Daming Haikou

After Yu Xiaotian boarded the boat, the weather on the sea has been good for the past few days. The weather at sea has been relatively clear, and the wind on the sea has been relatively stable. Pirates, and did not encounter official ships patrolling the sea, but only encountered a few small fishing boats going out to sea for fishing, so the people on board were relatively relaxed.

When Yu Xiaotian heard Liu Shipowner say that Dongshan is ahead, he finally figured out where they are now. It turns out that this area has already reached Dongshan Island in Fujian, and they will soon reach Nan'ao Island, so he couldn't help but sigh. The boat moved really slowly, it could be said that it was advancing at a turtle's speed, and it didn't go far at all after a few days.

The reason why the boat moves so slowly is also because they are full of goods on board. The draft of the boat is relatively large. In addition, because the bottom of the boat has been neglected for a long time, it is covered with a thick layer of barnacles and other marine life. The self-weight of the ship also greatly increased the resistance of the hull in the sea water. In addition, when they sailed south, they were going against the wind in this season, which slowed down their speed even more.

By eavesdropping on the chatter of the people on board, Yu Xiaotian learned that the ship owner Liu wanted to go to Macau to trade with Franji who was entrenched in Macau. Of course Francois Yu Xiaotian knew , refers to the Portuguese or the Spaniards. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, after the Westerners opened up the sea passage between Europe and Asia, those Europeans began to come to China by boat one after another, opening up a sea trade linking the Eurasian continent. aisle.

For this period of history, Yu Xiaotian still has some understanding. The first people to come to China should be the Portuguese. They cheated the place of Macau from the Ming government by tricks, and used it as a bridgehead for their trade with China. Immediately afterwards, the Spaniards and the Dutch also came to the coast of China, and even the British also came to the coast of China, trying to occupy a place along the coast of China as a bridgehead for their trade with China.

However, due to the precautions of the Ming Dynasty, they have never obtained a place like Macau, so that the Dutch will go to war on the coast and have frequent maritime conflicts with the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, these things are not what Yu Xiaotian wants to consider now. What he cares most about now is when he can land on the shore and find an opportunity to slip to the shore, so that one day these people will find out that he is not dumb and throw him into the sea again. .

However, after thinking about it carefully, Yu Xiaotian was a little hesitant about whether he should sneak to the shore immediately, because although he knew a little about the history of the Ming Dynasty, he was not very clear about this period of history. Appearance (especially the short hair on his head), living habits, way of speaking, and even way of thinking are very different from people of this era.

God knows what trouble he will encounter once his eyes are darkened and he just sneaks onto the shore like this!Moreover, he doesn't have anything on his body right now, not even a big son, he is so poor, could it be possible to go ashore to beg for food?

More importantly, he didn't know much about the situation during the Great Ming Dynasty, and the most he knew about this period of history was that Emperor Tianqi was a good carpenter, and he especially favored Wei Zhongxian, the great eunuch around him, so that he let Wei Zhongxian, a great eunuch, was unscrupulous in the court and the public, known as nine thousand years old, but he neglected government affairs, and was only obsessed with fiddling with carpentry in the palace all day long, and had a great time playing.

In addition, he also roughly knew that at this time, the Jiannu Tartars outside the pass had grown to a considerable extent under the leadership of the wild boar Pinurhachi. It seemed that after the Ming Dynasty had experienced the Battle of Sarhu, they turned to the defensive across the board. The entire Liaodong Basically, most of them have been occupied by wild boar skins, and the Jiannu army has become the biggest enemy of Ming Dynasty.

In addition, it seems that this period should be the small ice age in China, which led to the extremely cold climate in northern China, especially the famine in the north. In addition, in order to resist the invasion of the slaves, the Ming court continued to increase taxes in various places and increase Liao pay. As a result, the people in Shaanxi and other places were in dire straits, and a large-scale peasant uprising began.

In short, after Da Ming entered this period, it has already turned from prosperity to decline, and the wind and rain began to sway, but although these things are not the issues he needs to consider for the time being, thinking of Wei Zhongxian's name makes Yu Xiaotian feel a little shudder.

According to Xiaotian's understanding of Wei Zhongxian, an old eunuch, this guy has risen steadily since Emperor Tianqi ascended the throne, and became the most powerful person in the court and the opposition. He controlled the factory guards and poisoned the world. Fanzi spread all over the place, making everyone in Daming feel insecure and panicked.

Although Yu Xiaotian was a bit suspicious of exaggerating the power of the factory guard, but in the old time and space he lived in, he wrote a close-up of this period of history, making everyone think that the factory guard was omnipotent.

So Yu Xiaotian is also a little afraid of the factory guards. If his virtues are mixed up on land, there is no guarantee that if he is not careful, he will be caught by the government or the spies of Dongchang or Jinyiwei as pirate spies. , once it falls into their hands, it will be impossible to survive and die!

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body, he shook his head secretly, thinking that it might not be a good idea to go to land immediately.

Since he can't go ashore right away, he can only spend some time on this boat first, at least learn more about the folk customs and worldly customs of this era, and grow his hair longer so that he doesn't look so different!

But staying on the boat may not mean everything will be fine. He currently has a low status on the boat, and his life is not comfortable, and he is often bullied by the boatmen on the boat. With his temperament, he is absolutely unwilling to be like this. .

His origin was unknown, and the people on the ship thought he was stupid and dumb, so they took him in, but once he opened his mouth one day and showed his fisting feet, God knows the owner of the ship would still be there. What would the boatmen do to him!

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian pretended to be cleaning up the broken fish piled up here at the bow of the boat, while he was full of tangled thoughts about the way out in the future.

At this time, someone patted him on the shoulder and whispered to him: "Mute! You don't need to do these jobs! The more you do, the less they will treat you like a human being!"

Yu Xiaotian turned his head and saw a black and thin old man came up behind him, squatted down, and was talking to him in a low voice.

The old man who spoke was called Liu Lao Liu, he was the helmsman on the ship, and he was also the oldest person on the ship, but to say that he was an old man was a bit of an understatement, because after staying on the ship for three days, Yu Xiaocai knew Liu The sixth child is actually not too old.

Liu Laoliu is only 46 and 60 years old now, but because he is dark and thin, with a slightly hunched back, and his face is covered with wrinkles, it is probably because he has been at sea all year round, exposed to the wind and sun, which makes him look so handsome. Much older than the actual age, he looks like a bad old man in his [-]s, but his body is still strong.

After seeing Liu Laoliu, Yu Xiaotian showed a simple and honest smile, because on this boat, Liu Laoliu was probably the only one who was friendly to him!

He didn't know until the second day after he got on the boat. In fact, when the people on the boat saw him floating on the sea, they didn't plan to pick him up. The rescue meeting angered Mazu and brought bad luck to the ship. The people along the coast basically believed in Mazu, so they fished him out of the sea by going over, and it was Liu Laoliu who also brought clean water to feed him. Him, that's how he was rescued.

Later, Ma Biao on the ship proposed to throw him back into the sea because his identity was unknown and he might be a pirate, and it was this Liu Laoliu who pleaded with Shipowner Liu on his behalf, which made Shipowner Liu finally decide to release him. stayed on board.

Moreover, during the three or four days since he boarded the boat, Liu Laoliu helped him as much as he could, never teased him, and occasionally gave Yu the small pieces of salted fish and bacon in his bowl when eating. A small piece of Xiaotian allows Yu Xiaotian to recover his strength faster.

The things that Liu Laoliu did inadvertently made Yu Xiaotian feel a rare trace of human warmth on this boat. At this time, he can be said to be lonely and in a completely unfamiliar environment. What he needs most is someone For his care and help, Liu Lao Liu gave him this kind of warmth precisely at this time.

This made Yu Xiaotian very grateful to Liu Laoliu. His father told him when he was very young that he must repay the kindness of a drop of water!

The help that Liu Laoliu seemingly inadvertently provided to Yu Xiaotian, in Xiaotian's eyes, was no longer as simple as a drop of water, so since he recovered his physical strength these two days, he often followed Liu Laoliu By his side, try his best to help Liu Laoliu with a little rough work, in order to express his gratitude to Liu Laoliu.

Obviously, Liu Laoliu also saw Yu Xiaotian's intentions, and he tried his best to take care of Yu Xiaotian on the boat, and by virtue of his relatively high status on the boat, he often persuaded those wicked things on the boat Don't tease Yu Xiaotian less.

At this moment, another helmsman was looking after the rudder, Liu Laoliu was fine, seeing Yu Xiaotian struggling to clean up the broken fish at the bow, so Liu Laoliu came over quietly and reminded Yu Xiaotian Filial piety.

For this, Yu Xiaotian was sincerely grateful to Liu Laoliu, so he nodded, pointed at him, and patted his chest, saying that it's okay, he has strength.

Seeing that there was no one at the bow of the boat, Liu Laoliu sat beside Yu Xiaotian, took out a small bottle from his bosom, brought it to his mouth, took a sip of the wine inside, and then used the mouth of the bottle to The cork was tightly packed, and it was carefully stuffed back into his pocket.

"Dumb! I know you are not a bad person, and you are an honest person. At least you know what is good and bad! Tell the truth! In fact, Liu Chuan-owner kept you, but he just took a fancy to your good looks and wanted to pick up a cheap house slave for nothing. That's all! If you are looking for work on this ship, there are endless jobs! The more diligent you are, the more you will be treated like a donkey! Otherwise, I will remind you that you still don't have enough jobs that the shipowner doesn't order. It's better to do something! Otherwise, it will exhaust you to death!

You must know that I won't be able to stay on this boat for long. After returning from this trip, I took my wages and went home to buy a few acres of land for retirement!Turns out I'm not on the boat, so no one will take care of you, you have to know how to take care of yourself!

I feel sorry for you, homeless and dumb!I don't want to see you being raped by those people!Ma Biao is going to fight with you today, but fortunately you are still clever, and it makes people suffer so much, it makes people happy!But you don't know kung fu, it's better not to provoke that guy in the future, that guy is not a good guy, once he keeps an eye on you, he will keep making trouble for you! "Liu Laoliu whispered to Xiaotian while looking at the people on board.

Yu Xiaotian was even more grateful to him in his heart, nodding repeatedly to express that he remembered, but when he heard that Liu Laoliu was returning from this trip, he quit, and his heart couldn't help but move slightly.

He was racking his brains for the future, but Liu Laoliu said this, but he saw an opportunity. Liu Laoliu is a good person and treats him very well. If Liu Laoliu doesn't do it, he will definitely return to Lu In that case, can he follow Liu Laoliu to the land?At least he can get Liu Laoliu's care for a period of time first, and stay on land legally.

But at this moment Yu Xiaotian was suffering because he was pretending to be dumb and unable to speak, so he could only gesture to Liu Laoliu with his hands, trying to communicate with Liu Laoliu.

Liu Laoliu looked at Yu Xiaotian gesticulating with him, obviously didn't understand what Yu Xiaotian wanted to say, a little misunderstood Yu Xiaotian's meaning, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, dumb! It will be fine in a while! I'll go It will take a few more days! After running this trip, I can’t go back every few months. When I go ashore, I will explain to the people on the boat and let them stop playing tricks on you!..."

Yu Xiaotian was a little disappointed, and was planning to continue communicating with Liu Lao Liu, when Liu Shipowner called out to them from the stern: "Lao Liu, dumb, are you in a hurry? Are you busy without watching? Hurry up and carry something!"

(It’s the holidays these days, and the update is slow for the time being. In addition, my wife is pregnant and is in poor health. I need to spend more time with my wife. I hope everyone will forgive me! I hope everyone can continue to help the new book against the cold wind! Thank you very much!)