"His Excellent General Inspector: I report to you with an extremely complex and heavy mood here." In the city of Buenos Aires, General La Plata Garcia, who had been in office for more than a year, was writing hard at his desk. His brows frowned slightly, as if he had something to worry about, and the manuscript was also being revised again and again, which further showed his hesitation and irritability when writing.

"As you know, the East Coast people set up a reclamation bureau in the area west of the Great Kuchilia in early August to coordinate illegal settlements in the entire west of the mountain range, which dwarfed us. On Christmas Eve last year, I had to investigate the production and management of the Kingdom's new settlements east of the Uruguay River, but I have to admit that we have poor management. There is a lack of suitable roads between any two settlement villages, and the roads will be washed away by floods when the rainy season, and tax officials even had to roll in the mud."

"As of last Christmas, we had only 1,149 settlers there - most of them from Spain, and more than two-thirds were newcomers who had settled for less than three years. You should know that colonizing the region east of the Uruguay River is a long-term plan formulated by the Kingdom's West Indian House, but the two companies responsible for colonizing here are not enthusiastic about it. They have doubts about the huge amount of early investment and have demanded excessive and inappropriate fees for farmers who are willing to settle on the East Coast. Their headquarters are in Seville, but there is not even a branch management agency in the East Coast. This is abnormal."

"Although we Spaniards are very brave and pioneering, and although we have sent management agencies to the East Coast, our colonization work in the local area has always been very slow. We are sparsely populated, with traffic cut off (both roads and ports very lacking), lack of funds (peasants even have to borrow money to buy grain, livestock and farm tools) and insufficient defense (to deal with the harassment of the barbarians and the Gauchos). These have made people disappointed with the land. The colonial companies were disappointed that they failed to obtain enough economic benefits. The pioneer farmers were disappointed that they were burdened with heavy debts from the beginning. This has attracted severe criticism for us."

"We asked pioneer farmers to move forward as much as possible to the inland areas and the Greater Cucilia Mountains, but they always like to stay along the Uruguay River or the La Plata River. Even if we drive them away and move them forcibly, they always stop and stop, and finally settle down halfway with their wives and children and their family. Due to the poor traffic between the settlements and the lack of ships, many settlements - especially the inland settlements - often need to manually transmit information. In order to ensure the timely and smooth transmission of information, it is very important to ensure that the information is transmitted in a timely and smooth manner.

Many people were forced to take on the postman's duties, which greatly reduced their working time in the farmland. In addition to other reasons, our brave and fearless settlers had just achieved self-sufficiency in the years of colonization of the East Coast. It was obvious that they had no extra food for our army to fight there for a long time, and the failure of agriculture had greatly affected our national strategy. For this reason, we were forced to abandon the plan to establish military posts in the inland areas, which would obviously delay our speed at which we get any news of any turbulent movement in the East Coast."

"Some of the military posts we were forced to abandon have not caused much bad effects in the southern region, but in the areas called the "Lake West Hills" by the East Coast people in the north, it has caused irreparable losses. Many positions there tend to be that our tribes were uprooted by the East Coast troops, and some swaying middle tribes were also subject to the control of the East Coast people. There is an extreme example here, there are three settled tribes in the Yakui River basin, with a total population of more than four hundred. Since we gave up the attempt to establish a military post there due to supply issues, the East Coast people sent only five managers and successfully made hundreds of people collectively believe that there were completely ruled by the East Coast people. Shouldn't this alert us?"

"Since the failure of the last war (1633), our colonization activities against the East Coast people in La Plata and the East Coast region have entered the thirteenth year, but there are few results. The main reason for this is that we do not pay attention to it. The environment of the New World and Spain is completely different. Although there is a warm climate and fertile land here, our pioneers are still unfamiliar with it. Moreover, many of them are not experienced farmers, and they lack the necessary financial assistance and security.

On the premise, it is not difficult to understand their failure in colonization and psychological disappointment with the kingdom government. Here I suggest that the colonial company, the Kingdom West Indian House and the Peruvian Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor's Governor

After writing these paragraphs, Garcia breathed a sigh of relief. Then he stood up, walked around the room for a few times, then turned back to his desk, picked up the pen, as if he had made up some determination, and continued to write:

"In addition to agricultural failures, our commercial failures are also obvious. As you know, the only meaning of the existence of the Colonian market is to provide shelter for open smuggling. The East Coast people, the Dutch, the English, the Portuguese, the Germans of the Hanseatic League, and even the damn French people, all of whom came to the port on ships loaded with cargo, even if they did not get any trade permits. Needless to say, the existence of this port has enriched the markets of La Plata, Charcas and even Chile, but for some long-term Lima-

—Santiago, Lima—Potosi, Santiago—Asuncion, Asuncion—Buenos Aires, the existence of this market is devastating. The Kingdom of Spain has made little profits, but the merchants in other countries make a lot of money. It is like a cut blood vessel, where a group of vampires are sucking the blood of the Kingdom of Spain unbridled. I have no intention of describing how many originally loyal kingdom officials have been trapped in the money trap, but the situation is really serious, so I decided to close this trade market and cut off everything that stretches to us."

"As for what I said that the kingdom did not obtain reasonable benefits in this market, there is sufficient evidence. Our merchants do not have sufficient handmade products (in fact, industrial products produced by East Coast humans and machines) to foreign merchants. All they can export are cheap wool, grain, fruit, livestock, fur, animal fat, hardwood and other commodities - the biggest buyer of these commodities is East Coast people. And what are we importing? Hardware products, metal farm tools and kitchenware, building materials, tanned leather or leather products, dyes, various textiles, steel, processed shipboards, anti-corrosion tar, soda ash and other commodities. There is no doubt that our position in this transaction is unfair. Commodities from outside flooded the market in the New World like a tide, which weakened us while strengthening the enemy."

"Over the whole year last year, according to my faithful subordinates, Mr. Simenez from the newly built Montevideo post on the north bank of the La Plata, he learned that the East Coast people sold more than 800,000 pesos of goods through the Colonia trade market, which were everywhere in Buenos Aires, Asuncion, Potosi, Santiago, Compassion, Valparaiso, even Lima, Guayaquil and other places, and it occupied almost all the markets of our Peru Governor's District. At the same time, we only exported them about less than 400,000 pesos of goods, and the gap between them is extremely huge. There is no doubt that our interests have been seriously damaged."

"Mr. Simenez also told us through his arduous investigation that there were many merchants from all over the country active in the Colonian market last year (1645), including 78 merchants from the East Coast (including manager-level employees of their state-owned stores), 36 merchants from the Portuguese, 29 merchants from the Dutch, 18 merchants from England, and 14 French merchants, while there were only 11 merchants from the Spanish merchants - they were all representatives of major chambers of commerce. What did we see? I saw a carnival smuggling feast! Dirty and shameless smuggling merchants were wantonly plundering the interests of Spanish merchants and plundering the king's income! The gentlemen of the West Indian House have been complaining to me that their smuggling business is shrinking and their income is decreasing. They do not understand why the business in the Peruvian market has suddenly become so difficult to do. Maybe now we are fully aware of who has taken their interests away?"

"Finally, I have to report an emergency to you. It is hard to say whether this is good or bad news, because if this matter is handled well, it will bring an unimaginable new source of wealth to the kingdom. If it is not handled well, then a large-scale war is imminent. The cause of the matter is very simple. When the soldiers I sent were detecting the terrain..."
Chapter completed!