Chapter 1131: "Everywhere"

This time, Marin took a total of 10 250-class armed merchant ships. However, instead of taking the North Atlantic route to the Americas, he first went south along the west coast of France.

This is so because Marin does not want others to know that he is taking the Pacific route to Daming. Because at this time, Europeans did not know the existence of the Pacific Ocean.

In fact, let other countries know that the Pacific Ocean is nothing. The problem is, if European navigators knew the existence of the Pacific Ocean and knew that the earth was round, they would go on a navigating adventure around the earth, just like Magellan did.

They don't care what they do to sail around the world, but Marin cares about them passing the Americas. If those navigators found the riches of America by accident, then Marin would n’t want to settle down. There must be a bunch of people fighting for America.

Therefore, for the sake of confidentiality, although Marin himself would take the Pacific route, he deliberately sent a fleet to go south along the west coast of Europe, so that the Spaniards and Portuguese saw it, making them think they were taking the Eastern route. In fact, I took the western Pacific route.

This is probably the so-called "different course", which is not correct, it should be called "different course". It's just that it's wrong to diverge from one country to another, but it's true that one goes from one country to another.

With these 10 armed merchant ships under cover, others would not doubt that they were on another route. Then, no navigator was interested in going west.

In order to brush a sense of presence, Marin also deliberately visited Lisbon midway. Sure enough, because of the provision of guns and guns to the Malacca Kingdom, Marin was once again accused by the Portuguese. But Marin explained it last time, this time again.

The Portuguese were very angry about the defeat in Malacca, especially Ricardo, who was in direct charge of the defeat, gritted his hatred at Malin. However, Marin's explanation is also correct-we don't know that Portugal will attack Malacca afterwards, can it be wrong to send guns in advance? What's more, when Columbus delivered guns, Portugal did not know the existence of the Kingdom of Malacca.

Therefore, the Portuguese gritted their teeth at Marin, but there was no way. Marin was very guilty on the surface, but smiled in the heart-I like to see you want to kill me, but take the look that I can't help ...

After saying goodbye to Lisbon, Marin's fleet continued to go south, arrived in the Canary Islands of Spain, and replenished materials in Las Palmas. In this way, both Spain and Portugal have witnessed Marin going down the east route to the east.

But after leaving the Canary Islands, after the southward fleet arrived near the Cape Verde Islands, Marin took out the telescope and looked back and forth and found that there was no Spanish or Portuguese fleet nearby. So, he commanded the two ships to leave the fleet and travel westward along the Atlantic Ocean's north equatorial current to Panama. As for the other 8 ships, continue to travel south along the coast of Africa and take the Eastern route, first arriving at the Strait of Malacca, and then to the island of Taiwan ...

Moreover, when passing through Lisbon, Marin explained to Portugal the purpose of the trip-Dongfan Island. Moreover, Marin also specifically stated that he would visit and tour the Daming Empire. In this way, it can be regarded as blocking the mouth of the Portuguese in advance.

According to the agreement previously signed in Rome, Marin ’s colonial scope was Japan, Ryukyu Kingdom, and Tohoshima Island east of Daming. And Daming is the scope of Portuguese colonization and trade. But the agreement does not say that Marin cannot buy goods from Daming from third countries. This is the biggest loophole in this agreement. Therefore, Marin first occupied Dongfan Island, then turned to Daming, and bought Daming goods in the name of Dongfan Island, the Portuguese couldn't pick it out. However, he was so angry that he vomited blood, and even wanted to get started, that is for sure.

Therefore, Marin still has to prepare for the naval battle. But because Marin did not violate the treaty, Portugal could not directly and completely fight Marin. Therefore, it is estimated that the two sides will fight a small-scale sea encounter to put pressure on Marin, and even force Marin to stop using the treaty loopholes and give up Daming's trade interests.

But because there is no valid reason, the scale of this conflict is destined to be small, and Portugal cannot use the power of the nation and Marin to die, and send at most one fleet to teach. As long as the fleet is defeated, the Portuguese have no alternative.

Even if the Portuguese are determined to die, Marin has a way. That is, to join the Spaniards and attack the Portuguese capital from the land. At most, the two sides agreed to cede Portugal ’s overseas interests to Spain after the destruction of Portugal. For example, India ’s spice trade interests and African colonial power. In this way, the Spaniards are certainly willing to cooperate.

But less than a last resort, Marin would never do this. Because, if you do so, it will only make the Spaniards dominate, and finally threaten the interests of Marin. It is actually a good thing to have Portugal dominate Spain. The premise is that the Portuguese want to exterminate themselves without killing themselves.

Portugal is a country with extremely uneven power. The navy is strong, but the army scum. Marin is confident that as long as the two legions can destroy Portugal. But the premise is that there must be an excuse to send troops.

If Portugal came to attack itself because of anger, then it would have a legitimate excuse to attack Portugal. After all, I didn't violate the treaty ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ I just used the treaty loophole. At that time, as long as you send a large army through Spain, you can destroy Portugal and take advantage.

Of course, this is only the worst plan, equivalent to breaking the dead net. Before the situation reaches that step, Marin will threaten Portugal and let it stop. Otherwise, Portugal is really destroyed, and Spain is the one who really benefits. This is the typical "snipele fighting for fishermen's gain", Marin is not so stupid.

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Before separating from the main fleet, Marin repeatedly told the leader of the main fleet, Columbus, to prevent him from staying in Calicut and Malacca, so as not to be seen a secret that he was not on board.

But at the same time, the fleet will actually stop at some other port in India in order to quietly drop a group of spies. The mission of these spies is to persuade the newly defeated Indian prince to send them to the Malacca Kingdom to warn them and inform the Malacca Kingdom to transfer their property in advance.

As for the fleet led by Little Columbus, they will pass through the Strait of Malacca with great fanfare, but they will not stop at Malacca. In this way, the suspicion of reporting to the Malacca people can be avoided.

Columbus Jr. is also the eldest son of Columbus, Diego Columbus. He was born in 1479 and is now 30 years old. Columbus arranged him to lead the team this time, in fact, to accumulate seniority and credit for his son. On the merits of Columbus, Malinian also agreed to let little Columbus lead the team. In order to **** his son, Columbus assigned all his cronies to his son, so that he could successfully complete the task.

In fact, after Columbus's careful instruction, Columbus's maritime knowledge base was very solid. The only thing missing is probably actual experience. This time, it was his chance to practice ...

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