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    "One hundred and sixty miles southeast of Xindeng, there is a strait that enters through the gorge. It contains heaven and earth. There are big bays in the north and south, and you can park anywhere.  San Francisco), or 'Aoxiang'."

    "The newly arrived natives are short and stocky with reddish skin. The Oro natives are slightly slender and brownish-yellow. The customs of the two tribes are very different"

    "In the land of Xindeng, there are many towering redwoods. In the land of Oro, there are redwoods and oaks everywhere. The imperial court lacks a hundred-year-old oak ship. The number of oaks here is inexhaustible. People who are hundreds of years old can look up. Oro  This place can be used as a good port, and a dock can be built"

    ?The so-called "Oro people" are actually "Oloni people", translated

    Near San Francisco, in addition to the Oronians, there are Miwoks.  The two tribes have the same customs, speak a relatively similar language, and belong to the same tribal alliance.

    The Kashayans who traded land with Li Quan, although only a hundred miles away from San Francisco, spoke another language and belonged to another tribal alliance.

    The two alliances are enemies of each other, and wars often occur.

    Li Quan just arrived here, and he didn't understand the language, so it was difficult to figure out the relationship between these aborigines.

    When it becomes clear in the future, most of them will help one of them to attack the other.

    Judging from the situation, Li Quan first made friends with the Kashayans, and then coveted the land of the Oronians (San Francisco).  So most of them formed an alliance with the Kashayans, knocked down the vicinity of San Francisco, and acquired land to open up colonial strongholds.

    The fleet continued southward, exploring bays and estuaries along the way, and found that they were all similar aborigines.

    Spain has colonized the Americas for more than a hundred years, and it has been slow to contaminate the west coast of North America. One is because the road is too far and too remote, and the other is that there is not much oil to squeeze.

    Like the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire, agriculture and handicrafts were developed, and there was a lot of gold.  If you capture a tribe or town, you can grab old nose money, but when you come to California, you can only grab the fresh fish of the natives.

    Traveling southward for more than 2,000 kilometers from San Francisco, Li Quan and the others encountered a Spanish colonial port.

    It was called Banderas at this time, and it was called Vallarta hundreds of years later.  At present, the silver mines here are only mined on a small scale, mainly as a supply port for the galleon trade.

    Five Chinese ships docked, causing an immediate sensation.

    The Colonial Chief is called Reyes, and he went to the port to greet him personally. He was a little dazed when he saw the Chinese, but he quickly came back to his senses: "Are you here for trade?"

    Li Quan has learned Spanish by himself, and there is no need for translation at all: "We are here to explore the ocean, and of course, we also brought a small amount of goods. They are all expensive commodities, such as top-grade silk, top-grade brocade, and top-grade lacquerware."

    This time I came to America, not mainly for profit. I sold a lot of cotton cloth in Japan, and then stuffed the ship with food and drinking water.

    However, expensive goods are also retained, all of which are light and do not take up space.

    "Everyone wait a moment."

    Reyes returned to the port town and called the tax collector, supervisor and missionary to discuss.

    The ports throughout Spanish America have strict trade restrictions: first, only official transactions are allowed, and private transactions are not allowed.  Second, foreign ships are not allowed to enter the port at will without the permission of the governor.

    Not only that, there are also restrictions in the Philippines. After Chinese merchant ships arrive in the Philippines, private transactions and retail sales are not allowed.  Commodities that can only be shipped by whole ship are negotiated and traded with the Philippine government, and multiple commodities must be sold together, and individual commodities cannot be sold.

    The Spanish royal family is not only wary of foreign merchants, but also their own people.

    The annual trade quota for goods shipped from the Philippines to the Americas is only 250,000 pesos.

    The warehouse of the galleon is divided into several spaces, and each space has a permit, and only Spaniards who have settled in the Philippines all year round can obtain permits.  There are also supporting restrictions, that is, Spaniards are not allowed to freely immigrate to the Philippines. If they want to immigrate to the Philippines, they must obtain the king's permission and live in the Philippines for eight years before they are eligible to obtain a trade license.

    Today, the galleon trading license in the Philippines has become a financial security just like Yanyin in the Ming Dynasty.

    There are a group of nobles who can easily obtain licenses, and then sell the licenses, and make a fortune without doing anything.  The price of the license was getting higher and higher, and small Spanish businessmen couldn't afford it, so a few people pooled their money to buy one, and obtained a warehouse space for the galleon.

    And the more powerful nobles, such as governors and fleet commanders, directly competed with the royal family for smuggling.  They used the space for storing ammunition, and even the space for storing food, to illegally store their own cargo, so that the crew was often in danger of food shortages.

    ? At the same time, due to the trade quota.  said Reyes.

    130 Spanish miles, about 730 kilometers.

    Reyes suggested: "There is a port in the middle called Manzanillo. Although there are no silver mines there and the residents are not as rich as ours, they can still eat some of your goods. The fishery is developed there and can provide you with salted fish and  Fresh fish can also provide vegetables and fruits. Remember, once you reach Manzanillo, you can¡¯t go any further, and there is a high possibility of being attacked by the fleet.¡±

    Li Quan asked: "We can't go any further, how should we go?" Reyes said: "Depart from Manzanillo and sail directly southwest into the ocean. I guess we will soon enter the sailing ship trade channel. Dear  Chinese friends, you must come next year, everyone here is looking forward to you."

    It's almost killing people laughing!

    Although the Spaniards here live in the supply port of the galleon trade, although they are sitting on a nearby silver mine, they see that Chinese goods cannot be purchased every year.  If they want to buy Chinese products, they have to resell them second-hand through Acapulco merchants.  Acapulco merchants, on the other hand, have to obtain a license at a high price in order to buy goods and sell them everywhere. Coupled with the high export tax, the retail price is simply deadly.

    Li Quan said: "For the Spanish friends, I will come again next year."

    Reyes was very considerate and continued to help out with ideas: "You smuggled goods this year. After these goods are sold, they will definitely attract the attention of the governor. After you dock here next year, it is best to send someone to Mexico City to use exquisite and expensive  Chinese artworks, bribe the governor in private. The governor will help you deal with other officials, but those officials also need to pay bribes. These bribes are disguised tariffs, which is what the east coast does."

    ? No wonder the Spanish royal family will go bankrupt, the volume of smuggled trade in the Americas has already

    ?After far exceeding the official trade volume, the tariffs were earned by the colonial officials.?
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