Several ships flying the Union Jack flag sailed past the Cape of Good Hope.
Viscount Andrei stood on the deck of Galen's ship, looking at the rough sea.
He accepted the commission from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the nobles of the Parliament and traveled to the mysterious Eastern country.
The United Kingdom is too far away from the mysterious Eastern countries.
They had never set their sights on the mysterious eastern country that they had heard about for a long time.
The sources of porcelain, tea, and silk that are popular in Europe are all mysterious Eastern countries.
The rise of the Habsburg dynasty on the battlefield brought the mysterious Eastern country once again into the sight of mainstream European countries.
The British and French forces and the Habsburg army fought for decades.
The Habsburg dynasty has been exhausted, and the British and French forces are about to usher in the final victory.
The Habsburg dynasty suddenly returned to glory.
The Habsburg army, which had fallen into decline, adopted an unprecedented firearm and achieved successive victories on the battlefield.
The rifled gun that uses hollow cone bullets has an extremely long range and very accurate ballistics.
The commanders of the British and French forces were unprepared, and they were shot in large numbers on the front lines.
If it weren't for the extremely difficult processing of this type of firearm, he would have changed the entire situation of the war.
Even so, if the Habsburg army were no longer corrupt and incompetent.
After they achieved a staged victory, they did not dare to launch a major counterattack.
The Habsburg army was likely to win the war.
After a long investigation by the United Kingdom, it was finally discovered that this weapon was provided by the Spanish dynasty to the Habsburg dynasty.
The Kingdom of Spain and the Habsburg Dynasty are both controlled by the Habsburg family, and the two countries are allies.
The Kingdom of Spain is wealthy, but its military strength has never been strong and has not been noticed by the coalition forces.
The Spanish Habsburg family traded with mysterious Eastern countries and obtained a large number of rare goods such as porcelain, tea, silk, and perfume.
These goods brought huge cash flow to the Habsburg family.
In this way, the Habsburg family had more confidence to continue the war.
Especially the firearms from the mysterious Eastern countries almost changed the situation of the war after they were introduced to the Habsburg Dynasty.
The aristocratic members of the United Kingdom believe that people must be sent to the mysterious Eastern country.
It would be best for the United Kingdom to establish diplomatic relations with the mysterious Eastern country.
Even if diplomatic relations cannot be established, the United Kingdom still needs to know something about the mysterious Eastern country.
Viscount Andrei was the unlucky guy who was chosen as an envoy to the mysterious head of the Eastern country.
A nearly round-the-world ocean voyage is not something like an Atlantic route.
The United Kingdom has not run very long routes before, because the mortality rate on such ocean routes is really high.
In the whole of Europe, only the Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch often ran ocean routes.
In the United Kingdom, only the untouchables and vagrants at the bottom will do it in order to make a living.
Noble gentlemen generally would not do such extremely risky things.
The mortality rate on ocean routes is too high. Even for experienced sailors, one-third of the crew members on each ship will die during a round trip on a familiar ocean route.
Even a nobleman would have no chance of surviving the sea-demon disease that causes bleeding all over the body.
The benefits that ocean routes can bring cannot be ignored by the nobles of the United Kingdom.
Viscount Andre recruited many Spaniards to go to the mysterious eastern country. One of his goals was to open up ocean routes.
Viscount Andrei thought about this incident with bitterness in his heart.
He drank a cup of hot tea and told the first mate next to him: "We finally passed the Cape of Good Hope, which is the southernmost tip of Africa.
In the future, if we travel frequently to the East, it would be a good choice to build a supply point here."
The first mate smiled and said: "What everyone is fighting for now is the territory in West Africa, where slaves can be captured and easily transported to the east coast of America for sale.
South Africa is too far away and of little value.
No one has set their sights on this yet, and the noble Lords in Parliament may not approve Mr. Andre's suggestion."
Viscount Andre took out his notes and wrote down the plan for the South African settlement in his notes.
The United Kingdom is currently focusing its main energy on developing the east coast of America. It is true that it will not choose South Africa now, but when it is free, the United Kingdom will definitely not let South Africa go.
After the fleet rounded the Cape of Good Hope, it continued heading north.
Viscount Andrei looked at the simple map in a daze.
To go from Europe to the mysterious Eastern countries, you need to go around the entire Africa, which is a very long distance.
The wise people of Europe how much they hope to reach directly from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, but this extravagant wish cannot be realized by humans unless the Lord shows His power.
There are violent storms on the sea from time to time, so the fleet sails close to the coast, and its safety is guaranteed to prevent it from getting lost in the vast sea.
Viscount Andrei heard bursts of crying coming from outside the cabin.
Without asking, he knew that another sailor was suffering from the sea devil disease.
Before the sailor could die, he was thrown directly into the sea.
The priests have said that such a person infected by the devil is likely to infect other people, and he must not be left on the ship again.
Viscount Andre took a sip of hot tea to calm down his shock.
The Lord has been protecting him from being infected by evil spirits.
British sailors have been plying the Atlantic route for a long time, and they have summed up their experience.
The upper echelons of the fleet who believe in the Lord are less likely to be infected by this disease.
Viscount Andre thought of this, and he kept praying in the cabin. After praying, he drank a cup of hot tea again.
The aristocrats of the United Kingdom have a habit of drinking tea when they go on long sea voyages.
Viscount Andrei walked out of the cabin and went to the deck to get some fresh air.
He saw the sailors lifting the trawl net behind the ship, which contained a large amount of seafood.
The sailor cleans the seafood with sea water and prepares a pot of seafood.
Viscount Andrei felt a little nauseous when he smelled the seafood.
The vegetables carried on the boat have been eaten up long ago, and three meals a day are seafood.
He could only chew a few tea leaves when eating seafood, relying on the fragrance of the tea leaves to wash away the fishy smell of the seafood.
These sailors do not have the same treatment as him. Tea is more expensive and only those with status in the fleet can have tea.
The fleet has been traveling close to the coastline, and from time to time you can see the river entering the sea.
The Danshui on the ship is valuable, but there is no shortage of it.
Viscount Andrei heard the sound of a trumpet on the ship, which was the warning sound of the fleet lookout.
A large number of sailors on the ship put down their work.
They came to the cannon, opened the cannon window, pushed out the ferocious cannon, and were ready to fire at any time.
Viscount Andrei checked the chart and found that they were approaching the territorial waters of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
Everyone on board became nervous to prevent their fleet from being attacked by the Ottoman Turkish Navy.
European countries had a blood feud with the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and European countries organized Crusades, which happened many times in history.
The Ottoman Turkish Empire has decayed, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.
Several of their ships, including slow cargo ships, were pursued by the Ottoman Turkish Navy.
There is no other way besides cutting off the tail to survive.
Viscount Andrei was frightened, and the fleet sailed smoothly through the waters of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
On the deck, he used a telescope to see the Ottoman Turkish Empire's navy.
But this navy just watched them from a distance and did not pursue them.
When Viscount Andre saw this situation, he thought it was because there were several warships in the fleet.
The Ottoman Turkish Navy felt that the cost of plundering them was too high and there might be casualties, so it was not worth it.
The fleet sailed eastward with full sail, and time passed little by little.
Viscount Andre recorded his experiences on the journey in his notebook.
These records are precious hydrological information.
With the information he recorded as a reference, it will be much easier for others to take this route.
Even if this mission was unsuccessful, with this information, he would have an explanation.
The fleet approaches the mysterious eastern country every day.
Viscount Andrei often went to the deck to breathe.
From time to time, he could see ships on the sea that were very different from Western cargo ships, and from time to time they went to the Ottoman Turkish Empire to do business.
These cargo ships, seeing their fleet, stayed far away.
Viscount Andre believed that these cargo ships belonged to a mysterious Eastern country, but he had no way to communicate with them.
During his voyage, he encountered a cargo ship that had an accident. Their fleet approached to learn about the situation.
Viscount Andre discovered a terrifying scene. He couldn't understand what the other party was saying. The other party couldn't understand him either.
This situation reminds Viscount Andre of the Puritans who were driven away from the United Kingdom and expanded their colonies in America.
They and the local indigenous people did not understand each other's language at all, so they could only rely on guessing and constantly guessing what the other party meant.
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If you guess wrong, you will pay the price with your life.
This situation must be resolved.
They speak a language that the mysterious Eastern countries do not understand.
Viscount Andrei thought hard and thought of a way to communicate indirectly with the mysterious Eastern country.
Since Eastern countries can cooperate with the Kingdom of Spain, there must be people who can speak Spanish.
Many people in their fleet can speak Spanish and should be able to communicate normally with the mysterious Eastern countries.
The fleet continued to sail eastward, and the number of Eastern cargo ships that Viscount Andre could see gradually increased and the types became more abundant.
He also saw a strange type of ship with only one mast and a small sail hanging on it.
There are two huge waterwheels on both sides of the ship. The waterwheels rotate at high speed, driving the ship to sail quickly on the sea.
This ship was going against the wind, and it was traveling faster than their ships with the wind.
When Viscount Andrei saw this strange ship, his eyes widened and he was puzzled.
If he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it.
He took out the chart and compared the position of the fleet.
They should be about to reach the Portuguese colony, and not too far from the Dutch colony.
This kind of peculiar ship can operate near the Portuguese and Dutch colonies.
Viscount Andre estimated that there were only two possibilities.
This kind of boat technology is very simple and can be learned by others at a glance, so there is no need to keep it secret.
Or maybe the technology of this kind of ship is very difficult and no one else can learn it no matter how hard it is.
Eastern countries have enough confidence to ensure that ship technology will not be leaked out.
The trumpet on the ship sounded again, and the watchman played the trumpet more eagerly than before.
The fleet quickly entered a state of war. Viscount Andrei used a telescope to constantly observe the situation on the distant sea.
He saw a battleship ahead, along with several cruisers, forming a battle formation and approaching their fleet.
On the deck of the battleship, the dark muzzles of the guns were pointed at them.
Viscount Andrei set his sights on the mast, looked at the flag on the mast, and confirmed the country to which the warship belonged.
Above it is a yellow dragon flag, a flag that does not appear at all in Western countries.
He recognized this kind of flag. It was the flag of an Eastern country.
Viscount Andre was very confused. The area he was in should be close to the Portuguese colony.
How come warships from Eastern countries appear in this area?
No matter how cowardly the Portuguese are, they will not allow warships from other countries to sail freely in their colonial waters.
Viscount Andre couldn't figure it out for a moment. He saw that the other party's warship was approaching them and was about to enter the best range of the naval gun.
Royal Navy of the Great China, Captain Yang Wanjun of the Third Squadron of the First Fleet, commanded the fleet headed by the battleship Xu Da.
They are patrolling the waters east of Lofo City.
Le Buddha City is a newly built city. As the first big city on the west side of the Strait of Malacca, it has an extremely important status.
This place will withstand the first wave of attacks from the west. This is a military town that the navy focuses on defending.
Its geographical location is only slightly lower than Damasik City, which guards the core area of the Strait of Malacca.
Yang Wanjun received a report from a businessman that a group of Western warships were approaching the Strait of Malacca.
He originally thought it was a reconnaissance fleet sent by the Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch.
Yang Wanjun commanded the fleet to surround the fleet. He found that the flags hung by the fleet were not the three flags he was familiar with.
He studied the flags of European countries and saw this kind of flag, but forgot which country this flag belonged to?
Yang Wanjun saw the fleets of not three countries that were at war with them.
His hostility became less severe and he did not choose to fire a warning shot. Instead, he sent a communication ship to approach the fleet and inquire about their situation.
He soon saw the communication ship returning, which also carried several Westerners with blond hair and blue eyes.
"Captain, I don't understand what they are saying, so I can only pull this representative back."
Yang Wanjun said angrily: "You don't understand what these people are saying, do I understand?"
A middle-aged Westerner with blue eyes, he said in Spanish: "We are the envoys of the United Kingdom."
Some people in the fleet can speak Spanish, and the two sides can communicate normally.
Yang Wanjun understood the information on the other side and said with a smile: "I am a guest from afar.
As long as they are friends, we welcome them.
Cargo ships can enter the port, but warships are not allowed to enter the port."
Viscount Andrei waited until the interpreter returned, and he learned some unusual news.
"The Eastern country is called the Great China Dynasty, and they annexed the colonies of the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Fortunately, the United Kingdom has no colonies nearby and will not conflict with the Great China Dynasty for the time being.
The Kingdom of Spain and the Chinese Dynasty are at odds with each other, which is good news."
Viscount Andre ordered the warships to stand by outside the port. He took the cargo ship and followed the Great China Navy fleet to Lofo City.