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Chapter 259 Hegemony

Last year, Alva led his army to the New World, giving him a shot of a heart-warming shot on New Spain's precarious rule. At this time, he led the fleet back, which had a great impact on New Spain.

If anyone can stand in the future and look at the present, reinforcements from local Spain have rewritten the history of the New World.

There is no need to stand in the future. Chen Mu, who is standing in the Eastern Military Palace, has three official documents to explain everything.

A report on the people's sent by Yang Tingxiang from Mexico City four days after Alva left.

The main content of the report is that Alva's departure triggered the return of the New Spanish nobles, not that they gave up their privileges, and they still own plantations, land and more than 90% of the wealth of New Spain.

This trend has shown signs since Yang Tingxiang took office as the governor of New Spain last year. On the eve of Alva's departure, more than 60% of the nobles chose to leave the plantation and hand it over to relatives, housekeepers, confidants and entourages. Some of them left New Spain one after another by boat and returned to the old continent.

The other part, there are very few of them, they moved into Mexico City and showed goodwill to Yang Tingxiang.

The second official document was a letter sent by Chen Ju last month from Guidao, which recorded in detail the information obtained by Guidao's establishment of a commercial station in Lima City, Peru.

The situation in Mexico City also happened in Lima. There were not many Spaniards in Peru, most of whom were mixed-race second- or even third-generation Spanish. Some time ago, several tribes raised their troops to resist the Spanish rule, and the war was not over until Chen Ju sent a letter.

The third part was that Shao Tingda sent someone to send news from Chile a month and a half ago. He got along well with the brave and war-hardened indigenous people in southern Chile who did not surrender to the Spanish. He wrote a letter to inform the news, and to ask him for the indigenous people to ask for instructions.

For Chen Mu, it is more interesting to read these two letters together.

The reason why Shao Tingda needed manpower in Chile was to dig out the desert saltpeter and bird droppings along the coast, which required a large amount of manpower. Although Chile, which was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, was not a large number of people, it was difficult to find someone willing to do such a hard work.

The seabird stool piled up on the cliffs of Chile's coastal reefs for thousands of years is the most important specialty of Shao Tingda discovered in this land besides saltpeter, it is fertilizer.

Agricultural technology in the Ming Dynasty was further ahead of ancient times. The great landlords in Jiangnan even used compound fertilizers made of minerals, grains, plants, liquids and animal fertilizers to increase production in the fields.

Bird guano is also a fertilizer, but it is difficult to collect it normally, but such things do not exist on the Chilean coast. For thousands of years, seabird settlements have brought a thick layer of white on the coast. And the dazzling saltpeter colors in the saltpeter mines made Shao Tingda feel that Chile is the god-given place of the Ming Dynasty.

It is much more useful than gold and silver, provided that they do not lack gold and silver.

Chile's saltpeter is similar to domestic northern salt. In addition to saltpeter, there are also Glauber's salt that can be cooked with millet and can be used directly in medicine. It is called "Bright Salt" and "Yuhua Salt", and gypsum used in medicine.

Similar to the saltpeter produced in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, Shao Tingda sent someone back a letter that was quite disappointed. The saltpeter here can be processed and made directly into gunpowder. There is no need to spend the early years of Chen Mu using wood ash produced in the ancient Chinese chemicals to produce potassium nitrate in the nitride cave, which made him feel that he had nowhere to carry forward his skills.

A letter from Shan Shao Tingda will make Chen Mu happy; a letter from Shan Chen Ju will make Chen Mu feel a little regretful.

Morally, he should intervene in Peru's affairs, help the weak and prevent local people from being killed and injured, but from the perspective of actual conditions, this flash-distance idea is difficult to implement.

But when Chen Ju and Shao Tingda read the letters together, the problem was found. He had to express his concern to the Governor of Peru and said that Chile could accept the indigenous people in moderation.

As for the first letter from Yang Tingxiang, Chen Mu only means one thing in his eyes: Alva's departure led to the risk aversion in the hearts of the nobles of the Western countries, which marked that Spain gave up all hegemony in the New World.

"One of the others gave up, what are we waiting for?"

The military staff summarized the situation in New Spain and Peru within two days, transmitted Fu Yuan on the border, and ordered him to rectify his subordinates, select elite officers and warriors, and prepare to enter Mexico City.

At the same time, he sent a letter to Yang Tingxiang, asking him to find a way... Chen Mu was still preparing here, and another letter from Yang Tingxiang had arrived.

Blessings come to the soul.

Yang Tingxiang's second letter was written a bit fake, saying that Alva led his army to leave Mexico City, causing the New Spain to be anxious, and the people were worried about the landing of pirates on the East Coast. New Spain had only two legions reorganized when Alva stationed troops, and the defenders were insufficient. The West Indian Committee hoped to ask the Ming army to send troops to assist in defense.

Too fake.

Chen Mu felt that if he wanted the monks of the West India Committee to say this, Yang Ting would fight each other. No, Yang Ting would convince them for a long time.

Chen Mu replied: No, no, no, this is not good. Alva has just left, and I promised others that Barra Barra... Do you think the West India Committee strongly requested it? Then they have to go out for official documents and decrees, sheepskins, and they are framed with glass and wooden frames.

And it should be written like this: The Ming and the West govern New Spain jointly garrisoned by the Ming Dynasty and Spain. The Spanish-European Indian Affairs Commission requested the Ming Empire's Eastern Military Office to establish the position of General Officer of the New Spain, and appointed the commander of the Western Legion, XX as the deputy general of New Spain, and led the garrisons of the two countries to organize defense.

New Spain, it’s really a year before Wang Xiaoer’s New Year is worse than that.

In the beginning of the Armansa era, the Ming Dynasty appeared three thousand miles away and was expelled by the Legion Commander Bernard because the boss was not in charge of the battle. By the time of Bernard era, I would beat you even if I could not beat you hundreds of miles away.

Then Alva came. Although she didn't want to fight, she could not defeat Chen Mu's improper arguments, but she could still argue with reason.

When Alva left, the West Indian Affairs Committee, which was so fierce and cowardly, no longer knew whether it was a Spanish or a Ming Dynasty person.

The development of the situation has long exceeded their control. They can rely on Philip's order to make things difficult for Armansa, but can they make things difficult for Yang Tingxiang?

Not to mention that they can't, even Philip can't punish Yang Tingxiang.

The monks of the committee who realized this reality also left 20%.

General Fu on the border line was cheering with joy holding a thick stack of commissions from the Eastern Military Palace. As he served as the general of New Spain, four thousand households on the border were promoted to commander, twelve hundred households were promoted to thousand households, twenty-four general flags were promoted to hundred households, forty-eight small flags were promoted to general flags, and more flag troops were promoted to small flags.

Overnight, Fu Yuan became the largest general officer in the Dongyang Army's Flag Army.

The four guards under the command of the New Spanish general directly incorporated the two Spanish legions trained by Alva into the guard sequence.
Chapter completed!
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