Swift ships drew routes on the sea, transporting goods, people, gold and silver from all over the world to Nanzhong one after another, providing food and flesh for this huge monster that seemed to never be filled.

The routes and roads that come and go from various places are like spider silks, weaving a huge spider web on the earth and the sea, and Hue is now the center of this spider web. Constantly adjusting according to the information transmitted on each spider silk, weaving this already huge web more huge and firm, and firmly sticking countless flying insects, mosquitoes and flies into the web, becoming the next place to provide food.

Clippers brought news from Lisbon from the Mediterranean to the official offices of the royal palace in Hue at a speed unimaginable to the world.

Here, a magnificent and glorious palace coup farce was staged, and from the perspective of my Chinese state, it was a mixture of a grand banquet and a change of seizing the door.

With 4,000 Japanese mercenaries as the backbone, Gonzalez organized an army of up to 30,000 men from the young men of Gibraltar and Morocco to conquer the coastal areas of Spain and Portugal. For a time, the fierce offensive caused the Spaniards and Portuguese to complain.

At this time in Europe, countries that can mobilize thousands of standing armies can be regarded as big and powerful countries, with thousands of people who do not take their own life and death, let alone other people's lives, as soon as they enter the battlefield, they immediately go crazy and crazy Japanese mercenaries as the main force to form the Portuguese Restoration Army, which is naturally ready to capture the offensive in various coastal areas, and expand the territory, population, and economic strength of the Restoration Army. Increasingly, a virtuous circle was formed: with territory and cities, taxes could be collected, more armies could be recruited, more cities could be attacked, and more people and money could be plundered.

In this way, the Restoration Army led by Gonzalez and the first batch of Portuguese nobles who joined the Restoration Army, either voluntarily or semi-forced, immediately became vested interests, and they began to plan with great ambition to completely seize the final victory of Portugal, and even overthrow Spain to the ground in one fell swoop, turning the once glorious and great Spanish Empire into their vassals.

But, the master of Lisbon. The current King of Portugal, João IV, is not willing to watch his empire be swallowed by an unknown wild boy. How is this acceptable?

European royalty is this little bit good, typical, oh, "rather with friends." Not with house slaves. This is not Hui Yulan's patent. In fact, this has been the case between European royal families for hundreds of years. The war between them is fiercely fought. will not put each other to death, because everyone is mixed in a circle, and the so-called don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha. If you really want to completely defeat one party, I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to meet other relatives and friends in the future.

This is why European countries continued to launch anti-French alliances against Napoleon after he became the emperor of France, in fact, the previous wars against Napoleon's France, in a sense, were a group of relatives who came to seek justice for the Louis family, and as a result, they were beaten by the cannons and cavalry of the Emperor of Artillery.

In front of him, João IV is a bit like Louis XIV who was guillotined, but his opponent is not Napoleon, who caused public outrage in Europe, compared to this Corsican, González's experience in the East has already taught him some of the fur of my Chinese kingdom.

He did not hesitate to pay a lot of money to the Holy See, so that the Holy See recognized the legitimacy of the Restoration Army in some way, and then allied with France. France, which is currently pinching Spain, suddenly gets an ally with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to fight behind and on the flanks of Spain, how can such a good thing be spared? Thus, France was the first to recognize the Avenger as the sole legitimate government of Portugal.

To the east, in Turkey, Gonzalez cooperated with His Majesty the Sultan in a different way, and he single-handedly facilitated the commercial exchanges between the Ottoman Empire and the Southern Cantonese army, and the cannons and gunpowder, cannonballs, silk, tea, and porcelain were continuously transported by the fleet to the Mediterranean islands such as Greece and Cyprus.

In order to ensure that the goods and ships could be transported safely and smoothly to the hands of His Majesty, the Sultan was very generous in the face of the request of the merchants of Nanzhong, and opened the map of the Mediterranean Sea, allowing the merchants to choose where they saw fit, and could build a trading post on the island, station some soldiers, and build some fortifications.

With the support of these aspects, General González has quietly planned for himself countless times in his heart what kind of title he will be, and ascend the throne as the emperor of the Portuguese Empire.

However, just when he was in high spirits, an envoy from Lisbon sent him a piece of news that surprised him.

João IV invited General González to Lisbon for a meeting to discuss how to build peace. "We are all the Lambs of God, with Portuguese blood in our veins. We can't let the Portuguese knife cut off the head of the Portuguese. ”

The sincerity of his words and the humility of his attitude really moved a group of newly surrendered civil and military officials under Gonzalez, but for Gonzalez himself, this guy who has been immersed in the East for many years and has been ideologically Orientalized, instinctively smells a strange smell!

"This is clearly a banquet set up in Hongmen! I'm going to put me to death! ”

The officers who returned with him all the way from Nanzhong also saw the murderous motives hidden in João IV's enthusiastic letters.

However, the letter also gave Gonzalez a golden opportunity.

He swaggered from Gibraltar to Lisbon with a guard of 2,000 elite soldiers, and the towns along the way opened the gates to him under the banner of "meeting João IV in Lisbon", allowing him to enter reasonably and legally.

After about two days' journey, a force of nearly 10,000 men slowly followed, quickly completing the occupation of these towns. Poor João IV's hard work opened the way for González's march into Lisbon.

However, Gonzalez is also a qualified politician.

Each time you enter a town, you will first visit the nobles and religious leaders of the town.

In addition to throwing a lot of gold coins. In addition to giving valuable gifts from the East to the dignitaries of the town, Gonzalez was forced to donate large and small statues of the Virgin Mary made of holy porcelain to the church, (eh, Yan zhòng suspected to be an improved version of the statue of Guanyin), as well as fine silk embroidery from the Jiangnan region embroidered with religious stories, these beautiful items allowed the priests to decorate their churches more and more sacred and solemn, and to preach to the female faithful in front of the statue of the Virgin. Exorcise the demons in the boys' bodies and minds, then drink the best coffee and drinks made from oriental leaves in a beautiful glass.

Facing the nobles who represent the secular forces, the leaders of the trade guilds, and others. Gonzalez would say, "We have made peace with the monarchs of the East." Obtained exclusive trading rights. In the future, our country will burst out again with the glory of our predecessors, and let us bask in the glory of wealth. ”

If the other party is dressed in a sacred robe, with a golden cross hanging on his chest. He would put it another way: "Give thanks to the Lord Almighty for his brilliance." Tens of thousands of miles away in the East. Me and my friends. He led a lost lamb of the East into the path of God and opened up a parish for God. This lost lamb is grateful as a powerful monarch. We have been given exclusive trading rights. ”

"Moreover, our exclusive right to trade in the East, because we have turned this powerful Eastern monarch into a believer in God, and have been blessed by His Holiness the Pope."

That's what Gonzalez brags about. However, anyway, the distance between Portugal and the South China Sea Route is tens of thousands of miles, who will check it in person? Even if someone with that good deed went to the Vatican to inquire whether the general of the Restoration Army had opened up a diocese for the Lord because he had guided the Lord's blessings to the East, and those cardinals who held all the powers of the Holy See were busy holding the beautiful women and beautiful boys who had entered the shrine with Gonzalez, or they were counting the jewels on the cross, how could they have the spare time to care about this? Besides, you can't deny that there is such a glorious thing from any angle, right? Just as the myth of the "Kingdom of John the Elder" was concocted in order to fool the believers, so that when the crosses of Europe met the descendants of Temujin, they thought that they had finally found a long-lost organization, but before the tears in their eyes could be wiped away, the khan scimitar and the horn bow of the stubborn sheep on the opposite side told them not to recognize their relatives.

However, Gonzalez's true and false statements have achieved results that tens of thousands of troops may not be able to achieve. For countries with a very strong religious atmosphere, such as Portugal and Spain, it is better to boast of religious achievements than to boast of interests, and it is an achievement that can be canonized to fool a head of state into believing in the cross, (oh, and Paul, who seems to have left a place name in Shanghai, has now entered the process of canonization, because he has made great contributions to the spread of the cross to the East, and has also had a heavy influence on history among future generations.) And if the benefits of trade are combined with religious achievements, the lethality is enormous for a country like Portugal, which was the first to taste the sweetness of ocean trade. It can be said that no one can avoid it.

The news of his actions in towns along the way, as well as the shock of the 2,000 elite Guard, quickly became a heavy weight on the scales for Portuguese society to choose between González and João IV.

At the moment when João IV of Lisbon and his cronies and favored ministers around him were intensively planning every detail, but they didn't want to, a huge rift appeared in the aristocratic group that was originally thought to be monolithic. The nobles can support him from duke to emperor of Portugal, and they can also abandon him, an empty emperor in name only, and support a guy who is more powerful than him, and can bring more benefits and benefits to be their emperor, even if this person is a wild boy with no noble blood.

"Wouldn't it be better if you didn't have noble blood? How much more will he depend on us? ”

"That's it! Without an aristocratic background, can we fabricate a prominent family history for him from so many genealogical inheritances in Europe, saying that he is the sole inheritor of a declining heir, or is he an illegitimate child? ”

"That's right! Didn't Jesus conceive his mother Mary by God to have him? In other words, Jesus is God's illegitimate Son, a wild seed! ”

("Damn it!") You slanderer of the Lord, it is only because of the Lord that we live like this! Only because Shunzhi believed in the Lord that there was a prosperous era of Kangqian! "A guy who was remembered by everyone because he played Shi Guangrong. Full of devotion to the Lord, he stammered and stammered to find the author, this undisciplined guy is desperate! ）

The aristocrats of the cities and the new bourgeoisie, acting in their own interests, have turned to the side of Gonzalez, who is more powerful and can bring them more benefits and benefits. The clergy and the Inquisition, who represented the cross and were originally divided into several sects, also revered the glory and honor, wealth and faith that Gonzalez brought to the cross. As a result, various factions and forces quietly sent people out of Lisbon to pay tribute to Gonzarena.

"General, don't believe the lies of that Spanish bastard." Alas! In the mouths of the aristocracy, João IV, who used to represent Portugal, became a Spanish mongrel in a blink of an eye. Not bad, though. Who gave him the blood of a Spanish aristocrat in his body?

"He set up an ambush in Lisbon. It's ready to do poison on you and your great army! Turn our Portugal back into a vassal of the Spaniards, and let our beautiful and free country be ravaged by the Spaniards! ”

"General! No! The only true monarch of our great Portugal! I built yì and slaughtered that Spanish mongrel directly! How about hammering? ”

"God admonishes us to love the world. Therefore, our punishment should be gentle. Do not bleed. I heard that the Spanish bastard believed in heresy. It's just a matter of burning at the stake. ”

A pastor calmly mentioned a Jianyì. His proposal was immediately applauded by the Inquisition.

"Given that he is, after all, the King of Portugal and has enjoyed the honours that Portugal has brought him, we must be gentle in his execution at the stake. You can't just burn to death. Take your time and try not to let your body burn like char. So, I use small firewood, and at the same time, I can't spray grease on the firewood, on the contrary, I need to pour some water on it. In order to make the firewood burn more slowly. ”

"Well, gentlemen, let's discuss how to arrest the traitor of Portugal, the traitor of Spain, the traitor of our country, who is still entrenched in Lisbon and deceives the people and insults religion in the name of the King of Portugal."

Traitor, traitor, traitor, these three nouns that came out of Gonzalez's mouth immediately became the article before the title of João IV. When people mention him again, they will inevitably carry these three terms.

Outside Lisbon, João IV went out of the city to welcome González and tried to lure him into an ambush he had set up to arrest him, but González and his men preemptively arrested him. And in front of the tens of thousands of Lisbon citizens who came to welcome and see the bustling Lisbon, he revealed his ugly face.

When the stunned citizens discovered the cannons hidden under the welcoming flowers, and the palace soldiers in ambush behind the ribbons and garlands, they turned from astonishment to anger under the guidance of the well-intentioned people.

"I die innocently, I forgive my enemies, and may my blood appease God's wrath against Portugal."

When the enraged citizens of Lisbon snatched the crown from João IV's head, seized the scepter from his hand, tore his beautiful robes, and loudly discussed in the square in front of the court how to execute this Spanish mongrel, the traitor traitor of Portugal, João IV's face turned pale and the corners of his mouth trembled, but in order to maintain the demeanor of a monarch, he still tried to stand up straight and not let himself fall down in fear.

Beside him, the locks of hair were torn by a group of girls from the bottom of Lisbon, the queen's uniform on her body was also torn, revealing the petticoat inside, and the jewelry on her body and head was also looted by those women who took advantage of the chaos, and the queen who was scratched with blood marks on her face, tried to maintain the aristocratic demeanor of being instilled with education since childhood, but she also muttered to herself: "Freedom, how many sins are done in the name of you." ”

"We will immediately execute the king and queen that the Spaniards have given us!" Someone shouted hoarsely, and even the fellow, who was anxious to show his loyalty to his new master, brought the stake rack and firewood from the Inquisition, and prepared to burn the Portuguese traitor and traitor couple in the streets of Lisbon, just as Bruno had burned back then, to give a bad breath to the Portuguese, and by the way, let those damned Spaniards see!

"The people of Portugal, João IV, as the monarch of Portugal, colluded with Spain to persecute God's people, believed in heresy, and tried in vain to kill the hope of Portugal when the Portuguese republicans regained their land. What he did is unforgivable even to God! ”

Surrounded by countless small aristocrats, González, who appeared on the streets of Lisbon like a god on an Arabian horse, gave an impromptu and stern speech.

"Still, I decided to release him and his wife. Because, it is a revelation from God. After being expelled from Paradise, people have original sin in their bodies, which is why they come to the world to suffer all kinds of suffering, and the Lord tests our faith. Therefore, Portugal will temporarily fall into the hands of Spain. During this time, each of us, who has not done anything to endure humiliation, and who has not chosen to compromise, does not negate the Portuguese loyalty to God. Although I have no way of knowing whether João IV really willingly served Spain, we all have this sin, including me, so I will not use this as a reason to kill him. I have decided to deport him and his family from all their possessions, titles, and honours in Portugal! To thank God for His mercy and greatness! ”

Gonzalez's speech immediately won a tsunami of applause and cheers.

"Long live His Majesty the King!"

Someone took the opportunity to take the lead in shouting slogans in the crowd! (To be continued......)