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Chapter 694 Dancing Together
There are three types of governors in Spain, Viceroy, Captain general, and Governor.

The former has the power of the king in terms of power within the jurisdiction, which is equivalent to the deputy king.

In the early days of the discovery of the New World, a large number of hereditary governors appeared in Spain. For example, Columbus was awarded the title of hereditary vice-king. The title is gone.

Up to now, there are only two real governors left, one is the governor of New Spain and the other is the governor of Peru.

The governor of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, Martin Enriquez de Almanza, has been very sad lately.

He has been the governor of New Spain for many years. Since 1562, he has sat in this position from the middle school and enjoyed the glory and wealth, but there have never been many slanders and rumors from the middle school.

On Halloween, Mexico City fell into carnival, and even the enslaved Indians got a day off, but Governor Almansa couldn't be happy.

His personal letter to the Governor of Peru was intercepted by the Prosecutor's Court, and in the letter he complained to the Governor of Peru that officials in the New World did too much work and were restricted by the Procuratorate and the Church.

"Now you're more restricted for complaining, idiots."

Looking at the noisy street outside the window, Almansa poured a strong drink from Havana into the silver wine glass in a bored manner. It is called rum. It is a strong drink made by fermenting the residue after sugar production. It originated from the indigenous people of the West Indies. .

"What are you worrying about, Your Excellency the Governor?"

A reserved aristocratic young man stepped forward. He was wearing a black velvet long-sleeved jacket of fine texture, a breastplate that could reflect the candlelight and cover his upper arms, and two rapiers, one long and one short, hanging from his waist. Always with a proud smile.

Almansa, who was holding a wine glass, turned his head, and he recognized that this was Bernal, the legion commander in his area.

As the seventh son of a duke on the Iberian Peninsula, he was born noble. He participated in the Huguenot War in France and made great contributions. As a shining general, he led the Third Army of New Spain to fight in Peru and pacified the local rebellious Indians. Moved north to New Spain to garrison northern Mexico.

At this time, the legion commander was wearing yellow satin on his arms that was incompatible with his black clothes and bright armor-according to the Spaniard's aesthetics, he should be wearing red satin on his sleeves or shoulders.

Governor Almansa did not answer Legion Commander Bernal's question. This young and excellent kid knew why he was worried. He just shrugged his shoulders, raised his chin to the wine cabinet by the window, and said, "Have a drink with me?"

Still with a reserved smile on his face, Bernal walked over. He cautiously rolled up the yellow silk cloth hanging on his left arm several times, then picked up the wine glass and poured a little. After smelling it, he frowned and said: "I still like wine, this kind of wine made by Indians like...you know."

Given that Governor Almansa was swallowing slowly with a glass of wine, Bernal didn't say it looked like diabetic urine.

"Not only do you not like this wine, you also don't like Havana's cotton jacket, you don't like anything about Indians." Almansa raised his eyebrows, and said: "You will not refuse to organize a monk meeting with Brother Acosta You know, the monks said, Indians are people too."

Bernal lost interest in drinking, put down the glass and laughed insincerely: "Yes, yes, those idiots also said that the Indians have the same rights as the nobles of the peninsula, and that all beings are equal, as if they are the only ones in the world who have a sense of justice."

As he spoke, Bernal raised his finger to the north and said, "In Peru, my people killed tens of thousands of Incas. The Indians in the north are more powerful, but my people can kill [-] people a day from California to the Red River. Tried to attack our Indians."

"Do my dead soldiers have no sense of justice?"

"If the Indians have the same rights as us, why does His Majesty the King not allow New Spain to manufacture weapons and armor by itself, and even not allow any handicraft processing except silk. My soldiers have to knock out the crossbow arrows by themselves. Laws like idiots make artisans."

"Hehe, all living beings are equal."

All beings are equal, Governor Almansa repeatedly chewed this word, he has more emotion about this word, but it has nothing to do with Indians.

He wants to coordinate Spain, the church, the trial court, tax officials, and the army. Any conflicts between them will eventually be fed back to him. For him, this is the greatest equality of all beings.

"I hope I can really make peace with the Indians. Everyone lives here. The army doesn't need dead people. It's safe to dig silver mines, transport sugar, and corn. It's best not to fight with the French or Elizabeth. Otherwise, we There will be a third bankruptcy."

The war with the French made Almansa really uncomfortable. The French occupied the western part of North America. As early as the first generation of New Spanish governors, they received orders from the king to investigate the culture of the Aztecs as soon as possible. , economic, military and other affairs.

To this end, they wrote a report 30 years ago and sent it to the king by sea. At that time, the capital of Spain was Toledo. As a result, this report was intercepted by the French at sea, and recently fell into the hands of the British.

In other words, both Henry III and Elizabeth had all the information about Mexico, but their king Philip did not.

"I'm afraid Your Excellency the Governor will be disappointed. There are still many headaches for Your Excellency about to happen."

Bernal cast a playful glance at the worried governor, slowly unfolded the yellow satin wrapped around his left arm, and spread the large rectangular cloth on the governor's table.

"It has been investigated. This military flag captured in the north of Mexico near Santa Cruz is from the Ming Dynasty. The fabric is of high quality. The two words on it are 'Huang' and 'Ming'. It is not available to ordinary troops."

"Huang refers to their emperor, and Ming is the title of the Chinese Empire."

Although Governor Almansa had already seen the flag and had some guesses about the origin of the flag, when he heard the accurate news at this time, his face was still very ugly.

"It's hard to imagine that this came from the Indians, but what you said is not owned by the general army. What does the general army mean here?"

"I don't know either." Bernal shook his head resolutely, spread his hands and said: "The monk only told me that this flag is very noble, even the entourage who went to Nanjing to sign the treaty had never seen it before. One letter of the name, or just plain letters, they have so many kinds of military flags, none of us have seen such flags."

"But I guess the general meaning of this flag is that the general army of the Ming Empire, such as a ruffian like Chen Mu, is not worthy of having it?"

Bernal made a joke. Seeing the governor glaring at him, he immediately waved his hands and said, "I will not despise him. No one dares to despise him. The whole world knows that he defeated and wiped out the [-] troops of New Spain. I prefer that the Ming Empire sent other generals to America, even if they know how to fight better, it doesn’t matter.”

This made Almansa slightly surprised, he put down his wine glass and looked at the dimly lit street, and asked, "What do you say?"

"We are allies! And they still have money. Of course, I hope that the Ming Empire will send generals who are better at fighting. As long as they don't have as much appetite as Chen Mu, I heard that people in the empire believe in propriety, justice, shame and chivalry. We are good."

Almansa pondered for a moment, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, nodded and said: "You are right, in the south of the New World, we can share the land equally with Portugal, and of course in the north of the New World, we can also share the land equally with the Ming Empire, and we can also share the land with the Ming Empire. They explored eastward together, and drove away the French barbarians and English farmers in the east—but what if it was Chen Mu who came?"

Bernal took a deep breath, and finally picked up the glass of rum he didn't like and drank it down in one gulp.

"Dances with Wolves."

(End of this chapter)