The fleet of five battleships of the Li family first set out from the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, and then left the bay and headed south along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. First, it went to Quanzhou for supplies, and then went to Macau, which was rented by the Portuguese, and then resupply and repaired for a day.
Immediately afterwards, Anne and her Li family fleet frightened the Portuguese, five terrifying iron-brown warships like towering mountains hung the flags of the Ming and Li family, sailing southward and heading towards Southeast Asia.
The Portuguese probably couldn't even understand why the capital of the Ming Empire had been attacked by a group of refugees and was about to destroy the country, and they could still organize and create such an exaggerated and terrifying super fleet when they were clearly attacking the Ming Dynasty and were about to destroy the country. And the fleet was not planning to stay in the Ming Dynasty to maintain its rule, but headed straight south and headed towards the Southeast Asian waters in the south with a fierce momentum?
They didn't know what the Ming people wanted to do, so all they could do was to write several secret letters as soon as possible, allowing a faster ship to send messages to important ports such as Jakarta and Malacca in Southeast Asia, and give way to the governors of those ports in Southeast Asia to prepare early.
Generally speaking, even if they were sending small fast merchant ships to deliver letters, it would be impossible to get past the five flying scissor battleships under Anne's command, but...
However, a certain auspicious little girl, Captain and Admiral, was a little unaware of her ability to lead the way, so when she guided her irresponsibly, the fleet soon lost its direction. Then, the port of Ji'ading, which had been able to arrive in a few days, had been away for many days without finding any shadows.
In fact, the fleet has not even noticed the shadow of land or islands. Looking up, the front, back, left and right are just a vast sea.
"Hello!"
"First mate! Where are we now?"
First, he looked around with a monocular telescope, and found that there was no use, Song Yifeng had to ask the first mate repeatedly.
Because the fierce bearded captain had already left the ship and served as the admiral in the East China Sea, the only one of their "Xiang Feihu" battleships is now the only one serving as the acting captain, and Annie usually doesn't care at all. She knows that Annie is just holding the title of captain and habitually causing trouble for everyone.
"Report to the Second Admiral!"
"I don't know yet..."
"The navigators are recalculating their orientation. After yesterday's storm, we, who have been trying our best to avoid the storm, have not yet known the exact location."
The second admiral asked, and of course the first lieutenant did not dare to neglect and directly told what he knew.
At this time, in the small combat command and chart room behind the podium, several navigators were using various instruments, such as sextant, bipedal gauge, protractor, parallel ruler, etc., pointing and pointing on the chart, wanting to determine the specific position of the fleet as soon as possible.
“That is, we’re going to go?”
“It’s really bad…”
Song Yifeng sighed.
If it weren't for some bad little girl, Admiral, who insisted on the fleet to chase a group of dolphins, they wouldn't have deviated from sailing, and if they didn't have deviated from sailing, they wouldn't have encountered a storm, and if they didn't have to touch the storm, they wouldn't have fallen to this situation now. Therefore, everything is the fault of their Admiral!
Thinking of this, Song Yifeng rolled her eyes at the back of a careless little girl who had the face of teasing fish.
"Not done yet?"
(;′⌒`)
"You guys are so stupid!"
o(*'　〼')o
"That sextant, bring it to others!"
?(????)?
At this time, Annie, who was originally sitting on the edge of the boat, was swaying her feet, of course, also heard the conversation between Song Yifeng and the first mate. So, without thinking, she threw the unsavory snacks in her hand directly into the sea to feed the dolphins. She turned over and jumped back into the boat, then ran to the chart room, took a sextant and started measuring the sun.
"ah?"
"Annie, will you use this thing too?"
The sextant is an optical instrument used to measure the angle between two distant targets. It is usually used to measure the angle between the sun or other celestial bodies and the sea or horizon at a certain moment, so as to quickly know the latitude and longitude of the sea ship's location. However, Song Yifeng herself definitely doesn't know how to use and how to calculate the instrument. As for whether Annie knows it, she doesn't know.
Anyway, the navigators have been calculating for a long time and have only obtained a rough direction, so the specific ones are still being calculated.
“…”
(ー`′ー)
Annie didn't answer, just pretended to operate.
(…)
(●￣(?)￣●)
"alright!"
(′???`)
"We're probably here now."
(?￣? ￣?)Hehe!
First, she was as fierce as a tiger, and finally found that Anne, who had too much error in the broken instrument in her hand, simply stopped measuring it, but directly used her perception beyond imagination to accurately locate the specific position of the fleet on this earth. Then she reached out and drew a circle at a certain position on the chart on the podium.
"However, your chart seems to be a little inaccurate, so our exact location should be... here, a little bit here?"
☆?(o*?ω?)?
"In other words, we need to walk southwest for two days at full speed, and we should almost reach this city!"
??(′??)???
The dolphins just now were quite fun, especially when they threw a few steamed buns first and then threw spicy strips to trick them into fighting for food.
Anne did not regret following them here, and the only thing that made her a little regret was that their flesh was said to be not very good, so she did not have the desire to grab one and grill it for the time being?
"Is this really the case?"
Song Yifeng looked at the first mate with some uncertainty.
"Absolutely?"
"The range measured by the navigators is also in this area, but it is not so accurate..."
Looking at the small circle drawn by the Grand Admiral on the chart, and thinking about the approximate locations calculated just now by the navigators, the first mate nodded and finally felt relieved.
After all, trekking at sea is a very dangerous thing, especially for a large fleet like them that does not have too much supplies. Now that it is better, since you know the specific location, it will be much easier.
Ding~! Ding~! Ding~! Ding~!
“Turn to the southwest!”
“Go ahead at full speed!”
“Turn to the southwest…”
“Turn to the southwest!!”
As the ringing sounds rang on the flagship, soon, the fleet, which had to put down the sails and slow down due to trek, began to lift the sails under the operation of the sailors. Then the five giant ships began to accelerate slowly and sped towards the established southwest direction, causing the large group of dolphins to jump out of the water and jumped continuously to follow both sides of the fleet.
...
Two days later, Ajidin appeared in the sight of the Li family fleet.
Then, for granted, the appearance of five super giant ships that had never been seen made Ajidin's sailors and port officials furious. Finally, they found that the fleet was from the Li family of the Ming Dynasty. It seemed that they were not here to cause trouble. They hesitated and sent a small sampan to carefully guide the five large ships to a deep water berth in the port to berth far away.
Although he entered the port, the big ship still couldn't get directly to the pier bridge. So, Xiao Annie and Song Yifeng had to take a group of dog-legged thugs to land on the dock in a small boat, preparing to play in this small port when the fleet was repairing, replenishing supplies and shipping.
"It looks so small..."
"Annie, it seems that this place is far worse than Hangzhou and Quanzhou City!"
"It seems that the first mate is right. There must be no way to give our goods too good to pay. They probably can't charge so much goods."
This Ajiding is not a good deal. Anyway, Song Yifeng thinks the conditions here are quite poor, and thinks that the first officer just decided to unload only one-tenth of the goods was an extremely correct decision.
"No matter! People just want to know if there is anything delicious here?"
(*^▽^*)
"Let's go! Let's go to the city..."
o(′▽｀)o =3 =3 =3
Although it is a city, it is actually just a small town, but that does not prevent Anne from finding that kind of delicious food. As for other idle matters, it will be better to leave it to the first mate to take care of.
However, before Annie could pull Song Yifeng and prepare to leave the dock for a walk, soon a officer on the boat came to the door and stopped her.
"Great Admiral!"
"There are two admirals!"
"The situation seems to be a little bad for us..."
After looking around and asking his soldiers to separate some unrelated people, the officer came over and reported in a low voice.
"What's wrong?"
Σ(°△ °|||)︴
"What's wrong? Isn't this good? Where is the situation not good?"
(???.???)??????
"So what's wrong?"
"Tell me quickly!"
Song Yifeng, who was standing beside him, was also a little curious.
Because they have found the reserved port and have all entered the port and parked, all this is pretty good, why did the other party suddenly come to tell them that the situation is not very good?
"We just went to negotiate."
"The local traders were monopolized by the Preyra Chamber of Commerce. Although they barely accepted the intimate goods we unloaded and allowed us to dock and replenish them here, they were unwilling to provide us with goods, even if they had only a small part of the shares!"
"They are a little unfriendly to us..."
Speaking of this, the officer's face looked even more ugly. He seemed to be patient with his anger, but he did not dare to act too much in front of the two admirals.
"ah?"
(*ˉ?ˉ*;)
"Are you monopolized?"
(°〼°〃)
"Yes!"
"It's the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce and the Preyra Chamber of Commerce, namely the Dutch and the Portuguese, who are competing here in Southeast Asia. Most of the ports here are monopolized by the people of the two chambers of commerce. It's difficult for outsiders to intervene, and even the locals have no good idea."
"It is said that our Li family fleet, Admiral Li Huamei and others, were driven away by the two chambers of commerce. They were forced to set sail and go to the Indian Ocean more than half a month before we arrived here."
The officer once again shook something that made him irritated.
They finally sailed all the way from Hangzhou to here, but found that the "Nanyang" was monopolized by the Portuguese and Dutch from Europa. They didn't even give them any market share to the Li family. Even the head of the Li family, Li Huamei, had to give up here and go to the Indian Ocean?
"ah?"
"Sister Li Huamei was driven away by them too?"
"But, are the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce and the Preyra Chamber of Commerce really that powerful?"
Song Yifeng was shocked!
She originally thought that when she came here, she would definitely meet Li Huamei and the others and show off the amazing ships she and Annie brought, but in the end, she got the news that the head of the Li family was driven away by someone in Nanyang, and those people were not allowed to continue their business here. Even if they could barely rely on the port, they would only ship the goods and not purchase them?
"this……"
"I don't know yet."
Shaking his head, the officer looked confused, because he had just come here, and he had just found out about the affairs of the two chambers of commerce and the Li family fleet. If you want to know more specific things, such as the specific situation of the two chambers of commerce above, it would really make him feel embarrassed.
"hateful!!"
(??へ??╬)
"Go! Let this Ajidin give us most of the market share, so that they can only do business with our Li Family Chamber of Commerce in the future!"
Q(`⌒′Q)
At this moment, Anne suddenly ordered the officer.
"ah?"
"But, Anne, will they agree?"
Song Yifeng was shocked. She knew that such a thing was impossible without thinking about it.
"You are so stupid!"
?(ψ｀╭╮′)o
"Of course they won't agree, but don't we have warships and cannons? Are our big ships a decoration?"
(ˉ▽￣￞］)Tsk~~
“!!”
"Abide by the order!!"
Understand and knew that his grand admiral was about to copy the model in Japan, the officer suddenly felt shocked, then grinned and soon led the sailors to run back quickly towards the dock, obviously going to pass on orders and make some arrangements.
"Let's go! Let's go back first!"
ε=(′ο｀*))) Alas
After looking at the town, the five warships in the dock that were several times taller and several laps larger than other sea boats. As a last resort, Annie could only greet Song Yifeng and prepare to return to the ship first.
Since we have decided to fight now, there is no way. She, the Great Admiral and Song Yifeng, the second admiral, are definitely not suitable for staying in the port to be bombed.
After half a day...
The Li family fleet had just shot a volley, and Jiading Port surrendered with no integrity.
Immediately afterwards, the people of the Preyra Chamber of Commerce were expelled in the next two days. Then, with the support of the Li family fleet, the locals regained control of the situation, allowing the power of the Portuguese Malay Governor Preyra to be instantly cleared from Giardin.
At the same time, the Li Family Chamber of Commerce also seized a large number of large and small merchant ships and supplies from "hostile" forces. At the same time, the caravans between Nanyang and Ming Dynasty were finally established.
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Chapter completed!