open sea

Chapter 446
To be honest, Tang Juan still didn't understand what Chen Mu was talking about.

Renting a piece of wasteland for 100 years, taking care of local construction, and allowing the king to buy 20.00% of the shares without paying... How much profit can the royal merchant ship bring in a year, and now he wants to share 20.00% of the profit as soon as he opens his mouth. In this case, what is he planning?
Father Libera explained this to Don Juan in his bedroom. He said: "General Chen may be inspired by the Portuguese in Macau and wants to build a piece of land in Spain similar to Macau. Your Excellency, I think this is good for Spain. Very beneficial."

Of course it is beneficial, Libera is holding her breath in her heart, let's see how Chen Mu governs Macau!You can't do anything, and finally built a hospital. If you say it's for money and death, you won't let people go!He worked so hard to raise the stone bricks to build the church, but he took them away to pave the way without saying a word!All complaints turned into a pile of ashes in the letter box, and he smiled and encouraged people to continue writing!
When you arrive in Spain, it should be the other way around, right?
"However, General Chen is so generous this time. The Ming Dynasty's tax rate for Portuguese merchants is 15.00%. It is rare for him to be willing to give the king 20.00%." Can say, said: "I suggest that you go to Macau to see for yourself."

"In the entire Ming Dynasty, until now only Macau allowed foreigners to walk freely. Like guarding against thieves, following Chen Mu to Macau made it more difficult to preach. In the past, people still believed that the church was sacred, but after Chen Mu came, people believed even more. He is holy."

Father Libera mentioned the extreme despair of this dark land, "Those ignorant people only believe that seeing is believing, and they prove it is a lie by saying that Chen Mu can defeat the Spanish army without the light of God."

"There is also the son he wants to send to Spain as the governor of the customs. That man's name is Li Dan. He said he is a businessman who converted to God, but he is actually a descendant of pirates." Libera said that Li Dan was quite helpless, and said: "Every time he goes to sea, he has to worship the five gods. He is extremely impious. If he is sent to Spain, if he is not the son of General Chen, he will definitely be imprisoned in the Inquisition!"

Don Juan was noncommittal on matters of religion, knowing his brother, who was not as religious as he seemed.

Will God allow torture to extract confessions?Will people be allowed to be burned casually?Will it be permissible to put the innocent on the rack?
His brother said that serving God and serving Him are one and the same.

People at the top use religion to play tricks on people's hearts, and people at the bottom are played because of their piety. If someone asks Don Juan if he is pious, he is willing to keep God in every word.

But in his heart, he would not attribute the victory of the Lepanto sea battle to the favor of God, at most it was due to the enemy's stupidity and self-division.

But this does not mean that he is against Christ, in fact he is more devout than his brother who is a king-because of the existence of Catholicism, good for him!

"The offspring of pirates, General Chen is a pirate?" Tang Juan frowned. As an illegitimate child, he hated the talk of ranking people by blood in his heart, but he didn't want to show it. They are not like the shameless English."

"He's not a pirate. Li Dan's biological father was a pirate, and General Chen was his adoptive father. Ming people are used to deepening their relationship with father and son they recognize." Father Libera said angrily: "General Chen is not Pirates are worse than pirates, and I think Your Excellency understands his actions better."

Don Juan thought about it in his mind, and it seemed that this was indeed the case—how much can an ordinary pirate rob in a lifetime?

Chen Mu even robbed the once-a-year Manila galleon, 37 tons of silver cargo, and the expensive Galen ship, all of which disappeared.

"I will go to Macau to have a look. This trip to the Philippines and Luzon confuses me." Tang Juan said, holding a pipe: "General Chen didn't seem to be a victor when I came, and he was very hospitable. It's like talking about a trade, as if Spain and Ming had never been at war."

"Has he always been like this?"

Luzon is too clean, as clean as if the Spaniards had never been here. The Ming people transformed and built it very well, as if there had never been a tragic war, even including Guam in the past and now Linlai Island. Except for those buildings that have changed owners, there is no trace at all.

Father Libera hesitated several times, not knowing how to answer Don Juan's doubts, and finally he let out a sigh and said, "Do you think that the three legions stationed in the Philippines and the four legions sent by Mexico were all eaten by sharks?" ?”

"Don't be deceived by his appearance, the man who had a good time with you." Father Libera looked at the flickering candle and said, "He is the murderer who buried the Seven Legions of Spain."

Libera is not Spanish, he is Portuguese, but in view of his dislike of Chen Mu and the Ming Dynasty, it does not prevent him from using his influence to urge Don Juan not to take Chen Mu lightly.

The facts are indeed true. The three legions directly under Spain actually caused more serious losses to Spain than the Lepanto naval battle. This is because the naval battle that took place in the Ming Dynasty made the Spanish court not pay enough attention to this battle.

The Jesuits are no ordinary people. He knows the impact of this battle on Spain. He said: "Not counting the armies of the Indian Islands and the Philippine Islands, the two experienced naval regiments and army regiments were completely wiped out, and the losses in trade Make the court unsustainable, three times the loss in the Lepanto naval battle, don't underestimate Chen Mu."

"He has always been crazy, but he can always achieve favorable results." Libera said emphatically to Don Juan: "And don't even think about fighting him again, you will know when you go to Macau, it's just a small village of theirs , are all people, everywhere are people.”

"Before preparing for the battle of Guam, the river as wide as the sea was blocked by baggage and warships, and there were people in the sea and on the land. If you can't even win the sea battle, don't even think about fighting them on land." Libera shook Shaking his head, he seemed to feel extremely troubled by this situation, and said: "A few years ago, they didn't have a naval school, and there were tens of millions of people in the whole country, but there was only Chen Mu as an admiral. He was also a general in the army before."

"But this year, four hundred students graduated from the Ming Dynasty Naval University and joined Chen Mu's army, a total of four hundred."

When Libera mentioned this number, his tone was extremely shocking. There were only a few dozen students at the beginning of the construction of the Sagres Nautical School in Portugal. He shook his head and said: "This peace negotiation is by no means as simple as Chen Mu showed you. We can’t allow Spain to fall into war with Ming again, and we must be extremely cautious about his proposal.”

"The conditions he said sounded irrelevant, but what he didn't say was his real purpose. The open ship was going to Seville, and it would definitely stop in Mexico on the way, sailing long distances to guard against pirates, and his army would enter Mexico and Spain. "

It was late at night, and Don Juan was struck by the strength of the liquor. He opened the window, held a pipe and looked at the black sea in the distance with his melancholy green eyes, drunkenness and melancholy welling up in his heart.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)