Chapter 113 The aristocracy never disappears

The price of a silver coin and a slave is significantly higher.

So, Liu Chuanli bought a thousand slaves from Hindustani for two silver coins and three slaves.

Out of the principle of always being cautious, he only needs those slaves who can dance, and as for those slaves who only have one breath left, Liu Mingliang has no interest.

Then, Zhang Mingliang and Liu Chuanli saw that Captain Santos, who had just left the harbor, began to order the execution of slaves who could not bring him profits.

The method was very barbaric, cutting the necks of those slaves one by one.

A large amount of plasma surged on the deck, and then some sailors used a hand-cranked pump to pump seawater onto the deck, and began to clean the deck, and the plasma stained the sea water red, and flowed out of the anchor like a waterfall and stained a large area of the sea.

Soon after, the dorsal fin of the shark appeared on the surface of the sea, and the sailors threw the carcasses into the sea.

Liu Chuanli put down the binoculars in his hand and said to Zhang Mingming: "They really didn't treat these slaves as human beings. ”

Zhang Mingliang said: "A tool that can speak." ”

"Leonie is her own person after all, and I don't want her to be like that."

Liu Chuanli is still a little worried about Leonie's transformation.

Zhang Mingliang said: "This is the only advantage that can surpass us, and she will not give up." ”

The planting site is not far from the coastal city, and the horse-drawn carriage is only a day's walk away.

It could have been faster because Liu Chuanli wanted to see the palm groves and sugar cane fields that had been built.

I have to say that the palm groves are still very attractive, because the palm trees here are all planted by hand, and the equidistant palm trees unfold their huge leaves to cover the whole land tightly.

Some of the ripe palm fruits were hung on the trees in bunches, each weighing 50 pounds, which were cut off by the slaves with long-handled hooks and then transported on ox carts.

The palm fruit would eventually be transported to a large house, where the rest of the slaves, under the watchful eye of the overseers, would cut off the palm fruit attached to the branches with a thin machete, throw it into a large iron pot, and fumigate it with steam.

Eventually, the steam-fumigated, soft palm fruits are wrapped in linen cloth and stacked into huge wooden oil troughs, and then the oil is squeezed out by constantly stuffing wood wedges into the gaps.

There is nothing wrong with this process, except that the slaves who operate these processes are now wearing thin chains.

The slaves who are responsible for cutting down the palm fruit with a hook knife are bound by iron chains in a small radius of movement, the slave who is responsible for carrying the palm fruit is bound by an iron chain on one foot and one hand, and he can only maintain a rickety carrying posture forever, as for the slaves who are responsible for transporting the palm fruit in the ox cart, there is an iron chain between them and the ox cart, and the man and the ox cart are one.

As for the slaves who separated the palm fruit with machetes, and the slaves who were in charge of extracting the oil, their legs were also fixed in one place.

"Before, these people were able to move freely without chains."

Zhang Mingliang took a look and noticed the difference.

Liu Chuanli said: "The number of guards is smaller. ”

Zhang Mingliang was silent.

There is nothing to see in the sugar cane groves, all the sugar cane grown here is green cane, and at this time, the sugar cane is not yet ripe, only some slaves who are also shackled are watering.

There are more people in the Tears Grove, and the slaves in the forest are fertilizing the Tears Tree and burying some plant ash under the roots.

From the palm grove to the tear grove Zhang Mingming, Liu Chuanli took half a day.

Looking at these lush artificially planted crops, Zhang Mingliang sighed and said to Liu Chuanli: "Do you believe it? Tens of thousands of people have died here for these things. “

Without waiting for Liu Chuanli to answer, he heard Leonie's voice from behind: "I don't like people who use Hindustani." ”

Zhang Mingliang looked back at Leonie standing on the bamboo tower and said, "There is no other choice. ”

Leonie didn't have any extra expression on her face, she just said to the two of them, "Come up and have a cup of hot cocoa." ”

Liu Chuanli said: "Let's drink tea." ”

After speaking, he walked up to the bamboo building with Zhang Mingming.

Obviously, this bamboo building was newly built, and the bamboo building made of bamboo is still emerald green, and people walk on it creaking and creaking.

"Let's drink some hot cocoa, it's going to rain soon, although this thing is bitter, it can make you refreshed, in a barbaric place, we had better follow the rules of the barbarians, so that we can live longer."

The bitter water brought by Leonie was not bitter, and after adding sugar and milk, it became a unique flavor.

"Even if our Emperor His Majesty is not good at governing the country, as long as I have the ability to turn bitter water into the best drink, I, Leonie, am willing to live and die for him."

Zhang Mingliang said with a smile: "Your Majesty's best thing is waste utilization, this is not the first time, you don't have to be surprised." ”

For Zhang Mingming's pun, Leonie pretended not to understand, picked up a cup of hot cocoa and took a sip slowly, then pointed to the tear forest in front of him and asked Zhang Mingming: "Is it better than when you were there?" ”

Zhang Mingliang nodded and said, "It's much more orderly than when I was there." ”

Leonie said: "The yield is also more than 30% higher. ”

Liu Chuanli said: "This is all your credit. ”

"There will be no more war here for the foreseeable two years, so if you want to take credit, you have to do some hard work. “

Liu Chuanli said: "Your father told you? ”

Leonie nodded, "Yes, my father is very supportive of me serving under the Lantian Imperial Court. ”

Zhang Mingliang glanced at Leonie and said, "You reconciled with your father?" ”

Leonie puffed up her chest and said, "My poor brothers don't have the courage to leave Amsterdam to come here, and my father thinks they can't inherit his business, so he wants to support me as best he can." ”

Liu Chuanli smiled bitterly and said, "Do you believe it? ”

"I don't believe a word, my mother once told me that when my father began to get close to a man, it was time for him to be ready to slaughter him," Leonie laughed and laughed.

By the way, my mother died after rejoicing with my father. ”

Leonie spoke, and made a neck-breaking motion.

"You saw it with your own eyes?"

Zhang Mingliang found it difficult to understand.

Leonie laughed, "My maid saw that she was also in bed at the time, and she escaped to my room while my father killed my mother, begging me to protect her......"

Zhang Mingliang and Liu Chuanli invariably picked up the cup and drank the hot cocoa, this thing will solidify when it is cold.

When His Majesty got the cocoa beans, it took him half a day to turn those cocoa beans into cocoa powder, and after adding milk and sugar, the cocoa powder became an extremely delicious thick drink.

Zhang Mingliang and Liu Chuanli don't like sweets very much, and hot cocoa is a sweet and greasy drink, so they both drink it with a frown.

"You're not curious what happened to that maid?"

Leonie asked with a grin as she stared at her big beautiful eyes.

Zhang Mingliang smiled: "I guess you must have sent that poor maid away." ”

Leonie nodded with satisfaction, "That's true. ”

Liu Chuanli picked up the cocoa cup and touched Leonie's cup and said, "Congratulations." ”

Leonie looked at Liu Chuanli mockingly and said, "Congratulations on me for still having a little humanity?" ”

Liu Chuanli shook his head and said, "Congratulations on joining the Lantian Imperial Court and allowing you to come out of an extremely perverted world." ”

Leonie said with a smile: "I want to become a nobleman, a real nobleman, if I can't become a nobleman, I feel that my life is not in my hands, so, no matter what kind of task, I will definitely take it, as long as I can make meritorious contributions." ”

Zhang Mingliang shook his head and said, "The Lantian Imperial Court has abolished the nobility, and your wish cannot be fulfilled." ”

Leonie smiled, "How can there be no nobles in this world? Even if the nobles on the surface are deposed by our Majesty, the nobles still exist, just like the three of us now.

On the surface we are just officials, but we can sit in this beautiful bamboo building and drink hot cocoa and watch the pouring rain that is coming, while those people are busy with their work.

We can decide the life and death of those people, and in that sense, we are aristocrats. ”

As soon as Leonie's words fell, the sound of spring silkworms gnawing on mulberry leaves came from outside the main building.

A curtain of rain appeared on the palm grove at the end of the horizon, and then quickly spread out, and the sound of spring silkworms gnawing on mulberry leaves quickly turned into the sound of rain.

The slaves who were fixed in place stood in the heavy rain, staring numbly at the tall bamboo building.

A gong sounded, and the overseers, clad in robes, untied the chains from the slaves and drove them into the humble wooden houses to shelter from the rain.

"Our Majesty is a truly heartless man...... He's also a very greedy man, and I don't believe he doesn't know what's going on here, but he needs tear trees, palm trees, sugar cane forests, so he should not see it.

My father once said that ambition and desire are never a bad thing, people, as long as there is ambition and desire, they will always move forward step by step, and they will never know tiredness.

If such a person does not stand still, he will not get anything, and only by moving forward forever can he get something new and something new he likes.

These new, strange things will arouse his desire to explore the unknown, so our empire will always move forward, always explore, until the whole earth is embraced in its arms.

Zhang Mingming, I look down on you, because you no longer have ambition or desire in your heart, and a person like you is not worthy of following His Majesty to explore the unknown and achieve final success.

If you can't make it, then I'll come!

Although my complexion is different from yours, my heart is the same as that of Your Majesty, and in this respect I am more pure than yours. ”