But the money of the Spaniards was not blown by the wind, and the people were dug out of the mines little by little by the labor of the efforts to enslave the Indians and black slaves, and the slaves would work without moving the whip? How tiring the whip is, who of you knows?

Therefore, Spain is still very desperate to protect its property, especially the system adopted by Spain in Mexico in which all colonists divide the fertilizer.

The galleon trade was a conquering monopoly, with the governors of the provinces of Mexico deciding how much cargo to carry, and the ownership of the goods went to the Spanish crown. Because management is scarce, the governor has the right to arrange positions, so important positions are often occupied by unskilled connections. Every Spaniard who lived in the Viceroyalty of New Spain had a slot on a galleon according to class, each with a ticket, a quota for the widow and an inheritance for the children. Buying and selling space later became a very profitable business, and some people charged more than 20 percent interest and sold their space to others without taking any risk.

This kind of interest, which belonged to the Spanish crown, was divided among all Spaniards by the governor layer by layer, and it was not enough.

Because the profits of the galleon trade were too high, the situation of entrainment of smuggled goods was very serious. Every time a galleon declars its cargo to leave port from Manila, a number of small boats follow it and load smuggled cargo on the way to evade taxes. A galleon with a declared value of 2 million pesos of cargo is likely to be 3-4 times more likely to be loaded. Because no one inspected the goods again in Mexico, the official adopted the "silent principle" of turning a blind eye and collecting taxes on the declared goods. This smuggling trade was also a source of revenue for the Spanish in the colonies.

Since everyone was stained with light, the protection of the colony was the protection of their own interests, not to mention the fact that these soldiers, who did not have their own property in the city, would never dare to let the enemy enter the city. Unless they are sure that the enemy will protect their property, but this is obviously impossible to do, so they have only one way to resist.

Zhu Li's fleet bombarded the port for five or six hours, and Chen Zhouquan's men and horses landed to attack, but the Spaniards' muskets were too powerful and killed many of Chen Zhouquan's brothers, so he refused to attack again, and sat and watched Zhu Li and the Spaniards' batteries bombard outside the range of his rifles.

The Spaniards resisted with a strong motive to protect their property, but the two robbers were unable to cooperate closely because they had their own agendas, and it was only when they were able to enter the city of Acapulco.

Before dark, the military operation was hastily ended and then set sail back.

For Zhu Li, he had completed what the emperor had assigned, but Chen Zhouquan was very dissatisfied, Mao didn't grab one, but he lost dozens of brothers in vain, and he had a fierce quarrel with Zhu Li. In the end, when Zhu Lian promised to subsidize them with 300,000 taels of silver, he gave up indignantly.

After returning to the colony, Zhu arranged this return voyage, and this year's trade was not completed, but his company was extremely financially rich. Because of his monopoly on Japanese trade and American trade, he was able to earn more than two million taels of silver from Japan and Mexico every year, and the sum of the two was about five million taels, and the annual consumption of maintaining the fleet was not even one million taels, and he had saved tens of millions of taels of silver in recent years.

Therefore, it is not bad for this trip, and the fleet will be arranged to return as soon as I go back. Next year, he will have to transport more immigrants to arrive, this is his task, unlike Xie Qinggao who can also get freight for transporting flag men, his transportation of Chen Zhouquan's subordinates is completely voluntary labor, and there is no profit.

But Chen Zhouquan still didn't appreciate it, which made Zhu Lian also dissatisfied, it seems that he has to have his own old brother to be safe.

But his old brothers were different from Chen Zhouquan's, and their lives in China were also very nourishing, Zhu Li took care of these old brothers privately according to the rules of the Spaniards, and reserved space for them, allowing them to participate in the lucrative trade between Japan and the Americas.

Zhu Li decided to recruit more immigrants, mainly from the poor people in Fujian and Guangdong, who could give them land for free, but asked them to be soldiers for themselves and help them fight, which was better than relying too much on Chen Zhouquan.

While the two American heroes were calculating each other, the Chinese delegation had already arrived in Europe and protested to the Spanish royal family and government, protesting against Mexico's seizure of Chinese merchant ships, and demanding that the Spanish conquest immediately release the Chinese merchant ships and compensate for the losses. And promised that no similar actions will be taken against Chinese merchant ships in the future.

The Chinese's domineering attitude made the Spaniards very uncomfortable, but considering their trade with China, especially Manila's trade interests with China, they still considered making concessions. But the last one is really difficult to agree, Chinese merchant ships are smuggling ships, seizure is legal, out of diplomatic considerations, they can be released, but promise not to be seized in the future, this is not a tacit consent to the Chinese can legally smuggle to Mexico?

The two sides began to argue on this issue, and the Chinese said that their ports have never restricted the entry and exit of Spanish merchant ships, and demanded that Spain provide reciprocal rights. Spain is no longer a trading power, and there are only a few merchant ships that trade with China every year, and most of their Chinese goods are transported to Manila by the Chinese themselves. Therefore, the Spanish representative had no fear, and even suggested that China could also impose certain restrictions on Spanish merchant ships, and they absolutely respected China's trade policy.

The representative of China said that it was too difficult to distinguish between Spanish merchant ships and those of other countries, since many Spanish merchant ships flew the flags of other countries, which was therefore unacceptable.

The Spaniards also wondered, why did you introduce a preferential policy unilaterally to others, and ask others to give you the same preferential treatment in the same way, if tomorrow your emperor announced on a whim that he was willing to let the King of Spain live freely in the Chinese Imperial Palace, would the Chinese Emperor also come to sleep in the bed of the King of Spain?

But the Chinese are notoriously arrogant in the West, and Chinese officials are unreasonable and do whatever they want, which has long been the consensus of everyone, mainly due to the blackmail of Manchu officials they suffered during the era of commerce. And they don't know anything about the diplomatic norms of the Western world, but they don't accept it, they have their own set of rules. It's like McClary captured the Spanish merchant ship that year, Spain was at war with the British, Spain itself did not protest to the British, and the Chinese governor inexplicably intervened, sent troops to capture the British captain McClary, and forced him to compensate the Spaniards for their losses.

Maybe the Chinese will give me benefits if I give you benefits, which is their inherent set of logic?

The Spanish government and royal family began to think about how to send the Chinese and open their colonies to each other, which was unlikely. Spain was now counting on the colonies to regain its strength, and the navy had been wiped out by the British, which needed to be rebuilt.

The sea route was blocked by the British, temporarily interrupting trade with the colonies.

The Spaniards thought so, the negotiations were difficult to proceed, and soon the news of Mexico being shelled by the Chinese reached Spain, and this time it was the turn of the Spaniards to protest.

The Spaniards said that the attack of the Chinese ship, which caused serious damage to Mexican ports and led to hundreds of casualties, in turn demanded compensation from China.

Lin Di took a hard line and believed that Spain should bear all this responsibility, and that if the Spaniards had not seized the Chinese merchant ships for no reason, the Chinese American Company would never retaliate, and Lin Di still demanded that the Spanish government release the Chinese merchant ships and make compensation.

The clay people also have three points of fire, not to mention the big empire Spain, they are in decline, but the long-term cultivation of superiority makes the racism of the Spaniards actually the strongest in Europe in this era, so they announced that the Chinese representatives have no sincerity in negotiations at all, and demanded that the representatives be replaced, or the negotiations were suspended.

In fact, the Spaniards are also a little worried, worried that after the breakdown of the negotiations, more fierce clashes will break out between the two sides, and even station chiefs. Their administrative apparatus had decayed, and their intelligence gathering on China was no longer as meticulous as it had been in the past, and they had lost their general interest in the outside world, but they still knew that the emerging Great Zhou regime had assembled a large battlefleet.

They don't know whether this fleet has the ability to fight across the ocean, but the Philippines is at China's doorstep, and it is more than enough to attack the Philippines, and once a war breaks out with China, the Philippines will not be able to defend it. The Philippines had great commercial interests for Spain and was the cornerstone of their trade in Asia, which was the most lucrative trade of the era. Britain, France and other countries are doing everything possible to expand Asian trade, the British in India to make everyone red, China is the only country that has hope to compete with India, and in recent years, China has opened up trade, foreign trade has expanded year after year, so that European countries are full of illusions, at this time to go to war with China, and then lose the Philippines, which is obviously unacceptable.

However, the attitude of the Chinese representative is really too unacceptable, although according to the report of the Philippine colonial officials, the Spanish merchant ships have been angry in Guangzhou for hundreds of years, but it was in Guangzhou, and now the other side has come to Madrid to make Spain angry, which is really too deceitful.

In addition, the Spaniards also had a judgment, they found that although the Chinese officials had an arrogant attitude towards Westerners, they were often very restrained in the war, they massacred the Chinese in the Philippines that year, and they were ready for the Chinese government to ask for the guilt, but the other party finally ignored it, and the Spanish massacre of the Chinese in the Philippines was not once or twice, they had slaughtered the Chinese five times (a total of six times, the sixth time was in 1820), but the Chinese government has not paid attention to it.

This made the Spanish government judge that China is not a country that likes war, and even if the negotiations break down, war may not break out, after all, according to well-known information, the Chinese have just come out of the long civil war, and the information from the Russian embassy proves that the foreign rulers of the Chinese have not all been expelled from the country, and are still entrenched in their northwest. The Spaniards, based on their own historical experience, would not have been able to go to war with France if the Moors had been entrenched in Spain.

Therefore, from history to reality, they analyze that even if the negotiations break down, it will not necessarily lead to war. In addition, the Chinese representatives are too aggressive, and it is too embarrassing to accept their conditions, and after the word is spread, Spain will not mix in Europe.

So they demanded that the negotiators be replaced, or the negotiations would be suspended.

Lindi expressed regret and announced that China would not continue to negotiate on this issue, and that Spain would be responsible for all the consequences.

The negotiations broke down so completely that it was close to declaring war.