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Chapter 19 The Fool

Chen Mu's letter made the New Spain Governor's Office silence.

Captain Te Guangming could only see the Governor Armanzana's hand trembling slightly, his face turned red and white for a while. Before he finished reading the letter, he looked at the letter intently. His left hand was fumbled on the table. After touching for a long time, he thought of opening his mouth and ordering: "Map, I want a map!"

The mansion attendant wearing a black velvet jacket and tights quickly found the map and covered it on the table. Then Almansa took his fingers and gestured on the map like a devil.

The tall wooden door carved with the cross was pushed open, and the commander of the legion, Bernard, wearing a full body of armor, a long sword and a musket, led several legion commanders into the Governor's Mansion. However, before he could say anything, Armansa, who looked gloomy and gloomy, raised his palm to stop what they wanted to say.

The faces of several legion commanders behind Bernard were significantly different from those of the peninsula such as him or Almanza. They were all second-generation Indians with patriarchal Spanish descent. They relied on their bloodline and efforts to have no connection with their original race and became senior officers under Spain.

At this point, Spain had smart and bold decisions, and had full trust in them, except for the lower status than the peninsula nobles, the rest were treated equally.

In the Spanish consciousness, as long as the father is Spanish, he is pure blood, one-half or one-quarter, no matter how many, he is Spanish.

Bernard's plate armor was covered with red silk. In fact, it was wrong for Yang Tingxiang to say in his report on the Spanish that "the Chinese people are still black". Although they can be black all over their bodies, it was to set off a little red on their bodies.

Without red, black that cannot bring huge contrast will be meaningless.

For example, the black linen shirt is meaningless when Bernard holds a document and a scroll of map behind him.

Although Bernard and several legion commanders were anxious, they patiently read the Governor very seriously in a letter, and they also occasionally draw maps under their hands.

When Bernard leaned over and saw that the entire west coast, except Mexico, was marked on the map, and he couldn't help but whisper to several corps commanders who had a harmonious relationship: "A shit-like shipbuilding plan."

When the Governor Almansa raised his head, Bernard still looked handsome and calm, lowered his head slightly and asked humbly: "Governor, is that your Majesty's letter?"

"His Majesty?"

Armansa pressed the letter with his hand. When he heard Bernard's question, he asked back ridiculously, and then he smiled and said, "It's Chen Mu's letter. Do you think this is a shipbuilding order from the king? This is the land Chen Mu asked us for!"

Bernard frowned, and the two mixed-blood commanders behind him had already roared, yelling to completely erase Chen Mu's arrogance from the New World.

Bernard was not so angry. He was calm and rational. He waved his hand behind him and said, "His Excellency the Governor, my sergeant, the Chief Superintendent, and the Chief Priests of the Army have made expected reports on the war."

In this report, according to the existing information, once a war broke out with the Ming army, their chances of winning in small-scale battles are not high, while large-scale decisive battles are just the opposite, but the possibility of losing the war is extremely high due to emergencies outside the war.

Asamansa was not in a hurry to watch the report. He did not look down on these second-generation mixed-race nobles very much, and waved: "Please leave for the time being. I have something to discuss with the Legion Commander."

Several mixed-race commanders wanted to say something, but in the end they still had no courage. They saluted the Governor and left. In a blink of an eye, only Armansa and Bernard were left in the conference room. The Governor was not in a hurry to talk about the war, but asked leisurely: "Nar, tell me, what did you see from this picture?"

This picture is very terrifying. The west coast of the New World belongs to the Ming people almost entirely, with only the 700-rig coastline from Guatemala to Mexico, and half of it is surrounded by the peninsula.

"Obviously, we will lose all power on the West Coast of the New World."

Bernard's words were unexpectedly relaxed. He shrugged and said, "Knowing that the Governor made Chen Mu's letter public, he can gain at least four legions of troops for us, and the victory or defeat of the war will be re-evaluated."

In the letter, Chen Mu asked for land that was more than 2,000 gigabytes long and more than 200 gigabytes wide, and its territory was larger than all the territory of Spain in the old continent combined. This did not mean land, but meant that thousands of the aristocrats of the New World who depended on business and land would lose everything.

"What if we can't get any assistance from the Old World?" Almansa glanced out the window and said, "In the Old World, a new war has begun."

Bernard shook his head and said, "I got the latest news. After succeeding as the governor of the Netherlands, Austria's Don Juan finally started a war against the Netherlands rebels this year. One battle was a terrible victory. He led his army to almost wipe out 20,000 troops in the Netherlands, and his own side suffered only a hundred casualties - he is the greatest general in Spain!"

Lebanto, Greece, Don Juan, commander of the Holy Alliance fleet, annihilated 40,000 Ottoman troops and destroyed and captured 224 ships.

Promoted peace talks between Nanjing and Ming dynasties.

This time, this victory was won in the Netherlands, at the age of thirty-one, in Bernal's eyes, the title of the greatest general, Don Juan deserves it.

But he didn't expect Almansa to take out a letter from the table and hand it to him and shake his head, "I advise you to take back this sentence. I get the latest news that Don Juan was infected while commanding the battle and died of illness two months ago."

"His Majesty the King accepted Don Juan's advice and appointed Alexander Farnese, who grew up in the palace, to take over as the governor of the Netherlands."

"The war in the Netherlands continues, and to the east, the Portuguese army has already headed to Africa. Before the war begins, Sebastian asks our king for reinforcements. Spain has suffered from the Moors, but they are allowed to recruit soldiers on Spanish lands to support the war."

Bernard knocked his head, and he suspected that Philip was serving had gone crazy, "How could His Majesty the King support Sebastian to conquer Africa in the name of Jesus?"

"Of course I will support it, this is a personal expedition. If Sebastian dies in the war, the king will be a competitor to the Portuguese throne and the strongest competitor."

"So once a war breaks out in the New World, the country may not be able to provide us with too much support in the past two years. You already know the information of the Ming army commanded by Chen Mu. Tillucius said that the army has tens of thousands of troops and thousands of warships, and I am very confused."

Almansa frowned tightly and raised her finger to the letter from Chen Mu on the table.

"But Chen Mu told me in the letter that although he currently has less than 200 boats and thousands of people, it is difficult to replenish food. It takes a long coastline for them to catch fish, and plans to use the fish produced here to make fish with his hometown's unique marinating methods in the future to exchange silver with us."
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