open sea

Chapter 947 Refuge
Several new Spanish nobles sat anxiously in the side hall of the Changsheng Dongyang Military Mansion. In order to receive them, Zou Yuanbiao specially used public money to buy several yards next to Bacon's residence from the aborigines who built them. The usable area of ​​the Siyi Linguan was expanded.

According to Zou Zhixian, these Spanish nobles are too frightened.

They came from Mexico City. Relying on the fact that they had exchanged a large number of Tongbao with gold coins and silver coins in Wangjiabao in the past trade, and they were familiar with the officials in charge of currency exchange and the garrison officers, they informed Chang Sheng after taking refuge in Wangjiabao for a short time. To be precise, they Fleeing from Mexico City.

Why escape?
Because the pirates landed.

This reason is too ridiculous no matter in the eyes of Chen Mu or Zou Yuanbiao.

The six guys who have transformed from the old Iberian nobles to the new New World nobles all have vast land and plantations on the east side of the border. The land under their own names is even larger than the land of Chang Sheng immigrated to a village. The slaves of the aborigines in the plantations can form a small tribe when they are released.

What's more, they still have armed forces. Just the hired guards they transported their families and goods together formed a small army with two hundred members and a strong force.

Just such a group of people, more than 500 family members, servants, and guards, just because a pirate fleet landed on the east coast [-] miles away from Mexico City, rolled up gold and silver and ran away!

In addition, according to the timing of the news from Wangjiabao, the military government yamen, they probably fled to the border line and hid in Wangjiabao in no particular order as soon as the pirates landed.

It's weird, funny, and baffling.

What a strong capital Mexico City is. Although it has no city walls, the whole city is in the middle of the Great Lake, and there are only two long bridges connected to the land. Natural dangers can make it impenetrable.

There are only two ways to get in and out. Either attack from the long bridge, no matter how many troops there are, they will not be able to deploy there; or they can only successfully attack the city by controlling the lake.

Even the Aztecs, who had no iron or firearms, first killed the king and established a new king after the king surrendered to the Spaniards, and played the "Sad Night" of the Spaniards, and then all the villages outside the city fell to the Spaniards after losing foreign aid. Wangcheng was heavily surrounded, led by the new king to block the western army on the lake for 93 days.

Right now, New Spain has two Spanish mixed-blood legions stationed in the army, more than a thousand Ming troops, and eight hundred javelin servants trained by Yang Tingxiang.

What kind of pirate can hit Mexico City?

If it wasn't for the fact that it was clear afterwards that the Han pirates landed, Chen Mu and Zou Yuanbiao's earlier plan was to put the six new aristocrats under house arrest, suspecting that the pirates belonged to them, and planned to attack Changsheng with internal and external cooperation.

Of course, they couldn't capture Chang Sheng with the Great Wall of flesh and blood, even if each of the six new nobles took out a tractor from their pockets.

However, these new aristocrats were quite at ease, and they still had no complaints when their family members, servants, and guards were placed separately, but it made them wait a long time before they were summoned by Chen Mu, which made them feel a little uneasy.

The crisis of the pirate landing is obviously not enough for them to escape to Changsheng, not to mention that they can escape anywhere, so why escape to Changsheng?

Chen Mu has only one understanding of their behavior—to vote for a certificate.

The governance system that the Spaniards used in the New World in the past has long since failed. Now it is Yang Tingxiang who can decide everything, and the person who controls Yang Tingxiang's actions is Changsheng.

There was no other reason for Chen Mu to summon them. All the eight seats in the side hall were filled. Chen Mu in military uniform stepped out from the back hall with firm steps, smiled at everyone in front of the main seat, and said after sitting down slowly. : "Chen knows what you are doing here in Changsheng, not that there is a Han fleet landing, and you are asking for help in Wangjiabao, hoping to enter Changsheng for refuge."

"General Chen, it's not a fleet, it's a pirate fleet!" A new Spanish aristocrat with a thick beard and Arab blood uttered a long sentence to support his conviction, saying: "They are extremely vicious and exterminated. Few of the decent businessmen can go back alive!"

Chen Mu glanced at the two Ming people sitting at the front of the guest seat with a half-smile, then slowly nodded to the new nobleman, and repeated: "A serious businessman? Vicious?"

"That's not enough to let you come here. The garrison in Mexico City can protect you. As far as I know, the fleet that landed was less than a thousand people, and more than 300 people stayed on the coast to guard the ships."

"Just a few hundred people, you have traveled hundreds of miles."

It seems that the guy with Arab blood is the leader of the Spaniards. He shook his head and said, "I can't trust those two mixed-race legions. They were vulnerable in past wars. Only the army of the Ming Empire can protect Mexico City."

He said this as if he was from the Ming Dynasty.

No, how can the real Ming Dynasty people be so fanatical!

The immigrants and soldiers in the New World were forced by life. The real Ming Dynasty people didn't care whether they could protect Mexico City, nor did they think about any weird ideas of protecting this place or that place. Everyone just wanted to make more money. Let the family live a better life.

In the past, as long as the foundation of a monarch is stable, the court will worry about everything, and it is enough for the people to live their lives with peace of mind. The common people don't even need to know the worries of the court.

In the Central Plains, only at the end of the dynasty, when the ruler and father could not bear the internal and external forces, would the people know that the imperial court could no longer protect them, and the power was transferred to the local area and allowed to recruit soldiers to defend themselves. In fact, at this time, the worst was already done. Intend.

I would rather perish the country than perish the world.

The Taishou Zhoumu at the end of the Han Dynasty and the Jiedushi at the end of the Tang Dynasty all had similar ideas. In the end, it doesn’t matter who is separatist or proclaiming the emperor. The final stability of the last dynasty can always experience a mature ruling group. After all, someone can come out .

This weird situation in the New World is inevitable. As for the new land, it doesn’t matter if it is lost or not belonged to the imperial court. Even if it is just immigration control, it will have no impact on the imperial court, and it is better than nothing.

"Only the Ming Empire can protect Mexico City?"

Chen Mu raised the corner of his mouth and said, "You're right, let's get to know you—General Yang Ce of the Han Dynasty, he brought the fleet that landed on the east coast."

"They originally wanted to attack New Spain, but they met the troops of General Fu, the commander-in-chief of New Spain. Only then did they realize that New Spain is a joint area of ​​Ming and Spain, so they came here on their own."

"Now Mexico City is fine, there is no war, you can go back."

Chen Mu's words fooled the six New Spanish nobles. They were dumbfounded. They never expected this kind of result. They looked at Yang Ce who was sitting at the head of the guest seat with trepidation, and finally stuttered and couldn't speak.

Of course they didn't come here to take refuge, let them go now?
"Don't go?" Chen Mu spread his hands and said, "Since you don't want to go, let's talk about it, what can Chen do for you?"

(End of this chapter)