Chapter 682, Shocked Spaniards
On the 'St. Mary', a group of Spaniards were looking at Penglai City on land with their eyes wide open, somewhat incredulous.
"Oh God~"
"There is a city by the sea."
Colster couldn't resist drawing a cross on his chest, having come to the Golden Continent a year ago and settling on Hispaniola, and had been exploring the east coast of the Golden Continent in search of gold, silver, jewelry, spices, and other things that would make him rich overnight.
Here he came into contact with many city-states and tribes of the descendants of the Yin merchants, but he never found anyone to build a city by the sea, let alone build a dock in the bay.
"These buildings seem to be very different from the buildings of the Indian city-states you've encountered in the past, and the fluttering flags?"
Colster immediately noticed the difference here, and his eyes were fixed on the Daming Dragon Banner fluttering on Penglai City.
As the ship got closer and closer to Penglai City, he could finally see clearly, it was a dragon flag, a dragon flag that was completely different from all the flags he had seen here before.
The bright yellow dragon flag, bright and noble in color, the cloth is very good at first glance, it is an extremely luxurious one, and it is not at all the cloth and color that these Indians he knows can weave.
"Boom~"
Before the St. Mary's could get too close to the dock in the middle of the harbor, with a loud bang, a projectile flew towards them, and fell heavily into the nearby water, setting off huge droplets.
βshit~β
Colster couldn't help but curse for a moment, and then widened his eyes in disbelief.
"How can these Indians have cannons?"
Then it dawned on Colster that he was warning himself not to get too close to the city and the port.
"Aim at them, and if they fire again, give me a fierce counterattack."
Colster immediately ordered, and soon the sailors were busy, and the 'St. Mary' began to turn around, aiming the side of the ship at Penglai City, revealing a cannon gun, and faintly expressing that he was not easy to mess with.
"Send a boat over and ask who they are?"
Seeing that the other party did not fire again, Colster was also slightly relieved, and after thinking about it, he also ordered.
Soon, the small boat on the side of the 'St. Mary' was lowered, and several sailors immediately rowed the boat towards Penglai City.
"These Europeans are so bold, we have all fired a warning to them, and they dare to come up."
Tian Erniu held the binoculars, looked at the people who came by small boat, and then looked at the Colster on the side of the 'St. Mary', these people looked different from the descendants of Yin Shang in the Golden Continent, at least, they were all clothed.
And the descendants of the Yin merchants here in the Golden Continent basically do not wear clothes, and they all rely on animal skins to keep out the cold, as for the Middle Golden Continent here, the weather is very hot all year round, and even the animal skins are saved.
"Send someone and ask them if they're Europeans."
After thinking about it, Tian Erniu also ordered.
Soon, a group of people from Penglai City walked towards the harbor wharf, wearing armor, holding muskets, and swords pinned to their waists, fully armed.
"Who the hell are these people?"
"They're definitely not Indians!"
When Kolster saw this scene, he immediately came to his senses, and here he met people who were completely different from the Indians, they were wearing armor, muskets, and artillery.
A small boat quickly came to the dock under the vigorous rowing of several sailors, but they were very cautious, and did not rush to the shore, but began to shout from a distance of more than ten meters.
"We are sailors under the command of Baron Karlster, a nobleman of the great Kingdom of Spain, who are you?"
They spoke Portuguese, and when the people who went to contact the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company heard it, they were immediately confused, as if they were listening to the language of birds, and they couldn't understand it at all.
"We are Daming people, this is Penglai City, which belongs to our Daming Tianjin Ocean Trade Company, who are you?"
However, this still does not prevent them from indicating that they are the owners of the land.
Obviously, these Spaniards also did not understand the language of the Ming people, and they were also confused.
"Call a few Aztecs over and see if they can understand the Aztecs."
Tian Erniu saw everything here at the harbor wharf clearly, thought about it and commanded.
Soon, a few Aztecs were brought over, and at last the Spaniards were able to understand a little bit.
"They turned out to be the Ming people from the far east!"
Then, these Spaniards on the ship were immediately shocked, they actually met the Ming people here in the Golden Continent, and met the Ming people who had always wanted to be contacted and opened by Europeans.
I took a closer look at the people of the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, with black eyes, black hair, and clothes on their bodies, as well as the temperament that was completely different from that of the Indians.
Immediately, these Spaniards began to row desperately, hurriedly returning to the 'St. Mary', and before they arrived, they shouted loudly: "They are Ming people, they are Ming people~"
"What?"
"They're the Ming people?"
When Kolster heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded, and his teeth were about to fall out.
When Columbus discovered the American continent, they firmly believed that they had arrived in Asia, arrived in the legendary East, arrived in India and the Wa Kingdom, so they called the people here Indians.
It's just that they haven't found the Ming people all along, and they haven't found the kind of silk and porcelain that are extremely expensive in Europe and the precious spices from the East.
There were many people who studied it carefully, and then they knew that they were not arriving in the far east, but a huge continent that they had never known before, and no one knew how far it was from the east.
But now, they actually met the Ming people.
These people in front of them turned out to be Ming people, and the city in front of them turned out to be the city of Daming.
He was shocked.
"Haha, I finally met the Ming people, I finally met the Ming people~"
"Now we are rich, now we are rich~"
"The silk, porcelain, and spices of the Ming people, as long as we can bring these things back to Spain, we will all be rich."
The shock was ecstatic, and the whole person couldn't help but scream with joy.
At this time, Marco Polo's travelogue was very popular in Europe, and when Columbus first went to the Americas, his purpose was to explore the route to the East, and he even brought letters from the King of Spain to the Ming Emperor and the Emperor of India.
In Marco Polo's writing, the Far East is incomparably rich, where there are countless porcelains and silks.
The purpose of their early voyages to the sea was simple, that is, to find a way to the East by sea, to find a way to the East by sea, to obtain porcelain, silk, gold, silver, precious stones, spices, and so on.
It's just that many years after arriving in the Americas, they have never met the legendary Ming people, but they have encountered these backward Indians.
But here they also gained wealth, and the gold and silver of the Indians also drove them crazy, and made them come to America in an endless stream.
Now, they actually met the Ming people, and they met the legendary Ming people, which made Karst ecstatic all at once.
"Tell them that we have no hostility, that we Spaniards want to be friends with their Ming people, ask them to allow us to dock at their docks, and we will obey their laws."
Karst then recovered quickly, and then said hurriedly.
"Yes~"
The sailors who were on board the boat immediately rowed back to the harbor dock to convey Karlster's words and express their goodwill.
"Espanyol~"
"It's interesting~"
"Let them stop, listen to what Liu Gongzi said, this silk and porcelain will be equivalent to gold in Europe, and I don't know if it's real or fake, let's contact it first."
Tian Erniu quickly received the news, and after thinking about it, he also ordered.
Soon, the message was delivered.
The St. Mary's began to moor slowly towards the harbor docks, Karlster was also very cautious, he still had a hand, and the other two ships were still at sea, and in case of any emergency, they could escape and call for help.
"Whew~"
Colster took a deep breath, stepped off the boat, and stepped on the land of Penglai City, the whole person was very excited, and he also felt very sacred, he couldn't help but tidy up his clothes, trying to make himself look more gentlemanly, more noble.
He felt that this moment needed to be written into history, because he became the first nobleman in the Western world to come into contact with the Ming people, he was the first Westerner to set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also the first person to arrive in the Ming Dynasty.
He looked at the Ming people on the dock, all of them were tall, the armor they were wearing was very fine, the swords on their waists were high-quality at a glance, and the muskets they were carrying on their shoulders, which made him can't help but restrain the arrogance he had cultivated here in the Americas.
He immediately realized that these Ming people were extremely difficult to mess with, and their weapons and equipment were even more sophisticated than their own, which was very different from the Indians here in the Americas.
Although it seems that there is not much difference between the Ming and the Indians, and they are very similar in appearance, but the Ming people reveal a sense of arrogance in their bones, and when they look at themselves, they are as if they look at these Indians, and they are all civilized people looking at barbarians.
Looking at the clothes and pants of these Ming people, this made him even more convinced that these people were indeed Ming people.