At the same time, the requisitioned barracks outside the city of Manila were brightly lit, and a group of officials from the Nanyang Military Office gathered to raise the second round of banquets.

"No, no, no, I can't think of them according to my wise people's ideas!" Facing Gao Gong's thoughts of Chen Mu's loan and customs, Chen Mu waved his hand and said, "If I ask my Ming Dynasty to hand over the defense of the customs to foreigners, it would be impossible, but they are different."

"Can their king hand over taxes to merchants as collateral? Can the Ming Dynasty do it? Since ancient times, our officials have been in charge of the local area. They not only collect taxes, but also have to build water conservancy, deal with disputes, and even imports of children. They have no officials, and the nobles under their jurisdiction only collect taxes, and they don't care about everything else."

"I think renting land and customs is not the most difficult. The difficulty lies in appointing local officials and choosing merchants. They will definitely ask merchants and officials to be devout believers." Chen Mu picked up the wine bowl and drank it, shook his head and laughed: "I am even more excited when I drink too much today! I heard from Lao Pinto that King Philip said that he would rather die than rule the country with pagans."

"This is the biggest reason why he may not agree to the lease of land."

Gao Gong was a little uncomfortable with Chen Mu's situation where he was eating snacks and drinking, and talking about such important matters. He sat upright and didn't drink a sip of wine and didn't eat any food, and said, "What is the purpose of Chen Shuai's renting land? One million taels of silver, so generous!"

"Is it possible that my Ming Dynasty still lacks such a little land?"

Chen Mu smiled with his lips and waved his hand, "I'm not generous, to be honest, I'll tell Gao Gong, Chen didn't plan to ask for this seven million taels of silver."

"As long as their king accepts the land leased in Seville, we merchants can legitimately send it to Spain. The sea is far away. Whether he wants or not, our fleet will dock in Mexico. We will wait for two big wins. The fleet will dock in Mexico. Do he dare to stop it?"

"If you dare, I have the excuse to send troops to Mexico and station troops in Seville to rent a land; if you dare, then our troops will be stationed in Mexico and Seville." Chen Mu raised his thumbs up and said, "For us, Luzon, Lin Lai, and my Tiger and Wolf Army won two big victories, the result is destined-they can't beat me."

"Just like this seven million taels of silver, should they give me? Of course not. Why should I ask someone for seven million taels? It's because I overturned their fleet." Chen Mu said a barbaric speech without any grace and slapped the table: "Now they all feel that they owe me seven million taels!"

"They would never guess that I want Sevilla's loan to garrison the troops to Mexico. That is the root of their wealth. I will definitely not agree." Chen Mu said as he leaned forward and said mysteriously: "I have to do something worse than the garrison. Then I will propose to garrison, and they will agree without thinking."

Gao Gong frowned. Chen Mu is too evil. Even if he does a good job, he will become the root of disaster without taking the right path. He asked: "Then is the cooperation you mentioned to be a scam?"

"Of course it's not a scam! I really plan to send Dan'er to them as customs tax officials and rectify their taxes. Our merchants used to do business with dignity. Not only did I let them go and trade, but I also wanted to build schools, teach them the Analects of Confucius, bring them advanced humanistic ideas, open the Yangjian Academy, Luzeyuan, and Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau."

"If Spain needs it, I will sell him as many as the bullet guns as he wants; I will sell him as many gunboats as he wants; I will sell him as many gunboats as he wants; I will sell him as many gunboats as he wants! Even if I bid for the mercenaries of the Ming Dynasty, I will still convince the court and send him mercenaries-as long as this is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, now, landing in Spain will be the most profitable to the Ming Dynasty."

Chen Mu didn't know much about people at that time, so he was always an uneducated guy in the eyes of Gao Gong and others, but this did not prevent him from starting a high point. At the level he knew, no one could argue with him.

"What's the benefit to the Ming Dynasty?" Gao Gong didn't like to fall into Chen Mu's context and couldn't speak at all. He could only listen to the details that could be understood in his speech and asked: "Selling military weapons to others, teaching others' knowledge, and opening a Luze Garden for them. What's the benefit of the Ming Dynasty?"

"The Ming Dynasty can influence Spain's economy, defeat will also affect their military, and merchants can influence their politics, but this will bring their anti-mindedness to the Ming Dynasty, so we need to give them some sweetness to make them feel that the Ming Dynasty is not bad, and then exert influence from it. All activities are the whole and cannot be viewed separately."

Chen Mu said with a sly smile and said, "I learned from the Jesuits. They recruited merchants in Haojing, built hospitals and universities. On the other hand, they were also collecting intelligence to estimate the military situation. Doing only good things will make people feel stupid, and doing only bad things will make people feel bad. But if you do good things and bad things together, you will be divided into others' views on us and let them get rid of internal friction."

"The interests of the Ming Dynasty overseas are in Japan, Ryukyu, Luzon, Sulu, Borneo, and Malacca. Now only Malacca has failed to exert influence because it is in the hands of the Portuguese, and the rest of the countries have been taken into account. As long as the Great Wall in the inner sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty is stable, the hinterland of the Ming and Xinming will not be threatened overseas."

"And overseas, no matter what happens, Yu Daming is irrelevant."

Gao Gong nodded, and he called the name of the Great Wall on the Sea. Naturally, he understood its power, but: "The Western barbarians are so far away, even if they exert influence on it, they are not as good as those of the South China countries."

"You should know the risks and consumption of the risks and consumptions of the West."

Gao Gong shook his head slowly and said, "In the past, you used to be a soldier from all over the South China Sea. It is not difficult to dispatch troops and generals between the two countries. Now there are only 5,600 posts in the military guards. They have to station troops in Mocheng and Saicheng. Wherever the military guards get these troops, the huge amount of baggage required and the difficulty of traveling, let alone profit."

"But you can do something you have to give up money."

Mr. Gao also drank today, and he was drinking northern soju. He bowed dizzyly. He probably didn't know what he said. Chen Mu understood the last sentence, and he said, "I want to know too."

Seeing Gao Gong so serious, Chen Mu felt embarrassed. He laughed and said, "It's nothing. The key is not the profit of merchants. The purpose is to understand the Western countries and exert influence on them, and deepen our understanding of them. As for them to understand us, it's enough to know that we are very powerful."

"Apart from that, if you really want to make a profit, Chen has no better idea. It's just about manpower costs. There are not many handicraftsmen, so the wages are expensive. However, there are many colonies, but the raw materials are not expensive. My wages are cheap. From doll carts to coffins, guns to cannons, carriages to sea ships, if the shipping is too expensive, just drive the factory in Mexico and use their raw materials, and you can always make profits."

"When their attention is still on the fine workmanship of our Ming Dynasty's products, Ma Gui should have already run the North Asia Melica. When they want to turn against each other again, it will be a local war for the military government."
Chapter completed!