The Li family's fleet of five battleships first set off from the Qiantang River in Hangzhou. After leaving the bay, they went south along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. They first went to Quanzhou for replenishment, and then to Macau, which was leased by the Portuguese, for another day of replenishment and repairs.
Immediately afterwards, after Anne and her Li family fleet frightened the Portuguese, five terrifying steel-framed and wood-skinned battleships like towering mountains majestically sailed southward with the flags of the Ming Dynasty and the Li family. Went to the Western Ocean in the direction of Southeast Asia.
The Portuguese probably have no idea why the Ming Empire could organize and launch such an exaggerated and terrifying super fleet when the capital of the Ming Empire had been conquered by a group of refugees and the country was about to be destroyed. The fleet was not prepared to stay behind the Ming Dynasty to maintain its rule, but to go straight south and sail toward the Southeast Asian waters to the south?
They didn't know what those Ming people wanted to do, so all they could do was write several secret letters immediately and have a faster ship carry the information to important places in Southeast Asia such as Jakarta and Malacca. The port sent a message to the governors of those ports in Southeast Asia to prepare early.
Under normal circumstances, even if they send small fast merchant ships to deliver messages, it is absolutely impossible to be faster than the five scissor battleships under Anne's command, but...
However, a certain auspicious little girl captain and grand admiral was not very good at piloting, so under her irresponsible guidance, the fleet quickly lost its way, and then Jiadin, who could have arrived in a few days, Hong Kong just walked for many days without finding any shadow.
In fact, the fleet has not even found the shadow of land or island. Looking up, all it can see is an endless sea.
"Hello!"
"First Mate! Where are we now?"
First, Song Yifeng looked around with a monocular telescope, and found that it was of no use, so he had to ask the first mate repeatedly.
Because the ferocious bearded captain has left the ship and served as the admiral stationed in the East China Sea, so now they only have this first mate serving as acting captain on their battleship "Xiang Feihu", and usually Anne is not at all She didn't care, she knew that Anne was 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 the position. After yesterday's storm, we tried our best to avoid the storm, but we still don't know the exact position."
When the second admiral asked a question, the first officer certainly did not dare to neglect and directly told him what he knew.
At this time, in the small combat command and chart room behind the command platform, several navigators were using various instruments, such as sextants, two-foot gauges, protractors, parallel rulers, etc. on the charts. Pointing with his finger, he wanted to determine the specific position of the fleet as soon as possible.
"In other words, we are lost?"
"It's really bad..."
Song Yifeng sighed.
If it weren't for some bad little girl Admiral who insisted on chasing the fleet to chase a pod of dolphins, they would not have deviated. If they had not deviated, they would not have encountered a storm. If they had not encountered a storm, they would not have fallen into this situation, so , everything is the fault of their great admiral!
Thinking about this, Song Yifeng cast a big white eye at the back of a naughty little girl on the side who had the nerve to play with fish.
"It's not done yet?"
(；′⌒`)
"You are so stupid!"
o(*｀ー′)o
"That sextant, bring it to me!"
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At this time, Annie, who was sitting on the edge of the boat and dangling her feet, of course heard the conversation between Song Yifeng and the first mate, so she threw away the not-so-palatable snacks in her hand without even thinking about it. While feeding the dolphins in the sea, he turned over and jumped back into the boat. Then he ran to the chart room, took out a sextant and started measuring against the sun.
"ah?"
"Annie, would 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 level or horizon at a certain moment, so as to quickly know the longitude and latitude of the location of the ship. , but Song Yifeng himself definitely didn’t know how to use or calculate that instrument. As for whether Annie knew about it, she didn’t know.
Anyway, the navigators had been calculating for a long time and only got a rough position, and the details were still being calculated.
"..."
(ー`′ー)
Annie didn't answer, just pretended to operate.
(…)
(●￣(?)￣●)
"alright!"
(′???`)
"We are probably here now"
(?￣? ￣?) Hehe!
First there was a fierce operation, but finally she found out that the error of the broken instrument in her hand was really too big. Annie simply stopped taking the measurement, and instead directly used her unimaginable perception to accurately place the measurement on this earth in an instant. After locating the specific location of the fleet, she stretched out her hand and drew a circle on a certain location on the chart on the command platform.
"However, your chart seems a bit inaccurate, so our accurate position should be...here, a little bit over here?"
☆?(o*?w?)?
"In other words, we need to walk southwest at full speed for two days, and we should be almost able to reach this city!"
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Those dolphins just now were quite funny, especially how cute and fun they looked when they first threw a few steamed buns and then spicy sticks to trick them into fighting for food.
Anne didn't regret following them here, but the only thing that made her a little regretful was that the quality of their meat was said to be not very good, so she didn't have the desire to catch one and roast it for the time being?
"Is it really?"
Song Yifeng glanced at the first mate a little uncertainly.
"Roughly the same?"
"The range measured by the navigators is also in this area, but it is not so precise..."
Looking at the small circle drawn by the chief admiral on the chart, and then thinking about the approximate position calculated by the navigators just now, the first mate nodded and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, getting lost at sea is a very dangerous thing, especially for a large fleet like them that does not have too many supplies. But now, now that we know the specific location, it will be much easier to handle.
Ding~! Ding~! Ding~!
"Turn southwest!"
"Full speed ahead!"
"Turn southwest..."
“Turn Southwest!!”
As the bells on the flagship rang, soon the fleet, which had to lower its sails and reduce its speed due to being lost, began to raise its sails and turn under the operation of the sailors, and then the five giant ships began to slowly accelerate, Speeding towards the established southwest direction, it also attracted a large group of dolphins to jump out of the water and keep jumping to follow both sides of the fleet.
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Two days later, Ajidin appeared in the sight of the Li family fleet.
Then of course, the appearance of five super giant ships that had never been seen before made the sailors and port officials of Ajidin jump into panic. Finally, they discovered that the fleet belonged to the Li family of the Ming Dynasty and did not seem to be looking for trouble. , they hesitated and sent out small sampans to carefully guide the five large ships to a deep-water berth in the port and parked them far away.
Although it entered the port, there was still no way for the big ship to dock directly on the pier. Therefore, Xiao Anni and Song Yifeng had to take a small boat with a group of thugs and armed thugs to land on the pier, preparing for the fleet to be repaired, replenished and shipped. Have a good time in this small port.
"Looks so small..."
"Annie, this place seems far worse than Hangzhou and Quanzhou cities!"
"It seems that the first mate is right. There is definitely no way to give us a good price for our goods here, and they probably won't be able to accept so many goods."
This Ajidin is not that good. Anyway, Song Yifeng thinks that the conditions here are quite poor, and thinks that the first mate's decision to only unload one-tenth of the cargo was a very correct decision.
"No matter! I just want to know, do they have any good food here?"
(*^▽^*)
"Let's go! Let's go to the city for a walk..."
o(′▽｀)o =3 =3 =3
Although it is called a city, it is actually just a small town, but that does not prevent Annie from finding delicious food. As for other miscellaneous matters, she can just leave them to the first mate.
However, before Annie could take Song Yifeng to leave the dock for a walk, soon an officer from the ship came to the door with someone and intercepted her.
"Admiral!"
"There is also a second admiral!"
"The situation seems a little bad for us..."
After looking around and asking his soldiers to separate some irrelevant people, the officer came over and reported in a low voice.
"What's wrong?"
Σ(°△ °|||)︴
"What's wrong? Isn't this good? What's wrong?"
(???.???)????
"what happened again?"
"Say it quickly!"
Song Yifeng on the side was also a little curious.
Because they have all found the scheduled port and have docked in the port. Everything is fine. Why does the other party suddenly come to tell them that the situation is not good?
"We just went to negotiate."
"The local trading houses are monopolized by the Preila Chamber of Commerce. Although they reluctantly accepted the in-demand goods we unloaded and allowed us to dock and replenish here, they are not willing to provide us with goods, even if they are just Even a small portion of the share is gone!”
"They are not very friendly to us..."
At this point, the officer's face looked even uglier, as if he was holding back his anger but did not dare to show it too much in front of the two admirals.
"ah?"
(*ˉ?ˉ*;)
"Is it monopolized?"
(°ー°〃)
"Yes!"
"It's the Kuhn Chamber of Commerce and the Preila Chamber of Commerce, that is, the Dutch and the Portuguese. They are competing here in Nanyang. Most of the ports here are monopolized by those two chambers of commerce. It is difficult for outsiders to get in. Even the locals don’t have any good solutions.”
"And it is said that our Li family fleet, namely Admiral Li Huamei and the others, were also driven away by the two chambers of commerce. They were forced to set sail more than half a month before we arrived here. To the Indian Ocean.”
The officer once again revealed something that made him angry.
They finally sailed all the way from Hangzhou to here, but in the end, they found that Nanyang was monopolized by the Portuguese and Dutch from Europe, and they were not given any market share. Not to mention the Li family, even Even the head of the Li family, Li Huamei, had to give up here and move to the Indian Ocean?
"ah?"
"Sister Li Huamei was also driven away by them?!"
"But, are the Kun Chamber of Commerce and Preyla Chamber of Commerce really that powerful?"
Song Yifeng was shocked!
She originally thought that when she came here, she would definitely meet Sister Li Huamei and the others, and show off the powerful ships she and Annie had brought, but as a result, she got news that the head of the Li family was being raped here in Nanyang. The people were driven away, but those people didn't allow the Li Family Chamber of Commerce to continue doing business here. Even if they reluctantly docked at the port, they would only deliver goods but not purchase goods?
"this……"
"My subordinates don't know yet."
Shaking his head, the officer looked confused, because he had just come here and had just heard about the two chambers of commerce and the Li family fleet. He wanted to know more specific things, such as the above The specific situation of those two chambers of commerce really made things difficult for him.
"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 time, Anne suddenly gave an order to the officer.
"ah?"
"But, Anne, will they agree?"
Song Yifeng was shocked. She knew that such a thing was impossible without even thinking about it.
"you are stupid!"
?(ψ｀╭╮′)o
"Of course they won't agree, but don't we have battleships and cannons? Are our big ships just decorations?"
(ˉ▽￣~)Cut~~
"!!"
"Yes!!"
Knowing that his great admiral was preparing to copy the model in the Japanese country, the officer was suddenly shocked, then grinned ferociously, and quickly ran back towards the dock with the sailors, apparently to convey orders and do something. The arrangement went.
"Let's go! Let's go back first!"
ε=(′ο｀*)))Alas
After looking at the small town and then at the five warships in the dock, which were several times taller and larger than other ships, Annie had no choice but to greet Song Yifeng and prepare to go back to the ship first. .
Now that we have decided to go to war, there is no other way. She, the senior admiral, and Song Yifeng, the second admiral, are definitely not suitable to stay in the port and be bombed.
Half a day later...
The Li family's fleet had just launched a salvo, and Ji'adin Port surrendered unceremoniously.
Immediately afterwards, in the next two days, the people of the Preila Chamber of Commerce were expelled. Then, with the support of the Li family fleet, the locals regained control of the situation and allowed the Portuguese Malay Governor Preila to The power in Ji'adin was instantly wiped out.
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, a caravan between Nanyang and the Ming Dynasty was finally established.
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