Chapter 174: What Did He Say?
The fleet of the Han Empire did not go to the white people's trading points, and in Zhao Dutian's mind, the Hawaiian Islands that have not been developed can be occupied and built as a port, and there is no need to invest too much energy and financial resources to develop them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The trade in this world is mainly concentrated in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and the colonies developed by Britain and France in the Americas are all located in the east coast region, thousands of kilometers away from the west coast.
Therefore, in the Hawaiian Islands in the center of the Pacific Ocean, the European seafaring powers have only set up a few trade points to conduct fraudulent trade with the natives who have an absolute advantage in numbers on the islands!
To say that it is fraudulent does not mean that the Polynesians on the Hawaiian Islands are all brain-dead, but that the gap in the level of civilization between the two sides is too large, and European merchants only need to pay cheap industrial goods to exchange a large amount of food and raw materials from the Polynesians!
This trade method is similar to the current lucrative and frequent slave triangle trade, except that the Hawaiian Islands are too underdeveloped and the products are average, and the trade activities are not prosperous!
In Zhao Dutian's eyes, the degree of development of the Hawaiian Islands is about zero, which is completely a sign of the decline of the Spanish kingdom, which is the most powerful in the Pacific Ocean!
However, even if the expeditionary fleet of the Han Empire occupied the Hawaiian Islands without difficulty, Zhao Dutian did not want to add to his troubles when the reconciliation treaty had just been signed.
It is really unwise to send people to destroy these strongholds that have little value to white Europeans, and then give the Kingdom of Spain and other seafaring countries the truth to create a situation unfavorable to the Han Empire diplomatically!
Moreover, since the Hawaiian Islands have not been developed, there is naturally land where ports and strongholds can be built, and the Han Empire can just occupy one as a base and supply point, and there is no need to rob other people's strongholds......
Zhao Dutian's principle is that if you don't fight, you will have a big, oily and thick 'deal'!
The Marines were not all dispatched this time, as a force that came out to explore the way, the first expeditionary fleet only carried two battalions of Marines, one was the commander of the Han officers, and the other was Mondora!
Inevitably, Mondola will be restrained by that Han officer!
In addition to the Marine Corps, another powerful part of the expeditionary fleet is the temporary 'admiral' of this fleet.
He is also a Han naval officer, and the overall affairs of the expeditionary fleet are mainly discussed by the fleet admiral and the Han battalion commander of the Marine Corps, and Mondora is an observer, occasionally making some suggestions!
In fact, before the expeditionary fleet set off, these leaders who were about to go far away were assigned tasks!
At sea, the Admiral's orders are greater than those of the Marines, and after landing at the intended destination, the Admiral cannot intervene in the military operations of the Marines in principle, and must provide assistance free of charge when necessary!
Zhao Dutian deeply understands the necessity of the division of labor in the army, he doesn't want to balance power, but simply let the various branches of the advance fleet do the work they are good at!
After all, it is unreliable to let a naval admiral command the operation after the landing......
Letting an army commander be the 'emperor' of the fleet is even more like playing with fire!
Sailing is a complex professional knowledge, and even if the layman has enough right to speak, it is a serious crisis!
Therefore, after the landing, the admiral of the expeditionary fleet repeatedly expressed that he would not make any extraneous branches, and that he would be like a white European explorer, and that he would have a normal exchange of supplies with the natives who occupied the numerical advantage on the island, and that it would not cost much anyway!
But!
Both Mondora and the Han officer politely took the persuasion of the captain of the fleet as a deaf ear......
After obtaining the permission of the boss of the top capital, Mondola drove inland with his headquarters non-stop!
It's just that the white guide, who had high hopes for Mondora, was blinded as soon as he entered the jungle, and Mondora had to send someone to capture a few local Polynesian natives!
Mondora had a command knife only in the Han Empire at the rank of captain or above on his waist, and he was majestic, but unfortunately, after landing, in order to meet the needs of the battle, Mondola inserted two flintlock handcuffs obliquely on the belt in front of him, which destroyed the image of the majestic officer beyond recognition......
It's just that Mondola, who pays attention to practical convenience, doesn't care at all!
With the eyes of an animal, Mondola kept looking at the Polynesians in front of her, who were being forced by her own soldiers with bayonets.
These Polynesians were of medium to high stature, with light brown skin, less body hair, broad, wavy black hair, and a broad, slightly protruding jaw.
It's a little closer to myself and other races, of course, just close!
With a fierce and tyrannical look on her face, Mondora said in a deep voice to the unlucky people who had been caught in front of her, "Who of you knows where the settlement is? ā
After Mondora's Chinese exit, she felt a little inappropriate, glanced at the Spanish guide standing behind her, and repeated the previous question in her pit Spanish!
The natives here have already had a lot of trade experience with the Spaniards, so you should have heard of Spanish!
"Incentives to pull out the ...... of Dhonicin"
Hearing the frightened reply from one of the natives, Mondola looked at the Spanish guide in confusion and asked, "What did he say?" ā
The Spanish guide shook his head ignorantly, and said, "It seems to be the local language, I haven't been ashore in the Hawaiian Islands, and I don't understand what they say...... Otherwise, let's trade things with them, as long as we take out the goods we trade and let these people go, they should find a lot of their own people and come up with supplies that will be useful to us! ā
"Hehe, do you think that if I let them go, these Polynesians will obediently go back with supplies and trade with our hundreds of flintlock muskets?
If Lao Tzu wanted to replenish, he wouldn't have taken so many people off the boat and ran into the jungle where there is no distinction between north and south! When I come for an outing!
You can ask me about their tribal gathering place or city or something, anyway, there are a lot of people! ā
The Spanish guide was sweating profusely and used all the means of communication he knew to communicate with these natives, but ......
"Battalion commander, they still don't understand ......"
Bang~~~ (To be continued.) )