News that Al Hoceima port had been sacked by pirates spread quickly.
The King of Spain was furious and ordered a reward of 1 million Ming silver coins to hunt down the Hand of God pirate group. He even offered a sky-high bonus of 100,000 Ming silver coins as long as he could provide valid information about the pirate group.
At the same time, Spain has also formed a powerful navy, preparing to completely eliminate this bold pirate group here in the Mediterranean.
The port of Hoceima is very close to the Spanish mainland. This is simply like looting a prosperous colonial port under the eyes of the Spaniards.
This is a shame for Spanish matadors and a provocation to the great Spanish Empire.
Spain must give the toughest response.
It's just that Spain hasn't investigated the information about this pirate group yet, and something happened again in West Africa.
Spanish colony Accra in West Africa.
Accra was originally a colonial stronghold affiliated with Glucose. As early as decades ago, the Portuguese had begun to invade here, carry out colonial activities, plunder gold and diamonds, and sell black slaves here. Even the origin of the Gold Coast is the same.
I got it because of this place.
Accra is located on the back of the Gulf of Guinea, and was later the capital of Ghana. Ghana, a place rich in gold and diamonds, has always been the most important Portuguese colonial stronghold in the Gulf of Guinea.
After two failed wars with Spain, although Portugal desperately wanted to keep Accra, it eventually had to cede it to Spain and it has since become a Spanish colonial stronghold.
Relying on Accra, Spain can plunder gold and diamonds worth millions of taels of silver from the huge radiation area every year. It is definitely a hen that lays golden eggs.
At this moment, it is the first treasure luck day of the first quarter in Accra.
There are several treasure ships parked in the port. The treasure ships are filled with gold, silver and diamonds plundered from here last season. In addition, there are also a large number of black slaves, ready to be sold to the Mediterranean.
Although people in the Ming Dynasty did not like black slaves, many people were still willing to buy black slaves because they were cheap. They were a good choice for growing sugar cane in plantations.
Selling black slaves is even more profitable than robbing gold!
There are many local indigenous tribes, and they are constantly at war with each other. You only need to use very cheap things to obtain a large number of captives from hostile tribes from these tribes.
In fact, most of the black slaves in Africa were purchased from the local indigenous people in this way. The colonists rarely caught these slaves themselves, because not only was it inefficient, but they would also suffer casualties themselves.
This is also a common phenomenon in African colonization. Colonization cannot go deep into the interior. It can only establish colonial strongholds along the coastline or riverbanks, and rely on the strongholds to carry out colonial plunder.
In addition, various diseases on the African continent are very scary, the most terrifying of which is yellow fever, which has a very high mortality rate and is highly transmissible.
Both European colonists and colonists from the East were very concerned about this disease and did not dare to go deep into the interior of Africa. They could only start colonial competition on the coastline and riverine lines.
Accra is Spain's most important colonial stronghold on the golden coastline. It not only concentrated the revenue of this colonial point last quarter, but also the wealth of many surrounding colonial strongholds has been transported here and is waiting to be transported back to Spain.
Box after box of gold and silver treasures were continuously loaded onto the cargo ship. The Spanish army was responsible for escorting the ships, which had advanced artillery and muskets purchased from the Ming Empire.
In addition, it is a secret operation, and only a few people know the time and location. It can be said that it is basically foolproof.
But who knew that when the treasure ship was loading up the treasure and was about to set off, on the sea outside Accra Port, a pirate group consisting of more than a dozen large ships arrived at Accra as scheduled.
As if he had calculated the time accurately, he arrived at the Port of Accra almost without missing a beat, and took over all the profits of several Spanish colonial sites in West Africa for a quarter, a huge wealth of more than five million taels of silver. In one fell swoop,
It was completely looted, and not even a hair was left to the Spaniards.
But things didn't end there.
A few days later, it was also Sunset City, a colony belonging to the Japanese country, located in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.
Sunset City was the first colonial stronghold established by the Japanese after they arrived in West Africa. The location was chosen very well, close to a good natural harbor.
After the Japanese occupied this place, they cherished it very much and invested a lot of money, manpower and material resources to build Sunset Port and Sunset City here.
Relying on Sunset City, the Japanese began colonial activities in West Africa.
The Europeans simply plundered the gold, ivory, diamonds and slaves from the colonies, while the Japanese colonial activities were similar to the Ming Dynasty's overseas colonial activities.
Looting gold, ivory, silver, etc. is naturally very important, but what is more important is actually to open up living space, develop land, and obtain land, not just to simply plunder wealth.
The main reason for such a huge difference is that Europe has a small population and they are not keen on land, but are more keen on gold, silver and other wealth.
In the east, whether it is the Ming Empire, North Korea, or the Japanese country, there are many people but little land, and the contradiction between people and land is extremely acute. Therefore, on the one hand, the wealth of overseas colonies is needed, but on the other hand, what is more needed is the ability to migrate
Fertile land for more people.
After the Japanese occupied Sunset City, they relied on Sunset City to open up a large amount of land and build towns. More than 20,000 people immigrated from the far east one after another, reclaimed large tracts of land, and planted food.
, it looks like we will have a good harvest in a while.
In the city lord's palace of Sunset City, Dongfang Yue was studying the map carefully.
Ever since they successfully captured Lagos and Luanda, Dongfang Yue has been carefully vigilant, wary of Portugal's revenge.
However, several months have passed and no news about Portugal has been received.
However, I received news one after another later that the Spaniards had successively seized the few remaining Portuguese colonial strongholds in West Africa, completely driving the Portuguese out of the competition in West Africa.
"The income in Lagos and Luanda is quite good. A small city like Lagos, but a bigger place, can actually earn more than 200,000 taels of silver in a month~"
"Luanda's income is even greater. The two colonies can bring us more than 500,000 taels of silver a month, including gold, silver, ivory, diamonds and slaves~"
Dongfang Yue couldn't help laughing when she looked at the income statements coming from Lagos and Luanda.
The benefits of overseas colonization are simply too high.
Just two small colonies can bring huge profits beyond imagination. If there are more colonies like this, we will really make a fortune.
"No wonder the Ming people are so rich. There are Ming colonies everywhere overseas. How much wealth can they plunder in a year?"
Soon, Dongfang Yue looked at the vast territory of the Ming Empire on the map, and suddenly felt unsatisfied.
"Dang~dang~"
Just when Dongfang Yue was calculating the profits of the colony and preparing to send ships to transport the profits of the past few months back to the Japanese country, bursts of urgent alarms came from the port of Sunset City.
He hurried out in a hurry.
"Pirates~Pirates~"
The entire Sunset Port and Sunset City were in chaos, with panicked people wandering around like headless flies.
Dongfang Yue quickly took out her binoculars and looked overseas. On the sea outside the port, she saw a dozen pirate ships flying the skull and crossbones flag, heading toward Sunset City with great force. The cannons on both sides had revealed their ferocious cannons.
Tube.
"Fight~Fight~"
"All ships raise sails immediately~"
Dongfang Yue quickly roared and was sweating profusely.
Instead of receiving revenge from the Portuguese, they were greeted by pirates, and there were more than a dozen large ships at once, which made Dongfang Yue sweat profusely.
Because he initially considered that the Portuguese might try to recapture Lagos and Luanda, he sent most of the warships to these two places. However, he was relatively more assured about Sunset City.
After all, this place has been in business for a long time, and there are more than 20,000 Japanese immigrants here.
Who knew that pirates from more than ten large ships would suddenly arrive.
Seeing those pirates paddling over in small boats, waving their swords with claws and teeth, Dongfang Yue could imagine what was going to happen next.
"Damnable European barbarians~"
"A white-skinned pig who only knows how to rob!"
Dongfang Yue cursed and organized the military forces in Sunset City to prepare for battle.
Compared with robbing gold and silver treasures in Accra, this time, this group of pirates did not aim to rob.
As soon as more than a dozen pirate ships entered Sunset Port, they began to bombard the ships, buildings and Sunset City indiscriminately.
Dongfang Yue watched with her own eyes as the ships that she had worked hard to save enough money to buy were sent to the bottom of the sea by this group of pirates. Some of the ships that were not sunk were even doused with oil and set on fire.
I saw with my own eyes that Sunset City, which was finally built with great difficulty, was bombarded into ruins by hundreds of cannons from a dozen pirate ships.
These pirates even started killing people wantonly in Sunset City. They would kill anyone they saw, regardless of gender, age, or age, and they didn't care whether you were an ordinary citizen or not.
In the end, after Dongfang Yue paid a heavy price, he was able to repel the pirates. Of course, it is also possible that the pirates were almost killed and they robbed some wealth before leaving with satisfaction.