There are three types of viceroys in Spain: Viceroy, Captain general, and Governor.

The former has the power of a king in terms of power within his jurisdiction, which is equivalent to that of a vice-king.

In the early days of the discovery of the New World, there were a large number of hereditary governors in Spain, such as Columbus, who was given the hereditary title of vice-king, but now those who have died, those who have been deprived have been dispossessed, and those who have not been deprived have been forced to give up their titles.

Up to now, there are only two real governors left, one is the governor of New Spain and the other is the governor of Peru, and their authority is also greatly limited, and they have become rogue officials.

Viceroy of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, Martin. Enriquez. Morality. Almantha has been very sad lately.

He had been the governor of New Spain for many years, and since 1562 he had been in the position of governor of the country, enjoying the glory and riches, but there was no shortage of slander and rumors from the country.

On the eve of Halloween, Mexico City was in a revelry, and even the enslaved Indians were given a day off, but Governor Almanza could not be happy.

His personal correspondence to the Peruvian Governor was intercepted by the Inquisition, in which he complained to the Peruvian Governor that the officials of the New World were doing too much work and that he was restricted by the Inquisition and the Church.

"Now you're going to have to be more restricted by complaining, you idiots."

Almanza looked out the window at the noisy streets, and boredly poured into a silver wine glass a strong drink from Havana, called rum, which was fermented from the residue of sugar production and originated among the indigenous people of the West Indies.

"What is Your Excellency the Governor worried about?"

A reserved aristocratic young man stepped forward, wearing a long-sleeved black velvet jacket of fine texture, a cuirass that reflected the candlelight and covered his upper arms, and two thin swords, one long and one short, hanging from his waist, with a proud smile on his face at all times.

Almanza, with his glass, turned his head, recognizing it as Bernal, the legion commander of his precinct.

As the seventh son of a duke in the Iberian Peninsula, he was born noble, participated in the Huguenot War in France and made meritorious achievements, led the Third Army of New Spain to fight in Peru as a shining general, and was transferred north to the New Spanish garrison in northern Mexico after quelling the local rebellious Indians.

At this time, the commander of the regiment wore yellow satin around his arm, which was incompatible with the bright armor of his black clothes, which according to the Spanish aesthetic should have carried red satin on his sleeves or shoulders.

Governor Almanza did not answer the question of the Legion Commander Bernal, the young and excellent imp knew what he was worried about, he just shrugged his shoulders, raised his chin to the wine cabinet in front of the window, and said, "Have a drink with me?" ”

Bernal walked with a reserved smile on his face, and he cautiously rolled the yellow silk hanging from his left arm a few times, and then took the wine glass and poured a little, just sniffed it and frowned: "I still like wine, this kind of wine made by the Indians is like ...... You know. ”

Given that Governor Almanza was slowly swallowing his glass, Bernal didn't say anything like diabetic urine.

"Not only do you not like the wine, you don't like the cotton armor of Havana, you don't like all the things about the Indians." Almantha raised his eyebrows and said, "You won't know that the monks of Acosta organized a meeting of monks, the monks said that Indians are also people. ”

Bernal lost interest in drinking, put down his glass and sneered insincerely: "Yes, yes, those idiots also say that the Indians have the same power as the nobles of the peninsula, and all beings are equal, as if they are the only ones in the world who have a sense of justice. ”

As he spoke, Bernal raised his hand to the north and said, "In Peru, my men killed tens of thousands of Incas, and the Indians in the north were more powerful, but my men from California to the Red River could kill three hundred Indians who tried to attack us in one day." ”

"Don't my dead soldiers have a sense of justice?"

"If the Indians have the same power as us, why is it that His Majesty the King does not allow New Spain to make its own weapons and armor, or even to make silk in any handicrafts, and my soldiers have to knock on their own crossbow arrows, and good soldiers are forced to become craftsmen by the laws of idiots."

"Hehe, all beings are equal."

All beings are equal, and Governor Almanza chewed on the word repeatedly, and he felt more about the word, but it had nothing to do with the Indians.

He had to coordinate Spain, the Church, the Inquisition, the Tax Collector and the Army, and any conflict between them would eventually be fed back to him, and for him this was the greatest equality of all beings.

"I hope that we can really make peace with the Indians, everyone lives here, the army does not need dead people, it is safe to dig silver mines, transport sugar, corn, and it is better to fight with the French and not fight with Elizabeth, otherwise we will have a third bankruptcy."

The war with the French was so uncomfortable that Almanza occupied the western part of North America, and as early as the time of the first governor of New Spain, he received orders from the king to investigate the cultural, economic, and military affairs of the Aztecs as soon as possible.

For this reason they wrote a report thirty years earlier, sent to the king by sea, when the Spanish capital was Toledo, only to be intercepted by the French at sea and more recently to the British.

That is, both Henry III and Elizabeth had the whole thing about Mexico, but their king Philip did not.

"I'm afraid Your Excellency the Governor is going to be disappointed, and there are many things that are about to happen that will cause your Excellency."

Bernal glanced playfully at the panicked Governor, slowly unfolded the yellow satin wrapped around his left arm, and spread the large rectangular cloth on the Governor's table.

"It has been investigated, this military flag seized in northern Mexico near Santa Cruz comes from the Ming Kingdom, the fabric is of high quality, and the two words on it are 'Huang' and 'Ming', which is not something that ordinary armies can have."

"Huang refers to their emperor, Ming is the title of the Chinese Empire."

Although Governor Almanza had seen the flag and had some guesses about its origin, his face was still very ugly when he heard the accurate information.

"It's hard to imagine that this is from the Indians, but you don't mean that the average army can have, so what do you mean by the average army?"

"I don't know." Bernal shook his head decisively, spread his hands and said: "The monk only told me that this flag is very noble, even the entourage who went to Nanjing to sign the treaty has never seen it, most of the military flags of the Ming army are painted with animals, or a word of the name of the main general, or just a clear word, they have too many kinds of military flags, and none of us have ever seen this kind of flag." ”

"But I guess the general meaning of this flag is that the general army of the Ming Empire, for example, a ruffian like Chen Mu, does not deserve to have?"

Bernal said a joke, saw the governor glaring at him, and waved his hand and said: "I will not despise him, no one dares to despise him, the whole world knows that he defeated and annihilated 20,000 troops of New Spain, I prefer that the Ming Empire sent other generals to the Americas, even if they know how to fight better." ”

This made Almansa slightly surprised, put down his wine glass and looked at the street lights, and asked, "What do you say?" ”

"We are allies! And they still have money, of course I hope that the Ming Empire will send generals who are more proficient in fighting, as long as they don't have as much appetite as Chen Mu, I heard that the people of the empire believe in courtesy, righteousness, shame and chivalry, which is a good thing for us. ”

Almansa pondered for a moment, raised his head and drank the wine in his cup, nodded and said: "You are right, in the south of the New World, we can divide the land equally with Portugal, and in the north of the New World, of course, we can also share the land with the Ming Empire, and open up to the east with them, driving out the French barbarians and English peasants in the east - but what if it is Chen Mu who comes?" ”

Bernal took a deep breath and finally took a sip of the rum he didn't like.

"Dances with wolves."