What Armansa said is completely different from what Armansa did.

After vaguely conveying a message to Legion Commander Bernard, a similar message to 'Chen Mu teasing them and looking down on them', he walked through the Weapons Square in Mexico City.

Mexico City was once the capital of the Aztecs. The city had at most 300,000 residents. This Weapons Square was the largest temple for the locals.

To the north of the square is the cathedral under construction. The church started to be built five years ago and was repaired that year, but it was expanded again and is still being expanded today. No one knows when the church will be completed.

No one knows how majestic this church will be after completion.

In any case, Governor Almanza walked into the church. Not long after, fellow monk Jose Acosta walked out of the church, turned from the wide and dusty road in Mexico into the dark and cramped alley, and finally disappeared on the street.

In the unknown attic, a candle was lit, and it was obviously a warehouse, with cotton cloth dyed in various colors piled up everywhere.

Among those bright and dusty cotton cloths, New Spain Governor Almanza sneezes, and he said intermittently to monk Jose: "Chen Mu of the Ming army wants to declare war on us on the grounds that the soldiers of the Bernard Legion attacked the people of the Chinese monarch in the north."

"In his letter to me, it was not important to obtain all the coastlines on the west coast outside Mexico, but there was a lot of metal in the south, and he seemed to know the importance of the Potosi silver mine to us, and there was no choice there."

"It's hard for us to win in war, and even if we win, it will only bring about new decline."

"The nobles of the New World said, 'I obey, but I don't execute' to fight the royal family. We have too many new nobles. They have wasted too much income. The New World, which could have brought huge incomes to Spain, has become a poor place now in debt except for the royal family's needs."

"In order to fight them, the king prohibits the New World from intercepting silver mines. The more they do not implement the royal orders, the more the royal family will restrict them. They have destroyed the Dutch army and one day they will destroy Spain."

"People say that His Majesty the King is keen on war, but he is not. When the kingdom is handed over to His Majesty, he is already running between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, the Netherlands to the north, and the Mediterranean to the east, and of course the West India."

"To maintain the existence of the kingdom, we must be entangled with the Netherlands, Arabs, English and even Italians, and perhaps we must add Chinese now."

"Chen Mu said that in order to obtain land on the West Coast, he could take two million Dukat silver from Potosi every year, mint one million Dukat silver coins for us, and provide two hundred thousand Dukat iron cast cannons, muskets, gunpowder with good performance."

"This is very beneficial. Enough artillery, muskets, gunpowder can allow the kingdom to gain an advantage in the battle of the Netherlands. If the Netherlands is stabilized, the war will not burn to the Spanish mainland."

"I would like to ask you to visit Chen Mu at the Ming army in the northern harbor to negotiate with him instead. At the same time, each legion will prepare for war. Regardless of whether the negotiation is successful or not, a war will break out in the New World."

Monk Jose Acosta listened quietly to the Governor's words until then he looked up and asked, "What are your plans?"

"He wants land in the north, two thousand miles north of Mexico, and land in the south of Panama can also be given to him; but the areas close to the Caribbean cannot be given to him, and the Ming people cannot get access to the Caribbean Sea - their country is huge and there are countless goods, and we must be the only person in Europe who can trade with them."

"One of the conditions for reaching this contract is that all the minerals in these lands cannot be given to him. Since he wants to fish, he should fish well. Moreover, this is good for us. We do not have to maintain a huge military expenditure to obtain the metals, and at the same time, we can also let the light of God shine on the Ming people. This is our opportunity to understand them."

"In the past they have not allowed us to enter their country, and now these lands are given to them, we must have the power to live there, and they need to fight against our enemies as they have been signed in the peace treaty."

Monk Acosta said, “We will lose a lot.”

"But we will get more. As long as the Caribbean can still provide sugar, cotton and tobacco, as long as the New World can still provide gold, silver, and copper, as long as the Ming army can bring us artillery and gunpowder, and even some new nobles who are greedy and do not obey orders, what is it?"

"I heard that there is a saying in China that a hero cuts his arm. When a man's arm is bitten by a poisonous snake, only a warrior who dares to cut off his arm can survive. During the negotiations of your Excellency to go to the Northern Military Station of the Ming Army, I will enter the Ming Army camp and wait for all this to end."

Jose Acosta kept nodding slowly during his previous listening. The huge number of aristocratic classes has always been the biggest disadvantage of Spain, because in their tradition, some of the nobles owned land, but more nobles were not linked to the land, and supporting them required a large amount of financial resources.

Because of the distance, the royal power could not eradicate the power that the nobles could not control in the New World. Explorers who were humble in the past became new nobles. The killings they brought here at first won them titles and wealth. However, with the stability of the colony, the tyranny of the new nobles had become an obstacle to spreading their faith.

The clever monk heard the meaning of the Governor Armansa's words and said, "Your Excellency should be clear that if the negotiation fails, it will inevitably go to war with the Ming army. The Ming army is not European countries, and it is better to fight with us for eight hundred years. They will not capture you to demand ransom."

"If the negotiation fails, you will die."

"The negotiation will not fail, and the monk will guarantee that the negotiation will not fail."

Armansa said with certainty, as if Acosta could control the results of the negotiations, saying, "Chen Mu didn't care about gold and silver, nor did he care about strengthening our strength. It seemed that he only cared about the land. I guess it was to show his merits in front of his emperor."

"It would be profitable for him to make any extra piece of land, and he would not easily let the negotiations break down."

"I entered the Ming army camp not to force you, but to save your life. When the negotiations were reached and the Ming army entered these lands, the Governor of Peru and the new nobles in northern New Spain would definitely fight against the Ming army. As long as I was alive, they would be rebels."

"His Majesty the King will not blame me. The only requirement of the royal family on the New World is to provide military spending and artillery with fixed amounts of silver coins, and negotiate, all of which can be resolved."
Chapter completed!