After three months of sea rushing, the "Yangwei" fast cruiser finally sailed into Ceylon's naturalized port.

More than a decade ago, the Port of Naturalization Port was also Colombo, a colony of Portugal. Now, Portugal has long been driven out of the coast of the Indian Sea. Colombo, named for commemorating Columbus, also became the "Naturalization Port" of the Ming Dynasty, which means the naturalization of barbarians. As for Portuguese colonial ports such as Goa and Mumbai, they have long become the colonial stronghold of the Ming Dynasty in India. It was the stronghold of the Ming Dynasty's expansion in India and the foundation of the feudal princes.

However, Guihua Port is still directly under the Siyi Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and is a colony directly under the royal family.

This is the headquarters of the Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Navy.

Today, the Ming Navy has become an extremely huge maritime force, with a permanent force of more than 100,000. It is headquartered in the Nanjing Navy Governor's Office. At the same time, the navy has five admiral yamen. The Nanyang Fleet is in the South Tianmen, which is later Singapore, which controls the Malacca Strait and the entire Nanyang area; the Beiyang Navy is in Haizhou, which controls the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty and the waters of Japan, North Korea, Ryukyu and other regions. As for the Western Fleet in Ceylon, it controls all the oceans of the Tianzhu Sea west of Malacca.

“Is this the legendary India?”

Philip I, who was not tall and wearing a pair of high heels, looked at the city with greed eyes. In Europe, everyone has heard of India's "richness". Moreover, France's desire for the East and India has lasted for decades.

As early as the reign of King François I in the last century, the French had already visited the South Asian subcontinent for adventure. Some Rouen merchants sent two ships to sail to the East for trade activities. They set sail from Le Havre, but there was no news afterwards and they might have encountered a shipwreck. In 1604, a company obtained the Oriental Trade Patent Certificate, but the plan ended in failure. In 1615, the French King issued a new patent certificate, and two ships went to India, but only one returned.

In 1642, with the support of Cardinal Duke Richelieu, France established the East India Company, but it was limited to its establishment. After all, the civil war restricted France's attempt to voyage to the East during that period. As for now, they no longer had the opportunity to colonize and expand in the East.

This is the Ming Dynasty’s imprisonment, the imprisonment that they are forbidden from being involved in!

Compared to Philip I's greed, other international students, especially those young people, rushed out of the cabin like a fleeing, and couldn't wait to get off the ship and land. Along the way, they were really frustrated on the ship. After all, since they set sail in Le Havre, they had almost never approached the port, but had only supplied supplies at several small strongholds along the coast of Africa. The small strongholds with only black people and Ming soldiers were comparable to the prosperity of the city of Naturalization.

Compared to those nobles who were eager to try, the young people from Wangjia Middle School, although they were all excited to look at the city in sight, there were many rules. After all, most of them were very humble. At most, they looked at the city from afar.

When a Ming crew member came humming a tune, Newton immediately asked in less fluent Chinese:

"Mr. Lin, will we get ashore here?"

As the best student in Wangjia Middle School, Newton's learning speed was also amazing. At the beginning, he could not speak Chinese at all, but when he was on the boat, he started chatting with the Ming sailors with the "Simplified Chinese-English Dialogue Manual". He gradually could communicate with the Ming crew members. Now he could even write more than 500 Chinese characters. In fact, most other international students were the same.

In fact, the reason why Newton became an international student was entirely a coincidence. As the most outstanding student at Kings Middle School, he should have dropped out of school in October this year and returned to his hometown of Elsthorp Village because his widowed mother wanted Newton to be a farmer.

However, history has a small deviation here. Newton had not received his mother's letter, and his mother had not yet become a widow again, and as the best student, he was selected to study in China.

Even if his mother is widowed again, it will not have any impact on Newton. After all, Newton is now in a foreign country. It is even an unknown whether it is possible to return to England in the future.

"Of course we have to go ashore. Not to mention that we haven't gotten ashore for three months, even the captain will have to go to the admiral's office to report the results of this voyage. It is estimated that we will stay here for at least five or six days."

Perhaps it was for showing off or out of enthusiasm, the crew said:

"Oh, by the way, this place was in the hands of the Portuguese, but later it was beaten by the Marquis of Pinghai. Although it is now the port of Guihua in the Ming Dynasty, there is still a church in the city. If you want to go to the church, you will know if it is your church."

Newton and others were not interested in religion. After all, they were all Protestants, the Portuguese were Catholics, and the two gangs could not pee in a pot. Compared with the church, they were more eager to relax in the city. After all, for them, the city in front of them may be a colony of the Ming Dynasty, but it was also a window to understand the Ming Dynasty.

A few hours later, the cruiser "Yangwei" approached the shore at the port. As soon as he got ashore, a small boat came with chickens, ducks, fruits and waited to go to the side to sell goods. The owner of the boat was a wise man, but the boaters were all Ceylonians, and several of them were women.

When they saw those women, even though their skin was dark, many crew members could not help swallowing their saliva. The sailors who had been on the boat for several months were hungry and hungry, but fortunately, they knew that there were better choices waiting for them on the shore, and at most they would buy some fruit.

When the crew members were about to go to the port, the sailor joked to Newton and others:

"After you get ashore, be careful and don't get fancy or willow disease."

Newton and others all said in embarrassment:

“It won’t be like this.”

At any port, both at home and abroad, there are brothels, specializing in maritime business and crew business. After Columbus discovered the Americas, he brought syphilis to the old world. More than a hundred years ago, syphilis was spread to the South China Sea by European sailors, and then to ports such as Guangdong, Hangzhou, and Fuzhou. Although brothels often regularly inspect and fired poor women with syphilis, in places like ports, secret prostitutes wander around, and if they are not bad, they may win the bid.

After ordinary sailors took turns to land, except for purchasing supplies, the rest was all about having fun, such as drinking, gambling and browsing in brothels. If you drift on the sea for a long time, you can really make people feel bad.

The prostitutes in Guihua Port used to be local Sinhalese women. During the Portuguese colonial rule, many mixed-race women were also mixed-race women. Later, there were Annan maids and Japanese maids. However, the most popular ones were the popular mixed-race women. Because the colonies were different from the Ming Dynasty, many brothels had slaves, including captured Portuguese people and even white slaves sold by Tianfang slave traders. Those white slaves were both men and women. The male slaves were not only turtle men, but also stallions, specializing in giving birth to mixed-race small slaves with Sinhalese women and even black slaves. In fact, they were just to improve the skin color of the next generation of slaves.

It has to be said that from ancient times to the present, capital has come to the world, from head to toe, with blood and dirty things dripping in every pore. All the dirty things in the colonies have been magnified to the extreme.

Of course, Newton and others didn't know about this. As outsiders, they were more curious about the city.

Although the Naturalized City is located in Ceylon, there are not many Sinhalese people on the streets. Many Chinese in the city are tall, fair-looking and neatly dressed. They all look polite and hardworking.

On that day, like those nobles, Newton and others were also arranged to enter the hotel. As guests from afar, they naturally received special hospitality.

It’s a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar.
Chapter completed!