The Rise of the European Emperor

At the same time, the survivors of some 70 or so Spanish adventurers who had returned from the Amazon jungle also began bragging about their adventures and cheating on drinks in Spanish taverns.

In order to show their bravery, these survivors deliberately exaggerated their adventures in the Amazon jungle and exaggerated the dangers of the Amazon jungle several times.

One of the adventurers named Rodrigo even claimed that most of the natives in the wild continent were cannibals, and only a small number of them, like the Taino people on Hispaniola Island, did not eat people. But there are many syphilis patients on Hispaniola, so... The wild land is terrible...

This concept was actually advertised by the leaders of the North Sea country of the expedition to those adventurers on purpose. Most of the surviving adventurers were bombarded with this theory every day on the way back, coupled with the fear of the Amazon jungle, so they couldn't help believing this conclusion. After all, they have seen the horror of cannibals with their own eyes. Therefore, when they came back to brag, they also unconsciously promoted the view that "most of the aborigines in the wild continent are cannibals".

Then, taking advantage of this heat, Marin took the opportunity to send his subordinates to apply to the Holy See—requesting to declare the native Indian tribes with cannibalistic habits as "abandoned by God", which means that they are hopelessly abandoned by God. savage.

To deal with this kind of "abandoned by gods" who have the habit of cannibalism, Marin asked the Holy See to authorize the Kingdom of America to take violent measures against them...

Pope Julius II was originally Marin's father-in-law. What objections can he make to the North Sea State's request? Moreover, Julius II didn't think they could save the bad natives who had the habit of cannibalism. After all, God doesn't forgive criminals either.

Therefore, Julius II publicly approved the North Sea State's request to treat those cannibals as murderers. Of course, try not to do anything to women and children. Unless, it can be proved that they have eaten people...

Why did Marin do this meaningless thing? In fact, it is to promote the horror of America. He wants to penetrate the concept of cannibals into the hearts of Europeans. In this way, few adventurers dare to take the risk to go to America to do things.

Before the annexation and digestion of England, the North Sea country does not have the ability to resist other countries coveting the Americas. Therefore, we can only try our best to frighten those adventurers.

No way, although Beihai has a "sea", it is actually only close to the sea. The real coastal ethnic group has only more than 100,000 Frisians, and the number of strong men is only 30,000 to 40,000, and only 10,000 to 20,000 can be recruited. To fight against Spain and Portugal, which have a population of several million and hundreds of thousands of sailing population, they may be able to win a naval battle or two, but it is difficult to block their way to the Americas. Because, people are facing the Atlantic Ocean...

In desperation, Marin could only pin his hopes on England. Although the population of England is only about the same as that of Portugal, it is surrounded by the sea on three sides, which makes the country's seafaring population not small, and there are hundreds of thousands. Although it is temporarily smaller than Portugal's nautical scale, it is still very large. Most importantly, the potential is huge.

But if you want to annex England, you will first offend France... Let's think about how to withstand the wave of France...

Marin sighed, and began to study how to resist the possible joint attack of France and the alliance of princes...

...

At this time, in the far east, after several months of sailing, a fleet of 30 Portuguese warships led by Da Gama finally arrived at the mouth of the Pearl River...

"Is this the Ming Empire?" Da Gama climbed up to the poop,

Build a pergola with your hands and look into the distance—no way, the Portuguese don’t have a telescope, so they can only use the traditional way of climbing high to look into the distance...

Coincidentally, what Da Gama was looking at at this time happened to be the Hong Kong Island of later generations. However, Hong Kong Island, which was extremely prosperous in later generations, is now desolate, with only a few dilapidated small fishing villages, and there is basically no development on the island.

Da Gama curled his lips and said:

"It's not that good, it's not as prosperous as a coastal town in Portugal..."

At this time, Bernardo, a translator who had learned some Chinese in Southeast Asia, said with a smile:

"My lord, I heard that this is a desolate island at the mouth of the Pearl River. It seems to be the border of Xin'an County. Guangzhou, the most prosperous city in the Ming Dynasty, is more than two hundred miles away from here. Well, it means more than 20 leagues." ..."

"20 more leagues? So far?" Da Gama was taken aback.

Bernardo continued:

"I heard from the Ming people in Malacca that the Ming country is very large. It is more than 4,000 miles from Guangzhou to their capital, Jingshi, which is about three or four hundred leagues. Moreover, it is said that the capital is not the northernmost part of the Ming country. They The east-west distance is as far as the north-south distance..."

"Oh, God, what a big country this is? I'm starting to look forward to the profits after opening up the market of this country!" Da Gama smiled.

"My lord, the Ming country is not comparable to those small countries, you still have to be careful..."

Da Gama nodded, but still said confidently:

"I understand what you mean. If it's on land, Portugal may not be the country's opponent. But if it's on the sea... Let's see the strength of our great Portuguese Kingdom! Go straight to Guangzhou Port!"

Thirty Portuguese warships, divided into two rows, lined up in a long snake array, sailed into the Pearl River Estuary one after another...

The fleet bypassed Lantau Island in the west and headed north, causing panic among fishermen in the Pearl River Estuary. They rowed back to the land one after another, and their flustered appearance made the Portuguese sailors laugh. However, the Portuguese sailors did not shell the fishing boats. Because they came from afar, and the gunpowder they brought was limited, so they couldn't be wasted on it, and they must be used in battle first.

However, they didn't know that Chen Aniu, a fisherman from Xin'an County, immediately put on straw sandals and ran all the way to the Tuen Mun Inspection Department of Xin'an County after rowing back to the shore, shouting:

"It's not good, sir, there are dozens of foreign ships coming from the sea, and there are many yellow-haired ghosts on board. It seems that the people who come here are not good!"

Tang Quan, inspector of the Tuen Mun Inspection Department, saw Chen Aniu flustered and said displeasedly:

"Howling Nilaomu, Chen Aniu, you deserve it!"

"My lord, it's true, if you don't believe me, you've been looking at the west side of the ocean for yourself!"

Before Tang Quan climbed up, Li Fu, the patrolling soldier on the sentry tower, shouted:

"My lord, there are 30 unidentified large foreign ships on the western ocean, each of which is very large. Moreover, there may be copper cannons on board! I can see the reflection of the copper cannons on the ship!"

"Bronze cannon?" Tang Quan was taken aback, and then roared:

"Li Fu, you deserve it. Did you really see the bronze cannon?"

Li Fu affirmed:

"That's right, when I went to Weiyuan Fortress to visit my cousin, I saw the copper cannon over there. From a distance, the sun reflected off the light, and it was golden..."

"Oops! Something big happened! Niu Dali, die for me!"

"Hey, here we come!" Niu Dali, the messenger of the Tuen Mun Inspection Department, ran out of the camp in a panic.

"Hurry up, get on your horse, hurry up, report to the Weiyuan Fort in the east of Humen, and report that there are 30 barbarian ships, and the visitors are not friendly, please prepare for war!"

"Decree!" The messenger Niu Dali immediately ran to the stables of the inspection station, pulled out a pony, quickly turned on the horse, beat the horse and rushed out, all the way north...

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