Back to the end of May. At that time, the Spaniards set out from Taipei on the Alicante met the Yuandou, and then were abducted to Dayuan, and finally forcibly stuffed some goods and became an envoy.

When Second Lieutenant Diego Sandova returned to Manila in early June, it caused a sensation.

After reading the diplomatic documents with great pleasure, Governor Juannino de Tabora watched the part-time mason Andres Iniesta Jr.'s performance of plastered red bricks and cement, and finally decided to use these neatly lined high-quality red bricks and magical cement on the newly built forts in Manila.

Raw silk, silk, velvet, and other miscellaneous goods, including glass and porcelain, were quickly divided up among the merchants, nobles, and churches in Manila.

The Visayas prisoners and the beggars, vagabonds, and drunkards of the city who were imprisoned in the prison had suddenly become more difficult lately, and the sheriff and his guards had become fair and strict overnight, and many of the vagrants who had no family members to pay their premiums began to disappear.

Although the Governor was still discussing and negotiating with the officials, the merchants with a keen sense of smell had already begun to organize the supply of goods, and when Second Lieutenant Diego Sandova told the terms of trade of the crossing country at the banquet of the magnates, many people on the spot thought of the beggars and Visayas prisoners who were almost free.

The Lord's people had no psychological barrier to turning the rebellious Visayans and Malays into slaves, and Manila had already imported many black slaves, and it was God's will to export yellow slaves, and all that was needed to leave the docile Tagalogs in the city.

While the merchants were actively organizing the "supply of goods", Governor Juan, after two short rounds of meetings, not only fully responded to the trade demands of the ministers, but also sent a young envoy to Viscount Juan, with whom he had a swarthing kinship.

There is a reason why the Spaniards are so "reacting".

Looking at the colonial powers that have established themselves in East Asia, if we remove those unpopular characters, such as the Danish East India Company, then among the existing three powers, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, only the Spaniards are now the worst.

In fact, even the British, who are still very weak, are still alive and well in terms of colonization and trade.

However, the Spanish turf was always in danger.

The danger did not come from artillery and warships, but from the fact that the trade pattern had long since lost its pioneering spirit, and the Spaniards, accustomed to the trade of silver, had lost their own hematopoietic mechanism and had become porters of precious metals.

It is different from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which have their own core competitiveness. The Spaniards are now like the kind of rich second generation who will only take money from Lao Tzu's pocket to spend, but they have no ability to invest and make money.

However, the good old days are gone. The silver crunch in Europe caused by the 30-year war, the monstrous military spending of the Habsburgs, all this left the naked Spaniards with their butts exposed, and the silver dug up from South America every year was not even enough to pay the interest on the loans of the greedy merchants.

In this situation, it is not surprising that the Spanish colonies scattered around the world began to shrink day by day, and the father had no money in his pocket, and the second generation naturally had a hard time.

The flatbread faces have even passed on this gene to their offspring, Venezuela.

Venezuela, which once had the highest national income in the world, would rather pay welfare to the whole people than engage in some basic industry when it had money, and then when oil prices fell and inflation was 80,000, Zimbabwe could compare with each other.

In short, a country that does not have the ability to make its own blood is a porter of nature, whether it is silver or oil. Once the international situation changes, they will be the first to kneel.

In the 17th century, the Philippines was no exception, and the Dutch had established their own trade channels and distribution networks in East Asia with the spices of the Spice Islands as the core, and various triangular trades were flourishing.

The Spaniards, however, are now living more and more, and with the decline of royal grants, the middleman trade of "China and Mexico", on which Manila has always depended, has also shrunk; The Spaniards were increasingly disadvantaged in competition with other colonizers.

And at this time, there was a thunderclap on a sunny day, and Dad came.

All the terms of trade proposed by the crossing were considered by the Spaniards to be the most pressing need of the moment, and there was no reason to reject them. As for the little castle, the joke, the Iberian people threw away the colonies in pieces, and the big castle was not at all in the consideration of the gentlemen.

In fact, once enough Ming goods were obtained from Dayuan, then Taipei's foundation itself lost its meaning, and the reason why the city was built in Taipei in the first place was not to attract Ming merchants

Under these circumstances, an operation of high efficiency, rarely seen by the Spaniards, began. Regardless of the situation in Manila, the high-level officials, who had long been anxious about the strategic situation, set off at great speed two merchant ships loaded with slaves and headed straight for Dacheng.

You know, at this time, Governor Juan was still negotiating with people from all walks of life about the license, share and tax amount of the slave trade

The trading fleet was captained by Second Lieutenant Diego Santova, "an old friend of the people", and the passengers on board included no less than 10 merchants, 400 slaves to test the waters, and, of course, Mr. Envoy.

The cargo on board was a large amount of Philippine rice and a small amount of native products such as abaca and Indian cotton prepared according to the trade list given by the crossing people. Of course, the most important silver coin is certainly indispensable.

A week later, the fleet arrived at the Taijiang wharf. Manila is only 9 kilometers away from Tainan in a straight line, and if you have a tailwind, it will only take a week at most.

After coming to the big staff, everything did not disappoint the big pie faces. The magical steel machines, the beautiful and neat streets and buildings, all prove that Ensign Diego did not lie when he was in Manila.

The merchants, who had always been skeptical, could not help but be ecstatic when they saw the various industrial products made by the Crossing Crowd.

In fact, the most exciting moment for those in the fleet, but the moment when the slaves were successfully sold, Manila finally got rid of the status of shell middlemen, just as the Dutch had spices, and the Spaniards now had an inexhaustible "fist product", which was more important than anything else.