Daming: Let you build roads, you have access to highways throughout the country

Chapter 207 With empty hands, I want to see Emperor Daming?!!!

Suhangzhou Port.

The entire port was thrown into chaos because of the arrival of more than a dozen Franc machine ships!

These dozen or so ships are all pirate ships of the Grape Empire, and they belong to official pirate ships.

The origin of this kind of pirate ship is also very interesting, it is a policy implemented from top to bottom by the royal family of the grape empire, which is somewhat similar to the policy of the Ming Dynasty to go to sea for theft and enter the sea for good people.

However, the Daming Dynasty only carried out land reclamation for a short period of time when the Sakuragi Island was cleared, and later, the land reclamation stopped, and this decree also stopped.

At present, a small number of Daming pirate ships floating on the sea are pirate groups formed by Daming outlaws, and most of them are privately built by high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and are tools used to seek huge profits.

Strictly speaking, it is not in accordance with the laws of the Great Ming.

However, these pirate ships are legitimate pirates in the Grape Empire.

The main duties of these pirates, one is to rob merchant ships at sea, the other is to fight with other pirates, and the wealth obtained, after returning to the port, needs to pay a relatively high tax to the imperial court ~.

Because the money gained by pirates is an unexpected gain. This tax is usually – relatively high.

In addition, the imperial court also gave them tasks such as detecting intelligence, exploring routes, and drawing ocean charts.

Some of the more outstanding pirate groups can even obtain knighthoods by contributing a large amount of gold, silver or intelligence to the royal family.

That’s right, pirates in the Grape, Spanish and other Franc Empires, not only are they not illegal, but they also do a good job and can be officials!

Because at present, many empires in Europe are in a state of war all year round, and they need to do everything possible to obtain war funds.

Each empire is indeed not comparable to the Ming Dynasty, and the territory is generally relatively small.

However, because of the high frequency of wars, and the frequent outbreak of naval and urban wars, their demand for firearms is very strong, and the research and development of firearms has not stopped.

Among them, the most representative is that the Grape Empire has developed the Franc machine cannon, which is far more powerful than the Hongwu iron cannon.

This kind of Franc cannon, even a pirate ship, can be equipped, as long as you swear permanent allegiance to the royal family, and then buy it at a high price.

After the Grape Empire gained a certain advantage in firearms, its ambitions also swelled and began to invade neighboring countries.

And the continuous conquest has led to the loss of national strength, which is also relatively serious, and it is necessary to have windfall and constantly supplement it in order to support one war after another.

As a result, these pirate groups have become legal groups.

Over the years, with the opening of the sea ban by the Daming Dynasty, Daming’s merchant ships have also become more and more active at sea. The Daming Dynasty also gradually spread its reputation in European countries.

In the eyes of all empires, the Daming Dynasty is an incomparably rich, golden, and coveted place.

A small number of empires have even established official exchanges with the imperial court of the Daming Dynasty and carried out tributary trade, while most empires because of the long distance, only a small number of relatively powerful merchant ships can reach the ports of the Daming Dynasty, carry out civil maritime trade Daming Dynasty, and there is no official exchange.

In the eyes of most European empires, the Ming Dynasty is still very mysterious.

As the Grape Empire made a major breakthrough in artillery and greatly increased its strength, it also developed a strong interest in the distant and mysterious eastern power.

Therefore, the skeleton pirate group was ordered to come for the first unofficial temptation.

Before getting close to the Suhang port, you can see the ships entering and leaving, and above the port, it is extremely busy, such a prosperous scene makes the pirates on the skeleton pirate ship shocked.

“I heard that the Daming Dynasty is full of gold, I don’t know if it’s true or not!”

“Even if it’s not full of gold, it’s definitely rich!”

“Look at their side of the business, just know how hot they are, have you ever heard of mechanical clocks? It is produced by the Daming Dynasty, and just one mechanical clock can be sold for 10,000 taels of silver! ”

“This time, if we can hit the shore and get 1 mechanical clock, it will make a lot of money.”

“Can we fight? The Daming Dynasty is such a huge empire, I don’t know how strong their water army is?! ”

“Even if the strength is insufficient, if we fight on the shore, we can only plunder along the shore, otherwise, surrounded by their troops on the ground, we will definitely die.”

“As soon as the situation is not good, let’s retreat to the sea and evacuate quickly.”

“Let’s see first, let’s talk about whether it’s a pirate or a royal caravan this time!”

Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to the port of Suhang and Suhang, the captain of the pirate ship led by him gave the order to test.

This is related to whether they appeared as pirates or royal caravans against the Daming Dynasty this time.

If the Daming Dynasty could not organize a decent defense, then they were pirates this time.

If the Daming Dynasty can form a strong defense in a short period of time, then they are a legitimate royal caravan!

Temptation is also a popular etiquette in European countries.

After arriving in the opposing sea, fire the cannon!

This is the common courtesy used by European empires to visit each other, to fire cannons.

Somewhat similar to the meaning of the later life, amplifying the salute.

This is the highest courtesy treatment between countries!

expressed admiration and respect for the Daming Dynasty!

At the same time, it is also a kind of wrist-wrestling temptation.

If the other side returns the salute, the power of the artillery is obviously weak. Then, it shows that it has an absolute superiority in artillery, and this empire can be targeted as a target.

And if the opponent’s artillery and warships are obviously stronger, then you must be careful, and in the future, when you pass through this sea area, you will have to go around.

Once there is a conflict between the two sides, it will be themselves who suffers.

According to Western etiquette, after the cannon was fired, one of the pirates on the pirate ship stood on the deck, waiting for the reaction of Daming.

The port is densely packed with ships, and because of the distance, it is impossible to tell which are warships.

However, in the Daming Dynasty, there is no etiquette for firing salutes!

More than a dozen pirate ships fired cannons at the same time, causing a lot of movement, and the people in the port, after being frightened, scattered and fled, and also caused a stampede.

On both sides of the Suzhou and Hangzhou ports, not too far away, there are Daming water troops stationed.

They were conducting exercises at sea, and when they heard the sound of artillery fire, they all rushed in this direction, and there were more than one medium-sized warship on the north and south sides.

Soon, it arrived near the port of Suhang and Suhang.

At a glance, I saw the dozen or so weird skeleton ships, on the sails, printed with skulls, it was not a good bird at first glance, and it looked like a pirate group that was raging all year round on the sea.

Therefore, the Daming water army on both sides also surrounded unceremoniously.

The captain of the pirate ship at the head looked left and right, and looked at more than 1 warship rushing over on each side, and was directly dumbfounded.

The other pirates also exclaimed.

They were not surprised that the Daming Dynasty was able to come up with more than 2 warships, however, in such a short reaction time, more than 2 warships came out, which was the most surprising!

I just casually found a location, just after the salute, more than 2 warships ran over from the opposite side, this etiquette is too grand!

“Captain, are these all here to greet us?”

The pirate next to him asked the captain.

The captain rubbed his teeth and felt that something was wrong.

Because these more than 2 warships did not fire cannons to return the salute, but directly surrounded their side.

For a time, these pirate ships did not enter or retreat!

“Captain, Daming’s navy doesn’t seem to be easy to mess with, you see their ships, all of them are tall warships, wrapped with iron plates outside, and the formation is tight.”

The captain nodded: “Can’t fight, no matter if their artillery is stronger than ours, their warships are too many, and the speed is not slow, we can’t fight!” ”

Everyone saw the situation clearly in an instant, the mysterious eastern power, really not so easy to provoke, their own dozen pirate ships, not opponents at all, are not enough to plug the teeth between the opposite side!

It is no longer realistic to want to go ashore and loot.

As a result, only the second set of programmes could be implemented.

The captain of the pirate group gave everyone an order that he was no longer a skeleton pirate ship, but a royal caravan.

Transformed into a noble royal caravan, he took out the documents issued by the grape royal family and became a noble royal caravan.

However, the Daming Water Army does not know the specifics.

This other party fired a cannon in front of his own house, and he was directly identified by them as an enemy!

Although it is a little strange, why only a dozen warships dare to run to their door and shout.

But I didn’t care too much, one of the warships had already launched an attack, and the Hongwu iron cannon was fired violently.

Subsequently, the warships on the side, as well as the warships on the other side, also attacked.

For a time, the Hongwu iron cannon rumbled with a roar, and the cannon sound was continuous!

Then, as the distance narrowed, the sky-rocketing rocket launchers were launched in unison, and rocket after rocket, swept into the sky, roaring!

The pirates standing on the deck were all confused.

There was no cannon fire on the other side to return the salute, it was just that, how could it not be said hello, and directly launched an attack!

“Savage Oriental!”

“I don’t understand etiquette at all!”

“No gentlemanly!”

“Captain, hit it?!”

The captain shouted angrily: “Fart! Can you beat it?! Raise the white flag quickly!! Raise the white flag!!! ”

At this moment, there was a pirate ship, igniting a raging fire, and the pirates on it frantically fought it, but to no avail.

The rocket launcher was simply outrageous, and the dense rockets, like locusts crossing the border, clanged and shot at the pirate ship, and after a while, the whole ship was on fire.

There are also several pirate ships, bombarded by Hongwu iron cannons on the hull, and the sea water has begun to pour in, and it will not be long before it sinks to the bottom of the sea!

And all the pirates did not dare to fight back, although their pirate ships, although equipped with Franc machine artillery, however, once they fought back, then all the people would die without a place to die.

So, a famous pirate, waving a white flag, signaled surrender!

The Daming water army also found out that something was wrong for a while, and the opposite side has not fought back, and also waved a small white flag, what do you mean?

Could it be that it was a misunderstanding?!

The Daming Water Army stopped the attack one after another, and then sent people to inquire.

As a result, the two sides did not understand the language, what the Daming Water Army said, the pirates could not understand, what the pirates said, the Daming Water Army could not understand, and an interpreter was urgently needed.

It was hard to find a merchant who knew a little bit of the language of Francoji, and after the two sides communicated, they learned that these ships with skeleton flags were not here to attack the Ming Dynasty, but caravans, and they came to do business!

They have the royal paperwork of the grape empire!!

“Is this a serious royal caravan??!!

Daming Shuijun looked at each other.

This thing is troublesome, you said that if you do business, you will do business, what kind of cannon do you put in?

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