Luckily for China, fate had plans of its own. Spain's "Invincible Armada" was decisively crushed in a disastrous attempt to invade England in 1588. Its naval power badly diminished, Spain no longer had the punch necessary to conquer foreign lands.
所幸人算不如天算，不久，一五八八年，西班牙對英國之役失利，折損無數戰艦，「無敵艦隊」的神話破滅，西班牙海上軍力銳減，從此元氣大傷，一蹶不振，無力對外征戰。