At the westernmost tip of Java Island, in Phoenix Harbor outside Phoenix, 800 huge ships slipped into the sea from the dry dock.

Firecrackers rang out, the Javanese people and the expatriates poured out of the city, carrying the statue of Zheng He to the streets to worship, dragon and lion dances left and right, and the Japanese people with iron cannons on their waists in the streets and alleys also joined the procession, and went through the streets and alleys to their own port - Phoenix Port.

Nanyang is very large, there are very few people, and eighty percent of the population of the entire Nanyang is gathered in this land that is not as big as Fujian, Java Island.

Two years ago, Lin Feng was ordered by Chen Mu to lead the army to land in Majapahit, expecting a big war in his heart, but he didn't expect that the Majapahit country had been reduced to a small country with only a thousand troops under the pressure of Java, and it was broken by pirates from the Ming Dynasty in a blink of an eye.

The pirates landed from the easternmost tip of Java and attacked all the way west, intervening in the local tribal war with elite bandits, and conquering the entire island for thirteen months, with the help of supplies from the Nanyang military government.

Lin Afeng is more familiar with this island than anyone else, even the local natives are few who can travel all over the huge island, but the pirates under his command are familiar with every grass and tree on this island from west to east, and even clearly remember the one hundred and twelve volcanoes on the entire island.

Such a place should not be suitable for human life, but the volcanic ash has brought the most fertile land in the whole of the South Seas, and there is no place more favored by agricultural civilization than here.

"Don't be jealous of me, east of Phoenix City, the entire island belongs to the Nanyang Military Government, and I only need this city." Lin Feng was still carrying his worn-out hat, with a mottled breastplate on his chain mail jacket, and said to Lin Daoqian: "I thought you wouldn't come, after all, you are an official of the imperial court." ”

"Aren't you happy to farm in Mishima?" Lin Afeng still looked down on Lin Daoqian, and sneered: "Why, I heard that Chen Shuai returned to Beijing to report on his work, and he was worried about the change of the Nanyang Military Government, and the imperial court sent troops and horses to you again?" ”

Lin Daoqian's ridicule of Lin Feng didn't hear it, he knew that Lin Afeng just didn't want to see him defect to the government several times, in all fairness, Lin Afeng went in and out of Fujian and Guangzhou every time he was a pirate, and he was really tough, but who could have good luck like him, and Guangdong produced a general like Chen Mu who had no suspicion of pirates?

He crossed his arms and looked at the big ship that was sinking and floating in the sea, and said, "What kind of ship is that?" ”

"What ship? My boat! ”

The unruly pirate leader looked at the warships of different shapes on the sea with a proud expression, raised his arms and pointed to the huge warship with sails on the sea and said: "The shape of the shark ship is narrower and sharper, wide in front and narrow in the back, the three masts are up to nine zhang, with Xiyi sails and double artillery decks, my ship is lighter, and its speed is far faster than that of the shark ship, it is called the Flying Shark!" ”

More than a dozen flying shark ships were launched in the dry dock of Phoenix Harbor, and each hull was painted with blue paint with the fierce appearance of the shark's opening, all of which looked like warships of any country, and no one would have thought that such a ship was built by pirates themselves.

Needless to say, Lin Daoqian is also an expert in playing boats, and he knows that this is a light fast boat, which is nothing more than a light boat in the past, he looked at the exposed cannon muzzle of the flying shark boat and said: "There are thirty-two gun windows up and down, and the empty warehouse is downwind, can there be two and a half?" ”

The speed of the Ming ship is very rough, and it is a unit of time, ten watches a day and night; As a unit of speed, it is up or down, and it becomes the average speed again.

But simple and practical, the speed of the ship on the shift is 90 miles an hour, and the speed in the West is four knots.

Fu ship, Guangzhou ship and even later shark ship, the normal speed is faster, but there is always speed and slowness in long-distance navigation, affected by various problems, the average speed is too much, this experience accumulated speed measurement method is quite scientific.

"Almost."

Lin Afeng actually didn't actually calculate, he only knew that the speed of the boat that he tried to launch earlier had two shifts, and the two and a half watches were estimated to be a bit hanging, but he wanted to bluff Lin Daoqian, raising his chin and being very proud: "The shark boat is used for conquest, and the small shark boat is suitable for us, but after all, it is too small, and if such a shape is large, the speed will be slow, which is not conducive to encirclement and interception." ”

The smooth launch of the battleship caused the crowd on the shore to raise their arms and cheer, and the bird's gun and iron cannon roared into the sky.

Outside Asia, perhaps even the largest pirate city in the world, thousands of boatwrights and sailors of all races gathered under the command of Lin Ah Fung, including Portuguese merchants, sailors, and shipwrights who had landed in the Spice Islands earlier, as well as local sailors and tribal warriors, as well as Fujian and Cantonese merchants and seafarers, as well as Japanese ronin who had followed the Japanese Ronin since their early years.

With the warships of the Ming Kingdom cruising around on the sea, East Asia has left less and less room for the outlaws on the sea, and they all gather here, and in this lawless land, the only thing that can restrain them is sharp knives and iron guns.

"My boat is different, except for the sail with a lot of people, and the canvas costs some money, nothing else is bad, it is faster." Lin Afeng turned his head to look at Lin Daoqian, and said: "Now that you are here, it won't be long before Shi He, if he is not stupid, he will come, Nanyang will change the sky, if you are willing to join the military government and navy, you will go with you, I only recognize Chen Shuai, and I will go to sea if I change others." ”

"What do you think?"

Lin Daoqian spread his hands, since Zeng Yi, the most powerful bandit at sea is Lin Afeng, especially after Penghu and the chicken coop were looted by Lin Afeng, he actually has little power, and there is a serious shortage of manpower...... Now that many people under Lin Afeng's command were his subordinates in the past, and they have become Lin Feng's right-hand men after several mergers, what can he think?

Thinking about it, he was quite aggrieved, he said: "I brought from the three islands, there are only more than 900 elite people, and more than 4,000 dependents, this is suitable for farming, I want to recuperate here, and I am also on the orders of Chen Shuai." ”

As he spoke, Lin Daoqian raised his arm and pointed to the east, and said: "The military government said that this place is very suitable for planting circles, and the Yi people call this the spice islands, and the Portuguese have a great demand for spices, and they can also grow rice." For some reason, Chen Shuai doesn't seem to want the imperial court to pay attention to this, perhaps to leave it to us. ”

Lin Daoqian smiled, what Chen Mu was going to do, I'm afraid only Chen Mu himself knew, he took out the gold medal official seal from the arms of the entourage warrior, and said, "Chen Shuai left this for me." ”

The two things were thrown to Lin Afeng, he looked at the official seal with 'Lin Daoqian, the governor of Tangmin Island' written on his hand, and suddenly raised his head and laughed, even happier than the launch of more than ten flying shark boats, and after handing it back to Lin Daoqian, Lin Afeng blinked and said, "Chen Shuai really left something for you." ”

The so-called Tangmin Island is now the island of Java.

Lin Daoqian raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then what did Chen Shuai leave for you?" ”

"The Guangzhou Navy lectures on the two-year system of Wanli, the map of the world."

Lin Afeng's weathered face wrinkled with a smile, he had never seen such a person, with incomparable ambitions, just to let the Ming people leave more traces in the world, he relayed the handwriting on the map, and said: "The Ming Empire will eventually be peerless - the handwriting is not good-looking, on that map, he left me a route, is to want us to do something." ”

"Phoenix Harbor does not go to Malacca, from Sumatra to the west to the Lion Country, the Bay of Bengal in the northeast, the Arabian Sea in the northwest, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea.

The gun window of the huge flying shark ship opened, and the eighteen-pound heavy cannon from the porthole of the Nanyang Guard Ordnance Bureau was launched accordingly, the Western-style sail was full, and the main sail was written with the words "Lin Feng" with teeth and claws, and Lin Afeng hugged his arms and smiled on the shore.

"What Li Ma Ben Li Ma Bang, I am the only one in the world, Lin Feng - I hope that when I pass, those stupid dicks will not mispronounce Lao Tzu's name again."