After recruiting these Spanish mercenaries, Wang Xinyu didn't have time to train them in his army, so he had to leave for East Borneo Island. The Nanyang United Trading Company was about to be established, and this mercenary force was hired in the name of the Nanyang Company, and Wang Xinyu was going to send them to Borneo Island, where he would set up a training camp to train his army.

At the Manila wharf, Pan Liu took his family and his men to see off Wang Xinyu's fleet.

On the eve of the expedition to the island of East Borneo, there were four Fu ships of the Ming Army and three Spanish galleons of the Nanyang Company.

Western-style galleon sailors were hired locally from Manila. At that time, there were many Western sailors waiting to be hired on the streets of Manila, some of them were pirate minions whose masters were caught and hanged, and they escaped by chance, but they had lost their ships; There are pirate sailors who were dismissed by the ship's owner because of repeated ineffective battles; There are merchant sailors who have been dismissed by their owners for various reasons; There are also sailors who have experienced defeat, have no military achievements, and have nowhere to go after retirement; There are also a few sailors whose ships have sunk and have been rescued by luck with other ships. Wang Xinyu didn't know these situations and was not familiar with them, but as a local, Pan Liu was very familiar with these situations and knew very well the price of recruiting sailors, so he quickly recruited sailors for Western-style sailing ships.

These ships will be their company's own ships in the future, and Pan Liu will certainly have to bother.

Wang Xinyu's ship did not go to East Borneo, but chose to take a 750-ton Spanish galleon. Wang Xinyu was accompanied by his own personal soldiers, as well as Daniel, the captain of the Spanish mercenaries, and Liu Qi, the second butler sent by Pan Liu to be a guide and Sulu translator.

The bell rang for the departure of the ship.

The anchor chain was pulled up, the workers on the shore untied the cable, and the sailor withdrew the cable.

Just as the gangplank was about to be put away, a small man suddenly jumped out of the shore, rushed to the dock, jumped onto the gangplank that was about to be put away, and stepped on Wang Xinyu's ship.

"Little ......" Before Liu Qi's words were finished, he was interrupted by this little man's fierce glare, and he quickly changed his words, "Childe!" ”

Pan Liu, who was on the shore, was very surprised to see the little man on the boat, but the gangplank had been removed. He was just about to ask someone to put down the gangplank, but the little man threw his hand at Pan Liuyi on the dock: "Grandpa, my grandson will come back with the boat to play!" With Lord Wang here, grandpa don't worry! ”

Pan Liu's face was full of helplessness, so he had to say, "Ying'er, you go early and come back early!" ”

Wang Xinyu suddenly found that an uninvited guest got on the boat, but when he saw this little man calling Grandpa to Pan Liu on the shore, he knew that it must be the little son of the Pan family.

"My lord, this is our host's little son, named Pan Ying." Liu Qi introduced Wang Xinyu and said.

"Well, I can see it." Wang Xinyu nodded. He looked carefully at this little boy of the Liu family, and saw that this little boy was wearing a scholar's green shirt, wearing a black hat, and carrying a small burden on his back, this little boy looked like a crown of jade, with bright eyes and bright teeth, and red lips, he looked like a little handsome guy, and he was not very old, maybe thirteen or fourteen years old, but it was a little too creamy, and it was unbearable. This can't help but remind Wang Xinyu of those puppet mothers in later generations, and he thought in his heart: This little grandson of Pan Liu, if he goes to the next generation and pretends to be a puppet mother, it will definitely be absolutely gone! 100% male and female!

Wang Xinyu thought again: But there are many boring people in the Ming Dynasty who are good men, and the appearance of this little boy must be liked by those people.

Just when Wang Xinyu was thinking nonsense, he saw Pan Ying arch his hand: "Lord Wang! It's not the first time that Ben Gongzi has gone on a long voyage, so Lord Wang doesn't have to worry about Ben Gongzi! ”

Wang Xinyu sighed: "Look at your young age, have you been to a lot of places?" ”

"Of course!" Pan Ying proudly held up her little chest and said, "My son has been to East Borneo a long time ago, and has also been to Java Island, Jinzhou, Annam, Myanmar, Sulu Sultan, Aceh Sultan, Siam, and as far as India!" ”

Seeing that Pan Ying's big watery eyes were shining, and the way she spoke was very cute, Wang Xinyu thought to himself: If this is not a man, how good it would be to be a girl! So he said, "Good fellow! I ran all over the South Seas! You're so young, is your grandfather relieved that you're going? ”

"I ran with my grandfather, he loved me the most, and he liked to take me with him since I was a child." Pan Ying looked up at Wang Xinyu with her little head and big black eyes. In fact, every time she pestered Pan Liu to take herself, Pan Liu had no choice but to take this precious granddaughter.

"You're so thin-skinned and tender-skinned, aren't you afraid of being eaten by those raw men?" Wang Xinyu said jokingly.

Pan Ying said disdainfully: "No! Grandpa has so many family members, if he can't even protect his son, why do you want them! Besides, those born Ben Men are not afraid, last year in Borneo, this son also killed a Sheng Fan with his own hands! ”

Wang Xinyu also made a very disdainful expression: "Don't blow it!" With your small body, can you still fight to the death? ”

"Why do you look down on people so much? People use this, the kind of short fire on your body. Pan Ying said and pointed to the flintlock short gun on Wang Xinyu's waist.

"That's what I used to do!" Wang Xinyu smiled, "That kid can kill people." ”

"Humph!" Pan Ying turned her head, "Ignore you!" ”

After speaking, he walked into Liu Qi's cabin and said with a slap on his face: "Steward Liu, my son uses your single room today!" You go outside and squeeze with others! ”

"Yes, little boy!" Liu Qi was very helpless, so he had no choice but to move his bags out.

From Manila to the port of Pontianak in Borneo, the ship sailed for five days and five nights. Long trips, people at sea are actually very boring. This Pan Ying came to chat with Wang Xinyu from time to time.

Although Wang Xinyu didn't like this kind of cream boy at first, seeing that Pan Ying was elegant and knowledgeable, he was very much in favor of opening a Nanyang company, and he could tell the benefits of a joint-stock company, and he could also say that it was always much better to pool the funds and use them alone than to go it alone. At the same time, he also introduced the customs and customs of various places in Nanyang, and said a lot of things that Wang Xinyu did not know. Through these, Wang Xinyu changed his opinion of Pan Ying and actually had a good impression.

The two of them stood on the deck, and as the sea breeze blew, a faint fragrance wafted from Pan Ying's body. This smell made Wang Xinyu unbearable: "You are a man, why do you still use perfume?" ”

"I want you to take care of it!" Pan Ying's face changed, and she turned her head and left angrily.

"It's a pity, this Pan Gongzi is too creamy, how good it would be if he was a girl! Or, even if it's a masculine guy, it can be a brother. is really unacceptable to be neither male nor female. Wang Xinyu said to himself.

Seeing Wang Xinyu standing on the railing alone, Liu Qi walked up and wanted to say something, but he stopped talking.

Wang Xinyu returned to the cabin, and several personal soldiers surrounded him.

Li Rui asked: "My lord, you seem to have a good talk with this Pan Gongzi!" ”

Another soldier named Chen Xiangdong said: "This Pan Gongzi, why do I think he looks like a woman?" ”

"You don't understand! It's called masculine style! Some good men's big families like this! Lin Rui said with a smile.

was said by Lin Rui, and everyone talked nonsense.

"That's it! Don't talk about him! Wang Xinyu stopped everyone, "This Pan Gongzi, although he is a man, he is very talented!" And when you count the books, you are much more powerful than our bookkeepers! It seems that in the future, Mr. Pan will hand over Nanyang Company to this grandson to take care of! ”

Wang Xinyu didn't know that at this time, Pan Ying was lying on the bed tossing and turning, and her mood was very complicated. Back then, when she went to sea, she generally didn't like women to get on the boat, unless she was forced to do so, so every time she went to sea, she dressed as a man. Although she was born into a merchant family, Pan Ying likes novels like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the heroes in it. In fact, since she hid behind the screen at home, when she saw Wang Xinyu for the first time, she was attracted by this man's handsome appearance and good temperament, and felt that this person must be a hero in her heart. But when I heard that this person was married, I was very disappointed. On the boat this time, she intentionally or unintentionally showed that she was a woman, but Wang Xinyu regarded her as a man, which made her very angry.

Borneo Island, just outside Pontianak, is a small village nestled between rice paddies and a network of rivers.

In the farmland, Han-like farmers are sweating like rain and working in the fields; At the entrance of the village, a blacksmith in Han costume, who is also in Han costume, is making farm tools.

"Butcher Zhang, are you back? How much meat was sold today? A young man from a blacksmith shop asked Butcher Zhang, who was pushing a wheelbarrow back from Pontianak.

Butcher Zhang, who looked fierce and looked three or five thick, said happily: "The whole pig has been sold, and there is still a little meat left." ”

The blacksmith shop owner walked out and handed over a few copper plates: "There is leftover meat, bring me some!" ”

Although it is in a foreign country, this peaceful pastoral scenery looks like a water town in the south of the Yangtze River in China. On the river, there are also fishermen dressed as Han Chinese. By the river, Han women and girls wash their clothes in the river.

The vicinity of Pontianak is already completely the territory of the Han Chinese. The Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the two demises of the Han dynasty, caused a large number of Han people to come to live in various parts of Nanyang with their families. Among them, the place with the largest number of Han Chinese is in the Pontianak area of Borneo. If it was a Han Chinese who had just come to Pontianak from the Qing Kingdom, he would definitely think that he had returned to the Ming Dynasty.

In real history, after Qianlong lifted the sea ban, many Qing people came here again. With the arrival of those who shaved their hair and were easy to wear, there were two kinds of people in Nanyang: one was shaved and braided, and the other was tied in Hanfu. But later, because the old man Qianlong heard the news from overseas, Long Yan was furious, and regarded those overseas people who tied their hair in Hanfu as rogues, and many Han people were afraid that the Qing court would send troops to fight, so most of the overseas Han people changed to braided horse jackets. And there is another reason, the Qing court later lifted the sea ban, and many Han people wanted to go home when they earned money, and they could only change into braided horse coats in order to set foot on their homeland. So by the end of the Qing Dynasty, Hanfu was rarely seen in Nanyang.

The villagers are happy, it seems that they are living okay, at least there is no government here, there are no landlords. But no one expected that a catastrophe would befall soon.

"Sulu is here! Run! Suddenly, someone ran back to the village crying.

The village, which numbered hundreds of people, suddenly became a mess of porridge, with the shouts of men and the cries of women and children. People packed up their simple baggage, dragged their families with their families, fled from their homes, and ran in the direction of Pontianak City, a few miles away. Some people's shoes have run away, some people have no time to put on their clothes, there are women holding children, and some people are pushing carts.

"Wow, wow, wow!" A large group of ** upper body, only a leaf skirt around the crotch, holding wooden shields, wooden bows and arrows, wooden spears and stone axes, dark-skinned Sulu Shengfan, appeared on the path not far away, there were about fifty or sixty people.

Sulu screamed and rushed towards the village.

"Ajiang, run!" Butcher Zhang, who still looked tall just now, suddenly turned pale, didn't even want a wheelbarrow, and beckoned the young man from the blacksmith shop to flee for his life.

The whole village was in chaos, and in the midst of the chaos, a woman fell to the ground, and the child in her arms flew out.

"This damn mother-in-law! Knocked my son down! A man who was scolding, but did not care about his woman, walked up to the child, picked up the child and ran.

The young man named Ah Jiang angrily grabbed Butcher Zhang: "Butcher Zhang! You're so strong, why don't you pick up a knife and fight them? ”

"Spank it! Don't you see everyone running? You're new here, and you don't know how terrible these creatures are! Run! They caught eating human flesh! Butcher Zhang shook off Ah Jiang.

Ah Jiang didn't run for his life immediately, he turned around and picked up a big hammer that hit iron.

"Son, run! If you don't run, you'll die! A middle-aged woman forcibly snatched the sledgehammer from Ajiang's hand.

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