"What's the matter with the old gentleman coming here so late?" Liu Yu smiled, sat on the sofa and looked at the old man in front of him.

During the Kangxi period, two Orientals sat on the sofa and chatted, no matter how they looked at it, they felt awkward and incredible.

"Your Excellency." The old man was very old, and he had already passed the age of sixtieth, but the spiritual energy emanating from his body moved Liu Yu.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for an old man who has passed the age of his sixtieth birthday to have such a spirit, let alone in the seventeenth century, when the living conditions were far inferior to those of modern times.

"Your Excellency has now taken the northern part of Luzon, and I heard that the Ming Court of Luzon has also signed an armistice agreement with Manila, so I don't know what your Excellency should do next." The old man asked.

Liu Yu looked at the old man in front of him coldly, how could he tell an old man of unknown origin about this kind of thing?

"Dare to ask Mr. what his surname is." Liu Yu asked.

"Under Chen Ande." The old man finally spat out his name.

Chen Ande and Liu Yu were stunned.

Chen Ande, a Ming diplomat sent to Europe during the Yongli period.

In 1649, the Yongli Emperor decided to send envoys to the Pope for help in the face of the Qing army's large-scale attack to the southwest, and the Western missionary in China, Bu Mige, was appointed as a plenipotentiary envoy.

In order to make Europe more intuitive to understand the Southern Ming court, Chen Ande, a young official specially appointed by Sili Tailin Pang Tianshou, accompanied Bu Mige with a letter from Emperor Yongli, and Chen Ande became the first "Chinese diplomat" to go to Europe.

However, it has been 35 years since Andrew Chen went to Europe.

Even after Yongli was killed, Chen Ande disappeared into the long river of history and disappeared without a trace.

Liu Yu did not expect to meet this famous Chinese No. 1 diplomat in the mission sent by Chen Shangchuan.

Of course, more than 30 years have passed, and now Chen Ande is also old, but his perennial wandering has made him have a spirit that ordinary people do not have.

"I went to Europe with Bumig to beg for European military aid, even if there was little hope." Chen Ande sighed.

"In the sixth year of Yongli, we arrived in Venice, but Francisco Morin, the governor of the Republic of Venice, refused to receive us envoys from China."

"Bumig managed to ask the French ambassador for help, and then he handed the letter to Francisco Morin." Chen Ande slowly narrated, as if he had returned to the time of more than 30 years ago.

"And I waited in Venice for three years, until the new Pope Alexander VII finally met with him in the ninth year of Yongli. Although Alexander VII sympathized with China and the plight of the Yongli Emperor, he could not provide practical help, and only wrote a reply letter for me to bring back to China. The old man obviously had a hint of helplessness when he said this.

In the letter, he prayed that China would weather the storm. The Pope's reply gave him and I room to move around in Europe, and we came to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, to meet King John IV of Portugal, who promised to provide some military assistance to China. ”

This surprised Liu Yu, Portugal was willing to help the Yongli court at that time.

Liu Yu recalled carefully that when the Qing army went south, the Yongli Emperor did ask the Portuguese in Macao for assistance, and the Portuguese in Macao did send 300 soldiers to assist in the battle, so Yongli also became a religious.

In March of the 10th year of the Yongli calendar, I received the promise of John IV and I embarked on the return journey.

However, when we arrived in Goa, India, we learned that the Yongli court was in danger, and although King John IV repeatedly ordered us not to embarrass us and ask the Portuguese colonial authorities in the Far East to give us the right of passage, the Portuguese colonial authorities in Agona still did not allow us to go to Macao. Chen Ande smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly.

"Interesting, can you even disobey the king's orders?" Liu Yu sneered.

However, considering that he signed an armistice with Governor Juan of Manila, it seems that he did not have the consent of the King of Spain.

It had only been a year since the Ming army marched south to Luzon, and it was estimated that even if Manila wrote a letter to the king of Spain, it would take more than a year to receive it.

"They thought the Tatars would be able to occupy China, so they didn't want to anger the future chieftains who would rule China."

What happened later was that Tan Ande and Bu Mig arrived overland in Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam (present-day Thailand).

There, they hired a ship from the pirates to arrive in northern Annam, at the beginning of the twelfth year of the Yongli calendar.

Unfortunately, they were unable to return because of the war.

After his death in 1659, Chen Ande returned to Yunnan alone with several important diplomatic letters to return to the Yongli Emperor.

"Emperor Yongli did not wait for assistance from John IV until his death, and I was separated from the imperial court when Wu Sangui conquered Yunnan, and I had no choice but to go to Nanyang and Luzon." Chen Ande raised his head and looked at Liu Yu.

"If Zheng Chengzhi had lived longer, the four thousand people of the Ming Dynasty would not have died in vain."

Chen Ande's words moved Liu Yu, and after Wu Sangui broke through Yunnan, Chen fled to Luzon, but unfortunately within a few years, the Spaniards launched a third massacre against the Chinese.

The reason is naturally that in the sixteenth year of Yongli, the lord of the country took back Taiwan, defeated the Dutch, and then wrote to the Spaniards, asking Manila to pay tribute and protect the Chinese, which undoubtedly angered the rulers of Manila.

In order to prevent the Chinese from colliding with Taiwan's Zheng army, the Manila authorities raised their butcher's knives against the Chinese in Luzon for the third time, and more than 4,000 Han Chinese died tragically under the Spanish knife.

This is also the deepest memory of the generals of Taiwan's Zheng army, at least when Liu Yu persuaded the Zheng army to go south and agitated to maintain the morale of the Luzon Ming army, he would use this Spanish massacre in the sixteenth year of Yongli to talk about it.

After all, the Luzon Ming Army is basically from the Zheng Group, which is barely a continuation of the Zheng Group in Taiwan.

"Maybe it's because I've traveled to Europe and have a certain understanding of the habits and behaviors of these Europeans, so I used most of my money to buy off an official in Manila on the night of the riots, so I escaped from Manila." Chen Ande seemed to be saying something that didn't concern him, and his tone did not fluctuate in the slightest.

"Later, I originally intended to go to Taiwan, but unfortunately Zheng Chenggong died, and Taiwan was in civil strife, so I had no choice but to go to Annam, and I have been to Burma, East India, and Annam over the years, and I have also worked for the East India Company."

Listening to a figure who has long disappeared in history tell a history that is not recorded in the book, Liu Yu is also full of emotion.

"It just so happened that Chen Shangchuan and other leaders of Annam heard that the Lord had established the Ming Court in Luzon and wanted to send someone to contact him, so he entrusted the merchants of Annam to send merchant envoys to the Ming Court in Luzon." Andrew Chen explained.

"Do you want to establish yourself as a king in Luzon, or do you want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?" Chen Ande suddenly asked a question, his eyes staring directly at Liu Yu.

This stumped Liu Yu, who was unwilling to live under the rule of the Tartars when he went south to Luzon, so he came to Luzon to seek a way out, which was also the will of thousands of Zheng army generals.

Over the course of a year, they succeeded and indeed snatched the northern part of Luzon from the Spaniards.

"If you want to establish yourself as a king in Luzon and establish a kingdom of the Chinese, then I advise you to take it with your hands tied." Chen Ande naturally saw a trace of hesitation flashing in Liu Yu's eyes.

"Luzon is a Spanish colony, King Carlos II will not give up Manila, your Excellency came to Luzon a year ago, even if the governor of Manila deliberately blocked the news from returning to Spain in order to keep his black hat, but in the case of the Ming army occupying northern Luzon, Spanish merchants have naturally asked Carlos II for help, presumably at this time the Spanish merchants or Manila officials who asked for help are rushing to the sea in Europe." Chen Ande said.

Chen Ande's words are obvious, if the Chinese establish themselves as a country, then the Spaniards will inevitably make a comeback, and it will take a year and a half from the time the news came back to Spain to the time Carlos II organized an expeditionary force to kill Luzon with great momentum.

In other words, the Ming court in Luzon only had one to two years of respite, and if Liu Yu did nothing, the Ming army in Luzon would face the wrath of the Spaniards in a year and a half.

"What if it's anti-Qing?" Liu Yu stared at Chen Ande, wanting to see something from Chen Ande's face.

"Shi Lang invaded Taiwan, perversely acted in Taiwan, robbed the Han people's land, and even the Penghu fishermen who had no land and no land did not let go, such an act has long lost the support of the Taiwan people, since the adults have exterminated the northern pirates and taken Babuyan and Bataan, then Taiwan is within reach." Chen Ande finally said the purpose of his trip.