In fact, Drake is purely a traitor. He went to sea this time to be ordered by the Queen. The Queen's secret order was to plunder the Pacific coast of the Spanish Empire and find the legendary northwest passage. It was not the Ming Empire that connected to the Far East.

Speaking of which, this matter is related to Lin Feng's fleet. Three years ago, the legend of the "Red-haired Pirate" and her "Flying Dutchman" finally came back to Europe from America. Even Queen Elizabeth, who was far away in London, heard that the fleet of Chinese people sailing around the world robbed Spanish treasure ships in the Caribbean Sea, and unscathed the unguarded west coast of America, robbed hundreds of tons of gold and silver, and various precious goods worth tens of millions of pesos!

Her Majesty the Queen regretted it because she should have paid the money.

Simply put, under her indulgence, the British Royal Pirates have robbed the Americas for more than ten years.

Of course, Her Majesty the Queen also robbed her with confidence, at least the whole country supported her doing this.

Because her sister, Queen Mary I, was the wife of King Philip II of Spain. Although the couple had been separated, Philip II was not polite at all and dragged England into the Western-French war in the Netherlands.

This long and cruel war not only drained the British treasury and sacrificed tens of thousands of British soldiers, but also made Britain lose its last piece of territory on the European continent, Calais.

Spain's continuous treasure fleet from America transported all the gold and silver treasures back to the Iberian Peninsula, and refused to compensate the United Kingdom for a single copper coin.

So Britain felt from top to bottom that what Spain owed them would never be clear. Not to mention that Elizabeth restored Britain to a Protestant country and was irreconcilable with the Catholic king of Spain.

It was in this context that Queen Elizabeth issued privateing permits, encouraged and even funded the royal pirates to plunder Spain's maritime property, and Drake was one of the best.

Over the past decade, he had traveled to New Spain several times to conduct slave trade, robbed ships, and raided the Spanish settlements. During a robbery, he landed into the Isthmus of Panama. There, Drake climbed a big tree and looked westward and saw the legendary Pacific Ocean.

That year was 1571 AD and the fifth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty.

Since then, Drake has been dreaming of becoming the first British man to sail in the Pacific Ocean. However, for various reasons, mainly because he was afraid of completely messing up his relationship with his brother-in-law, the queen has always been reluctant to agree to his plan to go to the East Coast of America.

As a result, Lin Feng took the lead...

The huge wealth that was originally available was a big annoyed by others, which made Her Majesty the Queen finally make her determined to sponsor Drake to the Pacific at the end of 1577 AD, the year before.

Drake, who had long wished, led a privateer fleet of five sailboats to the Americas excitedly. However, the Spaniards are not NPCs who are not brainy. They will suffer if they are beaten, and they will also learn lessons if they suffer losses.

As a result, in the Caribbean, the Drake fleet was beaten by the Spanish who were waiting for the battle and lost two ships as soon as they got up and had to go south in a mess.

They struggled southward in the surging sea and arrived at Ma Yishan Island in June last year and spent the winter there. Drakebon planned to name it Drake Island, but found that Lin Feng had named it Ma Yishan Island with three Chinese, Western and Portuguese characters...

Three months later, Drake went through a lot of hardships and finally bypassed Cape Horn from Linfeng Strait and realized his dream of the Pacific Ocean. However, the price was also heavy. At this time, he was only left with his flagship Golden Deer. Two other ships, one sank, and the other vanished.

Fortunately, Drake was good at socializing. With the help of his newly made indigenous friends, he repaired the ship and set off again. He headed north along the west coast of America, and this time he gained a good harvest. Because the Spaniards did not know the existence of Linfeng Strait, they naturally would not have thought that British pirates could avoid the Magellan Strait, which they had heavily deployed, and arrived at the west coast of America.

So the Peruvian Governor's District was robbed again, and Drake even captured a treasure ship heading to Panama. Then in Ecuador, he hired indigenous sailors and his fleet returned to three.

Just as he and his subordinates were motivated and were about to continue to work hard and continue to rob north, they attracted the Pacific Fleet stationed in Acapulco.

Ten Spanish sailing ships almost blocked them in Viacruz, Panama. Relying on Captain Drake's agility, the sailors cooperated with each other, the British lost only one ship and escaped from the encirclement.

However, the Spanish had no intention of letting them go. Admiral Leon vowed to find the face he had lost in the Ming people from the British.

In order to get rid of the Spaniards who had been chasing them relentlessly, Captain Drake decided to divide his troops, but the captured treasure ship was caught by the Spaniards, but the Golden Deer, who headed north, took the opportunity to escape.

Drake continued north along the Pacific Ocean, hoping to find the legendary northwest route to the Atlantic Ocean and Britain. He sailed to the Gulf of Alaska, which was already December last year. Drake and his partners were lucky to be the first person to spend the winter twice in half a year.

The blizzard and the long Alaska Peninsula finally made the persistent captain give up the voyage to continue the north. After heading south to repair ships in California, he inquired from the natives that the Spaniards had gathered hundreds of warships in Acapulco, which completely gave up his idea of ​​returning the same way. He could only grit his teeth and take the Magellan route, cross the Pacific Ocean, and prepare to circle the earth and return to Europe.

After a full 68 days of voyage without land, the Golden Deer arrived in Palau. Captain Drake learned from the local people that the Spaniards all went to Cebu on the Surigao Strait. So in order to avoid the Spaniards, he decided to cross Luzon from the Guanmen Strait in the north...

The result fell into the hands of the Coast Guard Patrol.

"Come it?" Zhao Hao stretched out his hand with a smile on the balcony of the villa.

"What?" Captain Drake was stunned.

"Is Her Majesty's handwritten letter?" Mr. Zhao smiled and said, "With my master's English proficiency, it's okay to read a letter."

"This..." Drake did not have any written letter? He planned to take the Northwest route and go directly to Europe, but he didn't expect that the Far East would come. The saying of the Queen's Special Envoy who sought alliance was just used to fool the Ming people.

However, he had already said something, so he sighed: "On the way to the Far East, we were surrounded and intercepted by the Spanish, and only one ship left to reach the destination. The Queen's letter to His Majesty the Emperor of Your Country accidentally sank with the ship."

Zhao Hao couldn't help but shake his head and smiled, "Does such an important letter not be kept with you?"

"Ah, you may not know that long-term sailing on the sea will make people dull and stupid, and may occasionally make unforgivable mistakes." Drake sighed again:

"But the gift from Her Majesty the Queen to the Emperor of Your Country is still on the Golden Deer, which can prove our sincerity. If you are not at ease, you can send an envoy to England with me, and Her Majesty will naturally prove that what I say is true."

"But this still cannot prove that you are not making up lies and trying to get away with it." Zhao Hao was rigorous and terrifying.

"Fake..." The captain cursed inwardly, quickly squeezed out his smile again, patiently convinced Zhao Hao.

However, no matter how Captain Drake defended his case, he could not convince Zhao Hao that he was the British envoy on a visit to the Ming Dynasty.

"Sorry, Captain." Zhao Hao picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said with a formal expression: "In our Ming Dynasty, everything must be based on facts and the law as the criterion. As a foreign affairs official of the Ming Dynasty, I cannot introduce you to His Majesty the Emperor without tangible evidence to prove your identity."

"What a pity." Captain Drake secretly called unlucky, but he didn't expect that this Chinese man was as rigid as the most stubborn Catholic. He hurriedly put on a helpless expression and said:

"Then I have to go back to my country first, and ask Her Majesty the Queen to make up a letter of nationality, and then come back to see Your Majesty."

"Sorry, Captain." Mr. Zhao still shook his head and said, "I cannot let you go until there is no tangible evidence to prove your identity."

Liang Qin hurriedly explained from the side: "According to the laws of our Ming Dynasty, foreigners are not allowed to enter the country without the emperor's permission. Those who enter the country privately should be arrested and punished for their crimes."

"Oh my God." Drake spread his hands depressedly, "You guys brought me here."

"If you weren't trespassing the country, how could you be arrested?" Liang Qin sneered.

"I didn't know that Luzon belonged to your country, and I thought it was Spain's territory." Drake shouted.

"How do you prove that you don't know?" Zhao Hao said lightly.

"Oh, the cake buyer is here again..." Captain Drake almost squirted out a mouthful of old blood.

"Captain, be careful, don't be impatient, the rules are like this, everyone must abide by them." Zhao Hao comforted him angrily: "Be patient and cooperate with us to finish the process. I believe that the truth will be found out."

"What if I can't find out?" Drake asked coldly.

"How come you can't find it? There are always more ways than difficulties." Zhao Hao smiled and said, "For example, we will write to the Queen of Your Country to verify. After she replied, can't we prove your identity?"

Drake thought it would be strange if he could prove it. He knew that these private captains were toilets. Although the queen was very happy to use, she would definitely leave it all in the same way when something happened. How could he risk being caught by his brother-in-law and cross the ocean to catch people?

"Okay, you go down first." Zhao Hao seemed to have lost Tan Xing, and brought tea to the guests and said, "There will be officials asking you for questions in the future."

The two guards standing behind Drake immediately reached out to ask him to leave.

Drake quickly shouted: "I have a huge secret, which is related to the safety of Mingguo. If you can guarantee that my ship and crew will leave safely, I can report it truthfully!"

After a pause, he threatened: "Otherwise, I will be rotten in my stomach forever!"
Chapter completed!