Of course, the British could not let the Spaniards go to the shore of India, they were robbers of the sea like the Spaniards, they knew what virtues the Spaniards had, and like them, they would not leave if they sat in someone's house, and it was very likely that the dove would occupy the magpie's nest, how could they let their peers settle in their colonies for no reason, if it was the British mainland, let you occupy it for a while, it is not impossible, everyone in the West is a family, going out, if you still believe that we are all Westerners, help out, then it is not mentally retarded, It's an idiot.

Everyone is a colonist, to put it bluntly, they are all robbers, do robbers still have a reason to tell?

Direct seizure by force, justified also requires a tough knife handle, no one in the East has a tough knife handle as the Chinese Empire, although the British have been running India for nearly a century, but they do not dare to open this hole to the Spaniards.

The Spaniards were not afraid, they came east this time, but they brought enough soldiers and horses, 5,000 fully armed soldiers, although these soldiers were actually recruited to those stragglers and wanderers in the country because of years of war and turmoil, and there were many mercenaries who had been begging for food in various Western countries for many years, and there were also some second sons and concubines of Western princes and nobles who wanted to make contributions to their families, concubines, or some famous adventurers.

Most of these people's equipment is prepared by themselves, and less is invested by the Spanish royal family or princes and nobles, while the warships are owned by the royal family of the Spanish royal family.

Most of the battleships brought this time are third-class battleships, there are almost twenty-eight, and there are five or six second-class battleships, a first-class battleship, and more than a dozen cross-sail warships, this time it can be regarded as an expedition, of course, they are not stupid, they know that the Huaxia Empire is strong, and they have defeated strong enemies slightly, they are just here to look for opportunities, to see if there is a chance to fight with the Huaxia Empire, obtain some benefits, or get some benefits from others.

On their way east, they uprooted several French colonial strongholds in the Atlantic, attacked several Dutch warships, and obtained many Dutch merchant ships and warships to carry supplies and manpower.

Using these seized materials, plus the trade materials brought by their warships, a lot was obtained in the Guangzhou Mansion of China, but most of them were obtained in Huaxia Yuan, Huaxia now prohibits gold and silver trading, and people have been accustomed to using the paper money that is difficult to imitate in this era and is similar to that of later generations, and many anti-counterfeiting processes, Huaxia Yuan.

Most of the materials used in these banknotes are made by Zhang Qiang and some levies, as well as the craftsmen he has instructed, and then made by ordinary craftsmen's workshops.

Although it was not the first time that the Spaniards had seen these currencies, they were also extremely shocked and fond of them, and at the same time they had no choice but to accept these banknotes, and then look for places to buy the goods they needed and sell goods.

As for the search for an opportunity to acquire a port around the Chinese Empire and force the Chinese Empire to recognize them, this opportunity dispelled this idea after they had been sailing the sea for months.

Don't look at the sea frontier of the Chinese Empire, even if there are clippers, flying clippers with a speed of seventeen or eighteen knots, eight hundred miles of expedited on land, and a backbone network of the telegraph system that has just begun to be established, but there are loopholes to be drilled, the problem is that they can't afford to provoke the ironclad steam sail dual-purpose clippers that follow them faster than them at all times, and that is not something they can catch up with at all.

You can conquer an island, but then they see the fleet of experimental steam-engined ironclad ships that the Chinese Empire has just equipped, but they feel stressed and helpless.

Not only was the speed four or five knots faster than theirs, but the ships were strong and the guns were sharp, the men on board were numerous, and although the hull was not as large as theirs, and the tonnage was not as high as theirs, the battleships with ramming angles and the kind of flowering shells of later generations were not something they could defeat.

Spain once met, on the peace of mind in the Chinese domestic travel, the core area of the Chinese Empire in many areas, some prosperous areas are not open to outsiders, just like the Qing Dynasty government, or the Ming Dynasty government, the Chinese Empire is also limited to outsiders, the establishment of treaty ports, not to mention Spain, the British these outsiders, the appearance is different from the Han people, let's say the Western Regions and other places in the Western Regions of later generations of China's western provinces The appearance of the Han people in the Central Plains is also not unimpeded in the core area.

The Han people naturally have some of their own physiognomy characteristics, after decades of immigration, the Han people of the Chinese Empire have converged, for outsiders and Han people are clear at a glance, if you want to reach other places, not the Han people in the core area, you can not be unimpeded, there are many places that you are not allowed to reach easily, such as some very important areas, which have always been places where soldiers must fight.

Where there are not only guards, garrison troops to control the passes, and even a field army stationed, ordinary garrison troops, which now have functions similar to the police of later generations, or the guards of the Ming Kingdom can not approach these areas at will, to pass through, ordinary people can also, the army, even if it is a company formed to pass through, must be reported first, and there are garrison troops along the way to supervise.

The Spaniards, these outsiders, can not go deep into the interior to explore, can only tour in the coastal trade port area, can also go to Jinling Mansion, Yanjing, Vladivostok and other places at will, but if you want to go deeper, it is not possible, to the Western Regions, you have to hold the warrant of Jinling Mansion or Yanjing Prefecture to pass and detain, as well as the warrant stamped by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Supervision, as well as the warrant after the review of the local field army and the guard, and send garrison and garrison soldiers to follow.

Therefore, the Spanish understanding of the Chinese Empire, after a few months, was also a glimpse, swept away, and then led the fleet and caravan to embark on the journey back, but under the guidance of the intelligence officers of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, they turned to the port of the British colony of India, and then visited the British governor, and proposed to buy a port or a place to station, of course the British would not agree.

So they pretended to be disappointed, and after going a long way, they turned around and came back, and attacked the ports of the British, as they did in the West, for example, in the Caribbean.

India's coastline is also very long, and it is impossible to station too many people in any small port, plus the British after decades of naval blockade by the Chinese Empire, after some people came over by land, there was no extra manpower to come here, and the local soldiers stationed there were Indian indigenous soldiers, and in the face of the strong navy and strength of the Spaniards, they were about to collapse.

When the news reached the colonial governor for most of the month, the British were furious, and they were very depressed, everyone in the West was like this, this situation became more and more serious, and they had nothing to do, they also knew the strength of this fleet, the key was the army soldiers of the Spanish fleet, 5,000 people, and the British soldiers in India that Britain now had left.

(End of chapter)