Chapter 53: Deng Zilong
Under the blue sea and blue sky, the three Western giant ships are moving forward in the wind and waves, and this is the ship under Lu Yan.
More than a month later, after countless hardships and obstacles, Lu Yan finally came to the sea area around Fujian.
This journey can be called extremely difficult, his fleet was once stopped by the sailors of the Ming Dynasty, but was bombarded by Lu Yan with a burst of artillery bombardment.
In order to replenish fresh water and vegetables, they often stopped on small islands off the coast, and for this reason, they also clashed with the Ming army on the islands.
In addition, he often encountered pirates and so on, and Lu Yan knew how chaotic the Ming Dynasty's maritime frontier was.
"Xiaoshuang, is Miss still angry with me?"
Lu Yan stood on the bow of the Sea Sovereign, blowing the humid sea breeze, and said to Zeng Xiaoshuang, who was standing beside him.
"That's right, Miss said, it's really insulting to be a pirate, and unless you change your ways, she will never recognize you as a big brother again."
Zeng Xiaoshuang pouted and said.
When they knew that Lu Yan planned to become a pirate, Lu Hongsleeve and the others were really stunned.
Although the position of a military general is low, it is relative to a civilian official.
For ordinary people and wealthy businessmen, it is definitely a big family that can't be climbed.
But Lu Yan planned to give up his position as a garrison to occupy the island as the king, if it weren't for Lu Hongsleeve to make sure that his spirit was fine, maybe she would have thought that Lu Yan's head was kicked by a donkey.
Even so, Lu Hongsleeve still kept persuading Lu Yan, hoping that he would be able to turn back as a prodigal son, and that Master Mao should still be able to accept him while he didn't do anything evil.
Even Zhang Xiaoyi was puzzled, he didn't understand why Lu Yan wanted to be a pirate.
But Lu Yan didn't explain much about this, because some things can't be explained.
Lu Yan gave Zhang Xiaoyi two choices, either go back and continue to be his Bai Zong, or follow him to be a pirate.
Zhang Xiaoyi thought about it for a few days, and finally decided to follow Lu Yan to become a pirate.
In fact, after getting along for a period of time, Lu Yan already has a good understanding of Zhang Xiaoyi's character.
Zhang Xiaoyi is a person with a broken mouth, but he is also a little weak.
Probably because he was an orphan, he was very eager for affection.
After leaving Lu Yan and the others, he almost didn't know anyone in the vast crowd, so he finally decided to stay and follow him.
Of course, what Zhang Xiaoyi was most puzzled about was how Lu Yan quietly encouraged these thousands of officers and soldiers to follow him to become pirates, and the young master's mouth was too powerful, why didn't he find out before.
Zhang Xiaoyi can say that after all, he is a subordinate, and he can not give any explanation.
But for his own sister-in-law, he can't do this, he can only wait for time to kill her resentment, I believe she will slowly understand in the future.
"You must persuade her well, enlighten her mood, at least don't be emotional and skip meals. This is not better than at home, at least eat and drink well, and not treat your body badly, otherwise you will be easy to get sick. ”
Lu Yan said.
"Got it, young master."
Zeng Xiaoshuang lowered his head and said.
"In addition, the air in the cabin is not good, so let her come out and blow the wind more."
Lu Yan said.
"Got it, young master."
Lu Yan sighed, it's not easy for him to be a big brother, and he has to find a way to enlighten her when he has an awkward relationship with his sister.
At this moment, the ship's lookout said loudly.
"My lord, three miles ahead, I found a Spanish armed merchant ship."
Hearing this, Lu Yan hurriedly picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked into the distance.
Now that telescopes have been invented in Italy, it is not surprising that ships are equipped with telescopes.
Soon he also discovered merchant ships in the distance.
This merchant ship does not look small, it is about the size of the Triumph, and it should be about 800 tons.
Only one is a merchant ship and the other is a warship, and of course there is a lot of difference in firepower.
"My lord, what are we going to do?"
At this time, Deng Zilong asked.
Deng Zilong, a native of Fengcheng, was a famous general in the Ming Dynasty.
He was honest and honest, fought all his life, and participated in countless battles large and small.
In the First War of Resistance Against Japan and Aid Korea, he was killed in order to prevent the defeated Japanese army from escaping back to Japan by sea.
He is one of the generals of the Sailor specially selected by Lu Yan.
Originally, Lu Yan thought that Zheng He should be the best admiral, but some of Zheng He's actions really made Lu Yan dislike, and finally he decided that his naval governor should be Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general.
Lu Yan sneered, for a country like Spain with 2B plus brain-dead, he has long been unhappy, and now it is best to teach them a lesson.
So he said without thinking: "Signal the flag, order our army to be ready for battle, and the Royal Charles and the Triumph will immediately catch up and prepare to capture the ship." ”
Now that he is almost in Taiwan, it is time for his pirate business to open.
"Yes, my lord."
After receiving Lu Yan's order, the "Triumph" and the "Royal Charles" hurriedly changed course and sailed towards the Spanish merchant ship.
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The Haytham was an armed merchant ship from Spain, and Captain Juan came to the Far East with the dream of making a fortune.
As long as he can transport a shipload of Daming's goods back to Europe, then he will exchange a whole shipload of gold.
Because the goods of the Ming Dynasty were the most expensive luxury goods in Europe, those beautiful silks, porcelain and tea were never sold, and a large number of European aristocrats were waiting in line to buy goods from the Ming Dynasty, all of which were luxury goods with a price higher than gold.
Even Spanish treasure ships do not sail directly to Spain, but deliberately circumnavigate most of the world, rushing from Mexico to buy luxury goods from the Ming Dynasty and then sail to Europe.
He regretted that after coming to the Far East, he found that he could not buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty, because although the Ming Dynasty carried out the Longqing Switch, it opened up foreign trade on a small scale.
But it has always been a monk with more porridge and less porridge, and with his connections, he can't grab the goods of the Ming Dynasty at all.
This couldn't help but make him very angry, what did this Da Ming think, there are still people in the world who don't make money.
Although he was not satisfied with Da Ming is 10,000, he had no way to take Da Ming.
Because the Portuguese also used to think that the Ming was easy to bully like the Incas, but they were cleaned up by the Ming Dynasty, and now they are honest.
He, a merchant ship owner, can do anything with Daming.
But he didn't want to return to Europe like this, so he planned to go around the coast of Daming first to see if he could grab some of Daming's goods and go back.
However, the maritime frontier of the Ming Dynasty is too chaotic, and those Western ships and merchants of the Ming Dynasty often make cameo appearances as robbers, so those who dare to go to sea to do overseas trade in these years are adventurous, and there is no shortage of all kinds of weapons in their hands.
Although he grabbed some goods, some of his men also died.
But he didn't feel heartache, as long as he got to Manila, he could recruit some more sailors from there, and he didn't even have to pay the dead sailors.
However, these goods were far from satisfying his needs, and he planned to fill his merchant ships before returning to Manila, and it was at this time that he finally ran into Lu Yan's three giant ships.
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