Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 378 It seems that Spain is a republic! (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)

"What? Sanchez, what are you talking about?"

The door to Juan Jose's office was opened immediately, and then the Spanish Prime Minister's livid face was seen.

"Prime Minister, I said that the Ming people occupied the port of Acapulco, which is located on the Pacific side of New Spain, and they played the banner of 'liberating the Americans, establishing a republic, and overthrowing the Spanish monarchy'!"

"What? Overthrow the Spanish monarchy? Establish a republic?" Juan Jose was stunned. "Are they really Ming people? They can't be the radical republicans of the Netherlands or Cromway of England." Are you going to make trouble again?"

"No, no," Sanchez said while handing over a letter from the vice-president of New Spain from Mexico City. "Prime Minister, you should read it yourself. This is a letter from the Duke of Avar."

Juan Jose grabbed the envelope, took out the letter paper inside, walked quickly to the desk, and looked at it by the dim candlelight.The letter was written by a friend of Juan Jose, the seventh Duke of Avar, Antonio Alvarez.In the letter, this Antonio Alvarez told Juan Jose five bad news!
One is that the large sailing fleet engaged in trade between Asia and the Americas was raided and captured by the Ming army stationed there when they passed the Ryukyu Island. Eight Spanish Galen ships with a deadweight of [-] to [-] tons, together with [-] to [-] people on board The brave Spanish sailors, officers and soldiers all fell into the hands of the sinister and evil Ming army!

Seeing the news, Jose was shocked: I never thought that the people of Ming Dynasty would be so insidious now!They were not like this in the past. Acapulco has been the home port of the galleon trade for more than 100 years, and has never been peeped by the Ming people. This must be a good job by the General of the Republic!

The second is that the Ming people have mastered the route map from Daming mainland to America through torture and seized sea charts!Then they sent a huge expeditionary fleet, including eight Spanish Galen ships captured by them and a hundred British Galen ships built in Ming Dynasty, carrying a full 1 soldiers. The on-guard Port of Acapulco launched a surprise attack!

Colonel Fernandez, the commander of the infantry regiment in the port of Acapulco, was still unable to withstand the attack of the Ming people after a bloody battle. In the end, the phalanx infantry regiment of 3000 people had less than 100 people and fled back to Mexico City in embarrassment. A regiment of infantry!
Jose gasped: I didn't expect Daming to be so good at fighting!It was possible to kill an entire Spanish phalanx infantry regiment with 1 people!

The third is that the Duke of Aval immediately sent five phalanx infantry regiments to try to regain the lost port after learning that the Ming people had attacked Acapulco. As a result, they were ambushed by Ming outside the city of Acapulco and were killed. and captured thousands of people, and the rest were evacuated to the foot of Poterey Mountain in the northeast of Acapulco Port to build a fort and hold on.

Seeing this, Jose couldn't help complaining about his good friend—this Duke of Avar doesn't know how to fight, how did five phalanx infantry regiments, 5000 people, be defeated by 1 enemies?No, the enemy should not have 1. Why should a Spanish phalanx infantry regiment be annihilated before losing 1000 people?
And the fourth piece of bad news is that a Ming general named Geng Dongzheng who landed in Acapulco published a titled "GH Long Live!Down with the King's Speech!

In his speech, the Ming general slammed the brutal rule of the Spanish monarchy in the New World, and announced that he would establish a republican colonial city-state in Acapulco. All whites, native whites, Indians who are willing to stay in Acapulco Both mulattos and Indians, would be citizens of this glorious republic, with the right to a civic assembly, freedom of religion, inviolability of property, and an arable land outside Acapulco to secure themselves from poverty .
Jose was stunned when he saw this!Could this Geng Dongzheng be a guy wearing an ancient Greek robe and a laurel crown?
But the Ming, Qing, and Zhou kingdoms that now rule the territory of Ming Dynasty seem to have emperors too!How did they become a republic?
Thinking of this, Jose asked his secretary, the knowledgeable Sanchez: "Sanchez, when did this Ming Dynasty become a GH country?"

Sanchez replied: "Mr. Prime Minister, the original land of Ming Dynasty was divided into three parts, which were ruled by three rival dynasties: Ming, Qing, and Zhou. The supreme rulers of these three dynasties are all supreme emperors."

Jose was surprised: "They are all emperors themselves, and they still have the face to export the republic system everywhere?"

"Prime Minister. What they practice is a republic with an emperor!"

"A republic with an emperor?" Jose was a little confused, "What do you mean?"

"There is an emperor, but the emperor does not hold the real power. Instead, the general or the prime minister holds the real power together with the senate and the citizens' assembly. Ming people also call this system a republic."

"This is a republic?" Jose frowned. "The monarch does not hold real power, and the prime minister and the council hold power together. Sanchez, do you think this system looks familiar? I seem to have seen it somewhere?"

"Yes, it looks familiar." Sanchez shrugged, "It seems...We in Spain are a bit like that! It is obviously impossible for the king of Spain to take power now, and the Queen Mother is no longer the regent. The power of the country has been given to you, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain and the ancient The Kingdom Council has jointly controlled it."

Jose made a sullen face: "In other words, those Ming people are exporting their republican ideas to a republic like them?"

"No, our Kingdom of Spain is not exactly the same as them." Sanchez said, "The Ming Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not an mentally retarded monarch. The reason why he did not actually hold power was based on a method called 'original rule'. The monarch's system, not his intelligence. And in Spain, if a monarch with sound intelligence succeeds to the throne in the future, then you must return the power to the monarch. So our Spanish republic is temporary, and the monarchy is lasting . And the Republic of the Ming Dynasty is lasting, and the royal government does not exist!"

"This" Jose said in his heart: If Spain is forced to become a republic like Ming Dynasty, wouldn't I have to hold the real power all the time?It seems that this republic is not impossible!If I learn from Daming and become a republican prime minister who has always held real power, will they retreat from Acapulco?It doesn't seem like such a good thing, does it?

At this time, Sanchez said again: "Prime Minister, the Ming Republic General also granted citizenship to anyone who is willing to stay in Acapulco, no matter what religion he believes in, no matter where he was born, no matter what his skin color is. White, yellow or brown. Spaniards, native whites, mestizos and Indians are all equal citizens in Acapulco!"

"This is impossible!" Juan Jose immediately yelled, "If the Spanish Empire implements such a system, the empire will cease to exist, and all colonies and royal territories outside the peninsula will seek independence, and we will lose everything!
Our native Spanish peninsula has a population of only 600 million, while the entire empire has at least 2000 million!If these 2000 million people have citizenship rights, the Spaniards will become a minority in the country.And those colonial citizens who have citizenship rights and citizens of royal territories, why are they willing to pay all kinds of exorbitant taxes for endless wars?Why did those lowly Indians endure oppression on the land of their ancestors? "

After all, this Juan José was a "superior intellect" figure in the Habsburg family, and he immediately understood that he could not transform the Spanish Empire into a republic because this country was full of undisguised oppression and inequality!Moreover, the Indians and Indo-European mixed-race people who accounted for the majority of the empire's population were in some places in the American colonies, and they were simply inferior to slaves.

Because the slave owners still need to consider the life and death of the slaves, and those Spanish governors who used the forced Native Americans to develop silver and gold mines did not have to think about the life and death of the laborers.

Juan Jose immediately said to his secretary: "Draft me two letters, one to the Marquis Ascenta of the Legion of the Netherlands, asking him to hand over the command right to Gaspart de Vie Si, and then immediately rushed to Madrid to say that I, the Spanish Empire, and our new Spain all need his military capabilities!
Another letter was written to our ambassador in the Netherlands, Pedro Longquillo Briceno, telling him about the Ming attack on Acapulco, and ordering him to negotiate with the Prince of Orange immediately: Now, Spain Fighting against France for the independence of the Netherlands!Therefore, the Netherlands is also obliged to fight against the Ming Dynasty of Ming Dynasty together with Spain!If the Prince of Orange is unwilling to fulfill his ally obligations, then Spain will have to withdraw from the war with France! "

When Prince William III of Orange met the Spanish ambassador in The Hague and learned from him that Ming had invaded Acapulco and that Spain was preparing to go to war against Ming, he was so shocked that he was almost speechless.

It was still his newlywed wife, Princess Mary Stuart, who was a bit fat and round, and she responded quickly, asking the Spanish ambassador in fluent Latin: "Mr. Ambassador, are you making a mistake? Daming distance Acapulco is separated by the entire Pacific Ocean! How can they invade there? Where can they go after plundering Acapulco? The entire Pacific coast of the New World is a Spanish territory, right?"

The Spanish ambassador, an elderly nobleman with a dry face, replied with a sullen face: "Your Highness, this matter cannot be wrong. Because Acapulco is still in the hands of the Ming people!"

"What? You didn't recover there?" The Princes of Orange couldn't help but exclaimed.

Although the current Spanish army is no longer top-notch, it is not impossible to defeat even a small Ming army that came across the ocean, right?
"There are a lot of them!" said the Spanish ambassador. "They dispatched 108 galleons with a deadweight of more than 500 tons, and transported 12000 fully armed soldiers to Acapulco at one time!"

"What? How is this possible?" Prince Orange didn't know what to say.

108 Galen ships with a load capacity of 500 tons. That is a total load capacity of more than [-] tons!It is much less than the total tonnage of the Dutch Navy.

If the people of Ming Dynasty had such strength, how could the Dutch East India Company still be like this?
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" William III shook his head repeatedly, "It is impossible for the Ming people to have so many large galleons. They only have no more than 10 armed galleons with a load of more than 500 tons."

"Your Highness, do you doubt the veracity of the report submitted to Madrid by the Vice-Prince of New Spain?" asked the Spanish Ambassador.

That must be suspicious!

William III said in his heart: How do those officials sent by you Spain to the New World do things? That stupid king doesn't know, and neither do you, an ambassador?If they are all honest men, how can I be Prince of Orange?My grandparents should have been defeated by Spain!
In fact, the Spanish ambassador also knew that the report of the vice-king of New Spain must be nonsense. This product probably took too much space, so there was not enough troops to drive away the Ming people entrenched in the port!

Alas, the current Spain is no longer the Spain that Philip II could dream of conquering Ming with 2 people
William III is still quite clever, and he probably understands what's going on by now?It's a pain in my heart!How did I get this ally?Is there any reliable one?Can this continue to beat Louis XIV?

"Okay," William III said the same thing, he can't fall out with the Habsburg family now, otherwise there is really nothing to play, "Or I will let the Batavia Council of the East India Company come forward and go Mediate the conflict between Daming and Spain? Let them withdraw from Acapulco. You pay a little more? If your money is too tight, we will pay the money in the Netherlands."

Of course William III didn't want to start a war with Daming, how would he make money if the war started?And if the Netherlands declares war on Ming with Spain, will Ming form an alliance with France?

In addition, the UK has not yet joined the Netherlands on the side against France.If the Netherlands and Ming were enemies, would the UK still be willing to form an alliance with the Netherlands?Do they hate money?Going to fight the Daming people without making good money?

"This is impossible!" The Spanish ambassador shook his head. "This is not a question of money, but a question of whether the Spanish monarchy and the Spanish colonies in America can maintain stability!"

"Why is it related to the Spanish throne?" The British Princess Mary on the side was confused. "Does the Ming Emperor also have the right to inherit the Spanish throne? Could it be that all the marriages of the Habsburg family are connected to the Ming Dynasty?"

"It's not about the throne, but about the king's administration." The Spanish ambassador said, "The Ming people who occupied Acapulco established a republic city-state there, and incited the natives and Indo-Europeans of New Spain to submit to King Carlos. These Ming people seem to want to establish many republican city-states governed by the Senate and the Citizens Assembly in America!"

"Are you sure those are Ming people?" William III looked at the Spanish ambassador in front of him, "Why do I feel like they are conquerors from Atlantis?"

Princess Mary disagreed with Prince Orange's analysis: "William, I think those people seem to be from ancient Greece."

Although the Spanish ambassador felt that the views of William III and Princess Mary were correct, his duty still had to negotiate hard: "His Royal Highness, Spain needs you and the Netherlands to fulfill their obligations as allies!"

The Prince of Orange said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Ambassador, you should understand that our Netherlands is also a republic led by the Great Council. Without the approval of the Great Council, I cannot declare war on anyone.

But I can assure you that I will try to get the support of the Great Council as much as possible, and I will do everything possible to help Spain. In addition, I still recommend to solve the problem through negotiation first.Even if we have to resort to war in the end, I ask the Prime Minister of Spain to wait a little longer, at least until we have defeated Louis XIV. "

"Your Highness the Consul," the Spanish ambassador knew that he had no way to persuade William III immediately, so he had to settle for the next best thing, "I hope that the Netherlands can form an alliance to put pressure on Ming Dynasty in the near future. This alliance should at least include Spain, Austria, Prussia, Holland, England!"

"Okay," Prince Orange nodded, "I can try it. However, I still hope that mediation can be carried out. If the problem can be solved with money, I suggest that the Kingdom of Spain exercise restraint and not go to war lightly. A broader coalition has to be organized."

The Spanish ambassador replied: "I will pass on your proposal to His Excellency the Prime Minister of Spain."

On the second day after the Spanish ambassador met with the Dutch consul, on the other side of the world, Li Zhongshan was meeting Zheng Jing, Chen Yonghua, and He You, Zheng Jing’s general, in a living room next to his capital. And Li Jizhen's brother-in-law Jia Liu Jia Guozhu.

Li Zhongshan also knew that a storm was about to sweep East and Southeast Asia!

Because he knew very well that Louis XIV, the sun king who was responsible for spreading hatred on the European continent, could not last long, and he would soon seek peace with the Netherlands, Spain, Austria and other countries.

Once the war on the European continent is over, Spain, the Netherlands, and England may join forces to put pressure on Ming Dynasty.

Although Da Ming is not afraid of their pressure, but right now Da Ming's navy is still relatively weak and has no chance to fight a decisive battle with these maritime powers.Therefore, it is necessary to make preparations in advance to defend key frontier strongholds to protect the local coast from harassment.

And He You and Jia Liu were the commanders of the land and water garrison Li Zhongshan chose for the Bintan Island at the exit of the Strait of Malacca.

(End of this chapter)