Daming One Piece

Chapter 216 Immigrant Ship (Part [-])
For the refugees, getting on the boat meant survival.

Although they don't know where the big black ship will take them, for the people who boarded the big ship, they still look forward to the future with joy.

After all, when waiting for a boat by the Yellow River, people always spread all kinds of "rumors".

It is very common to divide the fields and cows, and even single men divide their wives. Where can we find such a good thing?

But these people who are looking forward to the future don't know what kind of future will be greeted after they transfer to Haizhou by the big ship.

After all, all they know about Beigang is just the place name "Beigang".

Life on a ship is very boring, and the most common thing for people crowded in the cabin is to get together and chat.

However, Wang Xin didn't take the initiative to get together with those people, but the topics of the people around him were mostly related to the sailing route of the ship. Although none of them had been to Beigang, it didn't matter what they yearned for Beigang. Of course, what they liked about Beigang They don't know anything, even their ancestors have never been to Henan, let alone Beigang, which is located overseas.

"I heard that there are savages everywhere, we should be more careful when we get there."

"Be careful? Be careful what?"

"Savages! Those savages eat human flesh and drink human blood."

"Hmph, if you meet a savage, you will kill it. It just so happens that we are bachelors without a wife. If we kill a savage, we will grab a savage woman as a daughter-in-law."

Sitting in the cabin like this, Wang Xin has been quietly listening to their words. In fact, compared to these people, he knows the situation in Beigang better.

After all, as a scholar, he knew a little about Beigang through books before his home was destroyed by Wang Er and other rebellious local bandits.

He even knew that Beigang was not only Beigang, there were also commercial stations such as Hoi An, and he also knew that many Donglin Party members had been exiled to foreign lands thousands of miles away.

In fact, the reason why he chose to escape was because he saw signs of troubled times, so he chose to leave.

I would rather be a dog of peace than a chaotic person!
He truly understood this sentence after witnessing the tragedy of his family being massacred by Wang Er and other rioters.

Perhaps, when the world changes drastically in the future, only Beigang can escape this catastrophe!

"Hey, the old emperor is really good. Liaodong has been restored, and the Jurchen Tartars have also been pacified, but the Liao pay is still levied. Otherwise, we wouldn't have left our hometown, wouldn't we..."

Liao pay!

The Liao pay was not canceled because of the recovery of Liaodong, but instead became a regular tax. After all, this year was several million taels of silver.

How many people in the imperial court care about the burden of the common people?How could those adults in the court care about the life and death of Shengdou Xiaomin?

"Who cares about the life and death of ordinary people? If someone cared about our life and death, how could we be reduced to such a state..."

"Hey, at least I can survive this way! If I stay in my hometown in Shaanxi, I might starve to death."

"Even if you didn't starve to death, if you encounter bandits like Wang Er, if you can't keep your family intact, you will kill them all."

"No, I heard that when Wang Er rebelled, he killed tens of thousands of ordinary people..."

"In today's world, being able to survive is the most important thing."

At least you can live like this!
Wang Xin pursed his lips, but he still didn't say a word after all.

He doesn't know what to say?Could it be that his family members were all killed by Wang Er and the others?

"I just hope to get to Beigang soon!"

However, Wang Xin did not know that this ship would not arrive at Beigang. After it sailed from Haizhou to Heishuiyang, it went all the way south. It took about three days to reach the northern part of Dongfan Island, and then Going all the way south, you can reach Hoi An or Hekou in a few days, and even reach Nantianmen. The current Beigang is different from the Beigang two years ago. In the past two years, Beigang has successively established various places in the South China Sea. There are more than a dozen commercial stations, and these commercial stations are the routes for immigrants going south, and they are also the end point of their journey to Nanyang.

Just like their final goal now is Nantianmen, which is Singapore in later generations. This island is the land permanently leased by Xuanweishi Yamen from the Sultan of Johor with 1000 taels of silver.

It is also the most important stronghold of the Beigang Propaganda Envoy Yamen in Nanyang. In fact, for the current Beigang Propaganda Envoy Yamen, the colonization of Nanyang is not the kind of expansion like a whale, but relying on the prestige of Ming Dynasty. Among the various land-states, they lease land in the name of trade and expand at the same time. Such expansion will not arouse the vigilance of those state-states. All of them, to put it bluntly, are actually imitating the expansion methods of Europeans in Southeast Asia and India. That's all.

Nantianmen is the transit point for Ming's expansion in Nanyang. Immigrants arrived here and then used it as a transit point to go to Java Island and other islands in Nanyang. Of course, what kind of family business they can achieve in the end, apart from the dozens of acres allocated to them Outside of the field, it depends on their own ability.

When the immigrant boats going south sailed on the sea, the weather was not smooth. Although they had experienced wind and waves and felt the pain of seasickness since they left Haizhou, according to the crew, all this was just the beginning .

Sure enough, after leaving Dongfan Strait, they encountered a storm soon.The ship shook violently in the storm, and the lantern above the head swayed violently. With the strong wind and huge waves, the Chang'an swayed accordingly.

In the swaying cabin, those immigrants who seem to have adapted to the voyage all sat there in panic, clutching the ropes around them nervously, so as not to swing around in the swaying cabin above.

"God bless, bless us to survive..."

Although everyone was very scared, none of them dared to say the word "sink". This is the biggest taboo at sea, and the only thing they can do now is to pray.

Wang Xin looked out from the ventilation window of the cabin, and it began to rain heavily outside, and the sea breeze became stronger.When a big wave hit, Wang Xin couldn't sit still, so he plunged forward. Fortunately, he was grabbed by the person next to him, and retreated with his pulling force, but he almost hit him. On the ship's ribs.

"Thank you, thank you brother..."

Wang Xin expressed his thanks nervously.

"You're welcome..."

The man who held him laughed, but no one could laugh after that.Several waves hit in succession, the cabin has become a complete mess, everyone is piled together in a mess, most of them have given up struggling, hugging their heads and shrinking their legs, helplessly rolling with the boat bumping in the waves.The luggage that people carried with them was scattered everywhere, mixed with the sundries spit out by those seasick people, for a moment everyone was filled with deep despair...

(End of this chapter)