open sea

Chapter 860 Cause and Effect
The road that connects the north and the south of Panama is an artificially excavated road along the undulating ridge. The winding road is nearly 160 miles. On the way, there are many sentries, military camps or post stations built by the Spaniards in the past 30 years, including Panama City in the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. There are thirteen guard posts in Darien Bay in the Caribbean Sea.

The distance between each sentry post is roughly the same. According to the aborigines living in the intersection of jungle, mountains and plains, these sentry posts were planned during the road excavation period, and the distance between each sentry post was determined by the ancient sea and land length unit "liga" used by the Spaniards.

This provided great convenience for the Ming army. One league was close to ten miles on land. Before Chen Mu arrived in Panama, these sentry posts had been changed by Deng Zilong to the Ming army's hundred-household station, and the banner army stationed in a thousand-household department continued to repair , Protect this most important road in the state of Riyadh for a long time to come.

It took Chen Mu six days to drive northward from Panama City, seeing all the scenery along the way, and arrived at the opposite side of the Isthmus of Panama. The last stop of the journey was the Qilinwei North Thousand Households established by Deng Zilong on the basis of the Spanish port. Today, the Thousand Households It is still under construction, but three shipyards have already been set up on the coast.

Due to the lack of skilled craftsmen, the shipyards did not start work. In fact, the three shipyards were not set up for shipbuilding. The main job was to build trestles on the beach for ships to berth.

As for the name of the guardhouse Qilin, it was because Deng Zilong believed that the mountains and rivers in Panama looked like Qilins with their teeth and claws based on the officers' drawings.

By the way, didn't Deng Zilong say that the Fengshui of Haojing Cathedral was not good when he was still in Xiangshan in the early years, and it was prone to fire disaster?There was a real fire in the church last year, and it was still burning badly.

It is really not easy for the monks guarding Haojing to build this church. Their predecessors were invincible in half the world and perished in all countries, but they met Wang Hung in Tuen Mun in the 16th year of Zhengde, and returned home with a feather. It began for 40 years pretending to be a grandson.

In the Jiajing year, they stationed their own small army in Haojing, built several forts, built churches to recruit believers, and regularly bribed local officials. , the chapel is carved with a statue of the Virgin stepping on the dragon's head, which means to step on China.

At least I look happy!
Then he was denounced by Confucian scholars in Guangdong, and he hurriedly used all kinds of bribes to get away with it. This matter dragged on for many years. Later, the officials were too lazy to argue with them, so someone else came and led the fleet to surround the Haojing, so that the Portuguese obediently dismantled it. A statue of the Virgin on a dragon's head.

This person is Yu Dayou.

Just a few years after it stopped, the Portuguese felt that they could build a bigger church, and there was St. Paul's Cathedral. However, because the name of Chen Mu, the Xiangshan Qianhu at that time and later the commander of the Nanyang Guard, the stones were not allowed to be excavated. Yes, the stones I bought were carried away as paving stones, and the cathedral has been in a state of 'under construction'.

It was not until Chen Mu left that it finally loosened up a little. Later, when Chen Mu came back, the cathedral was back under construction, and it was really built with great fanfare. They had to wait until Chen Mu went north, and they finally repaired a Madonna stepping on the faucet.

This time it was Bai Yuanjie, commander of the Guangdong capital, who sent troops to drive away the people in the church. Five heavy cannons were placed at the gate of the yamen, and the whole wall collapsed.

The wall was repaired with great difficulty last year, but this time it is considered a good student, there are no vicious metaphors on it, and I specially invited the Guangzhou prefect to make a weekly inspection, and it really complies with the rules.
In the end, he was set on fire by Deng Zilong, the marshal Deng Zilong who went to the East, with the law of causality that had been delayed for several years.

How big is the fire?The monks in Haojing no longer have the money to repair it. When they tried to collect taxes from believers like other dioceses, they were first punished by the believers, and then by Xiangshan Qianhu.

The bishop was very wronged, if the money hadn't been exchanged by Bai Shuai for bird guns, they would have the ability to jointly fund and repair the church.All their money was indeed exchanged by Bai Yuanjie for guns. Whenever the monks used silver to lure the people to convert, a large number of people who were big and three rough came to drink the holy water to receive the silver. The people who really planned to convert could not get the silver. The burly men turned their heads and sent the money to the Nanyang Weijun Weapons Bureau. It didn't take long for a fully loaded carriage to be loaded on the Fuchuan docked at the port along the wooden rails.

A few hundred taels at a time, a few hundred taels at a time, what does this mean to Bai Yuanjie?It means that whenever the bishop of Haojing tries to recruit believers, the arsenal of the Guangdong capital will be filled with brand-new birdcracks enough to equip a thousand households.

When this entertainment activity was developed to the seventh time, the capital of Guangdong even imitated the story of Wu Guifang and awarded medals to the church!

Of course, Bai Yuanjie was not willing to give gold medals to the barbarians like Wu Guifang did. He was rather stingy and asked the Military Weapons Bureau to use leftovers to make iron.

They have run out of ammunition and food economically. Since the Han Dynasty cut off the sea route and the Western military government assembled to go out, Portugal has never sent support from the mainland, and they have not even sold goods here. Portuguese in Goa, Myanmar and other places who paid heavy taxes in Malacca.

They are mercenaries, and the money is exchanged for their lives. The Ming army doesn't like them, and they don't think they are superior in combat power. The salary they pay is [-]% lower than that of the Ming flag army. It is only enough for food and clothing, and there is no support at all. Hao mirror.

The only ones who could support Hao Jing were Portuguese hired by other countries. The countries that fought against the Ming army gave a lot of military pay, but the money needed to be exchanged with their lives.

In this way, they gathered a few hundred taels in a few months, sent them to Haojing, and then asked Guangdong Dusi to have an extra firearm for a thousand households.

But gradually, Bishop Haojing also found that those people rarely came, and there were fewer and fewer familiar faces-no one in the world knew more about Ming's maritime hegemony than him.

The spirit of adventurers has been exhausted by years of captivity. They neither want to stay, nor dare to leave. Everyone knows that on the way home, there is a country called Han, which was established by pirates from the Ming Dynasty. After passing through that sea area, they will be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks.

Life is always so awkward and hard.

Deng Zilong's prophecy was the last straw that broke the camel's back. More and more adventurers sold their armors and swords, boarded a merchant ship that didn't know where they were going, and finally settled in Nanyang, buying or renting a small piece of land. Small land, pick up the hoe again.

They cannot return to their own country, and what awaits them is likely to die alone. When it comes to getting married, they all crazily curse the feudalism of the Ming Dynasty—this involves common sense, and any small overseas country around the Ming Dynasty would It is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and any coast of the vassal of the Ming Dynasty has traces of Ming people's activities.

What does this mean for their strangers from Europe?

Girls from those vassal states would rather be the No. 18 concubines of those merchants than marry Yi people like them as wives!

　Good morning!

　　
　
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