Kuala Pengyu, that is, the small village called Zhangjiagang is now called the north to the east, across the vast sea of less than 20 miles, there is an archipelago formed by the volcanic eruption of many years ago, the three small islands are arranged vertically from the northwest to the southeast, and the native people call it the three islands. The island is shaped like a chicken's waist, and between the middle island and the south island, there is a small lagoon that is not full.

The St. Anthony's graceful curves and yellow and red hull are showing their most elegant silhouettes in the morning sun, and the slightly salty sea breeze blows on Gonzalez's face, giving the captain, who rarely had a good night's sleep, in a good mood today.

The St. Anthony's destination was Banten when it sailed from Manila, where the Dutch had been fighting with Banten's army for many years, and in line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, it was the second best thing to support Banten, but to suppress the Dutch was necessary, and heretics were always more repugnant than the infidels.

This full of munitions on the ship was precisely to support the king of Banten, not to mention that compared to other forces in this sea, the Westerners were not pure merchants, and there were no so-called rules and regulations in their hearts.

González, who had the 'honour' to take part in the four remaining expeditions of the Imperial Armada to England except the first, seemed to him to be far superior to the Anglo-Saxon barbarians, and that the defeat at Calais in 1588 was only due to the treacherous and small defeat of the enemy, and only a year later the navy was restored in Lisbon, and two years later the English army was defeated and its flagship was sunk in the island of Flores. The Avengers', England and the Netherlands are now in the same vein, and both are Protestant heretics, but in war, they will never be opponents of the Empire.

The Armada was defeated once, and there were four more expeditions to follow, and if it weren't for the damned autumn hurricanes in the North Atlantic, the last Tudor monarch would have been guillotined, and where would the Queen of the enemy country die peacefully in the royal palace of Richmond.

But the strength of the empire lies in its deep pockets, with the endless supply of gold and silver in the Americas, and the empire's fleet will always be built faster than it is sunk. This has been proven in the great and small battles of the past 30 years, but in the past few decades, the English and Dutch people have to expand their overseas colonization and trade, which will inevitably shake the foundation of the empire.

Just as the Lord willed, on the way south, he heard rumors about the Song people from the sea merchants and natives, and three days earlier, he was invited by Zhang Chai Lao here.

"You know, Rodriguez, whether it's a Moor or a Chinese, I don't like it."

"Who would love that? But maybe it was a test for the Lord. ”

Gonzalez has always been wary of the hospitality of the Chinese pirates, even if Feng Tongshi made a package ticket in front of him, but the captain in the South Seas has already been dialysis, if it is not for the benefits, the Han people who have no faith will never be so flattering, from a small artilleryman twenty years ago to the supreme commander of the St. Anthony today, Gonzalez has experienced too much, and now these forces in the South Seas are nothing compared to the pirates in the Atlantic, so although they are disgusted, they are also used to using them.

The Chinese dragged him to attack the Song people on Labuan Island, not to mention that the Song people seemed to be a Chinese one, and the lies he fabricated just to deceive him made him uncomfortable.

Along the way, I have heard a lot of rumors about the iron ships of the Song people, with iron as a ship, it is not unusual, the hull above the waterline is wrapped with iron sheets to strengthen the hull, no matter the sea of things and things, there is no lack of such precedents, as for the hull made of pure iron, how can the Spaniards who are good at building ships not know the principle of buoyancy, but there is one, such a ship, even if it can float on the water, it does not take a few days, the bottom of the ship will be rusted, how can it still go to sea?

Although the St. Anthony was not a large warship, and there were only nine eight-pounder guns on each side, it would be laughed at by many people if such a ship were called a warship in Europe. But it is enough to deal with the countries of the South Seas, as long as it is not against the warships of Europe, even the officers and troops along the coast of the Ming Kingdom cannot be helpless, and Gonzalez is not afraid of anyone.

Although muskets and cannons have been introduced to the East since a hundred years ago, and many of the countries of the South Seas have been equipped, Gonzalez is just a toy in terms of quality. Unlike ordinary Spanish sailing ships, because of the investment of a lot of guns, Gonzalez's naval guns were ordered from Sweden at a great price, all of the latest technology cast guns, although only eight-pound guns, compared with the Spanish mainland, the performance is much stronger, the effective range should be six hundred yards upward, in exchange for more than two miles in Huali, but it has not yet been profitable.

Twenty years ago, the Spanish fleet in the Philippines swept along the north of Borneo, and among the trophies captured from Bo Ni and Sulu, there were 170 light and heavy guns, and the country of Mataram in West Java was known as a thousand guns, but Feng Tongshi on the ship laughed and said that such artillery could only be used for execution, except for the use of fasting to proclaim the officials and people in the country, and the quantity was better than the quality, and it was clear which was better or worse. It is a mere Labuan Island, a little Chinese, it is really not a concern. Zhang Chailao's idea is nothing more than to pull more people to strengthen his momentum, and if he really wants to land on the island, he has many people, so he can naturally grab the big head. It's just Gonzalez here, the benefits can naturally be there, but the cannon fodder is good for the Chinese to do it themselves.

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It was just past noon, and nearly 100 people from the Gota Yang tribe had gathered in the square outside the gate of the merchant hall that had been named HSBC.

The half of the tiger skin wrapped around the lower body has not yet covered the knees, and the belt woven with thick hemp rope is just enough to tie the sturdy waist and the tiger skin skirt together, and the bare upper body and chin are tattooed with strange patterns, plus the protruding frontal bone, which makes the face even more indistinct, and it makes people feel terrified when viewed from a distance.

As the warrior of the clan, Handua did not need to shout in front of him, he was sitting cross-legged in the shade of a tree, with a fresh banana leaf at his feet, which his relatives had just picked for him. At his head stood a person in the same attire, but without the forehead on his head and a rattan armor on his chest, this pro stood on the ground holding a rattan plaque in his left hand, and a spear in his right hand, with a vigilant expression. A man behind Handuya was wearing only a collar of crotch cloth and was cleaning an arquebus that Handuya usually used.

There are no more than 20 guns in the whole family, and they were sold by the Francophone from Manraka the year before last, although they are not as good as the scimitar hanging from their waists, but they are a symbol of status.

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"Ah Lu Ji should not wander outside again, be careful of being seen by the barbarians and get into trouble." Chen Shilao went to the wharf early in the morning to work, after noon he saw the local people coming from the west, when he reacted, the door of the merchant station had been blocked, and he couldn't find Min Niang in a panic, and he was worried about his family, so the two hurried back, and now they are telling their son to be careful.

Chen Lu, who had already seen that something was wrong when the natives went to the port, had been looking at the door, and an hour had passed, and the natives who went to the mullah land had only seen but not returned, and there were many later ones with swords, guns, and rattan cards, and it seemed that they had been prepared for a long time.

After his own Lao Tzu rushed back, he kept restricting Chen Lu not to swagger outside, but Chen Lu was recovering from a serious illness, and it was the season when his temperament was active, and he didn't see his sister come back, because he was also very worried in his heart, how to listen to this.

Seeing that the movement was getting louder and louder, the surrounding neighbors also came out to gather in one place to talk.

"I just said that wealth should not be exposed, this short hair is the same as the ancestors of his family, just buy and sell, do not raise some that can fight, how not to be coveted by barbarians, see that this time it is probably not good."

Although Chen Lu was anxious about his sister, he had been in contact with Mr. Fu and Doctor Yu for a long time in the past few days, and he also felt that the methods of the old men of the Song people would not be so unprepared, so he learned from his father's tone and replied: "The chiefs are extravagant in their means, and they don't think it should be like this, just now when my father and mother came back, they said that there were no more than half a person left in the square, the workers were all dismissed and returned, and the students and patients were also in the low wall of the commercial station, so it should be fine." ”

Listening to his son's words, Chen Lu's father and mother only nodded on the side, and a young man next to him who had just found a job at the dock also helped Chen Lu speak.

"The old men of the Song Dynasty have a lot of dealings with the nobles in the country, so General Huang still goes to the merchant house from time to time to inquire, the barbarians are in chaos, when they don't see it, and if they take a while, someone will come to disperse the barbarians."

But as the crowd was talking, they heard a male duck outside the crowd shouting loudly, and his tone was full of joy and pride.

"Still dreaming here, the short-haired trafficking in human beings in the country, and actually abducted to the nobles of the central part of Gotha like death, you need to know that they are the two princes of the ministry, and this has caused public anger, and see how the short-hairs end."

Originally, I was going to do it, I didn't want the two Godayang boys to go to the business station to play for a moment of curiosity, because it was late, they were left in the station to rest, and Fu Xiaofei didn't plan to return it, one child was willing to stay, and the other was an established education policy to absorb children of all ethnic groups into school, and the third was just a good time to try. Those two boys were ordinary people, and their families lived by fishing, where was the prince, but the natives were cheered up, which was in line with the intention of the Economic Strategy Division.

Because of the short hair before, Ma Abao suffered a big loss on the Chen family, and when he went back, he was hung up by Said again, and he was holding a bad breath in his heart. Today, I heard that the central ministry of Gotha was going to do something to the short hair, so Xing Chongchong borrowed a few guards from Said to settle accounts with the Chen family, and he wanted to do good things for the master under the pretext of a package ticket, and he also counted on being able to rely on Min Niang's affairs to please Bayi in front of him and be able to share a profit.

Ma Abao brought a few evil men to restrain the Chen family first, and two young men in the neighbor next to him wanted to come forward to rescue, but they were kicked over by one of the leading evil men with three punches and two kicks, and when the man pulled out the cross knife on his waist, the rest of the people did not dare to step forward and use it again.

Seeing this, Ma Abao said viciously: "You see it, it has ruined Bayi's good deeds, don't think that the master can't fix your cheap bones." The others were idle, and if they couldn't afford it, they just went to talk to the short-haired official, and only asked them if the knife would be fast this time. ”

After saying that, there was another burst of laughter, and the few evil men who followed didn't seem to understand it, but they also laughed together......