The Great East Ocean of the Ming Empire, the east coast of Asia, Makino County, and the military port of Long Island.

Chen Mu raised his eyes and looked at the blue sea.

Seven months ago, the Oriental Military Government issued an order to the two counties of Jincheng and Changsheng on the west coast to requisition and dispatch the Beiyang Phase III and Phase IV Flag Army, which had been stationed on the west coast, to the east coast.

The Gulf of Mexico was renamed the Great West Port, which was governed by the Great Spanish Region of the Ming Empire under the jurisdiction of Yang Tingxiang, and was garrisoned by the Second Army of the Western Mexican Army, which was an extension of the power of the Ming Dynasty Mexico City to the east coast, nominally limited to the treaty and Chen Mu's evil idea of pinning his hopes on letting the Spaniards supervise the mining and continue to do the Ming Dynasty's Asian treasure reserves, the Ming Army was not actually stationed in the Great West Port, and the daily patrols were also fully entrusted to the Second Army of the Spanish Viceroyalty, but the Ming Army was still the most powerful force in the Great West Port.

Because the Europa Affairs Division of the Commerce Bureau of the Oriental Military Government was established in Daxi Port, this department had only 12 imperial court officials who were transferred from junior military attachés to civilian positions from the 7th to the 9th ranks, and had four commercial affairs departments under the jurisdiction of the main countries, a tax card, and two control companies, with a total of 60 upper and lower officials, 24 of whom were Changsheng immigrants, and 24 of whom were Asian natives, but they had the greatest power on the sea.

Without their nods, not to mention that the Spanish galleons that wanted to send silver to Madrid would not be able to leave the Gulf of Mexico, even the merchant ships of Havana, Jamaica, and the Bahamas would have to rest on the shore honestly.

Power is never just power, everything depends on it.

The first and most important killer weapon of the Bureau of Commerce was Miami, the southernmost tip of the Florida Peninsula in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, and Tulum, the border of the Spanish Viceroyalty in the southeastern part of the Gulf of Mexico.

The other is the two companies they controlled, one is the Dragon and Tiger Shipyard operated by the Yuegang Shao Clan, and the other is the Oriental Regiment Training Ground operated by the Qingyuan Bai Clan.

The two companies are both public-owned, and the official documents show that the seventh share has become the treasury of the Ming Dynasty signed by Chen Ju of the supervising army, and the third has become the treasury of the Oriental Military Government, and the financial profits are divided by the Oriental Military Government and half of the total amount is transferred to the operator to maintain daily operation.

Dragon Tiger Shipyard occupies the finest deep-water beaches, and is authorized to build all small and medium-sized warships from the Little Shark to the 1,500 Chihai class; The training ground of the Oriental Regiment recruits instructors and sergeants from retired Beiyang officers, flag soldiers and immigrants, gives training and selects them to the merchant ships of various companies to carry out escort missions.

The southernmost tip of the Florida Peninsula, with the aboriginal transliteration of Miami, the Chinese name Sweet Water Wei set up Sweet Water Port, the Mowan Left Guard commanded Hei Xiao to lead the Beiyang Flag Army 1,000 households to garrison, there is a responsibility to hold the soil, recruit native soldiers to drill and garrison, after the Cherokee Department was moved to the north by the Black Cloud Dragon, the largest tribe left in the local area is the Creek Department, mainly fishing and hunting, supplemented by agriculture.

Tulum in the southern Gulf of Mexico, known as Turum by the Ming army, is similar, but more well-equipped and well-guarded than Sweetwater Port in Florida.

Leading the army in Tulumu was Shao Tingda's adopted son, Shao Bianjiao, the commander of the right guard of Mowan, and stationed in the only coastal fortress in the Gulf of Mexico that can be called a unique blessing.

The three major seaports in the Gulf of Mexico, the sweet water port of Mowan Zuowei has the worst environment, although the sea water is clear, but it is close to barren land for the Ming army, all the fortifications need to be done by themselves, since the head of Heiyunlong was stationed five months ago at the beginning of Wanli eight years ago Hei Xiao led the army to settle in, where there has never been a decent fortification, Hei Xiao's soldiers became the mobile city wall of the Ming army there, and the fortifications of the Mowan Left Guard also originated from the barracks and wooden bases.

To this day, despite the mobilization of the local people, the left guard of Mowan is still a wooden village and a scene of grass creation.

The environment of the Great West Port in the east of Mexico City is slightly better than that of the Sweet Water Port, and the good earth rammed road leads directly to Mexico City for 700 miles, and the 37 post stations and beacon piers set up by Governor Yang Tingxiang along the way can make the coastal police transmit to Mexico City within an hour, and the official documents are sent to the regimental training ground camp in one hour and arrive at the Mexican Governor's Palace at 12 o'clock.

There are also watchtowers abandoned by the Spaniards in the past due to problems such as dampness and lack of manpower, but because the garrison is the Second Army of the Spanish Viceroyalty, the disadvantages are that the orders are uneven and the morale of the army is weak...... After the Ming army surrounded the Viceroyalty of Peru in the north and south and actually controlled the Viceroyalty of New Spain, it was difficult for the Spaniards who remained here to regard the New World as their own affairs.

This is not the case with Turumu, located at the southern tip of the Gulf of Mexico, where the Mayans were formerly inhabited, and although their tribe and culture were destroyed by the invasion of the Westerners and the people were enslaved, they still left the Ming army with a strong small stone city that could be used as a garrison.

Due to the rule of the Spaniards, the aborigines here had a higher number of recruits than elsewhere, which was beneficial to the Ming army.

The circumference of the city of Tulumu is more than 700 steps, the wall is one zhang five feet high, one zhang eight feet thick, the east wall stands near the coastal cliff, there are city towers, watchtowers at each corner, there are nearly 100 stone buildings in the city, there are many abandoned temples, the tallest building in the city is a huge temple like a pyramid in the form of a ladder, which was once regarded as the source of strength by the Maya.

Now it is really a source of strength - at the beginning of the Shao Bianjiao garrison, he reported to the Oriental Military Government for approval of 12 giant Zhenshuo-style fortress guns with a caliber of 5 inches and 3 points, a net cannon body weighing 4,200 catties, and a bullet weighing 32 catties.

Chang Sheng cast six, so far only two have been transported by land, the losses caused by the exhausted Spanish donkeys have exceeded the cost of casting large artillery, and the remaining four cannons are still floating at sea, calculating that the day should be stuck in the camp left by Zhao Shizhen on Tierra del Fuego Island to prepare for winter.

This year, everyone in Asia was very busy, Chen Mu was especially busy, all the places where the Oriental military government set up guards and county administrations, he went through them all, and the urging department to garrison the flag army and the officials to educate the people was actually secondary.

The main responsibility is to inspect the learning results of the students of the Ming Empire Asian Guozijian - Guozijian is just a joke, because the learning inside is all clans, which is named after the country, and the earliest of them to open the Department of Architecture graduated early due to the needs of the empire, and entered every place to help the local military and civilians build a Ming city.

Yang Zhaolong's tenure as the magistrate of Makino Changdao was the last stop of his long journey, which also meant that the entire coast of North Asia had been brought under the actual control of the Ming Dynasty.