Chapter 205: Golden Water
Chen Mu always thought that he was throwing the pot on others constantly, but he didn't expect that flying across the pot could also be buckled on his head.
At least for the Spaniards stationed in Mexico City, the word 'Chen Mu' is a good explanation to the Portuguese why Spain has been making large-scale military moves.
There was no more pleasant excuse than Chen Mu, whether it was recruiting troops for the New World or sending warships to Gibraltar, as long as the name was proposed, no one would feel that there was anything wrong with military action.
The reason why the Spaniards needed this excuse was because the Portuguese from Brazil entered Mexico City and tried to get in touch with Chen Mu through Yang Tingxiang.
Yang Tingxiang's entry into Mexico City actually made no achievements in governance, and before Alva's strong army stationed here left, it was not beneficial for the Oriental military government to govern Mexico well, and the governor of New Spain, who had taken office, had been busy setting up more eyes and ears for the Ming in Mexico City.
His greatest contribution is to further enhance Chen Mu's status, since he arrived in Mexico City, Chen Mu is no longer a cat or dog can get in touch directly, they have to inform the Asian housekeeper Yang Tingxiang first, if they are lucky enough to pass the review of the big housekeeper, they will get the opportunity to enter the Changsheng face to meet the little housekeeper Zhao Shizhen.
Unfortunately, the Portuguese envoy did not pass, so it was not the Portuguese who were victorious, but only a few pages of paper.
and the many pieces of paper sent to the military yamen from all over the New World were piled together and placed on Chen Mu's desk.
Before the Portuguese was a letter from Chile from Chile from which they said that their northern border had been agreed with the Spaniards, but the southern border was difficult to negotiate because there were a large number of aboriginal warriors living on the southern border between Chen Mu and the Spaniards.
Shaw Tingda called them 'my old family', and they also had another name called the Mapuche people, who were the natives whom the Spanish had not been able to conquer.
Because they had a great war leader, Lautaro.
Thirty years ago, the Spaniards had a man called the 'Chilean Conquistador' named Valdivia, who founded Santiago in Chile, and he later died.
Dead at the hands of Lautaro, the young aboriginal who had been captured by Valdivia and fled back to teach his men to ride horses and use muskets, arm his troops with Spanish weapons, and raid Spanish camps again and again, proving that the Spaniards were not invincible.
It was not until a great victory, when Valdivia, the leader of the colonists, was taken prisoner, that Lautaro said: "You have come here to get gold, and now I will give you everything you can use." β
Valdivia's cause of death was boiling gold water poured into her throat.
Lautaro died in the later wars, but his spirit and the technique of fighting with muskets on horseback were passed down among the Mapuche people, who had never been able to conquer them, south of the BiobΓo River, where no Spaniard could set foot.
After reading Shao Tingda's letter, Chen Mu patted his head and shouted: "Inexperienced, still inexperienced!" β
He didn't even investigate before agreeing on the borders!
The south of Chile is not the territory of the Spaniards at all!
So what did he bother to do with the Spaniards about the south?
The map that the Spaniards gave him was also, and a large chunk south of Peru was connected together, as if the Spaniards were very good here.
However, there are Mapuche people in the southernmost part, Chen Mu doesn't think it's a bad thing, the place where they live is suitable for living and farming, not in that guano desert area, it does not affect Shao Tingda to send people to explore saltpeter mines, they can sign a treaty of friendship, and then trade.
Another letter is interesting.
Asking for help from the Toyo Military Office were two emissaries from the Viceroy of Brazil.
Chen Mu is not the only one who can't do good intelligence in this world.
The Governor of Brazil first sent an envoy to express his 'solemn representations' to Yang Tingxiang, accusing the 'Ming fleet' of preventing the Portuguese from bypassing Africa to India, and of the 'Ming fleet' for the abominable act of attacking Portuguese merchant ships in West Africa.
And in and out of the words, he expressed a brilliant threat, and told the story of the Portuguese exterminating the Antarctic France in the past.
It is not known whether the governor of Brazil did not know anything before or if he suddenly knew something after sending the first envoy, but in short, after a few days, he sent a second envoy.
The second envoy's head was much better, and he gave gifts and dotted up and down, and did not mention anything about the destruction of merchant ships by the Ming fleet before, and wanted to express to Yang Tingxiang the sorrow of the governor of Brazil for the death of the king in Morocco in the war and the hesitation of the future of Portugal.
What's there to worry about?
Couldn't Fei Lao Er protect you?
Yang Tingxiang's letter was sent, and Chen Mu made his wish come true.
"What's so happy about Dashuai?"
Zhao Shizhen came back from the shooting range outside the city with a stall of artillery parameters, and as soon as he entered the yamen, he first heard Chen Mu yelling upstairs, and when he came up, he found that Chen Mu was hehehe.
Putting down the recorded artillery data, Zhao Shizhen took out cotton from his ears like Sun Wukong and put it on the table, and muttered while plucking his ears: "Measuring an artillery is hard for students, and now my mind is full of echoes." β
Chen Mu looked at the two small cotton balls with leather holsters that were thrown on the table by Zhao Shizhen, and blamed: "Eh, you guy, just use other people's artillery earplugs, how can you get them back when you run out?" β
"Hurry up and ask your own soldiers to send them back, they all have a count." After that, Chen Mucai shook the letter in his hand and said: "Tinda wrote that Chile has begun to look for nitrate, and Yang Junzan, the Portuguese have found him." β
"Some time ago, I wasn't talking about wanting to find Lin Feng, my wish came true, but the Portuguese helped me find it and helped them do a lot of good things."
Chen Mu said and counted Zhao Shizhen with his fingers: "But in a few years, Lin Feng has helped the Kingdom of Portugal to clean up the three indiscriminate people who are all over the world and dismantle their cars, set up checkpoints for their country, and prohibit the trade of the people who look down on people and the indigenous trade that they are not even human beings in their eyes. β
"Its sphere of influence is all over the sea, from Morocco to the south, there are traces of their appearance, in the words of the Portuguese, as long as you want to buy black slaves, Lin Feng is everywhere, but ......"
Zhao Shizhen listened attentively, nodding his head as he listened, although he didn't think that Lin Feng was a good person and looked down on his piracy, but he could still be called a good deed in the eyes of the mechanics unit, after all, compared to pirates, colonists who did all kinds of evil were obviously worse.
Pirates only kill people and rob money, and the colonists do this, but they kill people and rob money, and in the end they have to enslave the surviving people, and when they die, they have to decide where their souls go.
Hearing Chen Mu say, 'but', Zhao Shizhen shook his head and asked, "But what?" β
"But what others mentioned is not Lin Feng, it's the Han Kingdom, Lin Feng actually founded the country."
"Hasn't the marshal always supported the sea giants to go to sea to open up territory for the imperial court, and he also broke the soil and sealed the king, why is he unwilling now?"
"Nothing unwilling." Chen Mu took a deep breath and spit out quickly, quite a little difficult to let go, and said: "After the founding of the People's Republic of China, I won't send someone to inform me, I don't treat me as a friend!" β