The news of the looting of the Peruvian silver ship soon caused an uproar in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and Peru. The three silver ships were loaded not only with the property of the royal family, but also with the property of the church and private miners. It was because of the presence of warships that the church and the mine owners transported Peruvian goods to Mexico along with the royal property.

Although the Viceroyalty of Peru has been established for nearly 100 years, and Lima City, founded in 1535, is also a large city after Bogotá and Mexico City, this city built by Pizarro with traditional Spanish architecture is difficult to compare with Mexico City and Bogotá near the Caribbean Sea in terms of enjoyment.

As a result, the descendants of the Spanish expeditionary force who conquered Peru acquired Peruvian wealth, land, and mines, but in addition to the Creo family who served in the colonies, many mine owners chose to live in the Yucatan Peninsula, where the climate was pleasant and the material was abundant.

As a result, although Peruvian silver mines produce 65% of the silver produced in the American colonies every year, less than 20% of the silver remains in the region. Every year, the silver mined from the royal or private mines was shipped to Mexico and then returned to Spain or simply kept in the estates of the Yucatan Peninsula, depending on the wishes of the silver owners.

When the miners living in the Yucatan Peninsula heard the news of the looting by pirates, they wept bitterly or burst into a frenzy, and the powerful miners of the Viceroyalty of New Spain immediately put pressure on the Viceroyalty of New Spain to recover their property for them.

The Governor of New Spain, though deeply sympathetic to the misfortunes of the miners, and vigorously condemned the outrageous acts of the English pirates, refused the request of the miners and sent a fleet to hunt down the damned English pirates.

After all, it would take 8 months to send a fleet from Veracruz to Guayaquil. By the time New Spain's fleet arrived in Guayaquil, the English pirates would be able to circumnavigate the world. What's more, these pirates are not easy to mess with, as the news of the British pirate fleet robbing the Peruvian silver ship spreads, the Viceroyalty of New Spain in several ports in Central America near the Pacific Ocean has sent ships to intercept the northbound pirate fleet, but these ships were either sunk or fled back in a panic.

Unlike the Caribbean pirate ships, which only bullied merchant ships, this pirate fleet had more firepower than the Spanish warships, and the homemade artillery of the Viceroyalty of New Spain was no match at all. Therefore, it has been suggested that this pirate fleet was most likely camouflaged by British ships, otherwise it would be impossible to explain the origin of the most advanced European artillery on these ships.

If the opponent is a straggler, the governor of New Spain may also send two Galen to the west coast of America. But if it is a fleet of British ** ships, if you send less, you will send sheep into the mouth of the tiger, and if you send more... Wouldn't that invite pirates from the Caribbean to come to Mexico to rob again?

Besides, according to the principle of territoriality, as long as the silver ships have not yet been delivered to Panama, no, it should be said that the herds of mules carrying silver have not yet crossed the Isthmus of Panama, and this is the responsibility of the Viceroyalty of Peru. How could the officials of the Viceroyalty of New Spain find such trouble for themselves.

Therefore, the governor of New Spain sent a very stern letter to Lima, asking the governor of Lima to arrest the British pirates ravaging the west coast of America as soon as possible and recover the property of the royal family and the Spanish nobles. In addition, he sent a letter to the Committee on West Indian Affairs in the country and to Los Angeles.

He informed the former of the robbery of Peruvian silver, and incidentally sued the Viceroyalty of Peru, believing that the other party had failed in his duty to allow the British pirate ships to come and go freely under his nose. For the latter, he demanded that the Chinese immediately inform Mexico City of the whereabouts of the pirate ships, and if they were lucky enough to catch one or two pirate ships, they should return the contents to the Kingdom of Spain.

After a series of official manipulations, the Doge's Palace of New Spain was perfectly cleaned, and the relationship between the looting of the silver ship and its own.

As for the Peruvian governor in Lima, Count Chinjun, he was not only beaten by the British pirates, but also stabbed in the back by his own colleagues.

Unlike the ignorant governor of New Spain, thanks to the descriptions of the crew and officers who were released by the pirates, as well as the citizens of Guayaquil, the officials sent by the Count of Chin Joan to investigate Guayaquil quickly figured out the fact that there were a large number of Chinese and Chinese ships in this British pirate fleet. A Guayaquil businessman also identified at least four ships as Chinese merchant ships that had come to Guayaquil to trade, even though the names on the ships had been changed.

Seeing that the Count of Chinjong gathered his investigation report and put it in a box, the investigating officer Alonso. Morality. Sorita immediately cautiously asked his benefactor, "Your Excellency, aren't you going to send these documents to the Viceroyalty of New Spain?" ”

Count Chin Qiong glanced up, this cronie who he had unearthed from the law faculty of San Marcos University, and was now the prosecutor of the Lima Prosecutor's Court, so he said as a matter of course: "Of course, since it was done by the Chinese, aren't the colonies established by the Chinese just north of the Viceroyalty of New Spain?" Naturally, the Viceroy of New Spain was to blame for this matter. If it weren't for their connivance with the Chinese to establish colonies in the north, how could our silver-carrying ships be attacked..."

After the establishment of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1530 and the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1542, the Viceroyalty of the American Colonies was the highest official in the colonies who assisted the Spanish king in the administration of the colonies. The Governor was not only the supreme executive head of the colony, but also had legislative power and the power to direct religious affairs, and was also the supreme commander of the colonial army.

It is precisely because of the great authority of the colonial governors that the Spanish crown also imposed many restrictions on the activities of the governors of the American colonies, such as not being allowed to bring married children when they go to office, not allowing relatives and personal relations, not allowing them to buy personal property and participate in business in the colonies, and all their actions in the colonies must be reported to the king.

However, this restriction quickly became a formality, as the Americas were too far away from Spain. By the end of the 16th century, a governor who had not made a fortune during his tenure was considered incompetent and ridiculed. The local Creoles had lived in the colony for several generations, and these families had a large number of marriages with each other, which allowed them to gradually control the administrative power at the bottom of the colony.

After the colonial governors became the riches of the Spanish aristocracy, the cost of purchasing a governor was often more than 10 times that of the governor's office. Therefore, when a new governor arrives, in order to be able to make up the foreign debt incurred when he seeks the post of governor as soon as possible, he must also collude with these Creole families in order to extract a large amount of wealth from the colony as soon as possible.

The two major satrapies of the Americas were vast colonies, and as a result, a number of courts were divided under the satrapy under which the inquisition chamber acted as governor of the region. Under the jurisdiction of the Prosecutor's Court are the provincial districts, and a provincial governor administers the judicial, administrative and military affairs within the jurisdiction. Under the provincial governor, there is the lowest level of local administrative districts, municipal districts, which are administered by the mayor of the municipality.

The peninsulars and Creoles monopolized all the official positions in the colonies and the clergy of the Catholic Church, although there was a big difference between the two. The high official positions of governor, inquisition, provincial governor, bishop and so on necessarily belonged to the Spanish-born peninsular, and only those low-ranking administrators and priesthoods were Creole.

Of course, if you have enough money, you can buy a high-ranking position in the colony from the king, but this is also a power that only the descendants of the Creole conquerors of Mesoamerica have. These families of more than 1,000 descendants of the conquerors held the largest amount of land and mines in the colony, and possessed enormous wealth, and only they could afford to spend huge sums of money to buy titles and high official positions from the king.

As for the later Creole families, although their status was second only to that of the peninsulars and the descendants of these conquerors, their wealth was not comparable to that of the former. Alonso. Morality. Solita is a family from the Alonso family in Lima, and although the family has lived in Lima for four generations and has held low-level positions such as mayors, they still have a lot of power in the city, but they still have no hope of higher official positions.

In 1627, the fourth Count of Chinchon came to Lima to take over the post of Viceroy of Peru, a nobleman from the Tagus-Jarama River basin, who was not a well-known nobleman, but who was close to the Prime Minister, Count Olivares, and thus obtained the position. However, he didn't have many people around him, so he took a fancy to Alonso when he arrived in Lima. Morality. Sorita, let him become his cronies.

For Alonso. Morality. For Sorita, Count Chin Jong is not only his benefactor, but also the Alonso family's biggest protector in the colony, so he doesn't want any accidents at all. If it weren't for the fact that Count Chinchon was unwilling to marry a Creole, he really wished that his sister, the First Beauty of Lima, would become the second wife of Count Chinchon.

Therefore, after seeing that the Count of Chinchon had dug a hole for himself, he could not help but persuade: "Your Excellency, I think it would be better to send this report of inquiry to the Viceroyalty of New Spain after a slight amendment. ”

Count Qinqiong stopped moving, looked at him in a little surprise and asked, "Why?" What do you want to modify? ”

Solita immediately said: "I thought that the matter of the Chinese pretending to be British pirates to attack the silver ship should not be sent out, even if you sent it to the Governor's Palace of New Spain, the other side will not send any troops to attack the Chinese colony, but will push the responsibility back and let us send troops to attack the Chinese colonies in the north."

With the current economic situation in Lima, it is impossible for us to organize a fleet to go north. We spend 212,000 dacat a year to defend against attacks by the Araucan Indians in Chile. Now in order to attack the Chinese colonies in the north, where are you going to move the money from, Your Excellency the Governor?

And even if there is this money, I think it should be spent in the country, and it is necessary to calm the anger of His Majesty first. His Majesty needed not the colonies of the Chinese in the north, but the silver. I don't think the Chinese will leave the silver in the colonies until we assemble a fleet to get it back. ”