Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1445, Raging Pirates
Word spread quickly that Al Hoceima Harbor had been sacked by pirates.

The King of Spain was furious and ordered a reward of 100 million Daming silver coins to hunt down the God Hand pirates, and even provided valid information about the pirates to get a sky-high bonus of [-] Daming silver coins.

At the same time, Spain also formed a powerful navy, preparing to completely wipe out this daring pirate group here in the Mediterranean.

The port of Huceima is very close to the mainland of Spain. This is like looting a prosperous colonial port under the eyes of the Spaniards.

This is a disgrace to the Spanish matador and a provocation to the great Spanish Empire.

Spain must give the strongest response.

It's just that the information about this pirate group has not been investigated on the Spanish side, and another accident happened on the West African side.

Accra, a Spanish colony in West Africa.

Accra was originally a colonial stronghold belonging to Glucose. As early as decades ago, the Portuguese had begun to invade here, carry out colonial activities, plunder gold and diamonds, sell black slaves here, and even the origin of the Gold Coast. Got it because of it.

Accra is located on the back of the Gulf of Guinea, the capital of later generations of Ghana. Ghana is rich in gold and diamonds, and has always been the most important colonial stronghold of Portugal in the Gulf of Guinea.

After two failed wars with Spain, although Portugal desperately wanted to keep Accra, it had to be ceded to Spain in the end, and it has since become a Spanish colonial stronghold.

Relying on Accra, Spain can plunder gold and diamonds worth millions of taels of silver every year from the huge area of ​​radiation. It is definitely a hen that lays golden eggs properly.

At this moment, it is Accra's first treasure luck day in the first quarter.

Several treasure ships were moored in the port. The treasure ships were filled with the gold, silver, and diamonds looted from here last season. In addition, there were also a large number of black slaves, who were going to be sold to the Mediterranean at that time.

Although people in Daming do not like black slaves, black slaves are cheap, and many people are still willing to buy them. It is a good choice to grow sugarcane in plantations.

Selling black slaves is even more profitable than plundering gold!

There are many local indigenous tribes, and they are constantly fighting with each other. You only need to use very cheap things to exchange areas from these tribes to capture a large number of hostile tribes.

In fact, most of the black slaves in Africa were purchased from the local aborigines in this way. In fact, the colonists seldom captured these slaves by themselves, because not only was it inefficient, but they would also suffer casualties.

This is also a common phenomenon in African colonization. Colonization cannot go deep into the inland, and can only establish colonial strongholds one by one on the coastline or river bank, and rely on the strongholds to carry out colonial plunder.

In addition, all kinds of diseases on the African continent are very terrible, the most terrible of which is yellow fever, which has a very high mortality rate and is extremely contagious.

Regardless of whether the European colonists or the colonists from the East, they all turned pale when they talked about this disease, and they dared not go deep into the interior of Africa. They could only start colonial competition on the coastline and river bank.

As the most important Spanish colonial stronghold on the golden coastline, Accra not only concentrated the income of this colonial stronghold last quarter, but also transported the wealth of many surrounding colonial strongholds, waiting to be transported back to Spain together.

Box after box of gold and silver treasures were continuously loaded onto the cargo ship, and the Spanish army was responsible for escorting the shipment, with advanced artillery and muskets purchased from the Ming Empire.

Coupled with the fact that it is acting in secret, very few people know the time and place, so it can be said that it is basically foolproof.

But who knew that when the treasure ship was loaded with treasure and was about to set off, a pirate group composed of more than a dozen large ships arrived at Accra in the waters outside the Accra port as scheduled.

As if he had calculated the time correctly, he went to the port of Accra almost exactly, and took over the income of several Spanish colonies in West Africa for a quarter, a huge wealth of more than five million taels of silver. It was ransacked clean, not even a single hair was left to the Spaniards.

But it didn't end there.

A few days later, Sunset City, a colony belonging to the Wa Kingdom, is also located in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.

Sunset City was the first colonial stronghold opened up by the Japanese after they arrived in West Africa. The location was chosen very well, close to a natural and excellent harbor.

After the Japanese people occupied this place, they cherished it even more, invested a lot of money, manpower and material resources, and built the Sunset Port and Sunset City here.

Relying on Sunset City, the Wa people began their colonial activities in West Africa.

The Europeans simply plundered the colonies’ gold, ivory, diamonds, and slaves, while the Japanese’s colonial activities were similar to the Ming’s overseas colonial activities.

Looting gold, ivory, silver, etc. is naturally very important, but the more important thing is to open up living space, open up land, and acquire land, not just simply plundering wealth.

The main reason for such a huge difference is that Europe has a small population, and they are not enthusiastic about land, but are more enthusiastic about wealth such as gold and silver.

Whether it is the Ming Empire, North Korea, or the Wa country in the east, there are many people and few lands, and the conflict between people and land is extremely sharp. Therefore, on the one hand, the wealth of overseas colonies is needed, but on the other hand, what is more needed is that it can be used for migration. Fertile land for more people.

After the Japanese occupied Sunset City, relying on Sunset City, they developed a large amount of land and built towns one after another. More than [-] people have immigrated from the far east to reclaim a large area of ​​land and plant food. , Seeing that it will take a while to usher in a bumper harvest.

In the City Lord's Mansion of Sunset City, Dongfang Yue is carefully studying the map.

Since successfully taking down Lagos and Luanda, Dongfang Yue has been cautiously vigilant, wary of Portugal's revenge.

However, several months have passed, but no news about Portugal has been received for a long time.

However, they received news one after another later that the Spaniards successively robbed Portugal of the few remaining colonial strongholds in West Africa, completely driving the Portuguese out of the competition for West Africa.

"The income in Lagos and Luanda is quite good. A small Lagos, fart bigger, can earn more than 20 taels of silver a month~"

"Luanda's income is even more. The two colonies can bring us more than half a million taels of silver a month, including gold, silver, ivory, diamonds and slaves~"

Dongfang Yue couldn't help laughing when she saw the income statement from Lagos and Luanda.

The benefits of overseas colonization are simply too high.

Just two small colonial points can bring huge benefits beyond imagination. If there are more such colonial points, it will really make a fortune.

"It's no wonder that the Ming people are so rich. There are colonies of the Ming people all over the world. How much wealth can they plunder in a year?"

Soon, Dongfang Yue looked at the vast territory of the Ming Empire on the map, and suddenly felt unsatisfactory again.

"Clang~clang~"

Just as Dongfang Yue was calculating the income of the colony and preparing to send ships to transport the income of the past few months back to Japan, there were bursts of urgent sirens from the port of Sunset City.

He hurried out in a hurry.

"Pirate~pirate~"

The entire Sunset Port and Sunset City were in a mess, and panicked people swarmed around like headless flies.

Dongfangyue quickly took out the binoculars and looked overseas, and saw more than a dozen pirate ships with skull flags flying towards Sunset City in the sea area outside the port. Tube.

"Fight~Fight~"

"All ships immediately hoist and start~"

Dongfangyue hurriedly roared, and at the same time was sweating profusely.

There was no revenge from the Portuguese, but there were pirates, and there were more than a dozen large ships at once, which made Dongfang Yue sweat profusely.

Because what he considered at the beginning was that the Portuguese might find a way to retake Lagos and Luanda, so he dispatched most of the warships to these two places, but he was relatively more at ease with Sunset City. After all, it has been in business here for a long time, and there are more than [-] Japanese immigrants here.

Unexpectedly, more than a dozen pirates with large ships came all at once.

Seeing those pirates paddling over desperately in small boats, waving their swords and claws, Dongfang Yue could imagine what would happen next.

"Damn European savage~"

"A white-skinned pig who only knows about robbery!"

Dongfangyue cursed and organized the military forces in Sunset City to prepare for the battle.

Compared to robbing gold and silver treasures in Accra, this time, the pirates did not aim at robbery.

As soon as a dozen pirate ships entered the Sunset Harbor, they began to bombard the ships, buildings, and Sunset City indiscriminately.

Dongfangyue saw with her own eyes that the ships that had worked so hard to save enough money were sent to the bottom of the sea by this group of pirates. Some of the ships that were not sunk were even poured with oil and burned to the ground.

I watched with my own eyes that the Sunset City, which had been built with great difficulty, was blasted into ruins by hundreds of cannons on top of a dozen pirate ships.

Even these pirates carried out massacres here in Sunset City, killing people as soon as they saw them, regardless of gender, age or age, and whether you were ordinary people or not.

In the end, after Dongfangyue paid a terrible price, this pirate was repelled. Of course, it is also possible that the other party had almost killed them, and left contentedly after robbing some wealth.

(End of this chapter)