Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 763, join forces to fight pirates

Salvador in the northeastern region of Brazil in later generations, of course, Brazil was not called Brazil at this time. The Portuguese Pedro Cabrabu first discovered this land, and named it "True Cross Land", and announced that this land The land is owned by the Portuguese Crown.

In the beginning, Portugal relied on mining a kind of mahogany in Brazil, dyed mahogany as the main source of income, and mahogany in Portuguese is very similar to Brazil, so gradually this land was called Brazil.

Of course, with Daming's intervention now, the name of this land will be named by the Ming people in the future.

El Salvador is not the same place as San Salvador on the island of Haiti.

This place is the first colonial stronghold established by the Portuguese when they arrived here. It is a very small colonial town. Because of its short history, the whole town is still small, mainly for the convenience of mahogany trade with the local aborigines.

However, since they came into contact with the Ming people in the Americas, the Portuguese royal family has also attached great importance to the "True Cross", and sent Cabrabu to go south along the east coast of the Americas to explore the route to Daming and obtain Trade rights with Daming.

So El Salvador has suddenly become lively, and a large number of businessmen have come to El Salvador, using this as a base to go to Golden Bay Penglai City to do business with Daming people.

Of course, if a southern route can be opened up to contact the Ming people, El Salvador might become an extremely prosperous trading point in the future.

Not long ago, the all-powerful Ming fleet passed by here, which made the Portuguese very excited. They bypassed the southernmost tip of America, and indeed they could find a route to Ming.

In El Salvador, Joao from the Portuguese royal family is counting a ship that has just returned from Penglai City. The ship is full of goods from Ming Dynasty. As long as these goods can be transported back to Portugal, the value can be doubled immediately, making the royal family a fortune. .

Ever since the Spaniards came into contact with the Ming people on the American side, European businessmen have flocked here. As one of the protagonists of the sea in this era, Portugal, they are naturally not to be outdone.

Originally, Portugal's main colonial direction was to go east. They arrived in India first, and now they have monopolized the spice trade in India.

And now news has come back that on the Indian side, they have also met the Ming people and conducted friendly trade.

Things from Ming Dynasty are very valuable, and they are also the things that Europe most desires.

"We were attacked by pirates in the Caribbean Sea and lost one ship. Only the Maria came back."

Qiao Sang, the captain of the Maria, reported to Joao very helplessly.

The Portuguese royal family is very supportive of foreign expansion and colonial trade. Almost all the ships that go out have the shares of the Portuguese royal family. Two ships went to Penglai City to trade with the Ming people, but only one came back. This is a very heavy loss.

"Do you know who it is?"

Joao frowned deeply, lost a ship, and the remaining Maria has not returned to Portugal, and will definitely encounter pirates along the way back.

"It's British~"

"They're the most notorious pirates on the seas, and here in the Caribbean right now, they're full of pirate ships from the British, and Vikings from the Nordics."

Qiao Sang replied: "They are like sharks that smell blood, ready to devour every passing ship."

"These nasty British pirates~"

Joao couldn't help clenching his fists. While he was angry, he said, "We will go to the Caribbean Sea to loot other people's ships later on. Our losses must be recovered."

After all, the ships that walk on the sea in this era are almost half pirates and half merchants. As long as they can be robbed, they will rob them, and if they can't rob them, they will think about doing business.

This is the case with Portugal, the Spaniards, the British, the French, and the Dutch, but the British are even more shameless, directly issuing privateer certificates to those ships and becoming official pirates.

"Yes~"

Upon hearing this, Qiao Sang nodded solemnly.

"How about the Penglai City of the Ming people?"

"Is it possible we ransacked it?"

Then Joao thought about it and asked again.

The wealth of Penglai City has already spread among Europeans, and there are many people who want to make plans for Penglai City. Almost everyone wants to loot Penglai City and obtain the huge wealth of Penglai City.

"Penglai City is very rich. It is full of goods from the Ming Dynasty and there are also a lot of gold and silver. We merchants from Europe brought too much wealth to exchange for goods from the Ming people."

"However, the defense of Penglai City is very tight, and the artillery of the Ming people is extremely powerful. With our strength, it is impossible to take down Penglai City."

Qiao Sang thought for a while and couldn't help shaking his head.

Penglai City is indeed a very tempting cake, many people want to eat it, but it is definitely tough. Not long ago, there were pirates who wanted to rob Penglai City, but they were beaten up and not a single ship escaped. , All the pirates were killed, and the dead were hanged on the cliff.

"I heard that the Ming people built many ports on the side of the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire, that is, the west coast of America, to transport gold and silver. Do you think it is possible for us to loot these places?"

"The Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire use gold and silver to pile up pyramids for the Ming people every year. This is such a huge wealth. If we can get it, we will get rich."

Joao nodded slightly, thought for a while and said again.

"I don't know, we still don't know the situation on the west coast, but I heard that the Ming people have more than [-] people on the west coast, and they have established hundreds of strongholds. They have discovered thousands of large and small gold mines, Silver mine."

"There should be a lot of gold and silver on the west coast. Maybe we can build a few colonies on the west coast first."

Qiao Sang shook his head slightly again and said.

The Europeans already know many things about the Ming people in America. The Ming people called America the Golden Continent, saying that it is full of gold. The Ming people discovered a large number of gold mines and silver mines on the west coast of the Golden Continent. .

It even forced the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire to pay a large amount of wealth to Ming Dynasty every year, which made Europeans jealous and stimulated more Europeans to come to America to find gold and silver.

"Clang~clang~"

Just when Joao and Qiao Sang were discussing whether they could go and rob Daming's stronghold, there were bursts of urgent bells ringing here in El Salvador.

Hearing the ringing of the bell, everyone in El Salvador became nervous and came out one after another, looking towards the direction of the sea.

I saw that between the water and the sky, several large ships were cleaving the waves and heading towards El Salvador.

"what happened?"

Joao immediately asked nervously.

Seaside cities in this era are very dangerous. El Salvador is often visited by pirates, and even the seaside cities in Portugal and Spain are sometimes attacked by pirates.

So whenever they see a ship coming over on the sea, they will feel nervous immediately, and they have to figure out which country the ship comes from, what purpose it has, and whether it is a pirate.

"Spanish~Spanish~"

Soon, someone screamed in horror, and the whole of El Salvador suddenly became chaotic.

Spain and Portugal are old enemies. In history, the two countries have fought many times. They were once united and merged into one country, but eventually split.

Portugal likes to interfere in Spain's affairs when it is strong, and Spain wants to annex Portugal when it is strong.

Now the Spanish team's ships are coming towards El Salvador, and the purpose is obviously impure, maybe they are here to loot El Salvador.

"Spanish?"

When Joao heard this, he was in no mood to count the goods immediately, and immediately began to direct everyone to prepare for the next battle.

Soon, when the ship got closer and closer to El Salvador, they could clearly see the cross and the Spanish flag hanging on the ship, and at the same time, there were two ships beside them flying the dragon flag of Ming Dynasty.

"Is Spain officially declaring war with Portugal?"

"They don't even bother to change the flag?"

Looking at the fluttering Spanish flag, Joao couldn't help frowning deeply.

Generally speaking, to do such shameful things is to replace the flag of one's own country and replace it with the skull pirate flag, so as not to tear the last face.

But now, these Spaniards didn't even change their flags. Is this going to war with the Portuguese?

"There is actually a boat from the Ming people. When did the Ming people and the Spaniards get mixed up?"

Soon, he noticed the two Ming ships next to them. Their huge size and flying dragon flags were very eye-catching, and they could be recognized at a glance.

"Ask them, what do they mean?"

Joao thought for a while and ordered.

Soon, a small boat rowed desperately towards the other side, and went to ask these Spaniards and Daming people, what exactly do they want to do?
The boat went fast and came back quickly.

"They said that finally a pirate ship ended up here, hoping to go to El Salvador to catch pirates?"

The people under him hurried back and said.

"Catch the pirates?"

"The Ming people and the Spaniards hunted down the pirates together?"

Joao was slightly dumbfounded, and then said angrily: "They deliberately find an excuse to attack us in El Salvador, let everyone prepare for battle, and give them a hard lesson later, let them know that we are in Portugal. People are amazing."

　Will this cause the Europeans to unite against the Ming and Spaniards~?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)