open sea

Chapter 637 Bias
"This time, I sailed to the West Country. I passed three cities in the country, first entered Seville to Madrid, the capital of the country, and then stayed in Avila for three days. I returned to Seville and set sail, and then sailed west to Armor. Liga also took the opportunity to stop in Lisbon, Portugal, whose language, culture, and race are different from mine."

"The land is large and wide, the city is built with stones, and there are round stone horse-faced walls. The security is strict. The land is fertile, but the cultivation method is not right. The fields and crops are very thin, so the people are poor and poor. There are many monks on the coast. The sea is salt, and many craftsmen in temples specialize in manufacturing everything from weapons and armor down to wine and salt. There must be a square in the center of every city, and there must be a daily market in the square. Monks transport temple goods to the market in the city day and night. Specialized in merchant sales."

"The climate and seasons are close to ours, and the noble warriors of our country have white and yellow complexion, and they are from the Western Regions. The clothes and armor are still black, and men often wear swords. Weixi crosses red silk diagonally, wears half black ponchos, and wears soft hats with round brims. The red and blue bird feathers seem suave."

"The monks in this country are very powerful, and the king is also very confused. Most monks shave their heads and leave their hair on the sides to show their piety, and wear large robes and silver frames to identify their identities. There is no national law in this country, and the country is governed by monks and temples. The palace is the honor Enjoyment is important, and whenever there is a dispute, the people of the country will go to the "Religious Inquisition".

Yang Tingxiang narrated the Spain he knew with a tone of looking at the overseas barbarians in a tone of a heavenly kingdom: "In Seville, I met a few coastal people of our dynasty, all of whom were deceived and trafficked by Japanese pirates in their early years. When you go to America or Portugal, they are called "Indians" locally, but they are actually the people of Shuangyu.

"This time I returned from the Western Kingdom, and I brought back 25 people from other lands. One of them was named Zhai Geer. In the 15th year of Jiajing, he was taken away from Shuangyu by the Portuguese Governor Castaneda. He was only six years old when he left home. He was on the same boat. There were 11 people who were kidnapped. They passed through Lima and Panama for several years. On the way, they encountered French pirates and were forced to go to Lisbon. Seville."

"In Seville, Geer Zhai made shoes for Morales in the temple, and saved a small amount of remuneration for him to send him back to Ningbo as agreed. After the battle in Linlaihai, Morales wanted to go to America to make a fortune I sold him for 92 ducats, and when I went down to Madrid, it happened that Geer sued the monk Morales in the Inquisition."

Speaking of this, Yang Tingxiang, who had been making statements with a blank face, showed pride for the first time, and said: "According to the agreement, the barbarians have no right to try or dispose of our people from the Celestial Dynasty. Therefore, I will hold a trial in the city fair of Madrid and handle the case within three days." In 470 seven cases, 94 Ming people living in Madrid were innocent.”

"However, I have doubts in my chest for a long time, and I still hope that Chen Shuai can clarify my doubts."

Chen Mu has long been immersed in the story he told about Geer Zhai, a child from Shuangyu Island, and is thinking that when the discussion is over, Yang Tingxiang will find someone to find Geer Di, who has lived in America and Europe for more than [-] years. People are rare, and the common sense he has acquired is worth much more to Daming than the shoemaker's craft he has spent his entire life in.

But to put it bluntly, this Yang Tingxiang was really daring, and went to the capital of Spain, where there was a war in the Ming Dynasty, to try the case-Chen Mu always thought that although the treaty had been signed at this time, the actual implementation would have to wait for the army to pass by. Thinking about it now, let Yang Tingxiang do it.

Hearing Yang Tingxiang's doubts suddenly, he nodded to signal him to speak out, and then he saw Yang Tingxiang take two steps, and said: "I tried more than [-] cases in Madrid. As for the identity of a free person, why is it that the Western Portuguese and Portuguese have strange appearances, but the America natives are almost indistinguishable from me?"

"I don't know about this, maybe the ancestors crossed the sea and moved eastward? The northern part of America is very close to the old place of Nurgandus. Our Ma Shuai is the North Sea that is frozen in winter, and walked across on two legs while the sea was not paying attention. "

Marshal Dongyang made himself laugh with a wisecrack, and then said seriously: "It doesn't matter how they passed away or where they were originally born. Their monarch was executed and their country was destroyed. I don't know where they came from. Where are you going? Now those who are enslaved are enslaved, and those who are not enslaved are scattered all over the place."

"The Yi people of the Western Kingdom can be imprisoned, enslaved, mixed blood, and driven to make them exert their strength. We must accept them as one body and make them return to their hearts——Yang Junzan, since you are so curious about where they came from."

Chen Mu lowered his head and raised his hands to flatten the wrinkled official robe sitting on the chair, raised his head and raised his eyebrows, and said, "You write their history."

"No one is born willing to be enslaved. As long as we hold the present in our hands, their future will be tied to Daming. When they become a part of Daming and become us, everything will be solved. For thousands of years, the prosperity of the world has been prosperous. ; Decline, the world declines; China is the world. It is not up to others to define what we are, we not only have to define ourselves, but also define them.”

"America, tens of millions of people are looking forward to the acceptance of the emperor. It only takes 40 years, two generations, and the emperor can have a steady stream of troops in America."

Chen Mu rubbed his chin with a short beard and smiled, patted his palm on the armrest of the Grand Master's chair, and said, "Talk about the war, Jun Zan knows all about the East, so he wouldn't just come back after seeing some local customs, right?"

Yang Tingxiang smiled confidently when he heard the words, then cupped his hands to Chen Mu, walked out of the hall slowly and gave some instructions to people outside the door, and then came back and said to everyone: "The king of the Western Kingdom invited me to see him in the Plaza de Armas in Madrid. The army formation, armor, weapons, guns, and formation are not different from the Xiyi army when Professor Lin Laihai fought in the lecture hall."

"Only the gunners have two more rows in the army formation, and the spearmen have two fewer rows. There are about 3000 warriors in helmets and armor holding swords and shields in a [-]-man army. Such an organization was not used in the Linlai sea battle appeared, but there were sword and shield warriors who participated in the battle when Chen Shuai quelled the Western Rebellion in Lusong."

"My next guess is that more musketeers and heavy armored infantry were used to counter Chen Shuai's vassal army that used [-]% muskets and [-]% spears when he was in Nanyang. In addition, in Xiyi's own country, every Each legion has more cavalry, not just dozens of cavalry seen in Luzon or Guam, but more than [-] cavalry in a legion, armed with spears and swords, and both men and horses are heavily armored."

"In addition to this, there is another point. This is not what I saw with my own eyes. When I disembarked from the fleet to Seville, I didn't see Xiyi's large-scale shipbuilding along the coast. But Zhai Geer said that since the Linlai naval battle Afterwards, the king ordered forests to be cut down everywhere to build bigger warships, and all the cannon factories in the country were making bigger copper cannons."

As he said, Wu Bian of the military government took a long painting and rolled it in. After getting permission, he unfolded the scroll in front of Yang Tingxiang. On it was a huge battleship drawn with fine brushwork. The artillery deck on the first floor and the arc-shaped artillery positions around the bow, although the deck has only one floor, can carry at least 35 guns.

But in this picture, although the midship and rear part of the ship is drawn with the same strokes, it is blurred in many places. Some ship parts are unique to Ming ships and do not exist in Western ships. Chen Mu turned his suspicious eyes to Yang Tingxiang.

"I ordered the Ming people living in the Western Kingdom to secretly bribe the shipbuilder, and obtained the bow map of the ship ordered by the King of the Western Kingdom. After that, the hull and stern were all drawn by me. The name of the ship is Giant Galen, which belongs to the Western Kingdom. Lucky and great fleet', currently only know that its country has built dozens of such large ships. According to the calculation of the bow map, the ship's material cost is [-] to [-], the draft is more than two feet, and the number of troops should be three to four hundred. Judging from the gun emplacement, the bore diameter is more than six inches."

After Yang Tingxiang finished speaking, he cupped his hands and said: "Chen Shuai, as far as I know, the largest Nanyang ship is only [-] pieces, and I'm afraid it's not enough to fight against such a huge ship."

(End of this chapter)