About eight years ago, Zhao Ming defeated the Spaniards and recovered Luzon, causing the Spaniards to lose the bridgehead for Far East trade, and dealt a huge blow to the entire Spanish Empire.

This made the Spanish Empire, especially the Governor of New Spain, feel resentful.

In the 17th century, the largest empire in the world was not the Ming Dynasty or Tsarist Russia, but the Spanish Empire, the old overlord.

Although the Netherlands Revolution and the Thirty Years of the Reformation caused the Spanish Empire to decline, the Spanish Empire was still very powerful, especially in the Americas, which can be said to be the dominant one.

At this time, since 1521, the Spaniards defeated the Aztec Empire and occupied Mexico. Nearly one hundred and fifty years later, Spain has occupied the vast majority of Central and South America.

The Spanish in the Governor of New Spain had as many as fifty or six hundred thousand people, controlled millions of indigenous people, and more than 100,000 black slaves.

During the same period, there were less than 70,000 Portuguese who colonized America at the same time as Spain, while Britain, France, and the Netherlands that had just landed in North America had less than 100,000.

As a new force that has just recently landed in the New World, the population of the Ming Dynasty was less than 3,000 people left.

This is incomparable to Spain. Even Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries in the New World are stronger than the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the Governor of New Spain can be said to be the absolute overlord of the New World, occupying most areas of Central and South America. When countries colonize, they can only avoid Spain's territory and go to places where there are no silver or gold ore, and the Spaniards do not like it.

Originally, the Spaniards mined silver mines in the Americas, then transported silver to Luzon to purchase Chinese goods, and finally transported the goods back to Europe, forming a complete trade chain.

However, due to the revival of the Ming Empire, this trade chain was greatly affected.

Previously, overseas trade in the Ming Dynasty was mainly civil smuggling, and merchants needed to deliver goods to sea or even ship them to Luzon for transactions.

The Ming government did not have the right to speak for trade, and most of the profits of trade were earned by Westerners.

After the Ming Dynasty gradually gained the right to speak for trade, the Spaniards were suppressed in trade, especially after Zhao Ming promoted the settlement of silver dollars, which caused great losses to the Spaniards.

In the past, Spain transported silver and bought one tael of silver for one tael of silver. Now, after the Spanish transported the silver to the Ming Dynasty, they needed to exchange it for silver dollars first.

Whenever the profitable merchants in the Ming Dynasty learned that Spanish silver ships were about to dock, various silver ships, money houses, and chambers of commerce would tighten their money, reduce the circulation of silver dollars in the world, and cause shortage of money in the market.

In this way, when the Spanish silver ship docked and had to exchange silver dollars, one tael of silver was originally exchanged for one tael of silver, and it would increase to one tael of silver or five coins, or even two taels of silver before it could be exchanged for one tael of silver.

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that silver and gold could not be circulated directly in the market, and foreign trade settlements must be used.

When the Spanish merchant ships arrived in the Ming Dynasty, they could not be consumed for a long time. Once the monsoon passed, sometimes they could only wait for another year. The fleet could not afford it, so they could only exchange silver dollars at a high price and then purchase goods.

The unscrupulous merchants of the Ming Dynasty and the official silver account had already figured out the time when merchant ships from various Western countries came to the Ming Dynasty.

This time is actually easy to grasp, because in the era of sailing warships, ships mainly sail on the monsoon. The Silver can judge the arrival time of Western merchant ships based on the monsoon season, and then manipulate the silver price in advance.

In this way, every time a Western merchant ship arrives, the silver price drops, and one tael or five cents are exchanged for one yuan, which is almost the norm. When Western merchant ships leave, the silver price slowly returns to normal levels.

After such a manipulation, the Western colonists soon discovered that most of the profits of their trade were earned by the unscrupulous merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and they did not take any risks.

After a few times, Spain and other countries felt a little boring, but the goods and voice were in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, but they had no choice but to become workers in the Ming Dynasty.

However, in recent years, the situation has gradually changed. First, the handicraft industry in Britain, France, Denmark and other countries began to develop, and Spain had new purchasing channels. Second, in order to get rid of its dependence on the Ming Dynasty, Spain also began to establish handicraft workshops in New Spain to imitate Ming Dynasty products, which made Spain gradually decoupled from the Ming Dynasty in terms of economy and did not want to be exploited by the Ming Dynasty in trade.

Spain is far apart from the Ming Dynasty. Although Spain has resentment to the conflicts in Luzon and trade, it can still give up.

Nowadays, the Spaniards did not seek trouble for the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty sent people to America and delivered them to the door. How could the Spaniards bear it?

The Governor of New Spain, Mexico City, has become a city with a population of 70,000 to 80,000 people, and many European buildings have been built.

There are residential settlements, workshops, and essential Catholic churches in the city.

At this time, the Governor General's residence, Gary Charles, of New Spain, was listening to the report of the captain returning from near Vancouver.

"Your Excellency, Commander Ross has discovered that the Chinese stronghold should be here!" The captain pointed to the map and said.

Gary Charles took a look at the map and saw that the area was a bay. If the Chinese were allowed to develop, they would soon establish one stronghold after another on the west coast, thus threatening the empire's colonies.

Gary Charles said in a deep voice: "The Chinese seized the Philippines of the Empire and actually wanted to get involved in the New World. These damn yellow-skinned monkeys and pagans will become a threat to the Empire's rule of the New World, and even a threat to the entire Christ world. The Empire must eradicate the Chinese, let Count Sofitel lead the fleet, and immediately wipe out them."

Official Yiming was a little worried: "Your Excellency, will this completely deteriorate the relationship between the empire and China and affect trade."

Gary Charles shook his head, "It doesn't matter. Now trade with China, the empire cannot gain much benefit. The Chinese are expanding too strongly. Their fleet has arrived in India, Ottoman, East Africa, and now it has arrived in the New World. This is not only a threat to the empire, but also a threat to the entire Catholic world. God's people should unite and launch a jihad against the pagans."

Charles ordered in a deep voice: "Send people to contact the British, French and Netherlands. The empire hopes to reach a consensus on the issues of the New World and the Chinese that no country can trade with the Chinese on the New World. In addition, he posted a huge gap and told those barbaric natives that as long as they peel off a Chinese scalp, they could get a reward of twenty silver coins."
Chapter completed!