship, and the crew members who have committed crimes in the open sea have been slashed by his own hands. But under Liu Yifeng's smile, he actually touched a card with some trembling, and his face turned white with a "swish".
The officials and masters of the Maritime Safety Bureau immediately breathed a sigh of relief, dead friends don't die poor roads, captain, you should hurry up and let Liu Yifeng win.
"Liu Yifeng, right? I remember you once applied for a job in the kitchen. ”
"Yes, Captain, you agreed?"
"Well, go ahead."
After speaking, he played the card that allowed Liu Yifeng to win.
Liu Yifeng didn't have a beard, and looked at the master with a smile. After the master touched one, he also said: "I can't imagine that Liu Yifeng not only writes well, but also knows how to cook?" ”
"I know a little bit about it."
"Well, then you can go and help the cook."
The master played his cards. Liu Yifeng looked at the official of the Maritime Safety Administration.
"I'm okay with that, the captain is the biggest on board." After saying that, the cards were played.
It was Liu Yifeng's turn, he played a card after touching a card lightly, and the people around him looked subtle, which showed that his big deck had been demolished by him.
An hour later, Liu Yifeng saluted everyone in the cabin and went to the kitchen to help cook. After the captain, the master and the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau looked at each other, they all felt a little angry and funny.
"Master, where did you find this superb product in Yongdang Trading House?"
"My lord, he was in the prison of Golden State, and I only thought he was a literate businessman before."
"This kid has the eyesight to see, and he can get acquainted with anyone in a short period of time, it's a pity that this kind of human spirit is lost to Dongshan Prefecture."
The captain and master nodded, agreeing with the assessment of the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau.
It's been more than 10 days since he went to sea, and Liu Yifeng, who should never have gotten into this cabin for the rest of his life, can actually sit on a table with eight immortals and play mahjong with them, and he also calculates himself, but he thinks what a powerful person he is.
And because of the backgammon invented by Liu Yifeng, now the lower cabin of the entire ship is a grid chessboard drawn in a mess, and even the cabin of the crew is not spared.
The captain was so angry that he almost threw Liu Yifeng directly into the sea.
"But this kid is weird too." "He always asks me weird questions. ”
The official of the Maritime Safety Bureau also nodded: "He is also very concerned about the imperial court and the Maritime Safety Bureau, and I can't answer some questions." ”
At this time, an official from the Maritime Safety Bureau walked in and said, "My lord, we have passed Jeju Island, and we will be able to go to Nambuso tomorrow." ”
When the master heard this, he directly stood up with the masters or leaders of the other 4 trading houses and saluted to the officials and captains of the Maritime Safety Bureau: "Two, the banquet that has been arranged by the five of us in the Sect Division of Heizhi City will be asked all the way." ”
The captain and the officials of the Maritime Administration nodded as a matter of course and accepted the salute of the five people.
It's the rule.
Generally speaking, the fleet that transports people to Dongshan Prefecture every year will only stop at Fusang after leaving the Ming mainland, and then go to Beihai.
Beihai is barren, except for setting up some supply ports, the imperial court cannot set up a teaching department in that kind of place, even if there is a green building run by the people themselves, according to the rules, the crew will not be allowed to go ashore to patronize when the people's fleet docks. So before reaching Dongshan State, this is the only opportunity for the people of the whole boat to have access to women.
It takes more than 2 months to go to Dongshan Prefecture and everything goes well, and it is generally about 3 months. For such a long time, most of the crew on the ship are strong men, and they must have let them vent before going to Beihai.
As a result, the imperial court set up a Jiaobo Division in the conquered Edo City of South Fuso Island, North Fuso Island and Fuso Main Island, but there were very few Han women in it, and most of them were Japanese slaves or Dongyi slaves.
For these Japanese slaves and Dongyi slaves, the most anticipated thing is naturally to be favored by a favored Han person and brought back to the Central Plains. But it's a pity that most of them are looking for a local man to live honestly after they are old.
However, there are exceptions, that is, some will be conscripted to Dongshan Prefecture, where they can really be combined with Han men, and some even become wives.
"Don't buy too many women!" The captain said in a deep voice: "As long as there are too many women transported every time, it will be difficult for the children under my command to manage!" ”
Although the captain is not the captain of the older generation, and it is unlucky to believe that women are on board, but when there are women on board, it will be really difficult for the crew to manage. There are always people who try their best to sneak into the cabin of the women and do something, especially the crew members who guard the women, and it is basically a sure thing to steal from the guards.
It's not that the captain is sympathetic to the Japanese slave women or the Dongyi slave women, but that the crew's behavior can easily cause conflicts among the crew.
The people of the five comptoirs were so slippery, they didn't speak, and looked at the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau in unison. Whether it is the transportation of people's husbands or the women of Japanese slaves and Dongyi slaves, these are all orders from the Maritime Safety Bureau.
The treasure ship belongs to the navy, and they can't afford to mess with it. They had to rely on the Maritime Safety Bureau to eat, and they couldn't afford to offend, so they could only pretend to be deaf and dumb and let the two go to fight.
"Captain, didn't you modify a few cabins to accommodate those women? This is also His Majesty's order, and the brothers in Dongshan Prefecture are also suffering, so they can't be allowed to trample on the sheep again. ”
This is a very famous true story in Dongshan Prefecture.
A few years ago, because of the lack of women, some people in Dongshan Prefecture set their sights on grazing sheep. This frenzied event even alarmed the court and the cabinet, and His Majesty personally inquired about the details.
It is said that a certain cabinet elder who was most opposed to the reclamation of Dongshan Prefecture was not allowed to immigrate to Dongshan Prefecture because he had not been allowed to immigrate to Dongshan Prefecture, and he took the blame of this scandal and returned to his hometown.
"Hmph, you can't pretend too much!" When the captain saw that His Majesty's orders were all taken out, he could only give in.
At this time, Liu Yifeng came to inform them that it was time to eat, and the captain had a whim, grabbed Liu Yifeng, and said his troubles: "What can you do?" ”
The people from the Maritime Safety Bureau and the people from the 5 commercial houses all set their eyes on Liu Yifeng, wanting to see what this person could do.
After Liu Yifeng asked a few more details, he said with a smile: "It's simple and easy to handle." ”