Chapter 3 Daming Smuggling Ship

The sea breeze blows across the surface of the ship, which also brings a fresh, wet and salty taste while driving the sails. This old sailboat moves forward slowly in the waves, but because the sea breeze is not strong and a little headwind, the ship can only use the side sails to get some power and maintain the direction of progress, so that the boat travels The speed is so slow that it almost makes people feel that the ship has not moved forward at all.

A dolphin jumped up on the sea in the distance, and then plunged into the sea, stirring up a snow-white spray. Some waterbirds circled above the ship and rushed to the stern from time to time. After holding a small fish in its in its pick, it rose quickly, revealing a vitality on the sea.

A sailing ship staggered with the ship where Yu Xiaotian was located in the distance. Driven by the sea breeze, it went north at a faster speed. The two boats even greeted each other at close range just now. Obviously, the people on that ship and the owner of the boat may have known each other.

Originally, it was a good thing to meet a ship on the lonely sea and greet each other peacefully, but after seeing the boat, Yu Xiaotian fell into the petrochemical, showing a sad look and sitting in the bow of the boat.

He held a large bowl of coarse porcelain, which contained a bowl of black food that could not be seen. The fragrance of rice was basically nothing, but it had a bad smell like pig food, which made Yu Xiaotian a little disgusted.

But I'm not sad because of the quality of this bowl of rice, but because of the sailboat that just crossed with them! At this time, his heart was cold and completely sank to the bottom of the valley.

There is no other reason, just because the sailboat is similar to the shape of the boat he is in, and it is also a two-masted wooden fishing boat, all of which completely broke the only bit of luck in Yu Xiaotian's heart. The fact tells him that he did indeed travel!

Yu Xiaotian has a feeling that he wants to curse his mother. I don't know if he is too lucky or too much! Even this kind of ghost can be encountered, and it is estimated that the probability of being lower than * actually fell on his head.

He just followed his uncle's first trip to the sea and was caught by the big hand of fate and threw him hundreds of years ago. How exactly happened? Up to now, he has not figured it out. In short, it is related to the strange thick fog.

And through the life on the ship these two days, from the mouths of these boatmen, Yu Xiaotian has roughly figured out the dynasty where he is located, which is the Qi year of the Great Tomorrow! However, because the language of these boatmans is unknown, he can only judge that it is probably in the first year of the Apocalypse, specifically for a few years. So far, he has not figured it out.

Yu Xiaotian held a big bowl of coarse porcelain and sat in the boat for a while. At first, his mind was in a mess and a little confused. Fortunately, he was not the kind of person who complained about heaven and earth. When he completely understood the current situation, he quickly recovered from the chaos.

In fact, although Yu Xiaotian is not very old, he has suffered many setbacks. Perhaps it is because he is born with a relatively open personality. Yu Xiaotian rarely drills into the tip of the bull, and often can quickly step out of the low tide, and this time is no exception.

Anyway, there is no medicine to regret in the world, and it is useless to sit there to regret. Yu Xiaotian took a deep breath and secretly scolded in his heart: Damn ball facing up, don't die for the Spring Festival! If you come, you will be at peace. With my ability, you can't believe that you can't live!

After scolding in his heart, Yu Xiaotian's mood was much better, and there was even a smile on the corners of his mouth. He said that he would be blessed if he didn't die! Since I was selected by the thief and lost to this era and have not been drowned on the spot, I can't guarantee that I can do something earth-shaking in the future!

Thinking of this, he picked up a big bowl and came to his mouth. Regardless of the taste of the meal, he held his breath and began to pull up his mouth.

Liu Chuandong is a miser. After going to sea, the food he ate for the boatmen on the ship was very bad. The rice was brown rice, but in order to save rice, the cook on the boat added a lot of shredded dried potatoes. There must be no fresh vegetables and meat, but some pickles were added to the rice, which was a little salty. At most, add some dried seafood to the rice, and don't mention how bad it tastes.

The people on the ship are also graded. As the shipowner, they will definitely not eat such a meal. Liu's owner himself eats specially made white rice and has special side dishes. The people below, from the helmsman to the swinner and even the uppermen and the swinner, depending on its importance of the ship, the meal is also different, such as the helmsman. Important members, occasionally add a piece of salted fish or bacon to the shredded potato rice, and people with low status can only eat shredded potato rice without meat.

Yu Xiaotian is currently the lowest-ranking person on the ship. His position on the ship is a handyman, that is, he does everything, and he does chores, so he can only eat this kind of worst potato shredded rice for the time being.

Although Yu Xiaotian felt nauseous when he looked at the bowl of rice, he did not eat it. During the few days of wandering after falling into the sea, his body consumed a lot of physical energy, but could not get any nutritional supplements, causing him to be seriously dehydrated and very weak when he was rescued.

So now Yu Xiaotian knows very well that if he wants to live in this era, health is the most basic condition, so he can't care about the taste of the food on board. As long as he eats, he will eat as much as possible and try to eat more nutrition. So in the past two days, under his fierce eating, his body has been very weak. He began to recover quickly, so that the people on the boat laughed and scolded him as a mute foodie because he ate too much!

Yu Xiaotian is too lazy to care so much about those boatmen for the time being. He just has food and work to do. When the owner of the Liu watched him eat, he was quite painful, but when he recovered his strength and began to help work on the ship, it was quite comforting!

Although Yu Xiaotian was not very tall in the old time and space, at most he was just an ordinary person. However, most of the ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty were very low due to their diet structure, so Yu Xiaotian was a big man in this era.

In addition, in the era where Yu Xiaotian lived, the food nutrition structure has been quite good. In addition, Yu Xiaotian has practiced martial arts since he was a child, so his physical quality is very good and strong, and his strength is much greater than those of these boatmen on the ship. I'm afraid that Liu Shipowner left him to a large extent took a fancy to him. The auxiliary board, just want to pick up a free stick for nothing!

And what surprised Yu Xiaotian secretly today is that he found that his physical strength not only recovered after two days of recuperation, but also seemed to be a little stronger than before. He thought it would cost a lot of some heavy things on the ship. Only with strength can he move, but today he found that it was not laborious when he really moved it, which made him a little surprised.

He originally wanted to move his skills to see if the strength and speed of his fists and feet had been improved, but considering that the people on the ship did not trust him at present, he had already said that he would not know how to punch and feet. Once he used his fists and feet, it would definitely cause the people on the ship to misunderstand that he was a pirate villain. If you throw it into the sea, you will be wronged!

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian could only give up this idea, and when he worked on the ship, he deliberately hid part of his strength and pretended to work hard, so that he was not more vigilant by the people on the ship.

Yu Xiaotian finished eating, packed the bowls and chopsticks and sent them to the stern. The people on the ship called him a dumb foodie. He also pretended not to listen. After throwing the bowl to the cook, he turned back to the bow and helped clean up the cables piled up at the bow.

Through the observation after the boat these two days, he gradually understood what the boat and these people did.

Originally, after taking a cursory look at the boat, he thought that the boat was probably a coastal fishing boat. The people on the boat were all fishermen, but soon he found that the boat looked like a fishing boat with nets piled up on the boat, but the people on the boat did not seem to be interested in fishing, even if they looked When there was a group of fish by the boat, they also turned a blind eye to it and continued to sail towards the south. Moreover, they also dodged along the way, trying to avoid the coastline along the way and stay on the edge of the coastline.

Later, through observation and listening to the conversation of the people on the boat, Yu Xiaotian learned that the boat was not a fishing boat at all, but a smuggling business under the guise of a fishing boat! After knowing these things, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help laughing secretly. It turned out that these people were actually his peers in future generations!

Although Yu Xiaotian is a science student, it does not mean that he knows nothing about history. In junior and senior high school, the school had history classes. Yu Xiaotian learned something through these history textbooks. In addition, like many men, he is also interested in historical and military affairs. When I have nothing to do, I also wander around the Internet and read some historical novels or historical and military things.

Therefore, he also has some understanding of the history of the Ming Dynasty. With his understanding of the history of the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty was relatively strong in the early period, it began to decline rapidly after the middle period.

He doesn't know much about the history of the Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid he knows the most about some things in the late Ming Dynasty. In addition, he also knows more or less about the attitude of the Ming Dynasty towards the sea. For a long time in Chinese history, navigation technology has been at the forefront of the world. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, China's navigation industry was even more With unprecedented development, Western countries can't keep up.

But after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the situation changed a lot. After Zhu Chongba ascended the throne, it may be because he was a farmer and didn't know much about the sea, or for other reasons. In short, Zhu Yuanzhang was not interested in sailing, plus the coastal opening When the Japanese disaster often attacked and disturbed the coastal areas, Comrade Zhu Chongba simply issued an order not to sail into the sea, and continued it as an ancestral motto.

Although Zhu Di sent Zheng He seven times to the Southern Ocean for some reason, setting the most magnificent ancient voyage record in Chinese history, Zhu Di banned the sea again after the Ming Dynasty, resulting in stifling China's advanced navigation and shipbuilding technology, so that the Chinese people's achievements in the sea were quickly by the West. Some newly emerging countries surpassed, so that during the Wanli period, both the Portuguese and the Spanish, even the Dutch and the British drove the warships to the coast of China.

However, the Ming court and even the government did not wake up. They turned a deaf ear to the era of geographical discoveries that were taking place in the world and still implemented the policy of seclusion. Even in the late Longqing period, the court slightly relaxed some sea bans, but it did not completely change the sea closure policy.

After that, the Manchus entered the customs and adopted a stricter sea closure policy, so the two dynasties worked together to completely kill China's navigation industry.

Therefore, in this era, although the trouble of Japanese pirates is no longer very serious, Daming has not completely liberalized the sea ban, which has also caused many coastal merchants. In order to make high maritime trade profits, they risk being caught, loading land goods on ships and smearing them overseas without permission.

Obviously, Liu Shipowner is one of them. He used the boats he owned to go to sea to do business under the guise of fishing boats. As for the boatmen on the ship, some of them were his servants and some of the employees he hired to work for him.

On the contrary, Yu Xiaotian's current identity is relatively special. He is neither a domestic slave nor a hired man. He is just a non-staff boatman. To put it worse, he is a handyman on this ship!

(Today is New Year's Day, the beginning of a year, and it will also be a new beginning for everyone. Here, I wish you all the happiness, all your wishes come true, and smooth work! Good luck! Because I have something to do in the afternoon, now I update two chapters at a time! I hope my friends will stand up! Please!)