On the Great Eastern Ocean, Li Dan, who had experienced three months of ups and downs at sea, arrived at Daxi Port with the latest news from Spain, and the ship laughed before it docked.

He didn't know why he was laughing, but he couldn't help but smile when he saw the black and red warships docked on the seashore surrounded by a blue ship with the word 'Han', and when he saw the military port fortresses and forts and batteries lined up on the shore.

After leaving the New World for a few years, Li Dan received information in the port of Daming, Spain, which was the least fortified military port in North Asia.

Because the port of Daxi guards the eastern gateway of Mexico City, the geographical position is superior, but the environment is very bad, the climate is extremely humid, the Ming army is not willing to come here until the last resort, but it belongs to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and it is the garrison of the two Spanish legions, so the governor Yang Tingxiang spared no effort in the repair of the port.

The Viceroyalty of New Spain is divided equally between the two countries according to the contract, and the annual return of the Ming Dynasty is Changsheng, and the Spanish must help the king spend it, how inappropriate is it to transport it back?

Yang Ting's governance of the Viceroyalty of New Spain was very effective, the first revenue of the Viceroyalty of New Spain depended on plantation taxes, and the money was just enough for the salaries of the officials of the two countries and the salaries of the soldiers of the three Spanish legions, and the plantation owners were still in arrears and unwilling to pay taxes, and then those who did not want to pay were gone, and the finances of the Governor's Office were even more strained.

It wasn't until immigrants came to contract plantations en masse, merchants entered Mexico City to set up shop, and taverns, teahouses, theaters, brothels and casinos sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, that the revenue of the Doge's Palace was guaranteed, but even so, it was a balance of payments.

Because the mode of production has not changed, Yang Tingxiang is very clear about the role of land in the division of labor: the producer of basic raw materials.

There are more than 40,000 acres of cotton planted in New Spain, and more than 12 million catties of cotton are harvested every year, as well as hemp, corn, sugar cane, potatoes, soybeans and rubber and other plants, but there is still no perfect handicraft system to this day, and even less than before under the deliberate guidance of Yang Tingxiang.

Pottery, brick burning, obsidian making, sugar extraction, and thread spinning are permitted, but none other processing industries are permitted.

Even the weaving cloth had to be sent to the border of the past, and in the Alva Line, which was only a hundred paces from the border of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the fortress near New Spain was bought by merchants from the Legion Commander Jesus and presented to the military government, and was listed as the Oriental Military Government Weaving Bureau.

"All the cotton threads and cotton in New Spain are processed there, and the land will continue to be cultivated next year, and the tribes in the northern steppes are asking the military government for cotton clothes, and our people will also need cotton clothes if they want to open up those lands in a big way."

At the governor's mansion in Mexico City, Chen Mu told Li Dan about the changes in New Spain in recent years, and said to Yang Tingxiang, who was sitting beside him: "Your people found oil near the Spanish plantations on the east coast some time ago, what did they do with it?" ”

"Oil is very important, it is important now, there is oil there is fire oil, there is asphalt, there is kerosene and gasoline, and it will be more important in the future, but we can't use troops to grab it, in case the Europeans find out that this thing is important, we have to be careful."

The oil they found was in the north of Daxi Port, limited to technical means and did not know the reserves, but Chen Mu estimated that it would not be small, at least it was large by the oil field of Majiagang, but the difference was that Magui had long been drilled in Majiagang to drill wells for use, and now the kerosene used in Changsheng, Jincheng and other places is taken from Majiagang.

"I understand that I have already taken it."

Yang Tingxiang seemed to be very comfortable with dealing with these things, and after he clenched his fists, he said to Chen Mu: "I moved a village to immigrate, held a funeral, and built an empty tomb in the place where I was going to dig a well. The plantation owner had come to Yamen last month in the hope of allocating him another piece of land...... Stay away from the Ming people. ”

"He is a rare honest man, if he wants to make some money, he will go back to Seville, and it is not difficult for him to go down, the original land in the north is 17,400 acres, and in the south he has set aside 19,000 acres of wasteland, the land has been explored, suitable for growing beans, corn, sugar cane and rice, there are no other minerals, there is a small lake with a good view, rent him for six years."

Stay away from the Ming people?

Can you call it far away without going back to Spain?

"If you give him so much land, he won't be able to run it, it doesn't matter, just give it to him."

Chen Mu has basically done everything he can do, if he wants to drive the Europeans out of the New World, it is impossible on the premise that the contradictions do not intensify, and the intensification of contradictions requires opportunities, and the contradictions accumulated so far are far from enough.

But he was tired of fighting under the truce treaty inch by inch, so he turned his head to look at Li Dan: "I read the letter you wrote saying that Fei Lao Er hopes that the Oriental Military Government will join him to meet the Portuguese King Antonio on the Great Eastern Ocean, why does he want us to join?" ”

This is something that Chen Mu must figure out, because this matter is obviously beneficial to the Ming army, Portugal is nominally just an exiled puppet king, and there is not even a base area, and it is easy for powerful Spain to destroy him as long as he goes to war.

But the addition of the Ming army will inevitably make the Ming fleet sail more unscrupulously in the Great Eastern Ocean, Chen Mu saw Philip struggling to lift a big stone named Li Dan and smash it into his feet.

To say that Spain is not the slightest wary of Daming and is willing to open the Great Eastern Ocean to Daming, Chen Mu does not believe it ten thousand times - as far as Deng Zilong's cruising fleet occasionally escorts merchant ships to Daming Port, Philip angrily scolds his mother, not to mention normalizing this behavior.

"Antonio was aided by Catherine, Queen Mother Francis, who, according to the Septua, reported that Navarre was making peace with the royal family of Valois, and that Catherine had prepared for Antonio a force led by Filippo di Strozzi, the general of the Army; At the same time, England is helping him. ”

"William Cecil, Governor of the Guards Francis Worthingham, Governor of Caoyun John Hawkins, and Guerrilla General Francis Drake were all preparing for this."

Chen Mu blinked, and the meaning on his face was incomprehensible: "This, these officials, did you seal them up?" ”

"Hey, it's the kid who sealed it. Their duties were similar, Cecil was the Queen's money-keeper, Worthingham was in charge of the English military intelligence and espionage in the Spanish papers, Hawkins was the sailor's treasurer and shipwrights, and Drake was skilled in naval warfare, but his fleet was private. ”

Li Dan smiled and explained to Chen Mu the positions held by several people, and then said with a straight face: "His Royal Highness Philip asked his father to send troops, and the child thought that most of them were not sending troops, but buying bribes at once, and he would rather share the profits with the Ming than be threatened by the Ming army when he fought with the two countries." ”

Chen Mu thought for a while and frowned: "It's not that I don't want to send troops, but Spain can't squeeze out decent oil and water, or Yang Ce happens to be in Mexico, you talk to him, if Philip is willing to give up the war profits, Yang Ce and Shi He may be interested in this matter, you may have seen it in the port, they just armed their fleet." ”

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On December 17, the 14th year of Guangxu, the Beiyang Naval Division was established in Liugong Island, Weihaiwei, Shandong.

On December 17, 2019, the self-built 002 aircraft carrier was listed, and the ship name 'Shandong' was No. 17.

Banzai!