William Adams didn't expect this to be so, and then he suddenly realized. However, he was also curious about the situation of the Spanish New World Fleet. Wang Dong told William Adams that this battle was actually very easy. Originally, the Spanish New World Fleet was not very strong, and the entire fleet was exhausted from afar. In addition, the other party had no idea that Manila had changed hands, so he confusedly got into the encirclement of the joint fleet.

After a day of battle, the Spanish fleet could not escape even if they could not fight. After losing several warships and armed merchant ships, they had to surrender.

"Ship Wang has made another great achievements, and I am congratulating you on Shuai Wang." William Adams immediately congratulated you with a smile.

Wang Dong waved his hand: "This battle is easy to wait for work, and it is not a big deal to fight with intention and unpreparedness. But this battle has gained a lot. Do you know what it is?"

"What is it?" William Adams asked subconsciously. As soon as he said something, he suddenly remembered something and widened his eyes: "Ship Wang, you are not talking about the gold ship, right?"

"Hahaha, I still can't hide it from you. That's right, it's just a gold ship!" Wang Dong suddenly laughed.

The Spanish gold transport ship, also known as the Spanish gold fleet, is well-known in the Western world.

After occupying the New World, Spain began to plunder the New World, although it transported countless wealth back to Europe by ships, and gained huge benefits from it.

The most famous Spanish gold fleet was in 1702, an operation after the outbreak of the Spanish throne war. Because the war broke out, Spain, including the French Empire, ordered the Mexican colonial government to organize a fleet to transport treasures back to Europe because the war was extremely needed.

But no one expected that that transportation caused huge losses to Spain. The Spanish golden fleet, escorted by seventeen ships and warships, was loaded with nearly 5,000 carriages, worth hundreds of billions of francs. Who would have thought that the ship route was informed in advance by the belligerent countries at that time. The joint fleet composed of Britain and the Netherlands dispatched 150 warships to block the golden fleet in the Bay of Vigo. After fierce battles, most of the ships sank into the ocean, and only a small part was captured by the coalition forces.

Although this naval battle was not the largest scale, it had a huge impact. Such a huge loss of wealth caused heavy losses to the Spanish and French Empires. The coalition forces that captured some gold ships not only attacked the Spanish and French Empires from a military perspective, but also gained huge benefits in this war.

Until later generations, the place where the Spanish Golden Fleet sank was still a holy place for treasure hunters in the ocean. After hundreds of years of salvage, countless wealth was still buried at the bottom of the sea.

Although the fleet coming from the New World this time could not have as large as the gold fleet that year, it carried quite a few gold, jewelry and other materials. After capturing the fleet, it seized a wealth worth tens of millions of silver dollars, which made the Ming Dynasty make a fortune.

"It's a pity. If the golden fleet had not sunk more than ten years ago and the vault of the Mexican colonial government shrank a lot, otherwise he would have benefited more this time." Hearing this, William Adams couldn't help but sigh, but then he laughed again. The Spaniard was also unlucky enough. The last time the golden fleet was wiped out. This time, he worked hard to get so much wealth from Mexico, but he still gave it to the enemy.

This was the case before, but now it is like this. The Spaniards are really a fortune-giving boy! Speaking of this, Wang Dong couldn't help laughing and nodded repeatedly to say yes.

The Ming Dynasty sent troops this time, which was a good thing. Not only did it capture Luzon, but it also captured all the Spanish fleets that came from afar. Originally, Wang Dong was worried that Manila would need great investment in reconstruction after the catastrophe, and the series of resettlements after occupying Luzon would cost money.

Although the Ming Dynasty obtained a lot of wealth from the local Spanish after occupying Manila, these wealth was only barely enough, and some of it needed to be seized and handed over to the court. But now the Spaniards gave such a large amount of wealth from thousands of miles away, which made the Ming Dynasty's finances more abundant. How was Wang Dong, the minister of military affairs, unhappy?

William Adams came from afar. After Wang Dong talked with him, he specially held a welcome banquet. In addition to Wang Dong, there were naturally the admiral of the South China Sea Fleet, Zhang Fei, and several civil and military officials who arrived in Luzon. The banquet was very happy, and the guests were very interested. The banquet ended until midnight.

William Adams fell down at the official residence that day and went to the United Court the next day, and began to form the court.

Half a month later, the joint court was initially formed, and finally consisted of seven countries: Ming Dynasty, Portugal, Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. This was two more countries than the originally expected five countries.

The Netherlands had mentioned before participating in the United Court that it was found by George Churchill in Austria. In the previous battle against the Spanish throne, Austria was an ally of Britain and the second profiter of the war.

With the end of the war, Austria's reputation increased greatly and became one of the powerful countries again in Europe. More importantly, the Austrian monarch was named the Holy Roman Emperor, and the introduction of Austria into this joint court was of great significance to the legal rationality of the joint court in Western countries.

So after listening to William Adams' explanation, Wang Dong agreed to Austria to participate. As for Austria, it has very little influence in the Far East, and there are no colonies like Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain and other countries. Now that the national strength is rising, Austria is trying to gain influence in the Far East through some means, and the establishment of the joint court is also an opportunity for them.

Among the seven countries, the Ming Dynasty, Portugal and Britain were actually the main ones. Although the judges selected by all countries are equal in terms of legal principles, the three countries actually control the court, and among these three countries, the Ming Dynasty is the strongest.

The current interests of the three countries are consistent and are allies, so Portugal and Britain will naturally not undermine the situation. The candidate for France is Russell, who is naturally on the side of the Ming Dynasty. Austria was found by George Churchill, and of course he was his own. As for the Netherlands, there is no need to worry about it. Now the Netherlands is too late to flatter the Ming Dynasty, so how could it go against the Ming Dynasty? The only independent Italian judge is a missionary. He has conducted an investigation into the character of this missionary before. This is a very upright person, so there will be no problem.
Chapter completed!