open sea

Chapter 1018
The triangular trade route on the Atlantic Ocean is very consistent with ocean current movement,
Even if it is necessary to run Seville in Spain along the coast, Songhai in Africa, Qilinwei in Asia, and Weigang in Asia, the entire route can be completed within 240 days.

If the rest time is short and the goal is clear enough, you can even run twice a year.

But for General Yang Ce of the Han Dynasty, it is enough for him to run this route once a year.

He can't run too fast, because his work at sea has become less and less, and the nobles he sold back to Portugal, England, France and Spain are rarely caught a second time after they escaped.

Over the past few years, he captured almost a whole generation of Europa sailors who ran this route.

It was no longer profitable for him to even continue to plunder on this route.

Route, route.

Without a ship, is it still a route?
If there is a country capable of sanctioning him on this route—Spain, if Spain is willing to fight to protect this route, Yang Ce's troops may suffer a lot of damage, but this will increase the courage in the hearts of businessmen who explore the triangle trade .

However, the Spaniard's navy was willing to expel his fleet after it crossed the Strait of Gibraltar. Yes, it was expulsion rather than attack.

Ships written with Chinese characters discouraged the Spanish navy. Most admirals couldn’t tell whether it was Ming or Chinese. They expelled Yang Ce not because of his status, but because of the rules. The Spaniards followed Li Dan’s rules. order to check the company ship quotes of the ship merchants.

Only open ships led by company ships can trade in the Seville Concession, otherwise they can only leave after getting supplies at any port along the coast, and have no right to trade.

Because Yang Ce ran away every time he saw the huge Galen ship of the Spanish Navy, he was driven away by the Western Ship at least 25 times before he was finally approached by the Spanish Navy once, so he learned that he could also go to the Spanish port for supplies ——As long as no one finds out that he is actually a notorious pirate in this sea area.

After the route could not benefit Yang Ce, he returned to the Xiandao of the Han Kingdom, which is Madagascar, last year. After negotiating with King Lin Afeng, they changed their strategy on the Great East.

Stop robbing passing merchant ships.

At the beginning of the seventh year of Wanli, Yang Ce, who was not satisfied with robbing Portuguese merchant ships, ransacked the Portuguese gathering place in Brazil, El Salvador.

Salvador means savior in Portuguese and Spanish. There are two cities named Salvador in Portugal, four in Spain, and a staggering seventeen in what is now Asia.

If it weren't for Chen Mu's arrival, the number of duplicate names in this city would have continued to grow.

The result of the looting made Yang Ce extremely annoyed.

He grabbed some mahogany, cloth and tobacco, as well as a large amount of hard-to-transport beef, mutton and live livestock, and freed more than 2000 black slaves.

There is very little gold, and so little silver.

No gold, no silver, Yang Ce wanted to ask these poor Portuguese, what would he bring his younger brother to Changsheng Xiaosha?
Undoubtedly, the strategy change failed.

Looting towns won’t work. The towns that can be looted by him are very poor. Some Portuguese gathering places can be entered with only two boats. There are at most a hundred or ten Portuguese inside. What is there to rob?

Those rich towns, such as the coast of Spain and the coast of New Spain, are either under the protection of the Spanish Navy or Chen Mu.

No way, Yang Ce didn't go to Changsheng this year, so he docked at Qilinwei to sell the goods he got from Brazil, and placed some orders for bird guns. Simply sail back to Songhai, Africa.

He gave himself a vacation, which lasted for more than half a year.

It was Spain that gave them the opportunity for healthy development. To be precise, it was a Spanish baron whose name was too long to remember. Yang Ce tentatively called him Taichang.

As mentioned above, there are very few nobles who appeared on this sea for the second time after their family accepted the exorbitant ransom from Yang Ce.

Taichang was one of them, he was caught four times by Yang Ce.

Catch two three-month meals once, which adds up to the time they spent together...Yang Ce counted with his fingers, it has been seven months.

If other European aristocrats are fattened pigs to Yang Ce, just waiting to be slaughtered and eaten in the New Year; then the baron from Spain is too often an old hen that can lay golden eggs, since the second time he was arrested Every time he came here, Yang Ce would treat him with good wine and good food, and even find him a woman from the Songhai Empire.

After the ransom was paid and sent to the boat, he waved his hand and greeted him to come back next time.

There is no way, business is getting harder and harder, and there are fewer and fewer warriors like Taichang who know that there are tigers in the mountains and tirelessly prefer to go to the mountains.

If this continues, Yang Ce will have to dig gold mines in southern Africa and sell them in New Spain for money.

Why does Taichang keep coming here?
He is a veteran who participated in the Lepanto naval battle in his early years. His right leg was injured and disabled in the naval battle. He could no longer mount a horse to fight, so he turned his eyes to the road of obtaining wealth.

What is the fastest way to get money in this era?There is no doubt that it is maritime trade. What brings in the most money in maritime trade?That, of course, was the slave trade.

Moreover, in recent years, the slave trade market has obviously become more and more popular. There is no way, the relationship between supply and demand has been changed.

Portugal's colony in Brazil was short of men, and Spain's colony in Peru was even more short of men.

The silver mines in Potosi have been dying, but New Spain was taken half by Chen Mu, and Chile in the south was also managed by Shao Tinda. Both sides not only did not allow the Peruvian Viceroyalty to pull people, but also took the Indians they invaded. If you want to go back, where can you come from?

Africa.

The West India Council kept offering trade rewards to the country, just asking for a captain who could transport people to the West Indies.

On Yang Ce's side, merchants were stuck at sea. It would be good if three out of ten ships could carry the prisoners who failed in the war and leave Africa. This number of people was far from being able to make up for the manpower shortage in Potosi.

So the rewards offered by the West India Council became higher and higher.

Taichang also slipped through the net. He came to Africa seven times and was caught four times. He also successfully sold the captives he bought to the New World three times. He did make a lot of money, and he was captured several times. His experience also allowed him to understand Yang Ce's temperament.

He finally felt that he could discuss something with Yang Ce.

"General Yang, just let me sail here. When I buy the goods, I will pay you taxes on each ship, so that I can also make money, and I can pay you more money next time." Tai Chang said to Yang Ce spread his hands and said, "If you want more money, I can also give you a piece of information. France is at war. General Chen of the Ming Empire looted Bordeaux this year and got a lot of money. Why don't you set up a tax here?" Ka, lead your troops there to support him?"

Yang Ce applauded when he heard this, he didn't even know that Chen Mu had gone to Europa without saying too often, and he wanted to go there for a long time to grab it!

This was a beautiful misunderstanding, Yang Ce didn't know that Chen Jiujing was not Chen Mu in France.

But he did take too often the advice to collect taxes.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)