Chapter 4428 Chapter 4430 [Fountain of Youth]
With Xiang Nan's vigorous promotion, the belief in the monkey **** Chak Baba soon spread in Port Royal and Tetuga.
On the one hand, Xiang Nan does have real abilities, and he spends money like water and is generous with money, which naturally attracts believers; on the other hand, in the Caribbean in the 18th century, people's lives were indeed miserable.
At that time, people in the Caribbean were either farming on plantations, fishing at sea, running boats, or being pirates.
Regardless of whether you are farming, fishing, running a boat, or working as a pirate, you have to rely on the sky for your livelihood.
The Caribbean has a tropical marine climate, and the weather is changeable, especially from June to November, when cyclone activity is intensive.
In other words, half of the year, people in the Caribbean face the threat of storms, showers, and even hurricanes. Once a hurricane strikes, crops will be uprooted and ships may be swallowed by the sea. Their wealth and lives naturally went with them.
In addition to the harsh climate, dirty living environment, backward medical technology, and heavy daily work also threaten people's lives.
At that time, people did not have the concept and conditions to take a bath every day, and most people might not be able to take a bath once a year. In "Pirates of the Caribbean 5", Captain Jack Sparrow laughs at himself for never taking a shower.
Domestic garbage is also thrown away everywhere, so feces and urine are everywhere. The reason why high heels and parasols were invented in Europe was to prevent people from stepping on feces on the ground and being splashed with feces and urine while walking on the road.
This makes it easy for plagues to spread, such as colds, dysentery, typhoid, malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, and even syphilis and smallpox.
Therefore, the mortality rate of the people at that time was very high.
According to statistics, in the 18th century, one-third of white immigrants would die within three years of arriving in the New World. At that time, about 20% of the total population died every year in Jamaica.
These were free white immigrants, and the fate of those slaves was even more tragic.
When many slaves are trafficked, a quarter will die on the ship, and of the rest, a third will die within three years when they arrive in the Caribbean.
Therefore, many plantation owners need to purchase 10% of slaves every year, otherwise, there will not be enough manpower to work.
Life expectancy in Britain at that time was thirty-five years, while in the Caribbean life expectancy was only ten years.
Therefore, the people of the Caribbean cannot say that they keep their heads in their belts all the time, but they also suffer from hardships all year round and are threatened by diseases, plagues, and famines.
Therefore, it is easier for them to believe in gods and place their safety and well-being on unknown gods. After all, as the saying goes, people are not lucky unless they are unlucky.
Because of this, the number of followers of the monkey **** Chak Baba grew rapidly.
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Of course, Xiang Nan's main focus was not on helping Chak Baba preach.
Because Chak Baba is a **** in name, but in fact he is very weak and is just a weak Loa god.
Because the Mountain God and the Land God can also protect one side, not only good weather, but also the fairies and wild monsters that are not too powerful, they can also help to deal with the local people so that they will not be harmed.
But Chak Baba does not have this kind of strength. He can only bless his followers, making them faster and more alert. After all, He is just a monkey god, and His followers are all black people in the African jungle. The biggest threats we face every day are not being able to hunt and not being able to eat.
Therefore, the monkey **** Chak Baba has no ability to bless believers to make a fortune, protect believers from good health, protect believers from gaining love, protect believers from being bullied, etc.
Therefore, serving such a **** will not improve Xiang Nan's strength much. If you want to improve your strength, you still have to rely on yourself.
So he soon embarked on a new adventure, the first stop being to find the Fountain of Youth.
He wants to explore the secret of the Fountain of Youth and retrieve Ponce de Leon's treasure along the way.
Ponce de Leon was a sixteenth-century Spanish adventurer who was a real person in history. At the end of the fifteenth century, he embarked on an adventure with Columbus and later alone.
He successively led troops to conquer Puerto Rico, Florida and other places, and served as the governor of Puerto Rico, Florida and the Mini Islands. According to historical records, he did search for the Fountain of Youth and died in a battle with the local indigenous people.
Xiang Nan knew that Ponce de Leon finally found the Fountain of Youth, but he was also cursed by the mermaid and died there. And his San Diego is now in Whitecaps Bay.
Whitecaps Bay is a notorious and creepy place in southern Florida.
Because legend has it that there are mermaids there. Mermaids not only have stunning beauty, but also have beautiful singing voices. They also use their beauty and singing to seduce passing ships.
When people on the boat see their beautiful faces and hear their moving songs, they can't help but jump into the sea. Then they will be caught by the mermaids and taken to the depths of the ocean to eat them alive.
As a result, Bailang Bay has gradually become a taboo place, and few ships dare to approach it, even ferocious and vicious pirates.
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Before going to Bailang Bay, Xiang Nan first went to find Jack Sparrow.
To be precise, it was these days when Jack Sparrow came to Weird George's store to find Xiang Nan whenever he was short of wine, and exchanged his previous adventure stories with Xiang Nan for drinks.
Jack Sparrow has many adventure stories before. He found the sword of the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortez, found the heart of Zerzula, the most precious treasure of the African tribe, and found the legendary Trident of Poseidon. Become the king of mermaids in just one click.
He also fought against the former pirate king Henry Morgan (one of the makers of the "Pirate Code"), the mysterious and strange witch Lady Midnight, and made a deal with the devil Davy Jones...
Coupled with the real and fake adventure experiences, a lot of wine was taken away from Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan has read the "Legend of Captain Jack" series of novels and knows some of Captain Jack's past and the adventures he described. Many of them are untrue, exaggerated, and some are even made up.
But Xiang Nan didn't care, he welcomed Jack to play with him.
"Boss, he is a liar. He only tells stories. Few people in the entire Tetuga Port believe him." Ryan Thomson, the owner of Weird George Store, advised Xiang Nandao.
Jack Sparrow now has a very bad reputation. Everyone knows that he was betrayed by his crew and is now so poor that no one regards him as a big shot anymore. Only he himself is still pretentious.
So Ryan Thomson was deeply dissatisfied with his use of false adventure stories to cheat people into drinking.