There are a lot of people who are stupid here.

"This is our latest discovery, collection, and collation of a batch of documents, which are mainly composed of letters, diaries, contracts, etc., which are what some Spaniards have seen and heard in Ha Jing, and from these documents, we can peek into the embryonic and embryonic state of a powerful regime."

Javi Hernández Creus, director of the Spanish Royal Archives, faces the flashing lights of countless journalists, showing a thick stack of papers in his hand.

"Identified by our experts. These texts, both in terms of paper, ink, and grammatical and rhetorical habits, are consistent with the date of the text, the period from May to November of the first year of the Chinese Apocalypse. ”

"These people were engaged in trading activities in Ha Tinh at that time, and because of their respective origins and roles, we can see the different perspectives of Ha Tinh's politics, commerce, industry, religion, military, and other social scenes at that time."

"My honey, I miss your honey-sweet cherry lips all the time. Arriving in the mysterious East, in the magical, gold-paved city of Ha Tinh, I was saddened to find that the funds I and my companions had raised were far from what the lord of the place, a young Chinese general, had requested. His treasury was filled with all kinds of luxuries coveted by Madrid's aristocracy. Whether it is a gentleman or a lady, it is possible to meet the needs. Those delicate, smooth silks like your skin, white sugar like the snow on the top of the Alps, beautiful porcelain. Delicate and sturdy armor and sharp swords are all mouth-watering. In order to make my solemn promise to you, as a knight, to give you a beautiful palace and a manor house in the Iberian Peninsula, I write to my cousin who works in Manila and entrust my partner to travel to Manila to present him with a personal presentation of the situation and to request him to provide financial support for my business activities. Letter from Mr. José to his mistress in June 1620.

"My little angel! Allow me to write this letter to you with ecstasy! As a result of my efforts, I have initially established a commercial friendship and trust with General Lee, and the first batch of ships bound for Manila returned yesterday. The raw silk, tea, silk, sugar, and porcelain that were brought with the ship were exchanged for about 200,000 taels of silver, and more than 4,000 taels of gold, and in the evening, the general invited me to a dinner party at his mansion, and my God, from desserts, cold food, hot dishes, soups, staple foods, snacks, fruits, almost dozens of kinds, for me, a glutton, as you call it, I could not help but begin to fall in love with this place. At this pleasant dinner, the general presented me with many new business requirements and ideas. I couldn't help but wonder more and more if the young general in front of me had been to Spain or the Americas. Otherwise, how could it be proposed to acquire Hierbamexicana delmaíz (Spanish: Mexican corn grass), rboldegoma (Spanish: rubber tree), Plantadesemillerodegoma (Spanish: rubber sapling), Semilladegomadelárbol (rubber tree seeds), Pimientacaliente (Spanish: pepper), Azafrán de lazafrán (saffron, a Spanish specialty spice), Pataas (potatoes), batatas (sweet potatoes), Elmaíz (corn), tomate (tomatoes), maní (peanuts), girasol (sunflowers), calabazas (pumpkins), algodón de la Mar-isla (Spanish: island cotton) Faced with my doubts, the general told me very calmly, The garden behind his mansion was to be filled with new varieties, and he himself loved all kinds of flowers and plants. For this hobby, he offered to exchange a litre of seed for a whole set of fine cutlery, the kind of porcelain that could be offered to our great emperor in Madrid, (or a whole beautiful piece of silk). Moreover, this promise is always valid. Anyone who sends these seeds or seedlings to him will receive such a reward. You know what came to my mind when I heard this? This kind of thing can only happen in the rich East! Those wealthy lords and generals, in order to satisfy their own desires and hobbies, did not hesitate to spend astronomical wealth in our eyes. My dear, I remember one time in the box of the opera house, you introduced me to a young ensign, saying that it was your aunt's son, who was serving in Mexico, and that you could tell him the news. I will fight for the best price for him in front of the general. Letter from Monsieur José to his mistress in August 1620.

"Ha Tinh, it's a magical place. My friend, let me start describing it to you from the early morning in this city! Early in the morning, when the sun has just jumped out of the sea, the cannons on the fortress named by the generals here as 'pavilions to inspect the sea' are fired, marking the beginning of the day, and soon, the streets will be bustling with vendors, selling live chickens, live ducks, slaughtered fresh pork, beef, (you know, in the East, especially in an agrarian civilization like China, cattle, is a very important tool of production, and it is often forbidden to slaughter at will, but here, I can often see fresh steaks on my table. Fish from fish ponds and paddy fields, seafood caught overnight from the sea by fishermen, fresh vegetables, and so on. When the morning deal was not quite over, people's breakfast began. The gentlemen here are accustomed to go to the teahouse or restaurant to have their breakfast, while drinking tea, while eating a few exquisite dim sum, I prefer the breakfast in Guangdong, especially recommend you have the opportunity to try the shrimp dumplings and crystal buns, it is simply the greatest enjoyment of life. The coolies and vendors often eat their breakfast at the stalls next to their stalls, where prices are very cheap. For three silver coins, the sailors could buy a full barrel of fifty litres of rum and return to the camp to drink it, and although we had to pay for one qiē of room and board, it was still much lower than our budget. Through my observation, a large number of goods enter and leave the port of Ha Tinh every day, leaving behind a large amount of gold, silver and taxes, and I wonder how the lords here deal with these precious metals. You know, in Madrid, the price of goods is the highest in the whole of Europe. After breakfast, the people began their day's work, and when it was noon, the cannons on the fortress roared as usual, and it was called the noon cannon, and it was time for lunch. I have carefully observed that in all the general's workshops, the lowest workers also had plenty of meat and fat for their lunches to ensure that they had enough body to do the heavy work. ”

"When it comes to work, it's surprising that there seem to be workshops everywhere, but we can't even enter that workshop, and the people involved tell us very tactfully that the environment there is too bad for a gentleman like us. According to the ancient Chinese sages, a gentleman should be far away from the kitchen. So, those factories that are filled with the smell of soot and sparks are naturally not the places we should go. ”

"At night, the people of the various offices go home from work, and only the corresponding night guards are on duty at their posts, and of course, the security forces, known as patrols, patrol the streets and alleys of the city. The port of Hongji began to welcome another batch of ships, usually large quantities of coal purchased from the area controlled by the lord surnamed Zheng in the neighboring north. Speaking of the port of Hongji at night, I have to interject one more sentence, I wonder if the general here believes in Satan, who ignited a peculiar fuel on the harbor that emits a pungent smell similar to sulfur. However, with the help of the light emitted by this fuel, you can see every petal on the girl's head very lightly. The coolies on the wharf used this light to unload the coal. After daybreak, the coal is transported away by the people of the so-called coking plant. It is said to be used to smelt steel, and I wonder if those people don't know that coal only smelts inferior steel? "Bolívar's letter to his accountant friend.

"My dear brother, I am writing to you today with great joy. There are two reasons for this. First, our trading team made the first dividend today, me, your brother, Raul. Gonzalez, with 11,500 silver coins allocated to his name. I did a rough calculation, and this money is enough to pay for your marriage to the daughter of His Royal Highness the Marquis. This is the first distribution of profits from the Triangular Trade of Ha Tinh-Manila-Madrid. On both occasions, the trading ships that went to Manila were loaded with goods, full of gold, silver, and supplies needed by the generals here. The second thing is that the other day I was on the dock for the people who were renovating the ship there to propose a little bit about the construction of masts and rigging, and today, just now, the general received me and thanked me for this. As a token of his gratitude, he presented me with two sets of armor and swords that only a high-ranking officer could have. ”

"In order to show me the sturdiness of this armor, he specially found straw, made a scarecrow, covered its body with almost dozens of catties of meat, and then put the armor on it. Shooting with our short musket and his musket respectively, it is a pity that within fifty paces his musket did little damage to the scarecrow. Our short guns didn't do much damage to it at fifteen paces, leaving only a few craters in the armor. (Praise God, this armor for testing does not belong to me, otherwise I would have spent a fortune repairing the scratches on the armor.) To show how sharp his sword was, he placed ten Chinese copper coins in front of me, and with a swing of the sword, the coins were cut in half, and there was no defect in the sword. Such armor and swords, I decided to have it jointly with you, my dear brother. (Harvey Hernández Creus notes in his treatise that these two sets of armor were authentic in the Gonzalez family's estate, and are still strong after hundreds of years.) ）

"I would prefer to have General Lee's firearms rather than swords and armor. The muskets in the hands of the soldiers, and the batches of guns that were carried from the workshops to the docks and mounted on various ships, were no less attractive to me than the nuns of the Abbey of Kells. I have carefully observed General Lee's army equipment near the playground, and it seems that in his army, which has the 'battalion' as the basic strategic unit, about 400 out of every 1,000 people use this excellent musket, and the rest of the soldiers use the spear called the funeral gun and the Oriental sword. These knives were also equipped on board as weapons for sailors. These spears, known as mourning guns, are very similar to our spears, and even their battle formations are the same as those of our phalanx. But what is amazing is that the head of each of their spears is actually made of stainless steel, and the length of each of them is more than 1 vala. God, these Orientals are simply too rich! (A vara is a unit of length in Spain, and at that time in Spain, 1 vara was about 31-33 inches, which translates to a little more than 80 centimeters in the metric system.) In Portugal and Latin America, 1 wattage is about 32-42 inches, which is a little more than 1 meter in the metric system, so here is an approximate number: more than 1 wattage)

"When it comes to General Lee's army, it is even more novel to me. It was an army organized almost entirely by yeoman peasants, and General Lee protected their land from encroachment, and they were obliged to pay rent in kind, perform military service, receive military training, and so on. But, soon after our arrival, General Lee reformed his army, turning large numbers of peasant soldiers into professional soldiers, and expanding them to defend his growing territory. (His realm is said to be the size of a principality!) And this does not seem to count the lands that have declared their acceptance of his jurisdiction! ）”

"I used to hang out near some of his military-related workshops in my spare time, and the soldiers on guard politely told me that they had to expel me by duty, and that if I had to go in to see it, they could let my 'head' go in and see it. So, I could only sit in the 'teahouse' at the far end of the workshop where the workers rested and ate. To my surprise, a large amount of iron ore was brought into the smelter by horse-drawn cart every day, and a large amount of pig iron and steel was shipped out, and I calculated it, but, no matter how I calculated, I could not get a reasonable explanation between the manpower and the production I saw, and I was convinced. This kind of output and efficiency is unimaginable in my family's iron factory. ”

"My brother, if you are so surprised, then what I say will surprise you even more. Soon after we arrived, it seemed that large-scale military activity had begun here. Large quantities of metal (it seems to be the steel I mentioned earlier) were brought into the military workshop, which I believed to be an artillery field, and I had a rough estimate that the metal that would enter the artillery yard in a week would cast about ten guns. However, in the next week, I actually saw more than ten guns delivered to the dock! Mounted on the sides of those Chinese warships that are being transformed. I don't dare to imagine that if it were all such speed and efficiency, General Lee's dozens of ships should be able to have brand new artillery within half a year or a year. ”

"As a former Navy captain, I am keenly aware of the importance of skilled sailors and gunners in a navy, and in this regard, General Lee seems to be a fatal shortcoming. Ships and artillery can be built quickly with money and materials, but the people who operate them are valuable. However, to my astonishment, he did not know what oriental magic was used, and after speaking to the former pirates a few times, who, after weeping bitterly in the course of their speeches, became one of his sailors, and became familiar with their duties in their respective positions. I can't help but wonder if he is a spokesman for Satan on earth, as Pastor Alfonso said. ”

"Enclosed by letter ten horses of silk, five of which you may use to propose to His Highness the Marquis, and the remaining five to our dear mother, for taking care of my two motherless children. Your brother, Raul. Gonzalez. ”

"Another: Do you still have dealings with that Saracen? If you have one, you can make a commercial application to him to buy horses, mainly **, and General Lee is willing to pay a high price to fill his stables. ”

"My dear parishioners, after my short absence, my servant and assistant told me that it has been a week since you wrote from me, and that such good news has made me forget the fatigue of the army."

"In your letter, you praised the difference between the white sugar of Ha Tinh and the brown sugar available in Macau, like the difference between a lady in Madrid and a shepherdess in the Pyrenees. When you receive this letter, you will see two packets of white sugar enclosed with the letter. You can use your influence in Ho Jing O to buy brown sugar from those believers and transport it to Ha Tinh, where General Li will give a good price. I have always suspected that he had a process or technology to process brown sugar, a crude primary product, into white sugar. ”

"Speaking of technology, I would like to thank you for sending me the relevant technical information about the iron smelting industry in Foshan, which is a milestone for me to make a rough estimate of the metallurgical industry in Ha Tinh area. Although I have always thought that the metallurgical industry here may be far more technologically than the Foshan area that you constantly praise in your correspondence. ”

"On the docks, the Chinese ships that are being renovated are fitting those anchors that have been newly cast in steel, (oh, there was a burst of cannon sound from the direction of the dock just now, it should be those Chinese ships testing their guns.) The sudden sound of gunfire made a mistake in my spelling. The self-defense guns on these ships should be around ten, ranging from six to ten pounds. My God! Such artillery, do you still need self-defense? If they don't rob others, they will praise God! ）”

"I would like to thank my surveying and mapping skills, and by chance, I demonstrated such techniques to the young General Lee in the so-called 'Political Hall', a school for training junior administrators, which I set up by the general here. At the same time, in one of his senior assistants, an old man resembling the status of his godfather, Fauber (I once gave him a belt that could be pierced in the abdomen and healed his hernia. I was given the opportunity to go out with the army, which is what I said above, this short journey. ”

"Although I have always suspected that this General Lee is an inexplicably hostile fellow to God, it seems that all religions in his domain can be treated with kindness. The temples of the Buddha, the Taoist temples of the Sanqing, the temples of the Chinese folk gods, and the various gods of the indigenous people in the mountainous areas with the taste of primitive religion were all given the peak incense. At the same time, many people also regarded General Lee as an agent of God in the world, and practiced idolatry. I've seen a lot of people putting incense on tablets with his name on them. ”

"This military operation seems to have been caused by the barbarians in the western mountains who ransacked the general's caravan, looted the goods, and killed some of the caravan members. So, in order to maintain normal business activities and law and order, the general sent his troops. About a thousand troops, of which about two-thirds were young people, seemed to have just changed from militia to regular army. ”

"I began to be amazed from the way I was marching, except that officers and non-commissioned officers at all levels used different brass whistles, horns, and drums to transmit orders, and what I heard was the sound of neat footsteps, which was the military song of the soldiers under the mention of the officers. Because I had a surveying and mapping mission with a few Han Yuan merchants, I, who owned a horse, would be surrounded by four or five guards and observe the appearance of this army from different angles. Obviously, this is very different from the army written by our Spanish emperor, His Majesty, although they used almost the same spears and muskets as I have seen. My parishioners, with your many years of experience in this mysterious land of the East, are all the Ming armies you have seen like this? Enclosed in the letter are fourteen drawings of this army that I have drawn. By the way, I would like to thank this dwarf Dian horse, who has no idea how it has borne my weight gain of nearly twenty pounds. This damning oriental diet! This is amazingly low prices! ”

"As I followed this army, which seemed to be on a hike, faced some four thousand barbarian rebels, I must admit that I was timid for a moment. Although my side had about four hundred musketeers, the rest of the army, excluding those who wielded them, consisted of about four hundred spearmen, and two hundred sword and shield men. ”

"The artillery and ammunition wagons were at the front of the line, about fifteen paces or so were the ranks of musketeers, on either side of the musketeers were the four hundred spearmen, and at the end of the line were two hundred sword and shield men. Does this formation sound familiar to you? However, here this formation is called the square city formation. The officers pacified the soldiers who were going to battle for the first time in their respective positions. ”

"After two rounds of artillery fire, the barbarian ranks suffered a large number of casualties, and their leader, after trying to prevent the collapse, directed the rebels to pounce on us. At this time, the musketeers crossed the artillery and lined up about fifty paces from the rebel advance, ready to shoot. ”

"I think that these muskets and cannons should have a much larger amount of ammunition than their European counterparts, because the smoke from a few rounds of firing obstructed my vision, and when the smoke cleared and my vision was restored, the spearmen who had been on the flanks, led by the non-commissioned officers, rushed forward with a shout and harvested the fragile lives of the rebels with a wala."

"When the spearmen in two waves had completed a surprise attack, the sword and shield men who were at the rear of the position rushed forward with a shout of horns, and there was no suspense in the battle. Their mission seems to be to rush forward and cut down or capture the enemy in front of them. ”

"In the evening, I sat down with the military commander of this crusade against the rebels, in the official residence of a barbarian leader, the mastermind of the rebellion, and checked the harvest of this battle. This stronghold of the barbarians, not long ago, will be turned into General Lee's new military fortress to house and protect the new immigrants who have recently defected to him, completing his expansion to the west and south. ”

"According to General Lee's rules, all military operations are to be returned to the public as soon as they are captured, and then forty percent of the spoils of war are to be distributed to all officers and soldiers involved in military operations. Those who rebelled and their families were to be judged to be official slaves and to be subjected to heavy physical labor. I listened to the commander, they might be used to build the road to the southern fort. ”

"Speaking of craftsmen, I would like to ask you to help me find a friend in Macau who knows how to design architecture and help me design a church. For my friends and I are actively admonishing the Shogun to carry out a large-scale commercial activity, believing that the profits I have made will be sufficient to support the cost of the construction of a great church. And I believe that the profits we make from the sugar trade will be enough to sustain the church's daily expenses. ”

"And if your friends can send those seeds and seedlings that General Lee named or unnamed here before the others arrive, I am sure that your church will also receive a considerable amount of money for the restoration of St. Paul's Cathedral."

"I have collected for you by various means the ironware you mentioned in your letter from the awk, hoes, ploughshares, iron files, cones, saws, planers, chisels, needles, etc., as well as the spearheads of pure steel that elongate one watt. I pray before God to forgive these ignorant sinners! They used such precious steel to make such a lowly tool! —Pastor Alfonso's letter to his pastor friend in Macau. Written in October of the same year.

From these letters, we can see how these people were able to destroy the Spanish Empire for some small profit! There are ** people who procure for the enemy! Whoever helps the enemy find strategically important flora and fauna! There are those who need raw materials for the enemy's industry! The reason why we in Spain are in decline is because of these national thieves! ”

Harvey? Hernandez? Curator Creus was red with excitement.

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