Time flies, more than a year has passed, and the "Pioneer" ship led by Sun Juyong has not heard from his master so far, which makes Li Tianyang and others, who are waiting for news in Keelung Town, gradually begin to become anxious.

According to the news obtained from the Spanish recruits, the voyage from the port of Acapulco to Manila in Luzon under the favorable wind will take no more than two months at most, but Sun Juyong and his trip have been almost thirteen months.

People who eat by the sea know that the longer they stay at sea, the more risks and difficulties they face, and for the unknown Sun Juyong and his party, Li Tianyang and them also began to prepare for the worst with the passage of time.

The ocean-going fleet of Wu Daofu and He Yong, the most eastern Hongmen, has also been inquired about by all parties, but there has never been any news of the "Pioneer" in the past ships, and the latest news is also the information that the "Pioneer" disappeared in the east of the Wa Kingdom in the early spring of a year ago.

When Li Tianyang was hesitating in his heart, whether it was time to announce the information about Sun Juyong's disappearance, on the sea hundreds of miles away from Hokkaido, the easternmost part of the Japanese Kingdom, a group of yellow-faced and thin sailors were facing the sea breeze, stubbornly and strongly moving towards the west.

Sun Juyong himself is already too thin, his eyes are sunken, and his skin is full of bones, just like those refugees who haven't eaten a full meal for two or three months.

Although he was haggard, Sun Juyong's eyes were still full of fighting spirit and spirit, and the scarlet bloodshot in his eyes told everyone that he probably hadn't slept for several days and nights.

And the moment Sun Juyong opened his mouth, his mouth was full of blood blisters, and the flesh and blood between his teeth and gums were blurred, but it was a symptom of sepsis caused by the sailor's long-term lack of vitamins.

"Ou! Europe! Europe! ”

The crisp call of a few skuas suddenly appeared in the sky, which is comparable to the sound of heaven in the ears of the sailors who live on the sea all year round, and the sponge of the skua gull means that there are islands or continents in this vicinity, which has been floating on the sea for nearly three months for the sailors of the "Pioneer" ship, there is nothing more intoxicating than this bird call.

"Lookout, keep an eye on your surroundings, and report back if you spot an island or a sea vessel!" The company commander began to give orders to cheer everyone up, and then hurriedly reported back to Captain Sun Juyong.

Hearing the report of his deputy, Sun Juyong's tight string was finally loosened, and his originally strong body dropped a few points when he heard the good news, and he was no longer upright before.

For this voyage, the sailors and soldiers on the "Pioneer" ship, including Sun Juyong, had long been mentally prepared, but they were still almost defeated by the cold and ruthless nature.

The trip to find the port of Acapulco was actually quite smooth, and the guide sailor who was dug from Manila at a high price fully showed his value, although he also delayed some trips on the way, and because it was not a tailwind, the voyage was a little longer than the Spanish crossing the Pacific Ocean, but it was only less than three months to see the horizon of the American land.

Once in the Americas, it took me almost two weeks to cruise along the coastline to find the port of Acapulco.

The Spanish colonists from the port of Acapulco were shocked by the sudden appearance of the Pioneer in their sphere of influence, when no other civilization on the American continent had set foot except for the Spaniards, at least according to their Spanish intelligence.

Fortunately, since Li Tianyang dared to send Sun Juyong and them to the port of Acapulco in the Americas, he naturally made full preparations, a letter of introduction issued by Father Felix and their Jesuits, and a certificate that Li Tianyang did not know how to deceive from the Portuguese in Macao, proving the relationship between their Portuguese and Hongmen cooperation allies.

As soon as Sun Juyong found these things and drove them into the port of Acapulco, he personally delivered them to the Spanish colonial governor Fidel, who was sent to the local port with a translator. Castro. In the hands of Ruth.

I thought that since the port of Acapulco was a colony of the Spaniards, and it lived far away in the vast Pacific Ocean, during which the natural baby was a group of Westerners with blue faces and fangs, black hair and blond hair, but only when he really walked into the port of Acapulco, Sun Juyong was surprised to find that there were still traces of their Ming people in this foreign land.

This made Sun Juyong, who originally thought that he would be the first Ming man to set foot on the distant American continent and was secretly happy, and thought that he had a little more talk and experience, was very frustrated in his heart!

Even if Li Tianyang was standing on the dock in Acapulco at this time, looking at the dock although it was scattered and loose, he was still wearing a Ming Dynasty costume, and a few words of the Ming people in a certain local dialect of the Ming Dynasty popped out of his mouth from time to time, I am afraid that most of them will be dumbfounded.

Li Tianyang did not expect that when they were painstakingly searching for and opening up the shipping routes between Asia and the Americas, there were already a large number of Ming people who came to settle and develop in a foreign land on the merchant ships that the Spaniards traveled between the port of Acapulco and the Manila colony every year.

Governor Fidel was very cautious and dissatisfied with the so-called Ming man who suddenly appeared, and the warship behind him that clearly belonged to the Western first-class battleship.

The dissatisfaction was that the trade between the Americas and Asia, which had always been in the hands of the Spaniards, suddenly appeared a group of so-called Ming merchants, although they had already shown their good intentions when they appeared, but as a merchant and a local colonial governor, Fidel still had a bad eye in his heart whether he should kill the ship and the sailors who accompanied it on the spot.

At this time, the Westerners were a group of civilized people on the surface, but behind the scenes, they did burn, kill, loot, and do all kinds of evil, especially in the colonies, or among the merchants who traded in various places.

Usually, everyone looks like a group of good businessmen who follow the rules, but if you really have enough interests, enough opportunities and strength, they will never be polite to you with fake compassion, and they can turn their faces on the spot and reveal their pirate nature.

Fidel was the same, and he was able to achieve his position by relying on his ruthlessness and iron wrist to suppress the surrounding group of tiger-like Spanish merchants and the local natives.

(End of chapter)