open sea

Chapter 1233 Barrier
Daming, as long as this old man is not a criminal, has not done something that both people and gods hate, and will not be hated by the people of all walks of life in the entire township, even if he has no children or grandchildren, he will not be unable to survive.

No county magistrate would allow himself to have nowhere to live under his own governance.

Daming is not without slums. There are also many poor people in the cities of Daming. After kerosene lamps, lighters, and Jinghai coal entered the market, those who still cannot afford these three things can be said to be poor. There are many people like this in Daming .

They live very hard, their small desires are hard to be satisfied, they have no wealth and savings, and they are worried because of this, and they have no sense of security without property.

But this is almost the extreme poverty that the people of Ming Dynasty can imagine.

"How do I know that there will be a plague? Do you know how poor this is? You go to the thatched hut outside the city wall where you can't see the edge. The common people's huts there don't even have walls. Say a person's name, as long as that person is outside the city."

Li Dan raised a finger with sarcasm: "In an hour, more than a dozen people will come to you to claim the reward by pulling that person's arms and thighs."

"As long as I'm not allowed to set foot in the city, I can barely see it. There are garbage and excrement everywhere outside the city. The dirt ditches and wells used as latrines are only eight steps away. It is not difficult to judge that a plague will break out in this city."

"The city of Seville may no longer be safe, but Daming Port is safe, you see."

Following the direction of Li Dan's finger, Yang Ce looked down from the Guancheng Pavilion overlooking the entire Daming Port. There were horse-drawn carriages gathered on the wide street outside the warehouse in the center of the port, and they were driving to the northern official road. He asked He asked, "What's in the car?"

"Rejecting horses, ammunition, and a small amount of barbed wire. The king asked Daming Port to help him build Fran cannons, so I opened a forging factory in Daming Port. It should have been able to pull barbed wire in large quantities for defense, but in the last All the barbed wire fences in the port of Yue were shipped to Lisbon to support General Fu."

"There are only two roads leading to Seville from here. You can either drive westward from the sea and enter the inland river, or take a mountain road of nearly twenty miles to the outside of the city. As long as there is a blockade on this road, Daming Port is independent from the city. A paradise outside of Spain."

Yang Ce still has great worries in his heart. Thanks to the military education in the martial arts hall, he can speak and speak both Spanish and Portuguese proficiently, and he also knows the commonly used written Latin. The barrier of language in the world hardly exists for him. , During the long drifting at sea, the way he passed the time was reading.

Read books and letters looted from raided merchant pirate ships.

People will mention the plague, especially the black death that has been prevalent in the past few hundred years. The huge lethality made Ou Luoyi talk about blackness, and the fear of the plague took root in his heart through words.

He asked: "You also know that there are thousands of poor people outside the city. Seville will not open the gates for them. What if someone is brought in with the plague?"

Unexpectedly, Li Dan pursed his lips and smiled, propped his arms on the railing beside the pavilion, looked down for a while, and said, "General Yang, you think too much, don't you believe the Beiyang Army's aspect?" sentry?"

In fact, Li Dan is much more interested in Seville than Yang Ce imagined this time. He did not do anything to this city belonging to Spain, but just continued his old business, just like in Haojing.

The difference is that the wealth, power, and prestige he has now are much stronger than Li Dan in Haojing.

The brilliance on the bright side of a city can be touched by his officials, and many people can; but the dark side of a city under the brilliance, few people can touch it at the same time, but he is very skilled.

There are more orphans and beggars in this city than Haojing, and he doesn't even need to do anything to make them his eyes and ears, and any new things can be exchanged for rewards in several taverns outside the city.

A month ago, the news that thirteen laundry girls who worked together outside the city had collectively fallen ill did not attract Li Dan’s attention, but immediately after that, a tailor shop selling fabrics and clothes was closed down by the Inquisition for no reason... Li Dan still pays more attention to the Inquisition. Summarizing the previous information, he was convinced that there was a plague in the city before any accurate news spread in the city.

The clothes of the laundresses often come from tailors, and tailors in Seville, especially outside the city, not only sell clothes, but also recycle clothes.

This leads to a hidden danger, and the hidden danger is that there is no reason for the thatched shed outside the city to block the wind... When the poor outside the city accidentally see two blackened dead bodies in the house, the first reaction is definitely not to turn around and run away .

They are not afraid of death but of poverty. No matter what kind of hardships and dangers are waiting ahead, they may not die, but they may starve to death this afternoon if they have no money after starving for five or six days.

So their response must have been to go into the house and check all the places where there might be hidden treasures, even though the chances of finding the treasure were slim, and eventually they would strip the clothes off the corpse and sell them.

The same is true of Li Dan's speculation about the origin of the plague. One or two people were infected by the plague for unknown reasons and died in a broken house without a door. and personal belongings.

The sick clothes were sold to tailors, and the merchants gave the clothes to the laundrymen who came to pick them up. After a few days, the laundrymen fell ill collectively, and then the people who bought clothes from the tailors also fell ill.

Then Seville closed the city gates, but Li Dan believed that there was a possibility that a plague had already appeared in the city, and the nobles' wish to rely on closing the city gates to protect themselves might fail.

There is only one truly safe place, and that is his Daming Port.

All connections between the port and the city and outside the city were cut off, with more than ten miles between them, the road was blocked, and the entire hill and dense forest that could be crossed and overturned were set up vertically and horizontally. Line of defense, make sure no one can come over.

He doesn't need news from inside and outside the city.

"Counting your three boats, there are 470 people in Daming Port. I have twelve granaries. Everyone only drinks and cooks tea. The food is enough for nine months. This is not only a disaster for Daming Port, it is also a disaster." Good thing."

Li Dan smiled with his mouth curled up, opened his silk robe sleeves and said, "I just can't think of any excuse to build a barrier between Daming Port and Saicheng. Knowing that there is nothing to say."

Hearing what Li Dan said, Yang Ce abnormally didn't question it, but nodded seriously: "Daming Port really needs a city wall, I'm afraid you don't know it yet, I heard that the Western Army of Colombia in South Asia broke through the official army tax card, People died, and under the wrath of the commander-in-chief, Chang Sheng and the first-line officers and troops in Mexico City were all mobilized, as if there was another war."

Li Dan raised his head, his outstretched arms were fixed in the air, and he did not speak for a long time.

(End of this chapter)