Daming pirates

The sea breeze blew across the surface of the ship, driving the sails but also bringing a fresh, moist and salty smell. The old sailboat undulated slightly in the waves and moved forward slowly, but because the sea breeze was not strong and there was a bit of headwind,

, the ship can use the side sail to gain some power and maintain the forward direction. As a result, the ship moves very slowly, and it almost feels like the ship is not moving forward at all.

A dolphin jumped up on the sea in the distance, then plunged into the water, stirring up a snow-white spray. There were also some water birds hovering above the ship, rushing to the stern from time to time, and picking up a small fish.

It rose quickly again, revealing a patch of life on the sea.

There was also a sailboat passing by Yu Xiaotian's boat in the distance. Driven by the sea wind, it headed north at a faster speed. The two boats even fought with each other at close range just now.

After saying hello, it was obvious that the people on that boat and Captain Liu might know each other.

Originally, it was a good thing to meet a boat on the lonely sea and say hello to each other in peace. However, after Yu Xiaotian saw the boat, he fell into petrification and exposed his emotions.

With a sad look on his face, he sat blankly at the bow of the boat.

He was holding a large coarse porcelain bowl. Inside the bowl was a bowl of dark rice that was hard to tell what it was made of. The rice had basically no aroma, but it did have a rancid smell like pig food, which made Yu

Xiaotian felt a little nauseous.

But he felt sad not because of the quality of the bowl of rice, but because of the sailboat that passed by them just now! At this moment, his heart felt so cold that he completely sank to the bottom of the valley.

There was no other reason than that the sailboat was similar in shape to the boat he was on, and it was also a two-masted wooden fishing boat. All of this completely broke the little bit of luck left in Yu Xiaotian's heart. The facts told him that he was indeed

Really traveled through time!

Yu Xiaotian felt like he wanted to scold his mother. He didn't know if he was too lucky or just too stupid! Even this kind of ghost thing could happen to him. It was estimated that the chance of winning the lottery was lower than that of winning the lottery.

on his head.

He just went out to sea for the first time with his old uncle, and then he was caught by the big hand of fate and threw him hundreds of years ago. He still hasn't figured out exactly how it happened.

It has something to do with that weird thick fog.

And through these two days of life on the boat, and from the mouths of these boatmen, Yu Xiaotian roughly understood the dynasty he was in. This dynasty was during the Qi Dynasty of the Great Tomorrow! But because these boatmen were unclear, he

He can only judge that it was probably in the early years of the Apocalypse, but he has not yet figured out the specific year of the Apocalypse.

Yu Xiaotian held a large porcelain bowl and sat in the boat for a while. In the beginning, his mind was in a mess and he was a little confused. But fortunately, he was not the kind of person who complained easily.

As a person, after thoroughly understanding the current situation, he quickly recovered from the chaos.

In fact, although Yu Xiaotian is not too old, he has suffered quite a lot of setbacks. Probably because of his naturally tolerant personality, Yu Xiaotian rarely gets into trouble and often gets over low points quickly.

Not once is an exception.

Anyway, there is no medicine for regret in this world. It is useless to sit there and regret. Yu Xiaotian took a deep breath and cursed in his heart: The damn ball is pointing up. If you don’t die, you will celebrate the New Year! Let’s make peace with it as it comes. With my ability

, I don’t believe I can’t survive!

After cursing this sentence in his heart, Yu Xiaotian's mood improved a lot, and there was even a smile on his lips, thinking that he would be blessed if he survived the catastrophe! Since I was chosen by this thief God and thrown into this era, how can I still

If I wasn't drowned on the spot, I'm sure I'll be able to do something earth-shattering in the future!

Thinking of this, he picked up the big bowl and brought it to his mouth. No matter how the rice tasted, he held his breath and started to take big gulps into his mouth.

Captain Liu was a miser. After he went to sea, the meals he gave to the boatmen on the ship were not very good. The rice was brown rice, but in order to save rice, he asked the cook on the ship to add a lot of dried potato shreds, fresh vegetables and

There is definitely no meat, but some pickles are added to the rice, which gives it a bit of a salty taste. At most, some dried sea vegetables are added to the rice, but the taste is not to mention how unpleasant it is.

The people on the ship are also divided into different levels. As a ship owner, he will definitely not eat such a meal. Captain Liu himself eats specially made white rice with special side dishes. The people below him range from the helmsman to the hand and even the captain.

It's Shangdou and Ikari. Depending on their importance on the ship, the meals are also different. For important members like the helmsman, a piece of salted fish or bacon is occasionally added to the potato rice. Those with lower status can only

Eat shredded potato rice without any meaty taste.

Yu Xiaotian is currently the person with the lowest status on the ship. His position on the ship is that of a handyman, which means he can do everything, and all he does are chores. Therefore, for the time being, he can only eat the worst food for the servants.

Shredded potato rice.

Although Yu Xiaotian felt nauseous just looking at this bowl of rice, he did not stop eating it because of this. During the few days he drifted after falling into the water at sea, his body consumed a lot of physical energy but could not get any nutrition.

He was severely dehydrated and very weak when he was rescued.

So now Yu Xiaotian knows very well that if he wants to survive in this era, good health is the most basic condition, so he doesn't care about the taste of the food on the ship. As long as the meal is served, he will eat as much as possible and strive to eat more.

He had a lot of nutrients, so in the past two days, under his fierce eating, his originally very weak body began to recover quickly, so much so that the people on the ship laughed and called him a mute foodie because he ate too much!

Yu Xiaotian was too lazy to care about the boatmen for the time being. He just ate as much as he could and worked as hard as he could. When Captain Liu saw him eating, he felt quite sad, but after he regained his strength, he started to help.

It’s quite comforting when working on the boat!

Although Yu Xiaotian was not very tall in the old time and space, he was only of average height at most, but most ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty were very short in stature due to their diet, so Yu

Xiaotian was considered a big man in this era.

In addition to the era in which Yu Xiaotian lived, the nutritional structure of food was already quite good. In addition, Yu Xiaotian had practiced martial arts since he was a child, so his physical fitness was very good and strong, and his strength was comparable to that of the boatmen on the boat.

He was also much bigger. The reason why Captain Liu kept him was probably because he was attracted by his figure and wanted to get free labor for nothing!

And what surprised Yu Xiaotian secretly today was that he found that after two days of recuperation, not only had his physical strength recovered, but he also seemed to be stronger than before. Some heavy things on the boat

, he originally estimated that it would take a lot of effort to move it, but today he found that it didn't take much effort when he actually moved it, which surprised him.

He originally wanted to exercise his skills to see if the strength and speed of his fists and kicks could be improved, but considering that the people on the ship did not trust him at the moment, he had already stated that he did not know how to use fists and kicks. Once he used his fists and kicks, it would definitely cause chaos on the ship.

People misunderstood him as a bad pirate, and if they collectively decided to throw him into the sea, it would be a big injustice!

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to give up this idea, and when working on the boat, he deliberately hid part of his strength and pretended to work hard, so that the people on the boat did not become more wary of him.

After Yu Xiaotian finished eating, he packed up the bowls and chopsticks and sent them to the stern of the boat. The people on the boat happily called him a dumb foodie, but he pretended to turn a deaf ear. He just thought these guys were farting, threw the bowl to the cook, and turned back to the boat.

Head, help clear up the cables piled at the bow.

Through his observations after boarding the ship in the past two days, he gradually understood what the ship and these people were doing.

At first, after taking a quick look at the boat, he thought it was probably a coastal fishing boat. The people on the boat were all fishermen, but he soon discovered that the boat looked like a fishing boat on the surface.

There were fish piled on the boat, but the people on the boat didn't seem to be interested in fishing. Even if they saw a school of fish appearing beside the boat, they turned a blind eye and continued to sail the boat in the south direction, and they were dodgy along the way.

Try to avoid the coastline along the way and stay at the edge of the coastline.

Later, through observation and listening to the conversations of the people on the boat, Yu Xiaotian learned that the boat was not a fishing boat at all, but a smuggling business under the guise of a fishing boat! After knowing these things, Yu Xiaotian

Tian couldn't help but chuckle a little, it turned out that these people were actually his colleagues in future generations!

Although Yu Xiaotian is a science major, it does not mean that he knows nothing about history. When he was in middle school and high school, the school had history classes. Yu Xiaotian still learned some things through these history textbooks.

In addition, like many men, he is usually interested in historical and military matters. When he has nothing to do, he also walks around and reads some historical novels or historical and military things.

Therefore, he also had some understanding of the history of the Ming Dynasty. Based on his understanding of the history of the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty was relatively strong in the early stages, it began to decline rapidly after the middle period.

He doesn't know much about the history of the Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid he knows the most about some things in the late Ming Dynasty. In addition, he also knows a little bit about the Ming Dynasty's attitude towards the sea. It stands to reason that for a long time in Chinese history, navigation technology has been very advanced.

Being at the forefront of the world, during the Song and Yuan dynasties, China's navigation industry achieved unprecedented development, making it difficult for Western countries to catch up.

But after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the situation changed a lot. After Zhu Chongba came to power, it might be because he was a farmer and didn't know much about the sea, or it might be because of other reasons. In short, Zhu Yuanzhang was very knowledgeable about navigation.

Since he didn't catch a cold, and Japanese pirates began to appear along the coast, which often plagued the coastal area, Comrade Zhu Chongba simply decreed that no sails should be allowed to enter the sea, and this was passed down as an ancestral precept.

Although during the Chengzu period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di actually sent Zheng He to the South Seas seven times for unknown reasons, creating the most grand ancient voyage record in Chinese history. However, after Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty banned the sea again, which ended up stifling China's advanced navigation and shipbuilding.

With technology, the Chinese achievements on the sea were quickly surpassed by some newly emerging countries in the West, so that by the Wanli period, both the Portuguese and the Spanish, even the Dutch and the British, etc.

The ship sailed to the coast of China.

However, the Ming court and even the government did not wake up to this. They turned a deaf ear to the era of geographical discovery that was happening in the world, and still implemented the policy of seclusion. Even in the later Longqing period, the court slightly relaxed some maritime restrictions, but it was not completely

Change the sea closure policy.

Later, the Manchu and Qing Tatars entered the customs and adopted a more stringent sea sealing policy. So the two dynasties worked together to completely kill China's navigation industry.

Therefore, in this era, although the problem of Japanese pirates is no longer very serious, the Ming Dynasty did not completely relax the maritime ban, which also caused many merchants along the coast to take risks and risk being caught for the sake of high maritime trade profits.

Load land-based goods onto ships and send them to sea privately for trafficking overseas.

Obviously Captain Liu is one of them. He uses the boats he owns to go out to sea to do business under the guise of fishing boats. As for the boatmen on the boats, some are his domestic servants and some are hired by him.

Employee, just do things for him.

However, Yu Xiaotian's current status is rather special. He is neither Captain Liu's domestic slave nor an employee. He is just a non-staff boatman. To put it mildly, he is a handyman on this boat!

(Today is New Year's Day, which is the beginning of the year. It will also be a brand new beginning for everyone. Here, Hanfeng wishes all my friends a happy family, all the best, all your wishes come true, and smooth work! Good luck and good luck to you all.

Because I have something to do in the afternoon, I will update two chapters at a time! I hope my friends will support me! Please!)