Chapter 305 Slave Galley
Gao Shixin found that there were many large rows of galloping and fast sailing ships in Yan Siqi's fleet. The size of those crispers was more than two laps than their own galloping and fast sailing. There were double-layer paddle cabins, and two rows of oars were inserted into the water. Once rowing at full speed, the sailing speed was very fast. In fact, this kind of ship was an Arabic galloping ship.
This Arab warship is also a soft sailboat like the Western warships, but it has a paddleboard cabin. When the Dashi Empire was prosperous, this ship traveled between the Red Sea and Quanzhou, busy on the Maritime Silk Road, communicating trade between China and the West. In that era, most of the Arab warships along the coast of the Song Dynasty were from Pu Shougen, and the Arabs controlled the Maritime Silk Road. After the Mongol Empire destroyed the Dashi Empire, the Arabs also weakened, and later the Ottoman Empire rose.
The Ottoman Empire rose in Central Asia and formed a huge empire, blocking the land Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road, and separating the connection between the East and the West. Moreover, the Ottoman Empire also attacked Europe and destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire.
This Arabic warship is currently also the standard warship of the Ottoman Empire, traversing across the Mediterranean Sea.
The Mediterranean was relatively calm and suitable for the use of sailboats. The Ottoman Empire defeated the Greeks with this ship, and defeated the warships that rushed to support the Greeks and the French, annexed Greece and incorporated Greece into its territory. This warship was invincible in the Mediterranean, and Western Thrace, Macedonia, Sophia, Thessalonika and other countries were annexed by the Ottoman Empire.
Even Spain, which is known as a maritime power, had their fleets beaten by warships from the Ottoman Empire! Tunisia and Algeria, which belonged to the Spanish Kingdom, were occupied by the Ottoman Empire.
As long as it is in the calm Mediterranean, the large Western sailing warships are not the opponents of these sailing ships, because Arabic galleries are extremely fast and have strong flexibility. After installing cannons, they can defeat Western sailing warships in the Mediterranean. Of course, the disadvantages of this kind of ship are also very obvious. Once they enter the ocean, this kind of ship will be beaten by Western soft sailing ships.
It was precisely because the Ottoman Empire controlled the Mediterranean and cut off the connection between the East and the West that in order to obtain silk and ceramics from the East, the West had to open up sea routes, which resulted in the era of great navigation, which also led to the West opening up colonies everywhere and embarking on the road of colonization.
Gao Shixin boarded the Arabian warship and found that this ship is not small, nearly twenty feet long, which is about the same length as the Western battleships back then, but the width is much narrower. Western battleships are five feet wide, and this Arabian warship is only about two feet and five feet wide, with an aspect ratio of eight. The slender hull makes this ship have an extremely high speed.
The typical Mediterranean hull structure is very different from that of Western sailing ships. Although the artillery of the ship is like a Western warship, it has a gun deck, but only one gun deck. The two cannons at the beginning and end are placed on the open-air deck. There is a 24-pound red-Bao cannon on the bow and stern of the ship. There are four thirty-two-pound short-barrel cannons on the two sides of the open-air deck.
At that time, whether it was a Western sailing boat or a Chinese lucky boat, it was characterized by a low front and a high back, with a rudder at the stern. However, the hull of this kind of boat was straight, the upper deck was very flat, and there was no raised rudder.
You can enter the artillery deck through a staircase on the open-air deck. In the artillery deck, there are eight twelve pounds of red cannons on each side, totaling sixteen. The artillery deck is also the sailor's cabin on the ship. Because the hull is narrow, the cabin on the ship is very crowded, like canned sardines. On weekdays, sailors live in the artillery deck. When war begins, all sailors board the upper open-air deck to make room for the artillery deck.
The same is true for Western warships and Chinese-style lucky ships. The stern of the ship is the captain's cabin. On the Arab warship with such tight accommodation conditions, the captain still has enough private space. The captain's cabin is large, with a living room and a bedroom, carpet on the ground, and a layer of brass in the handrails in the living room, which were carefully wiped and shining with golden light. All kinds of furniture in the captain's room are luxurious furniture, which makes the captain's room magnificent.
"I really didn't expect that the boss of the ship could live in such a luxurious cabin on such a crowded Dashi Clipper. The living conditions were much better than the boss of our Dafu ship." Ling'er shouted as if she was unfair.
Gao Shixin said: "This is how the great cannibals are. The hierarchy is strict. The ship boss is a nobleman. The other sailors, gunners and supervisors are civilians. It would be nice to have a sleeping hanger. There are even more bitter slaves on this ship."
The two followed a sailor to the entrance and exit of the slave paddler cabin located at the bow of the ship. They saw a staircase at the entrance and entered the lower paddler cabin deck. However, after descending from the staircase, they found that there was a staircase leading to the lower cargo cabin. There was a door blocking the front staircase cabin and the rear staircase cabin. The door was closed and there was a large iron lock that looked extremely strong hanging on the door.
"Governor Gao, Miss Ling'er, you should not go in. It smells like a circle of animals. Be careful that you will faint after entering." The sailor kindly reminded.
"It's okay, I'm not a delicate young lady." Ling'er replied.
Gao Shixin didn't say anything, but asked the sailor to open the iron lock of the hatch door.
The sailor opened the large iron lock on the cabin door, took off the lock, and suddenly opened the cabin door. Just as the cabin door was opened, a foul smell mixed with the strong smell of feces, body odor, foot odor and sour sweat sensation came out of the cabin. Ling'er turned her head and covered her nose after being fucked.
"It's too smelly, right?" Ling'er frowned.
The sailor said, "The cabin is the oarsmen of Kunlun slaves. Those people have dark faces, slanted foreheads like pigs, stupid as sheep and pigs, extremely fishy, lazy, and don't like to take a bath, so they can only be locked in the oarsmen's cabin."
"Kunlun slave?" Ling'er said curiously, "Then I'd better go in and take a look."
Ling'er took out a cloth, covered her nose, and followed Gao Shixin into the slave paddler's cabin. The double-layer paddler's cabin actually had only one layer, with an aisle in the middle, with double-layer racks on both sides, and slaves sat on the racks on both sides. These slaves looked scaryly dark in their skin, and their feet were fixed to the racks with shackles, and only their hands could shake the paddles.
Under each floor, there is a basin for collecting shit and urine. After these Kunlun slaves are sent into the cabin, they will be fixed on the oar position until they die or sink with the boat. Except for the wind, they are not allowed to leave. They eat, drink, defecate, and sleep on their oar position. On weekdays, they can still row slowly. When the war starts, they need to speed up. The supervisors in the cabin will wave their whip to whip them to speed up the boat.
"I didn't expect there was such an ugly person in this world." Ling'er said.
"It's not only ugly, but also stupid and very lazy, so they can only be slaves and can only use whips to make them work. Apart from their strength, they really can't think of what the use of these slaves is. But the Kunlun slaves in this ship may have to spend a lot of money to buy them, right?" Gao Shixin said.
"It can't cost much money. It was transported by the Franji people from Kunlun Island in the west. Because it has not been castrated, the castrated Kunlun slaves bought by the Lumi people and the Great Cannibals are much cheaper." The soldier said.
The Kunlun slaves bought from Westerners who have not been castrated are cheaper; if they buy from Arabs or Ottomans, the price is much more expensive. The Kunlun slaves who have not been castrated are prone to estrus and have a much more irritable personality, so they can only be tied up in a strong way.
In this era, there was no Virgin or political correctness. Slaves with low IQs were slaves. It was impossible for a disgusting thing done by a university in later generations, and it was even more impossible for the Virgin and the Virgin who licked Hey in later generations.
Chapter completed!