When the Ming army began to dig ground in Pingxiang to build roads and transport iron, the Duke of Alva of Mexico City was moving the official road, looking west across the border line with great worries and expectations, waiting for the mobilization of the company to arrive.

The armistice is taken step by step. It has never been said that the armistice can immediately enter a state of truce. Even if the treaty has been signed and the land has been handed over, even if the trade boom has ended, we can only do our best to make the Ming and Western countries become trade-friendly countries on the border.

Only when their army can really emerge from the victory can it show that both sides have established a foundation for mutual trust.

What Alva was afraid of was not that the Ming army attacked this company. No one would be so naive that he ambushed a company that had no threat or valuable goods to be escorted. What really worried him was that any turmoil under the conditions of suspicion between the two sides would put the soon-to-be-turned diplomacy into a deadlock.

A little Mars can rekindle the war on the border.

Although the Duke of Alva had sufficient troops to cope with World War I, and summed up the lessons of Bernard's defeat in the battle with Chen Mu, this huge army composed of veterans of the Netherlands' revolutionary army supplemented ten musket companies and had the strength to fight. They had defeated Prince William of Orange and Louis of Nassau in the Netherlands, but the situation did not allow him to go to war.

The upcoming Portuguese succession war is calling him.

This left Spain's Iron-Blooded Duke useless in New Spain, but instead committed to border peace.

“We are not making a bad progress.”

The old duke's legs and feet were no longer good. His early years of background, his life of being rich and unrestrained made him suffer from gout like the king he served. He always stayed in his mansion with canes for many years, but he still had to show his strength outside Mexico City, so he had to ride on his horse.

Next to him was the former Governor of New Spain, Almansa. After Yang Tingxiang entered Mexico City, the West Indian Council's right to speak in affairs was reduced so quickly that Almansa easily sat back on the position of Governor of New Spain without the help of external forces from Chen Mu. Of course, in the context of the Ming Dynasty garrison in Mexico City, he was just the deputy Governor.

"The seventeen planters on the border have recruited Chinese teachers from the other side, and some merchants can also freely travel through the border and buy goods in the villages there."

Armanza said to the worried old duke: "Although there is still some hostility, as long as our people obey their laws, the people of the Ming Kingdom can accept us."

"Without stupid war, the Ming villages produce dozens of times the goods that are from the indigenous people and several times that of our plantations. As long as we have silver, we can exchange them for all kinds of goods on the border, and the king can get more wealth than before."

"If I had accepted Chen Mu's conditions from the beginning, if it weren't for Bei..."

"Governor General." Duke Alva turned his head immediately: "I know you hate Bell who expels you, but IMHO, his real wrong decision was not to expel you, the governor who negotiated an agreement with the commander of the Ming Dynasty."

"He was just wrong because he was blinded by anger before he was ready, and launched a right war at the wrong time. What does the people of Ming Kingdom accept us? Well? If you refer to acceptance, it is like we accept Indians, yes, the people of Ming Kingdom can accept us."

"It was the Peru war that caused the officers of New Spain to drop too much, and they thought all enemies were as vulnerable as the Indians, and although they lost the war, we learned enough from Acapulco that now each legion has three musket companies to ensure sufficient firepower in combat."

Armansa did not agree with the Duke's words: "But without war, we could still learn this from the Ming army. Thousands of soldiers would not die in the war, and Acapulko still belongs to us. At first, Chen Mu only wanted us to recognize their status in the north."

"When he had only a few thousand soldiers, of course he only wanted the north. The Chinese monarch sent him 100,000 immigrants in the second year. Even if you agreed to his request, 100,000 immigrants flocked to the north. Do you think Chen Mu would not come up with a new treaty for you?"

"It was us who discovered the new world. People who want to give it to others in these decades. You should be grateful to Bernard, who saved you from death."

Duke Alva frowned, his feet began to ached again, and he said, "If there was no war, a large tract of land would be handed over. What do you think the West Indian Council will deal with you?"

"Yesterday, the company captain Garcia sent someone to send a letter saying that Fu Yuan, the commander of the Ming army, was going to invite him. The Ming army was not friendly to them along the way. They tried their best to avoid clashing with the Ming general who caused trouble later. The messy military uniforms made our soldiers feel ashamed."

"After I leave here, can you save His Highness the King's new Spain?"

Alva looked at Almansa without saying anything, and he did not hear Almansa's straightforward answer. Everyone knew that whether New Spain could be saved did not depend on their ideas.

They didn't know what the Ming Dynasty really looked like. The news that was only intermittent and intermittent could make the Spanish gradually full of the image of Ming Dynasty in their minds.

And this image becomes particularly terrifying after comparing them with themselves.

Columbus landed on the New World for the first time and used three boats to go out to sea. There were 87 sailors on the boat and crossed the sea.

The next year, his fleet, approved by the royal family, expanded into seventeen ships, transporting more than 1,500 royal officials, craftsmen and soldiers to the New World and began to explore their careers.

Magui landed on the New World for the first time and used dozens of ships to go to sea. Thousands of soldiers and sailors were on the ship, crossing the sea.

Then Chen Mu came and brought more than 200 boats and nearly 10,000 soldiers. Not only did he land on all parts of the northern west coast, he even fought a battle with Spain in the middle of the New World in just half a year.

It was also the second year that the Chinese monarch issued an immigration edict, and hundreds of ships drove from the distant Ming Dynasty to form the largest fleet in history and transported 100,000 immigrants to the New World.

To be honest, such news sounds powerless.

The Portuguese have been in Brazil for nearly eighty years, and their colonization in Brazil has been underway for more than 40 years, but now there are only 2,000 Portuguese immigrants in Brazil.

If the Aboriginal people of South America thought that the Spaniards were gods in the early years because they could actually ride horses and use muskets, then now most of the Spaniards also believe that the Ming Dynasty was gods... because they would not die of scurvy.

"This result is not bad, Lord Duke." Armanza was not discouraged by the dangers of New Spain. He said: "I will make Ming Kingdom need us. As long as Potosi can still dig silver, as long as the country can transport iron, as long as we can buy Ming people's goods, and they just want to make money, and we can get what we need. This result is not bad."
Chapter completed!