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On August 10, 1519, under the patronage of the Spanish royal family, the Portuguese navigator Magellan led five ships and more than 200 sailors from the port of Seville, Spain, and the largest flagship, Trinidad, was only 110 tons.

Like Christopher Columbus, Magellan was convinced that the earth was round, and embarked on a great journey that left a strong mark on history. It's just that Columbus accidentally opened the prelude to the new world, and Magellan was the one who really opened the great chapter of the world's great voyage.

Difficulties along the way, such as trekking, famine, and even crew rebellion, any kind of difficulty could bury Magellan's dreams, and the ships and personnel were dwindling along the way.

On the final leg of the Pacific crossing, Magellan, like most of the fanatical Christians of his time, attempted to colonize the Philippines and intervene in the infighting among the indigenous peoples, killing him in the chaos.

After Magellan's death, the survivors of the fleet could only continue sailing. They traded cheap items in the Maluku Islands for large quantities of cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, which almost filled the ship's holds. At this point, they were left with only one Victoria.

The Victoria made a difficult way around Africa, only to be caught by the Portuguese, who monopolized the eastern route, and the crew dropped to 22 people.

On September 6, 1522, the Victoria finally returned to Spain, finally completing the first circumnavigation of the world in human history. When the Victoria docked, there were only 18 unkempt and exhausted men left on board.

The amount of spices brought back by the Victoria was impressive. A handful of fresh cloves can be exchanged for a handful of gold coins, and the spices sold on the ship not only cover all the costs of the voyage, but even make a large profit.

The nameless surviving crew may seem unimportant, but Magellan became the first in the world to embrace the Earth, completing a revolution in geography and maritime history, and propelling the Kingdom of Spain on the path of an empire on which the sun never sets.

August 15, 1622. Monday, Brazil, the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco. Port of Recife.

The port of Recife, known as one of the necessary routes and stops of the Maritime Silk Road in the Age of Discovery, welcomed a large fleet of ships from the East.

Two ships were temporarily abandoned in Benguela because they were too short to repair. Today, there are exactly 40 ships entering the port. Among them, there were 29 Portuguese armed merchant ships and 11 Spanish merchant ships. In terms of time, it took nearly half a month longer than the expected trip.

In addition to the thousands of crew members, there were still 4,054 "Oriental guests" left in the fleet, and the carefully prepared voyage still caused as many as 700 people to be left at the supply and rest points along the way or because of infirmity and weakness, or died halfway and threw into the sea, and the latter accounted for the vast majority.

On a cross-ocean voyage transporting more than 4,700 people, the loss rate of crew and passengers was 15%, which can be said to be a very good result. This is naturally thanks to the experienced captains and sailors of the Portuguese or Spanish voyages.

Among the Ming refugees who arrived in Port Recife, more than 2,900 were men and more than 1,100 women, of whom more than ninety percent were adults over the age of 16.

In the Recife resettlement camp, which had been prepared for a long time, about 4,000 refugees from the Ming Empire were collectively informed. Towards the end of their journey, almost all of them let out a long breath. But what they don't know is that even the last "little bit" of the trip will still take at least two months.

General Ricardo, commander of the Portuguese East India Colonial Fleet, accompanied Yan Xiaosong and Caterina, as well as Chang Kun, the "immigration pacification officer" who stuck to Yan Xiaosong's side like kraft candy. They attended a banquet hosted by officials in the port of Recife.

accompanied by more than a dozen Yan Siqi's henchmen who arrived in Brazil with Yan Xiaosong, they were not escorting immigrants, nor were they simple bodyguards, but were ready to come over to buy a batch of special goods that Yan Xiaosong had promised.

Through the leadership of the Governor of San Salvador in the Bahia region, the port of Recife was also included in the Brazilian trade circle with the American Republic of China, and since the beginning of the year, almost every month, Portuguese merchant ships laden with cane sugar have departed for Angra do Heroísmo in the Azores.

But what they don't know is that the tons of cane sugar did not melt into the stomachs of those Americans, but went through a continuous refining and purification filtration process in a certain factory to become snow-white granulated sugar or rock sugar, and then sold to Europe at more than three times the purchase price.

At the banquet, Chang Kun could only sit beside Yan Xiaosong resignedly, looking at a group of vulgar Taixi people who had no eating image at all, while secretly disdainful.

"Lord Yan, Xiaguanguan is such a Taixi barbarian, his appearance is rough and unbearable, and the people who drink blood are thousands of miles worse than my dignified Huaxia, how can they occupy the territory of this world comparable to Middle-earth?"

From the beginning of the title of "Immigration Pacification Envoy", Chang Kun began to call himself a "lower official", and Mr. Yan in his mouth also became Lord Yan.

"If you think about how we got here, you'll know half of the reason." Yan Xiaosong replied softly, pointing to a large piece of barbecue on the table, "Don't waste it, many people outside can't eat this." ”

"The lower officials know, the lower officials know!" Chang Kun looked left and right, except for Yan Xiaosong and Katarina, who didn't seem to have any appetite and were chewing slowly, almost everyone was grabbing the pieces of meat with both hands and chewing violently. After hesitating for a long time, the oil meat in front of him became more and more cordial, so he had to stretch out his hand and grab the barbecue.

"Mr. Yan, Miss Ai, I don't know where to go next? Guibang is really far away, and the road is full of Taixi City Port. A big man of the Yan family secretly asked a question next to him while eating hard.

"Hehe, it's almost there. You decide whether to wait here for the goods, or whether to return home with me. Yan Xiaosong didn't think about it, so he replied, then dropped the dinner cloth and stood up with a wine glass.

As soon as Yan Xiaosong moved, the Portuguese present stopped eating, stretched out their greasy hands one by one, and grabbed the wine glasses one after another.

"I toast General Ricardo first of all to his bravery and fearlessness, and then to His Excellency Cecilio, Mayor of Cife, for your hospitality."

Under Katarina's "training", Yan Xiaosong was already relatively proficient in Spanish at this time, although most of the time Katerina was in charge of translation, but Yan Xiaosong chose to speak by himself at this time, because he didn't plan to let the other Chinese present know what he said.

"I have to admire the courage of His Excellency Councilor Yan to accomplish such a feat!" Ricardo had already been told that he would receive a huge reward from the American Republic of China in a few months, and by this time he had completely forgotten about the maritime troubles that the stubborn American magnate had brought upon him.

"No, this is only a trivial feat, and its greatness lies in the fact that it fully demonstrates the deep friendship between the United States and Portugal; It is insignificant because any difficulty is so small and easy in front of it. ”

Yan Xiaosong's mouth full of running trains and flickering skills are good again, and after saying this, all the Portuguese clapped their hands.

"I have personally decided that when I return to my country, I will propose it to our Congress, and soon after, make a major investment for our Portuguese friends in Recife and in Brazil as a whole!"

After Yan Xiaosong finished speaking, even Katerina was stunned, revealing a complicated unhappy expression. But the Portuguese were clearly struck by such a lavish spook.

What is "heavy investment"? God, are they going to take all the Recife cargo? The mayor of Recife, Cecilio, was so excited that he even sweated.

"Miss Ai, what did Lord Yan say? The Tessies were so rejoicing? Chang Kun couldn't help but ask Caterina who had a bad face.

"Dirty deals!" Caterina muttered a word of Mandarin in a low voice, her hands tugging at the hem of her skirt hidden under the table, her face full of displeasure.

"Cheers to the health of His Excellency the Duke of Bragança! Cheers to Miss Caterina's beauty! ”

At this time, General Ricardo of Portugal also stood up drunk, and the atmosphere of the scene was high again.

Far away in the North Atlantic, the city of Double Bay on the island of Bermuda also welcomed an unusual guest today.

In the evening, a brig carrying the flag of England approached the bay in the northeastern part of Bermuda. The sailing ship, the Gael, found that the former village and fort of St. George's Island had been abandoned and destroyed, and this unusual situation led the Gaelic to calmly turn around and run.

This is a distress ship from the colonies of England in the Virginia region of North America. The Bohatan Indian War, which took place in the first half of 1622, destroyed the overwhelming majority of the settlements in the Jamestown colony, and destroyed most of the colonial industry of more than 2,000 people accumulated over the past ten years almost overnight.

Bermuda became the most recent English colony to come to the rescue. But now, the English captain has judged that the island that once supported the Virginia colony has fallen.

Whether it was the Spaniards, the French, or the Dutch, the English captain did not dare to check what was going on at this time when it was about to fall at night, and all he had to do was to report the news to the Virginia colony as soon as possible.

Shuangwan City, in the United States of America, China, which abandoned the former English port stronghold in the northeastern part of Bermuda and re-established a port in the West Bay area, was still in the final stages of construction.

To the west of the harbor, in the coastal salient of West Bay, a new fortress is just beginning to take shape, and three Visworth fortress guns will be installed here, so that it can completely block any opponent who wants to enter West Bay or land nearby in wartime. The central land fort built on the gentle slope east of the port area at the time of landing on the island can also cover all the surrounding coastline and a considerable part of the Sai Wan area with the range of the fortress guns.

The English went quietly, and Bermuda continued to walk at its own pace as if nothing had happened, ready for the coming tide of people from the East.

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