The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 546 Pardon
"Captain, that seems to be a Spaniard?!"

The second officer's reminder stunned Maten. When he looked at the warship approaching from the side, what appeared in front of him was the Spanish Royal Emblem with two pairs of red and white squares interlaced on the top of the mainmast.

For Europeans, there has never been a humble gentleman on the sea, as long as it is not their own ship, they may turn into pirates, and the Helan people themselves often do this kind of thing.

"Sign up and ask them what they want to do..."

Before Maten finished speaking, he saw the "Spanish" semaphore in the binoculars-immediately lower the sails for inspection.

Lower sail?He cursed secretly in his heart, it would be strange if he didn't become a lamb in your plate after lowering the sails!Fortunately, it is not far from the master, at most a day, no, maybe in half a day you can meet your own patrol boat, and then you will be able to save the day!
He decisively ordered: "Throw away all the ballast, including heavy wine and porcelain! Quick!"

Ma Teng's ship brought back a lot of Japanese artwork and Ming porcelain, and the speed must not be fast.But after a while, the draft of his boat became shallower and shallower, and his speed increased rapidly.

However, the merchant ship could hardly run past the warship, and after two hours of chasing, Zhang Qian finally brought a merchant ship into its range of fire, and then the artillery on the side of the ship fired a salvo.

Zhang Guoxuan observed the "battle situation" and had to keep telling his subordinates, "Slow down... tell the gunner, don't hit too hard..."

The merchant ship fought back vigorously with the two-pounders it carried, but with little effect.The people on the boat desperately discarded cargo, fresh water and even silver ingots, and the speed of the boat finally increased a little.On the other hand, the Zhangqian "cooperatively" showed that its speed had reached its extreme state, and was pulled away by merchant ships several times.

After chasing to a distance of [-] nautical miles from Da Yuan, Zhang Guoxuan saw a patrol boat of Helan people in the distance, and immediately turned around and left pretending to be "panicked".

At this time, the bow of the slower boat under Ma Teng was smashed, and there were at least seven or eight holes in the hull. Fortunately, he was not fatally injured, but all the cargo had been thrown into the sea.

……

The stronghold of the Helan people in the south of Dongfan, Zeelandia City.

In the Zhelanja Chief Executive Office, Owat, the chief executive, smiled at Hong Xu: "'Obtain the entire maritime trade monopoly of the Qing Dynasty...' The conditions offered by your country are indeed very attractive. In fact, I personally don't like it very much. The style of the Ming Dynasty, especially their arrogant assistant king.

"Although I am not very familiar with Yiguan, I have heard about him when I was in Batavia, and even the Governor-General praised him very much."

As he said, he folded and put away the abbreviated letter in Helan language written by Zheng Zhilong himself, "Whether it's Batavia or Dongfan, there are many old friends of his. For this, I can't refuse his proposal." gone."

Before Zheng Zhilong made his fortune, he worked as an interpreter for Helan people, and made good contacts through his communication skills.Later, he led a team of warships to pretend to be pirates, and helped the Helans attack the Spanish rivals in Manila. They achieved quite good "records" and their status became higher and higher.

Hong Xu heard the interpreter's report, and immediately excitedly said: "Since that's the case, when will your Excellency send the warship to the north?"

Owat frowned, "It may take a while. To tell you the truth, the Spaniards in Manila recently sent warships around the waters near Dayuan, probably looking for an opportunity to avenge our capture of the chicken coop last year. .So I have to separate part of the fleet to stare at them, and the escort channel also needs to occupy warships..."

He glanced at the anxious Hong Xu, and continued: "But I have sent someone to Manila to negotiate, and I believe there will be a result soon."

Hong Xu hurriedly said: "Then I will thank you sir. If I need my help to mediate with the Esibana people, please feel free to speak up."

"Okay! As long as the conditions in Manila are not excessive, I will stabilize them as soon as possible, and then immediately transfer the fleet to help you..."

At this moment, an official knocked on the door, nodded politely to Hong Xu, and then whispered something in Owat's ear.

"Are they crazy?!" The latter was surprised immediately, and asked the official in a low voice, "Are you sure they are Spanish?"

"Very sure. At that time, the two ships were firing at close range, and the Spanish sailors on the deck could be clearly seen."

"I know, you go out first."

Owat said to Hong Xu with a sullen face: "Master Hong, it seems that if you are going to have a decisive battle with the Ming Kingdom in the next few months, it will be very difficult for me to help you."

"This, why is this? Just now it wasn't..."

"The Spaniards actually attacked our fleet. I'm afraid it's not easy to understand."

Early the next morning, Hong Xu came to Owat's office again, wanting to fight for it again.

He just opened his mouth and didn't say a few words, then he saw two soldiers leading a middle-aged Hongyi man to see Owat.

"It's Captain Maten," Owat greeted the man with a smile, "I have a guest from the Qing Dynasty here, please wait a moment."

As if he didn’t hear it, Ma Teng said in a crying voice: “I was attacked by a Manila warship, and the Little Pine Tree was hit nine times. ...

"However, almost all the goods and silver ingots brought back this time were thrown into the sea, and more than 6000 dong were lost..."

Ouwa stood up abruptly, completely forgetting that Hong Xu was still in the room, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Call all the councilors, we may be involved in a war!"

……

Dai Xiuyuan looked at the dancer in front of him gracefully dancing, couldn't help but frowned and coughed lightly, then cupped his hands to Li Tan and said, "Your Highness, this sailor..."

"Ah, who is that, hurry up," Li Zhen immediately signaled to the accompanying official, "Quickly fill up Master Dai." But as if he didn't hear Dai Xiuyuan's words, he said with a smile on his face, "Master Dai, this fish roe is really good." Is it fresh enough?"

"Your Highness, we can talk about the banquet later, His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince asked me to..."

Just as Dai Xiuyuan said half a sentence, several North Korean officials approached with wine glasses, "Lord Dai, I would like to offer you a toast."

"It is a great fortune to see the Shangguan of the heaven today, and I will not return if I am not drunk."

"Master Dai, come here..."

Until it was getting late, Li Zhen got drunk and was escorted to the harem.Dai Xiuyuan had no choice but to return to the building.

He has been in Seoul for a whole day, but Li Jing is just prevaricating with various singing and dancing banquets, and he never mentions the matter of Jianlu coming to transfer the Korean navy to the south.

Dai Xiuyuan touched the letter of amnesty on his body, it was given to him by the assistant king Ling Muyun, and the content on it was to order Li Zhen to secretly cooperate with Jianlu, not to minister to Daming and so on.

However, the pardon was reserved by the assistant king for him to use as a last resort. Once this thing is taken out, it will be regarded as a complete face-off with Li Zhen.

(End of this chapter)