Count Qinqiong was silent for a moment, his cronies were not bad, after being robbed by Chinese pirates, it was obviously an extremely difficult problem to ask those mine owners to come up with a large sum of money to form a fleet to attack.

But those Chinese would not be foolish enough to leave such a large sum of money in the North American colonies and wait for them to send a fleet to grab it back. If they take the Chinese colonies in the north and get nothing, it is clear that someone will stand up and bear the wrath of the mine owners and the king.

In this way, he is the best scapegoat. Even if Count Olivares has a good relationship with him, I'm afraid it will be difficult to keep him this time.

What's more, it is not easy to levy such an additional war fee from those mine owners. The Viceroy of Peru was paid 30,000 dat of gold for a five-year term.

1,000,000 Dakat gold coins are equivalent to 4 tons of gold, so each Dakat gold coin is about 2.7 Da Ming Yuan, and the annual salary of Earl Qin Qiong is 16,200 Da Ming Yuan, which is obviously a rather astonishingly high salary.

However, in order to obtain this position, he spent 300,000 dacat gold coins per term, half of which was used to bribe the king and half to bribe the king's close ministers. It is rare for a colonial governor to serve three consecutive terms, which means that he is now the last governor of Peru.

The Earl of Chinchon was much better fed than his predecessor, so he was also revered by the local Creoles. But it also meant that the money he made was not as insane as his predecessor's, and the wealth he had acquired from the colonies during his first two terms was little left other than to pay off his family's foreign debts and pay bribes for the appointment of three Peruvian governors.

He also hoped that during his last term of office, he would be able to reap the fortune that would allow him to return to Spain to spend his old age in peace, how could he lose his official position because of this sudden pirate incident.

With a glimmer of hope, the Count of Chin Chin Chin said to Sorita: "Maybe if the Viceroyalty of New Spain receives this official document and immediately sends an army to attack Los Angeles, it is still possible to recapture that batch of silver, right?" ”

Sorita shook her head and shattered the last illusion of Count Chin Qiong and said, "If there was no powerful fleet to block the open sea of Los Angeles, I think those Chinese would have returned to China with silver long ago."

In addition, the overland distance from Mexico City to Los Angeles was extremely long, and it was necessary to pass through the territory of the Northern Indians. I don't think that the Mexican army would take such a big risk for Peruvian silver, you should know that the army of the Viceroyalty of New Spain is not as well trained as our Peruvian army.

Therefore, when the Viceroy of New Spain receives your letter, he will certainly excuse himself. I don't know who the king will end up favoring, but he will certainly be resentful of those who create such problems. ”

Count Qinqiong sat down on the chair in a daze, and he put his hand on his forehead and said, "Do we know that the Chinese robbed the silver, and we should also think that it was the British pirates who did it?" Isn't that too unusual. ”

Sorita replied calmly: "For Your Majesty, it is still an acceptable fact that the British pirates have taken away the silver ship, after all, the British have been roaming the Caribbean Sea and want to plunder our treasure fleet, which God cannot stop.

But if a group of Chinese hijacked the silver ship, His Majesty might wonder if there was something wrong with the adults' abilities. After all, there had never been such a bad incident on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, and even Captain Drake back then had not been able to get any benefit from the east coast of the Pacific Ocean.

If Your Majesty asks the Viceroyalty of Peru to arrest this group of Chinese, your situation will be a little unpleasant. Now that His Majesty has forbidden short-distance trade on the eastern coast of the Pacific, the local haciendas are not willing to incur an additional tax to protect the property of the royal family and the miners as far away as Mexico..."

While the procurator was persuading his benefactor, a servant brought in an official document from the Viceroyalty of New Spain. After reading this official document, Count Qinqiong immediately became furious.

After greeting the women of the Doge of New Spain in a long list of words without repetition, he said to the prosecutor with some annoyance: "You guessed right, that old slippery man in Mexico City has put the blame on us, asking us to arrest this group of pirates as soon as possible and recover the property of the royal family and nobles."

Hell, I still have 50,000 Dakat robbed on board, is it because I don't want to defend the royal family and my own property? Mr. Alonso, do you think there is any way to get 5-100,000 Dakat before spring? Before Your Majesty listens to slander, we need someone to say something good for us in front of Your Majesty. ”

Looking at the anxious governor, Solita hesitated for a moment before stepping forward and whispering: "If the governor can authorize me, I am willing to go to Los Angeles to talk to those Chinese."

I think the Chinese are still different from the British, as long as there is normal trade to do, they will not choose to rob us. And once trade is opened, we can also levy commercial taxes.

Before His Majesty had ordered a ban on trade along the Pacific coast last year, the commercial tax of the Viceroyalty of Peru had reached 50,000 dacats. The prohibition of this year has caused many haciendas in the Viceroyalty of Peru to hoard their goods, and as long as trade is liberalized, we can collect a large amount of taxes.

We can also use the liberalization of trade as an excuse to ask these manor owners to come up with a donation, so that we can make up the amount you need. Moreover, we can also make the Chinese return the private property of the Viceroyalty on the condition that trade be liberalized, and promise not to plunder the property of the Viceroyalty of Peru for the remainder of your term. ”

Earl Chinqiong's eyes flickered, obviously very moved by the prosecutor's proposal, but he still muttered, "But it is the king's order to ban trade on the east coast..."

Solita did not take the governor's words, apparently hoping that Count Chinjong would make the decision himself. After a long time, Count Qinqiong, who had thought about it for a while, finally made up his mind and said, "Okay, I'll let the garrisons of those ports greet the tax officials." As long as the Chinese return my property and promise not to happen again, the Viceroyalty of Peru will reopen to them.

But you have to negotiate with those Chinese, they can only trade in a limited area and for a limited time, and I don't want to be sued before Your Majesty..."

When exhausted Alonso. Morality. When Solita returned home, she found that Don. Garcia. Morality. Carmen is surrounding her 17-year-old sister, Alicia Alonso, and making Lima's first beauty smile.

Don, who is already married. Garcia was not Sorita's sister-in-law choice, although the Peninsula native suddenly became a prominent figure in Mexico City after returning from the East, and bought himself a position as a councilor, and seemed to have become the upper echelon of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

But Solita is well aware that this Don. Garcia actually has another identity, the general agent of the Four Seas Trading Company in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, just like he is the general agent of the Peruvian Viceroyalty of the Four Seas Trading Company, they are just the leaders of the smuggling syndicate within the American colonies of the Four Seas Trading Company.

Therefore, he quickly stepped forward and pushed his sister away, facing Tang, who was sipping tea. Garcia said dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Garcia, you seem to be too leisurely, did you come to Lima to seduce a girl who is ignorant of the world?" ”

Tang Dynasty. Garcia shrugged his shoulders and replied nonchalantly, "Take it easy, Mr. Alonso, things are going well, everything is in our plan, so you should allow me to relax for a while." Besides, your sister is such a beauty, how can I not compliment her. ”

Solita sat down across from him, poured herself a cup of tea and moistened her throat, before replying, "I hope you can be careful about yourself, you are a married man, and I don't want Alicia's reputation to be damaged." ”

Tang Dynasty. Garcia immediately raised his hands in surrender, apparently unwilling to discuss the subject with his colleague, "What did Mr. Governor say?" Is he willing to reopen Peru's ports? ”

Solita frowned and looked at the teacup in his hand before he said, "If we do this, it won't become a wolf into the house, right?" The Chinese seem to be more armed than we expected, and according to my inquiries about the released officers and soldiers, they say that these Chinese are much more capable of fighting than the British pirates. Don't they have any ambitions for Peru? ”

Tang Dynasty. Garcia still said with a calm face: "Do you think that the kingdom is still the same great empire a hundred years ago?" Wake up, Mr. Alonso, the current kingdom is actually the same as the corpse of Mr. Pizarro in the cathedral, surrounded by gold and silver, but it still does not give him any life.

The Dutch, the British, and the French all carved out territories in the Caribbean, trying to cut us off from the kingdom itself. Our Majesty the King, on the other hand, only knows how to draw a great deal of wealth from the Americas to fill the financial gap that the Kingdom will never be able to fill. But he never cared about the development of the American colonies and the suffering of the colonial people.

I'm not a Creole, but I'm going to be the ancestor of a Creole family, so it's important for me to think about what is best for my children and grandchildren.

Is it to keep America as the gold and silver mines of the kingdom? Or make America a paradise for pirates and colonizers from other countries? Or will it become the spiritual home of the Creoles themselves?

For now, perhaps only the Chinese will support making the Creoles masters of the Americas. So this is not a lure of wolves, but the beginning of untying the kingdom's chains to the Americas. ”

Sorita sighed and said, "So you think the Creoles aren't Spaniards?" This is heresy. ”

Tang Dynasty. Garcia smiled and said, "Lima is really too closed. Dear Mr. Alonso, what you think is heresy is the consensus of the people of the peninsula in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. That's why the Creoles will never be able to become the mainstream of the colonial upper class, and you will always be unreliable in the eyes of the king..."