"Dutch?"

Li Dan sat on a chair in the middle of the stern platform, standing on the left and right of a samurai with a helmet and armor and a long-handled eyebrow knife, holding a hollow gilt silver and bronze ball with iron chains in his hand, his elbow on the armrest, supporting his side face and saying: "I am Li Dan, a native of Quanzhou, I am asking about your country, are you a Spaniard?" ”

He is holding an incense ball in his hand, the workmanship is extremely exquisite, the ball is made in two halves, the outside is carved and hollowed out to reveal the aroma, and there is a square copper box containing spices inside, which is put into the spice buckle into a ball, which can be smoked in summer and burned in winter to warm his hands.

Li Dan also has another jade sachet, which is hollowed out with a jade ring, which is extremely difficult to make and more valuable, so it is called a real ingenious workmanship, but the sachet made of jade cannot be burned, and it cannot warm hands in winter.

He originally thought that he would stay in Majiagang for a long time, but how did he know that Chen Mu sent him to bring heat again.

In the tropics, it is more comfortable to use jade, not to mention that it is cold to start with.

He really didn't like the smell of burning silk, and it took him half a day to ease up after playing with the incense ball, and Yuan Zizhang went to deal with the reward for the battle exploits of the Baishan Battalion, and it happened that he was very interested in this merchant ship, so he ordered someone to call the owner here.

Li Dan wanted to see with his own eyes what this daring man looked like if he didn't cross the sea and ran to the Caribbean Sea without crossing the sea with a cannon and a gun on the ship.

He was disappointed that the owner of the boat looked like, like a fisherman, and that he was still unlucky enough to catch a fish with a broken net.

Especially if you can't understand people, ask him where he came from, and tell him the name of the place - I'm not a European, can I ask you where you came from? I said, I'm from Quanzhou, you know where you are?

It's not that Lamb can't understand human speech, it's that he really doesn't know how to answer this question.

"Your Excellency, I am from the Dutch region of the Netherlands, the Netherlands used to be loyal to His Royal Highness King Philip of Spain, but then the people were no longer willing to be allegiance, there was a war, and now the war has not subsided, the Spanish and French armies are fighting in my homeland, and the Netherlands has divided into two alliances in the north and south."

Lamb said this very sincerely, and finally he slowly shook his head with thin lips, and his tired eyes were confused, "I don't know which country I belong to. ”

Li Dan didn't expect to get such an answer, and paused for a moment before asking: "I saw that your ship was flying the Spanish flag, maybe you don't know yet, the Caribbean Sea has been taken over by the Ming fleet, we will exterminate all pirates, check all ships, and flags and letters without the Ming will be treated as pirates." ”

"I, I'm not a pirate, I don't have a cannon on my ship."

Seeing that Lamb was busy arguing, Li Dan waved his hand and said: "Don't be in a hurry to be afraid, your ship is already pitiful enough, I won't be difficult for you, the officers and soldiers will check your cargo and the manpower on board, and then you can go to your destination, are you going to Puerto Rico?" ”

"Then you can follow my ship, and you can come back here when we set off, I really don't know what you think, you dare to come here to do business without a single cannon on the ship, it's really a matter of asking for money."

In fact, Li Dan had already begun to regret the reward he had promised, except for recovering a few broken Franco cannons in a battle, there was almost no war gains, and the reward had to be given another sum of silver.

The pirates were no threat to him, and the money was not worth it to him.

But at that time, he just wanted to spend, and he just annoyed that people treated him like fish on the chopping board!

After finishing the work, he saved an unlucky egg, and when he saw the captain's appearance, he knew that this merchant ship could not squeeze any oil and water at all, and a good man would do a good deed that day.

Seriously, Li Dan really feels like a good person at this moment.

"Caribbean, taken over by the Ming army?"

Nothing struck Lamb's worldview more than this news, and he stammered, "Spain lost the war in the New World?" ”

Li Dan on the chair touched his chin and beard with his other hand that did not hold the incense ball, stood up with a frown, and walked around the chair with the incense ball chain behind his back for half a circle, then supported the back of the chair and leaned forward slightly, turned his head to look at his guard and asked, "So this sounds like this...... As if he thinks Spain can win, right? ”

After that, Li Dan stood up straight and said to Lamb: "Since Longqing, there have been two wars between Ming and Xi, and there have been dozens of big battles and small battles, and they have not won. ”

"So now that we have signed an armistice, the defense of the Caribbean belongs to us, and although our merchants haven't come here yet, it doesn't hurt to help them fight pirates first, after all, their merchants have to sell their goods back before they have the money to ...... again."

Li Dan also wanted to recommend Panamanian goods to the captain who called himself a 'Dutchman', but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Yuan Zizhang's footsteps walking quickly, and the order of the general of the Beiyang Army Army was categorical: "Take him down!" ”

No one reacted to the sudden change, the two banner soldiers instinctively buckled Lamb, and the unsheathed waist knife was already across the neck, Yuan Zizhang saluted Li Dan with a fist, and whispered: "The sailors on his ship are not allowed to inspect the cargo, and there are twenty-two cast-iron cannons, more than 1,400 catties of gunpowder and boxes of cannonballs in the cabin." ”

Li Dan laughed after a short period of astonishment, and smiled at Lamb, who was struggling on his knees: "I thought he was an honest businessman, and the ship was loaded with artillery for a long time, and you are a Spanish officer?" ”

This thing is full of weirdness, Li Dan thinks that Lamb doesn't look like an officer, or even like a person who is used to weapons, not to mention that as far as he knows, Spain has a good quartermaster system, and the baggage transportation has always used large Galen ships, how can there be such poor shipowners and tattered and defenseless boats to transport military funds?

Lamb exclaimed, "That's my cargo, I received this job from the cannon foundry in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and handed over this batch of guns to Commander Bernal in New Spain, it's my cargo!" ”

Bernal?

Li Dan calculated the time, this batch of artillery was shipped at this time, then I am afraid that he placed an order when the Second War of Mingxi had just begun, and Bernal felt that the battle could be fought at this time.

"If you have a cannon in your ship, why don't you return fire when pirates chase you?"

"That's the goods, the goods have nothing to do with us, only with the employer and the buyer, I have no country, the Netherlands has no support, we can only rely on integrity, the sea is full of dangers, I can't guarantee that the goods will be delivered to the buyer, but I can guarantee that as long as I am alive, the goods will be new, and the buyer's goods will be what they are loaded on my ship, and what they will be delivered to."

"Unless all the Dutch people die at sea, one day ......" Despite the knife on his neck, Lamb said, "One day, we will be free from the Spanish rule, and the Netherlands will fly on the sea!" ”