Regarding the matter of sending the navy to rob European merchant ships, Yinxiang had heard about it in the capital, and Prince Jane Yaerjianga had mentioned it, but he was unceremoniously reprimanded by Lao Fourteen in front of everyone, mainly because he was worried that this would damage the overseas trade of the Qing Dynasty and cause a bad impact.

At this time, seeing that Liu Zhisheng and Shi Shibiao did not know the reason, and mentioned the matter again, Yinxiang couldn't help but secretly sweat for the two, unexpectedly, Yande didn't know whether he was alive or dead at this time: "Dean, what General Shi said is very true, what rules are there with those robbers in Europe, and the most unruly is them, the expedition to Europe and the Americas is the first voyage of the navy, and it is more related to the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty for a hundred years. ”

Lin Wei also continued: "I am also in favor of the mark, even if we don't rob them, we can't guarantee that they won't rob us." ”

Seeing that everyone was supportive, Yinzhen was silent for a moment, the stability of the maritime order is indeed important, but compared with the expedition to Europe and the Americas, its importance is simply negligible, as for overseas trade, there is no need to worry, the direct trade of the Americas and Europe has been opened, even if there are no merchant ships to come, you can form your own fleet to go to sea for trade, there are merchant ships in hand, and you are afraid that there is no overseas trade?

The navies of Britain and the Netherlands have all done piracy, so why can't the Qing Dynasty do it? Besides, he ordered the navy to go to Europe to rob merchant ships wantonly, and they had to rob them when they went to Europe. It's a big deal that the caravan will go to sea in the future, and it will be escorted by warships.

Thinking of this, Yinzhen said in a deep voice: "The navy has just cleared pirates in the South Seas, turn around, let's start piracy, won't the Qing Navy become a big joke?" Whether it's the Navy. Even in the waters of our Great Qing Dynasty, it is not allowed to rob passing merchant ships. ”

Listen to this. Everyone was disappointed. Yinxiang reacted immediately, what did Lao Fourteen mean by this? Allowing pirates outside the waters of the Great Qing Dynasty to rob passing merchant ships? He couldn't help but glance at Shi Shibiu, Shi Shibiu frowned slightly, and immediately figured out the loopholes. The Fourteenth Master asked them to pretend to be pirates and go to the open sea to rob.

He couldn't help but laugh secretly, this is not to cover his ears and steal the bell. However, it is better to cover your ears and steal the bell, in case the incident is not secret. The imperial court can push 369 with one push. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but give Liu Zhisheng, Lin Wei, and Yande a look, and the three of them immediately understood, but they all looked serious.

Subsequently, all the ports in the South Seas set off a large-scale wave of recruiting sailors. The Qing navy also began to redress and reflag, and conducted a thorough survey of the shipping routes in the Andaman Sea, the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean outside the Manchurian Strait, in preparation for the upcoming peak trade season.

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North of the Gulf of Siam. Siam.

A huge fleet of 10 three-masted galleons and 20 two-masted small sea ships slowly approached the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, which was a trading fleet sent by Yinzhen, responsible for understanding and investigating the price of rice in Siam, and buying 300,000 stone rice by the way.

In the eastern part of the Gulf of Siam, Quang Nam, and Ha Xian Port, there is also a large merchant fleet that goes ashore to collect all kinds of information in the name of buying rice.

Because they wanted to rush back to Beijing to participate in Kangxi's 60th birthday celebration, Yinzhen and Yinxiang inspected Manchuria and Temasek, and then went to Manila accompanied by Yande, accompanied by Angel, Carlos and other Spanish generals.

Soon after the fleet left the port, Yinzhen summoned Angel and Carlos, the two of them are now dressed in straight Spanish Navy uniforms, looking a lot of spirits, as soon as they entered the door, the two respectfully saluted a military salute, Yinzhen smiled and introduced Yinxiang and Yande, before reaching out and giving up his seat, and said, "Sit down and talk." After the two of them sat down, Yinzhen said with a smile: "The Matalan Kingdom is the richest and largest prince and sultan in the South Seas, this piece of fat meat, we did not give it to the Dutch, but left it to you, I don't know if you are still satisfied?" ”

In order to arouse the enthusiasm of the Spanish and Dutch captives to clean up the indigenous princes and sultans of Nanyang, Yinzhen specially ordered the protection of the private property of all the captives, and declared that all the captures in the battle belonged to them.

Hearing Yinzhen's words, the two of them hurriedly got up and bowed respectfully, and then Angel said: "Thank you very much for the love of the fourteenth prince for us, so that the soldiers can gain something, and return to Europe with dignity is my greatest hope, thank you very much for the generosity of the fourteenth prince." ”

Yinxiang laughed secretly in his heart when he heard this, saying that Westerners are shrewd, I don't think it's good, he was sold by the old fourteen, and he helped count the money, and he was so solemnly grateful, the gold and silver in the hands of these captives would obediently take it out to pay for living expenses when they turned around, and they would go back to Europe decently.

"Sit down and talk." Yinzhen smiled and stretched out his hand to signal: "The situation in the port of Karopa, you have also seen, the expedition to Europe is not a lie, in a few months, you can set off, now, the Qing Empire and the Spanish Empire are not enemies, but allies, and the two of them do not need to be too restrained."

A few years ago, when I was in the capital, I told the two of you that the Qing Dynasty wants to open up trade in the Americas, and we need the port of Acapulco in the Americas as a reward for our selfless assistance to Spain, and last year, with the fall of Manila, the trade between the Qing Dynasty and the Americas was also interrupted, which is a situation that neither of our countries wants to see, so we decided to open a route to the port of Acapulco this year.

The route from Manila to the port of Acapulco, I think only you Spaniards are most familiar with, last August we detained eight galleons from the port of Acapulco, leaving all the captains and sailors in Manila.

This time, I invite you to go to Manila to help persuade those captains and sailors to put the overall situation first and make due contributions to the friendly exchanges between the Qing Dynasty and Spain. ”

The Qing Empire sent troops to Europe and the Americas at the same time? Angel and Carlos were shocked when they heard this, the huge and powerful Qing Empire, both of them had personally experienced it, once the Qing Navy landed in the Americas, what would be the consequences? Are they going to open up new territories? Or the battle for the new Spain of the Americas?

Soon, Angel regained his mind, this is not a problem for him to consider, now that there are tens of thousands of captives in Spain in the hands of this fourteenth prince, how to do his best to let these captives return to Spain alive is what he should consider.