"Brother." Huang Laigui was pressing the cap on his head, and the heavy iron helmet made him feel very uncomfortable. He said, "I've been out for more than ten days. You just came out, how are your parents?"

"It's very good." Huang Laifu smiled and said, "My father and mother paid back 30% of the debt with cotton. The king has not collected land tax for the time being. They are very arrogant. No matter how I persuaded me, it was useless, so I had to buy them another cow and two horses. They were thinking of driving another land. I said, don't drive it again, and our brothers are not allowed to go back to help, don't be tired."

Huang Laigui smiled and said, "There are two private cattle, one mule and two horses, and there are less than four places in total, so it should be fine!"

In the previous development of the Dongfan period, Xu Zixian did not set up official fields like Zheng Chenggong and collected heavy taxes. This would affect the cultivation of ordinary people, weaken the motivation for immigration, and slow the development process.

All the land is the people's own when they are opened, but the people have the status of an official household and need to pay taxes to Xu Zi first.

Xu Zixian has recently focused on Fujian Road, and he has not continued to deliberately absorb the population of Dongfan. Even if he wants to develop mines in the central region and establish settlements in the north, the population of Dongfan will increase to 300,000 to 500,000 within three to five years, absorbing many landless people on Fujian Road, and then slowly growing, increasing to more than one million in 20 or 30 years. This should not be a big problem.

Of course, the Huang brothers did not know much about the major policies and strategies, but they knew that their lives were getting better and better, and this was the most real thing.

Huang Laifu is the leader of the warship sailor. His annual income has exceeded 300 chunks, and he also has a very generous retirement fund that continues to be deposited in public accounts.

Huang Laigui's income was slightly lower, but the monthly salary, bonuses, and rewards of the navy team officials were a little less than ten yuan per month. The income was so high that he could not imagine before.

There are also Sijia land at home, which is 120 acres, 50 acres of cotton fields, and the rest are tea gardens, sugarcane fields and bean fields.

The Huang family has no longer planted rice. They have to dig a drainage canal at their own plant to plant rice. From time to time, they have to watch the water all night. They are extremely tired when planting rice. Huang’s father and mother are over fifty years old and cannot afford such hardship.

The Huang family's family's income has been hundreds of trump cards. Before that, even if Huang Laifu became a sailor, he would not have lost a few trump cards a year. The poor and embarrassing days seemed to be yesterday.

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The Huang brothers, Luo Fangxiao and others were all on the turn. When everyone left the cabin and got off the boat, they gathered many partners. Luo Fangxiao and Huang Laifu were both big families, and they all made an appointment to go with them and go to eat big families together.

"Is there any new news about the bandits?"

"Not yet, the king has arrived at Qizhou Port, and the merchants and the newly recruited soldiers in Nan'an are all evacuating."

"Qizhou, Dongfan, I have to arrange a lot of people at once, which is very busy."

"So our place is also important." Luo Fangxiao said in contemplation: "The cotton cloth was successfully taken out and hundreds of thousands of coins were taken back, which was very helpful to Your Highness's plan."

A group of sailors and officers got off the boat. It was already dark at this time, but it was still quite lively from the dock to the port.

The moon rises and shines on the sea surface, and small boats are still busy. The sea boats cannot accurately calculate their arrival time. Even if it arrives in the middle of the night, there are still small boats tow into the port. Some anxious cargo owners, and they are in a hurry to leave when the goods are full, and many people leave the port after dark. Taking advantage of the wind, they can travel far apart overnight. The earlier the goods arrive, the earlier the profit is. The cargo owners with a strong cargo take the shortest time to take off the goods and then buy the favorable goods they want to buy. There is a stable source of goods for shipment and purchase. This is the most profitable way.

The entire port is like a gathering of prosperous market towns. After dark, many restaurants lit up the wine tricks. The Japanese learned Chinese characters, and about 70% of the Chinese characters in their texts have similar meanings, and some are the opposite, but the word "白" is still very obvious.

There are also many soup springs on the way, which are for bathing sailors who have been on the sea all year round, and the sailors really like it.

There are squeaking music everywhere, which sounds quite strange. Like the wonderful nation of the Japanese, their music also has a unique feeling of depression and pessimism.

The soldiers of the government army walked side by side with the sailors. Luo Fangxiao and the Huang brothers made an appointment. After drinking, they found a good soup spring to soak. Although they had only been out of the sea for ten days, the sailors were used to this kind of enjoyment.

There were many pedestrians along the way, and various foreigners passed by, all kinds of strange hats, robes, and all kinds of strange looks. The Nanyang people with dark skin, deep eyes and high noses, the short Burmese, Siamese, and similar to the Han people, but the Annan people or Chameng people were dark and thinner, and the Tianfang people were white and tall. They were wearing white robes and were quite conspicuous. The same white skin, but the eyes were blue and the hair color was more conspicuous, the Thais were generally wearing short robes, with unusually tall figures, and were generally one head taller than the Wei people. In Japan, they were simply a flock of cranes. They usually carried pointed long swords and a short musket filled with gunpowder and projectiles were inserted between their waists, which made their identity more conspicuous.

Luo Fangxiao knew that most of these Thais were Dutch. They were much taller than the Spanish, with whiter skin, and many of them had golden hair.

This group of sailors and the government troops of the Great Wei Dynasty were also quite eye-catching.

They are all tall and well-proportioned men, not as tall as the Thais, but much taller than the Japanese and Nanyang people. The shoulders and backs are thick, and it can be seen that after hard training, the muscles are raised, the waist is a bear waist, the shoulders are thick and the waist is thin, which is a typical martial artist. Then the thighs are thick, long and straight, and they feel quite powerful when walking.

Everyone wore red tassel hats. In fact, this is the military hat of the mansion army. They don’t have to wear it when they are resting, but everyone is used to wearing it. Instead of wearing it, they feel uncomfortable with the shinyness on their heads.

The gray short military robe is cut very well, with a nameplate on the chest, a bronze star on the shoulders of the team officer, a decorative copper buckle in the middle of the chest, a tight leather belt around the waist, a knife, a purse and other items hung. The corners of the robe of the short robe are tied to the thighs, and pants and black military boots are placed on the lower body.

Since I was out to drink, no one brought a long slut, but almost everyone was hanging their knives around their waists.

The uniforms of the soldiers of the government are generally similar. If a person dresses like this, he can only ask people to take a look at it one or two more times. He feels like a very powerful and outstanding brave man, but the same outfit of more than a dozen or twenty people is quite eye-catching. Many people even keep watching, as if they have seen the most strange thing in the world.

The Thais, people from all over the South China, Japanese, and Tianfang people gathered together, looking at these martial artists of the Wei Kingdom. Many people talked carefully, discussed, and discussed in private, and gradually looked solemn or awe on their faces.

"Step, steps, you pay attention to their pace."

A Dutch man with a blond hair and age of thirty-five or six years old was holding his arms in his arms, and the originally careless expression gradually disappeared. He put down his arm, poked his companion beside him, and said, "Nick, have you noticed their pace?"

Another Dutch man is about the same age. Like his partner, he is tall and strong, with straight legs. Both of them are over six feet tall, and they are tall in the north of the Great Wei Dynasty.

Among the Wei team, only Huang Laifu was about the same size as them. The two Dutch people were similar in height and were extremely burly and strong in shape. They wore swords and several short muskets filled with gunpowder and projectiles. Since they had such weapons, the Thais have been fond of them, especially those navigators who dared to travel overseas and ventured abroad, almost each of them had several such firearms.

The firearms are still quite rough now. The short muskets on these two Dutchmen are obviously early products. They have made quite rough short tubes, and they don’t even have a trigger. They just have a fuse rope. When firing, they need to hold the fuse rope in one hand and release the ignited fuse rope out of the medicine pool with the other hand, and ignite the gunpowder to fire.

This short musket was made by Italians and was called Chiopi, which means a pistol, which is considered the prototype of the earliest pistol.

Now the French are already making short muskets with triggers, which can be fired with one hand and pressed the fuse into the medicine pool with a curved hook, saving a lot of operations. The transformation from firearm to fuse gun can be regarded as a major revolution in firearms. Now almost all countries in Thailand are quickly loading, but these two Dutch people have been overseas for a long time and use firearms. This is quite difficult and requires long-term training and practical operations to fire the muskets in the shortest time and kill the enemy.

If the action is fast, the power of this short musket is not weak. Although the performance of gunpowder has not been improved yet, the short musket was originally used at close range. There are several projectiles stuffed into the barrel of each musket. After erupting within ten steps, it penetrates into the human body and can create extremely deep blood holes, causing serious injuries to the instant. In addition, lead pills and gunpowder can infect people. After being injured at close range, only a few people may survive.

This is not a toy for children, but also the source of self-confidence for the two Dutch people.

They originally despised the natives in this Asian side.

Two Dutch people, one named Van Nick, the other is Von and Nielko, are both typical navigators and adventurers of this era.

Their temperament is also fully revealed, and their strength and courage are also appearance. The most fundamental thing is the toughness, boldness, indifference, and even cruelty inside.

After seeing the soldiers of the palace, Nilk and Van Nick both restrained their conceited expressions on their faces.

Even if they were in Japan, there were only dozens of companions around them, and there were only hundreds of Dutch people in the entire Japan, but whether in the Daming Mansion or the samurai's Japanese sword, they always had the look of conceit and pride.

The Japanese called themselves civilization, and their civilization was indeed impressive, but for the Europeans of this era, it was just a little exotic.

Are those Japanese dwarfs who are shaved with no clothes and shaved their heads very civilized? Those warriors who are only half as tall as they are and often hold their hands to hold their swords are considered warriors in a civilized country? Those geishas have to use a knife to scrape the powder on their faces, but the Japanese themselves listen to the song and are very happy to see the geishas half-covered, which makes the Dutch feel quite strange.

Only the soldiers in front of them, these soldiers from the Great Wei, would make these Thais look at each other with admiration.

Military uniforms, robes, military boots, leather belts, the same ornaments, plus their strong and brave body shape and appearance, and unified weapons, these things can easily make people feel that this is a powerful army, not those scattered soldiers who show off their bravery.

"Their steps are neat and uniform, and every time they start and fall, they have a considerable rhythm. Well, it is simply a rhythm of strength and beauty, like the most coordinated piano piece."

"Look at their faces. That kind of proud, conceited look, and a little violent aura. It's something that only elite warriors who have experienced a long time have."
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