"What? You actually want to use smallpox to kill the Shang people... These are hundreds of thousands or millions of people! How can you do such a thing? Moreover, you send people to poison and send troops to sneak attacks, and you also say

The other party is the devil... Archbishop Desumarraga, is this how you spread the truth of Christ? Your behavior disappoints me so much and will bring shame to the Catholic Church. If I were you, I would take the initiative

He submitted his resignation, returned to Europe, and found a remote monastery to live in seclusion."

"His Majesty the Emperor is right, you are a shameless person and you are not worthy of being a bishop!"

"Archbishop Desumarraga, do you have God in your heart? You are too evil..."

"Archbishop, I am ashamed of your behavior! You will go to hell!"

"If the Pope knows what you have done, he will definitely excommunicate you..."

In the Governor's Palace in Havana, Spanish Emperor Leopold I angrily reprimanded Archbishop de Zumarraga of Mexico City, with a bunch of people around him supporting him!

It’s not that Leopold I, the Grand Duke of Lorraine, and the Marquis of Mendoza had much sense of justice. It’s that the Count of St. Chris and the Archbishop of Desumaraga made an unforgivable mistake!

Of course, this unforgivable mistake was not to use smallpox to deal with the Shang Kingdom, which had not shown much hostility to Spain, nor was it to use smallpox while launching a large army for a sneak attack. Of course, it was not to attempt to exterminate the Yin-Shang race...

....These are not big mistakes, and the Spanish and English have done similar things in the New World. No one has condemned Spain or England for this. Anyway, no one has condemned it until now, let alone stood up.

Justice for the Indians.

The mistakes of the Count of St. Chris and the Archbishop of Desumaraga are unforgivable. The mistakes they committed were...failure!

They failed!

The smallpox they released could not harm the Yin and Shang people at all. Although it killed many Indians working as coolies, as long as the people of the Yin and Shang people who were fighting in the war were not harmed, the poisoning was a complete failure.

Subsequently, the Earl of St. Chris's army suffered an even greater defeat. While marching on the mountain road, an army of more than 7,000 people was ambushed by a similar number of enemies, and then the entire army was annihilated...even the Earl of St. Chris himself

They were all captured and tortured and executed!

What a big mistake!

If they succeed, poisoning, sneak attacks, and extermination are all not their fault. The fault all belongs to the Shang Kingdom. They are backward, ignorant, evil, and cruel. They should be exterminated. Their demise is the progress of mankind.

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There may be a few nerds who will feel sorry for the extinction of the Yin-Shang civilization and groan a few times for those barbarians who have long since ceased to exist, but that is of no concern at all.

But the problem is that now the Spaniards have been defeated miserably, and the Shang Kingdom has won a complete victory!

If you win, it makes sense!

The winner can also put all kinds of charges on the loser...even if they are really innocent. If the loser's side really did something bad, it will be infamous for eternity.

What’s even more frightening is that the Shang Kingdom won a complete victory this time! So they will probably regard the arrogant Spanish colonial empire as a paper tiger, and then send troops to attack the country to seek revenge.

If New Spain loses again, even if it is not destroyed, it will still have to cede territory, pay compensation, and apologize... At that time, those merchants will be able to write history! They will be able to write about Emperor Leopold.

Dumber than a pig, stinkier than shit, and more evil than the devil!

Therefore, Leopold I can only cut off from the Archbishop of Mexico City de Zumarraga and the Count of San Cristo, the Vice-King of New Spain, not to make himself look smarter, but to create a space for compromise with the Shang Fang.

——The bad things were all done by the Count of San Cristobal and the Archbishop of Desumarraga. The Spanish Emperor is still good, so everyone can sit down and talk.

Although New Spain and the Shang Dynasty will have to fight to the death sooner or later, now is not the time for a decisive battle. Leopold I has just arrived and has not yet sat on the throne. He has no understanding of the situation in New Spain and has not begun to rectify New Spain.

Lax armament.

But Archbishop de Zumarraga of Mexico City quit. He was a cardinal, and the cardinals of New Spain had real power! Before the arrival of Emperor Leopold, New Spain had the largest vice-king and the second-largest bishop.

. He is the number two man in New Spain, that is very powerful! And in order to climb to this position, he has offended many people and committed many crimes that only God can forgive.

Once a person like him loses power, it will probably be difficult for him to end well.

What worries the archbishop even more is that Shang Fangguo is likely to hold him responsible for poisoning!

When the time comes, the Spanish Emperor will most likely hand him over to the merchants, and he will die miserably!

Thinking of this, Archbishop Desumarraga of Mexico City immediately screamed: "Your Majesty, they either sold their souls to the devil, or they are simply devils!

That’s why they are not afraid of smallpox, and can also hit targets three to four hundred yards away with muskets!”

"What did you say?" The emperor's brother-in-law, Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, who had lost the territory of Lorraine (snatched by Louis XIV), was a military strategist. Hearing what the archbishop said, he immediately became nervous.

"How is it possible for a musket to hit a target three or four hundred yards away?"

“It’s unmistakable,” de Zumarraga said. “According to the news coming from Mexico City, thirteen mercenaries whose noses and ears were cut off by the evil merchants were returned to Acapulco.

.... arrived in Acapulco on a Dutch merchant ship. According to the reports of these thirteen poor people, the merchants had a musket that could accurately hit targets two to three hundred yards away, or that could quickly

Load and shoot rifled gun!

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! So when the two sides were fighting, the enemy took advantage of the range of this musket to keep the distance between the two sides at more than 150 yards. In this

From a distance, our muskets could not hit the enemy at all, but the enemy could use their muskets to knock down our men row by row. If the woods at the battle site were not very dense, the enemy would not have formed a dense formation in order to facilitate an ambush.

Crossing the line, Earl St. Chris’s army will probably lose even more miserably and faster!”

There was silence in the conference room of the Governor's Palace in Havana. After hearing what Desumarraga said, the people who had been criticizing him just now were speechless.

A musket that can be reloaded quickly and can hit targets two to three hundred yards away relatively easily...is more frightening than humans who are not afraid of smallpox!

I don’t know how long it took, but Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, broke the silence: “Archbishop, could those people have made a mistake?”

"Grand Duke, I am just a priest, and you are an experienced general." Desumaraga asked back, "How difficult do you think it would be to roughly determine the distance between the fighting parties when the warring parties are firing at each other? If the warring parties are in a relatively close distance,

What do you think is the most likely reason for the one-sided results when shooting at each other from a long distance?

In addition, although the enemy was shooting from a high position when the battle occurred, due to terrain restrictions, they could not form a dense formation at all, while our people had a relatively dense formation."

Although the archbishop claimed to be just a priest, the military issues he raised were very professional. Even professionals like the Grand Duke of Lorraine had to nod their heads.

For the fusiliers of this era, it was actually not a good idea to set up an ambush in the woods. It might be more advantageous for a small number of skirmishers with rifles to do this, but a large group of musketeers should still form a dense shooting formation and fire together.

. If the musketeers are ambushed into the woods, they will be unable to form a dense formation due to the obstruction of trees and shrubs. This will inevitably lead to them being at a disadvantage in the exchange of fire with enemies who form a dense formation!

Therefore, in the confrontation between the two armies on the European battlefield in this era, few people would place large troops into the woods. The usual method was to form an array outside the woods. If you wanted to use the woods to block the enemy, you would form a formation facing the woods. At most

Just put some skirmishers in the woods.

The Yin Shang army seemed to have adopted an all-skirmishing approach, scattering all the troops in the woods to mess up their guns... If they couldn't shoot accurately and far, the Spaniards' muskets would

If the Spaniards are knocked over before the bullets can hit them more accurately, then they won't win at all!

"Your Majesty," Lorraine and the Duke of Barr thought for a while, then turned to the Spanish Emperor and said, "I think the merchants probably have a flintlock rifle that can fire continuously!"

"Will there be such a weapon?" The Spanish Emperor was shocked. "Grand Duke, do you really think those barbarians will have more advanced muskets than us?"

"This..." Lorraine and the Duke of Bar said, "Your Majesty, they actually had tubular firearms more than two thousand years ago, and flintlocks hundreds of years ago...

It seems not surprising to have repeating rifles now. So we'd better treat these merchants with caution. Before we find out the secret of repeating rifles, don't provoke them rashly. We can even send envoys to bribe them in exchange for

Temporary peace."

The Grand Duke of Lorraine thought a little differently and thought that the Yin Shang side had a continuous-fire rifled gun. However, the actual situation was similar. It was just that the Yin Shang side had cork bullets that could be quickly loaded into the rifled gun, which increased the firing rate of the rifled gun.

Even more powerful than a musket!

"It's the devil! It must be the devil!" Archbishop Desumarraga still insisted that "there is a ghost."

His calculations were very precise! If there were devils behind the Yin merchants, then the Spanish emperor would not dare to trade with them.

Otherwise, it is a deal with the devil... which will make the emperor lose his soul!

If the emperor lost his soul, could he still rule the Spanish colonial empire that believed in God?

As long as the Spanish emperor dare not trade with merchants, then at least the red archbishop does not have to worry about being sold to Xin Chaoge and executed!

"Grand Duke, what do you think?"

The Spanish emperor did not dare to make a decision easily when it came to his own soul, so he asked his brother-in-law for his opinion.

"Your Majesty," Grand Duke Lorraine was also undecided, "We haven't seen those thirteen poor survivors yet..."

"Your Majesty, I have sent them to Mexico City." The archbishop immediately took over the topic and bowed to the emperor, "The palace in Mexico City is also ready... The New Spanish nobles and senior clergy who are loyal to you

They will all gather in Mexico, waiting for your visit.”

The Spanish Emperor nodded: "Okay, let's rest in Havana for two days and then hit the road... By the way, Joseph, come here!"

He waved to his eleven-year-old son.

"Father, what do you want me to do?" Young Joseph took a few steps forward and bowed to the emperor, waiting for his instructions.

"Kneel down!" The Spanish emperor looked at his young son, stood up from his chair, and walked to his son.

Dad asked him to kneel down, so of course little Joseph didn't dare not to kneel down.

Seeing his son kneeling down, King Leopold I drew out his sword and put the sword blade on his son's shoulder. "Now, in the name of the Spanish Emperor, I canonize you as the island of Cuba, Hispa Orani."

(Haiti), San Juan Island (Puerto Rico) and the Grand Duke of Florida. And ordered you to use Havana as the capital, with the assistance of the New Spanish nobles, to govern Cuba, Hispa Orani, San Juan and Florida. From now on Mexico

The city will be the first capital of the empire, and Havana will be the second capital of the empire, the gateway to Europe!"

With this letter from Emperor Leopold, Cuba is about to rise!

Because he regarded Cuba, Hispa'olani, San Juan and Florida as the Habsburg dynasty's private territory in the Americas, and he would definitely focus on construction in the future. And the German nobles and immigrants who came from Europe to follow the emperor

, will also first obtain fiefs and land in these areas.

So in the future, Cuba, Hispa Orani, San Juan and Florida will be the Prussia of America!

After calming down his panic by clearing a large piece of territory for his son, Emperor Leopold turned his thoughts back to the issue of negotiating with the "devil".

He said to the ministers and bishops around him: "Although the merchants have probably sold their souls to the devil, this does not prevent us from bribing them with money and deceiving them with clever diplomacy...

We should tell them that the previous violations and poisonings were the personal actions of Count St. Chris and were not authorized by the empire. The empire still hopes to maintain peace with the merchant country. If they are unwilling to contact us, they will close the country.

, we will also fully respect their choice. In addition, we can also pay compensation to the indigenous Indians who died of illness!"

As he spoke, he glanced at Desumarraga again, "Archbishop, I'm afraid they won't believe white people anymore. We need to send envoys of other colors. Are there any Indian nobles who can serve as envoys? For example, the Inca Dynasty or Aziz
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