The military strategy says: "The method of using troops is to surround them if ten times, attack them if five times, divide them if they are multiple times. The enemy can fight them if they are small, escape them if they are not as good as they are. "I have always regarded this as a guideline and never dare to forget them.

Although the Spanish troops have already arrived in Virginia, this does not mean that Velaclus is vulnerable - the guards led by San Juan*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            �

What's more, there are thousands of people who dare to fight for everything for their livelihood. Strictly speaking, they are not good people, and those who can survive in Velaclus are not simple.

So it is very unwise to fight with it head-on. After walking around, I deeply understood this point - I would never do it even though I knew it was impossible to do it, and I would never do it.

Here, I decided to split into two groups - Adicen took more than half of the ships to sea, not causing any harm to the port, but refused to all ships enter and exit the port!

As for me, I stayed in this port to look for the legendary Sun God's short sword - of course, the disguise technique accumulated over the two lives has made me look like a taciturn European. As for which country it is, guess yourself...

Adicen fully understood my tactics, smiled and prepared to leave. The experienced naval admiral immediately saw that my plan was feasible, but gave me a deadline.

Because the Spanish Navy heading to Virginia will return to aid at any time, even if they are not very clear about the current situation here, no matter what the battle situation there, twenty-five days and a maximum of one month are the limits for me to stay safe here!

Twenty-five days are just twenty-five days. I smiled and said goodbye to the new commander. I believe he will definitely achieve my intention well and bring the desired effect!

Adicen left, and I stayed attentively. In order to better integrate into the city, I also registered a commercial license specifically under the name "Laojita of Florence" and exchanged the gold coins in my hand for many locally universal Spanish double-column silver dollars.

In the next few days, I took one of the few elites around the city. When outsiders saw me, I was a local vendor looking for business opportunities, or a navigator with a lot of debt. This was like a crossing the river in the Caribbean Sea in the 16th century.

I don’t care what others think of me. In addition to understanding the local business market, I devoted my main energy to finding relics from the Aztec Kingdom. In the past ten days, there were still results.

I found that Velaclus' business model is actually very fragile, and due to war, pirates and excessive taxes, the local manufacturing industry was almost at a standstill.

People focus on the export of resources that make money faster and avoid risks more easily. After all, as long as you pay 20% of the trade tax in full, no one will come to you again. Unlike industry, just a town security guard has a hundred ways to make you feel unhappy!

This leads to two hidden dangers - first, it relies heavily on sea transportation. Transportation is the lifeblood of Velaclus. Whoever controls the transportation industry will dominate here!

And under my vague understanding, I had made Adicen blockade of Velaclus shipping in the past?

This has to be said to be lucky.

Second, Velaclus' dependence on currency is so great that it is extremely important! Because there are no European bankers in the local area to set up branches, after all, the risks here are too high. What happens every minute and every second may cause high deficiencies in assets, and there is a risk of becoming a debt slave at any time.

This is not in the interests of bankers, after all, smart bankers will not let their money sit in a carriage that may fall off a cliff at any time - and the interest rate is not much higher.

This led to Velaclus requiring huge cash transactions every day. But what was the cash in that era? The development of currency is fully reflected here. Velaclus is currently in the heyday of coin circulation!

Unlike the UK, the Netherlands and other places where gold and silver are circulated at the same time, in Velaclus, almost more than 95% of trade is achieved through Spanish silver dollars.

Most of these Spanish silver dollars can be classified into two categories. One category is relatively fine. About fifty years ago, during the co-governance of Carlos I and Juana, the double-column silver coins minted by the Mexican Mint were mostly quadrier, and of course there were smaller ones.

The other is the Spanish silver dollars ordered to be minted after Philip II came to power, or COB. This kind of COB is actually a kind of coin that should be made into silver coins, to be precise, with irregular shapes, but appropriate weight and color. It is generally called cobmoney in Europe and the United States, and is referred to as Kaber for short.

Whether it is the cross on the front of the Spanish shield or the cross on the front of the double column, due to its rough and unrefined manufacturing process, it seems that it is not too easy to copy.

This Caber casting is mainly minted by three major mints, Podosi in Bolivia, Velaclus in Mexico and Lima in Peru. Among them, Podosi has the largest casting volume, followed by Mexico, and Lima in Lima.

Among these three, Bolivia is an inland country and is difficult to reach. Peru is on the other side of the Americas. The silver coins used locally are naturally mainly from the products of the Velaclus Mint!

If, I mean, if we make some moves on the mint and let local capital circulation stagnate or be destroyed, that is fundamentally shaking the foundation of the Spanish's rule in Velaclus! And this may be the most fatal blow to the Spanish!

This is actually not difficult to understand. If I start with the mint, I will touch on the main tool for the Spaniards to suck blood from the Americas - as for why, please refer to the importance of the US dollar to the United States in modern society.

As for the legendary dagger, there are no clues so far. At the beginning, Grihagus just said that the last relic of the Aztec kingdom might be in Velaclus, but did not say who it was, or provide clues or something.

So my plan is to deal with the mint first and light a fire behind the Spanish, it is more practical!

While investigating the Mint, following the advice of the duo Charlie and Halleha, I also arranged for Mavie and Old Tucker to take a team of people to buy white copper on the market in small quantities and multiple times. As for whether it is tin, white copper, arsenic, or nickel, it doesn't matter, as long as it is white copper.

Five more days have passed, my plan to acquire copper has been in place, and the situation of the mint can be clearly understood! The rest is the specific action!

It was late at night and the three cloaked carriages were quietly heading towards the mint in the suburbs. The horse's hooves were covered with cloth and the wheels were specially processed, so the sound was not too loud.

At about two o'clock in the night, we arrived at the Mint - a huge factory building built in a big mountain, with steep mountains on three sides and narrow valleys on one side, with huge iron gates installed in the valley! The gate is heavily guarded and sentries are everywhere, so ordinary people will never be able to enter!

But unfortunately, what I brought was not ordinary people, most of them were ninjas flying over the eaves and walls, and the worst was special forces soldier who had been trained for nearly half a year!

Mo took two people and carried ropes, climbing up the steep back mountain. In the night, I saw their figures becoming more and more blurred and gradually disappearing from sight.

More than twenty minutes later, a rope suddenly dropped from above, so I took a dozen people along the rope one by one!

The top of the mountain is full of rocks, but this brings great convenience to us to set up pulley devices. According to my design drawings, the pulley set made by Halleha and Charlie worked overtime for several days and nights was very good. In the middle of the night, we had transported about three tons of white copper to the top of the mountain!

While we were transporting white copper, Mo and a few vanguards had already descended along the ramp on the other side to the inside of the mint! There was almost no defense along the way, which made several people reach the warehouse where silver ingots were stored as if they were in a no-man!

It is not difficult to understand that under such a steep terrain, as long as you guard the gate of the valley, you can almost be considered foolproof! But under our special operations, the Spaniard's defense at the valley suddenly became the Maginot line of defense, the ears of the deaf and the eyes of the blind - decorations!

After using the incense to make the old man guarding the door sleep more soundly, Mo sent someone back to the top of the mountain and told us that we could carry it!

Three tons of white copper were quickly transported to the warehouse. In order to meet shipping needs, the ingots of various metals were almost the same and very difficult to distinguish, let alone silver and white copper with almost the same color!

We pry open the back door effortlessly. Before dawn, we only need to do one thing - put three tons of copper flower arrangement into the silver ingots. Of course, we also need to replace three tons of high-purity silver!

For a moment, I even wondered, if I found so many more mints and did more "buying and trading", wouldn't there be no need to continue working on the hard-working ocean trade?

But then I thought, how could I have such a wise idea of ​​making money like waiting for the rabbit? I smiled bitterly and shook my head, kicking this unrealistic idea out of my head!

Lazy Spanish work hours are not sure. Usually, the old man guarding the warehouse opens the heavy warehouse iron door. The harsh sound is like an alarm clock, awakening the sleeping hangover, or other scolding Spanish, shaking and working to mint coins.

As for why I know, I have to thank Mo and his team for their days and nights of squad. Information is really important!

During the day, we lurked on the hill behind the mint. Although the back mountain we chose was very hidden, it is not ruled out that someone might pass by.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, it is more reliable to wait until late at night before transporting the replaced silver!

As for the carriage, it has been hidden long ago and will not reveal its feet.

There is another advantage in doing this, that is, you can observe the work of the Spanish Mint at close range - if they find that the silver ingot is fake, it will inevitably cause chaos, and we may have to think of other ways to seal their mouths!

But they should be said to be very lucky! At the end of the day, thick smoke was rolling in the chimney of the mint, and the workers were still making coins half-deadly. The foreman was still in his broken room with windows on three sides, and he specially summoned female employees of special jobs for him to exchange experience from morning to night.

Everything is as usual, so calm, so river crab.

When I saw two carts of silver dollars being packed and transported away, I smiled slightly - you did a good job and should add chicken legs to you!

Of course, there are two-thirds of the remaining raw materials, and we have to continue working hard tomorrow!

That night, we returned on the same route, loaded the harvest and cleaned the traces, and took advantage of the night to catch the dock overnight, loaded the heavy boxes, and let Huamei leave with two more ships.

There was only one ship left and was still waiting for me - because I was unwilling to give up! I decided to use the last few days to try my best to find the relics of the Aztec Kingdom again!

The next morning, the sun still rose and the birds were chirping, celebrating that today is another rare sunny day!

The crowd outside is still bustling, the only difference comes from the noise in the market area!

A loud noise that is far more lively than usual!

It seems that the drama is about to happen! I put on my clothes, took a few people who had been waiting, and walked towards the noisy place.
Chapter completed!