Bullying the weak!

Perhaps in the 21st century, this is an immoral behavior, but in this era of the strong prey on the weak, it is irrelevant to the strong not bully the weak.

Throughout history, how many strong people have not bullied the weak? If they had not bullied the weak, how could they be worthy of the muscles on their bodies?

As for itself, the prey on the weak is not only the instinct of human society, but also the instinct of human nature.

Before the 19th century, Europeans divided the world into three levels, one was a civilized country, the second was a barbarian country, and the third was a barbarian. The former was a country with the same status as its status, such as the countries of the Old Continent, that is, the United States of Europe and the United States. As for barbarian countries, it specifically refers to those countries with weak strength in Asia, and as for barbarians, they are "indigenous people" who have no concept of a state.

What is civilization?

What is barbarism?

Never determined by civilization.

The civilized countries, that is, the so-called great powers, will plunder colonies and various resources together. For those "barbaric countries" that are difficult to conquer for a while, the great powers usurped various privileges and sought various interests by signing unequal treaties.

When facing "barbarians", these great powers will directly conquer them by force. In the eyes of most European powers, "barbarians" cannot be considered humans, but animals that just walk with two legs. Naturally, there is no need to pay attention to any kindness to animals. Of course, these European powers who claim to be devout believers will also let the "barbarians shower" under God's mercy through missionary missions.

But one thing that is certain is that the so-called "mercy" is nothing more than the kindness of hunters to their prey. For Europeans, the rich American continent is their hunting ground.

The Spanish established New Spain, the French established New France, the Dutch established New Netherlands, and even the British built a series of colonies along the Atlantic coast of the North American continent half a century ago.

America is the hunting ground for the empire!

But what about the Heavenly Dynasty?

America is the hunting ground for Westerners, and it is also the hunting ground for the Celestial Empire!

Due to the geographical environment, the hunting grounds of the Celestial Empire were on the west coast. Just like any colony when it was first established, when the Ming Dynasty immigrants first arrived on the west coast of North America, they would inevitably have some conflicts with the natives.

Even the saying "people-cannibalism" still affects the attitude of Ming immigrants towards natives. Perhaps Ming immigrants have a broad mind, but it does not mean that they will accept it. Moreover, the immigration cause itself is an iron and bloody cause.

Since the eighth year of Qiansheng, the young marquis Li Yide led a fleet to "discover" Yuzhang Bay. Since the establishment of Yuzhang City, thousands of Ming immigrants have traveled across the ocean to come here. While conquering this land with muskets and swords, they also used their hard-working hands and intelligent minds to open up a prosperous city Yuzhang City on the desolate west coast.

Just as the Zhou emperor granted the princes, these Ming immigrants from afar first established Yuzhang City, a Chinese-style city. They built city walls, built towns, and then began to expand into the surrounding area.

After twelve years of development, the population of Yuzhang City has now increased from more than hundreds of people in the eighth year of Qiansheng to more than 30,000. However, due to the population, their scope of activities is still limited to the Yuzhang Bay area, which is the so-called "San Francisco Bay Song" in another world.

Despite this, one thing that is certain is that the development of the Ming Dynasty in the Americas was unlimited. After all, the Ming Dynasty only had only been here for twelve years. The corresponding New France developed by the French was not only tens of thousands until the end of the 18th century. Even if the population of Yuzhang City is only more than 30,000, it is far from comparing with colonies such as New Spain, the population is millions, but what about decades?

After all, the Spanish have been operating in the American continent for more than a century, and their immigrants have increased from hundreds to millions. Even the vast North American continent and the rolling Rocky Mountains blocked the connection between the Ming Dynasty and New Spain. However, in the past twelve years, the two sides have long begun secret competition.

Yuzhang City is located at the foot of the rolling Rocky Mountain. Under the protection of the mountains, the city did not attract New Spain's attention until at least ten years of the tenth year of the Shensheng. Facing the Rocky Mountains lying across the North American continent like a giant dragon, the Spaniards seemed to have no desire to expand to the north.

This also gave the Ming Dynasty an opportunity to build Yuzhang City from the tenth year of Gansheng. The Ming Dynasty immigrants moved south along the west coast of the American continent and stepped up their march south. In the tenth year of Gansheng, five hundred Ming immigrants came to the later generations of southern California to establish Yong'an City. In another world, this is the City of San Diego.

Compared with Yuzhang, the land here is fertile, the climate is warm, and the marine resources are abundant. Even though there were natives who once made a living by farming, fishing and hunting, the natives were quickly conquered, and the remaining natives fled to other places. It is precisely because of this that the Governor of New Spain was shocked to discover that there was an "neighbor" in northern New Spain, and it was a neighbor from the Ming Dynasty.

This is simply an incredible thing.

How did those Chinese arrive in America?

This is no longer important. What is important is that the Ming Dynasty had arrived in America and established several colonies on the west coast. What is even more annoying is that the Ming people continued to send their expedition fleets to sail along the coast. Their mission was very simple to reach areas that were not marked in the New Spain Governor's District, and then engrave the words "Ming Dynasty Territory" in Chinese and Latin on a certain stone on the coast.

As soon as these boundary markers appeared, it meant that the Ming Dynasty "legal occupation" of this place.

This naturally made the Spaniards who arrived in America earlier and even regarded it as imprisonment. In the past decade, there have been many diplomatic disputes between the two sides.

Yong'an City is the forefront of the Ming Dynasty and New Spain, and it is also a thorn in the eyes of the Spanish.

"I really didn't expect that in just ten years, the Chinese have actually opened up so many fields!"

Looking at the endless fields by Yong'an Bay, the Spanish wearing a cowhide hat said in sighing.

"Yes, now New Spain even needs to buy a lot of food from here!"

Compared with the Spanish, the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty were undoubtedly extremely hardworking. Perhaps Yuzhang County did not have silver mines in New Spain, but there were more hardworking Chinese people who opened up scattered fields to plant corn and various grains. The grain produced in these fields was exported to the Spanish colonies in large quantities to meet their needs.

This of course also made the Spaniards look greedy.

"Fernando, that's because the land here is very fertile. I really don't know why the Governor ignored this. If we had noticed this earlier, how could this place be a Chinese territory?"

Captain Columbus has always been worried about the Chinese "occupation" of Yong'an City. After all, as far as he knows, the Spanish and Portuguese had been here a hundred years ago, but they had only been here. They did not occupy this land. Perhaps at that time, there were Indians living here. The land here seemed fertile, but in fact it was still a barren land. There was nothing worth the Spanish nostalgic about, and they did not even declare their occupation.

But the problem is, the Chinese occupied this place!

Even the areas in Spain dozens of places south of Yong'an City are Chinese, but the "first discoverer" in this area is Spain!

Not Chinese!

Looking at Yong'an City on the coast, Columbus said indignantly.

"It was the inaction of the governors who caused all this. They had no intention of stopping the invasion of the Chinese. Compared with the invasion of the Chinese, they were more concerned about Chinese silk and Chinese goods."

Compared to this desolate land, doing business is more important. After all, for New Spain, land is the cheapest thing, and it can even be said that land is worthless, but Chinese goods can bring extremely generous profits to the Governors and officials in Mexico City.

It is precisely because of this that they choose to remain silent about the emergence of the Chinese. Even until now, when they complain about the expansion of the Chinese, they still talk in their hearts that they cannot destroy the business with the Chinese.

land?

How can this desolate land compare to the huge profits brought by Chinese silk, cotton cloth and various other commodities?

Of course, both the governor and the dignitaries of Mexico City always need to express their attitudes. They need to express their voices to the Chinese and express their dissatisfaction. What about?

Then there was nothing. All they did was just to explain to Madrid and tell Madrid that you see, I have done everything we can.

We have also sent people to communicate with the Chinese, but they ignored them and wanted to stop their expansion.

I'm afraid there is only war, but there is no Madrid but how can we start a war against the Chinese?

Those high-ranking officials and nobles all talk about Spain's interests, but they always only talk about business.

In fact, for example, those high-ranking officials are talking about business. Even Columbus himself may not be willing to fight with the Chinese. After all, he has gained a lot of benefits from this business.

"I hope I can get some rewards."

Columbus murmured to himself.

What kind of reward can this negotiation achieve?

Columbus had no clue. Of course, this did not prevent him from placing all his responsibilities on the Governor of Mexico City and the dignitaries. It seemed that their inaction caused the interests of New Spain to be damaged.

As for him, he is a patriot. He once loudly called for vigilance against the expansion of the Chinese.

But the headquarters and the dignitaries were blinded by interests. They were unable to respond in time. What could he, a small captain, stop all this?

"Alfonso, after you get outside the city, don't forget to contact the Chinese merchants to sell all the goods we brought to them. They must need the goods we brought."

After worrying about the country and the people, Columbus still cared about his own business.

In Columbus's view, this time he came to Yong'an City was undoubtedly a good opportunity to develop business. In the past, he could only obtain Chinese goods through intermediaries, but now he can directly bypass intermediaries and Chinese merchants to do business.

Such an opportunity is rare.

What do Chinese people need?

The goods needed by the Chinese are very simple. They need all kinds of livestock, cows and horses. Chinese people are willing to spend high prices to buy such livestock.

For Columbus, who owns a large farm, he never lacks these. All he needs is a market. Even this time, he brought hundreds of horses.

As a newly developed colony, Yuzhang County has never met the demand for cattle, horses and other things. After all, these large animals are not protozoa from the North American continent. If they are not purchased from the Spanish, they must be transported from the local area.

Even if the difficulties are not considered, its cost is unaffordable for immigrants. Therefore, Yuzhang County has always obtained large animals such as cattle and horses by trading with the Spaniards.

The demand in Yuzhang County has even stimulated the development of animal husbandry in New Spain to a certain extent. After all, every immigrant needs horses.

Of course, the grain and other commodities exported by Yuzhang County are also exported in large quantities to New Spain, and even the corn wine from Yuzhang County is also popular among silver miners and indigenous peoples from all over New Spain because of its cheapness. Indigenous people in the Americas like spirits, both north and south.

To a certain extent, there is a certain trade interdependence relationship between Yuzhang County and New Spain.

This mutual dependence brings considerable convenience to both sides. Of course, it also ensures that there has been no real conflict between the two sides.

Even people like Columbus who are extremely dissatisfied with the Chinese's "occupation" of New Spain's land cannot escape the common sense of being deeply trapped in interests and cannot extricate themselves.

"Yes, sir."

Columbus had not yet looked at Yong'an City and said to himself again as his adjutant Alfonso nodded in obeying the order.

"There are all Spanish lands here, at least they once belonged to Spain, these Chinese people..."

Columbus' tone was stuttering. Perhaps the reason why he was upset was because of his name. After all, his name was to commemorate Columbus, to commemorate the discovery of this new continent, which belongs to Spain.
Chapter completed!