As Wu Zhengdao thought, the Spaniards in Manila did send a number of spies to lurk in Batavia, observing the Australians' every move, and even the agreement between them and Governor Van Dimen was clear. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Don't look at the Spaniards on the battlefield is not the opponent of the Dutch, but they are indeed much more clever than the Dutch in terms of intelligence, they should not just have planted eyeliner in the city, and also planted an inside line in the Doge's Palace, but the Spaniards must be good at using intelligence, otherwise in their situation, in a few hundred years, how could they suffer defeats one after another.

Of course, it is also related to the inconvenience of intelligence transmission during this period, and the sea between Batavia and Manila has brought a lot of trouble to intelligence transmission.

But this time they received information that the Australians were about to come to Manila, which was the first time in history that a high-ranking Australian official went here, and in order to show that he valued the Australians, the Governor of Manila even came to a street cleaning operation.

The original intention is mainly to know that Australians love cleanliness, because the streets of Hong Kong are always clean, and there is no feces or the like, so he specially explained that Australians are never allowed to defecate on the street these days, and anyone and livestock defecate on the street, even if there is, they must be cleaned up immediately.

The speed of the sailboat was not fast, but it still took four days to reach Manila, at this time Wu Zhengdao and his entourage had already landed on the shore, and the shore guard guessed their identities after seeing a group of people dressed differently, these people should be Australians.

The service and dress of Australians are different from those of the Ming Dynasty, they habitually wear black trousers, white shirts, and a pair of black shiny leather shoes.

Although this kind of dress is a bit nondescript, it can be seen that the cloth they use is either the silk of the merchant or the clothing made of pure cotton.

It's a luxury, and it's said that anyone who works as a coolie in Australia can get this kind of clothes on board, and oh my God, it's a terrible thing.

I didn't have time to think about it, and I couldn't care about it so much, the shore guard had already received the latest order, once the Australians came, they must be well received, this is a major matter related to the life and death of Manila.

In short, the Spaniards took the arrival of the Australians very seriously, and in order to facilitate negotiations with Spain, Zhou Yang had come to Manila a few days ago to wait for the arrival of Wu Zhengdao and others.

A few minutes later, a carriage came from the direction of the city and stopped in front of Wu Zhengdao and the others.

Zhou Yang, dressed as a local in Manila, stepped out of the carriage and stretched out his hand towards Wu Zhengdao.

"Welcome to Manila, a 17th-century Southeast Asian city, where the environment is not bad, at least there is no excrement on the streets."

Zhou Yang described it like this, and I don't know whether he praised the Spaniard or deliberately sarcastic. He was accompanied by a Spaniard, who, judging by his temperament and appearance, was supposed to be an official.

To introduce, this is the Manila City Defense Officer, Mr. Christie, who is also the main person in charge of receiving us this time, let's go on the carriage.

Christie shook hands with Wu Zhengdao and finally got into the carriage.

"It's really different from Batavia, at least in terms of living environment, it's more inhabitable."

Fu Helin looked at the scene outside the carriage and gave a comparative evaluation.

What he didn't know, however, was that all of this had changed because of their arrival, and that the Spaniards had given a coercive order.

"Everything is an illusion, Lao Fu, don't be deceived by the scene in front of you, they came here for you to come here for a big cleaning, so you should know what the reason is."

Wu Zhengdao and Fu Helin nodded, saying that they understood that the Spaniards attached so much importance to the arrival of the Australians this time because they wanted to buy weapons from the Australians, although they didn't know what the performance of the Australians' weapons was, this was not the key, the key issue was to have a good relationship with the Australians.

The presence of the Australians can be said to have indirectly disrupted the original pattern of power, and in this case, if it can form an alliance with the Australians, it will be very beneficial for Spain to deal with the Dutch attack more and more difficult.

So they can't pay attention to it, it's a relationship that depends on whether they can continue to exist in this area.

"The Spaniards have a lot of money, and this time I came over and gave me a lot of good gifts, I guess they already know about your affairs in Batavia, and they know that you are negotiating the sale of weapons, and they probably want to buy them."

"Is it worth spending so much money in order to buy a weapon that you don't know how powerful it is?"

"Weapons are not important, what is important is an alliance with us, and if they are allies, it means that they have one more opponent to deal with the Netherlands, which is very important for Spain."

Wu Zhengdao explained to Fu and Lin why the other party would spend such a large price, and it was a gift, and it was such a grand reception.

After getting out of the carriage, Christie personally came over and introduced Wu Zhengdao and others into a large courtyard, which clearly showed traces of the Western Renaissance.

From this alone, you can see that the Spaniards did invest a lot of money, and the house was better than what the Dutch offered.

Welcome, this is where you will rest for the next few nights. Christie was very enthusiastic and brought a few people into the room.

What is the living environment, in fact, these are nothing, the more enthusiastic the other party shows, it means that the greater what they want, the reason why the Dutch are not so enthusiastic, is completely because they do not feel that they are much worse than the Australians, so this is why they are not as enthusiastic as Spain.

After taking a seat, the servant served tea, and Christie began to talk with Wu Zhengdao.

"Minister Wu, it is said that you came to Manila this time to have a military exchange with us, and I don't know how your military exchange method is."

Although Zhou Yang had already explained to him what military exchanges were, in order to have a good topic, he still asked the questions he knew, of course, to determine whether Zhou Yang's answer was consistent with Australian officials.

"Mr. Christie, the purpose of our visit is to have an in-depth exchange with your military, and also to learn from each other, of course, in order to facilitate mutual learning between us, you can also send an equal army into the Australian mainland for exchanges, which is the main purpose of military exchanges between our two sides."

Although Wu Zhengdao and Zhou Yang said basically the same answer, the words that came out of the mouths of local officials in Australia always made Christie more affirmative.

(To be continued.) )