Connecting the north and south of Panama is a road that has been dug artificially along the ridge, winding for nearly 160 miles, with many sentry posts, military fortifications or post stations built by the Spanish here over the past 30 years, including Panama City in the Pacific Ocean and Darién Bay in the Atlantic Caribbean.

The distance between each post is roughly the same, and according to the aborigines who lived in the interlaced area of jungle, mountain range and plain, the posts were planned during the excavation of roads, and the distance between them was determined by the ancient unit of length of land and sea, 'rig', used by the Spaniards.

This provided great convenience for the Ming army, one mile was close to ten miles on land, and these posts had been changed by Deng Zilong to the Ming army's hundred households before Chen Mu arrived in Panama, and the banner army stationed in a thousand households continued to repair and protect this most important road in the state for a long time to come.

Chen Mu spent six days driving north from Panama City, all the way to see the scenery along the way, arrived across the Isthmus of Panama, the last stop of the journey is Deng Zilong's Qilin Weibei Thousand Households Office set up on the basis of the Spanish seaport, and now the Thousand Households Office is still being built, but there are already three shipyards on the coast.

Because of the lack of skilled craftsmen, the shipyards did not open, in fact, these three shipyards were not set up for shipbuilding, the main work was to build trestles on the beach for ships to berth, shipbuilding and repairing ships was a side job.

As for the name of the guard, it is because Deng Zilong, according to the officer's drawing, thinks that the mountains and rivers of Panama resemble a unicorn with teeth and claws.

By the way, didn't Deng Zilong say that the feng shui of Haojing Cathedral was not good and prone to firelight when he was still in Xiangshan in his early years? Last year the church really caught fire, and it burned badly.

It was not easy for the monks who were trapped in the mirror to build this church, their predecessors were invincible and destroyed in half the world, but they met Wang Hong in Tuen Mun in the sixteenth year of Zhengde, and returned home, starting a 40-year career of pretending to be grandchildren.

By the year of Jiajing, they had stationed their own small army in Haojing, built a few forts, built churches to recruit believers, and regularly bribed local officials, but before they had time to muster the courage to turn this place into their land, in the thirty-sixth year, the chapel carved a statue of the Virgin stepping on the dragon's head, which means to trample China under their feet.

At least I'm happy to look at it!

Then he was denounced by Guangdong Confucianism, and hurriedly passed through all kinds of bribes, which dragged on for many years, and then the officials were too lazy to talk to them, so they replaced someone else, and led the fleet to surround the mirror, so that the Portuguese obediently dismantled the statue of the Virgin stepping on the dragon's head.

This person's name is Yu Dayou.

Just a few years after the stoppage, the Portuguese felt that they could build a bigger church, and there was St. Paul's Cathedral, but because the Xiangshan Thousand Households at that time, and later the commander of the Nanyang Guard, was named Chen Mu, the stones were not allowed to be dug up, and the stones they bought were carried away as paving stones, and the cathedral has been in a state of 'under construction'.

It wasn't until Chen Mu left that it finally loosened slightly, and then Chen Mu came back, and the cathedral also returned to the state of construction, and it was really built with great fanfare, until Chen Mu went north, and as a result, they built a Madonna stepping on the dragon's head.

This time, it was Bai Yuanjie, the commander of the Guangdong Metropolitan Division, who sent troops to drive away the people in the church, and five heavy cannons were placed at the entrance of the yamen to bombard in unison, and the entire wall collapsed.

Last year, I finally repaired the wall, this time I can be regarded as obedient, there is no vicious metaphor on it, and I specially invited the prefect of Guangzhou to check it weekly, and it does meet the rules, I think it should be okay this time, right?

As a result, Deng Zilong, who went to the East, was set on fire by Deng Dashuai, who had been delayed for several years.

How bad is this fire? The monks who were so powerful that they no longer had the resources to repair it, and when they tried to collect taxes from the faithful like other dioceses, they were first cleaned up by the believers, and then by the Xiangshan Senhu.

The bishop was very wronged, if it weren't for the fact that the money was all taken by Bai Shuai in exchange for birds, they were fully capable of jointly financing the repair of the church. Their money was indeed taken by Bai Yuanjie to exchange for guns, whenever the monks used silver to lure the people to convert, there were a large number of five big and three rough people who came to drink holy water and receive silver, and the people who really planned to convert could not receive the silver, and the big men who received the silver turned their heads and sent the money to the Nanyang Guard Ordnance Bureau, and it didn't take long for a full carriage to load the goods on the Fu ship docked at the port along the wooden tracks.

A few hundred taels at a time, a few hundred taels at a time, what does this mean for Bai Yuanjie? This meant that every time the bishop of Haojing tried to recruit believers, the armory of the Cantonese capital would add enough new birds to equip a thousand households.

When this entertainment activity developed into the seventh time, the Guangdong Dusi even imitated Wu Guifang's story and awarded medals to the church!

Of course, Bai Yuanjie was not willing to issue gold medals to Yiren like Wu Guifang, he was more stingy and asked the Ordnance Bureau to make an iron cut with leftovers.

Economically, they were really out of ammunition and food, since the Han cut off the sea routes and the Western military government assembled to go on the expedition, the Portuguese mainland never sent support, and even sold goods here, and occasionally the Portuguese from Goa, Burma and other places who paid heavy taxes in Malacca.

They are mercenaries, the money is exchanged for their lives, the Ming army does not wait to see them, and does not think that they are superb, and the military salary is forty percent lower than that of the Ming flag army, which is only enough for food and clothing, and is not able to support Hao Jing at all.

The only people who could support Hao Jing were the Portuguese hired by other countries, and the countries that were against the Ming army gave a lot of military salaries, but the money needed to be exchanged for their lives.

In this way, they scraped together a few hundred taels in this way, sent them to Haojing, and then asked Guangdong Dusi to have an extra firearm from a thousand households.

But slowly, Bishop Haojing also found that those people rarely came, and there were fewer and fewer familiar faces—no one in the world knew better than he did about Ming's maritime supremacy.

The spirit of the adventurers was exhausted by years of captivity, they did not want to stay, let alone leave, everyone knew that on the way home there was a country founded by Ming pirates called the Han Kingdom, and when they passed through that sea, they would be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks.

Life is always so awkward and hard.

More and more adventurers sold their armor and swords, boarded a merchant ship that was going nowhere, and finally settled in the South Seas, bought or rented a small piece of land, and picked up a hoe again.

They can't return to their own country, waiting for them is likely to be lonely and old, in the matter of starting a family, they invariably curse the feudalism of the Ming Dynasty - this involves a common sense, in the Ming Dynasty, any small overseas country is a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and any Ming vassal coast has traces of Ming people's activities.

What does this mean for their strangers from Europe?

The girls of those vassal countries would rather be the eighteenth wives of those merchants than marry them, the people of Yiguo!