"Busby, the envoy of the Viceroy of India of the Kingdom of England, see His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, long live, long live, long live!"

When Busby saw the Ming Emperor, he barely suppressed the anger in his heart and bowed to the Ming Emperor.

"Mr. Busby, don't be polite!"

Zhu Jie said with a smile, "My envoy to the Ming Dynasty, Marquis Shi Kefa, has just left India and returned to Batavia, I don't know what happened to Mr. Busby coming back so soon?" ”

Busby's face was gloomy, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Your Majesty the Emperor, you and I know it, right?" Just two months ago, a caravan carrying goods from the Kingdom of England was on its way to Manila, when it encountered a surprise attack by your naval fleet, and a group of more than ten merchant ships were all sunk by your fleet, and the goods worth more than three million taels of silver were all killed, along with nearly 1,000 merchant crews! Your Excellency the Governor has ordered me to come and protest to your country, and to ask your country to give us an explanation and compensation! ”

Zhu Jie's heart sank, and he wiped it, but the news of this matter leaked after all. Qin Mufeng is so confused about this matter, he doesn't take care of it at all!

"What did Mr. Busby say? Sneak attack on your caravan? How can it be? My Ming Empire has just established stable and friendly diplomatic relations with your country, how could it be possible to do such a thing, compared to the Governor of Dale, right? ”

Zhu Jie was silent and said with a faint smile.

"Your Majesty!"

Busby raised his voice abruptly and exclaimed, "We have three crew members who have gone through great hardships to escape their lives and return to India, and they have seen with their own eyes that they are in the sea seventy miles west of Mindoro. ”

Qin Mufeng on the side took it over, pouted and replied, "Mr. Busby, is it due west of Mindoro Island?" Mindoro is the southernmost tip of Luzon, so why do we need to go around in such a big circle when we attack Luzon? Are we sick? Our Ming fleet has never set foot in that sea area, you say that our Ming fleet did something, what is the evidence? Where's the proof? ”

Qin Mufeng has always liked to mess around, be unreasonable, play a scoundrel, and be more good than a ruffian, so he naturally denied it at this time.

Busby shouted: "This general, those three crew members who escaped in distress are witnesses!" What they saw with their own eyes was the work of the Ming Fleet! ”

"Hey, hey, hey......"

Qin Mufeng sneered: "Mr. Busby, what can just three crew members say? They are the people of your kingdom of England, so naturally they can say whatever they want? Do they dare to disobey the orders of your governor? General Ben also said that your country's fleet attacked the port of Guangzhou of our Ming Empire, causing tens of thousands of casualties, and the 60,000 Tianxiong soldiers under this governor can testify, how much silver do you plan to compensate our Ming Empire? ”

"You!"

Busby's face turned pale, and his lips trembled: "This general, you are simply strong words!" We, the British Far East Fleet, are still cruising in the Indian Ocean, when have we ever been to the coast of your country? ”

Qin Mufeng shrugged his shoulders and asked indifferently: "Mr. Busby, our Ming fleet will attack Manila first, attack Batavia, and attack other islands in the South Sea, it will be this month, Mindoro Island is hundreds of miles south of Manila, where does the Ming fleet have time to run and hang out?" That fleet has no grudges against us in the past, no grudges in the near future, we are fed and supported, let Manila not attack, and run to a position nearly a thousand miles southwest to besiege a caravan? Is your brain filled with horse pee? Your Majesty, the minister thinks that these three crew members are either forced by the power of the Governor of England to testify against our Ming Empire, or they have been bribed by the Dutch or the Spaniards, wanting to sow discord between the Ming Empire and the Kingdom of England! ”

Zhu Jie nodded and said indifferently: "Mr. Busby, if the three crew members were bought by the Dutch or the Spaniards to sow discord, then that's fine, I won't pursue it, now the political situation in Nanyang is not stable, and I don't have time to worry about you; If this matter is a wanton provocation by your Governor Dale and an excuse to make trouble, hehe, my Ming Empire is not so easy to bow down! ”

The two monarchs and ministers sang and harmonized, and without anyone else talking, they had already squeezed Busby's eyes black, and the corners of Shi Kefa's mouth on the side continued to twitch, these two monarchs and ministers, I have seen a thick skin, I have never seen such a thick-skinned, quite unreasonable, and really unreasonable, now I know why Qin Mufeng is unreasonable, it turns out that the emperor is also such a scoundrel, follow the emperor, Qin Mufeng can have other opportunities?

Busby said fiercely: "Your Majesty, your behavior is really despicable! Is it really necessary to completely turn the other cheek with the Kingdom of England because of this incident? The Kingdom of England lost nearly a thousand lives and millions of taels of silver, and it would definitely not be so resting! I don't believe that you will leave no traces in this matter! ”

Zhu Jie's face sank, and he shouted, "Busby, are you threatening me?" Since I ascended the throne, I have never cared about the threat of any country, not the Spaniards, not the Dutch, not you English! You say that our Ming fleet did it, then come up with conclusive evidence, no, then let me honestly go back to India, there are so many pirates in the South Seas, do you know that it was not the pirates who did it? Do you know that it wasn't pirates who stole the flag of my Ming fleet? Do you know that it is not the Dutch, but the Spaniards are to blame? Do you know that it was not you English who set a trap for me to make a bitter plan? When you come to me for questioning, think clearly first, if you bite indiscriminately without evidence, the Ming fleet will tear such a person into flesh! ”

Busby almost fainted, bitter meat meter? Grandmother! Have you ever seen a cargo with nearly a thousand lives and millions of taels of silver to carry out a bitter plan? Isn't that too much to pay? Pin? Even if the flag of the fleet can be faked, then the attire and appearance of the soldiers of the Ming fleet can't be faked, right? That cannon, not to mention the ordinary pirates, even England and the Netherlands have not been fully popularized!

"Well, this matter will be put on hold for the time being, and when we find new evidence, we will naturally leave you with nothing to say!"

Busby said hatefully, "When the Marquis of Scofa sent an envoy to Bombay, we agreed that England would not participate in the war between the Ming and Jose, and that the two would not help each other, and that after the matter was completed, we English could attack Siam and Annam, and obtain the colonial rights of the two regions, and your country would recognize it, which is not wrong, right?" We ask you to keep your promises! ”

(End of chapter)