Chapter 274 The dog's brains are all out
Before taking this old fan to see Serenagar, Xu Bai felt that he needed to figure out what the hell was this "Royal Dutch Navy Far East Fleet"?
Moreover, in the distant Europe, what is the current situation and situation, he also wants to know. Although the old missionary in front of him has been in the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, compared with the delay in the Ming Dynasty's information on Europe, even if the news from more than ten years ago is very valuable to him at this moment.
In Europe today, in the words of Mu Tianyan, the fight was very lively. The Portuguese and the Spanish fought back and forth, but at sea, the Portuguese were obviously the upper hand. In the first and twenty years before Mu Tianyan came to the Ming Dynasty, with the discovery and conquering of Ceuta by Portuguese adventurers, the entire Portuguese maritime adventure career was simply unfolding vigorously.
Whether official or private, a large number of adventurers set out from land and headed towards the sea. Although most people were unaware of this vast adventure, a few lucky people who came back kept bringing back huge wealth or places that could generate huge wealth, which always stimulated people on the shore to continue.
Mu Tianyan also started from Lisbon at that time with this adventure craze, the Lisbon Holy See sent a lot of missionaries overseas. However, life at sea was not something that ordinary people could imagine. Anyway, according to Mu Tianyan, there were only three of them who set out to the east. When the Ming Dynasty was still alive, he was the only one left.
And he never wanted to experience that hell-like voyage. Even if he missed his hometown, he had no plans to go back, but planned to live a long life here. Of course, whether it was his mission or sustenance, he always hoped to see the land of the Ming Dynasty, where towering cathedrals appeared because of him.
As for the Netherlands, when talking about the Netherlands, Mu Tianyan looked a little disdainful. In his mouth, the Netherlands was a place where a group of landlords and nobles brought a group of peasants to fight all day long. They were not even considered a country. They didn't know where they got the courage to get the title of "Royal Navy", which seemed to be a big kingdom.
In his opinion, this may be the fact that several officers who had had naval experience gathered a group of adventurers and played houses in the east. In the distant East, they could say that they were the royal navy, but they could say that they were the king's guards. Anyway, no one was serious about them.
Even the so-called "major" doubted whether an adventurer had given himself a title to deceive the poor noble woman. Anyway, this kind of thing was not very strange in Europe, let alone the lawless land in the Far East.
"What are these and what?" Xu Bai was a little amused when he heard this. He was still a little alert. In his impression, the Folang Ji people he encountered in the Ming Dynasty should be Spanish or Portuguese. In history, the Spanish and Portuguese did not do anything good in the waters of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the Dutch were not good. The Dongfan on the territory of the Ming Dynasty is now the treasure island in the future. It should still be a wilderness. The Dutch are afraid that they will start operating there now.
These guys from the West are undoubtedly a huge threat in his heart, both for the coastal defense of the Ming Dynasty and the sea trade business he is about to invest heavily in, but it sounds like this is not the case.
The Spaniards and the Portuguese are competing for the position of European hegemony, while the Dutch are running around the world and go wherever there is a cheaper place. However, even if the Ming Dynasty ignores this, it will take decades for these people to become a climate and cause trouble to the Ming Dynasty. As for now, it sounds nice to say, a group of adventurers, but in fact, they are just a group of pirates.
It's just a disease of ringworm.
"Do you want to go and have a look?" Baili Susu looked at the old fan in front of him with relish and told stories. This was much more interesting than being bored here these days. Xu Bai smiled and asked her.
"The Japanese women, and Europa women from afar, well, it's good to see the world!" Su Su had Xu Bai in something, but she wasn't afraid: "They won't look scary, right!"
Xu Bai laughed loudly when he heard this: "You'll know when you go and take a look!"
The group took Mu Tianyan and rode the boat to the dock. When they saw them coming out from the dock, they looked at each other. Now most of the people on the dock knew who were living in the Sihai Commercial Bank and didn't have to drive away the passers-by. They almost met their group and rushed to avoid them, for fear of rushing to them.
While chatting and laughing with Su Su, the two of them got on the boat. Before long, the two women were taken to Xu Bai.
Xu Bai glanced at the two of them and his eyes lit up slightly. The Japanese woman had small and exquisite eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and had excellent development. She had a certain meaning of a baby face and breasts. The woman who was said to be a Dutch woman with red hair, blue eyes, and a knife and axe-like appearance. Although it was a bit abrupt, she was also very pleasing to the eye with the aesthetic vision he brought from later generations.
"It's so ugly!" Su Su muttered beside him. He turned his head and couldn't help but smile when he saw Su Su staring at the Dutch woman's face. In the eyes of the Ming people, I was afraid that this Western beauty could not be appreciated. In Su Su's eyes, I was afraid that this Japanese woman was a hundred times more beautiful than this Dutch woman.
Under Mu Tianyan's translation, Xu Bai asked about this Dutch woman, probably because he knew that the boy in front of him was someone who could decide his fate. Serena rarely did not make a big fuss, but cooperated to tell her experience very well, and sweared to express her lover, Major Rise, who is said to be the Royal Navy, was definitely willing to pay a thousand gold coins to redeem her.
A very ridiculous story unfolds in front of Xu Bai.
A rich girl who had just fallen in love decisively took her maid and Xiaoruan to take the boat to the east for adventure. I don’t know if it was because the adventurers on the boat wanted to get the care of the "major" mentioned by the girl in the east, or if the girl used the money to subdue these adventurers to obey. In short, along the way, the girl actually came to the east without any danger.
Of course, these adventurers are not good at making trouble. It is normal for occasional guest appearances to be pirates. However, when they played pirates for the last time, they were caught by a mantis and a mantis, and the unlucky girl was locked in the wet cabin for more than ten days without seeing the light of day. It was not until today that she saw someone who could determine his fate. The most ridiculous thing is that the girl was confused even where he was now.
Why do I feel like I have heard of a story before?
Xu Bai smashed his mouth and the more he heard it, the more familiar the story was: "Ask her, was she sure she didn't run on the boat secretly and then was discovered on the road?"
Chapter completed!