How can a nineteen-year-old boy with only one big ship convince maritime merchants from all over the world to fund the formation of a twelve-ship ocean-going fleet for him?

One is to rely on the name of his deceased father Chen Shuangxi, and the other is that Chen Li himself is also very brave!

Chen Li said to the maritime merchants: "A few years ago, Chen Gao, a maritime merchant from Quanzhou, led a ship to the sea, and he didn't catch anything except throwing more than 60 refugees in the extreme east and earning some gold from the Inca trade in Sulong. His idea was not right, he actually organized people to go to the extreme east to pan for gold, how can gold mines be so easy to find? If I explore the sea, I must have foot armor, and go directly to rob those savage countries with a lot of gold and silver! ”

Yes, how can gold panning be easy to rob?

The maritime merchants felt that they could give it a try, so a total of 17 maritime merchants jointly funded the construction of a fleet for Chen Li.

Although the fleet is there, and it has successfully reached the far east...... In the future, it will be called Yinzhou. However, only one ship belonged to Chen Li, and the other eleven ships were all maritime merchants, and only by constantly winning victories and obtaining gold and silver would they always be willing to obey.

Once the battle is lost, or the gold and silver cannot be snatched, or the extremely bad situation is encountered, it is estimated that the fleet itself will break out into internal strife.

Leaving Fushan Bay and San Francisco, Chen Li arrived at Los Angeles in Xinquan Town with the fleet, and threw all the more than 300 migrants on board here.

Xinquan was developed by Chen Gao, a maritime merchant in Quanzhou, but he didn't dig it or bury it, and he didn't find a gold mine, so he left more than 60 immigrants behind. Chen Li plans to swallow this place, and slowly expand on this basis, and when there are more and more immigrants and naturalized savages, he can try to establish a state, and he can't throw immigrants further south, Central America is all Spanish territory.

Because Chen Li brought a large amount of salt, the residents of Xinquan Town warmly received them and were happy to meet more than 300 new neighbors.

It's just that the food here is a little insufficient, and Chen Li's fleet continues to move south, on the coast of the Baja California Peninsula, using a clairglass to see a very spectacular scene, and the beach is densely packed with seals.

The seals didn't run away when they saw people, but looked at outsiders curiously.

Chen Li sent people to shoot with bows and arrows, and returned with countless seal carcasses, finally temporarily solving the food problem of the new immigrants.

This broken peninsula is inaccessible, not even the natives, but there are many kinds of animals. The crew ate seals and turtles, and they were all fucking vomiting, but Chen Li used this as a food base and constantly sent expedition teams to search the coast of Mexico.

"Chen Da, I haven't found any cities in the coastal area to the south, and I have only met some savage tribes sporadically," Lu Fang said depressedly, "These savages don't know what gold and silver are, and they don't have anything to rob them." ”

Lu Fang was a representative of the ship sent by the partners, and he was also a pirate before, which was equivalent to the deputy leader of this fleet.

The search was fruitless, and Chen Li could only continue to go south, and soon came to Fonseca Bay.

The bay is ideal for mooring and is surrounded by several deltas washed out by rivers with a large number of indigenous savages. Tanhaibo's fleet had to replenish in the delta every time it passed through this place.

Chen Li came here to supply those natives who took the initiative to receive them, and even spoke some simple Chinese: "I, water, meat, corn, fruit." You ꓹ cloth, salt. ”

"Haha, the natives here can actually speak Chinese," Chen Li said with a smile, "Carry some cloth and salt and get off the boat." ”

After the transaction between the two sides was completed, Chen Li did not leave immediately, but planned to rest in this bay for a few days.

On the third day, a few people suddenly came running, kneeling on the ground and shouting.

Chen Li couldn't tell them clearly, and he didn't know what was going on, so he prepared to get off the boat with his armor to check. As a result, more and more wild people came running, and many of them were covered in blood, and it seemed that they had just fought a battle.

"Get off the boat with all your armor on!" Chen Li shouted.

Twelve boats, armed forces of 800 men, and all of them were dressed in cotton armor and cotton armor wrapped in iron sheets.

Making armor in the territory of the Ming Dynasty is a major crime of rebellion, but it is casual overseas. Wang Yuan's steelmaking method had reached Foshan, where private iron mills were rapidly reformed, steel production increased dramatically, and steel prices fell day by day. Building armor is no longer a big deal, many maritime merchants have private armies, and robbery by the way has long been commonplace.

It's a pity that there aren't many firearms, this thing is still expensive, and Chen Li only has fifty firecrackers under his command.

At the same time that Chen Li got off the boat to form a team, a group of Spaniards on the shore also looked at the seaside fleet in great surprise, and couldn't understand why there were twelve more big ships here.

About 200 miles to the northwest, the Spanish colonizers founded a town half a year earlier called "Sugototo", near the capital of the later Republic of Salvador. They expanded around the town, building plantation after plantation and capturing natives as slaves.

Eight hundred armed men swung to the shore, and the Spaniards were immediately frightened.

A Spaniard rode up and shouted from afar, "Who are you?" ”

Chen Li only spoke Portuguese, and listening to the other party's Spanish, he felt somewhat familiar, but he just couldn't understand it. He immediately replied in Portuguese: "I am a Daming maritime merchant, who are you?" ”

A man who knew Portuguese immediately came from the other side and rebuked: "This is the jurisdiction of the Spanish governor of Guatemala, and you must leave immediately without the permission of the governor!" ”

Viceroy of Guatemala, who ruled over all of Central America except Panama.

Chen Li drew his sword and sneered: "What kind of governor do you care!" The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, since the people of the Ming Dynasty are here, this is the land of my Ming Dynasty. Sons, kill me! ”

There were only more than thirty of these Spaniards who captured slaves, and they didn't even have firearms. But they were able to slay thousands of natives because they had two horses, and the natives regarded them as demonic beasts.

Spain destroyed the Aztec Empire by relying on the same war horses.

The Aztec Empire was a confederation of tribes, and the Spaniards came to fight against one of the tribes, and with their horses, they were terrified and subjugated. So, the Spaniards united with this tribe and went to attack the emperor of the Aztec Empire. It was the fear brought by the war horse that he won the local war, and the emperor regarded them as the descendants of the gods.

Unfortunately, the cavalry can scare off the natives, but not these Han explorers.

Eight hundred against thirty, the Han had 50 musketeers, the Spaniards fled in an instant, and the two horsemen were the fastest.

When the natives saw that their allies had won, they immediately followed suit. They ran as fast as they could, shooting with flying rocks and javelins, knocking the Spaniards to the ground.

Twelve people were killed on the spot, four were seriously wounded, and several lightly wounded prisoners were also captured.

Under torture, the captives quickly revealed their military information.

Two hundred miles away, in the town of Sugototo, nearly a thousand Spaniards settled, including the elderly and children. At least more than half of them are no longer pure-blooded whites, but a mixture of whites and natives.

Around the town, there are also many plantations. There were very few whites and mulattoes on the plantations, and most of them were captured indigenous slaves, who had come to the Delta this time with the intention of capturing slaves.

The town has no walls, only wooden hedges to defend against wild beasts.

The inhabitants did not have many weapons, and they mainly used cold weapons, but the plantation owners all carried muskets.

"Do you want to do it?" Lu Fang asked.

Chen Li licked his lips and smiled: "In a town of a thousand people, there must be a lot of goods, and there are horses there." I heard that Tan Hai Bo brought two batches of horses, and all of them died on the road, so just grab a few and give them to Tan Hai Bo, and we will be much better mixed in the future. ”

Lu Fang said: "These indigenous people can be used. ”

Chen Li smiled: "Of course, let's help them drive away the enemy, and they will definitely follow." ”