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Chapter 1535 Death Knell
Brother Acosta deftly traveled among the emissaries of Christendom for his employer, Philip.

While wooing and lobbying the envoys sent by the nobles of Ferransi, they also contacted Navarre and other small Protestant countries, hoping that they would convert to God again.

This incident actually made the envoys of Navarre a little confused. It was not because it was too difficult for them to convert to Catholicism, but Henry of Navarre believed that there was a conspiracy in the Congress of Nations before sending the envoy.

Because just like Protestant countries such as Sweden, the United Kingdom of Denmark, and the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Navarra has not received an invitation to the Assembly of Nations.

Their envoys were almost the same as Asubadul, they also sneaked over to inquire about the news, the difference was that the envoys they followed were none other than Chen Jiujing's defeated general, Armand Degunto, Duke of Biron of Ferranhi.

The old general had been very sympathetic to Navarra's rebel army in the past, and he had watched Princess Margo grow up, so he immediately agreed to let those Navarre spies join his envoy after Navarre Henry sent someone to contact him. The team of ministers arrived in the New World together as a follower.

Afterwards, Navarre's envoys quietly tried to spy on the information while hiding in Tibet, but nothing was found out, and the Spaniards saw through it.

Unexpectedly, the Spanish envoy, Brother Acosta, would treat them as envoys of the kingdom, and held a very formal meeting, hoping to go back and tell Navarre Henry, convert to God again, and continue to fight under the same banner.

Keep fighting, the word is very scary.

The war in Navarra was over. Henry finally failed to make Navarra Chen Jiujing's sanctuary. Instead, because Chen Jiujing became the Duke of Baishan, he was finally forced to stop the religious war with the Ferranhivalois royal family.

They have no chance of winning if they continue to fight. No matter the weak but popular Navarre Kingdom or the powerful and slow Ferranxi Kingdom, they don't want Chen Jiujing's troops to stand against them.

The most important thing is that even if Navarra Henry insists on going to war, he can't do anything to win over Chen Jiujing. The Valois royal family can give money, but Navarra cannot; The size is worth the money.

To be reasonable, Navarra Henry felt that even if he kowtowed to Chen Jiujing, it would not be worth so much money.

It made him even feel that Fei Lanxi's third son was a bit stupid. If such a good opportunity came before his eyes, he could knock down the Ming Empire to bankruptcy if he kowtowed 5 taels of gold.

It only takes a year to kowtow to Chen Jiujing, and Navarra Henry can easily get everything he wants.

Kowtowing every first month, the Kingdom of Navarre can hire [-] Swiss Legionnaires in a change of hands, and there are still [-] months of military operations left. If there is no military operation, this money is enough to keep them stationed for three years.

Kowtow again every twelfth lunar month, every citizen in the Kingdom not only has a chicken in the pot on weekends, but also stews a fish. This great dream can be easily realized through kowtow.

It's a pity that Navarra Henry still has this bit of self-knowledge. He knows that he and his shabby little kingdom in his nest are not worthy of kowtow, he is not worthy!
It's fucking sad to think about it.

But reconverting to Catholicism?The envoy of the Kingdom of Navarra promised very well, but he was very disapproving in his heart.

He also converted to Catholicism, Navarre Henry recently didn't even want Protestantism.

Their kingdom is close to Baishan, the Duke of Baishan has a good relationship with the king, and the subjects below have frequent business and human relations.

After the external pressure of the religious war disappeared, the people wandered around Baishan all day, and the relaxed environment even weakened the religious atmosphere of their kingdom.

The monks who were born to belong to the Protestant Church were not very happy, and if they proposed to convert to Catholicism, the Protestant monks should rebel.

The monks are definitely not happy. Others are free to go to Baishan, but they are the key observers in Baishan. All the monasteries and churches there have been demolished, and there is no place to pray. The soldiers treat them very badly. Like thieves, the people hanging from the lampposts on the roadside were monks from Western and French countries who were trying to preach in Baishan.

Who doesn't want to master Baishan, a powerful army with combat effectiveness, through missionary work?It's just that these methods have failed.

In fact, there are a lot of religious people under the Duke of Baishan. Chen Jiujing's army is mainly divided into two battalions, one is the Beiyang Banner Army with a ratio of preaching officers to soldiers of [-]:[-]; the other is the Jurchen troops recruited from between Baishan and Heishui.

The Jurchen army basically has a ratio of [-]:[-] tribal leaders to the followers, and each tribal leader is a great shaman with pre-war divination power.

Subdividing it further, there is also Tianzhuang Tuanlian, which is mainly composed of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty. A surname is a clan, and the leader of each clan brings the clan to worship the heavens during festivals.

These military aristocratic groups pay attention to a unified thinking, so why not go to them to preach and play?
Now Acosta of Spain told the messenger of the Kingdom of Navarre to convert to God and continue to fight in the future.

Can scare the Navarra envoy to death.

Who do you want to take me to fight?But pull it down, our kingdom still eats chickens, and we don't want to fight.

But outside the Kingdom of Navarre, Acosta's lobbying has been effective.

Jin Yiwei, who arrived in Asia with Lu Wang, monitored Acosta, and kept reporting to the military government office who he met, how long the meeting lasted, and what the other party took when he left.

At the same time, Zhao Shizhen is also constantly active, trying to pay some negligible price to buy people's hearts, in order to know the content of their secret talks.

Some people were bought, some were not bought, and it was difficult to distinguish the authenticity of the information provided by the bought people.

But in the eyes of Chen Mu and Ye Mengxiong, a Spain-based anti-French alliance has indeed been established under the eyes of the Eastern Army.

This alliance is mainly dominated by the great feudal lords of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, mixed with some feudal lords in the Kingdom of Francie who are dissatisfied with the Valois royal family.

Speaking of which, this dissatisfaction is actually related to Daming.

It is mainly reflected in the compromise of the Valois royal family to Chen Jiujing, and the damage caused to the kingdom by the continuous religious wars, which makes people suspect that the Valois royal family lacks the ability to rule the country.

The most important point is the indemnity to Ming Dynasty, which discredited the Valois royal family and emptied their financial resources.

In the land of Europa in this era, a feudal noble has no money, what else can he do, can he still fight?
Without the endorsement of Philip of Spain, perhaps Ferranci's collapse would have been delayed, but now with the support of Habsburg, the largest catastrophe in Europa's history is imminent.

For many, this is the time.

France is numbered.

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)