"It's such a good place, I wonder if there's any spare land here? I'd rather set up a villa here and stay here for a few days when I'm free. Alberto, the speaker of the Manila Assembly, looked out the window and felt a little relieved.

After Guo Qing beckoned the Japanese girl to put down the refreshments, he walked to Alberto's side and glanced out the window, before saying, "The best Area A has been booked, and there are still some places in Area B."

At the same height as my office is Area A, which is the highest place in Baguio and the most open view, with only 23 locations in total, half of which are occupied by the company's administrative body. The other half has been booked by the company's directors and a few domestic nobles, so I can't put out a foundation for you.

Zone B is a little lower, but it's open enough that you can build a large garden in addition to a house. Baguio has a great climate and many flowers can grow here, and if you're planning to build a house here, I'll introduce you to a great landscape designer who will make sure you forget about the city of Manila. ”

Alberto left the window, sat down at the coffee table and said, "That's it, when you have chosen a place, I will ask my architect to come to Baguio and let him look at the design of the place." But when exactly are you going to leave for Manila? I've been in Baguio for almost three days. Do you want this war to continue? I don't think that's going to do anyone any good. ”

Guo Qing raised his teacup and saluted Alberto, before he said calmly: "Of course, it is good for the war to continue, Speaker Alberto, don't you think that Coqueira is not suitable to be the governor of Manila?" He messed everything up and ruined our trade cooperation, and the company lost more than millions of dollars in trade last year and this year, and we can't tolerate him continuing to behave like this. Mr. Speaker, don't you have anything to lose? ”

Alberto took an awkward sip of tea and avoided Guo Qing's rhetorical question, before continuing to persuade: "Mr. Coqueira has learned this lesson, I believe he should have changed. After all, he represents the will of the Viceroy of New Spain, and if something happens here, it will be difficult for us to explain it to the Viceroy of New Spain. ”

Guo Qing put down the teacup, looked at the other party and said: "Then let Mr. Coqueira go and explain to the Governor of New Spain by himself, a Governor of Manila who has lost the Philippine colony, I believe it should be enough to let the Governor of New Spain know what kind of person he should send to serve as the Governor of Manila next time." ”

Alberto leaned forward nervously and said, "Do you really plan to occupy the entire Philippine Islands?" I'm afraid that's not appropriate. ”

Guo Qing replied unhurriedly: "In fact, the company thinks that it is enough for the Kingdom of Spain to own the city of Manila and some small islands in the ministry. Manila had to become a colony that depended on trade between the two sides of the Pacific to survive, so that the officials of the Viceroyalty of New Spain would not think about using the scale of trade to control our exports to the colonies of New Spain.

Of course, the company will still protect the property of Mr. Speaker and his friends in Manila. So, this is just a change of control in the Philippine colonies, and it will not damage our friendship. I am confident that Mr. Speaker will make a wise choice..."

A wise choice, after trying his best to persuade Guo Qing to no avail, Alberto naturally had to choose to defend his property. As the man in front of him said, the other party had seized only the property of the King of Spain, and had nothing to do with them, the poor colonial citizens, as long as they did not take the wrong side.

When Alberto left Guo Qing's office disappointed but happy, Guo Qing called his secretary and instructed him: "Help me write a letter to tell the Mori Katsuya and Sanada Yukimasa that they can finish the battle of Kovan and continue to the south."

I gave them a month to take the Neihu area. As long as the Spaniards in Manila don't come out and interfere, don't bother with them. In a month I will leave for Manila to prepare for the end of the war. You give them the letter yourself, and when they finish reading it, they burn it..."

When Guo Qing was thinking about digging out a piece of the Philippines from the hands of the Spaniards, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, someone had already knocked a dark stick to the Spanish royal family.

On the afternoon of October 11, the citizens of Guayaquil witnessed an unforgettable scene. The guards of the Santa Ana Hill Fort were the first to notice an anomaly in the northern sea, where about 9 pirate ships were besieging 3 ships on the sea.

It was soon recognized that the three Callao silver ships that had just left Guayaquil were besieged. Although the three Calla Russian silver ships were 4-500 ton Galen ships, two of them were Spanish warships, and their performance and firepower were excellent.

But the pirate ships besieging these silver ships also had three large ships of more than 500 tons and excellent performance, and the firepower of these three large ships was more ferocious than that of the Spanish warships. It was under the siege of these three large ships that the silver ship became scarred and had to turn around and flee to Guayaquil. To be honest, if it weren't for the other party's desire to capture these three silver-carrying ships, it is estimated that they would have been sunk into the sea.

Even so, the three silver carriers were intercepted one by one, and the nearest one was less than three miles from the mouth of the Guayas River. Under the watchful eyes of the citizens and defenders of Guayaquil, these pirate ships began a brazen boarding campaign with 2-3 ships against a silver ship.

Seeing this scene, a second lieutenant at the Santa Anna Hill Fort couldn't help but angrily plead to his commander, "Mr. Captain, should we do something to help those poor crews?" ”

The lieutenant guarding the fort, though pale, refused his men's request, and said to the second lieutenant, "Our cannons can only reach the mouth of the river, and they are still out of our range.

Look at the cannons of those pirate ships, are we going to use muskets against cannons? The ships in our harbor are not equipped with more cannons than the cannons of one ship on the other side. Rushing out now is just a few more desserts for these Brits.

Mr. Ensign, our priority is to defend Guayaquil, not the king's wealth. We'd better pray that the Brits won't fight us again after they have seized the silvership, or I can't guarantee that the city will become the fourth silvership of the day.

What the hell, how did the British get so many ships into the Pacific..."

The Spaniard's Galen sailed on the Caravel and Clark yachts, balancing the characteristics of the Caravel and Clark sailboats, and was extremely seaworthy and load-bearing. In this era when military and civilian ship types have not yet been separated, it can be said that it is an excellent ship type used in ocean trade and naval warfare, and it is also the most popular ship type in Europe now.

These three silver ships of 4-500 tons were equipped with 90 crew members, namely: 15 officers, 25 sailors, 20 midshipmen, 10 squires, and 20 gunners. Its two warships also carried a company of about 125 soldiers.

But these nine pirate ships carried at least 100 heavily armed pirates, not to mention the three double-decked pirate ships, which carried at least 200 pirates armed with muskets.

Therefore, the British pirate Captain Payne, who commanded the battle, felt that he was not directing the pirates to attack the Spanish warships, but to direct the fleet to encircle and suppress the Spanish warships. The fight wasn't exciting at all, and it didn't make him feel the joy of being a pirate at all.

So Captain Payne, who had been a pioneer in the past, today only let his ships wander around the perimeter, watching the movement of the shore and observing the battle of the three silver ships.

Today was a day of disaster for the Spanish officers and men of the three silver-carrying ships. The Pacific coast is not devoid of pirates, but never before have there been as many pirate ships as there are today.

This is the Pacific coast, not the Galle Sea, where pirates hide. There may be pirates who bypass the Strait of Magellan and come to the west coast of the Americas, but these pirates can only have two or three small ships at most, and it is possible to attack coastal villages and ports that are unguarded, but this is the first time they have challenged Spanish warships.

In the matter of defending the West Indies, the Spaniards spared no effort. From 1586 King Philip sent the Italian engineer Juan. Bautista. Antonelli's expedition to the defense of the Galle archipelago began.

The Spaniards successively made their way in the main ports of the Galle Sea, Havana, San Juan de . Ulua, Puerto Rico, Puerto Bellu and Cartagena. Ports such as Hawkins-Drake were heavily fortified.

But the cost of such fortifications was also a heavy burden for the Spanish king. When the Dutch fleet crossed the Strait of Magellan in 1615 and crossed the Pacific Ocean along Captain Drake's route to the Spice Islands in Southeast Asia, it exposed the weakness of the Spanish American colonies in the direction of the Pacific seas.

Prince Eskilache, who had been governor of Peru for 1 year, set out to develop an expensive coastal defense plan. But the plan caused the Spanish Finance Council to complain that the royal family's silver was taken by the Viceroyals of Mexico and Peru to reach the pirates, and what was the difference between being robbed by pirates?

Thus, when Prince Eskirache stepped down, the Peruvian coastal defense plan was once again put on hold. However, the control of the Spaniards from Mexico to the east coast of South America made it impossible for pirates on the Pacific coast, and thus the sea power of the Viceroyalty of Peru was not strong.

In contrast to the large and small fleets of 30-90 ships that could not be organized in the Galle Sea, the ships of the Viceroyalty of Peru and the Viceroyalty of New Spain on the Pacific coast did not add up to 20 Galen galleons combined.

Once a year, silver from Peru is shipped to Panama. The silver-laden fleet departed from the port of Callao to Panama City and then transported the silver nuggets by a herd of mules to Nembre de Nonmbra de Galle on the coast of the Galle Sea. Dios, and finally sent to Mexico to be sent back to Spain by the Grand Fleet.

Because the voyage is not long and only occurs once a year, it is difficult for pirates to detect. Therefore, the voyage from Peru to Panama was the safest, which is why the silver ship was approached by a pirate ship today and realized that it was wrong.

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