In the 16th century, Spain, which pioneered the great voyages, entered its heyday. The Spanish colonists even created a miracle of defeating the Inca Empire with 80,000 troops in 169 people, completely destroying the Inca Empire with millions of people, and tens of millions of square kilometers of america became Spanish colonies. At this time, the Philippines in Southeast Asia was also under Spanish rule. The arrogant Spain also had ambitions in the face of the rich Ming Dynasty.
Spanish colonies
In the tenth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Spanish missionary Alonso Sanchez came to Macau. As we all know, the Western colonialists' foreign colonial aggression has always been two means, on the one hand, direct aggression by force, and on the other hand, missionary cultural aggression, missionaries have always been the colonial vanguard of Western colonists, and Alonso Sanchez is no exception. Alonso Sanchez proposed to the king of Spain a plan to invade China by force: he claimed that by sending 10,000 or 12,000 Spanish, Italian or other soldiers, plus five or six thousand Japanese soldiers and the Philippines in equal numbers, the Ming Dynasty could be easily occupied.
Western missionary
They even planned how to rule after the Spanish conquest of China. The plan details the construction of churches and schools in large quantities, the inculcation of Spanish culture, the spread of Catholicism, the establishment of 58 archbishops, bishops and an archbishop in China, and the appointment of a number of viceroys.
This is what the subject says, Spain plans to conquer the Ming Dynasty with 20,000 people. In fact, this is not the first time that Spain has proposed plans to conquer China. Prior to this, the Spanish colonist Recell had written to the King of Spain, believing that only 60 Spanish soldiers could conquer China.
Spanish Armada
The arrogance and ignorance of the Western colonizers are also vividly expressed here. Many people always equate the Western powers in the late Qing Dynasty with the Western colonizers before the Industrial Revolution, which is actually completely incomparable. After the completion of the Industrial Revolution, the Western powers were indeed able to hang the Qing Dynasty. However, before the Industrial Revolution, the Western powers, the labor expeditions, coupled with the demographic disadvantage, were by no means rivals of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, Western colonists, whether Portugal, Spain, or the Netherlands, had coveted the vast and wealthy Ming Dynasty and used force, but all of them failed. Even the Ming dynasty pirate Lin Feng once occupied Manila, and zheng zhilong became the king of pirates in the South China Sea at the end of the Ming Dynasty. But unfortunately, because of the lack of enterprising and closed-door country, the Ming Dynasty also completely lost the dividends of the Great Navigation Era.
Daming territory
I don't know whether it was the luck of the Ming Dynasty, or the misfortune of Spain, or the misfortune of the Ming Dynasty, the luck of Spain, and in the end, Spain's so-called 20,000-strong plan to invade China was not implemented. Because not long after the plan was proposed, the Spanish Armada began the plan to conquer Britain. However, the Spanish fleet, which claimed to be invincible, was defeated by the rising star Britain.
The fall of the Armada
Of the Armada's 134 ships, only 43 were left in tatters to return to Spain, and the Armada was almost completely destroyed. After this battle, Spain completely slipped from the peak, without the strength of the powerless, Spain in the face of the rise of the Netherlands and Britain, more and more powerless. The so-called plan to conquer China naturally ended in vain.