The news of gold soon shook the entire Western world, and all the nobles and merchants who wanted to make a fortune were moved. They organized their men and fleets to prepare for the Ming Dynasty, a great country in the East, intending to harvest huge wealth overnight, just like Philip and Firut.

Philip and Firut were not afraid that these compatriots would become contenders, after all, the survey to Fengming Continent issued by the Ming Dynasty was in their hands. Judging from the previous dealings with the Ming court, it is not so easy to get this survey and merger. The emperor and prince of the Ming Dynasty are very smart, and will only give each country's envoy "trade exploration", and other compatriots who want to accompany the Ming fleet to Fengmingzhou can only rely on the two of them.

Therefore, they had already made up their minds, if these wanted to go to Fengmingzhou to mine gold, they would need to pay them as much as fifty percent. The more people who go to Fengming Continent, the more gold they will have to go into their pockets. Therefore, Philip and Filut only hope that there will be as many people as possible who will follow them to Fengming Continent.

However, although they were very happy to give their compatriots a cut, the thought of needing to give Daming a cut to panning for gold in Fengmingzhou made the two of them feel very uncomfortable: according to the regulations of the Ming court and Fengmingzhou Jinshan Fort, any cargo ship that wants to leave the port of Jinshanbao must pay 20% of the value of the goods to Daming. Following the Ming fleet to and from Fengming Continent, they also need to pay one percent of the "channel fee", which adds up to forty percent, and counting, forty percent of the gold they dug up, all of which went into the pocket of the Ming treasury.

Although the commission was far less than what they demanded from their compatriots, Philip and Firut still felt the pain in their flesh.

Moreover, they learned from exploring Fengming Continent that Fengming Continent was actually a completely new continent with an incomparably vast land and unexplored. Their country is located on the border of Europe, the country is small and the people are widowed, and it is simply salivating to see a place like Fengmingzhou...... So I thought of a plan to bypass Daming and secretly set up a base on Fengming Continent and divide the land for development.

However, the development of the new continent requires manpower, and if this manpower is less, it must have enough strength to be able to face the blow of the Ming army and civilians of Jinshan Fort, who have gained a firm foothold...... The population of their country is too small, and the distance from Daming and Fengmingzhou is very far, if they wait for their country to transport enough people to Daming before turning to Fengmingzhou, I am afraid that everything will be too late. Therefore, they thought of taking a risk, and by instigating Lu Zhongheng and Tang Shengzong, the two marquis of the Ming Dynasty, they had a plan to obtain a large number of people to develop Fengmingzhou.

However, they still underestimated the power of the Ming Dynasty, and the two Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, who were extremely rampant and said how powerful their abilities were, were directly captured alive by the prince of the Ming Dynasty with thousands of people overnight.

They didn't even make a splash, and they were easily caught with the thousands of people...... Firut only felt that he was a hopeless fool who was gullible enough to brag about them: even if it was two pigs with an army of several thousand men, at least one or two escaped fish should be left for them, right?

How the hell did they get to the position of the Marquis...... It's stupid!

However, soon Firut had no intention of continuing to insult Lu Zhongheng and Tang Shengzong...... Because soon, Daming's punishment for them was like a mountain that could never be resisted:

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty issued a sanction against them, the British merchants: abolishing the trade conquest held by the British envoys; It was forbidden for British merchants to trade with the Ming Dynasty; Seize all the ships, goods, and warehouses of British merchants in the territory of Daming!

Hence the previous scene.

"Viscount Philip?" Seeing Philip's aching and gloomy expression, the attendant who was holding him called out in a low voice.

"Damn it...... Let's get out of this place first......" Philip scolded viciously, not at all in the manner of a British gentleman. After receiving the title of nobleman, he began to imitate those nobles who beat incense powder, used walking sticks, and tried to imitate the elegant and noble appearance of the nobles in his words. However, now there is a setback, and the efforts made to decorate his noble identity these days have been knocked back to the prototype in an instant. Now he has gloomy and terrifying eyes, as if he wants to choose someone to devour.

There is no way for him not to break the defense, and the rented warehouse is full of tea, silk, porcelain and other things that he bought with the gold he mined from Fengmingzhou on his last trip. Gold itself is incomparably valuable, and if you exchange them for exquisite goods from the Ming Dynasty, when they are shipped back to Britain, they will immediately multiply by dozens of times. The value of the goods in this warehouse alone is probably worth as much as the small treasury in the castle of the King of Britain.

However, he had to leave...... He is also a smart person who has seen the world, how can he not see that these Ming soldiers will definitely not give them a chance to be accommodating, and there are hostile eyes in the banter of the Ming people gathered around...... Firut had no doubt that if he showed hostility, these Ming people and Ming soldiers would be arrested and questioned in an instant.

He even wondered if the terrible Ming Emperor, who had a relationship with him, had already issued another decree to arrest all Britons, but this decree was still on the way......

Firut and his attendants left the seized warehouse in disarray, preparing to board their ship and leave. Unexpectedly, before they stepped on the deck, they were once again driven back by the Ming soldiers armed with spears: their ships were also seized by order, and who let them design to frame the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty annoyed His Majesty the Emperor. Only when His Majesty the Emperor has extinguished his anger will they be able to retrieve their own ships.

Firut could only leave with his attendants in embarrassment again.

"Viscount, what are we going to do next?" Seeing that it was getting late, the attendant asked Firut with some concern. They still had some gold in their arms, and they also tried to hire those Ming ships to leave the port of Hangzhou. However, even if they were willing to pay several times the usual fare, the shippers shook their heads in disgust when they saw their appearance.

Even if you want to buy some food on the dock, you will be driven away by the small vendors who want to stop disturbing their business.

After the toss of "damn ......", Firut was already crooked and slanted, without the slightest bearing that a Western aristocratic gentleman should have. The anger in his eyes is also about to reach his limit.

“…… If it doesn't work, we'll buy a boat and row to Philip's fleet......" Firut said viciously.

(End of chapter)