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    537 European trip (1)

    ¡°I have always believed that the biggest difference between literary and artistic youths and ** youth is that the literary and artistic youth will do very ** things very literary and artistic, while ** young people will make very ** literary and artistic things extremely **  I used to think that I was a literary young man, but the moment I met the pirates, I realized that I was wrong, I was just a **!" - "Chen Jianghua's Travels in Europe"

    For two literary young people, Chen Jianghua and Ren Nan, crossing the ocean on a sailboat in this era is by no means a good memory.  There are no first-class cabins, no attentive butlers, no day-to-day singing and night-to-night dance parties on luxury cruise ships.  Not to mention any romantic encounters.  Some are boring, dull, and dirty.

    Chen Jianghua finally understood why the sailors on the ship always looked so dirty. It was not that these guys were born like this, but that they simply did not have the conditions to keep themselves clean.  During the voyage, fresh water supply is a huge problem. All people can do is save water.  So no matter how rich Chen Jianghua and Ren Nan are, in the end they can only use the minimum amount of water to clean themselves like those sailors.  But they are better than those sailors, because they can have the luxury of spraying perfume on themselves to cover up the bad smell caused by not taking a bath for more than a month.  The odor on the body can be solved, but if the fresh water is left for a long time, it will still emit a foul smell.  The two of them immediately understood why those pirates or captains in the movies always drank two glasses of wine without any trouble. It was not that these guys were addicted to alcohol, but that no one wanted to drink the foul-smelling fresh water.

    During the second month of the sea voyage, the strong Ren Nan roared in despair, claiming that he had made a wrong decision.  Looking at the possessed Ren Nan, the literary young man Chen Jianghua let out a long sigh, and the next moment he expressed the dissatisfaction he had been holding in his heart in an impromptu speech of 3,000 words filled with various insults and complaints This made  Ren Nan, who was furious, was stunned and even doubted whether the person standing in front of him was still the gentle Chen Jianghua.

    But there is no turning back. Being in the center of the Indian Ocean, they have no chance of turning back.  So all they can do is endure, endure the dullness, endure the tedium, endure the rancid smell that even perfume cannot cover, and then try to make their drinking capacity grow Because of the uninterrupted and long-term use of wine, in the fourth  By the time they were a month old, they could easily tell what process the wine in the cup was made from and where it came from.  Even at a dinner party, Ren Nan knocked down the old alcoholic Andrew easily and happily.

    Time flies by in boredom.  In July 1646, Andrew's fleet arrived in Lisbon, Portugal.  Then Chen Jianghua and Ren Nan could no longer endure life on the ship. They decisively rejected Andrew's invitation to go to Vienna and disembarked in Lisbon.  They planned to stay in Lisbon for a while to readjust to a down-to-earth life, soaking themselves in the bathtub every day until they became swollen.

    As for safety, there is no need to think about it at all.  Portugal is an ally of Australia, and I believe that the Australian passports of the two people will allow the Portuguese to carefully protect their security, unless the Portuguese want to completely lose their interests in the Far East.  Then both of them still hold the title of duke of the Ming Dynasty. Although the title system of the Ming Dynasty may not be easy to use in Europe, and there are no fiefdoms, don't forget that in the eyes of Europeans, China during this period was still the place in Marco Polo's travels.  The land of gold.  The Duke of Ming Dynasty will definitely shock many people.  Furthermore, the two of them were accompanied by a guard of twenty people.

    These twenty people are all big-nosed, a few are hired from the Blackwater Company, and the rest are Germanic mercenaries hired from Batavia.  Equipped with revolvers and shotguns, even if they are attacked by a centurion, they are sure to easily defeat them.

    Chen Jianghua and Ren Nan spent half a month in Lisbon. After gathering up their courage, they boarded the sailboat bound for France.  Then tragedy happenedtheir ship actually encountered pirates!

    When they heard Captain Whitebeard screaming in terror that pirates were coming, they couldn't believe their ears!  The journey was smooth sailing, but unexpectedly, we encountered pirates when we arrived in Europe.  If I had known this, I might as well have endured it for a few more days and followed Andrew's fleet to Vienna.

    Yes, they made a common-sense mistake in thinking that Europe in the seventeenth century was similar to Europe in the twenty-first century.  In fact, it¡¯s much worse!  These days, the British set a precedent by issuing privateering licenses, allowing and even encouraging poor people to rob other countries' merchant ships at sea.  The British took the lead, but other countries did not dare to follow, and they also introduced relevant measures.  So the Age of Discovery became the Age of Piracy.  Any ship you encounter on the sea, even if it is a warship, may turn into a pirate at any time and rob you.

    "What Chen Jianghua and Ren Nan encountered was the British pirate ship.An unequal naval battle broke out. The British pirate ship opposite had a displacement of at least 600 tons and was equipped with 36 cannons. There were nearly 200 sailors on the ship who could initiate a gang-hopping war at any time.  And this poor merchant ship, whether it is tonnage, artillery, or combat effectiveness in gang fighting, is incomparable to it.

    The British pirate ship approached quickly, and then fired two salvos at the poor merchant ship from a distance of less than 40 meters.  Then approaching, the pirates threw hooks, pulled ropes, or flew over with ropes swinging from the sails howling.

    The great poet Pushkin left many words about war, but then died in a duel.  This fully illustrates a problem: most literary and artistic young people will not become a qualified soldier.  When the gang war started, the literary young woman Ren Nan covered her face with her hands and could only scream. The literary young man Chen Jianghua only took a few seconds to empty the bullets in his pistol, and then spent the next twenty minutes  , I kept trying to reload with trembling hands. Every time I reloaded, the bullets would fall all over the floor due to the excessive shaking.  Curse, pray, reload, repeat.  Until the end of the battle.

    Those twenty mercenary bodyguards played a great role.  Only twenty people firmly guarded a corner of the ship, and the sailors on the merchant ship only resisted for less than five minutes before being defeated after the captain was unfortunately stabbed into a hornet's nest.  Shotguns and revolvers kept roaring, and bullets shot into the chests of every pirate who tried to approach, and then bloomed into enchanting red flowers.

    The powerful fighting power of the mercenaries far exceeded the pirates' expectations, so the pirates were angry. They brought in a cannon and knocked down half of the mercenaries with one shot.  Fortunately, there is always a way out. In desperation, the pirate ship suddenly issued an order to retreat.  In the distance, a French warship was approaching quickly.  In just a moment, the pirates quickly retreated to their ships.

    But you can¡¯t expect the pirates to be very kind at this time, so before leaving, these guys angrily fired a row of artillery, beating the poor merchant ship into a sieve.  The water leaked quickly and could not be stopped even by plugging.

    What¡¯s even worse is that the French warship seems to be more interested in pirates. It ignores the pleas for help from the two artistic young people on the merchant ship, and draws a beautiful arc to chase the pirate ship.  Two hours later, when the French warship returned, the poor merchant ship had only one mast left.

    Chen Jianghua and Ren Nan were rescued, but their moods at the moment were worse than when their biological father died.  As the merchant ship sank, all the gold coins earned from selling Australian specialties in Lisbon sank to the bottom of the sea.  More than half of the guards died, and only eight were left. Then because they were soaked in seawater, the guards had to throw away all their advanced Australian firearms in order to ensure they floated on the surface.  What's more terrible is that the two of them had to face the French captain's blackmail The Frenchman was very confident and said that because the ship was not a French ship, he had no obligation to rescue it.  And out of compassion, he showed mercy and rescued them, so he could take part of the property with peace of mind What the hell!

    For a moment, Chen Jianghua even wanted to get angry, jump up and slap the damn French guy hard, and then asked him where his chivalry and humanitarianism were But he looked at the others and cowered.  Chen Jianghua endured the shrinking virtues.  People have to bow their heads under the eaves. God knows what immoral things the French guy will do if he doesn't agree to the other party.

    Chen Jianghua searched all over his body and finally gave the Frenchman a delicate watch.  At the same time, European watchmakers could only make one pocket watch.  And because of the precision of Australian processing, craftsmen can easily create mechanical watches from the mid-20th century.  Obviously, the French guy was very satisfied with the exquisite watch, and the rest of the trip did not embarrass the two artistic young people.

    ¡°But what Chen Jianghua couldn¡¯t bear was that he and the eight bodyguards had to mix with those dirty sailors.  And Ren Nan was actually invited by a French guy to the captain's cabin for dinner Damn French guy, is the spirit of a gentleman only for women?

    After a day of sailing, the French warship docked.  Not the original destination of Le Havre, but an inconspicuous small seaport: Lorient.  After getting off the boat, the two artistic young people had to face an embarrassing fact.

    They are penniless and cannot even solve the most basic problem of eating.  He was accompanied by eight disarmed foodie bodyguards and a translator hired in Lisbon.  The translator kept reminding him that his salary was paid once a week. If he didn't get his salary after three days, he would leave.

    In a strange French town, hungry and hungry, two young literary men wanted to cry but had no tears.  If I had known this, I would never have come to Europe!  Literary youth, it¡¯s really a disease!

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