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Volume 1 525 Australia-Western "Manila Contract" (Part 1)

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    Negotiation is a long and arduous job, and Viscount Antlip, who has participated in contract negotiations for "Westphalia", knows this well.  But this negotiation with the Australians was far more difficult than Antlip expected.  It has been more than two months, and it is almost three months, and the negotiations seem to have made no progress at all.

    At first, Antlip thought that he would admit the shameful defeat of the Spanish Kingdom in the Philippines, then use ransom to redeem the poor nobles and officers, as well as the wealthy merchants, and then hire a ship or return to Europe on a Portuguese ship.  .  Of course, Antlip also bluffed that the Philippines was an integral part of Spanish territory, in an attempt to blackmail the Australians into making some concessions in negotiating contracts.  But this move achieved nothing except making Antlip feel like an ignorant clown and earning countless sneers.  [com]

    Those Australians are very confident in their own force, and some hard-line guys even have inexplicable desires for war. They are very eager to fight Spain again, either in the Philippines, or in the Americas, maybe on Spain's doorstep.  Antlip had nothing but laughter to express at this nonsense.

    Well, the Australian army is indeed very powerful. Their infantry has one fire commander per person, and it can defeat 8,000 colonial soldiers with only 2,000 people.  The navy is also very powerful. Although it is unclear how far the range is, there is no doubt that the Australian artillery has a longer range and is much more powerful than the Spanish artillery.  Australia's technology is very advanced. In the past, it was just a mirror of luxury goods, but now Australians have it all over the streets.  Perhaps a Spanish expeditionary force would not threaten the Australians at all. The result would be a waste of people and money and a repeat of the last failure.  But to say that the Australians are going to cross the Indian Ocean to attack the mainland, or cross the Pacific to attack the Pacific What a joke!

    Even when all of Europe was against Spain in the past, the mainland and American colonies had never suffered such a large-scale invasion.  Although the empire is now declining and deteriorating, the veterans who have experienced the Thirty Years War are still there, and they are still defending the dignity of the Kingdom of Spain.  As long as the Australians dare to come, Antlip will have the confidence to severely defeat the Australians.

    The terrible thing is that it seems that Antlip and Franco are the only ones in Manila who think this is a big joke. Other than that, the Australians and compatriots in Manila believe it to be true.

    When Antlip dismissed this as a low-level trick by the Australians, those greedy Australians threatened the security of the American colonies and the Spanish mainland, demanding war reparations from the Kingdom of Spain and signing of a defeat agreement.

    What a shame and humiliation!  Antlip became angry and immediately walked away, accusing the Australians of lacking sincerity in negotiations.  So in the past two months, the negotiations held every two days seem to be the same.

    Antlip arrived at the scene and reiterated Spain's interests. The Australian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs said with his nose in the air that he would force the King of Spain to bow his head in front of Madrid.  Then Antlip walked away, and again two days later.

    Antlip was starting to get fed up and thought the Australians were behaving extremely unreasonably.  These guys who call themselves "Southern Continentalians" seem to be too arrogant, and even think that they can really launch an almost impossible attack across half the world. As time goes by, even Antlip himself starts to believe it.  .This is simply ridiculous!

    Then Antlip decided to get to know Australia more deeply, because neither he nor his Spanish compatriots had ever arrived in Australia.  Since I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I naturally don't know how powerful Australia is.  But there was a guy who had been to Australia, and also to South Central, the capital of Australia, so Antlip approached this guy.

    The country bumpkin Earl of Lan, Andrew, Skafani and Skabek, even if this guy becomes a nouveau riche, he still can't change his original country bumpkin habits.

    "Good morning, Mr. Count." Fighting back the disgust in his heart, Antlip bowed reluctantly.

    "And Andrew, who was enjoying it across from him, didn't even get up. He just sat on the sofa and nodded reluctantly, then opened his mouth and allowed a beautiful noble lady to put a small piece of tropical fruit into her mouth.

    Chewing and swallowing, he gently touched the noble lady¡¯s wrist. The latter smiled, nodded in understanding, and left lightly.  Then Andrew coughed lightly and said to the uninvited guest who had been staring at his fianc¨¦e's back: "Mr. Antlip, I heard from Lou's housekeeper that you have visited three times in a row."

    "Uh, yes, Your Excellency, Count." Antlip cursed secretly, "The good cabbage has been lost to the pig" and then quickly responded with the etiquette that a diplomat should have.  Smiling without appearing proud or overly humble:"I have looked for you several times, but unfortunately, you are not here." Andrew nodded: "It is very unfortunate, I have been invited to go hunting in the past few days. You know, I have a very close relationship with senior Australian officials.  " close. For example, this time, the person who invited me is Mr. Chang Shide." As he spoke, Andrew raised his chin in an unusually nouveau riche manner.

    This made Antlip even more unhappy.  Chang Shide?  He knew that that guy, with the inexplicable title of General Counsel, was actually just the invisible governor of Luzon.  As for the MPs, only the pirates on the British Isles thought that the MPs were some great people.  In Antlip's eyes, the MPs were a mob revolting against the king.

    "Your Excellency, the Earl, is really interested in hunting. Looking at your temperament, you must have gained a lot, right?" "Of course," Andrew said excitedly: "~

    I hunted a rhinoceros.  "In fact, the hunting process of the upstart Andrew was simply a tragedy. The recoil of the concave rifle was far beyond imagination. When the first bullet was fired, Andrew almost thought that his right shoulder was dislocated. But it was nothing, after all  You'll get used to it slowly. What's bad is Andrew's outrageous shooting skills. He can aim at a monkey napping in a tree from a distance of about fifty meters, and then easily pop the monkey's balls

    So after four days of hunting, Luzon Emperor Chang Shide returned with a full harvest, but poor Andrew only harvested one cow, just a cow, not a rhinoceros. An immigrant passed by with the cow, and Andrew's rifle happened to go off.  After paying twice the amount of silver coins as the cow itself, the cow became Andrew's trophy in a grand manner.

    "Okay, let's get straight to the point Mr. Antlip, what did you find out?" Andrew asked suddenly.  !  .
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