King Philip, who was far away in Madrid, could never have imagined that the trade between the Ming and the West, which he had in mind, would take such a form on the border of the Ming and West in the New World.

His citizens actually sold grain in the New World, and the richest country in the whole of Europe, the Spaniards, actually sold grain in the New World, and they were led by the powerful Duke Alva.

It's so embarrassing.

But it does benefit them.

It was not Alva who was the first to sell grain, but the plantation owners of the western border countries who were moved as soon as the news broke.

The land of the New World is constantly changing with each passing day due to policies.

On the west side of the border, with the orders of the Oriental Military Government, each village gathered the local scattered local people, and formed a set of self-government system centered on the village captain, as a continuation of the local system of the Ming Dynasty.

Except for the 240 villages on the border, where the village lieutenant is also a small flag officer, the village lieutenant of the inland villages is a flag soldier, and each village carries out orders from the military government, and they have lower autonomy than the native villages, but they also have the habit of using clan conventions as the most basic unit.

Since the natural resources and population resources of each village are different, this requires the Beiyang officers to allocate resources in the areas under their control, and the villages with more aboriginal people should tilt human resources to the villages lacking native tribes, and the same allocation and coordination of mineral resources and food resources are also available.

Accompanied by fast horses running on the official road, in accordance with the orders of the Oriental Military Government, each village successively set up a post station called Silidao, used manpower to build a four-mile long dirt road on the edge of the village, and set up a Chinese literature hall and a medical center with different abilities in each village, and worked out the obligations that immigrants need to shoulder.

Taxation and forced labor.

For example, in the case of donkey carts and carts, each village drove four miles to the next village, and at first this conscription was carried out only in two villages on either side of the official road, and later, after the roads were first established in various places, all the villages were to perform this conscription, and twenty men were assigned to undertake this mission, and in return, the rest of the village was to plow the land for them while they performed the conscription.

Some villages were the first to use the system of mercenary servitude, employing immigrants or wandering aborigines who could not farm the land with a fixed amount of commission or grain, which was divided equally among the whole village.

Other villages, because they were too difficult to walk on the high slopes, asked the military government for reroute, and one or more villages offered commissions to the one or more villages that could transport them.

In this way, the easy roads were naturally selected and eventually became the four main roads that were transported from the west coast of Mexico to the eastern border.

This can reduce the pressure on the military government to transport goods to the border, of course, not all goods need to be transported by forced labor, some merchants close to the county government will choose to hire a donkey cart in the county government to buy donkey carts to transport it themselves.

Under the instruction of Chen Mu, the Dongyang Military Government opened the first sewing factory in Changsheng County, employing more than 60 female workers to engage in weaving work, mainly weaving cotton bags of certain specifications with the cotton cloth transported by ship, and a cotton rope can be used to tie the cotton bag with exquisite workmanship, and the words "grain bag half stone" are printed with ink on the finished cloth bag.

These women workers all had experience sewing cotton nails for the Spaniards in the past, and now sewing cotton bags from cotton cloth is a breeze.

White cotton cloth is ready-made in China, all that is needed is cutting and sewing, and it can produce two or three hundred bags a day, and the most skilled female workers can even make seven a day, fast and good.

Bundles of white cotton bags were then transported to the border by officials from the Toyo Military Office and Commerce—sold to the Spaniards.

It's funny, no one in the whole New World is under the same pressure as the plantation owners on the east side of the border, who don't think that the Ming Dynasty people on the other side are ordinary people.

From time to time, the arrows they hunted would even fly into their plantations, and a man with a big thorn would run into the plantation with a bow in his hand, looking for their feathered arrows with a fearless and friendly smile.

The plantation owner, who was in front of the slaves, had no choice but to mobilize the slave laborers to search for them and return the arrows...... Not every Spaniard is so talkative, but the border is really not safe.

Every plantation owner can swear that they are not afraid of the watchtowers of Ming immigrants who stand on the top of the hills or on the flat ground, and they are not afraid of the watchtowers carrying muskets or moving the kind of immigrants who can shoot hundreds of flying stones into their plantations and squat cannons and wrap their headscarves.

They are far more afraid than this horror.

Among the urban legends of the New Spanish frontier, nothing more striking is that of an invincible baron who scares off his plantation with a whip in search of a lost turkey, and later triumphantly proclaims his great deeds at banquets.

If it weren't for the nobles attending the banquet who found out that his plantation had a dozen more well-armed mercenaries, people would really think that he was not afraid.

A week passed peacefully, and just when the news spread on the border line, making everyone think that the people of the Ming Dynasty were not as terrible as Chen Mu, someone sneaked into the heavily guarded village at night.

That night, the baron, his family, and the mercenaries who had been hired for a lot of money had somehow slept more than usual, and when they woke up with a splitting headache and no movement.

The infiltrator did not kill anyone, but all the seven hundred and twenty slaves on his plantation disappeared, along with the weapons and armor of the fourteen mercenaries, the grain in the storehouse, all the livestock on the plantation, including more than sixty turkeys, nine horses, twelve donkeys, and the property and jewelry of the baron and the baroness and the baroness worth two thousand seven hundred silver coins.

The Baroness, who should have slept in the bed, woke up in the empty stable, and the Baron himself was still asleep, but there was a turkey with his head chopped off next to his pillow, and a portrait of his ancestor who had been knighted in the war three hundred years ago was painted with chicken droppings on the wall.

It is said that the baron, who had many diseases of the lower body when he woke up, was so frightened that he wetted his bed, while the plantation owner next to him found that his plantation had twenty-seven more female slave laborers with Spanish diseases and nothing to do in the same morning.

It is said that the people who infiltrated the manor were some people in green cloaks, who came and whistled away, took everything with them, asked who had an affair with the plantation owner far from the manor, and then sent them to a place not far from another plantation to leave food, and the others were nowhere to be found.

No one felt more fear than the plantation owners on the border, and the fear put them all at risk, and almost all of them had heard of the green cloaks in the dense forests near them.

At this time, they heard that the border between Ming and Western China was open to the trade of grain, satin and porcelain, and white cloth bags were also sold?

They had only one answer.

Grain? Sell! White cloth bag? Buy!

What should I do if I don't need it after I buy it? Put.

Hang at the gate of the plantation to ward off evil spirits!