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"What's the matter?" asked First Mate Jack.

"Let's go past the small island in front first." Henry pointed to a black spot in the distance, and only then did everyone discover it.

Then, the opponent's fleet did not approach the island, but directly went around.This time, Henry was relieved.The distance between the two sides is less than 05 nautical miles, and it is initially estimated that the battle will take place in one hour.

"Dang, clang, clang" At this time, the alarm bell rang on the Oxford.

"What's going on?" Henry asked quickly.

"The battleship ahead has stopped, and the transport ship is about to escape." The watchman on the top of the mast shouted loudly.

Henry saw that the opponent only left five warships to block, and the other five warships escorted the transport ship and fled westward.

"Hurry up, catch up, we can't let them run away." Henry shouted excitedly, he had already realized what the other party wanted to do, and was about to abandon the car to save his handsomeness.And this is the situation he most wants to see

Pirates will not fight like the regular army. They spare their lives and often do not confront the enemy head-on, but fight in groups.What Henry is thinking now is how to capture the opponent, first of all, divide the opponent's fleet.Now that the other party has separated by himself, isn't it God's will?

The two sides are getting closer, and Henry and the others are also getting closer to the island.

But before Henry was happy for too long, a bright light suddenly shot out from one of the opponent's battleships and rushed into the sky.Fireworks are unfamiliar to Europeans, but they have been seen.Fireworks at this time?No, it's clearly a signal.

Henry came to his senses a little bit, the other party only had five warships, who could he send the signal to?

"Henry, look quickly, those ships..." William said the right thing this time. Just to their left, a large mast rushed out, and all the masts were raising their sails.

Just from the number of masts, Henry realized something was wrong.But what frightened him even more was that the other party's ships were all of the size of the Oxford, and several ships were bigger than the Oxford.

"Damn it, it's Mingren's main fleet." Henry wanted to slap himself.

Chapter 731: Apache and Comanche Tribes

"We want half of the wealth of Panama City. Is it fair to convert it into gold and give it to you?" Feng Xin asked while holding a pistol and knocking on Henry's head.

"Erfect!" Does Henry dare to say no?Unless he wants to die here on the spot.

On Feng Xin's new ship, Henry was tied up and thrown on the deck, with Feng Xin's leather shoes in front of his nose, and Henry's men were all kneeling on the pirate ship, being shot by a group of Ming soldiers. Head up.

With 60 main warships of the Ming army facing thirty or forty pirate ships, Henry had no choice but to surrender.You don't even need to fight, because you will die anyway.Don't believe this result, because they are pirates, not regular troops.What pirate wants to fight such a desperate battle?Do you think you didn't die fast enough?

Henry also knew that in this situation, as long as he ordered the war to start, it would probably take less than half an hour. He was the bare commander, and the others were guaranteed to surrender sooner than the other.

Feng Xin was going to kill Henry, but after hearing his name, he had a new plan.The Heaven and Earth Society of the Ming Dynasty has penetrated into all major regions of the world, and Henry's name has already entered the list of world celebrities.

After learning that the Spaniards were following them, Feng Xin launched a murderous plan on the Governor of Panama.

Feng Xin doesn't know whether these pirates have the intention to move Panama City, but they have the strength to move Panama City, that's for sure.Because on Cologne Island, Henry has a full 56 warships and various ships, and the total number of pirates is about 6000.If Henry is not courageous enough, Feng Xin can add a few more warships to give him courage.

"If you dare to play tricks, Daming has the strength to kill you." Feng Xin was definitely not trying to scare him.

"No, no, no" Henry hurriedly kept nodding. As an Englishman, he certainly knew how powerful Daming was.

In this era, no one in the West dares to challenge Ming Dynasty, especially the United Kingdom, which has already listed the relationship with Ming Dynasty as the core strategic partnership.And a small person like Henry who wants to be prosperous is naturally more willing to hold a thigh like Minguo.

"Leave ten main warships to follow him, and the other ships will return immediately." Feng Xin calculated that time was running out. This time they came out for a long time, and it was all because of the Panamanian governor's delay.

The food problem in North America cannot be solved by Daming, because the journey is too far, and it is really not worthwhile.A grain of grain has been shipped from Daming to San Francisco for several months, and many of them are probably moldy.The storage technology of this era is not the future.

What was transported from Daming could only be military supplies, colonial technology, and immigrants.It will take a long time to move these little by little.

Therefore, the food problem must be solved in the Americas, and the little agriculture in the North American continent is in the east.Before the British colonized North America on a large scale, North America was not considered a granary.

Unlike the Spaniards and the Dutch, the British cultivated agriculture in the Americas and promoted development.This is mainly because the British immigrants were farmers, farmers who could not survive the era of "sheep cannibalism", and fled to America.In the seventeenth century, there were fewer than [-] British immigrants in North America.Therefore, the main force that Daming faced in the north was still the natives.

The Sioux was the first to be exterminated, but the new Great Sioux Kingdom was established in North America.Borrowing the name of the Sioux tribe, the Great Su Kingdom began to expand rapidly.There are two targets they face next, named Apache and Comanche.

That's right, these two tribes were later quoted in the name of the helicopter. In addition, the prototype of the Apache tribe was borrowed, and a movie called "Windtalker" was made, and the director was Ang Lee.

The Apache and Comanche are nomadic tribes that live just south of High City.Many affiliated tribes of the Dasu Kingdom now belong to the Apache group.They are good at grazing and raising sheep.

"Your Majesty, how do you plan to deal with the nomads in the south?" Li Yan asked.

"Fight economic warfare." Zhu Youjian said.

"How to say?" Li Yan didn't know what kind of medicine Zhu Youjian was selling in the gourd.

"You see, what we lack now is not horses, but people who help us raise horses. Therefore, we cannot fight the Apaches. There are few nomads. If more people die accidentally, it will not be good for us." Zhu Youjian analyzed: "They like horses, and thieves like them. Then trade them and let them exchange sheep. This not only solves the source of our meat, but also solves the problem of grazing horses. I dare say, you If you sell [-] stallions, you can buy [-] horses at the price of sheep next year, and you can collect [-] horses the year after."

"Then what if they sell the horse to someone else?" Li Yan asked.

"Impossible. After one year, I guarantee that they will be surrounded by our territory." Zhu Youjian said shamelessly.

Zhu Youjian and the others are too experienced in dealing with nomadic tribes. What's more, the two tribes of Apache and Comanche are not even as good as the Sioux. They have not yet formed a political power, and they are completely loose and small tribes.It is really not suitable to use soldiers to deal with such a group.Sending troops over, aren't you afraid that everyone will be scared away?

Zhu Youjian is very fair, and the weight is exchanged, and the weight of a horse is exchanged for as many sheep.

This is obviously a disadvantage for Dasu!In Daming, sheep are only worth a few dollars, and there is no way to exchange the same amount of mutton for horses.But the people here don’t think so. They think it’s all meat, isn’t it all the same?

When Zhu Youjian heard this news, he was completely stunned. There is still this way of thinking in the world. Can a catty of pork and a catty of crab meat be the same?

Weird.

"Change!" Zhu Youjian ordered, and many sheep were slaughtered on the spot.

Because the weight of a horse cannot be exactly the same as that of a sheep, either Su will suffer, or the sheep will be killed, and the horse cannot be killed.

If the horses were heavier, the civil servants of the Soviet Union would give them directly to the herdsmen, but if there were a little more sheep, these Apaches would not do it, because they felt that they were at a disadvantage.

Kill the sheep, must kill!The extra leg of lamb must be returned to them.Later, there was nothing to do, so the officials came up with a way. If there was only a little more, they would shear the sheep, shave the sheep, and return them to the herdsmen.

The "cunning" herdsmen quit, and the wool is not edible, so what do you want it for?They still insisted on killing sheep, and the officials of Su State would not be able to exchange five catties of salted fish for one catty of mutton.

Fortunately, it can be exchanged for one-to-one equivalent value with meat. If it was paper money, I'm afraid it would have been burned on the spot.

"What exactly do you want?" Deng Wenchang was furious, he had never seen such an awkward person in his life.

Several Apaches fumbled and took out a handful of gray-yellow stuff from their dirty arms, dipped a little bit of it with their fingers, put it in their mouths and licked it, with happy expressions on their faces.

"What?" Deng Wenchang also tried to taste it.

"Ah bah! Bitter salt." Deng Wenchang spat on the ground.

"Say it earlier!" When Deng Wenchang left, he lost more than a dozen bags of salt, and took away more than [-] sheep.

Through this incident, Zhu Youjian deeply realized that if you don't go deep into the grassroots, you will never know what the people need.As a result, salt became the first common trading commodity in North America, and it was also the basic reference for the currency of the Great Su Kingdom, because the natives did not understand what the gold standard was.Nor did they count gold as a rare thing.

Chapter 732: Surname Immigrant

In the Great Conference Hall of the Great Su Kingdom, a crowd of Ming people and senior officials crowded together. They are discussing a very serious issue today.