Lu Ming

Chapter 275 Pig Raising
After losing their main force, the devils quickly entered the village.

It is naturally impossible for the natives of tropical islands to build a city with green bricks in a kiln, so the devils easily broke through the wooden village.

The next moment, the women and children were searched out of the hut while crying. The corpse of their husband was lying on the door, and the dead man was still holding a spear.

Those who resist will be whipped, and the high-level tribes will line up to be hanged on the newly established gallows, including the chief family and all the elders and theologians.The chaplains in black robes were excitedly presiding over the ceremony of purifying the heretics before the gallows, just like when their colleagues in the Holy See were grilling heretics.

More than 6500 natives were captured by the Spanish.In fact, the thousands of indigenous people who died in this war are nothing to Catholics: whether it was Legaspi's conquest of the Philippines or the subsequent massacre of Chinese, the death toll far exceeded that of this war. tribal warfare.

All Aboriginals were held, screened, and prime-aged males were "packaged" first.

The slave traders also kept pace with the times.When they discovered that all the low-level people who entered the big staff would be shaved, this advanced packaging method was immediately used by traffickers for counterfeiting and shoddy products.

All the captives who have been shaved will create a misleading effect: some semi-old men with gray hair can now sell for a "genuine" price. After all, people in this era have wrinkled faces and worn teeth at the age of 30. It is easy to tell the exact age.

After the surviving middle-aged men were "packed", they were tied up in groups of 10 and transported away one after another.

The two armed merchant ships that had already unloaded their supplies, loaded a total of more than 1100 slaves, and soon headed straight for the officers.It is summer now, and if the slave ship goes northward with the wind, it will reach its destination in 5-7 days with good luck, so the traffickers try to fill the cabin with as many people as possible.

Among the remaining captives, all the wounded and slow-moving old people were picked out, and then they were driven to the river, where they were all hacked to death with long knives. A valuable asset in this day and age.

Two days later, four other armed merchant ships also arrived. The first ones who landed this time were a group of Tagalogs.The duties of the coaters are guards and cannon fodder - there are also some large and small Moro tribes on the island. After the masters broke the situation with the death of more than 40 people, the future wars will depend on the coaters.

You know, this is the era of Bai Minggui.

The four ships also unloaded some red bricks produced by kilns run by Ming people outside Manila.Some male slaves will build a small castle and dock at the mouth of the river. These buildings, together with the original tribal camp, will be a good slave camp.

Another 1800 women were taken away after this.

By this time, the Moro tribe would have been completely extinct.After adult men and women disappear, the old, weak, sick and disabled will soon be exhausted in heavy physical labor.

When the two slave ships that set off first returned to Manila in mid-August, they brought back not only a large cargo, but also Baron Juan and the castle soldiers from Taipei.

After Mr. Baron returned with honors, he immediately met with the governor, and took out a special document brought by the senior officer.This is what Transcendence promised at the beginning: an investigation report on the mineral resources in the Baguio area.

The document not only clearly indicated the detailed coordinates and approximate reserves of several gold, silver and copper mines in the Baguio area, but also included an accurate map of Baguio.

The overjoyed Spaniards quickly sent an expedition ship: Baguio is at the foot of the Godililla Mountains 300 kilometers north of Manila, and it is obviously unreliable to go by land.Savages, tropical jungles, malaria and yellow fever will kill everyone.

It is much easier to start from Manila by boat: after landing in Lingayen Bay in the north, the team only needs to cross the coastal plain of more than 10 kilometers, and then they will face the Baguio Mountains.

Therefore, if the expedition team can find any gold, silver and copper mine this time, the Spaniards only need to use the trick they just used again: send troops to land in Lingayen Bay, and wantonly capture the local Igor The Lot people, then build castles, and build slave camps. The routine is the same.

All in all, the Spaniards of this plane have greatly improved their strategic situation due to a certain force that should not have appeared in the first place: With the virtuous trade cycle of slaves-industrial products-silver, The big pie faces who were originally in a defensive state, made the slave trade flourish overnight.

This situation in turn gave birth to the expansion of the Spaniards in both directions north and south.You must know that in the original history, the Muslim Malays in the south fought with the white skins for more than 300 years, and they did not stop until the independence of the Philippines.

And in this plane, when the Spaniards find out that fighting the natives is a profitable business, the traffickers, adventurers and villains who come here will naturally use their skills in Africa to the Malays. It's not going to be that easy.

In addition, the situation in the Baguio area is always under the attention of the travelers.

In the most ideal state, if the Spaniards work hard, they should be able to develop several gold and silver mines in about three years.

This so-called "development" is very cruel: it is necessary to open up roads in the mountainous rainforest of Baguio, build mines, arrange guards, and then capture slaves to refine minerals with primitive techniques all year round.

Whether it is a white skin or an aborigine, the death rate will increase greatly in this environment. The aboriginals in the Baguio area are simply not enough to consume, so the Spaniards will continue to madly expand the scope of slave hunting.
The behind-the-scenes men on Dayuan Island are looking forward to the future performance of the big pie faces. They can even provide some useful tools and weapons to the white mine owners to strengthen their confidence in developing nature and fighting against the sky.

In short, before the day when the giant ship and cannon hit the gate of Manila, the Transit Kingdom will spare no effort to support the Spaniards, let them let themselves go in the vast world of the Thousand Islands, strive to open up more land under the light of the Holy Light, and purify more heresies , to relieve some pioneering pressure for latecomers.

After coming out of the business house on Dayuan Island, when Alonso and Juan were walking along the long Taijiang coast all the way to the south, the interaction between Manila and Dayuan in the past few months was discussed. Baron Juan narrated it thus.

After hearing these stories, Alonso looked at Dayuan Island, who had already reached the end, and then at the complacent colleague beside him, and his heart was full of bitterness.

(End of this chapter)