After listening to the narratives of Zhu Zhanji and Yu Qian, Zhu Di said in a deep voice, "There is no way these people are pirates. Which pirate has so many warships and cannons?"
Han Du also nodded in agreement. Even in the West, few countries could achieve such strength.
Zhu Zhanji nodded quickly, "My grandson thought so too, so he hurriedly came back to report to grandpa."
As he spoke, he looked at Han Du and continued, "After listening to the father-in-law's words just now, my grandson was wondering, could these pirates be those people in disguise?"
Zhu Di's eyes widened suddenly and he exclaimed, "Yes, those people went to the south originally, and now you encounter pirates there, is that their home base?"
Although Zhu Di said this, he looked at Han Du. Because among everyone present, only Han Du had fought against those people and knew them best.
Looking at everyone's eyes, Han Du shook his head solemnly and said, "Impossible!"
"How is it impossible?" Zhu Di was the first to disagree with Han Du's words and asked sternly, "You don't think someone who can have thousands of warships and cannons is an indigenous person? I don't know about other places.
Take a look at the area around Xinming, how much the natives have suffered from cannons and firearms, but do you think any of them have learned how to make cannons?"
The gap in civilization was fully reflected at this moment. When the indigenous people saw the powerful cannon, they would only think it was a miracle and would not think about building the cannon themselves.
At first, Zhu Di strictly guarded against building cannons and was determined not to let the indigenous people steal the secrets of making firearms. However, for many years, although the indigenous people were beaten by Xinming with firearms and fled, the indigenous people still used javelins and poisonous arrows to fight.
This greatly surprised Zhu Di. After investigation, he found out that these natives were only afraid of firearms and had never thought that they could make such powerful weapons.
"Of course they are not indigenous." Han Du shook his head vigorously.
Zhu Di was suddenly surprised and asked in confusion, "What do you mean? If it's not those people and it's not an aborigine, who else could it be?"
Facing Zhu Di's doubts, Han Du nodded thoughtfully and said, "The reason why I said it couldn't be those people is because they are very proficient in how to use wealth. If they are allowed to control a country through wealth, then they will
It's easy. But if you let them build their own country, I'm afraid I'm looking down on them."
But this explanation obviously did not satisfy Zhu Di. He asked doubtfully, "That's not necessarily true, right? Besides, apart from those people, no one else has been to America?"
Han Du shook his head slightly and sighed, "This is impossible. They were only 20,000 to 30,000 people at the beginning. I was chasing them all the way. It would be good if there were thousands of people who escaped to America. With this small number of people, even after so many years, what are they?"
How many people can they have if they don't dare to just immerse themselves in life?"
Zhu Di fell silent immediately. He had too much say in this matter. In recent years, he has tried every means to increase the population, but so far, the population of Xinming has only increased by less than ten times compared to when he first arrived.
"Even if the number of thousands increases tenfold, it is still only tens of thousands." Han Du glanced at Zhu Di and asked in a deep voice, "Can tens of thousands of people control thousands of warships?"
Even if it is an ordinary warship, it takes nearly a hundred people to operate each one. There are thousands of warships, and just to operate these ships, more than 100,000 people are needed.
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After listening to Han Du's words, Zhu Di gradually believed that it was impossible, but the doubts in his eyes became even stronger.
"Then who are these people?"
Han Du smiled awkwardly and quickly stopped the expression on his face.
But even such a small change was still noticed by Zhu Di.
Zhu Di looked at Han Du with squinted eyes and asked in a deep voice, "You don't know, do you?"
Han Du shook his head first, and then nodded helplessly under Zhu Di's piercing eyes, sighing, "I'm not sure, but I can probably guess who it is."
"Who?" Zhu Di asked immediately.
How can he allow others to snore next to the bed? From the moment he came to America, Zhu Di regarded the entire America as his taboo. Now someone dared to hide next to him. If he didn't catch the other person and kill him, Zhu Di felt
Even if he dies, he will not rest in peace.
Han Du thought for a moment and said, "Do you still remember the Ming Dynasty's war to destroy the Japanese?"
"Of course I remember." Zhu Di nodded heavily.
This war to destroy the Japanese lasted for several years from beginning to end. Since the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Northern Yuan Dynasty, such a war that lasted for several years has rarely been fought. Of course Zhu Di was very aware of this.
Han Du continued to nod after hearing this and said, "After I conquered the Japanese kingdom, although I quickly occupied the entire Japanese kingdom, some Japanese people still escaped. After these people escaped, they never appeared again. Originally, I thought they had been buried in the sea.
,Now it seems"
"What do you mean, they fled to the south and hid for so many years?" Zhu Di asked quickly.
Han Du smiled slightly, glanced at Zhu Zhanji, nodded and said, "Actually, when you mentioned those pirate warships and tactics just now, I had a familiar feeling. Looking back now, these are simply those of the Japanese navy.
The tactics of war. It’s just that they also imitated the Ming Dynasty and put cannons on ships.”
Everyone in the "Remnants of the Japanese Kingdom" looked at each other, no one expected such a result.
Zhu Di became even more angry and said, "You drove those big families here and forced the remnants of the Japanese country here. What do you think of my America?"
What makes Zhu Di angry is not only these two reasons, but more importantly, these two groups of people seem to be bad friends. After so many years, I am afraid their strength has recovered to a certain extent. Now everyone lives in America.
Above, as long as you encounter it, it will definitely be a life-or-death situation.
Zhu Di was still worried about the natives before, but now he has two more headaches, and they were brought to him by Han Du. How can Zhu Di not be angry with Han Du?
Han Du chuckled, spread his hands and said, "What does this have to do with me? If you told them not to run away when I was chasing them, wouldn't there be nothing like what happened now?"
"You!" Zhu Di was so angry that his fingers pointed at Han Du kept trembling. If these two people listened to him, would he still have a headache because of this?
"Father!" Zhu Gaochi quickly stopped his father, turned to Han Du and said with a slight smile, "My lord, now that the matter has come to this, it's better to discuss it in the long run."
Of course Zhu Di also knew that his anger at Han Du would have no effect. He didn't dare to kill Han Du anyway, but he just couldn't get angry.
He turned to Zhu Gaochi and shouted, "You said it easily, think about it in the long term? How should we think about it in the long term?"