During the Ming Dynasty's expedition to Central and Western Asia, the Ming army in Nanyang was not idle either.

The Ming army and the Dutch reached an agreement to carry out friendly cooperation.

As a result, the relationship between the two sides rose sharply and they began trade with each other.

Through the Dutch ships, the Ming Dynasty's goods were well circulated. The goods from the ships set off from the port of Tianjin and were then sold to all parts of the world.

The Ming Dynasty made a fortune. The sea coachman is worthy of being a sea coachman, and the transportation strength is really strong.

There are many ships and many sailors, which is not comparable to the Ming Dynasty's maritime transportation strength at this stage. Although the Ming Dynasty's maritime strength has been increasing rapidly recently, the Ming Dynasty's maritime strength in the early stage is really too weak, and it will take some time to surpass the Netherlands.

Four Ming armed merchant ships and two Dutch armed merchant ships sailed on the sea together. Their destination was Tianzhu, where there was a great demand for Ming Dynasty goods. Many Indian nobles loved Ming Dynasty goods very much.

So as soon as a Ming trader had planned to go overseas to make a fortune.

But they are not familiar with Hailu, but it doesn't matter. They just need to find familiar people to take them with them.

In this way, they found a Dutch merchant and got them two ships of Ming goods at a cheap price, and then they only needed the Dutch merchant to take them to Tianzhu.

When the Dutch merchant saw that there was such a cheap thing, he immediately agreed. You must know that the Ming Dynasty's products were popular, and with his strength, he could not get the goods of two ships at this price.

So the Dutch set out happily, and was very polite to the Ming trader along the way, treating him as his brother.

That's right, it's a brother, the one who can make money is a brother, the best brother.

There is no way. The current Ming traders are very gunmen in Nanyang, especially after engaging in friendly agreements with them.

Now among the Dutch, the status of Ming traders has risen sharply, and it can be said that they are the people that all Dutch merchants want to curry favor with the most.

There is no other reason, because the Ming people are rich and strong.

After the friendly agreement, the Dutch could not rob the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, it was the deterrence of the Battle of Luzon. The Ming Nanyang Fleet was not easy to provoke. Didn’t you see how miserable the Spanish were? You came to this gold-digging place thousands of miles away, but you really wanted to go to gold. Now the Spanish prisoners are still carrying stones with pain.

With such a powerful force in Nanyang, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty immediately straightened their backs. No one really had to flatter, but a large number of people came to flatter.

In this way, it also brought a particularly high-quality tax channel to the Ming Dynasty.

In order to keep the Ming Nanyang Fleet and strengthen the strength of the Nanyang Fleet, these traders took the initiative to pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty, or even the excess taxes, and the designated requirements were given to the Nanyang Fleet.

The tax department was a little embarrassed, and the money for sitting at home every day fell from the sky.

The newly established Nanyang Customs Department is really making money every day. In just half a year, it has become one of the largest tax revenues in the Ming Dynasty. That is, the Beijing Taxation Department can still stabilize the Nanyang Taxation Department, but with the current rise, the Nanyang Customs Department will soon surpass the Beijing Taxation Department.

Now these traders know that only when the country is strong can they be individuals when they trade overseas. With the strong Ming navy as their backer, this business is really much easier to do.

"The boss, Malacca is ahead. After passing here, it is close to Tianzhu." A middle-aged man with dark skin on the merchant ship pointed to the place in front and said to the man wearing blue silk man's outer clothes beside him.

"Well, come with the chart, let me see." The man from the State House nodded, took the chart, and looked at the instructions on it very satisfied.

This chart was produced by the Customs Department of the Ming Dynasty. A chart is worth 1,000 taels of silver, but this price is simply for free in the eyes of the Foreign Service.

What a thousand taels of silver is? He can earn dozens of times the price by just a trip to the sea. As long as the chart is real, he is willing to pay ten times the price.

The number of his chart is 194, which represents the 194th chart of the Customs Department. It must not be imitated for sale. If he is caught, he will confiscate his wealth and he will be in prison.

People from the Customs Department said that this is called intellectual property, and only the Customs Department can sell it.

But this is not a matter, as long as the chart is accurate, everything else can be accepted by the outsider.

So from the beginning of going to sea, the official waiter was proofreading. He found that this chart was really accurate. How to sail on the way was clearly marked, and it was simply a treasure.

I don’t know what the court was thinking, but this treasure was taken out so easily.

There are not even a few major maritime merchants with such a clear chart.

When sailing on the sea, a chart is life. A clear chart can allow you to go out and come back alive.

So you said this chart is so precious.

Just when the Yuanwai Mansion was very happy with the chart, the lookout hand on the mast suddenly pointed to the northwest and shouted.

"Pirates! Pirates were found in the northwest direction!"

"Three ships!"

"Not four...five!"

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"The pirate ship was also found in the northeast direction!"

“There are eight ships in total!”

The appearance of eight pirate ships made the sailors nervous.

They are merchant ships, and they are naturally very nervous when facing the vicious pirates, because no one wants to fall into the hands of pirates, and the consequences are very tragic.

So they had to prepare for a battle, and the next one would inevitably be a fierce battle.

The Dutch also saw pirates. They were naturally more than those of the Ming people. There were many pirates in Malacca. It was not the first time they met them, so they would send all these pirates to the bottom of the sea.

Isn’t it just eight pirate ships? What’s the big deal? They have six armed merchant ships here.

I saw the Dutch sings and asked the Ming people to follow his command and fight.

The official agreed without thinking about it. He was experienced in fighting the Dutch in pirates, so he was right to listen to them. However, the official still kept a scruple, that is, if the Dutch asked him to die, he would definitely not agree.

Just as the Dutch and Ming people were actively preparing for the war, they found another group of people appeared in front of them, and the group also had pirate flags, but the Dutch widened their eyes.

Seeing the four ships sailing towards them, the Dutch felt something was wrong. This man seemed very strange, especially the warship, he had seen it.
Chapter completed!