New World 1620

In the 17th century, the climate of the Little Glacier prevented the entire world from being spared, and fell into a century-long famine.Like the Ming Empire in the East, serious social turmoil occurred in European countries.

Whether it is the 30-year religious war, the civil war between the British Parliament and the king, the Portuguese War of Independence, or several Anglo-French-Hersian wars, there is the figure of the starving death hidden behind it.The pressure of survival has led people to desperately seek, colonization and the introduction of new products into a hungrier state.The Enlightenment began to seek a way out of social, religious and political privileges, and the transformation of modern political civilization also began to germinate in this century.

Countless bankrupts, poor farmers, or criminals are looking for a way out of life and relief.They can easily sign an indentured slave document just to gain a chance of survival.

They wandered blankly in depressed cities or dirty city docks, on empty stomachs, picking at long-term scars, looking around, waiting for alms or direction from a kind master.

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On one side is a snow-white canvas tent painted with a red cross, and on the other side is a low wooden shed. A fence separates the two completely different styles of accommodation, with only a narrow wooden door in the middle.

More than a dozen Land Guard soldiers who followed the previous convoy were all wearing masks, and only a pair of indifferent eyes were exposed under the helmets, guarding vigilantly around the boundary line between the refugee camp and the quarantine area, shoulders The flintlock rifles and bayonets gleaming in the sun.

On the east side of the tent area, a dozen or so Portuguese soldiers in armor and helmets stood scatteredly, bounded by a certain trail on the outside. It seemed that there was an invisible barrier preventing them from entering the tent area to the west.

This is the American concession in Port Heroes, Terceira Island, Azores. Today, the health and quarantine work of selecting these ragged European refugees to go to Manhattan in North America is still going on.

Food was cooking in a dozen large pots in the wooden shed area, and a long table was piled high with bread.The wafting aroma made people inside and outside the refugee camp stand up their noses. Both men and women pressed their stomachs tightly, looking forward to the upcoming lunch.

Under the leadership of Portuguese and Dutch officials or businessmen, the number of European refugees waiting for health quarantine in the concessions is increasing day by day. European refugees who have passed the health quarantine are given some clothes for free and are allowed to live temporarily in wooden sheds to wait for the final Immigration screening.And more European refugees are still crowded in the health and quarantine area covered with snow-white Red Cross tents, waiting to undergo a medical examination that seems a bit inconceivable to them.

"Oh, no! Sir, she has been in good health, please!"

In front of the largest sanitation tent, a middle-aged couple in tattered clothes was blocked at the door by two soldiers of the Ground Guard with guns. And her husband was praying for the soldier who was wearing a mask and couldn't see his expression clearly.

Behind the soldiers, Zhou Kemin and the ship doctor Lao Zhao stood side by side, with different expressions.

"The woman was found to be in the late stage of gonorrhea, and she has already induced pleurisy, so she can't live for many days." The expression of the ship doctor Lao Zhao was a little cold, and he may have seen it too much in the poor areas of the Netherlands and Lisbon, "It should be In order to survive, the wife was forced to go to bed outside. Just in case, neither of them could enter the concession refugee camp."

"Hey, leave it to the Portuguese..." Zhou Kemin's face paled a lot, and the young maritime guard officer seemed to feel that he was cruel.

Waving from a distance, several Portuguese soldiers waiting outside the tent area ran over and dragged away the eliminated couple of English refugees like wolves and tigers.There was a murmur in the queue waiting for the health quarantine, and many people showed expressions of panic, uneasiness and sorrow.

In the wooden shed area, a long table was placed in the center of the open space. Shi Wenbo and others sat side by side behind the wooden table, forming several temporary work positions, and there was a long queue in front of them.

"Well, a mason? The whole family is in good health... very good, congratulations Mr. Rudolph, you and your family will have a new and wonderful life in a beautiful country!" Shi Wenbo took a puff of cigarette, the red The stamp is powerfully stamped on immigration procedures.In front of them, a family of Germanic people who passed the last review wept with joy.

"The next one!" Several European crew members of the fleet, who acted as translators and assistants, were responsible for maintaining order.

A European girl with a thin body and small body came over, did not choose to sit down, but lowered her head carefully with a blushing face, her dirty blond hair hung loosely on her chest, she seemed very shy, judging from her age At most 16 or 7 years old.

"Single one? Well, it doesn't matter. Where are you from? What's your name?" Shi Wenbo squinted his eyes, looked up and down, and slowly showed a kind smile as he looked in front of him like a little sheep that had fallen into a muddy pond.

"Sir, her name is Igrina, and she's Swedish." Among several assistants, Andrew, the former acting bosun of the Santa Maria and now the captain of the Eden, is the only interpreter who understands the girl's language.

Swede?Sure enough, there are beautiful women!No matter how you look at it, no matter the figure or the appearance, they are all the best in the prime of life!Shi Wenbo smiled more meaningfully.

"Well, maybe I just need a personal assistant to work in the consulate general..." Shi Wenbo didn't pay attention to Yang Wenwen who was also sitting beside him.The fashionista, who has been listless since the morning, seems to have no intention of cooperating with Svenberg in the final immigration review.

"How did she come here alone?"

What was unusual was that Yang Wenwen spoke suddenly at this time, Shi Wenbo was taken aback for a moment, and his expression turned bitter.

The girl muttered a few words nervously, and the translator on the other side came over: "Her family died in the plague. She was smuggled to Rotterdam by human traffickers. Her father used to be a tailor, and she knows a little bit."

"Mr. Shi? Do you need a cook or a private tailor? I don't think so?" Yang Wenwen raised her slender hand, and a line of words appeared on a blank immigration form, and then stamped it with a stamp, "Welcome , little sister Igrina, you can board the ship now, and you can live happily."

"Hey! Sister, there's no need to do this, right?!" Shi Wenbo almost jumped up.

"Shi Wenbo, don't forget, this is the selection of immigrants. Regardless of gender, professional skills are the priority, not your little lover!" Yang Wenwen smiled and nodded at the shy little Swedish beauty, without even looking at Shi Wenbo. glance.

"Okay! I surrender, but I declare that I really need some employees of the consulate general!" Shi Wenbo spread his hands, expressing his innocence.

"No problem, I will find you among more mature and stable people... But, the daughter of the Marquis of Santa Cruz in Spain has moved to live in your consulate general? Poor Anna, is she still You..." Yang Wenwen frowned, her face full of contempt.

"I have something to take care of first, and I will trouble you here." When Shi Wenbo saw that the words were not in the right direction, Ren Changle who was next to him turned his head away, and quickly got up and left in a hurry.

"What marquis daughter? Why did he leave? There are so many things to do today!" Ren Changle covered the seal in his hand, and turned around to ask.

"I don't know, I guess I'm weak these days and urgent to urinate?" Yang Wenwen smiled and raised her eyebrows, her expression returned to normal.

For a whole day, the first batch of 300 or so immigrant quotas has been reviewed, and in the wooden shed area, there are as many as hundreds of sad-faced European refugees looking forward to it.

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In the wharf area, seven sailboats belonging to the "American American Chamber of Commerce" were nervously doing the final loading work. A large amount of packed materials were moved to the side of the ship under the drag of the dock workers, and then hoisted into the cabin by human rope.

Adelaide is wearing a clean and tidy modern trench coat, but inside is a traditional 17th-century shirting vest and even a captain's hat, which is funny no matter how you look at it.In front of him, a middle-aged woman was holding a one or two-year-old girl in her arms, and there were three older boys, girls and children by her side.

"Dear Eve, we can set off tomorrow, and you are staying in the captain's cabin today, the refugee camp there is really terrible!" Adelaide, with a cigarette in his mouth, was full of spirits in front of his wife and family, "You and those Bumps are different, so don't live with them."

"However, the neighbors say that the New World is full of barbarians, which is very scary!" Mrs. Adelaide nervously hugged the youngest daughter in her arms, and moved the other three children closer to the two, "You Are you sure we want the whole family to go there?"

"Those talkative Portsmouth beggars! Do you think your husband is kidding you? Don't worry, we'll live in the genteel neighbourhood!" laughed Adelaide, showing a mouthful of rhubarb Tooth, while lovingly touching the second daughter beside her, "It only costs 240 pounds, the most beautiful house, as well as gardens and lawns, and the children can go to the most civilized school in the world in the future, my lovely Elizabeth will be like a princess in the future!"

"240 pounds?! Adelaide, you are crazy! Have you been working as pirates all year?!" Mrs. Adelaide turned pale with fright, and looked around in horror, for fear that a group of docks would suddenly appear The guards hung up the whole family.

"Don't be nervous, my wife, wealth is at your fingertips! These are small money. And you, as my family, will soon get a green card!" Seeing his wife's fuss, Adelaide felt satisfied and proud Nothing can be added.

"God, Adelaide, you should know how to be frugal! Well, I decided to listen to my aunt, and I will take good care of the family money in the future. The children can count on it!" Mrs. Adelaide quickly After adjusting his emotions, he looked at his great husband with a pleasing face, and smiled very sweetly.

The same thing happened to almost every crew member who picked up their wives and children from their hometown, but without exception, their wives quickly took every coin on their bodies within a day or two.

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In a VIP cabin of the Mayflower, Su Zining is having the final communication with Migu, trying to redeem the other party's insistence on going his own way.Beside, Zhu Xiaoli and Yuan Xinyi are also persuading.

"Hey, don't worry, I don't like those things very much, you can choose whatever you want. I'd better stay here and look after the house!" Migu in the windbreaker and sunglasses breathed out smoke rings easily, as if for himself I didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the plan.

Looking at the other two companions, Su Zining had no choice but to nod slightly: "Okay then, you can choose a few suitable immigrants from the first batch of unsuccessful immigrants to take with you, and if you have any other important matters, you can ask Governor Garcia for help. When we go back this time, I'm afraid you will be alone in Europe for several months."

"I'll accompany him!"

Suddenly the door opened, and Shi Wenbo in a suit and leather shoes came in with a harmless smile on his face.

"You two!" Zhu Xiaoli stood up as soon as he slapped the table, as if he couldn't understand the sudden out-of-group attitude of the two of them at this time.

"I figured it out. Megu and I really don't need to be involved in those shitty things in the Manhattan community. No matter what the outcome is, it won't affect what we have to do, right? Europe needs us to maintain continuous Influence, Migu also needs someone who can act like you in front of those European dignitaries at critical moments." Shi Wenbo made a strange face at Migu, and then easily took off the wine on the cabin shelf, Pour yourself a full glass.

Quietly looking at the two companions with different personalities but perfectly in tune, Su Zining could only nod.On the other side, Yuan Xinyi silently looked at the young people in the room with a worried face.