The next morning.

When Newton came to the restaurant to enjoy a hearty breakfast, he was amazed at the deliciousness of the Chinese breakfast. Suddenly they heard the extremely miserable screams coming from the next door.

Driven by curiosity, Newton and others went to the hotel next door to inquire and found that the miserable scream came from a slave. Because the slave had some negligence in his work, he was ordered to be punished by the hotel owner.

This poor native slave stood in the backyard and was beaten by two other slaves with rattans. The punishment was so simple and cruel that the cruel corporal punishment lasted for more than ten minutes. It was not until the slave's back and thighs were blooming and blood was flowing all over the ground. The owner of the hotel ordered the whipping to stop. Then he scolded the slave to retreat and continue to do his work, not caring about his body trauma at all.

Seeing such cruel and barbaric behavior, Newton asked in confusion.

"Sir, since you are from the Celestial Empire, why should you punish this poor man so savagely?"

In his opinion, the people of the Celestial Empire were gentle and kind, and were kind and kind, but this scene in front of him subverted his understanding of the Celestial Empire.

"You don't know anything."

The hotel owner wearing a shirt looked at these semen and said:

"These Guawa slaves are extremely hateful and are unruly by nature. If the most severe punishment is used to warn them, they will take it as a warning, and they will not know what chaos to make."

In ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, there has never been any kindness to treat slaves. In order to tame slaves, the easiest way for slave owners to tame slaves was to use whips. These Han immigrants came overseas, but just entered their hometowns and follow their customs. Of course, compared with Europeans, Tianfang people, the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty had a more open mind. They would take the initiative to learn how Europeans and Tianfang people treated slaves and then take their strengths. For example, when they learned that the slave owners of the Tianfang Sect in North Africa would let white slaves breed black female slaves plundered from the southern Sahara. The breeding of small mixed-race slaves could increase labor force to the Sudan. brothels and other places would use similar methods to obtain mixed-race slaves with a white skin as prostitutes.

In the Ming Dynasty, all this was certainly illegal, but in the colonies... all known sins in the world are definitely gathered here.

As for the law... the Ming Dynasty's laws only protected the people of the Ming Dynasty. As for the natives ruled by the colonial rule, they were only relatively protected. As for the slaves, they were selectively "protected" by the colonial governor's office as the "tradition of the ruled area".

After all, this is a colonial tradition. When entering the countryside and following its customs, while the colonial natives were educated and sinicized, immigrants were also influenced by indigenous cultures and customs, which is always inevitable.

Things like this are endless

Of course, such severe punishments are not common. Most of the time, at most, it is to let slaves beat them lightly occasionally, and teach them the rules with sticks. After all, for slave owners, they also need slaves to have a good body to work, and most Ming people immigrants cannot achieve true cruelty.

Although Newton and others were a little uncomfortable with the early morning events, it did not affect their mood.

It's a slave.

Everyone treats slaves in the same way.

Compared to London, the weather in Guihua City is extremely hot. Even though he was wearing a loose Ming-style robe, Newton still sweated a lot, but even so, he was still wandering around the city with great enthusiasm.

In his opinion, this city is more of a park than a city. The streets of the city are very wide, beautifully built and extremely flat. There are tall trees on both sides of the street, and houses on the roadside are generally three stories high. Perhaps to adapt to the hot climate, each floor is built very high, with windows open very large, and transparent glass is dazzling.

Looking at the transparent glass windows, Newton couldn't help but exclaim.

"China is so rich!"

Even though the City of Guihua was just a colony of the Ming Dynasty in Ceylon, Newton and others could not help but regard it as the Ming Dynasty.

Even transparent glass windows have become symbols of wealth.

In Europe, such glass windows are of course expensive, but flat glass in the Ming Dynasty has long been ruined.

In fact, unlike later generations' imaginations, glass was a bargain in the Ming Dynasty. However, the glass manufacturing technology in ancient China was different from Europe, and its technology tree had been completely deflected. Unlike European craftsmen who thought about how to remove impurities and make glass purer and more transparent; Chinese craftsmen tried every means to add impurities to make the glass look colorful and closer to jade, so in ancient China, glass was called "medicine jade".

Although the technical tree point is crooked, the main technology is not much different, so I just adjusted the process a little. As early as the Chongzhen period, Zhu Guoqiang used craftsmen from Yanshen Town to build a glass factory in Dalian. Yanshen Town is from Zibo, Shandong. The Ming and Qing Dynasties have always been a major glass production center in the northern region. The glass factory used the blower method to produce flat glass, which was relatively simple and low-cost. Therefore, flat glass became popular in the Ming Dynasty. However, even if flat glass is not expensive, glass mirrors are still high-end goods worth tens of thousands of yuan. The glass for producing glass mirrors is flatter, smoother, without bubbles, and more transparent. In short, they are carefully selected and the price is definitely not cheap.

As for ordinary flat glass, it only acts as windows. Whether in the Ming Dynasty or in the colonies, glass windows are very common. The architectural forms of street houses are almost the same, tall and bright.

The streets are planted with two rows of evergreen trees to add a lot of color to the street. Small hexagonal pavilions are built in different parts of the road, and there are seats in Xin. Pedestrians can rest in the cold Xin whenever there is a sudden rain or the sun is strong.

All of this was fresh in Newton's eyes. When wandering around the city, Newton also encountered several Chinese soldiers (patients). Their clothes and equipment were much better than those of English soldiers, and they looked extremely energetic.

"Maybe, this is the common characteristic of the Chinese people!"

Newton thought to himself that both soldiers and ordinary citizens looked full of energy, but in comparison, what did the English look like? His face was haggard and pale, and even his restlessness was weak. Most English people had pale faces and were dry and silly.

"Oh, there's really nothing I can do!"

Suddenly, a friend's complaint sounded beside Newton.

"Isaac, look at their spirits, they are all full of energy. Thinking about the English, they are like a group of sick men. There is no way to compare them!"

Such a complaint immediately aroused the approval of others.

Indeed, the physical fitness of Europeans is far from comparable to that of the people of the Ming Dynasty. After all, the basis of physical fitness is food. Nowadays, many Europeans are still half hungry and half full, so if they cannot fill their stomachs, they will naturally not be able to talk about strong physical fitness.

For the people of the Ming Dynasty, especially for these immigrants from the colonies, what they are most bad here is food.

Sufficient food makes each of them look extremely healthy and strong. In fact, in ancient China, a criterion for measuring whether a peaceful and prosperous era was whether the people could eat enough. As long as they could eat enough, it would be a prosperous era.

This evaluation standard seems simple, but in fact, it is extremely harsh. Just like in Europe today, if there is no colony, a large number of immigrants, and no food transported from the colony, most Europeans will be semi-hungry. After all, in Europe, most of the land belongs to the nobles, and ordinary people are just tenants. Under the exploitation of the nobles, they can only barely make a living.

Because of this, most European people have pale faces and look malnourished. Now when Newton and others see these people from the Ming Dynasty, their healthy bodies naturally bring unprecedented impacts on these people, which will lead to this idea.

"Oh, it's really worthy of being the legendary China."

When Newton sighed, someone reminded him

"This is not China yet, it is just a colony, and the Chinese mainland must be richer."

At this moment, everyone was full of longing for China. After all, it was the golden kingdom written by Marco Polo. How rich is that golden kingdom?
Chapter completed!