After the fleet arrived in Pattani, it negotiated with the Great Mudland in a friendly manner, and soon obtained permission to trade at the port and open a trading hall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Pattani is just a state, it needs trade and is eager to trade, as long as it pays taxes, of course they welcome it.

When the fleet docked, it was just in time for a Ming Dynasty merchant ship to dock here.

Almost instantly, all the disembarkers in the fleet were stunned.

Looking at the hair ornaments and clothes of the Ming Dynasty people opposite, the abacus used in the accounting room, the pronunciation method when speaking, and the vaguely similar pronunciation of the names of those newly appeared in the previous life that were set by Chen Jian......

Everything makes the people in the fleet feel like they are looking at another haha mirror, and those people on the other side have their own shadows everywhere, or they have the shadows of those people on the other side.

This strange, yet similar familiarity, is a mysterious feeling. Thousands of miles away, the hardest thing to find is the local sound, and after passing through white Europe, black Africa, and brown South Africa, this resemblance of yellow skin, black hair, bundled hair, and square characters erupts into great excitement in the loneliness of the journey.

The words are not exactly the same, but there are many similarities. The sound is different, but it exudes a sense of familiarity, like a dialect.

Chen Jianqiang endured the trembling of his body, and listened to the conversation of these people with his ears, although he didn't understand it very well, his heart was still pounding.

I went around in such a big circle, and finally met the person I wanted to see again, but because of my identity, I could only keep my mouth shut.

Those words engraved in his bones, one by one jumped in front of his eyes, he knew every word, but every word had to pretend not to know, this kind of depression was tightly pressed in the bottom of his heart, and there was nowhere to tell.

Lan Qi whispered in Jian Chen's ear: "You look at those people, they always feel so familiar. It's like ...... It's like a blurry shadow. No wonder those Spaniards and Dutch people think of us as Ming Dynasty people, I am still wondering what the similarities are, and now I see them with my own eyes to understand their surprise. You said...... Could there be such a coincidence in this world? ”

Jian Chen calmed down for a moment, took his eyes off the ship, and said with a smile: "Maybe it's not a coincidence. Then why do you say that people in Africa are all black? Why are people in Europe white? Maybe our ancestors rowed a boat from here to their homeland, or maybe there was a bridge or an island...... Otherwise, from a scientific point of view, it's really hard to explain. ”

Lan Qi nodded and said, "Yes, it can only be explained like this." Isn't it, continuing west from here, isn't that our homeland? It's just that the sea is thousands of miles, how did they get there? ”

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty were also extremely curious about Chen Jian's group, and they were very familiar with the banner of the Yin and Yang Fish hanging on the fleet, but they usually appeared next to Taoist priests or people who sold medicine and fortune tellers.

The most curious thing is that there is a woman in the fleet, and it is a little strange that this woman can appear in the fleet.

Other than that, it didn't show the kind of surprise and closure that I hadn't seen the outside world.

In the Ming Dynasty, the market had a lot of understanding of the outside world, and in "Du Shi Niang's Angry Sinking Treasure Chest", the first sentence after the opening poem was "In the 20 years of Wanli in the words, the Japanese country Guan Bai was in turmoil", which shows that the market also knew the title of Guan Bai at that time.

As for the merchants who could run to Pattani, they traveled all day long, and the black slave Muslim Catholics had seen everything, and there were translators on board who could understand many languages.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty saw that Chen Jian's fleet was large and full of guns, no less than the ships of Hongyi, and there were soldiers in strange costumes, and they secretly wondered, but they did not know where they came from.

The merchant was profitable, and seeing that there were many goods in the fleet, and there was a lot of gold and silver, he also wanted to contact Chen Jian, but he was not familiar with each other at this time, and it was difficult to speak.

Jian Chen put away this strange citrus and restrained everyone not to make any trouble.

First, he asked people to rent several houses in Hong Kong to serve as a trading house, and then asked people to find people who were proficient in Thai and Dutch, and went to Ayutthaya in Thailand to ask for trade, and wrote documents and sent them with gifts.

There are many merchant ships in Pattani, and there are a lot of goods in transshipment, and the food such as lions and ostriches that survive on the ship can be bought as long as they spend money, and there is no need for the pain of turbulence, and the few that survive should be able to hold on until the time they are sent out.

During the days when he was waiting for the King of Thailand to reply to the letter in Pattani, Chen Jian led people to contact more merchants of the Ming Dynasty. Although there are differences in pronunciation and writing between them, the grammar is clear, especially in the vernacular, and the grammar is similar.

Chen Jian was already able to understand the words on the other side, and he became familiar with them after listening to them for a month, and the people in the fleet were not surprised. First, Chen Jian became famous at a young age, and he was smart in the hearts of everyone, and he didn't dare to say that he would never forget it, but it was acceptable to learn a similar language so quickly.

I spent money to hire a few interpreters to teach the people in the fleet to learn the Ming Dynasty language, and they could understand some of them in more than a month.

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Chen Jian's act of opening a trading post in Pattani has aroused vigilance and reaction from all sides.

Although the Portuguese did not receive any news from home, the local governor also expressed great concern and uneasiness about the fleet that had recently passed through the Strait of Malacca.

Taking advantage of being able to preach and trade in some ports in Burma and Thailand, they kept sending people to inquire about the news here, and they were worried that the scene they had managed to run would be ruined by these people.

However, the information received was all vague, either unknown from nowhere, or exaggerated.

What worried the Portuguese governor the most was that these men were said to be able to speak Dutch. The Dutch have been constantly creating trouble here since four or five years ago, and Portugal is already a little overwhelmed, and if this group of people is mercenaries of the Dutch, it will be troublesome.

The Dutch Merchant House in Pattani also expressed great vigilance against the arrival of Chen Jian and others, fortunately, Chen Jian had a letter from the director of the Dutch Indian Company, and in the eyes of the Dutch, Pattani was nothing more than a transit point involved in trade with the Ming Dynasty, and they did not care at this time, and they did not have enough energy.

On the other hand, if a fleet with a common desire to drive the Portuguese out of the country appeared here, it would make the overstretched forces and fleets much more abundant.

The Dutch were even ready to propose an opportunity to discuss with Jian Chen to capture Malacca together. As long as Chen Jian did not get involved in the spice trade, after the capture of Malacca, the two sides could jointly garrison and repair the fort. At this time, the Dutch did not have much confidence and lacked strength, so they were able to allow this approach.

Moreover, some letters from the Netherlands also stated that if possible, they would stir up contradictions between Chen Jian and the Portuguese, and that if they could be drawn into the war against Spain and Portugal, it would be great news for the Dutch and Indian companies.

At the same time, this fashion is a small fishing village north of Bangkok, in the middle of the royal city of Ayutthaya in Thailand.

King Egada Salad was silent as he looked at the document sent by Chen Jian's envoy requesting trade.

There are many things that make this document unique, and there are several photographs in it that seem to Egada Salad to be extremely magical, all of which are scenes from the city of Min and the size of the fleet.

For this country that suddenly appeared, Egatasarad did not know whether to believe it or not, nor did it know whether this country had the strength to rival Portugal.

But he was very happy with the request for trade.

With the foundation left by his brother, the country at this time was quite stable, and it can be seen from the fact that Pattani did not rebel and stand on his own feet but chose to surrender, this subject country will never let go of Thailand's weak opportunity and choose to rebel, which is simply a barometer of whether the country is stable.

However, years of conquest have left the country devastated and the treasury empty. In the previous battles, there were black and white mercenaries in Thailand, who knew the power of firearms and cannons, which also made Egada Salad not resistant to communication with the outside world.

Not long ago, the Portuguese had built a fort in Salen, and they had been preaching in the vicinity, and even being robbed by pirates, all of which disturbed Egatasarad.

He needed an ally who could contain the Portuguese, especially an ally who was good at using muskets and artillery and had a fleet to counter the Portuguese, as a counterbalance.

At the same time, he hoped that an ally could help him in his conquest to some extent, and the Portuguese expanded in Burma, and there was also a lot of hatred between Cambodia and Burma and Thailand, and the country realized the power of firearms and artillery after years of war.

The Dutch were originally targeted, but the Dutch were not too concerned about it, and it was clear that they were not willing to get involved in these small interests, and were only interested in the spice trade.

But for now, the self-proclaimed Nanyang Trading Company of the Chinese Republic is completely different.

After some forms of paperwork, he took the lead in saying that he was only here for trade, and he was very interested in Thai saltpeter, tin, lead, ivory, teak and other goods, and at the same time, the company's main business was guns, cotton cloth and other things that could be exchanged at all.

Secondly, the company recognized and recognized the rule of Thailand by the King of Thailand, and hoped to sign a treaty to ensure that in addition to trade, as long as it was within the territory of Thailand, it would abide by the royal law of Thailand. At the same time, since they do not believe in any religion, they will not spread any religion and will not interfere with the beliefs of Thai people.

If there is a rebellion in the country, since the company agrees with the rule of the King of Thailand, it will support the King of Thailand to suppress the rebellious states, and will definitely not sell weapons and accept their employment like the rebellious states.

In addition, the King of Thailand is cordially invited to send an envoy to visit the capital of the Republic, and if possible to establish an embassy in Ayutthaya.

If His Majesty the King of Thailand is able to allow the establishment of a merchant house, then it is also hoped that companies will be allowed to build hospitals and schools in the vicinity of the merchant hall and not carry out missionary activities.

For example, some tin-lead and other minerals can be purchased from the Nanyang Trading Company to purchase a batch of mining tools and improve smelting technology, and even the Nanyang Company can develop some unmanned mines, and pay the prescribed taxes and fees in accordance with the royal law of Thailand.

At the same time, it is hoped that His Majesty the King of Thailand can go to Daming with the company to conduct tributary trade, so that he can take the company's fleet and protect the safety of the envoys of the King of Thailand.

These instruments were followed by a host of gifts, which were not given by the rest of the country. For the King of Thailand, gifts are not necessarily attractive, as long as you have money, you can buy a lot of things, but this kind of good and friendly attitude is completely different from the Portuguese and Dutch.

The difference stems from the fact that Thailand was already a centralized country at this time, not the tribes of Africa, and also because the republic was not a country like Britain and the Netherlands, where local resources were insufficient, handicrafts were not developed, and spices were still focused on spices - at the level of cotton spinning in Britain at this time, if 100% tariff protection was not played, the cotton cloth of the princely states of India at this time could bankrupt the entire cotton spinning industry in Britain.

As a representative of factory owners and workshop owners, Chen Jian wanted a market and cheap raw materials, as well as a harmonious foothold. It's aggressive, and soon people will close themselves to the country. It doesn't matter to the Dutch that they are so ruthless and low-level like the Dutch in Indonesia, anyway, it is a commercial capital country, and if you get a handful, you will run and die.