In the sun, a Siamese cat stretched its waist as much as possible by the side of the road in the courtyard, stretched a long lazy waist, the sun soothed, so that every inch of its body skin was fully irradiated, a warm feeling made it yawn proudly.

A cheerful laugh came from behind the door behind it, and it turned its fluffy ears alertly, and the fluff inside the triangular pinna made it easy to capture more information.

With the sound of talking, Er Ya ran out of the back house behind the moon gate, and several accompanying maids and nurses and other characters hurriedly followed closely behind with all kinds of portable applications, reminding the eldest lady from time to time to pay attention to her feet and not to bump into them.

When the Siamese cat saw that it was the eldest lady, she immediately twisted her waist with her back back, jumped a few times, jumped on the flower wall, went up to the roof along the flower wall, and looked at the overly energetic little girl with smug eyes after escaping.

Erya is now a three- or four-year-old child, and it is the age when she is curious about everything, and sufficient nutrition makes her energetic, and her round face is always full of joyful smiles.

The little girl walked briskly, chased a bird through the courtyard, and was about to pass through a moon gate into the courtyard in front. Seeing her move, she was so frightened that several mothers-in-law who followed her hurriedly chased after her, and there were words in their mouths, "Miss! Miss! That's a place for adults to do business, but don't dare to make trouble! ”

It's late! Although Erya's calves were not big, they ran very fast, and in a few steps, they passed through the doorway and entered the courtyard where Shouhan's signing room and official room were located.

The soldiers on duty at the door of Shouhan's signing room naturally knew this cute little girl, and they would play with this little girl with an apple face in their spare time on weekdays. Seeing that she was coming, she naturally wouldn't stop her.

Hearing Daddy talking in the room, Er Ya immediately followed the sound.

In the room, Shouhan and the training fleet commander, the Portuguese Gonzalez's conversation had come to an end, and he was about to get up and leave, when there was a loud noise, and the second girl slammed the door and rushed in, "Daddy! Dad! ”

Seeing the lord's precious daughter coming, Gonzalez hurriedly straightened his clothes and stood up, whether it was East or West, this etiquette was still essential to see the lord's first child.

"Roll through the election!"

He bowed according to his customary etiquette.

"González, no need to be polite, a few of your friends, José and Bolívar have escorted raw silk, silk and porcelain back to Lisbon, and they will not be able to return for the time being. However, Alfonso has also begun to spread his gospel in Hue, so you might as well discuss it with him later. ”

"Daddy, I'm going to my aunt to see my little brother and little sister, but my aunt won't let me disturb my aunts, I want to see my little brother and little sister!" Erya didn't care about the affairs of the adults, she just pulled the hem of Shouhan's robe with her little hands, and looked at Shouhan with a pair of small eyes. Mei Shan and Shi Lin sisters gave birth to a pair of children for Shouhan, and the younger brother and sister are now the new favorites of Erya.

"Good! Let's go see our brothers and sisters! ”

One lifted Erya up and put it on his neck, "Go!" ”

Gonzalez looked at the backs of the father and daughter rushing away, and couldn't help but shake his head, is this person the same person who was talking to him about that shocking event?!

Over the years, Alfonso has become bloated.

The business with Jose and others brought him a large amount of dividends, and he was responsible for teaching surveying and Latin in various schools in Nanzhong, which also increased his income from class fees, and in his spare time, he would also use the correspondence with the churches in Macau to transmit some business information and earn some information fees. Of course, this was all done within the limits of what the agents in the business intelligence room and the investigation room could tolerate.

The abundance of gold coins, combined with the abundance of food, made it difficult for Father Alfonso to kneel on a kneeling stool when praying to God, and the beautiful silk robe, which had changed in size three or four times in a few years, could not keep up with the speed of the change in his waistline.

When he saw Gonzalez, who still maintained the stature and mental state of a naval officer, he made a gesture to hug the collaborator, "All right, Father, I'm afraid you didn't hug me, your belly has already sent me back to Lisbon!" Gonzalez smiled wryly and knelt on a kneeling stool and began to pray to his Father in heaven.

"Captain, when did you return to Hue from Hoi An?"

Father Alfonso, who was also kneeling on a kneeling stool, prayed and asked his fellow villagers for advice.

"Your Excellency the Governor summoned me today. I am no longer a captain, and he has promoted me to the rank of colonel, as is our custom. ”

"Your Excellency the Governor has received you? And get your rank promoted ?! Alfonso keenly felt that there must be something strange in this!

Gonzalez let out a long sigh.

Receiving the notice from the Military and Political Department under the Battalion Office, Gonzalez was very suspicious, in the past few years, the opportunity to meet Li Shouhan is not nothing, but it is either a joint meeting and banquet between the naval division and the army battalion officers, or a business banquet held by the Han Yuan firm. However, the opportunity to meet alone is almost non-existent.

According to the time announced, he came to Shouhan.

At this time, Li Shouhan was smearing several locations on the map with the pen in his hand dipped in cinnabar, and he didn't know what his idea was.

"I've seen the lord."

As Gonzalez saluted, he quickly searched in his mind for the last time to see if there were any violations of rules and discipline in his recent behavior, whether there were any illegal or tax evasions in his business with Jose and others, or that the few interceptions of merchant ships at sea were secretly reported by the group of guys from the law enforcement department? But those things were written in the logbook, and the seizure was handed over in accordance with the relevant laws, but I kept my due!

"Captain, how many men do you have under your command now, and what is the number of ships and guns?"

Hearing Shouhan ask him this, Gonzalez fell to the ground with a stone, it turned out that he was just doing business talk! He immediately reported a string of numbers, "Now there are two hundred and forty-seven sailors." Of these, one hundred and three were Portuguese, forty-seven were Luzon, and ninety were Chinese. There was a plywood ship, two newly-made two-masted gunboats, and a fortune ship, all of which were arranged according to the standard of the sailors. Because it is a training fleet, the people above are all responsible for the duties of boatswain and gunner, and the rest of the large number of sailors and gunners are all served by cadets of the Sailor Academy. ”

"Okay, Captain, in view of your contribution to the Marine, I have decided to promote your rank to colonel!"

In the blink of an eye, his military rank was promoted several levels in a row, although this was awarded by the commander of the East, but after returning to his hometown, he could also be taken out to show off, and if he did it well, he might even be recognized by the army and navy.

It's not that I'm talking nonsense about military ranks, but if you're interested, you can turn to the description of the Count of Monte Cristo about Fernan betraying his Greek employer.

When Colonel Gonzalez had not yet woken up from his sudden happiness, a new piece of news threw him in front of Hades, the king of Hades.

"Would you be willing if I ordered you and your countrymen to attack the Portuguese in Manchuria, and the Portuguese and Spanish strongholds from Manraka to Goa?"

As a mercenary, he naturally has nothing to say about being born and dying for his employer, but it is necessary to let Gonzalez's group attack their homeland, especially the current Kingdom of Portugal is subordinate to the Spanish Empire, which is known as the owner of the earth!

He thought of it and said it, but his statement was scoffed at by Shouhan!

"What I want you to attack is not free Portugal, but Portugal, which was enslaved, exploited and oppressed by the Spaniards. You and your compatriots, not traitors, but heroes of the liberation of their homeland! ”

At this time, Portugal was no longer the great power that had been eyeing all sides, after being annexed by Spain and concurrently serving as the king of the Kingdom of Portugal by the Spanish Emperor, there has been an undercurrent in the country to restore Portugal's status as a great power, which is tentatively called the Portuguese Zionist movement, and unfortunately, González and his partners, although not staunch Zionists, were also tyrannical against the Spaniards in Portugal. However, he used all kinds of taxes collected for Spain's military spending, expressing his serious dissatisfaction.

"I will appoint you commander of the Portuguese Restoration Army, and I will provide you with a loan, which you can use to purchase weapons and goods from my jurisdiction for the sacred and great cause of the national liberation of Portugal! Would you like to accept this appointment? My Colonel? ”

The Shouhan's voice was so soft and seductive to Gonzalez's ears, "Lord! Back in your Garden of Eden, the damned serpent tempted Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and that's what they said, right?! Gonzalez's heart struggled helplessly.

"Even if you are as powerful and wealthy as you, you are weak in the face of the Spanish Empire, which owns almost the entire planet." Struggling, Gonzalez said this sentence, and he himself did not know whether it was used to justify himself or to bargain.

"That's right! Spain at the moment seems to possess almost the entire planet, especially your so-called New World, and its hegemony is unquestionable. However, in Europe, he and his allies, the Holy Roman Empire, faced attacks from almost all of Europe. These countries will be our natural allies! ”

French Prime Minister Richeliuti yì Britain and the Netherlands formed an anti-Habsburg coalition with Denmark in charge of sending troops and Britain and the Netherlands behind the scenes, and the insurrection against the oppression of the Holy Roman Empire turned into a widespread international war.

The war in Europe is rife, and Gonzalez naturally knows about such a serious matter. What he didn't know, however, was that Shouhan, as a huge manufacturer, had already begun to profit from the wars that would last for decades and directly affect the future maps of Europe and the distribution of the world's peoples, and large quantities of weapons, armor and gunpowder were transported from the workshops and warehouses to the Dutch plywood ships.

as warring parties. In the first year of the Apocalypse, the Netherlands went to war with Spain, and after the beginning of the Danish phase in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Britain, France and the Netherlands fought happily with the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire. Soon, Denmark, a fairytale country far away in Northern Europe, also came to intervene, and the flames of this war began to burn from southern Europe to northern Europe.

"Colonel, why don't we make a bet. I bet that your military operations will definitely not attract the attention and interference of the Spanish Empire. Because they are about to face a threat from the north, and when they have repelled the war from the north with countless blood and the lives of young people, they will also be exhausted and unable to go on an expedition against you in the east. ”

Shouhan began to play the role of astrologer and god stick.

When he speaks of danger from Northern Europe, he naturally refers to Sweden, the famous second master of Gustave II.

In the third year of Chongzhen, the second ancient of Sweden also participated in this war that almost drained Europe with full enthusiasm. However, in the seventh year of Chongzhen, he was defeated by the combined forces of the two empires.

The strength of the Swedish army was something Gonzalez had heard of, and the powerful phalanx, with a two-thirds ratio of musketeers, had been secretly circulated among the armies of European countries. Therefore, when Shouhan said that he was about to face a threat from the north, Gonzalez naturally thought of this Swedish master.

"Your Excellency the Governor, you are saying that Sweden may enter the war?"

"I didn't say it, it sued me." Shouhan took a wooden box from the bookshelf, opened it with great care, and took out the books inside.

"I Ching, plum blossom god number. A great book of prophecy in which anyone can deduce the future direction based on the hints in it. It is from this that I deduce that the fall of the Spanish Empire will be accelerated from this war! ”

"This war is bound to evolve into a great melee for the whole of Europe, in which France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden will all suffer heavy losses, and then, because Germany will be the main battlefield of this war, will be the most severely damaged, and the electors will dominate one side, so that the Holy Roman Empire will exist in name only. In the war, whether it is a land battle or a naval battle, Spain will end in defeat, and it will no longer have the prestige and strength of the former invincible armada and the earth lord. The Gallic rooster would take Spain's place in this war, and he would also have to acquire huge lands. And Sweden, in addition to receiving a large amount of land in Germany, will also receive a large amount of reparations, and further become a great power on the European continent. ”

"And you, the colonel, will be the hero who saved your Fatherland in this unstoppable tide of history. If it were possible, it might be possible for you and your children and grandchildren to live in the royal palace in Lisbon. ”

Shouhan's words are full of uncertainty, but they are full of temptation.

"Do you believe in the revelations that these mysterious books of Eastern prophecy have brought you?" Seeing that a devout believer of the Lord was about to become a servant of the devil of the East, Father Alfonso was a little angry, and he kept sprinkling the holy water from the altar on González's forehead.

"That's it! Father! ”

"Didn't we go to this far east just to find riches and escape the plunder and oppression of those damned Spain?! Today, an opportunity for our beautiful Portugal to be freed from the rule of those filthy Spaniards is before us, and I am willing to cooperate with the devil for the sake of Portugal! ”

"O Lord! Forgive this poor sinner! Kneeling on the stool, Father Alfonso clasped his hands into fists, pressed his forehead to his fist, bowed his head and silently recited the scriptures.

"Colonel, do you need a chaplain in your Portuguese Restoration Army?"

As the entire South and Central region was planning how to spend a happy and peaceful New Year, a group of Portuguese led by Gonzalez began to intensively plan for the restoration of the country.

The practice fleet sailed south from Hoi An anchorage and moved further south to Cam Ranh Bay, where the original flag and insignia were replaced by the flag of the old Portuguese Empire. One gun after another was removed from the ship and replaced with new guns that had recently been forged from the battery range. Barrels of gunpowder were brought to the ships for gunners to train, and the entire fleet anchorage was filled with the daily rumble of cannons.

Father Alfonso got up and went to Trench Jing O, where he lobbied the Portuguese who were doing business in Macao to join the fight for the "Portuguese of the Portuguese" under the banner of the Restoration Army. At the very least, it is necessary to provide the Restoration Army with a possible amount of help, including military supplies, military salaries, and intelligence, all of which are urgently needed by the Restoration Army.

Zhang Cheng, who was far away in Luzon, under the instructions of Shouhan, recruited more than 700 Luzon people in Luzon for the Portuguese Restoration Army as the basic team. The Spanish Governor's Palace, which was close by, seemed to be blocked by something, and turned a blind eye to the recruitment notices posted on the streets.

Gonzalez, on the other hand, was officially sworn in as the commander of the Portuguese Restoration Army under the supervision of Shouhan, commanding this armed force with more than 1,000 troops and four or five large and small ships.

Of course, Li Shouhan would not let Gonzalez just take a quail egg and touch a boulder, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the Portuguese restoration cause, he used his personal income as a guarantee to apply for a loan of up to 10 million silver dollars for the Portuguese Restoration Army from the Nanzhong Guanyin.

This money will be used to purchase a military supply needed by the Restoration Army and pay military salaries.

In return, the commander of the Restoration, Colonel González, solemnly signed a contract whereby the Portuguese Restoration Army would capture the fortress of Manraka as a token of gratitude for the righteous support of Governor Lee himself. At the same time, after the capture of Goa, this Portuguese stronghold in the east was used as a base for the Restoration Army. After taking Goa, Ceylon was given to the South Central Army as a reward as a thank you to the friendly forces who fought side by side. In view of this, the top level of the South China Army said that it is natural to appreciate the kindness of the friendly brothers, but in view of the actual difficulties of the Restoration Army, the South China Army is willing to buy Ceylon with 100,000 silver dollars or equivalent materials.

In order to be able to persist in the great cause of recovering the country, the Regent Army prepared to purchase cotton, wheat and other crops from the princes of various parts of India after the capture of Goa, and the Han Yuan firm was responsible for the purchase, and the profits obtained were not only to pay the interest on the loan, but also to pay the expenses of the Regent Army.

This loan will be repaid with the Portuguese Empire's colonies in the Americas after the successful restoration of the Portuguese Empire.

In the intense preparations, Shouhan ushered in the Spring Festival of the first year of Chongzhen.

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