Autumn goes and winter comes, and Spain will soon celebrate the Chinese New Year.

When the hymn of midnight mass sounded, bagpipers walked by the narrow and crowded streets, people burned towering trees in the suburbs, jumped and jumped in hand, and bards sat in the middle and sang loudly, either praise or despicable hymns, everything related to the struggle was forbidden, and the palace in Bilbao also called a grand banquet.

Of course, the priests at the church gate were also indispensable to complain loudly to the carnival crowd, condemning them for singing and dancing songs that they made up like pagans, and drinking and feasting day and night.

In fact, they have complained for centuries, and for the past few hundred years, Christmas has been a carnival day for believers, and the priests must endure this habit passed down by the Romans.

However, the Ming army camp on the outskirts of Bilbao was incompatible with the atmosphere of the whole Spanish celebration.

The six mercenaries from Xiyong Camp were all on holiday and allowed them to go to the city to have fun. The soldiers of Baishan Camp fell asleep after daily practice.

After the second batch of silks sent from Seville this year arrived in Hong Kong, Chen Jiujing used them to hire locals to renovate the camp and built a small town almost near Bilbao.

It is called Chinatown by local people.

Pigment of pomegranate trees were planted on the edge of the four large campuses outside the Daying and the two east-west grasslands. Since the design and construction were completed by the Spanish, this land called Xiyongying has a lot of Spanish descent in architectural style, and is almost a replica of the overseas colonies of the Western Kingdom, such as the extremely conspicuous Armed Square in the middle.

Around the square, there are two-story barracks with yards in Baishanying and wooden buildings in Xiyongying.

Xiyong Camp became more and more like Chen Jiujing's private soldiers. Their residence was not planned to be a mercenary group, but according to the military group, the infantry were crowded in a room with eleven people, and the cavalry were like Baishan Camp, with twenty-three people living in a small courtyard, each cavalry was given a name entourage, and two squad leader, and the upper level of the stable on the lower level.

The only three-story building in the Armed Square and the courtyard next to it are the residences of generals of Baishan Camp and Xiyong Camp.

Whether it is Baishan Camp or Xiyong Camp, they have been stationed in Bilbao for nearly a year. The attack on Bordeaux was their last time. Not fighting for a long time made them look like Changsheng and Jincheng's Beiyang Banner Army. Whether the officers and soldiers got married or found lovers locally, soldiers often went to and from brothels in Bilbao during holidays. This is inevitable.

Previously, many generals, like Chen Jiujing, bought or rented in the suburbs of Bilbao, and often did not live in the camp, which was not safe for the army.

It was at that time that Chen Jiujing wanted to build a Ming city here. Now, like the local garrison, they have their own barracks, military warehouses, granaries, horse farms, schoolyards, and large areas of independent yards. All Baishan camp officers can bring their families to the camp to live.

The only thing is that entry is not allowed or exit is allowed.

It was midnight, and the third floor was still brightly lit. The followers stood outside the door. Chen Jiujing frowned and looked at the letter in his hand. Finally, he looked up at the dusty personal soldiers and said, "Thank you for your hard work, go down and rest first."

When the follower left, Chen Jiujing, who was sitting on a soft chair filled with horse mane, put down the letter and smiled at Margaret, who was lying on the bench with a wine bottle opposite, said, "It seems that the Governor was very unhappy when he was disturbed by the dinner. He actually wanted to care about me for 12,000 taels of 10,000 taels of 800 acres of land."

What's more, these 800 acres of land are not fertile land, and the most common ones in the Bacchus area are herders. In the past, more than half of the land here was used for grazing or useless forest land, and there were two small hills, which were worth no less than 6,000 taels of silver in Chen Jiujing's eyes.

Margaret on the bench was indifferent to Chen Jiujing's words, and her mind was filled with annoyance.

On Christmas Eve, just because of the decree made by the Ming man in front of him, hundreds of believers in the camp could not hold a carnival, and burning a bonfire in the Armed Square had become the biggest concession, and everyone was enclosed in the yard.

What's more, when others are doing something they love in the yard at this time, what about her?

Her lover actually looked serious and sat upright without even drinking wine. He discussed buying land with himself!

Who cares about buying land?

Chen Jiujing cares.

He wanted to buy this land, not only Daying, but also the land around Daying. After all, others call it Chinatown and their towns. Will they still give it to the Spaniards for free if they withdraw troops in the future?

Of course you have to buy it.

But at the beginning, it was just a whim. I wrote a letter to Governor Bucks with a try-and-see attitude, but I didn't expect that I really got a response. It was not a straightforward rejection, but just a price that Chen Jiujing was unwilling to give.

He felt that the price could be negotiated again.

"Eight and a half taels of qian, Margo, what do you think?" Chen Jiujing knew that Margaret was unhappy, so he asked again, "At such a price, I can buy 1,500 acres of land in my hometown."

"Ten thousand and a half taels of money are already much cheaper in Spain because of your identity. It is not easy to buy such a large piece of land in Spain." Margaret smiled foolishly, looking a little drunk. She held the chair and interviewed twice before sat up and asked calmly: "General, when are you planning to fool me?"

Chen Jiujing blinked, and he was still thinking about whether it was appropriate to exchange three hundred pieces of silk for this piece of land. He heard Margaret's words and asked in confusion: "Focus?"

"The war in France has begun for a long time, and the king has taken measures against the rebellion. He protects the threatened cities and shelters the Protestants who have not participated in the rebellion. Not so many troops are willing to respond to the call of Navarre, but the king sends out three troops."

"On the way to Dofinine, Billon was ordered to gather troops in Bordeaux in Guiena. Marshal Matien went to command Picardi's army, and the nobles of the court were all going to join his troops. It was very close to Paris. The Protestant Prince Conde only obtained a fortress in Lafel, and the people also recruited mercenaries in Germany. Once the three troops were assembled, the war would be over."

Speaking of this, Margaret changed her tone and looked at Chen Jiujing and said, "You left the camp the day before yesterday and went to the mansion outside the city. I guess I should have met my mother's messenger."

Margaret's mother was Catherine, the Queen Mother of France.

"It seems no secret." Chen Jiujing leaned back and spread his hands and said, "Huang Xi and your maid go with me. They are both interpreters and they don't intend to hide the conversation from you, haha."

Chen Jiujing smiled. Judging from Catherine's secret letter, the Queen Mother couldn't like her daughter as Queen Navarra. He said: "The Queen Mother wants me not to participate in this war. He said that it can forgive me for the crime of robbing Bordeaux."

"I have the final say in the war, don't ask. The weapons I want have not arrived yet, let alone waiting for two people. One of them is your husband, and he has not sent troops. Why do I want to send troops? You are not me who is allied with him?" Chen Jiujing rolled his eyes and smiled: "I only form an alliance with you."

Margaret stood up anxiously, raised her neck slightly naturally, and asked with her hands clenched, "Then have you promised her? I don't know what your reply was."

"She said to forgive my crime? French pirates repeatedly plundered New Spain in the Ming Empire. This is a revenge from the Ming Dynasty. Where did I have any crimes? A joke - if those shameless people can plunder the coast protected by the Emperor of Ming without punishment, I can do so."

Chen Jiujing smiled contemptuously and said, "No matter whether it is the Queen Mother of France or the King of France, as long as I don't harasse the pirates on the coast to compensate, I will always make everyone sleep and eat."
Chapter completed!