Acosta didn't expect that the Mingxi Condominium would be put on the agenda by Chen Mu so soon, and even if the treaty was signed, no one in the entire West India Council thought that the Ming Congress would soon try to take control of Mexico City.

Because it was impossible to control, the Ming army had no roots in Mexico City.

"Your Excellency may not be aware of the situation in Mexico City, where there are more than 20,000 Spanish soldiers, and countless old and new nobles who have lost their fiefs because of your country, who have poured into Mexico City from Acapulco, the border plantations, and Peru and Chile."

"I don't want to mention the dispute between you and me, but it does exist, and it is painful for many people, and they have great hostility towards your country."

Acosta in the banquet hall didn't even think of using chopsticks, although he would use this kind of tableware from the Ming Kingdom, he organized the language: "Duke Alva is proceeding to send them all back to the Iberian Peninsula within a year, but before that, Mexico City is not safe enough for the Ming Kingdom, the Governor of the Ming Kingdom. ”

In fact, it was still difficult for him to accept a Ming person as the governor of New Spain, although Mexico City had always thought that the administrative division of New Spain would be renamed due to the reduction of co-governance, and now it seems that the Ming did not have this idea.

But Acosta would not be grateful for this, on the contrary, the governor of New Spain was a native of the Ming country, and this was the greatest humiliation.

There was a ping-pong sound, and the sound of silver chopsticks colliding with porcelain plates resounded in the empty banquet hall.

Acosta was mentally prepared to face the interrogation when he spoke, but he didn't expect Chen Mu, who was sitting at the top, to chew the food so slowly and slowly, until he finished his words, he slowly took out a satin hand towel and wiped it on his lips, and it seemed that he was just about to speak, when he heard an unusual sound from the side of the banquet hall.

When the monk turned his head, he saw a very strange scene.

There were so many people participating in this banquet that Acosta couldn't know all the guests, but he didn't care, today's banquet was originally prepared by Chen Mu to welcome him, and everyone else was just accompanying guests.

Although everyone is very noble, the people sitting at the end are basically officers at the level of a thousand households, and there is no shortage of people wearing official robes or military uniforms during the banquet, and some people wearing silk robes are merchants of the Ming Kingdom, and most of them have their own attendants behind them.

Most of the merchants brought young and beautiful maids to serve them to eat; The officers mostly brought their retinue to Wu Ben, and they stood majesticly behind them.

At this time, Acosta realized that among the few people in the front of the crowd, one of the scarlet-robed adults was out of place.

His facial features are not as European as the Ming people, the Ming people are all black haired, but even if he wears a black hair scarf, he can't cover his red hair, his burly figure holds up the python robe on his body, and the hand hanging on the empty table looks like he threw the chopsticks on the porcelain plate.

"Don't think this can scare ......" A few words of not very fluent Spanish made Acosta frown, in fact, Zhu Xiaoen's brows were also frowned, he hadn't spoken Spanish for too long, so he simply said fluently in Chinese: "Don't think this can scare us, the Ming Empire is not afraid of any threat!" ”

No, Chen Mu can quarrel with me, why can anyone quarrel with me now?

The monk was very angry.

"Who is Your Excellency?"

"Oh, who am I? I am the son of the Great Tomorrow, and I am the King of Ailan, Zhu Xiaoen! ”

Zhu Xiaoen raised his head proudly, his appearance in the banquet hall was a complete accident, at first he didn't know that the Spanish envoy would come, he had been obediently staying in the Fu** camp in Xiaowan recently to participate in military training, busy cultivating feelings with the subordinates recruited on the spot.

But no one in the entire Oriental military government paid more attention to the progress of Li Dan and Chen Jiujing's combined fleet in the Caribbean Sea than him, because he urgently needed the Ming fleet to sail freely in the Caribbean Sea, and only in this way could he send people to Ireland, which was still under the rule of England, to inform its feudal nobles that he had received the support of the Ming Dynasty.

The news must have been very exciting for his people, but his voyage had been much longer than expected, and I am afraid that by this time the fiefdom had already been handed over to his son.

This longing for his homeland made him feel anxious, and his ardent hopes for the Ming army to control the Atlantic Ocean also increased day by day.

No, as soon as he heard the news that the army was planning to send a governor to take control of Mexico City, he ran to find Chen Mu, and just in time for the banquet to begin, he added a seat to him.

"The kingdom of Alan?" Acosta was a little confused when he heard Zhu Xiaoen's self-report, although the pronunciation was basically the same, he really didn't think about it to England, and asked: "In the Philippines?" ”

"Don't be impatient, the king." Chen Mu stopped Zhu Xiaoen with a smile and continued to answer, he thought that it was not time to let Spain know that the Ming Emperor had canonized a king in Europa, and he said to Acosta: "King Ailan is the king of my own dynasty of heaven, but things are not as terrible as the king said, right, I know that what the monk said is not a threat." ”

"Since the monk said so, then the situation in Mexico City must not be good, and this is also to protect the safety of the Governor of the Ming Dynasty."

When Zhu Xiaoen spoke, Chen Mu held the silk scarf and laughed for a long time, then put the silk scarf on the table, and said to Acosta: "What Chen said is right, right?" ”

Acosta ignored this Ming Dynasty vassal king who jumped out of nowhere, and hurriedly nodded to Chen Mu: "That's right." ”

Chen Mu happily hooked the corners of his mouth and said, "That's right, I can also think of the predicament faced by Duke Alva, not to mention the fact that your country generally has no experience in governing places, I believe that this situation is unavoidable." ”

"Think about it, at this time, if the governor sent by the Ming Dynasty still wants Spain to protect it, I'm afraid it will be too difficult for a strong man, and it will be causing chaos for the duke."

Acosta was finally in the mood to enjoy the food at this time, and he was beginning to appeal to the West Indies Council to enact a decree giving the Indians enough rights to cope with the growing competition between the hearts and minds of the Ming people.

If the governor of the Ming Kingdom went to Mexico City at this time, the first thing he would do would be to complete this matter, and it would be the Ming Kingdom that would gain the hearts and minds of the Ming Kingdom at that time.

The so-called co-governance zone, no matter what Chen Mu said or thought, in Acosta and many of the actual controllers of New Spain, who this land belongs to will ultimately depend on who is stronger and who will win the hearts and minds of the people, and now this situation is developing towards the unfavorable side of the Spaniards.

The arrival of the governor of the Ming Kingdom was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.

It's just that Acosta's heart didn't fall from his throat back to his stomach, and he almost vomited to the ground with Chen Mu's next sentence.

He heard Chen Mu say: "So don't bother your country, Chen will send a thousand infantry to follow the governor into Mexico City, and make Mexico City prosperous as soon as possible, the governor's safety will be in charge of his soldiers, and the garrison's food, grass, and money will be sent directly by me." ”

"I will not blame Spain for any accidents, my governor has already ordered a coffin in Changsheng County, and he will risk his life to get Mexico City out of its current predicament, and the monk must inform the Duke of Alva on my behalf."

Chen Mu smiled, picked up the wine glass and said, "It's almost the New Year, I'll give the monk an early year!" ”

"Get out of your current predicament? What is the dilemma you are talking about? Acosta was not so easy to accept, and although his resistance was especially pale, he stubbornly asked: "The dilemma, do you mean Spain?" ”

Chen Mu blinked, and said, "I didn't say it!" ”