On 25 June, taking advantage of the ocean currents and trade winds, Pride approached the Sulu Sea at full speed, and continued north through the island chain of the Sulu archipelago the next day.

According to the latest voyage plan, the Pride no longer went to Porto Holo to trade supplies, and the Supreme Executive Council decided that the task of trading with Sulu and transporting Han Chinese slaves fell to Nicole.

Of course, the secret deal with Manado is still the Pride's mission.

At this time, in the crew dining room of the Pride, the discussion about the woman named Xianggu had long since turned the page, after all, it was just a fortuitous encounter, for the people who ran the sea, these things were just clouds of the past, and on the treacherous sea, people's attention would always quickly shift to the bigger and more urgent things in front of them.

The immediate emergency was when the Pride's anti-sea radar detected a large ocean storm ahead of the course.

Although the Pride has excellent capsizing resistance, after all, the sea turbulence in the storm is not a good thing for the crew and cargo.

After Li Zhu and others urgently discussed, Li Sanduo decided to change the route of the Pride to the east, go straight to Zamboanga along the northern part of the island chain of the Sulu Islands, and then go north along the western part of the Philippine Islands.

There are good reasons for this---- dodging ocean storms is just one of the reasons.

Although the new route was almost entirely controlled by the Spaniards, especially Zamboanga, a key point of traffic, where there were already Spanish castles and batteries, it was also a place to shelter from the wind and supplies, and to enter the port to escape the storm in case of an emergency.

Due to the influence of large areas of island land and ocean currents around the island, tropical storms in the western ocean of the Philippine Islands are less frequent and weaker than those on the eastern coast of Borneo, so this is a traditional relatively safe route, and Li Sanduo often ran this sea route when he was an ocean-going **vice president in the old world, so it is a familiar road for him.

The tropical storm came very quickly, and the Rao is Pride sailed and mechanically powered at full speed, and it was able to pass by the tropical storm front.

At this time, Ren Ke and Irush on the ship expressed great satisfaction that the Pride was able to escape the ocean storm, and the two of them have been unwell since they boarded the ship.

Therefore, most of their time at sea was actually on the Nicole, and there is no need to mention how different the working environment of the two ships is, in short, this is the longest sailing trip in their lives, and as a result, the brothers have made seasickness again.

At this time, these two were hiding in the crew cabin in the middle of the whole ship, because the ups and downs here were relatively weak, which was considered the crew's care for the two landlubbers.

The two have been staying in the cabin for the past two days, except for eating and going to the toilet, basically they have not left the hatch.

The two of them tied themselves to the iron bed frame of the cabin with their belts, and while looking at the gloomy sky outside the porthole, they resisted the feeling of vomiting, and in order to be distracted, the two had been discussing a major event related to their careers:

At this moment, the two of them spread out a map of the southeast coast of the mainland on the small iron table in front of the bed, and were studying the large and small islands near the port of Macao.

As the permanent representative in Macao, and the background of the quasi-son-in-law of the Qiao family, one day he said to Ren Ke on a whim, in today's troubled times, the mainland is full of refugees, if we recruit some displaced people in Macao with the help of four Chinese businessmen, and then organize these people to go to the uninhabited desert island near Macao to farm, Brother Ren, how about my idea?

Xiao Ai's words made Ren Ke's eyes light up, and he temporarily forgot the discomfort in his stomach, and said loudly that farming is good! I like it! In the early stage, low-key accumulation of strength, obscene development, and then suddenly erupt after a certain extent, and then you can pretend to be forced to slap your face and live happily......

So the two brothers spread out the map, put their heads together and began to search for the islands, from west to east, and after going through two times from east to west, they finally determined three candidate locations - Xiangjiang Islands, Dangan Islands and Wanshan Islands.

When the two brothers were discussing, a few rattles sounded on the lookout outside the porthole, and then the sound of Li Sanduo shouting the rudder came from the cockpit.

"Mianlanao Island has arrived ......"

"Zamboanga should be ...... nearby"

Although they were talking in their own ways, Ren Ke and Irush blurted out almost at the same time. According to historical records, Zamboanga had a large Han Chinese population, and Ren Ke and Irush were eager to visit them. At this time, Li Sanduo's shout came from outside the porthole:

"The crew on the first deck is all in place!"

Ren Keai and the others were refreshed when they heard this, because under normal circumstances, this was the preliminary arrangement for the port call, which belonged to the standard pre-landing operation order in the navigation operation guide.

That's right, the Pride does intend to call at Zamboanga Port temporarily, as this is a Nanyang port that once played an important role in the history of Chinese overseas survival and exploration.

An hour earlier, a telegram from Li Sanduo had been sent to the Nicole and the Red Mansion, and under normal circumstances, the Pride would have to ask Gu Jin, who was in charge of navigation in charge of the Supreme Executive Committee, to change its port call.

Previously, Li Sanduo accepted Zhu Beiguo's repeated requests, asked Captain Gu, and took this opportunity to go to this Spaniard's port to explore the truth.

After all, we have been at sea for so long, and we have never entered a port controlled by the Spaniards, obviously this should not be, the power of the Spaniards is a presence in the South Seas that cannot be ignored, and we must try to know ourselves and the enemy.

The Pride soon received a call back from the Nicole, who had just left the Red Docks and was on her way to Hollow Harbor.

Gu Jin called back to approve the Pride request to temporarily dock at Zamboanga, but emphasized in the telegram that unless the other party took the initiative to bully us, we should not provoke disputes with the Spaniards, and now that all kinds of construction at home are at a critical moment, we need a relatively stable external environment.

Then Sun Lao also sent a supplementary telegram from the Nicole, asking Zhu Beiguo to try to find out the number of local Chinese in this landing operation.

Zhu Beiguo, as the only person in charge of immigration affairs in the crossing group, is very interested in all those Nanyang ports where Chinese have lived in history, obviously Zhu Beiguo believes that the main body of immigration in the Australian Federation in the future should be Han Chinese, although he is not an emperor and Han element, and he also thinks that he has no racist thoughts, but subconsciously, he still hopes to let Han people of the same language and race immigrate as much as possible.

Due to the lack of historical information, it is not clear how many Han Chinese there were in Zamboanga in this era, after all, before the Spaniards built a castle here, it was simply desolate and there was nothing.

It is said that most of the Han Chinese who immigrated here were Hakka and were transferred from Manila, and the reason why these Han people were able to get here also has a lot to do with the Spanish.

Just twenty years ago, a group of Spanish missionaries from Davao and Cebu came here to preach, and found that this place was already the forefront of the Crescent Religion, and the missionaries were very nervous about the fact that the Crescent Green Church had landed in the Philippines, and they smelled some kind of danger, so the priests went around collecting donations, and finally built a castle at the top of this narrow peninsula, the narrowest part of the strait, and the priests used the towering cross on the castle and the statue of the saint facing the other side of the strait to tell the Crescentists on the other side: Don't come! This strait is the last frontier of your eastward expansion.