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Four hundred and thirtieth chapters Guozhang

This order was conveyed by Chen Mu to Lin Xiao.

Just after he sent off the Spanish envoy from the Peru Governor's District with a warm smile on his face.

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"Then the Grand Marshal asked Lin Xiao to tell Lautaro that a village kills a Spaniard every month?"

Zhao Shizhen was still holding a scroll of paintings loaded in a paper tube. It was a painting he had just learned from his teacher Xu Wei at the royal university and a group of auxiliary generals. In the end, he was two strokes away. He heard Chen Mu call him and ran over quickly.

After hearing Chen Mu's ingenuity and no end, he said confidently: "Is the Spanish given less silver this year?"

In the mind of the mechanics unit, the entire Peru Governor's District is an automatic silver mine belonging to the Ming Dynasty.

Every year, 170,000 kilograms of silver are automatically sent. The Dongyang Military Administration first deducts 25,000 kilograms, and 14,000 kilograms during the coin minting process. After pinching the head and removing the tail and mixing copper materials, 4.5 million and half taels of coins were handed over by Yang Tingxiang to conduct trade in Mingxi. The last one and two million and half taels of coins were loaded on ship to Philip.

People need to eat, fish need to swim, and Spanish people have to pay the coin handling fee - this is an eternal and unchanging objective law.

In the past, Lautaro fought in Colombia, and Chen Mu never instructed or assigned anything, nor handed him out the Ming army standard equipment. This year, he directly sent Changsheng's fuse-rope bird gun, which shows that the objective laws have changed.

The reason for the change was probably because the Spaniards gave less silver, which made Chen Dashuai, who fell into the money eye, very dissatisfied.

"I lost 4,000 kilograms this year, it seems that it is because Peru can't grab people anymore, so it's understandable."

Chen Mu was not as angry as he showed. On the contrary, he sipped hot tea easily and laughed: "There is Marshal Deng from Panama to the north, Marshal Shao from the desert to the south, and the Portuguese and Lautaro in the east. It is normal for him to not be able to grab people, and it is normal for the production to decline."

As he said that, Zhao Shizhen saw Chen Mu's idle left hand stretching out two fingers by the table, and said, "They said, don't care how much their output has dropped, the 25,000 kilograms given to the Dongyang Military Palace will remain unchanged. Although we will still lose a little, it won't be that much."

Of course, Zhao Shizhen knew that they didn't lose much. In fact, silver is almost useless in the whole of Asia. The circulating is Asia Tongbao. The power of printing money, pricing and tax collection is in the Ming Dynasty. Spain cannot stop trade with the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, Fei Lao Er's desire for trade is increasing day by day. This matter has always been Zhao Shizhen's pistachio.

Starting from coin minting, the coin tax and the process of coining, the silver coins are delivered to Tongbao, and trade with Tongbao, pay taxes to the Dongyang Military Palace through the trade volume, pay taxes to Mexico City when leaving the port, and ship to the Ming Port of Seville to pay taxes to Li Dan... After exploitation, the original 2.72 million taels of silver was turned into 100 to 200,000 taels of silver when they arrived in Spain and a half tael of goods worth 100,000 to 200,000 taels of silver in Songjiang Palace.

Philip still feels that he makes a lot of money.

This is not the thing that makes Zhao Shizhen laugh the most. What makes him laugh the most is that according to Li Dan's letter, His Highness Philip can really make money from this kind of trade.

And it's a lot of money.

With the soaring prices in Spain and shortage of supplies, Spanish merchants can still sell them even if the prices of goods are ridiculously high. Last year, a broken cup with the name of Chen Mu was bought by the Archbishop in Madrid for 250 and a half taels. He specially built a stone foundation at the entrance of the Cathedral of Seville, and advocated that believers every week spit into the cup.

Of course, the so-called broken cup is very good. Even if it is placed in the Ming Dynasty, it can definitely be served on the tea table of the gentry and landlords. It’s just that the signature of the earthworm ruined Feng Shui.

When the Oriental Military Office learned this interesting news, the cup had been stolen under the noses of the troops stationed in the Seville Armed Square and its whereabouts were unknown.

The whole of Spain suspected that it was the most undevoted Mr. Andre Ditis. Li Dan said that he was very unjust and even wrote a letter to King Fei Laoer in anger, saying that he had never known that the cup was there before he left this stage, otherwise he would have sent someone to take explosives and snatched the church together, and at the same time strongly condemned the Archbishop's approach.

Finally, he extorted 3,500 taels of Seville Cathedral in the name of Chen Mu to be counted.

Later, it was rumored that this was not done by Li Dan. It is said that the cups appeared briefly in Milan and Florence. People suspected that it was stolen from the Metic family, who tried to imitate porcelain five years ago, to study porcelain.

Legends are always legends, and no one knows where Chen Mu's Holy Grail is hidden.

Of course, even Chen Mu, the person involved, didn't care, and Zhao Shizhen didn't care even more. He cared more about why Chen Mu changed his past strategy of silently supporting Lautaro and directly supported him, sending the fuse bird gun, gunpowder and lead balls... It was almost like the Eastern Army Mansion to beat the Western Army of Peru.

This doesn't make sense. It seems that Chen Mu is not angry about giving away 4,000 kilograms of silver this year, but he looks like he intends to tear his face with the Spaniards and start the Third Ming and Western War.

But it's all about to fight the third war, what's the point of killing an enemy a month?

Besides, the Third War in Mingxi is about to start now. Isn’t it pushing your godson who left your taxes in the Ming Port to the fire pit?

"It's not because of silver. In recent years, a large amount of silver has flowed into the country. There is no shortage of silver. The court has not been short of it, and the Eastern Military Government is not short of it. It's useless to keep half a tael of money from minting last year. Not only can I send this year's money to Spain, but I can even get enough next year and the next year."

Chen Mu waved his hand and looked at Zhao Shizhen and said, "I want to consume the Spaniards who are still in Asia. Do you think there are fewer people per month?"

"Laotaro has more than 470 villages and teams, and is active in various places bordering Peru on Colombia. The Spaniards were disturbed by them so much that they could only hide in towns and outposts, but they always had to go out."

"This is the method of taking Lautaro. If you do well, you will be ambushed on the necessary path. There are Western Army sending messages, transporting grain, levying taxes, and sending a gun to the right. It is normal. The same thing is repeated four hundred and seventy times a month on the land. Including Peru, which has been recruiting troops and practicing martial arts, there are only less than 20,000 people in total."

"He will die in a year for five thousand, not to mention that the grain transport team will walk over. Whoever cannons in the forest can fire it and can achieve half a year's performance in one go."

Chen Mu said, pushing out the letter and said, "As for the reasons, there are two reasons. First, Fei Laoer successfully became the king of Portugal. He has lost North Asia and will not allow him to lose Brazil. If Brazil wants to do so, he has to send more personnel to Brazil. Peru is closer than Spain. The fewer people in Peru, the more likely Brazil is to be from the Ming Dynasty."
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