When Ren Siqi was standing at the bow of the ship and pondering, a crew member came over and said that the owner Fu Chun was looking for him.

When he came to the cabin where Fu Chun was, he saw that the Francophone man who had been rescued from the pirate ship was sitting at the table eating and drinking.

When I asked, I learned that no one could understand the words of this Francophile, and he himself could not speak Chinese, which caused the suffering of communication between the two sides.

Although the Fuchun went to sea to trade all the year round, it was on the Japanese route in the early years, and after Fu Chun and Zheng Zhilong had a bad relationship, Japan couldn't go, so they changed to trade with the red-haired ghost, that is, the Dutch, and never went to Macau and Luzon, so there were very few times to deal with the Franc man, and no one on the ship could speak Franc. In their opinion, Ren Siqi is a scholar and a showman, maybe he can understand Franco's words, isn't there a saying called "If you don't go out, you know the world?" ”

At this time, Ren Siqi suddenly rejoiced that he chose Spanish as his second foreign language when he was in college, why was he so wise back then? Do you have to choose Spanish, which is less spoken, if you don't choose Japanese, Korean, or French? Did you have a premonition that you would travel to the end of the Ming Dynasty and deal with the Spaniards? Of course, Ren Siqi chose to forget the fact that he chose Spanish as a second foreign language because he liked to watch La Liga.

But at that time, after all, I chose a second foreign language, and I didn't spend much time on it, and I didn't use it much after work, Ren Siqi had almost forgotten it at this time, and all I could remember was some words.

But this can also allow him to communicate with this Franc man, won't he say that he can't compare?

“? Hola!? Quétal?” Ren Siqi tried to talk to Franco, and this sentence Francophone means hello.

I hear someone say their own language, albeit less standardly. Fran was very excited, pushed away the food in front of him and stood up, grabbing Ren Siqi's hands.

“? Hola!? Quétal" a long series of words erupted from his mouth, fast and urgent, like machine-gun fire. After finishing speaking, he was surprised to find that Ren Siqi was staying there with his mouth open.

The communication between the two people is destined to be a difficult and long-term process, Ren Siqi's Spanish level is limited to knowing some commonly used words, and many times the communication between the two can only rely on comparisons and guesses.

But in the eyes of the rest of the crew, this is already quite remarkable.

Through communication, Ren Siqi knew that the name of the Francos in front of him was David, of course, this name was transliteration, and he was a Spaniard from Luzon.

Both the Spaniards and the Portuguese were known as the Francos by the Ming, with the Spaniards using Luzon as a colony for their famous sailing trade, while the Portuguese were entrenched in Macao, where they traded with the Ming maritime merchants.

Seeing that Ren Siqi and David had difficulty communicating, Fu Chun and the others knew that it was impossible to figure out the details of David for a while. So he went out of the cabin, leaving room for two people.

"Uncle, what are we bothering to do? Throw him into the sea, and it will be a hundred. Fu Bin asked Fu Bin puzzled.

A year ago, the Spaniards in Luzon carried out a brutal massacre of the Chinese in Luzon, more than 20,000 Chinese died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Spaniards. Of course, Fu Bin and others also heard about this tragedy, and in Fu Bin's opinion, of course, they killed a Spaniard directly, which can be regarded as avenging the Chinese in Luzon.

"You know kill, kill, kill!" Fu Chun angrily reprimanded Fu Bin: "Do you know the details of this Spaniard? Any idea why he was on a pirate ship? How old a person is, not stable at all, how can I trust this ship to you in the future? ”

Fu Bin's face turned blue when he was scolded, but he didn't dare to say a word.

"Interrogate the living pirate and ask them which island they are from?" After scolding angrily, Fu Chun commanded.

Fu Bin agreed, and he went.

At first, the communication was very difficult, but after a while, the knowledge of Spanish that he had learned appeared in Ren Siqi's mind again, and the speed of communication between the two was much faster, and after a difficult exchange, Ren Siqi finally understood the situation of this Spaniard.

David's full name is David. Castro. Ross was the first mate on a Spanish sailing ship.

Since the Spanish massacre of the Chinese in Luzon a year earlier, Luzon's economy has become extremely depressed, and few Ming merchant ships have come to Manila to trade in a year. On the island of Luzon, there is a shortage of materials, prices are soaring, the Chinese shops on the streets are burned down and looted, there is no place to buy all kinds of daily necessities, and no one serves the Spaniards anymore, and even the development has developed to the point that no one can shave their heads.

As a last resort, the Spaniards had to take the initiative to trade with the Ming Dynasty. However, at this time, Portugal had just become independent from Spain, and the relationship between the two countries was very bad, and the Portuguese in Macao would not let the Spaniards trade.

The Dutch occupied the southern part of Dayuan, and the Dutch fleet had many ships, and they monopolized the shipping route to Dayuan, and did not allow Spanish ships to pass through the Dayuan Strait.

In desperation, the Spaniards could only choose to bypass Dayuan Island from the east side of Dayuan Island and go to the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty to trade with the Ming people.

Although the sea conditions on the east side of Dayuan Island are complicated and the wind and waves are extremely high, and the navigation of ships is much more dangerous than that of the Dayuan Strait, the Spaniards have developed their navigation skills, and they crossed the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to Luzon, which of course did not bother them. The Spaniards bypassed Dayuan Island and established a base in the chicken coop in the northern part of Dayuan Island, successfully reaching the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

However, the Spaniards were not very lucky, and when they were about to reach the Zhoushan Islands, they encountered a great storm, one of the three ships was directly sunk by the storm, the other two were lost in the storm, one drifted somewhere, and the one where David was located floated between the Zhoushan Islands, and was finally captured by a group of pirates.

The pirates killed all the Spaniards on board, leaving only David, who was blessed by God to survive at the hands of the cruel pirates because of his belief in God's piety, and Ren Siqi preferred to believe that he was greedy for life and afraid of death in order to save his life.

In the end, David begged Ren Siqi to send him to Luzon, of course, he also knew that it was useless to just ask, but said a very tempting message, that is, the prices of Luzon are extremely high now, the prices of various commodities are more than twice as high as in previous years, and if the Fuchun goes to Luzon to trade, the profit will be several times that of the Dutchman and the Dutch. As for David himself, in the name of God, he swore that the massacre against the Chinese would never happen again.

After listening to David's words, Ren Siqi knew that it was not up to him to decide whether to go to Luzon or not, and he had to report the news to Fu Chun, the owner of the ship, and then Fu Chun decided.