All these situations are not what Blanco originally imagined, this group of sea wolves is completely different from the Chinese pirates in his impression, this group of sea wolves has completely departed from the category of ordinary pirates, more like a very well-trained army, even if compared with the fleet of sailors of the Ming official army and the fleet of this sea wolf, it is far from the level of the sea wolf fleet.

Although these ships are basically some small Kron ships, but they are a lot of them, with the number of ships they have in Manila, they can't be compared with them at all, even if their fleet ships are strong, but they can't withstand the siege of so many warships of the Sea Wolves.

Now he understood why the fleet led by Anthony at that time would be defeated by the sea wolves in Chicken Coop Bay, even if he was to change people, even if he let the Governor personally command the battle, it was estimated that the result would not be much better.

Suddenly, he saw a Western-style galleon docked on the edge of a relatively remote pier, and he immediately recognized it as one of their gunboats in Manila, which was the one that Anthony was leading to Taiwan at that time.

He had already known before he came that two ships in Anthony's fleet had been captured by sea wolves, but he did not expect to see one of them here today.

Although the distance was far away, it was a little unclear, but in general, he still saw that the gunboat they had captured had been completely repaired by the sea wolf at this time, and all the sails had been re-suspended, and the hull was much cleaner and tidier than the ship he had seen before, and there was no sign of damage to the hull, including all the ship's boards, which had been re-polished and elegantly docked on the edge of the dock in the distance.

So he asked to go over and have a look, but the escort shook his head and said: "It's our military forbidden area, no idlers are allowed to approach, I don't have the right to take you there, so you can only take a look from a distance here, otherwise, including me, I will be punished!" ”

Looking at the captured ship, Blanco had mixed feelings in his heart, the emotions of the loser shrouded in his heart, now he knew very well their strength, the sea wolves were no longer something they could easily deal with, with the current situation in their country, as well as the situation in Europe, even if they asked for it, I am afraid that the country would not be able to send them a large number of warships to deal with this group of sea wolves.

And for some reason, that Yu Xiaotian actually knew very well that all their hole cards were in the hands of the other party, and they were not given any room for negotiation at all.

The escort seemed to be deliberate, taking Blanco around the coast of the island, and when they reached the eastern part of Nanri Island, Blanco suddenly heard a rumbling cannon sound from the sea, so he hurried to look over the sea, just in time to see a fleet of sea wolves training on the sea.

This fleet flying the Seawolf flag is not at all his usual Kron ships, these ships are obviously their Western-style ship type, the hull is narrow and elegant, the side is low, only the displacement is not large, about more than 100 tons, the ship is a sloop, belongs to a kind of dhow clipper.

There are not many such ships in Europe at present, mainly in the coastal area, but they also have the ability to sail long distances, and the speed is very fast, especially in the fleets of their enemies, the British, but there are still some differences in the shape and sail of this kind of sea wolf dhow.

As a merchant who often goes to sea by boat, Blanco has a very deep understanding of ships, although he can't really see it, but he still immediately feels that this kind of sea wolf's Western-style dhow clipper should be fast and more flexible, although these ships are not loaded with a lot of artillery, at most they can carry six or seven guns, but this kind of ship is very suitable for coastal activities, with their flexibility, fast maneuvering in narrow sea areas, is a very suitable coastal combat ship.

Compared with those Kron ships in China, this kind of ship is much faster, more flexible, and has stronger firepower, and it is simply a tailor-made special coastal combat vessel.

And he roughly counted that there were at least ten such dhows in the training fleet on the sea.

Such a fleet of fast and nimble sloops is a rather terrifying combat force in the offshore sea, once it is entangled by them, even if it is the big Galen ship that they Spain now has, I am afraid it will be difficult to get out and ensure that they can retreat with their whole body, this time Blanco even understood, why did Yu Xiaotian not take the officers and soldiers in his eyes at all.

If they had so many ships, no matter how many warships came from the official sailors, they would not be the opponent of the sea wolf, no wonder that Yu Xiaotian was not at all worried about this official army's attack.

Over the past few days, Blanco has seen many things he couldn't have imagined on Nanri Island, and he can be regarded as knowing the strength of the sea wolf.

He knew very well that the strength of these sea wolves he had seen now was only the tip of their iceberg, and deeper they must have hidden greater strength, just because the Ming official wanted to drive the sea wolves away from this Nanri Island, it was simply impossible.

Even if the Dutch sent a fleet to help the Ming officials, I am afraid that they would not be able to get a little cheap, so his idea of using the Dutch as a bargaining weight could only be vacated.

Next, Yu Xiaotian summoned Blanco again and began negotiations, and this time Blanco's attitude became much more honest, so he only pinched his nose and admitted it, and did not dare to talk to Yu Xiaotian about making conditions.

He only proposed that he hoped that the two sides could lift the hostilities, that the sea wolves would withdraw from the naval blockade of ships bound for Manila, and that the blockade of the Manila route by the Ming Dynasty would be lifted, so that the Ming maritime merchants could continue to freely go to Manila for trade activities.

For this reason, the Spaniards are willing to apologize to the sea wolf and make some compensation to the sea wolf for the last conflict between the two sides in Chicken Coop Bay.

As for the amount of compensation, the two sides negotiated back and forth, and finally Blanco said that they could pay the Seawolf up to 15,000 pesos in silver.

Blanco's explanation for this is that they had brought 20,000 pesos with Anthony the last time they led the fleet to Chicken Coop Bay, but during the naval battle, most of them had sunk into the sea, and some of them were captured by the sea wolves, and there were not enough silver coins in Manila to pay the sea wolves as war reparations.

In fact, at that time, the Spaniards offered to buy Chicken Coop Bay for 20,000 taels of silver, which was already generous for the Spaniards.

Because in this era, the Spaniards had very few things that they could get their hands on to export to the Ming Dynasty, but they needed a large amount of goods produced by the Ming Dynasty, so they could only find ways to ship silver coins from the American colonies as funds to buy Ming goods.

In this era, the Ming Dynasty was completely in a trade surplus, except for a small amount of European luxury, the Ming Dynasty almost did not need to buy much goods from the Europeans, so the Ming Dynasty also became a terrible silver black hole, constantly absorbing silver from the hands of Europeans, so that the Ming Dynasty had a lot of silver in this era, and even there was inflation.

And because the Ming monetary policy is too bad, although the Ming government has also issued a large number of paper money, but they do not pay attention to maintaining the value of paper money, only the Ming treasure banknotes they issue as a tool to collect money, so that in the end the credit of the Ming treasure banknotes was lost, completely abandoned by the people of the Ming Dynasty, and had to return to the state of using silver as currency.

Fortunately, there are a large number of Europeans to import silver to the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming can have a relatively sufficient amount of silver as a circulating currency, otherwise, what the Ming Dynasty uses to make currency, it is really a headache, but a large number of imports of silver, but also caused the depreciation of the silver of the Ming Dynasty, and there was inflation, this situation continued until after the Opium War, because the Qing Dynasty gave a large number of silver as war reparations to the foreign powers, so that China returned to the situation of lack of silver.

And the Spaniards now occupy many parts of the Americas, where they have obtained enough silver, every year to the Philippines a steady stream of shipments, as the purchase of Chinese goods funds, these silver is mostly minted into silver coins, called pesos, this silver coin because of the uniform weight, fine casting, simple circulation, and relatively high silver content, it is said that the silver content of more than seventy percent or even the highest can reach ninety, very popular with the Chinese, in the coastal area is an absolute hard currency.

However, the silver that the Spaniards had plundered with great difficulty was continuously sucked into the Ming Dynasty, which was not a good thing for the Spaniards, so later the Spanish king had to limit the amount of silver shipped to Manila every year, stipulating that the quota could not be exceeded.

Now the number of pesos in the hands of the governor of Manila is not much, so it is impossible to compensate the sea wolf with enough silver, up to fifteen thousand pesos.

Yu Xiaotian finally said that he could accept this, as long as the Spaniards paid the fifteen thousand pesos, he would withdraw the smuggling ships sent to China on the route to Manila, and give free passage to Chinese merchant ships going to Manila for trade.

The value of the existence of the Spaniards in the Philippines, the biggest embodiment is their trade with the Ming Dynasty, if this trade is cut off, then the existence of the Spaniards in the Philippines will not have much significance, but the Spaniards over the years, unlike the Dutch, they rarely personally sail to the Ming Dynasty to trade, but sit and wait for the Ming merchants to send the goods to Manila, and then they make acquisitions, re-export to Europe or the Americas and other places, so they have stronger requirements for the stability of trade routes.

This is also the reason why they are willing to pay some money this time to make the sea wolves give up the continued blockade of merchant ships going to Manila to trade, 15,000 pesos seems to be a lot, but as long as they can sit on the ground and buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty, then they can quickly earn back the silver.

(The hysterical screams continue "Summon a monthly pass!") "Two shifts a day this month, never break your word! ）