The negotiations with the Spanish were long and tortuous.

The Spanish sent an experienced and slick official from Posadas City and talked with Chen Ke and others for several days. First, they accused the East Coast of crossing the border and reclaiming - although they were all under the name of investment, they obviously exceeded some limits - and then they talked about the East Coast tea farmers' arrogant style in the wild matte tea farm, and finally they talked about the East Coast merchants evaded taxes and did not even go to the Buenos Aires prosecutor's court to pay the mere scammers. In short, you are all unforgivable villains, criminals, tax evaders. It is already a great kindness to not arrest you all, don't try to challenge our patience.

Chen Ke and others naturally rejected the accusations against the Spaniards. Then they pointed out that according to the relevant provisions of the Treaty of Valladolid, the Kingdom of Spain could only set up a military stronghold and no more than 500 soldiers in the Hejian area. The Mestiso regiment stationed in the city of Posadas is now over 1,000. It was said that the Kingdom of Spain also planned to compile a brand new gentleman's regiment (i.e., white regiment) in the area of ​​the Parana River, which undoubtedly violated this rule, so the Spaniards had no right to accuse the East Coast people.

Next was a meaningless battle of verbalism. The more the battles were fought, the more Chen Ke saw the Spanish's weakness, that is, they had no courage to openly attack the villages and towns of the East Coast people! Because they didn't know where the bottom line of the East Coast people was, they were afraid that this behavior would lead to large-scale military revenge. In the Buenos Aires trial district and even Paraguay, Charcas, and Chile next door might be affected by catastrophic effects. They could not bear this consequence, so they could only try to deter the East Coast people so fiercely and force them to retreat, but how could this be possible!

After chatting with them for a few days, Chen Ke lost interest. On October 6, accompanied by local officials, he simply went to the countryside to inspect the development status of the villages in Wildhuo Township, and handed over all the annoying negotiation work to his entourage for processing.

"The land here does not have any land rent, and there is no need to spend any capital to increase its fertility, because there are countless unreclaimed land around it, and farmers can use them at any cost. Many people occupy a large amount of land, which is far beyond the upper limit of 30 acres stipulated by the state's laws, because there is no monitoring here at all, and they can occupy the land as they want. Many people are completely entrusted with the idea of ​​enclosing land around the world and then taking the most fertile piece before the state controls it on them..." In the scattered villages outside the Wildfire Country, local officials introduced to Chen Ke: "But there is a shortage of supplies here, and there is a very lack of agricultural tools, seeds, livestock and even manpower, but the land is undoubtedly the best, which has created many farmers who have quickly become rich."

"I think there seems to be a lack of craftsmen here and small daily necessities." Chen Ke said to a courtyard. There is a shallow well in the courtyard. The water level of the well is very high, as if it is because of the abundant precipitation nearby. A rough workmanship is placed along the well. The clay pot looks unformed, fat and crooked. If water is poured into it, the water in one place can be as close to the edge of the clay pot, while in another place it is less than half a can. Chen Ke estimated that when the clay pot is filled with water, it will overturn after a touch of a little, and may not even be able to withstand the slightly hot water. I don't know which clumsy craftsman made it, and it is more likely that it was made by the villagers themselves.

"Yes, there is a lot of craftsmen here. Who makes us too closed? Everyone has to buy spoons in other places." The official spread his hands helplessly and said, "Many of our farmers are not only uneducated, but are also almost illiterate. But I personally admire these farmers, because most of the bravest and famous farmers, loggers, and ranchers are from the bottom of society. Moreover, the organizer of the rural brewing workshop in the countryside, the 'chemist' is a person who can neither read nor write Chinese, but he did a good job. Everyone tasted the spirits they brewed and said it was good. Therefore, I am full of respect for the mental and intelligent peasant class. You, they are really good."

"Oh, I think I already know something." With the barking of dogs, Chen Ke walked into a yard with open doors. Next to this yard was a small Taoist temple, and there were more than a dozen houses around the Taoist temple to form a small village. The village was surrounded by lush primeval forests, which looked not very good and was relatively closed.

"I can't imagine how such a weapon can be fired." After taking a random shot from under the eaves that looked like a musket, Chen Ke immediately sighed at the local villagers' hands-on ability - this is the oldest musket with such an inconvenient butt stock, without a strap, and bullets are small pieces, most of which are unformed lead. Can it really shoot?

"The musket made by self-reliance, well, the dog is also an ordinary small, non-breed dog. It lacks daily necessities, and even more so, doctors and teachers. Your life is really difficult. It is indeed a great courage and talent to be able to persist in this wilderness for so long and live better and better. I admire this very much." Chen Ke put the musket back to its original position and said sighingly.

"Recently, many local merchants have begun to invest in Hejian. For example, Tian Xing's wife has invested in a large deer farm, which has hundreds of deer farms. Their capital is very strong, but - well, there is a lack of manpower, because any non-national laborer will have the idea of ​​escaping and then digging for land and farming elsewhere. Therefore, the local manpower is always in an extremely lacking situation. The suitable climate here, fertile land and dense forests can mass-produce prolific workers. Haha, this is a vast and free world." Lieutenant Fu Lei, who had not spoken before, also interrupted, "But we have to try to control all these people, otherwise if we wait for them to be used to wildness, God knows whether they listen to us or Spanish, especially those Italians who believe in Catholicism."

"How many people are there in Posadas? What is the economic situation? Have the Spaniards immigrated to the Hejian area recently?" Chen Ke raised three questions in a row. He had been dealing with daily affairs in the south before, and indeed knew very little about the Spaniards' situation.

"There are few people in Posadas, no more than 4,000, of which the number of whites is about five or six hundred, and the rest are Mestisso and Indians. Economically, it is mainly based on grain planting, orchard cultivation, fishing, logging, and grazing. It is okay, neither good nor bad, but like ours, daily necessities are lacking and prices are not low." Lieutenant Fu Lei said in thought, "I am not very clear about the immigration situation, because we are not able to conduct detailed intelligence investigations and staff travels on the vast outer world for the time being, but I expect the Spaniards to immigrate to the Hejian area. As for the number, it is difficult to know. Unless they find their insiders to ask."

Speaking of which, over the past 30 years, he was beaten twice in the East Coast and signed many "traitorous treaties". The Hidalgo in Spain were not all dead, so it would naturally be touched. In fact, since many years ago, King Philip had taken the lead in adjusting his immigration policy - before the Portuguese with more closed and conservative immigration policy - immigrating many Bohemia from relatives in Austria, Southern Germany and even Hungarians came to La Plata to settle in order to enrich the local population.

After the Second East-West War was bloodbathed, King Philip was still not discouraged and unswervingly insisted on sending immigration to La Plata. This time, not only were there a large number of Bohemians, Germans, but also some Catalans, Aragonese, Andalusians and Italians. Until last year (1658), according to the East Coast investigation, three immigrant ships were loaded with 1,200 Galicians with various households to come ashore to the Port of Buenos Aires. This shows that the Spanish immigration policy has actually been adhered to over the years, although they don’t know where they got the cost.

During the same period of history, the number of white people in La Plata was almost only a few thousand, but in the East Coast, although it had experienced the "blood-slaughter" of the Second East-West War (the Crandi Uprising), after years of recovery, the number of white people has recovered to a figure of nearly 20,000, which is very amazing. This can also show the importance of the Spanish to the estuary of the La Plata River. After all, more than 90% of pirates still like to gather in the Caribbean Sea to encircle the Spaniards' treasure fleet, but there are very few silver ships that go out to sea from La Plata.

People pay attention, so this estuary is strategic for the Spaniards in a sense. Although it is not cheap to transport silver blocks and special products from Chile and the Charcas area, the spare estuary is the spare estuary, and the Spaniards are reluctant to throw it away. So you see that the Spanish established the Buenos Aires Procuratorial Court District, established General La Plata, and established two Crandi regiments, one Mestiso regiment, and one gentleman regiments, with thousands of colonial soldiers, with four regiments, and the intention was quite obvious.
Chapter completed!