The number of Shira-naka cranes is really amazing, but no one doubts it. 《

Bai Minghe said: "The usable arable land area here is about 8.8 million hectares, and it is as much as it can be cultivated. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have been transported from Daming, and it would be good to be able to open up one million hectares of land. ”

"Your Excellency, you must have miscalculated." Wang Cheng said with a smile next to him: "One hectare of one hundred acres, hundreds of thousands of people each have two hundred acres of land, even if they are given to them, can they be planted?" But this place is not bad, it can become a natural base outside the Ming Dynasty, only the 500 million acres of natural herbs you said, this benefit can make businessmen crazy. ”

"Let me think about it, there are hardly any people in the north and northwest, stop for two days. Arrange for the crew to take turns to disembark and rest, and besides, it is impossible to have a large number of immigrants, and there is another place where I need a population, so this is just a temporary port, so that the merchants can discuss how much they benefit from these herbs on a peaceful basis! ”

The white crane didn't plan to go to war, this is still a semi-primitive society, and he doesn't want to be an invader.

But, if you want to talk about it, how to talk about it.

It was one of the poorest countries in the world in later generations, and although there was a lot of vanilla exported, it was not very profitable. There are abundant mineral deposits, and not much has been mined. The rest of the agriculture, in the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, is also planted there, so why bother planting here.

More importantly, the tribes here have not yet been civilized, and it is not worth it for the Ming to invest here.

And this island is not necessary, it is enough to have a port in the west as a supply port, and the small slave country in the southeast is also under consideration.

Bai Minghe had just gotten off the boat, and Wang Yuyan was by his side.

Wang Yuyan can understand Bai Minghe's hesitation. There are great benefits to taking this piece of land. However, the education of Confucianism did not allow the Ming people to become robbers, and the eunuchs of the Three Treasures never conquered there when they went to the West, let alone established half of the colony, which represents the inherent thinking of the Ming Dynasty.

Accompanying Bai Minghe, Wang Yuyan didn't know what he should say.

If it was a pure transaction, the Ming fleet here had already docked on the coastline for hundreds of miles. But there are no people living here, so why can't such an ownerless place be occupied?

Thinking of this, Wang Yuyan said to Bai Minghe: "Husband, why can't you occupy the ownerless place?" ”

"Ownerless?" After asking rhetorically, Bai Minghe said, "There are still some barbarian tribes in the southeast of this island. ”

"Is this also theirs? I'm afraid they don't know that there is still a large piece of land here, and our Ming Dynasty will also demarcate borders with other small states, what about here? Their borders are there, and our Ming Dynasty has never referred to the Western Regions, saying that those ownerless grasslands are their own. ”

Shira-naka Crane thinks it is reasonable. You can take a piece here.

In the future, I will really meet the various tribes on this island, and it will not be too late to talk.

But in fact, it seems that God is also pushing the Ming Dynasty to expand outward, and as soon as Bai Minghe entered the tent and sat down, Wang Cheng came over to report: "My lord, there are some interesting things. We met the fleet, about eight boats, and it was certain that Pedru was from the same place. ”

"Providence!" Bai Minghe sighed with emotion.

I can't help but occupy it. If you don't occupy these places, it goes to the Europeans.

"Encircle, no direct fire unless you resist!" Shira-naka Crane ordered. Wang Cheng immediately went to telegraph.

It is impossible for all of the Ming fleets to dock, and there are not enough coasts to dock here. The original arrangement of the fleet disembarked in turn and rested here for two days. You can also study whether the land and plants on this island are of sufficient value. Who wants to just stop, and the ships patrolling the perimeter will have an existing fleet.

Whoever it is, as long as they see it, they can't let you run.

This is the standard that has always been implemented by the Daming Water Master. Because you see the Ming fleet, either come and report your name, take out the warrant, and check that it is correct, and you can leave. If there is a problem, then it is the next thing the army needs to do.

Over here. In order to protect the Great Fleet, the ships patrolling the periphery will naturally not let go of any fleet that dares to approach.

The patrol ship is a four-hundred-material three-sail clipper, streamlined. Not for fighting, but for the sake of degree, only six cannons on the left and right, it is enough to defend themselves, their task is not to fight, like the work of the army's scouts.

Six boats against eight boats.

The flag was played, using the standard flag of the Ming Dynasty, and the European flag language obtained from Pedro's interrogation.

"Lowering the sails? They had only six boats, which belonged to that country. The captain of the flagship asked the first mate beside him. The first mate is also observing, they don't have a telescope yet, it's all by eyesight. After observing it carefully for a while, he replied: "The shape of this ship is very strange, there is a Spanish style, there is also our Portuguese style, and there is also a Byzantine style, but this main body, but it is not like there." ”

"Raise the full sails and get ready for battle!" The captain didn't hesitate.

On the sea, there was no such thing as a pirate in this era, or that anyone who went to sea was both a merchant ship and a pirate. So there is no separate name for pirates.

The guns of several Portuguese ships were opened, and all the sails were raised.

"Head, they're going to fight!" The sailors in charge of the observation shouted. "Let's fight too!"

"Spank a fart!" After the young general who led the team scolded, he was also observing the other party carefully: "They have more guns than us, there are almost 200 guns in eight boats, and we only have six boats, what a fart." Order, go around behind them and don't let them escape, call someone! Hit him doggy. ”

It sounds like the attitude of the people in the market, but there is really nothing wrong with calling people.

The main fleet in the rear received a telegram: enemy attack ......

It's still an enemy attack, if the white crane can laugh when he sees this telegram. But the forward fleet didn't see it that way, Liu Mingxuan's flagship moved, and at the same time sent a telegram: Dispatch one or three brigades to attack, no matter who dares to attack the Daming Naval Division, they will all be sunk if they don't surrender.

Liu Mingxuan had five brigades, each with thirty-six boats.

This is the first foreign battle at sea, and it is not wrong to be conservative, so Liu Mingxuan directly transferred two brigades.

On the sea, the Portuguese watched as the Ming ship did not attack, but bypassed them and went downwind, and most of the people on board laughed: "Do these people understand naval warfare?" They went downwind and prepared to fight, to see what treasures they had on board. The men on the Portuguese ship shouted and ran to their positions.

Once again, the power of the telegraph gave the Daming Mariners the upper hand.

The artillery was already being fired here, and the squad was constantly changing formation, but not a single shot was fired, and it was a waste of shells to bombard others at this distance, and the opponent's artillery fire fired several rounds, and it didn't even fly half of the distance. If Da Ming's side fires cannons, he can barely fly to the opponent's ship, but the lethality is limited.

"Head, they're here to say the flag and let me lower the sails!"

"Ignore them, and I'll put my boots on their faces in a while, and then talk about who lowers the sails for whom."

Lowering the sail means surrender, and this is the same everywhere.

About half an hour later, Liu Mingxuan had already led the team to the battlefield, and he took seventy-two ships, plus his own flagship, and frigates, a total of seventy-eight ships.

These boats are not patrol boats.

The 2,500-material giant ship can definitely not be compared with the small wrecked ships of Portugal on a horizontal line.

Without firing cannons, the galleons were almost twice as high as the Portuguese, and in the blink of an eye they surrounded eight Portuguese ships, and the cannon doors were opened, and each ship had at least twenty-four cannons on one side, and a maximum of thirty-six cannons.

"Lowering the sails!" The flag came over.

To resist, these ships were far superior to their ships in number, size, artillery fire, and degree. What else is there to resist. It was impossible to escape, they couldn't escape at all, not to mention that the siege had already been formed.

Lowering the sails, surrendering.

You won't kneel, you will learn to kneel if you interrupt your kneeling, whether you are a nobleman or a sailor, there is no arrogance in front of the Ming sailor, Daming recognized that you are a nobleman, otherwise all stepped on your feet.

Pedru was brought out again, and he was numb these days.

Numb to the point that he almost forgot that he was still alive, the ships kept going west, and after seeing that boat, Pedru understood a little, this fleet must pass through his homeland, as for the restoration of Byzantium and other issues he did not consider, he was a soldier and an adventurer.

And, of course, a semi-qualified robber.

So he understood that such a huge fleet, especially the well-equipped warships, was certainly not for tourism. The actions of this fleet are just an excuse for Byzantium, they can conquer a qiē, they can ignore a qiē enemy, and this is the real sea supremacy at sea.

Think of the Pope's mandate to Portugal's maritime hegemon. What a ridiculous title.

Kneeling in front of the white crane, Pedru has learned the kneeling etiquette very well. This has to praise his Japanese teacher, in terms of kneeling even beyond the Ming people's understanding of kneeling, this kneeling even has strict requirements for the position of the fingers, which represents the inner respect.

"One thing is interesting, someone attacked my ship today." Shira-naka spoke up.

There was also a scribe next to him who translated it again, using Bible Greek, Portugal or something was an inferior language in the eyes of the Byzantines, so the scribe of the Ming Dynasty had learned Bible Greek, learned Latin, and what Portuguese, Spanish and other languages, did not have a chance to learn. (To be continued!)

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