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The main island of the Canary Islands was taken down by Prince Conde, but Taichang did not go up.

He ordered people to come forward and slap the flag, and then led forty Aegis ships around the main island to investigate.

Because what he was going to build was not a small fortress, but a solid city that could accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.

It would be nice to build a small city with a capacity of 10,000 people in the place chosen by Spain. It was surrounded by mountains, so it seemed not easy to build a big city with 100,000 people.

The area of ​​this main island is really not small. It took more than two hours to go around it directly. It took them more than three hours to explore it carefully.

The problem is that the entire island seems to be a volcano rising from the bottom of the sea. It is basically surrounded by hillsides and there are very few flat land. It seems impossible to find a flat land directly and build a large city that can accommodate 100,000 people.

What should I do now? Could it be that I will build ten fortresses that accommodate ten thousand people around the entire island?

That doesn't seem to work. If the Continental Union fleet comes to retaliate, at least hundreds of warships will be there. A fortress that can accommodate tens of thousands of people will not be able to accommodate many shore defense guns. The fortress will probably be destroyed after several rounds of fire from the warships.

It would be a little more trouble to push the ten fortresses, but Prince Kong Dai and the others would definitely not be able to stop it.

Taichang was frowning and pondering there, and the fleet had slowly sailed back to the port terminal built by the Spanish.

Zhang Yuanfang, who was turning his telescope to look around, suddenly turned his head and said with a strange look on his face: "Your Majesty, Prince Kong Dai and others have put forward the banner, and it seems that they have captured some prisoners."

captive?

Didn’t they just arrest all the hundreds of people guarding the port and docks? Are there other people on this island?

Taichang thought for a while, then waved his hand: "The flagship is on the dock, let Prince Kong Dai come up and see what prisoners he has captured."

It is not easy for the flagship to relocate to the dock at this moment, because there are only a few docks here, and the hundreds of warships brought by Prince Kong Dai and the two hundred armed merchant ships they transferred to have filled the docks, and many ships could not dock at the docks.

Seeing this, Zhang Mingshi couldn't help but remind him carefully: "Your Majesty, it's dangerous. We didn't bring any infantrymen.

When the flagship is on the dock, they are going to order other warships to block our retreat and then send infantry to rush up. We may not be able to withstand it!"

When Taichang heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "What are you thinking?

Prince Kong Dai is desperate, but he still dares to assassinate me?

Besides, do you think my personal guards are ordinary infantrymen, and they are all matched with Dai Zi rifles, and thousands of people are enough to match tens of thousands of infantrymen.

Don't worry, it's okay, Prince Kong Dai doesn't have the courage.

Even if he had the courage, he would not be able to lead the infantry to rush forward."

Well, Zhang Yuanfang and Zhang Mingshi looked at each other and could only order the guards on the ship to strengthen their vigilance and prepare to prevent them from rushing to the flagship.

Then he posed a flag and ordered the ships near the dock to make way for the flagship and forty Aegis ships to free up the waterway.

After a while, the flagship was approaching the dock, and the ladder had just been put down, Prince Kongde walked up with a letter and bowed, "His Majesty the Emperor, we have just caught a Dutch warship, with a messenger sent by Tirena on it.

This is a letter from Tirener to the Duke of Richelieu.”

It turned out that there were unexpected gains. These people may have seen that Prince Conde's ship was full of French flags, so they had no doubt at all and just bumped into it.

When Taichang heard this, he did not answer the letter because he didn't understand French at all.

He winked at the translator next to him, ordered him to take the letter and then asked again: "The Dutch have warships?"

Why did they get in touch with Tirena so quickly?”

Prince Conde quickly explained: "Dutch shipbuilding is still very powerful. After they arrived in the Cape Town Colonial, they built many dock waterways. Now they can build hundreds of steamships and warships a year.

They probably went to Angola to pick up the goods and happened to meet Tirena.

But they didn't mention anything, because the rubber and copper stored in Luanda were taken away by me on the boat.

Tirener wanted to report to the Duke of Richelieu, but he had no ships under his command, so he borrowed a warship from the Dutch."

Well, this is a coincidence.

Taichang nodded slightly, then asked again: "What did Tirena say in the letter?"

This time, Prince Kong Dai did not answer because he had to translate the communication through other people's communication. The letter was in the hands of other people's communication, so he naturally had no need to talk more.

The news quickly explained in the letter: "Master, Tirena said that only about 310,000 French troops fled to Angola this time.

Prince Condai had given up Angola and escaped without a trace.

There are also Dutch people who want to buy a large amount of rubber and copper from Angola to transform sailing ships. Can they sell them?

What should he do if the 310,000 French troops under his command remain in Angola or send some back to the continent.

If he wants to send a part back to the continent, he must send a steamer to pick it up because he doesn’t have a single ship in his hand.”

There is quite a lot of useful information on this letter.

Taichang thought about it, then asked Prince Kong Dai again: "How many rubber trees are there in Angola? Do you know the approximate number?"

Well.

Prince Kong Dai thought Taichang was asking him why he didn't cut down all the rubber trees.

He hesitated for a moment before gritting his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong. At that time, I should have cut down all the rubber trees.

There are actually not many rubber trees in Angola, only about 50,000 can be cut rubber, and more than 100,000 of them are planted later, and they have not grown yet."

You planted the rubber trees in Angola for a long time!

The reason why you didn't cut off all the rubber trees when you left was probably because you still wanted to leave a way out for yourself, right?

Such things cannot be tolerated.

Taichang thought for a while and then warned: "Forget it this time, if you have other ideas in the future, I will not help you."

Prince Kong Dai hurriedly promised: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will not have any other ideas in the future.

I didn’t cut down the rubber tree this time. I was really thinking too much, and I promise I won’t make any more mistakes in the future.”

OK, just warn others to understand.

No matter how much you say, it will be useless. It is impossible for people to run back and cut off the rubber tree.

Taichang nodded slightly, then asked again: "What's going on with sailing ships? Do you know?"

Prince Conde said without hesitation: "The sailing ship was designed by the Duke of Richelieu, which means transforming the original sailing ship and adding steam-powered water wheels.

In this way, the original sailing warship can flexibly turn during naval battles, and can drive without wind.

However, this kind of sailing ship is not fast, and it is not as fast as the wind and the water is not smooth."

It turned out to be such useless warships. They sank and burned thousands of ships in the Battle of Cairo.

Taichang understood as soon as he heard this, because Zheng Hongkui's battle report described the sailing ship, but Zheng Hongkui didn't know that the name was called.

He thought about it carefully and then asked, "It's okay for your subordinates to go to France to deliver the letter as Tirena's messenger?"

Of course there is no problem with this, most of his men are French.

Prince Conde nodded repeatedly and said, "It is no problem for my subordinates to pretend to be Tirena's messenger to deliver messages to France. However, those who come by the ship are all Dutch. Otherwise, we will send Mienionte and his confidants to take the ship over, so that we will be foolproof."

Minioyinte?

Why is this name so familiar?

Taichang thought about it for a moment and then asked, "Is Minuionte the governor of the new Amsterdam colony in North America?"

Prince Kong Dai nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, His Majesty the Emperor, it's him."

Taichang asked again: "There is also the English Earl of Brook, are you also following you?"

Prince Kong Dai nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor."

A prince of France, a governor of the Netherlands, an earl of England, and Carinho and Desera, half of the continent can be controlled.

Moreover, these five countries are the most developed countries in the continent. What’s more coincidental is that these five countries are still in the western part of the continent.

Very good, as long as you control these five countries, the continental areas will be basically over!

Taichang nodded thoughtfully, then ordered: "Go and call Minuyinte and Blake over."

When Prince Kong Dai heard this, he quickly bowed and hurriedly got off the boat.

After a while, he brought Minuionte and Blake over.

After the two of them saluted respectfully, Taichang asked solemnly: "Do you want to be kings?"

Who wouldn't think about this? The reason why they followed Prince Kong Dai wholeheartedly was that they had the opportunity to be king in the future.

Minuionte and Blake both nodded without hesitation and said, "I want to."

Just have an idea.

Taichang asked again: "Do you know how to become king?"

this!

When Blake heard this, he was stunned.

If he knew, could he still follow Prince Kong Dai?

Minuyinte said decisively: "We must be loyal to the Ming Empire. We will do whatever His Majesty the Emperor asks us to do."

Well, it seems that this guy is a little better than Blake.
To be continued...