The Spanish didn't know what they had ever handed over to pass each other on this new continent.

But Alva thought he had made a mistake, and it was a silly idea to build seven fortresses among the winding mountains of the official road.

"Eighty-five thousand people, where do they have so many idle people? I even want to applaud the magical will of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty!"

In recent days, the Duke of Alva has ordered people to read the information in Mexico City frantically. He wanted to figure out how many Spanish people were in the New World, but this work was doomed to return in vain. The church where books were stored in Mexico City was the first to be hit by the previous native uprisings. A large number of classics were burned and destroyed, leaving nothing useful.

However, the Archbishop of the Army provided him with an answer from the side. Last year, there were more than 210,000 Spanish believers who were able to pay the eleventh tax to the Holy See on time, including a large number of mixed-race children.

This figure is also a rough estimate. Not every mixed-race child has the intention to pay eleven tax to the church, and not everyone who is willing can pay eleven tax to the church, because some people have no property or rights to be human.

This is also one of the starting points for monks, including Acosta, to hope that Spain can give Indians sufficient rights.

But no matter what, it has been seventy years since Spain landed on the New World. In the past seventy years, they only had more than 200,000 people on this land, scattered in New Spain, the West Indies on the Caribbean Sea, and the Portuguese had only about 20,000 people in Brazil, where the vast land was.

In less than a year with the Ming Dynasty, they lost nearly 10,000 Spaniards in the New World, accounting for one-twenty-third of the total.

"This is not spontaneous. It was the emperor named Wanli who personally ordered people from all over the country to come here by boat. They migrated from all over the place to a port named Tianjin, called more than a thousand merchant ships gathered by the Emperor Ming Dynasty, and came to the New World."

Opposite Duke Alva is Acosta, a monk who returned to Mexico City from Changsheng County and was ordered to urge Chen Mu to trade in food. He stated the origins and outs of a large number of Ming Dynasty immigrants: "In Changsheng, their officials allocated land and allocated land according to their families, and arranged more than 60,000 people clearly."

The old Duke Alva supported his forehead with his arms, lowered his head, frowned, closed his eyes and thought for a long time, and said, "They have any officials who specialize in this matter?"

"The Duke, their officials manage everything, and are called parents. In fact, they control more than their parents. The victorious magistrate of Zou County is a young man who controls everything, their clothing, their life and death on this land."

This is an impact on the Duke of Alva.

The conquerors who came here, except for the army and the great nobles, were never controlled by the king.

The earliest adventurers were funded by wealthy nobles, and later merchants and wanderers spontaneously followed their wealth. When they achieved success, the king granted them the Governor's District to allow them to exercise autonomy.

After a long period of time, all this became formal. The earliest explorers received ten or twenty years of wealth and levies. The king truly regarded this place as his source of wealth and ordered those who truly possessed the talent of the governor to come here to develop and collect taxes for the palace.

But everyone who comes here is voluntary and completely out of control.

Just like the Ming Dynasty Cheng Dazhen and the Chaozuo.

But Philip never issued any decree that stipulates what kind of people should come to the New World.

Alva said: "This is a practice that our king can learn. Chen Mu, the agreement he wants to sign with us is very tricky. The king will like it very much when he sees it, but it will bring deeper suffering to Spain."

The old Duke Alva could easily hand over a large area of ​​Chile's land, or hand over the land west of Mexico City to the Ming army, but he was reluctant to transfer the entire agreement to Madrid.

In fact, he is not yet ready to hand over all the agreements on the ship.

Acosta believed it deeply, even more clear than the old duke. He said: "He was dividing the relationship between the church, the palace and the nobles. His contract was completely beneficial to His Majesty the King. More weapons, more wealth, and even the purpose was to support the King in using troops to other countries."

"But no one will be satisfied with this except His Majesty the King."

Adventurers, nobles, merchants, and churches in the New World were like they were chopped down by an axe. They were the ones who really commanded the Indians to work hard to mine and worked hard to take care of the plantations in the New World, but Chen Mu did not leave them much room for survival.

It seems that only in this way can Chen Mu take a piece of the benefits he has obtained and give it to Philip, causing a happy situation for both sides.

But no one would be happy about it. It can be foreseen that when the nobles and adventurers who lost their land in the New World returned to Spain, even Philip would not laugh. This huge force would not be blamed by Chen Mu. They would only blame all this on Philip who signed the treaty.

But Alva knew very well that no one could change the situation, especially when there was a sharp sword hanging above his head, he asked: "I didn't understand what Chen Mu's letter meant. I've given them more than 60 tons of grain to each village on the border."

"Those Ming Dynasty people who were picky about their mouths didn't even want corn, and asked us to grind them into noodles, saying that they didn't even have stone mills. This is not enough. Now I'll ask you to come back and urge you."

To be honest, Duke Alva has never suffered such anger since he was born. He stretched out his arms and made a cut-down move: "How much food does he want?"

Acosta did not speak, but took out a letter from the Changsheng magistrate Zou Yuanbiao and handed it out, saying, "They hope that we can convey to them the flour and rice ground from corn, potatoes through trade, which can be used to exchange for silk and porcelain."

When Duke Alva heard that he could trade silk and porcelain, his expression calmed down slightly. He had transported 60 tons of corn flour to those villages, but it was almost for free. His people did not collect a penny of silver in any village. What should he pay for it?

However, after he glanced at the letter, he frowned and said, "I'll just say those Ming Dynasty people raised their mouths!"

The letter said that they need to trade at least 1,000 tons of flour and rice a year. This scale is not a problem for Mexico City, the problem lies in the additional requirements.

The cornmeal and potato flour should be finely ground and put in a fine white cotton bag. The bag should be tied tightly with a cotton rope. Each bag should weigh 77 kilograms. Each bag can be exchanged for 200 Tongbao at Wangjiabao, which is close to the official road on the western border of Ming Dynasty.

The Tongbao you exchanged for can go to Zhangjiagou on the other side of the official road to buy porcelain and silk.

"There are quite a lot of attention! Who knows how much the letter says!"
Chapter completed!