Later El Salvador in the northeast of Brazil, of course, Brazil at this time was not called Brazil, the Portuguese Pedro ~ Cabrab was the first to discover this land, and named it 'True Cross Land', and declared that this land belonged to the Portuguese royal family.

In the beginning, Portugal relied on the mining of a kind of mahogany here in Brazil, dyeing mahogany as the main source of economic income, and the word for mahogany in Portuguese is very similar to Brazil, so gradually this land is called Brazil.

Of course, now with the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, the name of this land will be named by the Ming people in the future.

El Salvador is not the same place as San Salvador on the island of Haiti.

This place is the first colonial base established by the Portuguese, a very small colonial town, because the history is too short, the whole town is still very small, mainly to facilitate the mahogany trade with the local natives.

However, since coming into contact with the Ming people in the Americas, the Portuguese royal family has also attached great importance to the 'True Crossland', and sent Cabrab all the way south along the east coast of the Americas to explore the route to the Ming Dynasty and obtain the right to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, El Salvador has become lively all of a sudden, and a large number of businessmen have come to El Salvador, using this as a base to go to Penglai City in Golden Bay to do business with the Ming people.

Of course, if the southern route can be opened up and the Ming people can be contacted, this El Salvador may also become an extremely prosperous trade point in the future.

Not long ago, the Ming fleet, which has always been strong, passed by here, which made the Portuguese also very excited, bypassing the southernmost tip of the Americas, and sure enough, they could find a route to the Ming Dynasty.

In Salvador, João from the Portuguese royal family is counting a ship that has just returned from Penglai City, which is full of goods from Daming, as long as these goods can be transported back to Portugal, the value can be doubled immediately, so that the royal family can make a lot of money.

Ever since the Spaniards came into contact with the Ming people in the Americas, European merchants flocked to Portugal, one of the protagonists of the sea in this era, they were naturally not to be outdone.

Originally, the main direction of Portuguese colonization was eastward, and they first arrived in India, and now they have a monopoly on the spice trade on the Indian side.

And now the news has come back, on the Indian side, they have also met with the Ming people, and have conducted friendly trade.

Something from the Ming Dynasty is very valuable, and it is also the most desired thing in Europe.

"We were attacked by pirates in the Caribbean, we lost a ship, and only this Maria came back."

The captain of the Maria, Jossan, reported to João very helplessly.

The Portuguese royal family is very supportive of foreign expansion and colonial trade, almost all the ships that go out have shares of the Portuguese royal family, and two ships went to Penglai City to trade with the Ming people, but only one came back, which was a very heavy loss.

"Do you know who it is?"

Joao frowned deeply, he had lost a ship, and the rest of the Maria had not yet returned to Portugal, and he would definitely encounter pirates along the way.

"It's British~"

"They were the most notorious pirates of the seas, and now here in the Caribbean, there are pirate ships of the British, and Vikings from Northern Europe."

Jossan replied, "They are like sharks that smell blood, ready to devour every passing ship. ”

"These abominable British pirates~"

Joao couldn't help but clench his fists, he was angry, but he said: "We will go back to the Caribbean here to loot other people's ships, and our losses must be recovered." ”

After all, almost all the ships walking on the sea in this era are half pirates and half merchants, as long as they can grab them, they will rob them, and if they can't grab them, they will think about doing business.

This is true of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the British, the French, and the Dutch, but the British are even more shameless, directly issuing privateer licenses to those ships and becoming official pirates.

"Yes~"

When Qiao San heard this, he nodded solemnly.

"How is Penglai City of the Ming people?"

"Is it possible that we went and ransacked it?"

Then João thought for a moment and asked.

The wealth of Penglai City has long spread among Europeans, and there are many people who want to fight the idea of Penglai City, and almost everyone wants to ransack Penglai City and obtain the huge wealth of Penglai City.

"Penglai City is very rich, it is full of Ming commodities and a lot of gold and silver, and we merchants from Europe have brought too much, too much wealth to exchange for the goods of the Ming people."

"However, the defense of Penglai City is very tight, and the artillery of the Ming people is extremely powerful, with our little strength, it is impossible to take Penglai City."

Qiao San thought about it and couldn't help but shake his head.

Penglai City is indeed a very tempting cake, many people want to eat, but this is absolutely a hard bone, not long ago there were pirates who wanted to sack Penglai City, but they were beaten a head, not a single ship escaped, all the pirates were killed, and the dead were hanged and hung on the cliff.

"I've heard that the Ming people built a lot of ports on the side of the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire, that is, on the west coast of the Americas, specifically for the transportation of gold and silver, do you think it is possible for us to loot these places?"

"This Aztec kingdom and the Inca empire have to pile up pyramids with gold and silver every year for the Ming people, what a huge wealth, if we can also get it, then we will be rich."

Joao nodded slightly, thought about it and said.

"I don't know, we don't know the situation on the West Coast yet, but I heard that the Ming people have more than 100,000 people on the West Coast, have established hundreds of strongholds, and they have discovered thousands of large and small gold and silver mines."

"There should be a lot of gold and silver on the west coast, and we might be able to build a few colonies on the west coast first."

Qiao San shook his head slightly again and said.

The Ming people called the Americas the Golden Continent, saying that there was gold everywhere, and the Ming people found a large number of gold mines and silver mines on the west coast of the Golden Continent.

It also forced the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire to pay a large amount of wealth to the Ming Dynasty every year, which made Europeans very jealous and stimulated more Europeans to come to the Americas in search of gold and silver.

"Bell~Bell~"

Just as Joao and Qiao San were discussing whether they could go and ransack Daming's stronghold, a rapid bell rang here in Salvador.

Hearing this bell, the whole of El Salvador became nervous and walked out one after another, looking in the direction of the sea.

I saw that between the water and the sky, several large ships were cleaving the waves and heading towards El Salvador.

"What's going on?"

Joao immediately asked nervously.

The seaside cities of this era were very dangerous, and El Salvador was often frequented by pirates, and even the seaside cities of Portugal and Spain were sometimes attacked by pirates.

Therefore, whenever they see a ship coming from the sea, they will immediately feel nervous, and they need to find out whether the ship is from that country, what its purpose is, whether it is a pirate or not.

"Spaniard~Spaniard~"

Soon, someone screamed in terror, and the whole of El Salvador began to be in chaos.

Spain and Portugal are old enemies, and the two countries have fought many times in history, and once united and merged into one country, but eventually split again.

Portugal likes to intervene in Spain's affairs when it is strong, and when Spain is strong, it wants to annex Portugal, in short, there are many grievances between the two countries, and they are not pleasing to each other.

Now the Spanish ships are coming towards El Salvador, and their purpose is obviously impure, and they may have come to ransack El Salvador.

"Spaniards?"

When Joao heard this, he was in no mood to count the goods, and immediately began to direct everyone to prepare for the next battle.

Soon, as the ship got closer and closer to El Salvador, they could clearly see the cross and the Spanish flag flying on the ship, and there were two other ships flying the dragon flag of the Ming Dynasty on them.

"Is Spain going to officially declare war on us Portugal?"

"They didn't even bother to change the flag?"

Joao couldn't help but frown deeply as he looked at the fluttering Spanish flag.

Generally speaking, to do such an unsightly thing, you have to replace the flag of your country and replace it with the skull pirate flag, so as not to tear the last face.

But now, these Spaniards have not even changed their flags, this is going to war with the Portuguese?

"There is even a ship of the Ming people, when did the Ming and the Spaniards get together?"

Soon, he noticed the two Ming ships next to him, with their huge size and fluttering dragon flags, which were very eye-catching, and he knew it at a glance.

"Ask them, what do you mean?"

João pondered for a moment and ordered.

Soon, a small boat rowed desperately towards each other, and went to ask these Spaniards and Ming people what they wanted to do.

The boat goes fast and comes back quickly.

"They say that eventually a pirate ship will end up here, hoping to enter El Salvador and arrest pirates?"

The men hurriedly came back and said.

"Arrest pirates?"

"The Ming and the Spaniards hunted down pirates together?"

Joao was slightly dumbfounded, and then said angrily: "They deliberately find an excuse to attack us Salvador, let everyone be ready for battle, and then give them a hard lesson, let them know how powerful we are Portuguese." ”