There are a total of two ships in the Franc fleet that bought Dongmenqing and others, so there are also two captains, the first captain is called Mendoza, and the second captain is called Gaspar, who are two lucky and unlucky adventurers.

Saying that they were lucky, it was in Lisbon, Mendoza got a good three-masted sailing ship, and Gaspar happened to inherit an inheritance, at this time the circumnavigation route had been opened, the oriental spice trade was in full swing, China and the spice islands were simply a place of gold for Western Europeans, so these two guys gathered more than a dozen Mediterranean unemployed, took the sailing ship they named the Golden Dog, and used the inheritance obtained by Gaspar as the starting capital, and arranged the weapons needed for navigation and plunder. Grain and some cheap European commodities sailed to the South China Sea. They raided some villages in the Nanyang Islands, obtained some gold and cinnamon and cardamom, and enslaved thirty or forty Nanyangs, and the pinnacle of their luck was to attack a Cantonese merchant fleet on the shipping route between Chaozhou and Luzon.

Before that attack, they were notorious alien pirates on the sea. However, they generally attacked Nanyang villages with weak resistance, and this attack on the Chinese's large merchant ships was a rather risky operation for them. However, the adventure went unexpectedly well, and they were stunned by the cargo of the great merchant ship after they captured it!

My God! This five-masted merchant ship is simply a treasure to them! In addition to mercury, sulfur, and some medicinal herbs they did not recognize, there was also a large quantity of fine porcelain, in addition to six hundred quintals of raw silk, and many finished silk weavings. On the other three-masted merchant ship, there was a large amount of cotton cloth.

"Ahh Mendoza, my brother! We're rich! Gaspar said, "Sail this ship to Lisbon and we'll be a myth!" ”

Mendoza knew that Gaspar was not exaggerating, and that the hundreds of loads of raw silk and porcelain alone would be enough for them to live a noble life from now on. "Look, you were worried about losing money! How about now! The little inheritance you inherited from your aunt will only buy ten Chinese plates in Lisbon! ”

However, instead of returning to Europe, as they themselves say, they continued to cruise north in an attempt to attack some more Chinese merchant ships, driven by greed. However, from this time on, their luck seemed to be almost exhausted, and near Zhangzhou they were counterattacked by Chinese maritime merchants, killing two Portuguese and more than two dozen Nanyangs, although they captured a dozen fishermen near Dayuan as a supplement, but because they lost a navigator who was familiar with the East China Sea in the Battle of Zhangzhou, their ship drifted north of Dayuan and got lost. Moreover, the defeat suffered in Zhangzhou also caused them to have a psychological shadow for a period of time, and they did not dare to easily approach the continent to the west.

On this sea between Fujian and Japan, Mendoza and Gaspar had a disagreement, Mendoza suggested that everything go south, go back to the South Seas they are more familiar with, but Gaspar thinks that it should go north, because at this time there is still a south wind, and if it is a headwind to the south, he estimates that if he turns around and goes south, he may not find a place to supply them, although the East China Sea is unfamiliar, but if he can successfully find the legendary Wajima, everything will turn around.

"Wajima? But who knows that place on our ship! We've only heard Anthony mention the approximate location of the place. ”

Mendoza said that Antony was a Chinese they recruited in Manraka (later translated as Malacca), a poor young man who was sold into slavery in Manraka as a child, and then sold to Goa, India, where he was baptized and became a poor Christian, and then brought to Manraka by another missionary. This poor Christian, who had heard from a fellow villager that his mother was critically ill and was anxious to take a boat back to Fujian, accidentally boarded a thief ship and boarded the Golden Dog, where he became the translator and chief accountant of Mendoza and Gaspar. Anthony's father was a poor talent in Quanzhou, so he was able to write Chinese characters at a very young age, knew Mandarin, and of course knew Hokkien, and after he was exiled to Manchuria, he learned some Nanyang dialect, and after he was baptized in Woya, he learned Portuguese and some Western knowledge such as arithmetic, geography, and astronomy from missionaries, so he was really a good helper for Mendoza, especially in translation.

At this time, Mendoza and Gaspar quarreled for a while, and finally decided to throw the silver coin, and God decided where to go.

"God must curse them!" Anthony saw it from the side and thought to himself. This young man, who is both smart and timid, actually hates these bandits, but he can't escape their control. He was afraid of blood, and when Mendoza cut off the head of his compatriot, the heavy and sympathetic Cantonese owner, he had nightmares for three nights!

"Oh God! Please forgive me. They...... That's not what they told me at first! Anthony prayed that he had been an accomplice in the robbery of Cantonese merchant ships.

Silver coins fell from the sky onto the deck, and God instructed them to continue north, and in order to save food, they decided to throw the disobedient Chinese sailors into the sea to feed the sharks.

Anthony was very frightened when he heard this, and secretly passed the news on a note to a Chinese sailor who seemed to be literate, because the note was written briefly, so the news had a certain distortion in the process of dissemination, but this distortion did not hinder the Chinese sailors from rising, but unfortunately, the Chinese sailors' actions failed, so Anthony saw many of his compatriots killed.

"Woooooooooo......oo My God! Why don't you punish them by sending down heavenly fire? ”

Disappointed, Anthony is almost hoping that the ship will never find land and sail straight to hell! But contrary to his hopes, they saw the ship before they ran out of food and water!

"Haha...... God bless us! Mendoza was so proud that he ordered an attack, but this time they were met by Xu Dong's subordinate Li Guangtou, and after a fierce battle, Li Guangtou lost two sailing brigs, and the Portuguese pirates lost their captured five-masted merchant ships. Under the threat of death, Mendoza and Gaspar retreated in despair. However, the God they worshipped did not seem to have forsaken them because of their sins, and before starving to death, they entered the waters around the five islands, when they did not dare to mess around again, and the robbers must have been taught a lesson before they began to know how to obey the rules. They exchanged a little goods for the five islands, bought food and water, and bought some slaves to replenish their manpower, but their savings were almost empty. If they wanted to go to Hirado, they couldn't trade because they had no goods, and they didn't dare to go when they heard that Lee was there now. By this time the monsoon had turned from north to south, and after some discussion, they decided to go first to the South Seas, to sack the useless natives of the Luzon Islands, and then to exchange raw silk on the coast of China, and then to Japan for silver.

However, it is imperative that the ship be repaired first.

In this era, the division of labor in the ecological chain of navigation is sometimes delicate and sometimes vague, and on a fleet capable of long-distance voyages, skilled sailors must also be carpenters, and the sailors of the fleet can not only repair ships, but even build ships under the leadership of these carpenters.

Hideyoshi Sato's carpentry work is very good, and he was immediately reused after only showing his two hands. Dongmenqing has read books, handled things, killed widows, and wrapped up women, but he didn't do chores as an envoy like now, so everything was not smooth after getting on the boat, and it was not as easy as Li Chun. Seeing that he was so useless, the group of Francophiles kicked him at every turn, and at this time, he was isolated and helpless, and Dongmen Qing had no choice but to endure it with indignation and did not dare to attack. Sato Hideyoshi laughed when he saw it on the side, Chen Baifu couldn't look past it, and whispered to him: "Brother Wang seems to be a person who has read books, why don't you recommend yourself, maybe you can get a effortless errand on the ship." ”

Dongmen Qing pondered for a moment, gesturing and scribbling, indicating that he was proficient in Chinese culture, which may not be useful to these ghosts, Chen Baifu said: "In addition to the dozen or so real ghosts on these two ships, there is also a fake ghost, I think this person is good-looking, and he speaks with some politeness, maybe he is also a reader." And I've heard some old sailors say that he often helps the people under him, and the ghosts sometimes listen to him. Why don't we try him? ”

Dongmen Qing shrugged his shoulders, and the place where his back was whipped was faintly painful, and he didn't want to go on like this, thinking that what Chen Baifu said might also be a way out, so he entrusted him to help him pull the strings. The next day, Xiu Chen Baifu looked at a gap, found the fake ghost and said, "Lord Anthony." ”

The name Anthony was called by Chen Baifu when he heard the captain Mendoza call it, but when the young man heard him say this, he shook his hand and said, "I'm not an adult, you can call me Anthony." ”

"Mr. Anthony is so approachable." Chen Baifu exclaimed.

Anthony, though he was not very old, was a wise man, and when he saw him coming to him, he knew that something was wrong, so he asked him, "Is there anything you want me to help with?" ”

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