Chapter 441: Fleet
Matosa, the governor of Portuguese Brazil, was deeply apprehensive, but in the midst of this apprehension, he was deeply impressed by his own wit.
Whether it was sending people to Changsheng or Zhao Shizhen's fleet going north, Brazil unified the Ming Dynasty, and Rio de Janeiro was their capital.
But in reality, their Brazilian Viceroyalty has been in El Salvador, a seaport north of Rio, and they named the bay next to the harbor Halloween Bay, which means the savior next to Halloween Bay.
It was the first town established by the Portuguese in the New World, and it was also the largest slave market in the New World, but they could save none of them but themselves.
Compared with the brutal colonization of the Spanish in the north of the New World, the Portuguese had little power, and the relationship with the aborigines was peaceful enough, and for a long time, the Portuguese and the aborigines in Brazil did not interfere with the river water, and only strengthened the relationship with the two sides through trade.
At that time, the Portuguese really found paradise, and by the king's order, every Portuguese who voluntarily came to Brazil was given a piece of land, a few hundred square kilometers, a thousand square kilometers, and the poor bastards, who had nothing but courage and a sword, became the owners of large estates.
I don't have to do anything every day, I smoke a cigarette and lie in the sun in a hammock, and when I am hungry and shake the bell, an Indian wife brings me food.
In this way, the colony can develop?
Whoever cares whether the colony develops or not, they themselves can live comfortably.
This continued for many years, and it was almost not until that generation died that the King of Portugal actually sent a governor to administer it, which was the beginning of the tragedy.
It was very difficult to rule a thousand times the indigenous people with a small number of Portuguese, and in the past, the king granted the colonists a large amount of land, but this land was largely uncultivated because it could not be cultivated, and even the land under the colonizer's name was inhabited by several indigenous tribes who did not care about the colonizers at all.
At that time, they had thousands of large estates, but the output of a year was pitiful.
Nominally, they all owned an endless amount of land, but in reality there was only a small trading station in the middle of someone else's land, and when the aboriginal leader was happy, he sent someone to sell it with skins and mahogany in exchange for some glass balls to play with.
When the Governor came, everything was different.
They have to make use of the land, and they have to attract the indigenous people to farm...... But the aborigines are not stupid, I live well in the jungle, I go up to the trees to pick what I want to eat, I pick up the animals if I want to use something, and I come out to work for you when I am full?
Contradictions come, and peace is gone.
Counting from the time the first governor ordered forced farming, three years later the large Portuguese estates were reduced to several dozen.
The colonists were all killed by the aborigines, and the colonies were directly destroyed by the aborigines.
There is no way, the first wave of colonists who came to Brazil were all characters that grandma did not love and grandfather did not love, and the original papal meridian was drawn directly along the edge of the east coast of the New World, so that Europeans did not know the New World, and they did not know why the Pope drew so accurately, so that the map of the Portuguese side of the partition perfectly avoided the grass and trees of the New World.
Later, after the discovery of the New World, Portugal cried, made trouble and hanged themselves, only to deviate a little bit from the New World, and just drew the eastern part of Brazil into it, which made the Portuguese let thousands of people run here.
No gold or silver was found here, and the ambitious colonists had gone elsewhere, and the people who stayed here did not have much interest.
What to do, what not to eat, what to eat, not enough.
But they were quite smart, and knew that if they couldn't defeat the natives, they could only further develop some coastal colonies, and leave the rest alone.
However, they were also sending slave traps into the jungle, which were small and small due to the size of the Portuguese in Brazil.
The number of indigenous people forced to serve them was also pitiful, and the plantations were filled with more slaves bought from Africa.
Governor Matosa was heartbroken for Brazil, and he was desperate to expand trade opportunities, and he took the initiative to go to Changsheng to find Chen Mu and hoped that the envoy for trade was sent by him.
But the result was not good, Chen Mu looked at the goods and felt that there was really nothing to buy, and the merchants of Daming were not very interested in it.
The position is very awkward.
To put it simply, the Ming Dynasty's arrival in the New World is a signal, symbolizing that their good days are over.
Although the Oriental military government did not actually do anything to Brazil, once the bad luck was riddled up, nothing good could happen.
Matosa found that sugar was profitable, but sugar extraction was a labor-intensive industry, so he planned to buy a large number of slaves from Africa into the plantations to expand production, but the Han pirates were catching up with the Han pirates on the other side of the ocean to make waves and rob all their peers.
Merchants, merchants are gone; Pirates, pirates never return; Soldiers, ships are gone, and there is no return.
More than 20 fleets were sent, and more than 30 trips were made, and a total of three ships returned, and more than half of the slaves brought back had not yet died.
finally found a bit of iron ore, his left hand was busy fighting with the aborigines, and his right hand was busy going to Chen Mu to negotiate business...... It's not that he wants to sell Chen Mu on the pole, but there is no safer buyer except Chen Mu, these Portuguese don't even dare to go home, and the Han pirates on the route are running around, and they are gone when they are seen.
There were a lot of armed merchant ships in the whole of Brazil, but the slave trade allowed them to send the best ships, and there were quite a few new ships left, but there were no guns.
Where can you beat Yang Ce, who has more ships, more guns, and more people than them?
Then, in order to be the first Catholic king to conquer North Africa, the king went south to fight Africa.
If you fight Africa, you will fight, and if you lose, you will lose, and as a result, the king who is pro-conquest will die and be uncomfortable?
Hundreds of nobles became captives of the Moors, and in the end the king had no heir, leaving behind a mess.
Now King Philip of Spain has sent a message for them to accept someone else as king...... This was not bad in the eyes of the Brazilian governor, Matosa.
He knew that even Yang Ce, the pirate leader who was rampant in the Atlantic, would not dare to provoke the Spanish fleet, and knew that the king could send the fleet here regularly every year to go around, and they would have the opportunity to re-communicate with each other.
But this also meant that it was necessary to dissociate itself from the Ming Dynasty's Oriental military government.
After the death of their king, Zhao Shizhen told him that if Brazil wanted independence, the Ming army could protect him from the threat from Spain.
The problem was that none of the Brazilian nobles and merchants saw Spain as a threat.
The people on the border are fighting for life and death, what does it matter to them? They were close to the Spanish aristocracy.
So Matosa decided to leave the Brazilian problem to Filip and Chen Mu to solve, and he did not appear in the middle.
But...... On the 3rd day of February in the ninth year of Wanli, the guards stationed in the harbor came to report that they saw a large war ship with a sail in clear characters lined up at sea, sailing south on the wind and waves.
South, is the direction of Rio.