Hundreds of years later, the fishing port named "Oma Town" is still just a small fishing village. It doesn't even have a name. The Ming Dynasty explored the sea and named it "Ping An Port" two years ago.
This was the last Asian port that the Ming Dynasty fleet passed through on its way to America. After leaving here, it entered the vast ocean.
When we went to sea in China, we didn't have enough food and drinking water. When we arrived at Japan's "Safe Harbor", we replenished our supplies with fresh water, bought a lot of salted fish on the spot, and even bought a lot of fresh wild fruits.
Lin Shiyi led his men and escorted the immigrants off the boat to get some fresh air.
This year's group of immigrants are all Shandong thieves, and they are old thieves. They are all very fierce, and their hands are stained with blood. Logically speaking, they should all be killed, but Wang Shangshu was merciful and let Tan Haibo take the lead.
They go to Fukuyama (San Francisco).
Lin Shiyi kicked the man in front of him and cursed: "Why are you staring? If you don't get off the boat honestly, go back to the cabin and sleep!"
Wei Duyan is the number four figure among the bandits in Shandong. He was born in the army and is good at fighting. He is also nicknamed "Little Xiahou". Last year, he was shot in the eye by an arrow from an army officer. He imitated Xiahou Dun and pulled out the arrow to kill himself.
, the morale of the bandits was immediately boosted, and they killed the bandit-suppressing officers and soldiers and fled in embarrassment.
The second and third thieves of this band of thieves had already died in the battle, the scholar military advisor committed suicide, and the number one bandit leader was sent to the capital to be beheaded alive. Wei Duyan, as the fourth in command, thought he would not escape death, but he was actually killed.
Escorted to Fushan in Laoshizi.
Wearing shackles on his hands and feet, Wei Duyan climbed up from the deck in embarrassment and glared at Lin Shiyi without any sign of weakness: "Half a year ago, I could have crushed you to death with one finger!"
Lin Shiyi smiled and said: "Ten years ago, I would have scared you to death with just one sneeze!"
Lin Shiyi did not lie. He was Ling Shiyi, the number one general under King Ning. When King Ning was defeated, he fled in embarrassment with two boats. First, he ran to Taihu Lake to become a water bandit. Later, he was suppressed by officers and soldiers, so he led his men to
They made a living in Nanyang and took refuge under Tan Haibo two years ago.
Wei Duyan obviously did not believe Lin Shiyi's lies. He was pushed to the fishing port, lined up with other immigrants, and then sat on the ground to breathe fresh air.
Lin Shiyi took out an apple from his arms, wiped it on his sleeve, and took a big bite.
Apples were introduced to the Central Plains in the Yuan Dynasty. They were initially transliterated as "Ping Po Liang", then changed to "Ping Po Fruit" when people got used to it, and finally simply called "Apple". Because apples are often grafted on Shaguo trees, Shaguo is also known as
"Ring Ke", so apples were also called "Ring Ke" in the Ming Dynasty.
Japanese fishermen are carrying fresh water. People in the Ming Dynasty actually used money to buy such worthless things. The Ming Dynasty was really a paradise with so much wealth.
Several Japanese samurai guarded the port and watched eagerly. When the Ming Dynasty fleet paid the fishermen for supplies, the samurai immediately rushed over to collect taxes and robbed most of the fishermen's income.
At first, there was no trace of samurai in this deserted place. After several supply transactions, it soon attracted the attention of the lord Nanbu Clan, and Nanbu Anxin immediately sent samurai to act as tax collectors.
In fact, Nannan Anxin wanted to control the supply trade, but the Ming fleet only traded with local fishermen. As for whether the money was robbed by warriors, the Ming fleet was too lazy to care.
There seems to be no difference, but the properties are completely different.
If the Ming fleet trades directly with the lords, the fishermen will feel that they are being oppressed by both sides. If the Ming fleet gives money to the fishermen and the warriors take the money away, the fishermen will only resent the lords and warriors.
After the samurai grabbed the money, they rushed over like a pug, trying to buy their favorite products at a low price.
The fleet buyer smiled and asked someone to take out the cotton cloth from the cabin, and the supply fee he had just spent was earned back intact.
At the same time, more than a thousand immigrants who were exiled to North America each received stale fruit.
Lin Shiyi said to the immigrants: "Don't hide the fruits. Let me eat them now. These are shipped in Shandong. They will be rotten if left for two days. Uncle (Zhu Hai) is kind-hearted and returns them to me."
If you eat fruits, if it were those black-hearted maritime merchants, you would just wait to eat bacon and pickles every day! The open sea is more dangerous than the near sea. Fruits are life-saving things. If you don't eat fruits and vegetables, you will get scurvy."
Under the supervision of armed crews, the immigrants conscientiously ate the rotting fruit.
Lin Shiyi turned around and found a fisherman staring at him. The fisherman was less than 1.3 meters tall and was not as well-dressed as a beggar from the Ming Dynasty. He lay there like a dog.
"Why are you looking at me?" Lin Shiyi asked.
The fishermen shrank in fear and looked at the apple core on the ground.
Lin Shiyi kicked the apple core over and said with a smile: "Take it and plant it in the soil. Maybe I can buy Ringo apples from you in the future."
The fisherman felt like he had found a treasure, so he picked up the apple core covered with sand. Instead of taking it back to make seeds, he picked it up and ate the remaining pulp. Although there were wild fruits in the local area, the fishermen had never seen apples before, so they regarded this as something that the samurai
Good food that you can’t afford.
In fact, apples were also very expensive in Ming Dynasty, and were only grown in a few northern provinces. Lin Shiyi bought this apple himself. The fleet would not buy it for the crew, and it was even less likely that the immigrants would eat the apples.
The fisherman gnawed all the core out of the apple. Lin Shiyi laughed and scolded him: "It's like a dog."
While Wei Duyan was chewing the fruit, he glared at Lin Shiyi and muttered: "It's like a dog!"
In fact, the two of them didn't have any big feud. It was just that Lin Shiyi whipped Wei Duyan twice when they boarded the ship in Shandong.
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Three and a half months later, the fleet arrived at Fukuyama Bay (San Francisco Bay).
On the way, more than 30 crew members and immigrants died of illness, and many others were left to their fate.
The fleet first sailed south along the coast and docked, fired a cannon into the sea, and then asked the crew to use small boats to transport supplies to the shore.
Not long after, the first batch of immigrants from Mazu Lake heard the sound of cannons and came spontaneously to help transport supplies to the Mazu Lake settlement. At the same time, they also took the sick people on board to recuperate, and those small boats brought some fresh water.
Come back with vegetables.
The crew and immigrants happily drank clean water, ate fresh vegetables, and rested on the ship that night.
The next day we crossed the Fukuyama Strait and headed to Oak Bay on the opposite side.
This is where the second batch of immigrants settled, and it is densely covered with oak trees. After a few more years of development, a group of shipbuilders will be shipped over, and a shipyard can be opened here. The inexhaustible oak trees are the best wood for building sea ships.
After unloading supplies at Oak Bay, the fleet turned around and headed northeast.
Passing through a canyon, we came to the confluence of two rivers.
The leader of the fleet went to communicate with the natives by the river, and the shackles on the immigrants were also opened.
Lin Shiyi led them off the boat, formed a team by the river, and said with a smile: "You are all old thieves, you don't need me to teach you how to fight. Now that we have reached the far east, don't even think about going back. From now on, we will be here
Live your life here.”
Wei Duyan said angrily: "We are all men, how can we live without a wife? I see there are women over there at Oak Bay, why are there no women here?"
"Hey, damn it," Lin Shiyi laughed angrily, "You guys have been killing people and wreaking havoc in Shandong for several years. You should all be executed for your crimes. The imperial court is already extremely merciful by sparing your lives. Why do you still want to travel thousands of miles to give you a wife?
You can have a mother-in-law if you want, there are plenty of them upstream, grab them yourself with a knife!"
The wooden boxes were lifted off the ship one by one and opened to reveal military equipment.
Wei Duyan was given a pair of bamboo armor, a waist knife, and a spear. With the armor on his body, he was a little at a loss. He subconsciously asked: "Burning, killing, looting, whatever?"
Lin Shiyi said: "First, you are not allowed to kill Han people; second, you are not allowed to kill the two nearby indigenous tribes. To tell you the truth, there are still large tribes upstream, and the indigenous people there are unreasonable. The gold downstream has been mined.
It's almost done. I brought you here this time to attack the upper reaches of the tribe. Kill all the old people in the tribe. The men can be your slaves and the women can be snatched to be your mothers-in-law. Children can be killed as you please.
If you keep it, you can even take it in as a son to pass on the incense to you!"
These old thieves are all murderers without batting an eyelid. Not only do they feel no moral burden after hearing these words, but they are all eager to try.
Three days later, the armed colonial team set off, with thirty gun soldiers to support them.
The indigenous tribe was very large, divided into three settlements that were very close to each other, with a total of several thousand tribesmen. They mainly farmed, with fishing, hunting, and gathering as side jobs, and they even had extremely simple wooden city walls.
When foreign enemies arrived, the natives quickly gathered.
The armed colonial team was not in a hurry and waited there slowly until the enemies gathered together.
Wei Duyan was even amused. The enemy troops in front of him were all equipped with weapons such as stone axes, stone knives, stone hairs, flying ropes, and blow darts. Their formations were even more chaotic and unorganized.
Thirty musketeers fired a volley, and all the native army fled.
Lin Shiyi shouted: "Why are you still standing there? Chase him quickly!"
"Is this a fucking war?" Wei Duyan muttered, pulled out his sword and shouted, "My sons, follow me to pursue the enemy! Don't kill women, don't burn houses, don't trample crops, those things are all ours!"
Lin Shiyi curled his lips and stood watching the show.
The main purpose of transporting more than a thousand old thieves here is to capture prisoners and completely control this river section. If they only wanted to kill people, they would have done it long ago, why would they wait until now?
The Spanish colonists cannot do this. There are too few people coming to the Americas. They can only establish colonial strongholds and then drive out, kill, and rob the indigenous people. They cannot effectively control an area. At least at this stage, Spain has not completed primitive accumulation and cannot organize it.
Large-scale immigration, and spontaneous immigrants have not yet appeared.
Lin Shiyi took out a pipe, put in shredded tobacco, and took a leisurely puff.
As a long-time water bandit who followed King Ning in the rebellion and was the top general of the rebel army, he never thought that one day he would go to sea.
Although this business is a bit painful, it is novel and exciting, and he can make a lot of money, and he is not afraid of being raided by officers and soldiers, because he himself is an officer and soldier of the Imperial Guard. He has bought hundreds of acres of land in Nanyang and has several concubines.