? Chapter 393: The Dutch East India Company

"Angela, be careful, the deck has just been brushed, don't fall!"

"Got it, my captain!"

A young 'girl' like a 'spirit' happily jumped over a bunch of cables coiled on the side of the cabin, and shouted with a smile to the helpless man behind him: "I won't go ashore secretly, you can rest assured, I'm just on the deck, just look at this huge port!" ”

"Larry, Marcy, stop doing it, put down your work and go serve Miss Angela!" The captain's hat on the man's head clearly showed his identity, and the two sailors who were called immediately came over respectfully: "Yes, captain!" ”

Looking at Anji, who didn't care, he jumped towards the side of the boat, and the man glanced at her back a little dotingly, turned his head, and walked towards the other side of the deck, where there were some of Angela's companions who needed him to say hello.

His name is Gavin, Gavin. Cage is the captain of the Pioneer, a huge armed merchant ship at his feet. And the V-shaped three-color flag fluttering on the mast at this moment makes people have a clear view of their origins, and in the waters of the East, the ships flying such flags can only be the ships of the East India Company, Vereenigde Oost-Indischepagnie, the Dutch East India Company.

To be honest, if he hadn't gotten the company's assurance, he wouldn't have wanted to get close to this port, let alone bring his only sister to this place, and from the day he came to the East, it was synonymous with danger. The owners of this port have always been hostile to their entire company. If possible, he would rather be here all the time in Malacca, or even on the Coromandel coast.

"This is an instruction from the board of directors personally, Gavin, this is a rare opportunity, you must know that the company's business in the Far East has been showing a downward trend recently, if because of your mission, you can open a gap for the company to rebuild trade relations with the Ming Empire, I think, the board of directors will definitely not be stingy with the reward for the captain who thinks he is so capable!"

This is what General Clark said to him before leaving, and he was still a little hesitant, but when he got the content of his mission from General Clarke's mouth, he chose to trust the company, because it was very simple, this time his task was to transport twenty 'newly-made cannons' and their '' instructors to the Ming Empire, and this kind of cannon was all a powerful twelve-pounder cannon, such a weapon, but now the Ming Empire absolutely cannot make it.

Hearing that there is an army in the empire now rebelling, their rulers must be very eager to get these sharp cannons and these 'drills' as instructors, Gavin doesn't know what agreement the company has reached with those rulers of the Ming Empire, but one thing he knows is that this trip, theoretically speaking, there will be no danger, even the admiral Zheng of the Ming Empire, who has always been hostile, is afraid that in such a major matter, he will not disobey the will of his Emperor Majesty.

The only thing that gave him a headache was his sister Angela, and with these cannons came, it was a group of artillery instructors, uh, to put it this way, more formally, in fact, he also knew that these so-called instructors, in fact, were really afraid that they were a little unreliable, and it was normal for him to have this idea, because, his unreliable sister was actually one of these "instructors".

Angela. Cage, an outstanding graduate of the Royal Naval College at Fort Middle, took the initiative to apply for service in the East India Company as soon as he graduated last year, in Gavin's opinion, Angela had this move, but he was afraid that it had a lot to do with him, but in any case, it was indeed a very pleasant thing to be able to be with his only relative in the far east.

"Wow, look, look, there's a noble lady there, look at the silk on her, oh my God, it's like a cloud on the horizon!"

Angela seemed very excited and screaming, but she didn't look like a lady at all, and of course, this image couldn't make people associate her with those guys who looked old-fashioned as if the cannon was their lover. However, Larry and Marcy, who were behind her, had a smile on their faces, they didn't feel that there was anything wrong, this was like the captain's sister, if it was really the captain's sister who was a 'woman' who was twisting and pinching and pretending, although they were just as respectful, I was afraid that the sense of identity at the moment would be greatly inferior.

"Miss Angela, in the East, silk is a must for any decent person, but here, not Amsterdam, if you see a lot, you won't be surprised!"

"Really? Then I want it too, a lot, a lot, but I'm afraid I can't afford my salary......" Angela looked very entangled, and Larry and Marcy were secretly amused when she watched.

"Miss Angel, this is not a problem, as long as you are willing, our captain can always give you a room of beautiful silk, what kind of beautiful look you want to be, is what you want, and only these 'fine' beautiful silks can match your angelic face!" The two followers are like a 'tide'.

"Oops!" Angel was distracted, and did not listen to the compliments that the two had finally organized and felt that they had a unique aristocratic temperament, only to see her hand pointing forward, and exclaimed in a low voice.

The two of them looked in the direction of her finger, only to see a small 'commotion' on the dock, and the noble lady in silk who was admired and envied by Angela just now was pulled aside like a 'maid', and behind them were several soldiers and some expressionless guys, walking towards their Pioneer.

The men walked up to the sailor guarding the gangplank, and said something arrogantly, and the sailor's body language was obviously an expression of refusal, and the soldiers-like people, a little impatient, did not wait for the interpreter to say anything, and directly reached out and pushed the sailor away, intending to get on the ship like this.

"These people are going to get on board!" Angela looked at this scene, her face changed slightly, and the unknown armed men forcibly boarded the ship that was on a mission, what does it mean, she couldn't be unaware of the 'sexual' nature of it from a military academy.

At the same time, the sailor, who had been pushed to the side, got up from the ground, 'felt' a whistle, and blew it desperately, and suddenly, a terrible whistle sounded, and this time, not only the people on the deck, but also the people in the cabin, I am afraid that they also heard it.

The first to react was the sailors on the side of the ship, they immediately lifted off the gangplank carrying the shore, and they moved at the same time, almost all the sailors and combatants on the ship, when the sailors ran wildly towards their posts, Angela noticed that the side of the ship she was holding slightly vibrated slightly, and her professional experience told her that this was the gun 'door' under the side of the ship, which was slowly opening.

Fang Liwei's face was surprised, Wu Xian was behind him, and his face was also slightly excited, the reaction of these people was too big, so big that it made people suspicious, before this, they had already checked the ships that had arrived in Hong Kong in the past few days, and none of them had such a big reaction.

Of course, the movement on the Harbinger also attracted the attention of other ships, and several patrolling clippers seemed to be slowly approaching this side. Quanzhou is the base camp of the Zheng family, if it is a gunboat that makes trouble in this port unscrupulously, then where to put the prestige of the Zheng family? Not to mention, these guys with the V-shaped flag, the people of the Zheng family have never had a good feeling, if they meet at sea, they may go up and do it directly, at this moment the ship can be anchored here safely, it is because of the order of Zheng Zhilong himself. Although these people of the Zheng family did not touch him, compared with other merchant ships, this ship must have some different and special treatment.

"What do you want, put away your guns!" Gavin appeared on the side of the ship, reprimanded his men in a fake manner, and then, with a solemn face, asked the people who were looking at him, "Sir, what happened just now?" There's something I've missed, introduce myself, contemptible Gavin, the captain of this ship! ”

"What does the ghost say? Do you understand? Wu first asked the companion behind him with his eyes, and the companion shook his head slightly, although he had been immersed in the camp for a while, but the camp was dominated by Velasco and spoke Portuguese, so naturally there was not much market for Dutch, so basically, his interpretation was useless.

"Say what?" Fang Liwei snorted, the official of the city department beside him had been in this port for a long time, and he knew a little bit, and he was also the one who 'communicated' with the sailor just now.

"This person is the captain, Lord Fang, he asked what happened?" He explained to Fang Liwei.

"Tell him we're going to get on the boat and have a look!" Fang Liwei really has a bit of Jinyiwei's style at this moment, although he has nothing to do with Jinyiwei and Fuzhou's Jinyiwei, but this official doesn't know, the only thing he knows is Jinyiwei's uncle, he can't afford to provoke it, all, what he says, it's what it is.

"This can't be!" When Gavin heard the following words, he refused the other party's request without hesitation, what are you kidding, what he wants to wait for is the general of the Ming Empire with an official document, these people below, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like there is a general inside!

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