Chapter 337 Yizhou area
In March of the 44th year of the Empire, a small fleet set out from Atlantic City, which included the cruiser Vulture and the cruise ship Whitedi City, the coal ship Hercules. The warships and coal ships of the three ships were ships of the Imperial Navy, and the Whitedi City was a large, state-controlled shipping company affiliated to the Empire.
The Prancing Horse boarded the cruise ship in Xinshanghai-Hong Kong. When he got on board, the occupancy rate of the 6,000-ton cruise ship had exceeded 80%, but he still obtained a Class A cabin. However, after only two days of staying, the Prancing Horse left his cabin and gave the cabin to his dream lover Tang Meiyun, which became a place for several girls to take a bath, rest, read and have fun.
As for why he did this, the attack of dog licking was only part of the reason, and more importantly, he really couldn't stand the environment in the Class A cabin.
The galloping horse changed into clothes that the people of the empire often wore, but the tattoos and slightly red skin on his face and towering cheekbones were enough to show that he was not an imperial nation, but an Indian in the Americas. The crew of the imperial family on the ship did not feel anything about this identity, except that his tattoos would scare the children and cause disgust from women.
But there are not only Imperial passengers on the Baidi City. More than 500 passengers from Europe, among the more than 100 VIPs in Class A, only Bai Jingyu who stepped down and returned home and several naval officers who returned to the Empire. The diplomats were Chinese, and the rest were Europa.
These hypocritical European nobles were filled with disgusting racial discrimination when they saw galloping horses.
On the contrary, as the fleet sailed into the ocean and mingled with the people on the boat for a long time, many passengers and crew members of ordinary seats liked to gallop.
Because Benma is a very enthusiastic guy and a cheerful slut, he likes to chat with people, and anyone can do it. In order to chat with a knowledgeable waiter, he can listen to him asking questions from the sea, and he can follow the others behind and hold the plate for a long time.
In order to learn how to cook, especially to make delicious dishes, he could work in the kitchen for three days, and the horse was a person who couldn't stay idle. So when the Baidi City departed from Xinshang, everyone stayed away from the Indians. After half a month, many people stood arm around him.
There are more than 100 passengers from the fief of King Yu on the Baidi City. Except for Bai Jingyu and nine people, the rest are all fiefdom sports delegations. More Imperial passengers are from Ceuta. They are going to colonies in the Americas, while European passengers are mainly Portuguese and their destination is Brazil.
"Why don't you open the door? There's obviously someone."
On this day, Benma returned to his room in Class A. Knowing that someone inside, he knocked on the door, but no one opened it. He simply went in directly and saw Tang Meiyu and several others sitting around the coffee table in the room. Benma couldn't help but complain.
He went into the inner room and searched through the cabinet to find his bow and arrows, because several of his friends wanted to see what real Indians were wearing, and they were also preparing to take a few photos. When he walked with his things, the galloping horse, who had always been careless, also noticed something wrong and retreated, because he found that two of the girls' eyes were red.
"You are crying, why are you crying?" asked the galloping horse standing in front of the girls.
"Did you miss home?"
The girls shook their heads!
"I'm sick!"
Still shake your head.
The galloping horse nodded: "That's to be bullied."
The girls were silent, and the galloping horse sat cross-legged on the ground. Despite this, his big man sat as tall as the girls sitting on the chairs. The galloping horse said, "Tell me, you know, I'm very good at solving these problems."
The horse is indeed good at solving this problem. After he was ridiculed and discriminated against by the so-called Portuguese aristocracy, the horse protested to the captain. The captain only warned the Portuguese passengers on a routine basis, but it was useless. So the horse used his own method to solve it. He would always ambush in the bathroom, cafe or chess and card room, ambush the Portuguese aristocracy who mocked him. A burlap bag covered his head, which was a fat beating.
The captain and the Portuguese nobles knew that it was made of galloping horses, but it was useless because they could not catch him. The ability of the best Sioux hunter was fully displayed on the ship with complex terrain. Every time he would knock the man out, and when he woke up, his head had already drilled into the toilet. Whether the nobleman brought the servants or the captain and the security guard to catch galloping horses, a large group of people came out to prove that the galloping horses were right next to us and had never left.
A Portuguese baron joined forces with several fellow villagers to catch the galloping horses, but the final result was that a toilet was stuffed into the toilet.
The girls were still silent, thinking for a long time, and said, "I understand, someone must have taken advantage of you. If you suffer a loss, you will make a big deal if you protest, and you will feel embarrassed. You are pointed at by others and ignored it, and you can't swallow this, right?"
No one spoke, obviously the Benma guessed it right, and Benma thought about it again and said, "It must be the Portuguese who did it, right?"
And the riding horses guessed correctly, and it is actually easy to guess. The next stop of the fleet is Recife, the Portuguese Brazilian colony. If the disputes on the cruise ship are handled, it is likely to attract the intervention of the colony when they dock, which is a bigger dispute. At that time, this matter will be completely aggravated, and the girl's face will be even more unhappy.
"Tell me the name." said the horse.
"What do you want to do? Do you hit him? He is a marquis." said Tang Meiyu.
The galloping horse immediately stood up, so there was no need to ask, because there was only one Portuguese Marquis on this boat.
However, the galloping horse did beat the marquis, but it only hit once, and then it did not. This does not mean that the marquis was forgiven. It was just because Bai Jingyu intervened and Bai Jingyu no longer allowed the galloping horse to commit crimes. In order to convince the galloping horse, he gave the galloping horse a better choice - some crotons.
The galloping horse and almost all the waiters on the ship were friends, so the Marquis had been tasting all kinds of delicacies with croton flavor on the way from the Caribbean Sea to Recife, and he spent most of the day in the bathroom.
When the fleet was about to reach the port of Recife, the galloping horse disappeared.
While the Portuguese were waiting to arrive at the port, they arranged for the colonial police to arrest the horse, but the horse disappeared. It was impossible to find it on the cruise ship, and the Portuguese believed that the horse was hidden on the cruise ship Vulture, but it did not have the courage to search the cruise ship of the empire. Bai Jingyu retorted, suspected that the Portuguese assassinated the horse and threw him into the sea.
In Recife, the two sides had a quarrel for several days without any result. The fleet set off again and the galloping horse appeared again. He was indeed hiding on the Vulture. It was Tang Meiyu who begged his brother, who was an intern artillery officer on the Vulture, who took the galloping horse in.
Because of the minor diplomatic dispute caused by galloping horses, the fleet did not stay in Recife for a few days, so it chose to stay at the next stop for ten days, and this stop was Yizhou.
When we arrived in Yizhou, although there were many Portuguese merchants here, because it was an imperial colony, galloping horses could appear in public.
Yizhou is the later Rio de Janeiro. The name Yizhou has no habits or traditional considerations, but was named by the Ministry of Overseas Affairs from the very beginning.
The reason is very simple. After the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon, the area south of 20 degrees south latitude belonged to the empire. After a brief investigation, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs believed that the climate in the Yizhou area was very suitable for the cultivation of tobacco and tea. Among the provinces in the empire, the southwest region is famous for these two crops, so it is named Yizhou.
He got off the boat and wandered around the Yizhou city with a population of less than 40,000. Everything here made him feel familiar, with beautiful wooden Chinese buildings, the coming and going Indians, and the intoxicating tobacco and tea.
This is the scene in several small empire cities in North America.
But there is no doubt that Yizhou's development is much better than the fief of King Yu of North America, because it has received more support here.
The primary industry in Yizhou area is tobacco cultivation, which is undoubtedly the case. With the number of smokers in the empire's population and the tobacco cultivation level of this era, at least 10 million mu of arable land is needed to barely maintain this huge market. The empire's complete tobacco monopoly ensured that the empire could use this market to promote overseas development.
In the early days of Yizhou's development, people who immigrated here planted large quantities of tobacco. At that time, the representative of the Imperial Tobacco Company in Yizhou was directly appointed as the Chief Executive of Yizhou. In that era, the support for the Yizhou region was that no matter how much tobacco was produced in Yizhou, the Imperial Tobacco Company would acquire it at a reasonable price, which was enough to ensure that immigrants obtain considerable profits.
Of course, local tobacco growers can also sell tobacco to European merchants, as long as you feel you make more.
Because of the tobacco company, it can be said that as long as we immigrate to Yizhou, there is almost no possibility of losing money. This greatly promoted the development of tobacco cultivation industry. The population of Yizhou area grew rapidly. Unlike the fiefdoms in North America, Yizhou is backed by the South African region, which is an imperial population gathering place, and it is enough to introduce the population there.
South African provinces have no objection to this, because although the entire South American region where Yizhou is located is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, its economy is directly linked to the South African region.
Soon, local tea gardens and coffee farming industries also developed, initially to meet the needs of South African provinces, and later gradually opened up America and Europe as markets.
With the discovery of gold mines in northern Yizhou, the population here has once again increased. The Yizhou area is already the best-developed area among all the colonies of the Empire. The only one that can be compared with is the Bolivia area controlled by the Empire Mining Company and has a large amount of silver mines.
"Salute to the galloping horses, to the Indian friends!"
In a hotel in Yizhou, the Yizhou Sports Delegation and the Fendi Sports Delegation have dinner here. When members of the Yizhou Sports Delegation learned that the Prancing Horse was an Indian and an Indian who was going to participate in the National Games, they immediately raised their wine glass and toasted the Prancing Horse.
This is mainly because almost every member of the Yizhou Sports delegation is engaged in tobacco-related industries. Some people's parents are tobacco growers, while others are engaged in tobacco processing, sales, or other supporting industries.
The galloping horse is a person who loves alcohol and smoke. When facing everyone's toast, everyone will accept everyone's generous appearance.
"Why, why is this, why do you pay tribute to me?" After drinking, the galloping horse pulled a local athlete of the same size and asked.
The athlete said, "Running Horse, do you know the history of tobacco?"
"I don't know, my grandfather smokes, my father smokes, and I smoke too." The gallop said truthfully.
The athlete smiled: "Yes, in fact, all the tobacco in this world is spread from North America. You North American Indians are the first to smokers and the first to cultivate tobacco. Without tobacco, there would be no Yizhou area, and without Yizhou area, there would be no us."
"Is that true? There is such a thing. But how do you know?" The galloping horse asked, sucking his own cigarette roll.
"It's written in the textbook, by the way, you haven't been to school so you don't know."
Hearing the three words of textbooks, the horse immediately remembered a word: "Knowledge."
"Yes, knowledge. There is a lot of knowledge written in the textbooks, which are the crystallization of wisdom of many people. The first story we know about Indians is tobacco." Someone interrupted.
"Tobacco is Indian, and Indians are tobacco." The galloping horse murmured to himself.
"What's wrong with you?" Everyone asked when they noticed something was wrong with the galloping horse.
The galloping horse shook his head: "It's not like this, I just remembered something happy."
In fact, the Pranma thought a lot. When he set out in Xinhua, the Pranma thought about going to the sports meeting and earning a gold medal to come back so that everyone could know the name of his Pranma. However, when he left his hometown and walked on the cruise ship, he noticed the malice or curiosity of the people around him, especially the people of the empire, who were very curious about him. The main thing to ask about this and that was to ask about the situation of the Indian tribe.
At that time, the galloping horse had a feeling that he had entered the imperial civilization, representing the entire tribe, the Sioux and even the entire Indian group.
How to express the positive image of the Indians has always troubled the galloping horses. He originally thought that the tattoos on his face and the feathers on his head represent Indians, but now it seems that this is not the case. He learned from others that some ethnic groups or places in China can also tattoo them, and tattoos do not have a positive meaning in Han culture. As for feathers, this is almost the impression of the people of the empire about the uncivilized indigenous barbarians. The galloping horse discovers that this makes people think that the Indians are barbarians, although they are originally.
Chapter completed!