Chapter 32 They Came from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Long hair!
It's the Taiping Army! The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
"Are you the Taiping Army?"
Zhu Xianhai looked at them and noticed that none of them had braids.
"Brother Zhu knows about the Taiping Army?"
I know this very well!
Zhu Xianhai nodded.
"I've heard people mention the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Didn't they say that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied Nanjing? But how did you get here?"
Although I have heard that after the failure of the Taiping Rebellion, many Taiping Army soldiers drifted to South America, that would have to wait a few years. They... came a little early!
"How did we get here? We just lost the battle and were captured by the Qing monsters."
Sun Hu said cursingly.
"That damn Qing demon is a piece of shit. He said he would let us go home if we surrendered, but he turned his back and sold us to the foreigners ..."
"Brother Zhu, you don't know that four years ago, just after we broke through the Qing Yao's 'Jiangnan Camp', the Northern King led his troops to attack the Eastern King's Palace. No matter whether it was the Eastern King or his subordinates, they all wanted to kill them all. We are on the Eastern King's side. At that time, the brigade commander saw that the situation was not good and led us to escape from Tianjing City overnight. Because we had nowhere else to go, we had to surrender to the Qing Yao."
Before Li Fugui could finish speaking, Wang Dewen started cursing.
"So what about that damn demon who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty? He was still beheaded by the Qing Dynasty demon. Those Guangdong barbarians died, but what about us? We have suffered a great crime..."
"That's not true!"
Sun Hu continued.
"At that time, the damn Qing demons said that we could go home, but after they killed all the Cantonese people, they turned their backs on us. That night, they filled us up with wine, saying it was a practice wine. What is a practice wine? They just wanted to get us drunk!"
"Yes, they made us drunk and confused, and then made us put our fingerprints on some confession. Damn Qing Yao, it's nothing. What kind of confession is that? It's just a contract to sell your body! It takes more than ten years of working for foreigners to pay off the contract!"
"I was so drunk at the time, who knew what I was pressing?"
"Even if you didn't drink, how could you recognize those foreign characters? Then, when we woke up from a sleep, we didn't know when we got on the boat, and our hands and feet were shackled. We went out to sea in a daze, and we didn't know how long we stayed on the sea, a few months, or how long. Anyway, we stayed on the boat. They tied us up like that, and when we were hungry or thirsty, they put some food and water in the wooden trough, and we knelt down to eat, with our faces stuck in the trough, just like tied dogs!"
Talking about what happened on the boat, Sun Er's face was still filled with hatred.
Listening to their stories, Zhu Xianhai frowned. He never expected that the Qing Dynasty not only killed people, but also sold their compatriots to foreigners as slaves. This was simply... In fact, to the Qing Dynasty, weren't the Han people slaves?
They are not even worthy of being slaves! Slaves and bondservants, but they are their own people, are the Han people worthy?
"And what happened next?"
Zhu Xianhai asked.
"Later, when we got ashore, we were sold to the gold mines. They said we were indentured workers, but in fact we were slaves. We were not allowed to go out anywhere..."
"We're still going out. When have they ever treated human beings? When we were panning for gold in the mine, the sun burned us to death, but they didn't even look at us."
"Take a look? Those white pigs, if they take a look at you, they will die. Have you forgotten how Li Laosan from Wuhu died?"
Li Erqiang took a sip of wine and cursed.
"Damn it, I still can't forget it. That damned black bastard looked at the mosquito bites and muddy scars on Li Laosan's back and said he had smallpox. He knocked him down with a stick, grabbed his feet, and dragged him to the river, and threw him into the river. A crocodile opened its mouth and bit his shoulder immediately. The man screamed in the water for a long time, and was dragged to the shore by the crocodile and eaten alive..."
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Listening to Li Erqiang's story, Zhu Xianhai's eyes widened with anger and his hands clenched into fists.
"This, this... this was all done by that person..."
"Are those people human? Do they deserve it?"
Li Fugui, with a painful look on his face, took off his clothes and said.
"Brother Zhu, look, what's on us?"
In the sunlight, you can clearly see Li Fugui's scarred back.
The backs of the other people were also covered with scars from being whipped. The shocking scars made Zhu Xianhai's eyes widen.
"Those bastards are not human. Even if they were humans commanding animals, they wouldn't do that to humans. They would just kill them if they caught them."
Looking at the scars on their bodies, Zhu Xianhai felt a surge of anger in his heart, and the fire was burning.
"Then how did you escape?"
"How can we escape? Who can live like that? They don't treat us as human beings. If we want to live, we have to escape. Two years ago, when they were celebrating that damn Christmas and the sentries were away, we killed a few guards, took a few foreign guns, and then escaped."
Li Fugui took a sip of wine and continued.
"We escaped, but where did we run to? We didn't know, but we just ran. Some of them were chasing us, so we just ran southwards in the woods. We didn't know how long we ran, and then we followed a ship to here. After more than a hundred years of brothers, there were only eighteen of us who survived. But, what can we do now..."
"Yeah, now that I'm here, I can't go back home. I can't go back in this lifetime!"
"Go back? How? Can you afford the boat ticket?"
"That's right. Even if you can afford it, you will still be beheaded by the government when you return."
Looking at them all drinking alone, Zhu Xianhai sighed.
"Hey, brothers, you have suffered a lot. If you don't mind, you can live with me from now on. Anyway, my factory needs manpower. Don't worry, as long as I have something to eat, I will never let you go hungry, and I will not let you get paid unfairly."
"This this……"
Li Fugui and the others said with their eyes wide open.
"This, this is good. It's still satisfying to work for your own people."
"From now on, I'll rely on Brother Zhu to take care of me."
"Don't you think we have finally gotten what we deserved? We never thought that one day we would meet a good man like Brother Zhu here."
As everyone was thinking about their luck, Li Fugui sighed.
"Hey, we met some good people, but, what do you think of them now?"
