The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin naturally knew about the return of the expedition team immediately. Because, on the day the fleet arrived at the port of Lisbon, Portugal's North Sea country spies sent the news back with carrier pigeons. In the next few days, the carrier pigeons were basically released once a day, and the situation of the day was constantly reported.

"Have you started promoting in Portugal? Very good!" Marin smiled, which is exactly what he wanted to see.

For Marin, the main threats to his colonization of America are Portugal, Spain and France. But France is currently being suppressed by England and Spain, and the warships cannot go to sea, so it can only be regarded as a hidden threat, and it is not yet.

Only Portugal and Spain have sufficient national strength and strong navigation capabilities to compete with Marin for the Americas. Therefore, Marin's priority to scare is Portugal and Spain.

Because the expedition returned via the Azores, it is natural to stop at the port of Lisbon first, and then go to Spain, the second threat to Marin to colonize the Americas.

In fact, revenge against the Silva family's territory has already begun, and news has reached Lisbon. But when the expedition passed through the Azores, the revenge against the Silva family's territory had not yet begun, so Rui Silva also warmly entertained the expedition ship at Hero Port. Seeing that there was no valuable cargo on board the expedition team, he didn't make up his mind. Although the rare animals captured by the fleet are indeed precious, it is a pity that these things are unique to the Wild Continent. It's just that he didn't know that when he entertained the expedition team, his own hometown was turned upside down...

Baron Silva near the city of Braganza, this period of time is simply terrible. Because, during this period of time, many terrible things happened in the territory.

First a batch of thousands of pounds of cork was looted, and then the entire territory was attacked in various ways...

The well-known winery in Silva’s territory was attacked by mobs in the middle of the night. The old oak barrels were all holed by the mobs with sharp chisels, and the aromatic wine flowed out of the barrels and flowed all over the ground. . When the people from the winery came to work the next morning, they were horrified to find that the entire underground storage room of the winery was filled with fragrant wine, and it was still overflowing...

The proficient person in charge of the winery reported to the butler of the territory, Les. The old butler, Les, hurriedly mobilized more than a dozen private soldiers from the territory to investigate, but found nothing...

In order to track down these thugs, Steward Les even dispatched experienced hunters and hounds to smell. Too bad these thugs are professionals. They sprinkled two things along the way that scared the hounds to death - they sprinkled the dung powder of the African Barbary lion on the land to scare the local hounds away...

You know, animals have the habit of marking their territory with their feces. Lions are beasts that often hunt and kill all kinds of animals, including dogs. Before these canines die, they often emit a special smell because of fear. Humans can't smell it, but dogs have good noses and can smell it. Therefore, many butchers who kill dogs are covered with the despair left by dogs because of fear when killing dogs and the breath of death exuded by fear. When the dog smells this smell, it will be frightened and dare not move.

Apparently, lions also have a lot of this smell, and the smell is also mixed in the feces. The Barbary lion is a lion unique to North Africa. It is often close to the pastures of Arabs and Berbers. Dogs eat a lot. Even, wolves, the "big cousins" who often eat some dogs, naturally have the smell of canine creatures' despair and fear in their feces.

Marin knows this principle,

So I specially sent people to sneak into the Morocco area, bought some dried dung from Barbary lions to mark their territory from experienced mountain people, made it into powder, and mixed it with the fur and bone meal of slaughtered dogs. Things dogs are terrified of.

As long as it is sprinkled on the place where the dog passes, it can scare the dog to stop. Either trembling with fear, or hesitating and daring not to move forward, it was useless for the master to beat and scold him.

Therefore, after the local hounds smelled the smell of the Barbary lion and the smell of the death of the same kind and even the "big cousin", they refused to move forward...

In this way, the investigation is naturally impossible. Then, the hunter can only judge by the footprints. But when they got to the river, the footprints were gone—it turned out that a boat had already picked up and taken the man away... The dog was scared, and the hunter couldn't find the footprints, so the pursuit of it was impossible. Therefore, Steward Les could only get angry, and then issued a reward, and there was no more to say...

But the matter did not end. A few days later, a fire broke out in the hayloft area where the wood was piled up in the lumberyard of Baron Silva. Tens of thousands of logs in the lumberyard were burned to the ground, leaving only a few remaining...

You know, the tens of thousands of logs, most of which are oak, are specially placed in the grass shed to dry. Once dry for a year or two, the logs are transported to shipyards where they are used to build ships. That's why lumberyards stockpiled so much wood. But it was burned by a fire...

"Pfft——" Butler Les was furious, and after spitting out a mouthful of blood, he passed out...

Then, Housekeeper Les fell ill and could only lie down to recuperate. However, he had just recuperated for a few days and his condition began to improve, when another bad news came - several cattle farms in the baron's territory were invaded by unknown persons. These unidentified people put a highly poisonous poison in the feed of the cattle, blocking several cattle farms with a total of thousands of cattle heads!

These poisoned cows cannot even eat meat because their blood is soaked in toxins. Unlike cows that die or are killed normally, beef can still be eaten...

"It's over! It's over! The baron will kill me if he finds out!" Old Rice also began to feel scared.

Rui Silva's own sister can be given away as a gift. She is ungrateful and ungrateful, so why would she care about a housekeeper? So, old Les started to get scared...

But it's useless to be afraid. As a servant of the Silva family, the life and death of Butler Les's family is in the hands of Baron Silva Rui. Therefore, even if he was extremely frightened, he could only send people around to investigate. At the same time, send people to report the case to the government, and ask the government to send people to investigate the case...

After thinking about it for a while, Butler Rice finally sighed, wrote a letter, and sent someone to Lisbon. Then, when there is a ship to the Azores, bring it to Rui Silva. As for how Rui Silva got angry when he found out, and how to deal with him, we can only resign ourselves to God's mood...

In Lisbon, many nobles got the news. They began to speculate—this was probably Beihai's counterattack...

But it has nothing to do with them. They didn't bother to get involved with Marin's actions against the Silva family. Moreover, the big nobles in Lisbon don't think much of the Silva family themselves, so they are naturally happy to see the joke.

Only Ruy Silva's younger sister, Stella Silva, cried out in front of Manuel I, hoping that Manuel I could avenge the family.

But Manuel I was also in a dilemma-Ruy Silva and Marin both did things disgracefully. If you ask why Marin attacked the Silva Baron, then the fact that Rui Silva sent someone to pretend to be a pirate to rob the North Sea State transport ship will be exposed. And this is a fatal blow to the Silva family. Moreover, Marin is very measured in doing things. Although many people can guess that it was Marin's handwriting. However, if you didn't catch the evidence, Marin can deny it...

So, in the end, Manuel I had no choice but to let it go...

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