"Dear Lord Denoronia, please forgive me for not writing to you for so long, General Chen's guards have kept me under too close control."

"During my days with General Chen, I learned a lot of new things, he said that our Portuguese idea of establishing a trading post in Malacca and Macau is very good, but there is no need to go further, saying that if we use military rather than trade like Spain, we will be attacked sooner or later. Witness the Spaniards in the Philippines, Luzon, as General Chan called this place. ”

"Having witnessed what happened to the Spaniards in Luzon, I believe that Portugal had done a great job of setting up trading posts and obtaining goods by fair means, and should continue to do so, especially within the scope of the Ming attack."

"He wouldn't let me tell anyone about him, but he had twenty fleets with artillery, twenty thousand soldiers skilled in muskets and spears, and a large number of pirates in his service. Behind General Chen is the Great Ming, I don't know how big a pagan country is, he neither supports nor opposes us spreading the glory of the Lord in the world, although the missionaries are not yet allowed to enter the Great Ming, but this is a good start. ”

"This time, General Chen asked me to write to you, hoping that Daming can get permission to set up trading posts in Malacca, the Spice Islands, Goa and other places, all of which need to be ruled by you, and I have no right to convince, just to explain the situation here."

"I'm sure you already know from other sources that General Chan expelled the Spanish Governor of the Philippines, Regasby, in his words, to restore the tributary state, which may have been an alliance with their emperor a hundred years ago? But unlike an alliance, you can think of the Ming Emperor as another pope, except that this pope does not spread the light on God's behalf, but only sends troops when the believers need it. ”

"It is worth mentioning that the Manchurian Thorn that we occupy is also a believer of the Ming Emperor."

"However, due to the confines of our relationship, General Chan does not intend to send troops to retake Manchuria, he seems to regard Portugal as a friend in his heart, saying that they benefit each other and benefit each other, and as we do in Macau, he has praised the Portuguese of Macau more than once, saying that they have done their duty as friends, and have generously defended themselves when they need help, and have not held him back."

"General Chen needed gold and silver, the whole world needed spices, silk and porcelain, and the Spaniards needed it. After they fought with General Chen, we were able to buy more goods, so General Chen planned to open a trading station to allow more goods to circulate. ”

"I don't want you to refuse him, because he really doesn't want war with us. But as a Portuguese, I must explain to you that General Chan was a lawless villain, and although he called Portugal his friend, I observed that he always made his friends suffer, and never allowed a second person besides himself to bully his friends. ”

"We look forward to hearing from you – Fernand Mendes Pinto, who had the privilege of fighting with you in Ethiopia."

The donkey man was still wearing his crimson lion official robe, and sat on the chair with Erlang's legs crossed and not dignified. After listening to Yizi Li Dan read Pinto's letter, he dragged his chin with one hand, looked at Pinto with a strange look and raised his eyebrows, and asked in a questioning tone: "Mr. Pinto, have I made you suffer?" You put on your glasses and look at me carefully, don't you feel my high morality? ”

"What do you mean by a lawless villain?"

Fortunately, there was only Xu Wei in the house except for them, and Li Dan was almost fucking laughing when he read this letter.

Chen Mu was actually holding back a smile, what is the situation of comparing the emperor to the pope? He also said that the tributary country was a believer, and the emperor only sent troops when the believers needed it, when did my Ming Emperor be so full?

If you don't get to the door of your home, our emperor won't be too lazy to go to the army!

Pinto was not afraid of Chen Mu, he took off his hat with a calm demeanor, and said to Chen Mu: "General Chen, I must tell you that the Bugarao Artillery Factory in Macau has my shares, although it is not much, but it is all my savings in the past. The guests of the artillery factory were pirates and Portuguese merchants who could not get the supply of weapons, and in the past there were very few Portuguese people, and the main customers were pirates. ”

"Because Your Excellency's Ordnance Bureau produces artillery and sells it to pirates, the dividends have become less and less in recent years, and some time ago, you hired all the workers under the Armory Bureau surnamed Guan, leaving me with no return."

"Yo, you're going to say you're gone! Keep up the good work. Chen Mu laughed, and then frowned and asked Li Dan: "Guan Jiang sent a letter saying that there was a shortage of manpower to think of a way, and he didn't tell me that he was going to buy the Bujialao Gun Factory?" ”

Li Dan was also at a loss, he hadn't heard about it, and then he saw Pinto wave his hand and said, "I hope he buys it, at least I still have money." That cunning old man didn't buy a gun factory, he just recruited all our skilled workers! ”

Smack.

Chen Mu applauded Guan Yuangu.

Guan Jiang is really worthy of being an old craftsman, and he knows that craftsmen are the most important things.

"Okay, don't be so resentful, isn't the remuneration Chen gave you as good as the dividends of the gun factory?" Chen Mu thought about it in his heart, it seemed that it was really incomparable, the cannon sold by Bu Jialao was expensive, and the donkey man felt black, so he changed his words and said: "Many things can't be bought with money, for example, status, you are Chen's staff, how respectful your status is in Macheng, is this comparable to the Haojing District Artillery Factory?" ”

"Even if you say it, this letter is like this, if it is not changed, it can be handed over to the Portuguese merchants waiting at the port to send to Goa."

Old Pinto nodded with great satisfaction, waved his feather hat at Chen Mu, looked ten years younger, and followed the soldiers to deliver the letter proudly.

After Pinto left, Li Dan looked a little worried and asked, "Father-in-law, can the Governor of Portugal promise the official army to go to the garrison to open the port?" ”

"Definitely not, you can let the Portuguese build a commercial station in Nanjing?" Chen Mu shook his head and smiled, after getting the same power from the King of Portugal from Pintona to Goa, India, and Lisbon, he knew that the matter of opening a trading station was enough, "But it should be okay to talk, I didn't ask for anything, it depends on what they ask, we can also follow it, and wait for a reply." ”

"They want goods, I want goods and money, Haojing has their trading station, they want to at least give me a place, right? Later, Goa can do without, but Malacca and the Spice Islands can't be less. ”

Chen Mu's eyes were fixed, and his index finger tapped on the table: "Once the negotiation is completed, the businessmen will go over first, and then they will garrison the port to repair the port, Malacca, the Spice Islands, Luzon, and Japan, all of which will form a line, which can not only attack from all sides, but also rush to help from all directions." ”

Li Dan didn't have a clear understanding of the map, so he glanced back at the map hanging on the wall, and then connected the place names in his heart, and then asked, "Then what if they don't agree?" Also go to war? ”

"If you don't promise that you won't be able to fight for a while, and if you start a war with Portugal, you will be blind in sea trade."

Donkey Racer shook his head, but his expression was still relaxed, "Portugal is a commercial station, just like a place as big as Guangdong, they are only in Haojing, and they can't talk about it, so I'll go to open a port next to them, he is in Malacca, and Johor and Aceh have to pay tribute; He has a trading post in Brunei, and Sarawak must have princes to be crowned kings, and it is better to have no king! ”

"Heh, I have so many members of the Ming Sect, and I spend money in vain all day, and I invite one to be the king."