In the past ten months, a large number of flag-armed craftsmen of the Oriental Fleet entered Majiagang, making the port look brand new.

Two newly established 100-house villages guard both sides of the port trest bridge. Not far north is the original Majiagang village. Now a large number of wooden houses or brick and wooden houses have been built, but the roads are still simple, with many logs piled up, which look like a construction site.

It’s not that Chen Mu doesn’t want to repair the port roads. Not only does he want to repair the roads, but he also wants to build three carriage tracks for transporting goods here. However, this season’s land is difficult to build wooden houses, let alone road construction.

Fortunately, road construction is not an urgent problem to be solved at the moment. As long as the barracks of the flag army and the craftsmen are built well, other matters can be distinguished. As long as the second phase of the flag army arrives next year, it will be enough.

The Dongyang Military Office has planned the roads. They will build three trest bridges after the beginning of spring, connecting three carriage wooden tracks. At that time, it will be easier and more efficient to load and unload goods in Majiagang.

But in front of them, they just need to happily welcome the arrival of the sixth year of Wanli.

Chen Mu did not appear at the negotiating table in Majiagang Camp. Zhao Shizhen and Yang Tingxiang selected more than 20 officers familiar with military affairs, business, Spanish and mining affairs from the entire army within half an hour after receiving Chen Mu's order, and met with the negotiation team sent by the Western Army in the Majiagang Yamen.

Unexpectedly, he was still an acquaintance. Yang Ting-synchron Zhao Shizhen led people to the side hall and searched with his eyes. Then he saw monk Acosta. He bowed and smiled and said, "Monk, I didn't expect to meet again. In Lima, I said, you should send some people to learn Chinese, otherwise communication will be difficult."

Yang Tingxiang had met Acosta in Lima, but in fact he had no close friends. He had just met this monk with strange hair next to the governor at that time.

He did not speak Spanish, which was actually a very depressing thing for Yang Tingxiang. He learned most of the daily languages ​​of Spain and Portugal very seriously during his study in the martial arts lecture hall. However, after graduation, he found that he had never used these two foreign languages ​​once.

Because the general he followed was Chen Mu, and the missions assigned to him were all to visit other countries and negotiate important matters. In these missions, he had to speak his own language, and even if he was very skilled in his foreign language, he could not speak it.

After he finished speaking, he repeated the flag military, which was responsible for the translation of the general, in professional and fluent Spanish to Acosta. After Acosta answered, the general translation would be repeated.

The long table used for negotiation is Chen Mu's military conference table. Majiagang is simple and the yamen is newly built after the arrival of the Eastern Military Palace. It is dedicated to Chen Mu's convening officers under his command to discuss matters. This is also the only long table in Majiagang that can accommodate more than 20 people sitting opposite each other.

Acosta remembers Yang Tingxiang that on the day the Ming ship left the port of Lima, a Spanish officer planned to lead a fleet to siege and intercept him, trying to sink the warship he was riding on to the west coast. This was also the only Chinese official who had been to Spain. There was no reason why he was not impressed by him.

Acosta bowed to the Ming people and said in a gentle tone: "I'm already learning, but the Ming Dynasty did not allow us to enter, and your words and words are very complicated, so it's difficult to learn. Should I call you Lord Yang or General Yang?"

The negotiation team sent by the Dongyang Military Office was too oppressive. Each of them wore a standard dark blue military uniform, hung a dark blue cotton armor skirt and painted white, gray, red and black breastplates, and covered the outer cover until the calf was slightly closed and the waist was painted with a dark blue foam-studded cotton armor-type military coat. The helmet on the head was the same as the breastplate color on the helmet.

Including Yang Tingxiang, who was wearing a brocade official robe and showing a civil servant appearance last time, everyone took off their helmets, pulled open the back of the seat, and put down their helmets forward. Their movements were neat and uniform, and they placed a helmet on the table next to each person's left hand.

The elite army from across the ocean is imposing.

But knowledge is also power. The monk class has a high status in Europe not just because of serving the gods, but also because they are the top elites closest to science in the whole of Europe.

Faced with the invisible threat, Acosta was not nervous and laughed more friendly: "In the past, I thought some generals said that military uniforms were like servants' zithers, which would eliminate the fighting spirit and anger that a soldier originally had. When I saw your military uniforms, I don't think so."

"Maybe after I go back, I will persuade the church to support the Duke of Alva's claim."

After the general translator repeated his words, Yang Tingxiang smiled and said, "My emperor and general don't think so. Chen Shuai believes that soldiers should do the most dangerous livelihood in the world and should get military uniforms with better fabric texture, more exquisite workmanship and better looking. This can enhance the soldiers' honor for themselves. Does anyone think so in your country, Alva?"

"Duke of Alva." Acosta nodded, "When he was stationed in the Netherlands a few years ago, he wrote to the court that 'When active combat, the general should wear the entire army in bright blue.' He believed that ten thousand troops in blue uniforms looked more dangerous than twenty thousand soldiers in black uniforms."

"Because the latter looks like a chaotic army of mobs, a group of citizens or shop owners."

Acosta said this, his eyes swaying between the neat and serious Ming army negotiating group opposite the long table and the chaotic negotiating group of his own side. He spread his hands and said, "But where can commanders in the world prepare military uniforms of the same color for 20,000 soldiers?"

"Even if they were wearing them before the war, no one would still wear the same clothes after the war ended. During the three or four years of war, they would marche thousands of miles, change their garrisons hundreds of times, marched all night, slept in the wild, and fight in big and small battles."

Monk Acosta curled his lips and said, "The outerwear, boots and shorts will soon break. I will never forget to be a military priest in the Netherlands eight years ago. In order to spread the glory of the Lord, I only have a small tide of linen to resist the cold."

"The boots were also filled with water, wrapped in wet cloaks, and lay there curled up like a hedgehog, and in the morning light of dawn I thought I looked like a half-dead rat."

After Acosta said that, he laughed loudly, and the followers who accompanied him laughed, and there was a joyful atmosphere everywhere. This is common sense in combat, and almost everyone has experienced it.

But opposite the long table, the generals of the Ming army were serious and even cast sympathetic eyes on them.

Yang Tingxiang pursed his lips, crossed his hands on the table, and waited for Acosta to laugh almost before he spoke very seriously: "Who said that no commander in the world can provide the same military uniform for his subordinates? Monk, you are lucky. I think it will be beneficial for everyone to agree on some other contracts before starting the border negotiations."

"For example, as long as you provide cotton, iron and appropriate amount of gold, silver and copper as labor costs, the Ming Empire's spinning machine can operate for allies. 20,000 people need three pieces of spring, autumn, heat, and winter? A total of 60,000 sets of brightly colored blue military uniforms? This is not a problem."

"Even if you purchase a helmet, it's easy to get your armor. You can get a brand new military uniform this year at this time next year, and you can accept armor in Mexico the next year."
Chapter completed!