The Karak sailing ship owned by Shopkeeper Wang has no name. The Han people do not have the habit of giving names to ships. People call this ship "Shopkeeper Wang's ship" or "the ship bought from the Netherlands".

This made the shipwright Yurien and the translator Santos, who had been employed by Shopkeeper Wang for five years after he bought the boat, very uncomfortable. They were used to every boat having her name, so they named Shopkeeper Wang's boat without permission.

It's called the Northern Continent.

This name was given by Santos, who had always suspected that the so-called Dongshan State was the area of ​​the New World discovered by Columbus that had not yet been conquered by the Francons.

This is a bad thing for the Franji people. In the place that has always been regarded as their own backyard, another tenant has entered, and it is a tenant that they cannot defeat.

But it's a good thing for Urien and Santos. Urien is a Dutchman and has been hostile to the Franj Empire since he succeeded in becoming independent from the Franj people. Santos, the fruit tooth man, has been looking for

Independence from the Francois. When the Francois are unlucky, they are happy.

"Santos, didn't he say he was joking?"

"Urien, he is telling lies."

The Northern Continent has 4 levels of cabins. The lowest level is the cargo warehouse. The second to last level is where ordinary crew members live. It will also be used as a cargo warehouse when there is a lot of cargo. The third to last level is the bombardment cabin, but Shopkeeper Wang removed all the cabins.

The cannons were converted into passenger cabins and crew cabins, where Feng Shuo and the others lived.

The top floor is the middle open-air deck. However, due to the special design of the Karak ship, there is another floor at the stern and bow, which is the captain's cabin and a guest cabin in good condition. Liu Yifeng lives on the bow floor.

In the cabin.

Because the maintenance of the soft sail system depends on two people, Urien and Santos are senior crew members on the ship. They live in the crew cabin on the third-to-last floor, which is in relatively good condition.

"Santos, how do you know he is telling lies?"

"Because he knows the Pope!"

Urien was still confused, wondering how Santos could tell Liu Yifeng's lie when he said he made a joke that was not funny, knowing the existence of the Pope.

"Urien, believe me, you have only been in contact with these Mingren for too short a time, and you don't understand them at all."

Urien looked back at the other crew members lying on the deck, jumped off the hammock and took Santos out of the cabin.

The hammock is a standard bed for sailors on Europa. It is easy to pack and does not take up space when not in use. However, crew members in the Chinese cultural circle are not used to sleeping in hammocks at all. They are still used to finding a flat place in the cabin to lay down a blanket and start sleeping, even if it is not cold.

I don't even bother to lay out a blanket and just sleep on it, because no one cares about hygiene when out at sea except the captain and the shopkeeper.

The two of them walked past the sleeping crew members lying on the floor and came to the deck. There was only one crew member on duty at the highest point on the stern of the ship. He glanced at the two men and turned around. He often couldn't sleep at night.

It is normal for the crew members to come out to breathe.

"Urien, I have lived in Guangzhou for 2 years and Quanzhou for 3 years. I am more familiar with those Ming people than you are." Santos said in Dutch: "These Ming people are very arrogant. They think they are the only people in the world.

It’s the most powerful.”

Urien curled his lips and said nothing, because Ming Dynasty was really powerful.

"Unless these wise men are officials of the Ministry of Rites, they have no interest in understanding us. That shopkeeper Zhang knows the Pope, he is definitely not an ordinary person!"

Urien understood somewhat.

In this era, the Ming Dynasty focused on the three talents of navigation, colonization, and liberalization of trade. To describe it as being at the peak of its power is not enough.

On land, the descendants of Genghis Khan are spreading word of mouth that the Central Plains dynasty that defeated the Golden Family has conquered Mobei, and they will follow the route the Mongols used to conquer the Western countries and exterminate all people with Mongolian blood along the way!

This is of course a rumor spread by the Oara and Yarkand Khanates, and its purpose is to get the many Mongolian descendants in Central Asia, West Asia and South Asia to support them against the Ming Dynasty.

It doesn’t matter whether the effect will unite the descendants of Mongolia or scare them. The Muscovite Principality in the east of Europe has been affected and sent envoys to express goodwill and hope that the Ming Dynasty will carve up Central Asia with them to establish trade.

On the sea, after losing to the English in the Battle of Graveline, the French finally lost to the Ming in the distant Battle of the South China Sea.

After the news came back to Europa, although the Franji people insisted that the Ming Navy had nothing to do with them, and that they negotiated peace in order to continue trade with the Ming Dynasty, no one in Europa believed it, or in other words, even if they believed it in their hearts, they would laugh at them.

Francois.

This is related to the current political status of the Franconian Empire in Europe.

The Franconian Empire was the first country in Europe after the Middle Ages to break the feudal system and begin to transform into an absolute monarchy. This allowed them to become the most powerful country in Europe within a few decades.

The benefits and disadvantages of centralization for national development are both extreme, but the Franconian Empire is still enjoying the dividends of absolute monarchy centralization.

This also resulted in the Franconian Empire making many enemies, whether on sea or land. If the enemies made a fool of themselves and explained that they had not lost, it would be a ghost if anyone could hear them.

Moreover, Marco Polo's "Oriental Insights" still has a huge influence in Europe. It is not normal for France to lose to the country in the East that produces silk and ceramics.

Various fragments of information about the power of the Ming Dynasty brought back by Dutch businessmen also prove this point.

Although it is discouraging, it is not incomprehensible that the people of such a powerful country don't care about their Europa affairs at all. And a person in such a country not only knows the language of the British island, but also mentioned "the Pope" very accurately.

"Afterwards, he said it was a joke. This was not a lie. What was it?

Urien's expression changed again after he thought about this.

"Santos, does the powerful Ming Dynasty really want to intervene in religious wars?"

Santos shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"If they really want to intervene, which side will they support? Have they already intervened? I heard that the Islamic pagans support us, but I have never heard of them sending troops. Could it be that Ming Dynasty has already intervened?

Is the land holding them back?"

Santos continued to shake his head: "I don't know."

"But didn't Daming have a fight with Franci? Will he continue to be hostile to Franci? In that case, they will be supporting us?"

Santos still shook his head: "I don't know."

"You won't say anything else?"

"I really don't know, what do you want me to say?"

After Santos sighed, he said: "Urien, you'd better not have too much hope. The Ming Dynasty is too far away from us. Even if they support us, it is actually difficult for them to really do anything. But correspondingly

, it is difficult for them to do anything if they really support the Holy See. The most they can do is to contain Islam. In addition, Islam is a pagan, don’t forget that the Ming Dynasty is also a pagan!"

Santos' words calmed down Urien, especially the sentence "Don't forget that the Ming Dynasty is also a pagan." These Ming people did not have the cruel, bloodthirsty, barbaric and uncivilized pagans propagated by the priests at all, and were more uncivilized than most people in Europe. Be learned and humble, but they are still pagans.

Europe has fallen into a religious war. Each country has spoken out one after another, and the scale of the war has intensified. However, the situation between the two sides is generally on the same level, and no one can defeat the other side at once. At this time, if the great foreign power Ming intervenes and takes sides, the other side in the religious war will be It's a devastating blow.

The Ming Dynasty did not even need to send troops. It announced that it would only trade with merchants who believed in the religion it supported, and the other side would be hurt. The two largest traders in Europe in the Annan Protectorate happened to be on the two sides of the religious war. square.
Chapter completed!