In Havana, Cuba, a group of high-ranking officials of the Spanish colonial administration, dressed in general's uniforms and wearing silk ribbons, were in a state of gloom.

This is the Viceroyalty of Havana, Cuba, located in the new 'heart' of Spanish America in the Spanish West Indies.

Since the threat of Mexico City, the top of the colonial government of the Viceroyalty of New Spain has retreated to Havana. They won't live with Mexico City.

But no matter how much they retreat, they won't be able to get out of this earth.

The problems that should come will still come. Now the difficult problem is in front of them, negotiations with the Chinese.

The Chinese delegation also came to Havana, and the special envoy from Madrid also came to Havana, and the negotiations between the two sides went on for more than a month, but there was still no proper result. The Chinese's super appetite makes every Spaniard angry.

But what's the use of their anger?

It can neither be used as a gun nor as a shell. No amount of anger on their part can hurt half a hair of the Chinese. It was the Chinese attack on north-central Chile, support for the Mapuche in south-central China, support for the Amaru rebels in western Peru, and Alexandria the Spaniard.

On the top of the main building of the Governor's Palace, the Spanish flag fluttering high, although it is still waving in the wind, it has lost its former spirit.

In 1785, Spain abandoned its own flag, which was 300 years younger, with two 'X' crossed barbed red sticks on the white flag. It was changed to the current crown, castle, and lion flag. The glittering lion cub from before also became listless.

At this time, the meeting had been going on for more than two hours, and the meeting was presided over by the king's envoy sent by Madrid, Count Felipe, who was only a court count, but he was a favorite of the Queen of Spain, Maria Luisa, and the other person who could be his equal, the Marquis Francisco of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

Present at the meeting were a cadre of colonial army generals who had been beaten in the war, and in addition to the navy, which had little to do with it, it was a cadre of the army. For example, Antonio Banderas of the Eastern Route Army, Santiago of the Western Route Army, and lieutenant generals and major generals of infantry, artillery, and cavalry in the army.

As can be seen from the composition and line-up of the participants in the meeting, the military focus of this meeting was on the army, not the navy.

No matter how arrogant the Chinese are, they will not send their warships to the Caribbean Sea for thousands of miles, but some people in Spain have always been obsessed with letting their American fleet go on an expedition to the west coast of the Americas.

To be honest, the Spanish colonial authorities have had a very difficult time with the army in recent years.

Needless to say, the secrets of the Mini rifle and the hexagon cannon were not 'cracked' by them, and the days after cracking were just as uncomfortable.

The strength of the Spaniards in the Americas was fundamental to the production of hexagonal guns, even with a large number of rifled guns. And its local military industry system is also difficult to quickly and efficiently produce hexagonal guns, only rifled guns are relatively fast.

At least 1,000 reliable rifled guns can be guaranteed every month.

This small production volume is drizzle compared to Chen Han, but it is a lifesaver for the Spanish colonial army in the Americas. For the next two years, rifled guns were shipped from Spain to the Americas, sometimes three or four thousand a month—the previous stockpiles, or guns purchased from England, France, and foreign countries; When it is rare, it is only a few hundred.

Spain is also at war on its own soil, and advanced new rifles must also be supplied to the country.

Anyway, the total number of new rifles in the hands of today's Spanish colonial army is about six or seven thousand. They also lost a lot of their new rifles in the war.

Of course, the Spanish colonial authorities in the Americas did not want to watch themselves step by step into the abyss and hell, but they had no money. With the increasing cost of the war at home, coupled with the obstruction of some officials within the Madrid government, the demand for the Americas is getting bigger and bigger, but the support is getting smaller and smaller.

The military spending of the Spanish colonial armies in the Americas dropped sharply, and the treatment was generally not high, as was the weaponry. In the past six months, the rate of replenishment of their new weapons has dropped significantly compared with last year. Again and again, they proposed plans for Madrid to expand its military and increase military spending, but Madrid rejected them all on the grounds of financial constraints.

As the war dragged on, the recruits recruited by the Spanish American colonial authorities could not even complete simple shooting training, and were forced to be sent to the battlefield in desperation.

Is that all about 'training' new recruits with brutal warfare?

This made Antonio Banderas, Santiago and other senior officers of the colonial army almost crooked their noses. The entire army was also very dissatisfied with this.

But now that the war has been fought, Banderas and Santiago also feel that there is no need to be 'angry' anymore. The war is over, and so is their military life.

Madrid could not tolerate their continued service in the Spanish Army.

In this short period of time, the Spanish colonial army was defeated in successive battles, while the Chinese army did not seem to see any signs of material exhaustion and decline in morale. Within Spain, however, the idea of ending the war as soon as possible began to rise in the public opinion of its native newspapers. During the two or three years of war, China's navy and army, obviously at a disadvantage, continued to win on all fronts, and the huge disparity in national strength between the Kingdom of Spain and China, the Eastern Empire, really frightened many people - including countless main fighters who had previously supported the war.

More critically, this rhetoric is also quite popular among Madrid's top executives.

Although the Chinese want to continue to go south, they will not be able to eat the vast territory at all, but many lands in the Americas are not really controlled by the Spaniards.

If the Chinese can give up some benefits to the local Indians, even native-born whites and mixed-race people, it is not uncommon for them to fight all the way to Argentina.

The biggest problem of the Chinese is that they are too greedy, and after occupying a piece of territory, they want to completely control it.

Their way of ruling is completely different from the way Spain exploited wealth and materialism. The Chinese sought complete domination, just as Napoleon did in Egypt. Every aspect of society as a whole is in control.

As far as the Spaniards know, more and more native white [Mexicans] have stood in the sequence of rebellion against the Chinese on Mexican soil. This made Marquis Francisco hate, this group of damned traitors, at this time know the abomination of the Chinese. But Spain has left that land, and it is very likely that it will leave permanently.

Now the dire situation makes him unable to see the possibility of a counterattack by the Big Duck against Mexico.

"General Márquez, tell me honestly, is there a big problem on the navy's side? If the war continues, do you have the possibility of annihilating the Chinese American fleet? Count Felipe felt that if the situation in the Americas was to be reversed, the only hope was for the Spanish American fleet to go on an expedition to the west coast and fight a life-and-death battle with the Chinese American fleet.

You can't take advantage of it on land, you must have an advantage at sea, otherwise your negotiations with the Chinese will be a unilateral notice.

And the reason why he is still holding on is because China has chosen Chile, not Ecuador, Colombia or Peru.

"That can't be."

Admiral Marquez said decisively. The Spanish American fleet led by him was mainly concentrated on the east coast of the Americas, where in addition to defending against the Chinese fleet in the south and the Chinese in the north to develop surface forces in the Gulf of Mexico, their greatest energy was to guard against the British.

On the North American continent, the British are unlikely to make waves. But in the West Indies, when the power of the French was rapidly declining, the Spaniards were so pitiful and helpless.

No sooner had the French in Europe overthrown the autocratic rule of the Bourbon dynasty than the blacks of Haiti began to revolt.

These black Shuli were all transported from Black Africa by Europeans little by little in the past 200 years, and the local Taíno [Indians] have been exterminated by the Europeans. And when it comes to blacks, these colonists have no pity at all. Under the abuse of white plantation owners, many black slaves chose to flee. They settled in the Middle Cordillera and formed communities known as "Marlons", occasionally descending the mountains to raid isolated plantations. These fugitive slaves were known as "Maroons".

Haiti is an Indian language, and it also has a French name – Saint-Domingue.

Saint-Domingue under French rule can be said to be a fertile land, where all the available land is cultivated, sugar cane is cultivated on the humid plains, coffee is grown in the mountains, indigo is grown in the dry hills, and cotton is distributed on the dry plains. In remote areas where it cannot be cultivated, it is also used to raise cattle and pigs.

In 1767, 72 million pounds of jaggery and 52 million pounds of white sugar were exported to Europe. In 1780, Santo Domingue supplied 40% of the sucrose and 60% of the coffee on the European market. However, most of the food needs need to be imported.

The year after the French Revolution, a great black uprising also broke out in Haiti. Without the support of the homeland, the French colonial rule in Haiti was fragile and vulnerable. 200,000 blacks stood up, which was almost half the total number of Haitian slaves.

The slaves set fire to sugar cane fields and houses, and slaughtered the Caucasian population. The 10,000 white inhabitants and a small force of regular French troops were unable to put the uprising down, and within weeks northern Haiti was in ruins. About 2,000 whites had been killed, 200 sugar cane plantations and 900 coffee and indigo plantations had been destroyed, and northern Haiti had fallen into slave hands.

There were no slave rebellions in western Haiti, but there were wars between whites and mulattoes demanding decentralization, and with the exception of Port-au-Prince, mulatto armies prevailed. In the south of Haiti, white plantation owners armed black slaves against mestizos.

By a year, the black revolt had morphed into a clash between the white upper class and the poor whites, between the white royalists and the revolutionaries, between the mulattoes and the whites, between the mestizos and the blacks, between the armed slaves of the South and the slaves of the revolt in the North.

The vast majority of the French military forces in the Americas were swallowed up by the Haitian Black Tide as if they had entered a bottomless pit. The only hope of restoring order was to send troops from France, and in the face of resistance from the royalists of Saint-Domingue, they had to unite with the efforts of the rebellion, capture Cap-de-France [Cap-Haïtien], and sack the city.

The riots in Haiti brought the influence of the French in the Americas to a freezing point, and also brought the influence of the French in the Americas to a freezing point.

The plantation economy of Saint-Domingue was also almost completely destroyed.

But the black army led by Toussaint Louvertur was supported by the Americans, and not long ago, the British, who wanted to replace the French position in Haiti, had no choice but to withdraw their troops. Toussaint Louvidur is now turning to attack the mestizo territory in the south and west.

At the same time, the pressure on the Spaniards was amplified to the extreme.

Without the French in the Americas, they would have to face the pressure of the British alone.

Was it a fantasy to ask the Spanish fleet to go on an expedition to the west coast of the Americas?

Márquez's head shook as fast as a drum.

"So, then, gentlemen present, what more do you insist on?"