Generally speaking, if you start from Madeira or the port of Las Palmas and follow the direction of ocean currents and monsoons to the New World, it will take at least five to eight weeks, and slow cargo ships full of cargo often take three months or more to arrive.
But that's the general situation.
And the giant iron keel battleships under her command, which were big and fast, flying scissors-type iron keel battleships, were obviously not within the "ordinary" range?
So, just three weeks later, they successfully arrived at the New World and entered the Port of St. John where Li Huamei and others landed.
However, the treatment of Li Huamei and others is different from that of the time...
The New World had already received various news from the Mediterranean, and learned about the great achievements of the Li family's Second Fleet, and the fate of the Spanish Kingdom and the Invincible Fleet. Therefore, they received warm reception here. A nominal governor of Cuba, the leader of the Spanish pirates who ruled the Caribbean and another "ally" of the Li family chamber of commerce, even after receiving the news, he hurriedly arrived from Havana in a fast ship to Port St. John's and asked to meet the Devil Admiral of the Li family fleet.
"What did you say?"
!!!∑(?Д?ノ)ノ
"Li Huamei and the others are so hot, stupid guys are no longer here in the New World?"
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"They transformed the ships and loaded them with a lot of supplies. They bypassed the Port of Pernambuco two months ago, intending to ramp up the Pacific Ocean and go directly from the Pacific Ocean to return to the Ming Dynasty?!"
=????(????????)!!!
Unexpectedly, when they all came to the New World and the Americas, the last stop, they could still be lost again, and Anne was a little messy on the spot.
So much so that when she looked at the so-called ally in front of her, the nominal governor of Cuba, Vasquez de Mardenad, the Spanish pirate leader who ruled the Caribbean, looked at the delicious specialties and delicious foods from the "New World" brought by the other party, she felt a little annoying.
"How can they do this..."
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"I specially brought the big ship all the way to the Ming Dynasty..."
?°(°ˉ??ˉ?°)°?
You know, Anne came all the way and defeated almost all the enemies. Even the Spanish Invincible Fleet was so hard that she took the initiative to make peace, so she almost surrendered unconditionally. She was planning to show off her big ship and achievements with Li Huamei and the others, but the result...
Those bad guys, who are not counting when they arrive in the New World, want to cross the Pacific Ocean, verify the theory that the earth is circle, and directly complete the feat of sailing around the earth and returning to the Ming Dynasty?
"Ahem..."
"His Excellency the Admiral?"
"this……"
"They bypassed the southernmost Port of Pernambuco more than two months ago. According to their speed, they should be on the other side of the Caribbean Sea, on the Inca Empire on the western coast of this New World?"
"If you set out now, you might be able to catch up?"
Vasquez de Mardenad carefully proposed to the Admiral, a little crazy Li family girl, but after he finished speaking, he changed his mind:
"Of course!"
"If they had already set out from the Inca Empire and began to officially enter the Pacific Ocean, you and your fleet would be difficult to find..."
Anyway, in his opinion, if Li Huamei and her fleet were still near the coast of the Inca Empire, it would be easy to find it. Just walk along the coastline and you will definitely find it. After all, more than a dozen ships are not that easy to hide!
But once you enter the Pacific Ocean, there is really nothing you can do.
Without knowing the other party's accurate route in advance, he rashly went to the sea and went to the largest ocean in the world to find an ocean fleet with only a dozen ships. In the eyes of the pirate leader Vazquez de Mardenad, it was probably no different from finding a needle in a haystack.
Not to mention anything else, when they plan to rob Diogo de Esconte's Spanish treasure ship or cargo ship, even if they know the other party's departure date and specific route in advance and go to ambush in advance, they will often lose seven or eight times in ten times. Therefore, he does not have much expectation to chase Li Huamei's fleet and find the other party.
Besides, he saw that the five warships in the second fleet of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce were all large ships, and they didn’t know how many gun positions there were on one side. In addition, the complex and numerous sails, I believe there must be many sailors on it. And a ship like that was definitely not suitable for dangerous long-distance activities across the Pacific Ocean.
After all, there are no fixed routes in the Pacific Ocean, and there are even more places to supply along the way. Although there are no stormy waves and dangerous reefs, a long voyage alone is enough to destroy a fleet that cannot be supplied.
“Not found again…”
"That……"
"Annie, what should we do? We have to bypass the New World and go to the Pacific Ocean to chase them?"
Listening to the explanation and suggestions of the pirate leader Vasquez de Mardenad, Song Yifeng himself was also a little at a loss and didn't know what to do.
After all, they had a hard time and finally found the New World and came to this place far away from the Ming Dynasty. But as a result, Sister Li Huamei and the others returned to the Ming Dynasty from the other side of the New World. They still couldn't catch up with each other, which was really a bit frustrating.
“…”
(?~?)
Anne was also thinking and hesitating.
"Not going!"
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But soon, she immediately thought that she needed to cross the entire ocean when she returned from the Pacific Ocean, and even the flying scissors warships she built might take a month to bypass South America and spend about two months boring time across the Pacific Ocean, so she immediately gave up.
"This is not fun at all!"
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"Don't worry!"
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"You can drive the boat and go back to the Ming Dynasty as the same way. If they are leaving, they won't cross the boring Pacific Ocean!"
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As he said that, Anne walked hatefully outside the temporarily renovated house in the Harbour of St. John.
She chased her all the way from Daming to this place, and she had gone around most of the earth, but she still couldn't catch up. If she continued to chase her, she would probably have to chase her to the Ming Dynasty. In that case, she would just wait in Hangzhou at the beginning, so why bother chasing her all the way?
Anyway!
Annie would definitely not admit that she was wronged or did something stupid, so she decided not to play hide-and-seek games with the annoying group of bad guys Li Huamei. She did whatever they wanted, but she didn't care about it anyway and didn't accompany her.
"ah?"
"Let's go back by ourselves?"
"But!"
"Where are you Annie? You're not going back?"
She was stunned for a moment, and blinked, and the incompetent second admiral Song Yifeng finally reacted. She knew vaguely what Anni said meant, so she stood up and chased her out, and asked at a loss.
"I have to go to another world to play first. You can drive those boats back on the same route. The Pacific Ocean is very dangerous. You'd better not chase them. If you drive back on the same route, just don't stop for too long, and you can't go back to Hangzhou before their bad guys?"
(lll￢▽￢)
“Really…”
ε=(′ο｀*))) Alas
"Anyway, that's it, goodbye everyone!"
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After saying that, in full view of Song Yifeng, the first mate, the sailors around, the puzzled governor of Cuba, the Spanish pirates who ruled the Caribbean, Vasquez de Mardenad and others, Anne disappeared directly into a blue light under the bright sky and sunny sky, and there was no trace again.
“!!”
“My God!!”
"She, she...she, why did she suddenly disappear?!"
"What's going on? Is she really a devil?"
"Or, she's a witch?!"
Unlike Song Yifeng, who had already had a certain degree of immunity to Anne's methods and had even seen more incredible situations with his own eyes, and the first mate and the sailors who had followed all the way from the Ming Dynasty, Vasquez de Mardenad almost glared away his black eyes when he saw Anne disappearing instantly.
Although he has never seen the church burning witches, he has never seen them suddenly disappear like the little girl just now.
"snort!"
"The Great Admiral is the supreme true god given to us by God, and it is not something that the savages of the foreign countries can understand!"
Seeing Anne disappear, the first mate felt something. After mocking the Spanish pirate with contempt, he knelt on one knee with the other sailors, saluted in the direction where their great admiral disappeared and prayed silently.
"laugh!"
"That's right!"
"Annie is a god, how could it be something like a witch or a devil?"
Song Yifeng did not kneel down because she and Annie were her best friends, so she just stood in the crowd of kneeling like a little lost and sighed.
“??”
"True God? God?"
Vasquez de Mardenad obviously didn't know what it was, because he only knew God, and as for the rest, all of them were false gods, and all those who believed in false gods were pagans!
Of course, he is a pirate, so he doesn't care about that much!
So, seeing so many people kneeling down, he thought about it seriously, and then he also called his subordinates to kneel down halfway.
You should know that no matter what true god, false god or immortal it is, in his opinion, he is definitely not an ordinary mortal, and he must have supernatural abilities. They just saw it with their own eyes, so for pirates like them who are fighting for their lives on the sea, it is always good to have more mysterious power to protect.
...
In the 18th year of Chongzhen, the summer of the second year of the Daming Empress Tianshu.
In the Pacific Ocean, Li Huamei and others, who had lost two large ships and hundreds of sailors, finally returned to Hangzhou Port of the Ming Empire safely and entered the Qiantang River.
“Hmm?”
"Look! What kind of ship is that?!"
As soon as he entered Qiantang River, Li Huamei saw it at a glance. In an independent port not far from the familiar and somewhat strange, growing bigger Hangzhou City Wharf, there were a row of giant warships with sails rolled up. At a rough look, there were still as many as dozens and twenty?
So, for granted, on the medium-sized Fukushi ship and flagship Chunshen that was more suitable for long-distance voyage, Li Huamei was the first to burst into screams after seeing it.
“!!”
"What a big ship, how could they be so big?"
"have no idea."
"I've never seen it..."
"I saw that there were at least hundreds of gun doors on one side alone, which was so terrible!"
"Oh my God, could that be the giant treasure ship that the legendary eunuch of the Three Treasures when he went to the West, right?"
"ah!"
"No! Look, the sails on the other side that did not hold up the sails are not very similar to the blessed ship. It looks more like the European cross-sailing ship like the Galen ship. Moreover, it actually has triangular auxiliary sails on several sides, which are too different from the Ming ship."
"Too……."
"Can it be the Portuguese or the Dutch who occupied Hangzhou?"
"No, look, there is a Ming flag on it."
"ah!"
"It seems that there is also a flag from our Li Family Chamber of Commerce?"
"impossible!"
"It's just hanging there, why is it impossible?"
“…”
“It’s really…”
"Can it be a general named Li from the Ming Navy?"
"It's possible!"
"So, is it the Ming Navy?"
"It must be!"
When I saw the huge sailboats that seemed to be military docks or water camps in the distance, Yang Xien, James Rudvi, Xingjiu Baimu, Yian Dukov and those who joined the Li family fleet in the middle, such as Jenas Pasha, Freo and Christina, they also exclaimed and discussed it loudly.
Then, in the end, they came to a conclusion: those ships must be navigators of the Ming Empire, and they seemed to be ships under the command of a general named Li like their Li family chamber of commerce?
“…”
However, what everyone didn't know was that behind them, the British man Charleston Huisen had a little gloomy face, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"It should be..."
"What should we do? Admiral, do we still need to enter Hong Kong?"
After the discussion, James Rudway squeezed away everyone, walked to Li Huamei and asked worriedly.
“…”
"Enter!"
"We didn't do anything, we're just going home now, why don't we go in?"
With a slight frown, Li Huamei finally waved her hand and made a resolution to let the fleet continue to move forward, drive directly into Hangzhou Port and dock.
"But……"
"Admiral, the Ming Dynasty's maritime ban, and the warnings from the previous officials to us..."
James Rudwi was still a little worried because their Li family fleet was banned from the sea and forced away by the officials. Now it is back and there are more ships. He is worried that he will be troubled, especially when the Ming Dynasty now has a stronger fleet?
"It's okay!"
"They saw us and didn't come out to intercept us, which means there is no problem. Let's go in!"
"Look, there seem to be a lot of European-style ships in the port. No problem, at worst, you can say it's your ship at that time?"
"Besides, we didn't bring any goods when we came back this time. If the goods were banned, as long as we didn't sell them and we were dealing with them, I believe that those officials wouldn't make things too difficult for our Li family."
Just as comforting James and everyone, and as comforting himself, Li Huamei said this.
"Too……"
Nodded, James Rudway no longer thought about it, and let the ship slowly sail against the current towards the Qiantang River Port under the sea breeze.
However...
What Li Huamei and her followers never expected was that they had just arrived on the harbor and were warmly welcomed by Song Yifeng and others who had already returned to the Ming Dynasty quickly. Among them, there was Lilu Agote and others who had organized a long-distance voyage caravan, almost arrived in Hangzhou with Song Yifeng and others.
"this……"
"What's going on?"
"Yi Feng?"
"Why are you still in Hangzhou?"
"And Lilu, why did you come to Daming?"
"By the way, the big ships outside, and these people...what is going on?"
Seeing so many people greeting each other, there were many soldiers and officials. Looking at her former crew and friend Lilu, she met in Nanyang, looked at all of this in front of her. Although Li Huamei felt very friendly, she felt very strange and surprised at the same time, and she had no idea what was going on here.
"laugh!"
"Sister Huamei, do you know?"
"In order to find you, Anne and we accidentally called the whole world!"
"But OK, now you are finally back!"
"By the way!"
"The queen's will has arrived. You will be enthroned as the King of Dinghai in the Ming Empire. It's amazing, right?"
"Oh!"
"Thanks to Anne, the sea areas of the world have been conquered by our Ming Empire. Now that the Ming Dynasty has opened a sea ban, all public and private merchant ships can go to the world to do business!"
"Also, your Li Family Chamber of Commerce, or the current Ming Navy, is already the overlord of the Seven Seas!"
Song Yifeng stuck out her tongue mischievously, and then talked nonstop about what was going on in the misfortune of Li Huamei and others.
To Annie's blessing, now Song Yifeng was also named the No. 1 Princess of Seoul by the Queen of the Ming Dynasty, and became a great nobleman and the princess of the Kingdom of Korea. This made her not know what to explain to her master and senior brothers after she went back.
"ah?"
"Dinghai Neptune?"
"Seven Seas Overlords?!"
"This, this is impossible!"
"When we were not here, what happened here in the Ming Empire?!"
"Oh my God..."
Listening to Song Yifeng's words, Li Huamei and his first followers, such as Yang Xi'en, Charlie Huisen, James Rudwi, Xingjiu Baimu, Yi'an Dukov and others exclaimed.
"alright!"
"Stop talking!"
"Her Majesty's envoy has been waiting for you for a long time. Go and receive the order first!"
"You don't know that the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty finally surrendered not long ago. Now it's time to use people. I heard that Her Majesty the Queen also said that you want to be the Minister of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs!"
"But you must be out of luck, Prime Minister of the Cabinet. Uncle Li is the hero!"
"What a pity, Annie won't come back..."
"But fortunately she won't come back, otherwise she wouldn't know how to enthrone her!"
"It's okay now. It seems that you just need to worship her as the only god recognized by the Ming Empire..."
Song Yifeng, who was leading the way in front, talked endlessly, and then Li Huamei noticed that Song Yifeng's clothes and decoration seemed to be the kind of royal outfit?
"Anne?"
"By the way, I don't seem to see Anne. Has she been home?"
Li Huamei, whose mind was already in a mess, suddenly remembered when she heard Song Yifeng talking about Annie. She seemed to have a very terrible little guy who was left in her private house in Hangzhou by them?
"Ah Annie..."
"oops!"
"You'd better go to your house to get the order first. When you look back, I'll talk to you carefully!"
"Don't look at those boats for now. They are all ours now. I'll take you out for a walk the other day!"
"Come with me quickly!"
Now the official is appointed as the general, the commander of the Beijing Guard and the governor of the Five Army Governors' Office, the admiral of the Ming Navy, the admiral of the East China Sea, Li and the envoys are waiting in Li Huamei's private house. Therefore, Song Yifeng did not want to waste time. She just led the way while signaling the soldiers in front and the officials and merchants who wanted to come forward to talk to each other quickly.
"Our boat?"
"impossible!"
"I don't remember that there were such a terrible big ships in our Li Family Chamber of Commerce, and even there was no such ship in Hangzhou or the entire Ming Dynasty!"
Li Huamei became even more confused. You know, she had only been shopping for more than a year after a trip around the world. Why is Song Yifeng saying that those big ships belong to them now?
Even if such a big ship is built, I am afraid it will not be able to be built in more than a year, right?
"oops!"
"I'll tell you later!"
"Come quickly!"
"By the way!"
"We have the shipbuilding technology of those ships in the Ming Dynasty now!"
"In Tamsui City, we are working overtime to build it. A few ships were built a while ago and are now being tested. In total, we all have nearly thirty big ships."
"I heard from Uncle Li that he wants to build at least 100 ships!"
After Song Yifeng let the soldiers block the crowd, the officials and the merchants, he continued to talk nonstop while allowing Li Huamei to join her luxurious four-wheeled and four-wheeled exquisite carriage.
That was her car as the princess of Seoul and was given to her by Her Majesty the Queen.
However, others, those people brought back by Li Huamei, did not let them go to her car, but just asked them to follow behind.
“??”
"Who is Uncle Li?"
After getting on the car, as the four-wheeled carriage with shock absorption system began to move forward slowly, Li Huamei, who gradually relaxed, couldn't help but ask strangely.
"ah!"
"I don't know either..."
"Anyway, I only know that his surname is Li, and he is still a bearded man..."
She was slightly stunned. Song Yifeng thought about it, but in the end she was shocked to find that even though she had gone with the other party to destroy the Japanese pirates and conquer Japan, she had been on the same ship for a long time, but it seemed that she still didn't know the name of the bearded captain?
“??”
Li Huamei was a little confused. She couldn't get the answer, and as she thought about it, her mind became even more confused.
“!!”
"Oh, stop talking, come with me first!"
Finally, Song Yifeng stopped saying anything because there were too many things to say, and it might not be finished in a few days or nights, and she didn't know where to start, so she simply decided to wait until she got back before talking slowly!
"etc!"
“We haven’t paid the tax yet…”
"No problem, right?"
At this time, Li Huamei, whose mind was in a mess, remembered her ships and the not-too-long gold and silver she brought back.
“What tax is paid?”
"We have the final say in the entire Ming Dynasty. Who dares to collect taxes from our government troops?!"
As she said that, Song Yifeng arrogantly raised her a little pink and fat at this time, no longer like the sharp round chin that was sailing in the world.
"Official Army?"
"When will we become an official army?!"
"oops!"
"Anyway!"
“…”
"How could it change so much? I still thought that after I came back, I would use those dozen ships to attack Japanese pirates..."
"Japanese pirates?"
"Ahh! Sister Huamei, the Japanese pirates were knocked down by us a year ago!"
"I tell you, now the entire country of Japan is a vassal state of our Ming Empire. Their shogunshang recently submitted a letter of state to express his surrender."
"ah?"
"how so……"
"Anyway, let's talk about it after you go back. There are too many things, and I don't know how to explain it."
"It must start with the time when you left me and Anne..."
"Anne?"
“…”
As the voice of conversation in the luxurious carriage gradually stopped, the team supported by the musketeers riding horse gradually approached the gate of Hangzhou City.
Not far away, after seeing the approach of the team and the carriage, the Ming soldiers guarding the gate hurriedly shouted and opened the largest city gate, intending to let the team enter the city through the main gate, rather than entering the side gate like ordinary people through the slightly smaller side gates on both sides of the city gate.
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For the fourth anniversary, everyone is welcome to say the memory of the sabres in the genuine writers!
Chapter completed!