Chapter 79 Dutch Ship
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Outside the sea of Manila Bay.
A Yahat ship came to the coast of Manila Bay and headed north along the west coastline of Luzon. It used a light to contact the lighthouse on the shore. The Yahat ship looked in a mess, the hull was covered with patches, the canvas was dirty, and the top mast of the foremast was completely gone. However, there were ten six-pound cannons on the open deck. These armed forces attracted the attention of the Luzon Administrative Region Coast Guard. Before the Yahat ship arrived at the entrance of Manila Bay, a small fleet of frigates and a notification ship arrived at the scene and stopped the ship of unknown origin.
"Ships with unknown nationality should be careful, lower their sails immediately, turn their guns, and accept inspection by the Luzon squadron!" On the frigate, an officer was shouting with a loudspeaker made of iron.
Yang Mang stood on the stern of the Porpoise, listening to the familiar voice, wiped the corners of his eyes. A year passed and he finally came back.
"Hurry up, lower the sail, turn the muzzle, everyone put away their weapons, and even the razor is not allowed to be in their hands, hurry!" Yang Mang shouted to more than 70 crew members of different skin colors on the ship.
Two warships blocked the Porpoise's way, and the other was on guard in the distance, and sent a traffic boat to the side of the Porpoise. Eight Marines and an officer boarded the ship.
"Which country's ship are you? Why are you from the sea outside Luzon?" The officer asked loudly when he saw Yang Mang. He looked at the busy sailors on the deck. Most of them were natives in the South Ocean and some darker-skinned people. There were many children among them. They were looking at him curiously. The officer had reason to suspect that this was a slave ship, but according to the law, slave ships could only trade with the Luzon administrative government, so this ship should have a license.
However, if there is a license, the ship should be hung with a black-bottomed golden dragon flag, and the stern should have a clear ship name.
"I am a ship of Tenglong Trading Company and belong to the Security Bureau." Yang Mang said, and he took out a document from the document bag and handed it to the officer. It contained the seal of the Senate, the Luzon consul and the Security Bureau. The officer glanced at it and frowned.
"His Excellency Lin Qian, His Excellency Li Beiji and the Supreme Commander of the Security Bureau in Luzon, I need to see one of them before entering the port, otherwise you cannot take any thing or a person away from this ship." Yang Mang said solemnly.
This is clearly written in the documents presented by Yang Mang. The small fleet finally escorted the Porpoise into Manila Bay and anchored in the military port of the Luzon squadron. Four hours later, Li Beiji and the head of the Security Bureau came to the Porpoise. When he saw Li Beiji, Yang Mang breathed a sigh of relief.
"Haha, I finally met someone I am familiar with. The stone in my heart finally landed!" Yang Mang hugged Li Beiji and said happily.
Li Beiji said: "It's indeed Lord Yang Mang. I haven't seen you for a year, so I can't recognize you. Your Consul is very concerned about you. You have been here several times in the past two months."
"You two, please complete the delivery first." The security bureau's person whispered.
Li Beiji pointed to the straight man and said, "He Wenxi, the highest commander of the Security Bureau in Luzon, is responsible for handing over you, and I can only be a witness."
After He Wenxi bowed, he said, "Sir Yang, since you have confirmed your identity, please hand over it. When you meet the consul, you and the people on your ship are not allowed to meet or talk to anyone."
Yang Mang was originally working as an errand for the Immigration Bureau and the Security Bureau, and was very clear about the rules. He ordered the sailors on the boat to line up and disembark, while the people from the Security Bureau searched everyone one by one. Everything worn by the crew would be carefully checked, and those engraved with words and symbols would be left behind, which caused the crew to be commotion.
Li Beiji smiled and said, "Quiet, complete the inspection quickly. I have someone prepare women and fine wine for you!"
Seeing He Wenxi's suspicion, Li Beiji said: "Women are all pulled from slave camps, from Persia and India. Obviously, they can only communicate physically, and language is not possible."
He Wenxi nodded: "We will supervise."
There were 75 crew members, 24 of whom were children aged eight to ten. It can be seen that these children had dark skin and were obviously natives from the south. He Wenxi's subordinates conducted a test. These children only knew simple Chinese and did not understand the rest.
"These children need to be taken to the base camp, so you have to properly settle them." Yang Mang said.
He Wenxi asked someone to place these children in a military camp alone, and walked into the stern of the Yangtze River Porpoise with Yang Mang. There were two open boxes, one with ore and gold nuggets, and the other with full information, including the navigation log. Li Beiji saw the gold nuggets and smiled: "Sir Yang, congratulations, you really succeeded."
"This is the success of the club!" Yang Mang said proudly.
Li Beiji laughed even more: "It's the United States, Chief Yang, we are already preparing for the founding of the country. It's time for you to come back, maybe you can see the founding ceremony."
Yang Mang's face was shocked and he was overjoyed, and he couldn't speak.
He Wenxi personally locked the box, pasted the seal, then divided the special key into two pieces, handed it to Yang Mang, and said, "Sir Yang, I will bring these things with you to see the Consul."
Yang Mang nodded. Seeing that he had no objection, He Wenxi waved his hand and more than 20 people were on the boat. He Wenxi said: "Listen to everyone. Search every corner of the ship. All the things with symbols and words must be cleaned up. After the end, the Yangtze River Porpoise will be handed over to the navy."
After layers of search and inspection, the crew of the Yangtze Dolphin was left in Luzon, while He Wenxi boarded a notice ship to the base camp with Yang Mang and many indigenous children, and was given the opportunity to report to many veterans in the Senate.
In the conference room of the veterans, with Li Mingxun as the center, six veterans sat down. Yang Mang and He Wenxi brought two boxes into the conference room. After opening the box, Yang Mang solemnly opened the box full of gold nuggets, took out something from it and placed it on the table. It can be seen that it was an object cast of gold, which should be very heavy. Judging from the shape, it seemed like a pig, but it looked cute.
"This is the gold produced in Jincheng. Half of this golden pig was cast to express our gratitude to the magical species of pig. The rest are in the box, totaling 3,600 taels. In Sambar's words, the Jincheng Gold Mine is a huge gold mine. Even the three places of Golden Gourd Stone, Wild Boar River and Humal are not as good as the Jincheng Gold Mine! Now, on behalf of all the members of the expedition team, I will pay the Jincheng Gold Mine to the Supreme Consul and all the noble elders!" Yang Mang said first.
As he said, a map was hung up, and the map was standardized with complex foramen points, latitude and magnetic declination. Although the information on this map was still too simple in later generations, it was ahead of this era. By searching according to the routes on the map, you can find the general location of Jincheng Island, and then observe the surrounding islands, and you can find it. Without this map, even if you know the general location, it would be difficult to find with the navigation level of this era.
The map and the brief information provided by Yang Mang made the elders look at it. More than 3,000 taels of gold were produced in the first year alone, which was enough to show the wealth of Jincheng. You should know that there were a total of 600 people in the expedition team, and they started from scratch.
Lee Mingxun observed the map and saw that it was completely blank from Jincheng Island to Australia, so he asked: "In other words, Ma Donglai and his party heading to Australia have no news so far?"
"Yes, from the perspective of adventure, this is nothing. What we agreed between us is that at the latest it will be next July. At that time, if there is no news in Australia, it is worth worrying." Yang Mang said.
Lee Mingxun nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk about the situation in Jincheng."
Yang Mang nodded slightly, sat there, briefly said: "After we set off, we took a month and a half to find New Guinea Island, and then continued to sail southwest. Although the latitude and longitude of the Consul provided, Jincheng Island was too small, and there were many large and large islands in that area. We could only land on the island southwest of Jincheng Island, which was a larger tropical island. We found that the north of the island was very flat and the water was sufficient. The indigenous people on the island could plant potatoes, sago, coconuts and bread trees.
Because during the development of Jincheng Island, the big island and the natives provided us with food supplies, and the island is also suitable for growing rice, which we call Mishima.
On Mi Island is a kind of Micronesian with dark skin, short stature and curly hair. They not only know how to plant, but also fish and drill wood to make fire, but they can not smelify iron. We built forts and ports on the island and encountered indigenous people and had conflicts. There is no doubt that the group of guys with wooden sticks and soft bows were fierce, but after seeing the nearby cannibals, we felt that the Micronesians were very cute.
Since Kincho Island was not found, we had to live in Yonejima, so we tried not to conflict with it. At the beginning, both sides suffered casualties, and they had seen the pigs on our ship all the time!"
"Pig?" Simmons asked in confusion.
Yang Mang said: "Yes, pigs! You must be unable to believe that pigs are the most important property of all races in New Guinea. They have different languages and traditions, but they have a special liking for pigs. Among those indigenous tribes, the highest status is men, the second is pigs, and the third is women. It is very common and easy to accept when using pigs for women. Even the daughter of the tribe leader can be exchanged for ten pigs!
Unlike the wild pigs domesticated by local tribes, the pigs we transported were domestic pigs from the south. The indigenous pigs were very dark and our pigs were very white. Our biggest opponent in Mijima was the Carlo tribe. That tribe believed in witchcraft and believed that our domestic pigs were holy. With a 75-pound pig, we obtained the friendship of Ma Jialuo, the leader of the tribe of 400 warriors, and we settled down.
So, after the first batch of gold was refined, we cast this golden pig with gold to express our respect for the pig species.”
"Did you all stay in Mijima? Didn't you go to Australia?" Ah Hai asked.
"It's the wind direction wrong, sir." Yang Mang replied: "It was summer when we arrived at Mi Island. According to our information, the summer in the northern hemisphere is winter in the southern hemisphere, and the southern hemisphere is southeasterly wind. We did not want to sail against the wind, and we did not find Jincheng Island. After resolving the dispute with the Karo tribe, our four ships searched for Jincheng Island separately and explored the surrounding islands. During this period, we experienced shipwrecks. We lost our only frigate and had conflicts with the indigenous peoples of the surrounding islands. Most of the Papuans are cannibals. At least ten of our expedition members were captured and eaten by them!
But fortunately, we found Jincheng Island, and Sambar also found gold mines in the northeast of the island as we wished, so we began to capture slaves to breed and mine. Coincidentally, the Carlo tribe had a deep blood feud with the Papuans. They were willing to take revenge while arresting slaves and traded with us in exchange for our iron tools and pigs. Unfortunately, when we left Luzon, we only brought eight pigs. During this period, the greedy Forres killed one and shared it with us. Fortunately, all the male and female pigs we brought were all, and soon gave birth to small piglets. The cunning Sambar only provided small boars to the Micronesians.
In September last year, we organized a six hundred slave capturing team with Ma Jialuo. We caught more than six hundred slaves in New Guinea. But the ending was not good. It was too humid and hot. The disease caused us to lose at least thirty-five soldiers. Since then, we have never participated in the slave capturing again, but tropical diseases are still rampant. When winter comes, Chief Ma Donglai leads two expedition ships south, we are only four hundred people left, and one-third of them have fallen.
The Papuans are not good slaves, mainly because they are cannibals. As long as our mining prison is not careful, the slaves will attack and kill each other and secretly eat the killed people. We can only separate people from different tribes. And this group of ignorant natives are very afraid of the messile guns and artillery. They believe that the souls of those who died of the messile guns will not disperse, so what they fear most is gun execution, so we have a way to control the slaves."
"In November last year, the Australian expedition set out and took the turtle and Madame Mary. The 220 people were taken away by the Lord Donglai, leaving 180 people for me and Sambar. We surveyed the Jincheng Island in detail. In addition to the gold mine, there were also the important mineral sulfur. But for agriculture, the island was almost useless, and there were cracks of toxic gases everywhere. We once suspected that we lived in the crater, and there was also the Mi Island. Micronesians really liked our goods, colorful cloth and silk, various iron and weapons, as well as spirits and salt, and we could obtain land and slaves by trading.
Chapter completed!