The county hall was almost audible, and everyone thought about Acosta's words, until the white pottery chieftain, who was playing with the cow bone buckle on his clothes, accidentally threw a bone on the ground, which broke the silence.

"Co-governance?"

Even Chen Mu didn't react, and only then did he frown and ask, "How to govern together?" ”

Acosta was confident: "Eliminate the borders, garrison the troops together, manage the defense together, trade together, collect taxes together." ”

As he spoke, the knight who followed Acosta stepped forward from the cylinder holding the map, and the map of the New World hung in Hu's hand, and Acosta drew a line with his finger just north of Mexico City, and then drew a circle south of Panama, including Potosí.

"This line is western, and the Great Ming Kingdom does not have to share it with Great Spain; The southern part of Panama served as the new Viceroyalty of Peru, and Greater Spain did not share it with the Ming Kingdom. ”

Not to mention, Acosta learned very quickly, not only calling Ming Ming according to the habits of the Ming people, but also calling his own country Greater Spain.

"Except for these two regions, all the lands in the New World were governed by the Ming Kingdom and Spain, with Mexico City as the court of the New World, and all affairs were negotiated and carried out by the commanders of the two countries; The Isthmus of Panama served as the new trading center of the New World. ”

"In terms of trade, the two countries signed a trade agreement at the best price, the Ming country needs silver, and the greater Spain needs goods, although we own the Potosi silver mine, we can guarantee that the silver mine produces more than half of the silver every year for trade with the Ming country."

"The Ming also had to monopolize 30 percent of the total trade to the Spanish crown."

Acosta raised his eyes and glanced at Chen Mu's expression, didn't notice any unhappiness on his face, and let out a long sigh of relief, "Militarily, we support each other and jointly protect the interests of the two countries in the New World." ”

After Acosta finished speaking, he waited for a long time, Chen Mu didn't speak, and the other leaders naturally didn't speak, which made him very worried, and when he raised his head, he found that Chen Mu was looking at him with blazing eyes, as if he was waiting for something.

After a long time, Chen Mucai asked, "It's gone?" ”

"Not for the time being, I wonder what your Excellency thinks about this?"

Chen Mu stared at the map with a very focused gaze, and asked in a slow and serious tone: "This agreement, it seems that only Xiguo and Daming, that ...... What about my land? ”

Huh?

Not to mention Acosta, even the leaders of Bai Tao couldn't help but look sideways, what was going on in this person's mind?

Fortunately, Acosta immediately recalled the big desert that Chen Mu had asked for earlier, and said, "Since the agreement is mainly for the two countries to govern, the ...... Your Excellency wants"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Chen Mu suddenly get up and walk up to the knight holding the map, raised his hand and pointed to the location of Brazil: "Then give me this land." ”

"Your Excellency, that's, that's Portuguese land." Acosta kindly pointed to the great desert of Chile and said, "This is what you want." ”

"Oh, yes, yes." Chen Mu looked at Brazil with blank eyes, and muttered: "Portugal, that's the land of Portugal...... The desert, mine? ”

To be honest, Chen Mu hadn't recovered from Philip's request for the two countries to govern the New World for a while, he didn't expect Philip to make such a decision, very, very powerful.

"Well, the Duke of Alva has no objection on this matter, but in order to avoid war, there is one more point that needs to be clarified, and that is religion."

"In the land of the Ming Kingdom, that is, in the northwest of Mexico, our missionaries will not preach there, and Your Excellency cannot interfere with our mission in Peru, and for the land of common governance, we advocate religious freedom, and I hope that Your Excellency will make a paper commitment to this."

Acosta looked at Chen Mu and said, "We can't interfere with our priests spreading the light. ”

Chen Mu didn't have any special thoughts about this, he was more inclined to the land, so he simply drew another line in the north and said: "This area has been taken over by the Ming Dynasty, there is no reason to be divided into a co-governance area, but this east can be co-governed." ”

Chen Mu's line made the three leaders look at each other, they were very sure that none of the tribes in their alliance had been to that place, and they were even more convinced that it was impossible for the Ming army to go there.

When they saw each other's confused expressions, the leaders who realized it turned their eyes to the marshal of the Ming army, whose face was not red and his heart was not beating.

Chen Mu's line encompassed almost the entire northern part of the New World, leaving only a narrow area on the east coast as a co-governance zone.

Acosta was not frightened by Chen Mu, he just glanced at the map, as if he saw Chen Mu's little trick, and said: "Your Excellency, we know very well that there is no Ming army, and the east coast has been harassed by French pirates. ”

As he spoke, the monk smiled and said, "If Your Excellency is willing to send troops to eliminate pirates from France, England and other countries along the coast except for Great Spain and the Ming Dynasty, we are happy to hand over the north to the Ming Dynasty, as long as the east coast is governed together." ”

Allowing the Ming army to deploy its limited forces to target places outside Spain was an emergency measure that Philip ordered Spain to take.

If it were possible, Philip would even prefer not to garrison the entire New World, as long as the Potosi silver mine was his.

If that happens, Philip will be able to jump for joy and his gout feet will be healed.

New Spain has more than 20,000 regular legions and mixed blood legions, and the material resources consumed to feed these more than 20,000 troops can feed another 20,000, if he can transfer these 20,000 troops back to the Old Continent and recruit another 20,000, 40,000 troops can easily settle the Netherlands.

Stabilizing the Netherlands would allow Spain's overall strategy to take a step forward, even more so than Luzon before the Nanyangwei went to sea.

The Netherlands not only represents nearly half of Spain's wealth, but also serves as Spain's support point in Northern Europe, a wedge.

Neither Philip nor Alva had the delusional idea that Chen Mu's Ming army would help them participate in any war over Europe, they just wanted to keep the Ming army busy and target anyone, as long as it wasn't Spain.

Philip didn't care so much about the New World itself, and he even wished that the conquerors wouldn't steal a source of income from him.

"The New World and the Old World, Spain wants to share information with the Ming Dynasty."

Chen Mu knew the plans of the Spaniards, he just chuckled lightly and said: "In order to show sincerity, there is no need to share the intelligence of the Spanish mainland, I will not go there to fight, but the sea is different, if an alliance is reached, the young people on the east coast of North Asia, I will clean them up." ”

"Don't be happy just yet, I'm not done yet."

Chen Mu pointed to Brazil again: "The Ming army will clear the east coast of North Asia within three years, and the Western army will clear the east coast of West Asia within three years, and only two of us will be enough in the New World." ”

Open the sea

Open the sea