Under normal circumstances, if you set off from the port of Madeira or Las Palmas and follow the direction of the ocean currents and monsoons to the New World, even with smooth sailing, it will take at least five to eight weeks, and those loaded with cargo Slow cargo ships often take three months or more to arrive.
But, that's the general situation.
And Little Annie and her large, fast-running scissor-type giant iron keel battleships are obviously not within the 'normal' range?
So, just three weeks later, they successfully arrived in the New World after setting off from the Port of Madeira, and entered the Port of Saint John where Li Huamei and others landed.
However, the difference from the original treatment of Li Huamei and others is...
The New World had long received various news from the Mediterranean. They knew about the great achievements of the Li family's second fleet, and also knew about the fate of the Kingdom of Spain and the Invincible Fleet. Therefore, they received a warm reception here, and a certain name After receiving the news, the Governor of Cuba, the Spanish pirate leader who ruled the Caribbean and another 'ally' of the Li family chamber of commerce, hurriedly took a speedboat from Havana to St. John's Port within three days and asked to see Li. Your Excellency, the devil admiral of the home fleet.
"What did you say?"
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"Li Huamei and the other idiots are no longer here in the New World?"
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"They modified the ship and loaded it with a large amount of supplies. They bypassed the port of Pernambuco two months ago and plan to sail across the Pacific Ocean and return to Daming directly from the Pacific Ocean?!"
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She never expected that after arriving in the New World, the last stop in the Americas, she would be missed again. Anne was a little confused on the spot.
So much so, looking at this so-called ally in front of me, looking at the nominal governor of Cuba and the Spanish pirate leader Vazquez de Maldenade who rules the Caribbean, how he is extremely flattering to me, looking at the other party She felt that the specialties and delicious foods from the 'New World' she had brought were a bit annoying.
"How could they do this..."
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"They came all the way from the Ming Dynasty with a big boat..."
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You know, Annie came all the way and defeated almost all the enemies. Even the Spanish Armada was forced to sue for peace by her, which was just short of unconditional surrender. She was planning to fight with Li Huamei and the other bad guys. I wanted to show off my big ship and achievements, but the result...
Those bad guys, not only did they arrive in the New World, but they actually wanted to cross the Pacific, verify the theory that the earth is round, and directly complete the navigation feat of circling the earth and returning to the Ming Dynasty?
"Ahem..."
"Your Majesty the Grand Admiral?"
"this……"
"They rounded the southernmost port of Pernambuco more than two months ago. According to their speed, they should be on the other side of the Caribbean, at the Inca Empire on the western coast of the New World. Is it over?"
"If you set off now, you might still be able to make it?"
Vazquez de Maldenard carefully suggested something to the little girl from the Li family, the Admiral, who was going a little crazy. However, after he finished speaking, he changed the subject:
"Of course!"
"If they have already set off from the Inca Empire and officially entered the Pacific Ocean, I'm afraid it will be hard to find you and your fleet..."
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 them. As long as they walked along the coastline, they would definitely be able to find them. After all, a dozen ships are not that easy to find. So hidden!
But once it enters the Pacific Ocean, there is really nothing you can do.
Without knowing the other party's accurate route in advance, rashly going to the sea, and going to the largest ocean in the world to find an ocean-going fleet with only a dozen ships, the difficulty of that kind of thing is beyond Vázquez de ·From the perspective of Maldenard, the pirate leader, he is probably no different from finding a needle in a haystack.
Not to mention anything else, when they plan to rob the Spanish treasure ship or cargo ship Diogo de Esconte, even if they know the opponent's departure date and specific route in advance and ambush them in advance, they will often fail within ten times. He would miss seven or eight times, so he didn't have much expectation to catch up with Li Huamei's fleet and find it.
Moreover, he saw that the five warships in the second fleet of the Li Family Chamber of Commerce were all large ships. There were no one knows how many gun emplacements on one side alone. Coupled with the complex and numerous sails, they must be above There must be a lot of sailors, and a ship like that is definitely not suitable for dangerous voyages across the Pacific.
After all, there are no fixed routes in the Pacific, and there are no supply places along the way. Although there are no rough waves and dangerous reefs and shoals, the long voyage alone is enough to destroy a fleet without supplies.
"I couldn't find it again..."
"That……"
"Annie, what should we do? Should we go around the New World and also go to the Pacific Ocean to chase them?"
Listening to the explanations and suggestions of the pirate leader Vazquez de Maldenade, Song Yifeng himself was a little at a loss and didn't know what to do.
After all, they had a hard journey and finally found their way to the New World, a place far away from the Ming Dynasty. But in the end, Sister Li Huamei and the others went back to the Ming Dynasty from the other side of the New World, and they still could not catch up. The other party, that is really a bit frustrating.
"..."
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Anne was also thinking and hesitating.
"not going!"
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But soon, when she thought that she would need to cross the entire ocean to get back from the Pacific, and that even those scissor warships she built might take a month to circumnavigate South America and about two boring months to cross the Pacific, she immediately Backed off.
"This isn't fun!"
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"do not care!"
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"You guys can sail back to Daming the same way you came. If people are leaving, they won't be crossing that boring Pacific Ocean!"
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With that said, Anne walked bitterly outside the temporarily repaired house in St. John's Port.
She had chased her all the way from the Ming Dynasty to here, and circled half of the world, but she still couldn't catch up. If she continued to chase, she would probably have to catch up with the Ming Dynasty. In that case, she might as well have waited in Hangzhou. Just leave it alone, why bother chasing all the way here?
Anyway!
Annie would definitely not admit that she was a fool or did something stupid, so she decided not to play hide-and-seek with that annoying Li Huamei group of bad guys. They liked it, and she didn't care. I don't care, I won't accompany you anymore.
"ah?"
"Shall we go back by ourselves?"
"But!"
"What about you, Annie? Are you not going back?"
She was startled for a moment, then blinked. Song Yifeng, the incompetent second admiral, finally came to his senses. She vaguely knew what Annie meant by those words, so she quickly stood up and chased her out, feeling a little at a loss. asked.
"I have to go to other worlds to play first. You can drive those ships back the same way you came. The Pacific Ocean is very dangerous. You'd better not chase them. If you go back the same way you came, just don't stop for too long. If you can’t, can you still go back to Hangzhou before those bad guys like them?”
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"Really..."
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"Anyway, that's it, goodbye everyone!"
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After finishing speaking, Song Yifeng, the first mate, many sailors around him, the doubtful governor of Cuba, the Spanish pirates who ruled the Caribbean, Vazquez de Maldenad and others were all watching. At the next moment, Annie disappeared directly into a blue light under the bright blue sky and was never seen again.
"!!"
"my God!!"
"She, she, she...she, why did she suddenly disappear?!"
"What's going on? Is she really the devil?"
"Or is she 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 him all the way from the Ming Dynasty, Vazquez de Mardena When De saw Anne's instant disappearance, he almost stared out of his eyes, which were also black.
Although he had not seen the church burn witches before, he had never seen the little girl disappear as suddenly as she did just now.
"snort!"
"The Great Admiral is the supreme true god who gave us the Ming Dynasty. This is not something that you barbarians can understand!"
Seeing Anne disappear, the first mate felt something. After mocking the Spanish pirate contemptuously, he knelt down on one knee with the other sailors, performed a military salute in the direction where their great admiral disappeared and silently praying.
"laugh!"
"That's right!"
"Anne is a fairy, how could she be a witch or a devil?"
Song Yifeng did not kneel down because she and Annie were the best friends, so she just stood in the middle of the kneeling crowd feeling a little sad and sighed.
"??"
"True God? Immortal?"
Vazquez de Maldenard obviously didn’t know what it was, because he only knew God. As for everything else, in his opinion, they were all false gods, and those who believed in false gods were all aliens. Believer!
Of course, he is a pirate, he doesn't care about that much!
Therefore, when he saw so many people kneeling down, he, who originally had a wide range of beliefs, thought about it seriously, and then he also asked his subordinates to kneel down half way.
You know, no matter what kind of true god, false god or immortal, in his opinion, it is definitely not an ordinary mortal, it must have supernatural abilities, and they just saw it with their own eyes, so for them, they are For the pirates who are fighting for their lives at sea, it is always good to have more mysterious power to protect them.
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In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, it was the summer of the second year of the reign of Emperor Tianshou.
I have been to windless zones and stormy areas in the Pacific, braved rough seas, endured countless hardships, sailed for nearly six months, passed through Guam, and finally resupplied and repaired in Naha for a week. After losing two large ships and hundreds of sailors, Li Huamei and others finally returned safely to Hangzhou Port in the Ming Empire and sailed into the Qiantang River.
"Well?"
"Look! What kind of ship is that?!"
Just entering the Qiantang River, Li Huamei saw at a glance that in an independent port not far away from the familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar Hangzhou City Pier, which had become larger, there was actually a boat parked and rolled up. A huge warship with sails, and at a glance, there are actually more than ten or twenty ships?
Therefore, of course, Li Huamei was the first to scream in surprise after seeing the Chun Shen, a medium-sized ship and flagship that was more suitable for long-distance voyages.
"!!"
"Such a big ship, how come they are so big?"
"have no idea."
"Never seen..."
"I saw it. There were at least hundreds of gunports on one side alone. It was really scary!"
"Oh my God, that can't be the giant treasure ship that the legendary Three Treasure Eunuchs used when they sailed to the West, right?"
"ah!"
"No! Look, the one over there has not furled its sails. Its sails don't look like a lucky ship. It looks more like a European square sailing ship like a Galen ship. Moreover, it actually has It has several triangular auxiliary sails at the front and rear, which is very different from the Ming Dynasty ships."
"Too……."
"Could it be that the Portuguese or the Dutch took over Hangzhou?"
"No, look, it has the flag of the Ming Dynasty on it."
"ah!"
"It seems that there is also the flag of our Li Family Chamber of Commerce?"
"impossible!"
"It's just hanging there, why is it impossible?"
"..."
"It really is……"
"Could it be a general named Li from the Ming Dynasty Navy?"
"possible!"
"So, that's the Ming Dynasty Navy?"
"It must be!"
I saw the huge sailing ships in the distance that seemed to be a military dock or water village, Yang Xien, James Ludwig, Xingjiu Shiraki, Yi An Dukov and those who joined the Li family fleet on the Chun Shen. Others, such as Janas Pasha, Forio and Christina, also exclaimed and started discussing loudly.
Then in the end, they came to a conclusion, that is: those ships must be the navy of the Ming Empire, and they seemed to be ships under the command of a general named Li just like their Li Family Chamber of Commerce?
"..."
However, what everyone didn't know was that behind them, the British man, Richard Huisen, had a somewhat gloomy expression, and they didn't know what he was thinking.
"It should be..."
"What should we do, Admiral, do we still need to enter the port?"
After the discussion, James Ludwig squeezed away everyone, walked to Li Huamei's side and asked worriedly.
"..."
"Enter!"
"We haven't done anything wrong. We are just going home now. Why don't we go in?"
After frowning for a moment, Li Huamei finally waved her hand and made the decision to let the fleet continue to move forward and sail directly into Hangzhou Port and dock.
"But……"
"Admiral, Ming Dynasty's maritime ban, and the warnings given to us by those officials before..."
James Ludwig is still a little worried, because their Li family fleet was forced to leave by the sea ban and those officials. Now it is back, and there are more ships. He is worried that it will make things difficult, especially now that the Ming Dynasty When there is already a more powerful fleet?
"It doesn't matter!"
"They saw us and didn't come out to intercept us, so that means there's no problem. Let's go in!"
"Look, there seem to be a lot of European-style ships in the port. It's no problem. At worst, they'll say it's your ship?"
"Besides, we didn't bring any goods back this time. If there is a sea ban, as long as we don't sell the goods and let people take care of them, I think those officials won't embarrass our Li family too much."
As if to comfort James and everyone, and as if to comfort herself, Li Huamei said this.
"Too……"
Nodding, James Ludwig stopped thinking about it and allowed the ship to sail slowly against the current towards the Qiantang River port under the blow of the sea breeze.
But...
What Li Huamei and her followers never expected was that as soon as they landed at the port, they were warmly welcomed by Song Yifeng and others who had already returned to the Ming Dynasty quickly, and among them, there was actually that organization. Lilu Agot and others arrived in Hangzhou almost together with Song Yifeng and others in the voyage caravan.
"this……"
"This is how the same thing?"
"Yifeng?"
"Why are you still in Hangzhou?"
"And Lilu, why did you come to Daming?"
"By the way, what's going on with those big ships outside and these people?"
Seeing so many people lined up to welcome them, including many soldiers and officials, and then looking at his former crew members and his good friend Lilu whom he met in Nanyang, looking at everything in front of him, although Li Huamei felt very cordial, However, she felt strange and surprised at the same time, and had no idea what was going on here.
"laugh!"
"Sister Huamei, do you know?"
"In order to find you, Annie and we accidentally hit the whole world!"
"But okay, now you are finally back!"
"correct!"
"The Queen's decree has arrived. You will soon be canonized as King Dinghai of the Ming Empire. Isn't it awesome?"
"There's more!"
"Thanks to Anne, all the seas around the world have been conquered by our Ming Empire. Now that the Ming Dynasty has imposed a sea ban, all public and private merchant ships can do business all over the world!"
"Also, your Li Family Chamber of Commerce, or the current Daming Navy, is already the overlord of the Seven Seas!"
Song Yifeng stuck out her tongue playfully, and then straight away told the general story while Li Huamei and others were at a loss.
Thanks to Annie, Song Yifeng was now made the first princess of Seoul by the Empress of the Ming Dynasty, became a great noble, and became the princess of the Joseon Kingdom. This made her not know how to follow her master and senior brother when she returned. They explain what is good.
"ah?"
"King Dinghai?"
"Overlord of the Seven Seas?!"
"This, this is impossible!"
"What happened in the Ming Empire while we were away?!"
"Oh my god..."
Listening to Song Yifeng's words, Li Huamei and his earliest followers, such as Yang Xien, Charlie Huisen, James Ludwig, Xingjiu Baimu and Yi'an Dukov, all exclaimed.
"alright!"
"Stop talking yet!"
"Her Majesty the Queen's envoy has been waiting for you for a long time. Go and receive the order first!"
"You don't know that not long ago, the small court of Nanming finally surrendered on its own initiative. Now is the time to hire people. I heard that Her Majesty the Queen also said that she would like you to be the Minister of Commerce and in charge of customs!"
"But Prime Minister of the Cabinet, you are definitely out of luck. Uncle Li is the great hero!"
"It's a pity that Anne won't come back..."
"But it's a good thing she won't come back, otherwise I wouldn't know how to canonize her!"
"It's okay now. It seems like I just need to worship her as the only officially recognized deity of the Ming Empire..."
Song Yifeng, who was leading the way, was talking eloquently, and then Li Huamei noticed that Song Yifeng's clothes seemed to be decorated like that of a royal family?
"Annie?"
"By the way, I don't think I saw Annie. Has she gone home?"
After hearing Song Yifeng talk about Annie, Li Huamei, whose mind was already in a mess, suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a certain lazy little guy who they had left in the private house in Hangzhou. ?
"Annie..."
"oops!"
"You'd better go home quickly to receive the order first. I'll explain it to you in detail when we get back!"
"Don't look at those boats now. They all belong to us now. I'll take you out for a walk another day!"
"Hurry up and follow me!"
At present, Admiral of the Daming Navy, Admiral of the East China Sea, and envoys, who are now worshiped as generals, commanders of the Beijing Guards, and governors-general of the Five Armed Forces Command, are waiting in Li Huamei's private residence. Therefore, Song Yifeng does not want to waste time, but just leads the way. He signaled the soldiers in front and the officials and wealthy businessmen who wanted to come forward to talk to get out of the way.
"Our ship?"
"impossible!"
"I don't remember that our Li family merchants have such a terrifying big ship. There are not even such ships in Hangzhou or the entire Ming Dynasty!"
Li Huamei was even more confused. You know, she had only been shopping for more than a year after her trip around the world. Why now, Song Yifeng said that those big ships belonged to them?
Even if it were built, it would probably take more than a year to build such a big ship, right?
"oops!"
"I'll tell you later!"
"Come quickly!"
"correct!"
"Our Ming Dynasty now has the shipbuilding technology for those ships!"
"In Tamsui City, they are working overtime to manufacture them. They just built a few ships a while ago and are now undergoing trial trials. In total, we have nearly thirty large ships."
"I heard from Uncle Li that he wants to build at least a hundred ships!"
After Song Yifeng asked the soldiers to block the crowd, officials and wealthy businessmen, she continued to talk and asked Li Huamei to follow her into her luxurious four-wheeled carriage.
That was her car as the princess of Seoul, given to her by Her Majesty the Queen.
However, for the others, those people Li Huamei brought back, she did not let them get to her car, but just asked them to follow on foot.
"??"
"Who is Uncle Li?"
After getting in the car, as the four-wheeled carriage with a shock-absorbing system began to move forward slowly, Li Huamei, who gradually relaxed her mood, couldn't help but ask a little strangely.
"ah!"
"I don't know either..."
"Anyway, people only know that his surname is Li, and that he has a big beard..."
Slightly stunned, Song Yifeng thought about it, and finally she was surprised to find that even though she had gone to destroy the Japanese pirates and conquered the Japanese country with him, and had stayed on the same ship for a long time, it seemed that she herself still didn't know about the bearded man. Captain's name?
"??"
Li Huamei was a little confused. She couldn't get the answer. As she thought about it, her mind couldn't help but become more confused.
"!!"
"Oh, stop talking now and come with me first!"
Finally, Song Yifeng said nothing more, because there were too many things to say, and she might not be able to finish them for days and nights, and she didn't know where to start, so she simply decided to wait until she got back. explain!
"etc!"
"It seems we haven't paid taxes yet..."
"Is it okay?"
At this time, Li Huamei, whose mind was in confusion, thought of her ships and the not too much gold and silver she brought back.
"What tax do you pay?"
"We have the final say over the entire Ming Dynasty. Who dares to collect taxes from us officers and soldiers?!"
As she spoke, Song Yifeng proudly raised her round chin, which was now a little pink and fat and no longer as sharp as when she was sailing around the world.
"Officers and soldiers?"
"When did we become an official army?!"
"oops!"
"That's it anyway!"
"..."
"Why has it changed so much? I was still thinking that when I came back, I would use those dozen ships to fight against Japanese pirates..."
"Japanese pirates?"
"Aha! Sister Huamei, we defeated the Japanese pirates a year ago!"
"Let me tell you, the entire Japanese country is now a subordinate country of our Ming Empire. Their shogun not long ago signed a letter of credence to express his surrender."
"ah?"
"how so……"
"Anyway, let's talk about it after we get back. There are so many things happening, and I don't know how to explain them."
"It must have started when you left me and Annie behind..."
"Annie?"
"..."
As the sound of conversation in the luxurious carriage at the head gradually stopped, this team, protected by horse-riding musketeers, gradually approached the gate of Hangzhou City.
Not far away, after seeing the approach of the team and carriage, the Ming officers and soldiers guarding the gate hurriedly shouted and opened the largest city gate, intending to let the team enter the city from the main gate instead of from both sides of the city gate like ordinary people. Enter through the slightly smaller side door.
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