open sea

Chapter 1005 Face to face
As Chen Jiujing said in the letter, the situation he faced was very complicated.

It was so complicated that when I woke up, the French princess who was supposed to be lying on the bed was gone.

Of course, this is not the most complicated.

The most complicated thing is that the woman sleeping on his bed these days is not only the princess of France, but also the sister of the three French kings, the sister-in-law of the second son of Fei, and the queen of Navarre.

It started with Chen Jiujing's looting of Bordeaux a few months ago.

When the soldiers of the Baishan Battalion and the Xiyong Battalion boarded the ship and returned to Bilbao, Spain, Shi Xiaolou's merchant fleet had just sailed south from the French coast and crashed into the French navy on the Gironde River that failed to catch up with Chen Jiujing. With no other choice, Shi Xiaolou could only turn around and head north, trying to find a safe country for refuge.

At that time, Merchant Shi didn't even dare to go to the north of France. He wanted to escape from the pursuit and bypass the Protestant enemies in the west of France from the open sea.

But the French merchant who had signed a contract for next year's shipment took them to French Catholic territory, where he met a Henry.

This Henry was neither the third son of the king, nor Henry of Bourbon, the head of the Protestant Church and King of Navarre.

It was Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, head of the Catholic Church.

Shi Xiaolou made a bridge between the two, but he did not expect that the Duke of Guise would use this bridge to write a letter to Fei Lao Er in Spain, asking Spain to send another letter to the court of Narva.

Later, Chen Jiujing met Margaret, a married woman who was three years older than him.

But in Chen Jiujing's understanding, this was not his original intention. What he needed was the support of the Duke of Guise or Hun Laosan, so that he could lease a port where he could station troops.

It turned out that Margaret really did this. It wasn't that Margaret had too much influence. She did have a lot of influence in terms of her famous appearance and reputation for bloody weddings, but her political influence was extremely weak.

The key to her being able to do this is that France is too chaotic now.

Back and forth, they went from writing letters in a serious manner, to having secret conversations in disguise, and finally mixed together shamelessly.

Regarding the chaotic relationship among the royal families of European countries, Chen Jiujing was like a blank sheet of paper, and Margaret taught him a good lesson.

The bored General Chen stretched his waist and called out to the corridor for his soldiers. When the soldiers knocked on the wooden door, he was already dressed. He turned around and asked someone to fasten his armor buttons. Rose's familiar voice sounded behind him.

"General, the queen left half an hour ago. We signed a five-year contract. In order to ensure that my people can always get a high salary, I must remind you—the most attractive and the most dangerous."

"Some news about the queen's past, I don't know if you know." Carlos in armor folded his hands on his chest. The Milanese armor with complicated gold and silver patterns on his body was much better than many knights with fiefdoms. Said: "She wants to use you."

The relationship between Chen Jiujing and the other five leaders of the Xiyong Camp is a normal employer and mercenary, while the relationship with Carlos is more like a lord and a retainer.

He guessed that it was probably because before Carlos knew himself, he had heard from Li Dana about the story of Farikat following Li Dan and Chen Mu and making them obtain fiefdoms in Luzon.

"I didn't know why you were all obsessed with the land before, but now I understand." Chen Jiujing said, the breastplate had been buttoned up, and he took Carlos and a few guards out of the set, which was near the town not far from the camp. The manor, which was purchased at a high price by the local government, let out a chuckle when he was about to mount his horse.

"Damn it, I've already been tricked by Fei Laoer once, am I afraid that more people will take advantage of me?"

Speaking of being used, he became angry.

Chen Jiujing always thought that he was using Spain to attack Bordeaux.

He used the Spaniards, the captured nobles were also handed over to the Spaniards, and the booty was sold to the Spanish autonomous provinces, and he sold part of the harvested booty to pay the commission for the next year, those armors, horses, The weapons also allowed the sergeants of the Seventh Battalion, including the Baishan Battalion, to complete the change of equipment.

But what about the Spanish and French nobility?

Chen Jiujing didn't know until he got to know Margaret that he was called '180 million Sol'. Sol is the currency of France, and 180 million is about 40 and a half silver coins.

Before Li Dan arrived in Seville, Fei Laoer had already intervened in the French War of Religion and promised to give financial support to the Duke of Guise, who was also in the Catholic camp.

In return, they concluded a pact against a common enemy.

The general meaning of the contract is that Fei Lao Er will contribute money and the Duke of Guise will contribute, and the ultimate goal is to eliminate the southern France, England and the Protestants entrenched in the Netherlands.

Chen Mu asked Li Dan to send the newly minted half-two coins to Spain. Originally, 40 coins were to be shipped to France to supply them with the growing Protestant forces.

But after Chen Jiujing came, Fei Laoer found that Daming was his lucky star, and they wanted to do France!

This is like sending pillows when you are sleepy, not only sending silver coins, but also prospering trade, and finally some people recruited soldiers to fight the French Protestants!
Is there anything better in this world than this?
Have!
It was after writing to ask the Duke of Guise for his opinion that Henry of Lorraine really agreed to Spain's support to attack the Protestant rear territory with direct troops instead of transporting half taels of Ming silver coins worth 180 million sols.

Then Chen Jiujing, who came from Daming, completely followed Fei Laoer's idea, and began to recruit troops with the mentality that he had mastered the new method of war and made a fortune, and swung his troops to Bordeaux.

"Next, His Royal Highness should want me to help him attack Bourbon Henry's Kingdom of Navarre. I don't know if this is true, but the queen's idea is very interesting."

These things were analyzed by Margaret for Chen Jiujing, some of them were true, and some of them were deliberately guided. Chen Jiujing wanted to distinguish, but he had too little information and interpersonal relationships, and no piece of information could tell the truth. fake.

I can only listen for the time being.

Margaret's idea is very unique. She doesn't want Chen Jiujing to lead troops to attack the Kingdom of Navarra, which is separated by a mountain, but she hopes that Chen Jiujing can defeat her king's husband who doesn't like taking a bath for her on the battlefield, instead of killing her, is beat.

Although this sounds interesting, Chen Jiujing is not interested in defeating Henry who doesn't take a bath at the moment.

He cares more about sending someone to Madrid to discuss money with Fei Lao Er, a handsome reward?Some powerful horses and armed forces, or lease fees for ports and garrisons in northern France.

Chen Jiujing felt that Fei Laoer had to solve one or more of them for him, otherwise Chen Jiujing would ask someone to talk to the Duke of Guise about getting Spain to pay for military support.

Fei Lao Er, where are you walking the idiot?

(End of this chapter)