The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin set off this time with a total of 10 250-level armed merchant ships. It's just that he didn't take the North Atlantic route to America, but went south along the west coast of France first.

The reason for this is that Marin does not want others to know that he is taking the Pacific route to Daming. Because Europeans did not know the existence of the Pacific Ocean at this time.

In fact, it's okay to let other countries know about the Pacific Ocean. But the problem is that if European navigators knew the existence of the Pacific Ocean and the earth is round, they would go on a sailing expedition around the earth, just like Magellan did.

Marin didn't care what they were sailing around the world, but Marin cared that they passed through America. If those navigators accidentally discovered the richness of America, then Marin would not be able to survive in peace, and there must be a bunch of people vying for America.

Therefore, in order to keep it secret, although Marin himself would take the Pacific route, he deliberately sent a fleet to go south along the west coast of Europe, so that the Spaniards and Portuguese could see it, making them think that they were taking the Eastern route. In fact, he was taking the western Pacific route.

This is probably the so-called "contradictions in the opposite direction", no, it should be called "contradictions in the east and west". It's just that it's wrong to be in the opposite direction, but it's right to be in the opposite direction.

With these 10 armed merchant ships as cover, others will not suspect that they are taking another route. Then, no navigator was interested in heading west.

In order to gain a sense of presence, Marin also deliberately visited Lisbon halfway. Sure enough, Marin was again accused by the Portuguese for providing guns to the Kingdom of Malacca. But Marin explained it last time, and explained it again this time.

The Portuguese were very angry about the defeat in Malacca, especially Ricardo, who was directly responsible for the defeat, gritted his teeth with hatred for Marin. However, Marin's explanation is also correct-we don't know that Portugal will attack Malacca later, can it be wrong to send guns in advance? What's more, when Columbus sent the guns, Portugal didn't even know the existence of the Kingdom of Malacca.

Therefore, the Portuguese gritted their teeth with hatred for Marin, but there was nothing they could do. Marin looks very guilty on the surface, but he is smiling inside - I like to see you want to kill me, but you look like I can't help it...

After bidding farewell to Lisbon, Marin's fleet continued southward, arrived at the Canary Islands in Spain, and replenished supplies in Las Palmas. In this way, both Spain and Portugal are equivalent to witnessing Marin going south to take the Eastern route to the East.

But after leaving the Canary Islands, after the southward fleet arrived near the Cape Verde Islands, Marin took out the telescope and looked back and forth, and found that there were no Spanish or Portuguese fleets nearby. So he commanded the two ships to break away from the convoy and head west along the North Equatorial Current in the Atlantic Ocean, heading for Panama. As for the other 8 ships, they continued to go south along the coast of Africa, and took the eastern route, first arriving at the Strait of Malacca, and then arriving at Taiwan Island...

Moreover, when Marin passed through Lisbon, he explained the purpose of the trip to Portugal-Dongfan Island. Moreover, Marin also specifically stated that he would visit and travel the Ming Empire. In this way, it can be regarded as blocking the mouth of the Portuguese in advance.

According to the previous agreement signed in Rome, Marin's colonial scope is Japan, the Kingdom of Ryukyu and Dongfan Island to the east of Ming Dynasty. And Ming Dynasty is the scope of Portugal's colonization and trade. But the agreement does not say that Marin cannot purchase goods from Daming from a third country. This is the biggest loophole in this agreement. Therefore, Marin first occupied Dongfan Island, and then took refuge in Daming, and bought Daming goods in the name of Dongfan Island, and the Portuguese couldn't make sense of it. However, he was so angry that he vomited blood, and even wanted to fight, that was for sure.

Therefore, Marin still needs to be prepared for naval battles. But because Marin did not violate the treaty, Portugal could not directly and completely go to war with Marin. Therefore, the two sides are expected to fight a small-scale sea encounter to put pressure on Marin, and even force Marin to no longer use the loopholes in the treaty.

Give up the trade interests of Ming Dynasty.

But because there is no tenable reason, the scale of this conflict is doomed to be small. It is impossible for Portugal to fight Marin with the power of the whole country, and at most send a fleet to teach. As long as this fleet is defeated, the Portuguese will have nothing to do.

And even if the Portuguese is determined to die, Marin has a way. That is, to unite with the Spaniards and attack the Portuguese capital from land. At most, the two parties agreed that after Portugal was destroyed, all of Portugal's overseas interests would be ceded to Spain. For example, India's spice trade interests and African colonial rights. In this way, the Spaniards must be willing to cooperate.

But unless it was absolutely necessary, Marin would never do this. Because, doing so will only make the Spaniards dominate and finally threaten Marin's interests. It is actually a good thing to have Portugal holding Spain back. The premise is that the Portuguese don't want to kill themselves to kill themselves.

Portugal is a country with extremely uneven power, with a strong navy but a scumbag army. Marin is confident that only two legions can destroy Portugal. But the premise is that there must be an excuse to send troops.

If Portugal attacked him first because of anger, he would have a legitimate excuse to attack Portugal. After all, I didn't violate the treaty, I just took advantage of the loopholes in the treaty. At that time, as long as you send a large army to borrow Spain, you can destroy Portugal, and it will be reasonable.

Of course, this is just the worst plan, which is equivalent to a dead fish and a broken net. Before the situation develops to that point, Marin will use this to threaten Portugal and let it stop. Otherwise, if Portugal is really destroyed, it will be Spain who will really benefit. This is a typical "snipe and clam fight for the fisherman's profit", and Marin is not that stupid.

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Before Marin separated from the main fleet, he repeatedly told Columbus Jr., the leader of the main fleet, to tell him not to stay in Calicut and Malacca, so as not to be seen as the secret that he was not on board.

But at the same time, the fleet will actually stop at some other port in India in order to quietly release a group of spies. The task of these spies was to persuade the Indian princes who had just been defeated to send someone to the Kingdom of Malacca to warn them, and to notify the Kingdom of Malacca to transfer their property in advance.

As for the fleet led by Columbus Jr., it will pass through the Strait of Malacca with great fanfare, but will not stop in Malacca. In this way, the suspicion of reporting to the people of Malacca can be avoided.

Little Columbus is Columbus's eldest son, Diego Columbus. He was born in 1479 and is now 30 years old. Columbus arranged for him to lead the team this time, in fact, to accumulate qualifications and credit for his son. Marin read Columbus's achievements and agreed to let Columbus Jr. lead the team. In order to escort his son, Columbus assigned all his cronies to his son so that he could complete the task smoothly.

In fact, after Columbus's careful teaching, the young Columbus's sailing knowledge foundation is very solid. The only thing missing is probably practical experience. And this time, it happened to be his chance to practice...

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