Isabella II was almost crazy. In her world, she was always a slander and slanderous minister surrounded her like a star and a moon. No matter what the empire had declined, no matter whether the people could survive or not, the Spanish Empire was still powerful among the lies woven by these villains.

As for his resignation, it was just a riot caused by ambitious warlords. A temporary military failure does not mean that he cannot restore the dynasty in the future!

She can't see or listen to the scenes of the Spanish natives having a bad life. She says stupid things like why not eat meat all day long. Will she know what the distant Philippines will be like?

She didn't know about the broken wooden ships of the Southeast Asian fleet in disrepair, and even the 16th-century cast bronze cannons.

The colonial soldiers have not changed their clothes for more than 20 years, and the most elite troops are just holding front-loaded Minnie rifles. In the hands of the indigenous soldiers, there are even the oldest smoothbore and shotguns.

More soldiers even rely on bows, arrows, spears to fight!

These queens didn't know that in her eyes, her empire ruled a prosperous scene, which was not as good as Britain and France, but was also side by side with Austria. As for the Queen of Prussia, she didn't take it seriously at all.

The emperor has been wearing his new clothes for too long, and she has no idea that she has become a laughing stock in the world!

"Shameless! Shameless lie! Xiao Letian actually sent a rude diplomat like you. A powerful Spain would never accept such humiliation!"

"I will raise the flag given by God and burn the war to your land! The goddess of vengeance has stared at you, and you have nowhere to escape..."

Xiang Ying was speechless. Faced with such a crazy-like queen, all the diplomatic rhetorics that were inflexible will not work. People even think your polite words are true.

"Your Majesty! You should wake up. Are you really not clear about the situation in the Philippines? In this war, there were no more than 30,000 troops with front-loaded Minnie rifles, and the rest were old smoothbore guns, and even weapons from the Napoleonic Wars were still in use!"

"More soldiers even have to rely on bows and arrows and spears to fight... The Philippines' finances are close to collapse, and the Governor's levy is not enough to fill your local greedy appetite. In addition, the Governor himself is a corrupt person!"

"Your colonial government in the Philippines went bankrupt more than ten years ago, and it was completely ineffective!"

"Why would we recover Manila overnight? If your rule hadn't been completely ruined, we wouldn't have fought so easily!"

"Faced with the reality! Dear Queen, you can't take back the land of the Philippines, and it will never be possible... I'm just here to do a favor this time, and I hope I can help you!"

“Or, a deal is OK!”

The Fat Pig Queen couldn't listen to the good words at all, but Susan, the chief servant of the court beside the Queen, was a sensible person. She had been immersed in the court for many years and had some understanding of many things.

She lay in the queen's ear and whispered a few soft words. The queen's face gradually eased, "Okay... let's put aside the dispute first, it's already very late, please go to the banquet together, let's chat slowly!"

Xiang Ying stood up and bowed slightly, "I hope the Queen can think calmly and face it..."

The Chinese envoy left the conference room, and Isabella II said to Susan angrily, "What are you doing to stop me? That bastard, I thought it was a gift from God, but it turned out to be an angry enemy!"

Susan opened the folding fan and fanned the queen. "Your Majesty, calm down first... In fact, what the Chinese just said was not all lies!"

"What do you mean?"

"Your Majesty, the empire's finances are indeed in serious crisis. The arms applications sent from the colonies have been suppressed by those ministers..."

"Where have we not allocated funds to increase military expenditures for decades... In other words, General Xiang Ying's incident is 80% true!"

"What? Really!" the queen's eyes widened. "You mean, can't our brave soldiers even compare to the weapons in the hands of the barbaric and backward Chinese?"

"At present it seems...this is..."

"Damn it! Without weapons, they should have faith! God's preacher and the gospel caster will fight to death even with swords!"

"Yes, yes, yes... The Queen is right, you are very right..." Susan quickly fanned her harder and lowered her heart.

"But before we launch the expeditionary force, why not listen to the Chinese price code? You won't suffer any loss..."

After much persuasion, Isabella II calmed down this anger for a long time. When she walked out of the conference room, her expression obviously relieved a lot.

The dinner was held in the oversized banquet hall of the Queen's Villa. There were more than fifteen people on each side of the long table. The Queen sat on the short side of the table. On her left was Spanish officials and on her right was a Chinese delegation.

Xiang Ying was just where he could hold it in his right hand, and on the left was Susan and down there was the goatee-bearded old man.

Even the queen who stepped down still maintained an extremely luxurious life, with top-notch Spanish ham, seafood paella sprinkled with saffron, and squid rice like dark dishes... All kinds of dishes were served up like flowing water.

There is even a hell barnacle in the main course that Xiang Ying often hears about but never sees!

This ugly shell, like the devil's finger, is a supreme delicacy that fishermen exchange for their lives. These little things are hidden in the storm of reef coasts with violent winds and waves, and only grow in the cracks of reefs hit by huge waves.

Fishermen who pick hell barnacles must look at the tide, avoid the striking waves, and dig down the barnacles that are firmly fixed on the reef in the shortest time.

This kind of little guy has a very strong adhesion. Sometimes, the gap between the two tide heads is only enough for fishermen to dig one or two... and then they have to avoid the waves immediately, otherwise they will either die or be injured!

Almost every year, a large number of coastal fishermen die when digging barnacles, so the gooseneck barnacles called these biologists have an nickname for hell barnacles.

The Queen looked at Xiang Ying and saw the small barnacle, smiling and said, "This is a very rare delicacy along the coast of Spain, called Hell Barnacle!"

"The taste is extremely delicious... A foodie once said that these hell foods that have to be exchanged for every ten pounds are the devils used by Satan to lure the kind hearts of kind people..."

"But who can escape the temptation of the devil..."

With a bite of barnacle in her mouth, Xiang Ying was frightened by the saying that ten pounds and one life as soon as she tasted a little umami!

"What? This kind of small thing costs only ten pounds to change it to a person's life?"
Chapter completed!