"Let them come up!" Afangsuo, who was sitting at the bow of the boat, ordered, and the soldiers below immediately agreed. In a short while, a group of Ming Dynasty merchants accompanied the soldiers to the boat, and most of them had their faces on their faces.

With a nervous look, the short and strong young man in the lead looked calm. However, when he saw the weapons and soldiers on the Portuguese warship, a little surprised flashed in his eyes.

"Good people pay homage to the general!" After seeing Alfonso sitting there, these Ming merchants immediately stepped forward to salute. After all, they are now trapped in the enemy, so naturally they cannot lack etiquette.

Alfonso was also ready to come to Malacca this time, and he had a translator who knew various languages ​​around him. After listening to the translation, he smiled and asked knowingly: "Dear Ming merchants, don't have to be too polite, I'm also concerned about the Ming Dynasty.

I have always been yearning for it, but unfortunately I have never been able to go there. I am really sorry. I wonder if you are coming today?”

Seeing Afangsuo asking questions clearly, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were stunned. They looked at each other and finally everyone looked at the short and strong young man in front. After all, the reason why they dared to come this time was because

There is this young man here.

The young man did not refuse, and then stepped forward and bowed, "General, the villain is Sun Pinghai, the manager of the Ming Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. This time he was ordered to go to India. He has just returned and is about to return to the Ming Dynasty.

But I didn't expect that when I encountered a general who fought with the Kingdom of Malacca, I was blocked in the port. Please let us go!"

Sun Pinghai's tone when he spoke was neither humble nor arrogant, and his expression was calm, which was much better than the merchants behind him. But this was not surprising. Because behind Sun Pinghai was the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, as the largest smuggling chamber of commerce in the Ming Dynasty, it was also the top and the top.

With Zhou Chong as the backing, he is naturally full of confidence.

In addition, Sun Pinghai's identity is not simple. His father is Sun Tong, one of the three elders of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. Sun Tong and Sanniang, and Uncle Tuo are all the people Zhou Chong trusted the most. At that time, the smuggling fleet of the Chamber of Commerce was almost all of them. Sun Tong was the first to be

Management. Although Zhou Chong later recruited some people from outside to share Sun Tong's management of the fleet, Sun Tong's status in the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce was still irreplaceable. As his son, Sun Pinghai also lived at the sea since childhood.

He had rich sailing experience in his twenties and can now stand alone and take on the important task of captaining a fleet.

It's also a big deal. Although he had known for a long time that the Portuguese would attack Malacca again on July 1, he underestimated the Portuguese's shamelessness, and he didn't expect that the other party would block the entire port and prevent it from inside the port.

The ship left, otherwise if he had known this, he would have notified the merchants of the Ming Dynasty not to stop at the Port of Malacca on July 1st.

When Alfonso heard Sun Pinghai's words, he saw the other party's neither humble nor arrogant look, he asked curiously: "Is the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce very powerful? How many people will you have?"

When General Folangji in front of him asked him directly about the power of the Chamber of Commerce, Sun Pinghai was also stunned, but he quickly reacted and said, "Report to General, I don't know very well how many people there are in our Chamber of Commerce, but

There are at least three or four thousand people. As for the power of our chamber of commerce, it is no exaggeration to say that among our chamber of commerce in the Ming Dynasty, except for a few, there is no chamber of commerce that can be compared with our Nanyang Chamber of commerce.”

Hearing that a small chamber of commerce had three or four thousand people, Alfonso couldn't accept it for a while. You must know that the army he brought this time did not exceed two thousand, and even their Portugal Kingdom was just

A million people. However, Alfonso soon thought of the description of the Central Plains dynasty in Marco Polo's travelogue. These merchants in front of him came from that extremely prosperous country, so it was not surprising that they could have such a huge chamber of commerce.

"So that's it!" Alfonso nodded to himself at this time, and then he spoke curiously: "Your Chamber of Commerce has so many people, so the owner of the Chamber of Commerce must be very rich, I don't know that your Chamber of Commerce has so many people.

Is the owner of the Ming Dynasty the richest man?”

As for Afangsuo, he did not mention letting them go, and he always asked these inexplicable questions. Sun Pinghai was also helpless and could only respond patiently: "Report to General, I despise the East of the Chamber of Commerce."

The Lord is indeed very rich, but our Emperor of Ming is rich in all directions, so His Majesty the Emperor is the richest person in the world!”

When talking about this, Sun Pinghai hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and continued: "In addition, the owner of our chamber of commerce is also doing business for His Majesty the Emperor. Now he has been promoted to the admiral of the Four Seas by His Majesty the Emperor and is in charge of all maritime affairs in our Ming Dynasty.

, It can be said that he is deeply trusted by His Majesty the Emperor. If the general can go to the Ming Dynasty in the future, the villain can introduce our boss to the general!"

Alfonso originally wanted to learn about the Ming Dynasty through Sun Pinghai, but when he heard that the owner behind the other party was actually an official of the Ming Dynasty and was in charge of all the maritime affairs in the Ming Dynasty, he was shocked.

He stood up on the chair and looked at Sun Pinghai with a gloomy face.

The Portuguese Kingdom still had a cautious attitude towards entering the sea area of ​​Nanyang. After all, they also knew that Nanyang belonged to the sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty. They did not dare to do too much before they understood the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.

Fang Suo also had a sense of awe for the Ming Dynasty. At least when he was fully mastering the Southeast Asian country, Alfonso did not want to offend the Ming Dynasty too much.

It was precisely with this idea that Alfonso walked back and forth on the deck several times, and finally raised his head and smiled at Sun Pinghai: "I didn't expect that the owner of the Chamber of Commerce was actually an official of the Ming Dynasty. I am concerned about the Ming Dynasty.

I have admired you for a long time and will definitely visit the Ming Dynasty in the future. It would be great if I could meet your master!"

"Haha, our boss likes to make friends from all over the world. If the general goes to the Ming Dynasty, the boss will definitely set up a sumptuous banquet to entertain the general." Hearing that General Folangji's tone was loose,

Sun Pinghai also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It was his last trump card to bring Zhou Chong out. The bet was that the other party should be concerned about the deterrence of the Ming Dynasty. It seems to be effective now.

Alfonso was concerned about Zhou Chong's identity and decided to let these Ming merchants leave. After all, in his impression, the Ming Dynasty was the overlord of the Nanyang area, not to mention that the owner of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce was actually a person in charge of maritime affairs.

The Ming officials, no matter whether this matter is true or false, made Alfonso very concerned.

However, before letting Sun Pinghai and the others go, Alfonso asked the other party about the situation of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and the Ming Dynasty, and Sun Pinghai also answered one by one, but he also knew that the other party was concerned about the strength of the Ming Dynasty and the Chamber of Commerce and would release him.

Therefore, it is naturally exaggerating the strength of the Chamber of Commerce and the military strength of the Ming Dynasty. For example, Zhou Chong only had 10,000 navy troops in his hands, but in his mouth it suddenly turned into 100,000.

Although Alfonso knew that there must be moisture in Sun Pinghai's words, at least a considerable part of them was credible. In particular, he also confirmed from Sun Pinghai that the territory of the Ming Dynasty was indeed very vast, and at least a few must go from east to west.

Months, the domestic population was even more huge. According to Alfonso's estimates, the total population of the Ming Dynasty was definitely larger than that of Europe, which also confirmed Europe's speculation about the Central Plains dynasty, and also made Alfonso

I am even more in awe of the Ming Dynasty.

After getting the information they wanted, Alfonso finally nodded and agreed to let Sun Pinghai and the others go, but they had to pay a tax to Alfonso because according to Alfonso's explanation, when their warship arrived at the port of Malacca

, This place is already a territory of the Portuguese. Sun Pinghai and his ships were moored in the port, so they naturally had to pay taxes.

Regarding Alfonso's explanation, although Sun Pinghai and others scolded the other party for being shameless, they could only hand over the money with a smile on the surface. After all, compared with the people and goods on the ship, a little tax is nothing, as long as it can

Just drive the boat away safely.

In this way, Sun Pinghai and his team left the Port of Malacca after paying an extra tax. Some of them originally planned to cross the Strait of Malacca to India, but now they see that the war is about to start in Malacca. God knows whether the shameless Portuguese will be

The strait will be blocked in the future, so they dare not go to India again. In the end, they had to deal with the goods in the Nanyang area and sailed towards the Ming Dynasty with Sun Pinghai and others.

Perhaps because he saw the Ming merchants' ships leaving, the merchants from other countries in the port also saw hope. They also joined hands with their own merchants to ask Alfonso to see him, hoping to leave the port, but Alfonso was concerned about the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

But he was not afraid of other countries at all, so he refused all the requests of these merchants. Some merchants even wanted to cause trouble because they were dissatisfied, but were ordered by Afangsuo to sank the other party's ship. Now the merchants in the port

They all became honest and did not dare to stay on the boat anymore. They all ran to Malacca City to take refuge, and at the same time put pressure on the Kingdom of Malacca to drive the Portuguese away as soon as possible.

Alfonso also had unexpected patience for this attack on Malacca City. He blocked outside the port for more than half a month. It was not until July 24 that Alfonso organized a tentative attack, and

He also tried to drive the warships to the Malacca River next to Malacca City, so that he could directly bombard Malacca City with the cannons on the ship, but unfortunately he failed to grasp the local tide time. In addition, the Malacca people rely on the bridge on the Malacca River to resist resolutely

In the end, Alfonso had no choice but to order a retreat.
Chapter completed!