open sea

Chapter 444 Juan
Negotiations will be held in Intramuros Manila in late June.

At Xu Wei's suggestion, the Nanyang Military Government sent a letter to the garrison fleets in various places to increase the patrol force, in case it was Spain who paralyzed them with peace negotiations, and then launched an offensive.

After all, with an unreasonable coach like Chen Mu on the stand, no one can expect the opponent to be more upright than him.

The point is that no one believes that Spain will pay 700 million taels of silver in compensation.

"Who is Don Juan of Austria?"

Outside the king's city, Chen Mu looked at the three Spanish ships that Chen Lai wrapped Zong Lin Dayuan's fleet on the sea and parked not far from the port. Asked.

Chen Mu was a little disappointed, curled his lips and said, "It really looks like a peace negotiation, and I didn't even bring any money."

This peace seems to be more important to Pinto than anyone else. He was busy writing, and said while writing: "Don Juan of Austria is the illegitimate son of Carlos, Holy Roman Emperor, and the half-brother of King Philip. younger brother."

Chen Mu slightly raised his eyebrows, watching the paddle boat docked on the shore, he muttered softly: "It's still my brother!"

"Don Juan's reputation is not because he is the king's younger brother, but because the Pope launched the Lepanto naval battle against Ottoman for Venice. Don Juan was the fleet commander of the Holy Alliance, and he was the winner."

Pinto kept moving his hands, and quickly explained in his mouth: "Since the battle of Lepanto, there have been rumors in the country that he wanted to usurp the throne. Although they are all false, it is clear that the king does not think so-he came here. Come on, everyone will be happy if the peace talks are completed, and if the talks fail, shipwreck, sea sickness, and General Chen, any of them can kill him, and it doesn't seem to be bad for His Majesty the King."

Chen Mu nodded slowly. The overall strategy for dealing with Don Juan and even the peace negotiation was formulated by Pinto's few words of introduction. He stared intently at the noble figures surrounded by Spanish soldiers lined up in the distant port and said: "It seems that Chen wants to Receive a Spanish hero here."

The large galleon that sailed across the ocean from Madrid carried a lot of troops, but only put down two small paddle boats. Don Juan and his [-] entourages and bachelors lined up, and asked the Jesuit Bishop of Macau to find the right to be an interpreter at the port. Father Bella walked towards Chen Mu together.

Under scurvy, it is not easy to pick out twenty people who are still healthy.

In the words written by Pinto in the book, under the city of Manila, the most prestigious, accomplished and youngest generals from the East and the West are standing together at this moment.

Tang Juan looks to be about the same age as Chen Mu, but in fact he is two years younger than Chen Mu. He is dressed in black knight armor with gold trim, with a red ribbon across his neck, and a white collar around his neck under the iron neck guard.

Perhaps it was due to the lack of nutrition in the life of his mother who was a peasant woman when he was a teenager. He was not tall among the Westerners Chen Mu had ever met. With a stiff and reserved smile on the corner of his mouth, he stood on the shore and scanned the harbor from left to right. .

In the end, his gaze met Chen Mu who was dozens of steps away, took a deep breath, took off his helmet and nodded slightly, holding the helmet in one hand and pressing the sword in the other, and continued to walk at an even pace.

The hierarchy of Ming people makes it easy for people to see who is the leader. Tang Juan is far more nervous than anyone imagined.

In the shadow of a famous tree, in the Spanish court, the advisers gathered all the information related to Manila, and even summoned several defeated troops who had fled back to South America from Guam, and the news they got was surprising.

An army of more than [-] soldiers disappeared silently on the battlefield, all because of them.

Fanatics called him the devil in Manila, and even a sane enough person would call him the difficult title of Chen Mu, the mad general of the Ming Dynasty.

To be honest, Don Juan doesn't think he is suitable to deal with madmen, limited by the various rumors about the diplomacy in Madrid before departure, and his half-brother King is not ready to meet the compensation he requested-he is determined to die here.

The biggest hope is to die a little better.

"Ah! I finally see you!" To everyone's surprise, before Tang Juan could get close, Chen Mu stepped forward to meet him, laughed and punched Tang Juan's breastplate lightly, saying: "Let's go!" The Battle of Banduo was really a big victory, I prepared seven famous wines from Ming Dynasty, and we have the whole night to chat about this battle!"

Tang Juan was caught off guard by Chen Mu's big laugh. He looked at Chen Mu's expression in astonishment from laughter to surprise, and muttered: "Forget that you don't understand, Father Libera, translate for him."

Father Libera, who was standing aside, nodded in bewilderment and astonishment as if he had seen a ghost, and translated Chen Mu's words to Don Juan.

It was not easy for Father Libera. He was one of the first missionaries of the Jesuits to Macau. Compared with the Western world, every monk of the Jesuits is an absolute elite. Because of secularization, they master the most cutting-edge western Technology and knowledge, with courage, wisdom, piety and perseverance that are unmatched by the world, it is inevitable to be arrogant.

When I came to Macau, I ran into obstacles everywhere. Although there are many optimists like Bishop Carneiro who often say "this is a good start", Chen Da'e personally watched the letter box burnt and looked at the unopened letter box day and night. There will be no shortage of monks like Father Libera who think that setting up the Society of Jesus in Daming is a waste of life.

Libera has been wanting to leave Macau for a long time, and this year he finally made up his mind and received an order from the Jesuit General to recall him, and then he received a task from Don Juan who needed an interpreter, which would be his last mission in Macau .

Libera has seen all kinds of Chen Mu, seen him massacre all directions in Macau, seen him hang slave traders mercilessly, saw him lead geese to patrol the streets and burn letter boxes, and saw him order Those who died were poked with wooden poles and nailed into coastal reefs to become strings of dried meat.

But he had never seen such a kind and pleasant Chen Mu.

When his words were translated to Don Juan, the young Spanish general blinked blankly, smiled slowly and naturally, and replied with reserved pride: "Does the general of Ming know about that battle? It was really a difficult battle." , we have never encountered such a huge enemy, but fortunately we won."

"Actually, I also want to know how the general defeated our fleet in Guam in the Philippines." Don Juan said this very seriously, and said: "The palace report is not accurate, and there is no witness..."

Tang Juan couldn't understand Chen Mu's words, but Chen Mu could understand him. After correcting the place names in Chinese, he said in confusion: "These two places are now called Luzon and Linlai. No one has experienced them? Didn't I let Salcedo go back? "

"Salcedo didn't last long enough to meet the king and he died on the banks of the house of trade in Seville."

Unlike Tang Juan, who had a sad expression on his face, Chen Mu was not surprised by the news. He curled his lips and said, "That's really regrettable, but it's okay, I can tell you what you want to hear for three days and three nights! Haha, let's go , the banquet has been prepared, let’s enter the city!”

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)