Chen Mu's letter silenced the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

Captain Teguang could only see Governor Almanza's hand trembling slightly, his face was red for a while and white for a while, and before the letter was finished, he looked at the letter intently, and his left hand groped on the table, and after touching it for a long time, he thought of opening his mouth and ordered: "Map, I want map!" ”

The chamberlain, dressed in a black velvet jacket and leggings, hurriedly took out the map and spread it on the table, and then Almanza gestured with his finger on the map as if he were stunned.

The tall wooden door carved with a cross was pushed open, and Bernal, the legionnaire dressed in full plate armor and a long sword and musket on his hips, led several legionnaires into the governor's palace, but before he could say anything, Almanza, who looked uncertain, raised his palm to stop what they wanted to say.

The Legion Commanders behind Bernal were distinctly distinguished by him or Almanza, the nobles of the peninsula, who were second-generation Indians of Spanish descent who had no connection to their original race by bloodline and hard work, and became high-ranking officers affiliated with Spain.

In this regard, Spain had a clever and bold decision, and had complete confidence in them, except for a slightly lower status than the nobility of the peninsula.

In the Spanish consciousness, as long as the father is Spanish, pure-blood, one-half, one-quarter, no matter how many or small, he is a Spaniard.

Bernal's plate armor was straddled with red satin, and in fact it was not right for Yang Tingxiang to say in his report on the Spaniards that 'their people are still black', although they could be black all over their bodies, but that was to set off a little red on their bodies.

If there is no red, then black that does not bring great contrast will be meaningless.

For example, Bernard's retinue with documents and a long map behind him, the black linen shirt is meaningless.

Although Bernal and several of the legionnaires were anxious, they patiently watched the governor study a letter very carefully, and from time to time sketched a map under his command.

When Bernal looked over and saw that the entire north and south of the West Coast were marked on the map, except for Mexico, he couldn't help but whisper to a few well-connected legion commanders: "Shit-like shipbuilding plan." ”

When Governor Almanza raised his head, Bernal still looked handsome and calm, bowed his head slightly and asked humbly: "Your Excellency the Governor, is that a letter from Your Majesty?" ”

"Your Majesty?"

Almanza's hand pressed the letter, and when he heard Bernal's question, he asked mockingly, and then smiled: "It's Chen Mu's letter, do you think this is a shipbuilding order from the king?" This is the land that Chen Mu asked us for! ”

Bernal frowned, and the two half-blood legion leaders behind him had already let out a roar, shouting that they would completely wipe out Chen Mu's rampant from the New World.

Bernal was not so angry, he was calm and full of reason, waved his hand behind him lightly, and said, "Your Excellency the Governor, my Sergeant Major, Chief Overseer, and Chief Accompanying Priest have made an anticipatory report on the war. ”

In this report, according to the available information, in the event of a war with the Ming army, they did not have a high chance of winning in a small-scale battle, and the opposite was true in a large-scale decisive battle, but in the end there was a great possibility of losing the war due to unexpected circumstances outside the war.

Asamanta was not in a hurry to watch the report, he didn't look down on these second-generation half-blood nobles very much, and waved his hand: "Everyone, please leave for the time being, I have something to discuss with His Excellency the Legion Commander." ”

Several half-blood captains wanted to say something, but in the end they still did not have the guts, they all saluted the governor and left, and in the blink of an eye there were only two people left in the conference room, Almansa and Bernal, the governor was not in a hurry to talk about the war, but asked very leisurely: "Nar, tell me, what do you see on this picture?" ”

The map is terrifying, the west coast of the New World belonged almost entirely to the Ming people, leaving only 700 leagues of coastline from Guatemala to Mexico, half of which is still surrounded by peninsulas.

"Obviously, we will lose all power on the west coast of the New World."

Bernal's words were unexpectedly lighthearted, and he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Knowing that the governor has made Chen Mu's letter public, he can harvest at least four legions of troops for us, and the victory or defeat of the war will be reassessed." ”

In the letter, Chen Mu asked for more than 2,000 leagues of land long and more than 200 leagues wide, which was larger than all the Spanish territories of the Old World combined, which did not mean land, but meant that thousands of New World nobles who lived on commerce and land would lose everything.

"What if we can't get any assistance from the Old Continent?" Almansa glanced out the window and said, "In the Old World, a new war has begun. ”

Bernal shook his head and said: "I have the latest news, after succeeding as the governor of the Netherlands, Don Juan of Austria finally went to war against the Dutch rebels this year, and it was a terrible victory, he led his army to almost completely annihilate 20,000 troops in the Netherlands, and his own casualties were no more than 100 - he is the greatest general in Spain!" ”

In Lepanto, Greece, Don Juan, commander of the Holy Alliance fleet, annihilated 40,000 Ottoman troops and destroyed 224 captured ships.

Promote the peace of Mingxi and Nanjing.

This time he won such a victory in the Netherlands, at the age of thirty-one - in the eyes of Bernal, the title of the greatest general Don Juan deserved,

But he didn't expect Almansa to take out a letter from the table, hand it to him, shook his head, and said: "I advise you to retract this sentence, I have the latest news, Don Juan contracted an illness while commanding the operation, and died of illness two months ago. ”

"His Majesty accepted Don Juan's suggestion to appoint Alexandre Farnese, who had grown up with him at court, to succeed him as governor of the Netherlands."

"The war in the Netherlands continues, and to the east, the Portuguese army has already marched for Africa, and before the war began, Sebastian asked our king for reinforcements, and Spain had suffered from the Moors, but allowed them to recruit soldiers on Spanish soil to support the war."

Bernal knocked on his head, he suspected that Philip, who he served, had gone mad, "How could His Majesty support Sebastian in conquering Africa in the name of Jesus***?" ”

"Of course I will support it, this is a pro-conquest, if Sebastian dies in the war, the king will also be a contender for the Portuguese throne, and the strongest contender."

"So once there is a war in the New World, I am afraid that the country will not be able to give us much support in the past two years, you already know the intelligence of the Ming army commanded by Chen Mu, Tirlucius explained that the army has tens of thousands of troops and thousands of warships, I am very confused."

Almansa frowned tightly and raised his finger to the letter from Chen Mu on the table.

"But Chen Mu told me in the letter that although he has less than 200 boats and a few thousand men at the moment, it is difficult to replenish food, and he needs a long coastline for them to fish, and he intends to use the fish produced here to make fish meat with the unique salting method of his hometown in the future, and exchange it with us for silver."

"Yes, you heard it right, Chen Mu said that he was going to use the entire west coast of the New World to fish, and he was fishing for our fish from our coastline and exchanging it for our silver—he was taking us for fools."