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Chapter 939 Integrity
Acosta winked as he sat next to him, what is wrong with you talking to him, you said he was of noble birth.

It's all right to say that he was born noble, but you still praise him for his integrity?
There is no way, who made San Ali know the most about the Ming army is the monk Acosta, he is very clear that the officials of the Ming Dynasty are different from the nobles in Europe, and Chen Mu's background is very low in the Ming Dynasty, almost a commoner.

Of course, the understanding of Chen Mu in the New World, except for the owner of second-hand resources like Acosta, is mostly hearsay from five or six-hand sources, and there are various versions of Chen Mu's background.

Some people say that he was born as a knight on the southern border of the Ming Empire. This kind of saying is often spread from the Portuguese in Macau. The Spanish population in Manila says that he was born as a general. According to European accounts, he was a new merchant nobleman of the Ming Empire.

Not allowed anyway.

After a short period of contact, Europeans couldn't even figure out the complex bureaucratic system of Ming Dynasty, let alone distinguish between civil servants and military officials, and even the actual status of Chen Mu, a civil official who performed military affairs.

However, Chen Mu's reaction was beyond monk Acosta's expectation. He slightly raised his eyes and raised his mouth, sat upright with some self-confidence, smacked his lips and said, "The duke is right, Chen's promise must be valid. But to attack New Spain and Peru... I don't mean that I intend to attack, but I just can't think of why I want to attack the land of the allies? Not to mention that most of them are the lands jointly governed by our two countries."

Sai Lugong thinks that the old Duke from Spain has great eyesight!

Although our Chen Xiaoqi's background is nothing in Daming, but don't the people of the Celestial Dynasty want Bill to wait for this group to despise Haiyi so high that he doesn't know where he is?
As for being upright, it goes without saying, take a closer look at Mr. Chen's face, is it written with the word integrity?

The last little literati who dared to make up nonsense in the "Guide to Preventing Gunshots" that Chen was dishonest, look where he is now!

The sea is so cold!
Zhao Shizhen: Did I say you are dishonest?I mean you have a thick skin!
What Chen Mu said stunned Duke Alva. He felt that Chen Mu was too cunning, so he gagged him with polite words... Your banner army is so powerful, you don't want to take all the silver mines and gold mountains into your hands ?
To put it bluntly, I am saving others by myself.

The Ming army competition is a fancy shooting competition for others, but for the person who strongly advocated the addition of the regiment musket company in the Netherlands Legion in the early years, and was the first person in Europe who advocated the integration of flintlock guns into the combat sequence, He thought it was the Lord who lent him his eyes so that he could see the future.

Spain used to have the most powerful military force in Europe, so they conquered the world by force. Even the saying on the silver coins of the Western Kingdom that there is heaven and earth overseas is also a manifestation of the Spaniards' ambition to conquer the world.

But now, no matter in combat or competition, the Ming army has proved that they have unparalleled strength. The appearance of more than [-] muskets in the competition alone is enough to scare people.

In the Spanish army this number of muskets was used to arm fifty thousand troops.

Would they not want to conquer the world?
Chen Mu could see from Alva's expression that he didn't believe it, which made him feel powerless, and he didn't bother to defend it. How could he defend it?In the current concept of trade or conquest, Spain and Ming are not at the same level at all.

Just as the Spaniards used to force the Indians to dig mines and never felt that the mines belonged to the Indians, now that the Spaniards forced the Indians to mine the mines, Chen Mu never felt that the mines belonged to the Spaniards.

To put it bluntly, Spain has always been in a bad position in the past European trade and the current Mingxi trade. Chen Mu has long believed that the entire New World belongs to Ming Dynasty.

But he can't say it, it's not good to say it.

He could only find an excuse very sincerely, saying: "The mission my emperor entrusted to me was not to conquer the New World."

To conquer all continents.

"It is to make the people richer. Although Ming Dynasty is very large, there are also many people. There are many rich people and many poor people. The advantages of our two countries can complement each other. The duke has read my letter to the king. Believe it?"

It was a bit embarrassing to say that, the old duke nodded and said, "I've seen it."

"Just like what the letter said about cotton, wool, fur, copper and iron, what Spain has, Daming needs, and what you need, Daming can also produce. What is the most important thing?"

Chen Mu raised his left hand and squeezed it fiercely in the air: "We are allies for offense and defense. Perhaps your Excellency and His Royal Highness the King who is far away in Madrid will think that it is an alliance under the city. You don't understand this, it means that the war is over. Treaty, but Ming needs Spain."

"You have a powerful sea fleet in the East China Sea, which can guarantee the safe sailing of Ming merchants to Seville. When the European countries try to attack New Spain and the West Indies, Spanish soldiers can also properly protect this land. The good thing for Spain is that Daming can sell you whatever you need."

"Spain has silver, and Ming needs silver; Ming has goods, and Spain needs goods; porcelain, silk? Guns, cannons? Ming is not Spain's enemy, we don't lack land, and we don't border Iberia. England and France also have The traitorous Netherlands, that is the enemy."

Chen Mu curled his lips and said, "You have been trading with the enemy. What can they provide to Spain? Franc cannons that can't penetrate the hull, ugly, simple and various clothes and useless stockings."

Chen Mu deliberately showed a look of contempt and pride. Human aesthetics can be shaped and can be controlled by humans. It would be embarrassing for the Duke of Alva to sit here today after his army was defeated. He could not use chopsticks; , even if he doesn't know how to use chopsticks, he doesn't consider himself embarrassed.

People with a strong heart can be strong without desires, and those with low self-esteem will take other people's rules for granted.

But in fact, Chen Mu said a lot, but he didn't really get to the point. It was his pride that made Duke Alva put his heart back in his stomach.

He defined Chen Mu's character in his heart. This is a very proud person, so the old duke can almost be sure of one thing: if he really wanted to fight, he would have done so long ago.

"When will the Duke lead his army back east?"

Chen Mu asked this relatively abrupt question, which made Alva hesitate for a while, but the old prince still answered truthfully: "What's the matter on the third day of next month?"

"Please trouble the Duke to go back and hand over my letter to His Highness the King, and convey Chen's greetings from Daming on my behalf. Don't forget the trade I mentioned."

Chen Mu cupped his hands with a smile, and said, "Chen can't send the Duke off in person, and let Daming's fleet in the East China Sea send you off!"

(End of this chapter)