Chapter 1812

The current Roman emperor and Marquis Jacques garrell thought more and more, and felt more and more frightened. When they wanted to express their friendly attitude to the Chinese people as soon as possible, Su Heng was located on the vast ocean and quietly looked at more than a dozen merchant ships sailing downwind.

These more than a dozen merchant ships were under the command of a gentry in the state of Lu, taking the route from Lu to Rome.

He will pay attention to this caravan. The biggest reason is that these more than a dozen merchant ships have been targeted by a pirate gang.

Even the identity of pirate gangs is very interesting, that is, in the northwest of Lu, there is a navy under the Archduke of the Principality of ventra, a month's voyage away. Ventra is only a maritime principality here, not even a kingdom. There are only a dozen small, medium and small islands in the country, with a population of 6.7 million, of which more than 90% are white and less than 10% are mixed race. Under the Archduke Nix ventra, But it has a full command of 50000 navies. Although the navy is subject to the fact that the principality has less money and can't afford to support even one battleship, there are still several cruisers.

In addition to cruisers, they also have dozens of armed merchant ships, which are also in the naval sequence.

The Principality of ventra is small but ferocious. The most common thing is that the Navy disguises itself as pirates and plunders everywhere.

Of course, the main target of their robbery was the caravan composed of Chinese and Miao people on the main channel between Shang and Rome.

Today, the merchant ships under the command of a great scholar and gentry of the state of Lu are transporting a large number of Oriental commodities such as porcelain, tea, silk and so on to Rome.

These crystals of Oriental civilization have always had a huge market in the Western aristocratic circle. As long as they are transported from Shang and Tang Dynasties to Rome, they are basically more than ten times the profits of the local community.

It is precisely because of this understanding that the kingdoms and principalities composed of white people in the ocean will stare at many caravans, just like wolves lurking in the ocean, which may wait for the opportunity at any time.

It can be said that as soon as the caravan set out from the state of Lu, it was watched by Archduke ventra.

Instead of letting the gentry of the state of Lu transport valuable commodities to Rome for a big turn, how could he grab them directly and come readily?

The Navy under Archduke ventra not only keeps an eye on the Oriental merchant fleet on this channel, but also Liu Guo, an island country composed of Chinese and Miao people not too far away, often calls you to wake up.

The Principality of ventra is the kind of country composed of Chinese and Miao people. When it is close to the border, it makes the most efforts because of ethnic differences, conflicts or wars.

The Archduke who was still on the stage shouted more than once to destroy the state of Liu and capture all millions of people of the state of Liu as slaves.

Of course, Archduke ventra is not stupid. There are more than one million people in the state of Liu. Compared with the Principality of ventra, although the volume is nearly doubled, the difference of double is not too exaggerated, so he dares to shout blatantly.

Against Shanglu? Even if the state of Lu is a vegetable chicken in the eyes of Zhao Guozhu Haoqiang, it is only a dish on the dinner table of the big business gentry Haoqiang, anyway, the state of Lu has a population of more than 6 million and developed commerce and trade. Even if there are few soldiers on the surface, they dare not provoke it openly.

Or should we carefully lower the national flag and make-up pirates before they dare to do it and pretend to be pirates? Then there's no way to get the cruiser out.

Therefore, when the caravan of more than a dozen merchant ships in the state of Lu was about to arrive at a supply island on the route to rest, merchant ships with pirate flags also rushed out of the supply island

Occupying the advantage of ambush and preemption, the ventra Navy obviously wants to grab the t-position. The T-shaped tactics are one of the most classic tactics in this era of sail bronze guns.

But they rushed out. On the flagship in front of the Lu caravan, they immediately began to play various flags to inform the merchant ships behind.

"Come on, turn around! Shit, this group of garbage is coming again. When I get back to the state of Lu after this wave, I have to kill some white skins."

On the flagship of the caravan, a young man with a hundred mile mirror first ordered the sailors to flag to inform the friendly forces, and then made his merchant ship turn quickly to avoid heavy losses.

Why is T-shaped tactics classic? Just because no merchant ship or battleship in this era has the ability to directly attack the front and rear of your ship. All guns are arranged on both sides of the ship.

Only when you face the target with the side of the ship can you give full play to the striking power of the cannon.

When he sailed in a straight line, the ship's bow was in a straight line and intercepted your ship on the side. He was facing rows of cannon muzzle. On the contrary, his ship rushed forward. There was no firepower to play. He could only turn and bombard the ship side to side.

The young man, also the owner of the caravan, is one of the pillars of the Xiao family in the state of Lu, Xiao Jichen.

No matter how much warlords such as the general's office of the state of Zhao, He Jian of the king of Zhao and Gao Zhen despise the local gentry of the state of Lu, the Xiao family itself still has a certain pride and confidence.

After all, the geographical location of the state of Lu is so good that more than 90% of the merchants and Roman caravans have to be supplied by the state of Lu. Standing in the middle, they can make a lot of money.

Therefore, the Xiao family, as a local power in the state of Lu, is still very strong.

With Xiao Jichen issue orders left and right behind him, a seaman laughed. "Two young men, be assured that although we had been scattered before we set off, we could not see that we had already changed blood in the back. This time we must have a hard time for the dross."

It's a good way to earn the price difference. For example, when the merchant Empire caravan arrived in the state of Lu, it didn't want to continue to run. It sold goods directly in the state of Lu. Silk and porcelain are only about five times that of big merchants.

The gentry of the state of Lu are powerful and powerful. They only need to wait until the Roman caravan that starts from Rome and arrives in the state of Lu is sold at six times the price, and the Roman caravan will receive it. When they arrive in Rome, they will be sold more than ten times as much as the big merchant when they ship goods.

The quick money made easily was enough for the gentry of the state of Lu to eat.

There are only caravans under the banner of big business, Tang Empire or Roman Empire, which will not be disturbed by pirates along the way.

However, if the gentry of the state of Lu wanted to build their own Caravan and directly transport the goods to Rome, they could sell the goods to Roman merchants at more than ten times the price of the big merchants.

Of course, this will earn more if there are many pirates on the road.

Even so, Xiao Jichen has run the Rome route for the sixth time. Is it risky? Compared with profits, it's nothing to have enough profits and take some risks. They can not only transport porcelain and silk to Rome to make a lot of money, but also buy Roman goods back to the city, which is a lot of wealth.

Now these dozen merchant ships are Xiao Jichen's greatest confidence and confidence. It seems that they are all armed merchant ships, but armed merchant ships are also different from armed merchant ships.

For example, the armed merchant ships of the Principality of ventra basically do not have thickened hull, and the number of guns is limited. Often a ship has only 8 to 16 guns. There are many warehouses and few people on the whole ship. In order to save cost, they also like to build ships with poor quality wood. Basically, as long as they hit, they will be a big hole.

But the more than ten armed merchant ships of the Xiao family are different.

Ambushed by pirates? Xiao Jichen was not nervous at the moment. There was only strong excitement and excitement. His big ship could not wait.