While Li Zhe was ambitiously integrating his resources and striving to eat the entire East Africa as quickly as possible, the others were not idle at the same time. This era is full of careerists of all kinds, and there is one not far from him.

Billy Herrington, Governor of Helsinki, a Swedish colony in Africa. If the name Helsinki in Africa is at a loss for you, it has another name that is more popular among the sailors of this era: Walvis Bay.

Walvis Bay is a famous bay on the central coast of Namibia, which got its name because of the frequent whales here. The colonization of this place predates Cape Town, as early as 1487 when it was discovered by Portuguese navigators, and since then it has become one of the most important Portuguese territories in Yanzhou.

The reason why it became famous in the early days was naturally because of the whales here, and Portugal hunted countless whales here, making it a paradise for countless whalers. Since the establishment of the east-west sea trade route, it has been valued as the most important deep-water port in the western Yanzhou.

For more than 100 years, after the competition of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Portugal, Walvis Bay unexpectedly fell into the hands of Sweden, another country from Northern Europe.

Billy Herrington, the great Swedish military god who is now active on the German battlefield, son-in-law of King Gustav II of Sweden and husband of Princess Madeleine, is now the governor here.

The Swedes have only a few colonies overseas, and this Walvis Bay Harbor is the only one of the Swedes in Yanzhou, so it is natural to send such a heavyweight to guard it, Gustav II has long been envious of the huge amount of gold and silver that his neighbors in the south earn every year in overseas colonization.

Billy Harrington has been doing well in Walvis Bay Harbor in recent years, and can bring back a lot of benefits to Northern Europe every year, but people are always not satisfied, and he has never forgotten Billy Harrington, looking at his richer neighbors, whose wealth can make the poor ghosts of Northern Europe jealous of Cape Town, which wants to commit suicide.

As early as a few years ago, when he heard that the Dutch in Cape Town were fighting with the Song people from the east, Billy had not been less spied over there, but since the Song people drove out the Dutch, the movement in Cape Town has hit Billy hard.

A small three-masted galleon returns from the south and sails into the beautiful Walvis Bay, and the crew of the ship brings Billy bad news.

"What? You say that the Orientals of Cape Town are building and expanding on a large scale? ”

Billy was a little puzzled at first, where could he expand, those Orientals were from thousands of miles away like him.

It's like going through a terrible voyage from Northern Europe to Walvis Bay, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the English Channel, the mouth of Gibraltar, the long coast of West Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, and it takes a lot of difficulties to sail here, and every ounce of bread to be transported here costs more than a few gold coins under such a long voyage, and even if he is the son-in-law of the King of Sweden, he can't get much help.

How many supplies can the Song people on the opposite side transport, and how large can they be.

He scoffed at the news brought by the crew and didn't believe it until the captain of the ship came forward and swore by him as a nobleman.

"What, there are tens of thousands of people, at least ten ships dock every day, and there are dozens of ships of the navy in the harbor alone, as well as battleships! Oh God, where did the Song people get so many ships, are they God's favorites? ”

As the governor of Walvis Bay, Billy is not unfamiliar with the Song Kingdom on the other side of the mainland, but in his eyes, the Song Kingdom is at most similar to France, or a little stronger than France.

It's no wonder that Billy, after all, in the history of the whole of Europe, except for ancient Rome, there has never been a country of this size, France is already a first-class power in Europe today, whether it is land, population, army, all kinds of standards are the most powerful country in the eyes of Europeans.

Although Sweden was once strong, and it didn't want to bully Russia, but I also have to admit in my heart that now the great France is the first power in Europe, and even the great Spain was beaten to the ground by France and ravaged fiercely.

It has to be said that since the opening of the east-west route, although Westerners have a certain understanding of the East, it is still very limited. The world in the eyes of Europeans is much worse than the real world.

Even people like Billy have a very limited vision, only know that the Song State is now the most powerful country in the East, but do not know how big it is, and the limited history of Europeans makes it impossible for them to imagine what the words "the most powerful country in the East" mean. The Mongol expedition to the west taught the Europeans a profound lesson, but hundreds of years have passed, and the Europeans who have licked their wounds have forgotten the pain of the past.

"Maybe I should go to Kaesong and see what's going on there."

Billy Harrington had an idea.

Billy admits that hearing the news from the captain had brought him back, and he had a faint worry in his heart.

After all, the Song people's movement in Cape Town is so big, it is not good news for his Walvis Bay area, which indicates that the expansion of the Orientals has not stopped. Once Cape Town is built and has enough strength, then the Walvis Bay area under his command will bear the brunt.

Even the famous sea coachman Holland was defeated by the Song people, so how should he, a small Walvis Bay area, deal with this future crisis?