Win the Ding 1617

A series of clippers drew routes on the sea, transporting products, population, gold and silver from various places to Nanzhong one after another, providing food and flesh for this huge monster that seemed to never be full. ++++

The air routes and roads traveling to and from various places are like spider threads, weaving a huge spider web on the land and sea, and Hue is the center of this spider web.Constantly making adjustments according to the information transmitted by each spider thread, weaving this already huge web even bigger and firmer, sticking countless flying insects and mosquitoes firmly in the web, becoming the next one to provide where the food is.

The news from Lisbon was transmitted from the Mediterranean to the office of the Hue Royal Palace by the clipper ship at an unimaginable speed.

Here, a magnificent and brilliant court coup farce was staged. From the perspective of my Chinese state, it is a mixture of a grand banquet and a robbery.

With 3 Japanese mercenaries as the backbone, Gonzales organized an army of up to [-] people from the cities of Gibraltar and Morocco to attack the coastal areas of Spain and Portugal.For a time, the fierce offensive caused the Spaniards and Portuguese to complain incessantly.

At this time in Europe, countries that can mobilize thousands of standing troops can be regarded as big and powerful countries. Thousands of people don't take their own life and death seriously, let alone the lives of others, and immediately go crazy when they go to the battlefield. The Portuguese Restoration Army formed by turning the crazy Japanese mercenaries into the main force can easily attack the coastal areas, expanding the territory, population, and economic strength of the Restoration Army.A virtuous circle has gradually formed: With territory and cities, you can collect taxes, recruit and expand more troops, and with troops, you can attack more cities and plunder more people and money.

In this way, the restoration government headed by Gonzales and the first group of Portuguese nobles who either voluntarily or semi-forced to join the restoration government immediately became vested interests, and they began to plan smugly. Once Portugal's final victory was completely captured, it even knocked Spain to the ground in one fell swoop, turning the once glorious and great Spanish Empire into its own vassal.

However, the owner of Lisbon.The current King of Portugal, João IV, is not reconciled to watching his own empire being swallowed up by an unknown wild boy.How is this acceptable?

European royal families are good at this, typical, oh, "I would rather be with Youbang than with domestic slaves." This is not Hui Yulan's patent.In fact, this has been done among European royal families for hundreds of years.No matter how fierce the war between them is.It will not put the other party to death, because everyone is in the same circle, the so-called not looking at the face of the monk but at the face of the Buddha.If I really want to completely overthrow one party, I'm afraid I won't be able to see other relatives and friends in the future.

This is why European countries have launched anti-French alliances against Napoleon after he became the emperor of France. In fact, all previous wars against Napoleon France were, in a sense, a group of relatives who came to seek justice for the Louis family. Yes, as a result, he was beaten back with a black nose and a swollen face by the Cannon Emperor's cannons and cavalry.

And Joao IV in front of him is a bit like Louis XIV who went to the guillotine, but his opponent is not Napoleon who aroused public outrage in Europe. Compared with this Corsican, Gonzalez’s experience in the East made him I have already learned some of the superficial aspects of my Chinese country, and they are vertical and horizontal.

He did not hesitate to flatter the Holy See with a lot of money and gifts, which made the Holy See recognize the legal status of the Restoration to a certain extent, and then formed an alliance with France.France, which is currently fighting against Spain, suddenly has an ally with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses who can fight against Spain's back and flanks. How can such a good thing be let go?As a result, France was the first to recognize the Restoration as the sole legal government of Portugal.

In Turkey in the east, Gonzales cooperated with His Majesty the Sultan in another way. He threaded the needle and led the way, and single-handedly contributed to the business exchanges between the Ottoman Empire and the Southern Cantonese Army. Cannons and gunpowder, shells, silk, tea, porcelain, A steady stream was transported by the fleet to Greece and Cyprus and other islands in the Mediterranean Sea.

In order to ensure that the goods and ships can be transported safely and smoothly to His Majesty the Sultan, the Sultan generously opened the map of the Mediterranean Sea when facing the request of the merchants in South China, allowing the merchants to choose where they think they are suitable. A merchant station was built on the island, some soldiers were stationed, and some fortifications were built.

With the support of these aspects, General Gonzalez has quietly planned for himself countless times in his heart what kind of title he will be enthroned as the emperor of the Portuguese Empire.

However, at this moment when he was in high spirits, the envoy from Lisbon sent a piece of news that surprised him.

Joao IV invited General Gonzalez to Lisbon for a meeting to discuss how to build peace. "We are all lambs of God, with Portuguese blood in our veins. We cannot let Portuguese knives chop off Portuguese heads."

The sincerity of the words and the humility of the attitude really moved a group of civil and military officials under Gonzales who had just surrendered. For the guy, he instinctively smelled something strange!

"This is obviously a banquet held at Hongmen! It's tantamount to killing me!"

The military officers who came back from Nanzhong with him also saw the murderous intent hidden in Joao IV's enthusiastic letters.

However, this letter also gave Gonzalez a golden opportunity.

He swaggered from the Gibraltar area to Lisbon with a guard composed of [-] elite soldiers. The towns along the way opened their gates to him under the banner of "talking with King Joao IV in Lisbon", allowing him to enter the city reasonably and legally.

Behind his advancing pace, after about two days' journey, a large group of nearly 1 people followed slowly, and quickly completed the occupation of these towns.Poor Joao IV's painstaking efforts opened a broad road for Gonzalez to march into Lisbon.

However, Gonzalez is also a qualified politician.

Every time you enter a town, you will first visit the nobles and religious leaders in the town.

In addition to throwing gold coins.In addition to sending precious gifts from the East to the big figures in all walks of life in the town, Gonzalez had to donate large and small statues of the Virgin Mary made of holy porcelain to the church, (well, it is seriously suspected that it is an improved version of Avalokitesvara) There are also a large number of glass products, as well as exquisite silk embroidery from the Jiangnan area embroidered with religious stories. These beautiful items allow those priests to decorate their churches more sacred and solemn. Sermons to the female believers in front of the statue of the Virgin, drive away the demons in the boys' bodies and minds, and then drink good coffee and drinks made from oriental leaves in beautiful glasses.

Facing nobles representing secular forces, industry guild leaders and others.Gonzalez would say: "We have negotiated with the monarchs of the East. We have obtained exclusive trade rights. In the future, our country will renew the glory of our predecessors, and let us bathe in the glory of wealth."

If the other party is wearing a sacred Taoist robe with a resplendent cross hanging on his chest.He will change another way of saying: "Thanks to the brilliance of the Almighty Lord. In the east tens of thousands of miles away. My friends and I led a lost lamb in the east to the way of God, and opened up a diocese thousands of miles away for God. .This lost lamb, as a mighty sovereign, has given us the exclusive right to trade."

"Moreover, our Eastern exclusive trade rights have been blessed by the Pope because we have turned this powerful Eastern monarch into a believer in God."

This is what Gonzalez brags about.However, anyway, the distance between Portugal and Nanzhonghai Road is tens of thousands of miles, who will check it out in person?Even if someone with such good deeds went to the Vatican to inquire whether this revived general had opened up the Wanli diocese for the Lord because he led the Lord's blessing to the east. Those cardinals who hold various powers of the Holy See are just Busy hugging the beauties and pretty boys that Gonzalez enshrined, or counting the gems on the cross, how can I have the time to care about this?Besides, from any angle, you can't deny that there is such a glorious thing, right?It's like fabricating the mythical existence of "Elder John's Country" in order to fool believers, causing European crosses to think that they finally found the long-lost organization when they met Temujin's descendants. As a result, tears in their eyes Before they had time to dry off, the sweaty scimitar and the horned bow on the opposite side told them not to misidentify their relatives.

However, Gonzalez's rhetoric, which is both true and false, has achieved results that tens of thousands of troops may not be able to achieve.For countries with a strong religious atmosphere like Portugal and Spain, bragging about their interests is worse than bragging about their religious achievements. Being able to fool a head of state into believing in the cross is an achievement that can definitely be canonized. (Oh, it seems that the Paul who left a place name in Shanghai , has also entered the process of canonization now, because he has made great contributions to the spread of the cross to the east, and among the descendants has also had a major impact on history.) And if it is based on trade benefits plus religious achievements Huyou, for a country like Portugal that first tasted the sweetness of ocean trade, the lethality is huge.It can be said that no one can avoid it.

Such news, along with his many deeds in various towns along the way, and the impact brought to the people by the Guards composed of two thousand elite soldiers, quickly became a decision for Portuguese society to choose Gonzalez or Joao IV. heavy weights on the scales.

At the moment when King Joao IV of Lisbon and his trusted ministers were intensively planning every detail, unexpectedly, a huge crack appeared in the aristocratic group that was originally thought to be monolithic.The nobles can support him from being a duke to the emperor of Portugal, and they can also abandon him, a nominal empty emperor, and support a guy who is more powerful than him and can bring more benefits and benefits to be their emperor. Man is a wild boy with no noble blood.

"Without noble blood, isn't that better? He has to rely on us even more?"

"That's right! Without aristocratic background, we can fabricate a prominent family background for him from so many genealogical inheritances in Europe, saying that he is the sole heir of a declining family with no heirs, or is he an illegitimate child?"

"That's right! Didn't Jesus also be conceived by God's mother, Mary, to have him? In other words, Jesus is God's illegitimate son, and also a bastard!"

("Damn it! You slander the Lord, only because of the Lord, we have lived such a life! Only because Shunzhi believed in the Lord, we have the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong!" The guy who was just remembered by everyone. Full of devotion to the Lord, he came to the author with a stuttering stammer, this unscrupulous guy is desperate!)

From the perspective of their own interests, the aristocrats and the emerging bourgeoisie in the city have fallen to the side of Gonzales, who is stronger and can bring them more benefits and benefits.The clergy and the Inquisition, which represented the cross and were originally divided into several factions, also highly respected the glory and honor, wealth and faith that Gonzalez brought to the cross.As a result, various factions and various forces quietly sent people out of Lisbon to pay Gonzalez for money.

"The General must not believe the lie of that Spanish bastard." Alas!In the mouth of the nobles, Joao IV, who used to represent Portugal, turned into a Spanish bastard in a blink of an eye.Not bad though.Who made him have the blood of Spanish nobles in his body?

"He set up an ambush in Lisbon. He is ready to kill you and your great army! Turn our Portugal into a Spanish vassal again, and let our beautiful and free country be ravaged by those Spaniards!"

"General! No! The only true sovereign of our great Portugal! I propose to kill the Spanish bastard! How about hammering?"

"God tells us to love the world. Therefore, our punishment should be gentler. Don't shed blood. I heard that the Spanish bastard believes in heresy. It can be solved by burning at the stake."

A pastor calmly made a suggestion.His suggestion was immediately applauded by the people of the Inquisition.

"In view of the fact that he is the king of Portugal after all, and has enjoyed the honor that Portugal brought to him, we must be gentle when executing him at the stake. We cannot directly burn him to death. We must do it slowly, and try not to let his body burn like coke. So , I suggest using small firewood, Your Majesty, and at the same time, you can’t spray oil on the firewood, on the contrary, you need to pour some water on it. In order to make the firewood burn slower.”

"Okay, gentlemen, let's first discuss how to arrest the Portuguese traitor, the traitor of Spain, and the traitor of our country who is still entrenched in Lisbon and deceives the people and insults religion in the name of the King of Portugal!"

Traitor, traitor, and traitor, these three nouns spit out from Gonzalez's mouth, immediately became the articles before the title of King Joao IV.When people mention him again, they will definitely bring these three nouns.

When outside Lisbon, King Joao IV went out to welcome Gonzales, intending to lure him into the ambush circle he had set up to arrest him, but Gonzalez and his men turned against them and arrested him first .And he exposed his ugly face in front of tens of thousands of Lisbon citizens who came to welcome and watch the excitement.

When the astonished citizens discovered the cannon hidden under the welcoming flowers, and the palace soldiers ambushed behind the reception decorated with ribbons and garlands, they turned from astonishment to anger in an instant under the leadership of caring people.

"I die innocent, I forgive my enemies, may my blood appease God's wrath against Portugal."

When the angry Lisbon citizens snatched the crown from Joao IV's head, seized the scepter in his hand, tore up his beautiful robes, and loudly discussed how to execute this king in the square in front of the palace. When the Spanish bastard and the Portuguese traitor raped the traitor, João IV was pale and the corners of his mouth trembled, but in order to maintain the demeanor of a monarch, he still tried his best to stand upright and not let himself fall down because of fear.

Beside him, locks of hair were torn by a group of women from the lower society in Lisbon, the uniform of the queen on his body was also torn to pieces, revealing the petticoat inside, and the jewelry on his body and head were also torn by those The woman took advantage of the chaos to plunder, and the queen, whose face was covered with bloodstains, tried her best to maintain the aristocratic demeanor that she had been indoctrinated and educated since she was a child, but she also murmured to herself: "Freedom, what a sin! Do it in your name."

"We will immediately execute the king and queen that the Spaniards gave us!" Someone shouted hoarsely, and the guy who was eager to show his loyalty in front of the new master moved the fire frame and firewood from the Inquisition, and was about to set off in Lisbon. On the street, just like how Bruno was burned to death, the Portuguese traitor, traitor and traitor couple were burned to death for the Portuguese, and let those damn Spaniards take a look by the way!

"The people of Portugal, Joao IV, as the monarch of Portugal, colluded with Spain, persecuted the people of God, believed in heresy, and tried to kill the hope of Portugal when Portugal recovered the country. He What you have done, even God will find it hard to forgive!"

Surrounded by countless little nobles, Gonzalez, who appeared on the streets of Lisbon riding a very handsome Arabian horse like a god, delivered a righteous speech impromptu.

"However, I still decided to release him and his wife. Because this is God's revelation. After being expelled from Paradise, people have original sin in their bodies. Therefore, they will come to the world to suffer all kinds of suffering, and the Lord will use it to test our abilities. Faith. Therefore, Portugal will temporarily fall into the hands of Spain. During this period of time, each of us has not done the thing of humiliation, and which one has not chosen to compromise, but these do not negate the Portuguese’s respect for God. Loyalty. Although I have no way of knowing whether King Joao IV is really willing to serve Spain, but this sin, we all have it, including me, so I will not use this as a reason to kill him. I decided to put him and his The family's property, title, and glory in Portugal were all confiscated and sent out! Thank God for his kindness and greatness!"

Gonzalez's speech immediately won a tsunami of applause and cheers.

"Long live His Majesty the King!"

Someone took the opportunity to take the lead in shouting slogans among the crowd! (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!