Under the shelling of howitzers.

The Gothic church, which symbolizes Western civilization, was bombed into ruins.

The officers and men of the Ming Navy began to enter the city of Gibraltar one after another.

There was a proud Franc knight with a knife to kill the officers and soldiers of the Ming Navy, but he would soon be killed by the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty.

There are also Franc robot people hiding in rooms in marble buildings, holding flintlock pistols and releasing cold guns.

But a single shot from a rifled gun could knock them out of the room.

In less than half a day of fighting, the Ming Marines captured this small city on the Mediterranean coast.

"From here to here, from now on it is a special zone for first-class citizens of the Ming Dynasty, all the Franc machine people are all driven out, and the property is forcibly accepted!"

Zheng Chenggong was not polite at all, he was a member of the military, and he couldn't learn the benevolent way of the cabinet.

"Yes!"

With a loud shout, the officers and men of the Ming Navy began to carry out carpet cleaning work with guns.

Even the things of the robbers seem so orderly.

A team of officers and sailors of the Ming Navy directly broke into a manor, saw a vicious dog pounced, killed the vicious dog first, and at the same time pointed a gun at the group of Francos in the house: "Get out of here, those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

"Why are you driving us away, you hateful demons of the East!"

A Sir Frangi pointed at the naval officer and rebuked.

"Obviously, these Franc people don't know how to fear my Ming Han people!"

A naval officer said that he fired a shot first, killing Sir Franc and killing all the servants behind him.

With the sound of gunfire.

The Franco-man of Gibraltar finally became much more honest, obediently came out of his house with his head in his hands, and left the city.

And in the area that drove away the Francophiles.

The officers and men of the Ming Navy began to lay down a stone monument declaring sovereignty, and erected a wooden plaque that read, "No people and dogs are allowed to enter!" ”

At the same time, the officers and men of the Ming Navy began to pull barbed wire at the border to form barbed wire, and even piled sandbag bunkers.

Gibraltar officially became the first military port of the Ming Dynasty on the Mediterranean coast.

That night, Zheng Chenggong, the chief officer of the Ming Navy, held a celebratory banquet on the green grass in the garden of a mansion off the coast of Gibraltar.

The evening breeze blowing in the Mediterranean made the tiredness of the officers and men disappear, and the women brought from Dongying became their tools to spend their energy at night.

There are also officers and soldiers who have thought of a handful of foreign meat to pull in the Franc machine women outside and let them conceive the seeds of the Han people.

……

The authorities of the Kingdom of Franc have shaken.

The Armada was directly destroyed by the Ming army!

The port of Gibraltar, which controlled the entire Mediterranean Sea to the sea, was occupied by the Ming army!

King Francois had to send his most powerful minister, Moxi, to Gibraltar to negotiate with Zheng Chenggong.

Moxie looked at the homeless Francis who was sleeping outside Gibraltar and was like a refugee, and shook his head helplessly, because he couldn't show his anger at Da Ming.

Today's Daming is so strong that you don't even have the qualifications to hate.

When Mo Kexi came to the base of the Ming Navy here, entered the area fenced by barbed wire, and saw the sign "No people and dogs are allowed to enter", the mood was the same as that seen by the Manqing people when they went to the concession area.

But he can only greet the officers of the Ming Dynasty with a smile and the etiquette of a gentleman, even if it is a low-ranking Ming officer, he must treat it as if he were an old friend.

"Your Excellency the Governor of the Ming Dynasty, we are sorry that there has been such a big conflict with your country, this is not our original intention, we can accept the debt problem raised by the Empire, but we hope that your country will return our sovereignty over the port of Gibraltar and withdraw from the port of Gibraltar."

Mo Kexi said to Zheng Chenggong as politely as possible.

"Gibraltar, we have no intention of leaving, if you want to look good, you can say that it was rented to us, and the debt that the cabinet wants, now it should not be 150 million, but 200 million silver dollars! There are the hardships and losses of our Ming Navy, as well as the mental losses you owe to my Ming officials for humiliating them. ”

Zheng Chenggong said.

"This, this can't be talked about at all!" Moxie replied.

"Then you can choose not to talk about it, after we have rested enough, we will win Madrid in a month, it should not be too difficult, my country's spear formation, I have seen it, frankly speaking, it is already behind this era."

As he spoke, Zheng Chenggong picked up a submachine gun newly manufactured by Daming and swept it at a pool of fish, and in a moment, hundreds of fish were killed and floated.

"Sir Mo, tonight the official invites you to eat braised fish," Zheng Chenggong said with a smile.

Moxie only smiled awkwardly and nodded.

At that moment just now, he had already realized that he didn't have any hole cards to bargain with the Ming chief officer in front of him.

Thereupon.

Soon, the Ming Dynasty signed the Treaty of Gibraltar with the representative of the Franco-Rang Kingdom, Duke Moxie

The treaty reads:

First: admit that the rent and interest owed to Macao for 122 years, plus the military expenses and other expenses incurred by the Ming Dynasty for this purpose, and the interest accumulated during the ten-year repayment period, a total of 200 million silver dollars must be repaid to the Ming Dynasty!

Second: to allow the Ming to lease the port of Gibraltar and its affiliated straits, the rent is one silver dollar, and the lease period is ninety-nine years!

Third: Ming citizens enjoy extraterritoriality in the franc machine.

Fourth: The Franc machine country implements the most-favored-nation treatment system for the Ming Dynasty.

Although a total of four treaties is not much, it is a huge economic benefit for the Ming Dynasty, and 200 million silver dollars is enough for the Ming Dynasty to do a lot of great things in ten years.

But for the Franco, it is equivalent to giving the wealth they have accumulated over the centuries of colonization to the Ming Dynasty.

The control of the navigation rights of the port and the strait of Gibraltar in the hands of the Ming means that the entire Mediterranean trade is controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming can collect taxes for 99 years on this navigation line.

As for the remaining two, they are nothing more than subsidiary.

When Moxie brought the treaty back, the entire Franc authorities were naturally furious and scolded him as a traitor.

In order to appease the anger of the people, King Francis deposed of the Duke title of Moxie.

But the treaty gritted its teeth and admitted it, and the first payment of 20 million silver dollars was sent to Daming that year.

In the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen asked Yan Yingyuan to hand this treaty to Zhang Huangyan:

"Your cabinet should thank the Generalissimo Mansion, look at the people, not only help you recover 150 million debts, but also help you to obtain a ninety-nine years of tax collection qualifications in the Strait of Gibraltar, Zhang Aiqing, Zhang Ge Lao, hurry up and prepare to send important officials to Gibraltar to set up customs, where the environment is suitable, just like Jiangnan, it is a fat poor, don't arrange it randomly."

"The minister understands, the minister knows, thank you Your Majesty, thank you Yan Gong."

Zhang Huangyan began to plan how to spend the 150 million silver dollars.

Therefore, in addition to the construction of the Lancheng, Kuncheng, and Baocheng railways, he also added a construction plan to build a four-lane highway in the direction of Uszang Chaliba, which is today's Lhasa area!

Yang Mingshen of the two houses had to protest: "Cabinet, you can't spend money so indiscriminately, after this money is spent, do you plan to raise taxes on us!" ”

Zhang Huangyan, the first assistant of the cabinet, replied directly: "The protest is invalid!" I didn't spend your money, so I didn't spend anything. ”

(End of chapter)