open sea

Chapter 883 Flying
"Nederlander?"

Li Dan sat on a chair in the middle of the platform of the stern building, and on the left and right stood warriors with helmets and armour, guns in their waists and guns in their hands, holding a long-handled brow-pointed knife, holding a hollowed-out gold-plated silver copper ball with an iron chain in his hand. Put it on the armrest, hold your face sideways and say: "I am Li Dan, from Quanzhou. I am asking about your country. Are you Spanish?"

What he holds in his hand is an incense ball, which is extremely exquisite in workmanship. The ball is made in two halves, the outside is carved and hollowed out to reveal the fragrance, and there is a square copper box containing spices inside. In winter, spices can be burned to warm hands.

Li Dan also has another jade sachet, which is hollowed out with a jade ring. It is extremely difficult to make and more expensive, which is called a real ingenious workmanship. However, the sachet made of jade cannot be burned, and it cannot be warmed in winter. It is from Li Dan. When I was sent to Japan, I kept it in Haojing, and I didn't take it with me when I went to Dongdu this time.

He originally thought that he would stay in Majiagang for a long time, but he didn't know that Chen Mu had sent him to Rebring again.

It is more comfortable to use jade in the tropics, not to mention cold to start with, but also nourishing.

He really didn't like the smell of burning silk, and he played with the incense ball for a long time before he recovered. Yuan Zizhang went to deal with the rewards for the military exploits of the Baishan Camp. He happened to be very interested in this merchant ship, so he ordered someone to call the owner here. .

Li Dan wanted to see with his own eyes, what kind of audacious person would he look like if he dared not cross the sea to the Caribbean Sea with a cannon and a blunderbuss on board.

The result disappointed him. The owner of the boat looked like a fisherman who was unlucky enough to hold a broken net and fail to catch fish for three months.

Especially if you can't understand human language, ask him where he came from, and tell him a place name-I'm not European, can I ask where you are from?I said I'm from Quanzhou, do you know where it is, you Europa native hat?
However, it wasn't that Lamb couldn't understand human speech, but that he really didn't know how to answer this question.

"Your Excellency, General, I am from the Dutch region of the Netherlands. The Netherlands used to be loyal to His Royal Highness King Philip of Spain. Later, people refused to be loyal. There was a war, and the war has not subsided now. The Spanish and French troops are in our country. to fight in their homeland, and the Netherlands split into two alliances, north and south."

When Lamb said this, he was very sincere. In the end, he pursed his thin lips and shook his head slowly, with confusion in his tired eyes, and said, "I don't know which country I belong to."

Li Dan didn't expect to get such an answer, so he paused before asking: "I saw that your ship is flying the Spanish flag, maybe you don't know that the Caribbean Sea has been taken over by the Ming Fleet for defense, we will Eliminate all pirates, check all ships, and ships without flags and letters issued by Ming Dynasty will be treated as pirates."

"I, I'm not a pirate, and I don't have a single gun on my ship."

Seeing that Lamb was busy defending himself, Li Dan waved his hands and said, "Don't worry, your ship is pitiful enough, I won't make things difficult for you, the officers and soldiers will check your cargo and the manpower on board, and then you can go to your ship. Destination, are you going to Puerto Rico?"

"Then you can follow my boat, and you can come back here when we set off. I really don't know what you think, but you dare to come here to do business without a single gun on board. It's really costing money. "

In fact, Li Dan has already begun to regret the bounty he promised in a flash of his head. Apart from recovering a few broken Francois cannons in a battle, there is almost no gain in battle.

Those pirates were no threat to him, and the money was not worth the money to him.

But at that time, he just wanted to spend, and he just hated the feeling that others treated him like a fish on the chopping board!
After finishing the work, he saved an unlucky man. Seeing the captain like this, he knew that this merchant ship would not be able to extract any oil and water at all.

To be honest, Li Dan really feels that he is a kind person at the moment.

"The Caribbean, to be taken over by the Ming army?"

Nothing could shock Lamb's worldview more than this news. He stammered and asked, "Spain lost the war in the New World?"

Li Dan on the chair stroked his beard with the other hand that was not holding the incense ball and frowned, stood up, slipped the chain of the incense ball with his hand on his back and walked half a circle around the chair, and then supported the back of the seat slightly Leaning forward, he turned his head to look at his guard and asked, "So what you said... it seems that he thinks Spain can win. Is that what he means?"

After all, Li Dan stood up straight and said to Lamb, "Since the year of Longqing, there have been two wars between Ming and Xi. There were dozens of small battles, but they never won."

"So now that we have signed the armistice treaty, the defense of the Caribbean Sea belongs to us. Although our merchants haven't come here yet, it doesn't matter if we help them fight pirates first. After all, their merchants have to sell their goods back so that they can come back with money... ..."

Li Dan wanted to recommend Panamanian products to the captain who claimed to be a 'Nederlander' again, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yuan Zizhang's fast approaching footsteps. : "Take him down!"

No one could react to the sudden change. The two flag soldiers instinctively held Lamb, and the unsheathed waist knife was already lying on his neck. Yuan Zizhang saluted Li Dan with fists, and whispered: "The sailors on his ship will not let you go. Check the cargo, there are 22 cast iron cannons, more than [-] catties of gunpowder and boxes of shells in the cabin."

Li Dan laughed after a short moment of astonishment, and smiled at Lamb who was kneeling and struggling: "I thought I was an honest businessman. After a long time, the ship was equipped with artillery. Are you a Spanish officer?"

This matter is full of weirdness. Li Dan thinks that Lamb does not look like an officer, or even someone who is used to holding weapons. What's more, as far as he knows, Spain has a good quartermaster system. It's a big Galen ship, how can there be such a poor ship owner and a dilapidated and unsuspecting boat to transport military supplies?
Lamb shouted: "That is my cargo. I received this job from the cannon foundry in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and handed this batch of cannons to Commander Bernal of New Spain. That is my cargo!"

Bernal?

Li Dan counted the time, and the batch of artillery was delivered at this time. I am afraid that he placed the order when Mingxi's second war just started, and together with Bernal, he felt that the war could be fought until now.

"Since you have guns in your ship, why don't you fire back when the pirates are chasing you?"

"It's the goods. The goods have nothing to do with us. They only have to do with the employer and the buyer. I have no country, and the Netherlands has no one to rely on. All we can rely on is integrity. There are many dangers at sea. I can't guarantee that the goods will be delivered to the buyer." However, I can guarantee that as long as I am alive, the goods will be new, and the buyer's goods will be delivered as they are when they are loaded on my ship."

"Unless all the people of the Netherlands die at sea, one day..." Lamb still said, "One day, we will be able to get rid of the rule of the Spanish, and the Netherlands will finally die." Will fly over the sea!"

(End of this chapter)