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After discussing with each other for a while, Li Jingsheng, who was still from the Quwo Li family, came out and asked the two: "The proposition put forward by Brother Wang and Brother Hu is certainly promising, but please tell the two of you in detail about this plan to run the Americas." No matter how delicious the swan meat is, if there is no way to catch the swan, won't we still have an empty joy? ”

Wang Yuanyi and Hu Qingquan glanced at each other, seeing that Hu Qingquan nodded slightly to himself, Wang Yuanyi no longer hid it, and completely announced his plan to everyone present.

"Brother Hu and I collected all kinds of information about the Spanish colonization in the Americas and studied them for more than half a year. We believe that the Spanish conquest of the Americas began with the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 (the fifth year of Koji).

The Spanish invaded the Yucatan Peninsula in 1517, and in 1519 the Spaniards established Havana on the island of Cuba, taking control of what Europeans called the Galle Sea region, and landing in Mexico in the same year, building the port of Veracruz, thus beginning the invasion of Mexico.

In 1521, the Spanish colonizer Cortis wiped out the Aztec Empire, a country founded by local Indians, centered on the Valley of Mexico, thus occupying all of Mexico.

At this point, the Spaniards established their first colony from the coast of the Galle Sea to the Pacific coast, which they called the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which was also the most fundamental viceroyalty of the Spaniards in the Americas.

The conquest of the region south of the Viceroyalty of New Spain began in 1519 with the construction of Panama City by the Spanish on the southern shore of the Isthmus of Panama. The landmark event was the conquest of the Inca Empire by the Spaniard Pizarro in 1533.

The Inca Empire encompassed the western part of South America, with the core of the Cusco River valley in Peru, a country that was said to have had a population of six million before the Spanish invasion, but was defeated by the Spaniards of less than 200 people, and God knows how the battle was fought.

The Spaniards then established the Viceroyalty of Peru on the remains of the Inca Empire, echoing the Viceroyalty of New Spain to the north, thus forming the Spanish colonial order in the Americas. The demise of the two major Amerindian empires also led to the Spanish colonial rule in the Americas without any strong interference.

From the process of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, we can easily see that for the Spaniards, the Viceroyalty of New Spain is the core territory of the Spanish American colonies, once the Spaniards lose the Viceroyalty of New Spain, it is difficult for them to control the Isthmus of Panama, and the connection between the Viceroyalty of Peru and its mainland requires a detour through the Strait of Magellan to the south, which is a more troublesome voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

In order to maintain control of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the Spaniards put great effort into the coast of the Galle Sea and the Yucatan Peninsula. But they apparently never expected to encounter any attacks on the Pacific coast, so there were few forts on Mexico's western Pacific coast. This is also the reason why our smuggling vessels are able to dump goods into Mexico.

The rule of the Spaniards in the American colonies for a hundred years has been cruel and merciless. Not only did they treat the Indians cruelly, but they also enslaved and exploited all kinds of mestizos.

The Kingdom of Spain implemented a system of entrusted guardianship in the Americas, that is, the Spanish government entrusted the Indians in a certain area of the colony to the colonists for guardianship, and the guardians not only had the right to collect tribute from the Indians and requisition them for labor, but also forced the Indians to convert to Catholicism.

It was under this colonial system that the Spanish colonizers not only looted a lot of wealth from the local Indians, but also continued to encroach on their land.

Therefore, the current Spanish American colonies can be described as full of contradictions, accounting for less than 5% of the population of Spanish colonists and native whites, ruling over 95% of the population of mixed race and Indians.

These Spanish colonizers and native whites thus occupied a great deal of wealth, according to the information we have received. The owners of mines in Potosi generally have assets in the range of 10,000 yuan. And the dowry they give to their daughters is almost not less than 100,000 yuan.

As for the big manors, they own up to more than 60,000 hectares of land, and they even own more than 250,000 head of livestock. As for the average rancher, they can also own a ranch of 3-40,000 head of cattle.

As a result, in the Spanish American colonies, uprisings of low-class Indians and mestizos were endless. It's just that these people lack organization and lack weapons, so the vibration of the Spanish colonizers is not great.

But the relationship between the peninsulars and the native-born whites, who had the wealth of the Spanish colonies, was not so harmonious, and according to the Spaniards' own records, as early as 1580 the natives launched the first armed rebellion in Santa Fe in the region of La Plata. Most recently, in 1624, they even ousted a magistrate.

So, folks, we don't need to use our power to overthrow Spanish domination over Spanish America, the Spaniards themselves sit in the crater of American Indians, mestizos, and native whites, and all we need to do is let the volcano erupt. ”

The people present couldn't help but eagerly ask Wang Yuanyi: "So how should we make this volcano erupt?" ”

Hu Qingquan immediately replied: "Freedom is preached to Indians and mestizos, and equality is preached to native-born whites." We intend to select some Indians, mestizos, and even native-born whites to study in the capital, and instill in them the theory of freedom and equality, so as to erce up the banner for the enslaved people of the Americas. We intend to call this project: the Liberation Movement of the Americas. ”

Hu Qingquan's words suddenly made the people present in an uproar, and Li Jingsheng couldn't help but ask him breathlessly: "The liberation movement of the Americas?" I can understand the use of Indians and mestizos to overthrow the Spanish rule over the American colonies, but what the hell is the liberation movement? Are you asking us to spend money to win freedom for the people of the Americas? ”

In the face of everyone's boiling backlash, Wang Yuanyi suddenly picked up the conversation and said, "Calm down, gentlemen, please calm down." ”

It was only after everyone had quieted down a little that he continued: "Our Majesty once said that the best time to earn a nation's wealth is either when the nation perishes or when the nation rises.

Although the Spanish American colonies were not a complete country, they were actually more extensive and rich than the Viceroyalty of New Spain and Peru.

Gentlemen, the amount of wealth, blood, and time required to bring such a vast and rich Spanish American colony to a collapse is far beyond your imagination.

If you have read the book "A Brief Journey to Europe" published by the European Mission in the past, you should know that the Kingdom of Spain is a first-class power in Europe. Even the Dutch, who occupied Batavia, were only part of the Kingdom of Spain.

In order to compete for the territorial and religious power of Europe, the Kingdom of Spain has been fighting with its European neighbors for more than a decade. How could such a barbaric and belligerent country easily give up its American colonies with an annual output of tens of millions of taels of gold and silver?

The Spanish American colonies seemed vast and rich, but they never became a single nation. These are the ruins of the Aztec Empire, the Inca Empire, and the two satrapies that the Spaniards fabricated to suppress other Indian tribes in the Americas.

It is also said that when they rebelled against the Spaniards, they might echo each other from afar. But once they have gained a foothold, there will inevitably be attempts to compromise with the Spaniards in order to preserve their interests.

Therefore, without the help and coordination of a friendly force from outside, the Indians and mestizos who fought separately could not drive the Spaniards out of the Americas on their own.

What's more, the level of literacy of the Indians and mestizos was too low, and the more economically developed areas were all controlled by the Spaniards and native whites. Without the help of friendly forces from outside, they would not even be able to prepare weapons against the Spaniards.

And when these Indians and mestizos raised the banner of rebellion against the Spanish colonizers, the gold, silver, cocoa, rubber, leather and other products produced in their land needed to be exchanged for scarce war materials in order to continue the war.

So when that time comes, who can they rely on but us? The raw materials of the colonies, which were supposed to go to Spain, would have fallen into our hands, and this was the first reward we received for supporting the liberation movement of the Americas.

And the longer the war went on, the people of the Americas had to mortgage the most valuable part of their land to us. In the end, the people of the Americas will win freedom, and we will gain wealth.

If this project can be completed, then all of you will create a new family..."

Although Wang Yuanyi's plan was full of temptation, at this time everyone calmed down, and after a few words of discussion, some people asked Wang Yuanyi: "Since it is to support the self-liberation of the people of the Americas, it will inevitably involve a large number of arms exports."

The Weapons Supervisor has always been a partner of the Four Seas Trading Company, and if we find the Arms Supervisor to cooperate, will it end up benefiting others?"

Wang Yuanyi looked at everyone with a smile and said, "So the partner we are looking for is Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau." Everyone should know that the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has been squeezed out by the Ordnance Supervision in the issue of arms supply, so it can only take the export route, so they will be happy to cooperate with us. The most important thing is that the ocean-going shipping fleet operated by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can also save us the time to build a transoceanic fleet from scratch..."

Li Jingsheng and his companions around him discussed for a while, and asked Wang Yuanyi again: "Then now there is the last question left, how do you plan to distribute the shares of this company?" ”

Wang Yuanyi glanced at everyone from left to right and said: "The company's first share capital is 600,000 yuan, with one share for every 6,000 yuan. Brother Hu and I have decided to contribute 23 shares each, and the remaining 54 shares are open to all of you. ”

Li Jingsheng shouted without hesitation: "Then Brother Huang and Brother Zhou each want six shares..."

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