Chapter 825 Overexerted force, Da Ming's efficiency was like this, and it really shocked the Spaniards.In order to obtain the help of the Ming Dynasty, the Spanish Empire sold the Plain de la Plata, which covers an area of more than 1.5 million square kilometers, to the Ming Dynasty.At the same time, the Ming Dynasty organized a mercenary army of about 35,000 people and sent it to Spain.This army, which was mainly composed of Japanese prisoners of war, was sent to the Spanish Empire in the form of cannon fodder under the simple training of the Ming Royal Army.Under normal circumstances, it would take nine months, or even more than a year, to send an army across the ocean to the other side of the globe.However, Da Ming unknowingly pretended to be another one, and arrived in Spain in just over eight months, and the mercenaries of the Japanese Kingdom who had just arrived in Spain were naturally despised by Spain because of their height.Although the Spaniards are short in Europe, no matter how short they are, they are slightly taller than the average height of the Ming people, who are about 165 cm tall at this time, while the average height of the Ming men is about 164.5.Of course, this is the number of the past, now Quan Xu pays great attention to the physical fitness of the whole people, and now children can eat free eggs and milk provided by the school, and the increase in height is very significant, if the statistics are counted in the future, I am afraid it will not be lower than 170 cm, or even higher.However, at this time, the average height of the Japanese people was about 1.57 meters, don't stand in front of the Shandong Han, even if you stand in front of ordinary Ming people, their height will be despised by people.The only surprise is that the standard height of the Ming Royal Army is 170 cm, and the female soldier is 158 cm, so in the impression of the Spaniards, the Ming people are very tall.Although these Japanese were despised in Spain, they were excellent in battle, not only fearless, but also tenacious.In particular, the Spanish phalanx has a fatal weakness, once approached by the other side, the Spanish soldiers holding spears up to four and a half meters long have no chance to counteract at all.The current French Army relied on musket assaults, pikemen confrontations, and short attacks from the ground, gradually multiplying the losses of the Spanish Army.In this case, the mercenaries of the Japanese state, who were good at hand-to-hand combat, appeared on the battlefield of the war between France and Spain.The dwarfs raised their broken sabers or samurai swords and fought hand-to-hand in the manner that the French were best at.Moreover, these Japanese mercenaries were crazy in the face of blood, and fought quite fiercely, not only helping the Spaniards to offset the superiority of the French Army, but also faintly allowing the Spanish Army to win one victory after another.In fact, the Japanese people also had no choice, they either died of exhaustion on the construction site of the railway in the Ming Dynasty, or died poor in the Japanese country, in short, death is their best destination.With that, through their fearless combat style, they gradually gained the respect of the Spaniards on the land battlefield in Spain, and at the same time obtained better benefits.The Spaniards were even more proud, but when they learned that the Ming were engaged in a large-scale war with the Ottoman Empire, Fili IV sent Morales as an envoy to Suez.Well, there is no name for the city of Suez anymore, because of the transliteration relationship of Suez, this coastal city was directly and rudely named Suzhou, and the official name was Suqiao City, in order to distinguish it from Suzhou Mansion in the Ming Dynasty.Of course, in Suzhou City, when the Duke of Morales of Spain came to Suzhou City, there was basically no trace of the Ottoman Empire.This is Da Ming inadvertently pretending to be another handful.As far as Duke Morales knows, the Ming Dynasty will not occupy Suez for more than two months, but in these two months, all traces of the Ottomans have been erased, which is not something ordinary people can do.After all, the Ottomans' brain circuits have always been abnormal, and it is impossible to guess them with common sense, this is a crazy country, a powerful empire that makes everyone in Europe tremble."
Duke Morales, our General Yang invites you to dinner!"
For the goodwill of the Spaniards during this period, Yang Yandong also decided to follow the local customs and showed great enthusiasm.Obviously, Duke Morales is not a China expert, and he does not know that there is an old Chinese saying that if you are courteous to others, you must ask for something.Duke Morales walked the streets of the city of Suzhou, which, like Hedong City, had become a military city, and there was not a single Ottoman in the city, and few other Europeans could be seen.There were soldiers of the Ming Dynasty everywhere, and the soldiers had already begun to prepare for dinner.Here, if you want to get vegetables and fruits, then don't think about it, you can only fill your hunger with canned food, the soldiers of the Ming Royal Army are canned food that makes the soldiers curse more than once, each person has a can of canned luncheon meat, a can of canned fruit, or canned soybeans are always a meat and a vegetarian, and the nutrition is reasonable.Daming's canned food, for ordinary Europeans, must not have seen it, but for a nobleman like Duke Morales, it can only be relatively expensive food.The Duke of Morales can tell from their surname, which dates back more than 9,000 years.Of course, it is roughly equivalent to the Taiyuan Wang clan or the Qinghe Cui clan in the Sui and Tang dynasties, although it is no longer the grand occasion of the past, it is still the existence that ordinary people or wealthy people look up to.Duke Morales looked at the cans in the hands of the Royal Army and the Royal Navy officers of Daming, and secretly made a judgment in his heart: "Daming is very rich!"
”Actually, this is just a cognitive bias, just like AJ, which is simply the darling of local tyrants, and it is also an artifact used by poor dicks to pretend to be forced.I don't know it, AJ is only a little more than a hundred dollars in beauty, although it is not cheap, but it is definitely not a luxury.It's just that under the influence of people with hearts and hearts that worship foreign people, it is extremely precious.A can that you can buy for a gold coin in Spain, worth 5.57 grams of gold, is no longer eating, it's eating money.Duke Morales couldn't understand Chinese, he didn't know, and everywhere he passed, almost all the Ming soldiers were complaining: "Old class, can you change something to eat, even if I am allowed to drink sweet potato porridge!"
”"Okay, you beep less......
What do you want to do, this is Su Qiao City, not Suzhou City, even if it is Yang Yandong and Yang Shuai, you can only eat canned food!
”Although the Ming Dynasty was wealthy, in fact, the purchase cost of canned food was not high, and as the price of food became lower and lower, it affected the price of meat.If ten years ago, a pound of beef could be sold for between 100 and 150 yuan, since it was illegal to slaughter a cultivated cow, when killing a cow, it was necessary to prove to the government that the cow had lost the ability to cultivate the land and could only be slaughtered.Although there are some reasons for this, the problem is that pork is not cheap either.Now, a pound of beef can be sold for less than twenty yuan, and a tael of silver can buy fifty pounds of beef, which is almost the purchasing power of silver in Daming.Of course, pork can also be bought for eighty or ninety catties.The price of beef is still not too friendly to ordinary people, and it is much happier than the people of later generations, and an ordinary worker's monthly salary can buy 150 catties of beef.Lao Cheng's current salary is less than 100 catties of beef.Sure enough, at the banquet.Morales felt Yang Yandong's sincerity, and the dense and huge dining table was full of all kinds of canned food, such as canned fruit, canned beef, canned braised pork, canned hairtail, canned yellow croaker, canned squid, canned mutton, etc., roughly estimated that there were at least forty or fifty kinds.In his heart, he secretly calculated that it was worth more than fifty gold coins, equivalent to more than 2,500 grams of gold, and such a banquet specification was very suitable for his status as a Spanish duke.Duke Morales didn't know that the real cost of this meal, Yang Yandong's real cost was less than ten taels of silver, which could be regarded as extremely shabby."
Please sit down, Your Excellency Duke Morales, I'm sorry our dinner is a little shabby, if you have the chance, you can go to Daming, and then I will treat you to a real feast, a mysterious delicacy from the Far East, I guarantee that you will be full of praise."
Yang Yandong smiled heartily.Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief.Duke Morales didn't know about Daming's situation, but in short, he was very useful to Yang Yandong's hospitality.Li Xin said very enthusiastically: "Your Excellency Duke, you taste this, this is our yak leg meat abundant in Daming, delicate, lubricated, nutritious, please forgive me for my lack of adjectives, I can't describe how delicious the canned beef leg is, you just need to know that even if your Spanish king comes to Daming, our Majesty will entertain His Majesty the king must also have yak legs." ”Canned food, in fact, no matter how delicious it is, is very limited.The canned food of the Ming Dynasty does not taste too good, but the problem is that for Europe at this time, their diet is still in the barbaric era, and the tossing and turning is nothing more than frying, frying and steaming.However, the canned yak leg meat is indeed delicious, and the beef in it is also real beef, not like the canned luncheon meat in the hands of the Ming soldiers.In fact, in this era, canned luncheon meat is starch and butter, and it is great to have some offal.Compared with the real canned yak leg meat, both in appearance and taste, it is not comparable to canned luncheon meat, the oily grease looks appetizing, and the exotic atmosphere of many spices mixed together makes the Duke of Morales full of praise.Canned food is definitely a luxury item outside of the Ming Dynasty, even the simplest canned soybeans cost less than three yuan, and when sold in Nanyang, it will cost thirty yuan, which is ten times.When it comes to Europe, it will be at least twenty or thirty times higher.In Spain, there is no such thing as a middle class, and in any case there is a lot of polarization.Even if he is a Duke of Morales, he can't eat delicious canned food every day, but has to eat the traditional Spanish cuisine, gazpacho, or fried ham or fried seafood.This kind of food, if it can satisfy the stomach and taste good, it will be absolutely hell level.As Li Xin persuaded the wine one by one, gradually, Duke Morales pounced and fell on the table, and he was broken by Li Xin's second pot.Yang Yandong sneered: "You did a good job!
”"I'm sorry, I didn't expect that!""
I didn't expect that either!"
Yang Yandong originally wanted to make an arms sale with the Spanish Empire, and Daming's arquebuses still had some inventory, so Yang Yandong wanted to sell this musket and the dilapidated artillery to the Spaniards.However, Li Xin directly cut Duke Morales into pieces."
Sorry, I pushed too hard!""
Wait for tomorrow!""
That's all there is to it!"
…… French GuianaGuyana is part of French territory and is under the direct jurisdiction of the French central government, which cannot be nominally called a "colony".This land has been invaded since 1604 AD, because more than 90% of the land is primeval forest, and it has rich mineral resources such as bauxite, gold, tantalum, iron, etc., which has attracted a long time of melee between Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and France.In short, the French are just barely standing here.When Li Yanqing arrived here with the army of Xinhua Province, he took advantage of his superiority in equipment to conquer more than a dozen French settlements in succession and annihilate two or three thousand Frenchmen.It's just that the Ming Xinhua army encountered difficulties, which were not caused by the French, but due to the climate and environment here.The army of Xinhua Province in the Ming Dynasty was only a simple plain field army, lacking the necessary experience in tropical rainforests, and more than 1,000 people were bitten by mosquitoes for a time, and even more than 100 times the number of people lost in the war.In desperation, Li Yanqing could only throw Guyana to the French."
Shall we just go like this?"
Major Chen Liqiu was a little dissatisfied, when he first came to Guyana, he was bitten on the calf by a leech here due to carelessness, and was shot by an aborigine's blow arrow, and fell seriously ill.finally waited for him to recover from his injuries, but when he received the news that Li Yanqing ordered him to retreat, he was naturally unwilling."
Pontus doesn't want to retreat, but what if we don't retreat, our biggest enemy is not the French, but the climate and environment here!""
I can buy the natives and let them fight the French!"
Chen Liqiu earnestly pointed to an indigenous man beside him with his shirt and tattoos.Li Yanqing nodded slightly: "This matter is handed over to you, I will retreat with our people, you can rest assured and boldly talk about how many materials you need, and the governor of Pontus will meet you!"
”"Okay, great" The southern part of Guyana is densely forested, swamps, and large rivers crisscross it, and it is almost like hell for the Ming people to come to this ghost place, but for the Indians, this kind of place is like coming home.Their ancestors have lived in conditions far worse than this for more than 2,000 years.In their opinion, this place is good, the game is very abundant, everything they need to survive can be found in the jungle, and the jungle can also be their protector.They burrow into the jungle, whether you're Spanish or Dutch, or French, and they kind of chase them in.