I want to be emperor

Chapter 876 Louise

Louise walked briskly on the port of Tangier following two Chu army officers.

At this time, behind them was a huge cargo ship that seemed to him to be a huge monster.

And it is also a steam ship that can run automatically without wind.

Listening to the panic of a group of Tangier prisoners of war in front of him, Louise inadvertently revealed a smile: a group of bumpkins who have never even seen a steam ship.

Unlike the few country bumpkins around her, Louise is a educated person who has traveled extensively.

Speaking of which, Luiz's background is actually not bad. He was born in a declining noble family of the Portuguese. Because the family fortune has long since fallen, even his brother, who is the heir, can only go to those noble families when he was young. It's an attendant.

As the second son, there is no need for him... The greatest benefit of his family background should be that it allowed him to study for a few years when he was a child.

Later, because of his ability to read, and the name of the second son of a nobleman who is unreliable but still exists, of course, the most important thing is because he wants to make a fortune... So he joined the Holland East when he was very young. Indian company.

Of course, it is not an ordinary sailor, but an accountant, and by the way, do some other things part-time, such as a doctor, translator and so on.

After working in the East India Company for a few years, he changed jobs and went to work under the Spaniards in Mexico, and learned Chinese in the process.

It's just that he didn't succeed in Mexico and returned to Portugal a few years ago.

At that time, it happened that the Great Chu Empire occupied South Africa and established a trading port facing Europe in Cape Town, South Africa, which also led to the rapid emergence of a large number of various official monopoly trading companies in Europe.

Portugal also established the Portuguese South Africa Company at this time, specializing in the route from the mainland to South Africa... Because this kind of trade is monopolistic, it is quite profitable.

Well, this is also one of the reasons why the Great Chu Empire promoted the European free trade plan.

Indigenous countries from all over the world are monopolizing, and the sales of products in Chu cannot increase...and a considerable amount of profits have been made by the European indigenous countries.

The Chu people were naturally not happy.

So simply move the wholesale market from South Africa to Europe, and establish additional sales channels to go deep into retail terminals...

Then there was the expeditionary fleet of Chu State that swept across West Africa a few months ago... As a result, the Portuguese South Africa Company went bankrupt again.

Luiz not only lost his job, but also lost his freedom... He became a prisoner inexplicably together with many people from other Portuguese South African companies in Ghana.

However, because Louise understands Chinese, even if he became a prisoner, he quickly got rid of the labor life. Coupled with the shamelessness and ability to adapt to the wind and the wind that he has trained for many years, he completed it in a short period of time. multiple changes in identity.

From the employees of the Portuguese South African Company, to the prisoners of war labor of the expedition fleet, and then to the supervisor... Finally, he boarded the ship of the Chu people and became an interpreter in the European expedition fleet.

To be honest, it is not easy to complete this identity change in a short period of time. You must know that there are actually many Europeans who understand Chinese. After all, after the rise of the Great Chu Empire, they did not hide it, but were widely active around the world. In this way, the influence of the Great Chu Empire on a global scale is huge and continuous.

In this process, Europeans, especially those European countries with overseas trade needs, will naturally train specialized Chinese translators. Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish families do not lack people who are proficient in Chinese.

The Chu people swept across West Africa all the way, and among the many captured Europeans, there was no lack of people who could speak Chinese all night, so Louise was brought on board as an interpreter.

The reason why Luiz was favored by the people of Chu State was that on the one hand, he traveled all over the world and knew many languages. On the other hand, he was proactive and shameless. Dealing with Chu people in North America, I have a better understanding of some rules of Chu people.

It was because of these that he became a member of the translation team in the European Expeditionary Fleet of the Great Chu Empire, and he also got a new set of clothes issued by the Chu people.

The new clothes are not very good, they are just ordinary business attire, but let alone put on the clothes given by the Chu people, shaved a big bald head, and held a handful of Chu The folding fan handed down by the national military officer is full of traitors... no, European treachery.

At least Luiz herself was very satisfied with her attire, walking among a group of Spanish prisoners of war unconsciously puffed out her chest.

However, as they were walking, Louise stopped immediately after seeing the two Chu military officers in front stop and the surrounding soldiers also stop.

At this moment, a young Chu officer beside him said: "Translate, tell them that they are leaving now. We have left a few small sampans for them at the port. If the young and strong are willing to stay You can come down and work!"

"Now let the people they want to stay and work come forward."

After the officers at the front had finished speaking, Luiz immediately stepped forward, yelled in Portuguese first, and then repeated it in Spanish.

Tangier was controlled by Portugal for 200 years before, and quite a few residents in this city are actually Portuguese.

A few years ago, the Spaniards came to occupy this place, and some Spaniards came again.

Generally speaking, before the arrival of the Chu army, there were mostly Portuguese and Spanish residents in this place. After these surviving civilians were escorted out of the city, the Chu army did not make things difficult for them.

It's the same as I said before: you can leave directly, and young people can also stay and work.

Of course, the subtext is that the city of Tangier must have nothing to do with them.

In fact, it’s useless even if there is a relationship. Today’s Tangier city is really in ruins. There are few intact houses to be found, and there is basically nothing left!
Now the Chu army has to set up tents when they go ashore by themselves.

As for these surviving civilians, it is actually useless for you to let them go back to the city.

What's more, according to the plan of the expeditionary force, after they captured the city of Tangier, they planned to use the city as a large military base and a trading port. In this case, Tangier would inevitably undergo large-scale construction.

Now the Chu army is loading and unloading personnel and materials, and quite a lot of building materials will be obtained locally, that is, from the ruins of Tangier City.

Tangier will still exist in the future, but the current city of Tangier will not continue to exist.

Louise acted as an interpreter for the officers of the Chu State, and made simple arrangements for the surviving civilians in Tangier, but later a captain of the Chu State who led the team didn't bother to run away.

Simply let the soldiers take Louise to dismiss those civilians or recruit them to work.

After being busy for the past two days, the affairs of the surviving civilians in Tangier were finally dealt with. Most of them chose to leave, and only a small number of people chose to stay and work.

The Chu people don't care about it, anyway, those civilians are basically old and weak, women and children... There are not many real young and strong.

The main force of the work is the prisoners of war. After all, most of the prisoners of war are young and strong.

In addition to the local prisoners of war in Tangier, the expeditionary fleet will also transfer prisoners of war from various places to work to ensure that the construction of Tangier will not lag behind due to the lack of labor.

However, Tangier's follow-up port construction will be a long work, and there is no rush in a short time, so there are only a few buildings at the beginning, some taller warehouses, barracks and the like.

These are simple, and it didn't take long to get almost done.

Half a month later, a group of fleets arrived in Tangier, bringing to Tangier a group of rotating garrisons and many supplies, including a batch of cement and other construction materials.

After having cement and other building materials, Tangier's port was built very quickly. Soon a large ship berth with crane towers and good water depth was built, and the cargo ship Ji Jiang, which had been floating on the sea for many days, was also able to slowly Close to start loading and unloading.

When the freighter Jijiang approached, the military personnel were very careful... They even took two small-tonnage military coal carriers as tugboats, just to prevent the Jijiang, which was too big, from being out of control. It then hit a pier causing damage.

If this is damaged, it will not be a small amount to pay!
The freighter Jijiang, this is not a navy transport ship, nor is it an army sea transport ship, nor is it even an armed freighter of the Western Trading Company.

This thing is a very simple civilian freighter, which should not have participated in the European free trade plan, but when the ship was transporting goods to South Africa, it was requisitioned by the navies of the North and South...

After all, the ship is big enough, more than 8000 tons, and it can hold a lot of things... It's just that the requisition belongs to the requisition, but the money still has to be paid.

After all, your military has to pay for temporary requisition. If it is worn out or something happens, such as being sunk by the enemy, you have to compensate it. If it is worn out, you have to repair it or compensate it.

On the third day after Jijiang was requisitioned by the navy, some minor problems were found in the power system. The navy sent engineers to repair it with a black face... Not long after, Nima had a small problem again.

Even after going to sea, it was the same, and there were minor problems every three days.

In order to ensure the smooth sailing of this ship in the past few months, the navy has repaired the whole ship from the beginning to the end, especially the boiler in the power system, and they almost replaced it with a new one!

One of the managers on the ship also said that their Indo-Pacific shipping company has always been a firm supporter of the navy, and you have to come to us if you want to requisition in the future. A bunch of problem ships are ready to pluck their wool.

Moreover, this ship is big, but the cost of sailing is also high, because it is a pure steam ship, and it needs to burn coal to move, unlike those thousands of tons of motor sailing ships. It's also slow, but it's cheap to use sails.

Then, if the ship is too large, berthing and docking is also a big problem, at least there is no such deep-water berth in this small colony in West Africa.

The berths in many small ports cannot accommodate such large ships. In many cases, they can only berthed outside the wharf, and then transported by small boats.

It can be said that the requisition of the Ji Jiang this time scared the navy, not to mention the tossing, and it also helped people repair the ship for several months, which cost a lot of money.

They are thinking that after all the supplies on the ship are moved, then let this Jijiang get out... As for the requisition, it will not be requisitioned. The navy's own ships and the ships of the Western Trading Company are barely enough. Don't let those civilian ships make do.

And when the gigantic figure of the Jijiang arrived in Tangier, it naturally attracted some shock from the natives. Some native prisoners of war and laborers working in the port watched the huge ship slowly approaching.

They even wondered if it was the devil's creation.

Such a huge ship exceeded all their imaginations!
They have actually seen cruisers of 1000 tons, frigates of more than [-] tons, and even merchant ships of three to four thousand tons in the port of Tangier, which is not surprising.

However, compared with the Jijiang, these ships are indeed insignificant, and their size is not at the same level at all.

Louise also saw this huge ship at the port. This was not the first time Louise saw the Yoshie. Louise had already seen this huge freighter when he was in Ghana before.

But seeing it again, Louise was still filled with shock.

And the Great Chu Empire, which was able to build such a huge ship, shocked Louise even more.

Louise is very curious about the Great Chu Empire. If there is a chance in the future, he hopes to visit the Great Chu Empire to see if the place is really as prosperous and developed as the rumors say.

However, Louise wanted to go to the Great Chu Empire, and it might not be possible at this time.

But it is still very convenient to go back to my hometown of Portugal.

No, about a month after the Chu army took Tangier, someone in the translation team informed Luiz that he was going to Portugal.

Old job, still working as a translator.

And this time it was not for a fight, but to negotiate with the local Kingdom of Portugal and sign a market opening agreement!

This made Louis a little unaccustomed to it, in order to avoid misunderstood, and also to prove her own thoughts.

Louise asked the only person from Chu State in the translation team, who was the head of the translation team: "They shouldn't sign the market opening agreement so easily, what if they don't want to sign it?"

The head of the translation team from Chu State directly said: Then call them to sign the agreement.

Well, he is still from the Chu country that he is familiar with.

Just now, Louise almost thought that she had met a fake Chu countryman...

He ran all the way to conduct peace negotiations and sign a friendly cooperation agreement, and he almost laughed at Louise's teeth.

This is not in line with the Chu people's rules of doing things.

Chu people, um, to be precise, what is the Chu official doing?
Hearsay is not accurate, anyway, according to Luiz’s contact with Chu people in Mexico and recent personal experience as an interpreter in West Africa.

Two words can describe it: self!

The Chu people are overseas, basically doing whatever they want... They don't care what the indigenous people think or think!

　The previous chapter was swallowed and is applying for lifting the ban
　　
　
(End of this chapter)