Wang Zhi thought that Yang Cong would definitely scoff at the request of the Francophile, after all, these guys had only fought two battles with Daming a few years ago, and they had a hostile relationship with Daming, so how could the Governor privately meet with the envoy of the enemy country.

Unexpectedly, after thinking about it, Yang Cong asked with great interest: "Did they say why they asked to see this official?" ”

When Wang Zhi heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

What's the matter with this governor, it is a serious crime to meet the envoy of the enemy country privately, and if it accidentally reaches the ears of the emperor, it will be killed.

He was stunned for a moment, and then said cautiously: "They mean that they want to discuss with the adults to see if they can open the Moon Port as a treaty port for them." ”

And sure enough, it was!

At this time, the colonial powers are so virtuous, if they can beat you, they will definitely not be polite, and they will serve the weak countries with strong ships and guns, either directly become colonies, or force you to sign various unequal treaties.

If they can't beat you, they will try their best to negotiate with you, trick you into opening commercial ports, implement economic colonization, and slowly encroach on you, and when they are stronger than you, they will not hesitate to turn around and do it.

Yang Cong is naturally very clear about this routine, but he is not averse to doing business with foreign powers, this economic colonization is not unilateral whoever wants to colonize whoever can colonize, the main thing is to see the strength and development speed of both sides.

If the Ming Dynasty is like the general in history, closed off the country, resting on its laurels, and cutting off the road of development, it is naturally better to have less contact with these colonial powers, because people are white-eyed wolves, no matter how they feed them, they can't feed them, and their only idea is to swallow you whole.

However, at this point, it is different with him.

Now, everyone is basically on the same starting line, and it is not certain who can outrun.

He has hundreds of years of knowledge, can he not outrun the colonial "natives" of this era?

Thinking of this, he said lightly: "When will we talk?" ”

How dare this Governor negotiate with the envoys of the enemy nation!

Wang Zhi was surprised and couldn't help but admire Yang Cong even more, daring to act, in his opinion, is the way to success, if he doesn't dare to do it, how dare he dare to run to do business with Dongying people, and how can he be so prosperous.

This Governor's is truly admirable.

He respectfully bowed his hand and said: "The Franc machine people also went to Dongying to deliver goods, they arrived a few days later than the last general, and they also have to buy some special products in Dongying, so their return time will be about half a month later than the last general." What they meant was that if the Governor was willing to talk to them, they would go to Putuo, the last general's lair, and wait for them, and they would go around the last general when they returned. ”

Let's talk, you want to play economic colonization with me, and I want to play economic colonization with you.

Yang Cong thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Putuo?" Good! I want to go to your place, so let's take a rest here today, and tomorrow we will set off to meet the Franc man. ”

Wang Zhi naturally didn't dare to have any objections, he respectfully obeyed the order, and then ordered his subordinates to carry the silver.

Early the next morning, the sky had just been polished, and the sea area near Yuegang was crowded with all kinds of ships, including the sea ships under Wang Zhi's hands, the old warships of the Zhejiang-Fujian Naval Division, and the new warships recently built by the Nantai Shipyard, with more than 200 large and small ships, which looked extremely magnificent.

Yang Cong stood on a tall fortune ship, looking at the dense warships around him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile.

Hehe, since the Portuguese dare to negotiate, they must have something to rely on, and they will probably show themselves their "muscles", dare to compare warships with me, and they won't scare you to death!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but wave his hand arrogantly: "Array, go!" ”

With his order, more than two hundred ships of all kinds formed a huge circle formation and slowly headed north.

This Quanzhou Mansion is still relatively far away from Wang Zhi's lair, counting the sea route, it is about more than 1,500 miles, even if it is smooth sailing, it will take five or six days, and the wind on the sea is not blowing in which direction you want to blow, so it took Yang Cong nearly ten days to arrive at Putuo Island on the east side of Zhoushan.

At this time, Putuo Island was nominally under the jurisdiction of the right thousand households in Dinghaiwei, and there was originally an intersection inspection department under the jurisdiction of the right thousand households in Dinghaiwei, but Dinghaiwei had long been relaxed, and the intersection inspection department had long been abandoned, Putuo Island had already been occupied by Wang Zhi, even if he returned to the imperial court, no one dared to recover, because he had become the chief military officer of the Zhejiang Navy Division, and it was nothing to occupy a small Putuo Island.

Originally, there would be no ships around Putuo Island, because everyone knew that this was the biggest force on the sea, the lair of Wang Zhi, the leader of the Japanese bandits, generally even pirates did not dare to approach, if Wang Zhi led the ship to sea, the sea was basically clean and slippery, and not a single ship could be seen.

However, in the past few days, there have been hundreds of warships in the waters near Putuo, although the size of these warships is not large, the style is very neat, either Cangshan ships or centipede ships, and there are many guns on them, which makes people's scalp tingle at a glance.

The pirates and pirates on Putuo Island thought that these officers and soldiers were trying to rebel and take advantage of the opportunity of the leader Wang Zhi to go to sea to clean them up, so they were all frightened and panicked.

Unexpectedly, these official warships did not attack them, and for several days, they were just cruising back and forth in the nearby waters, as if they were waiting for someone.

A few days later, the person they were waiting for seemed to appear, and suddenly a huge fleet of ships appeared on the southern sea, probably no less than two hundred, and the direction was straight for Putuo Island.

The more than 100 Ming warships that arrived first immediately approached when they saw this fleet, and it was obvious that they were waiting for this fleet.

This guy, there are more than 300 warships on both sides combined, and there must be no less than 10,000 officers and soldiers on it!

The officers and soldiers at this time were different from before, the officers and soldiers in the past were basically soft-footed shrimps, and it was no problem for them to pick two of them, but now the officers and soldiers are like tigers, and it is no problem to pick five or six or even ten of them at a time.

It's over, it's over.

At this time, the pirates and pirates on the island were so frightened that they almost didn't jump into the sea to escape.

Unexpectedly, more than 300 Ming warships did not launch the imaginary onslaught after approaching the port, only one Dafu ship was the first to dock, and the first to get off the ship was their leader Wang Zhi!

What's going on here?

It turned out that this was purely a misunderstanding, the more than 100 warships that came first were the Nanzhili Naval Division warships led by Qi Jingtong, and the Nantai Shipyard had built a whole fleet of hundreds of warships after more than half a year's work, and Yang Cong first deployed them to the most critical Nanzhili sea area.

This time, in order to show the "muscles" to the Portuguese, he deliberately ordered the fast horse to hurry up to 800 miles to inform Qi Jingtong to come to Putuo to meet, and Qi Jingtong and Wang Zhi were not familiar with Wang Zhi, and the people Wang Zhi stayed on the island were a group of pure pirates and pirates, in order not to cause unnecessary trouble, Qi Jingtong simply led the fleet to wait in the waters near Putuo, and as a result, the pirates and pirates on the island were almost scared.

After a long time, it turned out to be a false alarm.

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