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Chapter 704 Bachelor
Fu Yuan named the land under his feet the Boundary Peninsula based on the boundary marker [-] miles to the north.

In this matter, Fu Guerrilla originally wanted to fully promote the spirit of democracy and solicit the name of the peninsula from all subordinates in the army-they are more keen on naming the land under their feet than anyone else.

Whether it is Yang Lai Wan, Lin Lai Island or Chen Lai Gang, it all means honor.

It's just that Fu Yuan has always sneered at Chen Mu and Yang Zhaolong's talent for naming, but when it was his turn to name a piece of land, he realized how important the level of education is.

He collected a lot of names and engraved a lot of dice. Every time he rolls out one side, the name of the dice will be engraved on a new dice. He intends to pass the boring time of waiting for the response from the Spaniards in this way, and at the same time make the name of this long and narrow peninsula The number is determined.

However, the Spaniard quickly made a decision to let him give up this fun method. Acosta explained to Fu Yuan the possible results of this negotiation in detail—of course, the small calculation of the Governor of New Spain was hidden.

After discussing with Shao Tingda, Fu Yuan and Shao Tingda decided to send a large ship from their fleets, a total of two [-]-material warships and [-] banner troops to escort the negotiating team of more than [-] people, including Brother Acosta, to Ma's house Hong Kong met with Chen Mu.

Fu Yuan, Shao Tingda, and Hei Yunlong continued to lead their troops to stay on the demarcation peninsula to deal with the tense situation after the negotiation.

But none of them thought how bachelor the governor of New Spain was. He actually led his officer corps and a company in two ships just a few days after the negotiating team of Brother Acosta set sail north before the negotiations started. Spanish galleons stationed in the dividing peninsula.

Just next to the Ming army camp, another camp was erected, and a small road was specially built to share a port with the Ming army.

They didn't even have time to react. After receiving the news, the three generals stood on the wall with strange expressions and watched more than 200 well-armed Spanish soldiers disembark one by one. Find a suitable place to camp, and then start camping with no defense and enthusiasm.

Fu Yuan and Shao Tingda followed Chen Mu to collect debts from the Spanish armed forces, and they really asked for money later, but they really didn't expect that Spain would use more than 200 people to collect bribes from more than 2000 armed forces!
Well, they think the Governor of New Spain is here to ask for a bribe.

This made it difficult for the two imperial generals who were born in Nanyang - Nanyang officers may be the least bribery group of people in the entire Ming Empire, especially the group of people who followed Chen Mu from the Banner Army.

Not only did their chiefs refuse to take bribes, but they also asked them viciously where the money they used for bribes came from. Besides, they were not short of money in the future. Nanyang had their own fleet to buy and sell rare things in a cycle.

A well-developed emerging group has countless room for advancement, which allows them to avoid relying on bribery to climb up to the greatest extent.

In the end, this matter had to be handled by Hei Yunlong, who was from the Northern Army.

Although they don't know how to bribe, Commander-in-Chief Chen Mu taught them a truth by setting an example - the information and benefits that can be obtained from effective bribery to other countries can be small and can prevent soldiers from being killed or injured, and can get far more than bribes if they are large. played a role.

For example, in Malacca, it was just 3 taels of silver. Now with the expansion of the Western Army, it can earn so much in two months of tariffs.

They wanted to see what they could get by bribing Almansa.

In the end, there was nothing, and Hei Yunlong came back dejectedly, and said to Fu Yuandao: "Pay Guerrilla, you should go, he doesn't want money at all, and I can't explain it to him, I don't think this guy is here to ask for bribes at all."

"Didn't you come here to ask for a salary?" Fu Yuan heard Hei Yunlong's words suspiciously, turned his head and looked up at Shao Tingda, conscious that he couldn't control the tiger, and waved to the soldiers with his shirt on, saying: "I'm going to meet that Xiyi old man!"

In Fu Yuan's eyes, the governor of New Spain, Almansa, is a real fat old man. He wears a black soft hat with red feathers and a plate armor that barely closes his belly. The wide belt exposes all his ribs to the metal protection. In addition, it is obviously a plate armor for decoration.

Fu Yuan already knew a lot about Spanish and Portuguese or European armor, and he was not a country bumpkin who had never seen plate armor. In actual battles, some plate armor would add large armor pieces to the ribs. Fu Yuan estimated that The old man's going to war--Tefte for sure.

The scene of the first meeting between Fu Yuan and the governor of New Spain was very discordant. Almansa, who was dressed in black and white with Germanic style plate armor, was walking with a large group of his pets with heavy and firm steps.

A herd of sheep whose fur is so thick that it hides their faces.

This kind of weird scene made Fu Yuan, who was walking like a dragon and walking like a tiger, pause for a moment, and then he walked up and said: "I heard a Spanish pirate in Luzon say that raising sheep is a special thing in your country." The aristocrats make me feel amazing."

This incident has always been regarded as a joke by Fu Yuan. Fu Yuan, who was born in farming civilization, could never understand the pride of the pirate Farikat when he said this to him. With a total of more than 200 million sheep migrating from north to south, they will return from south to north in the next spring.

Trample all the farmland along the way, eat the food, and make the farmers displaced. As long as those farmers have a chance, they will become soldiers, monks, servants, do some small business, or simply sneak on a ship. In order to be called an adventurer, if you don't get along well, you are called a vagabond.

Almansa turned his head, took off his hat and nodded slightly to Fu Yuan, saying: "Mesta, this is Mesta, we have been raising sheep for a long time, and sell the best wool to the whole of Europe every year. One of the three major sources of income."

Fu Yuan stared at the sheep intently. He had seen this kind of sheep near the Spanish military station by the sea during the voyage of the fleet southward, but he didn't pay attention to it at the time. Now it seems that the wool quality of this kind of sheep seems to be very good.

He racked his brains and planned to send someone to the north to find some of these sheep and send them back to Chen Mu. He asked absently, "The three sources of income are sheep raising? What about the other two?"

"America, and the Netherlands." Almansa smiled strangely, and said: "The Americas were invaded by the Ming army, and the Netherlands rebelled. This is really interesting."

Fu Yuan could not hide his astonishment, this is so bullshit, two of the three major sources of income are broken, Spain can still live well, and it still looks very powerful, this is simply a miracle.

Although he doesn't work in finance, he is also very clear about Daming's source of income. Among other things, as long as the land tax is not paid, the country will collapse, let alone the three major sources of income: "How do you maintain it?" ?”

"Borrowing, the crisis will be resolved when the silver is delivered. No matter how hard you go, you can still send troops in all directions. Therefore, my compatriots have been rampant in expanding their territory for decades."

"I personally agree with your general's suggestion, but the specific conditions need to be changed and considered. It is Peru, not my viceroyal district, that has received the loss. In the future, silver coins and artillery will be shipped back to China from the governorate of Mexico. I care more about these , but the nobles who lost their territory recalled killing me."

Almansa spoke truthfully, blinked at Fu Yuan, and said with a smile: "So I am here now, if there is a fight, you'd better stand by my side, this will benefit the Ming Empire and me. "

Fu Yuan didn't speak, and took out a handful of poker from his waist, which he won from the crew of Te Guangming when he was in Majia Port. He had three decks of cards and seven dice on his body, and said, "You are an interesting person." , before the universe is decided, buy it first and let it go, come and play a few rounds for me."

"Win ten rounds, save your life; lose me one round, give me ten sheep."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)