Lu Yi quickly settled God and smiled at Henry and said, “Rotterdam?”I know there, it's an extremely beautiful seaport city, where the tulips are as famous as the Joan of Suzhou, and the tall windmills, which are a local view."

It was a little disapproving of Lu Wei's own knowledge of Rotterdam, not to mention the great Ming country in the far east, that is, no one has ever heard of Rotterdam in a sea like this.But now, when he heard him mention the tulips and the windmill, Henry's face changed a little, and suddenly excitedly shouted: "Oh my God, have you really been to my hometown of Rotterdam?"When did you get there and how did you get there safely across the ocean?When I came east by boat, it was because of the storm that I finally arrived.

"Well, it's hard to say..." Lu Wei smiled mysteriously, neither saying that he had never been to Rotterdam, nor did he say that he had been.His purpose is naturally to let the other side not know how much he has mastered, after all, he and those pirates are fellow country, it is difficult to ensure that they will not help them cover up some problems.So it is better to leave the other party with a mysterious impression, so that when they are hidden again, they have to weigh one or two.

Just when Henry wanted to ask, Lu Wei had already put his face on the board: "Okay, let's just say it."Today we invite you to come, just want to ask some things from the mouth of these pirates, as long as you can help me in Suzhou official government, we will give it back.Not only for you personally, but your fleet will also gain a great deal here.”

"Yes, the officer promised that you would provide you with sufficient silk porcelain and other goods at the most fair price, and at the same time buy all your spices so that you won't have to work hard to go somewhere else."He was also busy adding.

Henry did not react to this assurance, and his companions were already a little excited, and the chief merchant hurriedly exclaimed, "Henry, take a snapshot of what these grown-ups mean, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Henry said, “Well, since you’ve all said that, I’ll do it.”I wonder what questions do you want to ask them?”

Lu Yi immediately said: "Ask their history, and how can they come from the Netherlands... I mean that the Netherlands came to the sea of my Ming Dynasty?"Even pirates can't have that kind of idleness."

Henry spoke to the pirates and said, “They say, like me, they are from Rotterdam.”As for coming here, because they had plundered a fortune in the Kingdom of Spain, and because they were afraid that the other's navy would encircle them, they came to the east for a while, and encountered a great storm, and finally drifted to the eastern sea.But as far as he knows, in fact, in the past few years, Spain and other European countries have emerged in the countries of Europa, and there have been many explorers who are interested in the sea, and they are just one of them."

"Oh?"Is there such a thing?”After listening to this explanation, Tao Yong did not feel very surprised, and looked at Lu Wei again.Is there any other country that the sea trade that Mr. Lu strongly advocated in his early years is actively practiced by other countries?

He shook his head, but he shook his head disdainfully.He knew all too well what the so-called explorers in Henry's mouth were, but like the prisoners in front of him, they were just a group of pirates.Not only them, but the so-called maritime pioneers a hundred years later, such as Columbus and Magellan, are ultimately a group of sea robbers.They did discover America, and then massacred countless natives there, looted their wealth, and made a great geographical discovery.

As for the circumnavigation of the world, you can understand it as long as you think about it.If it were not for the continuous looting of people's supplies and food along the way, how could the things on those ships be bypassed by people around the world?

Of course, Lu Wei did not argue with them on this point, but he was alert in his heart.Although this time, the pirate appeared in the sea near Daming because of chance, but the accident will not appear a second time.Or, in a few years, these bandits at sea will find the right route and method, and suddenly appear in the waters of Daming.

This is by no means alarmist, especially now that the attitude of Ming towards the sea is completely different.If it is placed in the previous ban on the sea, even if these pirates are at sea, they will not know, and they will not care.But now, as the scale of Daming's trade in the sea grows, it may be possible to bump into those thieves, and the loss will be large.Just like the disaster that many of the official merchant ships of the Great Ming Dynasty have encountered during this year.

“It seems that a strong maritime defence is already a matter of priority.”Lu Yi secretly made a decision, so he looked at Henry again: "You ask them again, how did they collude with the people in my big country?"He did not ask whether there was, but directly asked how to collude, and did not give the other party the opportunity to deny it.

These pirates were also real people, and immediately told the truth: "We met a man who claimed to be a lotus saint in front of a small town in the southeast."There were also people among them who could speak our homeland, and then they told us that we alone were not the opponents of tens of thousands of soldiers on the land, and they proposed an agreement to work with us to make a fortune.

“They prepared a lot of food for us, and then let us find a place at sea to wait for news.They want to pass on the route of your merchant ships to us, and we will intercept and loot at sea.During the year, we did rob a lot of property by cooperating with both sides, half of which were taken away by them.”

“That is so.”They knew what had happened at sea that had happened that year before.Many people even more resentful of staring at these pirates, hate not to put them to death some of their hearts.

"Yes, a translation of the Lotus Saintite who was with us was left on the island for a month, and I don't know if he took our treasure."Robenz suddenly thought of something and shouted.

“Are there any traitors like these foreign enemies?”Tao Yong was quite annoyed: "Let them tell the location of their own islands, my great official government must go there to arrest this heinous prisoner!"

Lu Yi is more concerned about another key question: "You ask them again, where did the guns on their ship come from?"

Compared to the previous question, Robbentz was obviously more willing to answer the latter, and said: "Our artillery was two years earlier from the city of Rotterdam spent a hundred gold coins to be minted."For the sake of this gun, we waited in the city for more than half a month, and several times we were almost caught by the guards.

"The cannonman is still in Rotterdam?"Can others make guns of this size but more powerful?”Lu Yi asked again.

“This is a secret of our naval battle, and I cannot tell you easily.”Unless you pay, give us the boat and let us out of here."Seeing that Lu Wei was very concerned about this problem, Lovenz suddenly sold the door and put forward such a condition: "In addition, the things on the island before us are also ours, and I will never tell you where it is."

Well, the pirates who had to ask questions before arrived at this time, but thought they had caught each other's key caves, and began to bargain.

In the face of these big Dutch people who are completely confused about their situation, Lu Wei really does not know whether he should be angry or whether he should laugh.After a moment, he shook his head, gave Tao Yong a look, and handed over the power of disposal to each other.

Tao Yong immediately glanced at his eyes and shouted, “Dare a thief, who dares to speak like this when he dies, does I really have no king’s law?”Come, bring these thieves to the bottom of the fifty panels, and then dare to speak nonsense, continue to use torture, kill one or two people, they know that I can't be lightly!"

So they did not use the punishment of these guys before, because they knew that it was useless to fight, and the language could not even be threatened.But now the situation is different, once they are so unknown, they directly use the punishment, anyway, their sins are heavy enough, even if they are killed directly and deserve it.

At that moment, there was a servant who came forward, and pushed these guys who were still screaming and shouting to come to the outside of the hall.Some of them served one, and when they were all turned over, they were handcuffed with sticks.At the end of the time, the scream came from the front, and I saw Henry and others a shock, so I knew the majesty of the great Ming government, and I was glad that I was standing at this end.

After a lot of scolding, Robnz and other people were dragged into the hall again.Then Lu Yi got up and went to the few people who were lying on the ground constantly gasping for pain, and said, "Now you can get out of everything we want to know?"If you don’t stop, it’s not so easy.I know that there are ways for you to regret living in this world.”

Although the other party did not understand what Lu Wei was saying at all, his tone of voice still made them feel a panic, and after hearing Henry's slightly trembling translation, he could not bear it anymore, and immediately shouted: "I said, I said, I said everything I knew."The position of the island is the position we will draw you, the cannon was cast by a craftsman named Dakaya in Rotterdam, and I heard that he did improve the power of the gun afterwards, but we dare not go back to him.