Major General Juan received the order from the king when he left Madrid and must reach an agreement with the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Spanish Empire is in decline, he can no longer maintain his sphere of influence around the world, and can only unite local forces to curb the challenges of emerging empires such as Britain and the Netherlands. At the same time, Juan also understands that the Netherlands is now the advantage in Asia. The Dutch East India Company is aggressive in Java and has threatened the most important water channel in the South China Sea, Temasek. If Temasek is occupied by the Netherlands, the Spanish colonies in Asia will lose contact with Europe, and the spices that Europe is in urgent need of will fall into the hands of the Netherlands.

So in order to reach an agreement with Mingguo as soon as possible, Major General Juan found all the people in Nanjing who could speak. From the chief minister Ma Mingyuan to the reception officials of the Ministry of Rites, the money spent like flowing water in the past month.

However, Ma Mingyuan and other old fried dough sticks knew what the emperor wanted to do. They were lukewarm and were fed by the Spanish who were looking for a way around the city and accepted the money, but there was no right words.

Although these ministers were not responsible for collecting money, the news of finding a way out in the city of Spain also reached the ears of Emperor Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan had been calculating for more than a month, and it was almost done. On the first day of August of the second year of Shenwu, an order for officials of the Ministry of Rites to lead the Spanish envoy Juan Lopez to meet.

In fact, according to Zhu Hongsan's status, there is no need to personally receive Spanish envoys, and just appoint an official to talk to the other party. However, Zhu Hongsan was afraid that his subordinates would mess up the matter, so he decided to do it himself. It was not that Zhu Hongsan's officials were not thick and black enough, and those stinky old nines had sores on their heads and pus in the soles of their feet, and they could kill Lopez. It was just that they lived in the Ming Dynasty and did not know the huge role of the ocean in the future. It was very likely that the negotiations would not be able to reach the right idea.

Zhu Hongsan smiled and watched Lopez come in and greeted, "Mr. Admiral, can you rest these days?"

It's been a few days, and it's been more than 40 days! Although Lopez complained in his heart, his good education allowed him to maintain a polite attitude.

"Thank you for your concern to the Emperor Ming Kingdom. We live a good life, today..."

Just as Lopez was about to talk about the serious business, Zhu Hongsan interrupted him and asked, "Just rest well, eat well? The officials of the Ministry of Rites did not treat you slowly!"

Lopez was embarrassed not to answer the emperor's question, so he had to say, "Thank you for your concern. Your officials under you are very nice to me and did not treat us slowly! Today..."

"That's good! Didn't the Major General go to Confucius Temple to visit? Experience the rich culture of my Ming Dynasty!"

"Oh, I've been there. The Ming Dynasty is really a powerful country. Your Majesty the Emperor, today..."

"Didn't you go to Wangjianglou for dinner? His duck is really awesome!"

In this way, Zhu Hongsan was talking nonsense, just not letting Lopez speak. Lopez was just listening to Zhu Hongsan's foggy blowing, and was anxious to be unable to speak. He and Zhu Hongsan were not able to speak, and every sentence had to be translated into a general translation. In addition, Zhu Hongsan spoke quickly and urgently, and had a Huguang accent. The general translation was from Guangdong. Often, before the previous sentence was translated, the second sentence from the emperor came out again.

Zhu Hongsan talked for half an hour, but Lopez didn't even get into the mouth. In the end, Lopez had no choice. Before waiting for the general translator, he stood up and said in the half-baked Chinese he had just learned: "Emperor, I have something to say!"

Zhu Hongsan was blowing his mouth, and suddenly heard Lopez’s words, and he and the general translator were stunned.

Lopez learned this sentence in Chinese, and saw that the emperor opposite finally calmed down and quickly spoke his words in his mother tongue.

Seeing Lopez's angry look, Zhu Hongsan laughed and said, "It seems that Mr. Major General really has something to say!" After saying that, he said to the general translator: "Translate the words of Mr. Major General!"

"Mr. General said that he came here this time to negotiate with the Emperor of Ming!"

Zhu Hongsan felt that it was almost time to play with this major general, so it was time to talk about the serious business.

"Oh? What does Major General have to say?"

"His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, your Ming army occupied our country's Luzon Governor's District and massacred our Spanish soldiers four years ago. This is a trampling on international law and a contempt for our Spanish Empire! But my sacred and great Spanish King Philip II decided to forgive you Ming Kingdom. As long as you send troops to help us eliminate the Dutch in India and Malacca, and then return Luzon to my Spanish Empire, we will not blame you and will be a brother country with Ming Kingdom!"

Zhu Hongsan sneered in his heart when he heard Lopez say this. Don’t others know that I still don’t know the situation of your Spanish Empire? You were just pressed to the ground by Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, France and other countries in Europe, and your colonies in the Americas were gradually eroded by Britain and France. Now you go to Asia to fool the uncle. Are you really the one who is really a good man?

"No, no, no! Mr. General, Luzon has been the sacred territory of our Ming Kingdom since ancient times. People from the Shang Dynasty of China visited Luzon more than a thousand years ago. The tens of thousands of Han people on the island are proof of this. So Luzon is the territory of our Ming Dynasty. How did it become your Spain? My Ming Dynasty sent troops to repel the invading army that occupied our territory, and it was a righteous army!"

Zhu Hongsan used this magical artifact "Since ancient times", and there was nothing he could do. Who said Luzon was not far from mainland China? There were too many traces of China on it, and Lopez could not open his eyes and talk lies.

Lopez thought about it and should not make a fuss about Luzon. Now the reinforcements from Ming Dynasty are the main ones. Anyway, Luzon has been occupied by Ming Dynasty, so why not give it to him!

"Okay, since the Ming Emperor said that, even if the territory of the Ming Kingdom is considered, please return the three thousand soldiers and more than 10,000 ordinary merchants who were arrested in our country!"

At that time, Luzon was occupied by Zhu Hongsan, and not many Spanish soldiers died. The captured ones were the navy as their best. In order to enrich his naval strength, Zhu Hongsan incorporated all these prisoners of war into the naval sequence and used them to pass on the naval generals who helped him lead his naval generals. Now Zhu Hongsan's navy is just starting out. Although he has some combat power and is the strongest in the sea in East Asia, it is not enough to compare with those old maritime powers in Europe.

The strong European maritime powers have hundreds of battleships, and the most powerful British battleship has reached 2,000 tons, which is even stronger than Zhu Hongsan's 1,500-ton flagship Guangzhou. Even the declining empire Spain is stronger than Zhu Hongsan's naval strength. Fortunately, the main warships are in Europe and America, and there are not many in Asia, so that Zhu Hongsan's tiger is not at home and the monkeys dominate the king.
Chapter completed!