The Viceroyalty of New Spain issued a new decree in early March of the 7th year of Wanli, calling on the people to go to the east coast to build a seaport and encourage free people to go to the Kirinwei to work in the shipyards.

Although Yang Tingxiang had not been governor for a few months, the Duke of Alva was already annoyed with him.

It is really the geographical location of Mexico City, which is convenient for sending warships to Portugal, otherwise the Duke of Alva will bring troops to Peru if he says anything.

New Spain is no longer the New Spain of Spain.

Even though they stationed more than 30,000 troops here, the old duke still remembered the glory of Spain before it was dragged down by the Netherlands.

The wealthy Netherlands and the real money of the Americas were in hand, punching France and kicking the Ottomans, and Spain was the dragon of the European continent at that time, invincible.

In the blink of an eye, the Duke of Alva watched Spain go bad.

At the beginning, uprisings broke out in Florland and Brabant, and in the same year, the Netherlands and Zeeland revolted on a large scale at the same time, Louis of Nassau, Prince of Orange, formed a Dutch army, and the next year Chen Mu snatched the St. Pablo at sea and captured Luzon Manila.

The Calvinist guerrillas in France and the sea beggars in the Netherlands were regarded by Philip II as a thorn in the flesh, and who would have thought that their biggest enemy at that time would be Chen Mu, who was 30,000 miles away.

In fact, the Dutch uprising was a joke in the eyes of the Duke of Alva, and even if the rabble of ordinary people had guns in their hands, what could they do to fight against the most elite of the kingdom, the Vedranth Legion?

In the battle of 1568 in the Netherlands, the Western army of 15,000 against the Dutch army of 12,000, the result of the battle was 7,000 Dutch troops killed, and the Western army lost 80 men and 220 wounded.

In the battle of 1574, 5,800 Western troops fought against 8,100 Dutch troops, resulting in 3,000 Dutch casualties, and the main generals Louis and Henry of Nassau were both killed, and the Western army suffered 150 casualties.

Those battles were entirely fought against medieval noble conscripts with Spanish phalanx legions.

But the rebel army still occupied large areas of towns and coasts, why?

Because the guerrillas were cut off from supplies, the king did not have the financial means to pay his most elite legions.

Spain's finances were already very bad, and Chen Mu, the troublemaker behind the ass, made it even worse.

"Asking for military rations again? That's the food for my 30,000 troops, how can he expect to feed him with my rations? What does he want military rations for? ”

The old governor Almansa was also very annoyed, obviously telling Chen Mu to let him be the governor, but when he turned his head, Chang Sheng sent Yang Tingxiang, who was about the same age as Bernal, to be the governor, and he could only condescend to the deputy position...... And the deputy, does this deputy governor really exist?

Existence is existence, but is it meaningful?

He bowed his head and said, "The governor's decree has been responded to by more than 1,600 people, and those Indians who don't know anything are going to work as shipwrights in the Kirinwei, and the governor's palace needs to send them rations on the road." ”

The Indians went to Kirin Wei to work as a boatman?

Duke Alva found the map in the official residence outside the city, and easily found the Kirin guard on the southwest coast of the Caribbean Sea from it, squinted his eyes and asked, "They plan to build a ship, in Panama?" ”

This news is not good for the old duke, New Spain is already a country within a country, the west and north are the main forces of the Ming army Chen Mu, and the Caribbean Sea in the east also has thousands of Ming troops roaming between the Kirin Wei and the archipelago.

Strategically, since Bernal's defeat at Alva, Mexico City and even the Viceroyalty of New Spain have been abandoned.

Yang Tingxiang was able to quickly take over all the powers of New Spain, and the Duke of Alva's deliberate letting go to avoid intensifying the conflict played a great role.

Of course, compared to the new aristocratic plantation owners who only knew how to make money, Duke Alva's exploits were secondary.

The broken jar is broken.

Governor Yang from the Ming Dynasty can govern New Spain as well as the treaty says, of course, it is the best, after all, the taxes and output of the condominium area also have a share of the second child; It doesn't matter if the governance is not good, the bottom line of the old duke is the West Indies and the Viceroyalty of Peru.

As long as there was the output of the plantations of the archipelago and the gold and silver of Peru, Spain could always turn the tables in the war against the Netherlands, and the Dutch war was fought not by winning or losing, but by the resilience of both sides.

It depends on whether the lives of those who dare to become independent in the Netherlands will die first, or whether the military funds of the Kingdom of Spain will run out first.

Duke Alva did not ask Chen Mu for the so-called 'war aid, alliance support' in the treaty, there was a word in the Ming Dynasty called seeking skin with the tiger, the old duke not only knew this, but he also figured out another sentence - the empire will not die.

But as long as it is an empire and a hegemon, then it is inevitably related to the immortality of the heart of self-destruction, unless Spain can bow to the Ming Dynasty, and people can do whatever they want, but is this possible?

Not to mention that the vast kingdom of Spain will collapse without military spending, but just say that it used to boast that it was the first tiger in the world in Europe, and now it bows to the evil forces and ranks second in the world, is this so low?

Of course, the so-called 'death' is not to perish, nor to eliminate, but to block your opportunity for upward development, which has nothing to do with life and death for individuals, it is nothing more than that now you are a judge in Potosí wearing gold and silver palms, and if your country is 'destroyed', you can go back to Madrid as a small judge and receive a few silver coins a month, and you can also live.

Now Chen Mu is going to build a ship in Qilinwei, so that Duke Alva can smell a hint of danger, and his bottom line is touched: "If you build a ship in Qilinwei, their army can be silently transferred to the Caribbean Sea in just a month and a half, do you understand what this means?" ”

The West Indies are not guaranteed!

"They built ships for the purpose of trading with Spain, and Governor Young sent a report of his analysis, in which he said that it was a mistake for Spain to sell wool to England every year, and hoped that from next year the king would order a ban on the sale of wool to English merchants."

The Duke of Alva didn't know much about trade, otherwise he wouldn't have destroyed many of the major commercial towns in the Netherlands, but it wasn't the old duke's fault, all Spaniards did.

From the colonial method alone, it can be seen that the Spaniards, regardless of whether they are in Asia or Luzon, have a very simple colonial method, and they will have two tricks: fight a war, and if they win, they will enslave the local people to mine.

If it weren't for their small size, the Portuguese would be like the Spanish, but their size is difficult to enslave the locals to mine, so they can only set up trading stations and become second-hand dealers.

"Wool is forbidden to be sold to the English? Is Chen Mu trying to strangle us? ”

Alva knew too well that after losing the income of the Netherlands, the main source of wealth of the barren Iberian Peninsula was only transportation of gold and silver and trade, and now Chen Mu planned to use the knife from trade, and to be honest, the old duke only had one thing to say at this moment.

If you really can't do it, don't talk nonsense, light up your weapons!

Almantha shook his head quickly, whispered mysteriously, word by word, and said, "The Ming Dynasty intends to buy us with silk, porcelain, and iron, all wool!" ”