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Chapter 441 Fleet

Matosa, the governor of Portuguese Brazil, felt extremely nervous, but in this anxiety, he deeply admired his wit.

Whether it was sending people to Changsheng or Zhao Shizhen's fleet heading north, Brazil unified the caliber of the Ming Dynasty, Rio de Janeiro was their capital.

But in fact, their Brazilian Governor's Palace has been in El Salvador, a harbor in northern Rio. They named the bay next to the harbor Halloween Bay, and the full name means the Savior next to the harbor.

This was the first town established by the Portuguese in the New World and the largest slave market in the New World. However, they could not save anyone, they could only save themselves.

Compared with the brutal colonization of the Spanish in the north of the New World, the Portuguese had little power and had little power, and their relationship with the indigenous people was enough to be peaceful. For a long time, the Portuguese and the indigenous people in Brazil did not violate the rivers and only strengthened the relationship between the two sides through trade.

At that time, the Portuguese were really like finding heaven. Through the king's orders, every Portuguese who came to Brazil voluntarily could obtain a piece of land, ranging from a few hundred square kilometers to a few thousand square kilometers. The paupers who had nothing but courage and sword turned into the owner of the big manor.

I don’t have to do anything every day. I lie in the hammock smoking a cigarette and bask in the sun. When I’m hungry, I shake the bell, and an Indian wife brings the meal over.

In this way, can the colony develop?

Whoever cares about whether the colony can develop or not, they can live comfortably on their own.

Such good days lasted for many years, and almost when that generation died, the Portuguese king actually sent a governor to carry out management. This was also the beginning of the tragedy.

It was difficult to rule a few Portuguese people thousands of times the indigenous people. In the past, the king granted a large amount of land to the colonists, but these lands were idle because they could not be cultivated at all. There were even several indigenous tribes living in the land under the name of the colonists who did not care about the colonists at all.

At that time, they had thousands of large estates, but their annual output was pitifully small.

Everyone nominally owns endless land, but in fact there is just a small shopping station in the middle of other people's land. When the indigenous leaders were happy, they sent someone to sell them with leather and mahogany to exchange for some glass balls.

When the Governor comes, everything is different.

They must use the land and attract the indigenous people to farm... But the indigenous people are not stupid. I live well in the jungle. If I want to eat something, I will climb the trees and pick them by myself. If I want to use something, I will pick them from animals. If I can eat enough, I will come out to work for you?

Contradictions come, peace will never return.

From the time when the first governor ordered forced farming, the Portuguese manors reduced to dozens of them three years later.

All the colonists were killed by the indigenous people, and the colonies were directly beaten by the indigenous people.

There was no way, the first wave of colonists who came to Brazil were all characters whose grandmothers did not love them. At first, the Pope's Meridian was painted directly along the edge of the east coast of the New World. At that time, Europeans did not know the New World, nor did they know why the Pope painted so accurately, allowing the Portuguese side to divide the map perfectly avoiding every grass and tree of the New World.

Later, when the New World discovered it, Portugal cried, made a fuss and hanged, and then turned a little bit away from the New World. He just drew the eastern part of Brazil, which made the Portuguese send thousands of people here.

Even if I ran here, I couldn't find any gold or silver. All the ambitious colonists went to other places, and those who stayed here didn't have much prospects.

You can't do anything, but you don't eat enough.

But they were very smart and knew that they could not defeat the indigenous people, so they could only further explore some coastal colonies and ignore the others.

However, they are also sending slave hunting teams to the jungle. Due to the size currently occupied by the Portuguese in Brazil, the slave hunting teams can only be very small and very few.

There were very few indigenous people who were forced to serve them, and more slaves were bought from Africa in the plantations.

Governor Matosa was worried about Brazil and tried his best to expand trade opportunities. He once took the initiative to go to Changsheng to find Chen Mu's hope that the messenger of trade was sent by him.

But the result was not good. Chen Mu looked at the goods and felt that there was really nothing to buy, and the merchants in the Ming Dynasty were not very interested in this.

The status is very embarrassing.

Simply put, the arrival of the Ming Dynasty in the New World is a signal, symbolizing that their good days are over.

Although the Eastern Military Office has not actually done anything to Brazil, once bad luck is plagued, there will be no good things.

Matosa found that sucrose was profitable, but sugar-graining was a labor-intensive industry, so she planned to buy a large number of slaves from Africa and enter the plantation to expand production capacity. As a result, the ocean was catching up with the Han pirates making waves and robbing all their peers.

Merchants, merchants will never return; pirates, pirates will never return; warships, warships will never return.

More than twenty fleets were sent and more than thirty trips were sent, and three ships were returned in total. More than half of the slaves brought back were not dead.

Finally found a little iron ore. He was busy duel with the indigenous people with his left hand and busy discussing business with Chen Mu with his right hand... It was not that he wanted to sell Chen Mu with a pole, but that there was no more insurance buyer except Chen Mu. These Portuguese didn't even dare to go back home. The pirates of Han Kingdom ran around on the route and disappeared when they were seen.

There were originally a lot of armed merchant ships in Brazil, but the slave trade asked them to send all the best ships, and there were quite a few new shipbuildings left, but there were no cannons.

Without cannons, Yang Ce can beat more boats than them, more cannons than them, and more people than them?

Then, the king was so full that he went south to fight Africa in order to be the first Catholic king to conquer North Africa.

If you fight Africa, just fight. If you lose, just lose. As a result, will the king who was personally entrusted with a feeling of tragic death?

Hundreds of nobles became captives of the Moors, and in the end the king had not yet succeeded, leaving behind a lot of bad things.

Now Spain's King Philip sends someone to send messages to them to accept that they are kings... This is not bad in the eyes of Brazilian Governor Matosa.

He knew that even Yang Ce, the pirate leader who was rampant in the Atlantic, would not dare to provoke the Spanish fleet. He knew that the king could send a fleet here regularly every year, so they would have the opportunity to re-communicate the route.

But this also means that we must separate our ties from the Eastern Military Office of the Ming Dynasty.

Matosa dared not talk about these things with Chen Mu at all. Zhao Shizhen from the Eastern Army Office had sent someone to find him. After their king's death, Zhao Shizhen told him that if Brazil wanted independence, the Ming army could protect him from threats from Spain.

The problem is that no one in the upper class of Brazilian aristocrats and merchants thinks Spain is a threat.

The people on the border fought to death, what do they care about? They were as close as a family to the Spanish nobles.

So Matosa decided to leave Brazil's problem to Philip and Chen Mu to solve, and he would not appear in the middle.

But... on February 3, the ninth year of Wanli, the guards stationed in the harbor came to report that they saw warships hanging with Ming-shaped sails lined up on the sea, riding the wind and waves to the south.
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