Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 483 Bloom
The good days really haven't passed for a few days. From January to early February, because of this ten-year contract, there are simply countless poor people who are willing to go overseas to buy a house and land. The population, and this number is still increasing, the surge in population has also brought a heavy burden to the business.

Only by turning manpower into productivity as soon as possible can we make a profit. Naturally, the directors who spend money every day are also actively dispatching ships. Borrowing some, on the fourth day at the Longjiang Shipyard, Li Laobai and his party were stuffed on a ship bound for Tainan.

This environment is really better than the black slave trade. Although the goods are not stuffed into the dark hold of the ship, the environment is bad enough. A small sailor room the size of a railway carriage originally only housed ten sailors. But now more than 50 people are forced into it, which is not bad. There is also a cabin where the cargo was originally loaded, without even a window, and it is dull and tight. More than 80 people are curled up in it, and the air inside is suffocating.

The only thing is that these laborers are free and can move about on the ship at will. Although this freedom is relative, a maximum of 50 people are allowed on the deck at a time. If there are more, it will affect the operation of the ship.

Even if the environment is so harsh, there are canned food to eat every day, and the staple food is white flour steamed buns. Li Laobai was very optimistic at the beginning. On the first day at sea, the old guys who had finally lined up on the deck were still waiting for the vast sea. Poetry flourishes.

"Ah! Dahai, you are all fucking water! Ah! Jiaolong, you have four fucking legs!"

"Father, can you stop being ashamed?"

Listening to Li Laobai's forgetful poems, and then looking at the labor friends who came out to watch the wind, looking like idiots, Li Xiaohei, who felt ashamed, hurriedly poked at the back and muttered about the classic moves of the Titanic Li Laobai.

The poetic nature of his stomach was interrupted, and the old guy was still full of reluctance, looking angrily at his stupid son's brain teaching.

"You know what a fart! These are the poems left by Li Bai, the ancestor of our Li family in the Tang Dynasty. They are all handed down from generation to generation. I will teach you this, you old man. If you don't study hard or talk about it, you are ashamed of your family! What a shame! For the Son of Man!"

"Come on, Brother Li! If your ancestor was Li Bai, how could he be in such a miserable situation? Go out to sea and work on a deserted island with us mud legs? Stop bragging!"

It can be regarded as a "classmate" recruited together. He is as black as an iron egg. Zhao Laoniu, who fled from Shandong, couldn't help laughing and shouted in a Shandong accent. The old guy looked around proudly: " Say it right, everyone!"

"Yeah! Brother Li, you're bragging again!"

"Last time you said that the commander-in-chief personally bought food from you, but it was easy for Mr. Song to clean up. You forgot!"

Although the work has not yet started, the labor life is quite boring. One person's joke immediately caused everyone to laugh together, and even the laborers under the cabin stuck out their heads. Li Laobai is the best Face, upon hearing this, his old face, which had turned pale for a few minutes, immediately twitched.

"Go, go, roll and pull, you are a muddy leg, you know what a fart, this is a great responsibility from heaven, and the poet must first let him be hungry, unable to wear clothes, poor and cold, so that he can exercise his will, Regardless of Lao Bai being poor now, who knows if our Lao Bai can become a rich man like Master Zhang and Master Du in the future?"

Seeing Li Laobai's blushing and thick-necked appearance made the other workers laugh even more, but no one knew that Li Laobai's words were true. The old farmer in the sky has really become a rich man in Taiwan.

But at this time, there are so many people on board who don't know what life will be like tomorrow. Li Laobai's bold words and lofty ambitions are just taken as a joke by everyone, especially Zhao Laoniu, who laughed so hard that he almost fell into the sea Unfortunately, at this moment, the first officer who was sailing the boat came up from under the cabin angrily, shouting at the top of his voice.

"It's time, let's all go down, it's time for the next batch!"

The 30-meter small caravel boat with a load of only a few tens of tons pulled nearly 300 people, which was really crowded. Hearing the impatient shouts of the workers in the corridor below, Li Laobai and the others had no choice but to be reluctant to leave. Going down to the dull cabin again, and looking at the endless sea for the last time, the old guy still couldn't help shaking his head.

"It's all fucking water!"

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Fifty ships of all sizes pulled a full [-] laborers forward in the vast sea, and just started boarding, everyone still had the excitement of the sea and the vision for the future, but only a day or two, this excitement The longing and longing were wiped out by the boring journey, and the laborers were trapped in the cabin dully. The dark living quarters and the turbid air made everyone speak less to the extreme, and each of them was listless all day long.

But God didn't seem to want to let these poor people go. On the eighth day of the trip, the fleet encountered a rare storm.

The sky was as black as the bottom of a pot, and the entire sea seemed to be boiling. The roaring waves threw huge ships up and down like toys, and the entire fleet became extremely chaotic.

"Quick! Quick, lower the sails!"

"Damn it, don't stand still, quickly plug the gap!"

"Anchor!"

More than 30 sailors were chaotic like ants on a hot pot, shouting loudly on and off the ship, and all the laborers were kicked back to the cabin where they lived, crowded in the small cabin, Li Laobai felt Like a dice in a bamboo tube, I was thrown up and down, my internal organs were messed up, and my disgusting head was a little bigger.

He is still holding back, a lot of people have vomited in the room, and the sour smell is unbearable, but what is more frightening is the unknown. Ghosts, among the crowd, someone finally had a mental breakdown.

"I quit, I want to go home! Let me go back!"

Shouting and shouting, Zhao Laoniu kicked open the cabin door frantically, strode to the deck and fled out, madness seemed to be contagious, following him shouting and shouting, more than a dozen young people also rushed out , the two sailors wanted to shout to stop them, but they pushed them aside. Suddenly, such a heavy weight was pressed on the stern, and the Caravel ship obviously tilted a lot again.

"Come back! Are you crazy? If this continues, everyone will die!"

Following behind, Li Laobai also ran to the deck in horror, enduring the violent turbulence and clinging to the mast, yelling at the stern, but a group of laborers were crazy to the extreme, and Zhao Laoniu was grabbing the cable Hoisting the sails, he shouted frantically.

"I want to go home! His surname Song is going to feed us as sacrifices to the Sea Dragon King! In exchange for his glory and wealth! I don't want to die! Let me go home!"

In the hurricane, the ship had already made a groaning sound, but if it raised the sails to fight against it again, it would shake the ship to a precarious state. Li Laobai even saw the captain desperately ordering the lifeboat to be ready for release. At this time, the stern of the boat was already extremely low, and a huge wave rolled over, completely hitting the lower half of the boat.

Li Laobai couldn't open his eyes when the sea water shot him, he was almost suffocated, but with that brute force, Li Laobai insisted on holding on to the mast for a few seconds before the tide pushed back, but when When Li Laobai opened his eyes again, he couldn't believe what he saw.

Nothing left!

The captain, the sailors who released the ship, and Zhao Laoniu and the others are all gone!The deck was in a mess, and even the mast was cracked, holding half of the sail precariously.

The boat has finally stabilized!

Silly for a few seconds, holding his head, Li Laobai finally howled and ran back to the cabin, rushed into the narrow cabin again, put his arms around the head of his dazed and stupid son, and refused open.

The wind howled for the entire night, the ship was swaying, and tens of thousands of hearts were beating violently. In the early morning, it finally passed. When the first ray of sunlight shone on the sea, someone finally had the courage to run back. On the deck, looking at the calm sea again, the sea was as peaceful as the girl next door. In the gentle wind and drizzle, it seemed that the violence of last night could not be seen at all. Looking at the peaceful sea, the man finally breathed a sigh of relief. , he suddenly looked to the southwest in disbelief, the endless sea, a little bit of green suddenly came into his eyes, after a few seconds of being dumbfounded, the man finally cried out heart-piercingly.

"It's here! It's here! It's finally here!"

These words were like the bell ringing at noon, the whole fleet was boiling, no longer caring about the rules set by the sailors, countless laborers cheered and ran onto the deck, the torment for half a month finally came to an end!
Li Laobai, who had been squatting in the cabin all night in fear, also came out with his silly son in his arms. Looking at the land in the distance, he also wept with joy, knelt on the ground, hammered the deck and cried.

"finally reached!"

The land that the fleet saw was the Penghu Islands. After a storm, the fleet of 3 people lost more than 2000 people. However, more than [-] people arrived in Tainan surrounded by Penghu escort ships.

Zhang Huangyan, the magistrate of Xinzhou Prefecture, really did not expect that Song Qingshu really "flicked" so many immigrants to come in such a short period of time, and he seemed a little caught off guard. Fortunately, he had already made preparations for the immigration before. As well as Tainan County, Chiayi County, the skeletons of the county towns are basically under construction. The first thing Li Laobai and others did in Taiwan was to build a house for themselves!
The brick and tile factory has been built, and the trees felled from Alishan are also piled up like a mountain. Although the fertile field is still desolate, the cattle, plows and seeds have been prepared by the West India Company and distributed to more than 100 children of Yingtian. Arriving at a farm, Li Laobai, who was looking at the piles of building materials, couldn't help laughing while holding a saw.

"What kind of job do I still have, old man! I'm nervous, isn't it just farming?"

Indeed, this can be regarded as the housekeeping skill of the laborers gathered from all over the world. They survived a catastrophe and came to such a new place with familiar tools. The morale of these laborers suddenly became high, and the loud and clear labor horn In the village, farms with simple notation and vitality began to rise on the land of Treasure Island, which had been barren for thousands of years.

The continuous rice fields, like the mushrooms after the rain, bloomed...

(End of this chapter)