Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 760, the situation on the east coast of the Americas

In Penglai City of Huangjinzhou, in the city lord's mansion, Tian Erniu is entertaining Guo Ye who came from afar.

At the beginning of the year, Guo Ye led a huge fleet from Tianjin, passed through Songhu, Ryukyu, and Nanyang, and then traveled eastward after arriving in Australia, crossing the long Pacific Ocean. In July of the 7th year of Hongzhi, he finally Arrived in South Golden Continent.

Afterwards, the fleet was dispatched all the way north along the west coast of the Golden Island, and the connection with Hetian Erniu was soon established, but Guo Ye did not stay on the west coast for too long, but from the southernmost tip of the Golden Island. Bypassed the Drake Passage of posterity.

Of course, this strait has also been named Storm Strait by Guo Ye and others.

Generally speaking, the Pacific Ocean is very calm, with almost no waves, but the Atlantic Ocean is different, with very strong winds and waves.

In the strait between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, the storm is very strong, so Guo Ye and others also named this strait the Storm Strait.

After bypassing the Strait of Storms, Guo Ye led the fleet to go north along the east coast of Golden Island. While exploring the situation on the east coast, he also built colonial strongholds along the way. At the same time, more importantly, he supported the east coast. side.

Because the Europeans and Ming people met on the Golden Continent, and after the news spread in Europe, more and more people came to the Golden Continent, and many European countries also established colonies on the east coast of the Golden Continent. This poses a huge threat to Daming's Golden Continent strategy.

But on the east coast, Daming didn't have powerful ships, so he couldn't deal with these Europeans for a while, so although Tian Erniu was very impatient, he endured it.

After learning that Guo Ye had arrived at the Golden Continent from the southern hemisphere, he immediately sent an order to Guo Ye to lead his fleet around the southernmost point to the east coast, so as to maintain the power and presence of Ming Dynasty on the east coast of the Golden Continent.

Most importantly, Tian Erniu decided to teach these Europeans some lessons and let them know how powerful Da Ming is, otherwise they would simply not pay attention to Da Ming's claims on the Golden Continent.

From the day he came into contact with the Europeans, Tian Erniu followed Liu Jin's instructions and declared that the entire Golden Continent belonged to Ming Dynasty, and that the natives here were a branch of the Ming people, and Europeans were not allowed to touch the Golden Continent.

At the beginning, the Spaniards still admitted this and recognized Daming's ownership of the Golden Continent.

However, with more and more contacts and interactions with each other, the Spaniards gradually understood the situation on Daming's side.

This Golden Continent doesn't belong to Daming at all, and they only arrived at the Golden Continent a few years ago. Although the natives of this Golden Continent look a lot like Daming people, they are not Daming people at all.

So the Spaniards gradually did not recognize this matter.

The most important thing is that they also know that the main power of Ming Dynasty on the Golden Continent is concentrated on the west coast. On the east coast, there is only one Penglai City, and there are not many ships, let alone powerful warships.

So the Spaniards began to expose their robber nature.

Regardless of Tian Erniu's warning, they began to aggressively build colonies on the west coast to seize more colonies, and even demanded that the Aztec Kingdom must also build gold and silver from them. pyramids.

This greatly violated the interests of Daming and Tianjin Ocean Trading Company.

In addition to Spain, because they contacted the Ming people on the Golden Continent, they obtained Ming porcelain, silk, mirrors, sugar, spices, and other commodities that Europeans desperately needed.

Therefore, the Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British also came here one after another to build colonies on the east coast of the Golden Isle and seize the colonies.

Compared with the Spaniards, these people were even more excessive. Even the Vikings tried to sack Penglai City, but they were bombarded by Penglai City. They didn't know the power of the Daming Cannon until their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen.

Generally speaking, the situation on the east coast of the Golden Continent is not optimistic. The influx of Europeans poses a serious threat to Ming's plan to monopolize the Golden Continent.

Therefore, Tian Erniu must strengthen Daming's power on the east coast of the Golden Continent, and at the same time, he must teach these Europeans a severe lesson, let them know how powerful Daming is, and emphasize the interests of Daming in the Golden Continent.

The truth is only within the range of the cannon. Europeans only believe in this. If they don’t hurt them, they won’t know how powerful they are.

Even after knowing about the Ming Dynasty's conquest of the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire, these Europeans tried to get their hands on these two gold treasures.

"Old Guo~do it~"

Tian Erniu raised the wine glass in his hand and said.

"Dry~~"

Guo Ye drank the wine in his glass in one gulp, and then complained, "What kind of wine is this?"

"I bought it from Europeans. The wine from Daming has already been drunk. This person who is drifting at sea will not bring too much wine with him, so let's just drink it."

Tian Erniu smiled and said.

"This wine is actually okay, but I'm not used to drinking it."

Guo Ye smiled and looked at the wine in the glass. It had a slightly astringent taste, which was different from the wines in Daming. The wines in Daming were all grain wines, which often had a sweet taste.

"From the south all the way to Penglai City, I found many European colonies along the way."

Chatting, chatting, we talked about the situation on the east coast of Golden Island.

"There are many, the Spaniards, Portuguese, French, British, and Dutch. They built many colonies on the east coast of Golden Island, but they are all small, mainly for trade with our Penglai City."

"Did you see those ships in the port?"

"They're all their merchant ships."

Tian Erniu nodded and said, the Europeans have learned about Daming's situation, and Tian Erniu has also learned a lot about the situation in Europe. Jiang Liang, who came back from Europe, brought back a lot of detailed information about Europe, and he is still on the European side Zhao Houzi, who is traveling, will ask someone to bring a letter every once in a while.

"European merchants are crazier than our Ming merchants. They flock to us like sharks smelling blood, wishing they could buy up everything we have."

"However, these Europeans are not good at dealing with you. When they can't beat you, they are businessmen. When they can beat you, they are robbers."

"Be very careful when dealing with them. If you are not careful, they will swallow your bones and chew them to pieces."

"What's so scary?"

Guo Ye thought for a while and said.

"It's not terrible, but their nature is like this, the nature of robbers."

Tian Erniu smiled and said, "The reason I transferred you from the west coast to the east coast in such a hurry is naturally to deal with these Europeans."

"Mr. Liu said that our Daming wants to monopolize the entire Golden Continent. Naturally, we want to take advantage of these Europeans when they are as unstable here as we are, and force them to recognize our Daming's ownership of the Golden Continent."

"These Europeans are all robbers. They are robbers. They only accept fists and don't beat them. How can they be afraid of us?"

"Not long ago, there were bandits who wanted to loot this Penglai city."

"That's it~"

Guo Ye nodded solemnly after listening.

Then I thought for a while and said: "This time I brought fifty large ships and five thousand people here, which should be enough to deal with them. The European strongholds I met along the way were very small, even a small town It's not as good as dealing with them is not a problem."

"It only needs to be bombarded first, and then a thousand people will land and it will be enough to easily take down a small stronghold."

In this regard, Guo Ye is very confident. When he came along the way, he encountered several Portuguese and French colonies along the coast of Brazil in later generations. They were all small and not large, the size of a small town. , only a few hundred people, thousands of people.

"Now the largest European colony on the Golden Continent is located on the San Salvador Island. It was a Spanish colony. It used to have less than [-] people, because after contacting our Ming Dynasty, there were many businessmen. , robbers and the like have arrived, it is estimated that there are almost tens of thousands of people on this island now."

"As for the other colonies, they are not big, they are small in scale, but they are relatively large in number."

"Here to the north, the English and French have established a few settlements, small and easy to take."

"In this golden bay, the Dutch and the French each built a colony, and here in the south, the Portuguese have six colonies."

"In addition, there are many Spanish colonies everywhere. We are here in the Golden Continent, and our biggest opponents are these Spaniards."

Tian Erniu took out a map and started talking to the points marked on the map.

Encountering the Ming people in America, the businessmen in the whole of Europe will go crazy. A large number of people come here to do business with the Ming people. This Golden Continent is far away from Europe, and it is not easy to go back and forth.

Therefore, these Europeans also chose to establish colonies here in the Golden Continent to facilitate their own trade. At the same time, the news that the Ming people obtained a large amount of gold and silver on the Golden Continent also stimulated the Europeans to open up colonies here in the Golden Continent, looking for gold and silver.

Some even imitated Tian Erniu and the others, trying to conquer the local aborigines here on the Golden Island, and let them mine gold and silver for themselves, thereby obtaining huge wealth.

All these accelerated the Europeans' colonization and establishment of colonies on the Golden Continent, which affected Ming's plan to monopolize the Golden Continent.

"Then who shall we attack first?"

Guo Ye looked at the map, thought for a while and asked.

"Unite the Spaniards to attack the British first. The British are the most notorious robbers. They specialize in looting ships from other European countries. The Spaniards hate them."

Tian Erniu said without thinking.

　The conflict between John Bull and the Spanish matador seems to have a long history~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)