Chapter 60: Cuban port

博 Boqueron, the port city of eastern Cuba, a group of rags and sullen Chinese workers waiting in line to board the ship.
Cuba was still a colony of Spain at this time. After the abolition of the slave trade, Spain, like Peru and the United States, recruited Chinese workers from mainland China to take the place of slaves.
Until 1874, due to international pressure, Spain abolished the system of hiring Chinese laborers.
There is a grocery store opened by a Chinese near the port. The owner is a coolie Chinese laborer who was free the year before.
"The shopkeeper, another batch of Chinese workers are going to be shipped out." In the grocery store, the man who went out to check the news reported 禀.
"This is the first batch?"
"Fifth batch, the first four batches of Chinese workers had been removed three days ago, and the two warships parked in the port also left."
"The warships are all gone?" The shopkeeper stopped the pen in his hand, closed the ledger, and looked up to ask.
"Two large warships have left, and there are five merchant ships and two wooden sail frigates."
Grocery man said.
"The grocery store is temporarily closed today. You and I will go to the port to see it again." The shopkeeper took the hat he just bought from the wall, closed the door and headed for the port.
The Boqueron port is one of the transit stations connecting North and South America. There are many ships trading in the port.
The grocery shopkeeper and the guy noticed a row of Peruvian ships carrying Chinese workers in the port.
The Peruvian fleet consists of a total of seven ships, including five medium-sized merchant ships and two small sail frigates. On the frigate, five or six artillery can be seen on the ship's side.
The Chinese workers in front of the ship started boarding, and the Spanish tax officer at the port talked with the Peruvians.
"Mr. Sun, isn't Cuba lacking labor? How can Chinese workers be transported outside?" After looking at the Peruvian ship in the port, the shopkeeper of the grocery store walked in front of a Chinese man and was kind.
In order to better manage the colonies, Western colonists often promote some people to serve as colonial officials and assist them in managing the colonial personnel. Sun Liande was one of the people selected to manage Chinese workers.
"Treasurer Wang, transporting Chinese workers out is what the Governor meant, how do I know the reason." Sun Liande was not salty.
"Oh, a few relatives of the villain were transported to the ship and taken away, so I hope that Master Sun can be acquainted once." The grocery store shopkeeper said with a smile, and quietly stuffed Sun Liande with two silver dollars in his hand.
Sun Liande glanced at the silver coin in his hand and found that it was two Spanish silver dollars. He immediately had a few hearts in his mind, put away the silver dollars, and said with a gentle expression, "The king is at ease, I am also a Chinese, and will not harm my fellow citizens."
The grocery store shopkeeper's face was drawn, and a feeling of nausea erupted in his heart.
Sun Liande was originally a member of the Cuban Chinese workers. Later, by reporting a Chinese worker rebellion, he was valued by the Spanish colonists and made him a port tax official to assist Spain in collecting taxes.
After Sun Liande became free, he helped the Spaniards and Manchu officials to bridge the line and used deception from China to transport a large number of Chinese to Cuba for labor.
Tong Ming knew that Sun Liande had done a lot of bad things, and the shopkeeper of the grocery store still held back the hatred in his heart, pretending to be respectful and listen to his words.
"I heard that Peru has a labor shortage. In order to develop the land, the Peruvians promised to distribute the newly developed land to the land reclamation people." Sun Liande solemnly said.
In fact, these Chinese workers were bought by the President of Peru and were prepared to collect 30,000 people and hand them over to Li Mingyuan.
The ugliness of the family must not be advertised. Peruvian President Pedro did not pass the news of the Chinese labor rebellion, but only gave a contradictory reason to the Spanish colonists. Therefore, Sun Liande did not know the true inside story.
The king's shopkeeper was a little disappointed. He recruited Chinese workers to reclaim the land, but it was almost a deception. Peru ’s land is in the hands of the big miners and farmers. Will they allocate the land to foreign Chinese workers?
The king's treasurer impatiently asked Sun Liande again, but finally got no news what he wanted, so he bid farewell to leave, walked to a hidden seaside, learned a bird call, and drove a boat from behind a deserted island.
"Brother Wang, I haven't seen you in a long time." A dark-faced man jumped off the boat and arched in front of Wang's shopkeeper.
"I have an urgent matter to meet with the general, and I hope that Brother Li will hurry up." Wang Tseng Wang was not polite to the dark man, and urged him to sail.
The two of them were old and familiar. The black man saw that his words did not seem to be false, and immediately helped him to get on the boat, and then greeted him, and the other sailors on the boat knew it and manipulated the boat to leave.
The Caribbean Sea is lined with small islands and has been an active area for pirates until the twentieth century.
Although the pirates around the Caribbean ceased for a period of time after more than a hundred years of British blows, but after the independence of the Spanish, French, and British armies by the Haitian blacks in 1794, the pirates of the Caribbean became active again.
The pirates obtained living supplies through trading with black Haitians, and many pirates were directly served by Haitians. Haitians were usually farmers. When they saw oil and water, they could put down farm tools and become pirates.
The king's treasurer and the dark man's boat left the coast of Cuba and entered the heart of the Caribbean Sea.
The boat where the king treasurer sits is about ten meters long and three meters wide. There are fifteen people on board.
Such a small boat is insignificant compared to a commercial ship that is tens of meters to hundreds of meters in the sea, but the boat leans on the spinnaker on the boat and runs faster than the commercial ship in the downwind.
The boat sailed through the busy waters of the Caribbean towards a remote sea.
"Brother Li, someone is blocking the way." The boat was moving forward, and suddenly two boats emerged not far away, suddenly appearing in the waves, as if accidentally it would destroy people.
"Don't be nervous, meet your peers." 黝 Heihan did not move, waited until the two boats were moving to the side ~ EbookFREE.me ~ 黝 Heihan raised a flag with a dragon head and shook it left and right. After seeing clearly the black man on the opposite boat, he murmured a few words, then let the water pass and let them leave.
The dark man belonged to a nearby nest of pirates, and the dragon flag was their sign, so the pirates across the street saw the flag and released it soon.
"Brother Li, you said that these black people dare to go to the sea with a small broken boat, and their courage is also embarrassed." There is still a long way to go to the destination, Wang Tsangzi and the dark man chatted.
"Who says no, our captain is too small for ten meters, but you look at them and dare to go out into the sea by hollowing out a big tree into a canoe. The courage is really admirable." The black man laughed with a smile.
"A group of uncultivated indigenous people just gave them a large amount of good wood, and they couldn't build a big ship." Wang Tsang-chi said scornfully.
The treasurer Wang told the truth. After the Haitian blacks occupied Haiti, all the white people on the island were massacred. Most of them were killed by them. Without the technical support of whites and half-breeds, the black people made Haiti's island smokeless. Millions of black puppets can't build a big ship, they can only live by looting past merchant ships, and they do more arrogant than later Somali pirates.
"Haha, Brother Wang is right, a group of wild savages, how can we compare to us." The dark man laughed. The rest of the sailors also laughed.
Hearing the laughter of the sailors on the ship, the treasurer of Wang suddenly lost in his heart. The black people who were laughed at by his own group were able to defeat the French, Spanish, and British troops one after another and achieve independence.
What about Chinese workers who are the people of the heavens? Just now I saw them being bought and sold by others like livestock.
When thinking of the tragic experience of overseas Chinese workers, Wang Treasurer became silent and did not speak again along the way.