Chapter 1444 Ambition and Greed, Spying on the New World!

"May God bless you! Dear Sir Miguel de Cintra. After the storm and voyage in the deep Atlantic Ocean, it is really the blessing of the Virgin Mary to meet you again in the port of Sierra Leone!..."

"Greetings to you, brave Captain Bruno Knight, I am glad to see you return safely! I heard from the Kingdom Navy that His Majesty has entrusted you with the dangerous task of exploring a new route to the west... How is this exploration going? How did you come from the southern waters? In addition, I seem to have only seen one ship, Knight Silveira?..."

"Ah! God bless you! This dangerous voyage is like sailing in the devil's hell. Silveira Knight La was pious and fearless, and sacrificed himself heroically for the Lord... If I were to tell you in detail, it would take a long time..."

"Oh! No hurry, take your time... Come on! Bring two bottles of banana wine and some fruits! ... Bruno, do you want a local maid to serve you?"

"Well... No. All the news about the new western route is still a top secret of the kingdom. Sir Miguel, we are old acquaintances. We both followed Captain Diogo Con... God is a witness! I can only tell you these news! ..."

"Okay, okay! Bruno, my old friend, I will entertain you tonight and you will be satisfied! Now let's talk about business first! ..."

The port colony of Sierra Leone is not large in scale. Among the rows of wooden houses, there are only three stone buildings, namely the "Port City Hall", the "Trade Station Warehouse", and the largest "Mountaintop Fortress".

At this moment, Captain Bruno and the noble mayor Miguel are in the Port City Hall. They sat on two low-backed chairs decorated with ivory, drinking local banana wine while talking about adventures and explorations at sea, sighing from time to time.

"Lord! There is a new continent in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean? Bruno, are you sure it is a new continent, not a big island?"

"It is definitely a new continent! Miguel, you know what is said in the Kingdom's navigation manual. Once a big river appears, there must be a continent! Do you know how amazing the width of the giant river I saw on that jungle continent is?!"

"Ah? 'Giant river'? How wide is it?"

"At least fifty kilometers! At high tide, it can even reach eighty kilometers! If it is the peak of the rainy season, I dare not even think about it!"

"Holy Mother, fifty kilometers wide ! Is there really such a wide river in this world? It is even wider and more turbulent than the Congo River? ... Could it be that the continent you discovered is larger than the southern continent? Lord, this is unlikely? ! "

"The Lord is my witness! I dare not say that the new continent is larger than the southern continent... But the distance of my route alone has a coastline of 5,000 kilometers! 5,000 kilometers of coast! Miguel, you can calculate how many kingdoms can be established here? ! 5,000 kilometers, such a vast land! ..."

Speaking of the situation in the southern continent, Bruno was excited and excited. These are all his achievements in exploration and discovery, which will definitely bring him and even his family a long-term and rich reward!

Just like Miguel de Sintra, the reason why he can become a noble mayor and manage this Sierra Leone colony is because his grandfather is a seafaring noble who explored and discovered this coast, Pedro de Sintra. With this connection, the Cintra family was able to participate in the colonization of the port of Sierra Leone and get a big piece of the pie in the colonial benefits!

And Bruno discovered a new jungle continent. Once the Kingdom of Portugal opened up a colony, his family descendants would have priority to participate and eventually become the noble mayor or even the governor of the colony!

"Hiss! Five thousand kilometers of long coast? Really?!... Bruno, you just said that between 8 degrees north latitude and 5 degrees south latitude? Isn't it all tropical jungle, like the devil's Congo? The difficulty of developing this kind of jungle is very difficult!..." Hearing this, the noble mayor Miguel frowned slightly. The Cintra family had experienced the colonization of the West African coast, so he knew it very well. To develop a tropical colony between the jungle coast, how high would the initial labor cost be, and how many corpses would need to be filled in!

"Merciful Virgin Mary! For example, the kingdom has just established a new trading post in Congo. In just three years, one-third of the 200 pioneers have died of epidemics. And the missionaries sent to the interior of Congo have died seven or eight out of ten, and they are in urgent need of replacement... In the support fleet I received last month, there were seven or eight priests, all recruited from churches in towns and villages in the kingdom, all of whom were civilians. They look pious, but they are destined to burn themselves for the light of the Lord. I'm afraid none of them can return alive..."

"Ah! The Congo land shrouded by demons! Horrible, it's really terrible there!... Uh, Miguel, the jungle continent is indeed There are indeed many jungles, but they should not be as terrible as the Congo, and there should not be so many devil curses? ... And the jungle natives I met there are much gentler than the dangerous Sipangu natives! ..."

"Moreover, although there are dense jungles for a thousand kilometers east and west of that river, there are obvious plateau mountains in the one or two thousand kilometers near Cape St. Roch... The tropical plateau is better than the lowland and will be much easier to develop! Of course, the manpower required in the early stage of development is inevitable... But there are ways! For example, these tribes in the southern continent..."

"Hey! What do you mean? What do you mean? ... Well... As long as the reward is enough, this is indeed feasible! Just like the plantations on Cape Verde, drive these black-skinned tribes to grow expensive sugarcane... Of course, if you can directly capture the local natives, that would be the best!..."

At this moment, the sighs and exclamations of the two Portuguese nobles, their discussions and plans, and their desire for the wealth of the New World, echoed together in the stone city hall. They were like seeing the magnificent "dawn" of the new world through a thick curtain!

However, the first place where this "dawn" fell was in Africa, the "dark continent", a West African colony established by Portugal, with thousands and tens of thousands of black-skinned tribes enslaved and driven by the Portuguese.

At this moment, with the discovery of the New World, the Amazon River of destiny split into bloody tributaries! The cruel and terrible future has silently descended upon countless tribes in West Africa, making a kind of "goods" that was originally poor and not valued more valuable as "commodities"...

"Bless you, Bruno, you know that the most valuable commodity, like what is produced on the coast of Ghana, is always gold, gold, and gold!...Did you find any traces of gold from the natives when you explored the new route this time?..."

"Hey! In the archipelago waters north of the jungle continent, we encountered the native kingdom of Sipangu. That native kingdom does have gold... maybe a lot!... But... it's a pity! My manpower is really limited, and the native kingdom is very powerful, so I couldn't get the gold..."

Looking at Miguel, who was shining with gold and showing greed, Bruno thought about it and decided to conceal the 3 pounds of gold and 1 bag of pearls he had traded from the native tribe. He didn't want to use the golden gold to test the unreliable friendship between the two.

Otherwise, if the other party puts forward conditions and finds an excuse to get a share, then with his current shabby ship and only eight trusted sailors, he really can't refuse...

"Oh, merciful Lord! Those devilish Sipangu barbaric tribes! Their cruelty and cunning are even more terrible than the black natives in the south! They claim to want to trade with us in a friendly manner, but they actually dispatched a fleet to attack us at night!... The pious Captain Silveira died in their brutal attack, and even a whole ship of people were killed by the cruel natives!..."

"What? The natives actually attacked you at sea? With their small boats, can they attack the kingdom's big ships?..."

"No! God is my witness! These natives have the same light sailing ships as us! And looking at the style, they are completely Castilian ships! I doubt that if they are not colluding with the Castilians, they also ambushed Columbus's exploration team. Fleet! …”

“What?! Are there Castilians involved?! …Bruno, did these natives really attack you for no reason? Did they discover us when the fleet landed to repair? …”

“Ah! God is my witness! As the captain of the exploration fleet, I have always restrained the sailors! At least in that sea area, the sailors are more disciplined than in the port of Lisbon! …It is this group of cunning natives who have long made up their minds to attack us! They pretended to trade with us just to delay time and transfer their ships and troops here…”

“They even have some prophecy, saying that they had predicted our arrival long ago, saying that we are some kind of ‘white-skinned and bearded demons’, and that we are going to have some kind of ‘holy war’ and ‘fight to the death’…”

“Ah?! Prophecy? The devil’s prophecy? Holy war? …Is it true or not? …If that’s the case, it will be a big trouble! …”