Chapter 16 Arrival in Goa
In March, Goa is bright and the breeze is churning, and the climate is very comfortable. Earl Shiweila is in a state of great comfort during this period, because the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Legion is coming, which is a total of 50,000 troops. He sent a letter of help, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty immediately sent 50,000 troops to support him. What a great favor and how much face this is!
On this day, news came from the sea that the Ming Dynasty's fleet would arrive at Goa Port at noon. Earl Schweila immediately started to work as busy as he took stimulants. Colorful flags were inserted, banners were pulled up, flowers were placed, and red carpets were laid out. The entire Goa Port was radiant by him; there was also a welcome team, his guard must be brought with him, and Luo Siwei and his 200 guard soldiers had no need to call him, but Condede had to greet him.
Schvira hurriedly ran to Condede's room, trying to discuss the matter of sending someone to welcome the Ming Dynasty Expedition Legion, but found that this guy was holding two indigenous beauties shirtless and eating tofu. That's not bad. Schvira immediately said angrily: "Condede, please pay attention to your image. You are the governor of India. Do you know? The VIP of the Ming Empire is coming soon. Are you still romantic and happy here? Do you think you are decent? Are you trying to lose face to our Portuguese Empire?"
When Kong Dede heard this, he rolled his eyes and patted the two beauties in his arms helplessly, asking them to take the dress. This guy is so nervous today. He can't afford to offend him, so he should give in. He smiled while wearing the dress: "Hehe, Shivera, my friend, don't be so angry. Am I changing clothes? It's still early, so don't hurry."
Schvira immediately jumped up like a cat that stepped on her tail and shouted, "It's still early, the Ming Dynasty's fleet is about to arrive at the port." Do you know? Where are your Goa defenders? Where are your cavalry? Why are there only the recruits you recruited on the dock?"
Oh, this psychopath, is it necessary to be so excited? Kong Dede was really afraid of him and continued to smile and said with apologies: "Haha, aren't your guard and General Luo and others? I'll take the guard over there again. It's too troublesome to gather the defenders and cavalry. Let's forget it."
Schvira was originally coming to him for discussion, but when he was stimulated, he forgot about this and forced him to say, "No, you are the master here. Now that the guests of the Ming Dynasty are here, you must welcome them with the greatest sincerity."
Comdede and Schvira's friends for so many years are very familiar with him. This guy is usually easy to talk. Once he gets nervous, you'd better not mess with him, otherwise he might get out of trouble in minutes! Hearing his tone, it would be impossible not to send more people. Comdedede had to shout helplessly: "Come on, let the city guards and the Knights gather on the dock and prepare to welcome the VIPs."
It was almost the same. Schvira watched the messenger run out to pass the command, and then nodded with satisfaction, and then ran out and arranged other things to go.
As noon approached, Schvira and Condede stood on the dock and looked at the sea in the distance. Four square formations lined up behind them, namely Luo Siwei led 200 guard soldiers, Condede's guard, Schvira's guard and more than 100 cavalry, then a square formation of more than 10,000 new recruits, almost half of the huge dock.
Soon, dense black dots finally appeared on the sea in the distance. Schvira danced excitedly: "Here, come, finally come."
Kong Dede shook his head with a wry smile. It was just a 50,000 army. Isn’t it necessary to be so excited? It was just over a month ago that the 50,000 army of the Mughal Empire was repelled!
It is actually quite spectacular to stand together. It is more than one mile long in a square formation, but it is nothing compared to more than 500 large sailboats that can carry more than 100 people. What is the concept of more than 500 large sailboats that can carry more than 100 people? One is forty or fifty meters long, more than ten meters wide, and one hundred is four or five thousand meters. In addition, the distance between ships, a fleet of more than 500 large ships, even five ships in each row are more than ten kilometers long! The scene is so spectacular that it is like a giant dragon on the sea surface, and even if it is standing on the big ship in the middle, you can't see the head circumference at all!
About a quarter of an hour later, the giant dragon finally slowly approached the port. Goa Port is also a large port, but the giant ships that are dozens of meters long can only dock five at a time, so the fleet can only line up in long queues and stay on the sea, rows of docking.
The first row of giant ships slowly sailed towards the port, leading to a super giant ship that was more than 100 meters long and twenty meters wide. This was Zheng Zhilong's flagship, the Sea Dragon, used to show off. However, he did not pretend to be strong in front of the allies, but instead made Hou Shilu show his face. Even in the Age of Discovery, such super giant ships were rare, and the great powers basically did not, because they would not bored to build such unpractical big ships. Only the Ming Dynasty had such super giant ships.
The super giant ship more than ten meters high was parked in front of him. Even Kong Dede, who was used to the strong winds and waves, felt a huge sense of oppression. Schvira was even more excited and blushed with a proud look, as if the ship was from his family.
This time Kongdede and Schvira did not board the ship to greet him because there were still hundreds of large ships waiting behind him. They were also shaking Momo, and they probably wouldn't be able to unload these more than 500 large ships tomorrow night.
After the giant ship stopped, the stairs were put down. The first person appeared at the entrance of the stairs was not a person, but a big flag, the sun, moon, and dragon flag!
When Schvira saw the Sun and Moon Dragon Flag, she immediately screamed excitedly: "Oh, the Sun and Moon Dragon Flag, the Sun and Moon are the first-class legion of the Ming Dynasty. Oh, thank you for the cake buyer. Now we don't have to worry, even if the entire Mughal Empire gathers all the troops and rushes over, it's okay!"
Kong Dede asked a little doubt: "Are the first-class legions all as powerful as the military advisers under General Luo? It's impossible!"
Schvira despised: "How is it impossible? I have no knowledge. Be kind to you later, their legion commander is a first-rank official."
Kong Dede asked in confusion: "What kind of official is a first-rank official?"
This is really hard to explain, because officials from all European countries do not have ranks. Schvira thought about it and bragged: "A first-rank senior official is equivalent to a duke, and our earl is only equivalent to a third-rank senior official in the Ming Dynasty."
Kong Dede was shocked, the guy who bought cakes, Duke, what a great official!
At this time, the ship had already started to get off the boat. A strong guard walked in front with the sun, moon and dragon flag, and then Hou Shilu and a group of generals went down the stairs.
Seeing this, Luo Siwei hurriedly ran from behind and stood beside the stairs and waited respectfully. After all the generals walked down and gave up the stairs, Luo Siwei immediately ran to Hou Shilu, knelt on one knee and saluted: "Let's go to the admiral for the first legion of the Imperial Guard."
Hou Shilu did not let him get up immediately, but respectfully took out an imperial edict from his arms and said loudly: "Luo Siwei listened to the edict."
Luo Siwei quickly knelt on both knees, bent down respectfully, and lay on the ground.
Hou Shilu then said loudly: "Follow the heavens, the emperor ordered:
Luo Siwei, the general of the First Corps of the Imperial Guards, was loyal, brave, smart, and had great contributions. He was promoted to deputy general of the First Corps of the Expeditionary Force and the rank of general. "
Luo Siwei kowtowed respectfully and said, "I thank you, the emperor, long live my emperor."
Then raise your hand and respectfully take over the imperial edict.
Hou Shilu handed over the imperial edict to him, and waited for him to kowtow again to thank him, then stepped forward and helped him up, and smiled and said, "General Luo, we will be a family in the future. I have just arrived at the foreign vassal states, and many things are not clear. I hope General Luo will remind you more."
At this time, Schvira and Condede had already come up, and Luo Siwei quickly introduced: "This is Earl of Schvira, the emperor gave the Emperor Zhenyibo of the Ming Dynasty, and this is the Governor of Portugal to India, and the Earl of Condede."
Hou Shilu bowed his hands to see the truth one by one, and Shivera asked slightly respectfully: "I don't know the name of this adult's surname."
Hou Shilu replied in a humble and arrogant manner: "I am the leader of the First Legion of the Expeditionary Army of the Ming Empire and the admiral of Hou Shilu."
Schvira had never understood the difference between the admiral, the admiral and the admiral, and the admiral. He thought they were both first-rank officials. Seeing that the 'results' in front of him was a first-rank official, he immediately flattered: "Mr. Hou has worked hard all the way. Why don't you go to the city with me first to rest, and leave the matter here to your subordinates."
Hou Shilu quickly declined and said, "Look, so many soldiers need to gather, and the weapons that Lord Kong Dede bought have to hand over by himself. If I really can't leave, I won't bother you."
Seeing Hou Shilu's serious expression, Shivera stopped obsessing with this issue. He looked at the imperial edict in Luo Siwei's hand and asked with a little enviousness: "I wonder if the emperor has any orders passed to me?"
When Hou Shilu heard this, his mind was a little confused. He had long heard that this guy had always regarded him as an official of the Ming Dynasty. It seemed that he really had this meaning, but the emperor had no such meaning in his intention. He quickly explained: "The emperor did not issue an order to you, but the emperor asked me to bring an oral order."
Schvira really didn't know how to accept this oral order. He looked at Kong Dede next to him, thought for a while, and let Kong Dede know that it was not good to flatter the Ming Dynasty so much. As for Hou Shilu, the Ming Dynasty said that the ignorant person would not be guilty. It seems that if I don't know how to interact with the oral order, then I won't blame him if I just stood up and answered.
When he thought about it this way, he simply pretended to be confused and said, "Oral order? Did the emperor ask you to bring me a message?"
Hou Shilu didn't care whether this guy was standing or kneeling. Anyway, this guy was not a real Ming official. He cleared his throat and said loudly: "The emperor ordered that the south of Goa will return to Portugal and north of Goa will return to Ming Dynasty. For the time being, the Ming Dynasty will not attack north. For the time being, you can develop south and occupy the entire southern half. For the Ming Dynasty will help you defend the front line of Mysore. But you cannot attack the Mughal Empire north. For the time being, the Ming Dynasty does not want to go to war with the Mughal Empire. If you want to attack north, then the Ming Dynasty will have no choice but to withdraw its troops."
Kong Dede was so anxious next to him. As soon as Schvira ran over, he got stuck with him and forgot that he was the owner of this place. He wanted to ask, "Where are my muskets and my cannons, why can he not speak Chinese?" At this moment, he saw all the Ming generals beside him kneeling down. The first-rank official seemed to be giving some orders. He caught the opportunity and grabbed Schvira and asked, "What are he saying? What are these people doing on kneeling? Ask me about muskets and cannons."
Schvira was experiencing the oral orders of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. After being pulled by him, he couldn't help but say angrily: "He said that the north of Goa is from the Ming Dynasty, and the south of Goa is from us. If we go south obediently, the Ming Dynasty will help us defend the front line of Mysore. If we fight north, the Ming Dynasty will withdraw its troops. They have brought your weapons and will give them to you later. What are you anxious about?"
Kong Dede was relieved when he heard that the weapon had arrived. As for what he was going north, just kidding, the Mughal Empire was not an indigenous person. He had such a little force to deliver vegetables to people. Whoever liked to go, he wouldn't go anyway.
Chapter completed!