There is a word in the letter Chen Mu sent to the emperor that is very interesting and actually controlled.

What does actual control mean? That is to say, this land is not his.

When Luo Shangzhi, the general of the Ming army who was stationed invincible, led a team of imperial guards, two Beiyang infantry and cavalry, and three Wuxiang Guards, and the Thousand Household Departments of the Thousand Household Departments of the Thousand Household Departments of the Thousand Household Departments of the Wuxiang Guards, led their troops across the border, the two Spanish commanders stationed in New Spain remained silent, and the committee monks on the West Indies almost completely cleared the harsh words they could say in their lives.

The key to Luo Shangzhi, who said all the good things, could not stop his mind from moving eastward, is that Luo Shangzhi could not understand Spanish at all, or he did not want to understand at all.

The monks tried to communicate in Chinese, but the result was not good. They could understand what some Guangdong soldiers said, but this did not mean that they could understand what General Luo Shangzhi said, because this general was from Shaoxing.

Seeing that the Ming army was about to advance to the bastion that Alva had built on the border, it seemed that a battle was used to ensure that the Ming army could not invade had been arrowed on the string, and a more difficult problem arose.

The Spanish soldiers stationed in two of the bastions retreated from the bastion one step ahead of them. Two companies entered the abandoned plantation opposite Wangjiazhai to rest. Another company went to Zhangjiabow. The company commander was shameless and asked the soldiers to sit on the border and took a few of their confidants to Zhangjiabow for dinner.

Two legions stationed near Mexico City were even more unreliable. One of the legions commanders, Jesus, suffered a lot in the early Mingxi War and left the troops to Havana as soon as possible. He wanted to persuade the West Indian Council to avoid the war.

The other legion commander was not as direct as Hessus. He hired a hundred houses as Ming instructor from Yang Tingxiang and led his troops to train and march towards Florida in the north, and the monks could not catch up with him even riding horses.

In the huge New Spain, there was only a bastion on the border, facing the army alone, Luo Shangzhi and more than 6,000 subordinates led by him.

Don't worry about it, at least there is such a bastion that can comfort the hearts of the monks of the committee.

Soon, they found out that they were wrong.

When Luo Shangzhi's troops crossed the border marker and the company captain who was defending the bastion gave orders, 330 subordinates dispersed back to the barracks, put on brand new yellow bird gunner uniforms, carried the Habsburg flag and opened the gate of the fortress, and left the city to welcome General Luo Shangzhi's inspection.

Left behind the bastion, six monks who came from the West Indian Council looked at each other, messy in the suffocating hot wind.

Then someone called them down from the bastion, and a burly warrior in black armor appeared in the neat army. He walked towards them with a horse whip with a big stance, and the momentum seemed to be planning to kill the others in front of the army.

The terrible scene did not happen. Several panicked monks were wrapped in the Ming army's ranks and walked towards Mexico City. Then they met Chen Mu during the rest of the queue.

Chen Mu, who was wearing a helmet and armor, was covered in sweat by the tropical climate, and patted the monk on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Don't panic, I just want to go to Mexico City to take a look. This is not a war, they are just my guards."

"You also know that the young Spanish people are so angry that they even dare to assassinate Governor Almanza. How can I be assured to inform New Spain that I am coming? If I encounter any accidents on this road, it is the beginning of the war."

After saying that, before several monks could report, Chen Mu had already patted the monk's shoulders from behind and pushed him forward: "Let's go quickly, the march is still long, I'm going to get on the horse."

"General Chen, if it's just like that, why would you command two Spanish legions and let them betray us?"

As soon as the outspoken monk said something, he saw Chen Mu, who was about to turn his head and leave, looking back at him with emotionless eyes, and then laughed: "What betrayal? I just let them stay away from me. It will be good for everyone on this land to stay away from me."

Chen Mu sighed as he spoke, raised his hand to point at the monk, and said, "Don't talk more, I really don't want to tell you the truth."

Chen Mu really didn't want to say that sometimes the truth was quite hurtful, but the monks' curiosity-seeking expressions and misunderstandings of the whole incident forced him to say: "The orders they received were from the Governor General of New Spain. The orders from the Governor General of New Spain were issued to the soldiers of New Spain. The soldiers carried out the soldiers successfully. How could this be called betrayal?"

"If I need to make it clearer, since the Duke of Alva left the New World last year, you have owed nearly 7,900 soldiers of the two legions' twenty-six companies to eleven months of military pay, 67,000 and a half taels, and the taxes of the entire New Spain are not enough to support them."

In fact, New Spain's tax revenue is enough, but... Isn't half of this the Ming Dynasty?

"There is no way. The Governor's Office borrowed money from me and paid twenty-six companies arrears of military pay last month. Your people don't want to fight me, because they will die if they win or lose the war. If they can block me on the border and not die, they will have a harder life without military pay."

Of course, Chen Mu's words were just saying nice things. In fact, he did not transport any one and a half taels of silver coins to New Spain. He just gave Yang Tingxiang 24 million Asian Tongbao printed two years ago.

Yes, it is the batch of banknotes that Zhu Xiaoen used to brush GDP.

This kind of banknote that is easy to distinguish the source also has strong credit in New Spain. Almost all merchants agree that banknotes are not afraid of banknotes being useless, because every year, Ming merchants on the border only accept this to trade valuable goods.

Even if they can't spend other places, they can still exchange this for silk and porcelain.

The result is that everyone got used to Asian Tongbao at an extremely fast speed, and Asian Tongbao really became Asian Tongbao.

This is exactly the actual control mentioned by Chen Mu in his letter to the emperor. Although New Spain belonged to the Ming and Spanish co-governance in the treaty, Spain had no advantage in population proportion, and the military and economic situation were controlled by the Eastern Military Office. So can this land still belong to Spain?

Just like the two Western legions, they used to enjoy the service of owing wages from the first day of their enlistment, and even made them feel that owing wages was a normal thing, and it was not normal to receive military wages every month.

But once this situation is changed, they can receive a sufficient amount of military pay every month, and the source of this military pay is the Eastern Military Mansion of the Ming Empire. So are they the Western Army or the Ming Army?

In fact, the development of the Eastern Military Palace is not only that. Zhao Shizhen's return from the East Coast has enhanced Chen Mu's understanding of Brazil. The Portuguese and Spaniards on the vast coastline have not reached 5,000 yuan. Can they manage so much land?

How pitiful.

Therefore, whether it is Zhao Shizhen who is passing by or Shao Tingda who receives the news, they all plan to help them.

Zhao Shizhen had already left two hundred households there, and more of Shao Tingda's subordinates were boarding from Panama under the leadership of Shao Bianjiao and sailing from sea to Brazil. No army could cross the Amazon in this era.
Chapter completed!