[Correct: The one seized in the previous chapter was whale oil, not soybean oil. At this time, the Americas had not yet introduced soybeans from China. Only vegetable beans are edible, but they cannot be squeezed.]

After Lin Feng finished his work, many days have passed, and Zhang Xiaojing is still immersed in the scientific examination.

"What do these things mean?" Lin Feng sat cross-legged on the back of a super big elephant tortoise and asked boredly.

"How could it be boring? There are tropical penguins, turtles that can carry people, blue-legged ducks, colorful big lizards, and birds that can blow balloons. How interesting is it?" Zhang Xiaojing smiled while painting a water bird:

“Everything here is so fascinating, even this cormorant is no exception.”

"Wings look like stunted, how much does it mean?" Lin Feng patted the turtle shell under him and said, "This stewed soup is probably very nourishing, right?"

I don’t know if she is talking about a turtle or a bird?

"It's just that the wings are interesting." Zhang Xiaojing gave her a wonderful roll of eyes and automatically filtered out the next sentence and said: "The wings of this 'weak-winged cormorant' are also very developed and are also birds that are good at flying. Otherwise, how could they fly here from the mainland?"

"Oh?" Lin Feng teased the tortoise's head with the branches and said with a little interest: "How come he has become like this bird?"

"Because the food is abundant here, they settled down. Since they no longer need to fly to get food, their wings gradually deteriorated over the long evolution, causing them to lose their ability to fly." Zhang Xiaojing pointed to the weak-winged cormorants squatting on the reef and said, "Responsively, their legs and claws have evolved large and powerful, and their beaks have become thick and long, making them better at fishing in the sea."

"Degeneration, evolution? It's strange and mysterious." Lin Feng said astonished: "Xiaojing, you can really think about it."

"This is not what I said." Zhang Xiaojing lifted up a strand of naughty hair and said proudly: "It was your master and my husband in this 'living biological evolution museum'. In order to adapt to the natural environment, the animals and plants here have become very different from their own kind on the mainland. He realized that 'super-sustaining the fittest', and after he went back, he wrote "Origin of Species"!"

As she said that, she stood up and pointed to the world where strange flowers and plants gathered with endless enjoyment, saying, "This is the holy place where the great 'evolution theory' was born!"

"Theory of Evolution?" Lin Feng stuck out his tongue and said, "I haven't heard of it."

It seems that she has read several books from her master.

"Because this book has not been published yet, and the views are too shocking, he firmly refused to admit that the book was written by himself." Zhang Xiaojing smiled and said, "It's written by a man named Alvin. I said I've never heard of this surname. He said seriously, yes, Vinci..."

"The pen name is. There are so many masters, it seems that there is another Niu Zi who is also his master." Lin Feng scratched his head and said.

But Zhang Xiaojing gradually couldn't laugh, her eyes turned red, and she squatted down and cried.

"What's wrong? You're confused?" Lin Feng quickly jumped off the turtle's back and squatted while Zhang Xiaojing asked.

"I miss home, I miss your master..." Xiao Zhuzi said with tears.

"I want to do it too." Lin Feng muttered after hearing this: "But we can't go back yet."

"Why?" Xiao Zhuzi looked at her with red eyes.

"Because of this." Lin Feng took out a wrinkled letter from her pocket and handed it to her: "This was found from the deputy king's suite of Xiao Ming."

Zhang Xiaojing took it and opened it and saw a letter written by the Spanish king to the deputy king of Peru last fall.

Although the letter is in Spanish, she seems effortless.

In his letter, Philip II complained to his deputy king that because of the robbery of the treasure fleet, the bankers in Venice and Florence did not agree to renew the debt, and the royal family was unable to repay it, so they could only declare financial bankruptcy and deduct their debts.

So Philip II instructed his two deputy kings in America to not disperse their treasures this year to Europe.

Since you have already been lying on the debt, you have to lie for a few more years, which will drag the creditor out of temper. Only when you can't stand it, will the creditor take the initiative to propose generous conditions that the interest is exempted and even the principal can be discounted.

This is not the first time that Philip II has declared bankruptcy, he is already a very experienced deadbeat.

But that doesn't mean he will feel so well.

Although no bankers dare to force debts from the king of the continental power, this is a devastating blow to the royal family's credibility, and it will be greatly increased if you want to borrow money.

Unless a great victory like Lebanto can be achieved and the reputation of the royal family can be quickly restored, only then will someone be willing to continue to borrow money from the royal family.

So Philip II approved the "Sander Report" submitted by New Spain's deputy king Verasquez, and decided to launch an expedition against the Ming people who dared to invade the Philippines. The minimum goal is to recover Luzon; the intermediate goal is to occupy Guangdong Province of the Ming Kingdom; the highest goal is to attack Beijing, capture their little emperor, and force the surrender to the entire Ming Kingdom!

As long as you can defeat that great Eastern power, you will completely establish the strongest position in Spain in the world. And capital is the strongest, and they are always willing to flow to the strongest!

To this end, Philip II has set up a special committee in Madrid to further review and formulate detailed plans for attacking China from the aspects of policy, strategy, tactics, action policies, logistics mobilization and public opinion propaganda.

Although the plan is still being refined, it has been basically confirmed that an expeditionary force of 25,000 people, including 12,000 Spanish Army, will be launched on an invincible fleet of fifty large sailboats to fight in the Far East!

Because the warships were too far from Europe to Asia, they might have been half lost when they arrived in Luzon. Even if they were building warships in Havana, they still could not avoid the two gates of hell, the Equatorial Windless Belt and the Magellan Strait, and the situation would not be much better.

Therefore, Philip II ordered that in addition to the fleet set out from the local area, all shipbuilders from the American colonies would be recruited to Acapulco, Mexico, where they would build the latest Spanish sailboats. The royal family would also hire 2,000 experienced shipwreckers and artisans to cast guns from Europe to New Spain for support!

Philip II ordered the two deputy kings to try their best to seize more wealth from the colonies and transport them all to Mexico as the cost of shipbuilding. The shipbuilding matters will be coordinated and arranged by the Governor General of New Spain. The Governor General of Peru will also make every effort to raise military supplies for the upcoming expedition.

"No wonder there is so much food on the ship. It turns out that it is the military rations prepared." After reading it, Zhang Xiaojing suddenly realized.

There was also so much copper installed, so of course I had to transport it to Mexico to cast cannons.

Zhang Xiaojing looked at Lin Feng with clarity and said, "So what do you mean?"

"Yes. I like to take the initiative!" Lin Feng focused heavily, took action like lightning, and grabbed the long neck of the elephant turtle. The old turtle was stupid. He probably didn't know how to deal with this situation, so he stood there motionless.

"How can we wait for the Spaniards to be ready? We all came to their doorstep. If we don't go to fuck him, we will set a fire for him. How can we be worthy of Master's love for me...protection...?"

"You'd better let go quickly, the turtle is about to foam at the mouth." Zhang Xiaojing rolled her eyes.

The mobilization went very smoothly. The team members who were robbing the West Coast of America were robbed... Oh no, they were full of enthusiasm for their loyalty to the country. The sluggishness when they were on the East Coast was completely different.

So after some rest and preparation, the fleet left the Devil Island, which had been renamed Treasure Island, and sailed towards Acapulco, two thousand kilometers away.

The port of Acapulco is located in a deep and semi-enclosed bay, and is the best port along the Pacific coast of Mexico.

This place was originally just a small fishing village with less than one or two thousand people. But ten years ago, when the Pacific sailing trade began, Acapulco, as the terminal of the sailing ship, has quickly flourished.

Although the two countries entered a state of war since the previous year, the magical thing is that the sailing trade has not been cut off because of this, but the trade location has returned to Cebu.

Whether it is Zhao, the son of the Ming Dynasty, or Vice King of Vilasquez, who represents Spain, they are all very rational people. They know that the sailing trade is crucial to both sides. One code is one code, and fighting is a war, and having money does not make a bastard.

Moreover, both sides are worried that as the situation inevitably deteriorates, it will eventually endanger the trade level. They both tacitly increase the intensity of transactions and make more money.

So from the summer of 1574 to the present two years, the trade volume between the two sides has quadrupled...

But don’t think that if both sides rely on trade, they will tend to live in a friendly manner.

In fact, from the moment they received the news of Luzon's fall, the proud and arrogant Spaniards were clamoring for revenge. If it weren't for the Pacific Ocean, their army would have reached the gate of the Ming Dynasty.

So their anger of avenging became the driving force for shipbuilding. Over the past year, the entire American colonies and the two governors in the north and south have been pouring into Acapulco, and they are all working hard to build a powerful fleet of sailing ships.

Deputy King Vilasquez also temporarily moved his headquarters from New Mexico to Acapulco and went to the scene to supervise the construction, so as not to let those corrupt bureaucrats get rich and the cunning craftsmen cut corners!

Under his personal supervision, everything went very smoothly. Standing on the balcony of the Deputy King’s residence located halfway up the mountain, looking at the bay in the gentle sea breeze, you can see that the huge boat yard is already quite large.

The huge timber storage yards are already full of huge trees transported from Guatemala and Panama.

Next to the wood storage yard, there was a sound of sawing wood and a crackling sound of chopping wood day and night. It was the woodworkers who were dismantling the big wood into a plate that was used.

Six huge dry docks were built on the beach. Shipbuilders from Villacruz, Havana, Bogota, and even the Iberian Peninsula are building six thousand-ton warships day and night. Now the two warships have just dropped their keels, and the four warships have already had a frame and will be able to be launched at the end of the year.

In the busy shipyard, there are countless craftsmen's workshops busy making iron nails, sail tools, cables and artillery... Each type of work is very complicated, and a large number of tools and mechanical equipment are required to be made first.

In the past year, craftsmen have spent basically on manufacturing and debugging these equipment. But once they are completed, they can double the result with half the effort and make up for the wasted time.

For example, if cables are made using pure manual labor, they can only produce less than a few dozen meters a day. After switching to machinery, a group of workers can easily produce 2,000 meters a day! The efficiency can be increased by more than ten times!

‘This is the European technology that leads the world!’ His Highness the Deputy King was filled with pride. ‘This is the powerful mobilization ability of the Spanish Empire!’

In less than two years, a powerful Pacific fleet will be born from here!

And I, the deputy king of New Spain, will personally lead this fleet to complete the expedition to the Ming Kingdom as my curtain call!

Wait, Mr. Zhao, your death is not far away!
Chapter completed!