There is a very interesting word in the letter sent by Chen Mu to the emperor, actual control.

What does it mean to actually control? That is, the land is not his.

When Luo Shangzhi, the general of the Ming army, who often won the garrison, led a royal guard infantry team, two Beiyang infantry Qianhu Division, and three Wuxiang Guard Infantry Qianhu Divisions led their troops across the border line, the two Spanish army commanders stationed in New Spain remained silent, and the committee monks in the West Indies almost put away all the cruel words they could put in their lives.

After all the good things are said, he can't stop Luo Shangzhi, who is thinking eastward, the key is that Luo Shangzhi can't understand Spanish at all, or he doesn't want to understand it at all.

The monks tried to communicate in Chinese, but it was not easy for them to understand some of the Cantonese soldiers, but this did not mean that they could understand the words of General Luo Shangzhi, who was from Shaoxing.

Seeing that the Ming army was about to advance to the fortress that Alva had built on the border, it seemed that a battle was used to ensure that the Ming army could not invade had to be launched, and a more difficult problem arose.

The Spanish soldiers stationed in two of the forts withdrew from the forts before they did, two companies went to the abandoned plantation opposite Wangjiazhai to rest, and the other company went to Zhangjiapu, the captain of this company was rather stinky and shameless, let the soldiers sit on the border line, and brought a few cronies into Zhangjiabao for dinner.

The two legions stationed near Mexico City could not be counted on, and one of the corps, Jesus, had suffered in the early years of the Mingxi War, leaving his troops behind and going to Havana as soon as possible, where he wanted to persuade the West Indies Council to avoid war.

The other legion commander was not as direct as Jesus, and invited a hundred households from Yang Tingxiang to be a Ming instructor, and led the troops to the direction of northern Florida to train and march, and the monks could not catch up on horseback.

In the huge New Spain, there was only a fortress on the border left, and Luo Shangzhi and his more than 6,000 subordinates were left alone to face the pressure of the army.

Leave it all to chance, at least there is a fortress that can comfort the hearts of the monks of the Council.

Soon, they found out that they were wrong.

When Luo Shangzhi's troops crossed the border monument and the company commander who was holding the fortress gave an order, 330 of his subordinates scattered back to the barracks, put on brand-new yellow bird uniforms, carried the Habsburg banner to open the gate of the fortress, and went out of the city to meet General Luo Shangzhi's review.

The six monks who had arrived from the West Indies Council on the bastion looked at each other, messy in the suffocating heat.

Then they were called down from the fortress, and a burly warrior in black armor appeared in the neat army, striding towards them with a whip, and it looked as if he was going to suck several of them to death in front of the army.

The terrible scene did not happen, and several panicked monks were caught in the ranks of the Ming army and walked towards Mexico City, where they met Chen Mu during the rest of the queue.

Chen Mu, who was wearing a helmet and armor, was covered in sweat by the tropical climate, and patted the shoulder of the leading monk with a smile and said, "Don't panic, it's just that I want to go to Mexico City to have a look, this is not a war, they are just my guards." ”

"You also know that the young men of Spain are so angry that they even dare to assassinate the governor of Almanza, how can I rest assured that I am coming to New Spain? If I had any accidents on this path, that would be the beginning of the war. ”

After that, without waiting for a few monks to reflect, Chen Mu had already patted the shoulders of the leading monk from behind and pushed him forward: "Let's go, the march is still very long, I'm going to get on the horse." ”

"General Chen, if that's all there is to it, why would you command two Spanish legions and let them betray us?"

As soon as the outspoken monk finished speaking, he saw Chen Mu, who was about to turn his head and leave, looking back at him with emotionless eyes, and then smiled: "What kind of betrayal, I just let them stay away from me, it is good for everyone in this land to stay away from me." ”

Chen Mu sighed as he spoke, raised his hand to point at the monk, and said, "Don't talk any more, I really don't want to tell you the truth." ”

Chen Mu really didn't want to say it, sometimes the truth was quite hurtful, but the expressions of several monks full of curiosity and the mentality of misunderstanding the whole incident made him have to say: "The order they received came from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the order of the Viceroyalty of New Spain was issued to the soldiers of New Spain, and the soldiers were successfully executed, how can this be called betrayal?" ”

"If I need to make it clearer, since the Duke of Alva left the New World last year, you have owed eleven months' salaries to nearly seven thousand nine hundred soldiers of the twenty-six companies of the two legions, sixty-seven thousand and a half taels, and the taxes of the whole of New Spain are not enough to feed them."

In fact, the taxes in New Spain are sufficient, but ...... Isn't it half of the Ming Dynasty?

"There is no way, the Governor Yamen borrowed money from me, and last month I paid the arrears of 26 companies. Your people don't want to fight me, because they will die if they win or lose the war, and if they can keep me on the other side of the border and don't die, they will have a harder time without their salaries. ”

Of course, Chen Mu just said something nice, in fact, he didn't ship any silver coins and a half taels to New Spain, he just gave Yang Tingxiang 24 million Asian Tongbao printed the year before.

That's right, it's the batch of banknotes that went to Zhu Xiaoen to brush GDP.

This kind of paper money, which is easy to distinguish its origin, also has a strong credit in New Spain, and almost all merchants agree with it - they are not afraid that paper money will be useless, because every year the Ming merchants on the border only accept this to trade valuable goods.

Even if they can't spend it on other land, they can still exchange it for silk and porcelain.

As a result, everyone is accustomed to Asia Tongbao at a very fast speed, and Asia Tongbao has really become Asia Tongbao.

This is exactly the actual control mentioned by Chen Mu in his letter to the emperor, although New Spain belongs to the Ming and Western co-governance in the treaty, but Spain has no advantage in the proportion of population, and the military and economy are controlled by the Oriental military government, so can this land still be Spanish?

Just like the two Western Legions, they used to enjoy the service of arrears from the first day of their enlistment, and even made them feel that arrears of pay were a normal thing, and it was not normal to receive military salaries every month.

But once this status quo is changed, they can receive a full amount of military salary every month, and the source of this military salary is the Eastern Military Government of the Ming Empire, so are they the Western Army or the Ming Army?

In fact, the development of the Oriental Military Government is not only that, Zhao Shizhen's return from the East Coast has enhanced Chen Mu's understanding of Brazil, the vast coastline of the Portuguese and Spaniards plus a piece of less than 5,000, they can manage so much land?

How pathetic.

Therefore, whether it was Zhao Shizhen who was passing by, or Shao Tingda, who received the news, they all planned to help them.

Zhao Shizhen had already left two hundred households there, and more of Shao Tingda's subordinates were boarding ships from Panama under the leadership of Shao Bianjiao and sailing into Brazil by sea, and no army in this era could cross the Amazon.

They said they were going to protect Portuguese Brazil from the evil Spaniards. /14_14088/