open sea

Chapter 1134
The year name Wanli has completely different meanings to the people of Ming Dynasty.

For example, the new guests welcomed by the island of Ireland, a rickety and dilapidated lucky boat docked at the mouth of the Lagan River in the east of Tyrone. A land that is almost completely unfamiliar to the people.

This ship belonged to Li Yuxi in the past, and the current bow is named Zhang Si, and it has only been from Nanyang to Dadongyang for two years.

Zhang Sisheng was born in Xianyou in Xinghua Prefecture.

Most treacherous and evil people are courageous people. Zhang Si doesn't have that courage, but he is not willing to live in this world and spend his whole life listening to the legends of other people getting rich overnight.

To be honest, Zhang Si felt that he should have been a good person before.

Kind, hardworking, and useless good guy.

When Japanese pirates were rampant and fellow countrymen rushed into Nanyang, where the imperial court prohibited ship access, he nestled outside the prefectural city to farm, holding a balance of four or five taels of silver all year round, and lived a peaceful life.

The Japanese pirates were driven to Xianyou by Qi's army, his house was burned, and the government didn't give him any compensation. He didn't go to the county government with his fellow villagers to petition. strength.

Later, when I lost my livelihood, I went to run errands for the inspection department and worked as a servant for the county government. Although life was difficult, I never complained.

Just in time for Lord Longqing to open the sea, merchants, common people, and officers and soldiers flocked into Yuegang... Boldly, he tried every means to get a boat lead, and he made a lot of money when he sailed out to sea. He followed to Yuegang, because Yuegang wharf moved The wages paid by the goods are one cent higher than that of helpers in other places.

Later, as time went by, he decided to go out to sea with him, but he didn't know how to do business.

The wealthy bigwigs go to sea with several boats, hundreds of clan brothers and nephews, and sell hundreds of thousands of catties of goods overseas. A few people, each with their own packages and what they can buy, rented a boat and went out to sea together. People and goods slept together on the road. Lose everything.

Because they knew little information, big merchants sold porcelain, silk, cotton cloth, and ironware overseas.

Zhang Si also carried a big package on his back. He was careful on the road, even if his colleagues asked him, he just smiled and didn't answer. What was in his package?
66 pairs of straw sandals!

Before going to sea, Zhang Si knew this thing well. He can wear out a pair of the best quality straw sandals in five or six days, and a pair costs three cents of silver. money.

The savings of four taels of silver were exchanged for 66 pairs of straw sandals.

He wondered who doesn't need shoes no matter where this thing is?He was too honest to believe what others said that a piece of cotton cloth could earn three times as much.

But he felt that the quality of these straw sandals was so reliable, how many pairs could sell for a quarter of silver, right?Then he can earn more than one or two dollars on this trip. When he buys some spices in Luzon, he can always make money when he comes back.

No matter how bad it is, as long as there is enough food and clothing, the people of the upper kingdom know better than the barbarians?
As a result, when we arrived in Manila, the people there really didn't wear shoes.

Common people have a thick layer of calluses on the soles of their feet, which are much more wear-resistant than the soles of straw sandals. Who would value straw sandals for dignitaries?
It is conceivable what he experienced later. In Manila, where he had no relatives, he was a homeless person.

In the barber shop opened by Chaozhou people, people have trimmed beards and swung sledgehammers in the mines. Of course, the most skilled ones are doing their old jobs in Macheng port and moving goods for people.

The other way out didn't give him much chance to show off.

Zhang Si really didn't have any skills. He had no ability, no connections, and no connections. All he had was the identity of a citizen of the Ming Dynasty.

The problem is that there are too many Ming Dynasty people, so many that there is no shortage of Ming Dynasty people in Nanyang.

He even walked through the farmland on the outskirts of Manila, and when he met a Luzon tenant farmer, he asked: fellow, do you know how to farm? I come from Daming. I know all about farm tools, plowing, and fertilization. Let me meet you Master.

In the end, the person who received him was a Quanzhou native, with the aura of someone who had just come out of the countryside and made a fortune overnight. , smilingly told him that he had been hired by the landlord to guide production, so you should find another place.

Zhang Si had experienced the same situation no less than four times, and it was like this every time, which hit his self-confidence... After he co-authored and went to sea, he was still competing with him from the fucking Ming Dynasty.

The real life of desire and dissatisfaction is incompatible with the Nanyang military government's words that the people of the heavens and the kingdoms should conquer the sea. The big event is likened to thinking of change if you are poor, change will lead to success, generality will lead to development, and development will benefit the world.

But isn't Zhang Si a man of the world?

Why does he want to change when he is poor, when he changes, he becomes blocked, when he is blocked, he gets poorer, and when he is poor, he wants to change again?
He is not a bad person, and when he was the poorest, he never thought of stealing and robbing and harming others.

Could it be that if a citizen of the Ming Dynasty wants to make a name for himself overseas, he must be accompanied by swords and guns?Indeed, that's what it said in the scriptures. Those generals all grew up from a small soldier, but Zhang Si couldn't join the army.

After working for many years, his lower back hurts when he can't move. In the early years, the axle he pushed for Qi's army to transport food and grass broke and injured his ankle bones. Now he walks with a limp. Isn't it fatal to let him fight with others to divide life and death?
Later, he heard that the Dongyang military government met with Xiyi and established Changsheng County. Over the years, the gold, silver and wooden cubes that Dadongyang sent to the imperial court increased year by year. The legend has attracted many brave people to abandon their homes and careers and get on the boat bound for Changsheng.

Maybe Zhang Si himself didn't feel that life didn't give him much kindness, but the hardship of poverty gave him more desire and courage than others, and his courage was indeed getting bigger and bigger.

He didn't want to go home because he didn't look like a man, so he went to Changsheng, the garrison of the Dongyang Military Mansion for the second time, and this time he tasted the sweetness.

Although he ran all over several rivers in the fields of Jincheng all winter last year, but failed to pan for a piece of gold, in Changsheng he has [-] acres of land leased to people who escaped from New Spain.

This time, Zhang Si was taken care of.

The experience taught Zhang Si to learn to sum up his experience, but there was only one experience that really changed his destiny: to go to the newly opened land of Ming Dynasty, the fewer people of Ming Dynasty, the more opportunities he had!
So, he bought a fast-breaking Dafu boat from Li Yuxi's company, and the boat was full of losers in Daxi Port who had the same idea as him.

Floating around, following the footsteps of the vanguard of the Eastern Military Government, they arrived at the island of Ireland—and devoted themselves to the vigorous cause of building the Kingdom of Alan.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)