Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 685, Voyage Diary

Penglai City, inside the room where Cortes lived.

Cortez took out a thick sailing diary and a quill pen and began to record what he saw and said today.

"God, it's unbelievable. Here in America, I actually met the Ming people. They named this new city Penglai City, which means the city of fairyland, and it also means the city of the far east."

"These Ming people have powerful artillery and excellent guns. They are well-trained, large in number, and very easy to mess with. The St. Mary just approached, and they fired."

"Fortunately, they just warned me, and they didn't really mean to go to war with me."

"They built a fort here in Penglai City, and put up a lot of artillery. I wanted to visit it, but unfortunately I was ruthlessly rejected."

"The Ming people claim that the Americas are their Ming territory. They think that we have violated their land, and even threatened to send a powerful fleet to attack Spain."

"God, as soon as I thought of this, I quickly expressed our Spanish goodwill to him. Our Kingdom of Spain has no intention of being an enemy of the mighty Ming Dynasty. We only want to do business with them. We want their silk, porcelain, and There's that magic leaf."

"Speaking of the magical leaves, I can assure God that the tea I drank today is still memorable, and people can speak with a scent of tea."

"Their tea is really amazing. I want to buy a lot, a lot of tea, silk and porcelain to take back, and all kinds of amazing glass products, especially this beautiful glass lamp, it is really beautiful."

"It's hard to imagine that these Ming people can actually make colorless glass, and that unbelievable mirror, which is so magical that it can clearly illuminate everything."

"God~"

"I can already imagine that if such a mirror arrives in Europe, those noble ladies will definitely be crazy about it, willing to empty all the silver coins in their pockets."

"Yes, mirrors must be brought back."

"The people of Daming are just like what Marco Polo wrote. They are very rich and wear gorgeous clothes. Their food is very good. The dishes they entertained me are very delicious. It is said that here in the headquarters of Daming, they are made of wheat flour alone. There are hundreds or thousands of delicacies.”

"God knows how they do it, we've only had bread all this time anyway."

"Forgive my messy writing, because what I saw and heard today really shocked me."

"The Ming people say that the Indians here in America are their branches, and the whole of America belongs to them. Although I am skeptical about this, I have to say that they look very similar to the Indians. If I can’t see any difference when these Indians put on the clothes of the Ming people.”

"People in the Aztec Kingdom are very respectful to the Ming people. They seem to be helping the Ming people build cities. From this point of view, these Indians may really be a branch of the Ming people."

"However, we Spain must not give up America. There are countless gold and silver here, as well as vast and fertile land."

"I guess these Ming people may not pay much attention to this place. This is our opportunity."

"But it is said that on the west coast of America, the Ming people have established many cities, and at the same time, many, many people have immigrated here, and began to strengthen the development and utilization of America."

"So we Spaniards must also speed up our pace and strive to have a strong force on the east coast, otherwise we will definitely not be able to compete with the Ming people."

"I haven't seen the ships of the Ming people, but judging from the docks they built, their ships should be very large, at least not worse than ours."

"Today, I tried to learn something from the people of Daming, and I wanted to figure out how far America is from Daming."

"But in the end it all failed."

"The person in charge here is called Tian Erniu. He is very vigilant and careful to me. He is unwilling to disclose many things to me. Now I don't understand Daming's language, so it is difficult to truly understand their strength and situation."

"Of course, I didn't tell him too much about our situation in Spain and Europe. I have a hunch that these Ming people are very likely to become our Europeans' strongest opponents at sea."

"But now, it's a good thing to meet people from Daming."

"I have already negotiated the price with them, and I can buy silk, porcelain and some spices from them at a very low price. As long as these things are shipped back to Europe, I can get rich overnight."

"As for the rest, let the king have a headache."

After writing this, Carster slowly closed his nautical diary.

Then in his own room, he looked carefully, everything was so fresh, he had a conflict, he wanted everything here to be moved back to Europe.

On the other side, Tian Erniu is also writing his own sailing diary.

"Today in Penglai City on the east coast of Golden Isle, I met Europeans. They are from Spain. They have relatively large ships with artillery and muskets. They don't look like regular troops, but rather a group of hooligans."

"The leader is called Corster. It is said that he is a Spanish nobleman. He smells extremely bad, as if he hasn't showered for many days."

"I learned a lot of information from him. They are currently on an island called Hispaniola, where they have established a colonial base, and there are already many people."

"These Spaniards are very ambitious. As soon as they arrived, they kept inquiring about the situation of our Daming and the situation of the Golden Continent."

"I solemnly told them that this Golden Continent belongs to our Ming Dynasty, and the descendants of Yin Shang here are the branches of our Ming people. I warn them and let them be more sensible."

"But obviously, this kind of verbal warning has no effect, and the other party may not necessarily believe my words."

"I learned from Korster that it only takes about two months to reach Europe from the east coast of the Golden Isle."

"The world we live in is really a big ball. Europe is to the west, but you can reach Europe if you go all the way east. This is enough to illustrate this point."

"They like our silk and porcelain very much, but this time we brought very few. This Cortes is willing to buy a batch from me at a very high price."

"Perhaps in the future, the development of Penglai City may be driven by this, and it will develop rapidly by doing business with the Spaniards."

"But this way of making money still has to be in the hands of our Tianjin Ocean Trading Company."

"Golden Continent is really too big, and our manpower here is still too small."

"Now that the Aztecs have been successfully conquered, I let them use gold and silver to atone for their crimes. They believe in the sun god and the feathered snake god. I took advantage of this."

"It is estimated that this time, we will be able to obtain at least [-] million taels of gold and silver, and every year in the future, these Aztecs will use a large amount of gold and silver to atone for themselves, and they are working hard to mine gold and silver."

"After the next thing in Penglai City is completed, I am going to continue to conquer the Inca Empire."

"After the conquest of the Inca Empire, I opened up the north and south of the Golden Continent, and I was able to establish a large number of colonies on the west coast of the Golden Continent, radiating the entire west coast."

"Well, recently I plan to send a dozen ships back to Daming to report back the situation here in the Golden Continent, and by the way, transport the gold and silver we have obtained back to Daming."

"The appearance of the Spaniards means that we must speed up our actions on the east coast of the Golden Continent. We must quickly set up a layout on the East China Sea side, so that we can quickly monopolize the entire Golden Continent."

Tian Erniu slowly closed his nautical diary, then after thinking for a while, he took out a pen and paper and began to write a letter to Liu Jin, explaining the situation of Huangjinzhou in detail to Liu Jin.

The current Golden Continent is not just the Golden Continent, it is very likely to become a transit point between Daming and Europe, once news spreads here.

Tian Erniu could even imagine that there would inevitably be a steady stream of European businessmen flocking to the Golden Continent. Silk, porcelain, and spices were fatally alluring to Europeans.

With the arrival of a large number of European businessmen, if Daming's strength on the Golden Continent is insufficient, these Europeans will inevitably snatch the Golden Continent. This will have a huge impact on Liu Jin's plan to monopolize the Golden Continent.

Moreover, if the news spreads in Daming, the major commercial firms in Daming will inevitably swarm here. Everyone knows that silk and porcelain are equivalent to gold in Europe, and they only need to transport these things to the Golden Continent. Come on, and then sell it to European merchants, not to mention being equivalent to gold, it is enough to make a lot of money easily.

Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., Ltd. wants to get the big head and get enough benefits in the future, so it must be prepared. On the one hand, it must dispatch more powerful forces to the Golden Continent to deter these Europeans who are like robbers.

Another aspect is to mobilize enough goods to the Golden Continent to satisfy the appetite of these European merchants and obtain the maximum benefit.

Tian Erniu is clearly aware of this, so he plans to send some ships back to Daming regularly to transport gold and silver back, and at the same time report everything that happened here on the Golden Continent.

In the first collision between the two great civilizations of the East and the West, sparks did not spark with each other, but they have already found each other's existence.

　There seems to be no big difference between merchants and pirates in the European sailing age, right?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)