Chapter 81: The Spice Islands

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The sky is clearer, the sun is brighter, the water is clearer, and the salty sea breeze is less cold and more hot.

There are far more islands here than in the North Ocean, and the stars are dense, and you can often see several of them in half a day, which is very different from the situation that you can't see the land in the North Ocean for more than ten days. The scenery on the island is also very southern, with snow-white or golden sandy beaches, tall coconut palms, and dense forests...... Surrounded by pale blue water, it looks like an emerald green gem.

Zhang Ang followed the Viking expeditionary fleet all the way from the cold wind howling North Ocean to the sunny South Sea.

The Vikings' destination was the Spice Islands, and their goal was to entrench the pirate alliance in the South Seas in order to subdue the pirate alliance and control the sea supremacy.

The Spice Islands, as the name suggests, are a general term for a group of islands known for their abundance of spices. According to Zhang Ang's understanding, almost more than eighty percent of the spices on the Europa continent come from here, spices can be used to make perfumes, can also be used to make condiments, the former is deeply desired by the upper nobles, and the latter is an indispensable necessity in people's lives, so the sea and land between the spice islands and the continent of Europa are also called the golden trade route.

With business, robbers are naturally indispensable. After all, compared to coming thousands of miles to purchase, dry, and ship back for sale, how can it be compared to directly grabbing a handful and doing a business without capital?

There are many islands in the South China Sea, and most of them are uninhabitable, after all, this is a vast sea, and people cannot live without fresh water. Only a few islands with freshwater lakes, or freshwater springs, are inhabited.

The Spice Islands are a collective name for more than a dozen inhabited islands. The vegetation on these islands is dense, and many of them are endemic plants that are not found on the continent of Europa, and even transplantation and cultivation cannot be done, and many of them are spice plants. In addition to these inhabited islands, there are also many spice plants on other uninhabited islands.

The production of spices is also extremely complex, requiring steps such as picking, drying, grinding, etc., before they can be turned into bags of spice powder or granules that are easy to transport and sell. And most of these jobs were given to the aborigines of those islands, those natives.

Hundreds of years ago, when the navigators of Europa first discovered it, they relied on their great strength to conquer the primitive natives of these islands, training them into slaves and making spices for them. The natives had to travel through countless islands, picking bags of different spice ingredients, and then drying them for the owners of the Spice Islands to sell. The natives often have very little food and rest, and many of them die of exertion every day.

The Spice Islands are controlled by a variety of people, including the Dutch, the Spanish, the Italians, and the British....... In various coastal countries, as long as the country has a fleet, you can see the people of that country here, and there are even people from the Holy See, and there is a small church established by the Holy See.

The first to discover it was a Dutch navigator, but the secret was not kept for long, and after more than a dozen years of difficult cover-up, the secret of the Spice Islands was revealed. After hundreds of years of negotiations, it has become a place jointly controlled by multiple maritime powers, and everyone sends their own representatives, divides the region, and divides the interests here.

This is also the reason why even if there is a martial saint in charge, the pirate alliance in the South Seas has not attacked the Spice Islands, of course it is easy to defeat it, but they can't defend it after defeating it! At that time, they are about to meet several great powers, countless warships, countless masters, and even the encirclement and suppression of the Holy See powerhouses!

Yes, they can escape the encirclement and suppression with the help of the vastness of the sea and their familiarity with the sea, and the regular fleet will not have time to spend on them, but if they want to escape, why take down the islands? This is meaningless!

And the amount of robbery by the pirate alliance is not much more than the amount on the entire golden sea lane, so there is a certain tacit understanding between the merchant ships and the pirates, and it is nothing more than a fight on weekdays, everyone depends on their abilities, if the pirates do too much, then invite the regular army to sweep around, so that the trade route is temporarily peaceful......

The Viking King pointed and said, "Look, the one ahead is the Spice Islands." ”

Looking at the series of land in front of him, Zhang Ang nodded: "Then let's go directly?"

"No, we're not here to conquer the Spice Islands, we're here for the Pirate Alliance. The Viking King said, "Moreover, with just the three of us, we can't afford to occupy the Spice Islands." ”

"Are we going to the Pirate Alliance? to find that Blackbeard?" Zhang Ang then asked.

"No, we came here with such fanfare, many boats along the way saw it, and the other party must have known the news and hid. The Viking King explained, "This sea is their home turf, it is very familiar, it is not easy to find them, now all we have to do is wait!"

"Wait?" Zhang Ang said, puzzled.

"Yes, we have robbed them of their business now, and when they can't stand it anymore, they will naturally come out and fight us on their own. The Viking King smiled and said, "When the time comes, it's just once and for all." ”

"That's right......" Zhang Ang nodded, roughly understanding the Viking King's strategy.

"Okay, idle is idle, I'll take you to see something interesting. The Viking King turned his head: "Thor, you stay on the ship." ”

"What's interesting?" Zhang Ang said, puzzled.

"Don't you believe in our legends, I'll show you the evidence!" said the Viking King earnestly.

How can you believe it, how can you just rely on manpower to smash the entire continent to pieces? Not to mention the Martial Saint, the Martial God can't do it, this is a whole continent, even those nuclear weapons in the previous life, the maximum yield level can't do it, it's easy to erase a city, erase a mountain, and you can smash an entire continent...... That's still an exaggeration!

Moreover, taking 10,000 steps back, even if there is such a powerful existence, isn't the Martial God level above the Martial Saint shattering the void and going to another place, how can they stay here and participate in the war, and an entire continent will be shattered? Such a great destructive power can already be called the world-destroying level, and the waves set off are enough to submerge the entire Europa continent not far from the sea! Why is this incident never mentioned in the German royal classics?

So, after all, this is a mythical story, and the Vikings don't seem to be a delicate race, so it's understandable that they are exaggerated and distorted by false rumors.

Looking at Zhang Ang's face of disbelief, the Viking King said helplessly: "Forget it, follow me, you'll know when you go and see it!"