"What's wrong with the old man here so late?" Liu Yu smiled and sat on the sofa and looked at the old man in front of him.

During the Kangxi period, two oriental people sat on the sofa and chatted. No matter how they looked, they felt awkward and incredible.

"Sir." The old man was very old and had already passed his sixties, but the spirit emitted from his body moved Liu Yu.

It is logical that an elderly man who is over 60 years old cannot have such spirit, let alone the living conditions are far inferior to those of modern 17th century.

"The adults have now taken over the northern part of Luzon Island. I heard that the Luzon Ming court also signed a ceasefire agreement with Manila. I don't know what the adults should do next." The old man asked.

Liu Yu looked at the old man in front of him coldly. How could he tell an old man of unknown origin?

"I wonder who my sir is named?" Liu Yu asked.

"I'm going to Chen Ande." The old man finally spit out his name.

Chen Ande and Liu Yu were stunned.

Chen Ande, a Ming Dynasty diplomat sent to Europe during the Yongli period.

In 1649, Emperor Yongli decided to send envoys to ask for help from the Pope when the Qing army launched a large-scale attack on the southwest. Bumige, a missionary in China in the Western China, was appointed as a plenipotentiary envoy.

In order to make Europe more intuitively understand the Southern Ming court, Sili Tailin Pang Tianshou ordered a young official Chen Ande to take the handwritten letter from Emperor Yongli to travel with Bu Mige, and Chen Ande became the first "Chinese diplomat" to go to Europe.

However, it has been 35 years since Chen Ande went to Europe to make an envoy.

Even after Yongli was killed, Chen Ande disappeared into the long river of history and disappeared.

Liu Yu did not expect that he would meet this famous China's number one diplomat in a mission sent by Chen Shangchuan.

Of course, more than thirty years have passed, and Chen Ande is now old, but his wandering years have given him a spirit that ordinary people do not have.

"Bmige and I went to Europe to beg for military aid from Europe, even if the hope was slim." Chen Ande sighed.

"In the sixth year of Yongli, we arrived in Venice, but Francisco Molin, the Governor of the Republic of Venice, refused to receive us envoys from China."

"Bmiger tried to ask the French ambassador for help, and then he handed the letter to Francesco Morin." Chen Ande said slowly, as if he had returned to the time more than thirty years ago.

"Bumige and I were in Venice for three years. It was not until the ninth year of Yongli that the new Pope Alexander VII finally met Bumige and me. Although Alexander VII sympathized with the difficult situation of China and Emperor Yongli, he could not provide practical help, so he only wrote a reply to let me take it back to China." The old man obviously felt a little helpless when he said this.

"In the letter, he prayed that China could overcome the difficulties. The Pope's reply sent Bumig and I to Europe to have room for activity. We came to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, to meet King John IV of Portugal, who promised to give China some military aid."

This surprised Liu Yu. Portugal was willing to help the Yongli court at that time.

Liu Yu thought about it carefully and remembered that when the Qing army headed south, Emperor Yongli did seek assistance from the Portuguese in Macau. At that time, the Portuguese in Macau did send 300 soldiers to assist in the battle, so Yongli believed in religion.

In March of the tenth year of Yongli, Bumige and I, who received the promise of John IV, embarked on the return journey.

But when we arrived in Goa, India, we realized that the Yongli court was in danger. Although King John IV repeatedly ordered us not to make things difficult for us and asked the Portuguese colonial authorities in the Far East to give us the right of way, the Portuguese colonial authorities in Aguo still did not allow us to go to Macau." Chen Ande smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly.

"Interesting, can you even ignore the king's orders?" Liu Yu sneered.

But thinking about it, I didn't think that I signed an armistice agreement with Governor Juan in Manila, it seemed that I had not approved the Spanish king.

The Ming army went south to Luzon for only a year. Even if Manila wrote a letter to the king of Spain, it would probably take more than a year to receive it.

What happened later was that Chen Ande and Bumig arrived by land to Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam (now Thailand).

There, they hired a ship from the pirates to reach the northern part of Annan, which was the beginning of the twelfth year of Yongli.

Unfortunately, they were unable to return due to the war.

Bumige died in 1659. After Chen Ande buried him, he returned to Yunnan alone with several important diplomatic letters to report to Emperor Yongli.

"Emperor Yongli did not wait for assistance from John IV until his death. When Wu Sangui conquered Yunnan, I was separated from the court. I was desperate and had to go to Southeast Asia and arrived in Luzon." Chen Ande raised his head and looked at Liu Yu.

"If Zheng Cheng had lived a little longer, the four thousand people of the Ming Dynasty would not have died inexplicably."

Chen Ande's words moved Liu Yu. After Wu Sangui captured Yunnan, Chen Ande fled to Luzon Island. Unfortunately, within a few years, the Spaniards launched the third massacre against the Chinese.

"Maybe because I have traveled to Europe, I have a certain understanding of the habits and behaviors of these Europeans. On the night of the riot, I used most of my wealth to bribe a Manila official and escaped from Manila." Chen Ande seemed to be talking about something that was not his own, and his tone did not fluctuate at all.

"I had no choice but to go to Annan. I have been to Myanmar, East India, and Annan over the years, and have also worked for the East India Company."

Liu Yu was also deeply moved when he heard a character who had long disappeared from history telling a history that was not recorded in the book.

"It happened that Chen Shangchuan and other Annan leaders heard that the Lord established the Ming court in Luzon and wanted to send people to contact him, so they entrusted the merchants in Annan to send merchant ship envoys to the Ming court in Luzon." Chen Ande explained.

"Do you want to become king in Luzon or plot to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?" Chen Ande suddenly asked a question, staring at Liu Yu with his eyes fixed on him.

This stumped Liu Yu. When Liu Yu went south to Luzon, he was unwilling to live under the rule of the Tartars, so he came to Luzon to seek a way out, which was also the wish of thousands of Zheng generals.

In a year, they succeeded and indeed snatched the northern part of Luzon from the Spanish.

"If the adults want to establish themselves as king in Luzon and establish a Chinese country, then I advise the adults to surrender." Chen Ande naturally saw a hint of hesitation flashing in Liu Yu's eyes.

"Luzon is a Spanish colony. King Carlos II will not give up Manila. The adults came to Luzon a year ago. Even though the Governor of Manila deliberately stopped the news from being transmitted back to Spain in order to save his black hat, Spanish merchants naturally had already asked Carlos II for help when the Ming army occupied the northern part of Luzon. I believe that the Spanish merchants or Manila officials who were asking for help were rushing to the sea in Europe at this time." Chen Ande spoke.

Chen Ander's words were obvious. The Spanish were bound to make a comeback. It would take a year and a half to say from the news that came back to Spain and Carlos II organized an expeditionary force to fight towards Luzon.

In other words, the Ming court in Luzon only had one to two years of breathing time. If Liu Yu did nothing, the Ming army in Luzon would face the anger of the Spanish in a year and a half.
Chapter completed!