In the winter of the ninth year of Chengtian, the real good news came from North America, the war was over, and the war was won!

Mexico City was captured, the Spanish army was completely cut off from supplies, and they were finished.

What about how many Spanish soldiers and horses there are on the northern front? Without logistical support, it's a piece of. This is like during the Three Kingdoms, Deng Ai smuggled through Yinping, and after taking Chengdu, Jiang Wei had tens of thousands of horses in his hands, and it was to no avail.

Large tracts of fertile land in North America are waiting to be cultivated by Chinese immigrants, and the shadow of war will be completely far away from that God-given land. Life is going to be truly beautiful.

The city of Nanjing fell into cheers.

Not because the war was won, but because after the war they had won, they cheered that after the war they had ushered in a new wave of rising prices.

For the people of Nanjing, isn't it normal for the imperial court to win the battle. Although the war in North America really made them a little nervous! But it's not uncommon to win. If it is defeated, it will be the real big news.

Although no final armistice had been signed between the two sides, the expeditionary force attacking Manzanillo was completely able to resist the counterattack of the Spanish colonial legions that had returned to the army, and also inflicted heavy losses on its attacking forces.

The Spanish colonial army, numbering about 70,000 people, has completely become a turtle in the urn, and they may not be short of food, but what about munitions? Especially rockets, the latter's production plant is in Mexico City, and the coalition forces that took Mexico don't need to worry about arms and materials at all, but what about the Spanish colonial army on the northern front? They don't have as much arms to raise locally.

Especially the military spirit of this army. When the news of the fall of Mexico City reached the army, how much more combat power would this army have?

In short, the Spaniards are finished.

When the news reached Nanjing, it means that the dust had settled on the war in North America at least two months earlier, and by this time the news may have been transmitted back to Spain. No matter how much dissatisfaction Carlos III had, the facts were irrevocable, and Spain alone could not organize a second army to come to the Americas to find a place.

So, everything has been settled.

Chen Ming looked at the map of North America, where a large area of land in the northern part of the New Spanish colony was dyed red, about 2 million square kilometers of land that the Americans had taken from Mexico after the Mexican-American War. It was a lucrative 'sale'.

Chen Ming's previous idea was to reproduce that war sixty or seventy years in advance, and to reproduce the war that caused Mexico to lose more than half of its land area and the United States to gain one-fifth of its land area. In this way, it is easy to legally determine China's legitimate sovereign interests on the east coast of North America.

But now he was a little dissatisfied.

Because he held a bigger trump card in his hands, in addition to the victory in the Sino-Spanish War on the frontal battlefield, behind Spain - the Indians were really active.

According to the previous calculations, China reached an agreement with Spain, so naturally China gave up the Indians.

Chen Ming hadn't thought about arming the Indians before, it was the expeditionary force's own doing, but the problem was that this thing was not only done for the expeditionary force, but now it is even bigger.

With the port of Manzanillo as the center, tens of thousands of Indian armed forces can be gathered in the surrounding area to follow them to attack Mexico City, and that's not all.

It can be said that this Indian armed force has its own capital in the Americas.

To abandon this force in this way would be to send them under the butcher's knife of Spain, and they may be able to cause some trouble for the Spaniards, but they will not overthrow the Spanish rule in Mexico in one fell swoop, as they did in 1810.

After the expeditionary force wants to do this, it will not be easy to win over those Indians when China begins to officially annex the Americas in N years. After being bloodily suppressed and retaliated by the Spaniards, the Indians will come to believe that they have 'betrayed' their China when they are amused.

Human greed knows no bounds.

Chen Ming's appetite has now grown, he not only wants to seize the previous territory, but also prepares to cut off a piece of land in the northern border of the later Mexican region, establish a 'separation belt', and support an Indian activity area.

Anyway, as long as the war stops and there is no containment from China, the Spanish army will easily complete the resuppression of the Indians, and there will be a lot of blood in the process. But China hasn't given up on the Indians, has it?

Cut out a piece of land for the Indians to gain a foothold, and then before evacuating, nag a few more words about the revenge of the Spaniards, as a reminder, and Manzanillo This place Chen Ming wants to keep. Naturally, so many Indians living here could live without hindrance, and this was enough to win the trust of the Indians to continue.

In the current Americas, if we want to develop the productivity of the land as soon as possible, and if we want to produce enough food and materials in the Americas as soon as possible, all of this is really inseparable from the Indians.

And in future wars, the Indians are also a main force. Their unforgettable hatred of the Spaniards was of great help to Chen Han's plan to annex America.

It's a good dog. Only from the current situation, this is a really good dog.

Eat less, but get more in return, plus loyalty. The Indian soldiers in the war obviously did not receive professional training, but they were surprisingly strong in their will to fight.

The Japanese came to compare with the Indians, not to mention pure combat effectiveness, but only to talk about the will to fight, these Indians are better than the Japanese.

Chen Ming was really reluctant to give up on them.

But Chen Ming also knows whether his 'meaning' can be conveyed to the Americas and Europe before the agreement is signed is another matter.

The Spaniards may not pay too much attention to the land, and the boss with a lot of money will not care about a grandfather Mao, but what Chen Ming wants to get from the Spaniards is silver, as well as war reparations.

Chen Ming never gave up the idea of asking the Europeans for war reparations, the Dutch were an exception, because Ceylon was still in their hands, in order to be able to accept Ceylon peacefully, not to mention the war reparations, even the Dutch prisoner of war Chen Ming would also offer it with both hands.

Perhaps Ceylon can also be seen as a war reparation for the Dutch. But Chen Ming cares more about straightforward money!

It's just because of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's land reparations again and again in history.

The Americas and the South Seas are not the basic plate of Europeans, so it doesn't mean much to cut the land or not, but the war reparations can hit Chen Ming's G-spot very well. Although this is the same as many times before, Chen Ming is alone and hi, maybe he has a good time, and it's okay.

In an overall sense, being able to defeat the attack of 100,000 Spanish colonial troops in one fell swoop will further increase China's national strength and provide certain benefits in terms of self-esteem, self-confidence, and national cohesion.

Although China at this time did not suffer the humiliation of the Opium War, did not experience the century-old sinking of the original space-time plane, and was not broken by the capital again and again, it still thought that it was the central country and the heavenly kingdom.

However, as we open our eyes to the world and learn more and more about the outside world, it is inevitable that the ideology of the entire country will be affected to a certain extent. Victory in the war is like a filter that can smash many ideological factors from the outside world into pure factors, and while these factors are absorbed and accommodated by the country, it also ensures that the country's ideology continues to be stable, rather than undergoing external or even fundamental changes.

In the original plane of time and space, the self-proclaimed country of the central government, the late Qing Dynasty of the Celestial Empire was a ridiculous clown image, how heavy the humiliation suffered by China in the century-old history of humiliation, and how strong the irony contained in the words 'Celestial Empire'.

Thousands of foreigners came in from the sea, and the dignified Heavenly Empire was defeated again and again, so that the foreigners swept from south to north. The governor and the general army died in a dozen or twenty.

More than a decade later, war broke out again, and the decaying Eastern Empire not only did not learn from the experience of that war, but behaved even more poorly. was killed all the way into the city of Beijing, and in the battle of Bali Bridge, no matter how heroic Seng Lingqin was, he could not hide the fact that tens of thousands of Manchu troops were defeated, and they were killed by the British and French forces, and they had no temper at all.

The image of the Eastern Empire has been completely stripped of its tiger skin, and the pain of an empire that rules over a third of the world's population is powerless in front of foreigners, and this pain of falling from heaven to hell has destroyed the self-esteem of all people in China. Moreover, the excessive gap made the Chinese at that time unable to see any possibility of successful revenge, so the imperial court began to grovel to the foreigners more and more, and the common people all regarded the foreigners as foreigners who were one level higher than the officials. The self-esteem and self-confidence of the entire nation, which has been erected for 3,000 years, is rapidly collapsing.

As a traverser, as the soul of the 21st century, Chen Ming is absolutely the Celestial Empire, which is very ironic, when a country prides itself on being the first in the world, the country is already in decline.

Pride makes people backward, humility makes people progress.

This statement may not be a one-size-fits-all truth, but it certainly has 'mostly' of the right side.

In the face of the general public, this statement is true in many cases.

But as a Chinese, as an angry youth, Chen Ming on the one hand for the 'Heavenly Empire', on the other hand, he also sincerely hopes that his motherland can always maintain a king's heart in history.

Let China remain strong, make Westerners desperate, and make China truly become a 'heavenly kingdom', this is not Chen Ming's desire. It's yy, but it's very emotional, isn't it?

And when Chen Ming really crossed over, when he realized his initial wish step by step - to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then raised his head to look at the world, he soon found that his efforts were all moving towards the ultimate goal of YY.

One victory after another has enabled the Chinese people to eliminate their fear of the outside world, and at the same time to accept a new world view, the world is no longer the one acre and three points of land in China, but the entire vast earth.

Even if the whole of America became a colony of Europeans, the Chinese did not presumptuously despise themselves in front of Europeans. Victory in several wars allowed them to quickly consolidate their self-confidence.

Chen Ming didn't know if the Chinese who went to the South Seas ten years ago would be timid when they faced the Dutch and Spaniards, a subject of the 'Heavenly Empire' was not simply just playing tricks on his own territory, that is, he should still hold his head high proudly even if he went to the enemy's territory.

But what about now? Will there still be Chinese people afraid of the Dutch and the Spaniards? Even for those Chinese who grew up in the South Seas, the soft bones should be hard now.

That's what war does.

If there had not been a series of foreign wars, and without the victories of the imperial armies in the North, in the South Seas, and in North America, China's footsteps would still be limited to the original one-third of an acre, and even if the Chinese people became richer, it was difficult to say that these people would have been able to compete with the Europeans after coming to the territory of the South Seas.

China's traditional culture tells the Chinese that harmony is precious.

Therefore, when they go to a strange place and face an unfamiliar force, most Chinese people will choose to back down, preferring that their vital interests will be damaged to a certain extent rather than provoke greater disputes.

But what about now?

Where is this happening?

There is a saying in the Analects of Confucius: The use of courtesy, harmony is precious.

That is to say, the role of etiquette lies in being able to be harmonious. It means that to deal with everything according to Lilly means that all kinds of relationships between people can be just right, that they can be properly mediated, so that they can be harmonious with each other. Confucius believed that the most important thing in the past Ming kings and saints in reconciling the relationship between people was to enable people to achieve harmony according to the requirements of etiquette.

'Etiquette' is the premise of 'harmony', and it is only after having etiquette that harmony can be achieved.

However, after thousands of years of time evolution, this sentence has been forgotten by countless Chinese people, and only pay attention to the last three words.

"Harmony is precious", "harmony is precious". After the evolution of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, it has become a weakness.

Chen Ming disagrees with this kind of thinking.

If 'tolerance and generosity' reaches the point of weakness, then it is not 'tolerance and generosity', but cowardice, but cowardice.

In this era, China does not need the idea of 'harmony is precious', and now is not the time to talk about 'harmony', when the whole world respects the rules of the game formulated by China, then it is 'harmony is precious'.

Heaven is destined to inherit the sky for nine years, and it is the season of harvest in China.

The end of the Burma War and the end of the North American War, although Chen Ming would always wake up happily from his dream by the imminent huge harvest, in the deepest part of his heart, he was not without a great sigh of relief.

The war is over, the war is over. Military spending will drop dramatically. This is definitely a great thing for Chen Han's finances.

As the emperor, Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he also wanted to know if the British could seize this opportunity to give more trouble to the old United States that was about to be born.

The massive transfer of troops to Mexico has definitely affected the situation in the West Indies, but how much can they stir up in the terrible situation of John Bull on the east coast of America?

And until now, Chen Ming doesn't know how the rockets leaked out, but Britain and France got the manufacturing drawings of the rockets from Nanjing, as well as the Swedes.

This is Chen Han's previous promise to sit down with each of them - this is the 'second'!

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The faint aroma permeated the palace, and the eunuchs, palace maids, and the guards outside, all of them did not move.

On the big bed in the deepest part of the dormitory, the curtain was covered, and Chen Ming was sleeping very fragrantly with the beauty in his arms.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

Zhang Dayong's voice reached Chen Ming's ears.

When he opened his eyes, he was white, and two snow-white swells were clinging to his chest, and the taste was unusually lubricated.

"What's the matter?"

The clock at the head of the bed showed that it was not yet five o'clock.

"Your Majesty, just now came to report from the Yicheng Bofu outside, Yicheng Bo Wu Xizeng Wu, died of illness......"

The sleepiness in Chen Ming's eyes disappeared suddenly.