At 10:35 in the morning, the Chinese army completely controlled the urban area of Manila. Except for some sporadic resistance in the southern suburbs, all the remaining areas were safe.
Cai Mao, Sakamoto Ryoma, Sun Chujian... and other generals stepped on the blood and fire on the battlefield and formally entered the Manila Governor's Mansion. Seeing the mess left behind by Botila after escaping, all the generals laughed disdainfully. .
"Paper tiger, paper tiger! Even though I made a lot of preparations before the war, I didn't expect the Spaniards to be so vulnerable!"
Listening to General Cai Mao's emotion, Sakamoto Ryoma smiled and said, "Haha, these Spaniards can't even defend the colonies in South America, and they still want to show off their power in front of our Chinese people?"
"We must admit that the Spaniards were very strong when they first emerged, but now they are just relying on the residual power of their European identity to scare other ethnic groups!"
The relationship between Ryoma Sakamoto and Xiao Letian is extraordinary. The two are more than just a friendship by fate, they are a true friendship by blood!
Ancient people attached great importance to blood oaths. Cutting one's wrist and dripping blood to swear oath was already a big deal, let alone a direct blood transfusion to save a life!
Coupled with the legends of various hidden dragons in Xiao Letian's body, his blood is even more mysterious!
Sakamoto Ryoma has completely integrated into the Chinese ethnic group and is no longer a member of the Japanese reform forces. Xiao Letian also treats him as a brother, and the two have many exchanges of ideas in private.
Regarding the various forces in Europe, Xiao Letian had communicated with core figures such as Sakamoto Ryoma more than once after drinking, including Spain.
Xiao Letian made a very clear judgment on the Spanish empire. This country has reached this stage completely because of its own suicide. It turned a good hand into a puddle of shit. It is purely its own fault!
How good were the cards the Spaniards had back then? The most glorious era of their colonization of South America was from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty.
Not only did they rob the indigenous peoples of ready-made gold and silver from North and South America, but God also favored them and rewarded them with a batch of super silver mines!
At that time, geological exploration technology was almost zero, and humans discovered natural mineral deposits purely by luck. However, the Spanish discovered a large number of super silver mines in South America, which directly destroyed the global precious metal market at that time.
This is truly the destiny of the country, and nothing can stop it!
According to historical records, the Spanish plundered a total of 100 million kilograms of silver and 2.5 million kilograms of gold from the South American colonies!
If it’s still a bit unintuitive just looking at the numbers, you’ll realize how terrifying these numbers are if you do a little calculation!
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, one pound was equivalent to 590 grams, and sixteen taels were equal to one pound!
One hundred million kilograms of silver is equivalent to 170 million taels of silver, and then calculated into silver taels commonly used in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is a terrifying 2.7 billion taels!
And what was the annual income in the late Ming Dynasty? Taking all the rice and grain into account, the highest peak is only 20 million taels of silver, and this is not even real silver taels. It also includes grain, silk and other products, and the real silver income is only a few million taels.
In the Qing Dynasty, due to the continuous east-west trade, European silver began to flow continuously to Asia. This was the most glorious period of the Qianlong period, with an annual income of 20 million taels, the so-called prosperous age!
It can be seen that the land of China has been in short supply of silver and gold since ancient times. The shortage is not just a little bit!
There is no harm if there is no comparison. You may not be able to save 100 million taels of silver by scrimping and saving for ten years. People have robbed 2.7 billion taels of silver by relying on the colonies alone in more than 200 years. Gold cannot After all, if you include the 2.5 million kilograms of gold, the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties would still be angry if you knew it!
The cards are so good, you can only imagine how prosperous Spain's national fortune was back then!
But this good hand ended up with the empire in pieces. South America was Spain's economic lifeline, where was all the cash flow, but with the National War of Independence, all the colonies became independent!
Spain is completely helpless, why not send troops to fight? Because at that time, Spain had been conquered by Napoleon, and the mainland was occupied by the Bonaparte family. Do you still expect to expedition to South America?
If an empire cannot even keep its own purse and loses all its gold and silver in South America, then you can imagine how weak Asia’s colonial rule will be!
In the later period, Spain relied purely on diplomacy, relying on pretending to be a grandson in front of Britain, France and Germany in order to gain the last bit of imperial face, and clinging to the last colony to survive!
As a result, the United States did not tolerate him. During the Spanish-American War, Spain took away the last two large colonies of Spain!
National destiny! Come on, you are a pig in the spotlight! If you are left behind, you will be the sausage and bacon in other people’s mouths!
It is precisely because Xiao Letian understands this. He clearly understands in his heart that the Spaniards' rule of Luzon does not rely on the strength of their ships and cannons, but the remaining power of three hundred years!
Three hundred years of rule have produced a kind of habitual thinking, and in this era, there is a common mentality in Asia that is afraid of the West!
Due to backwardness, lack of vision and other reasons, the current Asian people have no idea of the reality within Europe. They do not understand the difference between the Spaniards and the British, French and Germans.
In those confused eyes, they feel that as long as they are Europeans, they are invincible!
The Spaniards relied on the confused and ignorant mentality of the Asian people, relied on deception, and relied on bluffing people to pull the skin of the tiger, so they maintained their rule in the Philippines.
This is a typical paper tiger, and Xiao Letian loves to burn paper tigers the most. His eyes are like a torch, he can see through your essence at a glance and take action when he finds an opportunity!
Facts proved the head of state's judgment. The Battle of Manila came to an end in just one night. In the end, the governor and senior generals all fled. The expected street fighting did not occur at all!
"Today we know the terror of the head of state! The theory of the hidden dragon is not false! If nothing else, just relying on the insight to see through everything is not something that mortals can possess!"
"Spain! Tsk tsk tsk...what a powerful empire it was once! Who would have thought that it would be so weak now?"
"Now that we Chinese people discovered it first and took action first, the fattest meat will naturally be ours!"
After listening to Sakamoto Ryoma's analysis, everyone sighed with emotion, but Ryoma-kun shook his head, "Where is the fattest fat? The Spanish Empire's fat has long been divided up by Britain and France!"
"What we eat is just scraps!"
This sentence made everyone silent. After a long time, Shimazu Dairo of the Ba Dao team swallowed and said cautiously, "So... the Spanish stole 2.5 million kilograms of gold, and there are still 27 One hundred million taels of silver..."
"Has it all gone into the pockets of the British and French?"
As soon as this statement came out, there was a sound of salivation in the scene!
Note: Today is the last week of August, which happens to be Monday. Let us Hidden Dragon book friends make a red envelope list!
The ranking results in July were still very good. We got the top three in the weekly red envelope list. Yinlong's clicks, subscriptions and the number of new readers have all improved a lot!
You still have to stick to advertising, otherwise no matter how good the wine is, the alley will be too deep! Everyone is gathering firewood and the flames are high. Anyone who can throw in a red envelope today should do it. Fight for the first place and keep the top three!
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No need to be polite, old friends, take action today!
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