Deng Zilong was back in a chair, his body leaning slightly to the left, his left arm wrapped in a Song-song-style leather and iron-encrusted bracer propped up on the armrest, and his fist slightly against his chin.

His right arm was half-stretched beside him, his fingers lightly tapped the tea case, his eyes were not focused, and he didn't know what to think.

The hall was full of freshly beaten furniture with a strong smell of tung oil, and there was no tea on the tea table, only a few official documents.

On the top page, the document is densely written in three languages, and is accompanied by a three-inch square portrait of a young man with a European face, with heavy circles under his tired eyes, red spots on his face, and a long beard under a large nose with obvious ulceration on his lips.

'William Parker, born in Plymouth, England, came from a noble birth, and in order to emulate the sea thief Cord and rob his fortune to strengthen his prestige, he purchased four ships, including the Knight, the flagship of the shipyard in Plymouth called Old Parker, in the fourth year of Wanli, and traveled to and from the Low Countries to solicit idle people, buy English birds and Dutch guns, and in the early spring of this year led a fleet westward to the West Indies. ’

'Its flagship knight has sixteen cannons, eight Dutch iron guns, and more than 300 sailors on four ships, which cannot be stopped by maritime merchants to and from the West; He successively seized a pearl ship from the West off the coast of Havana, a silver coin ship with Changsheng, and destroyed three fishing boats. ’

Then he attacked the port of Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico, besieged it for six days without success, and drove it away by Jesús, the commander of the Second Army of New Spain; He went to the Kirin Bay in Panama to rob a Portuguese slave ship, and went ashore to loot again, besieged by the Qilin Banner Army, and captured him alive after a few days of fighting. ’

Under William Parker's information, there are also several pirate leaders, most of whom came from England, with almost the same purpose, to follow Drake's example in plundering Spanish treasure ships in order to gain unparalleled fame and unimaginable wealth.

The owner of these materials knelt neatly in front of Deng Zilong, Yishui's lower limbs were swollen and his face was red spots, and all of them had nautical diseases, but not all of them were sick at sea.

It has been half a month since the Qilin Guard captured these pirates, and Deng Zilong gave an order, regardless of whether they were detained in the prison of the guard or on the way to Panama City, they were only allowed to eat bread and drink water, and they were not allowed to eat or drink a little vegetables, a little fruit, or a drop of tea.

Deng Zilong seemed to have just come back to his senses, and when he saw a few miserable people in front of him, he sighed before asking faintly: "Are you stupid?" They're all fools. ”

"If you want to rob the Spaniards, you can rob them, my Ming fishing boat on the sea recruited you to provoke you? And you sank it with the gunboats. ”

"It's forgivable for you to rob Havana and Veracruz, and the Kirin Guard has provoked you again, and the corpses of pirates drying on the reef can't be seen, so the big Mingzi banner can always be seen! Hundreds of thieves came ashore and robbed them. ”

The man who dried on the reef came from a similar route as William Parker, named Andrew Buck and his associates, also English, born in Bristol.

This man's fleet is powerful, two years ago attacked Trujillo in Venezuela twice, the first time was repulsed, the second time came back to capture the town, looted before being driven away, early last year the prosperous Shi Xiaolou built the first ship in Qilinwei was snatched by him, triggering Li Dan and Chen Jiujing to encircle and suppress him, but he has not been caught.

Before the establishment of the company, Shi Xiaolou had already offered a reward of 1,000 horses of silk to the Spanish fleet in the Viceroyalty of Peru and the West Indies under New Spain, demanding that they be caught alive.

I didn't look for Deng Zilong because the Oriental Military Government did not have warships on the east coast.

In the end, Andrew Barker was left with only six scarred ships and one hundred and twenty pirates, which had been sent by Yang Ce of the Han Kingdom earlier this year.

When General Yang, who had lost countless treasures in Chang Sheng, he bought a few cannons from the Oriental Military Mansion, and it happened that Deng Zilong's banner army had a batch of small-caliber guns for land warfare that had been used for some years, so Chen Mu asked him to go directly to Qilin Wei to get them.

Yang Ce, who received the cannon, conveniently packed up his fleet on the way back to the west coast of Africa and sent it to Qilinwei, but only took Shi Xiaolou's reward of 400 pieces of silk - Yang Ce meant that it was enough for him to take back some good silk for his subordinates to wear, and the remaining 600 horses of silk would not be used by him, and he would not be able to sell it if he sold it, so that the merchant would send the silk to the Oriental Military Mansion for storage, and he would use it when he came to play again next year.

Later, these pirates were hung on the reef off the coast of Kirinwei as performance art.

That's it, and there are English pirates who come one after another to send them to death.

Deng Zilong was so worried that he had wrinkles.

"Ask them."

Deng Zilong said to his interpreter: "What is it about Panama that attracts them, the pirates come endlessly, in this year alone, the Qilinwei has been attacked three times, and the pirates have appeared sixteen times, so what about the big set?" ”

And they were all British, as if they knew that Deng Zilong didn't have a ship.

In fact, this is also the reason why Chen Mu laughed when he heard the news that Almansa said that pirates had come to Panama...... Deng Zilong was about to be tossed crazy by pirates, a group of clowns jumping off the beam, dozens of people with a few dozen or more, fighting a few small broken gunboats, rampant on the sea and treating him as nothing.

However, his fleet is still floating in South Asia and has not bypassed, there is no coastal defense at all, so he can only wait for others to go ashore to grab it once, and the aboriginal newly recruited flag army that has been training for half a year will intercept and arrest it once, and there is no other way.

You can't just build all the beaches that can be landed on the long coastline to the Cannon Temple, right?

The adjutant asked William Parker, and he wanted to ask in English, but he couldn't understand half of the question, he learned this English when he was alive on the reef, and his vocabulary was very low, so he had to ask in Spanish when he was in a hurry, but fortunately, he stumbled and stumbled so that William understood.

What else can it be, in the end, it's still for the money, the Isthmus of Panama, the rich land of Drake.

This answer almost made Deng Zilong mad: "The Spaniards only transported silver from here, and the Ming Dynasty did not transport silver!" Fuck off, fuck off, go to jail! ”

"Write a letter, you can't kill any more, let's kill a bunch of pirates, no one over there knows what's going on, it's too frightening."

Deng Zilong raised his hand like a fly and asked the flag army to take these pirates who were covered in stinky seafaring diseases back to prison, and said to the adjutant: "Write a letter to Chang Sheng, I plan to send a few people back to England, let them know that Panama is a Ming dynasty, and let Chen Shuai find Elizabeth to ask for compensation...... yes, another hello. ”

Speaking of this, Deng Zilong's anger in his heart finally eased a little, and said: "Ask Chen Shuai, the little governor of Havana sent someone over to ask for the two ships carrying pearls and silver, and ask what to do." ”

After speaking, Deng Zilong got up and searched the map behind him with his eyes, muttering: "Where is my fleet...... Sooner or later, they will hit their hometown! Let them suffer from this nest too. ”