Chapter 852 The envoy of the Portuguese colonial government On the third day after Zhao Yunfeng's troops beat the Tamils, the Portuguese colonial government of Sri Lanka, that is, the puppet capital of the Jaffna Kingdom, Narul City, the Portuguese received the news.When I just received this news, the Portuguese were still very surprised, if you want to say that Europa understands the Ming Dynasty, it must be that the Portuguese understand it very clearly, the Ming Dynasty is too big, the population is too large, and there are a group of Ming people who are willing to accept Western learning and Western technology.In the eyes of the Portuguese, the Ming Dynasty was completely different from the Wolmore Empire, which was an ignorant barbarian, but the Ming Dynasty was a member of the civilized world.Since it is part of the civilized world, then the rules of the civilized world should be used.In another time and space, even if Emperor Chongzhen was exhausted, the Portuguese still sent an army of more than 100 people, ready to help the Ming Empire eliminate the rebels.Because the Portuguese have an in-depth understanding of the Ming Dynasty, to put it bluntly, the economic foundation determines the social status, although the Ming court has no money, but Jiangnan has dozens of large cities with a population of hundreds of thousands, although the construction is a mess in the eyes of Quanxu, but compared with Europe, it is not bad.You must know that London and Paris are still garbage heaps, and they are almost like cities built on dung heaps, and there is a stinking sky everywhere, and when it rains, it is absolutely yellow and white, and it is miserable.The equipment of the Ming troops is actually not bad, and the level of firearms is basically similar to that of Spain in the same period.At least, the current Portuguese are not qualified to look down on the Ming people, and the governor of the colonial government, Fotos Correa, will definitely not forget how they treated the Taimi at this time, so as soon as the Ming army appeared in Jaffna, Tos Correa ordered the troops to retreat, keeping a distance from the Ming army, and avoiding intensifying the conflict."
Damn, why are there Ming people in Jaffna here?
Why are they here?
”Fotos Correa immediately asked his lieutenant that he was desperate to know the answer to that question."
Your Excellency the Governor, someone has seen the Dutchman Galen ship transporting the Ming people to Jaffna!""
Dutch, Dutch, damned Dutchman, these ugly bitch raised savages......"
Fortos Correa scolded for at least half an hour.If you know the history of Europe, you will not be confused by the division of Europe into dozens of countries, since the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, from the Spanish Empire, including Portugal at this time, actually belonged to the Spanish Empire, the king of the Spanish Empire, Philip IV, and at the same time the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the king of the Kingdom of Portugal.But the Dutch, Spain, and Portugal have been fighting openly and secretly, and they have come out with their brains.In the Age of Discovery, the Dutch would come out to grab the colonies occupied by the Portuguese.As early as more than 100 years ago, the Portuguese discovered Sri Lanka and conquered Sri Lanka, but before the Portuguese could completely conquer the whole of Sri Lanka, the Dutch came and occupied a large area such as Negombo.Not only Sri Lanka, but also South America, like Guyana, is a small country with French, British, Dutch and Portuguese affiliations.The Portuguese colonial government had more than 3,000 colonial troops, almost all of whom were hired by the Tamils, and the Portuguese, less than 500.This ratio is certainly no problem, let 500 Portuguese with 3,000 Tamils attack 1,000 Ming.Fortos Correa would have sensed that this man must be insane.This is not comparable at all, as the whole family replaced the Zhu family and became the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, all the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty were also eliminated, especially the army underwent earth-shaking changes, this Ming army, punched the Netherlands, kicked Spain, and drove the European colonists such as Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands out of Luzon and Taiwan.Despite this, Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries did not officially turn their faces with the Ming Dynasty, especially the Spanish sold their La Plata plain in South America to the Ming Dynasty, and the Dutch and Spaniards in Mindanao also gave up Mindanao, and even the South Island they also gave up.There is no way to do it if you don't give up, the key is that you can't beat it.If, Portugal has the absolute strength to eliminate the Ming people, the Portuguese will not be polite.But the point is, you can't beat it.Not to mention that it can't be defeated, and if it can't be done, even the Portuguese colonial government in Sri Lanka can't be saved.However, when Fortos Correa proposed to increase military spending and urgently expand the army, this proposal was blocked, which is the root of capitalism's so-called democracy.Businessmen are in power, only thinking about the present, rarely scrupling about longer-term plans, the Ming Dynasty's foreign policy is a simple and beautiful national style, with a stick in one hand and sweet dates in the other.Unlike the Ming Dynasty, although Quan Xu has improved the treatment and status of businessmen, the right of businessmen to participate in politics has been greatly restricted, just like Cheng Jingxian, he was originally a businessman in Huizhou, but since he entered politics, Cheng's business affairs have completely drawn a line with him.It is even said that the marriage of Cheng Jingxian's son has also been changed, and the four major families of the Huizhou Business Alliance are also intermarried, and it is said that the Cheng family should marry the Chen family, but Cheng Jingxian's youngest son married Niu Jinxing's daughter.This just shows that the identity of a businessman in Daming is still looked down upon.Quan Xu is also focusing on controlling this aspect of the problem, the first insists on cracking down on monopoly, maintaining a considerable part of the industry government, affected by the foreign policy of the Ming Dynasty, Portuguese businessmen do not want to make enemies with the Ming Dynasty, after all, under the existing circumstances, they Portuguese businessmen can purchase a large number of silk, porcelain, including new furniture, paint products, steel and so on.In desperation, Fotos Correa had no choice but to send an envoy to the Ming people of Jaffna for friendly consultations.Without waiting for the envoys to depart, Fotos Correa received news that a large number of Ming warships were rushing towards the Jaffna Strait.The Ming fleet led by Hua'an did not directly attack the Wolmore Empire, but after arriving in the waters of Jaffna, they successively encountered some merchant ships, including Indians, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Arabs, and it can be seen that this waterway is still quite prosperous.Seeing a merchant ship approaching, Hua An immediately asked a frigate to intercept it and ask a question, to his depression, as soon as the merchant ship saw the frigate coming, it immediately changed its course and sailed away!
Looking at this scene, Hua An wanted to cry from the bottom of his heart, this time was really not smooth, it was even more difficult to even find someone to ask a question, fuck it, his heart was broken!
However, it is not so easy for that merchant ship to slip away, the frigate of the Ming Navy is a famous Exocet warship, this kind of warship has no other characteristics, that is, it runs fast, and the speed reaches an astonishing twelve or three knots, and ordinary armed merchant ships or cargo merchant ships can only run eight or nine knots, or even seven or eight knots.Even the Dutchman's Galen ship can only run about eleven, and if you look at the whole world, the ship that can outrun it has not yet appeared!
It didn't take much effort for the Exocet to intercept the merchant ship that was slowing down with too much cargo.The captain and the sailors were brought to Hua'an, shivering one by one, alive and waiting to be pampered.Hua An glanced at the guys, oh, turbaned, bearded, black-robed, Arab.He called an Arabic interpreter and asked angrily, "We just want to ask you a few words, what are you running?"
”The Arab captain stammered, "O majestic general, I am willing to give you half of the cargo, please do not hurt our lives!"
”Hua An was stunned for a moment and roared angrily: "Lao Tzu is not a pirate!"
I just want to ask, have you ever seen a battleship with the Sun and Moon Flag, so long, so wide, so high, and with a black battle flag painted on it, with two crossed axes and hammers painted on it?
”The Arab captain looked confused, and shook his head vigorously, I haven't seen it, I really haven't seen it."
If you think about it, as long as you can provide effective clues, we will definitely be rewarded!""
With Allah on board, such a ship simply cannot exist!
Not even the best shipbuilders of the Ottoman Empire could have built such a huge ship!
”Frustrated, Hua An waved his hand and asked for a fine piece of porcelain to be brought to the Arab captain to tell him to get out.After the captain took the gift, he slipped away like a rabbit hearing a gunshot.After running a long way, he looked back at the Ming fleet vigorously, and only after making sure that the Ming fleet did not catch up with him did he breathe a sigh of relief and secretly call lucky.There are not many pirates in this sea area, and if you bump into them, it is light to be robbed, and if you are unlucky, the whole ship will be killed!
Even these merchant ships often worked part-time as pirates, and when they encountered merchant ships weaker than themselves or defenseless towns, they robbed all the property and women, and killed all the men, and the means were not ordinary ferocious.The sea is so ruthless, weakness is the original sin, if you hit someone stronger than yourself, you will definitely die, and that group of Chinese pirates actually didn't mean to rob them?
Really unexpected!"
Hmph, soft-hearted sheep will sooner or later tear those vicious sharks across the sea to pieces!"
He admired the fine porcelain in his hand and thought with some regret.He regretted that he had only one ship, more than 20 sailors, and could not attack the powerful Chinese fleet, and if he had about a dozen merchant ships, they might be able to besiege this Chinese fleet and plunder its property.Huaan commanded the flotilla to move on.Half a day later, they encountered two more merchant ships, which looked like the Arab merchant ship, and when they saw them, they immediately changed course and slipped away.There was no way, Hua'an could only send two frigates to intercept them again, bring people over, take out drawings for them to recognize, and ask them if they had seen the battleship of the Ming Dynasty."
I haven't seen it!""
I haven't seen it before!"
In this case, there was a large battleship of more than a thousand tons, and three battleships of four or five hundred tons slowly approached them."
It's kind of interesting!"
Hua An ordered: "Catch up!"
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