At noon that day, Gu Lihuan was on the go and ordered a few tables of banquets at the "Taibailou" restaurant on Chinatown to host He Xiwen and his men. The Penang delicacies in this year did not have "bak koh teh", and seafood fried koh teow is the most commonly eaten by Chinese people.

After three rounds of drinking, He Xiwen saw that the time was almost done, so he revealed the truth and told his true identity. Gu Lihuan was shocked when he heard it. You should know that what Beihai Town did in Annan and Bacheng in the past two years had already spread throughout Southeast Asia, greatly increasing the ambition of Chinese people. Nowadays, whether Westerners or indigenous Sultans, they no longer dare to regard Chinese people as lambs slaughtered at will, for fear of giving Beihai Town a legitimate way and ending like the Dutch in Bacheng.

Although Gu Lihuan has been following the British in Georgetown over the years, I can hear some things about Bacheng from the British people in the past. As for the sake of his feet, some things produced in Beihai Town will occasionally appear on the market in Penang... Gu Lihuan felt aroused in his heart and suddenly thought of something - cool oil!

Almost three or four months ago, something called "Seris ointment" by Europeans began to appear in shops in Bacheng. Both local settlers and past sailors regarded it as magical medicine. Although this thing tasted pungent, it not only repelled mosquitoes and itchy, but also refreshed the mind and was extremely effective in clearing heat and removing poison. When he visited Leittun last month, he was lucky enough to see the real thing, so he saw the three words "cool oil" written on the lid of the box. Although it was only a small box as big as a thumb joint, it was as expensive as half a Tale silver coins, and it was very difficult to buy and it was out of stock at every turn.

If he could use He Xiwen's relationship to get the agency power of this medicine from Bacheng, and with the relationship between several surrounding sultans, why worry about being underdeveloped in the future? Besides, he learned from He Xiwen that the court that Beihai Town has frequently fought over the years has no power to fight back. In a few years, the country will change its master!

After hearing He Xiwen's words, Gu Lihuan wanted to hug the big tree in Beihai Town. You should know that he was a traitor in the world. He would definitely be out of the way to donate officials under the Qing Dynasty, but it would be different if the Han people changed. For those of them, who were floating in the South China Sea, it would be not enough to make money. If they could donate their official positions, it would be perfect in life.

Thinking of this, he picked up the wine glass and said to He Xiwen: "Brother He, I dare not say anything else. It is still a bit thin on the ground in Penang. If the eldest brother wants to serve me in the future, he doesn't have to come in person. Just send someone to send a message. I will definitely do it properly."

Seeing that the other party was talking beautifully, He Xiwen first drank a glass of wine, and then said, "I'm going to hide it from you. I'm asking my brother to help you this time."

"But I don't know what goods are going to buy?"

"This time I came not to get the goods, but to buy land."

"Buy land? Do you want to grow spices?" Gu Lihuan was stunned when she heard this, thinking that Beihai Town also wants to intervene in the spice business?

I'm going to add a sentence here. Since the Age of Discovery, the spices in the East-West trade refer to cardamom, cloves, pepper, cinnamon, and ginger. Although there is no spice in Europe, it is not without them. Coriander, cumin and saffron are produced around the Mediterranean. However, these local spices are difficult to alleviate the heavy saltiness caused by marinating meat.

Seeing this, Huang Zhongtong explained: "That's right. I heard that Brother Gu and Sultan Aceh have an extraordinary friendship. We want to buy a piece of land in Sumatra and Johor to the south, and rent it out!"

"Oh!" Gu Lihuan suddenly realized what he said, and he had already made up his mind. "Two brothers, if you trust me more than me, I will do it. But I don't know where my brother is interested in? What kind of business will I do in the future?"

He Xiwen pondered for a moment and decided to tell him frankly, so he asked Huang Zhongtong to take out a Java map made by the Dutch, which had already circled two areas with charcoal pens. Gu Lihuan looked at it and felt that the problem was not big, so she agreed immediately.

From beginning to end of the whole banquet, Gu Lihuan didn't mention the cool oil. In his opinion, he asked for much more from Beihai Town than two pieces of wasteland, so he planned to go to Bacheng with He Xiwen and meet the legendary Lord Wang. When the meeting ceremony was given, it would be easier to talk later.

The next morning, Gu Lihuan went to the city hall to ask Captain Wright for leave, admitting that someone from Bacheng asked him to do business and wanted to take a boat to sea for a few days. When Wright heard that it was Beihai Town to look for him, he couldn't help but feel alert and asked for details. He received a letter from Governor Madras a few days ago, ordering him to pay attention to the every move of Beihai Town in Java and to report any major situations immediately.

Although Beihai Town is not very large in South Asia, it makes Europeans, especially the British and Dutch people very nervous. In view of this, Captain Wright agreed to Gu Lihuan's request, but ordered him to report every bit of the trip to him after he came back.

On the other hand, the North Sea Town fleet stayed on Bourbon Island for five days, sold three pirate ships at an extremely low price, completed freshwater and food supplies, and then continued to set out south. Seven days later, the fleet arrived at the rough Cape of Good Hope.

At this time, the Cape of Good Hope was covered with dark clouds, and the west wind blew strongly. The strong west wind rippled and stormy waves. The huge waves roaring on the sea surface collided with the side of the ship from time to time, and the roars made shocked everyone's hearts.

July, the strongest storm, has passed, otherwise something will happen if you encounter a "killing wave" that is 20 to 30 meters high. It will be useless if you are not afraid of death. Deng Fei made preparations before entering this sea area. All machine guns and cannons on the deck of Thor were removed, and members on the ship were strictly prohibited from moving on the deck; as for Beihai No. 1 and No. 2, all cannons on the gun positions were reinforced with steel cables, and sailors also had to tie safety ropes to leave the cabin to operate.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although the sailors of the North Navy have all seen the storm in Tsushima Strait and the typhoons in the South China Sea, they are completely small compared to the sea conditions in front of them. None of the people on the three boats vomited a lot of vegetables. Several sailors on Beihai No. 2 were knocked unconscious by the huge waves washed on the deck while untiing the cables. Although they had all their efforts to rescue them, they still died of choking.

The worst thing is the 200 special operations battalion members on the Thor. When these Sorens and Daurs lay on the porthole and saw the big waves that were more than ten meters high on the ocean, they all looked pale. Although the tigers on the land were usually stable, they were unable to stand firmly now, and they knelt in the bathroom in the cabin and squirted wildly.

Zhao Xin was also very troubled. It was useless after taking seasickness medicine. He didn't want to stay in the cabin, so he held a plastic bucket and stood in the cockpit with Deng Fei, staring at the radar above.

After waiting for almost a whole day, after passing the Cape of Good Hope without any danger, most of the people were like they had a serious illness and didn't eat much for two days.

Eight days later, the fleet of Beihai Town finally arrived at the French stronghold in West Africa, the island of Gore in Senegal, causing a great sensation.

Zhao Xin looked at the sailboats entering and leaving the port and the sailboats parked in the port and loading "cargo" and unloading the goods, and couldn't help but sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He casually said to Deng Fei beside him: "See, this is the Black Triangle Trade."

"Black Triangle?" Deng Fei held a telescope and didn't react for a while.

"Black people, black slave trade. The sailboats here do this."

"So many?" Deng Fei was shocked and couldn't help but open his mouth. At this time, he didn't know that as of 1790, there were 100 slave ships here in France, and more than 40,000 black people in West Africa sold to America every year.

The "Black Triangle Trade" in the North Atlantic, which began in the 16th century, was the core of the slave trade and the plunder of gold, ivory and pepper from West Africa. The Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Americans all had the same virtue, and no one was cleaner than anyone else. They transported black people from Africa to America for cotton, cane sugar, tobacco and minerals to Europe, and then used processed light industrial products to continue to exchange for black people from Africa, and this cycle was repeated.

Don’t talk about the democracy and freedom of Westerners. European capitalism has completed its original accumulation through these. Although the British are now "noble and glamorous", they do not know that their ancestors were born in the slave trade with blood stained with their hands.

It should be noted that Britain's economy developed rapidly because of the unprecedented slave trade and slave system. Its huge profits brought by the slave trade have accumulated enough funds for the first industrial revolution, rich and cheap raw material production areas, well-connected transportation, and a vast commodity dumping market, thus changing the original social industrial structure.

When the accumulation is almost done, then act like a compassionate person and shout "abolitionism". What have you done? Isn't God from the 16th to 18th centuries the same as God from the 19th centuries? Isn't the Bible the same book?!

Besides, is it really a conscience to the British abolish the slavery? What's wrong with it! The main reason is that the plantations in Central and North America have become the raw material base and commodity dumping point for the British, and there are still thousands of slaves, and they are still transfusions to the British!

This is just like later generations saying that China is a "sweatshop". It first transfers industries and lowers the prices of basic products, and then puts on a high-ranking and compassionate face. If this is not the case, do you think he will still talk about "democracy and freedom" with you?

Like other ports in various places, because the water depth is not enough, the Thor can only park on the sea one mile away. Leaving the guards on duty, Zhao Xin, Deng Fei and other entourages switched to Beihai No. 1. Then, the water diversion ship sent by the Gore Island Customs was led to the port and berthed.

As the ship got closer and closer to the dock on Gore Island, the black people escorted on the boat by whips and muskets became clearer in the telescope's vision. Zhao Xin couldn't help but think that if he had not been himself and Beihai Town, Europeans would have sold out black people in the next century. Countless Chinese people would become "piglets", either sold to Southeast Asia or the American continent. So he finally couldn't help but curse.
Chapter completed!