Valley Emperor

In mid-April, a group of Spaniards arrived at Guangzhou Port. They were pleasantly surprised to find that this place did not reject Europeans like them. A port area outside the city, but this is enough for them to do business.

After they sold all the goods they brought, they bought the goods they wanted most: porcelain and silk.

This business went so smoothly, which surprised the Spanish people. At the same time, after learning that the Tang Dynasty did not exclude them and foreigners, and even wanted to establish normalized relations with them, this fleet, which still has a strong official background, was dispatched to A mission was established and contacts were started with officials from the Datang Ministry of Foreign Affairs stationed in Guangzhou.

And asked to enter Zhaoqing to meet the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!

However, this request was rejected by the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The willingness is very simple. These Spaniards are not of sufficient rank. They are just some businessmen with official backgrounds, and they cannot represent the official of Spain. Naturally, they cannot conduct formal diplomacy. meet or negotiate.

Although disappointed, these Spaniards who have come all the way to the Far East are for what, not to make money.

This can do business normally, and it doesn't matter if they don't see the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so they are still very satisfied to set sail to sea with a lot of Chinese specialty goods, ready to return to Europe.

As long as they can go back to Europe, the value of these special Chinese goods such as porcelain and silk they carry can increase tenfold or even dozens of times.

Of course, the return journey is also very risky. First of all, they have to carefully avoid the Folang machine. These days, the Folang machine is the hegemon who controls Malacca and even the entire South and Indian Oceans. Merchant ships from other countries would conduct savage interceptions.

In addition to the threat of the Fulang machine, the ubiquitous wind and waves on the sea are also a serious threat to them. They have traveled thousands of miles, and they don't know how many people will die and how many ships will be sunk.

But it is precisely because of these risks that the value of their goods can be multiplied dozens of times when they are shipped back to Europe.

If any individual can return safely from the Far East with a shipment of goods, the goods in the Far East will not be able to sell at such a high price, so what are they doing so hard to come to the Far East!

Risks and benefits always coexist!

The Spaniard left contentedly, but the Flange found himself in a very embarrassing situation!

First of all, they were kicked out from Haojing by the Tang Dynasty. Later, the Fulang machine people were naturally unconvinced. Naturally, they dared not make such a large-scale landing, but they sent a fleet to try to blockade and attack the coast of Guangdong. area.

and then? Then a funny thing happened, they fought a battle with the Ming army navy in the sea off the Pearl River Estuary.

As for why they fought with the Ming army navy, I can't blame both sides, it's all because of a misunderstanding!

It was a war that was embarrassing enough to break your eggs!

Because the Ming army navy likes to go to the Pearl River Estuary for a walk, attacking the Datang Navy, and the Folang machine sent a fleet north to retaliate, and also ran to the Pearl River Estuary, and then the two fleets met at the Pearl River Estuary!

In the eyes of the Fulang machine, these Ming navy sailors are no different from those of the Great Tang navy. They are all fleets composed of some lucky boats, wide boats, and sand boats, and the people above are all the same, so Hu Fulang's fleet began to intercept the fleet of the Ming army navy.

The Ming army navy can bear it. I thought that this Folang machine was a helper invited by the pseudo-Tang bandit army. Besides, the coastal area of ​​Guangdong is still the world of the Ming Dynasty, and my Dameng Dynasty has always been unable to tolerate this. The barbarians, they fought the Tuen Mun naval battle with these Folang robots decades ago, and now there is no reason for them to fight again.

As for communicating with each other to clear up misunderstandings, communication is a piece of shit, I am naturally fighting against these barbarians if I want to.

So, they fought a fierce battle off the Pearl River Estuary under the eyes of the Datang Navy. It was a dark and dark battle, and both sides suffered a lot. When the news reached Li Xuan's ears At the time, Li Xuan and his friends were almost stunned.

Can this fight too? How painful you are!

I, the Tang Navy, are your enemies, okay?

At that time, when the Ming army navy and the Folang machine fought this large-scale naval battle off the Pearl River Estuary, as the common enemy of both sides, at the same time, the weak Tang navy was watching the play leisurely and enjoying the war. Later, out of humanitarianism, a group of small boats were sent to salvage the drowning persons on both sides.

However, the Folang machine and the Ming army navy were not stupid. Although they fought a battle, they soon discovered that they had made a mistake. The Ming army navy discovered that these Folang machine people were not invited by the pseudo-Tang bandit army. Helper, but like them to fight the fake Tang bandit army.

The Folang machine people also found that they had hit the wrong person. These enemies were not the Tang Dynasty navy, but the Ming people navy.

It's just that although everyone knows the misunderstanding, but the battle has been fought, and the losses to each other are not small, it is naturally impossible to shake hands and make peace immediately.

Especially for the navy of the Ming army, they were the dignified navy in the kingdom of heaven. They were beaten by the Folang machine, and they were slapped hard. It was simply unbearable.

As a result, the two sides are still in a state of hostility, and small-scale naval battles have been fought several times, but there is no large-scale naval battle.

The Flang machine who made an oolong recently heard that the Spaniards went to Guangzhou Haimao, and when they got a lot of money, they immediately became jealous and sent a fleet to intercept the Spanish fleet. , just grab a Spanish galleon full of porcelain and silk, that's a bumper harvest, and it's more profitable than running a sea trade!

It's a pity that the Spaniards were allowed to run away, and they were not caught, which made the Flang machine very regretful.

Now, the Folang machine people are facing a rather embarrassing situation. On the one hand, the sea trade between them and the Tang Dynasty has been greatly reduced, but the Spaniards have appeared and plundered some of the sea trade that originally belonged to them. profit.

Secondly, they found that they could not force the Tang Dynasty to surrender!

Even the blockade is actually a pretense, why?

Because most of the sea ships that departed from the coast of the Tang Dynasty went to the South China Sea for trade, and this trade object also included the Folang machine.

And although the Fulang machine clamored for revenge, he did not say that the sea trade was completely blocked. This is all silver, and throwing away the silver will not make any money. Isn't that a fool?

Secondly, even if the Folang robot wanted to completely block it, they couldn't block it. The boss of Nanyang was not a Buddha Lang, but a huge number of pirates.

Those large-scale pirates rely on the sea trade to live. You, Flang, blocked the Nanyang Sea Trade. How can you let them collect tolls? How to engage in sea trade!

Well, sometimes pirates these days are actually maritime merchants, and they are usually well behaved, especially after entering the port. , Well, the weak merchant ships will turn into pirates in minutes.

Therefore, many of the many small and medium-sized pirates in the Southeast Asia region are part-time jobs of maritime merchants, which can be seen from their ships.

All armed merchant ships, without a few artillery pieces on board, you are embarrassed to go out to sea, even if you go out to sea for a few minutes, you will be intercepted by pirates incarnated by other maritime merchants.

Even the private shipping companies under the Tang Dynasty, such as the 'Wang's Sea Trading Company', the several sea ships under their subordinates, are also armed merchant ships.

Moreover, the naval guns, swords and other weapons attached to their ships are still officially recognized and registered. The largest ship in the Wang family's fleet is more than 300 tons. When it was registered, it was clearly registered: it is equipped with five One catty cannon, four three catties cannon, several muskets, and several swords.

There is no way to do this. If they are not equipped with artillery, these merchant ships will have a great possibility of being swallowed by other pirates as soon as they go out to sea.

In this regard, Datang's response policy is to temporarily allow sea ships to be equipped with weapons, but they must be strictly registered, and they must strictly follow the entry guidance when entering the port, and they will not be allowed to enter the port without permission.

If you want to enter the port, you must not keep gunpowder on the ship before entering the port, push the artillery back to the cabin, and do not keep light weapons such as swords, guns, etc. These gunpowder and light weapons will be temporarily handed over to the Datang Navy for safekeeping and will be returned after leaving the port.

At the same time, during the whole process, the battleships of the Datang Navy will be eyeing them~www.wuxiaspot.com~ If there is a slight change, they will open fire!

Of course, you can choose not to enter the port, just moor in the open sea, and then use small boats to transport goods. The Tang Dynasty did not prohibit them, and even encouraged them to do so for the safety of the port.

Therefore, in the taverns in the port area of ​​Guangzhou, you can often see the salary of the ship owner recruiting gunners who are longer.

Another very important point is that the large-scale pirates in the Nanyang region are also the same. They not only collect tolls from passing merchant ships, and then extract profits and loot ships, they are also engaged in maritime trade business.

Therefore, in such complex and chaotic waters of the Far East, the Flange machine is nothing, even in Spain, the empire of which the sun never sets, it has to be a good man with its tail tucked.

The owners of the Far East waters these days are not the navy of the Ming army, nor the navy of the Tang Dynasty, nor the Flange or the Spaniards, but the numerous sea merchants or pirates!

Under such circumstances, Folang Robot could not completely seal off the coast of Guangdong, and would not be able to bring any actual damage to the Tang Dynasty, which made Folang Robot quite embarrassed.