There was no translator on the ship, and Yang Fan didn't understand the Spanish, and after a long time of interrogation, he didn't understand why they started fighting, but Yang Fan guessed that the eight achievements were a matter of competing for trade rights.

Yang Fan also knew that colonial plunder and maritime trade were the most prevalent of these two things in the Age of Discovery. However, Yang Fan knew that Sun Yuanhua knew some Portuguese and knew a little bit of Spanish, so he specially asked him to extract some useful information from the mouths of the captured Dutch and Spaniards.

"Sir, you almost understand it clearly." Sun Yuanhua wiped the sweat on his forehead and said: "This is the situation written by the Spaniards, that is, the battle between the two fleets for the right to trade in the South Seas and the pass of Malacca. "Many Ming people, can't tell what Spaniards, Portuguese, and Dutch are, all of them have become Franco, and this is also famous for the fact that the Francophone cannon is learning from the West.

"Isn't Malacca guarded by the Portuguese?"

"Yes. The Dutchman wanted to take Malacca from the Portuguese, and the Spaniards wanted to do the same, so they pinched it up. This Malacca is the throat of maritime trade, and people on both sides want to eat this piece of fat. "Sun Yuanhua hasn't seen him for a few days, his spirit has improved a lot, and he probably eats a lot of food pulled by Yang Fan to the boat.

The fat man sat on the chair, the fat buttocks squeaked the chair, peeled the grapefruit, and said: "It turned out to be fighting in the nest, I said, I worked hard, just for some money, this world is really in the way of interests." ”

Yang Fan glanced at Ma Peiwen, these three countries are different regimes, of course they have to snatch this trade right. Yang Fan suddenly thought that this was an excellent time. If his plan to immigrate to Australia goes well, it will be a large rear base in the future, and this Malacca is a necessary place for maritime trade between the East and the West, and if it is contained, it will be difficult to do. However, since Liu Xiang has been given a way, it is nothing more than that he intended to hold this Malacca at the beginning, and now it is even more necessary to do so.

He looked at Ma Peiwen, who was sitting on the chair and had already killed half of the grapefruit, and asked, "Are there many Han forces in our past over there in Malacca?" Ma Peiwen nodded and said: "It's a lot, but it's not as powerful as the aborigines over there, but now it's controlled by those Westerners, whether it's the aborigines or the Han people, they all keep their heads down, and the port and the governor's palace are guarded by the armies and warships of those Westerners." ”

"Fatty, you didn't think about starting a Han gang or something to gather these Han people?" Yang Fan deliberately lured. Ma Fatzi broke the grapefruit and said with a smile: "How can I have such a great ability, even if they are all gathered, what's the use?" The money that should be earned, he will still earn his own, and he will not give you a penny. ”

Yang Fan said: "Where is the bright brain that you cheated money in the first place?" This gang has gathered into a big force, so there is some business, can it be done? Ma Fatzi's eyes rolled, remembering what Yang Fan asked about the dock just now, and said suspiciously: "Sir, you don't want to do business with that waterway, do you?" ”

"Yes, there is this idea."

"Ahem." The fat man's narrowed eyes finally widened in surprise, "You mean that you want to compete for territory with these Westerners?" ”

"So to speak? How about interested? ”

"Not interested. I'm not interested in sending me three heads. In his opinion, Yang Fan is probably crazy, this does not occupy the sky and does not occupy the profits, if you want money, you have no money, you want people, is it difficult to rely on such a dozen ships to grab land with Westerners? Although it is said that the Portuguese also relied on a dozen ships and a thousand soldiers to defeat the Sultan, but the Portuguese have been operating there for decades, where can they rely on such a few boats to occupy Malacca. Unless these 30,000 men are musketeers, then there is still some chance.

Wait, Ma Peiwen suddenly felt cold behind his back, what are these forty or so ships going to do? Isn't that really going to be over Malacca? "Sir? You...... You're not really going to take these dozens of boats of people to Malacca, are you? ”

Of course, Yang Fan can't be stupid enough to take a long detour, from here, through Indonesia, it is Australia, why bother to go west around Malacca. When he asked, it was natural for Liu Xiang to have a foothold in Malacca, and when the time came, they would complement each other, and take the opportunity to win Malacca.

"If you don't go to Malacca, I'll go to Java, and if you want to go to Malacca, find a boat by yourself."

"Okay, okay, it's best not to go. It's a mess over there, and your safety is important, sir. The fat man wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Sir, you are tired, why don't you send me to Malacca first, and then you go to Java?" ”

"Get out! Go back on your own! ”

"Huh. I'm out, I'm out. That one...... This one...... The title deed ......" Ma Fatzi said with a smile, "The lord won't go there anyway, will you give it back to me?" ”

"The last two words, in turn, are my attitude. You run it first, this title deed is temporarily staked on me, and when the time comes, I will naturally pay you back. Yang Fan said with a smile. This dead fat man, greedy for life and afraid of death, greedy for money and afraid of things, is a king eight.

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After dozens of days of southward travel, we finally reached the most remote boundary in the east. The power of the East India Company here is weak, and there are only some indigenous islanders, Yang Fan put down a wooden boat, let the fat man find his way back, and then took a waterway to continue south, and it is estimated that it will take about ten days to get to the Australian mainland, which makes Yang Fan, who wants to show off his ambitions, a little excited in his heart, after all, except for some natives, maybe in Australia itself, he is the first wave of super colonists, a few decades earlier than the later British Empire, and this place will definitely develop into his world.

This Indonesia, now a colony of the Netherlands, Malacca is a colony of Portugal, and Luzon is a colony of Spain, so to speak, the gateway of the South China Sea of the Ming Dynasty is already a land of tigers and wolves. In fact, such a loss of power and humiliation of the country, such a dim semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, in fact, began to appear in the seventeenth century.

Yang Fan can see far, but the authorities may not see far. At the beginning, Ming Chengzu set up the image of a great power of the Celestial Empire in Nanyang, which was just to show the prestige of his great power, and it was not a matter of considering the gateway of the sea country. Therefore, even the colonization of the West, in the eyes of the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty, was to sweep the snow in front of the door and not care about those weak tributes. Yang Fan thought differently, if he unified the South Seas, then the gateway of the Ming Sea would be the first line of defense to block the Western powers, which was what he wanted to see, so he wanted Liu Xiang to fight for this complicated territory in the past, and wanted Ma Fatzi to set up a Chinese guild, this is just a preliminary move, and how to play later depends on the situation.

What he has to do now is the most critical step, occupy Australia, and then slowly plan it.