Chapter 53: Misunderstanding Diplomacy

"The Governor of Luzon is coming to see me at the port?" Zhu Jun looked at the excited Arms incredulously, and always felt that there was some conspiracy contained in this.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Your Excellency's clerk has arrived in advance, and His Excellency the Governor has great respect for you, so he has come from Manila to meet you, Your Majesty, what are your plans?" Arms said with a blushing face.

It's bloody! Zhu Jun feels that this world is too abnormal, although he is the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, it is just a king of the dead country, to paraphrase a sentence in later generations, 'Lao Tzu's ancestors were once rich', but the ancestors are the ancestors, and they are themselves. What is the Governor's agenda?

"Why did the governor of Luzon see me? Did you hear the wind? Zhu Jun still can't rest assured, he has always been his yin person, but don't be overturned in the gutter and be yin by foreign devils.

"It seems to be about the Dutch, and it is rumored that the Dutch seem to be in danger of using force against Luzon, and the Governor hopes to unite with His Majesty against the Dutch."

Zhu Jun was secretly surprised, and said that it was the Spaniards who noticed that he had sent pirates to harass Luzon, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was too strange, and it stands to reason that since the Spaniards realized that it was right to quietly send troops to detain him and the people accompanying the ship, how could such a polite governor come forward to meet him in person.

Another problem is that according to Zhu Jun's understanding of history, the Dutch did not seem to have fought a war with Spain for colonies in Asia during this period, but now the Spaniards have spread the news that the Dutch fleet will attack Luzon, not to mention that he, the king of the dead country, in addition to the sailors who pretend to be pirates, only has ten large merchant ships on the surface, and they are not even armed merchant ships.

In Zhu Jun's impression, the strength of the Netherlands in the South Seas is a grade higher than that of the Spaniards, and the strength of the Spanish navy is at least a grade higher than his own, after all, there are seven large warships there, and there are countless small and medium-sized warships.

After thinking about it for so long, Zhu Jun still couldn't guess what the governor of Luzon wanted to do. What does the Dutch have to do with themselves attacking Luzon. A series of question marks came to mind, and Zhu Jun became full of interest.

"When will the Governor be able to reach the port?"

Ames said: "I heard that we have arrived in Di'an City, and we can reach it in two days at the earliest, Your Majesty, the Governor seems to have great respect for you, do we want to show something?" How about you arrange for someone to meet or give a drink to the Governor? "Arms is obviously more optimistic about a win-win situation for Spain and his master, and it is best to join forces, so that perhaps it will be a little better for him, a traitor, to have a better conscience.

Zhu Jun pouted, there are only two possibilities for the Spaniards to suddenly show favor to themselves, one is that the brain was kicked by a donkey, the other is to ask for himself, the first possibility is not very likely, and the second possibility is at least ninety percent, in this case, Zhu Jun intends to pull the tiger skin and pull the banner, the more the other party stammers himself, but he has to pretend to be unattainable, so as to be able to confuse this group of foreign devils.

"There is no need for this, for when the governor arrives at the port, I will send someone to announce that he will be allowed to see him, and you will be the interpreter with the envoy."

The governor of Luzon arrived at the port at dawn on the third day, and in addition to a few officers who came with him, there were also several important members of the colonial government of Luzon.

Escorted by a group of Spanish soldiers, the long procession of carriages stopped in front of the local government at the port, and the local administrator and a group of subordinates had been waiting for a long time, and with them came a Mu Jianming dressed in the uniform of a Ming military general.

Mu Jianming was full of armor, holding a roll of yellow brocade silk in both hands, and behind him was the ambitious Ames. Hundreds of soldiers around him were guarding each side with weapons, standing upright.

When the Governor of Luzon got out of the carriage, Mu Jianming had already raised the holy decree and shouted with full anger: "Governor Hechajin of Luzon listens to the order." ”

Behind him, Ames had already rushed out, and translated to the governor in a whisper, and briefly introduced some of the ceremonial steps to receive the holy decree, he saw the governor's face was embarrassed, and finally did not forget to remind: "The most important thing for the Orientals is etiquette, Your Excellency, only mutual respect is the basis of cooperation." ”

Arms was very sorry for the Governor, and this meeting had his share of the credit, and he sincerely hoped that the two sides could reach some kind of agreement and be friendly, but Zhu Jun's thoughts were strange, not only threatening to ask the Governor to salute, but also specially sending so many Ming troops to land on the shore, he was really worried that the Governor would leave with his sleeves, or simply let the envoy and himself arrest together.

Governor Hechagin was completely opposite to what Ames thought, and when he saw the well-trained Ming army surrounding Mu Jianming, he made up his mind, at least this can prove that the strength of the Ming Emperor is very strong, otherwise why would a small envoy need so many guards to protect? But Khachakin was embarrassed by the matter of etiquette, and this embarrassing scene had also happened to the Portuguese decades earlier, and the final outcome was that the Portuguese refused to meet the great emperor, and it also led to a small war, and finally the Portuguese were driven out of the Far East by the Ming army.

Hechagin hesitated for a moment before making a decision: "Mr. Ames, I am the great Count of the Spanish Empire, and have been given the right to rule Luzon by His Majesty Philip, and you can explain to this envoy that my sense of honor does not allow me to bow down to a piece of silk, but, in order to show my respect to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I am willing to take off my hat and salute him." ”

Arms nodded in understanding, the etiquette of the Oriental people also felt a bit too much for him as a priest, he suddenly had an idea, turned his head to Mu Jianming and said in Chinese: "Mr. Mu, the Governor said that he admires His Majesty the Emperor very much, so I hope you can allow him to express his respect with the most solemn hat ceremony in Spain, in our Spain, only the most respected people are eligible to enjoy the hat ceremony." ”

Mu Jianming frowned, it was the first time for him to play the role of reading the holy decree, originally this kind of work was done by eunuchs or civil officials, but Zhu Jun felt that these people were not enough to show the strong side of the Ming Dynasty, so he let him come, although Mu Jianming said that it was okay to read and write, but he didn't know much about these dirty etiquette of various countries, and he heard Arms say this There was some reason, so he nodded and agreed.

Ames breathed a sigh of relief and relayed Mu Jianming's meaning, Hechagin nodded, smoothed his shirt, took off the pitch-black triangular hat that represented the governor's authority, and made a deaf look.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: I heard that there is a Francophone in the west, and the Spaniards have long been Muda tomorrow...... He ordered Hechakin, the governor of Luzon, Spain, to board the dragon ship to see His Majesty, so as to show that he would comfort his friends and bring blessings to the four seas......"

After the recitation of the decree and the symbolic receipt of the decree, there was a pleasant exchange between the two sides, and Arms not only acted as an interpreter, but also became a lubricant for both parties, but there were some embarrassing problems from which he intertwined some unfriendly words, but also 'had a good conversation'.

After that, a large group of men and horses, escorted by the Ming army and Spanish soldiers, walked towards the dock.........

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Hehe, the plot of this paragraph is completely misunderstood, it may feel a little interesting, the Spaniards mistakenly thought that the pirates were a conspiracy of the Dutch, and they were afraid that the Dutch would launch a colonial war on Luzon, at this time, Zhu Jun happened to come to Luzon with the living treasure of Ames, in order to cover up Zhu Jun's identity, he touted Zhu Jun as a hero who defeated the pirates and rescued him, plus the Zheng group in Taiwan beat the Dutch all over the ground under the banner of Daming, so that the Spaniards mistakenly thought that Zhu Jun had a very strong strength.