The triangular trade routes in the Great Eastern Ocean are very much in line with the movement of ocean currents,

Even if you have to run the coast of Seville in Spain, Songhai in Africa, Kirinwei and Port Wei in Asia, the entire route can be completed in 240 days.

If you take short breaks and have clear goals, you can even run twice a year.

However, for Yang Ce, the general of the Han Kingdom, it was enough for him to run this route once a year.

He couldn't run too fast, for his work at sea was becoming less and less, and the nobles he had sold back to Portugal, England, France, and Spain were rarely caught a second time after they had escaped.

Over the course of a few years, the Europa voyagers who ran this route were captured by him for almost an entire generation.

Even continuing to loot on this route was already unprofitable for him.

Routes, routes.

Without a ship, is it still a route?

If Spain were willing to fight to protect the route, Yang Ce's troops would have suffered a lot of damage, but it would have increased the courage of the merchants exploring the triangular trade.

The Spaniards' naval willingness, however, was to expel his fleet after it had crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, yes, rather than attack.

The ships with Chinese characters were intimidated by the Spanish navy, and most of the admirals could not tell whether it was Ming or Han written on it, and they expelled Yang Ce not because of his identity, but simply because of the rules, the Spaniards inspected the company ship guide of the shipping merchants according to Li Dan's orders.

Only Ming ships led by company ships could trade in the Ming Concession of Seville, otherwise they could only get supplies from any port along the coast and leave, and had no right to trade.

Since Yang Ce fled every time he saw the Spanish Navy's huge and shadow-like Galen ship, he was expelled by the Spanish ship at least twenty-five times before finally being approached by the Spanish Navy, and learned that he could also go to the Spanish port to resupply him—as long as it was not discovered that he was actually a notorious pirate in the seas.

After the route could not be used in favor of Yang Ce, he returned to the Han kingdom's Xiandao, that is, Madagascar, last year, and after agreeing with King Lin Ah Feng, they changed their strategy in the Great Eastern Ocean.

No more robbing of passing merchant ships.

At the beginning of the seventh year of Wanli, Yang Ce, who was not satisfied with plundering Portuguese merchant ships, sacked El Salvador, the Portuguese gathering place in Brazil.

El Salvador means savior in Portuguese and Spanish, and there are two cities called El Salvador in Portugal, four in Spain, and a staggering seventeen in Asia today.

If it weren't for Chen Mu's arrival, the number of duplicate names in the city would continue to grow.

The results of the looting made Yang Ce extremely annoyed.

He snatched some mahogany, cloth, and tobacco, as well as large quantities of hard-to-transport cattle, mutton, and live livestock, and freed more than 2,000 black slaves.

The gold is pitifully scarce, and the silver is pitifully scarce.

There is no gold, no silver, Yang Ce wants to ask these poor ghosts Portuguese, what does he take to take his younger brother to Changsheng chic?

There is no doubt that the strategy change failed.

It is not feasible to loot the towns, the towns that can be ransacked by him are very poor, and some Portuguese gatherings can be penetrated by only two boats, and there are up to a hundred and ten Portuguese in them, what is there to rob?

Those rich towns, such as the coast of Spain and the coast of New Spain, are either under the protection of the Spanish Navy or under the protection of Chen Mu, he has a reason not to do it, not to mention ...... Even if you do it, you can't beat it.

There was no way, Yang Ce didn't go to Changsheng this year, so he landed at Qilinwei and sold the goods he got from Brazil, and placed some orders for bird guns, but the disgraced ones didn't even dare to mention artillery and warships, so they simply sailed back to Songhai, Africa.

He gave himself a vacation, and he took a break for more than half a year.

It was Spain that gave them the opportunity to win a healthy development, to be precise, a Spanish baron, whose name was too long to remember, and Yang Ce called him too often.

As mentioned above, it is rare for nobles to appear on this sea for the second time after the family accepts the high ransom from Yang Ce, but very few means that it is not nothing.

Taichang was one of them, and he was caught four times by Yang Ce.

Catch a couple of March dinners, which adds up to the time they spend together...... Yang Ce counted with his fingers, it has been seven months.

If other European nobles are fattened pigs for Yang Ce, they are just waiting to be slaughtered and eaten for the New Year; Then the baron from Spain is too often an old hen that lays golden eggs, and he was caught the second time, and every time he came over in the future, Yang Ce was entertained with good wine and food, and even found a woman for him from the Songhai Empire.

The ransom was paid and sent to the boat, and he waved his hand and beckoned him to come back next time.

There is no way, business is getting more and more difficult to do, and there are fewer and fewer warriors like Taichang who know that there are tigers in the mountains and still tirelessly prefer the tiger mountain.

If this continues, Yang Ce can only go to southern Africa to dig gold mines and sell them in New Spain for money.

Why does Taichang keep coming here?

He was a veteran who had participated in the Battle of Lepanto in his early years, and when his right leg was wounded and disabled in the battle, he could no longer fight on horseback, so he turned his eyes to the path of wealth.

What is the fast money in this day and age? There is no doubt that it is the nautical trade, and what is the most profitable in the nautical trade? That, of course, was the slave trade.

And in recent years, the market for the slave trade has obviously become more and more hot, and there is no way, the relationship between supply and demand has been changed.

The Portuguese colony in Brazil was short of people, and the Spanish colony in Peru was even more short of people.

There have been dead people in the silver mines of Potosí, but New Spain was taken away by Chen Mu, and Chile in the south was also controlled by Shao Tingda, and both sides not only did not let the Peruvian Viceroyalty pull people, but also wanted to return the Indians they had invaded, so where could people come from?

Africa.

The West India Council continued to issue trade bounties to the country, hoping that a captain would transport the men to the West Indies.

And Yang Ce's side was stuck with merchants at sea, and it would be good that three of the ten ships could carry the prisoners who had lost in the war out of Africa, which was far from making up for the manpower gap in Potosí.

As a result, the West India Council offered higher and higher rewards.

Taichang has also been a fish that slipped through the net, he has been to Africa seven times, four times he was caught, and three times he successfully sold the captives he bought to the New World, which really made a lot of money, and these experiences of being captured also made him find out Yang Ce's temperament.

He finally felt that he could discuss something with Yang Ce.

"General Yang, you just let me sail here, I buy the goods, and pay taxes to you on every ship, so that I can also make money, and I can pay you more money next time." Tai Chang said and spread his hand to Yang Ce and said: "If you want more money, I can also provide you with a message, France is at war, General Chen of the Ming Empire sacked Bordeaux this year and grabbed a lot of money, why don't you set up a tax card here and lead your troops there to support him?" ”

Yang Ce applauded when he heard this, he didn't even know that Chen Mu had already hit Europa, he had already wanted to go there and grab it!

This is a beautiful misunderstanding, Yang Ce didn't know that it was not Chen Mu but Chen Jiujing in France.

But he did take the advice that was too often to collect taxes.