Among the many East India companies established by Western colonists, there is the Danish East India Company that most people will ignore. It was established in 1616, which is quite early, even more than ten years earlier than the Portuguese East India Company.
, and established a small colony at Talangambadi on the east coast of the Indian subcontinent as early as 1620. At this time, the Portuguese and British strongholds in India were still on the west coast of the subcontinent.
However, the achievements of the Danish East India Company in the next 100 years were limited to this. Because it participated in the Thirty Years War not long ago and not long ago, it suffered disastrous defeats, and then it was continuously beaten by the rising Sweden for nearly half a century.
, took away all the Scandinavian territory, and the national power gradually declined.
But at the moment, the Viking gene in Denmark's veins is still going crazy. Participating in the Thirty Years' War twice and quarreling with the Swedes are the consequences of this irrational behavior. Now the Viking disease is affecting a chartered merchant ship "Ge"
The captain of the Rifen, Trelding Veshuj, was thinking yesterday about whether to fly the flag of Sweden, which is at war with the Holy Roman Empire. However, he felt that it would bring bad reputation to him if the news spread, so he simply followed him until he was out of sight.
To launch another attack on land, the subtext of this consideration is complete confidence that no one will be left alive.
No matter what, Weishuyi knew that his ship was much larger than his opponent, and the ships of the northwest European countries were slender, faster and had more deck guns. Even if there was an inexplicable epidemic on the road,
, leaving dozens of corpses to feed the sharks, he can now fight with far more sailors than his opponents. However, he does not know that his opponent is a woman, who is not only much younger than himself, but also has a greater desire for victory.
Full confidence. And that woman had a group of employers that Vishuy could never have dreamed of.
After many years of trade contacts, this woman obtained some weapons from those business partners that should not have appeared in this time and space. The Hangzhou has 8 12-pound long barrel cannons: 2 on the bow gun deck, 2 on the
There are four guns at the rear of the bottom gun deck and four on the poop gun deck. These guns are all wrought iron guns that Lingao eliminated and sold to friendly and neutral business partners at high prices.
If Li Huamei had not had many fans in the navy, and she had transported a large amount of much-needed goods to Lingao, after the establishment of the Foreign Intelligence Service, it would have also provided a large number of economic and political information about European colonists and local kings in Goa and other places.
The intelligence was listed as a very useful collaborator and was approved by the Planning Institute.
The sea wind is howling, and the sails are hunting. Captain Weisshey's Griffin is moving at full speed. Li Meihua has clearly seen the gryphon statue on the bow of the ship. With many years of pirate experience, the entire dynamic combat situation diagram will follow.
It had clearly appeared in her mind.
"Brothers, light the match!" She drew her sword and "raise the red flag!"
The battle was short and fierce, but it was not as expected by Li Huamei. Due to her superior firepower, the Griffin's speed advantage did not bring much benefit to Captain Tereldin Wishuy, and the successive shells were fired.
Destroying the Griffin's gunfire and rigging systems, killing and wounding most of the sailors on the deck.
When Li Huamei led his men to rush onto the deck of the Griffin, slaughtering the Danes just like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, chopping melons and vegetables, Captain Wieshuy realized what an inappropriate target he had chosen.
The moment Patton's sword came towards him, Captain Weisshey immediately made the most appropriate choice:
He threw his sword on the deck and raised his hands: "I surrender!" He shouted in German - German is a semi-universal language at sea these days.
The tip of Patton's sword was closed in time - it was still 0.001 centimeters away from Captain Weisshey's throat.
"Okay. I accept your surrender." The woman said arrogantly, "Now you, your ship and cargo are mine..."
"I'm willing to serve you..." Weisshey said dejectedly, with a bit of "black humor". These days, the consequences of failed robberies at sea are tragic: the sailors can still change their families, but he himself is very likely to change immediately.
Will swing on the mast.
According to Li Huamei's past temper, a person like Weisshey who dared to take the initiative to rob her ship would have to walk on the gangplank or swing, or at least drag the keel, after being caught. In short, he would die badly. But somehow this will happen.
Her heart began to soften.
As a small pirate gang with only two ships and less than 300 people, the fact that the Li sisters can survive in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean for so long fully demonstrates their strength, not to mention that Li Huamei now has a little goodwill from the Crossing Group behind her.
Regardless of this small kindness, in the past few years, Li Huamei has become more and more aware of the powerful strength shown by this kindness - she has become increasingly inseparable from the Senate.
"If it weren't for the sake of the young lady and sister, I would rather hang out with the Australians." Li Huamei thought to herself, and couldn't help but feel very discouraged when she thought that she was actually working as an undercover agent.
Carrying a machete, she kicked open the door of the captain's cabin and began to search for loot. The most valuable items on any ship were always placed in the captain's cabin, unless it was a Spanish gold ship loaded with tons of gold and silver.
The search was quickly completed. A bag of gold coins and some gold jewelry were found in the captain's cabin. It was not a lot. There were two small wine barrels locked in the ammunition magazine. After they were opened, they were filled with silver coins. There were about three to four thousand silver coins.
Thaler - In this time and space, European ships went to the East empty and returned fully loaded, usually carrying a large amount of cash. In addition, many scattered gold and silver coins were also found from the prisoners.
The cargo on the ship included some furs and weapons. The furs had little market in India and were mainly re-exported. The weapons were probably given to the Taranga Mbadi colony for their own use or sold to the local indigenous people. Apart from this, the largest batch of loot was actually -
-people.
First, a European man and several yellow-haired women were escorted from the bottom of the tank. He introduced himself as Frederick Wellesley Carlson, a Lutheran pastor, and one of the women was his wife.
The others are the war widows and orphans taken in by his church and the old religious nuns who were "liberated" during the war in Germany. There were originally a dozen, half died on the way, and now there are 6 left. Since the Protestant church does not have the profession of nuns, these old religious nuns
Nuns, widows and orphans had no other means of living and became prostitutes sooner or later. The Copenhagen church where Pastor Carlson belonged decided to let him preach in the colonies and take these women to the colonies to make a living - the so-called making a living means marrying local single European colonists.
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According to the confessions of other prisoners on the ship, Captain Tereldin Vishuy was willing to take these women with him because he wanted to sell the colony and make a fortune. As for whether they would serve as servants to the governor or as concubines to any prince, that was not his business.
Well, anyway, no priest could reason with them when they arrived in India. Since they were commodities, these women were locked in the cabin along the way and were not violated in any way.
The next people brought up were a group of slaves that Vishay had plundered from the Arab ships robbed from Oman. They were also locked in the hold. There were more than 20 men and women, both black and white. Those women were basically ruined.
He can't even climb anymore, and the men are not much better. Li Huamei knows that Australians have a special interest in white women, and they can probably sell them for a good price. There are probably three or four Arab slaves who can be brought back to Lin alive.
After leaving Gao, the rest can only be sold in Ceylon. In addition, our own ships and the plundered ships also need to be repaired.
After being completely disarmed and briefly handled, the two ships slowly sailed towards the Galle Port in the southern part of Ceylon Island.
The injured Griffin slowed down a lot and did not arrive near Galle until dawn the next day. The sea was dotted with fishing boats, seagulls chirped and shuttled among the fishing sails, and a large group of flying foxes quietly returned to their nests.
Flying silently past the Hangzhou and Griffin.
Galle is a trading colony under the control of the Portuguese in the southwest of Ceylon Island. It is about 100 kilometers south of Colombo in the old time and space, just on the coast of the Indian Ocean. The old city of Galle and its castle are built on a rocky peninsula.
It is a natural port. Due to the emergence of a large number of coral reefs, the entrance to the port has become extremely complicated.
In the 14th century, Galle was already one of the most active ports on the island of Ceylon. In 1505, the Portuguese began to settle on the island. In 1507, they established a trading post in Galle and built St. Croix's
Small castle.
Li Huamei and Li Siya have both been there countless times, but because there were some fights with locals last year, they originally wanted to avoid it this time, but now it seems that it is impossible to avoid it.
No one was killed in the last incident. It was just a matter of spending some money to settle the matter, and repairing the ship would also cost money. In addition to the gold and silver I had plundered, there were some high-status prisoners among the prisoners who could be sold to the Governor of Galle - the Governor.
Your Excellency would be happy to hold Talangambadi's Danish counterpart to ransom, but it would only take a while.
The governor did almost nothing in this small colony: the Portuguese were good at enclosing colonies, but not good at running them. The hot weather was certainly a problem, but the residents of the Iberian Peninsula seemed to be lazy by nature.
The Dutch and British completed the conquest and development of the entire island, but the Portuguese left no trace. The Galle Fort, which later became a U.N. cultural heritage, was built by the Dutch after they captured Ceylon, with a construction area of
350,000 square meters. The current Galle Fort is only a city wall built on the northern side of the peninsula near the isthmus and three additional forts built after being threatened by the Dutch in 1625.
However, these three fortresses could only deal with maritime attacks based on the technical level at that time. Even in the face of the firepower of the Hangzhou, they could not last long. It is hard to see that the Portuguese had been operating here for more than 120 years. (To be continued...)