1018 Can Spain Still Be Great? (Ask for subscription)

Admiral García's remarks seem to have impressed the Marquis of Spinola, and perhaps His Excellency, the Marquis of New Spain, who had been the governor of New Spain for a long time, had long been in love with New Spain, so he expressed his extreme agreement with Garcia's words - New Spain is indeed the only way out for the Spanish world empire!

So instead of looking for a pistol to shoot him, the Marquis wrote two personal letters for him, one to King Philip IV and the other to Don, the governor of the Netherlands, who had studied military affairs with him. Huang. Jose.

In his letter to the king, he blamed Admiral Garcia's defeat solely on the bombardment and flowering shells of the Ming navy, and asserted that the appearance of these bombardments and flowering shells had changed the pattern of naval warfare forever, and that Spain had to keep up with the pace of naval change if it wanted to revitalize its navy.

In addition, he also warned King Philip IV in his letter that the Ming Empire on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean was about to march into the New World with all its might! New Spain is under unprecedented threat, and if Spain does not do everything in its power to defend her most precious treasure, it will lose New Spain within twenty years, and at the same time the world empire.

As a confidant of King Philip, the Marquis of Spinola knew that his king was an out-and-out fool, and had no idea that New Spain was the future of the Kingdom of Spain!

Compared to the vast and fertile New Spain, Spain itself is so poor!

The land in Spain is too arid, and there is no good harvest when you grow anything, so you can only graze sheep. There is not much treasure under the Spanish soil, and there is not much gold or silver to be dug up. Moreover, the Spaniards were not as industrious as the Dutch, English, German, and Italians, so they were always at a disadvantage in the competition of handicrafts.

To add insult to injury, Spain is not actually a unified country, but a united state cobbled together by the kingdoms of Castile, Aragon, Navarre, Barcelona, and a few other small and fragmented states.

But the process of unification was not complete, and even in the so-called Spain itself, a bunch of small fragmented countries still had a great deal of independence. The king's authority in most parts of the native land was even less than his authority in New Spain.

Such a country that is internally fragmented, economically withered and exhausted, is still regarded by King Philip as the chosen nation, with an impossible mission - to fight for God! The result, of course, was a failure everywhere and a waste of huge wealth. The gold and silver looted from New Spain could not fill the hole that King Philip had poked in his indiscriminate warfare.

The country, which was originally quite strong, is moving in the direction of collapse step by step under the rule of this faint monarch!

Therefore, the Marquis of Spinola did not expect the faint monarch Philip IV to awaken, he had been a faint monarch for more than thirty years, how could it be said that the awakening was awakened? It is impossible to awaken to become a Ming Jun in this life......

Therefore, the Marquis gave Admiral Garcia a second letter, asking him to go to Brussels to meet the governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Don. Huang. Jose.

Tang Dynasty. Huang. José was the illegitimate son of Philip IV, also known as Don of Austria because he was born in Austria. Huang. Jose. Among Philip IV's many illegitimate children, the 27-year-old Don. Huang. José is undoubtedly a star-like figure.

At the age of 18, he was entrusted with military power and went to Naples to suppress fishermen's revolts, and after killing many fishermen, he was promoted to governor of Sicily. He returned to Spain in 1651 and commanded the siege of Barcelona, which succeeded in temporarily suppressing a long-standing rebellion in Catalonia. From 1656 onwards, he was transferred to the Spanish Netherlands, where he fought several battles with the French army commanded by Durenny, Viscount of Tillenne, and managed to maintain the situation.

In the opinion of the Marquis of Spinola, if the Spanish world empire can still be saved, then the person who became the savior of Spain cannot be Philip IV, let alone Philip IV, but only Don. Huang. Jose.

Since Philip IV now had no legitimate heirs to the throne, he only had two daughters, one named Maria. Teresa, 19 years old. A man named Margaret. Teresa, still a little girl. Philip himself was in his fifties, and it was unlikely that he would leave a male heir in wedlock.

If Philip didn't want to pass the country to Maria. Teresa's husband, then only let the Pope proclaim Don. Huang. José is the son of legitimacy.

Although this will cause a lot of controversy, Spain really needs a wise man now.

If you really can't do it, let Don. Huang. José took over, and the Marquis de Spinola also hoped that Philip IV would pay more attention to New Spain, see New Spain as the future of Spain, and let Don . Huang. José is in charge of New Spain......

For this reason, he is already old and has served as a member of the Tang Dynasty. Huang. In his letter, the Marquis de Spinola, a teacher of José, called on his students to come to New Spain to see for themselves this magnificent land and imagine the glorious future that Spain, with its vast land, should have!

Armed with a letter from the Marquis de Spinola, Admiral Garcia went to the Caribbean port as fast as he could, boarded a communications schoon between the two sides of the Atlantic, hoisted the flag of the neutral Netherlands, braved the winter winds and waves of the North Atlantic, and sailed straight for the Spanish Netherlands.

After a bumpy journey, he finally arrived in Brussels, where the Spanish Netherlands was located, in early November 1657.

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Tang Dynasty. Huang. José has an upper-average appearance, and his face is as long as the rest of the Habsburgs, but he finally has a normal pointed chin, bright eyes, a relatively high frontal bone, and a pointed nose, which gives him a shrewd and capable appearance.

Admiral García had seen him a few times eleven years earlier, when the Admiral was just about to leave for New Spain to take up his post. Huang. José served as an officer of the Guards beside his biological father, Philip IV.

Although it is only a few sides, but Tang. Huang. José still remembers the "admiral" of the Empire, one of the "Seven Captains" of the Empire, and was very surprised by his sudden visit.

And in the Don. Huang. After reading the handwritten letter written by the Marquis of Spinola, José frowned deeply.

"Admiral, maybe you don't know yet, a special mission from Daming has arrived in Paris half a month ago." Tang Dynasty. Huang. José's voice was low and a little melancholy, "They came to Europe for three purposes, one was to establish a banking system that would exchange money between the East and the West; second, to provide loans to Louis XIV's depleted treasury; Third, in order to claim the rights of the northwest of the New World, they said that the northwest area of the American continent was their land hundreds of years ago! And they already have a stronghold there. Therefore, they advocated that the mountainous areas north of New Spain, near the Pacific Ocean, were all the territories of the Ming Emperor. ”

"What?" Garcia was taken aback, "Those Chinese dare to talk such nonsense!"

So, what does His Majesty think about this? ”

Tang Dynasty. Huang. "The king didn't say anything, he wanted to ask for the advice of the Marquis of Spinola," said José...... Now you're just in time to go to Madrid to explain the situation. ”

Garcia hurriedly suggested: "Your Excellency the Governor, we must attach great importance to the Ming Dynasty's ambitions for the New World...... Before I left Japan, the Ming Empire had announced the establishment of a joint-stock United States, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the nobles together took out 100 million taels of silver for colonization in North America! One hundred million taels! With about 50 taels, you can send an immigrant from the Ming Dynasty to the New World. 100,000,000,000 people to the New World! If we don't speed up the migration to New Spain, then in 20 years, we will lose this rich land! ”

Tang Dynasty. Huang. Jose took a fancy to Garcia and said, "Admiral, do you know what you're talking about?" ”

"Your Excellency the Governor! I'm talking about something that will make Spain great again...... The Marquis of Spinola and I would like you to visit New Spain and see for yourself the magnificence of New Spain, which is unimaginable to those who have always lived on the European continent! Only when you go will you know that everything that Spain is doing on the European continent is not worth mentioning! ”