Just as the Japanese arrived at the senior officer, another fleet also arrived at the Dagou Port in Tainan.

To be honest, Juan Guillermo Ripeda didn't want to come here. These Chinese left a bad impression on the Spaniards in Manila: they were arrogant and rough, greedy.

These people are too dangerous.

After all, for the current big ducks, their armed forces in Manila are not much stronger than those of the Dutch.

Therefore, Juan Guillermo Ripeda, a senior staff member of the Governor's Office, believes that the Zhao family is very dangerous.

The Spanish also had contacts with the Yunxiao Gang. Due to the war, the Zhao family had trade with Manila since last year because Manila could provide it with a large amount of food, coconut oil and abaca at a cheaper price.

These things were turned on by Lan Fang before, but now the Zhao family doesn't care about Lan Fang's feelings.

Lan Fang's head and mind had family members and relatives placed in the senior officials, so they had no "feeling". This was just like Liang Xingzhou and other relatives were sent to Nanyang.

Luzon is a really good place, and there is no bad harvest in the grain, and there is also a lot of abaca.

Abaca is extremely strong, soft, buoyant, and has excellent resistance to seawater corrosion. It is mainly used as marine ropes, fishing lines, crane ropes, power transmission cables and fishing net lines. The inner fibers can be made into durable fine cloth without spinning, and Chen Jun has already added this thing to the cotton armor.

When meeting Chen Jun again, Lipeda could feel their strong confidence, aggressive momentum and unconcealed ambitions.

Although these people are also people of color, their eyes not only do not respect when they see white people like themselves, but instead make people feel the pride and contempt hidden in it.

Just because they defeated the little Batavia?

These Chinese people who should be have no idea what real power is!

But even so, Manila cannot refuse the temptation of money.

Even though Ripeda felt that it was unsafe to be neighbors with such a group of people. He honestly expressed his views and opinions to the Governor, believing that he should take this opportunity to join forces with the Dutch and kick the Zhao family back from Nanyang to the Chinese. Unfortunately, this opinion did not attract the attention of the Governor.

The days in the Kingdom of Spain are not wonderful now.

Although they won the War of Independence, as the winner, Spain took back Florida and won Minorca, and the outcome was much better than the Dutch.

But such a battle really makes the Spanish Kingdom a little overwhelmed. More importantly, the benefits of Florida and Minorca are far from being able to make up for the fiscal deficit left by the war.

The entire Spanish Kingdom fell into a complete silence after a brief glimpse of light.

The Spanish Kingdom is now a sleeping wild boar.

Wild boars represent that the Kingdom of Spain still has great power.

But why sleep?

Then we can only say that the overall strength of the kingdom has weakened to a certain extent, and awakening will consume more energy, and the old king Carlos III seems to have reached the end of his life.

Since the Seven Years War, Carlos III's focus has turned back to the country, and he introduced the "enlightened dictatorship" in Naples and Sicily to Spain. On the other hand, Carlos, like his brother Fernando VI, began to restrict the expansion of the Catholic Church and attempt to reform the bloated bureaucracy and the economy that was overly dependent on colonial trade.

So for the current big duck, the best result is really not to bother.

Look at France next door. The Gaul rooster whose internal class contradictions have reached its peak is the best "teacher" of the big duck.

So Juan Guillermo Ripeda's proposal is destined to be unable to impress the governor.

Now he can only come to the Dagou Port to deal with Chinese people he doesn't want to see.

This is Ripeda's first time to come to the Dog Harbor, but Manuel next to him has been to the Dog Harbor once, so this time he is familiar with the road and goes to the customs along the cement-paved ground.

The entire dock area of ​​Dagou Port is busy, with many old buildings being demolished and replaced by a large number of red brick and tile houses.

The entire city seems to be expanding.

The original dock area is small. Although it is not enough to use it, the area is also a bit crowded. Now it extends along the shortage of the bay and many other buildings have been built in new dock pier warehouses.

It also includes houses, shops, workshops, etc.

Ripeda only needs to take a random look to know that this is a good place to build a port.

A narrow and long bay with an entrance of only about a hundred yards wide. The turrets on both sides easily blocked the door. The shape of the bay resembles a pocket. The inner harbor of the bay is wide and deep, with calm waves. It is a natural good harbor.

Moreover, some waters in the harbor are shallow, with reefs and rocks at the harbor, and shoals outside the harbor, which not only allows for construction of a port, but also facilitates defense.

So as long as this place is managed with care, it will definitely become one of the most famous ports in East Asia in the future.

"It's incredible." Manuel shook his head and praised. The last time he came, the Dog Port was not so prosperous.

There are more people in the port area than last time, and it can be clearly seen that the business in the Dog Harbor has flourished a lot in recent months.

Deer skin, venison and pickled fish, cane sugar, tobacco leaves, canned food, etc. from the official store are everywhere.

At the same time, they also saw salt.

Chen Jun built a large salt field in the southwest of the senior official. The beaches were spread out, the terrain was gentle and slanted, the rivers poured in less fresh water, strong monsoons, dry and rainy in the winter for half a year, long sunshine, high temperatures, fast evaporation, high salt content in seawater, and easy to dry salt.

Before Chen Jun took this place, the Budai Salt Field was quite famous on the southeast coast.

The salt produced is low in cost and pure white in color, which is considered a top-quality product.

When the Zhao family raised an army and the Lianghuai salt affairs were cut off, the salt fields on the southeast coast were destroyed by the Zhao family fleet, which had the advantage of the water surface, and the salt in the cloth bag salt farm became even more sought after by the market.

The smuggling trade with Yunyang was developed in Hanzhong for the natural saltpeter there, while the smuggling trade with the senior officials in various parts of the southeast coast was prosperous, and the biggest purpose was to make the salt of the senior officials.

But this did flourish.

...

Outside the port, a fleet is slowly sailing out of the Dog Harbor.

News from King Zhao came to the north, and it was time to solve the problem in Qiongzhou Town.

Zhu Bin decided to lead the team in person.

Since the rebellion, he can clearly feel that his power is shrinking. Jiang Zhe, the head of the Taiwan Strait, is a very capable person, and more importantly, he is also actively cooperating with delegating power and allowing Jiang Zhe to split his fleet.

Because Zhu Wo is not a person with great ambitions.

But now he feels it's almost done.
Chapter completed!