open sea

Chapter 702 The Fool
Chen Mu's letter made the Governor's Palace of New Spain fall into silence.

Captain Te Guangming could only see Governor Almansan's hands trembling slightly, his face turned red and then turned pale, and he stared at the letter before he finished reading it. He fumbled with his left hand on the table for a long time before he thought of giving an order Said: "Map, I want a map!"

The mansion attendant, wearing a black velvet jacket and leggings, quickly found out the map and laid it on the table. Immediately, Almansa gesticulated on the map with his fingers as if in a daze.

The tall wooden door decorated with crosses was pushed open, and Legion Commander Bernal, who was dressed in plate armor with a long sword and muskets, led several legion commanders into the Governor's Mansion, but before he had time to say anything, he saw Arman with a cloudy expression. Sa raised his palm to stop what they were about to say.

The faces of the several legion commanders behind Bernal are significantly different from those of the peninsula nobles like him or Almansa. They are all second-generation Indians whose fathers are of Spanish descent. Become a high-ranking military officer under the Spanish administration.

On this point, Spain has made a smart and bold decision, fully trusting them, and treating them equally except that their status is slightly lower than that of the peninsula nobles.

In the minds of the Spaniards, as long as the father is Spanish, whether pure blood, half, or quarter, no matter how much or how little, he is all Spanish.

Bernal's plate armor had red satin diagonally across it. In fact, Yang Tingxiang's report on the Spaniards was wrong when he said that 'the people of his country are still black'. Little red.

Black without great contrast would be meaningless without red.

For example, the black linen shirt of Bernal's entourage holding documents and a scroll map behind him is meaningless.

Although Bernal and several legion commanders were very anxious, they watched patiently as the governor read a letter very seriously, and even sketched on the map at hand from time to time.

When Bernal looked over, he saw that except for Mexico, the entire west coast, north and south, was marked on the map. He couldn't help whispering to several legion commanders who had a good relationship with him: "Shit-like shipbuilding plan."

When Governor Almansa raised his head, Bernal still kept his handsome and calm appearance, lowered his head slightly and asked humbly, "Your Excellency, is that a letter from His Majesty?"

"His Majesty?"

Almansa pressed the letter with his hand, and when he heard Bernal's question, he asked mockingly, and then he said with a smile: "It's Chen Mu's letter. Do you think it's an order from the king? This is Chen Mu's letter to us. Claimed land!"

Bernal frowned, and the two half-blood legion commanders behind him roared, clamoring to wipe out Chen Mu's arrogance from the New World.

On the contrary, Bernal was not so angry. He was calm and full of reason. He waved his hand behind him and said, "Your Excellency, my Sergeant Major, Chief Superintendent and Chief Chaplain have made expected reports on the war."

In this report, according to the available information, once there is a war with the Ming army, their chances of winning in a small-scale battle are not high, and the opposite is true for a large-scale decisive battle, but the possibility of losing the war due to unexpected situations other than the war Great sex.

Asamansa was not in a hurry to read the report. He didn't think highly of these second-generation mixed-race nobles, and waved his hand: "Everyone, please leave for a while. I have something to discuss with Your Excellency the Legion Commander."

Several mixed-race regiment leaders wanted to say something, but in the end they didn't have the guts to salute the governor and leave. Almansa and Bernal were the only ones left in the meeting room. The governor was not in a hurry to talk about the war. Instead, he asked leisurely, "Gnar, tell me, what do you see in this picture?"

This picture is very scary. The west coast of the New World almost completely belongs to the Ming people, leaving only the [-] league coastline from Guatemala to Mexico, half of which is surrounded by the peninsula.

"Obviously, we would lose all power on the west coast of the New World."

Bernal's words were unexpectedly relaxed, he shrugged and said: "Knowing that the governor will make Chen Mu's letter public, and we can gain at least four legions of troops for us, and the victory or defeat of the war will be reassessed."

In the letter, Chen Mu asked for a land of more than 2000 leagues long and two hundred leagues wide. The territory was larger than all the territories of Spain in the Old World combined. This did not mean land, but thousands of The nobles of the New World, whose lands depended on them, would lose everything.

"What if we can't get any assistance from the Old Continent?" Almansa glanced out the window and said, "In the Old Continent, a new war has begun."

Bernal shook his head and said: "I got the latest news. After succeeding the governor of the Netherlands, Don Juan of Austria finally went to war against the rebels of the Netherlands this year. It was a terrible victory. He led almost all the troops. Annihilated [-] troops in the Netherlands, with only a hundred casualties—he is the greatest general in Spain!"

In Lepanto, Greece, Don Juan, commander of the Holy Alliance Fleet, wiped out 220 Ottoman troops and destroyed [-] captured ships.

Contributed to the Nanjing peace talks in Ming Dynasty.

This time he won such a victory in the Netherlands again, at the age of 31-in Bernal's eyes, Don Juan deserved the title of the greatest general,

But he didn't expect that Almansa took out a letter from the table and handed it to him, shaking his head: "I advise you to take this sentence back, I got the latest news, Don Juan contracted an illness while commanding operations, and died of illness two months ago .”

"His Majesty the King accepts Don Juan's proposal and appoints Alexander Farnese, who grew up with him at court, to succeed him as Governor of the Netherlands."

"The war in the Netherlands is still going on, and in the east, the Portuguese army has already marched towards Africa. Before the war began, Sebastian asked our king for reinforcements. Spain suffered from the Moors, but they were allowed to fight in Spain. Recruit soldiers on the land to support the battle."

Bernal tapped his head. He suspected that Philip, whom he was serving, had gone crazy. "How could His Majesty support Sebastian in conquering Africa in the name of Jesus?"

"Of course I will support it. This is a personal conquest. If Sebastian dies in the war, the king will also be a contender for the Portuguese throne, and he is also the strongest contender."

"So once a war breaks out in the New World, the country may not be able to give us too much support in the past two years. You already know the information about the Ming army commanded by Chen Mu. Tyreusius explained that the army has tens of thousands of troops and thousands of warships. I'm confused."

Almansa frowned tightly, and raised his finger to the letter from Chen Mu on the table.

"But Chen Mu told me in his letter that although he has less than [-] boats and a few thousand people, it is very difficult to replenish food, and he needs a long coastline for them to fish. He plans to use the production here in the future. The fish meat produced by him will be made into fish meat with the unique pickling method in his hometown, and come to exchange silver with us."

"Yes, you heard it right, Chen Mu said that he would use the entire west coast of the New World to fish, and he would catch our fish from our coastline in exchange for our silver—he is treating us like fools .”

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)