Chapter 109 The Battle of Succession to the Portuguese Throne Part 8: San Castillo Barn (Part 1)
Compared with the dangerous situation in Seville City, it is much better to arrive at the two camps of the Magic Island.
At first, San Castillo only had a wall that was one meter high, and the width of the top of the wall was only one meter. Some were just short-barrel artillery, not to mention that the Spaniards only arranged a battalion of troops there.
Two battalions face one battalion, and this battalion also needs to cover a large warehouse with a circumference of almost four miles. Obviously, there are not many people who can be concentrated on this side of the Truqin position.
It would be understandable if the Spanish did this in an era without Truchen.
At the sea today, although the British are slightly stronger, they obviously are not much stronger. France next to Spain is both Bourbon royal family and has a good relationship with the Austrian royal family. They only need to worry about the British and the Dutch who are both business and robbery.
For the British and Dutch, although they already owned steamships, they obviously still did not have the ability to penetrate deep into the hinterland of a large European country.
Therefore, putting a battalion on the Magic Island has taken considerable attention.
The reason why this place is called San Castillo is because it has been an exile for hundreds of years and is detained for criminals who violated the teachings. Originally, this place was a monastery called Castillo Monastery. The monastery is still there, but it has become a large warehouse.
Compared with the large number of wooden warehouses on the shore of Seville, this place is a stone building. Warehouse fires are common in Europe at this time, but the Spaniards still built wooden warehouses at the Seville Pier. The stone warehouses here alone are obviously not simple.
According to Qitade's idea, there must be silver ingots transported from silver mines across South America that were not in time to transport them here, but silver ingots are not afraid of fire. Why do we need to build a stone warehouse here?
In any case, after a battalion of Truchen soldiers climbed the walls of San Castillo, they took advantage of their firearms and quickly wiped out the Spanish soldiers stationed here in a battalion, and then controlled the entire warehouse.
They immediately sent a telegram to Qitad after they controlled the warehouse.
Since there was still a raging fire on the river surface at this time, Qitade asked them to continue to stick to the warehouse and keep the personnel in the warehouse close. When the fire was extinguished, he would come to check it in person.
In this era, there has been a legend that it is said that since Carlos III came to power, he has taken the position of Grand Duke of Tuscany from the Medici family, on the grounds that the Medici family, the last direct descendant of the Medici family, was defeated after Louisa's death.
In fact, Louisa also had a son born to his lover, and he gave him the name of Paul Medici. Carlos III served as the king of Spain and served as the Grand Duke of Tuscany, which made the Medici family, a banking family on the Italian Peninsula very dissatisfied.
Although the direct descendants of the Medici family are gone, the branches of the European region are still there. Some people are still small shareholders of the Dutch Amsterdam Bank, which was secretly occupied by the Truqin Empire. Due to the relationship between this bank, Qitad and the descendants of the Medici family are closely related.
It makes sense for Qitad to do this.
Since seizing Jerusalem for the Mystery, the reputation of the Jewish-dominated Mystery suddenly reached a peak.
Jerusalem is the holy land of the three great gods.
Since Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia became independent from the Ottoman Empire, the Principality of Kishinau (later Moldova) on the western coast of the Black Sea did not need to hide it. The great prince Nicholas, supported by the Truchens, publicly claimed that he was a Jew, which made countries like Spain that hated Jews very annoyed.
The Duchy of Chishinau was soon merged into one with the Kingdom of Solomon that occupied Jerusalem, and Nicholas continued to swear allegiance to King Solomon as a grand duke.
This made the Jews start to become active in Europe again.
But their power is still not enough. Without the protection of the Truqin Empire, European countries could destroy them in a minute.
In addition, as a mysterious society that has always been closely related to the Truqin Empire, it has now become a tendency to get rid of Truqin's control.
Although they only occupied two small pieces of land, there were a large number of Jews with secret identities, or spiritual Jews throughout Europe, and this was even more so after the Reformation in Europe.
The Jews were good at doing business, and they quickly grasped the key after the Age of Discovery, that is, banks. They were all active behind several major European banks. With their efforts, they geniusly designed an incredible system.
Every large bank has many shareholders, including the hereditary nobles in Europe and the secret Jews. The Jews are obviously stronger in management than others, so they can occupy the shares as operators.
Finally, a result was formed. A bank seemed to be a major shareholder who was not a Jew, but a hereditary nobleman. However, due to the legal management of the Jews, the shareholders finally reached an agreement, that is, whether it is a major shareholder or a small shareholder, they can pay dividends according to the shares, but the voting rights in operation are the same for each shareholder!
Of course, these operators appear to be not Jews on the surface, but local white businessmen or small nobles.
So the Jews actually took control of the bank.
In this case, although Solomon was just a small country, he could greatly expand his finances with his ability of ten times his national strength. At this time, the population of the Kingdom of Solomon was less than one million, and most of them were Arabs, but he had a new army of 100,000 people and an elite naval fleet.
They followed Truchen and promoted free Jewish language education in China. Anyone who graduated from school, whether Jews or Arabs, could get good jobs. At the same time, they vigorously created various industrial enterprises in China. On the surface, these enterprises are private enterprises, but in fact they are no different from the masters of the king of Solomon himself.
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Actually, this is a truchen with a truchen.
Also, since the opening of the Ayuchi Canal, the Kingdom of Solomon has used its special location to conduct re-export trade between the Far East and Europe, and has specially established a trading bank, which has also been booming for a while.
However, this is not a future generation. With the support of the United States, the giant behind it, even the smallest Israel can be safe. At this time, Europe is still an extremely anti-Semitic place. It is obviously not possible for them to become popular in Europe in their original form.
In a word, their influence and strength are not enough, and the Truqin Empire behind them is not enough.
In order to distract Europe from Truchen, Qitad had thought of a solution early in the morning.
This method is related to Louisa, the last direct heir of the Medici family, who had been dead for many years, or to Paul, Louisa's illegitimate son.
According to that legend, Carlos III took office as King of Spain and the Grand Duke of Tuscany soon found Paul and locked him up, which is said to be here!
So, in addition to coveting the wealth here, using Paul to make a big fuss is also one of Qitad's ideas.
However, if this Paul could survive until now, he would be at least seventy years old, would he still be alive?
In addition, if he was brought here by Carlos III before getting married, even if he was still alive, it would be of little significance to Qitad because he had no descendants.
Anyway, he will give it a try.
Because his name is Paul Medici!
Tuscany, centered on Florence, is also one of the hearts of Europe!
So, among the two battalions landing on the Magic Island, there was also a small intelligence team, led by Mediterranean intelligence chief Ahesan!
As mentioned earlier, Ahsan was the brother of Judd, an intelligence officer who was assassinated in Istanbul, and an Alan who believed in the Islamic religion.
Aihesan took over the warehouse with ten people. Among the ten people, there were several professionals from the Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Revenue and Ministry of Commerce.
The warehouse with a circumference of four miles is too big. Aihesan and others still had a dense sound of artillery fire nearby and turned around for half a day before they turned around the periphery.
After the turn of the past half day, Ahesan was obviously very excited.
He discovered a warehouse dedicated to storing American silver ingots. It is said that there were three such silver ingots, and now only one has silver ingots, and the other two are empty. It is obviously transported to Madrid. Even so, the value of the silver ingots here is at least two million Truchen silver coins.
If this amount was in the early stage when the financial situation of the Truqin Empire was too short, it would be obviously a huge sum of money, but it is really nothing today when the national treasury is already abundant.
However, in addition to the silver ingots, there are a few other things here that also make him overjoyed.
One of them is naturally refined nitro powder, which was obviously shipped from Chile, occupying almost half of the San Castillo warehouse. No wonder it is necessary to build a stone building here. It turns out that if a fire occurs, it will blow it up here.
The nitrate powder is contained in well-sealed wooden barrels. In addition, there are naturally some things that the Spanish at this time seem to be very precious.
For example, Jinjina frost, precious wood, precious stone, high-quality silk, tea, porcelain, etc. from the Qing Dynasty.
If only these things were there, Ahesan wouldn't have looked at them a few more times, but the things in the warehouses still surprised him.
There were messy gold and silver jewelry, gold and silver coins, gems and other items piled up there. These things were not new. They were obviously used by someone, and some had blood on them.
Apparently it was stolen!
After counting by professionals from the Ministry of Revenue, it is estimated that these things are worth at least five million Truqin silver coins!
Five million, it seems to be quite a lot, and it is also quite beneficial to the empire, but Ahesan still just took a few more glances.
The origin of these things aroused his interest.
So they came to the center of the warehouse, the monastery with the same name!
A place that is both a monastery and a prison!
If Paul, a descendant of the Medici family in Chitard, was indeed here, it would be the happiest thing for Ehesan.
Chapter completed!