Chongzhen's online shopping system

Chapter 577
"Are you already here?"

Franco looked haggard, but he was very excited after seeing Xie Xuelong.

"Fortunately, I arrived a month or two earlier than you." Xie Xuelong smiled. "Is the journey all right?"

"What's so good about it? Sailing on the sea all day long, where there is endless sea water, I'm going crazy. How can your ship be faster, and it will arrive in less than a month."

"Didn't I hear that Zheng Zhilong got a lot of sheep for you guys?"

Xie Xuelong said narrowly.

"Ah? Uh?" Franco froze for a moment, then changed the subject with his eyes flickering. "You have been here for so long, why don't you stop at the port? How boring is it to stay in the open sea?"

"I went and received so much warm hospitality."

"What's so much? You mean Edgardo? He's a nice guy. We've known each other since we were kids. Has he invited the supervisor and the brothers below to come to the port to experience our Spanish exoticism?"

"No, we didn't go ashore."

"Didn't go ashore? What kind of hospitality is that? This Edgardo, you don't know how to treat the distinguished guests well. When you see him later, you have to talk about him." Franco said with a frown.

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

"Come on your ship?" Franco was very surprised. "That kid has always been timid, dare to come on your boat?"

"Isn't it? He also brought us a lot of good things. We have everything we need to eat and drink."

"Really?"

"Really, he's on board now!"

"What? Edgardo is on your boat? Now?" Franco's eyes widened, and a bad premonition arose in his heart. "Master, what did you do to him?"

"What do I do to him? He's sleeping in the cabin. Shall I show you?"

"go with!"

Franco was full of doubts.

No matter how warmly Edgardo entertained him, it would be impossible to live on Mingren's boat, right?Still sleeping in the cabin?Can he sleep like a dog?

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

Deng deng stare~
Xie Xuelong knocked on the door a few times.

"Who is it?" After a while, Edgardo's voice came from inside.

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

"Wait a mininute."

Franco on the side looked a little confused.

You have to knock on the door to enter the house, so it doesn’t look like you’re being arrested, right?
After a while, Edgardo opened the door and looked at Xuelong first.

"What's wrong? Eat again?"

"What are you eating, your old friend is here to see you."

"Who? Huh?"

Edgar rubbed his eyes, then said in disbelief.

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

"I'm back. What are you doing?"

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

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

Xie Xuelong took a look at Edgar, then turned and walked out.

Franco followed Edgardo into the room full of suspicion.

He first looked at the indoor environment, and found that although the layout of the room was simple, it was considered neat.It doesn't look small, it's about a foot square, and you can still see the outside scenery through the window.

If you put aside your identity, you have to be an officer to live in such a room even in the Ming army.From the perspective of the accommodation environment alone, it is better to say that he came here for vacation than being arrested.

"Why are you here?"

Franco sat down on the bed, looked at Edgardo and asked.

"Catched." Edgardo smiled wryly.

"What's going on?" Franco had an expression that he had expected a long time ago.

"Hey, forget it"

After a sigh, Edgardo talked about the past with a look of melancholy.

"You mean, you've lived on this boat for more than a month?"

"53 days to be exact."

"Then you can sleep too?"

"What the hell can I do other than sleep!? When the time comes, how did you talk to Ming people? If you didn't negotiate the conditions, why did they come? If you negotiated the conditions, why would they attack our fleet!? Franco, you have to bear this responsibility, and you can't get rid of it when you go to the king!"

"I'll take it! We had a good talk, their warships are going so fast, can I catch up? And that trash Armando, who asked him to test Ming's fleet? How dare Ming The human fleet is firing!? Have you got a brain? Just looking at his appearance alone is not easy to mess with! Why don’t you stop him? Appearance is combat power! Have you heard of it!?”

"I stop? He was sent by His Royal Highness! How can I stop!? And what kind of bullshit are you talking about, what is beauty? You went to Daming, you don't learn if you are good, you just learned some foreign words ? I think you are not far from rebellion!"

"Betray your mother! Do you know how powerful Daming is? It is mutually beneficial for them to do business with us! Why suffer a little? It's better than pushing them to the Netherlands! You The guy who looks at the sky from the well! Do you know what the outside world has become?"

"I don't know! But I'm better than someone like you who is superior after learning some foreign words! You haven't been a good thing since you were a child! Bad breed."

"I'm a bad guy? Didn't you stay here for more than a month eating other people's food? Are you shameless!? You can laugh at a hundred steps!"

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

"I'll just say it! You bite me!"

The quarrel 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, are we really not Daming's opponent?" Edgardo asked with his eyes swollen like eggs.

Franco shook his head silently, and after a long time, he said hoarsely:

"I was also thinking about this issue. About a few years ago, Zheng Zhilong, who was active near the South China Sea of ​​Ming Dynasty, suddenly accepted the court's recruitment. Then, under the banner of a company called Global Commerce, he began to expand abroad.

With the support of the imperial court, they began to wantonly plunder the merchant ships along the coast and grew rapidly.In the end, the Dutch were driven out of Taiwan, and then we were.After another two years of development, the business of Global Trading is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more ships, but the combat effectiveness of the warships alone is still far behind ours.

I used to think they just wanted to colonize overseas, like us.He also laughed at them secretly, touching the pillow until dawn.Most of the valuable places in the whole world are occupied by our European countries, what bad place can they grab?

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

(End of this chapter)