Chapter 2574: Military determines diplomacy
It's not just a person who can't look at him. I used to say "Don't bully the young and poor." Now I have to add an extra sentence, "Old Jifuping, Aspiration for a Thousand Miles!"
Major General Zhang Chun got his wish. Before he retired, he got an iron rice bowl and became a general of the auxiliary country. This is the lowest rank among the twentieth ranks of the Southern China Empire. It can be saved forever!
According to the system, the founding title can be retired with the country. Major General Zhang Chun has a try before he retires. Even if he has a motorcycle, he is unambiguous. He immediately applies to the military to retreat to the second line and no longer serves as an official.
After retiring to the second line, before leaving the army completely, he couldn't wait to buy two sixteen-year-old white girls in the slave market as concubines, and build a love nest outside the barracks... Into the flowers, it is so vigorous!
Someone was jealous and reported him, but was dismissed by the military department: "Whoever has the ability to win a fortress before retiring at the age of 60, we reward him with four female slaves of white race!"
It is said that it was the instruction of a certain army general. Because Major Zhang Chun won the honor of the second class, the Gibraltar Fortress in Spain, which could not be captured by dozens of South China battleships, was taken lightly by a division B of the army under his command!
Who has this ability, great reward!
Of course, this is also when he is about to retire, and he will also open the net. Generally speaking, soldiers who are in their prime dare to do this. That is the end of the order to retire.
Women are not allowed in the army, the emperor abides by this clause!
Let’s say that the South China Army took down the fortress of Gibraltar, and the city of Lalinea rushed to help and tried to regain the fortress. However, it fell on the way and was shown by the Marine Corps. At the cost of more than 1,000 casualties, the Spanish killed 8,000 Spaniards.
This is also the bad luck of the city of Lalinea. The second-class people have made special achievements. How can the third-class people be left behind, they bravely took the lead, defeated the enemy in one fell swoop, and took advantage of the situation to seize the city of Lalinea, plundering the city thirty-five thousand. Thousands of residents left.
The fortress of Gibraltar was so important that Madrid was shaken. After the court meeting of the Queen Mother Maria Anna, Earl Don Luis, an army general, urgently sent 10,000 troops from Madrid to join the army along the way to prepare to retake the fortress of Gibraltar.
Earl Don Louis is a veteran who fought in the Thirty Years' War. He has a certain level. If he is given a heavy army, he should be sure of regaining the fortress.
However, urgent documents are frequently issued to the Madrid authorities. What is important is that the South China Navy is gathering in the sea off the port of Cadiz, and the heretics intend to attack Cadiz!
Count Don Luis believed that Cadiz was important and should not be missed, so he had to leave the fortress of Gibraltar and quickly reinforce the port city of Cadiz.
The port of Cadiz is indeed important. It is the main seaport in southern Spain. It faces the sea on three sides and the land on the other. It has a well-equipped seaport, warehouses, docks, shipyards, etc., and there are forts around it.
It has a long history. The port was established as far back as a thousand years BC, and it was even more prominent in the great nautical era. Columbus's second and fourth expeditions to the Americas started from here.
Count Don Luiz wrote to Madrid in his memorial: “The warehouses of the port of Cadiz store a large amount of wood, which is necessary for shipbuilding. Once the port is taken by the pagans and the wood is burned, no new ships enter the water. The decline of our fleet is more obvious, and the heretics are good at destroying, once the city of Cadiz is taken."
Speaking of the fleet, Madrid once again put pressure on Admiral Don Fernando Chacon, asking him to go to war to eliminate the heathen navy.
The root cause of the current embarrassment is that the heretics have mastered the sea, can attack everywhere at will, the boats are fast, and the army on the shore can't keep up.
Don Fernando Chacon said that all the forces of the Christian world must be assembled to fight together in order to have a chance of victory.
The Spaniards, anxious as ants on a hot pot, sent envoys everywhere. Among them, the French said they had done their best, and the Dutch said they could not go away. As for the states of the Holy Roman Empire for help, the states said we were afraid.
The South China Army, imitating the nomads, attacked everywhere, fighting and running away, looting and slipping away, and the nations simply couldn't resist.
It’s ridiculous that the ships sent to Denmark and Sweden were intercepted by the South China Fleet cruisers as soon as they left the port. They caught the envoys as two earls and found documents. The South China Navy asked the Spaniards to pay a ransom of 200,000 silver dollars before releasing them. Otherwise, Just sell them to Baotou guys and let the two earls pick up soap!
The two earls didn’t have so many silver dollars at home, so they asked the palace. The palace didn’t approve them, and their women came to make trouble, saying for the country, but the country abandoned them...
The noisy, noisy, riotous, made a mess, the Spanish dignitaries were upset, and what's more, the envoy sent to Portugal came back and put his hands together and said: "The Portuguese are going to convert to Mazu!"
"Why?" the nobles were surprised.
The envoy said that Portugal was in chaos. King Alfonso VI perverted and suffered from mental illness. He sent his mother Luisa to the monastery. This year, Prince Pedro launched a coup and exiled Alfonso to Azov. Archipelago, self-regent.
Prince Pedro’s succession was wrong, and the South China Army was eager to watch. He and the South Chinese lied and reopened trade. He even allowed the Chinese who came to Lisbon to build the Matsu Temple on the shore. This is what the envoy said the Portuguese wanted Changed to Mazu!
The Spaniards were furious and itchy with hatred. Soon there was the indignation of General Don Kazan of the Janissary Guard who said he would assemble the army and sternly teach these traitors of Christ, he is willing to be the vanguard!
The Chancellor of the Exchequer Don Miguel Don Enrique sneered: "My respectable colleague really cares about foreign countries more than his own country. Now our fleet is blocked by heretics, and our Gibraltar Fortress is also blocked. Occupied, the port of Cadiz is threatened. This colleague of UU Reading www.uukanshu.com still wants to go abroad to fight. If our country is lost, how much benefit can be gained abroad, is it useful?"
General Don Kazan lowered his head in shame, Don Miguel Enrique said to the Queen Mother Maria Anna: "Your Majesty, it's time to make peace with the heretics, marry the princess to their emperor, and ease the current situation. Tension!"
"That's right!" His words were echoed by many ministers and even generals, and the efforts of the South China diplomatic envoy Chen Tingjing played a role at this time!
He had never received permission from the Spanish court to marry a princess, but he persevered, focused on burning the stove, and visiting the rich and powerful. After all, spending millions of silver dollars was still effective.
God knows how many of the ministers and generals who agreed to marry the princess are steadfast patriots in Spain. They saw that the situation was not good, the situation was favorable to the South China Empire, the short-mouthed, the soft-handed, they pushed the boat along the water and helped!
With their teamwork, what could the poor Queen Mother Maria Anna and King Carlos II do, so Chen Tingjing was called into the palace, the Spaniards set conditions, and Chen Tingjing sent someone to rush away. As long as Yan Changwu nods, the beautiful, young-toothed Spanish princess is his!
