In the vast sea, three Galen ships are cleaving the waves. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After obtaining the information provided by the British, they were ready to send the Englishman to India in exchange for the corn, peanuts, potatoes and other crops they were going to collect.

"Are you pirates from the Great Yu Kingdom?"

When the Englishman awoke, he went aboard the deck, and after examining the ship, he was surprised to find that it was very similar to their warship, and that the design of the ship seemed to be more reasonable.

Puzzled, he couldn't help but ask the translator Zheng Shaoqing.

Zheng Shaoqing is one of the few translators trained by Xiao Ming, in fact, not long after the establishment of the Bowen College, Xiao Ming began to train translators, and Zheng Shaoqing is the best of these translators.

There were also two translators on the other two ships, both of whom were originally poor scholars from Qingzhou.

Zheng Shaoqing has learned that the Englishman in front of him is called Wilson, the first mate of a British sail cruiser, and in Wilson's account, Britain is now competing with the Netherlands, Portugal, France and other European countries for overseas colonies.

Of these countries, they had the worst relations with the Netherlands, and were at war, and each other's warships were always killed when they met at sea.

"No, we are not pirates, we are the fleet of the King of Qi of the Great Yu Kingdom." Zheng Shaoqing said righteously.

"Impossible, we have seen the ships of the merchants of the Great Yu Kingdom, it is impossible for you to have such a ship, let alone to load so many cannons on the ship, and you are all using cast iron cannons." Wilson shook his head.

Zheng Shaoqing was keenly aware of the message in Wilson's words, and he asked, "Have you been in contact with the merchants of the Great Yu Kingdom?" ”

"Of course, you merchants of the Great Yu Kingdom can often exchange porcelain and silk for our large quantities of silver." Wilson spread his hands, "Your porcelain and silk are very popular in our country. ”

Zheng Shaoqing frowned, and he translated Wilson's words to Yue Yun.

"Your Highness said that he had never heard of Western merchants coming to trade in Dayu in Chang'an, and you asked him where their merchants were trading in Dayu."

When Zheng Shaoqing heard this, Yue Yun's words were translated to Zheng Shaoqing.

Wilson listened, and said: "I have heard that in Ningbo, I don't know much, but it is said that Dutch merchants often do business with you people in Ningbo, and our fleet once docked in Canton, and was ready to send an embassy to your capital to discuss trade with your king, but the gifts that our envoy brought to your king were stolen by the local officials, and our envoy was treated unjustly, and our fleet has not been there since, and the Dutch later occupied this route. ”

"Ningbo? This was the fief of the King of Chu. After the translator translated, Yue Yun's brows furrowed tightly.

"Could it be that the King of Chu has been concealing this matter and secretly doing business with the Dutch?" Zheng Shaoqing hesitated.

"It's not impossible, the Cao family's money village has been all over the country of Chongqing over the years, where did you say he got so much silver to support the money village, and this Cao family is a vassal of the king of Chu, maybe the king of Chu really knows about it, but the huge profits are afraid that he has been blinded by lard, secretly trading with these Westerners, and concealing this matter." Yue Yun said.

The influence of the king of Chu in the south was very great, and it was not difficult for him to hide it, and the people of Dayu did not care about these Westerners, especially the magnates of Chang'an, in their eyes, these people were just barbarians.

"If that's the case, doesn't the King of Chu know about this gun?" Zheng Shaoqing asked.

Yue Yun also fell into deep thought at this time, "You ask him?" ”

Zheng Shaoqing turned his head and continued to communicate with Wilson, but Wilson just couldn't say clearly.

It's just that Zheng Shaoqing seems to see from Wilson's flickering eyes that this matter is not so simple.

"Captain, this Englishman seems to be dishonest, he is hiding something." Zheng Shaoqing said.

Yue Yun frowned, "If we ask him, we will probably not be able to get the crops that His Highness wants, but if we don't ask, we won't be able to know what happened between the Dutch and the King of Chu." ”

"The lower official thinks that it is better not to ask, let's go back and tell His Highness about this matter, and we did encounter a lot of merchant ships of the Cao family when sailing, this is evidence." Zheng Shaoqing said.

Yue Yun muttered, "It's just that His Highness said that none of these Westerners are good things, and if we send him ashore, we may not get anything in return, you see them staring at our Galen ship, with a greedy face, I'm afraid that only their fleet will greet us at that time." ”

Zheng Shaoqing also remembered Xiao Ming's words, he said that he couldn't trust any Westerners, because Westerners at this time were pirates!

"If that's the case, the lower officials have a plan." Zheng Shaoqing whispered to Yue Yun.

Yue Yun nodded frequently when he heard this, "Let's do it, they are pirates, we have to be more ruthless than pirates, take off our naval flags and replace them with the pirate flags we robbed." ”

Zheng Shaoqing smiled and immediately asked the seafarers to hang up the pirate flag.

Wilson's face turned pale when he saw the pirate flag flying, and he asked nervously, "Didn't you say you weren't pirates?" ”

"Not just now, but now, Mr. Wilson, I think you must answer our questions honestly now, or we'll have to throw you down."

Wilson shook his body, in his cognition, there was still reason to talk about a country's fleet, but there was no reason with pirates.

"Okay, okay, I said, I said, the Dutch were indeed deceived by your King of Chu at first, but later they knew that the King of Chu was not the king of Dayu, so they protested to the King of Chu, but the King of Chu promised to give the Dutch the most preferential treatment, and the Dutch also know that there are several kings in your Dayu Kingdom, and the King of Chu is one of the very strong kings, they decided to support the King of Chu, and they also sold a lot of antiques like arquebuses to the King of Chu."

"Arquebus?" Zheng Shaoqing's brows furrowed even tighter.

Wilson continued: "The king of Chu still wants the cannons of the Dutch, but the Dutch are not fools, once the king of Chu has artillery, they can put it on the ship, it is already difficult for the Dutch to maintain the ocean-going fleet, they don't want to lose their last bargaining chips. ”

After saying this, Wilson said tentatively: "We in England also want to support a king in the Great Chongqing Kingdom to do business, if you really come from a king, I can help you introduce it, believe me, the British fleet will soon defeat the Dutch, this will be a wise choice."

(To be continued.) )