open sea

Chapter 750
In the next few days, Philip's court successively received letters from Almansa from New Spain, comprehensively informing them of all the news when the Ming army had just landed in New Spain two months ago.

Except for the first letter, which was a little scary when a small company captured the Huangming flag in the battle with the Indians, the subsequent events were all good things according to the analysis of the palace consultant.

Although his advisers thought that the Ming army in New Spain from the landing to the peninsula of California to start negotiations was a bit aggressive, but for Philip, he could understand.

Especially for the terms of the negotiation, the initial small frictions became insignificant—the Ming Dynasty could provide Spain with cast iron artillery and gunpowder. According to the known territory of the Ming Dynasty, these artillery pieces must be large in number, enough for the Spanish war.

"The right to mint coins can be pressed first. The Fugger family, which holds the right to mint coins, needs to be notified further. There is no problem with the land."

Halfway through Philip's speech, the courtiers were still waiting for him to say something, only to find that their king suddenly turned around and held the cross necklace and prayed to the huge cross placed on the table behind him among a pile of gold and silver products.

After a long time, Philip turned around and said, "Those lands have almost no minerals and are worthless, deserts, forests, volcanic islands and half of Panama?"

"The treaty can continue to be negotiated, and it can take a year or two to set the future borders, or even no borders at all-the Ming Dynasty and Spain can complement each other. I am willing to rule New Spain with the Chinese monarch."

Amidst the sluggish faces of the courtiers, Philip suddenly raised a hand and said, "Greater New Spain!"

If there was no such sentence, the courtiers would have thought that the king's 'impairment of walking' had already taken root in his mind, but having this sentence first made them feel a little more at ease.

It seems that the king they serve is still the one with a mighty army and a bigger ambition than the army.

"What does the Chinese monarch need, silver, gold, and the land of New Spain? I will give him whatever he wants. I need an army that can fight and a lot of trade, royal trade."

"Bypass all merchants, once a year, just like the agreement they reached, silk, porcelain, military uniforms, weapons, artillery, warships, 30.00% of the total merchant goods, at a price lower than [-]% of merchants, the royal family Franchise."

"Achieving an agreement requires three points. The Ming army fleet will destroy the French in the north of the New World to prevent the emergence of Arctic France again, allow the Spaniards to enter the land of the Ming Dynasty, and allow my missionaries to preach."

There is no Arctic France in the world, but Antarctic France once appeared. It was a colony established by the French who landed in Guanabara Bay in the 34th year of Ming Dynasty Emperor Jiajing. Ten years later, it was retaken by Portugal and established Rio de Janeiro on the basis of its colony.

Philip nodded, confirming that he had offered a good price, and said, "As long as these three points are required, everything else can be compromised."

The royal family's exclusive trade can provide Spain with military expenses and repay part of the loan, which solves Philip's urgent needs. If there is no new source of income, he will go bankrupt again.

The reason why only the French are expelled is because there are currently only four national powers in the New World, namely Spain, which occupies the largest territory, Portugal including Brazil, France in the north, and Philip seems to be preparing to get admission tickets from him. Ming Dynasty.

Philip was not such an easy-talking person, but the agreement of the Ming Dynasty gave him an unprecedented feeling that the Chinese monarch respected him very much.

Like the French, they never thought of seeking his consent in the New World in the form of a treaty.

In his view, the Ming Dynasty is seeking his consent at this very moment, an extremely large and powerful country is seeking his consent, and hopes to share the New World with him.

This is definitely not a bad thing.

As for the English pirate Drake entering the west coast of the New World?Forget about England, Philip doesn't care about that small island at all, one day he will kill Elizabeth and take back the title of King of England.

But there is a stumbling block.

The military adviser who followed Tang Juan to participate in the Nanjing peace talks said: "During the Nanjing peace talks, we asked the Spaniards to enter the Ming Dynasty, but was stopped by Zhao Shizhen, who was in charge of the negotiations under Chen Mu."

"It is still Chen Mu who is negotiating with us this time, it will be difficult."

"Delay the negotiations. Before that, I will allow the Chinese monarchy to legally own all the lands in the northern part of the California peninsula until the end of the war between Portugal and the Moroccans."

Philip said this, full of confidence, and said: "No accident, I will get the title of King of Portugal this autumn. I will invite Chen Mu to Madrid during the ceremony, and I will talk to him personally."

The voice just fell.

"It's too dangerous!"

"How can you get that savage to come to the court!"

The old iron-blooded Duke Alva pushed away the courtiers, stepped forward and said, "It's too risky for the king to meet Chen Mu, I should go to meet him, lord and lord, general and general."

That posture seemed to be the same as Chen Mu's life and death on the battlefield.

The corners of Philip's mouth turned up. These letters from the New World made him very happy, and it seemed that the gradually aggravating illness had been weakened.

He has always wanted to pull the Ming Dynasty into his chariot. The reason why the Nanjing peace talks were able to reach an agreement quickly was because of the beautiful blueprint compiled by Chen Mu-the two most powerful countries in the world formed a coalition!

According to the news from Portugal, the pirates of the Ming Dynasty forced the Portuguese away from the Arabian Sea, which means that their sphere of influence has been able to touch Ottoman. If the relationship between the two sides is closer, the Ming Dynasty can be behind them as a check force .

All of this was based on the fact that Philip was unaware of the friendly trade relationship between Ottoman and Daming overland.

In fact, the so-called Lumi and Lumi are transliterations of Rome, because the official name of Constantinople has always been Rome, and Ottoman also claimed to be the Roman Empire.

Of course, if everything can go according to Philip's ideas, it is very likely that Europe will be unified under his hands, and it will be very rewarding for the two major powers of the Ming Dynasty and Spain.

But how do you say that?

The development of things is not shifted by human will.

Next, the content of the letters received by the Madrid court changed a bit. Almansa did not continue to send letters, but was replaced by the West India Committee. They said that Almansa had defected to the California peninsula.

That island was now renamed the Boundary Peninsula by the Ming Dynasty, and the head of the Bernal Legion gathered three legions to confront the Boundary Peninsula?
Philip couldn't understand it. It was normal for Almansa to go to the boundary peninsula. Why did the West India Council use words like betrayal and escape to describe it?
Bernal, lead troops to confront?
Things seemed to be developing in a direction he didn't want to see.

Until the last letter was received, Bernal had been elected as the acting governor by the West India Committee, the Ming army landed and defeated the Herrera Legion—the war officially began.

"Come on, the king has passed out!"

(End of this chapter)