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Chapter 200 Flying

"The Netherlands?"

Li Dan sat on a chair in the middle of the platform of the stern, standing on the left and right with a helmet, armored waist and a hand gun, holding a long-handled, sharp-edged sword, holding a hollow gold-plated silver-copper ball with iron chains, putting his elbow on the handrail, and supporting his side face, saying, "I am Li Dan, from Quanzhou, I'm asking about your country, are you Spanish?"

The incense ball in his hand was extremely exquisitely made. The ball was made of round and halves, carved and hollowed out on the outside to reveal the fragrance. There is also a square copper box containing spices inside. Put the spices into a ball. It can be incense in summer and burned in winter to warm hands.

Li Dan also has another jade sachet, which is hollowed out with jade rings. The one is extremely difficult to make and more expensive, which is truly a masterpiece. However, jade sachets cannot be burned and hand-warming in winter. Since Li Dan was sent to Japan, he has been in the beauty mirror, and this time he traveled eastward.

He thought he would stay in Majiagang for a long time, but Chen Mu sent him the heat to bring him again.

It is more comfortable to use jade in the tropical areas, and it is not only cool to buy, but also nourishing people.

He really didn't like to smell the smell of burnt silk, so he played with the incense ball for a long time before he recovered. Yuan Zizhang went to deal with the rewards of Baishan Camp's military merits. He happened to be very interested in this merchant ship, so he ordered people to call the ship owner here.

Li Dan wanted to see with his own eyes what this bold person looked like if he dared to run across the sea without running to the Caribbean Sea.

The result disappointed him. The owner of the ship looked like a fisherman, and he was still the unlucky guy who could not catch fish for three months with a broken net.

Especially if I don’t understand human words, I ask where he came from. I’m not from Europeans when I say a place name. Can you ask you where he came from? I said I’m from Quanzhou, you know where you are from the European Tuha?

But it was not that Lamb couldn't understand human words, but that he really didn't know how to answer this question.

"His Excellency General, I am from the Netherlands in the Netherlands. The Netherlands used to be loyal to His Highness Philip, King of Spain. Later, people were unwilling to be loyal to them. War broke out. Now the war has not subsided. The troops of Spain and France fought in my hometown, and the Netherlands divided into two alliances in the north and south."

Lamb was very sincere when he said this. Finally, he slowly shook his head with his thin lips, his tired eyes were confused, and he said, "I don't know which country I belong to."

Li Dan didn't expect that he would get such an answer. He paused for a moment before asking: "I saw your ship hanging from the Spanish flag. Maybe you don't know yet that the Caribbean Sea has been taken over by the Ming fleet. We will wipe out all pirates and check all ships. The flags and letters that did not have the Ming Dynasty issued will be treated as pirates."

"I, I'm not a pirate, I don't have a single cannon on my ship."

Seeing Lamb busy defending, Li Dan waved his hand and said, "Don't be afraid, your ship is already pitiful enough, I won't be embarrassed for you. The government army will check your cargo and the ship's staff, and then you can go to your destination. Are you going to Puerto Rico?"

"Then you can follow my boat and you can come back here when we set off. I really don't know what you think. You dare to come here to do business without a gun on the boat. It's really a waste of money."

In fact, Li Dan had already begun to regret the reward he had made after a hothead. In a battle, there was almost no profit except picking up a few broken Franco machine cannons, and he had to give another silver to reward.

Those pirates were not a threat to him, and the money was not worth spending.

But at that time he just wanted to spend it, and he was just annoyed by the feeling that others regarded him as fish on the chopping board!

After that, he saved a bad guy. Seeing the captain like this, he knew that the merchant ship could not squeeze out any oil and water. If a good man did it to the end, he would do a good job that day.

To be honest, Li Dan really feels that he is a great charity now.

"The Caribbean Sea will be taken over by the Ming army?"

Nothing impacted Lamb's worldview more than this news, he stammered: "Did Spain lose the war on the New World?"

Li Dan on the chair used his other hand that was not holding the incense ball to touch his jaw and frowned. He walked around the chair with his hands in his arms and walked around the chair for a while. Then he leaned forward slightly with the back of the seat, turned to look at his guard and asked, "It sounds like this... It seems like he thinks that Spain can win, right?"

After saying that, Li Dan stood up straight and said to Lamb seriously: "Since the year of Longqing, there have been two wars between Mingxi, and dozens of big battles, but they have never won."

"So now we have signed a truce treaty. The defense of the Caribbean belongs to us. Although our merchants have not come yet, it is okay to help them fight pirates first. After all, their merchants have to sell the goods back before they can get money..."

Li Dan also wanted to recommend Panama's products to the captain who claimed to be the "Netherlander", but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yuan Zizhang's footsteps quickly. The order of the General of the Beiyang Army's Land Division was firmly ordered: "Take him down!"

No one could react to the sudden change. The two flag soldiers instinctively clamped Lamb, and the unsheathed waist knife was already spread around their necks. Yuan Zizhang held his fists and saluted Li Dan, whispering: "The sailors on his ship will not allow him to check the cargo. There are twenty-two cast iron cannons, more than 1,400 kilograms of gunpowder and boxes of shells in the cabin."

After a brief shock, Li Dan laughed and smiled at Lam who was kneeling and struggling, saying, "I thought he was an honest businessman. The ship was equipped with artillery for a long time. Are you a Spanish officer?"

There is a strange thing everywhere. Li Dan believes that Lamb doesn't look like an officer, or even like a person who is used to taking weapons. What's more, his understanding of Spain's good military officer system, and the transportation of supplies has always been done with the Great Garen ship. How could there be such a poor ship owner and a broken and unprepared boat to transport military funds?

Lamb shouted: "That is my cargo. I received this job from the cannon factory in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and handed the cannons to the commander of the Bernard Legion of New Spain. That is my cargo!"

Bernard?

Li Dan calculated the time and said that the cannons were transported here at this time. I'm afraid he had placed an order when the Second War of Mingxi started. He thought that the war could last for now.

"Since you have cannons in your ship, why don't you fight back when pirates chase you?"

"That's goods. The goods have nothing to do with us. They only have to do with the employer and the buyer. I have no country and the Netherlands have no support. All we can rely on is integrity. There are many dangers at sea. I cannot guarantee that the goods will be delivered to the buyer, but I can guarantee that as long as I am still alive, the goods are new, what the buyer's goods are like on my ship, and what they are like when they are delivered."

"Unless all the Dutch people die at sea, there will be one day..." Despite the sharp waist and knife on his neck, Lamb still said: "One day, we will definitely get rid of the Spanish rule, and the Dutch will eventually fly on the sea!"
Chapter completed!
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