Before the meeting ended, Manuel I repeatedly emphasized the need to keep the content of the meeting confidential. In particular, the Beihai Kingdom used Spain to attack Lisbon to prevent Marin from really adopting this method.
However, no one present expected that the content of this internal meeting was sent to Marin's case two days later...
People in this era would not have thought that the intelligence network of Beihai Kingdom was so perverted. Perhaps, in some unrelated countries and regions, the intelligence network of Beihai Kingdom was not yet developed and perfect enough. However, in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, which Marin attaches great importance to, Beihai Kingdom has long weaved an extremely powerful intelligence network.
Perhaps, the great nobles who attended the meeting that day could indeed keep their mouths tight. However, there were not only the kings and great nobles present, but also the palace maids and palace guards who served them.
The palace in Lisbon has long been infiltrated by the spies of the Beihai Kingdom. The spies of the Beihai Kingdom have long used various methods such as coercion and inducement to win over and control many palace maids and guards in the Lisbon Palace.
It should be pointed out that the royal palaces in Europe are generally very small, so they are often more open compared to the ancient Chinese palaces. Because the royal palaces are too small to form a society on their own.
Therefore, the palace maids and guards in European royal palaces often have their own residence outside the palace.
In addition, there are two types of European palace maids. One is the maid's servant, that is, the senior palace maids who accompany the queen and princess. Strictly speaking, they are not slaves, but descendants of nobles who come to serve the royal family before marriage.
Before Louis XIV, the maids who served in the European court were often unmarried noble women, with status equivalent to female officials in the ancient Chinese court. They were relatively free in the palace and could enter and exit the palace at will. In addition to rotating time, they could go home.
Another type of palace maid is a civilian or even slave-born maid. These maids do the dirtiest and most tiring hard work, and have no status, and are even more unlikely to leave the palace at will unless a poor holiday comes. But in ancient times, holidays were very few, and only major festivals were available.
The spies from Beihai Kingdom have all won over these two palace maids with different status. Those noble ladies and servants who can freely enter and exit the palace are naturally the focus of winning over. Because they can bring information out of the palace in time.
However, in comparison, maids who cannot leave the palace at will are the easiest to get access to confidential information. Because when nobles talk about confidential matters, they often clear the scene. Many maids cannot listen to confidential information. But maids can, because they often serve in the palace for a long time and will not leave the palace easily, so they are naturally more trustworthy.
Therefore, after the Beihai spies won over the maids and maids who were willing to serve them through various means, they developed a channel for information transmission - the maids trusted by the royal family eavesdropped on confidential information. Then, the eavesdropping maids passed the information to the maids who could enter and exit the palace freely, and brought it to the spies of the Beihai spies behind them.
Of course, they did not know that their employer was a spy from Beihai, and they only thought they were some Portuguese local nobles who wanted to find out the privacy of the palace. The spies from Beihai were very generous and every time they passed on useful information, they would grab a large handful of gold coins. Even the court maids from noble families could not resist this kind of money offensive, let alone those lowly maids from poor families. The few maids who served the spies from Beihai secretly saved up thousands of gold coins every year, which was equivalent to more than three million in later generations. Even those maids with low status could also receive hundreds of gold coins every year, and their family lives were completely changed.
European aristocratic girls need a generous dowry when they get married. However, in addition to the aristocratic families who send their daughters to the palace as maids, many of them are not very rich in families with poor economic conditions. Otherwise, it would be great for their daughters to be carefree young ladies at home, so why bother to serve others to suffer? The richness of the dowry of aristocratic girls will directly determine the girl's future status in the husband's family. This was similar in ancient times. However, in ancient Europe, many land aristocratic families were very poor because of backward agriculture. In order to save their daughter's dowry, some poor aristocratic families even sent their daughters to the convent as nuns to avoid the huge expense of marrying their daughters. Therefore, in order to marry a good husband, many aristocratic girls would secretly embezzle and accumulate dowry for themselves when they act as a maid.
Therefore, under such a powerful financial offensive, it is not surprising that the daughters of poor nobles who need to accumulate dowry fell. As for those maids, the spies from Beihai Kingdom took advantage of their few opportunities to go home to visit their relatives every year, and they could knock them out if they shine gold coins in front of their eyes...
As for those palace guards, it is harder to win over than those maids and maids. After all, these guards often come for the future when they enter the palace to serve, and generally pay more attention to the future than money. Especially for some noble eldest sons with inheritance, it is difficult to win over.
But there are also some non-heir noble children who spend a lot of money, and some even get involved in gambling, which requires a lot of money. Therefore, some guards were also attracted to help Beihai Kingdom find out information.
In this secret meeting, there were maids, waitresses, and the "reliable" guards present. At the same time, the information was reported and reached Marin.
Looking at the information in his hand, Marin's face was gloomy. Unexpectedly, the Portuguese could come up with the unethical idea of ​​using the North Sea merchant ship to attract the firepower of the fort.
This also reminded Marin that only artillery arrangements on both sides would seem to miss the enemy ship in the middle.
"No wonder later generations emphasize 'cross firepower', it turns out to prevent the occurrence of dead ends of firepower!"
Obviously, the method of laying out turrets on the left and right sides is a dead end of fire, which is the middle part. As Bebeto Delio said, the Beihai Kingdom, which has one turret in and out of each east and west, can only strike a small number of warships and ships on the left and right sides of a large-scale fleet. For warships that are blocked in the middle, firepower cannot be covered.
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But it is too late to modify the arrangement of the turrets now. Moreover, the estuary of the Ames River is too wide, which is not conducive to the arrangement of the turrets in the shape of the "Pin". Therefore, Marin planned to use stones to build one or two long bridge wharfs that can penetrate deep into the middle of the river. The top of the long bridge wharf built with this kind of stone will be built and then the turrets will be built. In this way, it will echo the turrets on the left and right sides and strike the blind spots of the enemy fleet.
However, it is too late to do this now. If you want to scare Portugal, you can only take other measures. For example...
Marin decided to contact Spain, conduct a fleet visit in the port city of La Coruna, a coastal northwest Spain, and conduct a joint military exercise for landing and attacking with the local Spanish army...
A Coruna is located on the northwestern coast of Spain, very close to northern Portugal. Marin chose to conduct visits and joint military exercises here, which was clearly a demonstration to Portugal.
In order to achieve the effect of the demonstration, Marin decided to dispatch 5,000 infantry this time to participate in this military visit and joint military exercise in La Coruna in the name of the "Marine Corps"...
This routine was used in later generations by the Americans. If there was any movement in Beibang, the Americans would conduct joint military exercises with Nanbang to scare Beibang.
Marin wanted to use this joint military exercise to tell Portugal - I know the routine of using Spain to fight against Portugal's mainland, don't mess with me...
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However, if Spain agrees to cooperate with him in this drama, Marin guessed that the price would be paid is quite high...
Although Spain has a good relationship with Marin, it will not allow the Beihai army to enter and exit easily, and it will also conduct joint military exercises with you. Unless Marin is willing to exchange a lot of interests...
Marin thought about it and it seemed that Kong Tai had transported back a batch of porcelain and silk, worth 300,000 to 400,000 gold coins...
"Forget it, let's share the profits of this batch of porcelain and silk with the Spaniards this time..."
Marin planned to use the agency rights of this batch of porcelain and silk to let Spain cooperate with him in the play. If it is handed over to the Spanish for exclusive sale, it is estimated that 20 or 30% of the profit will fall into the hands of the Spanish, worth tens of thousands of gold coins.
However, compared to avoiding a war with Portugal, this is worth it. After all, Marin is preparing to fight with France, and he really cannot provoke two powerful enemies at the same time. Moreover, the silk and porcelain business is a hated person, and it is also a good choice to attract accomplices to share the firepower. No matter what, he still takes the big head...
Chapter completed!