1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 365 The Dreaded Nanyang Mingren

October 1640, 3, Luzon, Manila City.

Sebastian Coquera, Governor of Manila, Philippines, now looks forward to the arrival of the galleon trade fleet from the Americas every day.

More than eight months have passed since the Ming riots in Calamba, and the Spaniards throughout the Philippines are living in panic.The entire inner city of Manila is closed all day long. The artillery on the top of the city is ready to fire at any time, and the musketeers are also on the wall waiting for the fire, in case the Ming people outside the city will suddenly come to attack the city.

The two Spanish colonial strongholds of Santa Rosa and San Pedro, not far from Calamba City, were also captured by the rioting Ming people. Less than 100 Spaniards fled back one after another. Ming people retaliatory killing.But fortunately, more than 1 Ming people from the Eighth Company outside Manila did not follow the rioting Ming people to attack the Spaniards.Obviously, they may have temporarily chosen to believe because of the various promises made by the Spaniards in the early stage to improve the situation of Ming people.

In order to appease the Ming people outside the city, the Spaniards continued to send Ming people who "converted" to God to lobby and seduce them, trying to convince them that the Spanish colonial authorities would definitely correct all previous policies of discrimination and restriction of Ming people, and strive to improve Ming people's production and living environment, and jointly build a "beautiful home".

In August last year, the Governor of Coquila sent two Manila galleons to ship a large amount of silk and porcelain, along the Pacific trade route for many years, and ventured back to Mexico to seek military support.Counting the days, the colonial authorities on the American side should have received an emergency request for help from the Philippines, and they may already be on their way.

On Earth, there are two major prevailing wind systems.One is a low-latitude system, that is, in the area near the equator, the prevailing wind blows from east to west; the other is a high-latitude system, in the area between 40 and 50 degrees north and south latitude, the prevailing wind blows from the west East blow.

The Spaniards’ trans-Pacific trade took advantage of the prevailing winds at high and low latitudes to cross the Pacific Ocean, go back and forth between America and Asia, and communicate the trade between the two places. It has been going on and monopolizing for more than half a century.The Pacific trade brought a lot of Ming luxury goods, silk and porcelain to the Spaniards.

The large sailing ships of the Spanish merchants would set sail from Mexico, loaded with a large amount of silver they mined from the American silver mines, sail westward along the prevailing winds at low latitudes near the equator, and arrive in Manila in the Philippines.

Then, after the silver in the cabin was turned into silk and porcelain, the Spaniards would go north to about 40 degrees north latitude, and then use the prevailing winds at high latitudes to return to Mexico and sell the silk to the local colonists.

Due to the large amount of silk being transported by boat, the proportion of residents in Mexico wearing silk clothes even exceeded that of cotton cloth.Spanish merchants reaped staggering profits from it.

Since the sailboat responsible for the transportation was built in Manila, Philippines, this kind of ship is often called the Manila Galleon.Correspondingly, the Spanish silver and silk trade across the Pacific Ocean is also known as the Manila galleon trade.

The governor of Coquila expects that the trade fleet coming from the Americas can carry at least [-] musketeers. In this way, the colonial authorities in Manila can gather [-] or [-] musketeers, and then arm them with [-] or [-] natives. Together with some Japanese volunteers, they should have enough strength to go to the Calamba area to quell the Ming riots there.

As for the more than 1 Ming people outside Manila, after the riots in the Calamba area have been suppressed, they must also try to disperse them and resettle them to various places in the Philippines.The reason why these Ming people did not respond to the riots now, apart from the coaxing of the Spanish colonial authorities, was nothing more than wanting to continue to blackmail more preferential policies from the Spaniards.

The ideas of these people are extremely dangerous to the Spaniards ruling the Philippines and must be strongly suppressed.Good policies, good resources, and a good life can only be enjoyed by the Lord's people.

"Your Excellency, more and more Ming people outside the city have fled to the Calamba area recently." Colonel Polzionato, the commander of the army, said with a solemn expression: "This is extremely bad news for us. This will make the Ming people of the Kalamba riots gather more and more power."

"Are we capable of stopping this?" Governor Coquera asked dejectedly.

"...We can properly release some food to the Ming people outside the city. Perhaps this can alleviate their hunger and prevent them from fleeing to Calamba." Colonel Polzionato cautiously suggested.

"..." Governor Coquera stared straight at Colonel Polzionato, and said coldly: "Give food to the Ming people outside the city, and you can guarantee that they will not bring food with them one night. The rioting Ming people invaded our city of Manila?"

"..." Colonel Polzionato lost his voice suddenly, and said eagerly: "But if the Ming people outside the city have nothing to eat, all the comfort work we did in the early stage will be in vain. ... They may all Hate all the Spaniards we have here, and go to those rioting Mings."

Governor Coquila was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and pondered.Since the loss of Calamba, Manila has been without food supplies.Although some food was levied from the nearby native tribes, it would definitely not be enough to satisfy the more than 1 Ming people outside the city.

In the past few months, the colonial authorities in Manila have also sent ships to Haojing (now Macau), Annan and other places to purchase a batch of grain back.However, the Spaniards did not care about the life and death of the Ming people outside the city, and stored all the food in the inner city of Manila.As a result, the Ming people in the Balian area outside the city have been short of food for several months, and more than 200 people died of starvation.

Some rich merchants of the Ming Dynasty who took refuge in the Spaniards even colluded with Spanish colonial officials to sell grain at high prices to the Ming people outside the city, looting their wealth for many years.

"Maybe we can let the Ming people outside the city exchange the heads of the rioters for food!" After a while, Governor Coquila said sullenly: "If you want to eat enough, you have to trade your life."

When Colonel Polzionato heard this, his heart was shocked. The governor was planning to instigate civil war among the wise, and he was still using food to coerce the wise to hunt and kill the rioters.

"Let a few of our people mix in and encourage those Ming people to get the heads of the rioters. As long as someone takes the lead and actually gets food from us, I believe that those hungry Ming people will flock to fight with the rioters Combat. Even if the rioters cannot be defeated, they can more or less weaken their strength, so that after our reinforcements arrive, we can suppress them more forcefully."

Governor Coquila said excitedly, thinking that his idea was really great, why didn't he think of it before.You must know that a person who is in a state of starvation will explode with greater strength in order to obtain food, and at the same time discard some basic human morals and values.

The governor's idea seems to be very brilliant, but something is always wrong.Colonel Borzionato listened to Governor Coquera's suggestion, which had no lower limit, and with doubts on his face, he planned to find a few enlightened people who had converted to God first, and proceeded to handle the matter.
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Compared with the plight of the Spaniards in the Philippines, the situation of the Dutch in Batavia is gradually improving. Zheng Zhilong of the Ming Dynasty has reached a peace agreement with the East India Company, and can normally go to Daming, Japan and North Korea for trade. Although, they Every year, Zheng Zhilong will be humiliated to pay a "trade franchise fee" of 40 taels of silver.But after all, the Dutch don't have to fight with Zheng Zhilong anymore, and put the saved war expenses into trade, and the silver they earn will definitely exceed the amount paid to Zheng Zhilong.

In February, a fleet of the East India Company pretended to attack the Portuguese-occupied Jetty Bay City (now Simawi City, Indonesia). After besieging the port for more than ten days, it suddenly turned west and headed straight for Ceylon.Ten days later, with the cooperation of the military and civilians of the Kingdom of Kandy, they successfully landed at the fishing port wharf in the northeast of Ceylon Island, which is called Henkomali by the locals, and built a stable camp.

When the Portuguese learned that the Dutch had landed in the northeast of Ceylon, a month had passed.During this period, the Dutch East India provided supplies to the landing camp twice, and roughly built a fortress of civil structure. There were more than [-] Dutch mercenaries and native servants stationed there, assisting seven or eight sects. Artillery, its defensive capabilities have been greatly enhanced.After wandering for a few days, the Portuguese ships that arrived in a hurry returned to Colombo.

The Kingdom of Johor on the Malay Peninsula, after receiving a large number of firearms provided by the Dutch, also began to tentatively launch an attack on the outskirts of Malacca controlled by the Portuguese, making military preparations for the eventual expulsion of the Portuguese.

The Hanzhou people in the south also seemed to be a little bit impatient, and took the initiative to send people to Batavia to find a way to end the war.Although under the insistence of Governor Daiman, the East India Company adopted a tough response to Hanzhou, which brought relatively harsh truce conditions to Hanzhou.But they were optimistic that the Han Chinese would stop launching attacks on the Dutch.Perhaps the war resources of the Hanzhou people will gradually become exhausted over time, and they will even be unable to attack the Dutch.

If Hanzhou has the intention to further negotiate the conditions proposed by the East India Company, it will prove that Hanzhou's war potential has been exhausted, which is the best result for the Dutch.No matter what conditions are mentioned, the bottom line of the Dutch is to demolish the marine regeneration power of the Hanzhou people, that is, the shipbuilding industry of the Hanzhou people will not exist.

As for the Spaniards in the Philippines, the Dutch East India Company also learned of the Ming riots there, and the Dutch gloated a little at this.Originally, everything was entangled, and I couldn't spare any extra energy to block and weaken the Spaniards there.Unexpectedly, they themselves were in chaos first.If the Ming who rioted there expelled the Spaniards, that would be the most ideal result for the Dutch.

However, the Dutch colonial authorities also aroused considerable vigilance about the riots of the Ming people in the Philippines.Last year, in order to resist the siege of Mataran and Banten, the Netherlands organized a considerable number of Ming armed forces.Although most of the Ming people's armed forces were dismantled after the war, the weapons were gradually collected back.However, there is still a 300 Ming servant force left in the city, equipped with swords and spears, and a small number of matchlock guns.

If this Ming armed force is instigated by some people with good intentions, will there be riots like the one in the Philippines?You know, there are quite a few Ming people in Batavia, there are thousands of them, and some of them have considerable financial resources.

"Order to transfer 200 Ming people in the city to several other commercial stations to disperse their forces." Batavia Governor Anthony Van Daiman ordered the Army Commander Colonel Peter Kurutz.

"Of course, Governor." Colonel Pete Kuruz said, "Do you need to move their family members along?"

"No, their family members will be our best hostages." Governor Daiman shook his head and said, "You can promise them that after serving abroad for one year, they can return to Batavia to be reunited with their families. If they live in the local area, they can The land is allocated, and the family members are also relocated. You know, the Ming people are the best builders."

(End of this chapter)