open sea

Chapter 1514 Reward
Yang Jizhong's serious expression was broken by Dias' self-introduction, and he held back his smile.

"I speak Chinese well, and I have a Chinese name."

"An Donghai, there are quite a lot of you with the surname An."

This was not the first time Yang Jizhong had seen a Spanish man named An. He had met several Spanish businessmen named An before at sea.

But in the end there are indeed benefits, the ransom is a little less than the Yilan.

"Returning to the general, the young one was working in Seville back then, and the name was given by the customs master Li. He said it was to make our merchants feel at ease when doing business, so everyone was surnamed An at that time."

This time Yang Jizhong didn't hold back, and laughed: "Then this An is your surname in Saicheng. I am Yang Jizhong, the general of the Han Dynasty. Today, my general can't see you because of something. You just happened to be here."

Yang Jizhong nodded to himself, hooked his fingers to the left and right guards, someone brought a roll of small pictures and put them on the table, and said, "I have many things to ask you."

He said that Yang Ce didn't have time to come to see the Spanish envoy, of course he didn't avoid seeing him because of his self-esteem.

Yang Ce did have more important things to be busy with, and he was in the castle of the Dutch count, just in the lower dungeon, negotiating business with more than 40 Dutch nobles and businessmen who were captured.

Talk about getting them free.

After all, General Yang is also a well-known and serious businessman in the sea. His business has not opened for half a year, and his old customers will not deliver goods to their door. He has to support his family.

Although this increases the cost of picking up the goods, the wool comes from the sheep.

An Donghai's words are humble, but it doesn't mean that he really understands the etiquette of Daming people so much, it's just that all he has learned are these very humble words, and he doesn't know how to pretend, being afraid is just being afraid.

So he directly asked Yang Jizhong: "General, have you taken away your blunderbuss? I didn't bring any weapons."

"pistol?"

Hearing An Donghai's mention, Yang Jizhong froze for a moment before looking down at his left hand, which was placed on the table and pressing the gun, and raised his hand, "You mean this? Just put it on the table. I heard that your king just found assassinated a leader in the Netherlands."

"I also offered a reward of [-] taels to the assassin."

"Go back and ask the king." Yang Jizhong said and leaned forward: "Such a good thing...why didn't you come to us?"

An Donghai looked distressed: "Where can I see the king?"

But Yang Jizhong just said it casually, and didn't take it as true.

Even if Philip came to him, they might not be able to do it. Anyone who saw the 2 taels of silver would be dizzy, but they might not be able to do it, just like the monk Tianshi asked them to open the Mughal capital.

There are specialties in the art industry.

They are the most professional pirates in the world, assassination must be almost meaningless, and it is not easy to mix into the opponent's city.

If you want to do this job, you must first rob the port, and then break into the king's city, and attack the city to kill someone.

Why bother?
"How many people are there in your army, are they all there?"

As soon as he said this, the soldier next to him was already standing by the table with a pen, lowered his head to the map and prepared to mark, and at the same time picked up a small gold figure that he got from some nobleman on the table as a paperweight and pressed it on the map Go up, pick up the pen and prepare to start writing.

At the same time, several soldiers of the Han Dynasty on the other side of the room unfolded a larger half-blank map and prepared to draw the map with the rules.

Anyway, the posture made An Donghai, who didn't know anything, feel nervous.

"We have [-] troops and have occupied Bruges and Brussels respectively. The general is besieging Antwerp."

An Donghai thought for a while, and then said: "The rebels want to surround us, we will defeat them from all sides, and this town will definitely be captured by us."

It sounded full of confidence, but Yang Jizhong didn't care, he just waved his hand and said, "Where are the three cities you mentioned, and how to get there, go and draw them."

Although An Donghai was not from aristocratic background, he still started from the bottom. Facing Yang Jizhong, he was afraid, and he didn't forget why he came here.

Obediently went over to draw a picture according to Yang Jizhong's intention, and drew two more, and said while drawing: "Our general would like to ask you to continue to lead the army to attack Rotterdam. There is a rebel camp there. As long as we get through, our two armies can join forces." place."

"When Antwerp is captured, continue to go north to recover the six provinces."

An Donghai didn't wait for the answer he wanted, and Yang Jizhong didn't speak.

The General of the Han Kingdom already knew that General Yang Ce was currently focusing all his attention on the United Kingdom of Denmark and Sweden across the North Sea, which is the four guards Yang Ce mentioned.

This will make them turn around and help the Spaniards fight the Netherlands, which is not attractive to the Han pirates.

To be honest, if this is the Ming Dynasty's army, if Chen Mu agrees, he will fight if he helps.

But they were Han pirates, even though Yang Ce originally agreed to form a joint fleet with Philip, took a ship port in Yilan, and continued to use it as a springboard to attack the Netherlands from the sea.

A treaty was also signed.

But Yang Jizhong felt that what they could do here was basically done. The Spaniards could dock at Yilan's ship port. With the help of the Ming army, the loss of troops was too great.

The most important thing is to unify the European continent for Philip, which is not good for the Han country, especially the Yang Ce tribe on the west coast of Africa, which conflicts with their craftsmanship.

Now the sea is almost calm, Portugal has been swallowed by Spain, and Igran has been swallowed by Daming, only the Netherlands, Franchise and boats are left on the sea, and an occasional snatch is better than nothing.

Spain, the major customer of the Yang Ce Department of the Han Dynasty, has been lazy by the Mingxi Trading of the Eastern Military Mansion, and their maritime merchants are no longer going to sea; when the Netherlands is swallowed up by Spain, there will be only Ferranci left at sea... ...Wolves have more meat and less meat.

When things really developed to that point, Yang Ce could only inevitably go to war with others in order to survive.

If he wants to enter the North Sea to expand his mission, he will definitely have problems with the Ming fleet; if he wants to enter the Mediterranean to expand the market, Spain, which guards Gibraltar, will not let them go.

Only war.

Either jump backwards and fight against the Ming Dynasty's Oriental Army, or turn around and fight against the Spanish Navy.

Both of these two are ruthless people who can build their own warships, self-produced artillery, self-produced gunpowder, and take care of their own economy. Maybe they will join forces because of this.

Even if Yang Ce's pirate army can fight, can it beat one of the strongest countries in the world?

Or is it possible to join hands with the two most powerful countries?
If they can't beat them, they will be gone by then.

Spain's unification of the European continent, or even re-ruling the Netherlands, would not be a good thing for Han.

"It's easy to send troops...but what can we get?"

Yang Jizhong shook his head. The information he wanted to know had already been obtained. The Spaniards only numbered over 6000, and they were scattered in three cities.

This relieved him.

Facing An Donghai's dumbfounded, Yang Jizhong turned his head and looked him in the eyes, and said, "Send troops for you, we want three cities in the Netherlands."

(End of this chapter)