Marin naturally knew about the return of the expedition team. Because on the day the fleet arrived in Port Lisbon, the North Sea spies from Portugal used carrier pigeons to send the news back. In the following days, the carrier pigeons were basically released once a day, and they could not stop reporting the situation on that day.
"Have you started to promote in Portugal? Very good!" Marin smiled, which was exactly what he wanted to see.
For Marin, the main ones that could threaten his colonization of America were Portugal, Spain and France. However, France was currently suppressed by England and Spain, and warships could not go to sea, so they could only be considered a hidden threat, which is not yet.
Only Portugal and Spain have strong national strength and strong navigation capabilities to compete with Marin for the Americas. Therefore, Marin's priority targets to scare are Portugal and Spain.
Because the expedition team returned from the Azores, they naturally stopped at Port Lisbon first, and then went to Marin to colonize Spain, the second threat to America.
In fact, the revenge against the Silva family territory has begun and the news has reached Lisbon. However, when the expedition passed through the Azores, the revenge against the Silva family territory has not yet begun. Therefore, Rui Silva warmly welcomed the expedition ships in Hero Port. Seeing that there was no valuable cargo on the expedition ship, he had no idea. Although the rare animals caught by the fleet were indeed precious, unfortunately these things were unique to the wild continent. Even if he robbed the expedition, he naturally would not make any decisions. But he didn't know that when he was entertaining the expedition, his hometown was turned upside down...
The Baron Silva near Bragansa City is simply described as terrible during this period, because many terrible things have happened in the territory during this period.
First, a batch of corks weighing thousands of pounds were robbed, and then the entire territory was attacked in various ways...
In the famous winery in Silva territory, they were attacked by thugs late at night. The aged oak barrels were chiseled through sharp chisels by the thugs. The fragrant wine flowed out of the barrels and flowed all over the ground. When the winery came to work the next morning, they were horrified to find that the entire winery's underground storage room was filled with fragrant wine, and it was still overflowing...
The proficient winery manager reported to the territory's butler Les. The old housekeeper Les hurriedly mobilized more than a dozen private soldiers from the territory to investigate, but found nothing...
In order to track these thugs, the housekeeper Les even dispatched sophisticated hunters and hounds to smell the smell. Unfortunately, these thugs were professional. They scattered two things along the way, scaring the hounds to death - they scattered the feces powder of African Barbary lions on the land, scaring the local hounds so hard that they dared to step forward...
You should know that animals have the habit of marking territory with feces. The beasts like lions often hunt and kill various animals, including dogs. Before dying, these canine animals often emit a special smell due to fear, which humans cannot smell, but dogs have a sharp nose that can be smelled. Therefore, many dogs kill butchers are covered with the despair left by the dog because of fear when killing dogs and the aura of death emitted by fear when they are afraid. When dogs smell this smell, they will be scared to move.
Obviously, there is a lot of this smell on the lion, and the feces are mixed with this smell. The Barbary lion is a unique lion in North Africa. It often approaches the Arabs and Berber pastures, and eats a lot of dogs and other things. Even the "big cousin" who often eats some dogs - wolves. Their feces naturally have the smell of despair and fear of canine creatures.
Marin knew this principle, so he specially sent people to sneak into the Moroccan area and bought some dry dung used by Barbary lions to mark the territory from experienced mountain people, making it into powder, and mixing some fur and bone meal of the slaughtered dog, which became something that scares the dog very much.
As long as it is sprinkled on the place where the dog passes, it will scare the dog so hard that it stops. Either it is trembling with fear, or hesitate to move forward, and it is useless to beat and scold the owner.
Therefore, after the local hunting dog smelled the Barbary lion and the death of similar or even the "big cousin", they refused to move forward again...
In this way, the investigation naturally could not continue. Then the hunter could only judge based on the footprints. But when he arrived by the river, the footprints were gone. It turned out that a small boat had already responded and took the people away... The dog was scared, and the hunter could not find the footprints, so the investigation naturally could not continue. Therefore, the housekeeper Rice could only get angry and then issue a reward, and the following text was gone...
But the matter was not over. A few days later, a fire broke out in the straw hut area where the logging yard was piled up by Baron Silva. Tens of thousands of logs in the logging yard were burned out by a fire, leaving only a small part of the remaining...
You should know that most of these tens of thousands of logs are oak, which are specially air-dried in straw sheds. Once air-dried for a year or two, these logs will be transported to ships for manufacturing ships. Therefore, the logging yard has stockpiled so much wood, but it was burned out by a fire...
"Puff--" Butler Les was angry and fainted after spitting out a mouthful of blood...
Then, the housekeeper Les got sick and had to lie down to recuperate. But after a few days of his cultivation, his condition began to improve, and bad news came again - several cattle farms under the Baron's name under the Baron were invaded by unknown people. These unknown people were highly poisoned in the feed of the cattle and blocked several cattle farms, with a total of thousands of cow heads!
These poisoned cows cannot even eat meat because they are soaked in toxins in their blood. Unlike those who die or are killed normally, beef can still be eaten...
"It's over! It's over! Lord Baron knows, he will beat me to death!" Old Rice also began to fear.
Rui Silva's own sister can be given as gifts. She is already indifferent and righteous, so how could she care about a housekeeper? So, Old Rice began to be afraid...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But it is useless to be afraid. As a servant of the Silva family, the life and death of the whole family of the housekeeper Les is in the hands of Baron Rui Silva. Therefore, even though he was extremely afraid, he could only send people to investigate. At the same time, he sent someone to report the case to the government and requested the official to send someone to investigate the case...
After thinking for a while, the housekeeper Les sighed, wrote a letter, and sent someone to Lisbon. Then, when there was a ship to the Azores, he brought Rui Silva. As for Rui Silva when he knew how to get angry and how to deal with him, he could only leave it to fate, and it depends on God's mood...
In Lisbon, many great nobles received this news. They began to speculate that this was probably the counterattack of the North Sea Kingdom...
But it was not up to me. At this time, Marin's actions against the Silva family were too lazy to get involved. Moreover, the great nobles in Lisbon themselves did not look down on the Silva family, so they were naturally happy to be laughed at.
Only Rui Silva's sister Stella Silva cried in front of Manuel I, hoping that Manuel I could avenge the family.
But Manuel I was also in a dilemma - Rui Silva and Marin were both disgraceful. If we ask why Marin attacked the Baron Silva, then Rui Silva sent people to pretend to be pirates and rob the North Sea transport ships. This will be fatal to the Silva family. Moreover, Marin is very sensible in doing things. Although many people can guess that it was Marin's work. However, if you don't seize the evidence, Marin can completely ignore it...
Chapter completed!