Chapter 80 The mouse that fell into the rice jar
Peru was the Inca kingdom conquered by Pizarro. After the Inca king was captured by Pizarro, he promised to give the Spaniards a roomful of gold to exchange for their own freedom.
And he really did it... It is conceivable how rich precious metal minerals are here.
Naturally, the Spanish were even more unlikely to let him go. After destroying the Inca Kingdom, Spain turned Peru into a colony and began to search for mines in the local area, enslaving the Indians in the "Mida system" to mine for them.
To put it nicely, the Mida system means rotational service, but in fact it is cruel slavery to the Indians.
The forced Indians were driven out of the mine every Monday. They had to work in the harshest environment until Saturday before they were allowed to see the light of day again. Under this cruel slavery of inhumanity, the annual death rate of Indian miners was as high as 80%!
The Spanish also sighed, how could these Indians be so fragile? They could not compare with the strong and durable black slaves.
Such inhumane slavery naturally aroused fierce resistance from the Indians. But the more they did, the more determined the colonists would implement the "Mida system". If not, how could they consume the eight million people of the Inca Kingdom?
The cruel methods of the colonists did achieve their goal. In another space and time, Spain had colonized the Americas for three hundred years and seized more than 2.5 billion pesos of silver from Peru alone.
But they didn't have to pay any price, just piled up eight million Inca corpses in the mine...
This has to be suspected that God may not exist, and even if it exists, it is an evil god.
In order to prevent the Indians who insisted on resisting and robbed the gold and silver that the Indians had worked hard to mine, Spain also had a strange rule that gold and silver cannot stay overnight in the warehouse on the ground after purification, and must be transported to the seaside port as soon as possible to ship. After a ship is filled, it will be transported to Panama, and then transported there to the Caribbean Sea by land to return to the Americas.
This method is true. Peru's precious metals are all in the Andes. They are transported out of the mountain in the Pacific Ocean, which is much more convenient than transporting them from land to the east coast. Moreover, they have been through the sea for a long time and there is no threat at all. The Spanish have transported them for decades, but they have never happened.
What happened was a big deal...
The privateer fleet headed north and discovered the situation on the coast of South America. As the Portuguese in Brazil said, because there were no other European colonists competing on the Pacific coast, and no pirates could come across the ocean, and the Indians never went into the sea. Therefore, the Spanish were very low in the sea, and their troops were all concentrated on land... mainly used in mines everywhere and escorted transportation teams.
The Spaniards are almost unprepared for the sea, just like the local specialty alpacas, which makes people feel sorry for not bullying it.
When Lin Feng led the fleet and attacked the Port of Matalani in southern Peru without any effort and captured all the Spanish ships on the pier, she and her friends were stunned.
Although in order not to reveal one's identity and make the action even more sudden, all warships took off the sun and moon flags and painted a big red cross fork on the sails, the Spaniards were too unprepared, right?
There is such a good deal in the world? There is actually a coastal defense that is even more expensive than the Ming Dynasty? And it was the kind before the Japanese pirates.
Several old pirate crew members couldn't help but recall the wonderful years of those years. At that time, they just met the weak official army, which made them think that being a pirate was the most promising profession...
Even more surprises are still coming. Although the Spaniards guarded the sea, the goods on the ship were not worth it at all!
"I've got rich!" After a rough inventory, Ma Yishan reported to Lin Feng with a saliva: "A boat has half a ton of gold and fifty tons of silver! A boat has two hundred tons of pure copper! And a boat has hair and skin of grass mud horses!"
"The grass mud horse is so ugly, it's called an alpaca!" Lin Feng scolded and couldn't help swallowing, saying, "Alpaca, is it so fat?"
"This is normal. The precious metal production in the Peru Governor's Governor's area is so amazing. The production of Potosi Silver Capital alone accounts for nearly half of the world. I heard that the population there is more than 150,000 at this time, and there are 4,000 silver-refining furnaces. Besides, it has been a year since your last robbery. People must have accumulated their wealth and are preparing to transport it to Panama, right?"
Zhang Xiaojing teased the newly caught alpaca with vegetable leaves, and said with a teasing smile:
"Now the problem is here. Are you going to learn from the blind bears to break corn, or eat them all and then go to the next place? This is not considered as the two evils beings are the least right to choose, right?"
It takes many days to transfer so much cargo, but after a long delay, the north city will get the news, and the ships in the harbor will escape, and it will be difficult to catch turtles in the jar.
"This is a benefit to both parties and take the most important power!" Lin Feng raised his eyebrows and said, "Usually, this is the case..."
As she said that, she clenched her fists with a big sword, "Of course I want them all!"
She ordered the three captured boats tied to the back of the Liu Daxia like candied haws and escorted by the Wenzhou. The remaining three boats immediately headed north to the next port of the Spanish!
This move was indeed a disadvantage. When the three leading boats arrived at the Port of Macona, 700 miles away, the port was indeed singing and dancing, and there was a peaceful scene.
Another easy robbery successful...
This time, three more ships were captured, one ship of gold and silver, two ships of pure copper, and the skin and hair of the horse without grass and mud.
The Fuzhou number, Taizhou number and Gaoyou Lake number were waiting in Macona for two days and provided some supplies.
Two days later, Liu Daxia staggered over with three boats. Before he could catch his breath, he was arranged to have three more boats. Now, six boats were formed behind his butt.
Although the ship is not big, although Liu Daxia has eight masts and two rudders, the six ships are tied back like centipedes, so they can't carry them anymore.
Lin Feng had no choice but to remove three boats, each of which sent forty crew members to steer the sails, drove the three brigs and followed Liu Daxia.
The three brothers from Fuzhou were rushing towards their next target as soon as Liu Daxia arrived, and they were extremely addicted to robbing!
In Paracas, two hundred kilometers away, the privateer fleet succeeded in the third robbery. The fleet behind Liu Daxia also increased to ten.
The next goal is Lima, the capital of Peru’s deputy king!
This is also the center of the Spanish in South America. The coastal defense and fleet should be far stronger than elsewhere. Lin Feng personally boarded the Fuzhou to command this time, in case of the already dazed Happy brothers who were fucked by the Spanish.
Zhang Xiaojing, who was left behind to command the Liu Daxia and the trophy fleet, knew that she actually didn't want to miss this opportunity to rob other people's capital!
However, with Xiao Zhuzi's emotional intelligence, of course, he saw through it and didn't say it out loud. He just told her to act carefully and try to withdraw her. If the enemy is too strong, he would quickly withdraw and meet with Liu Daxia.
Lin Feng agreed and led three frigates to Lima quickly.
In fact, Lin Feng didn't say much hope for this trip. After all, Paracas is only two hundred miles away from Lima. As long as the Spaniards are quick to rush, they can completely pass the news to the capital before they arrive.
Those who are just pirates are inevitably mentally stole chickens. Although Lin Feng has changed a lot over the years, she still wants to give it a try without any danger. What if she can steal it?
The result really made her sneakily. When three frigates rushed into Lima Port by the wind, the bay was peaceful, and the whole city of Lima was as unprepared as a naked girl.
So much so that when I saw the three sailboats with the Bergent cross flag sailing into the harbor, the Spaniards ran to the dock to take off their hats and cheer, paying tribute to the Imperial Navy that had come from afar. They didn't mind the difference in the sails...
Because they were almost in the most remote territory of the empire, they had not contacted the local area for too long. Many people had never even been to Spain in their entire lives, so they only thought that this was the great motherland, and they had come to Peru for trial voyages.
Lin Feng stood on the deck, holding his forehead helplessly, looking at the group of red-haired ghosts who were as unscrupulous as alpacas.
"Commander, what should I do?" The crew members were a little embarrassed.
"Cold!" Lin Feng spat, took out the short gun at his waist, and fired a shot into the sky.
The Spaniards on the dock were so scared that they hugged their heads and lowered their bodies!
"Robbery and robbery!" The crew raised the black skeleton flag and greeted the conspicuous Spanish soldiers with bird guns and circumference cannons.
The red-haired ghost was completely in chaos and screamed and ran away with his head in his arms.
"Enemy attack!" The defending troops rushed from various places to the fortress, but they stopped halfway through the run.
Because the Yongle cannons roared one after another, the Spaniard's cannons had been destroyed at close range...
In order to cause greater damage and chaos, the Marines also released a hundred ‘Oda City Remarriage’ to the city.
The crew members who were already very skilled in business quickly controlled the situation at the dock.
After all, this place is the capital of Peru. The Spaniards did not scatter like the previous few times, but organized several counterattacks, but were forced back by the crossfire power on the three frigates.
After the Spanish army left hundreds of corpses, they could no longer hold on. They retreated back to Lima in a panic and quickly closed the city gate and dared not go out again.
In fact, the people of Ming Dynasty had no intention of siegeing the city, they were only interested in the ships on the dock.
Lima is different. Hundreds of ships of all sizes have been parked, including only 11 cargo ships with a total of more than 300 tons, and a luxurious Spanish sailing ship!
Judging from the banner, it should be the ship of the deputy king of Peru. Judging from the size, it is even bigger than the Tianbao, which is sunk in the Linfeng Strait.
The crew members were resentful of the sinking of the Tianbao, and now they saw the upgraded alternatives and were all happy.
Lin Feng was also very happy, but he was also very puzzled. Are the Spaniards not venting each other? Anyone who is dedicated to it will not be like this.
"Rather than worrying about them," Ma Yishan reminded her: "It's better to think about ourselves, how can we drive back after robbing so many ships?"
After succeeding this time, the fleet expanded to twenty-seven ships. Although a thousand people on the ship can now handle the ships and can barely drive these ships. But even one shift can't fall, and it's a joke to cross the Pacific Ocean.
Chapter completed!