Mixing ancient times with Taobao

Chapter 651 The Southern Continent
Australia, the southern continent, was being controlled by a group of Dutchmen in the seventeenth century AD when Zoffe belonged, and they named the continent New Holland.

In 1581, after the Dutch got rid of Spanish rule and won their independence, under a series of measures, capitalist commerce developed rapidly, and soon got the title of Sea Coachman.

At this time, the Dutch can be seen in Australia, India, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, South Africa and other places, and even the whole of Australia is almost dominated by the Dutch.

These Dutchmen enslaved the local aborigines here, sucked their flesh and blood, loaded carts of mines on their big ships, and dragged them back to their home country in exchange for endless glory and rights.

The Dutch shipbuilding industry is well developed and full of adventurous spirit.In this age of piracy, for a little profit, they can throw away their weapons and set off with bare boats.Because there is no need to install artillery and other things, the cost of shipbuilding is extremely low, and more goods can be carried. At this time, the Dutch control three-quarters of the transportation volume in the West, and they are worthy of their title of sea coachman.

It's just that these Dutch people have been depressed recently. At some point, a group of yellow-skinned and black-eyed Chinese also came here.Their ship armament is also extremely simple, but it is not so easy to suffer in naval battles, because this kind of pointed ship is too fast, and they can't even catch up.

I don't know when these Chinese people discovered this place, and I don't know how long they have been lurking here before. In the past few years, there have been sporadic news, but they have never seen a yellow-skinned person.

Until last year, when a large number of fleets suddenly came over, the scene that covered the sky and the sun was probably something I will never forget for the rest of my life!

The Dutch are also people who have seen the world. If you want to talk about seagoing ships, is there any other company in the world that has more ships than them?

Yes, this time they saw it!
There are more than 40 clipper boats, large and small, as well as various Dafu boats. These are Daming's boats!The Dutch, who often deal with the Chinese in Japan, recognized the country to which the fleet belonged at a glance.

It's just that they were a little puzzled, when did Daming suddenly have so many big ships?
The shipyards in Qiongzhou have basically never stopped working. Apart from receiving orders from the private sector, they are mainly building orders for Zov.

It is not easy to build a ship, thanks to the fact that Zuo Fu has built shipyards in several places in Qiongzhou, and the shipyards in Changzhou are also developing very well. Coupled with the previous inventory, they finally built a fleet.

In fact, it is a bit exaggerated to say the fleet, because compared with those warships in Xiyi, the firepower of these ships is really pitifully small.Most clipper ships have no cannon on board, and only the heavier ones carry a cannon in the bow.

The shape of the clipper ship is doomed to miss the side guns, so the escorts are all improved Fuchuan.

Both the displacement and speed of these improved Fuchuan are much higher than those of the past.Taking Fuchuan as the model, some technical improvements have been made to make this kind of Fuchuan more suitable for long-distance voyages than take-off and shear boats.After all, there are too many pirates these days, and it is impossible to have no firepower.

When Zuo Fu was in Qiongzhou, when he just went to sea, he would be robbed even if he used the signboard of Qiongzhou Prefecture. For trade, Qiongzhou Prefecture organized countless settlements.After paying in this way for several years, the surrounding routes are safer.

So these Dutch people are no strangers to the Ming Navy.What surprised them was that the people of Daming actually managed to find the Southern Continent, and brought such a huge fleet. This is obviously a rhythm of long-term development!
After some inquiring, they discovered that the people of Ming Dynasty had already taken root here!They not only opened up farmland here, but also built a city wall here, and the aborigines of the tribes near the place where they were stationed were also recruited and became cheap labor for the Ming people.

The reason why these aborigines were said to be recruited was because they found that these aborigines not only wore the cotton clothes popular in Dongying Korea, but also worked for the Ming people with a smile on their faces.

That look didn't look like being forced, it was completely voluntary.Moreover, they secretly tracked down a few aborigines, and found that these Ming people built simple houses for them and distributed food to them.

So, under the temptation of food, in addition to doing the work of leading the party, this group of aborigines also took the initiative to help Daming recruit labor from other tribes.As for these Ming people, pretending to be righteous, they not only gave these aborigines food, but also taught them skills, and even helped them fight.

Some of the more ferocious and less friendly tribes were wiped out one by one by the Ming people, and those unfriendly people were also arrested by the Ming people for re-education, and now they are working with the Ming people, and they are doing it happily.

Obviously, compared to the past days, even as prisoners, these natives still feel the beauty of life.

Some Dutch people tried to get in touch with the Ming people, and found that these Ming people had no intention of leaving at all, so they became anxious.After some intimidation was ineffective, the Dutch attacked.

The result of the attack can be imagined.

These soldiers stationed overseas are the elite of the army, and their weapons are also extremely sophisticated. How can the Dutch be their opponents?After a violent beating, these people could only retreat, watching the Daming people come and go in and out of the newly discovered gold, silver and copper mine.

So, the Dutch are depressed!Especially after seeing the Daming people transport countless gold away, they felt even more uncomfortable.Thinking that so many people left, Da Ming's defense was empty, so they attacked again.

They organized a large number of native soldiers and gave them extremely high treatment, but they never thought that these natives ran to the city and surrendered!

Flip the table!
Is there such a fucking thing in this world? !
But it just happened!
Compared with the white-skinned Xiyi, these Australian aborigines obviously found the yellow-skinned Daming people more pleasing to the eye.Moreover, white-skinned people are all devils, robbing their women and enslaving them, but the yellow-skinned Daming people are different.Not only do we trade fairly with them, but we also respect their habits, and in difficult seasons, when they go to work for the Ming people, the Ming people will give them a lot of food and clothing.

Those golden stones and sand are useless to them except for decoration, but these food and clothes can really change their lives.So, since Daming people like those golden stones, they just find them and give them to them.

"Golden stones can be exchanged for exquisite clothes and rich food. If you don't have these, you can still exchange them by working for the Ming people..."

Such rumors had already spread when the Qiongzhou Navy landed in Australia for the first time.As time went on, and as Zuofer invested more in Australia, such rumors spread farther and farther. Although there are many aboriginal languages ​​in Australia, the news was spread through some translators.

and so……

Why do they work for the white skins who enslave them?They didn't come here to fight, they came here to surrender!

No, it's too dangerous and tiring to go by yourself, is it safer to have a free hand?

The natives turned bad, and the Dutch were killed by them.

This time, there was no way to talk about the misunderstanding, and a piece of land was directly gnawed off by the people of Daming. If they didn't agree, their people would light up sky lanterns.

Although Europe has always had a tradition of spending money to redeem captives, but this Daming man is too bad, money is not needed, only land!Just encircled them a large piece of land before giving up.

So the Dutch are depressed!
Why do you think this Daming man came to the southern continent?

Let's not mention these depressed Dutchmen, let's talk about these natives.

Compared with the depression of the Netherlands, these natives seemed very happy.

Since the arrival of the Ming people, the aborigines who first came into contact with them have lived an excellent life.Not only did they have beautiful clothes, but they also learned some magical skills and mastered some artifacts.

As the first aborigine who came into contact with the Ming people, Akubi has a deep understanding of this.He won't forget the scene where he was caught by Mingren for the first time.

Because of the arrival of the Dutch, their peaceful life was broken. In three to forty years, many women were looted by white people and men were enslaved.Therefore, for outsiders, they are full of aggressiveness.

As a matter of course, they would attack when they saw a group of yellow-skinned, black-haired people who looked completely different from them intrude into their territory.

Needless to say, the result of the attack can be imagined with toes.How could a group of guys with sticks and stone tools beat a group of Daming people who were armed to the teeth and held firearms?
But Daming people are also quite confused.

Suddenly a group of savages ran out and beat them with sticks. This must be a deadly attack, it may not seem too inhumane.Ever since, after the initial resistance, these soldiers quickly changed into electric batons, and after greeting the wild men for a while, the wild men knelt down and called them gods.

It's also thanks to the fact that they installed some solar energy equipment on board, otherwise the electric baton wouldn't be able to work.

It was during this initial engagement that Akubi was captured.Although he was defeated by the enemy, in the later development, Akubi could not hate this group of people.

Because this group of people is not at all the same as those white devils.Not only do they look different, they act differently.

He remembered very clearly that on the first day they were caught, these Daming people drove them to take a bath and gave them something called soap.

They were driven into the river and rubbed each other with something called loofah essence.It hurts when rubbed with that thing, but the situation is stronger than people, even if it hurts, if they want to survive, they must do what these "yellow-skinned devils" say.

After rubbing off the old dust on each other's bodies, they soaped it several times. By the way, before driving them into the river, their hair was shaved.

After such a toss, these people brought a fur they had never seen before.Soft, thin and very comfortable to wear.

After a long time, Akubi, who had learned some Ming dialect, realized that it was not animal fur, but made of plants, called cotton clothes.

After getting dressed, these people drove them to an open field, and it was almost dusk now.

The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the whole earth golden. After a day of tossing, everyone felt very hungry.Many people are thinking that even if they are going to die, maybe it would be nice to eat a piece of barbecue before dying.

It seemed that they heard their voices, and soon these Daming people brought food.Something called rice was placed in front of them. Besides that, each person had a sea fish and something called bean sprouts.

God testified, that was the best thing Akubi had ever eaten since he was born.I don't know what kind of witchcraft these Ming people used, their food has a pure salty taste, without a trace of bitterness, and it is also very delicious. He never knew that those fishy fish can be so delicious.

After a delicious meal, these Daming people drove them into a circle surrounded by wooden fences, and sent a group of people to watch them.

These people all held sticks in their hands. In the previous fights, they learned that the sticks in the hands of this group of people had witchcraft and could discharge or breathe fire, so they didn't dare to act rashly.

And the smart ones among them felt that these yellow-skinned devils didn't look like they wanted to kill them.If you want to kill them, why give them food?Give them such good fur to wear?It should be the same as those white-skinned devils, wanting them to work.

Of course I am happy that I don't have to die.And thinking about the meal I just ate, it seems that...

These yellow-skinned devils are much more generous and kind than the white-skinned devils?
In the days that followed, these yellow-skinned devils did a series of weird things to them.A group of yellow-skinned devils wearing white fur took a lot of blood from their bodies with silver needles, and some people almost rioted because of it.

However, under the guidance of the whip and stick, they quickly calmed down again.And, after a blood draw, they found that their food was more plentiful.Although they are afraid that these yellow-skinned devils are going to perform some terrible witchcraft on them, but still the same sentence, the situation is stronger than people, and in this case, it is useless for them to be afraid.

Simply...

Let go of your mind and eat with an open stomach.

Later, people were arrested one after another, some from their tribe, and some from other tribes.Then this group of yellow-skinned devils did the same thing to them, repeating the same action over and over again, as long as a newcomer came, they would be tossed like this.

No one knew what the group of yellow-skinned devils were trying to do. They only knew that some of their companions were dragged away and locked up alone after the blood was drawn.And their residences have also changed.

They lived in small houses, which were also blocked by wooden railings and guarded by people.

It's the same with those little buddies, the difference is, they won't be with them.Through the window, they saw those yellow-skinned devils with white fur go in every day, and then there were screams from inside, which was frightening to hear.

But within a few days, those screams disappeared.Just when they were worried, they heard the singing of their companions again. Listen carefully, it seems that they are praising these devils?
(End of this chapter)