What these guards didn't expect was that their king would be defeated so quickly. In less than a day, the capital city was captured so quickly.
When a group of elite soldiers appeared at the treasury, the Spanish soldiers guarding the treasury looked at each other.
Facing the thugs who tried to attack the treasury, these soldiers could kill without hesitation, but when faced with the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who appeared in front of them, all the soldiers looked at each other with hesitation on their faces.
Being able to be selected to guard the treasury, these soldiers are not fools. Although they have not received the news, when they see these Ming soldiers appear in front of them, even if they react slightly slowly, they can realize that the capital has been lost, otherwise
If so, there is absolutely no chance for Ming soldiers to appear here.
The Ming army general who led his troops towards the treasury just glanced at the soldiers on the opposite side and nodded to the person next to him.
Then a Spanish official came out and said to the soldiers guarding the treasury: "Everyone, Your Majesty has a decree, ordering you to hand over the treasury to the care of the Ming generals."
Of course, it was impossible for Charles I to issue such an order. Needless to say, this official was forced to come here. Of course, if this official was not afraid of death, he would not have come here even if the Ming army forced him.
As one of the management officials of the treasury, these soldiers are no strangers to this official. It can be said that this official is the superior of these soldiers.
Seeing the timid appearance of this official, all the soldiers naturally understood exactly what was going on.
But even if they know it, so what? Can they still say that they can change the overall situation?
The current situation is very clear. The Ming people have already occupied the capital, and even the king has been taken prisoner. It is unrealistic to think that they can resist the Ming army with just over a hundred treasury guards.
Everyone looked at me, and I looked at you, and they saw a soldier step forward, dropped the weapon in his hand on the ground, and said slowly: "I am willing to respect the king's order."
Obviously he was looking for an excuse for his surrender, but this excuse was not bad at all. At least the other soldiers put aside their worries when they saw this person's actions, and one by one they dropped their weapons and chose to surrender.
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After successfully taking over the treasury, the leading general secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was very confident in taking over the treasury, he was also afraid that the soldiers guarding the treasury would not surrender, otherwise there would be trouble.
If something goes wrong in the important place of the treasury, wouldn't it appear that his general is very incompetent? Now that he can successfully take over the treasury, there will naturally be no problem.
The next day, Yu Dayou, Yue Buqun, Jiao Yuan and others appeared at the treasury.
The treasury fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. Yu Dayou and others were naturally very curious about what kind of treasures there were in the treasury.
After all, it is also the treasury of a maritime power, just like the treasury of the Ming Dynasty. There are hundreds of millions of gold and silver treasures stored in that treasury.
Therefore, everyone is naturally very curious about what kind of treasures the Kingdom of Spain has in its treasury.
The thick and heavy iron gate slowly opened. Only the power of the country could cast these two huge iron gates.
With these two iron doors, even if you use a cannon to blast them, you may not be able to blast them through after several rounds. When you walk into the treasury, even if you have expected it in advance, you can't help but be amazed when you actually see it.
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Most of the treasury is built underground. After all, there are many gold and silver treasures stored in the treasury. If the space is small, it may not be able to accommodate it.
Just like the Ming Dynasty, most of the treasury was built underground, and the same is true for the treasury of the Kingdom of Spain, with most of the main body being underground.
The ground was dug almost as deep as two floors. Going down the steps, there were burning tallow candles on both sides.
Generally speaking, underground spaces tend to be very stuffy, but Yu Dayou and others did not feel any difficulty in breathing. On the contrary, the air was very fresh. This shows that the ventilation system of the National Treasury is very good.
Under the guidance of Jin Yiwei and the people from Dongchang, the first thing they entered was an extremely spacious space.
Walking into this space, several people couldn't help but squint their eyes. In front of them, they saw piles of white silver forming a hill-like shape, while on the other side was a tower made of dazzling gold.
of hills.
Looking at the gold and silver mountains that are several people tall, even though Yu Dayou and others are extremely determined, at this moment they can't help but have the idea of taking it as their own.
Fortunately, everyone present is not a fool. Although gold and silver are good, the key point is that these things are simply not something they can occupy.
Not to mention whether they can take possession of these gold and silver treasures, the mere presence of the Jinyiwei and Dongchang people among them is enough to stop many unwanted thoughts.
Taking a deep breath, Yu Dayou calmed down and looked at an official who was responsible for counting the number of gold and silver treasures stored in the treasury.
Noticing Yu Dayou's gaze, the official stepped forward, holding an account book in his hand, and respectfully presented the account book to Yu Dayou and said: "Commander, this is the book we made to count the gold and silver treasures here."
Yu Dayou took it and opened the book. His eyes fell on the row of numbers on the book. His eyes suddenly shrank. Even with his temperament, he could not help but shake his hands slightly and almost threw the book in his hand.
"Hiss, how come there are so many!"
Several other people noticed Yu Dayou's expression and couldn't help showing doubts on their faces. They were very curious about what kind of number could make Yu Dayou have such a reaction.
For example, Lin Pingzhi said with a bit of a smile: "Lin is very curious about how many gold and silver treasures there are in the treasury to make Master Yu lose his composure like this."
Yu Dayou didn't care at all about Lin Pingzhi's teasing. After calming down, he handed the booklet to Lin Pingzhi and said, "Here is the booklet. Mr. Lin might as well take a look for himself."
Lin Pingzhi was not polite. He took the booklet from Yu Dayou and glanced at it. Just like Yu Dayou, his eyes shrank and his hands shook slightly. He couldn't help but exhale and said: "It is indeed a maritime power."
Jiao Yuan and Yue Buqun both looked over curiously, but when they saw the numbers clearly written on the booklet, they couldn't help but tremble in their hearts.
"One hundred and eleven million taels of silver, twelve million taels of gold, and more than 500 boxes of jade and jewelry..."
It's no wonder that Jiao Yuan, Yue Buqun and others were so surprised. You must know that they came all the way and destroyed more than one or two countries along the way, and plundered dozens of treasuries.
However, most of the treasury of those small countries can plunder one to twenty million taels of silver, while the few can only plunder a few hundred thousand taels. However, like the Kingdom of Spain, it is really hard to find so much gold and silver in the treasury at once.
It's amazing enough.
Previously, they had plundered tens of millions of taels of gold and silver treasures from the king's treasury. Now, they have found so many gold and silver treasures in the treasury. When added together, their value has exceeded 200 million taels of silver.
So many.
Such a terrifying amount, even the Ming Dynasty treasury did not have so many gold and silver treasures.
Stroking his beard, Jiao Yuan's face filled with excitement and he trembled: "It is indeed the most powerful country on the sea. This treasury alone puts other countries ahead of others."
Yue Buqun nodded slowly and said: "Actually, if you calm down and think about it, it is not surprising that there are so many gold and silver treasures in the national treasury. Don't forget, Spain has been invincible on the sea for decades, and its footprints are almost all over the world.
In the past few decades, no one knows how much wealth has been transported back to Spain by its fleets all over the world."
After such accumulation, the treasury is naturally filled with mountains of gold and silver and numerous treasures.
Soon a look of embarrassment appeared on Jiao Yuan's face. Yu Dayou and others looked puzzled. Shouldn't they be happy after seizing so much wealth? Why did Jiao Yuan have a look of embarrassment on his face?
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Lin Pingzhi looked at Jiao Yuandao: "Master Jiao Yuan, what are you..."
Jiao Yuan sighed slightly, pointed to the small mountains of gold and silver, and the boxes filled with gems and jade articles, and said, "I'm worried about how to transport these wealth to the Ming Dynasty."
Everyone looked at the gold, silver and jewelry, and then thought about the fact that Spain is thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, and they were all stunned.
Just relying on large ships, to be honest, if they want to transport the gold and silver treasures they harvested this time, I am afraid that they would not be able to successfully transport these gold and silver treasures without hundreds of large ships.
What's more important is that they have just completed the search of the king's treasury and the kingdom's treasury. You must know that in the city of Toledo, there are many nobles from the Kingdom of Spain gathered.
The king may be the richest person in Spain, but don't underestimate the nobles who are attached to the Kingdom of Spain. These nobles rule as the upper class of Spain and control almost 90% of Spain's wealth.
Any nobleman, as long as he is not a prodigal, would probably be able to accumulate a huge fortune.
Once they attack these nobles, even Yu Dayou and Jiao Yuan dare not estimate how much gold and silver they can plunder from these nobles.
After all, many nobles were formerly generals or governors of many Spanish fleets. These people drove warships in all directions. Part of the wealth they plundered went into the king's private treasury and the national treasury, but at least half of it fell into these
In the hands of nobles.
Anyway, according to Yu Dayou's estimation, if these nobles were to be plundered from top to bottom, the wealth that could be plundered would not necessarily be less than the wealth plundered from the king's private treasury and the national treasury.
On the fifteenth day after occupying the city of Toledo, the Ming Dynasty completed the plunder of the entire capital city. To be precise, it should be a search that dug three feet into the ground.
Just to transport the looted property out of Toledo, it took thousands of soldiers from morning to night, which took almost a day.
According to subsequent statistics, the carriages were dispatched thousands of times. In order to escort the nearly a thousand carriages, Yu Dayou sent a team of 5,000 people to escort them.
In the Battle of Gibraltar and the Battle of Toledo, the Ming Dynasty easily destroyed the Kingdom of Spain. Once the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire Western world.
After all, Spain is now at its peak, and the Empire that later replaced it is also quietly accumulating strength, hoping that one day it can overthrow Spain.
But before they took action, Ming Dynasty brought extremely profound shock and impression to Western countries.
Akito is here!
If in the past, much of the Western knowledge of the Ming Dynasty was based on legends, but now the Ming Dynasty fleet came across the sea and was directly under their noses.
I don't know how many people couldn't help being shocked when they received the news, marveling at Ming's fighting power, and at the same time, they couldn't help but feel a great sense of crisis.
Even Spain is not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty, so who can be the opponent of the Ming Dynasty.
However, Yu Dayou and others did not care about this. At this moment, they were leading an army to sweep across the countries along the Mediterranean Sea.
With hundreds of warships as backing, it can be imagined that when the Ming fleet entered the Mediterranean, it was like a ferocious beast plunging into a flock of sheep, and the countries along the Mediterranean suddenly fell into panic.
Ming Dynasty
Outside the imperial city, on a flat land, a group of dark figures were busy in full swing. Looking at it with a wide eye, it could be roughly seen that the number of these people was probably no less than ten thousand.
More than 20,000 strong laborers are working hard to build the Temple of Heaven. So much manpower and material resources are used to build a Temple of Heaven. If this is not the will of the emperor, the civil and military officials of the court may not agree.
Of course, what's more important is that the construction of the Temple of Heaven was not about labor, but rather in the form of public donations.
In these years, whenever the imperial court started to build large-scale projects, the imperial court would recruit young laborers by paying money. Although the labor service system was not completely abolished, the imperial court often used recruitment, which was almost a disguised form.
The abolition of labor service.
Compared with paid labor, the atmosphere of working is different. There is a lively scene on the huge construction site. Although there are many people, it is orderly.
Such a temple to worship heaven is by no means a one-day effort. Several months have passed since the start of construction. Even with tens of thousands of people invested, only about half of it has been built.
Even so, even if you climb high in the capital and look far away, looking to the east you can already see a huge building rising from the ground, almost changing its appearance every day.
If you convert the 100-foot-tall altar, it would be almost over 300 meters high.
Such a height is rare in modern society, not to mention that it was still the Ming Dynasty. Such a towering altar took shape little by little and almost became a tourist attraction.
Many people in the capital even came to watch from a distance, pointing at the altar that was almost more than a hundred meters high and talking about it.
It is almost impossible to find a building over ten feet tall in the capital, let alone an altar tens of feet tall.
In order to build such an altar, a steady stream of loess was transported from afar. For this purpose, the Ministry of Works even made a plan for a land acquisition site outside the imperial city. Surprisingly, a large lake emerged from the planning site.
After all, if you want to build an altar, not to mention other things, the loess required alone is not a small amount, and even the soil taken out by digging a lake may not be enough.
The altar that is dozens of feet high now has become a somewhat mammoth sight. Anyone who sees this altar that has been repaired by manpower will involuntarily feel infinite horror.
At this time, accompanied by several figures, one person was standing in the pavilion in the distance, looking at the altar that was being built. There were vaguely visible figures all around protecting the pavilion.
The gray-haired Chen Ding was now conscientiously reporting on the progress of repairing the altar to Zhu Houzhao, who had his back turned to him and stared at the altar.
