The sea breeze at Long Beach Harbor is very cool. I don’t know whether it is due to the weather or the dry season, but it is still dry even in the seaside air.

Li Zhi, who had disembarked, seemed to be shaking his mind at sea. Even though his treatment was much better this time than when he came from the local area, the Eastern Military Office picked up a Spanish Clipper for him, and the route was smooth, and he still stayed at sea for twenty days.

He was a little confused about the relationship between the Kingdom of Spain and the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, people did not know much about Spain. People like him who had a wide range of friends and experiences had their understanding of Spain also remained on the Ming Dynasty's martial arts books.

It was a country that was defeated by the Ming Dynasty in two wars. Even if you know a little deeper and know the cause of the two wars, you will only say that both wars began very confused.

At that time, no one in the court could figure out what was going on. In short, Chen Mu fought the Spanish Yunbao fleet on his way south, intervened in the Luzon war, and won a war to expel the Western barbarians from the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

Later, as time went on, people became more and more familiar with the war. Both the government and the public knew that it was a group of Portuguese pirates entering and leaving the Lingdingyang and robbing a few cows in Tuen Mun. Chen Shuai was mistakenly believed that it was the Spanish who did this and ordered his governor to compensate 270,000 taels of silver.

There are also rumors that Chen Shuai seemed to insist on provoking the war, because he told the Portuguese messenger that the governor of Luzon in Spain would be limited to the replies in May. It was May, and the combat preparations for the Nanyang Fleet had been completed and he went to sea before June.

However, this is just a joke about the people in the countryside after drinking and tea. The result of that war was that the Nanyang Military Palace paid 4 million taels of silver, 4 million taels of rice to the court every year for more than ten years.

Not to mention the large amount of rice, hardware, pearls, gems that merchants sold into the people, the trade routes between the Ming Dynasty and the South China countries were prosperous to an unprecedented level, and the rebels that were dying like wild grass were gone.

There is no soil for rebellion. After all, the ambitious people are the few in the rebels, and more are the people who really can't survive. In fact, their problems may be solved well with just one tael of silver in the moon.

Nowadays, as long as people walk to the port of coastal towns, they will stand for half a day and ask whether to go out to sea. If they go out to sea, they will first settle down for ten taels. They will have two taels of silver on the sea, and they can also bring hundreds of kilograms of their own cargo on the ship.

Even if you are a truly ambitious person, you can't attract anyone to join the group if you want to rebel.

The Second War in Mingxi became even more confused. People in China think that Mr. Fei from Spain is a big fool. Chen Mu is an obvious bully. Seeing that he took the large fleet to sea, it would be no longer bad if he didn't provoke you. Your people would provoke him?

I was shocked by the fact that Spain was not beaten enough.

When we arrived in East Asia, the information received from the people of the port and Zhao Shizhen was even more so that the Spanish did everything evil on this land, but on the east coast, all this changed.

The merchants said that Spain is stupid and has a lot of money, and no matter what it transports, it can make ten times the profit; the people's reputation is much better, and Daxi Port is all Western barbarians who serve the Ming people.

In Havana, although there were many people who were covered in marijuana robes who were cold to him, most Spaniards still had their eyes shining when they saw the Ming people, and the young girls even wanted to pull him, the old man, into a tavern.

Even the ship on which he was riding, the Ming captain slapped the side of the ship proudly and told him that this kind of ship was specially prepared by Mr. Fei of Spain. It only takes more than twenty days to travel from the Ming Port to the Daxi Port even if it spans the ocean.

Li Zhi felt that the Spanish was not bad.

How could he know that this ship was a long-distance communication ship specially made by Philip with the power of slaughtering the power of the ox and tigers. It was shipping very fast, with fewer crews, and had no cargo capacity to reduce weight as much as possible, in order to better grasp the real-time situation of the New World.

As a result, the ship was built and the New World was gone. Only Peru was left hanging half-deadly, which also made Philip lose interest.

Except for the first year of the Ming and Western trade, he did not receive any new silver coins later, and all the money was used to order from the Eastern Military Palace.

The military and economic capabilities of the Ming Dynasty have enhanced the national credit on this land. Starting from the Western Maritime Merchants, people have accepted Wanli Tongbao as a general equivalent on a large scale. Anyway, the money of Western Maritime Merchants is only used to buy things from the Ming people. As long as the Ming merchants collect this money, it is enough.

Not to mention the paper Wanli Tongbao, even the four generations of copper Tongbao made of Longqing, Jiajing, Zhengde and Yongle are standard currencies in Spain.

Tongbao from Longqing and Jiajing was first brought to Asia by Ming immigrants, and then to Spain by Asian native sailors. Zhengde and Yongle Tongbao were brought to the Ming Dynasty's garrison in South Asia and merchants from Japan.

There are still a few copper coins left in Spain, and merchants only trust Li Dan of Daming Port to clearly mark the exchange rates of various coins.

Daming Port is willing to let people exchange coins, unlike Chen Mu who does not want anyone to exchange coins to prevent silver from flowing out of the flow. Daming Port always exchanges coins at a standard price, but only charges a little handling fee.

This will enhance the people of the Western countries' confidence in the Ming Dynasty coins.

In fact, the most Ming Dynasty bronze coins are in Muye.

Since the beginning of Haifasha, the leader of the Longhouse Alliance, the local warriors of Makino have always been the habit of wearing Ming coins into copper armor. As it becomes increasingly integrated with the Ming Dynasty, this habit has gradually become more particular.

In Changtan Port, Li Zhi saw female Baojia soldiers wearing iron helmets and walking around in front of him.

All of this was very novel to Li Zhi. He hadn't seen a woman joining the army for a long time.

When he heard that in the iron mine in Makino, countless women in the Longhouse Alliance had been fighting against the government to maintain their matriarchal society in order to have a decent job and get permission to dig the mine, which surprised the old man so much that his chin was about to fall off.

These female soldiers all used rouge powder from the Ming Dynasty and wore Ming-style earring necklaces, which were very exquisite; but their strong and energetic figures were not as weak as domestic girls.

They wore an iron helmet similar to a bowl helmet on their heads, but they were wearing traditional crown decorations behind the helmets, and they also wore simple sleeveless plain breastplate. However, many people did not use fabrics on the helmet’s neck, the hem of the breastplate, and the armor skirt, but made of copper coins.

They buy things at the market in Changtan Port, Makino Prefecture, and often take up the hem of the armor, pull out their short knife to cut off the armor rope and give it to the store. It is very novel.

There are also some people who need some protection in addition to decorating it, and they use a riveted armor skirt with iron coins and flat iron rings. The one obviously cannot be spent. Li Zhi also came forward to ask, and those girls were not shy and were willing to let him see the iron coins.

There are all kinds of words cast on iron coins, and some are even forged steel coins, which are made by brazing.

Most of them are blessing words like peace in the world, blessings for many children, good weather, good harvests, and long live the emperor.
Chapter completed!