Juan. Carlos, the representative of King Carlos III of Spain, as a proud Spanish nobleman, would not have come here to meet an Oriental man if it were not for the king's order.

Although this Oriental named Zinedin is a little different, he has seen a lot of Orientals and has seen the weakness of the Manila Seris, so Juan. It's hard for Carlos to put on a respectful look!

"His Majesty Carlos III has sent me to discuss something with His Excellency the Marquis! Things to know about the Philippines! "Juan. When Carlos drank another cup of milk tea, Ye Kai was finally late.

"Your Excellency the Baron, please convey to His Majesty King Carlos III that I have no intention of changing the status quo in the Philippines, and there is no need to threaten the galleons belonging to the Spanish Empire!"

Ye Kai knew what the Spanish king Carlos III, who also belonged to the Bourbon dynasty, was worried about, and he was worried that after Ye Kai took more than 2,000 land forces and seven or eight warships to the South Seas, he would have bad intentions for the Philippines under Spanish control, or intercept the galleons from the Americas, the lifeblood of Spain's trade!

The current Blood and Gold Empire has long since declined, and it can barely maintain the dignity of a big country on the European side, but the strength of his east, whether it is the army or the navy, is not strong.

If Ye Kai coveted the Philippines, it would be difficult for them to respond effectively, so they simply took advantage of Ye Kai's still being in Europe to settle this matter.

"That is to say, Your Excellency Marquis, can I understand it in this way? You have no intention of posing a threat to the Manila-Acapulco trade route, and do you recognize the Spanish Empire's rights and interests in the Philippine Islands? "Juan after getting Ye Kai's assurance. Baron Carlos' face was much better.

The Manila-Acapulka trade route is the famous galleon trade route in later generations, which is currently the most important economic line for Spain to continue to maintain the empire, without the galleon trade, the false mask of Spain, the so-called maritime power, will be torn off, lose this trade route, and the colonies they gave in the Americas will not be much longer!

Decades later, in the Spanish-American War, the Americans completely destroyed the galleon trade routes, knocking Spain out of the throne of a European power into the dust, and since then, Spain has never returned to the ranks of great powers!

Ye Kai nodded affirmatively, he really didn't have much idea about the Philippines now, because there were no valuable things in the Philippine Islands, and the Spaniards had been operating here for hundreds of years, and they had built a lot of strong fortresses, such as the San Diego Fortress, which was extremely difficult to capture!

And the climate in the Philippines is not very good, the summer is often a vast ocean, and it is only one or two months that can facilitate the battle, if you can't capture these forts in the two months from November to December, then you have to retreat, otherwise you will be fiercely educated by the rainy season in the Philippines!

So no matter what way you look at it, there is no need for him to provoke Manila, after all, the whole island of Luzon and Mindanao is placed there, and he will not run on long feet, and there is time to grab it slowly!

"Your Excellency, I have to warn you that Mr. José, Governor of Manila, should be kinder to the harmless Seris who live in Manila, and if the massacre of 1686 a hundred years ago continues, no one will guarantee that nothing will happen!"

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Ye Kai's face looked a little bad, although he had no ambition for the Philippines for the time being, and he didn't have that ability, but this did not prevent him from having a good impression of the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines.

These smashes belong to the fact that they slaughtered the most Chinese, and there were four large-scale massacres in the seventeenth century, and although there were many fewer in the eighteenth century, they still happened.

And the biggest reason why Ye Kai can't move the Philippines is because Spain is rapidly falling towards the status of the five European pig countries in the future, and such a big Luzon Island will not run away, they will soon be unable to hold it, and there is no need to spend great efforts to seize it by force.

But he was afraid of these ducks who often had their brains pumped, and they made a trick of being afraid of the Chinese as internal responses and slaughtering first, although there are not many Chinese in Manila now, Ye Kai couldn't watch them suffer from the butcher's knife of the Spaniards because of himself, so he warned him first.

Juan. Carlos's face was not very good-looking, and he was a little embarrassed, but remembering Carlos III's orders and the situation in the country, he could only press down the unhappiness in his heart.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, His Majesty King Carlos III and the Royal Government have already issued instructions to the Governor of Manila, and His Majesty the King has also said that if the Marquis encounters a supply problem in the South China Sea, the Kingdom's armory in Manila will be happy to provide some necessary help to the Marquis!"

Ye Kai stood up and expressed his gratitude, "Thank you for me, His Majesty King Carlos III, please rest assured that the existence of the Kingdom of Spain in the Philippines is respected by everyone!" ”

Get Ye Kai's assurance, Juan. Carlos left satisfied, Ye Kai smiled disappreciatively, the Spaniards came to sell it, it was nothing more than asking for their own stability!

Now the South China Sea pirates in the South China Sea have made them hurt their brains, if Ye Kai also has the heart to take a handful of them from them, it will be troublesome.

Since Ye Kai asked for a third-class battleship and four three-masted fast battleships from the British side, the views of countries on the European continent on Ye Kai have changed again.

Because of the paper strength in Ye Kai's hands now, it has become two third-class warships, a fourth-class double-deck battleship, two fifth-class battleships, four three-masted fast battleships, and an armed Galen merchant ship equipped with 30 guns that sailed from Guangnan.

That's ten warships, and with more than 400 skilled British navies and sailors, even in Europe, they can fight a skirmish.

Not to mention that he also brought more than 2,000 French mercenaries, which is already a very powerful force in the South Seas, and it is not much worse than the Dutch in Batavia!

And as long as you are not blind, anyone can see that so many mercenaries and warships are definitely not only used to restore Quang Nam, but must mean something else.

Ye Kai said that he was going to restore Seris, European monarchs, nobles and politicians did not believe it, the Seris ruled by the Qing Dynasty had millions of troops and hundreds of warships, Ye Kai had this strength, unless he was crazy, he would go to war with the Qing Dynasty, his goal must be in the South Seas!

And Nanyang, will become Ye Kai's target, in addition to Spain is the Netherlands, recently in Amsterdam, the Dutch East India Company's stock fell again and again, and a vote of Dutch businessmen lost all their money!

The reason for this is that everyone thinks that after this mysterious and erudite Marquis of Seris returns to the South Seas, he will definitely seek the land of the Dutch East India Company, and he must be fighting Batavia's idea!

In particular, the British, who provided warships for the Marquis of Seris, the two East India Companies had long been bitter enemies, and the reason why the British government was so generous must have been the result of the British East India Company's promotion behind it.

The Wind Rises in the South Seas 1784