open sea

Chapter 373
Chen Mu stayed in Sulu's capital city, but it was not to help the East King. What Sulu encountered was not a problem, at least in his eyes.

His orders served the Portuguese captain better than any man in these waters.

Even if the most disobedient merchant ships arrived in this sea area carrying morale-inspiring missionaries and sailors, they would not dare to approach the fleet flying the Daming dragon flag. They sent small boats to negotiate, but they got the answer that Sulu was the Ming Dynasty, and dared to invade again. It is to declare war, and they will be planted on the reef to make flagpoles.

These sea merchants turned lawless pirates immediately changed their appearance to Shanghai merchants, saying that they were only here for trade.

Chen Mucai didn't care about this, he raised his hand on the shore, and Ni Shangzhong on the Chi Hai excitedly manipulated the naval gun to blast a cannon into the sea, and the merchant ship with the Portuguese flag ran away far away.

Who dares to bark their teeth at the fully armed Chihai at sea?
Not to mention that there are five battleship formations headed by the Chihai class next to this behemoth, and no one is in a daze to fight against six or seven hundred artillery pieces.

"It's just a group of pirates. When you are strong, they are merchants who come to you for trade; when you are weak, they are pirates, who come to grab your goods and occupy your land." Chen Mu watched the merchant ships drift away from the shore , His brows were furrowed, his eyes were deep, and he said softly: "The dog who smelled the stench of corpses on the battlefield will call you barbaric and uncivilized after being driven away by you."

Witnessing this scene, Dong Wang stood upright, and his saber was drawn out. It was a Japanese-style saber from the Ming Dynasty trade. It only used a Ming-made blade and contained Sulu-made gems.

The main foreign trade of Sulu Kingdom is gems and pearls. The constant exchanges of Ming merchants brought in-depth technical exchanges, which made the jewelers and jade craftsmen here have a lot of attainments, but other technologies are much inferior.

He could see clearly that there were nearly a hundred enemies on that giant ship called "pirate" by Chen Mu. If they attacked the port, it would be another massacre that would require thousands of people to stop it.

The scarlet-painted warship with the Wujianglong flag hanging from the sky fired a single shot, scaring these people away.

Dong Wang didn't understand what savagery Chen Mu was talking about, he said disdainfully: "They are the savages!"

In fact, what Chen Mu said was not a blame. From people to people to countries to countries, the essence of relationship is competition, regardless of economics, politics, and war, they are just means of competition.

Portugal, the pioneer of great voyages in this era, has experienced poor and crazy years, so it is understandable to trade and plunder. Who can blame the people who made the country of their parents rich and strong?Chen Mu would not blame them, and would only kill them with reverence when the time was right.

These Portuguese patriots used their ships and lives to sail out of mankind's first global maritime power, and also caused endless pain to other countries.

Chen Mu thinks it is meaningless to judge things right or wrong. He just needs to figure out where he is standing. Sometimes at odds with oneself.

He found that the tributary countries in the Chinese tributary circle were very interesting, and everyone felt that apart from Daming and himself, others were more barbaric than each other, even including Japan.

The Southern barbarians in the Japanese population are not only Europeans, but also refer to Southeast Asia in general; North Korea is not mentioned, they are all barbarians, and no one is Chinese; Su Lu is similar, although Chen Mu thinks that Su Lu is already very un-Chinese Yes, but Dong Wang also felt that the neighbors were all barbarians, especially in the country where there was a Ming army's granary neighbor, Huni Country.

They used to fight a lot. In the past, Su Lu was strong and Wu Ni was weak. In the 100 years since Huang Senping led the Ming army to land on Duan Shou River in Borneo, the country of Wu Ni quickly became stronger. Relying on Emperor Yongle's imperial edict to exempt the state of Java from enshrining.

The East King dragged Chen Mu and did not want him to go to the Kingdom of Heni, and because of the bad relationship between the two countries, he was afraid that the benefits he did not get from Daming would be taken away by the Kingdom of Heni. Calling the sultan and the Huang family the king, Chen Mu's past benefits will definitely fall into the mud.

Su Lu watched the poor neighbors rely on Daming to become rich and strong. Now that Chen Mu came to Su Lu, Dongwang would not lose this opportunity no matter what. Playing chess with him, just drinking tea with him, but never mentioning the business, made Chen Mu very strange.

Playing chess and drinking tea, one is a plaything and the other is a drink, so it needs to be so ceremonial?
If you want to buy guns and boats for business, just say so, and I won’t refuse if you tell me, don’t you say I’m ashamed to mention it myself, as if the heavens are trying to force it, that’s absolutely impossible.

"Chen Gong, Chief Li who is going to Ryukyu is here."

When Li Dan came, Chen Mu was exchanging military experience with King Su Lu Dong. In fact, he was teaching the use of bird gun firearms. : "Your Majesty, it is Chen's adopted son who came, sent him to Ryukyu some time ago, let him enter the palace?"

Dong Wang was watching anxiously, waiting for Chen Mu to ask, and he was also very curious about what Daming sent people to Ryukyu to do.He has been negotiating with King Xi and King Dong, guessing what it means for Daming to suddenly hold the big fleet to the gate of their country after so many years of sea ban, but Chen Mu can't tell anything from this.

It's the weirdest thing because you can't see it. Right in front of your eyes, this young man who is smiling and chatting with him as the guns are turned up and bombarding the enemy's formation while the infantry is advancing under the artillery fire. The evil tiger, this kind of god-like mighty person has no other purpose here, who will believe it?

Not long after, the servants in the palace shouted a few times, and Li Dan, wearing leather boots and breastplate and holding a helmet, stepped forward, saluted Chen Mu and then the East King, hesitant to speak.

Chen Mu took the opportunity of the introduction to wink at Li Dan, and said, "This is His Royal Highness King Su Ludong, please tell me what good things you can do in Ryukyu."

Chen Erye was quite worried that Li Dan's opening up was a bad thing, but Li Dan was very smart, and when he came over, he put a reserved smile on his face, trying to tell Chen Mu that it was a good thing, but obviously his adoptive father didn't understand it, and it might be He didn't show it, he didn't guess, he cupped his hands and said: "Ye-father is like this, the Ryukyu soldiers are weak, and the sergeants are still using the old guns from Yongle's time. They don't even have bird guns, let alone boat guns. The navy is an old-fashioned blessing ship."

Dong Wang is not happy to hear this, you are not talking about Ryukyu, you are clearly talking about me, Sulu!

But before Dong Wang could speak, Li Dan continued: "In order to deal with the threat from Japan's Shimadzu, the Ryukyu Kingdom wants to invite Chen Bazhi, the commander of the Luzon Northern Guards, to train troops with a staff of [-]; The Luzon Northern Guards are the same, so it is necessary to purchase a batch of ordnance, guns and warships, and this matter needs the approval of the adoptive father and transmits it to the court."

"Two thousand?" Chen Mu frowned, beckoned Li Dan to sit down, crossed his legs and said, "Although the Ryukyu islands are smaller than Luzon, and Luzon has three guards, Ryukyu must at least train one guard."

"This..." Li Dan smiled, and handed a letter to Chen Mu, saying: "The Ryukyu country is small and not rich. Although our army's guns are powerful and our warships are strong, they are expensive to build. The wealth is beyond what the country can afford."

Li Dan hadn't finished speaking, Dong Wang got up and left the table, and said as he walked, "General, wait a moment, wait a moment!"

Chen Mu was still surprised, when he saw that Dong Wang had come back with a lacquer box from the Ming Dynasty, put it on the tea table, and said: "Ryukyu has no wealth, and I, Sulu, have no wealth either, but I have pearls. The king trains sergeants, buys ships, what Luzon has, this king wants more!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)