"Boom boom boom..."

The Shang Fang Kingdom is indeed not a barbarian, and is quite civilized and progressive!

Because they not only have flintlocks, a symbol of intermediate civilization, but also front-loading smoothbore cannons, a symbol of high-level civilization... They can also shoot fast and accurately. At a glance, you can tell that this Shang country is quite civilized and progressive.

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And the object of this civilized artillery bombardment was a ferry boarded by Raul Torres, the envoy of the Vice-King of the Kingdom of New Spain. He had not yet entered the City of God area, but was blocked by merchants in the Sonora Desert.

On the Red River in the north. The so-called Red River is also called the Colorado River. Colorado is Spanish, which means red.

The last time Raul Torres went to the City of God to hunt for treasure, the Colorado River was still undefended. But more than a month later, he crossed the Sonora Desert again with a small envoy as the deputy king of New Spain.

At that time, they discovered that the merchants had set up defenses at an important crossing on the lower reaches of the Colorado River leading to the City of God, and had also built a civil fortress. There was also a large white flag hanging on the fortress with "

These are the eight Chinese characters for "isolating the country into a closed country, and no ghosts can enter"!

"Bishop," this time Raul Torres brought a businessman with a better Chinese proficiency as his general. When the businessman took a look with a telescope, he smiled and said to Raul, "This Shang Fang country must close its doors and not let anyone in."

People from Guifang Kingdom can go in... We are Spaniards, so we should be able to go in."

"That's bullshit!" Raul Torres glared at the man, "We are from Guifang... Guifang means the place where foreign devils live!"

"Oh, that's it." He said, still more knowledgeable, "Bishop, let's go back... They don't welcome us, and they are still having sex!"

"boom……"

As if to prove that what the businessman said was right, before he finished speaking, there was another cannon shot over there!

The shells fired this time flew over Raul Torres' head, much more accurately than before!

This frightened the Spaniard. The Shang people's artillery fire was so civilized and progressive that they couldn't accept it!

So he hurriedly asked people to stop the boat, but he still refused to give up. After a long time, how could he go back without asking anything clearly?

So he asked someone to fly a pure white flag, and then shouted loudly in blunt Chinese: "My envoy from New Spain, on the order of the deputy king, is on an envoy to the merchants, please report...

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As soon as his words came out, the cannons on the opposite side stopped firing.

Then I saw a middle-aged man wearing a white robe and looking quite elegant appearing outside the Tumu Fort.

The white-robed man spoke loudly with a Shanxi accent: "I am the prefect of Honghe Pass of Shang Fang Kingdom. I have been ordered to guard here by the king. You and other people from Guifang are not allowed to enter the pass. Please leave quickly!"

This is a Shang Dynasty person from Shanxi!

As soon as Raul Torres heard this, he immediately replied: "Your Excellency, our New Spain has no ill intentions towards the merchant country. We are here to seek free trade... We hope to be able to clear the country and enter the country.

See your Majesty!"

Whether there is any malicious intent can only be decided after going to the capital of Shang Fang and meeting the king of Shang Fang.

If the merchants had more people and stronger troops, then the Kingdom of New Spain would certainly not dare to do anything to them.

But it would be a shame if they had a lot of money but weak soldiers...

The Shanxi-born official from the Shang Dynasty opposite was not stupid, and immediately shouted: "Your Spanish Guifang Kingdom has heard this. It is a big merchant in Tianyi, a huge country, with thousands of miles of land, tens of millions of people, rich products, and everything."

, there is no need to trade with you and other ghosts. Now your Majesty has ordered us to lock the country into seclusion. People from your ghost side are not allowed to set foot north of the Hongshui River. You should leave as soon as possible, otherwise guns and cannons will have no eyes!"

What? Thousands of miles of land? Tens of millions of people? Is it possible?

Bishop Raul Torres didn't quite believe it. Although there was a large area of ​​land in the northwest corner of North America that had not been carefully explored by white people.

But it is still unbelievable to say that such a large area of ​​land was almost entirely occupied by the Shang Kingdom, and that the New Spanish authorities had been living with them for more than a hundred years without knowing anything about it.

However, Raul Torres is not sure that these merchants are people from the Ming Nanyang Trading Company who are causing trouble... After all, there are many legends about lost civilizations in the Kingdom of New Spain, and there are also some abandoned ancient cities.

If it were just a legend, Raul Torres might not believe it. But in the Sonora Desert, there is a lost city that was built by unknown people and abandoned for unknown reasons!

And such a city is obviously not capable of being built by the Indian tribes near Sonora Sand!

Maybe it was a border city of the Shang Kingdom that was abandoned for some unknown reason...

Just when Raul Torres was thinking about continuing to negotiate with the other party and trying to find some words to say, the cannon on the opposite side rumbled again, which seemed to mean that there was nothing to discuss.

Although the cannonball just flew over Raul Torres' head, it was obvious that the muzzle was raised and there was no intention of killing him. However, Raul Torres still did not dare to float on the Colorado River. He quickly ordered the rowers

The men rowed the boat south of the river bank... The first attempt to find out the reality of the Shang side failed.

However, Raoul and his party did not gain nothing. They at least understood that this Shang country claimed to be a "big country" with "tens of thousands of miles of land" and "tens of millions of people", and it was also "rich in products" and "had everything."

"Yes!"

And Torres also knew that this Shang country not only had very powerful flintlocks, but also very accurate front-loading smoothbore cannons... This military technology is not the same as that of American Indians!

Even if they don't have a population of 10 million, if you discount it to only one million, they can easily mobilize tens of thousands of troops equipped with artillery and flintlocks. This is not something that the Kingdom of New Spain can quickly obtain.

The next opponent!

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Therefore, whether the relationship between the Kingdom of New Spain and the Merchant State is friendly or not cannot be determined until further investigation.

And when Bishop Raul Torres returned to Mexico City with this news, the Marquis of Mendoza, the deputy king of New Spain, was no longer in the mood to take care of the Shang Fang country, because the news of the complete fall of the Philippine colony had just been escaped by the Spanish

Sent to Mexico City!

"Marquis...are the Philippine colonies really gone? That's a huge colony!" Raul Torres looked at the livid Marquis of Mendoza with a look of surprise on his face.

The Marquis of Mendoza shook his head and sighed: "No more, all gone... After more than a hundred years of colonization and development, what was once the largest fortress of Christianity in the East, the land under the flag of God, has been destroyed for thousands of years.

The homeland of one hundred thousand Christians is now gone...lost in my hands. Now my position as Vice-King of New Spain is about to come to an end." He looked at Raul Torres and said, "

You’d better go talk to the new deputy king about Shang Fang Kingdom’s affairs.”

The Philippine colony in these days was not limited to the island of Luzon, but included most of the territory that would later belong to the Republic of the Philippines. The area was not 200,000 square kilometers, but at least more than 100,000 square kilometers. It was also divided into countless islands.

...A considerable number of the islands have manors run by Spanish or wealthy people of mixed Fiorentina and European descent, as well as cities and ports controlled by the Spanish.

Moreover, Fort Santiago in Manila City, where the Philippine Governor's Palace is located, is a solid fortress that has not been repaired for more than a hundred years. How can it be defended for a year and a half?

How do you say it's just lost?

After listening to Raul Torres's question, the Marquis of Mendoza also looked helpless and anxious. Although there is a Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico, the Governor of the Philippines is a subordinate of the Deputy King of New Spain. The Philippines, which is separated by a Pacific Ocean, actually

Is it his fault as the deputy king in Mexico... Is there anything more ridiculous in the world?

And since Japan fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty a few years ago, the Ming Dynasty immediately deployed a huge Eastern Fleet there. The sea near Japan is the only way to return to North America from the Philippines...

Therefore, the traffic between the Philippines and North America is very easy to be cut off by the Dongyang Fleet of the Ming Navy.

In this case, the Marquis of Mendoza simply did not dare to use the few large sailing ships in the Pacific direction to transport reinforcements to the Philippines. Because the small number of reinforcements sent thousands of miles away may not have any effect. If those few ships were used,

The precious galleon was lost, and the Marquis of Mendoza's responsibility became even greater.

However, when the Viceroyalty of the Philippines was attacked by the Ming Dynasty, the Marquis of Mendoza did his best to help - he prayed to God seriously every day, asking Almighty God to help guard the Fort Santiago and other places in Manila.

The people in the fortresses located on the Philippine Islands! So that they can hold on as long as possible in the face of overwhelming enemies.

The longer they hold out, the more measures the Kingdom of Spain and its allies can take!

It's a pity that the prayers of the Marquis of Mendoza were of no use to the Philippine defenders... In fact, when the 60,000 Ming army soldiers commanded by Ming Army General Su Zhanshan, mainly from Japan and Korea, carried

Armed with flintlock guns, artillery, rocket launchers, and various explosive mines, and riding hundreds of large and small ships, they rushed into Manila Bay. Their defeat was irreversible, and they were destined not to last long.

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Because the difference in strength between the two sides is so huge! In the face of absolute strength, God is powerless!

The total number of Spaniards and mixed-race Spaniards in the Philippine colonies is less than 6,000. Even counting the indigenous, Japanese, and Chinese mercenaries who have converted to Tianfang religion, the total number of troops that the Philippine Governor can handle is less than 5,000.

Only one-twelfth of the opponent's.

Although the army of the Philippine Governor-General also has many sugar and medicine weapons - New Spain has brown sugar, and the Philippines can also easily obtain white sugar produced in Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang. However, the huge disadvantage in quantity, coupled with the addition of the Philippine Governor-General

The army had not experienced the fierce Ming and Qing wars, so the war was one-sided from the beginning.

From the moment they landed at Manila Bay, the troops of the Philippine Governor-General were so overwhelmed that they couldn't even breathe!

The Fortress of Santiago, which the Spaniards used their "artisan spirit" and worked slowly and painstakingly for more than a hundred years before it was finally completed, was detonated by sugar rockets, sugar bombs and sugar bombs in just a few days.

Declare the loss!

The main force of the Spanish in the Philippine Islands is the Santiago Fort. Once the fortress is lost, all that is left is to wipe out and suppress the indigenous people. After all, the Spaniards have been the masters of the Philippines for more than a hundred years, and they also have a very good person.

Brainwashing Catholicism cooperates with colonization. It not only colonizes the people economically, but also colonizes the people ideologically!

Therefore, after the Ming army captured Fort Santiago, occupied the Cavite military port, and basically defeated the main force of Spanish colonists, there were still many mixed-race indigenous people and indigenous people who believed in God and continued to resist with the support of the Catholic Church...

However, Zhu Heji, who launched this war, had already anticipated this situation... so he recruited tens of thousands of samurai who had no chance to obtain territory and salary in Japan to join the Luzon Army.

These warriors are meant to be cruel!

They are not equal-field soldiers who have houses and land at home. Basically, these equal-field soldiers have no idea of ​​going abroad to take root. They just want to make some money and go home to live a peaceful life.

So it's okay to let them fight a short-term public security battle. But they can't fight a long-term security war.

The military soldiers Zhu Heji recruited from Japan never thought of returning to Japan when they went on the expedition.

Because there is no chance of getting the land of knowledge and practice when you go back, and you will be a worthless ronin when you go back!

And if you want to become a samurai master with a territory, you can only receive land here in the Philippines!

Therefore, before the Ming army attacked Luzon, a land distribution plan had been formulated.

Including Manila and the surrounding land, about one-third of Luzon's land will be granted to Zhu Heji and Aoi's son, the Ming Dynasty Lu Wang Zhu Yilu.

Most of the remaining two-thirds will be given to meritorious Japanese soldiers - these people will become King Lu's retainers after being granted land. They are responsible for suppressing local resistance in Luzon and assisting King Lu's palace in governing Luzon.

Guohe manages Wangzhuang (the direct territory of the King of Luzon).

There is also a part of the land that will be distributed to the local Luzon leading party who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and they will also become King Lu's retainers.

At the same time, the Confucian Luzon General Hall was also established in Manila - all retainers of King Lu who were allocated land in Luzon must become Confucian disciples.

From now on, they will not only be responsible for suppressing local resistance, but also shoulder the responsibility of educating the people in their territories.

Once these thousands of feudal manors are established all over the Luzon Islands, the entire Luzon will be firmly controlled by the Palace of Prince Lu of the Ming Dynasty (Prince Lu has not yet become a vassal)!

Just when the Marquis of Mendoza, the deputy king of New Spain, was worried about the fall of the Philippines, Zhu Heji was standing on the Guide Gate in the inner city of Guangzhou, watching his old brother Su Zhanshan leading the victorious army.
Chapter completed!