Ferrands spared no effort to open up new routes, with the purpose of finding new routes to China, thereby breaking the Persian monopoly on the Eastern trade route.

However, the first thing the Flangji people found was India, and now they found Manlacia.

Moreover, the Flangji people occupied Malacca due to the help of the Ming merchants. Because the Persian and Siamese people controlled the main trade of Malacca, the Ming merchants chose to cooperate in order to gain the interests of Malacca and provided the Flangji with information on the military deployment of Malacca, allowing the Flangji to finally occupy Malacca.

This is how merchants have always been. Economic interests are greater than anything else in front of them, although for the Ming Dynasty, it was obvious that the colonization of Malacca by Flangji was not conducive to the interests of the empire.

But the merchants of the Ming Dynasty also chose to cooperate with any force for their own economic interests, and even their enemy countries could cooperate, let alone just Folangji who came from afar.

For the betrayal of the Malacca, the Ming merchants who had no national consciousness in this era were even less worth mentioning. They could even give up the interests of their own Ming Empire, such as the Shanxi merchants, let alone a vassal state.

Even if the court pursued them, they were not afraid, because these Ming merchants all had official and gentry backgrounds, and were even protected by local governments, so they would not be worried about betraying the interests of vassal states and being punished by the court.

What's more, Zhu Houzhao really couldn't punish his businessmen because a vassal state was betrayed by his own merchants.

But because of this, Folangji learned about the existence of the Ming Dynasty through the merchants of the Ming Dynasty and couldn't wait to open trade with the Ming Dynasty. After all, in their understanding, the Ming Dynasty was a country full of gold, and trade with the Ming Dynasty could obtain endless wealth.

Therefore, the excited Folangji people couldn't wait to come to Tuen Mun at the mouth of the Pearl River. At the same time, when the king learned that he had already known where the Ming Dynasty was, he specially sent Pires to the Ming Dynasty. This led to Pires' arrival in Guangdong and Lin Tingxuan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who submitted a memorial to Zhu Houzhao to ask whether he had received Folangji's envoy.

But although the Folang Ji Kingdom dreamed of trade with the Ming Dynasty, they did not have awe of the Ming Dynasty. They were even thinking about earning countless wealth from the Ming Dynasty but did not think about what benefits it would bring to the Ming Dynasty. Their essence was the primitive capitalists with a predatory nature.

If the Ming Dynasty was as weak as the late Qing Dynasty in later generations, they would have forced the Ming Dynasty to cede land and pay compensation like Britain after China was defeated in the Opium War.

However, the Ming Dynasty was not the late Qing Dynasty after all, and the Ming Dynasty is still an empire that has already been ahead of the world with industrialization.

"It is hard to imagine how these robbers who plundered the world's wealth would have made the Ming Dynasty lower his proud head and learn from these robbers humbly and even worship them in a humbly manner;

Even if it was not the Ming Dynasty, a dynasty in China would have encountered such a disaster hundreds of years later. Therefore, it can be said that it was our Emperor Zhengde who seized the opportunity before this unseen change in a thousand years! It also preserved our national dignity and self-confidence, so that today, we can still walk with our heads held high! Even our poor people can make the rich people in other countries feel ashamed of themselves!

At that time, those arrogant and ignorant scholars and officials were undoubtedly happy. They should be grateful to God for allowing them to have this great emperor and thank His Majesty for allowing them to be so confident. Otherwise, they would one day find out how sorry this class is for this country! How stupid they themselves are!

However, at this time, they still despise their emperor in their hearts, believing that their emperor is not a wise monarch, not a wise monarch defined by Confucian orthodoxy, and even thinking about using various ways to overthrow this great emperor. However, in front of this great emperor, they are not worthy of attention than Western colonists. Their behavior is like a frog shaking a tree, or a frog looking at the sky in a well. They are selfish and do not realize that they are against the entire historical process and the entire nation!"

Many years later, Fang Chuan, a professor at the Imperial Central University, wrote in his own book.

Guangdong Deputy Envoy Wang Hong brought five third-class sailing battleships and ten ordinary military ships to Tuen Mun Island.

At this time, the commander of Tuen Mun Island was Andra, the general of the Florida. He had already established an office and a firearm manufacturing base on Tuen Mun Island, and also rebuilt a dock. When the Ming fleet appeared here, Andra also learned the news in advance. At the beginning, he was not afraid. After all, their Florida had just conquered Manlacca.

"It seems that this ancient empire is not friendly to us. We must make them respect our great Florians and let them taste the power of our firearms!"

Andra said after looking at the Ming fleet that appeared on the vast blue sea in the distance.

At this time, Wang Hong, the Guangdong deputy envoy who was ordered to take back Tuen Mun Island, was also holding a telescope observer Andra and Tuen Mun Island he occupied.

Telescopes were a product of the seventeenth century in history, but in this era, due to the emergence of Zhu Houzhao, he had become the most commonly used observation object for imperial officers. Therefore, before Andra could see clearly the appearance of the commander of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Hong, Wang Hong had already seen Andra and the defense on his island clearly.

Wang Hong shook his head. He had to admit that this group of barbarians from the West was not considered an opponent worthy of his attention, but he did not understand why His Majesty the Emperor personally issued an order to fight this battle well, and even issued a special order to give special instructions. He did not understand why His Majesty the Emperor attached so much importance to it.

But no matter what, because it was the order issued by Emperor Zhu Houzhao and the instructions given by himself, Wang Hong could only treat them with caution.

"The Tuen Mun Island you occupy now is an inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty. Your current behavior is an act of invasion. Now, we will limit you to our deputy envoy to collect the crime within half an hour. Otherwise, you will be bombarded directly. If you hurt your lives, don't regret it!"

At this time, Wang Hong followed Zhu Houzhao's instructions to give a polite ceremony before the soldiers, so he asked his subordinates to shout at the Florians on Tuen Mun Island with a bronze horn.

There are also Chinese translations by the Florians on Tuen Mun Island, so Andra, the Florians commander of the Tlorians on Tuen Mun Island, also understood what Wang Hong meant, and Andra immediately became a little angry:

"There are no Chinese residents and no Chinese territory signs here, but they are just new lands. We, the first to discover and erect monuments, is naturally our territory! Tell them, we said that we welcome China to the jurisdiction of Folangji, but we are not allowed to come to the jurisdiction of Folangji. This is an act of invasion. We are limited to leaving after half an hour, otherwise we will directly bombard the crime on the grounds of infringement!"

So, Wang Hong also received Andra's reply, and couldn't help but laugh. He didn't understand how this Folang Jiren was so thick-skinned. The so-called "All the kings under the world are the kings, and the territories in the world are the kings and ministers. The territory of the world is the emperor, and the lords in the world are also the ministers of the emperor!

There is no exception to this Tuen Mun Island. He can be said to be given to him by the emperor, but it cannot be said that his own territory is not allowed to enter by the Celestial Empire.

However, like most Ming dynasties in this era, Wang Hong looked down on these foreign barbarians in his heart, so he did not intend to explain more, and just waited patiently for half an hour to pass.

The Folang machine lost patience first, and Andra directly ordered the centipede warship to prepare for attack, but they found that the Ming fleet was still far from the range of their artillery, so they had to hurry toward the Ming fleet first, ready to launch an attack when the artillery range could reach the Ming fleet.

Seeing this, Wang Hong said in advance: "The enemy has taken the initiative to attack. The Beidu, Nandu and Zhongdu are lined up in battle lines. Take the initiative to face it and attack the enemy with a painful attack! The Baoding and Yangzhou each carry half of the warships to seal the left and right wings! The Beidu, Nandu and Zhongdu are ordered to fire the cannons!"

Andra actually didn't understand why the Ming warships had such large soft sails and what role they could do, but when he didn't expect that the Ming soft sailing ship was more sensitive than his centipede ship, they were lined up in a straight line in an instant, what made him even less understand was why these warships didn't rush up directly to engage in a platoon battle.

So much so that Andra had to ask herself secretly: "Can the Ming army's artillery shoot farther, even more accurately, and can shell our warships at such a distance, or do they want to escape?"

boom!

The violent shelling answered Andra's questions.

When the portholes of the three Ming sail battleships opened, a total of 120 copper-tire iron-core carrier-based guns roared. In an instant, live ammunition directly hit Andra's three centipede ships and wood chips flying everywhere. One even could not stand the high-frequency impact of solid shells and directly overturned. The other one was also broken with a mast and began to slowly sink into the sea.

Andra's own flagship was also punched several holes, and the sea water spread directly into the cabin.

Wang Hongben, deputy envoy of Guangdong Censor, was also ready to intercept Andra's escaped warships, but now Andra had no way to escape. He brought only three warships, three of which sank, and one of which was overturned and held in the sea. His own flagship could not be driven, so he could only surrender with a white flag.

"This, this is simply terrible. My Folang machine has been galloping on the sea for so long, but I haven't encountered such a powerful army. Oh my God, this legendary ancient empire not only has wealth everywhere, but also has military forces that we cannot surpass. We cannot defeat him at all!"

At first, Andra, who was confident in planning how to make the emperor of the Ming Empire punish these rude local officials apologized to him, had no confidence at this moment, and only felt how stupid he was. She was so stupid that she actually wanted to fight against such a powerful empire.

"God, tell me how many secrets this ancient empire has, why are their warships so powerful and fast, why can their artillery shoot so far! Why do you favor them so much!"

Andra shouted in disgrace.

Wang Hong ordered the navy officers and soldiers to rescue all these Flangers from the sea and the sunken warships, and fished up the two Flangers centipede warships that had been completed. After all, these were the spoils that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty specially told him to capture.

"Your Excellency, I, Andra, are the commander of the Folang Machine Fleet here. Now we officially surrender to you! Your country's warships have forced us to surrender. I hope this conflict will not affect the friendship between Folang Machine and your country!"

Andra bowed humbly to Guangdong Deputy Envoy Wang Hong.

"Kneel down!"

Wang Hong was wearing a fourth-grade scarlet official robe in the Ming Dynasty and stood majestic on the flagship, the first second-class battleship of the Ming Dynasty. Looking at Andra, commander of the Flang machine who was humbly bent down into the sea under the hull, he said lightly.

Andra was surprised and a little angry. He didn't expect that as a nobleman of Folangji, he would kneel down to an Oriental man. He had to admit that his strength was not as strong as others, but he didn't expect that the officials of the Ming Empire would insult him.

"Your Excellency! I am a citizen of Folangji. I can surrender on behalf of Folangji, because I am the commander of this warship, but I cannot kneel down to you, because this is my right as a citizen of Folangji!"

Andra protested.

After the translation of the translation, Wang Hong secretly exclaimed in his heart, thinking that His Majesty was indeed as expected, and he actually knew how the leader of the Red Hair Fan would answer when he asked him to kneel down. Therefore, Wang Hong replied according to Zhu Houzhao's instructions:

"Absurd! First of all, you are not a citizen of my Ming Dynasty! You do not have the rights of a citizen of the Ming Dynasty! Secondly, you have committed the crime of infringing on the territory of the Ming Dynasty! You are now a criminal, and the criminal has no political rights, and I, the Ming Dynasty, have the legal power of extraterritoriality. All the people of foreign countries who come to the territory of the Ming Dynasty can only be punished by the Ming Dynasty. Now my official asks you to kneel down, and you kneel down, and you have no right to refuse me! If you don't kneel down, you will be like him!"

As Wang Hong said that, he took the firing from his own soldiers and installed a flintlock rifle, and shot a Ferlang robot next to Andra. The Ferlang robot fell directly to the ground, blood gushing from his chest.

Andra was so scared that she knelt down immediately. He found that the Ming Empire not only had sharp artillery, but even its muskets were far superior to those of his Folangji Kingdom.

Seeing Andra kneeling down, Wang Hong smiled and said, "Let them all kneel down. Now their identity is prisoners of war. They will serve for the Ming Dynasty for free. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty decided to punish these prisoners of war for ten million taels of silver! But the superior needs twenty million taels! Only after these prisoners of war have paid enough atonement for the Ming Dynasty can they repay their freedom!"

Because of this, Andra and other Flangers became professional colonial and plundering employees of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Houzhao asked Zhang Yanling to lead a group of water wars to form the Ming Hai Trade Company, and at the same time, these Flangers war criminals served in the Ming Hai Trade Company. Naturally, the Ming Dynasty began to use the rich colonial and plundering experience of these Flangers to plunder overseas wealth for the Ming Dynasty.

"The Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty was a cruel emperor. I don't know how much wealth I created for him, but I know I paid off 20 million taels, but I found that I could no longer leave this empire because I could no longer escape his control over me! I feel sad for my country of Folangji, because he will never be able to compete with this extremely powerful empire!"

Andra recalled so many years later.
Chapter completed!