Wind Rises in North America 1625

Chapter 43 Order
On the evening of June 6, when Kuang Xu and several cadet soldiers on guard duty arrived in front of a wooden house with muskets in hand, they saw a group of Spaniards gathered in a circle, watching two men who were wrestling inside, whistling, laughing, and shouting, making an extremely noisy scene.

"Stop it!" Kuang Xu pushed the crowd away and shouted loudly.

However, the two men who were fighting to a standstill turned a deaf ear to him and continued to attack each other fiercely, with every punch hitting the flesh and every move deadly, as if they were already desperate.

"You, you, go and pull them apart!" Kuang Xu casually pointed at two Spaniards who were watching the fun.

When Rafa Mir was forcibly pulled away, he was bleeding from his mouth and nose and one of his eyes was bruised, but his eyes were still wide open and he was roaring and cursing at an Alvarez opposite him.

Although Alvarez, who was standing opposite him, was not seriously injured due to his strong body, his clothes were torn to shreds, there was a deep scratch on his face, and his ear was bleeding. He looked extremely miserable.

Faced with Mil's roar, he was unwilling to give in. He waved his fists and struggled to break free from his companion's restraints, wanting to go forward and teach him a lesson.

"What's going on?" Kuang Xu glanced coldly at the Spaniard in front of him.

Under his gaze, everyone lowered their heads and dared not speak.

"Mil, you say!" Kuang Xu looked at Mil, who still had an indignant look on his face, and asked in a deep voice.

"Sir,...he is a scoundrel, a shameless bastard, and a damn villain!" Mil pointed at Alvarez opposite him and scolded angrily.

"Enough!" Seeing Lin Afu beside him just smiling bitterly and shaking his head without translating, Kuang Xu guessed that Mir must be yelling at him pointlessly, so he shouted sharply: "I'm asking you why you're fighting? ... Answer me honestly!"

"Sir, he... insulted my wife!"

"Huh?" Kuang Xu got angry immediately after hearing that. He turned around and glared at Alvarez, his hand subconsciously reaching for the dagger at his waist.

Raping someone else’s wife or daughter is the greatest sin!
You are so fucking incompetent!

"Sir, I...I...didn't!" Alvarez panicked when he saw the Chinese leader staring at him fiercely. He waved his hands repeatedly, "Sir, it's...daytime now. How dare I...touch his wife?"

"Huh? You don't dare to move during the day, so you have to do dirty things at night?" Kuang Xu asked sinisterly.

These Spaniards, their daily work is too easy!
"Sir, I... didn't..."

Alvarez felt an inexplicable chill. When the Chinese leader captured their "St. Louis", he shot and killed several sailors on the spot without blinking an eye.

During the raid on the Mexican town, it was this Chinese leader who raised his musket and fired three shots in quick succession, quickly killing three townspeople who were trying to escape.

Alvarez was present at both murders, and his calmness and ruthlessness were quite impressive.

Normally, he is a serious person, but now he has a murderous look on his face, how can he not be scared?

If he just raised his gun and shot him, how could he escape?

The thing is, he didn't really do anything!
"Sir, he just touched Mill's wife's...buttocks and said some...inappropriate words." At this time, someone next to him weakly defended him.

After listening to Lin Afu's translation, Kuang Xu's expression eased a little, but he still stared at Alvarez seriously.

"I'm sorry, sir. I... I was wrong." Alvarez lowered his head and said in a low voice, "I couldn't control myself. I am indeed a bastard. I shouldn't have... teased Mil's wife. ... I am willing to accept the punishment!"

"Mil, what do you say?" Kuang Xu looked at Mil, whose emotions had calmed down, expressionlessly.

"I..." Mil was stunned.

In fact, after being held tightly by someone just now, he gradually calmed down and realized that he shouldn't be so impulsive.

They are a group of pirates!
They followed the Chinese and forced him and his family onto the boat, and then drifted all the way to this remote island.

They needed their help in teaching how to plow the fields and how to tend the crops. They should be considered their indentured workers or slaves.

Despite this, these Chinese people were kind to him and gave him and his family relatively thoughtful care.

But to put it bluntly, they were just using his agricultural planting techniques to get him to help grow food so that they could achieve self-sufficiency in food.

No matter how kind they are to us, they are still a group of pirates after all!

What if he angered them? Would it bring serious harm to himself and his family? Therefore, when the Chinese turned around to ask for his opinion, Mil was in great turmoil.

Could he still punish the damn villain in front of him for his own sake?

They are in the same group!

He hesitated and retreated a little.

"Mil..." Kuang Xu couldn't help but frown.

"Sir, I... I'm fine." Mil shook his head with difficulty.

"Ok?"

"Sir, I think that the matter between us has been... settled and does not need to be dealt with further." Mil gently wiped the blood from his nose and lowered his head.

For the sake of your family, just bear with it.

"You two, follow me." Kuang Xu sighed slightly and instructed Mil and Alvarez.

As he spoke, he waved his hand, signaling the gathered crowd to disperse immediately, then turned around and led his people towards the decision-making committee office.

Shixing Fort should have a simple written law, instead of doing things on its own as it does now and continuing to rule the people by relying on the authority they have established.
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"That's right, we should enact a law." Luo Zhenhui nodded in agreement after hearing Li Xianqing's words. "Although we only have a few hundred people at present, we can't rely on everyone's moral standards to constrain each other's behavior, nor can we rely on our big stick to correct all kinds of illegal or improper behavior."

"Yes, even Liu Bang had three laws when he entered Guanzhong. As a group from the civilized world, we must not only abide by existing moral constraints, but also have written laws to regulate and correct everyone's behavior. But the problem is, we don't have a single legal professional in our group to do this."

"You mean, we should gather everyone's opinions, list all the legal provisions we can think of, and then make some minor changes to form a simple written law?"

"In fact, we don't just need our own people to list the various legal provisions. We can ask the Spanish to come up with corresponding suggestions and drafts, and then learn from and absorb them, so as to formulate legal provisions that are both in line with this era and beneficial to our governance and management needs."

"Yes, I agree." Luo Zhenhui nodded. "Anything we do and any decision we make must be tailored to local conditions and fully consider the unique circumstances of this period. We absolutely cannot act in isolation and act on our own. You've considered this more thoroughly and completely than I have. So, let's pool our collective wisdom and initiative to draft this interim law, thereby ensuring a stable and harmonious social environment for future development."

"Then, we'll draft a temporary law and find time to organize a general meeting," Li Xianqing said. "However, it's difficult to hold this meeting. So far, only a few of these Spaniards can speak a complete sentence in Chinese."

"Didn't I tell Chen Rui and Lin Afu to teach them Chinese when they have time?"

"They only speak a little Spanish, so it's probably a little bit of a stretch to teach those Spaniards to speak Chinese," Li Xianqing said with a smile. "After all this time, only a dozen or so people can speak simple, everyday Chinese. If we want them to fully understand complex or unfamiliar Chinese vocabulary, it will probably take several more years."

"Besides, with so much hard work to do every day, how could those Spaniards have the energy to learn Chinese after dinner? In the future, they can only learn Chinese slowly through constant contact and communication."

"Oh." Luo Zhenhui had a strange look on his face after hearing this. "Old Li, do you think we should take some time to go to Daming?"

"Now?"

"Of course not now." Luo Zhenhui shook his head and said, "At the very least, we have to wait until the autumn harvest is over before we can consider setting off. I'm thinking that we're too weak right now, and we need to find a way to get some people back from the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, with only about fifty of us, managing nearly a hundred Spaniards and over two hundred Native Americans, it doesn't feel very secure."

"Indeed." Li Xianqing nodded, but raised a pointed question. "To recruit immigrants to the Ming Dynasty, we must have some money. Not to mention the large amount of water and supplies we need for our return voyage, even after landing in the Ming Dynasty, we must rent a place to temporarily accommodate the transferred immigrants, as well as purchase the necessary production and daily necessities. ... All of this costs money!"

"We captured the Spanish galleon 'St. Louis,' which contained a lot of valuable oriental goods."

"These things can be exchanged for a lot of money in Mexico, but if they are sold back to Ming Dynasty, it will be a loss."

"Then we will sell these goods to Mexico."

"Ah!" Li Xianqing looked at the other party in surprise, "This is very... dangerous."

"Sometimes, it's worth taking a risk." Luo Zhenhui took a deep breath and said, "Remember what Lin Afu and that Harvey told us? ... There are a certain number of Chinese people in Mexico."

"what do you mean……"

"Then we'll see if we can have Lin Afu sneak into the port of Acapulco and explore the route to see if we can contact some Chinese or Spanish dealers who can sell stolen goods."

(End of this chapter)