It is undeniable that it was indeed the Spanish who "discovered" this place first. Or they sailed here first.

But they never declared the occupation of this region, and the barren "Upper California" did not attract the attention of the Spanish throughout the 17th century.

Historically, it was not until the 18th century after the Russians occupied Alaska and headed south along the west coast of the American continent that Spain began to speed up the development of the Western Front in order to fight against Russia.

In 1769, the city of San Diego was established.

In 1770, the City of Monterey was established.

In 1776, the city of San Francisco was established.

In 1782, the city of Santa Barbara was established.

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But in the 17th century, the so-called Upper California was simply a land of unlimited land. That is, the Spanish, the Portuguese had sailed to this area. It was barely considered to have the "right to discover".

Of course, Columbus's name was to commemorate the "Columbus' Discovery of the New World". They did not know that the Ming Dynasty, which had been in the 20th year of the sage, had entered a new era.

In the next one or two hundred years, hundreds of Ming scholars will prove that the "Shan Hai Jing" records that the "Shan Hai Jing" has begun to investigate and survey the geographic survey and survey of the earth in ancient times. Its unparalleled contribution lies in the fact that it records the history of the development of earth civilization in ancient times, namely the era of global unification of Fuxi and Shennong Da Jiuzhou to the Shang and Zhou dynasties with China as the main body.

Through the research on the "Shan Hai Jing", scholars of the Ming Dynasty proved that the Chinese ancestors had arrived and discovered the Americas as early as the pre-Qin period.

Look, this is historical legitimacy, and evidence that "belongs to China since ancient times."

Don't you believe it?

It doesn’t matter, as long as the fist is hard enough, as long as the Ming Dynasty is still standing on the top of the world, you must believe it.

Of course, all this is just the beginning now.

In the Americas, the Spaniards were still in absolute advantage. Even for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also wanted the silver here for New Spain.

Of course, the Governor of New Spain also needed the Ming Dynasty, and the products of the Ming Dynasty, such as raw silk, silk fabrics and cotton silk products from the Ming Dynasty, were very popular throughout the Spanish colonies, and this is also the reason why both sides can maintain peace for a long time.

Lieutenant Columbus and many others were very resistant to the fact that the Governor made such "concessions" to the Chinese. Especially in the past decade, the Chinese have continuously established "boundary markers" and used "boundary markers" to represent occupation, which has aroused the dissatisfaction of many people in Mexico City.

Now, the reason why Lieutenant Columbus came to Yong'an was to negotiate and resolve the "boundary issue". Before leaving, the Governor even specifically reminded him to try his best to avoid conflicts to avoid affecting the friendship between the two countries. Of course, he also had to declare to the Chinese that the interests of New Spain cannot be violated, and the Chinese must stop their actions to set up "boundary markers".

Columbus has always sneered at the style of the governor who wants to be a bitch and pretend to be a lady. However, the governor is the deputy king and the governor of New Spain. As an officer, he must obey his orders.

However, Columbia is still very confident about this negotiation. After all, confidence comes from strength.

He believed that the power of New Spain was something the Ming Dynasty dared not underestimate. Now, when he was about to enter Yong'an City, he immediately acted like a master, waved his hand and ordered loudly:

"Everyone sets off."

There were 120 soldiers, including seventy indigenous people, more than forty native whites, and a few Spanish like him. This army did look decent. But it could only scare the natives. After all, Yong'an City has a towering and solid wall, which is a castle-style castle. There are often black artillery on the walls to prevent invading enemies.

However, when Columbus and others approached, there was no warning sound on the top of the city, because the guards of Yong'an City had known their purpose long ago.

This is the Spanish who came to negotiate.

Faced with such a situation, Li Dekang, who was mentally prepared, chuckled.

"They're for the demonstration."

He turned around and winked at the officer behind him.

"Let Sun Zizhuang and the others sail!"

The official who understood the gods immediately got off the city gate and walked towards the port.

At the same time, officials were already greeting outside the city. Fernando stepped forward with a charming smile on his face and started chatting with the other party in stiff Chinese.

"This is the envoy of the Governor of New Spain, Lieutenant Columbus Bamond"

At the same time, he turned his head and reported to Columbus:

"Master, he is an official of the Yong'an City Guardian, Zhao Kunchuan."

"Welcome to your arrival."

Zhao Kunchuan said with a smile.

"Please go into the city with me!"

"What about my entourage?"

Columbus asked.

"They can be stationed outside the city, and we have a specialist in charge of resettling them, please rest assured by the Lieutenant,"

"Okay. Let them stay outside the city."

Of course, Columbus knew that the other party would not let so many soldiers into the city. He deliberately brought so many soldiers here to remind them that New Spain has strong military strength and the Chinese are definitely not their opponents.

Are there more than one hundred and twenty soldiers?

In this era, there were indeed many more than 100 soldiers in America, especially New Spain, who could send so many soldiers out for this "idle". This is simple and luxurious, a bit wasteful.

You know, there are only 80 soldiers in the entire Yong'an City, and even 20 are stationed on the "border". What should I do if I defend the city?

Of course, it is the people who rely on armed forces, that is, militias. In fact, in the history of North American colonial history, whether it is the Spanish, Portuguese or British, the French followed a principle, which is to try their best to arm the most white people and allow them to go to the battlefield to fight at any time.

The Ming Dynasty's colonization in the South China Sea was also based on the same principle. In fact, the Ming Dynasty's colonization activities in the South China Sea were not calm and without any disputes. The relationship between the Ming Dynasty immigrants and natives has always been tense: immigrants often attack natives, and natives often attacked immigrants.

In order to survive, the Ming Dynasty immigrants in the South China Sea could only live in fortresses, and even in some places, they reached the point where everyone lived on the battlefield. They were soldiers, even women and children. They were like the Zhou emperor who enfeoffed the princes in all directions, and the princes and relatives guarded the city. If they wanted to leave the city, they had to defend themselves with weapons and repel the local people around them. Because of this, as early as when Hekou City was established, they specially formulated regulations that every adult man must have a musket, a bullet bag, a knife or sword, two kilograms of gunpowder and ten kilograms of bullets.

The same is true in Yuzhang County. Even because the "Red Hair Sing" here is more barbaric, they don't know how to respect the Celestial Empire at all. "Red Hair Sing" often attacks immigrants, so, like all colonies, it also relies on militia formed by immigrants to resist the invasion of "Red Hair Sing". Of course, if the Spanish attacked, they would be the main resistance force.

When Lieutenant Columbus entered the city, the Spanish soldiers were placed in an open space near the port, close to the market. As soon as they settled, they went to the market in groups. Soon, whether it was the Spanish or the native white people, they were attracted by the various Ming commodities on the market.

From porcelain to cotton, even the most common handicrafts are enough to make them like it for a while. They don’t take out silver dollars to buy all kinds of things, they want to buy all their money into cotton, silk and porcelain. There is no way, the things here are more than half cheaper than Mexico City.

This is where no middlemen make a difference!

The Ming commodities in Mexico City are a market monopolized by the Governor's Office and the Great Merchants, and of course the price is very expensive.

Of course, there are also monopoly merchants here, such as the horses brought by Alfonso. Because there are too many horses, only one or two big merchants can eat them. So when he got here, he sold all the horses in less than an hour.

"Back to me all these jewelry."

After selling the horse, Alfonso came to the jewelry store to buy jewelry for his wife and daughter. Compared to Mexico City, the jewelry here is more sperm. It seems that Chinese people are born skilled craftsmen, and even Moorish craftsmen in North Africa cannot be compared with the Chinese, let alone jewelry from China.

After buying things, Alfonso, who walked out of the jewelry store, noticed that there was a ship on the port that seemed to be about to set sail, and there seemed to be some soldiers on the ship.

Where are they going?

Alfonso asked.

"Where is that ship going?"

“Go to the south.”

The shopkeeper of the jewelry store raised his voice and replied.

"It is said that I want to go to the south to place the boundary marker."

Then, the shopkeeper in the jewelry store said proudly.

"That boundary mark, as long as we press the Ming Dynasty, that place is the land of our Ming Dynasty. No matter who came first in the past, as long as they did not place boundary marks there, it is a borderless land. Since it is a borderless land, it must belong to us."

The shopkeeper of the jewelry store did not notice that his words made Alfonso's face look extremely ugly.

As one of the few people in Mexico City who can speak in Chinese skillfully, he can certainly understand what the jewelry store owner said. He can also feel the pride in the other party's tone.

Perhaps these Chinese were very proud, but for Alfonso, even if he was a native white man, even if his mother was an indigenous Indian. But he was an officer of New Spain after all, and he had always been proud of Spain. What made him most proud? It was Spanish explorers who discovered this new continent and let the barbarians here bathe in the grace of God.

But now, the words of the jewelry store owner reached his ears. It was like hearing a "thief" showing off in front of his master how he stole other people's property.

Those lands belong to Spain. They were all given to the Spanish by God. These Chinese people are hateful "thieves" and hateful "thieves". They are stealing the land belonging to Spain with despicable means.

"These damn Chinese!"

Alfonso said to himself indignantly.

But because he spoke Spanish, the shopkeeper of the jewelry store wouldn't understand at all, otherwise he would definitely not have spared him.

As an officer, even a low-level officer, Alfonso would not be like those stupid natives who did not know how to control his emotions.

After taking a few deep breaths, Alfonso even came to the port and came to the fast sailboat. When he walked over, the dock workers were carrying supplies on the ship.

He looked at it specifically and found that among the materials, many of them were Chinese canned food. For any navigator, Chinese canned food is the most perfect food in the world.

The shelf life is up to three years!

Even if it is stored for 4 to 5 years, there is no problem. This means that even without any supplies, explorers can sail on the sea for several years.

Even on land, canned food is of very wide use. Even on the way here, they carried a lot of canned food.

But canned food is really not cheap.

However, the cans written on this ship are at least dozens of tons. Why do they carry so many cans?

How long do they have to stay at sea?

How many months?

Or one or two years?

When he was directing workers to ship supplies to Yunshan, he asked with a smile when he saw a Spanish soldier.

"Hey, are you coming from Mexico City?"
To be continued...