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- On the sea outside Jindao, more than a dozen pirate ships that had just sailed out from the Sunset City of Japan were heading towards Jindao.
The person responsible for leading these dozen pirate groups is Stirling from England. He is a sea captain, businessman and pirate. He has extremely rich maritime operations. He is also a pirate leader who has obtained a privateering license from the King of England.
In addition, he has multiple identities: a French citizen, a down-and-out nobleman in Spain, a Portuguese businessman, and an Italian painter. He is also proficient in the languages ????of various European countries, and is familiar with the customs and geography of each country. Therefore, when he is overseas, he often switches between different identities as needed. Various identities.
At this moment, he was holding a telescope and carefully observing the island in front of him.
The Portuguese call it Formosa Island, which means beautiful place.
Of course, there are many places named this way by the Portuguese, and this name is considered a popular one.
The island is very large. It is one of the three largest islands in the Gulf of Guinea. It is densely covered with jungle. In the middle of the island is a huge crater with an altitude of three thousand meters. From a distance, you can see that it is high in the clouds, the mountain peaks are shrouded in mist, and the mountainside is dense. The rainforest, at the foot of the mountain, at the beach, the sunshine and beach, the beautiful scenery are really refreshing.
¡°It really deserves the name of Formosa!¡±
Looking at the beautiful scenery on the island, Sterling couldn't help but nod. It was indeed beautiful, so beautiful that it was intoxicating.
"Sir Sterling, do we really want to rest on this island?"
Next to Sterling, Kevin from France frowned and said: "According to the news, this island is occupied by a colonial trading company called Saber, and they are all made up of veterans of the Ming Dynasty's army."
"If we want to capture this island, I'm afraid there will be a lot of casualties."
¡°And you also know that the people of Ming Dynasty are not easy to mess with. Once we provoke people of Ming Dynasty, I¡¯m afraid we will have to flee to the ends of the earth and die.¡±
Kevin couldn¡¯t help but shudder slightly when he thought of the bounty notices posted in various ports and colonial strongholds. Once a Ming Dynasty person was killed overseas, they would be thoroughly investigated. Once the murderer was found, he would be hunted down to the end.
The key is not to hunt you down alone, but to hunt down your family and your clan together. The sky-high price of the reward is enough to make friends and relatives buy you.
What¡¯s more important is that under the powerful deterrence of the Ming Empire, even the countries behind you dare not protect you. Even the Ottoman Empire, as powerful as the Ottoman Empire, had to succumb under the huge pressure of the Ming Empire.
As for these countries in Western Europe, they were all beaten by the Ming Dynasty.
Hong Kong on the island of England is an overseas colony of the Ming Empire. It contributes nearly ten million taels of tax revenue to the Ming Empire every year.
As for the French, they still can¡¯t forget the scene when Paris was bombarded by the Ming Empire¡¯s fleet. Under the overwhelming artillery fire, Paris was almost reduced to ruins.
Portugal was not much better, Lisbon was also bombarded by the Ming Dynasty.
Although they are pretending to be pirates now, they are engaged in the business of losing heads.
But after all, there is the support of one's own country behind the scenes, and they are pirates outside. After returning home, they are all big businessmen and nobles, and can live a leisurely life.
But if you provoke the Ming people, once they are traced, when the Ming Dynasty exerts strong pressure on their country, they will definitely become the scapegoat.
¡°I didn¡¯t say I wanted to capture this island~¡±
"We just came here to rest, and we didn't provoke the Ming Dynasty people. Just give them some money."
Sterling smiled and said nonchalantly.
In fact, he has no choice now.
At the strong request of the Portuguese, they shelled Sunset City and severely retaliated against the Japanese.
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According to the clues received, the Spaniards have patrolled ships all over the Gulf of Guinea and the route back to Europe. Once they discover them, they will bite them hard, and it will be difficult to get away by then.
Si minus 75zw.com Si. So he had to choose a place first to replenish fresh water and food in the Gulf of Guinea, so that he could make as few refills as possible when he returned to Europe.
"As long as they don't enter the ports and colonial strongholds to make up for the record, the sea is so vast that even if they guard the route, it is difficult to find them, and it is not difficult to avoid the Spanish.
?After much thought and selection, I finally decided to rest and make up my mind here on Jindao.
Because there is only Jindao in the surrounding area, it is very remote.
Because no valuable resources were found on Golden Island before, the Portuguese did not occupy it. After it was occupied by the Saber Colonial Trading Company, the development here was very slow because there was not enough funds.
?You can see from looking at the simple wooden pier here in the harbor that everything here is just getting started.
¡°If it were to be replaced by other colonial sites and colonies, each one would have been well developed, with a larger population, and more communication with the outside world, which also means that it would be easier to expose one¡¯s whereabouts.
??This place is remote and development is slow, so their security is higher.
¡°Moreover, Spain has never dreamed of going to the Ming Dynasty¡¯s territory to rest and replenish supplies.
¡°The location here is very good and unobtrusive. It is still the territory of the Ming Dynasty.¡±
"As long as we establish a good relationship with this Saber Colonial Trading Company, we may be able to come here often for supplies in the future, avoiding the Spanish eyes and ears, and we may even be able to sell stolen goods here in the future."
Sterling is thinking very far, not just about escaping Spain and returning to Europe.
This is also the reason why he has always been able to live a comfortable life overseas, because he can always consider longer-term things, such as learning multiple languages ????and characters, becoming familiar with the customs and customs of various places, developing multiple identities, etc.
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Right now, he is also considering coming to the Gold Coast to rob again in the future.
When several countries form a pirate alliance together, they will naturally not simply grab a few colonies and ships and give up. Such things will inevitably become the norm in the future.
If you want to hang out on the Gold Coast, you will need to find some remote and unknown hidden places, such as some unknown islands, which can be used to rest and hide treasures.
Pirates, pirates~
The reason why you can travel wildly on the sea is to master some islands that are unique to you. It is a required course.
At the same time, it is also necessary to have some places that can provide you with shelter, repairs, supplies, and even the sale of stolen goods, so that you can travel lightly and travel across the world.
Originally, all the Portuguese colonial strongholds on the Gold Coast were very suitable for this, but they were taken away by the Japanese and Spanish one after another. They suddenly lost their strongholds, and Sterling had to take the risk to try it on Golden Island. Give it a try.
Thinking about it, in this overseas country, only the Ming people are the only ones that no one dares to provoke. Hiding in the territory of the Ming people, Spain has nothing to do. Si minus Si
More than a dozen pirate ships were getting closer and closer to the Golden Island. On the Golden Island, Huang Chong, Li Meng and other members of the Saber Colonial Trading Company also acted quickly.
Women, children and the elderly quickly moved to hidden places in the mountains. The remaining young and strong people were all wearing armor and holding muskets, bows and arrows, swords, etc., ready to welcome the pirates.
The Saber Colonial Trading Company was so poor that it didn¡¯t even buy cannons.
Of course, this kind of poverty is only relative to other colonial companies and colonies. In itself, these people with military backgrounds actually have no worries about food and clothing, and their incomes are quite high.
But with this little money, overseas colonization seems to be stretched thin. Even buying a ship is hard enough, let alone a cannon. It is enough to still have muskets, bows and arrows, and swords.
"Oh, it's our ship!"
Li Meng looked at the three ships moored in the harbor. The ships were not big, but they were the most valuable things in the hands of the Saber Colonial Trading Company. They relied on these ships to communicate with the outside world and transport some necessary living supplies. of.
It¡¯s too late to drive away these ships now, now we have to take advantage of the pirates in front of us. 牺如 bxwx.co 牺如
"If the boat is gone, you can buy it again. As long as people are around, everything will be available."
Huang Chong looked at the three ships and said calmly.
They have discovered gold mines on Jin Island, and the output is quite good. As long as you give them some time, everything will be available.
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