The so-called Spanish Revolution began with the port of Daming.

Despite Chen Mu's ban on traveling to Spain, England, and Ireland to make money or do anything other than to make money, it is difficult for people not to show their superiority in communication.

This superiority was devastating for the Spaniards.

Spain, the richest kingdom in Europe, was, is, and believed to be forever, under the leadership of King Philip, who at one time devoured the New World and created the myth that a homeless man with his brother-in-law and other idle people could establish a large territory in the New World.

To show off their unpretentious wealth, they wore Parisian and London top hats, Ceylon diamonds, Indian gems, and Panamanian pearls, Neapolitan stockings, Venetian glasswork, Persian carpets, Arabic perfumes, Chinese porcelain, and silk and textiles for the most authentic Dutch high-class embroidered garments.

They are jeweled, and they cannot be beaten.

Believing that they had participated in the creation of the greatest empire of mankind, the idle monks set out to study different human beings around the world, and put all humans other than themselves into another species, even if they shared the same beliefs and bloodlines as themselves.

They set up a strict hierarchy in the colonies, under the governor as long as you were born in Spain and Portugal, you can be called a peninsular nobleman, your parents are peninsular nobles, but as long as you are born in the New World, you are Creole, you can only be in the second rank, and there is also a hierarchy between mestizos and mestizos, and half of the mixed blood is higher than a third of the mixed blood rank, and then it is no different from livestock.

It would be even worse if you were an Englishman, not only an island barbarian, but also a heretic to be burned, and it is not uncommon for His Highness Philip the Great Philip to rule over you; Even if you're a Frenchman next door to the Pyrenees, you're only a hillbilly with twice the population.

As for the Italian countries, they are the doglegs behind the ass, not to mention the Pope, we Spaniards are noble and pious, so pious that they never listen to the Pope.

Extremely beautiful dreams.

It's just that it's too short-lived, so short that they discovered in the Golden Age that there was an empire on the other side of the ocean that was very similar to them in terms of style and thought--Da Ming.

It's not scary, it's not scary, it's afraid of comparison.

Mingxi was defeated in the second war, it was like Da Ming stretched out his arm and slapped Spain with a big mouth, and the little Parisian hat on his head and the saliva that flowed out of his mouth in a dream flew away.

People, if the situation is too different, it is envy, and if it is not too much, it is jealousy, and if there is jealousy, there is comparison.

Spain, which had just given birth to a little sense of national honor and evolved a little deformed European-style Celestial Empire ideology, met a strengthened version of the Celestial Empire in a blink of an eye.

Spain has been hit hard from top to bottom.

The fantastic kingdom turned out to be extremely fragile, and the invincible throne turned out to be in jeopardy.

The most important thing is that everything of theirs can't withstand the collision, their proud warships were smashed in front of the Ming sailors, their unique Spanish legions were defeated by the Ming Banner Army one after another, and their unparalleled wealth was not enough in front of the Ming Dynasty, and even their beliefs, their culture, and their thoughts could not help colliding in the limited exchanges with the Ming merchants and the Banner Army.

Communication is inevitable, even if Chen Mu strongly prohibits it, even if Li Dan strictly guards against it, even if Philip is very opposed, even if the church burns at the stake...... Flesh-and-blood people are not machines, no one can fully control them, they can't stop the Ming merchants and banner armies who were born with an incomparable sense of superiority from spreading pride, nor can they stop the extremely oppressed Spaniards from exploring the truth about the power of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, no Ming man wants to tell the real truth to Spain, but even a few words will have a huge impact.

These shocks tend to be counteractive.

They thought that they were the darlings of the Lord and the mainstream of the world, but when the Ming Dynasty appeared, these obviously better foreign visitors felt that they were just blind streams, and in fact, the humility and politeness of Chinese culture were only words that raised their impressions.

You think you are a blind stream in the eyes of others, but in fact, the aristocracy of the peninsula that you are advocating is just a lower ninth rate in the eyes of others.

With each shock, the Spaniards were terrified, and this panic beged anger, anger beged more panic, and panic led to more anger, and in the innumerable incompetence of rage, they became more and more closed, more intolerant of heresy, more and more ...... It's becoming more and more extreme and out of control.

As the two generals talked further and further on the topic of the future construction of the kingdom's navy and army, and finally aimed their destined old enemy at the Ming Dynasty, they saw a two-masted clipper approaching the mouth of the river, and it was not long before several cavalrymen hurriedly ran from under the Belém Tower.

Facing the two top generals in command of the Spanish army and navy, the cavalry did not know which one to salute first, and after a pause, he said two Excellencies, and then reported: "The sea sentry reports that a Ming fleet is heading towards Lisbon through the cape, and it will arrive in Lisbon this evening." ”

"They did not allow us to board the ship to search, and they were accompanied by three armed merchant ships led by the 900-ton St. Martin, which was their official letter."

The Marquis of Santa Cruz, Bazin, glanced at the envelope covered with wax, frowned when he saw the middle line of Chinese characters, and raised his hand to hand the cavalry to the Duke of Alva.

The correspondence at sea should have been read by him in terms of duty, but the stubborn old man did not know the Chinese language, but the Duke of Alva had a strong interest in the Chinese language because of his experiences in the New World, and knew some of it.

General Bazin simply asked the cavalry: "How many boats do they have and what are they doing here?" ”

"More than fifty ......"

Before the cavalry finished speaking, Alva, who had unfolded the envelope, had already taken over and said: "The Daming Naval Division is used to being domineering, first, they will not let people search their ships at sea, and second, they will not let more than one communication boat approach them, and there will be no exact number, the fleet admiral Fu Yuan said in the letter, sixty-seven." ”

"Sixty-seven, that is a six-class ship with six Chihai-class fleets, fleet admiral Fu Yuan, it seems that I haven't heard this name, General Shao is not here?"

Compared with the relatively unfamiliar name of Fu Yuan, Shao Tingda, who led the army to defeat the corps commander Jesús and the corps commander Bernal in the battles of the White Horse River and the canyon, was even more thunderous.

"I know him, when I was in Mexico City, he was across the border, in charge of the defense line of hundreds of leagues, and he was a close confidant of Chen Mu."

Duke Alva's expression was solemn, but it didn't seem to be because of the name Fu Yuan, he clutched the letter and said: "He said that another fleet to assist Spain in defending against foreign enemies has landed in the Azores, and his fleet is going to be replenished in Lisbon, and he hopes that we will prepare supplies for 10,000 people to sail for thirty days, and the list is here." ”

The list attached to the letter was so great that Alva could see it: biscuits, wine, ham, cheese, fish, beans, oil, vinegar, ...... Even rice is asked, and there is not a word about paying or bartering for goods.

"They asked for a lot of supplies, and, in the letter, he mentioned the reason for going to France, because the common enemy of the two countries, the puppet king Antonio, had made an alliance with Catherine to transfer Brazil to France, so they were to punish France for coveting Brazil, and the word covetousness means longing for something that should not be thought of."

"It's like killing chickens and making an example of monkeys...... Belch. The Duke of Alva pursed his lips and slammed his cane twice on the ground: "Kill a chicken and show it to the monkey to frighten him." ”