Sending 300,000 people from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to South America was not a simple matter.

Daming already has a very large capacity in the Pacific Ocean and needs to allocate a considerable part of it to do this.

These transport ships are all subsidized by Zhu Fugui's internal funds, and they are completely loss-making transactions.

Fortunately, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not a poor ghost, for so many years in the south of the Yangtze River, conquered so many state capitals, and also sacked the city of Nanjing, the Taiping army has countless jewels and gold.

Before, they were only short of food, not gold and silver.

King Hong also handed over these precious metals to Heavenly Father.

With this money, the Ming court did not need to subsidize the freight, and it also had the ability to build a beautiful fortress for the Taiping army who had just arrived in South America.

After all, calling himself a father, Zhu Fugui is not good at treating Hong Xiuquan's brother too badly.

Although he was not as exaggerated as Zuo Zongtang, Zhu Fugui also prepared a small target for Hong Xiuquan, allowing him to have a dream start in South America.

At this time, Hong Xiuquan still has a group of princes such as Li Xiucheng, Hong Renji, Huang Wenjin, Li Shixian, Tan Tiyuan, Lai Wenguang and so on, and it must not be too lonely to count sloths in South America.

Zhu Fugui gave them the choice of landing site in the Lima region of Peru.

Mainly relying on the Pacific Ocean, the Ming Dynasty is better to transport supplies.

In addition, Chile, a large mine disguised as a country, is isolated by the Andes Mountains, and the environment is relatively closed, Daming's father is ready to take it personally, so he doesn't plan to hand it over to Hong Xiuquan to cause trouble.

In short, Daming's father who should have given it has been given, and the rest depends on Brother Hong's own struggle.

Zhu Fugui can only wish him smooth sailing and good health.

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In addition to building the Tianjin Ming Concession and sending the Taiping Army to South America, the Ming Dynasty of course had to take advantage of the rare strategic opportunity to do something else.

With the outbreak of the war between Prussia and France related to the hegemony of the European continent, the diplomatic and military pressure on Zhu Fugui was suddenly reduced a lot.

In the past three days, the two heads of the two sides wanted to use Daming as a target to criticize, and the European countries that regarded Zhu Fugui's verbal and written criticism as a threat had a tacit understanding that they would no longer talk about the Daming Tianjin public trial, as if nothing had happened.

However, the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop.

How can there be a reason in the world that foreigners can fight if they want to fight and make peace if they want to.

Da Ming is not muddy.

What is the old power, what is the EU4 opening of the world's first powerful country, tactical back!

At the beginning of May, the Ming Royal Navy's ironclad battleship Shenzhou, the light cruiser Infinite Loyalty, and the frigates Shenyang, Dongning, Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou, and Jinzhou formed a temporary formation and slowly sailed through the waters of Penghu and entered the South Sea.

The nominal governor of this temporary formation is none other than the eunuch of the Ming Sili Bingbi, who is thunderous among the Nanyang Chinese community, concurrently serving as the Gonggong of Dongchang and the Grand Eunuch of Fengdu Wubei - Li Chunfa and Gonggong Li.

The last time Gonggong Li went to the South Seas, he brought with him a Jinghai fleet, which mainly focused on rescue and medicine delivery.

But this time Gonggong Li came to Nanyang, but he changed his shotgun and brought a super fleet with a total tonnage of more than 40,000 tons.

Grandpa Lee's first stop was Manila in central Luzon.

The golden city that the Wanli Emperor and the King of Yanping had in mind was still ignorant, and the Governor of Manila was still as he had in the past, drinking morning tea leisurely with the colonial bureaucrats.

The Filipino maid kindly brought the latest newspaper to the Governor-General, which was full of news of the Prussians' war with the French.

"This guy called Deathstroke is ridiculous!"

The governor of Manila, Novaro, threw the newspaper aside, showing a disdainful expression, "What a nonsense to say that France is no longer the first army in Europe, the first army in Europe is not French, is it still those Germanic barbarians?"

Besides, what is the first army in Europe? Isn't the first army in Europe the first army in the world?

Could it be that he naively thought that the Ming people defeated the French by a sneak attack in the Americas, and they were the world's first army?

Let's not forget that we also defeated the British in the Sulu Sea, so in this way, our Spanish navy is also the world's first? ”

The bureaucrats all burst out laughing.

There were also two sail battleships throughout Luzon, and these two sail battleships would remain in service until 30 years later, until the Americans came in ironclad ships to take over the Philippine colonies.

However, considering that Spain is still sending sail warships to participate in military exercises in the western Pacific in 2021, it can be said that the military strength of this old power in Southeast Asia is very stable.

More than 140 years have passed, and the naval strength of our Great Spain in Asia has only declined by 12 percent.

It's not that I, Spain, look down on you, but Britain, the Netherlands, Millican, and Portugal are all younger brothers.

Even if he wasn't jokingly talking about it, Novaro didn't see anything wrong with the Spanish Empire being complacent.

As a spiritual Parisian who is not uncommon in Europe, he has earned enough silver in Manila to retire to Paris.

"As long as those damn Chinese don't make trouble, I can retire peacefully......"

However......

Rumble!

The coffee cup in Novaro's hand shook violently.

Sitting on a chair on the terrace on the third floor of the Governor's Palace, Novaro was stunned to see a sea of fire rising from the Manila Military Harbor.

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On May 20, Admiral Li Chunfa, the temporary formation of the Nanyang Naval Division of the Ming Dynasty, bombarded Manila on the grounds of Spain's diplomatic insult to the Ming Dynasty, marking the starting point of the Ming Dynasty's restoration of Nanyang sovereignty, and also marking the day when the Ming Dynasty erected two cannons and the weak European powers had to give in.

Although it is written in the textbook written by Xia Zhixin, in fact, the layout of the Ming Dynasty and the South Seas has already begun.

The reason why Novaro still had the heart to drink morning tea at a time when the East Asian Pan-Enlightenment ideology was surging, not only because he was about to retire and felt that Daming's iron fist could not hit him in the face, but also because of his confidence in the Manila Fortress.

The entire Far East, including the British, considered the port of Manila "impregnable" because of the large number of mines laid by the Spanish in the shipping lanes.

However, the Spaniards, like other Latins, have one of the "national inferiorities" that can be seen with the naked eye, and that is laziness.

They did not change the mine layout every six months at all, in accordance with the norm, but did not necessarily change the mine layout every four or five years.

Not to mention whether the mines will be old and ineffective, even the area where the mines are laid out is easy for spies to find out from the trajectory of military and civilian ships in the port.

As the person in charge of the Luzon area of Nanyang United Fruits, Sha Qima had already figured out the mine layout of the Spaniards with the local Chinese and overseas Chinese who were interested in the Ming Dynasty, and handed it over to Jinyiwei.