"I have been observing the port for a long time! Your fleet is of course very powerful! But your naval soldiers are obviously not skilled in operating sailing warships! It can be said that they are not much better than outsiders! Governor!! Governor, please walk slowly!! Listen to me! Listen to me!!"
The white man followed Yan Bing's pace and shouted loudly: "You can hire me!! I know all the navigation knowledge! All! Including the use of sextant!"
“We will…”
“Measurement and drawing of maps!!”
“Will…”
"Ah!?? Then why can the sailors on the deck not even have a simple sailor knot? And the mast!! The sails, inclined sails, cross sails, all the coordination is wrong! This will only reduce the ship's travel speed and steering speed in half!! And..."
"wipe!!"
Suddenly, Yan Bing suddenly turned around, the sword edge was already crossing the white man's neck, and the other party's nonsense immediately stopped, his face full of fear!
Yan Bing looked at the other party with his eyes squinted and asked coldly: "How do you know they can't tie sailor knots? The deck is so high that you can't see it under the boat, unless... have you been on the deck?"
"Ar, deck? I dreamed of going up and taking a look... but there was no chance! As for the sailor knot... I saw that many knots that fixed the goods were soaked in water for a long time and could not be untied. So they pulled out their waist knives and cut the rope... So I concluded... they would not tie the sailor knot..."
The white man finished explaining hesitantly, then he raised a finger with a smile and wanted to push the sword edge away from his neck. After all, he didn't want to feel the suffocation feeling of coldness and suffocation on his back.
"wipe!!"
The man didn't even see the other party's movements clearly, but Yan Bing had already put his sword in the sheath...
"This explanation... makes sense! Let's go!"
"Go!? Where to go?"
"I haven't seen what's ahead yet..." Yan Bing was too lazy to explain more, and turned his back behind him and continued to walk towards the port...
The white man was instantly ecstatic and hurriedly chased after him again...
"Did you promise to hire me? Governor? Then you are so wise!! I can assure you! You will never regret this decision! But as for the commission... should we talk about it first? I hope my annual salary can at least not be lower than that car durian, right?"
"Fifty taels of silver per year, 88 ounces! My army has never hired consultants before, so I will calculate it based on the salary of a hundred households... If you do well, you will be rewarded separately! Is this enough?"
Yan Bing had already made a decision while speaking...
The other party was obviously particularly satisfied with the salary. He followed Yan Bing and used all the praises he learned. Although he was full of illegitimate sentences and was extremely exaggerated, the excitement and joy on his face were not faked. After all, few adults would be so excited that their noses were bleeding because they got rich overnight. They held the railing with one hand and climbed hard with Yan Bing, and grabbed the handkerchief with the other hand and tried hard to plug their nostrils...
So when Yan Bing first introduced this "instructor" to the sailors on the flagship, almost all the soldiers showed a suspicious expression...
"Report to the head coach!!"
"speak!"
"The villain wants to ask! Do Europa people like to use hand towels as decorations!"
"Wait towel... as decoration...??" Yan Bing looked confused when asked, then turned his head and looked at the white man, but was just seeing him twisting the towel into a cloth strip and stuffing it desperately into his nostrils... The scene was once awkward...
Even he himself realized the change in the atmosphere, and hurriedly covered his handkerchief with his hands and explained: "How do you say this in Chinese?? I'm getting angry!! I'm getting angry!! Hahaha..."
Real name, Jabenson Laifu
My parents were separatist Puritans in Britain. They arrived at the Plymouth colony in North America on the "Mayflower" three-masted cargo ship. To put it nicely, they were fulfilling the labor contract, but to put it bluntly... They were evading religious persecution with their families...
And that year... he was only eleven years old...
The day after Mayflower arrived in Plymouth town, a group of Indians came outside the wooden cliff. Just as these newborn colonists were in panic and didn't know how to deal with it, the Indian elder wearing a feathered crown on the opposite side first expressed his kindness with his actions...
Not only did he bring people to bring a lot of fruits and vegetables, he even sent sixty young and middle-aged people to help these newcomers build houses. It was a cold winter. Without houses, they could only continue to build during the day under the wind and snow. At night, they returned to the cabin of Mayflower to rest. The cabin could not make a fire, so they squeezed together to keep warm. In this winter, whites and Indians were frozen to death and frostbite...
It was not until March of the following year that the first big house was built, and only fifty-three survived by the 102 Puritans, most of which were women and children. As for the sixty young Indians, only twenty-seven survived.
At this time, the British colonists were full of gratitude to these Indians...
Because the Indian elder came again in the spring season, he not only brought more helpers, but also taught this immigration group how to use their hands to survive in this primitive environment...
Planting corn, fishing and hunting, how to peel off the fur of prey, and how to make items of these furs, all the Indians who can teach them, and they truly treat these people as their friends.
Jay Benson grew up in such an environment, playing with Indian children of the same age and helping parents do some simple farm work. The population of the town is growing, and they ushered in their first harvest season in September...
People sit together regardless of their skin color or age, and sing and dancing around the bonfire and the abundant harvest. Everyone is so friendly and generous that even their parents, who have always been thrifty, brought out their own wine for everyone to enjoy.
Jay Benson was extremely happy at that time...
Everything in his eyes... is also colorful...
Until one day five years later, when he saw his mother give Indians clothes that had been used by a smallpox patient, he was stunned...
He looked at his mother with an incredible expression, and his mother also avoided his eyes in the condemnation of her conscience.
But Jay Benson, who kept trembling, finally... said nothing...
Because he knew that if he said it, his parents would die!
And this scene is constantly being staged in every household in the town...
Benjason, who was unable to change all this, could only ride a horse to the Indian tribe, find those childhood playmates, and advise them to leave the tribe in crude local language!! To build his own new tribe!!
But the other party declined on the grounds that the coming of age had not yet been held...
At this moment... he wanted to tell these brothers all the truth!! Let them escape from this "land of death" as soon as possible!!
But when the words came to his mouth, he opened his eyes and was about to break! But he couldn't say a word...
On the one hand... are my brothers and sisters who have been playing with since childhood...
On the other side... are your biological parents...
Finally…Jebenson made the choice…
He said nothing... he just ran back to the town in shame...
Since then, he has never been to that Indian tribe again...
He spent all his savings, bribed a first mate, and took him on a cargo ship to become a sailor...
He wanted to escape from here...so he didn't tell anyone, including his parents.
That year, he was only sixteen years old...
In a blink of an eye, seven years have passed. He has learned a lot of navigation knowledge with the captain and the chief lieutenant, and has also traveled to most of the Eurasian continent on the cargo ship. He thought that he would spend his life on a small cargo ship like this, but when he saw this huge sailing warship in Malacca, he instantly fell...
Sooner or later, I will wait for death!! If possible! I want to die on a ship like this!!
Since this thought came to his mind, he couldn't sleep all night. He always walked on the deck and looked at the "huge castle" floating on the sea, and thought a lot...
It was also in this process of continuous yearning and continuous observation that he discovered the opportunity... and took action.
action
Crucial
Most people just stay before taking action before they miss the dream!
But this young man who had no one was afraid of pursuing his dreams...
He once again used his old tricks and waited for a translator from Tongshun Army in the tavern. He wanted to bribe him, but he was embarrassed to find that the other party seemed much richer than him and was much more generous. He not only rejected all his belongings, but also enthusiastically invited him to have a meal with a drink. This inexplicable sense of closeness and warm treatment of others were not available to all the nations of Europe. This also reminded him of the distant Indian tribe, and quickly resealed the memory with a forced smile...
He raised his glass, drank so hard, and felt refreshed. During the meal and chat, the translator's wealth and generosity gradually exceeded his poor imagination. He clearly insisted that he could only be considered a sergeant in Europa, but in a flash, when several friends walked into the tavern one after another, he asked him to hang them on his account...
"Does... do you have a title in your family??"
"I want to have a title? I want it! But who will give it to me...hahahaha!"
"Then why are you so generous!? Are you richer than them?"
"Generous? I'm just treating a guest and being generous? Anyway, they have to invite them back next time, it's the same!! It's a matter of time sooner or later!"
“……………………”
Jay Benson was silent...
He looked up at the young soldiers in the room, toasted each other, supported each other, chatted and laughed, and was as close as a family...
At this moment... the memory that was forcibly sealed by him broke out again and occupied his brain...
His best friends... those friends who have been playing together since childhood... are they still alive now...