Full of thorns to the royal palace, at this time has become the place of the folang machine.

Today is a formal European-style banquet, so most of the food used is made by the European people, but the tableware is not a copper tool commonly used by the European people, but full of gold and silver utensils and Chinese porcelain.

The main food of the European people is of course bread, but the wheat that makes excellent bread is the lowest yield among the various major crops, so the white bread belongs to the food that the rich, the nobles and the privileged of the church can enjoy, they add milk to the flour, and use beer yeast to make the fine white and delicious bread, called the queen bread, which is now placed in the innermost table.

The dog was sitting at the end, picking up a piece of black bread made of rye and oats, and throwing back the plate with a slam, and muttered to the side of Ono Farm: "Laughable banquet, golden saucer, but this kind of thing, I can use it to break your head at once."

Ono's side of the plowing field side, whispered: "Don't complain, under the eaves of people, how can you not bow down?"We now depend on them to survive, and I have heard that the people who remain in the land of Daming are almost killed, and the faces of those who fled to the mountains to eat wild vegetables are bruised, and even bloating and dying, at least we still have food to eat and drink.”

He choted a bad-quality whiskey and frowned: “Why don’t you use local wine?”The wine is like vinegar.”

"Hush, he's going to talk," said the handsome pig's paw, catching the samurai's bun, and hastening to say.

Sure enough, Ezeiger had risen, and politely smiled at everyone and said, "Gentlemen, you are welcome to the feast at noon today."

He was wearing a short tidbit made of oriental silk.The expensive shawl with a small rounded pearl weaving a Portuguese love poem, shone in the candlelight, more and more to give him a sense of honor.

"Gentlemen," Ezeiger smiled and pointed to the crowd: "Tonight feast, please drink as much as you like, no scruples."At the same time, I need to ask everyone for advice on something.”

He looked around the long table and said as the guests sat around.

This is a huge team.There were officers of the Portuguese fleet under his command, the Spanish pirate Captain Pedro and his men, Miyamoto and his Eastern samurai, the native chiefs who had come to him, and the mercenary chiefs recruited in the eastward journey, the factions were complex, and the race and dress were different.

The various dishes were presented one after another by the slaves who belonged to the royal palace, and of course the most exquisite food was still on the side of these chiefs.In addition to fish and vegetables, the meat is also dominated by pork.

Medieval European people did not hate the internal organs of animals as much as the people of Europe today, and in fact they would not let go of every inch of what they could eat, including the uterus and bladder of pigs.However, whether it is drinks, bread or dishes, they all have to be dyed.It looks like the dark red color is very appetizing.

Due to the different eating habits, some of these people use knives and forks, some use chopsticks, and some directly grasp, making this magnificent court-style feast look a bit strange.

Ezeiger took a sip of white wine and made brandy, smiled and grabbed the napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth, and said, “Gentlemen.”Please come here today, except for lunch, which is about our way out.The question of whether we can stand in the thorns is a matter of each of us.”

This sentence suddenly attracted the attention of all factions.Everyone stopped the knife and cut the chopsticks and listened to him.

"To tell the truth, I did not expect the army of Da Ming to be so belligerent, from the news that Captain Pedro told me, the strength of the Ming Army Marine Division was originally underestimated by us, no, not no, not underestimation, but completely estimated wrong.Now.The Ming Army settled the East Sea, and soon the target will be pointed here, and the news from Mr. Miyamoto's secret spies who remained in the Ming Dynasty border, also confirmed this point in the signs of the movement of the Ming Army.". .

He spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders: "Then the problem is coming, we are fighting, retreating, or... trying to find a way to seek reconciliation with Daming?"Please see each one.”

The dinner room was noisy, and the people of the various factions began to turn their heads.Ezeiger supported the meal case and quietly observed the reaction of the people.Then he looked deeply into the eyes of Archbishop Ramario.

His army was not pirates.It is the regular Portuguese Navy, attached to the "Portuguese god of war" reputation of the local governor of India Albuquerque.The Governor General.A devout and mad follower of interest, and since he had gained a foothold in India, his ambition began to dominate the Far East.

According to Albuquerque's observation, he believed that the full thorn was the chokehold of controlling the trade in the Indian Ocean and the Far East, and occupied here, he could establish the Portuguese position in the maritime trade in the East.As a starting point, he can also capture Colombo, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Maluku Islands.

When he first went to India, he devoted himself to conquering the East with a stormy momentum.Not only did they attack the Arab cities in succession and destroy them and burn them, but they also sank some of the Arab ships.The occupation of Goa and Malacca, sweeping Arab ships from the Indian Ocean, established maritime hegemony, and gained sufficient power from the King of India to become Governor-General of India.

But for whether he could make the God he believed in also become the master of the East, this crazy believer and wise general did not have so strong confidence in the certainty of faith, and he always had a little intention in his heart for the Great Ming Dynasty, the first great power in the Far East.

Ezeiger's fleet was his first attempt, capturing the thorns, testing the Ming's reaction to it, and then deciding on his further deployment to the Far East.

Now, it seems that the Ming Dynasty does not seem willing to lose its full thorns and is ready to use force.As commander of the expeditionary force, Ezeiger, finding that he had misjudged the strength of the Ming Army, was too late to obtain further instructions from Albuquerque and had to discuss countermeasures with his collaborators.

La Mario came to the thorny man at the behours of the Portuguese king, who opposed and made great use of force.In his view, becoming an ally with the first power in the Far East is obviously more beneficial to Portugal, but experienced three years ago.Adney's uncle and other radical naval officers in the rebellion, he had to pay attention to the opinions of the naval department.

Albuquerque is known as the "God of War", and his opinions cannot be ignored in the Navy.Therefore, Archbishop Ramario, after learning of his plan, came to Manchua himself, and wanted to present his views to the king after the field visit.Because he is a member of the group.So Ezeiger was hostile to him on the surface.

Sure enough, Ramario coughed and began to speak, and he looked around and said, “Gentlemen, you must have known, as many years ago as you did.Zheng He, the general of the Ming Dynasty, once went to the Western Ocean, he went to the Persian Gulf, he went to Aden, crossed the Red Sea, he sent a fleet even to the east coast of Africa.

And the size, number, and total crew of the Ming Army ships are the sum of the current naval fleets.There is no doubt that the Ming Army has a strong ocean strike capability.Now Captain Pedro had confirmed that the artillery of the Ming army was no less inferior to us, and I think that His Majesty the King's opinion was correct.We should be an ally with this powerful country, not an enemy, and that would be our dream.”

Sander, deputy of Ezeiger, immediately retorted: "Monseigneur, I think you are a little alarmist, Mr. Miyamoto and Ming Army have had many years of experience, from his understanding, the Ming army does not have what Captain Pedro said of the super fire cannon."

He looked at Pedro contemptily and added, “Captain Pedro’s two warships failed.Perhaps it is not the right command, perhaps the Ming army relies on the land and the number of ships to make up for the defects, as for the bullet marks on the ship, huh, the soldiers are not deceitful, give me two ships, I can tear it into a slapboard to prove the strength of my artillery fire."

He brushed the ground and stood up.Proudly said, “As a colonel in the Royal Spanish Navy.”I swear to the Almighty, “Give me ten ships, and I will destroy all the Ming army and navy that appear in the South China Sea.”Fight for the supreme glory of the Portuguese royal family and the Royal Navy, so that the power of His Majesty the King and His Majesty the Pope's grace are all over the East!"

Ezeiger patted him on the shoulder with excitement and said, “Full of thorns must be guaranteed in our hands, and we will have this trading port, and our merchant ships will be full of wealth, filling their cargo on the mast.”

"Snap" two crisp applause, La Mario gentlely clasped, the opposite lip said: "Very beautiful, sir."But don't forget that here is at the foot of the Ming, which is as big as a giant elephant, and raising one foot can crush this place.We have only ten warships, and, of course, if Captain Pedro and Miyamoto's ships are more than that, where are our supplies and reinforcements?And the Ming Army can mobilize 100,000 troops in a day and night.”

"Mr. Bishop," Miyamoto stammered, "as far as we know, the people of the Ming Dynasty were not good at fighting and not making weapons, and we could sack a city of 30,000 people."Fifty men can run away after a thousand men.”

La Mario shrugged, “Then I’m curious, why didn’t you lead your land with more than two thousand people to occupy ten rich cities, but squeezed with us in a little full of thorns?”

Miyamoto blushed and said, “This... the officials of the Ming Dynasty, the low combat effectiveness of the army, is well known, not only the army, Captain Pedro stayed in Daming for three years, he should be very clear about the strength of the Ming Army Marine Division.”

Our failure this time was mainly due to the loss of our own base, and the forced carrying of our families greatly affected our combat capabilities.At the same time, Yang Ling, the general of the Ming Army, was resourceful, and this person was not only good at fighting, but also very motivated the morale of the army.But in the morning, there is a very bad habit in the officialdom...”

He smiled cunningly, took a drink of wine, then frowned and grinned: "They like to be angry with people, like to take over."The general who has made great achievements will be jealous of the monarch, and finally bring himself to death.A defeated general will also become a scapegoat for the monarch, even if he has won a hundred battles.

Now Yang Ling has violated the first article, causing some officials to be uneasy.As long as he violates the second, he will be attacked immediately by others, and as long as he is forced to leave this position, the division of the tiger and wolf led by a lion will immediately re-disperse into a herd of cattle and sheep slaughtered.

Sander smiled and said, “I ask for a fight, for this purpose.”As for the supply and troop replenishment, my specific plan is to first recruit an army of 4000 to 6,000 troops from the Governor-General of India, first occupy Guangdong Province as a base, and the whole Ming Army Marine Division obtains sea control.Gradually infiltrating into the interior.

As for the follow-up soldiers, 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers can be recruited from the mainland, and about 10,000 mercenaries can be recruited in Dongan and Luzon.When sea control is obtained, the guns on the warship can be unloaded as field heavy guns, and the front and back cannons can reach thousands, and under such fire, we will not encounter any large-scale resistance.”

Pedro, a Spaniard, had to be temporarily cast to seek safety.He was well aware of the strength of the two warships that had been destroyed on Doklong Island and the commanding ability of Fernando, so he was convinced that the Ming Army had a powerful artillery field, so he was very reluctant to take the initiative to attract the Ming Army warships to this shelter.

However, because of his special identity, he did not want to express his opinion, but heard Sander so whimsical words.He couldn’t help but shudder, and said indifferently, “Colonel Sand, I have no doubt about the combat effectiveness of six thousand regular Portuguese soldiers.”But in the morning, 30,000 local sailors can be sent to sail to the West, and whether it is Portugal or Spain, who can support the ocean supply of tens of thousands of navies?

The recruitment of 4,000 troops from India, I think India will therefore no longer belong to you, and General Albukuk will not agree to this plan.Tens of thousands of troops sailed south from the Iberian Peninsula, bypassing the Cape of Good Hope until India, and no country could afford such a large army to eat.In addition, the maintenance of ships and the prevention and control of diseases, how to do it?”

La Mario also mocked: "This is not the most important thing, to know that the war can not be smooth forever."If not, how can such a large army retreat?You say that you want to recruit nearly 10,000 mercenaries, how can so many recruit?How to train?How to collaborate?Once the army is invading, the country is empty, if there are other countries taking the opportunity to fight with our country, how to deal with it?”

A series of "how" to the silent Sander asked, he was irritated: "Even if you do not attack the Ming Dynasty, at least to protect the security of the stings we can always do it?"Why ask and?This is the only way for the flow of spices, porcelain, silk and tea in the East.As long as there is absolute trade rights here, Cairo and Mecca will be completely bankrupt.And Venice will not get the spices and silk it needs, unless they send their merchants to Portugal to buy a large sum of gold coins.”

The avenging Miyamoto did not mind the Portuguese sinking several of their warships, but he was worried about the failure of the land on the land of Ming, and strongly encouraged Ezeiger and Sand to go to war against Ming, while La Mario and Pedro were opposed, and the two sides quarreled, and the mercenary chief Alonso looked at the nose and nose, as if the old monk had settled.

The two sides were fighting irrefutating, an oriental man hurried in, whispering a few words to the waiter, the waiter hurried to bring him to Miyamoto Hao, Miyamoto listened to him whisper a few words, his face suddenly turned extremely ugly.

At the quarrel, both sides stopped, and Ezeiger asked strangely, "Mr. Miyamoto, what happened?"

Miyamoto held his knees with both hands and said word for word: "Your excellency, I have just received the news that the squirrel's fraternal machine man was forced to flee to Yunzhou Island because he killed the sea lane-keeper who asked for bribes, and they ... have been defeated by the Ming army, and my people have seen thousands of Confucian machines being escorted through in Fuzhou Street."

Ezeiger was surprised: “How?”I know those people, although they are smugglers, but the force is not weak, their four main warships, the firepower is not much worse than our warships, I am preparing to send someone to contact them, hope to join with them, Ming army dispatched how many warships, how long to fight?"

Miyamoto hesitated for a moment: "The large warships in Fuzhou Port have not gone to sea, so my people can't figure out how many ships they have sent out, but we know that the army sent troops out to sea, they set out in the early morning and returned at the end of the night."It only takes one day of the day.”

The noise in the hall was completely gone, and even a needle could be heard on the ground.After a long time, La Mario rose up and shouted in a high-spirited tone: "Generals and gentlemen, we must make a decision at once, and we must not wait until the warships of the Ming army come to our eyes to negotiate, and I think the most correct thing is to contact Ming Ting immediately and solve the problem of full of thorns through negotiation."

He pointed to the door and shouted: "The combat power of the Ming Army Marine Division is already obvious."They can capture our migrants as much as possible than they kill us, and they also show their sincerity in peace.Chances are short-lived, and you can’t wait any longer, gentlemen.I do not wish that at the end of our feast, the soldiers in the armor of the Ming army would rush in directly from the door, and put us from the table into the cell, in accordance with His Majesty's will, and negotiate with them."

Ezekiel and Sander looked at each other.After a long time, Ezeiger sat down and said, "...well, Sander, send someone to contact Yang Ling."We are negotiating.We are willing to give them more than the old example of the Illumination of the Tiny Kingdom, and to call them the Negon, in order to obtain freedom and full ownership of trade.”

He looked up at Sander again: "At once, we will send governor Albuquerque to draw warships and troops as much as possible."How much you can adjust, be sure to reinforce the thorn as soon as possible.”

Yang Ling was satisfied with the resolution made by He General Army, Cheng Qiyun and Adity's "three-person military group", and was even more satisfied with the results.However, Aditye also personally went to the island to fight this matter, or let him be afraid.

As soon as Yang Ling returned to the room, he gave Adely a home law, and the small ass, which was full of tension and imprest, was slapped a few times, in exchange for a piece of commissioning, Chu Chu's sad and pompous appearance, but he refused to ask for forgiveness and recognition.

Yang Ling had nothing to do, and turned to punish the rhyme.The same slap fell.It is like a snake, and it is like a snake.The face of the beaten spring into a rhyme, like the rattan wrapped in him, Yang Ling was knocked to the ground without a modulity, Ben thought of the husband's program, and finally evolved into a mouthful of the war, into the rhyme is finally wared ... ...

However, this incident, which left nothing behind, still gave Yang Ling a wake-up call: the affairs of the country, there is light and heavy, and urgent.Sometimes the family has to give up.Children should be let go.

When he is not there.His men made the wrong decision and used cruel killing punctures to launch an early offensive by the pirates.Then the Ming army that is not fully prepared is likely to fall into passivity, at least to pay more casualties, that is, because his own selfishness has killed countless innocent lives.

The arrest of the smuggling team caused him some surprise, after interrogation Yang Ling knew that the West has now begun the slave trade, there are pirate ships specifically to capture the off-site human trafficking for profit.The slaves in this smuggling fleet were purchased from Western pirate ships.

At the same time, because they live in Macao, although they rarely sell the population from Macao, they also do to sell the Western population to the East, and then to sell the dirty work of women and children in the East to the West, so that Yang Ling will naturally not be lightly for the first evil, except for the placement of women and children and slaves to avoid being disturbed by others, the evil ones will be handed over to the Department of Inspection and interrogation, according to the law.

This morning, a Fujian businessman came to the governor's house and asked for Yang Ling Yang.The governor's office has been accustomed to some people who come to see the governor, and they know that most of these cats and dogs are not small, so they do not dare to slack off, hastening to welcome him into the living room, and then went to Yang Ling.

Yang Ling heard the news and rushed to the living room, and the businessman saw Yang Ling politely and said, "The grass people Jia Qing friends worship the governor."

Yang Ling smiled and said, “Mr. Jia doesn’t have to be polite, you are...?”

Jia Qingyou did not dare to sit down and said with a smile: "The grass people are a businessman, often running in the South Ocean and doing some medicinal products."

Yang Ling heard that he was a real businessman, his curiosity in his heart, and he could not help but slacken, he sat lazily in the chair and said lightly: "Oh, don't be too polite, you sit down and talk, what do you want to see the governor?"

Jia Qingyou still did not dare to sit, he wiped his sweat, and stood there in a regular way: "The grass people are a businessman, the cargo ship after a full thorn, was seized by a group of ghost pirates there, they buckled the grass people ship, asked the grass people to send a message to the adults, the news was brought, they will return the cargo ship."

“Huh?”Yang Ling suddenly leaned forward and paid attention: “Full of thorns?The Pirates?What news do they want you to bring?”

Jia Qingyou ate and ate the ground: "They said that the Fang Lang machine defeated the thorns and ruled the place, and now they know that the emperor of Daming is quite dissatisfied with this, so they are very afraid."The Franco-American state was unwilling to have a war on this matter and Da Ming, so it wanted to negotiate with Da Ming on the full thorny issue.If the adult agrees, please sign a vest to me, the grass people bring back a full thorn, designated by the adult on a date, they are willing to send a mission to negotiate with the adults in Xiamen."