"Finally in the legendary Americas!" Jackie Chan, who has been tossed on the sea for more than half a year, came to New York Harbor on a slave ship full of black slaves. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Anglo-Dutch War was over, although the Dutch fleet attacked London and caused great losses to the British, the British lost six large battleships of more than 1,000 tons, and London was also burned to the ground, and the British were forced to sign an armistice with the Dutch, but the Dutch were no longer able to retake New York. At this time, the governor of New York was the younger brother of the King of England, the Duke of James York, and the reason why this city, which was originally called New Amsterdam, was renamed New Yorkshire by the British was because of the Duke of James York.

As a result of the changes in history, the Dutch made a vain trip to the East and suffered heavy losses, which also led to a change in the outcome of the Anglo-Dutch war. Originally, in the Anglo-Dutch War, the British exchanged the East Indies for the West Indies, and the Netherlands formally ceded the Hudson Valley and New Amsterdam. Now the Netherlands has become weaker, the East Indies fell into the hands of the Ming, and the Dutch could only sign an agreement with the Ming to obtain part of the benefits of the East Indies. And the Hudson Valley and New Amsterdam were given to the British, who renamed New Amsterdam New York.

Daming Nanyang Company also took into account that the strength of the Netherlands was still strong, so it did not do things too far, and also gave part of its interests to the Dutch. However, this is all temporary, and when the Ming ironclad ships appear on the ocean, the Dutch will be deprived of all their overseas colonies.

At that time, there was no Suez Canal, and the slave ship that Yu Jackie Chan took took made a detour to the Cape of Good Hope, then north to Gibraltar, and then crossed the Atlantic Ocean before coming here. This voyage took half a year on the sea. Of course, ships did not sail on the sea all the time without docking, sailing south from the East African coastline to the Cape of Good Hope, and then sailing north along the West African coastline, where slave trading ships were ready to dock and receive fresh water supplies on the shore.

Later, Liu Tao, a criminal slave trader who was known as "building his wealth on the bones of black slaves", established many strongholds along the coastline of East Africa and the coastline of West Africa.

Some of the strongholds are small islands, while others are located at the mouth of a seaside river. In each stronghold, there were several Han officers, more than a dozen Han soldiers (including Manchu, Mongolian, Japanese, Korean, and Annam who had been sinicized) and more than 30 black soldiers, and more than 100 black slaves were captured from the local area to be responsible for farming, planting vegetables, grain, and raising livestock near the stronghold. Slave ships transporting black slaves could get supplies from these strongholds when they passed by.

British, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and even Dutch merchant ships were often supplied to these strongholds. Because of the friendly relations between the Ming and the British and the Portuguese, the ships of the Western colonizers were also trading fairly in these strongholds, and no one had tried to attack these strongholds.

After all, these strongholds are too small, and there are cannons on them, even if the Westerners pay a certain price to capture them, there is not much oil and water to fish, and the Westerners also have a small number of their own colonies on the coast of Africa. After all, plagues were rampant in Africa, and there were too many diseases of all kinds, and Westerners at that time were afraid of this land.

For the Han soldiers stationed in the strongholds, including the Manchu, Mongolian, Japanese, Korean and Annam people who have been sinicized, they are quite satisfied with their life here, after all, their income here is very high, and if they come to work here for three or five years, they can earn a sum of gold and silver treasures that can not be spent in a lifetime.

The slave ship that Yu Jackie Chan was riding was a Spanish galleon-type cargo ship with a displacement of 1,200 tons, the ship was rented from the Spaniards, and the crew on board was also Spanish.

The reason why such a thing was done on chartered foreign ships was because the Nanyang Company was not yet completely familiar with the Atlantic routes, so it was the most cost-effective thing to hire Spanish sailors. This is: it is better to build a ship than to buy a ship, and it is better to buy a ship than to charter a ship.

Yu Chenglong and several Han officials naturally took a comfortable room on the upper floor of the ship, and the living conditions were better than those of Spanish sailors, and they lived in a room for two people, the room was by the window, and the air was circulated inside. In front of the officer's quarters, there is the gun deck, and behind it is the captain's cabin. The hired Spanish sailors, some of whom lived in the sailors' cabins below, slept on bunks; Some of them lived on the artillery decks, sleeping on the floors.

However, even the sailors, who slept with dozens of people crammed together, lived in much better conditions than slaves. The black slaves who were sold were completely transported as goods, and more than 1,000 black slaves were crowded in the small cabin, the air in the cabin was dirty and turbid, and the thatch was casually laid on the ground, exuding a musty and foul smell.

During the ship's voyage, black slaves were not allowed to go to the upper deck, and they were locked in the bilge. Sailors will go down to check at any time, because after a long voyage, it is likely that black slaves will die during the voyage. Because the plague could break out on ships, the black slaves who contracted the disease were thrown into the sea to ensure the safety of other cargo.

For the barbaric behavior of the Spanish crews, Yu Chengchan did not stop it at all, although Yu Jackie Chan received Confucian education and was based on kindness, even for barbarians and uncivilized barbarians, he had to treat them with kindness and tolerance, but Yu Jackie Chan did not have any mercy for these black slaves.

In terms of dealing with black slaves, Yu Jackie Chan and the Spaniards have the same view, these black slaves are a group of chimpanzees, they are mentally retarded, ugly in appearance, and a group of talking animals. Since it is an animal, what is there to be pitied? When people eat pork, should they have sympathy for pigs?

Among the Ming army, there were also a few black soldiers, but those black soldiers, most of whom were Malays from Southeast Asia, had darker complexions; There are also some blacks from Africa and the Middle East, they are not purebred blacks anymore, most of them are blacks from East African countries, those are blacks with a certain Arab mix, and their appearance is much better than that of purebred blacks.

The slave ships made a great circle from the coast of East Africa to the coast of North Africa near Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean, where they were resupplied and then began to cross the Atlantic.

As the ship began to cross the Atlantic, the wind and waves became noticeably stronger, and the slave ship was like a flat boat, tossing and turning on the ocean. Yu Chenglong, who has never seen the wind and waves in the Atlantic, can't get up at all while lying on the hanger. I vomited for several days in a row, and I vomited all the bitter gallbladder.

It was easy to survive the stormy waves of the Atlantic Ocean and enter the Caribbean Sea, and then the wind and waves were much lighter.