Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Ten thirty-five in the morning. The Chinese army had completely taken control of the Manila City area. Other than some resistance in the outskirts of the south, the rest of the areas were already safe.

Cai Mao, Sakamoto Ryoma, Sun Chujian... When the general trod the bloody flames of the battlefield and entered the Manila General Governor's Mansion, he started to laugh in disdain as he saw the mess left behind by Bai Tila after he ran away.

"Paper tiger, paper tiger!" Even though I did a lot of preparations before the battle, I never thought that Spaniard would be so weak! "

Listening to General Cai Mao's laments, Sakamoto Ryoma laughed, "Hehe, these Spaniard can't even defend the colonies on South America, and they still want to show off their power in front of us, the Chinese?"

"We must admit that the Spaniard was very strong when they first arose. However, they are only relying on their European identity to intimidate other races!"

Sakamoto Ryoma and Xiao Letian's relationship was not ordinary, the two of them had more than just a lifelong friendship, they had truly and truly done so before!

Paleogene valued blood oaths the most. It was already a big deal to cut off one's wrist and swear a blood oath, let alone to transfusion them directly to save lives!

Coupled with the various hidden dragon legends on Xiao Letian's body, it made his blood look even more mysterious!

Sakamoto Ryoma had already completely assimilated into the Chinese race and was no longer a member of the Japanese force. Xiao Letian also treated him as a brother and the two of them had a lot of thoughts about each other in private.

Xiao Letian had interacted with various powers in Europe over and over again after drinking with Sakamoto Ryoma and other core members, including Spain.

Xiao Letian had made a very clear judgement of the empire in Spain. To have come to this point, this country was simply courting death.

How good was the good card in Spaniard's hands back then? In their most glorious era to colonize South America, from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty …

Not only did they rob the indigenous gold and silver from the Southern North America Continent, but at the same time, God blessed them and gifted them a batch of super silver mines!

In that era, the technology of geological exploration was almost zero. Humans discovered natural deposits purely by chance, while the Spaniard found a large number of super silver mines in South America, which caused the entire world's precious metals market to fall apart.

This was truly National Aura! Even if it were to come, it would be unstoppable!

According to historical records, Spaniard plundered 100 million kilograms of silver and 2.5 million kilograms of gold from the colony of South America.

If you were to look at the numbers and see if they were not intuitive, you would know how terrifying they were if you only counted them a little!

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, one catty was equal to 590 grams, 16 taels was one catty!

A hundred million kilograms of silver was equivalent to one hundred seventy million city jins in the Ming and Qing dynasties. If it was counted as the commonly used silver taels in the Ming and Qing dynasties, that would be a terrifying 2.7 billion silver taels!

And what was the income for the last year of the Ming dynasty? After adding in the rice and grains, the peak would only have 20 million silver taels. And this was not even the actual silver taels. There were even items like food, silk and other items within the taels.

When they reached the Qing Dynasty, due to the continuous trade between East and West, the silver in Europe started to flow continuously towards Asia, which led to the most glorious period of the dryad's income of 20 million silver taels.

From this, it could be seen that in China, since ancient times, silver and gold were scarce.

If there is no comparison, there is no harm. You might not be able to save 120 million silver after saving up for 10 years, but if he were to rely on the colony to snatch 2. 7 billion silver after more than 200 years, the gold is not even counted. After adding in the 2.5 million kg gold, even if the Emperor of Ming and Qing Dynasty were aware of this comparison, she might still be able to come back alive!

The cards were so good, but who knew how well the Spanish national fortunes had flourished in the past!

South America Continent was the lifeblood of Spain's economy, so where did all the cash flow come from? But once the war of national independence started, all the colonies became independent!

There was absolutely nothing Spain could do. Why not send troops? Because at that time, Spain had already been conquered by Napoleon and the entire continent was already occupied by the Bonaparte Family.

If an empire could not even hold its own and the South America's mountain of gold and silver was lost, then it was easy to imagine how weak the colonial rule of Asia would be!

In the later stages of Spain, they were purely relying on diplomacy, pretending to be a grandson in front of the English and French in exchange for a little face for the Empire, guarding the last bit of the colony while they struggled to survive!

In the end, the United States did not like him, so he stole the last two large colonies of Spain during the Spanish-American War!

National destiny! Get up and you'll be a pig on the wind! If you fall, you are the sausage and bacon of other people's mouths!

It was precisely because Xiao Letian understood this point that he knew clearly in his heart that the reason the Spaniard ruled over the Luzon was not to rely on the strength of the ships or the power of the cannons, but rather the power that came from three hundred years old!

Three hundred years of rule produced a habitual thought, and in this era there was a general sense of fear in Asia!

Due to the fact that the citizens of Asian were lagging behind and had their eyes closed, they did not know what was going on inside Europe. They did not understand the difference between Spaniard and the British, French and German.

In those confused eyes, they felt that as long as they were Europeans, they were invincible!

The Spaniard borrowed the confused and ignorant state of mind of the Asian citizens to deceive people, pulling the flag to intimidate others, and thus maintained her authority in the Philippines.

This was a typical paper tiger, but Xiao Letian loved to burn paper tigers the most.

The facts proved the Führer's judgment. The battle in Manila ended in a single night, and in the end, the Governor and high ranking generals had all run away. The expected street battle had never occurred!

"Today, we know how terrifying the leader is! The words of the Hidden Dragon were not false! Not to mention anything else, just by relying on your discerning eyes, you are not something a normal person can possess! "

"Spain! Tsk tsk tsk tsk … What a powerful empire! "Who would have thought that I would be so weak right now?"

"Now that we, the Chinese, have discovered it, we will make the first move. The fattest meat will naturally be ours!"

After hearing Sakamoto Ryoma's analysis, everyone sighed with emotion, but Mr. Ryoma shook his head: "How is that some fat? The meat from the Spanish Empire has long been cleanly shared by English and French!"

"We only have leftovers!"

With that sentence, everyone turned silent. After a long while, Taro Shimadzu swallowed his saliva and carefully said, "So that's … Spaniard still has two million and seven hundred million silver taels left from the two million and five hundred thousand kilograms of gold … "

"Already in the pockets of the English and the French?"

The moment he said that, the crowd was immediately filled with the sound of swallowing saliva!