However, according to the news from there, after witnessing the battle of the Portuguese Far Eastern Fleet to capture the royal city of Manraka, no one believed that the Manrakas could drive away these invaders, and after the invaders occupied the city, they began to hunt down the Manrakas everywhere to build them all kinds of permanent buildings, and it seems that they intended to occupy the place.

This is the first bad news.

There's a second piece of bad news.

The maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty, now in various sea areas encountered the number of armed merchant ships of the Victor Chamber of Commerce in this month or so, has greatly increased, and, in the past, as long as the Victor Chamber of Commerce paid a part of the protection fee, the Ming merchant ships that could be unimpeded suffered by the Victor Chamber of Commerce maliciously discriminated, the merchant ships of other countries, after paying half or one percent of the value of the goods, can be safe, but the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty have to pay thirty percent, or even fifty percent.

Even so, these merchant ships that paid the fee did not get the protection they deserved, and even a few merchant ships encountered "pirates" after paying the fee, the ships were destroyed, and the people were exterminated.

The imperial court has always turned a blind eye to the sea trade, after all, where is the sea ban still placed, so this kind of thing, those families who have the ability to organize the sea trade business, can not complain to the court, so they have to use their family's influence to try to put pressure on the coastal sailors, although no one understands why these people are so crazy to treat the Ming merchant ships like this, but, the Haojing Ao matter, after these days of fermentation, has slowly spread out.

This kind of thing, after all, can't be pondered, some people connect these things, and finally point the source of this resentment to someone who has been staying here to "watch the wind", thinking that if it weren't for the fact that this person who doesn't know the height of the sky and the height of the wind makes the adults mess around here, they don't have to suffer such a loss.

And the people in the household department have to start complaining, because they have been wandering around for more than a month, and they really can't find a way to buy these Xiyi cannons, and the purchase cannot be successful, the silver of the imperial court is the silver of the imperial court after all, and those cats in the process of purchasing can't get into their pockets. And the source of all this is still Gao Han.

Gao Han's current presence in Ho Jing O is a bit of an eyesore in the eyes of some people.

However, all this, Gao Han don't say he doesn't know, even if he knows, he only cares so much, he asks himself from beginning to end, he hasn't done anything wrong, he hasn't done anything wrong, then, it's someone else who is wrong, there is the emperor's "know", he, a person who has not done wrong, does he need to care about the attitude of those who have done wrong.

The last resistors of the Victor Chamber of Commerce were finally tried by all the brocade guards in more than a month.

The methods during this period may be a little bloody, and there are many people who can't survive torture, but after all, there are some exceptions, such as Hex.

Under the interrogation of Jin Yiwei, there are very few people who can not tell the truth, this guy named Hex, was screened out almost immediately, this person is a director of the Victor Chamber of Commerce, according to the organizational structure of the Victor Chamber of Commerce, this director is basically the top person in charge of Hao Jingao, compared to the deacon named Leo, the position is much higher.

The organizational model of the Victor Chamber of Commerce is that there is a president, a number of vice presidents, and the real power is the various directors under the vice president, whether these directors are financial or human, constitute the backbone of the Victor Chamber of Commerce, and the so-called deacons are just errands under the directors, basically, in every colony, even semi-colonial, even including large settlements like Haojingao, the Victor Chamber of Commerce will infiltrate and control.

The place where a director can be sent to live is a key area, and Ho Jing Ao, regardless of its scale, prosperity or number of people, is enough for this Hex to come here.

As soon as his identity was revealed, he was directly isolated by Jinyiwei alone, facing those little shrimps, this is a big shot, Gao Han is suffering from not knowing the reality of the Victor Chamber of Commerce and even the Portuguese, there is such a person, naturally he wants to be a baby.

The pawns can be tortured and try to find out what they know, but this is not appropriate for the big guys.

In Gao Han's words, this kind of baby bump, if it dies, it will be difficult to find another one, so you have to wait for it.

These days, although Hex is imprisoned, he really hasn't been wronged, except that he is not free and cannot have any news, no one has wronged him in terms of food and housing.

Gao Han even took Olivia to the place where he was being held every once in a while, showing his concern.

This Hex is also a wonderful person, as long as Gao Han doesn't talk to him about the secrets that he thinks are inconvenient to leak, he is happy to talk to Gao Han about other things, such as the customs and food of the Ming Dynasty, such as the current situation in Europe, and the war between Spain and England.

There are many things that Gao Han can't hear from Olivia's mouth, which is caused by the different classes and positions, and the different news he sees or gets, so he is also happy to talk to his captive often, enrich his own knowledge and understand the situation in the West.

However, both sides tacitly agreed that they did not mention anything else, Gao Han did not mention the matter of the Victor Chamber of Commerce and the Far East Fleet, and Hex did not mention how he would be disposed of, so the two sides got along for more than a month with a clear pretense of confusion.

Sometimes, Gao Han even brought Liu Ru to sit down, Liu Ru was mostly dressed in men's clothes, and occasionally changed into women's clothes, which suddenly shocked this Hex, Gao Han obviously felt that he was a lot more excited that day, although he still didn't leak any confidential news, but compared to what he talked about on weekdays, there were more.

It's probably a kind of showmanship! Gao Han is a little funny, men are like this, he always can't help it in front of beautiful women, only occasionally he looks at Olivia, and thinks that Olivia is actually beautiful, and I don't know why Hex doesn't feel anything about Olivia at all.

Olivia is now not only the interpreter hired by Gao Han, but also the treasurer of the firearms factory.

Of course, Olivia welcomes this kind of extra salary, especially since his partners can even arrange for a firearms factory to have a stable source of income, which makes her feel a big stone.

These partners followed her through hardships and went to the ocean, in fact, she didn't know when she had a deep sense of responsibility for these partners, these partners followed her, she felt that she had an obligation to take them to find a good life, and inadvertently solved this problem, where did she have a reason to be unhappy.

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