Chapter 484 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey
The so-called Spanish change began with the Ming Port.
Although Chen Muming ordered the ban on traveling to Spain or England, and Irish merchants did anything else to make money, it was difficult for people not to show their superiority in communication.
This superiority is a catastrophe for the Spaniards.
Spain is the richest kingdom in Europe. It was once, now, and believed that in the future, under the leadership of King Philip, they killed all directions and laid great achievements. They once swallowed up the New World and created a myth that a homeless man, his brother-in-law and other idle people in society, could build a large territory in the New World.
In order to show their unfounded wealth, they wore Parisian top hats, covered with Ceylon diamonds, Indian gems and Panama pearls, wore Naples stockings, made of Venetian glass products, covered with Persian carpets, and covered with Arabic perfume. The tables were filled with Chinese porcelain and made of silk and textiles into the most authentic high-end embroidered clothing in the Netherlands.
They are jewel-like and they are arrogant.
The monks who believed that they had participated in the establishment of the greatest empire of mankind, so that the idle monks set out to study different humans around the world and classified all humans other than themselves into another species, even if they had the same faith and the same bloodline as themselves.
They established a strict hierarchy in the colonies. Under the Governor, they could be called a peninsula noble as long as they were born in Spain and Portugal. Their parents were peninsula nobles, but as long as you were born in the New World, they were Creoles and could only rank in the second level. Mixed-race children and mixed-race children were also divided according to their bloodlines. One-half mixed-race children were of higher rank than one-third mixed-race, and they were no different from livestock.
It would be even worse if it were an Englishman. Not only was an island barbarian, but also a pagan who should be burned to death. His great Highness Philip would not want to rule you; even if you were a Frenchman next to the Pyrenees, you were just a country bumpkin with twice the population.
As for the Italian countries, they are the dog legs behind the butt. Don’t mention the Pope. We Spanish are noble and pious, so devout that they never listen to the Pope.
Extremely beautiful dream.
It was just that it was too short, so short that they discovered in the Golden Age that there was an empire on the other side of the ocean that was very similar to them from their deeds to their thoughts - the Ming Dynasty.
It's not scary, it's just fearing comparison.
The defeat in the Second War of Mingxi was like the Ming Dynasty stretching out his arms and slapping Spain's big mouth, pulling away the Paris hat on his head and the saliva flowing out of his mouth in his dream.
As for people, if they are too different, they are envious, and if they are not much different, they are jealous. If they are jealous, they will compete.
Spain, which had just developed a sense of national honor and evolved a little deformed European-style thought of the Celestial Empire, met the enhanced version of the Celestial Empire in a blink of an eye.
Spain was hit hard from top to bottom.
The dreamy kingdom turned out to be extremely fragile, and the invincible throne turned out to be in danger.
The most important thing is that nothing they can withstand collisions. Their proud warships failed in front of the Ming Navy. Their Spanish legion, which was unique in the world, was defeated one after another by the Ming Banner Army. Their unmatched wealth was not enough in front of the Ming Dynasty. Even their beliefs, their culture, and their thoughts could not resist collisions in limited exchanges with the Ming merchants and the Banner Army.
Communication is inevitable, even if Chen Mu tried his best to ban it, even if Li Dan was strictly guarding it, even if Philip was very opposed, even if the church offered a stolen frame... flesh and blood people are not machines, and no one can fully control it. They cannot stop the Ming merchants and flag troops, who are born with an incomparable sense of superiority, and they cannot stop the Spanish who are extremely oppressed from exploring the truth about the power of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, no Ming people want to tell Spain the truth, but even a few words will bring huge impact.
These shocks are often counterproductive effects.
They thought they were the Lord's darling and the mainstream of the world, but when the Ming Dynasty appeared, these foreign visitors who obviously lived better felt that they were just blind wanderings, but in fact, the humility and politeness of Chinese culture were just a statement that enhanced the impression.
You think you are a blind man in the eyes of others, but in fact the peninsula nobles you advocate are just a low-ranking man in the eyes of others.
In each impact, the Spaniards were extremely frightened. This fear caused anger, which brought more fear and anxiety, and fear led to more anger. In countless incompetent angers, they became more and more closed, unable to tolerate heresy, and more... more extreme and uncontrollable.
As the two generals talked further and further on the topic of the kingdom's future naval and army construction, and finally aimed the destined enemy on the Ming Dynasty, under the afterglow, they saw a brigged clutch approaching the estuary of the river, and not long after, several cavalrymen hurried over from under the Beren Tower.
Facing the two highest generals commanding the Spanish Army and Navy, the cavalry did not know which one to salute to, so they paused and said to the two honors in succession, and then reported: "The sea sentry reported that a Ming fleet passed the cape and was heading towards Lisbon, with a very fast speed and would arrive in Lisbon tonight."
"They did not allow us to board the ship and search, and the nine hundred tons of St. Martin led three armed merchant ships to accompany them. This was the official document they submitted."
Marquis of Santa Cruz, Bazin, glanced at the wax-sealed envelope, saw a line of Chinese characters in the middle and frowned, raised his hand to let the cavalry hand over to the Duke of Alva.
He should read the letters on the sea in terms of their duties, but this stubborn old man did not know Chinese. Instead, Duke Alva became very interested in Chinese because of his experience in the New World and knew a little.
General Bazan just asked the cavalry, "How many boats do they have, and what are they here to do?"
"More than fifty ships fight..."
Before the cavalry finished speaking, Alva, who had unveiled the envelope, had already taken over and said, "The Ming navy is used to being overbearing. One will not let people search their ships on the sea, and the other will not let more than one communication boat approach them. There will not be a certain number. The fleet admiral Fu Yuan said in the letter, sixty-seven."
"Sixty-seven ships, that is, a Liujia ship leads six Chihai-class fleets. The fleet admiral Fu Yuan seems to have never heard of this name. Is General Shao not here?"
Compared to the relatively unfamiliar name Fu Yuan, in the Battle of Baima River, the Canyon, he led the army to defeat the Legion Commander, Jesus and the Legion Commander, Bernard, Shao Tingda.
"I know him. When I was in Mexico City, he was on the opposite side of the border, and he was Chen Mu's confidant."
The Duke of Alva looked solemn, but it didn't seem to be because of Fu Yuan's name. He held the letter: "He said that another fleet that assisted Spain to resist foreign enemies has landed on the Azores. His fleet is going to replenish supplies in Lisbon. I hope we can prepare 10,000 people to sail for thirty days. The list is here."
The letter comes with so many lists that Alva is so confused about the biscuits, wine, ham, cheese, fish, beans, oil, vinegar... and even rice, and there is no word that mentions paying or exchanging goods.
"They asked for a lot of supplies, and in the letter he mentioned the reason for going to France, because the common enemy of the two countries of Min and Western countries, the pseudo-King Antonio, reached an alliance with Catherine, and wanted to hand over Brazil to France, so they wanted to punish France's covetousness for Brazil. The meaning of the word covetousness is to desire to get something that should not be thought of."
Chapter completed!