Alva is gone.

It was not until the old duke left that he realized that the meal that Chen Mu gave him was not rich but extremely exquisite was the Ming army's military food.

Because the guards who ate in the guest room downstairs of the Military Government Office ate the same food as him, but they lacked the Daojie County sheep enema with onion roasted mutton, and the soldiers of the Military Government who ate with the security guards also ate the same food.

Even during the conversation between the Spanish guards and the Ming soldiers, they knew that all the Ming soldiers in the New World ate this. They ate better at the garrison, and when they went out to fight, they ate other convenient military food.

Compared with the dialogue between the commander and the commander, it is much easier to chat between the guards and the personal soldiers. The personal soldiers of the Ming army generally speak Spanish, and the Spanish guards generally speak Chinese. Although it is difficult to communicate in standard, they can understand the general meaning.

It’s just that my mentality is complicated, and I have both the idea of ​​wanting to be close to each other and the idea of ​​comparing each other.

In the comparison between the guards and personal soldiers, it was found that the Ming army's garrison food was much better than that of the Spanish army, but the combat vegetation level of the two sides was similar. The biggest difference may be that the Ming army's culinary skills were better.

The Western Army's food was not bad either, and they might have a country with a similar taste to the Ming Dynasty.

The staple food of the Western Army soldiers was rice, mainly accompanied by smoked pork, cheese, soybeans, peas, salt and vinegar, as well as wine that is ten times more than fresh water it is carried as a daily ration.

It's true that although Chen Mu did not say anything nutritious about the relationship between the two countries at the banquet, the meal made Duke Alva, who was about to leave the New World, feel very happy.

Even on the day when the Western Army set off for a large-scale rectification and the delivery of arms, amid the deafening cannon temple in the newly built Bay of Piercing Bay, Li Dan was very happy with the accompanying escort of the flagship Rocca and twelve large shark boats.

To a certain extent, the ever-winning competition in the seventh year of Wanli and a military and food banquet for Chen Mu opened a new chapter in the diplomatic history of the Ming and Spanish. The two countries quickly entered the honeymoon period after the years-long war ended.

This situation is both strange and not surprising.

For the Spanish, the Ming Dynasty was a giant beast strolling in the jungle. When the Philippine Governor's District, as the first small beast, plunged into the jungle and was eaten, the Spanish felt the threat from the forest and sent stronger beasts into the jungle, but when they entered, they were slapped to death.

When the giant beast really walked out of the forest and greeted Spain on the bones of the New Spanish garrison, Spain could only say hello tremblingly.

If the strength is not much different, even if there is a good trade relationship, it will still bring a huge sense of threat. However, once the strength is too different, good trade will really be just good trade.

This is amazing. It has obviously changed nothing but strength, but it can change people's mentality.

The Spanish fleet still has absolute dominance in the Atlantic Ocean.

Since the First Mingxi War, when the Western Army of Linlai Island was completely wiped out, King Philip has put in full force to build warships along the coast and formed his fleet to transport elite Iberian legions across the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

The plan could not keep up with the changes. Before Fei Laoer was ready to avenge his previous shame, three New Spain legions were beaten by the Beiyang Banner Army and even the establishment was abolished.

In fact, this is exactly the sorrow of Spain. This powerful kingdom was carrying its king's ambition to unify Europe with religious ambitions, and faced threats from the Ottoman Empire. It not only suppressed the rebellion of the tax-paying province of the Netherlands, but also faced the backstab from the Roman pope, which made its once-prosperous huge military force stationed in the Netherlands, the Mediterranean and Italy.

If you don’t guard these places, Spain’s basic foundation will be gone.

But by guarding these places, Fei Laoer's ambitions have nowhere to be placed.

When Li Dan and Chen Jiujing joined this huge voyage, they had a premonition in their hearts that they were not seeing Spain.

That is not New Spain, which was unable to compete and bow down after the defeat of force on the New World, nor is it the Alva fleet with more than 300 warships and merchant ships in the Caribbean.

Alva knew that the two young Ming captains were both adopted sons of Chen Mu. It seemed that in times of crisis, people inevitably developed such recognition of relatives beyond blood to increase mutual trust. Iberia, which was ruled by Rome for five hundred years, had this tradition.

Li Dan, who boarded Alva's flagship, praised Spain's huge fleet without hesitation. Even though he was not clear about the organization of the Spanish fleet, he just looked at it with his eyes and knew that this fleet at sea would mean a huge threat to everyone.

Spain's main warships have always been large, so they are called big-bellied ships by the Ming Dynasty.

This is especially true in the Spanish fleet on the Atlantic Ocean. Among the more than 300 warships and merchant ships that transport troops and supplies, there are nearly 100 Garen ships with a size of more than 400 large shark ships. There are 46 large Garen ships with tonnages ranging from 500 to 1,400, all equipped with heavy artillery with huge caliber at the bow.

"These warships were originally built by the king to deal with you."

In the six-story stern of the flagship, Duke Alva's old and slouched hands covered the window's glass, looking at the huge fleet sailing on the undulating sea behind the ship. It was hard not to show a proud look on his face when his eyes fell on the Garen ships with huge sails and spinnakers.

But this pride was soon covered up by greater gratitude, he said: "Even when facing the Ming fleet... Fortunately, they were not used."

Li Dan agrees with this sentence quite well, but the speaker and the listener think differently.

The reason why Alva said that the Great Garen fleet was not used was that the fleet of such a size could be dispatched to more useful places rather than a meaningless maritime battle with the Ming army.

The land ceded to the Ming Dynasty by the treaty was not as valuable as the defeat of the face in Spain.

Their invasion policy has no assimilation power for the indigenous people. Not to mention the use of the indigenous power like the Ming Dynasty for one's own use, the endless resistance of the Indians made the maintenance cost of every inch of land extremely high.

In fact, except for the Peruvian Governor's District, which is rich in gold and silver, the large amount of land that Spain cut to the Ming Dynasty either had no substantial occupation or was like losing a baggage. After the signing of the New Spain Border Treaty, Spain's income in the New World not only did not decrease, but also increased a lot.

Li Dan had another idea. He was thinking about who would be beneficial to this fleet and the main force of the Oriental Fleet fight at sea?

He doesn't know.

It was not that he had little confidence in the formation of Rocca warships, but when more than forty Great Garen with bowed heavy artillery came roaring like huge waves on the sea, under the bombardment of forty kilograms of rocks, how many ships in the world could block it?

But he knew that the Ming Dynasty would definitely win in the end.

This confidence does not stem from the fact that the Rocca warships are better than the Galen ships. In fact, it is difficult for Li Dan to evaluate which of these two warships with different sizes and different combat methods are better.

But the Ming Dynasty had a shipbuilding industry that was not weaker than Spain, the Ming Dynasty had a larger production capacity, the Ming Dynasty had more soldiers, and the Liujia warships were loaded with less troops.
Chapter completed!