New World 1620

When a group of Portuguese soldiers took off their anklets, put on new clothes, and sent them respectfully to a clean house to rest and eat, Yan Sihai was still dreaming.

Gradually, more people were sent to the room.Seeing the familiar and haggard faces, Yan Sihai burst into tears.These are a dozen or so companions who were once sold as slaves by the Dutch red hair. At the beginning, there were dozens of them.

Just when Yan Sihai and the others were hungry and swallowed violently, a Portuguese official walked in, and everyone who was eating stopped for a moment.

The Portuguese official glanced around at the oriental slaves in the room, muttered a few unclear words, and then retreated to the door. Then, a young man in strange clothes pushed a car with a Thai woman in it. The wheelchair came in.

He was dressed in a straight coat and trousers that he had never seen before. He was tall and straight, with piercing eyes, and even a strange smile on the corner of his mouth.Yan Sihai's eyes never left the young man from the moment he entered the door.He was shocked to find that the other party looked like a Han Chinese except for his strange Taixi costume.

"I am very satisfied with the efficiency of your government, and I also apologize for the impolite remarks to the magistrate in the suburbs this morning. At that time, my emotions were out of control..."

Yan Xiaosong nodded slightly to the Portuguese officials waiting outside. After receiving an awkward smile, the door was closed by Yan Xiaosong.

"Everyone, please continue to eat, we will talk later."

Yan Xiaosong looked around the room full of oriental-faced men, thought for a while, and used the Jiangsu-Zhejiang native dialect that had been seldom used for a long time, hoping that the other party could understand.

A dozen men looked at each other, and then all looked at Yan Sihai, this scene was keenly captured by Yan Xiaosong.

"Who are you? What do you want us to do?"

Yan Sihai put down the food in his hand, quietly looked at the smiling young man in front of him, and then his eyes fell on the Taixi woman sitting in the wheelchair in front of the young man.In my heart, I gradually positioned the other party as Chinese interpreters who work for Thai and Western people.

The accent seems to be a dialect in Fujian. Yan Xiaosong, who has traveled south and north for a long time, may not be able to understand it immediately, but the basic meaning is relatively clear.

"When I saw you this morning, I was also taken aback. I was worried whether it might be Japanese or Korean... Now it's all right, don't worry, everyone is safe."

Yan Xiaosong pointed at himself with a smile, and then lightly patted Katerina's shoulders, "My surname is Yan, who is strictly rewarded and punished, and this is my... fiancée, Miss Katerina."

Having been together for a few months, Katerina, who already knew a little Chinese, trembled all over her body, and slowly turned her head, a small hand tightly grabbed Yan Xiaosong's finger on her shoulder, and her eyes sparkled with excitement.

"It's a pleasure to meet... Xia Yan Sihai, a native of Funing Prefecture, Fujian Province... I have been rescued by brother Yan's great kindness. My brothers and I will remember it deeply, and we will repay this kindness in the future!"

After finishing speaking, he paused and fell to the ground with one leg, and more than a dozen men also knelt down one after another, each bowing their heads.

Yan Sihai?Why does it look familiar... Yan Xiaosong didn't act like in the street novels where he shook his body and then stepped forward to help a group of strong men one by one. Instead, he looked at the man bowing his head in amazement.

"Uh... It's just a matter of raising your hands... Who is Yan Siqi?" Yan Xiaosong finally found a historical name that might be reliable in his mind.

Yan Sihai led the crowd to stand up just now, when he heard this name, his face flushed, his eyes began to shine, and he said in a trembling voice in excitement: "Yan Siqi is the brother of the next clan!"

I have a go!He actually dug up such a treasure!Yan Sihai is actually the cousin of the pirate king Yan Siqi in the late Ming Dynasty!

"Caterina, I'll arrange for someone to take you back to the mansion to rest. I want to talk to some friends here..." Yan Xiaosong hurriedly opened the door, called the Portuguese guards, and greeted Carter a few times. Linna muttered a few words softly and gently.

The room became quiet again, and Yan Xiaosong swept across the men of the Ming Dynasty with a playful smile, and still captured a trace of ferocity from their weak eyes and thin bodies after long-term labor.

"I am the special envoy of the Republic of China to the Ming Empire." Yan Xiaosong walked to a chair on one side and sat down, staring into Yan Sihai's eyes and said with a smile, "You can understand that my country and I are hundreds of years old. The descendants of the former Song Dynasty who moved overseas after the battle of Qianyashan."

As soon as these words came out, all the men exclaimed, especially Yan Sihai, whose eyes were as wide as copper bells.

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It was night, and in a beautiful small building on the side of the governor's mansion in San Salvall, Yan Xiaosong was concentrating on writing quickly in his diary.Katerina was a little drowsy by the side, but she still insisted on not wanting to leave Yan Xiaosong's room voluntarily.

"Katerina, we have gained a lot today!" Yan Xiaosong put down his pen, stretched his waist, his expression was still excited.

"A few of your compatriots?" Katerina smiled and handed over the cold coffee cup in her hand, blinking her eyelashes with a mischievous expression, "I can see that they are not ordinary people, they have been working for a long time. crew at sea."

"Oh? Baby, you're so smart!" Yan Xiaosong was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly bent down and nodded to Katerina's forehead, which made the Spanish girl blush again.

"On that sea in East Asia, there are two most powerful captains, or two pirate families! One is Li Dan and the other is Yan Siqi..."

Yan Xiaosong tried his best to express the maritime structure of East Asia in the early 17th century in terms that the other party could understand, and explained the powerful Ming Dynasty merchants and pirate forces in history one by one.

Both Li Dan and Yan Siqi were the most famous maritime overlords in the late Ming Dynasty. They almost monopolized most of the maritime trade from the Ming Dynasty to Japan and even Southeast Asia. protection of.

Li Dan started earlier, and his background is far superior to several other forces in the sea. He has established relatively stable communication channels with the Ming court, the Japanese shogunate, the Dutch, the Spaniards, and the Portuguese.

Compared with Li Dan who secretly supported the Tokugawa shogunate, Yan Siqi was a little too aggressive. Not only did he not obey the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate, but he was also provocative towards European forces in Southeast Asia.In a sense, Yan Siqi is on the opposite side of the more sophisticated and cunning Li Dan, and in the eyes of Southeast Asian Chinese, he is also more "bandit".

In recent years, Li Dan, who has entered his sixtieth year, seems to have realized something and began to bleach his family. His son Li Guozhu took over most of the maritime trade industry, and got along very well with Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and other Southeast Asian Europeans. A wealthy Chinese merchant family.

The hard-headed Yan Siqi continued to compete secretly with the Japanese shogunate, the Spaniards and even the Dutch while strengthening his power. As a result, he was suppressed by many parties, and even some officials of the Ming Dynasty tended to crusade against Yan Siqi.

Sure enough, one day last year, as one of Yan Siqi's most powerful family leaders, Yan Sihai was invited by a newly-rising pirate leader under Li Dan to rob a Spanish merchant fleet that was said to be full of gold and silver. As a result, it was discovered during the battle that the opponent was simply the cruise fleet of the Dutch East India Company.

After guiding Yan Sihai into the battlefield, the little pirate leader turned around and ran away, leaving Yan Sihai's fleet at the scene of the naval battle.Yan Sihai and others were instantly defeated by the European sailing warships of the Dutch East India Company, and even Yan Sihai himself became a prisoner.It was resold to Dutch slave traders in East Africa, and finally sold to San Salvador, Brazil.

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"God...they are so brave, those people are so shameless!" Katerina listened attentively, with stars in her eyes, as if she had regained her former image of a sea lieutenant.

"Well, a group of poor people were betrayed by their peers." Yan Xiaosong sighed, but there was another meaning in his eyes, "The entire Far East is much more complicated than we imagined, if we want to successfully complete our immigration plan, Then you must get the support of these forces, otherwise the end will not be better than Yan Sihai?"

"We can seek the help of the Governor of Manila! There is the Eastern Fleet of the Kingdom of Spain!" Katerina suddenly said.

I don't know if the beautiful Spanish lieutenant in front of me is too naive, or he still has a little pride and fantasy complex for the Spanish Royal Navy in his bones. Anyway, after hearing this sentence, Yan Xiaosong's smile seemed a little playful.

"Anyway, make up your mind... pretend I didn't say it." Katerina understood the expression, lowered her head, and her voice was as weak as a mosquito moan.

"What a turbulent time, Yan Siqi, Li Dan... well, it's time for you to go back to your room and sleep, dear lieutenant."

While kissing the already frail and boneless Spanish girl, Yan Xiaosong kept echoing thoughts that he had never considered before.

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After resting for a week, Yan Xiaosong prepared to set off again with the recovered Katerina

Governor Gonzalez of San Salvador was probably the happiest guy in the send-off crowd.Because Yan Xiaosong, a U.S. congressman and special envoy to the East, has given him a big bowl of reassuring ecstasy soup.

Cane sugar from Brazil, spices from the Eastern entrepot trade, a type of ore (chromite) favored by Yan Xiaosong, and rubber blocks from a certain tearing tree that only the local Indians use as toys can all be imported by the U.S. government. But the premise is that at this stage, the Portuguese fleet must be sent to the port of Heroes in the Azores.

No problem, there are so many Portuguese merchant ships in Brazil, let alone the useless and smelly rubber blocks that are readily available in the entire Bahia region, basically cost-free things, and the prices offered by Yankees for other commodities are also higher than those in other countries The merchants are 20% higher, and they can make a lot of money after offsetting the shipping cost.

After calculating the benefits he could get from it, Gonzalez almost wanted to hug this American congressman who was getting more and more pleasing to the eye and kiss him hard.

The size of the Portuguese fleet leaving San Salvador was larger. The five armed merchant ships at the time of departure had now become nine ships. This was arranged by the Governor Gonzales according to the secret letter of the Duke of Braganza, and the entourage , There are also more than a dozen crew members of the Eastern Face.

"Brother Yan, if you can get your brother's help on this trip, the US government will definitely find a way to protect your interests in the Daming Sea!"

"The kindness of saving life should be reciprocated by the fountain, so you don't have to be polite, brother Yan. I believe that when the eldest brother sees brother Yan, he will fall in love with each other at first sight!"

"Ha ha……"