At one o'clock in the afternoon in the sunny port of St. Friday, the sea breeze blows in from outside. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As usual, the Governor of the Precinct was enjoying a leisurely afternoon tea, the aroma of cocoa, which most of the nobles did not like, reverberated through the ornate rooms, with the occasional melodious jingle of sugar spoons and expensive Chinese porcelain.

On the bookcase next to it was a brand new book, a letter from the Viceroyalty of Peru, and a bright mirror that could be considered a luxury at the courts of Europe.

The brand-new book had a bookmark on page 30.

In the eyes of the Governor of the Precinct, this is an interesting and infuriating new and unusual chivalric novel, the protagonist of the novel is a nobleman, and the name is Tang.

This novel was brought in by the fleet that came from Seville a few years ago to deliver cargo, and it was just published in Spain last year and quickly became very popular.

The author of the novel, the governor of the district, has the impression that he participated in the Battle of Lepanto, had his left hand amputated in the battle, and was taken as a slave by the Moors, and was later imprisoned for embezzlement as a quartermaster.

When the governor of the precinct took office, this man happened to go to the capital to avenge himself.

I have to say that such a legendary experience gives this novel a charming charm, and the frenzy of the golden age shown by Spain in the whole era makes this novel feel different.

In a word, it is an era.

When the mad knight, Don Quixote, said to the ignorant villager, "Don't worry, come out with me, for there may be an unexpected adventure, and in the blink of an eye conquer an island, and you will be the governor of the island," the villager happily followed the knight and set out.

And this dreamlike discourse, in the face of the deeds of Pizarro, Colster, Pizano and others, becomes convincing to a villager.

This seemingly delusional discourse is no longer a delusion in the face of the times, but a possible reality.

The people's craze for wealth and thirst for conquest are etched on every ridiculous story.

Next to this brand-new novel, there is a letter with a friend's personal seal on it.

The origin of this letter came from the bright and expensive mirror next to it.

This mirror is smuggling, that's obvious.

In addition to this mirror, the same batch of contraband, which suddenly appeared half a year ago, includes glasses, cotton, silk, and porcelain.

The governors of the districts did not care about this kind of thing, and every year there would be an influx of countless smuggled goods, and only one-fifth of the normal ports and monopoly trade fleets would be used.

But the story behind this mirror is very interesting to the governor of the jurisdiction.

It is said to be a strange group of kingdoms from the sea of Satan in the north.

That sea is unknown and full of storms. For decades, no one has been able to set foot in it, full of mysteries.

Mysterious stories sometimes call for an ancient legend, and someone turned up Plato's account of Atlantis and swore that the sea was the sunken continent.

However, there would be no living people in the sunken Western Continent, so it was believed that there was a land there.

The story of this mirror soon sparked a craze in the archipelago and the two viceroyalties, especially for some navigators who craved honor and fortune.

That's where the letter from a friend on the desk comes from.

However, the team of friends did not go to that uncharted sea, but set sail from Peru in search of the continent of the southern hemisphere.

Stories and legends began with Atlantis in ancient Greece, and the rest of the legends or "science" of that era became popular.

At this moment, a huge part of the world map, including the complete map of all countries that has been handed down to the distant Ming Dynasty, has always had a vast and unexplored continent in the southern hemisphere.

No one had ever seen that continent, but everyone believed that there was a continent in the south.

This stems from ...... "science".

People believe that the earth is round and has been verified, and they believe in some of the so-called "science" of the ancient Greek era.

The Earth is rotating, so the continents to the north and the continents to the south should be about the same size, at least symmetrical in area.

Otherwise, the earth would have turned around as it turned, and the earth did not turn around, which proves that there must be a vast continent to the south.

The story has undergone some changes in this era due to the changes in the world line.

The discovery of Africa and Spanish America, the unknown territories that were divided and enveloped by storms, brought everything into balance.

So, it seems that the land mass of the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere is the same, as the ancient Greeks said, and the fact that the Earth did not turn its heels proves this, so the world map at this time does not recognize that there is a huge land mass in the Pacific Ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.

However, with the advent of that smuggled cargo, the navigators and explorers of the Spanish Viceroyalty were once again excited.

According to the ancient Greek doctrine of strange symmetrical beauty, there must have been a continent in the southern hemisphere, so Fernand de Queiroz, a navigator of the Peruvian Viceroyalty, heard this rumor and decided to set out from Peru and explore the Pacific Ocean in the southern hemisphere, which was supported by the Peruvian governor.

The friend of the Governor of the Bailiwick also took part in this expedition to the southern hemisphere of Queiroz, and expressed his infinite hope in the letter: "If we had a land in the Pacific Ocean as large as Peru, New Castile, and Brazil, we would be able to regain the glory of the conquest of this place." God bless the Spanish ...... For the conquest of the southern continent, we must be ahead of everyone......"

In the normal world line, Queiroz discovers Vanuatu and believes that this is the legendary southern continent. So he left the rest of the ships and galloped back to Peru with one of them, where he was rewarded for his merit, but it became a joke when the fleet returned, because it took two days for the left fleet to turn the "continent" around.

In any case, a book and a letter are enough to show the strength of Spain at this time.

Books are a manifestation of culture and the psychology of ordinary people. In addition to the ridicule of the aristocracy and the feudal church, there was more of a desire for conquest, colonization and wealth.

And that letter proves that Spain was still looking for new continents and new routes in order to maintain its superiority at sea and in its colonies.

From the discovery of this mainland archipelago by Christopher Columbus to the present, there has never been a more comfortable, beautiful, relaxed and safe time than the governor of the jurisdiction at this time.

Twenty years ago, the Italian engineer Battista was commissioned by Philip II to improve the coastal defense of the archipelago with advanced engineering, and new forts and fortresses began to be built, and a well-developed defense system guarded several important ports and transit points.

The special location of the port of Saint Friday made Batista even more concerned about the defense of the place, and the perfect fortifications were built for four years, which is not a place that could have been easily burned and attacked by pirates many years ago.

Ten years ago, Drake, Spain's most wanted pirate and symbol of the British fleet, died in the archipelago.

In the face of the attack of the new defense system, the British landed in some small port fishing villages, burned and plundered. Catholics on St. Friday Island held a mass, and if Drake failed, another church would be built in St. Friday Port.

Regardless of luck or the balance of strength, Drake still died here after all, adding to the Catholic atmosphere and mystery of St. Friday's port.

Since then, several of the major henchmen in the archipelago have reached their age, died, and sickened. Those characters who could stop children crying, such as Drake and Hawkins, have finally become history.

With no more men and fleets to threaten the Spanish ports, the once bull-coaxed pirates were stealing cattle or looting fishing villages, and it seemed that everything was going to be at peace.

Europe was still in turmoil, but with Henry IV's conversion from Protestant to Catholic, the Nantes Amnesty allowed Protestant freedom, but it also appeased Catholicism and declared Catholicism the state religion. The things in Calais and Italy have also been quiet for the time being.

The signing of the Nantes amnesty has allowed some French Protestants who had been persecuted and massacred at home to become pirates in the archipelago to settle down, and some had chosen to return to France.

The fasc-Spanish contradictions subsided for the time being.

A group of old pirates such as Drake and Hawkins, as well as the death of Queen Elizabeth, Britain is also in chaos.

The Irish uprising and the defeat of the Siege of Ostend made it impossible for the British to hold out.

The disadvantages of the joint-stock privateer fleet and the pirate policy gradually appeared, and there was no danger of destroying the country after leaving the home seas, and the short-sightedness of the joint-stock fleet and merchants began to appear.

They don't know anything about strategy, they just want to plunder as much as possible to make profits, and they don't care about the strategic plan in ten or twenty years.

The British and Spanish sides, which had been tired of fighting a year earlier, finally signed a peace treaty, and the British privateers could at least not be openly robbed under the British flag, and Spain gave up on restoring Catholicism to England, and obtained the right to finally dock in British ports in order to squeeze the Dutch ......

In fact, Britain lost.

The Anglo-Spanish conflict was temporarily reconciled.

With the withdrawal of the British, the Anglo-Spanish Peace forbade Britain to aid the Netherlands in the war, and the British army in the Netherlands began to retreat, and it seemed that the whole of Spain was left with the Dutch as an enemy.

The three major crusades of Western Britain, West France, and West Holland, which lasted for decades, are about to end, and now, it is really a prosperous scene of flowers and fire.

At least in the two colonial satrapies, there are no sizable enemies, and it's not the time when you took office twenty years ago when you could face war, raids, and the infestations of the famous sea lords.

And even if there were, the governors of the precinct need not be afraid. The geometry and architectural skills of Italian engineers have proven to be so high that the fortresses are no longer easy for pirates to attack.

Under such circumstances, the life of the governor of the jurisdiction cannot but be comfortable.

After enjoying his afternoon tea, the Governor was about to continue reading the new chivalric novel called Don Quixote, and see what would happen to the goofy self-proclaimed knight who turned the inn into a castle.

However, an officer's debriefing disrupted his plans.

"A huge fleet of unknown origin has appeared on the surface of the nearby sea."