Daming pirates

After thinking about this, Peter had nothing to be dissatisfied with, so Shi Shiran boarded the trestle and ordered the sailors and soldiers on board to lift the boxes he brought out of the rowing boat, and then met with the person in charge of receiving him

After some exchanges with the Sea Wolf tribe, they were escorted by Sea Wolf soldiers and walked toward Tamsui City.

After entering Tamsui City, Peter was also shocked. It was not that the buildings here were majestic. On the contrary, the buildings here could even be said to be a bit shabby. They were not as luxurious as those in some Ming cities on the mainland.

, the carved beams and painted buildings are beautiful.

The buildings here seemed very simple, but very practical. From the moment he entered the city, he saw that the buildings here were planned very neatly, the streets were very wide, and all the buildings were constructed strictly according to the plan.

The various buildings are as if they were measured with a ruler, and they don’t feel messy at all.

The streets were also bustling with people. Although it was not as prosperous as some of the big cities in the Ming Dynasty on land, compared to the city of Geranje, which the Dutch had not yet fully built, it seemed to be very prosperous.

What shocked Peter and his men the most was not this, but more importantly, what they saw here was the orderly order and the cleanliness beyond imagination.

After entering the city, small groups of neatly dressed Sea Wolf soldiers patrolled the streets from time to time, armed with various weapons. These Sea Wolf soldiers seemed to be carved out of the same mold, although each group

There are only about ten people, but they are arranged in a very neat queue, walking with exactly the same steps between breaths, calm and strong, and one can tell at a glance that these soldiers have undergone extremely strict training and have extremely high abilities.

Strict discipline.

There was a kind of vigilance in their eyes. No one was looking around idlely. Even when they saw the Dutch people entering the city, they only glanced at them briefly and saw Sea Wolf personnel leading these Dutch people.

People, so they immediately turned their heads and continued their patrol.

Although the clothes of the pedestrians on the street are not luxurious, most of them are clean. Everyone has a ruddy luster on their faces. It is rare to see anyone with a disheveled face. It is obvious that the people living here are

Although they are not very wealthy, they are not lacking in nutrition. This is very rare, because even in the land towns of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how wealthy the place is, only some people will behave like this.

Most people still clearly have an air of malnutrition.

Based on this alone, it can be judged that even if the people living here are not rich, they can still have enough to eat. In this era, let alone the Ming Dynasty, even people in the richest cities in Europe may not be able to afford it.

It's not easy to do this.

In addition, the neatness and cleanliness of this place gives everyone a shock when they enter here for the first time. On the huge street, they can't see any messy garbage. Along the street, there are wooden pillars erected one after another.

, the wooden piles are equipped with a glass cover.

Seeing this kind of thing, Peter's eyes shrank slightly, and he immediately saw what these things were. This kind of thing was actually some street lights, and these street lights also existed in some prosperous big cities, but

It just exists. There will never be anywhere where so many glass street lights are installed.

Because in this era, glass is still an absolute luxury. Even in the palace, it is difficult to be luxurious enough to light up such glass street lamps everywhere.

Therefore, even in the big cities in the Netherlands, there are no glass street lamps in this era, but here, in the small Tamsui City of Sea Wolf, so many glass street lamps are installed in one street and two rows.

Only now did Peter feel that the exquisite glass products that had been sold on land were indeed made by Sea Wolf himself. Although glass is luxurious, it is not a very scarce thing now.

Craftsmen in many places in Europe can now produce glass, but only Tunisia and the United Kingdom can produce glass mirrors. Even the Dutch do not have this kind of thing. They can only buy it from Tunisian businessmen at a high price and then resell it.

Come to Daming.

Therefore, the price of the glass mirrors they shipped was extremely high. In addition, during transportation, the glass was easily damaged due to long periods of bumps on the sea, especially large glassware. Therefore, even if they shipped glass products from Europe, they were generally

They are not too big, and the glass mirrors are very small things.

But in the past two years, they found that Ming merchants were obviously no longer interested in the glass products they shipped. Later, they checked and found that in many shops in Ming Dynasty, there were actually more glass products than the glass products they shipped from Europe.

Something of better quality.

These new glass products on the market are not only pure in texture, crystal clear and beautiful, but their shapes are also more in line with the aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty. More importantly, there are also large glass mirrors on the market, and the largest ones can even be used as mirrors.

A full-length mirror is used.

Not even the Tunisian glass craftsmen could make such a large glass mirror, and the ones that could be shipped were even less likely to be comparable to the glass mirrors that appeared in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, glass products that could still be sold as valuable goods by the Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish have shrunk to the extreme in the past two years under the impact of new glass products that have appeared on the market, and have basically been eliminated.

Driven out of the market of Ming Dynasty.

After inquiring, they heard that these glass products came from Sea Wolf. They had doubts before, but after seeing the glass street lamp here today, Peter was completely convinced that it must be made by Sea Wolf.

And they are made on-site. Otherwise, no matter how rich Sea Wolf is, he would not dare to take these glass lamps and install them on the roadside to serve as street lights.

And if the public security situation here is not good, if such expensive glass products are installed on the roadside, thieves may be interested in them. Maybe they will be stolen within a few days of being installed. But here.

The glass street lamps, seen from this way, are very complete, so it can be seen that the security situation here is also very good, and no one dares to easily take advantage of these things here.

What's more, there's the sanitary condition here. Peter boasts that he has traveled to a lot of places in his half-life, but there is no place that is clean enough to make him feel like this.

Before entering Tamsui City, he had already felt that the dock area was very clean, but he didn't pay much attention to it at the time. He thought it was because Sea Wolf had specially sent people to clean the place to welcome him, and he was secretly happy at the time.

But after entering Tamsui City, he discovered that things were not what he thought. The streets in Tamsui City were very clean and tidy everywhere he looked. Along the streets and even in some side alleys, every roadside was clean and tidy.

Every few dozen steps, there will be a kind of rattan basket placed.

If you come here for the first time, you won’t know what these rattan baskets are for, but when you get closer, you will find that these rattan baskets are filled with all kinds of garbage collected.

What surprised Peter and his party was that people walking here would consciously take some garbage to the cane basket and throw the garbage into the cane basket, instead of just throwing it on the road like other places.

Even if there is occasionally some scattered garbage on the street, some people wearing red waistcoats will immediately run over with brooms and garbage buckets to clean it up, and then dump it into those garbage baskets.

As they walked on the street, they also saw some patrols on the road. What these people were holding was not a knife or a gun, but a hardwood stick about two feet long. They carried a square shield on their backs and on their heads.

Wearing a rattan helmet, they patrolled the streets in groups.

There happened to be a blind guy walking on the street, holding a roasted sweet potato in his hand. He ate it while walking. After eating, he threw the sweet potato skin on the street. As a result, he was beaten by these patrol officers holding rattan sticks.

Caught him red-handed.

So those people holding rattan sticks immediately shouted loudly, surrounded the guy who was throwing sweet potato peels carelessly, and yelled at him.

The guy who threw the sweet potato peels was so frightened that he turned pale and quickly nodded and bowed to apologize. However, he was still fined several large sums of money, which made him feel painful. In addition, he was taken to the roadside and was arrested on the spot.

He pinned him to the ground and whipped him with a three-teng stick, which made him grin and scream.

Peter's eyelids twitched a few times, and he thought that the rules here at Sea Wolf are really strict! If you throw some fruit peels around casually, you will be fined and beaten with a cane, so he was so frightened that he quickly whispered to his subordinates to be careful here.

Don't get beaten for this.

When a group of them walked into a compound, Peter knew that they had arrived. The compound covered a large area and should be the new headquarters of Sea Wolf. Around the compound, there were Sea Wolf troops everywhere.

Everyone was on vigilant sentry duty, and everyone was observing the surrounding situation with vigilant eyes. Many people passing by had a look of awe from a distance, and hurriedly walked past the surrounding area. Only a few

Idle people dare to stay here idle.

When they met for the first time, Peter was also deeply impressed by Yu Xiaotian, who was sitting in the top position. Even though the other person did not have such a tall figure, the strong temperament he exuded made him impressed.

People have to feel a sense of awe towards him.

"Dear Chief, I am Peter Nuits, the Governor of the Dutch East India Company in Formosa! It is an honor to meet Your Excellency here!" When Peter arrived here, he did not dare to show off, so after entering the hall,

Then he took the initiative to bow to Yu Xiaotian who was sitting at the top and said.