Chen Mu was cheated by himself.

He originally thought that while the Ming army was opening up the fertile land of North Asia, he couldn't let the Spaniards be idle and let them clean up Portugal, but he didn't expect that in the end, Acosta told him with a smile that the Portuguese king had conquered Morocco, and the most crucial Philip was also the heir to the Portuguese king.

From the monk's smile, Chen Mu could feel that Philip would not let go of this opportunity, and it was very likely that the King of Portugal would not be able to go back.

He could feel that this negotiation of peace and the proposal of co-governance were all moves by Philip to stabilize the situation in the New World.

This is a crucial juncture for Spain.

Portugal was small, but its seafaring technology and shipbuilding industry were not bad, and if the West could annex Portugal, a mature shipbuilding industry would help Spain build warships more quickly.

With the fall of the Invincible Armada, when did the Anglo-Spanish naval battle take place?

I remember it was 1588, ten years later.

The friction between Spain and England had already begun to escalate, and the English pirates who met with Shao Tingda relied on a few small gunboats to find no one in the back garden of the Spaniards.

The staff of the Toyo Military Office is analyzing the starting point of Spain's decision-making in a half-baked way.

A group of people stared at the map of Europe they got from the Spaniards, and finally Xu Wei came to the conclusion: "The Westerners are very shrewd in their decision-making, as long as they don't rob them of their money, the marshal can get everything he wants at this time." ”

The 'shrewdness' that Xu Wei said actually means not to continue to consume the Ming army in the New World.

Spain fought on many fronts, regardless of whether it was the bordering France or the enclave of the Netherlands, all of which were in a pot of porridge, and there was a strategy to use troops against Portugal.

Not to mention Xu Wei, even with any person of insight in the Chinese Empire from Qin to Ming, watching European countries will have a special starting point - how to unify Europa.

Therefore, he took it for granted that Europe was a whole, and the four wars of France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the Ming Dynasty were the problems faced by Spain.

Xu Wei tapped the table map with a folding fan in his palm: "If you lose one game to the Ming Dynasty, the trade negotiation is completed, the bird gun artillery will flow in, and the other three games may be won; If you want to win one game, regardless of whether you win or lose, the remaining three games must be lost. ”

Although this assertion is not rigorous at all, and they have not even seen any Europa army except Spain, Portugal and Britain, but their staff members agree that the Ming army in the New World crossed the sea with a small number of troops and limited baggage, but they all agreed that the Ming army was much stronger than others.

Chen Mu also agreed, he said: "Although the troops fighting with us are not the best troops in the Western Kingdom, even if they transfer the elite, we may not win so easily, they must be even more uncomfortable." ”

In this era, no one understands this feeling better than the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty may have less than 700,000 troops at this time, but it is even more difficult to mobilize 70,000 troops to go to sea.

Even the Oriental military government had the ability to mobilize troops to go to sea independently of the garrison and money and food system, and if the country went to war with Mongolia, it would be impossible to mobilize tens of thousands of troops to go to sea.

"The situation in the western country looks like a great Ming!"

Xu Wei raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the Ottomans on the map, and said, "Long Qingnian, just negotiated peace with Mongolia, and the border is still full of soldiers. ”

"But it's much more serious than when Daming was the hardest." Xu Wei said that his hand was placed in France's position again: "The three propaganda and six comforts are all opposed, and the country and the dynasty will raise troops to fight." ”

Immediately after, Xu Wei pointed to England again and said, "The Japanese robbers jumped off the beam, snatched and plundered. ”

When his hand moved to the Netherlands, Xu Wei really didn't know what to do, and whispered: "The merchants of the southeastern provinces who are sitting on thirty percent of the taxes are in turmoil, and the army of the national dynasty can't control it?" ”

Chen Mu looked sideways, the metaphor of the old madman is very good.

To tell the truth, the Ming Dynasty may not be able to withstand the internal and external environment that Spain experienced at this time, and in the same way, Spain will not be able to stand it.

Chen Mu believes that the reason why the huge Spain can still hold on is because of the gold and silver in the New World and the emerging trade in Europe.

Just when Chen Mu was still immersed in the fantasy brought by Xu Wei's remarks, Xu Wei had already arched his hand very seriously and said: "Dashuai, the old man thinks that co-governance has small benefits for me and great benefits for the western country, so he can't easily agree." ”

"Oh? What do you mean by that? ”

"The land of a hundred miles in the west is not yet governed, only digging mountains and mining, the people are poor and still exhausted, and the dynasty may not be sent overseas through the talents of heaven and earth, and the land of a hundred miles can be governed......" Xu Wei held the folding fan and thought hard: "I'm afraid there will be as many as possible." ”

"A place is like the Westerners, only let the people take care of life and death, and the rest will be forced labor for the mines, and there will be almost no taxes to be levied, and once it is governed by our officials, there is no need for forced labor, and one year of rest and recuperation, and the next year it will be prosperous, and according to the harvest of the fields here, the same households may be allowed to collect more taxes than in the country, but they will have to share with the western country, which is very disadvantageous."

Chen Mu smiled when he heard this, this is not simply the difference between the Ming Dynasty and the European countries, nor is it who is better or who is bad, a question can involve all aspects, and it is different in nature.

The divided European countries attach more importance to war, because this relationship is survival, the princes and nobles live together with the common people, there is a strong tradition of autonomy, compared with a unified China, there are fewer constraints, less governance, the people only need to live, as for how to live, there are not too many rules in the system.

The kings, like the big landlords, reluctantly made some decrees, and the tenants planted as much as they liked, and as long as the rent could be paid, they cared more about feeding the small landlords who took care of their homes and homes, not only protecting their own land, but also robbing other landlords of their land.

European tenants are free-range.

The emperors were different, they never considered themselves landlords, they only always felt that they were everyone's father.

To shape one's own country is to shape one's own family, to shape one's own people, to shape one's own children and grandchildren, through the imperial examination, the fathers of all dynasties and dynasties have selected better sons to manage other children and grandchildren.

Especially in the Ming Dynasty, some fast-growing sons also formulated a strict restraint system for their fathers, and if you don't do well, your sons will accuse you of not being a good father.

But the stinky problem of feeling that he is his father has also been inherited, and the court officials also feel that they are everyone's father in the locality, and the consideration of family excellence is to govern the place, how many acres of land are cultivated, how much tax is collected, whether there is a bad grandson in the jurisdiction, and whether the bad grandson is shot to death, all of which have become performance appraisals.

The people of the Ming Dynasty were all domesticated.

The domesticated wild that is not stocked, Xu Wei is still very moral, but Chen Mu is a wild one.

The Oriental Marshal smiled, looking at Xu Wei hairy, and everyone listened to him: "We just need to manage our own land, when did I say that I would send officials to govern the land under the co-governance?" ”

"Co-governance, let's go there to dig people, mine, and dig wood, just dig up everything we can, and don't worry about anything else."