It wasn't the Indian governor they had hoped for with an invincible fleet to rescue them, but the Ming governor had returned with their huge fleet!

What frightened Raphael the most was that they saw a sailboat with a broken mast being towed back! Raphael began to count with horror, one, two, three, seven!

That's right, there are seven intact galleons of the Kingdom of Portugal! He knew that one of the sailing ships had been sent to the shipyard by the Ming governor for study, so where did this broken mast and scarred sailing ship come from?

No, it won't! Definitely not! Governor Alfonso is the invincible lion of the sea of the Kingdom of Portugal, and his fleet is undefeated! No, it won't!

The fleet docked, and a hundred blonde and blue-eyed Portuguese were escorted to the docks, and when Raphael saw this, he immediately felt a pang of despair, this was his own man did not run.

Zhang Zhijie interrogated these Portuguese first, and as Zhang Zhijie expected, the Indian governor of the Portuguese saw that there was no news of the fleet sent by him, so he gathered all the fleets to come to Daming to find out.

Zhang Zhijie also knew that the huge fleet led by the Portuguese marshal was not in the East, but went to the Americas! Knowing the news, Zhang Zhijie was a lot relieved.

Even if the Portuguese marshal gets the news and returns to the east, the Ming Dynasty has a buffer during this time, not only can all the warships be reloaded, but also add a lot of warships, and even if it is against the Portuguese fleet, it will not be without the strength to fight.

After interrogating these Portuguese, Zhang Zhijie asked these Portuguese to join Raphael's team as coolies, and Raphael saw these his comrades-in-arms as if he had seen his relatives! When the fellow saw the fellow, his eyes were full of tears!

It took a lot of effort for the newly captured Portuguese to recognize Raphael, and they couldn't believe that this was their former comrade-in-arms, how did they become like this!

Raphael immediately began to cry out with snot and tears, and what kind of inhuman treatment they had experienced here, which frightened the new captives.

When he had finished crying, Raphael could not help but ask what was happening on the sea, and the new captives immediately sighed and told the story of the fierce battle at sea.

Raphael and the others heard that the Ming warships had only invested fifty ships to block the attack of the Governor of Alfonso, and finally the forced Governor of Alfonso had to retreat, which made Raphael and them a little desperate.

The fact that the Ming fleet could only dispatch fifty warships to counter the thirty warships of the Governor Alfonso was completely unexpected! Thinking that Daming still has fifty warships eyeing him, and according to the governor of Daming, Daming has more warships!

Thinking of this, Raphael, they can't help but feel sad, do they have to work here until they die of exhaustion? Daming is obviously a closed country, why is there such a powerful fleet?

Raphael, though they were sad, could not change their situation, for the soldiers began to wave their whips again.

After Zhang Zhijie returned to Quanzhou, he began to get busy, sending the seriously damaged warship and the Western warship with a broken mast to the Longjiang Shipyard, and at the same time integrating the newly manufactured warship and the intact Western warship into the fleet of the naval division.

Just when they were busy, a wealthy coastal family who traveled back and forth between Manraka and Daming came to see Zhang Zhijie, and they came to deliver the news that the Portuguese governor in Manraka wanted to meet with the admiral of Daming.

Zhang Zhijie was not surprised by this, the governor of Manraka was not stupid, the strength of the Ming fleet was very strong, if the Portuguese fleet and the Ming fleet fought to lose, it would only make other countries benefit!

If Portugal wants to protect their interests in Manchuria, the best way to easily defeat the Ming is naturally to seek reconciliation and seek to maximize their interests.

It is impossible for Zhang Zhijie to fight to the death with the Portuguese, and that is not in line with the maritime interests of the Ming Dynasty! Therefore, Zhang Zhijie wanted to meet the Portuguese governor in Manchuria.

The two sides met near the Zhoushan Islands, Zhang Zhijie came to the Zhoushan Islands with a mighty fleet of fifty warships, and the Indian governor also came to the Zhoushan Islands with his fleet, and the two sides stopped at a great distance.

Zhang Zhijie's boat sailed out of the convoy and sailed into the distance, while the Portuguese flotilla on the opposite side also sailed out of a warship, and the two sides met on the sea.

Zhang Zhijie waited calmly in the hall, and not long after, a well-dressed Portuguese came and entered the hall with several attendants.

The man who came was Alfonso, the Portuguese governor in India, who was in his fifties and a distant relative of the Portuguese royal family, and when he entered the hall, he saw a young man in an elegant manner.

Alfonso was very surprised, he didn't expect this governor of the Ming Dynasty to be so young! However, after the last naval battle, Alfonso had already inquired about the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and knew that this governor was the cousin of the Ming Emperor and the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty besides the emperor!

It was also this governor who had a great vision, not only formed a powerful naval fleet, but also contributed to the opening of the Ming Dynasty to trade with the sea. But Alfonso never imagined that the Ming governor would be so young.

Alfonso walked to the center of the hall and bowed very gentlemanly and said: "Hello Noble Governor of the Ming Dynasty, I have admired your name for a long time, and it is a great honor to see you now!" ”

"I'm Alfonso from the Kingdom of Portugal? Morality? Sir Albuquerque, now the Portuguese Viceroy of India, now led a fleet at Mangara! ”

The translator translated Alfonso's words, and Zhang Zhijie got up and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Governor Alfonso, fortunately!" ”

Alfonso smiled: "I have been longing for the Ming Empire for a long time, and I once sent a fleet to visit the Ming Empire, but that fleet was nowhere to be found, so I personally led the fleet to investigate, but I didn't expect that there was a misunderstanding with your fleet, which led to a naval battle!" ”

"We came with friendship, and I don't know why a fight broke out all of a sudden, and it took losses on both of us. I think it must have been a misunderstanding, and none of us wanted to see bloodshed and sacrifice! ”

Zhang Zhijie smiled when he heard this: "I also hope that this is a misunderstanding, our Ming Dynasty has always been a country that likes peace, and we also welcome friends who come from afar with friendship." ”

(End of chapter)