open sea

Chapter 804
The county government hall could almost hear a needle drop, and everyone was thinking about Acosta's words, until Chief Baitao, who was playing with the ox bone buttons on his clothes with his head down, accidentally dropped a bone on the ground, which broke the silence.

"Co-government?"

Even Chen Mu didn't react, so he frowned and asked, "How to govern together?"

Acosta has a well-thought-out plan: "Remove border defenses, jointly garrison troops, share defense, share trade, and collect taxes together."

As he spoke, the knight entourage following Acosta stepped forward holding the cylinder containing the map, and the map of the New World hung down in the entourage's hand. Acosta drew a line with his finger in the north of Mexico City, and then south of Panama, including The place in Potosi draws a circle.

"To the west of this line, the Ming Kingdom does not have to share it with Great Spain; the land south of Panama is used as the new Governor-General of Peru, and Great Spain does not share it with the Great Ming Kingdom."

Needless to say, Acosta learned things very quickly, not only referring to Ming as the Ming Dynasty according to the habits of Ming people, but also calling his own country Great Spain.

"Except for these two regions, all the land in the New World is jointly ruled by the Ming Kingdom and Great Spain. Mexico City is the New World Palace, and all affairs are discussed here by the commanders of the two countries; the Panama Isthmus is the new trade center of the New World. "

"In terms of trade, the two countries have signed a trade agreement at the best price. Daming needs silver, and Great Spain needs goods. Although we have the Potosí silver mine, we can guarantee that the silver mine produces more than half of the silver each year to be used to supply Daming. trading."

"Da Ming also needs to monopolize 30.00% of the total trade goods to the Spanish royal family."

Acosta looked up at Chen Mu's expression, but didn't notice any displeasure on his face, he let out a long sigh of relief, and said, "We support each other militarily, and jointly protect the interests of the two countries in the New World."

After Acosta finished speaking, he waited for a long time, but Chen Mu didn't speak and the other leaders naturally didn't speak, which made him feel very uneasy. When he raised his head, he found that Chen Mu was looking at him with piercing eyes, as if he was waiting for something.

After a long time, Chen Mu asked, "It's gone?"

"Not for the time being, what do you think about this?"

Chen Mu stared at the map with very focused eyes, and asked in a slow and serious tone: "This agreement seems to be only between Xiguo and Daming, so... what about my land?"

Eh?
Not to mention Acosta, even the leaders like Bai Tao couldn't help but look sideways at him. What was going on in this man's mind?
Fortunately, Acosta immediately recalled the big desert that Chen Mu requested earlier, and said, "Since the agreement is mainly for the joint governance of the two countries, the one you want..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Mu suddenly got up and walked to the knight holding the map, raised his hand and pointed to Brazil, "Then give me this land."

"Your Excellency, that is the land of Portugal." Acosta pointed to the great desert in Chile kindly, and said, "This is what you want."

"Oh, that's right." Chen Mu looked at Brazil helplessly, and murmured, "Portugal, that's Portugal's land...the desert, mine?"

To be honest, Chen Mu still hasn't recovered from the fact that Philip wants the New World to be governed by two countries. He didn't expect Philip to make such a decision. It's very, very powerful.

"Well, Duke Alva has no objection to this matter, but in order to avoid war, there is one more thing that needs to be explained, which is religion."

"On the land of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in the northwest of Mexico, our missionaries will not preach there, and your Excellency will not interfere with our missionary work in Peru. As for the land under common governance, we advocate freedom of religion. I hope that you can understand Make a commitment on paper."

Acosta looked at Chen Mu and said, "Don't interfere with our priests spreading the light."

Chen Mu didn't have any special thoughts on this, he was more inclined to land, and simply drew another line in the north, saying: "This area has been taken over by Ming Dynasty, there is no reason to put it in the co-government area, but the east side can be co-governed. "

Chen Mu's line made the three leaders look at each other. They were very sure that none of the tribes in their alliance had been to that place, and they were even more convinced that the Ming army could not go there.

When they saw each other's confused expression, the belated leaders turned their eyes to the Marshal of the Ming Army who said the words with certainty.

Chen Mu's line covers almost the entire northern part of the New World, leaving only a narrow area on the east coast as a common governance zone.

Acosta was not intimidated by Chen Mu, he just glanced at the map, as if he saw Chen Mu's little trick, said with cupped hands: "Your Excellency, we know very well that there is no Ming army, and the east coast has been harassed by French pirates. "

As he said that, the monk smiled and said, "If Your Excellency is willing to send troops to eliminate pirates from France, England and other countries along the coast except Great Spain and Ming Dynasty, we are very happy to hand over the north to Ming Dynasty, as long as the east coast is governed together."

It was an emergency measure that Philip ordered Spain to take by letting the Ming army dispatch limited troops to places outside Spain.

If it was possible, Philip would not even be willing to garrison the entire New World, as long as the Potosi silver mine belonged to him.

If this happened Philip would jump for joy and his gouty foot would be cured.

New Spain has more than [-] regular legions and mixed-blood legions, and the material resources consumed to feed these more than [-] troops can support another [-]. If he can transfer the [-] troops back to the old continent, he will recruit another [-], [-] Joining the army can easily settle the Netherlands.

Stabilizing the Netherlands can make Spain's overall strategy a step forward, even more significant than Luzon before Nanyangwei went to sea.

The Netherlands not only represents nearly half of Spain's wealth, but also a support point and a wedge for Spain in Northern Europe.

Neither Philip nor Alva wished to imagine that Chen Mu's Ming army would help them participate in any wars about Europe. They just wanted to keep the Ming army busy and target anyone, as long as it wasn't Spain.

Philip didn't care that much about the New World itself. He even wished that the conquerors would not rob him of sources of income.

"The New World and the Old World, Spain will share information with Ming Dynasty."

Chen Mu knew what the Spaniards were planning, so he just chuckled and said, "To show my sincerity, I don't need to share information about the Spanish mainland. I won't go there to fight, but it's different at sea. I will take care of them, you little ones."

"Don't be happy, I haven't finished my words yet."

Chen Mu couldn't forget to point his finger at Brazil again: "The Ming army cleared the east coast of North Asia within three years, and the Western army cleared the east coast of West Asia within three years. Only our two countries in the New World are enough."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)