As soon as the news of the official annexation of the Kingdom of Majiadora to the Ming Dynasty spread, the people rejoiced and rushed to tell each other that the team of Sanbao eunuchs was back. I recall that when Zheng He sailed to the West, he once passed Temasek, and the spectacular fleet gave the locals
It left a very deep impression. From then on, the royal families of the Nanyang feudal states began to yearn for Chinese civilization. For example, the children of the royal family with better conditions were sent to Nanjing to study abroad, and the children of wealthy families with average conditions went to Xinbianjing to study.
Anyway, everyone is proud to have a little bit of Chinese civilization.
In recent years, the Strait of Malacca has not been peaceful. The blond and white-skinned foreigners from the west have occupied Badawi and built a castle in Dora, Malacca. There are more and more bandits in the Strait, and the people's sense of security is getting less and less.
But things are different now. A battle reappeared the great power of tomorrow. The arrogant Westerners in the past were defeated in an instant. From then on, the heavenly soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven were permanently stationed in Temasek. The people no longer had to fear pirates and foreigners.
When visiting relatives, you can proudly say: "I am a member of the Ming Dynasty."
Many British sailors were captured during the naval battle, and there were also many Westerners who laid down their weapons in the castle. Liu Ziguang adopted a classified approach to deal with these people. Since the British took the lead in provoking the Celestial Empire and their crime was unforgivable, they confiscated all
The British government's property in Temasek detained all personnel who participated in combat operations against the Chinese army, but British women and children were not included in this, and the property of civilians could also be retained. As for sailors from other countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands, although they also participated
Military operations, but they were caused by people who did not know the truth and were deceived by the British with ulterior motives, so they were not investigated.
This treatment satisfied everyone. Even the British prisoners of war felt that China was merciful to them, because they had heard that Orientals like to use ghost-headed knives to chop the heads of prisoners of war. Sailors from other countries were even more happy, and Singapore was still the same.
In Singapore, the free port policy has not changed, and in the future, goods from Daming Merchants Group can arrive in Singapore, saving them the need to go to Guangzhou and Quanzhou to purchase goods.
The British had been operating in Singapore for five or six years. The port, the castle, and the mountains of goods in the cargo yard have all become Liu Ziguang's trophies. This mission was not ordered by the court, it was entirely his own private work.
Of course, there is no need to turn it over. Majiadora was included in the Ming Dynasty because he casually dealt with Alabama. Even if this small and small country wrote to the Lifan Academy, no one would pay attention to it. Zhu Youxiao would not receive Alabama. God!
Although the country likes the grandeur of the kings coming to court, not all small kingdoms will accept it. It will take years of the monkey and horses and months to wait for the imperial court to officially issue the canonization edict.
In the castle by the port, Liu Ziguang was sitting on the large Western chair owned by Sir Stamford, the governor of the Free Port, and was looking through the account books. The property left by the British was worth up to 300,000 gold pounds, and there were more than a dozen boxes of cash alone.
There is also a warehouse of weapons and twenty three-masted sailing ships. The goods include woven cotton cloth and woolen cloth produced in London. The cotton cloth is to be sold to Java and the woolen cloth is to be sold to the Ming Dynasty.
"Temasek belongs to me. You can't go back on your word. You agreed to pay the betrothal gift." Zhao Wen sat opposite Liu Ziguang, her long legs resting on the mahogany desk, and her phoenix eyes looking around the room casually.
Liu Ziguang replied: "What's yours and mine? Isn't what's mine yours? It's not like Temasek can move things around. How can it be moved to the vicinity of Xinbianjing for you?"
"That's right. Why don't you become the king of Temasek? Wouldn't it be nice for me to be your queen?" Zhao Wen said.
"You don't mind the cold, but I hate the cold. How can you be the king of a bigger place? We can't afford to lose that person. Now it's best for Temasek to be a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. When I go back and file a case with the Court of Governors, I will
We can justifiably use the Ming Dynasty flag in Temasek. Anyway, we just need to send some specialties there every year. The capital can also send a lot of gold and silver as gifts in return. Although Temasek is small, the terrain is very important. The East-West trade intersects here, sooner or later.
If we can grow into a world-famous port, we should maintain this advantage and adhere to the free port policy. No tariffs, only berthing fees, cargo yard storage fees, etc. will be enough. There is no need to get the title of Temasek King.
, as the saying goes, you can make a fortune by muttering, what do you think?"
Zhao Wen couldn't listen to these complicated truths, and said casually: "It's up to you, as long as it makes a little money for my wallet every year." As he said that, he seemed to have discovered something interesting, and walked to the wall with the wallpaper.
Drawing an oil painting, he said: "Elizabeth's nose is so sharp."
Liu Ziguang looked back and saw that it was a half-length portrait of the Queen of England. A blond woman with a pointed nose and white skin, dressed in rich clothes, was looking at him and Zhao Wen with a look of disdain on the world.
Liu Ziguang smiled: "I am also a queen, and I also play pirates, but I play it much more professionally than you, an amateur pirate."
Zhao Wen said unconvinced: "Humph, sooner or later I will take the navy to their capital, London, to see who is the best."
While he was talking, there was a knock on the door, and the guard came in to report: "A cargo not included in the list was found on the British cargo ship. The subordinates don't know how to deal with it. Please go and take a look."
There were goods that he didn't know how to deal with. Liu Ziguang was very interested and took Zhao Wen down to the castle to inspect the pier. He saw a huge sailing ship moored beside the pier. It looked normal on the outside. This British cargo ship
It had been confiscated, so the British sailors could not be seen. Only the people from the China Merchants Bureau were watching from above. After boarding the deck, the sailors opened the deck, pointed to the warehouse below and said: "Master Marquis, the goods are all inside."
Zhao Wen took a look first, and a stench immediately took her back. She frowned and said, "It's so dark. It stinks. I won't read it."
Liu Ziguang also smelled this familiar smell. He frowned, lifted up his robe and walked down the wooden stairs. The guards quickly followed. Zhao Wen thought for a while, but curiosity prevailed, and she took out a handkerchief and pinched her nose.
He also followed.
Shocking! Only this idiom can describe the tragic scene Liu Ziguang saw. Since this cargo ship did not have a steam engine installed, the interior space was very large. It was divided into several parts by wooden boards, with several floors up and down. Anyway, the space utilization rate reached the limit.
Lying on the layers of wooden boards, there are actually living people! These people all have dark skin like Duncan, curly hair, no hair on their bodies, and their hands and feet are shackled. They are fixed to the wooden boards and cannot move around.
The distance between people is very close. The weather in Singapore is hot, and the bilge is even more unbearably hot. The feces and urine accumulated by these black people for a long time cannot be cleaned. The stench is so high that it can kill people, except Liu Ziguang.
, everyone pinched their noses.
Liu Ziguang looked at each of the black slaves, and the black slaves looked at him, with white eyes flashing on their black faces. Some of them muttered something, probably in African dialect, begging for water and food.
If so. There were still many people who didn't react at all. They closed their eyes tightly and lay there, looking like they were dead.
These are real people. Although their productivity is backward, they still have parents, wives, joys and sorrows, and their own lives. Now they are locked up in cages like pigs and dogs by Westerners and transported as goods. It is simply too cruel.
!So anti-human!
The guard was afraid that the smell of the cabin would spoil Liu Ziguang, so he hurriedly said: "Master Marquis, go up, we can arrange whatever you have to do."
Liu Ziguang stopped, turned around and said: "Let all the people out, give them enough water and food, cremate the dead, and treat the sick." After saying that, he turned around and left. At that moment, the guard noticed that there seemed to be something shiny at the corner of the Hou Ye's eyes.
Something flashes.
After all, Liu Ziguang is a modern person. The education he received since childhood made him dislike slavery very much. Moreover, like these black slaves, he was an iron factory slave kidnapped by slave traders. The treatment he received on that train was not the same as what it is today.
Black slaves were almost the same! Although Liu Ziguang later used slave labor, they were only enemy prisoners of war, not good people kidnapped, and the treatment was relatively generous, which reflected humanistic care. The Liguo Iron Works never again
There was no rebellion, which had a lot to do with his measures.
After getting on the deck, Liu Ziguang issued an order to blockade the port, inspect all ships, rescue all those carrying black slaves, and detain the captain and sailors in accordance with the law.
This was a mess. There were many ships in the port carrying black slaves. Not only the British, but also the Portuguese and the Dutch were involved in this trade because the plantations near Badawi were in urgent need of slaves. All the recent routes
It was relatively busy. Liu Ziguang wanted to liberate the slaves, but these people refused to agree. They resisted and said, didn't the Marquis say that only British property would be confiscated? Why should we also confiscate our goods?
Liu Ziguang didn't care about that. Anyone who dared to disobey was shot to death on the spot. Now Temasek is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. All personnel in the Singapore Port must abide by the "Ming Dynasty Laws". According to the Ming Dynasty Laws, human trafficking is a serious crime and requires imprisonment and a fine of silver.
, In this way, those foreigners had no choice but to hand over the black slaves obediently and capture them without mercy. In less than half a day, more than 2,000 black slaves were accumulated under the shade of the trees next to the port. Some of them were in poor health and could only lie down.
Those who were in better health could still sit, and their shackles were opened. A large vat filled with water was placed in front of them. They could drink it from a split coconut shell. There were also basins of porridge with sucrose added to them, and more.
There were oriental men in white clothes holding silver needles to treat the seriously ill. The black slaves could see that the white men who kidnapped and abused them were shackled one by one and imprisoned in the cabin where they once lay. All of this was