It's just that these guards didn't expect that their own king would be defeated so quickly, but in less than a day, the capital was so breached.

When a team of elite soldiers appeared in the treasury, the Spanish soldiers guarding the treasury looked at each other.

In the face of those thugs who tried to storm the treasury, these soldiers could not hesitate to kill the killers, but when facing the Ming soldiers who appeared in front of them, the soldiers looked at each other with a look of hesitation.

To be able to be selected to guard the treasury, these soldiers are not stupid, although they said that they did not receive the news, but when they saw these Ming soldiers appear in front of them, even if they were a little sluggish, they could realize that the capital was lost, otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible for the Ming soldiers to have a chance to appear here.

The general of the Ming army, who led the men and horses to the treasury, just glanced at the soldiers on the opposite side and nodded at the person beside him.

Then a Spanish official came out and said to the soldiers guarding the treasury: "Ladies and gentlemen, Your Majesty has a decree ordering you to hand over the treasury to the care of the Ming generals. ”

Of course, Charles I could not have given such an order, needless to say that this official was forced to come, of course, if this official was not afraid of death, even if he was forced by the Ming army, he would not have come here.

As one of the officials in charge of the treasury, these soldiers were no strangers to this official, and it can be said that this official was the superior of these soldiers.

Seeing the official's cowering look, the soldiers naturally knew what was going on.

But even if it is clear, what can they say, can they still change the overall situation?

The current situation is very clear, the Ming people have already occupied the capital, and even the king has been taken prisoner, and it is unrealistic to think about it if they want to fight against the Ming army with their treasury guards of no more than 100 people.

When you look at me, I look at you, and I saw a soldier step forward, threw the weapon in his hand on the ground, and said slowly: "I want to honor the king's order." ”

Obviously, this is looking for an excuse for his surrender, but this excuse is not bad, at least the other soldiers saw this person's actions, and they also put down their worries, and one by one they dropped their weapons and chose to surrender.

Smoothly took over the treasury, and the generals led by him were also secretly relieved, although he said that he was very confident in taking over the treasury, but he was also afraid that these soldiers guarding the treasury would not surrender, otherwise there would inevitably be chaos.

The treasury is heavy, once something goes wrong, doesn't it seem that he, a general, is very incompetent, and now he can smoothly take over the treasury, naturally there is no problem.

The next day, Yu Dayou, Yue Buqun, Jiao Yuan and others appeared in the treasury.

The treasury fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and Yu Dayou and the others were naturally very curious about what kind of treasures were in this treasury.

Anyway, it is also the treasury of a maritime power, just like the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, in which hundreds of millions of gold and silver treasures are stored.

Therefore, everyone is naturally very curious about what kind of treasures are in the treasury of the Kingdom of Spain.

The thick and heavy iron gate slowly opened, and these two huge iron doors alone were probably only forged by the power of the state.

I am afraid that these two iron gates are bombarded with cannons, and a few shots may not be able to blast them through. Walking into the treasury, even if you have expected it in advance, you can't help but be amazed when you actually see it.

Most of this treasury is built underground, after all, there are many gold and silver treasures stored in the treasury, and if the space is small, I am afraid it will not be able to accommodate it.

Just like the Ming Dynasty, most of the treasury was built underground, and the same is true of this treasury of the Kingdom of Spain, where most of the main body is underground.

Nearly two stories deep underground, down the stairs, flanked by flanked by flaring butter candles.

Generally speaking, the underground space will look very stuffy, but Yu Dayou and others did not feel that there was any breathlessness, but the air was very fresh, which showed that the ventilation system of the treasury was very good.

Under the guidance of Jinyiwei and the people of Dongchang, the first thing a few people entered was a spacious space.

Walking into this space, several people's eyes suddenly narrowed, and they saw that in front of them, piles of white flowers and silver formed a hill, and on the other side was a hill made of dazzling gold.

Looking at the gold and silver mountains that are several people high, even if Yu Dayou and the others are extremely determined, they can't help but have a little idea of taking it for themselves at this moment.

Fortunately, all the people present are not stupid, although the gold and silver mountains are good, the key is that these things are not something they can occupy at all.

Not to mention whether they can occupy these gold and silver treasures, just the people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang among them are enough to make people extinguish many thoughts that should not be born.

Taking a deep breath, Yu Dayou stabilized his mind and looked at an official who was responsible for counting the amount of gold and silver treasures stored in the treasury.

Noticing Yu Dayou's gaze, the official stepped forward, holding an account book in his hand, and respectfully sent the account book to Yu Dayou and said, "Marshal, this is a booklet made by us to count the gold and silver treasures here. ”

Yu Dayou took it, opened the booklet, his eyes fell on the line of numbers on the booklet, and his eyes suddenly shrank, but he couldn't help but shake his hand slightly, and almost threw the booklet in his hand.

"Hey, how can there be so many!"

Several other people noticed Yu Dayou's expression and couldn't help but show a look of confusion on their faces, they were very curious about what kind of number could make Yu Dayou have such a reaction.

Just like Lin Pingzhi, he said with a smile: "Lin is very curious, how many gold and silver treasures are in this treasury that can make Lord Yu lose his temper like this." ”

Yu Dayou didn't care about Lin Pingzhi's teasing at all, and handed the booklet to Lin Pingzhi while calming down: "The booklet is here, Lord Lin might as well take a look at it for himself." ”

Lin Pingzhi was not polite, took the booklet from Yu Dayou's hand, swept his eyes, just like Yu Dayou, his eyes shrank, his hands trembled slightly, and he couldn't help but spit out a breath of turbidity and said: "It really deserves to be a maritime power." ”

Jiao Yuan and Yue Buqun all looked at it curiously, but when they saw the numbers clearly written on the booklet, they couldn't help but tremble in their hearts.

"110 million taels of silver, 12 million taels of gold, more than 500 boxes of jade and jewelry......"

It's no wonder that Jiao Yuan, Yue Buqun and the others were so surprised, you must know that they came all the way like this, and the countries destroyed along the way were not one or two, and the treasury looted was no less than dozens.

However, many of the treasury of those small countries can scavenge 10 million taels of silver, and the few are only a few hundred thousand taels, but like the Kingdom of Spain, it is really amazing to find so much gold and silver in the treasury at once.

Previously, they had already looted tens of millions of taels of gold and silver treasures from the king's treasury, but now they had found so many gold and silver treasures in the treasury, and if they were combined, their value was already more than 200 million taels of silver.

With such a terrifying amount, even the Ming treasury does not have so many gold and silver treasures.

Brushing his beard, Jiao Yuan said with a trembling look of excitement on his face: "Sure enough, it is worthy of being the number one power on the sea, and this treasury alone will throw other countries out of a few streets." ”

Yue Buqun nodded slowly and said: "Actually, if you calm down and think about it, it is not uncommon for there to be so many gold and silver treasures in the treasury, don't forget, Spain has been invincible at sea for decades, and its footsteps are almost all over the world, and in these decades, I don't know how much wealth has been transported back to Spain by its fleets all over the world." ”

After accumulating in this way, the treasury is naturally full of gold and silver mountains and many treasures.

Soon, Jiao Yuan's face showed a look of embarrassment, and Yu Dayou and the others who watched it were quite puzzled, could it be said that so much wealth had been seized, shouldn't they be happy? Why is Jiao Yuan embarrassed?

Lin Pingzhi looked at Jiao Yuan and said, "Lord Jiao Yuan, you are ......"

Jiao Yuan sighed slightly, pointed to the mountains of gold and silver like small mountains and the boxes full of gems and jade, and said, "I'm worried about how to make these belongings clear." ”

Everyone looked at those gold, silver and jewelry, and then thought about the distance between Spain and Daming, and they were all stunned.

Relying on the big ships alone, to be honest, if they want to operate the gold and silver treasures they have harvested this time, I am afraid that there are no hundreds of big ships that will not be able to successfully transport these gold and silver treasures.

What's more, they have only just completed the looting of the king's treasury and the kingdom's treasury, which is home to many nobles of the Spanish kingdom in the city of Toledo.

The king may be the richest in Spain, but don't underestimate the nobles who are attached to the Kingdom of Spain, who rule as the upper echelons of Spain and control almost ninety percent of Spain's wealth.

Any nobleman, as long as he is not the kind of loser, I am afraid that he will accumulate a huge fortune.

Once these nobles were to do something, even Yu Dayou and Jiao Yuan would not dare to estimate how much gold and silver they could scavenge from these nobles.

After all, many of the nobles were formerly generals or governors of many Spanish fleets, and these people drove warships in all directions, and some of the wealth they plundered went into the king's private treasury and the treasury, but at least half of it fell into the hands of these nobles.

Anyway, according to Yu Dayou's estimates, if these nobles are really copied from the bottom, the wealth that can be looted by that time may not be less than the wealth looted by the king's private treasury and the treasury.

On the fifteenth day of occupying the city of Toledo, the Ming Dynasty completed the looting of the entire capital, which should be precise.

Just to transport the looted goods out of Toledo, thousands of soldiers were transported from morning to night, for almost a day.

According to later statistics, the carriage was dispatched thousands of times, and in order to escort the nearly 1,000 carriages, Yu Dayou sent a team of 5,000 people to escort it.

In the Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar and the Battle of Toledo, the Ming Dynasty easily destroyed the Kingdom of Spain, and once the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire Western world.

In any case, Spain is now at its peak, and the empire that replaced it is also silently accumulating strength, hoping to step on Spain one day.

But before they could do it, Daming brought an extremely deep shock and impression to Western countries.

Akito is here!

If in the past, many of the West's perceptions of the Ming Dynasty were more in legends, but now the Ming fleet has come across the sea, directly under their noses.

I don't know how many people couldn't help but be shocked when they got the news, marveling at the combat power of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time couldn't help but feel a sense of great crisis.

Even Spain is not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty, so who will be the opponent of the Ming people.

However, Yu Dayou and the others didn't care about this, but they were leading a large army to sweep through the entire Mediterranean coastal countries.

With hundreds of warships as the backing, it is conceivable that when the Ming fleet entered the Mediterranean, it was like a fierce beast plunging into the flock, and the countries along the Mediterranean coast fell into a panic all of a sudden.

Daming

Outside the imperial city, in a flat place, a black figure is in full swing busy, looking at it widely, just the black pressure of the figure can be roughly seen, the number of these people is probably more than 10,000.

More than 20,000 strong laborers are building the altar of heaven with their hearts, using so much manpower and material resources, but in order to build an altar of heaven, if this is not the will of the Son of Heaven, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty may not agree.

Of course, more importantly, the construction of the Temple of Heaven is not to capture labor, but to recruit the public.

In these years, whenever the imperial court started to build large-scale projects, the imperial court recruited young and strong laborers by paying money, although it was said that the labor system was not completely abolished, but the imperial court repeatedly came in the form of recruitment, which was almost a disguised abolition of labor.

Unpaid labor is different from paid work, and the atmosphere of work is different, and the scene of a hot scene on the huge construction site is in full swing, although the number of people is large, but it is orderly.

It has been almost a few months since the start of construction, and with tens of thousands of people invested, it has only been about half of the construction.

Even so, even if you climb high and look far away in the middle of the Beijing Division, you can already see a behemoth rising from the ground when you look to the east, almost one day at a time.

If you convert the hundred-zhang high altar, it is almost more than 300 meters high.

Such a height is rare in modern society, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, such a towering altar has taken shape little by little, and it has almost become a scenic spot.

Many people in the capital even came to watch from afar, pointing to the altar that was almost more than 100 meters high.

There are almost no buildings in the capital that exceed ten zhang, let alone altars of dozens of zhang.

In order to pile up such an altar, a steady stream of loess was transported from afar, so the Ministry of Industry made a plan for the place to take soil outside the imperial city, and a large lake came out of the planning place.

After all, if you want to pile up the altar, not to mention anything else, the loess required alone is not a small number, and even the soil taken out of the excavation of a lake may not be enough.

The altar that is dozens of feet high now has a bit of a huge scene, and anyone who sees this altar that has been repaired by human beings will involuntarily be infinitely shocked.

At this time, accompanied by several figures, a person was standing in the gazebo in the distance, looking at the altar under construction, and there were faint figures around to protect the gazebo.

The white-haired Chen Ding was conscientiously reporting the progress of repairing the altar to Zhu Houzhao, who was staring at the altar with his back to him.