Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 273 The King's Division is Coming to Goa City

Goa City.

Ming soldier Zhang Chun was walking on the soft beach wearing heavy shackles, carrying a wooden box filled with Indian ivory on his shoulders.

The wooden box was as heavy as the shackles on his body and almost crushed his waist.

But Zhang Chun didn't dare to put the wooden box down, or even fall down, because once he put the wooden box down, he would be whipped by the Portuguese who were monitoring him, and if he broke the ivory, he might even be beaten to death.

However, Zhang Chun still looked up at the vast ocean. Ever since he was attacked by the Portuguese fleet when he followed Minister Xia on a western tour, he unfortunately became a prisoner of the Portuguese fleet stationed in Goa.

He still remembered that he had been held captive here for four years, but he still hoped that one day he would see the Ming fleet come to pick him up.

Snapped!
When the Portuguese Buansi saw Zhang Chun lost in thought, he whipped him and scolded him in Portuguese: "You lowly yellow dog, do your job well, or I'll throw you into the sea to feed the fish!"

As he said this, Bu Anxi whipped Zhang Chun again, leaving a bloody mark on his back. Zhang Chun bit his lips tightly in pain. He hated these Portuguese who treated him like a non-human being. He wished he could cut them into pieces, but he could not resist now. Therefore, he knew he could only endure it, hoping to have a chance to avenge his previous humiliation!
……

"Ah! Spare my life!"

Zhang Chun heard a miserable scream in front of him, and saw that it was his comrade Zheng Lun who was being whipped by a group of Portuguese. These Portuguese even dragged Zheng Lun to the beach by his hair, and Zheng Lun was scratched by the rocks on the beach and his whole body was covered in blood!

"Let him go, he's only a fifteen-year-old boy!"

In a hurry, Zhang Chun didn't care about anything else. He threw the wooden box on his shoulder to the ground, ran over dragging the iron chain, and directly pushed away several Portuguese who were abusing Zheng Lun.

When the Portuguese Budossi saw Zhang Chun throw a whole box of ivory looted by the Governor on the ground, he became furious and chased after him with a whip, beating Zhang Chun fiercely:

"You lowly yellow dog! How dare you throw the ivory! Do you want to die? You bastard!"

"You should have the consciousness of a slave! You are such a bastard!"

"Since the chains can't hold you up, there's no need for you to live! I'll beat you to death, you yellow dog!"

Budosi beat Zhang Chun and insulted him at the same time.

Zhang Chun simply blocked Zheng Lun under his body and let Budusi whip him.

Seeing this, several other Portuguese also laughed. One of them, Acker, laughed even louder: "This yellow dog is a loyal slave. In this case, let's see how loyal he is!"

As Aker said this, he kicked Zhang Chun, causing Zhang Chun to fall to the side.

Then, another Portuguese man stepped on Zhang Chun's stomach. Zhang Chun couldn't help vomiting and spit out all the acid in his stomach. Before he could see clearly who kicked him, another punch came at his eyes, which made him see stars.

These Portuguese from Lisbon were originally bandits who came to plunder the whole world. Before that, they had suffered losses at the hands of the Ming fleet and even lost the route east of Malacca, which caused them to suffer great losses. Then, they did not gain much advantage from the Ming's Western Patrol Fleet, so they could only vent their anger on these captured ordinary Ming soldiers.

Zheng Lun couldn't help but tremble in fear when he saw so many Portuguese people beating up Zhang Chun. However, he also knew that Zhang Chun was being beaten because of him, so he kowtowed and shouted:

"Gentlemen! Please spare him, please spare him!"

The Portuguese were tired of fighting and stopped. Zhang Chun, covered in blood, didn't know what time it was when he woke up. He only knew that it was night and a bright starry sky appeared on the sea. Some stars even formed the shape of a ship. It seemed like a ship from the Ming Dynasty, coming to take them back.

"Brother Zhang Chun! This is a piece of bread I stole, please have some," Zheng Lun appeared in front of Zhang Chun at this time, handing him a piece of white bread and half a bottle of water in a wooden barrel.

"Thank you, brother Zheng Lun."

Zhang Chun looked at the night sky in the east for a while, then smiled and took the bread from Zheng Lun. He took a bite, chewed and ate and said, "Don't steal next time. We are government troops and cannot steal. Besides, if we are caught, those Westerners will beat you up again!"

"But I was really hungry so I had to steal. Besides, those natives were stealing too so it would be fine. Those Westerners would rather scatter bread into the sea than give us food. They only let us eat a small amount of food and then work for them. They want to work us to death!"

Zheng Lun said.

Zhang Chun knew that Zheng Lun was sold to Westerners by his clan elders at the age of twelve in exchange for ten taels of silver to help him bury his father, and then was brought here as a slave. But after all, he was only a fifteen-year-old boy, and it was the age when a young boy could eat his father to death. Now being enslaved and only eating a small amount of moldy black bread was naturally not enough, so he didn't say much, just sighed and said, "Do you think we still have a chance to return to the Ming Dynasty?"

Zheng Lun couldn't help but look towards the night sky in the east and replied, "I don't know, Brother Zhang Chun, do you think we will die here?"

Before Zhang Chun could answer, several Indians came over with a Portuguese and pointed at Zhang Chun and Zheng Lun, saying, "Sir, these two yellow dogs stole the bread. Look, the bread is still in his hand!"

The Portuguese man was immediately furious and picked up Zhang Chun and punched him, causing him to fall to the ground with a big swelling on his face. Zheng Lun was so anxious that he shouted and pointed at the Indians:
"It was obviously you who stole it first! How dare you, you, file a complaint first!"

The Portuguese man did not understand Zheng Lun's Hakka dialect, so he just beat Zhang Chun until he was almost dead. He then left. Before leaving, he trampled the bread Zheng Lun gave Zhang Chun into crumbs on the beach.

"You lowly yellow dog wanting to eat white bread!"

After the Portuguese left, Zheng Lun dared to help Zhang Chun up: "Brother Zhang Chun, are you okay?"

"I-I'm fine!"

As soon as Zhang Chun finished speaking, he saw a hot liquid splashing on his face, which smelled like urine. Zhang Chun blinked and saw that it was those Indians who had urinated on him and were talking and laughing at him, full of sarcasm.

Seeing this, Zheng Lun was so angry that he rushed over to attack these Indians: "You, you are going too far!"

But because Zheng Lun was handcuffed and young, he was unable to defeat these Indians and was pinned to the ground and beaten by them.

Zhang Chun was covered in wounds and could only watch, shouting, "How can the Chinese people tolerate such humiliation? If I, Zhang Chun, have a chance to go back, I will do everything I can to kill you all! You bastards! You dare not resist when you are bullied by Westerners, but you come to bully us!"

Snapped!
A Portuguese man fired a shot, stopping the Indians from beating Zheng Lun, and the Indians were so scared that they fled.

Then, Zhang Chun saw a Portuguese man dressed in rich clothes pointing at him and Zheng Lun and saying something.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Chun and Zheng Lun were dragged into a barracks by several Portuguese. In this barracks, there were not only him and Zheng Lun, but also other captured Ming soldiers or abducted Ming civilians.

……

At this time, a Portuguese fleet general, Kerke, was saying to Amer, the Portuguese (Portuguese) governor-general in India: "Your Excellency, are you saying that the Ming Empire is really going to attack Goa?"

"It's true! This is confirmed news. Their fleet has already bypassed the peninsula (Indian Peninsula) and will probably reach us soon. Last time, the huge fleet led by Marshal Didos attacked their western patrol fleet but failed to gain any advantage. Now, I'm afraid our fleet will also be unable to resist!"

Amel said as he sighed very depressedly.

"Then do we need to evacuate here?" asked Kirk.

"It is impossible to evacuate. Our great Portuguese Empire has been operating here for decades. How can we just evacuate? There is endless wealth here. How can we give it to the Orientals? Even if we are willing, the king will not be willing! The nobles of the Portuguese Empire will not be willing either! We can only fight to the end!"

Amer said directly.

"In this case, how should we respond? Please give us your instructions, Governor!" Kerke asked.

"These Orientals are greedy and have acquired so much wealth, yet they keep fighting for our territory. We cannot let Goa City fall into their hands any longer. I have already sent people back to my country to ask for help!

In addition, I have another way. The way is that the Orientals in Goa City now, their empire promulgated the outline of the constitution several years ago, and their emperor personally said that the empire has the obligation to protect its citizens. In this case, we will tie these Orientals to the warships and artillery platforms! In this way, they will not dare to attack in a short time, unless they are willing to violate the constitution and bombard their citizens! When the time comes, when my reinforcements arrive, they can be repelled!"

Amer said.

Soon, the Portuguese army in the entire Goa city began to tie up Ming army prisoners like Zhang Chun and Zheng Lun, as well as abducted Ming civilians, and put them on artillery positions and ships.

"Asshole! Hurry up!"

The Portuguese Budusi whipped Zhang Chun, leaving not a single part of his body intact, and Zhang Chun could only grit his teeth and endure it.

At this time, Zheng Lun couldn't help but ask Zhang Chun: "Brother Zhang Chun, are they going to send us home?"

"No, they want to take us hostage, otherwise they wouldn't have tied us to the mast and the gun platform. It seems that my Ming Dynasty's royal army is coming to rescue us, so these hateful Portuguese are scared!" Zhang Chun laughed.

Zheng Chun couldn't help but be excited: "That's great, Master Wang is here to save us!"

Zhang Chun couldn't help but shout excitedly: "Brothers, Master Wang is coming! We can go back now!"

Then, all the captured Ming soldiers shouted: "The royal army is coming, we can go back now!"

The entire sea was filled with the shouts of captured Ming soldiers and Ming civilians, all the voices of the Han people, filled with hope and excitement!
The Portuguese were so angry that they tried to stop the noise with whips, but their efforts were in vain. The whips could not stop the Ming soldiers and civilians from returning home!

(End of this chapter)