"No, no. You can't do that, you can't ......"

Amid the screams of a Spanish prisoner of war, another Spanish officer tied up across from him let out a bitter and sad howl of pain came out of his mouth.

His little brother and two balls were cut off.

Navarro had a nervous breakdown, and the torture was still acceptable to him, after all, they were prisoners of war. Before being captured, they also burned one Chinese immigrant village after another, killed some Chinese immigrants, and all Chinese soldiers captured in the war were executed. After being captured, Navarro was ready to die.

But the Chinese are going to castrate them, which is not something Navarro can afford. Even death is better than such an insult.

"You're all a bunch of devils, devils."

"God will punish you, God will punish you......"

The inquisitor motioned for Navarro to be untied, and he had been beaten twenty or thirty lashes beforehand, not the kind with barbs, but with wire woven into the leather whip, and whipped with salt water, which could kill a person when he was ruthless.

"We don't believe in the evil god of God." The inquisitor said lightly.

After being loosened, Navarro immediately spread to the ground, he heard the words of the inquisitor, he subconsciously wanted to refute, the merciful Lord is not an evil god, but he has not blurted out his words, the whole person is like sitting on a red-hot iron plate, quickly rolling away, as if seeing a flood beast.

In fact, what he saw was indeed a man's 'flood beast', and the lieutenant's 'one fritter with two eggs' that had just been tortured with him was thrown to the ground, and it was a bloody mess with a fishy smell, and as he collapsed, it appeared in front of his eyes.

The thrill of that moment made Navarro's whiplash no longer hurt, and the 'Merciful Lord' went to hell.

Of course, the captured Spanish officer had also passed out and was dragged out, leaving a long trail of blood on the ground.

"Now I will honestly explain what happened to our soldiers after they were captured. Tell us all the information you know, and if you dare to lie, what happened to that person just now will happen exactly to you. ”

The inquisitor intimidated Navarro, causing Navarro's nerves to fall into complete panic, the lump in front of him was too powerful to hurt a man, and he watched the lump being brutally cut off from the genitals of an officer, and he was going crazy at the thought that such an encounter would happen to him.

"I said, I said it all. It was General Desegre who wanted to put them to death, and it was the general's order. ”

"He said that we can't move with those prisoners of war, that we don't have extra horses, and that if you release the prisoners of war, it's to help you. So he ordered all the captives to be killed. ”

The dead Chinese are the best Chinese. - Navarro still remembers the laughter of the company captain when he delivered the order.

So after being captured, he hardly thought that he would return to Mexico alive, and he subconsciously thought that the Chinese would definitely kill them, after all, these barbaric Orientals have a tradition of slaughtering prisoners of war since ancient times, right?

Their history records that 400,000 prisoners of war were buried alive more than 2,000 years ago, and Navarro couldn't believe it was true when he first heard this 'legend'.

- Two armies of one million men, 400,000 people were annihilated in one fell swoop, and then buried alive. God, this is a tragedy that has never happened in the entire history of Europe, and it is impossible to say that there were 400,000 people in the Iberian Peninsula 2,000 years ago.

But, however, even if Navarro died, he did not want to die after becoming a eunuch.

That's horrible.

"Is there an interrogation? Did any POWs give in? ”

Navarro was a little deprived of oxygen to his brain after hearing the Inquisitor's next question. How could there be no trial? When the team set off at the mouth of the Colorado River, it brought with them a few Chinese-speaking businessmen. They urgently need to know clearer details about the Chinese.

"Of course there is an interrogation. We'd like to know your forces and more details about where your villages are located. ”

"But your soldiers are strong, and we have taken fewer prisoners, and most of your soldiers would rather die in battle than be captured. De Segre ordered them to be tortured, but few gave in. "The main thing is that the torture methods of the Spaniards are far less cruel and professional than the Chinese, and they do not have as much time as these Chinese.

The torture of the Chinese not only tests the human body, but also tortures the human spirit, which the Spanish cannot do. The latter are all military personnel and not specialized torturers. The so-called torture was only with sticks and whips, and at most with bayonets. Of course, Navarro would never have uttered these words.

"Anyway, as far as I know, all the people are dead, all dead. Desegre ordered them to be killed. ”

Navarro did not understand why the Chinese were so concerned about the fate of their captured soldiers, but as the interrogator's questioning deepened, he sensed that something was wrong, and the purpose of the Chinese's interrogation seemed to be concerned about the loyalty of the captured soldiers, rather than what kind of tragic fate had befallen them.

This made Navarro feel unworthy for the Chinese soldiers. The greatest sorrow for the soldiers was that the emperor to whom they were loyal did not trust them.

"Bring up number one hundred and thirty-five. Let him take a good look at that lump, and hope he can be honest. "There is no need for any more effort and effort on the part of the interrogators.

The inquisitor signed his own signature, then stamped the 'One Hundred and Thirty-Four' and placed it in a file. Navarro was taken away.

"That's a coward, but not as strong as the two of them before. The screams alone scared him into a rat. ”

The deputy took out a box of peppermint oil, first sniffed it under his nose, and a cool breath rushed straight to his brain, and his drowsy brain instantly woke up. Then he dotted his fingers in the middle and applied the ointment to his temples.

After the inquisitor sorted out the confession, he also took out a box of cigarettes, which the people who do their job have never been able to do without.

The thick stack of confessions was contained in a file book, and in fact what it was of any use in the end, the inquisitors did not know. The only thing they were told was that they would pry open the mouths of their captives and extract from them the 'loyalty' of the captured soldiers of the expeditionary force.

Facts have proved that among the 134 confessions that have been made so far, the loyalty of the captured fighters has been clearly manifested, and many of them are good. Although there are a few people who have done bad things, most of them are good, especially the soldiers from the Praetorian Guard, who can be called heroes.

Much better than these Spaniards.

Among the latter, there are also those who are unyielding, such as the aristocratic officer who was cut off a 'lump', but there are very few such people.

Repetitive work began.

Not every time you encounter a 'stranger' during an interrogation, after being dragged into the interrogation room and then eating the 'killing stick', the Spanish prisoners of war on the ninth floor will succumb, even if they are pure Spaniards, not colonial troops.

Compared to the large number of mixed races in the infantry, the cavalry unit is a relatively high part of pureblood, and even if some are born in Mexico, they will not be mixed-blood.

Such a highly repetitive task can be boring.

The Inquisitor even felt that this was a waste of his life, he had already submitted fifty copies to the superiors, but unfortunately the superiors did not say that the task was completed, and he still needed to waste his life here.

……

Unbeknownst to the lowly interrogators, the confessions in their hands had been brought into full play, and a trap had been set up against the cavalry led by Desegre.

The high echelons of the expeditionary force believed that the loyalty of the soldiers was credible, and fifty confessions made everyone want to kill Desegre, but it was the deaths of these captured soldiers that proved their loyalty.

And now, the high-level of the expeditionary force is going to use human life, use death, use the Spanish cavalry to attack for a long time, people are tired, ammunition is also consumed a lot, it has reached the end of the crossbow, has reached the time to turn back, the kind of psychology that bursts out to make a big good return to the relationship, design a trap, hoping to put this damn Spanish cavalry into it in one fell swoop.

And the loyalty of the soldiers guarantees that it will not happen, nor can it happen like the siege of Mayi of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in history.

The siege of Mayi in history fell short because of the leakage of a small Yanmen Captain's history, and the 300,000 troops of the Han family were vacant and in vain.

The situation now is very different from that time, but it is also very similar.

The Spaniards had the advantage of cavalry, but they could not nibble on any of the larger towns, and the threat they could pose to the Chinese immigrants was a financial blow. Everywhere you go, whenever you come across an immigrant village, it will be burned to the ground......

……

In the city of Nanjing, the aura emanating from the imperial city is still a little oppressive.

The newly organized North American reinforcements have been on their way for a month, and it's winter. The Emperor's displeasure still caused the political center of the entire empire to be in turmoil.

This year's winter has been particularly cold.

Even the lights on the Qinhuai River are much dimmer, and many of the wealthy and wealthy children of Nanjing would rather go to Yangzhou on the other side of the river to have fun, or go to Suzhou and Shanghai, rather than stay in Nanjing, where the breath is low.

The center of this depression is, of course, the emperor Chen Ming, but the force that formed such a depression mass is not only Chen Ming, but also the civil and military ministers and nobles of the Manchu Dynasty.

They are also worried about the war in North America.

Even if the Nanyang War went smoothly and abnormally and had entered the final stage, it could not bring joy to Chen Ming.

Because two Danish merchant ships loaded the treasury of Batavia and sailed to Ceylon. By the time the Nanyang sailors finally learned the whereabouts of the Dutch East India Company's vaults in Batavia from the captives, it was too late.

Although the war against Batavia did not have a huge war deficit, the profits from the war were much smaller than expected.

The two Danish merchant ships carried at least 50 million guilders worth of gold and silver, or 160 million Chinese dollars, and this huge wealth belonged not only to the Dutch East India Company, but also to the church in Batavia and many high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants.

The financial constraints once made Chen Ming have the idea of 'ransom', those Dutch who were captured in the war, many of them have noble status, such as the governor who was captured in the governor's palace in Batavia, and the bishop who was captured in the church, these people will not be worth much, fortunately he has not been carried away by money, and the existence of Ceylon has brought Chen Ming's brain back to his senses in time.

So, Chen Ming needs money now.

The North American reinforcements and fleet he had recently assembled had cost a considerable amount of money, and he had to find a way to fill it, or it would cause a cascade of follow-up reactions, and the year-end financial report would be too unpleasant.

Chen Ming is now 10,000 envious of the old beauty of the 21st century, and spends paper as money, how cool!

Global borrowing, one country consumption, how great!

But what about China now? It's simply not possible.

Chen Ming plans to use the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce to lend a sum of money to the country, although the interest rate is very low, but he has already filled up his small treasury full of gold and silver, and he is really unwilling to put the silver into the treasury for free.

Perhaps this is the thinking in his brain about the ultimate direction of the country, and the positioning is becoming clearer and clearer, so clear that he can no longer achieve 'I am the country', and can no longer achieve 'everything in the world is mine'.

This different feeling made him choose to 'borrow' instead of the unhesitating investment he had at the beginning.

The current finance needs 100 million yuan to fill the vacancy, and Chen Ming is not taking the shares of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce to cash out on the stock market, this amount is too large, and it completely depends on the stock market, and it may not be possible to make it up for a while. Chen Ming is directly trading, and the object of his transaction is his obvious imperial property.

For example, there are several gardens outside Beijing, such as Xiaotangshan.

The latter has been a sacred place of recuperation near Beijing for hundreds of years, with hot springs gushing endlessly and high water temperatures. Zhu Ming time had been opened as the royal forbidden garden, Qing Kangxi 54 years to build the Tangquan Palace here, in the spring next to the lotus pond, for the emperor, dignitaries bathing. During the Qianlong period, it was expanded, and a quiet garden was built in the north of the original palace. The palace is full of pavilions and pavilions, and it is magnificent.

Countless Manchu princes, nobles and dignitaries built gardens here, and when the Han army recovered Beijing, these all became Chen Ming's royal private property.

Although Xiaotangshan has declined now, after all, it is no longer the imperial capital, and the emperor has not been there in these years. But the scenery of the place is beautiful, and the scenery of the gardens everywhere is well preserved, and it can be sold for some money.

This is just one of the examples, a loan of 100 million yuan is not enough just to buy a garden in Xiaotangshan. In that case, the price of Koyuyama will be as low as the price of cabbage.

It took Chen Zhongsheng six days to get everything done. As it turned out, he was also a qualified housekeeper in the Internal Affairs Department.

He 'introduced' a few former Korean elites who were trying to integrate into Chinese society, but kept a certain distance from Jiangnan society and culture, to Beijing, as well as Suluhou and the Ryukyu king, and the representatives of those families in Nanjing almost did not hesitate to bid for the few gardens that were listed in Xiaotangshan.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty has long been rotten in China, but the identity of the former royal family makes the garden they left behind seem to be tainted with a touch of luxury.

Then there was the share trading of some enterprises under the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, which took a total of six days.

After completing all this, Chen Zhongsheng happily went to the Qianqing Palace to report, and he also brought Chen Ming a new proposal.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that if Your Majesty can visit Xiaotangshan in person, its value and influence will definitely rise sharply." The high land price of Xiaotangshan is because it was a place where Kang Mazi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong frequented, and now the land price there is to be raised, and Chen Ming's personal visit to Xiaotangshan is undoubtedly a huge stimulus.

Who asked the emperor to put Xiao Tangshan in the 'shot' piece.

There are so many gardens, it's a pity to buy them cheaply.

"Where did I get the time to go to Beijing?"

"Cheap is cheap. A year ago, I raised another 100 million. ”