In Penglai City, Golden Continent, in the city lord's mansion, Tian Erniu was feasting Guo Ye, who had come from afar.

At the beginning of the year, Guo Ye led a huge fleet from Tianjin, passing through Songhu, Ryukyu, and Nanyang, and then went all the way east, crossing the long Pacific Ocean, and finally arrived at the South Golden Continent in July of the 14th year of Hongzhi.

After that, he sent a fleet all the way north along the west coast of the Golden Continent, and soon it was also connected with Tian Erniu's side, but Guo Ye's side did not stay on the west coast side for too long, but bypassed the later Drake Strait from the southernmost point of the Golden Continent.

Of course, now this strait has also been named the Storm Strait by Guo Ye and others.

In general, the Pacific waters are very calm and there are hardly too many waves, but the Atlantic Ocean is different, and the wind and waves are very strong.

The strait between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean is very powerful, so Guo Ye and others also named this strait the Storm Strait.

After bypassing the Storm Strait, Guo Ye led the fleet to the north along the east coast of the Golden Continent, exploring the situation on the east coast, building colonial strongholds along the way, and more importantly, supporting the east coast.

Because the Europeans and the Ming people met on the side of the Golden Continent, after the news spread in Europe, more and more people came to the Golden Continent, and many European countries also opened colonies on the east coast of the Golden Continent, which posed a huge threat to the Golden Continent strategy of the Ming Dynasty.

But on the east coast, Daming didn't have powerful ships, and he couldn't help these Europeans for a while, so although Tian Erniu was very anxious, he also endured it.

After learning that Guo Ye had arrived at the Golden Continent from the Southern Hemisphere, he immediately had an order sent to Guo Ye, asking him to lead his fleet around the southernmost point to the east coast to maintain the power and presence of the Ming Dynasty on the east coast of the Golden Continent.

The most important thing is that Tian Erniu decided to teach these Europeans some lessons, let them know how powerful Da Ming is, otherwise they would not pay attention to Da Ming's claims on the Golden Continent at all.

From the day he came into contact with the Europeans, Tian Erniu declared that the entire Golden Continent belonged to the Ming Dynasty in accordance with Liu Jin's instructions, and that the indigenous people here were a branch of the Ming people, and the Europeans were not allowed to touch the Golden Continent.

At first, the Spaniards still recognized this and recognized the Ming Dynasty's ownership of the Golden Continent.

However, with more and more contacts and contacts with each other, the Spaniards gradually understood the situation on the Ming side.

This Golden Continent is not from the Ming Dynasty at all, and they only arrived at the Golden Continent a few years ago, although the natives of this Golden Continent look very similar to the Ming people, but they are not Ming people at all.

So the Spaniards gradually did not approve of this matter.

The most important thing is that they also know that Daming's main forces on the side of the Golden Continent are concentrated on the west coast, and on the east coast, there is only one Penglai City now, and there are not a few ships, let alone powerful warships.

So the Spaniards began to reveal their robber nature.

Ignoring Tian Erniu's warnings, they began to build colonies on the west coast to seize more colonies, and even went so far as to demand that the Aztec kingdom must build pyramids of gold and silver on them.

This greatly violated the interests of the Ming Dynasty and the interests of the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company.

In addition to Spain, because of the contact with the Ming people on the Golden Continent, they obtained Ming porcelain, silk, mirrors, sugar, spices and other goods that were very much needed by Europeans.

Therefore, the Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British also came to build colonies on the east coast of the Golden Continent and seize colonies.

Compared with the Spaniards, these people are even more excessive, and even the Viking tried to sack Penglai City, but they were bombarded by Penglai City, and they knew the power of the Ming artillery after they were beaten with a blue nose and swollen face.

In general, on the east coast of the Golden Continent, the situation is not optimistic, and the large influx of Europeans poses a serious threat to the Ming Dynasty's plan to monopolize the Golden Continent.

Therefore, Tian Erniu's side must strengthen the strength of the Ming Dynasty on the east coast of the Golden Continent, and at the same time, he must also teach these Europeans a stern lesson, let them know the power of the Ming Dynasty, and emphasize the interests of the Ming Dynasty in the Golden Continent.

The truth is only within the range of the cannon, the Europeans only believe in this, and if they don't hurt them, they won't know how powerful they are, and they won't bird you at all, and they will do their own thing.

Even after learning about the Ming Dynasty's conquest of the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire, these Europeans tried to get their hands on these two golden treasures.

"Lao Guo ~ dry ~"

Tian Erniu raised the wine glass in his hand and said.

"Dry~~"

Guo Ye finished taking a sip of the wine in the glass, and then complained: "What kind of wine is this?" ”

"Where did I buy it from the Europeans, the wine from Daming has already been drunk, and this one who is adrift at sea will not bring too much wine at all, so he will drink it."

Tian Erniu smiled and said.

"This wine is actually okay, but it's a little unaccustomed to drinking."

Guo Ye smiled and looked at the wine in the glass, there was a slight astringency, which was different from the wine here in Daming, the wine in Daming was all grain wine, and it was often sweet.

"From the south all the way to Penglai City, I found a lot of European colonies along the way."

Chatting, chatting, we talked about the situation on the east coast of the Golden Continent.

"There are many, Spaniards, Portuguese, French, British, Dutch, they have built a lot of colonies on the east coast of the Golden Continent, but they are all small, mainly for trade with our Penglai City."

"See the ships in the harbor?"

"It's all their merchant ships."

Tian Erniu nodded and said, the Europeans have learned about the situation in Daming, and Tian Erniu also understands a lot of the situation in Europe, Jiang Liang, who came back from Europe, brought back a lot of detailed information about Europe, and Zhao Monkey, who is also traveling in Europe, will ask someone to bring a letter every once in a while.

"The merchants of Europe are even crazier than our merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and they are like sharks that smell blood, swarming to buy everything we have."

"However, these Europeans are not good at stubble, they are merchants when they can't beat you, and when they beat you, they are robbers."

"Be very careful with them, if you're not careful, they'll even swallow your bones and chew them."

"How scary?"

Guo Ye thought for a while and said.

"It's not that it's terrible, it's that it's in their nature, the nature of robbers."

Tian Erniu smiled and said, "I am in such a hurry to transfer you from the West Coast to the East Coast, the purpose is naturally to deal with these Europeans. ”

"Liu Gongzi said that our Ming Dynasty wants to monopolize the entire Golden Continent, so naturally we want to take advantage of the fact that these Europeans are as unstable here as we are, and force them to recognize our Ming Dynasty's ownership of the Golden Continent."

"These Europeans are all robbers, robbers, they only serve their fists, they don't beat them, where will they be afraid of us?"

"Not long ago, there were robbers who wanted to ransack this Penglai City."

"I see~"

Guo Ye also nodded solemnly after listening.

Then he thought for a while and said: "This time I brought fifty big ships and five thousand people over, presumably it should be enough to deal with them, and the strongholds of these Europeans I met along the way are very small, not even a small town, and it is not a problem to deal with them." ”

"It only takes one bombardment first, and then a thousand people to land is enough to easily take a small stronghold."

In this regard, Guo Ye is very confident, and when he came along the way, he encountered several Portuguese and French colonies along the coast of Brazil in later generations, all of which were small and not large, and the size of a small town was only a few hundred or thousands of people.

"Now the largest European colony on the Golden Continent is located on the island of San Salvador, which is a Spanish colony, originally there were only less than 3,000 people, because after coming into contact with our Ming Dynasty, there are many merchants, robbers and the like arrived, and it is estimated that there are almost tens of thousands of people on this island now."

"As for the other colonies, they are not large, they are very small, but there are more of them."

"Here in the north, the British and French have established several colonies, which are small and easy to take."

"Here in the Golden Bay, the Dutch and the French have each built a colony, and to the south, the Portuguese have six colonies."

"In addition, there are many Spanish colonies in various places, and our biggest opponents here in the Golden Continent are these Spaniards."

Tian Erniu took out a map and began to say to the points marked on the map.

When you meet the Ming people in the Americas, the merchants of the whole Europe are going crazy, and a large number of people come here to do business with the Ming people, this golden continent is far away from Europe, and it is not easy to go back and forth.

Therefore, these Europeans also chose to establish colonies here in the Golden Continent to facilitate their own trade, and the news that the Ming people obtained a large amount of gold and silver on the Golden Continent also stimulated the Europeans to open up colonies here in the Golden Continent and look for gold and silver.

There are even people who follow Tian Erniu and try to conquer the local natives here in the Golden Continent, so that they can mine gold and silver for themselves, so as to obtain huge wealth.

All these accelerated the Europeans' expansion of colonies and colonies on the Golden Continent, which affected the Ming Dynasty's plan to monopolize the Golden Continent.

"So who do we start with?"

Guo Ye looked at the map, thought for a while and asked.

"Together with the Spaniards, they were the most notorious robbers, who specialized in looting ships from other European countries, and the Spaniards hated them."

Tian Erniu said without thinking about it.