The Portuguese did not have hegemony in Mogadishu as they claimed, and they did in Macau, initially under the pretext of trade and then taking advantage of it.

If you can conquer it, you will loot and rule here, and if you can't conquer it, you will restore relations and trade infiltration.

They tried, but Mogadishu's tall Stone Town prevented them from succeeding, and they built houses and trading posts along the coast to serve as supply points along the way.

However, Malindi, thousands of miles south of Mogadishu, is different, which was known as Malin State and Ma Woodland in the Ming Dynasty, and Yongle paid tribute to Emperor Chengzu in the thirteenth year of the year, the giraffe, and in the fourteenth year.

It was not until 1498 A.D. that da Gama led a fleet of ships in the southerly direction of Slow Baza to be beaten by the local Muslims for trade competition, and sailed north to the Ma Woods with the rival relationship with Slow Baza, and built the first military fortress on the advantage of the division and competition of the East African countries, where he found Ahmadrong ibn Majid, the famous navigator of the Indian Ocean.

With the help of Ahmadrong ibn Majid, Da Gama's fleet crossed the Indian Ocean in just twenty-six days, from East Africa to Calicut, the most prosperous port in southwestern India.

The first armed fortress established by the Portuguese in East Africa for a hundred years allowed them to not only monopolize trade, but also have sufficient military power to protect the port, and then to the places of Slow Basa and Mukudushu to deepen their influence in the sea by means of commercial trade and military competition.

Prior to Lin Feng's arrival, the northern part of the Indian Ocean was controlled by the native states, and the shipping routes near the equator were completely controlled by the Portuguese.

By this time, they had five coastal forts on the coast of East Africa east of the Cape of Good Hope, and had established good relations with the local tribes to gain access to tens of thousands of allied troops.

It was only at this time of year that the armed merchant ships on the coast were already loaded with goods and set sail for Lisbon, which made Yang Ce's long pursuit seem boring.

It is not the boring voyage that is unbearable, but the spirit of the twelve.

But Yang Ce has his own talent for resolving boredom.

He saw in the blurred telescope that the sails of the big black ship in front of him were only a small number of lifts, and even found that the other party had removed the bottom sails on the way, which made the eyes of the experienced pirate leader light up, and he tried his best to record this simple and effective sail shape with a brush in his notebook.

In addition, there were rope ladders to climb up and down, coastal terrain, and the mileage of navigation routes, all of which he recorded in his book, and put them on his chest with the inside of the cuirass that had been thrown by the hammer.

However, in addition to these things for his own amusement, Yang Ce, who was hanging far behind the Santa Catalina at a slow speed, always looked at the big black ship in front of him with worry in his eyes - the speed of the Santa Caterina was much faster than the data he got when he was studying in the lecture hall, and at this time, the other party deliberately slowed down, and the other slightly smaller warship had disappeared, obviously going to the front port to inform the defenders.

"It's been four days since the voyage of thousands of miles, how far is it from the hemp woodland you said?" Sun Liu's expression always seemed to be unkind, but at this time, this unkindness was no longer Xiang Yang Ce, he said: "Even if the flying shark in the back goes well, it will take two days to catch up, let's not rush to the door of someone's house." ”

Yang Ce was also worried about this, he shook his head and said: "If the purpose of the black ship is the hemp woodland, and it has to sail like this for three days, the flying shark can keep up, we can try to grab it, if we can't keep up, we can only go back." ”

After the first battle in the sea area of Mukudushu, eight artillery pieces were added to the Baihu, reaching a two-pound cannon that was not smashed by a cannonball, and the Zhenshuo general cannon, Portuguese bronze cannon, and Fran machine gun that could fight reached 15, and 17 pairs of broken or intact chain mail, 6 pairs of cuirasses, 14 arquebus guns, hundreds of long and short weapons, and a hand cannon with a peculiar shape to hit a catty iron bullet.

Combat ability directly climbs to a new level.

But his sailors have been greatly reduced, and no one can even use the extra weapons, because more than ten subordinates have been assigned to control the captured silverfish to go to the north to find the flying shark that Lin Afeng put outside to explore the way, and now there are only twenty-nine people left on board.

The more complex sails of the Fu ship brought about faster speed, but it also made the ship need more sail handlers, a Fu ship needed seven sailors to drive, and Lin Ah Feng's flying shark needed eighteen people.

What troubled Yang Ce was that his ship could not fight at all now, not to mention winning or losing, he couldn't even think about it and try it, they could only let all the artillery fire a salvo, not even the sailors of the white-knuckle battle.

Even if the Flying Shark arrives in time, not having enough sailors on his ship will give them a disadvantage in distributing the spoils after the victory...... Yang Ce didn't want anything, he just wanted that big black ship.

But whether the ship belongs to him or not, it's not up to him to have the final say, if Lin Feng wants to give him this big ship, he must make merit in this battle, if it's just a boat to guide the way, I'm afraid it won't convince Lin Feng and many pirates.

"I've got a way."

Sun Liu turned his head and saw Yang Ce, who was idle and bored, sticking a dagger into his back waist, leaving neat handwriting on the side of the ship, Sun Liu, who had been immersed in the disappointment of not being able to obtain the spoils, hurriedly asked, "What do you think of?" ”

"We had a lot of grain and cloth on board, and a little gold and silver from Portugal." Yang Ce pointed to the smoke rising from the shore not far away, and said: "You often encounter fishing villages on the shore, and the sages who sailed here in the past said that the people here practiced shooting and were still arrogant. ”

"I'll take out the money and hire some strong shooters in every fishing village along the way, and when the flying sharks catch up, there may be seventy or eighty people."

Sun Liu scoffed: "I still spend money to hire people, and the strong men are taken ashore and taken captive, but the words are incomprehensible, the orders are not good, and it is useless to capture many people." ”

"Try it, if they can understand the Portuguese, and so will I." Yang Ce said and beckoned the helmsman to sail to the fishing village on the shore and dock, and then said to Sun Liu: "Money and food still have to be given, so that they can die hard." ”

Yang Ce didn't think so in his heart, as he saw this as a good opportunity for him to recruit some of his cronies for the right purpose - if these people could speak Portuguese, none of the pirate leaders would be able to communicate with them, only himself.

Although he wasn't going to do anything, he couldn't always count on Lin Feng to transfer pirates to him, in case he encountered an accident in the future, those people were not of the same mind as him.

Thinking of this, Yang Ce's gaze at the fishing village became hotter and hotter, and his hands clenched into fists and gently hammered the side of the boat.

"What is that you carved?"

"Tang poems."

Yang Ce turned his head to Sun Liu's puzzled gaze and said, "Make it stop." ”/14_14088/