In mid-April, a group of Spanish ships arrived at the port of Guangzhou, and they were pleasantly surprised to find that this place did not have any rejection of them Europeans, and they were free to go ashore to do business, although after going ashore, their range of activities was only limited to a port area outside the city, but this was enough to satisfy them to do business.

After they sold all the goods they had brought with them, they bought the goods they craved most: porcelain and silk.

At the same time, after learning that the Tang Dynasty did not reject them foreigners, and even wanted to establish normalized relations with them, the fleet, which still had a strong official background, sent an embassy to begin to contact the officials of the Tang Ministry of Foreign Affairs stationed in Guangzhou.

And asked to enter Zhaoqing to meet the Tang Emperor!

However, this request was rejected by the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the willingness was very simple, these Spaniards were not of sufficient rank, they were just some businessmen with official backgrounds, and they could not represent the Spanish government, so naturally they could not have formal diplomatic meetings or negotiations.

Although there were some disappointments, these Spaniards who came all the way to the Far East were not for what reason, not to make money.

This can do business normally, and it doesn't matter if they don't see the Tang Emperor, so they are still very satisfied to sail out to sea with many Chinese specialty goods, ready to return to Europe.

As long as they can return to Europe, the value of these porcelain, silk and other Chinese specialty goods they carry can be increased tenfold or even dozens of times.

Of course, the return journey is also very risky, first of all, they have to carefully avoid the Franc man, this year, the Franc machine is the overlord who controls Malacca and even the entire South Sea and the Indian Ocean, they will savagely intercept the merchant ships of other countries passing through these seas.

In addition to the threat of the Francoman, the ubiquitous wind and waves on the sea are also a serious threat to them, and they don't know how many people will die and how many ships will sink along the way.

But it is precisely because of these risks that they have been able to multiply the value of their goods dozens of times after they are shipped back to Europe.

If any individual could return safely from the Far East with a shipload of goods, the goods of the Far East would not be able to sell at such a high price, so what would they do in the Far East!

Risk and reward always go hand in hand!

The Spaniard walked away satisfied, but the Franco-Robot found himself in an awkward situation!

First of all, they were driven out of Haojing by the Tang Dynasty, and then the Francophiles were naturally not convinced, and they naturally did not dare to land on this large-scale, but they sent a fleet to try to blockade and attack the coastal areas of Guangdong.

And then what? Then the funny thing happened, they fought a battle with the Ming army sailors off the mouth of the Pearl River.

As for why they fought with the Ming Army's sailors, in fact, they can't blame both sides, it's all because of misunderstandings!

It was an embarrassing enough war to break your eggs!

Because the Ming army sailors like to go to the Pearl River Estuary to take a walk around and attack the Tang Navy, and the Franc machine man sent the fleet north to retaliate, but also ran to the Pearl River Estuary, and then the two fleets met at the Pearl River Estuary!

In the eyes of the Franc man, there is no difference between these Ming army sailors and the Tang Dynasty naval commander, they are all fleets composed of some lucky ships, Guangzhou ships, and sand ships, and the people above are all the same, so the fleet of the Franc machine man began to intercept the fleet of the Ming army sailors.

The Ming army sailors can endure it, and they thought that this Franc machine man was a helper invited by the pseudo-Tang thief army, and besides, this coastal area of Guangdong is still the world of the Ming Dynasty, and my Dameng Dynasty has always been unable to tolerate these barbarians, they fought a Tuen Mun naval battle with these Franc machine people decades ago, and now they don't even need a reason to fight again.

As for communicating with each other to resolve misunderstandings and communicate with each other, I'm a big Ming who will fight these barbarians, so naturally I can fight them if I want to.

So, they fought a fierce battle in the sea off the mouth of the Pearl River under the nose of the Tang Navy, and the fight was called a dark place, and both sides suffered a lot of losses, and when the news reached Li Xuan's ears, they almost didn't stunned Li Xuan and his friends.

Can this also be fought? How painful you are!

I, the Tang Navy, are your enemies!

At that time, when the Ming army sailors and the Franc machine man fought this large-scale naval battle off the coast of the Pearl River estuary, as the common enemy of both sides, the weak Tang Navy was watching the drama on the side, and after the war, out of humanitarianism, a group of small boats were sent to salvage the overboard personnel on both sides.

However, the Franc machine and the Ming army sailors are not stupid, although they fought a battle, but soon they found out that they had hit the wrong person, and the Ming army sailors found that these Franc machine people were not the helpers invited by the pseudo-Tang thief army, but they came to fight the pseudo-Tang thief army like them.

The Francophiles also found out that they had hit the wrong people, and these enemies were not the Tang navy, but the Ming navy.

It's just that although they all know the misunderstanding, but the battle has been fought, and the losses of each other are not small, it is naturally impossible to shake hands and make peace immediately.

Especially for the sailors of the Ming Army, they are the sailors of the dignified Heavenly Empire, but they were beaten by the Buddha Lang Jiren and slapped him hard, which was simply unbearable.

As a result, the two sides are still in a state of hostility, and small-scale naval battles have been fought several times, but there has not been another large-scale naval battle.

When the Francophile who made an oolong recently heard that the Spaniards went to Guangzhou for sea trade and gained a lot, he was immediately jealous and sent a fleet to intercept the Spanish fleet, and grabbed a Spanish galleon full of porcelain and silk, which was a bumper harvest, and it was more profitable than running sea trade!

It's a pity that the Spaniards ran away and didn't catch them, which made the Francos remorseful.

Now, the Franco-Romans are facing a rather embarrassing situation, on the one hand, their sea trade with the Tang Dynasty has been greatly reduced, but the Spaniards have appeared and plundered some of the profits of the sea trade that originally belonged to them.

Secondly, they found that they could not coerce the Tang Dynasty to submit!

Even if the blockade is actually a show, why?

Because most of the sea ships departing from the coast of the Tang Dynasty went to the South Seas for trade, and the trade objects also included the Francophiles.

And although the Francophile shouted for revenge, he did not say that the maritime trade was completely blocked, this is all silver for nothing, and if you don't make money by throwing away the silver of Baihuahua, isn't that stupid?

Secondly, even if the Franco-Robot wants to completely blockade it, they can't block it, and the boss of the South Seas is not the Franco-Robot, but those pirates who are as many as cows.

Those large-scale pirates live on the sea trade, and you have blocked the Nanyang sea trade, how do you let them collect tolls? How to engage in sea trade!

Well, pirates in these years are sometimes actually maritime merchants, and they are usually well-behaved, especially after entering the port, they are serious merchants, but when they go to sea, and if they meet other merchant ships on the sea, well, weak merchant ships will become pirates in minutes.

Therefore, many of the small and medium-sized pirates in the South Seas are part-time maritime merchants, which can be seen from their ships.

If you don't have a few guns on board, you will be embarrassed to go to sea, and even if you go to sea for a few minutes, you will be intercepted by pirates incarnated by other maritime merchants.

Even if it is a private ship company under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, such as the 'Wang's Maritime Trade Firm', several sea ships under them are also armed merchant ships.

Moreover, the naval guns, swords and other weapons attached to their ships were still officially recognized and registered, and the largest ship of more than 300 tons in the royal fleet, when it was registered, it was clearly registered: it was equipped with one five-pound cannon, four three-pound cannons, a number of muskets, and a number of swords.

There is no way to do this, if they are not equipped with artillery, there is a great possibility that these merchant ships will be swallowed by other pirates as soon as they go to sea.

In this regard, Datang's response policy is to temporarily allow sea vessels to be equipped with weapons, but they must be strictly registered, and strictly follow the guidance of entering the port when entering the port, and they will not be allowed to enter the port without permission.

If you want to enter the port, you must not keep gunpowder on board before entering the port, push the artillery back to the ship's hold, and do not keep swords, guns and other light weapons, these gunpowder and light weapons will be temporarily handed over to the Datang Navy for safekeeping, and will only be returned after leaving the port.

At the same time, the battleships of the Datang Navy will be eyeing the whole process, and they will open fire at the slightest abnormal movement!

Of course, you can also choose not to enter the port, just anchor in the open sea, and then use small boats to transport goods back and forth, and the Tang Dynasty did not prohibit it, and even encouraged them to do so for the safety of the port.

Therefore, in those taverns in the port area of Guangzhou, you can often see how the shipowner recruits gunners if they are a little longer, and what the salary is.

It is also important to note that the large-scale pirates in the South Seas are the same, not only collecting tolls from passing merchant ships and then taking profits from the plundering of ships, but they are also in the maritime trade themselves.

Therefore, in such a complex and chaotic sea area of the Far East, the Franco-robot is nothing, even Spain, the empire on which the sun never sets, has to be obedient with his tail between his legs.

In these years, the master of the Far East Sea is not the Ming Army, nor the Tang Navy, nor the Francosis or the Spaniards, but many maritime merchants or pirates!

In such a situation, the Franc machine man could not completely blockade and block the coastal area of Guangdong, and it would not be able to bring any practical damage to the Tang Dynasty, which made the Franc machine man quite embarrassed.