Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1489, Chaobo Alliance?
The Nanzhou Restaurant in Nanzhou City was booked out by Sihai Commercial Bank tonight.

With the fall of night, the whole Nanzhou city is lit up. Compared with the daytime, Nanzhou city is more lively at night. It is the summer in the southern hemisphere. During the day, it is extremely hot, and people are busy with work. I can finally rest, and the weather is very cool. It is the most suitable time to go shopping with your family or friends.

The spacious and bustling commercial streets here are brightly lit, winding on the ground like giant dragons, and the residential areas are like a group of fireflies gathering.

The Nanzhou Restaurant standing next to the Nanzhou Harbor is the largest and most luxurious restaurant in the entire Nanzhou City. At this moment, all the whale oil lamps are lit. Against the backdrop of the glass lamps, the entire seven-story Nanzhou Restaurant looks resplendent , is the most eye-catching existence in the entire Nanzhou City.

On the top floor of the seventh floor of Nanzhou Restaurant, the entire first floor is designed as a huge and luxurious private room, which can not only be used for large-scale gatherings and receptions, but also can be used as a meeting room.

At this moment, at the door of the elevator on the seventh floor, Li Jing and Korbanda are waiting patiently.

It didn't take long to wait. With the sound of several whistles, the sound of mechanical rotation came from the side of the elevator, and then the door of the elevator slowly opened, and a dozen figures appeared inside, and the leader was an old man. It is the Governor of South Africa, Duminen.

Next to Du Mingen was an official wearing a red robe. Looking carefully at the style of this official's clothes and the hat on his head, he immediately knew that this was an official from North Korea.

North Korea learned from the Ming Empire everywhere, and the official uniforms are very similar, but there are still some differences, especially the hats they wear are easier to distinguish. North Korea has pheasant feathers on both ends.

"Master Hou!"

When he saw Du Mingen, Li Jing couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly, a little unbelievable that Liu Shunting, the commander of the North Korean country, even invited the Governor of South Africa, Lord Du Mingen Duhou.

Then Li Jing hurried forward to salute Du Mingen. He had the honor to visit Du Mingen when he came to Nanzhou before, so he also knew Du Mingen.

Of course, although Li Jing is an important manager of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, compared with people like Du Mingen, he is a small person. Du Mingen is the real big shot, the Marquis of Taiping of Ming Dynasty, the Governor of South Africa, and a legend of sailing.

"Master Hou?"

"Du Mingen, Governor of South Africa?"

When Korbanda heard this, he immediately understood who the person in front of him was, and hurried forward and said, "This is Korbanda, the commander-in-chief of the Persian Empire expedition. It is a great honor to meet Lord Marquis."

"Haha, don't be too polite, don't be too polite~"

"Mr. Li and General Korbanda didn't say hello to me when they came to our Nanzhou City. This is not enough friends."

Du Mingen was full of smiles. Liu Shunting from North Korea came to visit him to discuss the purchase of some food, ammunition and weapons from the South African colonial firm.

As a result, Liu Shunting dragged him to Nanzhou Restaurant, saying that it was a treat from the Four Seas Trading Company and Corbanda from the Persian Empire, and wanted to ask Du Mingen to come over as a middleman.

When Du Mingen first started sailing, North Korea was the first stop, and he knew Liu Shunting for a long time. Over the years, they also exchanged letters occasionally.

Every time Du Mingen went to North Korea, Liu Shunting would treat him graciously, and he still had to give him face.

Everyone entered the private room, each introduced the important people on their own side, and then let Du Mingen sit on the important main seat, the people led by Li Jing and Korbanda sat on the side, and the Korean ministers and generals led by Liu Shunting sat On one side, you come and go between the two parties. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Li Jing began to slowly draw out the purpose of this banquet.

"Master Liu, I wonder if you are leading the army to West Africa this time?"

Li Jing asked with a smile.

"Don't hide from Mr. Li~"

"Yanshan City, a colony of our country in West Africa, was looted by pirates, causing heavy losses and tens of thousands of casualties. When this incident spread to our country, the whole country of our country was outraged."

"Our Monarch Yanshan even made an oath to make these pirates pay for their blood!"

Liu Shunting is already in his sixties, as shrewd as a fox.

When I received Li Jing's invitation, I was already thinking about it, and I asked someone to find out the situation, and I had already guessed the purpose of tonight's banquet in my heart.

Li Jing was just the one who took the lead, but the real person in charge was the quiet general of the Persian Empire, Korbanda.

"Pirates are indeed very hateful, and these pirates are extremely difficult. Compared with the previous pirates, the pirates raging in West Africa are now more powerful. They often have dozens of large ships at every turn, and their targets are often colonialists. Strongholds, large treasure ships, etc.”

"It is more organized and disciplined, and it acts more quickly and decisively. It has a strong purpose. This is not an ordinary pirate."

Du Mingen interrupted. He has been studying these pirates all the time. After all, South Africa is very close to West Africa. They might be attacked by pirates for some reason.

Study these pirates early, get ready to come, and ensure the safety of the South African colony. This is what he, the governor, must do.

"Of course not an ordinary pirate~"

"Hmph, our North Korean side has actually found out that these pirates are not pirates at all, but are composed of navies, pirates, merchants, etc. from England, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and some Nordic countries in Western Europe. "

"They couldn't play against the Spaniards at sea, and they couldn't play with us in the east, so they shamelessly played this kind of looting trick, thinking they could deceive anyone."

"Only the Spaniards still stupidly think that these are pirates, but they are the worst targeted. A large number of colonies have been robbed and looted. They have a powerful navy, but they can't even find the shadow of the enemy."

Liu Shunting nodded solemnly and said, when it comes to Spain, he doesn't pay attention to it, and looks down on the Spaniards extremely, as for Western European countries such as England and France, that's not in his eyes.

"If I were Spanish~"

"Since they are shameless pretending to be pirates, why not just go directly to their homeland, bombard their ports, and attack their cities."

"Playing hide-and-seek games with these elusive pirates on the sea is not only useless, but also ridiculous."

"Master Liu said yes~"

Li Jing also quickly continued to flatter the topic.

"Master Liu, the Spaniards are very ignorant, but they are very ambitious. The island of Darius and the city of Cambyses of our Persian Empire in West Africa were taken away by the Spaniards."

"To be honest, this time I led the army to West Africa, the purpose is to deal with the Spaniards and take back the colonies of our Persian Empire."

Corbanda seldom spoke. Seeing that Spain was on the topic, he also looked at Liu Shunting and said very directly: "I think our Persian Empire and your country share common interests in dealing with Spain."

"Spain has the most colonies and colonial points in West Africa. From the west of Accra in the Gulf of Benin, all Spanish colonies and colonies are located. At the same time, Spain also has a large number of colonies and colonial strongholds in the Gulf of Guinea."

"Sao Tome Island that originally belonged to the Portuguese and Darius Island of the Persian Empire were snatched by Spain, and they also mastered important islands on important routes."

"Whether we are in Persia, or you are in North Korea, if you want to get more colonies in West Africa, you must snatch them from the Spaniards."

"How about your Korean alliance with us in Persia?"

Corbanda is very direct, with a military style of doing things, straight to the point, and he doesn't bother to go around and waste energy and time.

The reason why he formed an alliance with North Korea is because Korbanda saw the great strength of North Korea, with dozens of warships and tens of thousands of troops. This is an extremely powerful force that will definitely mess up West Africa. chaos.

Although the Persian Empire had a powerful army, it did not have powerful warships. Even if it reached West Africa, it would not be easy to attack Spanish colonies.

In many cases, it may be necessary to rely on the Four Seas Trading Company to help transport troops, food supplies, etc. If you form an alliance with North Korea, you can use North Korea's warships, which can save a lot of expenses, and there are allies, North Korea China also has the colony of Yanshan City on the West African side.

Among other things, there is still a lot of grain output in Yanshan City. At least with the support of food, I can go to West Africa by myself, because both Cambyses and Darius Island were snatched by the Spaniards. It means that there is no base area, and an alliance with North Korea can use the base area of ​​​​North Korea.

Otherwise, if you have to rely on the Four Seas Trading Company everywhere, the fees charged by the Four Seas Trading Company are very expensive, and they only accept money for their work.

"Form an alliance with you Persia?"

When Liu Shunting heard this, he immediately became deep in thought, and quickly thought about the benefits of forming an alliance with Persia in his mind.

As Corbanda said, he was ordered to command the army to come to West Africa this time, not to play games with pirates, but to expand North Korea’s interests in West Africa, snatch more colonies, colonize The point is the core task.

Undoubtedly, it is obviously necessary to conflict with the Spaniards, because Spain has the most colonies and colonial points here. If they don’t grab the territory from the Spaniards, why don’t they still want to snatch it from the Ming people? ?
Spain has naturally become a competitor and enemy of North Korea.

(End of this chapter)