"Dear Lord Dinoronia, please forgive me for not writing to you for so long. General Chen's guards have taken me too tightly."

"I learned a lot of novelty in my days following General Chen. He said that the idea of ​​establishing a commercial station in Portugal in Malacca and Macau is good, but it does not need to go further. He said that military rather than trade like Spain will be attacked sooner or later. He witnessed the Spanish in the Philippines, Luzon, and General Chen called this place like this."

"After witnessing the Spaniards' experience in Luzon, I think Portugal is setting up a commercial station and using fair means to obtain goods in an extremely perfect manner, and should continue to maintain it, especially within the range of the Ming Dynasty's offensive."

"He didn't let me reveal his situation to others, but he had twenty fleets of artillery, twenty thousand soldiers skilled in using muskets and spears, and a large number of pirates serving him. Behind General Chen is the Ming Dynasty, and I don't know how big a pagan country there is. He neither supports nor opposes us to sow the glory of the Lord in the world. Although missionaries are not allowed to enter the Ming Dynasty, it is a good start."

"This time, General Chen asked me to write to you, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would obtain permission to establish a commercial station in Malacca, Spice Islands, Goa and other places. All this needs to be ruled by you. I have no right to convince me, just explain the situation here."

"I believe you have learned from other ways that General Chen expelled the Spanish Philippine Governor Regasby, in his words, to restore the country for the tributary state. This may be because Luzon had an alliance with their emperor a hundred years ago? But unlike an alliance, you can regard the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty as another pope, but this pope does not spread glory for God, but only sends troops when the believers need it."

"It is worth mentioning that the Mantaya we occupied is also a believer of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty."

"But limited to our relationship, General Chen does not intend to send troops to retake Mantaga. He seems to regard Portugal as a friend in his heart, saying that he benefits each other with mutual benefit. Like us in Macau, he praised the Portuguese to me more than once, saying that they did their friends' duties and generously defend themselves when they need help, without dragging him down."

"General Chen needs gold and silver, the whole world needs spices, silk and porcelain, and the Spanish also need it. After they fought with General Chen, we could buy more goods, so General Chen planned to open a commercial station to allow more goods to be circulated."

"I don't want you to refuse him because he really doesn't want to go to war with us. But as a Portuguese, I have to explain to you that General Chen's character is like a lawless villain. Although he calls Portugal a friend, he always makes his friends suffer, and never allows a second person be bullied by himself."

“Looking forward to receiving your reply – Fernan Mendes Pinto, who was fortunate to fight with you in Ethiopia.”

Sailor Duke was still wearing his large, scorching lion official robe, and sat on the chair with his legs crossed, not dignified. After hearing the adopted son Li Dan read Pingtu's letter, he dragged his chin with one hand and looked at Pingtu with a strange expression, and asked in a questioning tone: "Mr. Pingtu, I have made you suffer a loss? Put your glasses and look at me carefully. Have you not felt my respect for you?"

"What is a lawless villain?"

Fortunately, except for the three of them, there was only Xu Wei who was wandering around in the room. Li Dan was almost fucking laughed out loud when he read this letter.

Chen Mu was actually laughing, and what was the situation of comparing the emperor to the pope? He also called the tribute country a believer, and the emperor only sent troops when the believers needed it. When did the Emperor of Ming Dynasty be so full?

If we don’t get criticized at the door, we emperors are too lazy to send troops!

Pingto was not afraid of Chen Mu. He took off his hat calmly and said to Chen Mu: "General Chen, I must tell you that the Bujialao artillery factory in Macau has my shares. Although it is not much, it is all my savings in the past. The guests of the artillery factory were pirates and Portuguese merchants who could not get supplies for weapons. In the past, there were very few Portuguese people, and the main guests were pirates."

"Because your military weapon bureau produces artillery and sells it to pirates, the dividends have been reduced and smaller in recent years. A few days ago, you hired all the workers under the military weapon bureau, leaving me losing all my money."

"Oh, you'll say you're losing all your money! Keep working hard." Chen Mu laughed, then frowned and asked Li Dan, "Guan Jiang wrote to him that he was short of manpower and thought of a solution, but didn't tell me that he wanted to buy the Bujialao Artillery Factory?"

Li Dan was also confused. He didn't hear about this. Then he saw Pingto wave his hand and said, "I hope he can buy it, at least I still have money. The cunning old man did not buy the artillery factory. He just recruited all of our skilled workers!"

Slap.

Chen Mu was applauding Guan Yuangu.

Guan Jiang is really worthy of being an old craftsman. He knows that craftsmen are the most important things.

"Okay, don't be so resentful. Can't Chen give you a reward of the artillery factory?" Chen Mu thought about it in his mind, and it seemed that he couldn't compare with the artillery factory. The artillery factory sold by Bu Jialao was very expensive, and Sailu felt that he was so unwilling to be honest, so he changed his tone: "Many things cannot be bought by money, for example, status. You are Chen's aide. How respectful are you in Macheng? Is this a match for the artillery factory in Haojing?"

"What you said is reasonable. This letter is like this. If you don't change it, you can hand it over to the Portuguese merchants waiting at the port to send it to Goa."

Lao Pingtuo nodded with satisfaction and waved his feather hat to Chen Mu. He looked ten years younger and followed his family soldiers to deliver the letter arrogantly.

After Pingtuo left, Li Dan seemed a little worried and asked, "Entertainment Father, can the Portuguese Governor agree to the government army to garrison and open the port?"

"Of course not. Can you let Portuguese build a commercial station in Nanjing?" Chen Mu shook his head and smiled. After getting the Portuguese king gave the same power as Lisbon in India from Pinto, he knew that opening a commercial station was a tough thing. "But it should be possible to talk about it. I didn't mention any requests. It depends on what they made. We can also follow it and wait for the reply."

"They want goods, and I want money. Haojing has their business station. They should at least give me a place, right? Let's continue talking later. Goa can be not, but Malacca and the Spice Islands cannot be missing."

Chen Mu's eyes were fixed, and his index finger lightly tapped the table: "Once the negotiation is completed, the merchants will go there first, and then they will station troops to repair the port, Malacca, the Spice Islands, Luzon, and Japan, and connect them to the front line, which can attack from all sides and rush to support from all directions."

Li Dan hadn't had a clear understanding of the map, so he looked back at the map hanging on the wall, then connected the place names in his heart, and then asked, "What if they don't agree? Let's start a war?"

"If you don't agree, you can't fight for a while. If you start a war with Portuguese again, you'll be blind."

Sailor-Sai Du Gong shook his head, but his expression was still relaxed, "Portuguese is a merchant station, just like Guangdong. They are only in Haojing. At worst, they cannot reach an agreement. I will go to them and open a port. He is in Malacca, and Johor and Aceh will have to pay tribute. He has a merchant station in Brunei, and Sarawak will have to be crowned princes. It would be better if there is no king!"
Chapter completed!