"Bai'er, after you go to the trade area, you are not allowed to cause trouble, and you are not allowed to inquire about any information. I need you to find the people of the Tang Dynasty to trade, and no extraneous matters are allowed!"
Bai Er, who was still looking sad, felt awkward all over. Although these Tang Dynasty clothes were comfortable to wear, they still made him feel a little awkward.
He is the accountant under Alvin. He is mainly responsible for commercial trade on weekdays. He sells the looted goods, exchanges them for funds, and then distributes them to the pirates. If they want to trade with the Tang Dynasty, he is naturally an unavailable character.
But in the port area before, although they merchants could also trade with the Tang Dynasty, they could only do so through intermediaries in the trading hall. Not only was it troublesome, but they also had to pay a high service fee, which was even more critical.
Yes, since there is no direct contact with the people of the Tang Dynasty, this trade method is prone to mistakes.
In order to ensure speed and safety, Alvin sent him to take another person into the trade area to directly trade with the Tang Dynasty people.
When he heard the boss speak, he immediately said: "Don't worry, boss, after entering the trade area, I will go directly to the trading hall and find those people from the Tang Dynasty to trade!"
Alvin sent Baier and another confidant, Luke, to the entrance of the trade zone, and watched with his own eyes as they paid a large customs clearance fee, passed inspection and entered the trade zone before returning.
After Bai Er and Luke passed the first inspection level, they were not actually able to enter the trade area immediately. Instead, they were taken to a zinc room and asked to wash themselves again.
Baier argued that they had already washed them, but a Portuguese employee who brought them in said expressionlessly: "Then you have to wash them too, from head to toe, especially your hair. Don't expect it."
If you pass the test, I will personally watch you wash it!"
"If you haven't cleaned up, you will be refused entry to the trade zone, and customs clearance fees will not be refunded!"
Europeans these days are too resistant to bathing, and their bodies are so dirty that the people of the Tang Dynasty can't bear it. In order to make their noses feel better, it is also to prevent them from bringing in products, especially infectious products, into the trade area.
, this customs inspection is not honest.
In desperation, Bai Er and Luke were forced to take the third bath in their lives!
In their entire lives, the first bath they took was the baptism after birth, the second bath was yesterday when Alvin forced them to bathe, and now the third bath is here.
Feelings of humiliation and grievance flooded into his heart, which made Baier feel quite uncomfortable.
But he had to endure it despite being burdened with a heavy responsibility. He took the brush and brushed it over and over again on his body. Looking at the black water stains left on his body, he thought: It's over, the last bit of protection on his body.
The layers have also been washed away. Maybe it won’t be long before I am infected with the Black Death and other terrible diseases!
When they were taking a bath, the Portuguese man wearing a mask looked at him with disdain. This Crab Island barbarian was really unreasonable. They were asked to take a bath and refused to be clean.
Pang Cou, whose real name is Ludwig, is a serious Portuguese. However, starting from three years ago, he would get angry with anyone who said he was Portuguese.
His mother was a woman who was doing prostitution business in Lisbon. As for who his father was, his mother didn't know, let alone him. He had lived at the bottom of society since he was a child. After his mother got sick and died, he was
Become a glorious sailor and pirate!
Then he moved to Malacca. At that time, he was already in his thirties. Unwilling to take the risk of wandering, he settled down in Malacca, married a local indigenous woman, and found an ordinary job in Malacca.
But not long after, Malacca was captured by the Tang Dynasty. There were many Portuguese people in Malacca at that time. Those soldiers and officials were naturally treated as prisoners of war, but Ludwig, an ordinary civilian, was not subjected to anything.
They were mistreated and simply kicked out to live in a port area outside the city specially designed for them, the remaining Europeans. Naturally, their living conditions were not much better.
Later, after the Tang Dynasty occupied areas such as Africa and southern Africa, its interactions with indigenous peoples in many European countries increased dramatically.
But it is too dangerous to deal with the European natives in modern times. They don't take a bath and run around with their entire family.
If colonial officials dared to come into close contact with them, they would contract some disease in a matter of minutes.
At the strong request of colonial officials, the empire approved requests for overseas territories to employ indigenous people for work.
When officials of the Tang Dynasty were recruiting natives who knew Chinese in Malacca and other places, Ludwig, who wanted to survive, signed up and was successfully selected. Although he only became an employee of the Tang Dynasty, from that time on, he began to gradually
I regard myself as a Tang citizen, even though he does not have the nationality of the Tang Dynasty now, and it is impossible to obtain the nationality of the Tang Dynasty in this life. He only gets temporary residence, and this temporary residence is only because he originally lives in Malacca.
obtained by civilians with special permission.
If foreign natives want to get this temporary residence, it will be much more difficult!
Well, it's impossible to say Tong Chao.
Even though he was only temporarily stationed as a leader, this did not prevent him from thinking of himself as a Tang Dynasty person. Especially after working for a Tang Dynasty person, he felt more and more powerful and advanced in the Tang Dynasty.
People always yearn for beautiful things!
Therefore, Ludwig, like many foreign natives who also received temporary residence from the Tang Dynasty due to wars and other reasons, regarded themselves as Tang people and were proud of this identity.
Later, he changed his name directly. Today, his name is not Ludwig, but Pang Cou.
This name was given to him by begging his immediate superior, Team Leader Li.
However, his immediate boss, Team Leader Li, is also a temporary resident. However, he is not a European, but a Persian. This man went to Nanyang to seek a living in his early years. He has also lived in the Guangzhou Trade Zone for many years and can read and write.
Tang Wen, so the people of the Tang Dynasty also valued this team leader Li very much and made him a team leader.
Ludwig, who changed his name to Pangxu, has been in South Africa for almost a year. During this year, he mainly worked in the port area, and later he was transferred to the trade area inspection and customs work.
During this period, he saw many people from Xiezhou. At the beginning, he would regard Europeans, especially the Portuguese, as his compatriots. Even though he had become a glorious Tang Dynasty man, he still regarded these former compatriots.
Still full of sympathy.
But as time passed, and after meeting many Europeans who were extremely dirty and had extremely strange ways of thinking, any sympathy in his heart completely disappeared.
How could these barbarians be our compatriots!
Absolutely not!
In the past, he might have persuaded Bai Er and Luke to ask them to wash themselves well and pay attention to their personal hygiene to avoid getting sick. But now, he just keeps a straight face and doesn't say much. He likes to wash.
If you don’t wash it, get out!
Now he is too lazy to talk nonsense with these stubborn and ignorant Europeans!
If you wash it honestly, he will give it a pass. If you don't wash it, or if you don't wash it carefully enough, you will rush back directly.
If you want to enter the trade zone, think brightly!
Bai Er and Luke shouldered heavy responsibilities. Although they were forced to take a bath again and brushed them over and over again, they still endured it and just washed in silence.
As for Pang Chou's disdainful expression towards them at this moment, they no longer had the intention to pay attention to it.
Pang Cou monitored them for a full half of the bath, until the bath water turned into clean water, and then he nodded and said: "Okay, put on your clothes and follow me!"
Pang Hou took them outside a row of houses and entered one of them.
Baier saw that he was leading him in. The Portuguese people with straight faces along the way were bowing and saying something to the person inside as if they were flattering.
Then the Portuguese waved to the two of them, and Baier saw a man wearing a white robe, a mask and gloves sitting in front of them, although he couldn't see clearly.
Although the appearance is still visible, the person's black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin can still be seen. Combined with the fact that the only few times they have seen people from the Tang Dynasty before, without exception, they were all wrapped up tightly like this. Bai Er
You can guess that this is a complete Tang Dynasty person.
I saw this weirdly dressed Tang Dynasty man looking at the two of them carefully, and then said something.
But Baier couldn't understand what this person said because he was speaking Chinese!
At this time, Pang Xiu on the side said: "Take off your clothes and let the adults inspect them. Take off all your clothes!"
"Take off your clothes again?" Oh my God, I just took off my clothes and took a shower, and now I have to take off my clothes again. What are Ivory doing, taking a shower? It doesn't look like that. Check? What to check?
Bai Er hesitated for a moment, and Pang Xiu next to him said: "Don't waste time, your time is precious, take it off quickly!"
Although Bai Er didn't understand, he still took off his clothes honestly. If he didn't take off his clothes, he would probably be kicked out immediately.
After they took off their clothes, the tightly wrapped Tang man came forward and stared at their whole bodies for a long time, and even let them pull their hair apart to see.
However, that person never touched their bodies with his hands, even with gloves.
Finally, he nodded and said something. At this time, Pang Hu took Bai Er and Luke out alone, and then gave them a piece of paper: "This is the pass. With this pass, you can stay in the trade zone."
Three days, and rent an inn, and you must leave after three days!”
Holding this light piece of paper, Baier felt that this pass was as heavy as a thousand pounds!