1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 196 Black Guards in Luzon ([-])

Cao Xiong and his party of three armed merchant ships arrived in Batavia on October [-].Then, the ship was driven into the dock of the Dutch shipyard, and comprehensive maintenance before the war began.

Although the Dutch East India Company was dissatisfied with the late arrival of the Hanzhou fleet, they did not complain too much.The two sides carefully discussed the military deployment to attack Luzon at the Batavia Fleet Command.

According to the vision of the Dutch East India Company, the coalition forces will first attack the secondary towns in Luzon, attracting Spanish warships to aid them, and through the advantage of the number of warships of the coalition forces, they will successively annihilate the scattered Spanish warships.

If Spain gathers all the warships to come to the decisive battle, the five warships assembled by the Dutch East India Company hidden near Borneo will quickly support and join the coalition fleet in a decisive battle with the Spanish fleet.

At that time, the Chinese and Dutch coalition forces dispatched nearly fifteen to twenty armed merchant ships and more than [-] armed soldiers to attack the various strongholds of the Spanish in Luzon.If conditions permit, the coalition forces will also tentatively attack Manila.

"So, in the first step, the target of our planned attack is Hele Island (Jolo Island) in the Sulu Islands. We are sure that there are Spanish armed forces stationed on that island. Moreover, more than a month ago, Spain suddenly A large number of personnel and supplies have been transported on this island."

A Dutch naval officer is doing pre-battle analysis and military deployment.

"At that time, we speculated that the fierce resistance of the natives on the island might have caused the Spaniards to temporarily increase their troops. Of course, there is another possibility, that is, they wanted to attack our Spice Islands."

Su Lu, Cao Xiong couldn't help feeling a little dazed when they heard this name.Two years ago, he fled to that Palawan Island with many subordinates, and met the Eastern King of Sulu Kingdom.All this seems to have happened yesterday.I don't know what the Sulu Kingdom and Dongwang are under the continuous attack of the Spaniards.

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Just when Cao Xiong was discussing with the Dutch East India Company about the military attack on the Luzon Spaniards, He Qing had already set foot on the port of Manila with two deputies.

He Qing was very excited when he boarded the immigrant merchant ship to Daming in Jianye City.What the hell, I can finally return to Daming, Quanzhou, and reunite with my family.As for Chen Hui's request to investigate the situation on the ground in Hanzhou, he felt that none of the spies knew as much as he did.

As a member of the newly established Black Guards, He Qing can learn more about the actual situation of Hanzhou, including who are the leaders of their organization, the size of the army, the strength of the industry, and the size of the expanded territory, all in his mind inside.

To He Qing's surprise, Hanzhou began to expand beyond the mainland with a scale of less than 2 people.The Xinxiangbao on the opposite side, the one in the northeast is called Weiyuan Island (Guinea Island), and even Xinsheng Island near the Kingdom of Cambodia.

According to the high-level people in Hanzhou, some unowned land should be occupied early to gain more living space for future descendants of Han people.

We Han people occupy the mainland of China, which is completely enough to feed all of us Han people.Occupying those wild islands is a waste of manpower.He Qing was somewhat disapproving of Hanzhou's wanton occupation of the so-called unowned land.

Although there are countless hungry people in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, it is because refugees swarmed up and disrupted the normal production and living order in various places.As long as the emperor of Ming Dynasty works hard to govern and clean up politics, sooner or later it will be like the previous Hongwu or Yongle period, where everyone has food to eat.

When they came to Xinsheng Island via Batavia, what they saw was still countless hungry people from Ming Dynasty. They will rest here for a while, and then wait for transfer to Hanzhou.After staying for several days, headed straight to Guangzhou.

After more than a year, He Qing set foot on the land of Daming again, and He Qing was very excited.After he found an opportunity and found the station of Zheng Zhilong's forces in Guangzhou.Surprised to find that Chen Hui and Qi Dahai are also in Guangzhou.

When Chen Hui heard that He Qing had actually joined Hanzhou's foreign military intelligence agency - the Black Guards, he was both surprised and delighted.At the beginning, they just randomly arranged a few spies to go to Hanzhou to find out their reality.But I never thought that someone could still enter Hanzhou's secret intelligence organization.

Chen Hui categorically rejected He Qing's request to return, and asked him to resolutely carry out Hanzhou's order and infiltrate Luzon, not only for Hanzhou to find information about the Spaniards, but also for Zheng Zhilong's forces to find out the actual situation in Luzon.

After He Qing heard Chen Hui's instructions, his disappointment was beyond words.The joy after setting foot on the land of Ming Dynasty immediately dissipated into nothingness.The mood also fell from the peak to the valley in an instant.

After leaving Chen Hui, the words he said "I will take good care of your family" was not only to reassure him, but also to threaten him to follow through.

Sure enough, as a spy, your life is beyond your control.

Standing at the port in Manila, He Qing took a deep breath, shook his head, put aside his troubles, and kept those helpless emotions in his heart.The three of them are now sea merchants from Guangdong, and they have shipped a batch of silk cloth from Ming Dynasty to Manila for trading.

"There are many forts in the port, as well as small fortresses." Cheng Guangyin said in a low voice.

"Don't look around!" He Qing warned: "We are businessmen coming to Manila now, not spies."

On the pier, a Spanish tax official was watching them.The Spaniards welcomed businessmen from Ming Dynasty. Silk, lacquerware, porcelain, cotton cloth, and even food were all materials needed by the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines.But they are full of vigilance against the Ming people, especially the Ming people who have settled and lived in the Philippines.Therefore, in the Philippines, and even in Manila, all Ming people will be subject to various restrictions.

For the safety of the Philippines, the Spanish colonial government did not allow merchants and ordinary people from Daming to stay over a month; even the number of Hua Daming merchant ships that come to the Philippines every year and the number of people they carry should be determined, and the number of people on board should be as small as possible; Ships overloaded with personnel enter the port, and those who violate the regulations will be severely punished.

In the eighth company, a Chinese gathering area in Manila, the number of shops is clearly limited, and only one person can live in each shop. This person needs to have a well-known occupation and be a Christian; at the urging of the colonial authorities, the King of Spain ordered restrictions The number of Ming people in the Philippines, he issued a decree on November 1606, 11, reiterating the decree of 4, limiting the number of Ming people to less than 1602, thinking that this number was appropriate for the safety of the Philippines.

This order warned the Philippine colonial government to be very careful, so that the number of Ming people would not be too large, and they should be afraid of the colonial government and live in peace.This order was later reissued twice on May 1620, 5 and December 29, 1622.

Although the above order was reiterated repeatedly in the name of the king, the number of Ming people continued to increase.The colonial authorities were unable to limit the number of Ming people for many reasons.First of all, the number of Ming laborers seems to have been unable to meet the public and private needs of the colonists.As noted above, many Spaniards kept Mings at home for private service.These detained Ming people are probably "illegal" residents who do not have a residence permit or are unable to pay the permit fee.

In the few years after the massacre in 1603, the restrictions on the immigration of Ming people were stricter, the labor force of Ming people was extremely scarce, and the trend of private admission became more popular.For example, in 1604, "If there were a Ming embroiderer, tailor, engraver, or other craftsman, the justices of the Supreme Court took him into their house, so that in the way that the Ming people lost their liberty, he made him work for them. Do a lot of work."

Since the Spanish colonial government’s method of limiting the number of Ming people did not work, the colonial authorities took measures to further isolate the Ming people from the indigenous Filipinos and Spaniards, so that the Ming people were subject to many restrictions on personal freedom.According to the regulations of the authorities, non-believers and Ming people are not allowed to live or own houses in other places except in the eighth company.

The Ming people are separated from the aborigines, and they are not allowed to live together; unless they have a special permit, the Ming people are not allowed to go outside the city of Manila two miles away; after the gates of Manila are closed, the Ming people cannot spend the night in the city, otherwise they will be sentenced to death.

菲律宾西班牙殖民政府以增收许可证费，即以10比索2雷亚尔代替8比索7雷亚尔的普通许可证费，也就是增收1比索3雷亚尔特别许可证费为条件，同意明人在八连之外的地方进行有限期、有限范围的经营。

For example, merchants of the Ming Dynasty can only go to other places for business for 1621 days, and they are limited to the provinces of Tondo, Bulakan, Pampanga, Neihu and the jurisdiction of Cavite Port.As for the haircut for baptisms, the Church authorities have always enforced it.In [-], due to the extremely difficult financial situation, the Physi authorities could not even pay the salaries of sailors and soldiers. Therefore, in an emergency measure, they set up a license, stipulating that Ming people could receive such a license after paying a certain fee. You can avoid cutting your hair when you are baptized.

"Guys, let's go to Balian City first. There are many big local businessmen there, who probably can eat our goods!" Wu Keyi, a Guangdong maritime merchant who came along with him, greeted He Qing and the others.

Watching more than a dozen Ming merchants leaving the port together, they walked towards the city.The Spanish tax officer at the pier said contemptuously: "The hateful and lovely Sanger!"

　Remarks: Sangelai is an exclusive appellation for the Chinese living in the Philippines in the mouth of the Spanish colonists.There are many explanations for the origin of Sangelai. One explanation is that the word is a homophony of the word "Shanglai" in Chinese, meaning those "people who come for business"; It is accepted that the word is a homophony of "business" pronounced sengli in Hokkien; in addition, some scholars believe that the word is a homophony of "changlai".

　　
　
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