"I've met the city lord, this is a small gift from the royal family."

Zhang Youde waved his hand, "Give this to the chief, I can't afford it." ”

The object in front of him, a strange animal made of gold, is worth more than a thousand gold, Zhang Youde dares to accept such a thing.

"Please rest assured, my lord, we have also prepared a gift from the city lord, this is for you."

Having lived in the East for more than ten years, Orist is familiar with the rules of the Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't feel abrupt when he calls Zhang Youde an adult, and the Portuguese rely on small means to deceive Macau, and deal with local officials very respectfully.

Otherwise, they will be driven away at any time, and the military strength of the Portuguese will only dare to do East-West trade in Macao with peace of mind.

In addition, the Portuguese used bribes to obtain trade opportunities for any official, which the Spaniards were much inferior to.

Zhang Youde: "You guys come back so soon, what is the matter explained by the chief, this is the chief's order, and it is difficult to speak if it cannot be completed." ”

As the dominant party, forcing the Portuguese to help with things, Zhang Youde didn't need to be polite.

Orlist: "Your Excellency, please, we went back to Lisbon to find a few things about the city lord, but we didn't find the last rubber tree, which can only be done in the Americas, it takes more than half a year, and the crops we brought back this time, please forgive me for a while." ”

Orlist's words, I don't look at his appearance, I still think that he is Chinese.

"Your Excellency, please, the things we brought are outside."

Zhang Youde nodded, and soon his subordinates brought in the box brought by Orlist, opened it and looked inside.

"This is the peanut that the chief said, it's really peculiar."

The peanuts were stored in a dry box, Zhang Youde had seen the peanut sketch drawn by Chen Zijian, according to the sketch and the peanut in front of him really looked, although he saw it for the first time, Zhang Youde still recognized it.

Then there are corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, tomatoes and several boxes opened one by one, some of which Zhang Youde knows, and some are just seeds, and you can't see anything when you look at the seeds.

Zhang Youde nodded, except for the rubber that the chief needed, the rest had been collected in Zhangjiacheng.

For these crops, Zhang Youde has seen sweet potatoes before, and the yield of sweet potatoes is amazing, which is really beyond his cognition, and it will not be too bad to think about these kinds.

Zhang Youde: "In addition to sweet potatoes here, we have collected the remaining five items of corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and peanuts, and the chief said, as long as you can give us these things for the first time, you can be rewarded with 1,000 gold coins, and for you in the Macao area, the volunteers will be temporarily spared." ”

Don't look at the reward of a crop with a thousand gold coins worth a thousand gold, it seems very valuable, but compared to the value of those crops produced in the land of China in advance, how can it be compared with a mere thousand gold coins.

Orist went out to the door of the government building, and he still had a feeling of disbelief, he was forced by Chen Zijian to send those crops here, otherwise their Macau place would be bulldozed by the volunteers at any time, with such a big threat, Orist was sent back to Lisbon by the governor, and hurried back after finding a few things, for fear that something would happen to Macau, otherwise everything they did in Macau would come to naught.

In addition to relieving Macao of danger, Orister got another benefit, which was to enter Zhangjiacheng for trade.

The Portuguese worked hard to stay in Macao for trade with the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty had already banned going to sea, and it was another matter for someone to secretly go to sea to trade, and no one dared to trade at sea on the bright side.

Now he unexpectedly got a trade opportunity, which was an unexpected surprise for Orlist, and he didn't care about the five thousand gold coins, compared to the trade between the East and the West, the five thousand gold coins were nothing.

Just this time, a rhinoceros cast in gold was given to Chen Zijian, which was worth no less than 10,000 gold.

Orlist: "Let's go, let's see what good things are here, I don't know if there are fine silks, I really wish I had a cargo ship, and I will Lisbon with the wonderful treasure of the East for the rest of my life." ”

Rather than discovering gold in the Americas, Orist wished he had a fleet of ships that could transport goods from the East back to Lisbon, so that he could have enough capital for banquets, brag with noblewomen, and develop friendships.

That's right, what was more profitable than the discovery of gold mines in this era was that the East-West trade, with a shipload of gold, buy ceramics, silk and other oriental goods in Daming, and return to Portugal to earn ten ships of gold.

Otherwise, why do you think the Portuguese are desperately trying to put down roots in Macau, this is a more crazy way to make money than digging for gold.

Of course, those who do trade between the East and the West are not so safe at sea, starting from Europe and turning to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, but Southeast Asia and then to Daming, all the way can be said to be thousands of miles by sea, and there are countless pirates encountered, and those who do not have some strength are looking for death.

Chen Zijian would not have thought that the Portuguese would move so quickly, his imagination was that the Portuguese in Macau would return to Lisbon, and then set off for the Americas to find what they needed, and then return to Daming from the distant Americas, during which there was not a year or two to think about it.

But what he didn't expect was that the Portuguese had already brought back the American crops to Europe, and there was no need to look for them in the Americas, and of course the rubber trees were not available to the Portuguese.

The key is that no one has discovered the role of rubber in this era, compared to peanuts, potatoes can be eaten directly, and no one has really discovered the use of rubber.

A huge warship appeared off the coast of Quanzhou.

During the sea breeze, the flag is hunting, and the hunt sounds.

The base camp of Zheng Zhilong in Quanzhou, whether Zheng Zhilong and his high-level figures can be caught in this operation, Chen Zijian has no hope.

The most important thing about a force is not the top-level figures, but the low-level combatants.

It's not that it's not important for the top to receive the characters, but because if there are no people at the bottom to give the top people a command, what's the use of relying on the people on top.

There is an example that is the most realistic, as the last Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, even if he is the Son of Heaven and has no soldiers for him to command, the consequences can be predicted.

Zheng Zhilong's ability to make a name for himself along the coast is due to the tens of thousands of pirates and hundreds of ships under his command.

This time, Chen Zijian's goal is to clear Zheng Zhilong's bottom combat strength, and it doesn't matter if he can be caught in the end, if Zheng Zhilong is not in Quanzhou, or after the battle, he finds that he can't fight and escape, Chen Zijian will not waste too much manpower and material resources to kill them all, in his opinion, there is really no need for that.

Chen Zijian: "Zhang Wu, you will be responsible for the command below, this is your battlefield, and I will not interfere." ”

Let his subordinates be loyal to him, and now Chen Zijian has his way of control, that is, let his subordinates earn their due credit, and give corresponding rewards when they have merit.

As a chief, he doesn't need to do everything in his hands.

In the upcoming battle, Chen Zijian will not say anything when he commands the battle, but he is robbing his subordinates of the opportunity to take credit, this kind of thing is okay once or twice, and who doesn't have a pimple in his heart if he has more times.

Such a thankless thing, of course Chen Zijian will not do it stupidly.

Zhang Wu didn't know what Chen Zijian was thinking, and when he heard that Chen Zijian didn't interfere in the battle behind him, a smile appeared on his face, and he stood up and saluted, "Chief, I promise to do it properly for you, and wipe out the Zheng family." ”

After going to sea for a while, Zhang Wu knew a lot of things, and knew that the Zheng family was blocking the chief's way, and for such a roadblock, Zhang Wu had already itched his hands and was waiting to clean them up.

Zhang Wu dared to have such thoughts, naturally it was the confidence given to him by the naval warships, the volunteers began to collect intelligence from the Zheng family a long time ago, and Zhang Wu knew a lot about the Zheng family's maritime power.

Even if the intelligence is not very sufficient, but it can also analyze the strength of the Zheng family, after he has more than 100 warships, Zhang Wu is not at ease with the power of the Zheng family.

There are more than 300 ships of the Zheng family's maritime forces, of which 70% belong to small boats, and the rest belong to large ships, but the total number of thermal weapons and artillery they are equipped with is less than 50.

In addition, the speed of the ships, the turning, and each of them lagged behind the Volunteer Navy, and Zhang Wu had the strength to look down on the Zheng family.

The Zheng family may be okay with other forces, and they can also resist with their numerical superiority in the face of Dutch gunboats. But here in the Volunteers, it is not enough.

Traveling north from the sea, there were many merchant ships, but most of them were caught up and captured by the volunteers with their speed, and there were really not many of them that could run past the volunteer warships in this era.

Most of the ports where the Zheng family's ships are located are concentrated here, as for why they are not scattered? What are you kidding, the Zheng family just bullies others more by looking at the ship, doesn't separating give others the opportunity to break it separately, and separating the ship requires more cultivation of the port, and the Zheng family will not give up such money.

With such an arrangement of the Zheng family, of course the pirates with small strength did not dare to come over to find death, but in the face of the encirclement and suppression of the Volunteer Navy, it belonged to the fate of the pot!

Hundreds of warships of the Volunteers approached, and they were soon discovered by the vigilant, and a battle between the two sides was about to break out.

Compared with the Zheng family's panicked response, the volunteers came prepared and were already ready to face the battle.

Under the command of Zhang Wu, the battleship stopped at a distance of three miles from the port, and the ship changed the direction of the number, and the belly of the ship faced the port.

The sudden appearance of the volunteers, the port personnel were first confused, they did not expect that one day they would be surrounded by people, and then they boarded the ship in a panic, after all, the fighters were mobilized, Yang Fan set sail, and all kinds of actions could not be prepared in a short time, the volunteer warships had already set up their camps, and the Zheng family pirates were not ready.

War will not wait for you to be ready.

The Zheng family had some small boats ready and were just about to be dispatched, when the artillery bombardment of the volunteers had already begun.