Mexico City, September 1657 AH.

Named after the Azket god of war, Mexicali, and built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, the city is now a splendid and splendid European-style city, with European-style palaces, churches, and monasteries everywhere. The streets of the city are straight and wide, clean and tidy, and the buildings on either sides are either Spanish houses with yellow or red plastered walls, or palaces with many carvings and decorations. But no matter what kind of mansion it is, it is very well maintained, and there is not the slightest sense of dilapidation.

In fact, most European cities of this era, including Madrid, the capital of the Spanish Empire, did not have the opulence and cleanliness of Mexico City.

Because none of the wealth they possess can be compared to Mexico City! The area attached to any European city is nowhere near as vast as the Viceroyalty of New Spain under the control of Mexico City, where all Spanish territories in the New World are nominally ruled by the Viceroyalty of New Spain stationed in Mexico City!

Although as early as 1542, the Kingdom of Spain established a Peruvian Viceroyalty under the Viceroyalty of New Spain (the Viceroyalty was stationed in Lima), Lima was only a vassal of Mexico City, both economically and politically.

In this era, Mexico City is a well-deserved star of the Americas, and it is also the gathering capital of financial, material and human resources throughout the Americas.

The whole thing was like a magnet, attracting gold and silver from all over the New World, from the East and West, to the magnates of the Spanish Empire, to the European immigrants who were struggling to survive under the rule of Nervous Spain, to the Mestizos, Ladinos (all of whom were of mixed Spanish and Indian descent) and native whites to all parts of Spanish America. It has created a noisy, prosperous, and prosperous metropolis in the New World of America, where human beings are still a rare species.

In the autumn of 1657, more than 150,000 white Europeans, native-borns, and mixed Indo-Europeans now live in Mexico City, which they called the "City of Palaces."

For them, Mexico City is the Rome of the New World, and they are the Romans of the New World!

And the current viceroy of New Spain, the noble Marquis of Spinola, Juan . Gonzalez. Morality. Filippo Spinola was the Caesar of the New World—at least that's what he himself thought.

Although his "Augustus" Philip IV was in trouble in Europe, in the New World (excluding the islands of the Caribbean), the superiority of New Spain was still unshakable!

Because the total number of white and Indo-European people of mixed descent who spoke Spanish, believed in God, and oyged allegiance to the Spanish king under New Spain exceeded 500,000. In addition, tens of millions of Indians and blacks were under the rule of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

In New Spain, where food and gold and silver were abundant, the number of young men among whites and mixed-race whites was equal to the military mobilization potential of New Spain.

Among the 500,000 whites and mixed-race whites, there will never be less than 100,000 young men who can take up muskets and fight for God and Spain!

If His Excellency the Marquis of Spinola could grant enlistment to some of the Indian men who believed in God, then an army of 200,000 men could be assembled.

In Europe, the Spanish king had no more than that's the number of troops!

So we don't take into account the weakly defended islands that hang over the Caribbean, and the wild lands far away in the northeastern corner of the New World, as well as those that Pope Alexander VI hastily allocated to the Portuguese. In today's New World, there are simply no forces that can challenge the authority of the Viceroyalty of New Spain......

And in the foreseeable future, it should not be possible that an enemy will be able to challenge the power of New Spain.

Even if the French, England, and Dutch were to colonize the east coast of the North American continent, given the native population base of these three countries, giving them 100 years to migrate slowly would probably pose little threat to New Spain.

Because New Spain already had half a million whites and mixed-race whites, which had been saved up by more than a hundred years of hard work in immigration and procreation!

In New Spain, where food was plentiful, the territory was vast, and there were large numbers of Indians to enslave, the birth rate of whites and mixed-race whites was high. The number of immigrants from France, England, and the Netherlands to the New World every year probably does not keep up with the number of whites and mixed-race whites born in New Spain.

So until September 10, 1657, the Marquis of Spinola would not have believed that the hegemony of New Spain in the New World could end in his generation!

"What? Admiral, what do you say? Your fleet was defeated by the Chinese? How is this possible? ”

In the splendid and stately palace of the Doge's Palace in New Spain, the Marquis of Spinola had just heard the bad news that had left him unbelievable.

Eighteen of the 23 armed Galen ships were sunk or captured, the crew lost more than 2,000 people, and more than 2,500 had to abandon ship and flee to the Japanese island of Kyushu. Most of them became mercenaries of the Satsuma Domain, and only a few hundred or so naval officers escaped back to Acapulco (an important port on the Pacific coast) on the 300-ton armed Galen ship that had slipped into Funai Bay after the Battle of Kagoshima Bay.

"Admiral Garcia, you, you...... You took an entire fleet and thousands of sailors from me, and now you have brought back only five ships and six or seven hundred men, and told me that countless Chinese are about to cross the Pacific Ocean to the New World......"

The Marquis of Spinola lowered his head and looked for something on his plush desk.

"Marquis, what are you looking for?" Looking at the admiral, who was dark and thin, and his spirit was also very weak.

"I'm looking for a pistol!" The Marquis roared, "I'm going to shoot you fool!" Do you know what you do? You have buried most of the good sailors of the New Spanish Navy...... Even if I could get a lot of new armed Galen ships now, I wouldn't have enough sailors to maneuver them! ”

The whites and mixed-race whites in New Spain are not small, and it is a little difficult to pull out an army of 100,000, 350,000 is not a problem, so the loss of several thousand army troops is bearable for the Marquis of Spinola.

But a couple of thousand sailors......

Now the navy of New Spain is estimated to be unable to defeat even the pirates in the Caribbean!

However, the Marquis of Spinola did not find the pistol - even if he did, he could not really kill the admiral, the admiral was the son of the Duke of Alva, Fernando. Alvarez. Morality. The grandson of Toledo, his elder brother was also the most trusted minister of the King of Spain...... How can it be executed casually?

Moreover, the Spanish Armada had lost so many battles, and no commander-in-chief had executed him......

Besides, after killing Garcia, who will be able to command the remnants of the fleet of New Spain? The Marquis of Spinola could not do the work of an admiral himself.

After slapping the table hard, the Marquis stopped looking for a pistol, but asked about China's coming to America.

"You say China is coming? Where did you get the news? The Marquis asked, "Could it be a mistake?" ”

"Can't be wrong......" Garcia said weakly, "If I hadn't gotten this bad news, I wouldn't have rushed here from Japan.

The news was brought back by an envoy sent by the Satsuma clan to China to sue for peace...... The Emperor of China has proclaimed the establishment of the New World United States of Joint-Stock System! Prepare to raise 100 million taels of silver to colonize the New World!

Marquis, now China has a population of 150 million to 180 million! That's more than all of Europe...... And they also have a base in Japan, so that their low-cost hard sailing ships can drift down the ocean currents to the west coast of the New World! ”