Franc spared no effort to open up new shipping routes, with the aim of finding a new shipping route to China and thus breaking the Persian monopoly on the eastern trade routes.

However, the Franco-Robot first found India, and now he has found Manraka.

Moreover, the occupation of Manraka by the Franc machine people still benefited from the help of the Ming merchants, because the main trade of Manchuria was also controlled by the Persians and Siamese, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty chose to cooperate in order to obtain the benefits of Manchuria, and provided the Franc machine with information on the military deployment of Manchuria, so that the Franc machine was able to finally occupy Manchuria.

Merchants have always been like this, and in front of them economic interests are more important than anything else, although for the Ming Dynasty, it is obvious that the colonization of Manraka by Francois is not conducive to the interests of the empire.

But the merchants of the Ming Dynasty will also choose to cooperate with any force for their own economic interests, even their own enemy countries, not to mention just a Buddha Lang machine from afar.

For the betrayal of Manchuria, it is not worth mentioning for the Ming merchants who have no national consciousness in this era, they can even give the interests of their own Ming Empire, such as Jin merchants, not to mention a vassal state.

Even if the imperial court pursues them, they are not afraid, because these Ming merchants are all from the background of the gentry, and they are even protected by the local government because of this, so they will not worry about betraying the interests of the vassal state and being punished by the imperial court.

What's more, Zhu Houzhao really can't punish his own merchants because a vassal country was betrayed by his own merchants.

But because of this, the Franc machine knew the existence of the Ming Dynasty through the Ming merchants, and couldn't wait to open trade with the Ming Dynasty, after all, in their cognition, the Ming Dynasty was a country full of gold, and trade with the Ming Dynasty could obtain endless wealth.

Therefore, the excited Francophone people couldn't wait to come to Tuen Mun at the mouth of the Pearl River, and at the same time, after the king learned that he already knew where the Ming Dynasty was, he also specially sent Pires to envoy Daming, which led to Pires arriving in Guangdong and making Lin Tingxuan, the governor of Liangguang, ask Zhu Houzhao if he had received the matter of the Franco's envoy.

But although the country of Francos dreamed of trading with the Ming Dynasty, they did not have a sense of awe for the Ming Dynasty, and even they were only thinking about earning countless wealth from the Ming Dynasty but did not think about what benefits they could bring to the Ming Dynasty, and their essence was still primitive capitalists with a predatory nature.

If the Ming were as weak as the late Qing Dynasty in later generations, they would also be like the British who forced the Ming to cede land and pay reparations after China's defeat in the Opium War.

However, the Ming Dynasty is not the late Qing Dynasty, not to mention that the current Ming Dynasty is still an empire that has been ahead of the world in industrialization.

"It's hard to imagine that if our great Emperor Zhengde hadn't taken the lead in opening modern industrialization, the capital empire from the West, how would these robbers who plundered the world's wealth make the Ming Dynasty bow his proud head, and humbly learn from and even worship these robbers;

Even if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty, a dynasty in China hundreds of years later would have suffered such a catastrophe, so it can be said that it was our Emperor Zhengde who seized the opportunity before this thousand-year-old change! And so that our national dignity and self-confidence can be preserved, so that to this day, we can still walk with our heads held high! Even our poor can shame the rich of other countries!

And at that time, those arrogant and ignorant scholars were undoubtedly happy, and they should be grateful to God for allowing them to have this great emperor, and to this majesty for making them so confident all the time, otherwise, they will one day find out how sorry their class is for this country! How stupid they are!

However, the stupid ones still despise their Emperor Majesty in their hearts at this time, thinking that their Emperor Majesty is not a Ming monarch, not conforming to the Confucian orthodox definition of Ming Jun, and even thinking of using various ways to overthrow this great emperor, but they are not worthy of attention in front of this great emperor than the Western colonizers, their behavior is like a grasshopper shaking a tree, and like a frog sitting in a well watching the sky, selfishly they do not realize that they are fighting against the whole nation in the whole historical process! ”

Years later, Fang Chuan, a professor at Imperial Central University, wrote in his book.

Wang Hong, the deputy envoy of Guangdong, came to Tuen Mun Island with five third-class sail battleships and ten ordinary military ships.

At this time, the commander of Tuen Mun Island was Andra, the general of the Franc Machine, who had established an official office and a firearms manufacturing base on Tuen Mun Island, and rebuilt the dock, when the fleet of the Ming Dynasty appeared here, Andra also learned the news in advance, and at first, he was not afraid, after all, they had just conquered Manchuria.

"It seems that this ancient empire is not friendly to us, and we must make them respect our great Philharmonic Machine, and let them taste the power of our firearms!"

Andra said after looking at the Ming fleet that appeared on the vast blue sea in the distance.

At this time, Wang Hong, the deputy envoy of Guangdong, who was ordered to take back Tuen Mun Island, was also holding a telescope to observe Andra and Tuen Mun Island occupied by him.

The telescope is a product of the seventeenth century in history, but in this era, because of the appearance of Zhu Houzhao, he has become the most commonly used observation instrument for imperial officers, and therefore, before Andra could see the face of Wang Hong, the commander of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Hong had already seen his Andra and the defense of his island clearly.

Wang Hong shook his head, he had to admit that this group of barbarians from the West was really not an opponent worthy of his attention, but he didn't understand why His Majesty the Emperor would personally issue an order to fight this battle well, and even issued a special instruction, he didn't understand why His Majesty the Emperor attached so much importance to it.

But in any case, because it was the decree of His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Hou and the instructions made by him personally, he Wang Hong could only treat it cautiously.

"Tuen Mun Island, which you now occupy, is the inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty, and your current behavior is an act of aggression, now, we limit you to come to our deputy envoy immediately within half an hour to confess your guilt, otherwise, we will shell it directly, and if you hurt your life, don't regret it!"

At this time, Wang Hong followed Zhu Houzhao's instructions to salute first and then soldier, so he first asked his subordinates to shout at the Franc robot on Tuen Mun Island with a copper bullhorn.

There are also Han interpreters around the Franc machine on Tuen Mun Island, so Andra, the commander of the Franc machine on Tuen Mun Island, also understood what Wang Hong meant, and Andra immediately became a little angry:

"There are no Chinese residents here, and there is no Chinese territory logo, but there is no new land to which it belongs. Tell them that we welcome China to trade in the Franc Command, but that the Chinese troops are not allowed to come to the Franc Territory, which is an act of aggression, and they are allowed to leave after half an hour, otherwise they will be directly shelled on the grounds of the crime of violation! ”

So, Wang Hong also received this Andra's reply, and couldn't help laughing dumbly for a while, he didn't understand how this Francophile was so thick-skinned, the so-called whole world is not the king's land, and the coast of the land is not the king's minister, the whole world's territory is the Son of Heaven, and the lord of the whole world is also the minister of the Son of Heaven!

This Tuen Mun Island is naturally no exception, he can be said to have been given to him by the Son of Heaven, but it cannot be said that his own Franc Machine's own territory is not allowed to be stepped into.

However, like most people in the Ming Dynasty in this era, Wang Hong looked down on these foreign barbarians in his heart, so he didn't plan to explain more, and only patiently waited for half an hour to pass.

Franc ran out of patience at first, and Andra directly ordered the centipede warships to prepare to attack, but they found that the Ming fleet was still far away from the range of their artillery, so they had to rush towards the Ming fleet first, preparing to attack when the range of the artillery could attack the Ming fleet.

Seeing this, Wang Hong had already ordered a shilling: "The enemy has taken the initiative to attack, and the Beidu, Nandu, and Zhongdu are lined up in a battle line, and they will take the initiative to meet them first and give the enemy a heavy blow!" Baoding and Yangzhou each took half of the warships to seal the left and right wings! The Northern Capital, the Southern Capital, and the Central Capital are at the behest of the official to fire! ”

Andra actually didn't understand why Daming's battleship had such a big soft sail and what role it could play, but when he didn't expect that this kind of soft sailing ship of Daming was more sensitive than his own centipede ship, and they were all lined up in a straight line in an instant, what made him even more incomprehensible was why these warships didn't rush up directly for broadside battle.

So much so that Andra had to ask herself: "Could it be that the artillery of this Ming army can shoot farther, or even more accurately, and can shell our warships at such a distance, or is it that they want to escape?" ”

Rumble!

The sound of heavy shelling answered Andra's question.

As soon as the portholes of the three Daming sail battleships were opened, a total of 120 copper-tired iron-core shipboard guns let out a roar, and one by one the live ammunition directly hit Andra's three centipede ships with sawdust flying sideways, and even one of them could not stand the high-frequency impact of the solid cannonballs and turned over directly, and the other one was also broken mast and began to slowly sink into the sea.

Andra's own flagship was also punched several holes, and the sea water spread directly into the cabin.

Wang Hong, the deputy envoy of Guangdong, was also ready to intercept Andra's fleeing warship, but now Andra had no way to escape, and there were three warships he brought, one of which sank, one of which overturned and was detained in the sea, and his own flagship could not move, so he could only surrender with a white flag now.

"This, this is simply terrible, I have been galloping on the sea for so long, and I have never met such a powerful army, my God, this legendary ancient empire is not only full of wealth, he also has military power that we cannot surpass, we can't defeat him at all!"

At first, Andra, who was full of confidence to plan how the emperor of the Ming Empire would punish these rude magistrates and apologize to him, had no confidence at all at the moment, and only felt how stupid he was, stupid to think about fighting against such a powerful empire.

"God, tell me, how many of our unknowable secrets this ancient empire holds, why their warships are so strong and fast, why their artillery can shoot so far! Why do you care so much for them? ”

Andra cried out in grief.

Wang Hong ordered the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division to rescue all these Franc machine men from the sea and the warship that was about to sink ashore, and also fished up the two Franc machine centipede warships that were still completed, after all, these were the trophies that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty specially confessed to seize.

"Your Excellency, contemptible Andra, it is the commander of the Francophone fleet here, and now we officially surrender to you! Our warships have forced us to submit, and I hope that this time the conflict will not affect the friendship between Franco-Rang and your country! ”

Andra humbly bowed to Wang Hong, the deputy envoy of Guangdong.

"Get on your knees!"

Wang Hong was dressed in the scarlet official robe of the fourth grade of the Ming Dynasty, and stood very majestically on the flagship, that is, the first second-class battleship of the Ming Dynasty, looking at Andra, the commander of the Francophone who was about to bend down into the sea under the hull, and said lightly.

Andra was surprised, but also a little angry, he didn't expect that he, as a nobleman of the Franco, would actually kneel down to an oriental, he surrendered and was forced to admit that his strength was inferior, but he didn't expect that the official of the Ming Empire would insult himself.

"Your Excellency! I can surrender on behalf of the Franco, because I am the commander of this ship, but I cannot kneel down to you, because this is my right as a citizen of Franco! ”

Andra protested.

After the translation, Wang Hong secretly marveled in his heart, thinking that His Majesty really expected things like a god, and actually knew how the head of the red-haired fan would answer when he asked him to kneel, so this Wang Hong replied according to Zhu Houzhao's instructions:

"Ridiculous! First of all, you are not my people! You don't have the rights of a Ming citizen! Secondly, you have already committed the crime of violating the territory of the Ming Dynasty! You are now a criminal, the criminal does not have any political rights, and I have extraterritoriality, all the people of the foreign country to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the things they commit can only be punished by the Ming Law Division! Now that the official tells you to kneel, you kneel, and you have no right to refuse the official! If you don't kneel, you'll be like him! ”

As he spoke, Wang Hong took the flintlock pistol from one of his own soldiers, and shot at a Franco robot man beside Andra, and the Franco robot fell directly to the ground, bleeding from his chest.

This Andra was so frightened that he immediately knelt down, and he found that this Ming Empire was not only sharp in artillery, but even the muskets were far superior to the muskets of his own Franco.

Wang Hong saw this Andra kneeling, so he smiled and said: "Let them all kneel, now their identity is prisoners of war, they will serve for the Ming Dynasty for free, and the Ming Emperor decided to punish each of these prisoners of war with 10 million taels of silver!" But the chief asks for twenty million taels! It wasn't until these prisoners of war paid back enough money for their sins that they could be freed! ”

Because of this, Andra and other Franc machine people have since become Daming's professional colonial plunder employees, Zhu Houzhao asked Zhang Yanling to lead a group of water war cadres to form the Daming Sea Trade Company, and at the same time let these Franc machine war criminals serve in the Daming Sea Trade Company, naturally, Daming began to use the rich colonial plunder experience of these Franc machine people to plunder overseas wealth for the Ming Dynasty.

"Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty is a ruthless emperor, I don't know how much wealth I have created for him, but I know that I have paid off 20 million taels, but I have found that I have no way to leave this empire, because I can no longer escape his control over me! I am so sad for my Franc Machine, because he will never be able to compete with this mighty empire! ”

Years later, Andra recalled.

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