open sea

Chapter 942 Hegemony
Last year, Alva led his army to land on the New World, giving a shot in the arm to the precarious rule of New Spain. At this time, he led the fleet to return, and the impact on New Spain was not insignificant.

If someone can stand in the future and look at the present, this time the reinforcements from Spain have rewritten the history of the New World.

You don't even need to stand in the future, Chen Mu, who is standing in the Dongyang Military Mansion, has three official documents that can explain everything.

A report on the general situation of the Viceroyalty of New Spain sent by Yang Tingxiang from Mexico City four days after Alva left.

The main content of the report is that Alva's departure triggered a wave of return of the New Spanish nobles, not that they gave up their privileges here. They still hold plantations, land and more than [-]% of New Spain's wealth.

This trend started when Yang Tingxiang took office as Governor of New Spain last year, and reached its peak on the eve of Alva's departure. A total of more than [-]% of the nobles chose to leave the plantation and hand it over to relatives, housekeepers, cronies, and followers. Leaving New Spain one after another to return to the Old World by ship.

The other part, this part is very small, they live in Mexico City and show their affection to Yang Tingxiang.

The second official document is a letter sent by Chen Ju from Turtle Island last month, which records in detail the information that Turtle Island has established a business station in Lima, Peru.

The situation in Mexico City also happened in Lima. There are not many Spaniards in Peru. The war was not over at the time of writing.

The third is that Shao Tingda sent someone to send news from Chile a month and a half ago. He got along well with those natives who did not submit to the Spaniards in the south of Chile. He wrote the letter first to report the news, and second to ask him for instructions. Prepare to ask for indigenous people from the Viceroyalty of Peru.

For Chen Mu, reading these two letters together is more interesting.

The reason why Shao Tingda needs manpower in Chile is to dig saltpeter in the desert and guano on the coast. This is a job that requires a lot of manpower. Although the population of Chile under the control of Ming Dynasty is not large, it is difficult to find people willing to do such hard work. people.

The guano that has accumulated on the cliffs of Chile's coastal reefs for thousands of years is the most important specialty of this land besides saltpetre, Shao Tinda discovered, which is fertilizer.

The agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty went further than that of ancient times. The big landlords in the south of the Yangtze River even used compound fertilizers made of minerals, grains, plants, liquid and animal fertilizers to increase the yield of their fields.

Guano is also a fertilizer, but it is usually difficult to collect, but there is no such thing on the coast of Chile. The settlement of seabirds for thousands of years has given the coastal rocks a thick layer of white; and the harsh saltpeter color of the saltpeter mines , so that Shao Tingda felt that Chile was the heaven-sent land of Daming.

Much more useful than gold and silver, provided they have no shortage of gold and silver.

Chile's saltpeter is similar to that of northern saltpeter in China. In addition to saltpeter, the accompanying organisms include mirabilite which can be cooked with millet to make fur or directly used in medicine, rock salt called "bright salt" and "yuhua salt", and Gypsum for medicine.

It is similar to the saltpeter produced in the northwest of Ming Dynasty. The letter sent back by Shao Tingda was quite disappointing. The saltpeter here can be processed and directly made into gunpowder, instead of spending his early years in the saltpeter cave to make it with plant ash from ancient Chinese chemistry. Potassium nitrate made him feel that he had nowhere to display his abilities.

A letter from Shao Tingda alone will make Chen Mu overjoyed; a letter from Chen Ju alone will make Chen Mu feel a little regretful.

Morally, he should intervene in Peruvian affairs, weed out the strong and help the weak to avoid the brutal killing of natives, but from the perspective of practical conditions, this fleeting idea is difficult to implement.

But when Chen Ju and Shao Tingda's letters were read together, the problem was solved. He had to express his concerns to the Governor of Peru, and said that Chile could accept a proper amount of indigenous people.

As for the first letter from Yang Tingxiang, in Chen Mu's eyes, it only meant one thing: Alva's departure aroused the risk aversion sentiment in the hearts of the nobles of the Western Kingdom, which marked that Spain gave up all hegemony in the New World.

"Others have given up, what are we waiting for?"

The staff of the military government summarized the situation in New Spain and Peru in two days, sent Fu Yuan on the border, and ordered him to rectify his subordinates, select elite officers and soldiers, and prepare to march into Mexico City.

At the same time, send a letter to Yang Tingxiang, asking him to find a way... Chen Mu is still preparing here, and another letter from Yang Tingxiang has already arrived.

Blessed to the soul.

Yang Tingxiang's second letter was a bit false, saying that Alva led the army to leave Mexico City, which made people's hearts fluctuate in New Spain, and the people were worried about the pirates landing on the east coast. Insufficient strength, the West India Committee hopes to ask the Ming army to send troops to help defend.

Too fake.

Chen Mu felt that Yang Tingxiang would have to beat the monks of the West India Committee to say what he said, no, Yang Tingxiang would have to persuade them for a long time.

Chen Mu wrote back: No, no, this is not good, Alva just left, I promised him, blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.Then they have to send out official documents and decrees, in sheepskin, framed in glass and wooden frames.

And it should be written like this: Ming and Spain co-governed New Spain, and Ming and Spain jointly garrisoned troops. The Spanish West India Affairs Committee asked the Ming Empire’s Oriental Army to set up the post of New Spain’s Chief Military Officer, and canonized the head of the Western Army as the New Spain’s Vice President. Soldiers, lead the garrisons of the two countries to organize the defense.

New Spain, it really is that Wang Xiaoer's new year is not as good as every year.

In the beginning of the Almansa era, when Da Ming appeared three thousand miles away, he was expelled by the legion chief Bernal because the old governor did not take the lead in the battle; in the Bernal era, I would fight if I couldn’t fight hundreds of miles away. you.

Then Alva came. Although he didn't want to fight and couldn't match Chen Mu's strong words, he could argue with reason anyway.

When Alva left, the West India Affairs Committee, which was stern and indifferent, no longer knew whether he was a Spaniard or a member of the Ming Dynasty.

The development of the situation has already jumped out of their control authority. They can add obstacles to Almansa by relying on Philip's royal order, but can they add obstacles to Yang Tingxiang?

Not to mention they couldn't, even Philip couldn't sanction Yang Tingxiang.

The committee monks who recognized this reality also went [-]%.

Fu Zongbing on the border was holding a thick stack of letters of appointment from the Eastern Army and weeping with joy. As he served as the commander-in-chief of New Spain, four thousand households on the border were promoted to command envoys, and twelve hundred households were promoted to thousand households. , 24 general banners were promoted to hundreds of households, 48 ​​small banners were promoted to general banners, and more banner troops were promoted to small banner officers.

Overnight, Fu Yuan became the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Army Banner Army with the largest establishment.

The four guards under the commander-in-chief of New Spain directly incorporated the two Spanish legions reorganized and trained by Alva into the guard sequence.

He Fu Yuan is a gambler, and he lived up to Die Niang's expectations of him!
　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)