As soon as the young man surnamed Li was captured, the other sailors did not dare to continue to resist, many of them were just civilians who went to the sea, they had never seen such a battle, they were already frightened and their legs were weak, the pirates were all like wolves and tigers, invincible, if it were not for the young man surnamed Li insisting on doing it, they would have surrendered long ago. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Yu Ying had already walked the entire ship with people at this time, and he said to Hu Fakui with a smile: "Boss, this is not a merchant ship, it is a snakehead ship that traffics in human beings. ”

Although the young man surnamed Li was restrained, his anger was not small, and he shouted: "Fart! We are obviously sending everyone out to the sea to beg for a living, how can we be a snakehead boat? ”

Yu Ying snorted and said, "It's not a snake head? But I just asked a few questions, and they all said that this ship received their money, not a snakehead. ”

The young man surnamed Li said as a matter of course: "The shipowner sends them to the sea, naturally they need the ship's fare, have you ever seen someone who sends someone to the sea without money?" When he said this, he looked at Yu Ying with disdain.

Yu Ying kicked the young man surnamed Li down with a kick and said with a smile: "You're really right, we've just seen people who don't need money to send people abroad, not only don't want money, but also give money to land." ”

Hu Fakui also saw that the young man surnamed Li was a muddy man, and he couldn't speak to him clearly, so he walked up to the trembling shipowner and asked, "Dare to ask this ship's boss's surname?" ”

The boss of the boat hit a thousand children and said, "Don't dare, don't dare to avoid your surname Huang." ”

"Huang Daban, where are you sending these old folks?"

The owner of the ship surnamed Huang glanced at the young man surnamed Li, although he glared at him fiercely. But the owner of the yellow ship still felt that the pirates were more terrifying, so he could only honestly reply: "It's going to South Sea Borneo." ”

Hu Fakui raised his eyebrows, pointed at the young man surnamed Li and said, "This little boy seems to have quite a status. I don't know what identity it is? ”

The yellow boat owner poured all the beans into the bamboo tube, and said: "This Li Gongzi's honorable name is Li Nianlai, and he is the brother-in-law of Luo Fangbo, the Taige of Lanfang Company, and Li Gongzi took these Hakka relatives from Jiaying Prefecture to Borneo to work for Lanfang Company." ”

Hu Fakui didn't expect to catch such a fish, he was originally a person in the early Ming Dynasty. Ignorant of the history of the afterlife. But the first thing that crossed the Ming Dynasty was history, after all, Hu Fakui was a noble family and had good knowledge. Unlike many people who only take a cursory look at the chronology, he reads everything he can find. Among them is the Lanfang Company, which was established in West Borneo during the Qianlong period.

The Lanfang Company was formally founded by Luo Fangbo in 1777, and had already formed a preliminary organization before that. Ming and Qing dynasties. A considerable number of Chinese have gone abroad to colonize and make a living. Most of their actions are spontaneous. The main destinations are in Southeast Asia, with the Philippines and Borneo being the majority. The immigrants who came to Borneo mainly sold goods, mined gold and silver deposits, and later engaged in reclamation. As soon as there were many people, in the face of the ill intentions of the local natives, and the exclusion and infringement of the Western colonizers, the Chinese spontaneously joined together.

Among the Chinese in Southeast Asia in the XVIII century. The word "kongsi" is a kind of social and economic organization of overseas Chinese, and its meaning. In the early days, it was related to maritime trade, but later it was not limited to maritime affairs, and it always had the connotation of partnership or common enterprise. Eventually, it evolved into the meaning of modern Chinese and Malay.

Prior to Lanfang, Borneo had already established a number of similar organizations, including a series of companies such as Dagang Company, Santiaogou, and Heshun General Office. These companies tend to be associations and are mainly helping each other, while in Borneo, where there is no clear strong rule, they have a political character.

Lan Fang is not the earliest Chinese colonial company, but it is the most well-known, because during the Republic of China, many academic figures, including Liang Qichao, respected the story of Lan Fang, and believed that this was the first republic established by the Chinese in history, and it was the first republic established in Asia in modern times.

Naturally, more and more historians in later generations believe that the views of Liang Qichao and others are more of a wishful thinking or a gold paste on their faces, and some people believe that Lanfang Company has never claimed to be a republic. The etymology comes from a Dutch scholar J. Gotting. j。 m。 Degroot), who had worked in Indonesia at the time, had many dealings with Liu Ah Sheng, the last of Lan Fang's companies, during his final years at Lan Fang. In the year after Lan Fang was dissolved by the Dutch, he wrote a book, The Borneo Chinese Company System, in which he wrote about his knowledge of Lan Fang and his criticism of the Dutch colonial authorities. In his view, the Lanfang Company is consistent with the autonomy of the village community in which the elders and gentry of rural China manage public affairs according to the will of the people, and Lanfang is "a legitimate oligarchy republic".

Many historical materials were excavated by the literati of the Republic of China who were in a hundred years of humiliation and urgently needed a little spiritual food to boost their spirits, and then there were all kinds of "Asia's First Republic". Scholars generally believe that Lanfang does not possess the basic characteristics of a country, nor does it possess the administrative and judicial systems and functions of the state. The so-called Lanfang system is not the meaning of the president, Luo Fangbo admits that he is the leader of the local Hakka people.

Hu Fakui went to the South China Sea to do business, so he naturally dabbled in a lot of information, and he also knew a lot about Lan Fang. However, the historical materials in this area are quite messy, and none of them are believed history, and there are even discrepancies between them. Today, at sea, it is also a miracle that the people of Lanfang Company recruited Hakka immigrants to Borneo.

Since the organizational form of the company is based on the traditional Chinese Xiangzi blood, there is also an obvious regional bias among the Borneo Chinese companies. This is different from Datang's organizational form, under complete and meticulous rules and organization, Datang can relatively easily absorb people from different regions and bring them together to work. Southeast Asian companies, on the other hand, will have to embark on a path of regional confrontation. For example, the earliest dominant Chinese group in Borneo was the Chaoshan people, and later Luo Fangbo established the Hakka people-based Lanfang Company, which replaced the Chaoshan people. Subsequently, only the people from Jiaying Prefecture could serve as the general commander of the Lanfang Company, and the deputy leaders could be from Tai Po.

Hu Fakui didn't have much of the heart to entangle with the Lanfang Company in Borneo, where they cultivated and developed for a hundred years before being wiped out by the Dutch. Maybe the Tang Republic has some plans for this, but it is inconvenient for him to make any decisions at this time. And he has only one task, that is, to add immigrants to the Tang Republic. So, Hu Fakui summoned all the villagers who were going to go abroad to the deck, and explained:

"You folks are said to have gone to Nanyang Borneo from the mainland to make a living, but the environment in Borneo is not satisfactory, the natives and our Chinese are divided and combined, and there are many conflicts, and Lanfang Company does not have an elite army to protect everyone, and this living environment is even more worrying. You are only going to be coolies, and it may be even harder than you are on the mainland. I have a better place to go here, from which thousands of miles to the east, there is an American continent, with a vast territory, abundant products, and the Tang Republic established by our Chinese there. At this time, the Datang Republic is thirsty for people's power, and those who want the Tang Dynasty can get 20 silver dollars and ten acres of land. If you folks are interested, I can send you to Hong Kong first, and when the Datang ships come, I can send you to Datang. ”

His words caused a commotion among this group of immigrants, and everyone originally saw that these people were pirates, and they couldn't help but feel worried, but they didn't expect that these pirates not only did not rob money, but also gave money, and there were ten acres of land in addition to twenty silver dollars, which was really incredible. Lin Fang and the people of Tiandihui cannot involve every village and town in Guangdong, so there are still many people who don't know the news that Datang is recruiting immigrants. There are some people who have vaguely heard such rumors, but they have never seen the recruits of immigrants, and when they heard this today, they were a little moved.

Li Nianlai was horrified when he saw this, and his brother-in-law Luo Fangbo sent him to his hometown to enrich the company's manpower, on the one hand, to confront other companies around him, seize high-yield gold mines, and on the other hand, to better defend against the natives and the Dutch. If these people were dragged to Datang by pirates, then his task would be in vain.

"Don't believe this group of pirates, they are all thieves who seek money and kill their lives, they must have captured the villagers to be pirates, how can there be a good thing in this world to take people out of the sea and send money to the land!" Li Nianlai shouted.

When others heard it, they seemed to have some truth and hesitated even more.

Hu Fakui sneered and gave Yu Ying a look, Yu Ying immediately brought two boxes, opened them and saw that they were all Tang Dynasty flowers, and the silver glittering appearance was particularly moving.

"This money is in front of your fellow countrymen, whoever wants to go to the Tang Dynasty, this can get these twenty silver dollars, and after a while, the big ship of the Tang people will come to Hong Kong, and they can go, and they will arrive in January. When the time comes, the land will be divided, and there will be no tax for five years. Datang is true to its word, everyone has caught up with the good time, if it is a few years later, I am afraid that there will be no such good thing. This Lan Fang is just a bunch of mud legs linked together, no guns, no guns, no knowledge, where can it be compared to the Tang Dynasty has established a republic, sympathetic to the people's strength, and the people's livelihood, if you are not stupid, you know how to choose. ”

Li Nianlai was still unconvinced, and was determined to sabotage the matter, but he himself didn't believe it, he said: "Even if you take the money at this time, when you get to the pirates' den, they will still take the money, can the pirates' nonsense be believed?" ”

Yu Ying was already furious, rushed up and gave Li Nianlai a few big mouths, and scolded: "You spiller, the boss spared your life, and you are actually making noise here, we make a living at sea, the first thing is to pay attention to Cigna, how can you be like you stupid?!" ”

Hu Fakui made someone tie up Li Nianlai to prevent him from causing trouble again, and then he said to everyone: "I tell you this good thing in a good voice, it is best if you are voluntary, if you don't obey, I will stuff twenty silver dollars into your hands, tie you and tie you to the Tang Dynasty, you will all thank me on the other day, maybe you will burn incense for me." (To be continued.) )