Later, various rebel fugitives from other countries, as well as declining family leaders came to defect with their warships and men, making him extremely powerful for a time.
He led his men to rob merchant ships everywhere on the ocean, even pirate ships or small-scale warship fleets!
Many merchant ships carrying black slaves bought and sold from Africa were also snatched and kept by him to reclaim wasteland on the Odalia continent, herd cattle and sheep, and plant rubber...
This guy is quite smart. Although he occupies a large area of Odalia, he has not established himself as the king. Instead, he has always regarded himself as the exiled Duke of Mona Country.
He also claimed that his people from the other five countries were still loyal to their respective kings, so as to prevent them from sending troops to clean up. This is the origin of the so-called "Six-Nation Alliance" title.
But their wanton plundering of merchant ships still angered the powerful British country, mainly hurting their interests at sea...
So he sent a joint fleet to destroy them. Saladin knew how powerful the opponent was and that his gang was no match. So he made a prompt decision, brought all the gold and silver belongings, and loaded as many slaves as possible. It is heading straight to the distant east.
As far as he knew, the maritime power of the Great Zhou Dynasty was extremely weak, and Yizhou Island was extremely rich, so he took this as his target and prepared to establish a foothold here.
In fact, just as he expected, the Dazhou navy stationed in Yizhou was simply vulnerable. It took less than a day to completely defeat it and successfully occupied several ports with extremely weak defenses.
However, when advancing towards the hinterland, they encountered stubborn resistance. Although the Dazhou navy was weak, the land forces had considerable combat power. After several battles, both sides suffered heavy losses, forming a confrontation.
But Saladin is not worried, because this is a lone army, and as long as external rescue is cut off, they will collapse sooner or later.
In addition, he is also preparing to send envoys to negotiate with Dazhou, use his powerful fleet to intimidate Dazhou into submission, and voluntarily hand over Yizhou...
The idea is too naive.
But before he could send out the envoy, Ullman and Wu Hanming were greeted first. Saladin had no idea where this huge fleet came from?
He thought it was the English fleet that had traveled thousands of miles to pursue him, but now he had nowhere to escape and had no choice but to fight to the death!
Mr. Xiao Chen, you will know what happened next. If I had known that your Zhou navy was so powerful, I would not have dared to invade anyway. I would rather go somewhere else.
But then again, maybe meeting Mr. Xiao Chen was God’s arrangement and destiny. In short, from now on, I will always follow you!
It was impossible for Xiao Chen to let him follow him, and he didn't care about his loyalty. It was enough to say that he didn't kill him, and this person was obviously a bane, and he definitely couldn't stay.
The reason why I drank and chatted with him was actually just to understand the situation in Odalia and the situation in the Western world.
Saladin knew everything and talked endlessly. When he was happy after drinking some wine, he talked endlessly until he was drunk.
The next day, Xiao Chen gave him a sum of money and a ship to send him and all his leaders away.
He also asked Dugulou to send people to find out about the situation of the other prisoners. As long as they have skills and are willing to stay, they will all stay. The rest will be given some travel expenses and sent to get out!
But how to deal with those black slaves has become a problem. They have nowhere to go and have no home, because if they are sent back, sooner or later they will be captured and used as slaves.
And these guys lived a very happy life in Yizhou these days. They had enough to eat and drink, and all the sick were treated without being beaten or scolded...
We don't want to leave, please stay.
Because you are the kindest, kindest, and least abusive slave masters we know, we are willing to stay and work for you, no matter what you do, as long as you don’t beat us, don’t kill us, and let us have enough food. That’s it.
Xiao Chen doesn't have any bad feelings towards them, but he doesn't have any good impressions either. As slaves, they are certainly very miserable, but if they are given freedom, they may turn into a bunch of lazy, trouble-making people!
It would be okay if the number of people was small, but there were more than 20,000 people, including men and women...but there were no old, weak, sick or disabled, because they were all 'high-quality' slaves specially selected by Saladin when he ran away. .
How to arrange this is really a problem.
They cannot be sent away, nor can they continue to be slaves. If they are given land to cultivate, they are afraid that they will let themselves go and become the source of chaos in Yizhou. Moreover, they do not know the Chinese language and it will be difficult to integrate with the local people.
Xu Haiming saw that all of them were extremely strong and were excellent laborers. He suggested that he should just hire them as workers. Yizhou now lacks such strong laborers. If they can't do fine work, why can't they do rough work?
For example, dock workers, construction workers, porters... Xiao Chen said you don't know them. If they can work so hard, I will just keep them all. Is it still embarrassing?
We certainly cannot treat them as slaves and use sticks and whips to drive them to work, but if we let them work in the form of employment...
I'm afraid it may not be able to meet your expectations, Haiming. If you don't believe it, you can try it with them first. If it works, let's do it for you. If it doesn't, we will think of other ways.
The result is really bad.
When these guys learned that they had regained their freedom and received some money, they immediately let themselves go!
They took the money and went to the town market to buy wine and sell meat. When they came back, they started to hold a grand carnival party, singing, dancing and drunkenly. More than a dozen campsites were boiling like a boiling pot, disturbing the surrounding people all night long. Neither could sleep.
They thought the party was just one time, but unexpectedly, they partyed for seven or eight days before they finally stopped. The reason for the stop was very simple, that is, all their money was spent!
But they had no money and were unwilling to work as laborers. The recruitment office set up by Xu Haiming outside their camp only recruited a few hundred people, and the others refused to work for various weird reasons.
For example, we were injured before, were beaten on the ship, drank too much and vomited, and ate too much to hold ourselves up. Anyway, if we don’t work, you have to take care of the food, so why should we work? In addition, we have to seriously protest, why are the meals we eat so bad?
They only have coarse grains, vegetables and tasteless soup, but those soldiers eat a lot of meat and fish?
Let us work and earn money to buy it ourselves?
But why can they enjoy life without having to work?
Anyway, if we don't work, you won't force us, right?
That's fine, we don't want to work because we are free...
