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Chapter 309 Daming Port

Seville is probably the most prosperous city in Spain. Philip once gave Li Dan the opportunity to draw the scope of Ming loan, but Li Dan, who was unwilling to take over the enemy, gave up this opportunity to deliver it to the door.

Abandon the most prosperous area and draw a 60-mile bay port 200 miles southeast of the city.

This place used to be called Algeciras, but now it is called Ming Concession.

Huang Xi carried a war horse around the chaotic Portugal, sailed through Cadiz, which was surrounded by sea on three sides, and drove into the Strait of Gibraltar before finally entering the Daming Port of the Gulf of the Ming Concession under the Spanish Navigator.

"It's a bit unworthy of this name, right?" The scene of the Governor in a scree-colored silk robe on the dock, with his arms spreading, and the undeveloped green jungle background, Li Dan's eyes passed by Huang Xi and looked at the warships of the Oriental Military Palace behind him, and said, "These horses are so majestic!"

The warrior with a red-bottomed ink mark on the back of the flag-topped red-bottomed ink marks, with a six-character silhouetted back and helmets on the flag-top, and the man was not as tall as the shoulders of the war horses sent by Chen Jiujing. Even if he was tall and raised, he could barely reach half of the neck of the war horses. Compared with others, these horses produced in France are indeed giants.

"Governor Li, this is General Chen's spoil. He sent Beizhi to Sai City and asked the Governor to send a ship to Mexico City to hand over land to Chen Shuai."

Huang Xi said with lingering fear, looking back at the war horses pulled from the boat to the dock. He couldn't help but let the soldiers pull slowly, explaining to Li Dan: "The lightest one can't be beaten even with a thousand five hundred kilograms. Bei Zhi was worried that the trestle could not be held on."

"So heavy?"

Li Dan turned his head in surprise, but when the warriors led the tall horse past him, he knew it well, and he was just level with the horse's back. The strong horse walked forward with his head held high, and his hooves stepped on the wooden bridge to make a "dodo" sound, which made him look at the horse's butt and walked away before he finally took it back.

"The journey was exhausted, and Huang Guerrilla was very hard. He said as he walked, please." Li Dan raised his arm to lead the way, and then asked Huang Xi: "It seems that Baishan Camp has gained a lot in the north. A few months ago, I heard in the palace that Xiaojiu planned to recruit a group of brave men from the Western Kingdom to fight on the spot. What happened later?"

"Governor Li, who is considerate and works for the court, does not feel the hard work. Later, there were indeed many recruits. The general formed six Xiyong battalions. The soldiers of each battalion were of varying quality. Some were few and elite soldiers, while others were many powerful, with more than 3,000 posts, which was considered a battle power."

When talking about the Xiyong Camp, Huang Xi didn't know what to say: "This time the attack on Farbourdo in the north was indeed a defeat, and there were also those who would not retreat when they fought to the death. The Farbour horse team rode such a tall horse to attack our army. The war was very tragic, with almost half of the casualties. If General Chen had not been able to drive the artillery into the spirit, we would have lost that battle."

"Even if you win in the end, General Chen's left ear was injured by cannons, and the beeping sound would not be better even when the humble official came. I am afraid that he will suffer from injuries in the future."

"Xiao Jiu's ears are broken. How bad will it be? He, the general, will take action in person?"

Li Dan and Lao Ba and Lao Jiu have worked together in Japan for many years and are closest to each other. They also know the combat styles of the righteous brothers. Chen Bazhi has the problem of joining the army in his childhood. Sometimes the disadvantages in the battle situation may even be on the horse and lead the elite cavalry to break through the enemy's formation.

But Chen Jiujing was a serious martial arts lecturer. He always believed in wars that could not be solved by strategizing and could not play a decisive role in the battle formation. In Li Dan's impression, Chen Jiujing was not like his biological father Chen Lin at all. Instead, he fought like his adopted father Chen Mu. Basically, he could see the war on the front line. He would never take a knife to fight in person.

If Chen Jiujing had even entered the battle, it would have been the enemy who had killed him.

"No, the war is indeed fierce, but Baishan Camp did not participate in the battle until the end to establish the victory. General Chen was watching the battle at the top of the city and was injured by artillery. Before he could block his ears, more than 60 artillery pieces were bombarded." Huang Xi shook his head and said, "The four elite gunners under Bei Zhi were all shattered and bleeding from their mouths and noses."

Li Dan was a little relieved when he heard this. At the same time, he made up his mind and took a few steps before asking: "There is almost no loss in Baishan Camp, and the Sixth Camp of Xiyong has suffered heavy casualties. They think it's because of complaints. Xiaojiu dares to send you here?"

"No complaints."

Huang Xixiao said, "At the beginning, Baishan Camp had a lot of complaints about Xiyong Camp. The mercenaries' military pay was ten times higher than ours. They exchanged their lives for money, and they knew that they would die for the rest of their lives. The general's pension was high, and the surviving veterans were promoted to the salary. Baishan Camp received the benefits of profits and rewards, and everyone was very happy."

"What they want is money, and what the general wants is to add influence to the Eastern Military Palace and get what they want."

While talking, the two walked under the guards to the largest building complex in the Ming Concession, and set up a cannon temple in the style of Nanyang Military Mansion Island in guarding the port.

A five-story pagoda outside the gate is being painted. The inside looks like gravel and Huang Xi are mixed with some materials. A general dressed from the Dongyang Military Palace Flag Army is directing the Fusang Camp to lightly use fired blue bricks to paint the outer layer and paint red stone pillars.

The statue of the main hall has not been completed. The back hall, which is Li Dan's residence, has been completed, and there is also a large Spanish Baroque garden. Looking forward and back on both sides, there are more than ten side halls, including a warehouse and a military barracks, but they have not been built yet.

Apart from these things on the coast, there are dense forests, and even the land roads leading to Seville are trampled out of a small dirt road, and there is no place for trading.

Huang Xi, who followed Li Dan into the back hall, finally couldn't help asking: "Governor Li, why is the Ming concession so shabby? He came from Cadiz, a hundred miles away, and it was very prosperous there. The Western King favored one and the other, and would such a simplicity be given to the Ming Dynasty?"

Li Dan waved his hand with a smile and reached out to let Huang Xi sit in the hall. Just as two maids of Changsheng presented tea trays, he picked up a cigarette from the tea tray and said to Huang Xi: "This land was chosen by Li himself. The king said that he wanted me to take half of it in Seville so that he could increase his royal family income, but I didn't want it."

"It's not good to have a prosperous place, there are churches and monks, and the religious atmosphere is too strong."

As he said that, Li Dan raised his hand and pointed to the painting hanging in the hall. It was a side view of the temple and the port of the cannon. The port market, warehouses and barracks are everywhere, and the temple towers are magnificent and defensive: "Is it possible to build such a port in Seville?"

"The adoptive father asked me to be the governor of the Ming Concession, one was to collect taxes and the other was to occupy land. The innocence of the contract was written for a hundred years. A hundred years of situation was a wasteland. How prosperous was it? Since we wanted to collect taxes, why not even the taxation of ships entering and leaving the Mediterranean was carded."

"Today I can't collect ship taxes from the Mediterranean. Next year, six pagodas and three shipyards will be built, and the barracks of the garrison of the 3,000 troops will be repaired one by one. A fleet of Six Craters will dock again. Will the ship taxes be collected?"

"If the Western Kingdom is unwilling to renew the contract after a hundred years, and the descendants are unwilling to pay the land, the Westerners are afraid that they will not be able to stop him?"

"Daming Port!"
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