Chapter 1891： Military visits and joint military exercises

Before the meeting ended, Manuel I repeatedly emphasized the need to keep the content of the meeting confidential. In particular, the North Sea country used Spain to attack Lisbon, lest Marin really adopt this method.

However, everyone present did not expect that the content of this internal meeting was sent to Marin's case two days later ...

Where do people in this era want to find out, the Beihai intelligence network is so perverted. Perhaps, in some irrelevant countries and regions, the intelligence network of Beihai is not sufficiently developed and perfected. But in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, which Marin attaches great importance to, the North Sea has long woven an extremely powerful intelligence network.

Maybe, those big nobles who attended the meeting that day could indeed keep their mouths shut. However, not only the kings and big nobles were present, but also the court ladies and court guards.

And the royal palace in Lisbon has long been penetrated by the spies of the North Sea country. The spies of the Beihai Kingdom, using various methods such as coercion and lure, have long attracted many ladies and guards who controlled the Lisbon Royal Palace.

It should be pointed out that the royal palaces in Europe are generally very small, so compared with the palaces of ancient China, they are often more open. Because the palace is too small to be a society.

Therefore, the ladies and guards in the European palace often have their own residence outside the palace.

In addition, there are two types of European court ladies. One is a waitress, a senior maid who accompanies the queen and princess. Strictly speaking, they are not slaves, but descendants of nobles who came to serve the royal family before marriage.

Before the era of Louis XIV, the waitresses who served in the European court were often unmarried noble women, and their status was equivalent to the female officials in the ancient Chinese palace. They are relatively free in the palace and can enter and leave the palace at will. In addition to the rotation time, they can go home.

And another kind of maid is a maid of civilians or even slaves. These maids do the hardest and most tiring work, and have no status, and it is impossible to leave the court casually, unless the poor holiday comes. But in ancient times, there were very few holidays, only major festivals.

For the two maidens with different statuses, the Beihai spies have drawn together. The maid of noble lady who can freely enter and leave the court is naturally the focus of the object. Because they can take the information out of the court in time.

However, in comparison, those maids who cannot leave the palace at will are the easiest to get access to confidential information. Because when the nobles talk about confidential matters, they often clear the place. Many waitresses cannot listen to secrets. But maids can, because they often serve in the palace for a long time and will not easily leave the palace. Naturally, they are more trustworthy.

Therefore, after the spies of the Beihai Kingdom obtained the maid and maid who were willing to serve them through various means, they came up with an information transmission channel-the maid trusted by the royal family eavesdropped on confidential information. Then, the eavesdropped maid will pass the information to the maid who can freely enter and leave the palace, and bring it to the North Sea spy behind.

Of course, they did not know that their employer was a spy from the North Sea, but they thought they were some Portuguese nobles who wanted to hear the privacy of the palace. The North Sea spy is very generous. Every time he sends useful information, he grabs a lot of gold coins. Even the court maids from noble families can't resist this kind of money offensive, let alone those from poor families. The cheap maid. Several female waitresses serving the North Sea spies secretly saved thousands of gold coins each year, equivalent to more than 3 million in later generations. It is those maids with low status who can get hundreds of gold coins every year, and the family life is completely changed.

European noble girls get married, but they need a rich dowry. However, in addition to the noble families who sent their girls to the royal palace as maidservants, apart from the large families that specifically sent their daughters to check the news in the palace, many of them were noble families with poor economic conditions. Otherwise, how good is it for her daughter to be a carefree young lady at home, why should she wait to suffer? The richness of the noble girl's dowry will directly determine the girl's future status in the husband's house. At this point, the ancient and the eastern are similar. But in ancient Europe, because of backward agriculture, many land nobles were very poor. In order to save the dowry of their daughters, some poor aristocratic families will even send their daughters to the monastery as nuns to avoid the huge expenses of marrying their daughters. Therefore, many aristocratic girls, in order to marry a happy Langjun, when they act as noble maidservants, they will secretly embezzle and accumulate dowry for themselves.

Therefore, under such a powerful offensive of money, it is not surprising that the daughters of poor nobles who need to accumulate dowry fall. As for the maids, the North Sea spies took advantage of their few opportunities to go home to visit relatives every year, and when they shined gold coins in front of their eyes, they could smash them ...

As for the court guards, it is more difficult to get together than the maids and maids. After all, when these guards enter the royal palace to serve, they often come to the future. They generally value the future more than the money. In particular, the eldest sons of nobles with inheritance rights are difficult to win.

However, there are also some noble children who are not heirs, which are expensive, and some are also gambling and require a lot of money. Therefore, there are also some guards who have been drawn in to help the Beihai Kingdom to search for intelligence.

In this secret meeting, there were a maid + a waitress, as well as the "reliable" bodyguards present. At the same time, information was sent to Marin.

Looking at the information in his hand, Malin's face was murky. Unexpectedly, the Portuguese could come up with the unethical idea of ​​using Beihai merchant ships to attract the firepower of the battery.

And this also reminded Marin-only the artillery is placed on both sides, it seems that it will indeed miss the enemy ships in the middle.

"No wonder future generations pay attention to" cross firepower ", it turned out to prevent fire dead ends!"

Obviously, the method of arranging the turrets on the left and right has a dead end with firepower, which is the middle part. As Bebeto de Leo said, the setting of one fort in the North Sea country can only hit a small number of battleships and the ships on the left and right sides of the large fleet. For the warships blocked in the middle, the firepower cannot be covered.

Therefore, it is best to arrange the turrets in the shape of a triangle of "products" to ensure that the enemy fleet has no dead ends to avoid artillery bombardment.

But now it is too late to modify the layout of the fort, and the Ames estuary is too wide, which is not conducive to the layout of the "pin" fort. Therefore, Marin intends to use stones to build one or two long bridge piers that can go deep into the middle of the river. At the top of the long bridge pier built of this stone, the fort was repaired. In this way, you can form a response to the left and right forts and strike the dead corner of the enemy fleet.

However, it is too late to do so now. If you want to scare Portugal, you can only take other measures. such as……

Marin decided to contact Spain, conduct a fleet visit in the port city of A Coruña on the northwest coast of Spain, and engage in a joint military exercise with the local Spanish army to land and attack ...

A Coruña is located on the northwest coast of Spain, very close to northern Portugal. Marin chose to engage in visits and joint military exercises here, clearly demonstrating to Portugal.

In order to achieve the demonstration effect, Marin decided to dispatch 5,000 infantry this time, in the name of "Marine Corps", to participate in this army visit and joint military exercise in A Coruña ...

This kind of routine, the old beauty of later generations, is used very well. When something happened to Beibang, Lao Mei and Nanbang engaged in joint military exercises to scare Beibang.

Marin just wanted to use this joint military exercise to tell Portugal-I know to use Spain's routine to fight the Portuguese mainland, don't mess with me ...

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But ~ www.novelhall.com ~ If you want the Spanish side to agree to cooperate with yourself in this play, Marin estimates that it will cost a lot ...

Although Spain has a good relationship with Marin, it will not allow the army of the North Sea country to easily enter and leave. What other joint military exercises do you have with you? Unless, Marin is willing to exchange a lot of benefits ...

Marin thought for a while, and it seemed that Kongtai had brought back a batch of porcelain and silk, worth three or four hundred thousand gold coins ...

"Well, let ’s share the profits of this batch of porcelain and silk with the Spanish ..."

Marin intends to use Spanish and silk as the agent of the Iberian Peninsula and Italy as a condition for Spain to cooperate with him in this play. If it is handed over to the Spaniards for exclusive sales, it is estimated that 20-30% of the profits will fall into the hands of the Spaniards, worth tens of thousands of gold coins.

However, compared to avoiding a war with Portugal, this is also worthwhile. After all, Marin is preparing to fight against France right now, it is really impossible to provoke two strong enemies at the same time. Moreover, it is hateful to eat single food in the business of silk and porcelain. Pulling a partner to share the firepower is also a good choice. Anyway, I still take the big head ...

Moreover, if the Spaniards agreed to this military visit and joint military exercise, it was a deterrent to Portugal itself. See, Spain is still on the North Sea side ...

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