Chapter 225 Manila’s gift from Ming Dynasty

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 225 Manila’s gift from Ming Dynasty

Chapter 224

Luzon is not the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Zhenghe Port and Zhenghe Port Area are Cheng Shijie's private territory. Even the Ming Dynasty court has no power to dictate to Zhenghe Port and Zhenghe Port Area.

Now Cheng Shi is confident.

Because he was Cheng Shijie's adopted son, and Cheng Shijie gave him his only overseas private territory to manage. This represented Cheng Shijie's trust in him, and it was also his responsibility.

To be fair, Cheng Shi is not good at studying. He has been following Cheng Shijie for more than three years and can barely write an ordinary official document, but he has no literary talent. He can only let Cheng Shijie understand what he wants to express. With Cheng Shijie

According to my judgment, Cheng Shi’s cultural level is not as good as Cheng Jialong’s.

Of course, in later generations, Cheng Jialong went to kindergarten for three years and elementary school for four years. If Cheng Jialong's level was not as good as Cheng Shi, who had just studied for three years, Cheng Shijie could only untie his belt and teach Cheng Jialong a mountain of fatherly love.

Cheng Shi's logic of life is very simple. Zhenghe Port and all the people in Zhenghe Port area are like the tenants of the landlords in the Central Plains. The landlords can beat and scold the tenants, but others cannot say no.

As the saying goes, beating a dog depends on the owner. Now these Spaniards are beating up the merchants in Zheng He Port District on Cheng Shijie's territory, which is to slap Cheng Shijie in the face.

The Lord is worried about the humiliation of his subjects, and the Lord is worried about the humiliation of his subjects.

Under this subtle processing logic, Cheng Shi can die, but he must not pretend to be deaf and dumb, let alone sit on the wall and watch.

Of course, Liaodong is a place where the rule of law is emphasized, especially before the law, everyone is equal. Even Cheng Shijie's direct troops cannot rely on their status to bully other people and be above the law, let alone these Spaniards.

Now Wu Shangzhi feels that the sky is about to fall. In Luzon, the Spaniards themselves are the emperors of the earth and the superiors of the people. The Spaniards have always liked to use the local indigenous people to deal with the Chinese. When they are fine, they will still look for trouble. Now Cheng Shi's

The guard actually beat the Spaniard to death.

"What should I do?"

Wu Shangzhi felt that his breathing was a little difficult, and he almost couldn't lift a breath.

Cheng Shi smiled disapprovingly and said: "It's just a few Western barbarians who dare to resist law enforcement and will be beaten to death in vain!"

Wu Shangzhi said incoherently: "Major General Cheng, do you know that this is not the Ming Dynasty, this is Luzon, and it is the territory of the Spanish."

"No, this is Zhenghe Port, my father's private territory."

Wu Shangzhi knew that Cheng Shi was young and energetic, and it was not easy to argue. He looked at Xie Jinglin and said, "Mr. Xie, please think of a way quickly, something big is going to happen!"

As the Chinese became more and more powerful in Luzon, the Spanish colonial governor-general authorities united with the local indigenous people to oppress the Chinese. Since the 17th century, there have been two large-scale massacres of the Chinese. The last time

It had only been 20 or 30 years since the murder. These Chinese people had personally experienced the murder, and their fear of the Spaniards had already penetrated deep into their bones.

During this period, before Ning Haijun arrived, Luzon was like a powder keg. The indigenous people who originally lived in the mountains or the hinterland of Luzon Island came to Manila in groups to provoke the Chinese, but the Chinese kept tolerating.

But the problem is that in the eyes of the indigenous people and the colonial governor-general, the Chinese people's tolerance is weak and can be bullied. Even if Cheng Shi's incident had not happened, in five years, in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the colonial authorities and the indigenous people once again

Carry out large-scale massacres of Chinese people.

Cheng Shi did not take it seriously. He ordered his guards to arrest the three Spaniards who were causing trouble, collect the bodies of the other two Spaniards who died, and take them back to the port area.

Located on the south bank of the Pasig River, in the colonial governor's palace in Manila, Luzon Governor Juan Cerezo (Cerezo) was fighting fiercely with Marina, the wife of Spanish Luzon Army Colonel Omore.

Governor Juan was working in the mainland and was transferred back to Spain. As the wife of Colonel Omore, she was actually fed up with Luzon's climate and harsh living environment.

Relatively speaking, there are no traces of modern civilization in Luzon now, except for the port area and the church area, and Marina's husband is also a madman in military training. Although Marina came to Luzon with the army, in fact, she is a

I may not be able to see Omol several times every month.

In this way, Omore left the beautiful and charming land uncultivated and asked the governor to do it for him.

However, at the most critical moment, Louis, the officer in charge of colonial affairs, said anxiously: "Your Excellency, something big has happened!"

Juan yelled at Luis outside the door: "Damn it, if you don't give me a strong reason, I guarantee you will spend a few wonderful nights with the gorillas!"

Of course Louis knew what the Governor was doing, but the problem was that it was too big.

After two sticks of incense, Juan, who was neatly dressed, came to the meeting hall of the Governor's Palace. At this time, the hall was filled with senior police officials and senior military officials from the Luzon colonial authorities, including of course Juan's mistress Marina.

Husband Colonel Omore.

Juan came into the hall, and everyone stood up one after another.

Juan waved his hands and said: "Gentlemen, you already know the situation, what should we do now?"

"We must show some shame to those people from the Ming Dynasty. We will never give in, otherwise, Luzon will be detrimental to His Majesty the King's rule!"

"The authorities have tolerated it, but they cannot tolerate it indefinitely. The prestige of the civilized world cannot continue to be lost like this!"

"We should relax the suppression of those indigenous monkeys a little bit... In order to maintain order, we must also let those indigenous monkeys express themselves..."

Omore said fiercely: "They captured three of my men, and two others were beaten to death by them. This is a provocation to the Spanish Imperial Army. Our Army will never give up!"

The opinions of the Luzon colonial authorities were almost unanimous, that is, they expressed strong dissatisfaction with Ning Haijun.

On the surface, it was for the three Spanish soldiers who were captured. In fact, the deeper meaning was that it was the goods in the Zhenghe port warehouse. Recently, Ning Haijun's main navy fleet has been frequently dispatched. They have hijacked a total of fifty-five ships from the waterway.

Thirty-two of the merchant ships have been sold to the Spaniards at a price, and now they need these twenty-two cargoes and do not intend to pay.

Governor Huan was always silent. He waited until everyone looked at him before he said softly: "Have you forgotten that there are more than fifty Ming army battleships cruising around here?"

Compared with Zheng Zhilong's 3,000 warships, Ning Haijun's navy is undoubtedly weak, but the problem is that no matter how weak it is, it is not something that the Luzon colonial authorities can handle. The Spanish Empire only has thirty warships in Luzon, even if it is added

The Grand Fleet has a total of only thirty-seven ships, of which seven battleships are permanently stationed in the Imperial Guard and fifteen battleships are permanently stationed in Manila. However, these twenty-two battleships are old broken ships of 400 to 600 tons.

.

Europa is only a fifth-level light cruiser, and seventeen of them are armed merchant ships. Even the Grabona, the flagship of the Spanish fleet in Luzon, is only a 680-ton warship, but it was built in

Ten years ago, I haven’t left Manila for a long time.

"Do their warships dare to fire on our Spanish Empire?"

Captain Simon couldn't bear it anymore and said loudly: "They will never be able to withstand the anger of the Spanish Empire, and they will never dare to fire on our warships!"

"It makes no sense to say these things. I govern Luzon for His Majesty the King. I hope Luzon can be safe and sound. The flag of Spain will always fly here. His Majesty the King does not want to see too many bloody incidents."

Governor Juan said calmly: "Whether they are indigenous people or Chinese, they are the ones we need to be wary of when necessary. Keeping them in such opposition is the principle of our rule... Gentlemen's opinions, I think there are still

That makes sense. Maybe it’s time for us to say something, Louis!"

"exist!"

"Go and meet those Ming people. You must give us a satisfactory explanation for this matter!"

"OK!"

"Gentlemen, you can go back and make arrangements. Scare them, but don't go too far! The arrangements before and after this operation must be reported to the Governor's Mansion and await my signature and approval!"

The butt determines the head, and the head determines the thinking.

As the governor of Luzon and as a force in the Far East of the Spanish Empire, Spain's power is too weak. There are only more than 4,000 Spanish people in the entire Luzon. They are the Dutch and Portuguese who are nominally Spanish. All white people plus

Together, there were only about 4,500 people.

But the problem is that these more than 4,000 people are too few.

After the destruction of the Spanish Armada, even now, the main battleships are still less than 130 third-class battleships or above, while the main battleships of the Ning Navy are fourth-class battleships or third-class battleships, even the powerful Dutch East India Company

, and dare not underestimate Ning Haijun’s maritime power.

What's more, since the battle between Ning Haijun and Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong has suffered several big losses in a row. If this continues, maritime rights in the South China Sea will be difficult to defend.

Going to war with Ning Haijun is not in the interests of the Spanish Empire. Of course, if there are enough interests, what does it matter if a few people die, even dozens or hundreds of people?

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Zhenghe Port District, Wu Family Mansion.

Two to three hundred people from 245 Chinese merchants in Manila and representatives of various clans came to the Wu family again, hoping that Wu Shangzhi could come up with an idea.

"It's all that General Cheng's fault!"

"If you have no hair on your lips, you will not be able to do things well!"

"Oh, who says it's not the case!"

"General Cheng is such a wise man, and it just happened to be because of Cheng Shi!"

"Tiger father and dog son, the success is insufficient, but the failure is more than enough!"

"You can't blame General Cheng for this. It is said that this Major General Cheng is just General Cheng's adopted son!"

"Adopted son, no wonder!"

Everyone in the Wu family meeting hall was almost unanimous in condemning Cheng Shi's recklessness.

Wu Shangzhi looked at the crowd and said: "We have to give General Cheng's face, and we have to give the foreigners face. Everyone, hurry up and spend some money and give it to the foreigners! You must make it clear to the foreigners that this matter has nothing to do with us.

No!"

At this moment, an old man slowly stomped out of the hall. He had a typical Hakka appearance with deep eye sockets. Although his beard was white, he still looked very capable.

"Mr. Wu!"

"Father!"

This old man was the head of the Wu family in Luzon, who had developed the Wu family to such a wealthy level that rivaled the rest of the country. He was also a member of the Colonial Bureau Council, and whenever he stamped his foot, Wu Dakuan would make the Chinese society in Luzon tremble.
To be continued...