"You're already there?" Diaphragm

Franco looked a little haggard, but he was very excited to see Xie Xuelong.

"It's okay, a month or two before you." Xie Xuelong smiled. "How are you doing along the way?"

"What's good. Sailing on the sea all day, everywhere there is an endless sea water, and I am almost crazy. Your ship will be as fast as it will be in less than a month."

"I heard that Zheng Zhilong didn't get you a lot of sheep?"

Xie Xuelong said narrowly.

"Huh? Uhhh "You've been here for so long, why don't you dock at the port? How boring is it to stay in the open sea?"

"I went, and I was greeted with so much hospitality." Diaphragm

"What's more? You mean Edgardo, right? He's a very nice man, we've known each other since we were kids, did he ask the Overseer and the brothers below to come to the harbor and experience the exotic taste of our Spain?"

"No, we didn't go ashore."

"Didn't go ashore? What kind of hospitality is that? This Edgardo, the distinguished guest does not know how to entertain well. When I see him again, I have to talk about him." Franco said with a frown.

"We didn't go ashore, but he came to our ship."

"Coming to your ship?" Franco was unusually surprised. "That kid has never had the guts to come to your ship?"

"No, it brought us a lot of good things. and all that is to be eaten, to be drunk."

"Really?" Diaphragm

"Really, he's on the boat now!"

"What? Edgardo on your ship? Now?" Franco's eyes widened, and then he had a bad premonition in his heart. "Overseer, what did you do to him?"

"What do you mean by what I did to him, he slept in the cabin. Shall I take you to see it?"

"Go!"

Franco had a stomach full of questions.

No matter how hospitable Edgardo is, he can't live on Akito's ship, right? Still sleeping in the cabin? Can he *** sleep?

Xie Xuelong led Franco all the way to the cabin and stopped at the door of a room. Diaphragm

Wow glare~

Xie Xuelong knocked on the door a few times.

"Who?" It was a moment before Edgardo's voice could be heard inside.

"What a lot, me! Open the door, your old man has come to see you."

"Wait a minute."

Franco on the side looked a little confused.

You have to knock on the door to enter the house, doesn't it look like you've been caught? Diaphragm

After a while, Edgardo opened the door and looked at Xue Xuelong first.

"What's wrong? Eat again?"

"What are you eating, your old friend has come to see you."

"Who? Huh?"

Edgardo rubbed his eyes, then said in disbelief.

"Franco!? You were caught too? No, you're back!?"

"I'm back. You're—"

"Ah, I, I'm a guest here. Come, come in and say."

"I won't go in, you old friends meet, let's have a good chat, I'll wait for you up there."

Xie Xuelong glanced at Edgardo, turned around and walked out.

Franco followed Edgardo into the room with a suspicious stomach.

He first looked at the interior and found that although the layout of the room was simple, it was also neat. It doesn't look small, it's square to the left and right, and you can see the scenery outside through the window.

If you put aside your identity, such a room must be at the officer level even in the Ming Army. In terms of accommodation alone, it is not so much that they were caught, but that they came for vacation.

"Why are you here?" Diaphragm

Franco asked, sitting on the bed, looking at Edgardo.

"Caught." Edgardo smiled wryly

snorted.

"What's going on?" Franco had a look on his face that he had anticipated.

"Hey, don't mention it..."

After a sigh, Edgardo recounted the past with a wistful expression.

"You mean, you've been living on this ship for over a month?"

"Fifty-three days, to be exact." Diaphragm

"Then you can sleep too?"

"What the can I do but sleep!? When that happens, how will you talk to Mingren? If the conditions were not negotiated, why did they come? If the conditions are negotiated, why are they still attacking our fleet!? Franco, you have to bear this responsibility, and you can't get rid of it to the king!"

"I'm a fart! We talked about it well, their warship is driving so fast, can I catch up? And that waste Armando, who told him to test the Ming fleet? Dare to shoot at the fleet of the Ming people!? Got a brain? It's not easy to just look at the appearance! Why don't you stop him? Appearance is combat power! Have you heard of it!?"

"I stop? He was sent by His Royal Highness the King! How do I stop it!? And what kind of bullshit are you talking about, what is appearance? I went to Daming, but I didn't learn it, but I learned some foreign words? I don't think you're far from rebellion!"

"Betray your mother! Do you know how powerful Daming is? Their willingness to do business with us is mutually beneficial! What's wrong with a little loss? It's better than pushing them to the Netherlands! You're a watcher! Do you know what the outside world has become?"

"I don't know! But I'm also better than someone like you who can learn a few foreign words and stand on top! You've not been a good thing since you were a kid! Bad seeds."

"Am I a bad seed? Didn't you stay here for more than a month eating and drinking? Are you shameless!? You're laughing at fifty steps and laughing at a hundred steps!" Diaphragm

"Franco! Your mother! Don't say these things in front of me that I don't understand!"

"I'll just say! You're biting me!"

The argument between the two began to escalate until Edgardo made the first move, and the two scuffled together.

After a while, the tired two stopped.

"Franco, we're really not Ming's opponents?" Edgardo asked, struggling to open his swollen egg-like eyes.

Franco shook his head silently, and after a long time, he spoke in a hoarse tone:

"I used to think about that. About a few years ago, Zheng Zhilong, who was active near the South China Sea of the Ming Dynasty, suddenly accepted the imperial court's recruitment. Then, under the banner of a company called Global Commerce, it began to expand externally. Diaphragm

With the support of the imperial court, they began to plunder the merchant ships along the coast and grew rapidly. In the end, the Dutch were driven out of Taiwan, and then we were followed. After two years of development, the business of global commerce has become bigger and bigger, and there are more and more ships, but the combat effectiveness of warships alone is still not far behind us.

I used to think that they just wanted to follow the route of overseas colonization like us. He also laughed at them secretly, and touched the pillow to be dawn. Most of the valuable places in the whole world are occupied by our European countries, what rotten places can they grab?

But it wasn't until their fleet sailed to Manila that I realized that their goal was so big!"