On the afternoon of the sixth day, after nearly a week of tossing, a bad little girl and her super battleship fleet finally searched in the northeast of Jakarta, southwest of Brunei, and the shore directly east of Balin, and finally found something detailed on the map in a ruin.
That is the evidence of the domineering people in Southeast Asia - [Kudry's permanent amulet]
It is a palm-sized piece of wood, made of an antique left over from the 10th to 13th century thriving country of Indonesia, ‘Kudri’.
And it is said that as long as you have it, you can protect all residents of the spicy islands from disaster?
"Is this the proof of the overlord?"
“How to use it?”
Standing behind the two admirals, the first mate looked at the wooden sign, his heart full of excitement.
Now, the certificate of the overlord symbolizing Southeast Asia was obtained by their Ming Li Family Chamber of Commerce. In addition, they had just defeated the Preyra Chamber of Commerce, and the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce had also sent a tactful letter to express their friendship and surrender. Doesn’t this wooden sign mean that their Li Family Chamber of Commerce is destined to be destined?
For the first time, the first mate began to look forward to the future and felt that the troubles of the past few days were not in vain. It was very meaningful for them to come here to search.
"have no idea."
"However, it seems that there really is some mysterious power..."
"Anne, can it really protect the residents of a place?"
Song Yifeng is different from ordinary people. She has been practicing Taoism with her master and senior brothers on the mountain since she was a child. She also has certain Taoism and some Taoism practices. Therefore, she is very interested in this kind of item and can tell the truth at a glance.
"A piece of broken wood!"
(ˉ▽￣￞］)Tsk~~
"If I had known this was the case, I wouldn't have looked for it..."
ε=(′ο｀*))) Alas
Yes, there are indeed some mysterious powers on this "Kudry's Permanent Talisman", but in this world where mystery is gradually fading, they are just the last stubbornness condensed by this world with its last power for this era. Anne does not think that this level of mysterious power can be of use, it is just a psychological comfort.
so……
“…”
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Unpredictable, when Song Yifeng and the first mate wanted to continue to study the evidence of the domineering master that they had finally found, Annie looked over and over for a while and found that there was nothing to be rare, she shook her hand and threw it into the brazier in front.
"ah!"
"Ann, Anne?!"
“!!”
“Great Admiral?!”
Seeing that a little girl suddenly threw the wooden talisman into the brazier that was in charge of boiling water in the command room, Song Yifeng and the first mate rushed over and rushed over. Before it started to burn, they rushed to rescue it in a hurry.
"call!"
"Fortunately, it was just a little darker, and the talismans and texts on it can still be seen clearly..."
"If it's slower, it's going to really burn."
The first mate and the first mate checked it out and found that the "Kudry's permanent amulet" was nothing serious except being burnt a little bit. The two of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Anne!"
"How could you suddenly burn it?"
"It was something we finally found, and it is the proof of the domineering people in Southeast Asia! With it, our Li Family Chamber of Commerce can rule this ocean legitimately. How can you..."
As he spoke, Song Yifeng couldn't continue to say anything. He just held the wooden sign hundreds of years ago and stared at some disgusting admiral who had just thrown it into the brazier.
“…”
The first mate didn't say anything, but just looked at his fleet commander like Song Yifeng with that puzzled look.
"it's useless!"
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"You should not count too much on that broken wooden sign. If the cannons and giant ships in your hands are not powerful enough, no matter how many proofs of the domineering masters you have, it will be useless!"
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"But if you are powerful enough to defeat all enemies, even if you find a piece of broken wood and say it is the 'proof of the overlord', those guys will definitely believe it."
(*?′?`?)
Anne didn't care about the attitudes of the two, but just waved her hand indifferently and explained like this.
If the "mystery" of this world has not begun to fade, or the wooden sign that came into being and was chosen by the world would be of great use, at least for ordinary people.
However, now that the world is about to change, it is really useless to keep the wooden sign, and it will not be effective, so it is better to burn it just as firewood!
Of course, Annie will definitely not explain the above views to the two guys in front of her, because she couldn't understand the two guys who said it.
"ah?"
"No!"
"Don't think of lying to me nonsense, I know that there is a very powerful mysterious power on it, it is the proof of the true domineering!"
Song Yifeng carefully held this wooden amulet with hundreds of years of history in his arms, for fear that Annie would come over and snatch it away and burn it again.
"Then whatever you want!"
ε=(′ο｀*))) Alas
"If you like it, give it to you!"
╮(╯▽╰)╭
It was just a mysterious broken wooden sign with a few mysterious ones. It was not beautiful and could not be used to decorate the room. It was black and dark, and it looked a bit like a tombstone. It looked weird and creepy. Anne would not treat it as a treasure in such a rags!
Anyway, Annie has no qualifications to take a look at that kind of broken thing, let alone keep it for collection. So, since Song Yifeng likes it, just give it to the other party to play, she will definitely not mind it.
"I don't want it!"
"But I want to keep it and give it to her when I meet Sister Li Huamei!"
He glared at Annie in anger, then looked at the place where the wooden sign was roasted black. Song Yifeng, who was a little sad, hurriedly walked aside and picked up a rag and began to wipe it carefully.
"What's the point of giving away a broken wooden sign..."
(^～^;)ゞ
Annie thinks, if she gives these big ships she has tired of playing with and the gold and silver that were seized from the Preyra Chamber of Commerce to that bad guy Li Huamei, maybe the other party will be happier?
“Um…”
"After thinking about it, I also felt that what the Grand Admiral said was very true!"
"It's still more trustworthy to the strong ship and the powerful gun. Even if it's really a proof of the domineering, it's just a icing on the cake for our Li family fleet and not worth a laugh!"
After hearing the words of the Great Admiral and looking at the actions of the Second Admiral, the first lieutenant thought about it and finally slapped his high fives. In the end, he still felt that what their Great Admiral was saying was reasonable.
After all, it is impossible for him, a Ming person, to understand the truth that "an ordinary man is guilty of being guilty of being guilty." Therefore, after considering it, he still felt that the Admiral said something profound, and their Li family fleet should always be vigilant and powerful force. Otherwise, once there are no strong ships and powerful cannons, let alone the evidence of the overlords, they are likely to be unable to protect the commercial roads, ports and commercial stations that have been opened.
Of course, the second admiral's approach is nothing wrong. After all, although such a good thing is not worth relying on, there will always be no mistake to keep it for the time being.
"Okay!"
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"Since the certificate of the domineering master you are looking for has been found, it's time for us to set off now. Let's go to the Indian Ocean and find the fools Li Huamei and the others!"
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Anne didn't want to care what the two of them were thinking. Since the Nanyang was over, the trade routes had been fully developed. What a pity? Portugal's Malay Governor Doyle Ropez Di Preyla has been defeated by them, and the Dutch Governor Antonio van Kuhn has sent a letter to surrender honestly, and even found the certificate of the domineering. It is indeed time to set off and go to the Indian Ocean to find Li Huamei and the guys.
"yes!"
"I will order the fleet to return to Malacca!"
Nodded, the first mate planned to walk out of the command room and go to the front podium to issue orders.
"Why do you have to go back to Malacca?"
Σ(°△°|||)︴
“Isn’t it okay to go directly to the Indian Ocean?”
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Obviously, Anne was a little dissatisfied with the first mate's misunderstanding of her intentions, because she seemed to have never said she would go back to Malacca.
"this……"
Originally, the first mate thought it would be good to go to Malacca to replenish supplies and repair for one or two days, and he could arrange some business matters in Nanyang. However, when they thought that the caravans composed of hundreds of large and small merchant ships and several warships seized were already managed by the shopkeepers of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce, everything was in order. In addition, there was Captain Li, the East China Sea Admiral and fifteen main warships on the Ming Dynasty, they didn’t seem to worry about anything?
"That's fine. We won't stop in Malacca this time. We can go directly to Port Aceh to replenish supplies and then go north to the Indian Ocean!"
After thinking about it, the first lieutenant agreed with their decision of the Admiral. This time, he would not go back to Malacca to repair supplies for the time being. Instead, he went north to Aceh first, and then to the Indian Ocean to see if he could catch up with the head of the family, Admiral Li Huamei, whom they had never met before?
"Go off!"
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"Hurry up! You idiots, hurry up and move, set your anchor, set sail, let's set sail!"
o(*'　〼')o
"Go to the Indian Ocean now!!"
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Seeing that the opinions had been basically unified, Annie did not wait for the first mate to take action, but instead rushed outside first, and then shouted at the sailors who were resting or chatting on the deck.
Soon, as the five super battleships anchored in this sea area anchored one by one and raised nearly fifty sails, they gained sufficient power under the southeast wind, and then the slender and streamlined hull began to ride the wind and waves on the sea, constantly accelerating. In less than a few minutes, it was more than ten knots, which was a very terrifying speed compared to the wooden sailboats of this era, and it was galloping towards the northeast direction at a very terrifying speed.
...
However, when Anne and her Li family super battleship fleet, which was flagship with the "Xiang Feihu" battleship, had just set sail and rushed towards the Strait of Malacca and were about to enter the Indian Ocean, Li Huamei and her Li family fleet had already arrived in Africa and were slowly sailing into the dock of Sofara, a Dagang, Africa under the guidance of the small boat leading the front.
“Hmm?”
“That’s…”
Li Huamei, who suddenly stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the exotic style, suddenly felt a stern, and then looked in one direction of the dock.
"It's Kunlun slave..."
She saw that there were many Kunlun slaves there.
Both men and women, they stood naked in an unloading square on the dock, tied with their necks and arms tied with ropes, and were constantly scolded and yelled by the white cargo owners, and from time to time they used whips to whip them desperately on the disobedient or unsense words, trying to maintain order.
At the same time, she also saw that someone used a white powder that was unknown to them, until all the black slaves were sprinkled with a layer of white powder, and then they were loaded one by one onto a large three-masted square sailboat.
"Admiral, that is the profitable slave trade."
"In addition to gold, silver and gems, they are the most important specialties in Africa. If you trade between Africa and the New World without bringing a ship of black slaves on the return journey, it will basically be a loss-making deal."
At this time, Charlie Huisen walked to Li Huamei, looked at the special "goods" for a while, then suddenly chuckled and pointed and said.
"they?"
“Shouldn’t it be ‘they’?”
Li Huamei noticed that Charlie Huisen's words seemed to use an inappropriate noun?
"No!"
"It's them!"
"There is a New World here. In the eyes of us white people, all of their black slaves are not humans. They are just a group of goods that can walk on their own!"
Charlie Huisen said arrogantly.
"Besides, Admiral, do you know?"
"Their ship can hold hundreds of people, and those black slaves can only squeeze together in the dim and wet cabin. Half of those who can live to the New World are considered very good."
"And even if you can only live half or less, it will be huge profits!"
Charlie Huisen said with some emotion and regret.
It’s a pity that their Li family fleet does not do the slave trade, otherwise, he would think that their journey around the world would be able to earn more?
Now when the slave trade is most prosperous, they are the only purpose of large-scale trade in Europe and the New World against Africa.
In his opinion, the status of those slaves was very low, and it was not an exaggeration to say that they were goods and "them". Even many African chiefs and tribal leaders were arresting slaves on their whites, because they were the only "best-selling" and more accessible goods in Africa besides gold, silver and gems.
Charles Huisen remembers that at the beginning, only Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands were originally engaged in the slave trade. Now, Britain, France, Denmark, Sweden and others have also participated in the process, expanding the slave trading venues to the west coast of Africa and the inland of Africa, and the east coast of Africa. So it is not surprising to see the slave trade here in Sofara.
Because the planting industry in the New World is developing rapidly, and the New World is the main source of economic crops in major European countries. Therefore, goods that can walk by themselves, work without paying money have become the favorite goods of the New World planters.
Yes, Charles Huisen still stubbornly believed that those black slaves were just goods, things that could be bought, sold and measured, not people.
“…”
Li Huamei didn't say anything, but just frowned slightly.
She had known about Kunlun slaves for a long time. There were records in ancient books of the Han Dynasty, and there were more books from the Tang and Song dynasties. For example, the ancient book "Pingzhou Ketan" said: "The rich people in Guangzhou have many ghost slaves, which are extremely powerful and can bear hundreds of pounds... The color is as black as ink, the lips are red and the teeth are white, and the hair is curly and yellow." "The answer to the Ridge" says: "There are many savages on the island, the body is as black as lacquer, and the fists are... and they are captured and moved for tens of millions, and they are sold as ghost slaves."?
Therefore, Li Huamei actually did not have much resistance to the slave trade, and even did not think there was anything wrong with the Westerners' extensive ownership and trading Kunlun slaves. She just felt that the white people's practice of scrambling hundreds or thousands of people in a boat for the sake of profit seemed a bit harmful to the world?
"By the way!"
“What are those white powders?”
"Why do they paint them white? What's the point?"
Li Huamei, who had never been exposed to the slave trade, couldn't help feeling a little surprised when she looked at the Kunlun slaves who had been dyed white with white powder.
“That’s lime.”
"It is used to eliminate epidemics. Although I don't know why it can eliminate epidemics, the ship owners all know that as long as you sprinkle lime before loading the ship, the survival rate of the cargo can be greatly improved?"
"But who knows what exactly is..."
"Admiral, why don't we load a ship of black slaves before we go to the New World to verify?"
Thinking of the fact that there were still free ships in the fleet and that there seemed to be no valuable cargo in Africa, Charlie Huisen suddenly smiled and suggested to Li Huamei.
"No!"
"We don't do the slave trade, which was agreed at the beginning."
"You don't have to persuade you anymore."
Shaking his head gently, Li Huamei suddenly stopped talking.
At the same time, she also retracted her gaze and no longer looked at the slave ship loading with black slaves, because their ship was about to approach Sofara's dock, and she was still preparing to deal with the dock officials who were already waiting for tax collection on the pier.
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Chapter completed!