"Can the Chinese's hard sailing ships come to the New World? Impossible, right...... Can such a ship cross the Pacific Ocean? ”

Marquis Spinola looked at Garcia in surprise. This news surprised him even more than the defeat of the Spanish Oriental Armada, because after the loss of the fleet, the only thing that could prevent thousands of Chinese from coming to the New World was the vast Pacific Ocean.

The marquis still knew a little about the situation in China - the Philippines was also under his jurisdiction, so he could often see reports from Manila. Knowing that the Chinese have a sail system that is completely different from the Western-style soft sail, and also knowing that boats with Chinese hard sails are suitable for offshore activities with variable wind directions, and are not very suitable for entering the open ocean. So their sailboats were also designed for offshore navigation, not large enough, not too strong, and less seaworthy.

Although the Chinese have made efforts to introduce Western-style soft sailing boats over the past decade, their soft sailing fleet is still very limited.

Moreover, there were very few sailors who could maneuver soft sailing ships, and the lack of suitable sailors in turn became a constraint on the rapid expansion of China's soft sailing fleet.

So after hearing about the crushing defeat of the Eastern Armadada, the Marquis of Spinola was able to quickly return to calm...... As long as the Chinese do not have enough soft sailing boats, even if they have a population of 100 million, they cannot afford to quickly send some of them to the New World.

So Spain still has time......

Garcia sighed: "Marquis, what you know is outdated, in the past few decades, the Chinese have been tirelessly absorbing technology from Europe.

Great progress has been made in all respects, and their hard sailing boats have also been improved with European technology, with a stronger structure, better seaworthiness, and faster speeds, and because of the use of hard sails, they require a small number of sailors, making them a very economical type of boat. ”

Transporting people to the other side of the Pacific Ocean is actually a mathematical problem - it is necessary to consider the speed, the number of crew members, and the deadweight tonnage.

The faster the voyage, the shorter the time to cross the Pacific Ocean, the less supplies need to be prepared, and the more crew and migrants the ship can carry.

So a soft sailing ship with the same deadweight ton can definitely carry more people across the Pacific Ocean than a hard sailing ship!

But soft sailing ships need more sailors than hard sailing ships! With more sailors, not only are they paid more wages, but they are also carrying fewer passengers – that's all there is to it! More sailors, of course, will have to carry fewer passengers.

And it's a year to go around the Pacific route!

In other words, a boat can only run once a year, and even a soft sailboat can't run twice.

Therefore, the number of crew members on the ships transporting migrants must be reduced as much as possible in order to reduce costs...... The greater the ratio of passengers to crew, the more profitable the vessel becomes.

Again, the price of the carrier itself is important. If the ship is cheap and good, the crew is small, and the speed and safety are guaranteed, even if it is a little slower, it can ensure profitability.

And profit is the key to the sustainability of the immigration tide!

The Marquis of Spinola has already thought of sending privateers to kill people in the Pacific! No matter how good a hard sailing ship is, it will definitely be slower on the ocean than a soft sailing boat.

So the New Spanish Navy could deter Chinese immigrants by sinking ships and killing passengers.

He was about to tell Garcia about this, but the Spanish admiral sighed again: "What's more troublesome is that the Chinese have also improved the flowering shell, invented the shell wooden tray and woodpipe fuse, which has greatly increased the performance of the flowering shell and has a strong actual combat capability." My fleet was crushed by these flowering bombs......"

"Admiral Garcia, are you saying that the Chinese loaded flowering shells on battleships? They, they're crazy? "Cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the Marquis of Spinola, and there were flowering bullets in Spain - this thing was more dangerous to his own people than to the enemy, and it was enough to use it on land, and to get on board...... A bomb and a boatload of people!

Garcia shook his head: "They're not crazy...... Don't you still understand? A revolution in military affairs at sea has begun! Battleships armed with dozens or hundreds of guns are no longer the absolute hegemon of the sea! If a Chinese hard-sailed wooden ship with only a few 24-pounder cannons is allowed to get close, it could be devastating! ”

The Marquis of Spinola exclaimed: "God, you mean that even if we send privateers, it will be difficult to stop the Chinese convoy?" ”

The captain and sailor on the privateer ship also want to live, you must know that people have flowering shells, and they will kill you and a boatload of people with one shot, who would dare to eat this bowl of severed head rice?

Garcia burst into tears: "Yes, Marquis...... We need to design new battleships, design new cannons that can fire wooden shells, and we need new shells that imitate the Chinese.

Before all this is completed, even if the native Grand Fleet is transferred to the Pacific, it will be difficult to stop the arrival of the Chinese! ”

The Marquis of Spinola's voice trembled, "They're coming!" Thousands of people come to ...... What are we going to do? ”

In fact, Zhu Cihong did not want to move the core territory of New Spain, he only wanted the United States and western Canada in the future, and did not have the idea of seizing Mexico and Peru.

But where did the Marquis of Spinola know this? He always felt that the silver and gold mines in Mexico and Peru were the most important reasons for attracting Chinese across the ocean.

The loss of silver and gold mines in Mexico and Peru also meant the collapse of the Spanish world empire......

"Marquis," Garcia said, taking a deep breath, "I think it's time for Spain to choose between the Old World and the New World!" ”

"What do you say? What to choose? ”

"Of course, it is to choose the country's development focus!" Garcia said in a solemn tone, "Spain's territory in the New World is in danger of falling completely!" So the country had to choose between maintaining European hegemony and defending the New World.

If the kingdom chooses Europe, then ...... Then we can only make peace with Chinese, cede some land, let them enter the New World in a steady stream, watch them establish the United States, and finally ......"

"No, that can't be!" The Marquis of Spinola immediately interrupted Garcia's words, "Without this possibility, there would be no empire without the New World!" Let them in now, and in less than twenty years, they will be much more populous in the New World than we are...... When the time comes, we will lose everything! ”

No matter how hard the whites and mixed-race whites in New Spain worked, no matter how hard the poor in Spain worked hard to save money to buy a ferry ticket. It will also be difficult to raise the white, mixed-race white population of New Spain to one million in twenty years.

For the Chinese, one million immigrants in twenty years, only 50,000 a year, and 200 migrant ships running back and forth in the Pacific Ocean. And the immigrants themselves reproduce...... Considering that the new immigrants are all young men and women, the birth rate of the population must be very high, and two million people will not be able to stop it in twenty years!

"Then," Garcia paused, "we can only focus on the New World, get out of the chaos in Europe, and go all out into the Americas, or even ...... Think of Mexico City as the capital of the Spanish world empire! ”

"What do you mean...... Nationwide migration? The Marquis of Spinola looked straight at Garcia.

Garcia said, "Marquis, do you remember what Count Olivares said? ”

"What do you mean ......"

"King Philip should not be the King of Portugal, Aragon and Valencia, nor should he be the Count of Barcelona. Philip should just be the king of Spain! ”

The Marquis was silent.

Admiral García went on to say: "This ideal will never be realized in Spain natively...... But here in New Spain, there are no Aragonese, no Castileans, no Catalans, not even the Dutch, no Italians, only whites, mestizo whites, Indians, blacks. White people from Europe, whatever they were when they were in Europe, were King Philip's most loyal subjects when they arrived in New Spain.

O Marquis, our new Spain is at least twenty times larger than the old Spain!

If His Majesty the King could bring more white Europeans to New Spain, then the future Spain would be a united, united, vast, rich, great American country! ”