It's another bright morning. Outside the European Consulate General in Aguil was bustling again, and many European businessmen were already eager to stand guard in front of the gate, looking anxiously at the beautiful two-story building covering several acres in the depths of the wide lawn area through the metal railing.

But apart from a few soldiers of the Consulate General's guard with indifferent expressions next to the gate, there were only a few middle-aged maids in sight watering the lawn with huā sprinklers, or a few huā craftsmen taking care of the huā nose in front of the Consulate General.

"Good morning, Your Excellency Consul General! As soon as he entered the hall, a row of European girls dressed in light blue Victorian-style dresses on each side raised their skirts and saluted. Judging from the ID cards pinned to their chests, they are all clerks of the European Consulate General of the Republic of America of China.

"Good morning, girls! Everyone looks beautiful today! Shi Wenbo waved his hand triumphantly, and deliberately glanced at the few girls who had changed their new headdresses today.

Using some of the dresses that Yang had left behind since his return to China in August last year, Shi Wenbo quickly picked out his favorite style, and then Huā hired local tailors to copy them in bulk. Although there are a lot of artistic details that only Yang Shoushou can grasp, and there are also decorations that belong to Shi Wenbo's own bad taste, but on the surface, it is enough to achieve a visually unified showgirl gorgeous lineup.

Almost every girl uses the crappy Chinese that has been practiced for four months, and according to the aesthetic standards of the century, all of her faces and figures are at the level of one in a hundred. Iberian, French, Venice, Danish, and Swedish have different styles and are dressed uniformly and neatly.

As for how this group of European beautiful girls was collected, even Yang Shoushou, who returned to the Azores again, was not "interrogated". However, judging from some of the European businessmen who have already been brothers and sisters with Swenbaugh, it is clear that Swenbo has more thoughts and energy than people think.

What Yang Suo didn't know was that a special camp had been built in a corner of the refugee quarantine area in the American Concession. They are basically young women who have been specially "sheltered" from all corners of Europe, and unlike those who are sent to the mainland, it is the special immigration quota specially set by Swenbo that will be sent back to the mainland at the right time.

Sitting in the luxurious mahogany chair of the consul general's office, a female employee was immediately served a cup of coffee. Holding the hot coffee, Shi Wenbo sniffed deeply and expressed satisfaction, but until the other party left the room and closed the door, Shi Wenbo did not show any non-distinguishing color.

"Milìa, is there anything to deal with today?" Svenbo picked up the small rattle on the table and shouted it in English.

An English, brown-haired beauty, dressed more upscale and wearing the only silver brooch, walked up from next door, holding a briefcase. With a smile, he turned the page and read lightly: "The personal letter from Mr. Mi from Lisbon from NORINCO is already in your desk drawer. The trade voucher of Mr. Alfonso of the Cared Chamber of Commerce in Bordeaux, Portugal has been approved by the Viceroyalty of Guò and needs to be signed for confirmation. The trade agent of Baron de Cote of Lyon, France, invites you to today's dinner. ...... of Venice: "Okay, I'll just read Mr. Mi's letter later." Interrupting the other party's report, Shi Wenbo finally showed his usual smile, raised his hand slightly, touched the small hand of the private female secretary, and changed to another tone, "I had something important to deal with last night, so I ..............." "It's Miss Marquis Anna, right?" I know she's coming from Spain to see you this time. The female secretary smacked her big beautiful eyes, showed a hint of resentment, sighed softly, and sat down on the consul general's lap. …,

"It's a diplomatic thing, and Spain's problems give me a lot of headaches. Don't think about it, my dear. Svenbo stared at the other party's vigorous chest with a stumbling mouth.

"That should be a very important business, otherwise you wouldn't be in her room all night! I know, I'm just a country girl who was picked up from Liverpool......" The female secretary's pink fist lightly knocked down the noble lover under her, and her eyes were about to flow water.

Just then there was a knock on the door.

The female secretary, Mi Lìya, quickly straightened her clothes and stood aside, recovering her professional smile. The door opened, and a Spanish aristocratic girl dressed in a fine palace dress stood in the doorway with a smile on her face, her blond hair as soft and elastic as the waves.

"Oh, dear Miss Anna, have you rested?" Svenbeau's crumbling Spanish sounded like the sound of torn rags.

"I want to speak with you alone, Your Excellency Consul General." The daughter of the noble Marquis of Santa Cruz in the Kingdom of Spain glanced at the English female secretary in the room, and a proud smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"Oh sure, did your father have a problem with the way you dressed the last time you returned to Spain?" Swenbo quickly glanced at him, then stood up and moved a chair for the daughter of the Marquis de Santa Cruz.

The female secretary exited the office with amusement and gently closed the door for the two of them.

On the second floor, in another office, Su Zining, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States of America, was sitting behind his desk, behind him stood his girlfriend and Yuan Xinyi, and in front of the table were two European aristocrats with arrogant expressions.

The wizened man on the left, Baron Diaz of Madrid, Kingdom of Spain, is said to be a relative of Fernando, the Spanish supreme magistrate in Lisbon, and the fat man on the right is Viscount Hogmann from the more distant court of Vienna in the Holy Roman Empire.

The two arrived at Angra Sangra in the Azores as secret envoys, and the fundamental purpose of their visit was to obtain more arms from the United States of America. And it was the kind of Type 21B flintlock rifle that the Spanish army tried in small quantities.

"Your Excellency, on behalf of His Majesty the King of Spain, I am outraged that American merchants have privately sold muskets to those damned Dutchmen! This is a violation of the cooperation agreement you have reached with Lord Viscount Fernando in Lisbon! ”

Baron Diaz clenched his hands into fists and couldn't hold back his low roar, his thin body combined with his current excitement made people very worried about whether he would choke his lungs out.

Su Zining didn't immediately refute, but looked at Viscount Hogman, another noble envoy from the Holy Roman Empire.

"Mother! On behalf of His Majesty the Holy Roman Emperor, I would like to extend my greetings to His Excellency the Minister, and my Emperor also hopes to conclude a cooperation agreement with your country on an equal footing with the Kingdom of Spain! In addition, with regard to your previously stated position on your country's neutrality, I hope that this is not just your remark. ”

It is estimated that this guy has successfully sold arms at both ends, and as a result, he has provoked the alliance of the two Habsburg families, the Kingdom of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Su Zining was still calm on the surface, but he was already smiling in his heart.

Compared to the price of a 17th-century arquebus, which cost less than 1 pound (US$10), the Type 21B flintlock rifle exported to Europe sold for an outrageous price. But it was only when the Spanish musketeers on the front line took down the crowds of Bohemian and German Protestant troops 100 yards away that the officers knew what it meant to be worth the money.

However, they soon discovered that the Protestant mercenaries from their rivals had the same firepower, and the Spanish generals did not hesitate to withdraw their fire from the logistician officers, and demanded that the king and aristocratic officials in Madrid double the number of orders for the latest muskets. …,

England, Denmark, Sweden and other Protestant countries, which had long been unpleasant to the Habsburgs in Europe, had observed some changes in the war between Bohemia and Germany, and their emissaries and merchants had been traveling everywhere, especially the Dutch chambers of commerce, which were also Protestant leagues.

Nothing could stop the Dutch merchants from buying goods, and it was obviously no big secret that the Dutch had hooked up with American merchants. From the standpoint of the Kingdom of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, it would be a very bad situation for the present and future adversaries to have more American-made muskets.

"Well, I should say once again about the attitude of my Government. The neutrality of the war in Europe remains unchanged, our government has always been and has always been committed to peaceful trade with the European countries, our laws respect the freedom of commerce and trade equality, and we support businessmen in providing the best possible service to European users. ”

A female employee opened the door and held the fragrant tea from the Far Eastern Empire, and Su Zining stopped speaking at this moment.

The dignified, graceful and graceful European American beautiful girl employee just smiled sweetly at the few dignitaries in the room, and politely exited the room. With a smile and a smile, Baron Diaz and Viscount Hogmann felt that their hearts were jumping, and they didn't even care what the American woman said.

"But, like you, I hate people who are too mercenary, who can't hold anything but money in their heads! They should learn to respect the country's foreign policy and be highly consistent with the country's policy from a business perspective! Especially now, the U.S. government and the Kingdom of Spain have a short-lived but unusually deep friendship, because the warriors of the Kingdom of Spain once saved our diplomatic mission! ”

After the female employee left, Su Zining stood up and made a gesture very solemnly, with an expression of hatred on his face at this moment: "Regarding the question that Baron Diaz said, I will submit it to my own parliament to set up a special investigation team to prevent the heavy loss of interests brought by arms smuggling to the country!" ”

The two European nobles looked at each other and then at the young foreign minister in front of them. finally

Baron Diaz of Spain stood up and took out a piece of paper very politely: "I am glad that your government understands the attitude of the Kingdom of Spain, so can we sign a separate contract with you for the arms deal?" ”

"Oh, as a government diplomat, according to the laws of the country, except for trade agreements in the diplomatic field, you are not qualified to openly participate in any specific business activities, but ......" Su Zining was embarrassed, walked around the room several times, and finally nodded seriously "I have a very deep personal friendship with Mr. Yoneya, the general trade representative of NORINCO in Europe, if His Excellency Baron Diaz had stayed in Lisbon some time ago, you should know about him." ”

"Well, Lord Viscount Fernando has once introduced it, and the batch of muskets that the army of the Kingdom of Spain is now using is one of the deals that Mr. Mi has reached with Lord Viscount Fernando, but unfortunately the number is too small." Diaz nodded slightly.

"Then I'll write him a letter to remind him who our most reliable friend in Europe is!" Speaking of this, Su Zining showed a harmless smile, pointed to the teacup on the table, and made a gesture of please.

What followed was the traditional dirty insider time, where Su Zining "modestly and cautiously" accepted gifts from the two envoys as a box of Spanish gold coins, worth 1,000 Spanish silver dollars.

The two European nobles who had achieved their goal left, Su Zining leaned comfortably on the chair, the tea in his hand was already cold, but Su Zining still drank it all.

Perhaps it won't be long before 1,200 of the 2,000 Type 21B flintlock rifles in the warehouse will be transported to mainland Europe by Millett, and the rest will be sent to the Dutch ships and then transferred to others who need it more. And at most two months, more arms will be shipped here.

"Hehe, tell the Consul General, Mr. Shi Wenbo, and send these gold coins to Governor Garcia. Also, please come to the consulate this evening with Dutch friends in the concession, and don't forget, come in through the back door. ”

Glancing at the box on the table, Su Zining whispered hello to the female employee who was standing at the desk waiting for the dispatch, and then went out with his girlfriend Yuan Xinyi.

He planned to prepare well, because just this year, the coalition of Protestant nobles led by the Palatinate in Germany will launch a counterattack, although the result in history is still a fiasco, Su Zining will obviously not miss an opportunity to make this battle more exciting.

In another year and a half, the Bohemian war in the first phase of the Thirty Years' War, even without these military centers, should have come to an end, and then another major war will come.

In a few years, the anti-Habsburg coalition, led by France, the Netherlands, and England, would finance the Nordic Protestant nation of Denmark to send troops to the war to continue the struggle against the Kingdom of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

It is necessary to try to make this war break out early, and if this huge war does not fall into the hands of the American Republic of China, it is simply against the laws of nature.