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Chapter 1084 First Exploration of America 3
Seeing that all the senior generals in the room were being led astray, Hong Tao impatiently knocked on the table with his lighter. As the saying goes, one is more knowledgeable than others, and Jin Gui is the type who is surprised by what he has seen. He only saw the innocent side of the Indians, but not their brutal faces.

In fact, there are similar scenes everywhere in the world, and every nation is similar. Innocence is a compliment to describe an individual, but it is not a compliment to describe an ethnic group, and is basically equivalent to ignorance.

Humans are born bad, with aggression in every cell. When there is no external pressure, they will kill each other, perhaps for the ownership of a river or a mountain, or for whose god is more powerful.

Later generations said that the Indians were pitiful because their homes were taken away by Europeans. But the problem is that when the Europeans did not go, the Indians, Mayans, and Incas from North America to South America were also busy. The existence of any large ethnic group or empire is the history of conquest of many small ethnic groups.

There is no reason to say that Indians are only allowed to kill Indians and not allowed to kill outsiders. Whoever survives is right, and the rest is nonsense. It is useless to say that you can't win even if you say it a thousand times.

"The students led the fleet south until they found some ships here, but they were not big, just fishing boats fishing near the coast. However, there were many villages on the shore, which were obviously different from the Indian tent settlements. There were stone houses, docks, and even steeple churches."

After being criticized and educated by the emperor, Jin Gui's remaining sensibility disappeared immediately. He opened the folder and walked to the map to continue describing his experiences during this trip. The place he pointed to this time was close to the Baja California Peninsula, which should be in Mexico.

"The further south we went, the more ships we encountered on the sea, and the bigger they were. We didn't dare get too close to the coastline, let alone dock rashly, but in order to find out the situation, we had to ask the locals. So we used the old navy method of catching tongues.

At first, we caught a few fishermen, but they couldn't understand Latin and couldn't communicate. Later, we caught up with a two-masted sailboat on the sea. The other side was still very arrogant and refused to lower the sails and surrender no matter how much we warned. We had no choice but to sink it. We rescued more than a dozen people from the water and finally found two who could speak Latin. "

"Hey, let me give you some advice. What do you mean by using the old methods of the navy? When did the navy teach you to be a pirate?" But after he had spoken a few words, Tan Mingming suddenly interrupted, speaking up for the navy and strongly criticizing Jin Gui for his inappropriate choice of words.

"...Okay, it's just a slip of the tongue. I was born naughty and became a pirate for once!"

Jin Gui wanted to say, "Has the navy been a pirate many times? From the beginning of its establishment, it recruited a large number of pirates, and then kept them for its own benefit, and pretended to be pirates to block the route to Japan."

But after seeing the emperor's fake smile, he quickly swallowed back the words that were on his lips. If the navy is pirates, then this emperor is the pirate leader. It was he who came up with the bad idea in the first place.

"That's called a military operation. Special missions require special means. What does it have to do with pirates? Go on!" But Jin Gui's ability to conceal his inner thoughts was obviously not good enough, and the emperor immediately saw through it.

"Yes, His Majesty is most accurate about military operations. Write it down, and keep speaking in unison in the future. Don't always mention pirates. The Navy is not afraid of being embarrassed, but the General Staff is!"

Tan Mingming applauded this explanation. Listen, what is level? This is it. It is obviously a pirate, but if you put it in another way, no one can think of it in a wrong way.

“…Through a military operation, the students captured two Spanish officials and learned from them the general situation on the west coast of America.

Look here! From here to the narrow neck, there is a city called Panama City. They are all under the jurisdiction of a viceroyalty called the Viceroyalty of New Spain, whose seat is here, called Mexico City. From Panama City southward to the little tail at the southern tip of America, there is another viceroyalty called the Viceroyalty of Peru. Its seat is right by the sea, and the city is called Lima.

Jin Gyu thought hard and decided that he was not a pirate, so a special military operation was more appropriate, so he immediately accepted this statement. Then he took a pen and started drawing on the map. In just a few strokes, he outlined the upper and lower areas on the west coast of America, plus two big red dots.

"Fuck... it's so big? This... this must be... a big guy. It's nearly ten thousand miles from north to south. How many troops does Spain have? Can they manage it?"

Zhu Haiou was the first to jump up. He came to the map and roughly measured the north-south span of the two governor's districts with his hands. He couldn't help but smack his lips in surprise. At the same time, his eyes were full of suspicion, thinking that the information Jin Gui had obtained was wrong.

If this is true, each of the Spanish viceroyalties would be equivalent to the span from Dagukou to Batavia.

No matter how many people the empire has and how big its navy is, it only barely controls the sea, and most of the islands and countries in the south are still ruled by locals. Not to mention the Indian Ocean coast, the imperial navy has not occupied an inch of land except for building a few naval bases and ports.

The Spanish had no merit or ability. With only 600 million people in their homeland, they could not send 200 million soldiers to America. Without a million soldiers and people, it was hard to imagine how they could effectively rule such a large territory.

Moreover, Jin Gui only drew the west coast of America, and it is not clear how much inland it extends. If we calculate the area, it seems to be larger than the current Ming Empire. It is estimated that 200 million people are not enough, and even if million people are thrown in, it will not make much waves.

"General Zhu's question was very correct. I thought so too at the time. I thought the two Spanish officials were bluffing. So we continued to sail south and intercepted and killed... well, we took military action against two cargo ships flying the Spanish flag along the way. We captured more than a hundred people, including Spanish officials, soldiers, and priests.

But the results of the inquiries are similar. The two governorates do exist, and there is a long list of city names, which I have written down. Unfortunately, I cannot land and measure, so the location is not very accurate. "

Being questioned, Jin Gui was not angry, because he also thought so at that time. But the actual situation was in front of him, and Rong had to admit it. As for the reason, we have to look at the end of the table.

Without even leaving the palace, the emperor knew that there was a Cape of Good Hope tens of thousands of miles away, and that there were indigenous people living in a bay tens of thousands of miles away. He even knew that there were more rainy days than sunny days there, and he must have known the details about the Spaniards.

"Well... I do know a little about the Governor's District. Some of it was told by Xi Daxueshi and his wife, and some of it was told by Western professors."

At this time, Hong Tao did not dare to brag and quickly brought out the reinforcements. But it cannot be considered a fabrication. Some of the information was indeed heard from the Silva couple, and combined with the information he had read in later generations, it was closer to the truth.

(End of this chapter)