America is not Europe, especially the West Coast, where productivity is very backward. Otherwise, it would not have become a pure buyer of the sailing trade. Commonly known as the poor are all the money left.

But even if you have gold and silver, almost all the supplies have to be transported from thousands or thousands of miles away. Due to the capacity, if you want to prepare again, you still don’t know the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

In addition, the lack of craftsmen is also a big trouble. According to the New Spain report, more than a thousand skilled craftsmen died in the fire in Acapulco, and another thousand were abducted.

Now there are less than a thousand craftsmen left in Acapulco. Most of them are not shipbuilding. Most of them are nail-making, cannon-making, and cable-screwing... Because these tasks are not necessary to be completed near the dock, the workshop is far away from the seaside, allowing these craftsmen to escape.

The largest number of shipbuilders, because they were in a hurry, ate and lived in the dock, and ended up being stewed in a pot.

On the contrary, the black slaves and Indians who worked hard in the dock were worried that they would be in chaos when they were dark. Every evening, they would ask the guards to drive them to spend the night at the slave camp far away from the shipyard, and they all remained safe and sound.

But what use is it?

On the other side of the ocean, according to the latest information brought back by the sailboat, the Ming people were immigrating large numbers to Luzon. By the spring of 1576, the Ming people in Manila were estimated to have exceeded 200,000, and they had established a solid rule in the local area.

Now that the host and the guest are changing positions, our side is on an expedition. If you are not fully prepared, you will definitely die unsightly.

General Leon has been a navy for most of his life, and it can be roughly judged that the Ming people's raid on Acapulco this time was enough to postpone the expedition by three to four years.

Thinking of the next few years that I would have to hug the cactus in Mexico, General Leon would be depressed.

He was so angry that he ordered to go north at full speed and catch the damn ghost ship!

Yes, it must be a ghost ship!

I am a Spanish Admiral, and how can an ordinary pirate make me so miserable? So it must be a ghost ship!

However, he went north along the coast and did not encounter the damn ghost ship. When he arrived at Villacros, he learned that the Ming fleet had already gone westward into the ocean.

He wanted to go deep into the ocean to pursue him, but he was powerless.

His fleet set out from Santo Domingo for more than a year, and has not been overhauled yet, and the ship condition has long been extremely bad.

Veracruz was looted by the Ming Dynasty again and could not perform long-distance supplies.

The crew members were extremely tired and were looking forward to going ashore in Mexico. At this time, he would dare to say that they could hang him on the mast in the Pacific Ocean.

The general could only look at the ocean side by side with the colonel, sighing that the ghost ship was so powerful.

The standard ‘sighing to the ocean’.

On the tenth day of August 10th of the fourth year of Wanli, Lin Feng's fleet set off from Veracruz in Mexico to return.

Because I was fully prepared, the journey across the Pacific Ocean was still very pleasant.

Since the huge sailing trade, the Spaniards have traveled countless times between the Pacific Ocean, which has long proved that this voyage seems far away but is very safe.

Especially when the return journey was direct flight along the way, there was a trade wind, and it took only three months to reach Luzon.

Well, it's enough to make people lose their way to land in three months.

Last year, when I crossed the equatorless wind from the Caribbean Sea to the estuary of the Amazon River, I didn’t dock for a full seventy-two days, and forced the determined crew to commit suicide.

This time it takes longer...

But this time it’s really not a big problem for the crew members, because they are going home!

This is completely different from facing an unknown voyage.

Moreover, he completed the arduous task, made additional achievements, and made great money to return home.

The excited mood and the continuous secretion of dopamine are enough to make them happy every day. They drink wine every day and brag about Boyi, imagining a happy life after returning home, and the days are easily passed.

Lin Feng was worried that a thousand pairs of black and white matches on the ten Spanish sailboats would endure their disgust, loneliness and fear of each other under high pressure. In the blue sky, especially the Spanish craftsmen at the bottom, they would collapse.

She also wanted to take them back and dedicate them to the master, how could she let them break?

Zhang Xiaojing said that this is difficult, all those problems are idle. Only by doing nothing can you feel lonely and let them learn!

How can scholars sit alone in the study and make guns... Oh no, they have been facing the window for more than ten years? Because learning makes them happy.

As long as you keep studying seriously, what is the difference between being on a boat and being on land?

So she sent Liu Yishou and other crew members to speak Spanish, waiting for the black and white team members to finish the housework every morning, and after wiping the deck, they began to teach them to learn literacy and learn Chinese.

"At the beginning of man, one is good..." In the deck class, the teachers recited.

"A pig is a fishy man..." The old black and white men repeated with their tongues.

"The same nature is similar, but the habits are different!"

"Sexuality is fundamental, think carefully!"

In addition to being able to pronounce, they also have to be able to write. The teachers asked them to dip their fingers in water and practice writing on the deck. Anyone who dares to be distracted and slack will whip them directly and will not give them food.

Only those who study hard can have lunch.

In the afternoon, the Marines conducted military training, mainly to let them get rid of the problem of urination and defecation everywhere, and to be unsanitary and free. They trained them to obey orders and report everything.

The most important thing is physical training. Don’t think that you can’t move on the deck, stand in a military posture, kick stance, push-ups, and jump... You can also get tired of them as dogs without equipment.

This is not to improve their physical fitness, but to make them so tired that they cannot think randomly and their brains are blank. This can easily replace personal will with the collective will that the trainer hopes. This is the "deprived orientation" in human resource management, which belongs to the social science category created by Mr. Zhao.

The physical training ended in the evening. The old black and white men were unable to rest yet. They had to hurry up and review their homework, because they would take the exam the next day and would still rank. Those in the front of the rankings received rewards, such as a can or a piece of whale oil soap. Those in the back of the rankings not only had no food to eat, but also had to be whipped after the crane three times in a row.

As a result, the old black and white people were trapped in fear of having no food to eat, being whipped, and picking up soap every day. They were exhausted from completing the tasks of the day, and they had no energy to take care of the world outboard of the ship.

What is loneliness? Can you eat it? If you can't eat it, go away...

Two months later, on October 12, the fleet finally set foot on land again.

To be precise, they just went to an island, and they were still some distance away from Luzon.

This is not accidental, but ocean currents will definitely send them to this archipelago, but it is not necessarily Saipan, Guam, or Tining Island.

In 1521 AD, Magellan arrived at the archipelago and stayed on the island for several months. During this period, he was very unhappy with the locals. It is said that the fleet's supplies were repeatedly stolen by indigenous people.

In short, Magellan had a bad impression of this archipelago, so he named it Islas de los Ladrones, the Island of the Thieves.

But the stigma does not harm the importance of this place. It is located on the route of the sailing ship trade. What is commendable is that the number of islanders is as many as 100,000, who can plant rice, make pottery, are good at building ships, and are divided into classes, have black teeth, and adopts the 13-month lunar calendar.

They had the ability to provide sufficient supplies to the fleet passing by, which was very important for long sailings, so when the Spaniards set foot in Guam again in 1565, they drew a cross on the beach, declaring that this piece belonged to the Spanish king.

In October of the same year, the Spaniards also established a trading post in Guam, which was a stopover point on the route from the Port of Acapulco to Manila.

Therefore, the crew members were always alert when they landed, and the shells were loaded.

However, they were worried for nothing. There were only dozens of Spaniards on the island, and the real masters were the indigenous people called the Chamorro people.

In fact, the Chamorro people don’t know that they have been occupied by Spain.

In another time and space, it was not until a century later that Spain officially declared the archipelago as its colony and sent garrisons. The brutal war of conquest lasted for thirty years, and the Chamorro people sharply reduced from 100,000 to 5,000, and they were gradually conquered and assimilated by the Spanish.

The Spanish gave them 300 years of occupation and rule to the Chamorro who saved their lives, which was exactly the same as what they gave to the Americans.

So even in Guam, the Spaniards had no power at all. They just set up a business station to exchange supplies with locals, and then hoarded them to provide supplies to the sailing fleet.

Seeing this huge fleet coming from the east, the Spanish were naturally inexplicably surprised.

But their strength is not qualified to hit stones with eggs, so of course they will not seek death. They simply closed the door and ignored the outside world, no matter what the husband has committed, and they will do whatever they want.

The local Chamorro people warmly welcomed Lin Feng and Zhang Xiaojing and their party. Compared with the short, smelly and rude red-haired ghosts, they obviously welcomed Ming people who looked closer, behave more civilized, and have more similar cultures and living habits.

After resting on the island for less than ten days, the fleet rushed to the road again after taking a little supply. It was the end of the year, so who wouldn't want to hurry up and go home for the New Year?

When I think of home and New Year, everyone is homeless and never want to delay for a moment!

So the sails were all speeding westward. Half a month later, on the seventh day of the winter lunar month, the fleet arrived at the entrance of the Luzon Islands, the San Bernardino Strait between Luzon and San Meow Island.

This is the name on the chart when you set out. Now on the map of the Nanhai Group, it has been changed to Dongmen Strait.

It means the East Gate of Luzon.

A new watchtower-style lighthouse was built at the northern end of the East Gate Strait and on the southernmost promontory of Luzon Island. You can tell at a glance that it was a building from the Ming Dynasty.

This was built only this year by the Governor General of Luzon. Its functions are similar to the Eluanbi lighthouse in Kenting. It is a fortress complex that integrates navigation, meteorological observation, typhoon warning, and defense against pirates.

After confirming their identities, the lighthouse said 'Welcome home'!

From this moment on, they officially returned to China.

ps. After writing the Global Navigation, I was quite satisfied. I just felt very tired mentally, so I took a day off tomorrow to take a day off. I also conceived the subsequent plot. After all, Mr. Zhao last appeared two years ago, and it was a bit out of the box.
Chapter completed!