After two days of clean-up, the results of the battle of Manila were finally counted.

In this battle, the Ming army lost one hundred and three people killed and three hundred and fifty-three wounded, most of whom were killed or wounded while filling the moat under the city.

The Ming army killed more than 800 Spanish soldiers, more than 3,600 indigenous soldiers, and the rest of more than 4,000 were captured, including 58 officers, including the governor Salcteau.

Of the more than 4,000 people who were captured, many were seriously wounded, and several hundred more were hung up in two days.

Because of the lack of military medicine in the Ming army, they gave priority to treating their own people, ignoring the prisoners, and finally the seriously injured prisoners died.

During this period, there was a flood of sympathy and suggested that priority should be given to the treatment of prisoners, so that the foreign devils in the observation group could feel the great power demeanor of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Li Yu, the chief general of the Ming army and Huang Degong's righteous son, rejected this proposal, and said: "These stinky black and white devils have caused chaos to this general, and Lao Tzu didn't kill them one by one, but they still want to occupy our army's resources?" Dream! ”

It is an animal instinct to abuse prisoners, and preferential treatment of prisoners is a political necessity.

To put it bluntly, the painting is analyzed from a political point of view, and the starting point is to better implement the ideological construction of the army formulated by Zhu Cihong, so that soldiers can overcome animal instincts and thoroughly implement the political program......

In the end, this matter reached Zhu Cihong's ears, this kind of thinking is very advanced, but he does not intend to adopt it.

Because in his eyes, a hundred Spaniards and natives are not as precious as a Ming soldier, what is face?

If the Ming army had enough medicine, they could barely treat a few prisoners, but now they can't take care of it, and they can save a fart!

However, Zhu Cihong was deeply impressed by the proposed praise painting, and this person can be regarded as a courageous and far-sighted talent who can speak such opinions under pressure in this environment.

Zhu Cihong made an exception to summon the praise painting and asked for his name.

The name of the painting is Yao Qisheng, nearly thirty years old, with a medium build, a slight build, a short beard on the chin, and a neat look, at first glance, he is a shrewd person.

When he reported his name, Zhu Cihong raised his eyebrows and looked at him twice.

Li Yu did not have any unpleasant opinions about Yao Qisheng because of his random opinions, on the contrary, Li Yu also tried his best to introduce Yao Qisheng in front of Zhu Cihong.

"Your Majesty, the last general heard that Yao Qisheng has been heroic since he was a child, when he was a teenager, he happened to encounter two soldiers robbing a woman, he stepped forward and pretended to persuade him, seized the saber and killed the soldier, saved the woman and returned it to his family......"

Seeing that the leader appreciated and highly recommended himself in the face of the Son of Heaven, Yao Qisheng was excited and felt that his life was full of hope.

Who is Li Yu? Yasukuni Gong Huang Degong's righteous son, now Huang Degong is the chief minister of military aircraft, in charge of the Zhili Tianwu Army, guarding Gyeonggi, that is a high power!

Li Yu himself is also an earl, and his future is limitless, if he appreciates and recommends him, can his future be poor?

Just when Yao Qisheng was excited in his heart and Li Yu was recommending hard, Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said, "I know, you guys retreat!" ”

Li Yu was a little confused, didn't Your Majesty like Xia Wanchun who drew a sword to help him when he saw injustice? Why is Yao Qisheng and Xia Wanchun having similar experiences, why can't they have a sacred heart?

He naturally didn't dare to ask the emperor on the spot, so he had to quietly retire with Yao Qisheng, who was also confused.

"Yao Qisheng ......"

Zhu Cihong muttered silently, and then stopped thinking about him.

Those well-known figures in history, Zhu has seen a lot over the years, and Yao Qisheng can't be ranked.

However, when it comes to understanding Yao Qisheng, Zhu Cihong knows more than Li Yu, who is stunned, the minister of the Kangxi Dynasty, the guy who accepts Taiwan!

The reason why Zhu Cihong doesn't like this person is also for historical reasons, he is not to exclude all the ministers who were in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

For example, Li Guangdi, Zhou Peigong, how old were they when Chongzhen hanged himself, or was he a minor, but what about Yao Qisheng?

Yao Qisheng was born in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and when Chongzhen hung himself on the southeast branch in history, he was already in his early twenties! actually followed the Manchu Qing Dynasty and joined the Han Army with a red flag!

A dignified Han man, still a scholar born in Zhejiang, did not join the Southern Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty, but took the initiative to go to the area of Beijing City to seek officials after the Qing army captured Jiangnan!

No matter what big things you have done later, you have no concept of family and country, your ass is crooked, and your character is broken!

To put it mildly, it's no different from a traitor! It can't be compared with Xia Wanchun.

Of course, in this era, Yao Qisheng is the praise of the Ming army and a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cihong didn't have any strong malice towards him, he just didn't like it, and he did whatever he wanted.

Yao Qisheng wants to take a shortcut in the Tianwu Dynasty, it is obviously impossible, it is impossible in this life!

Zhu Cihong continued to look through the list of seizures handed over by the Praise Painting Department with great interest.

The Ming army found a large amount of gold and silver in the city of Manila, with a wide variety, gold and silver coins from various countries, some gold and silver ingots, and even a lot of dragon yuan from the Ming Dynasty!

As a rough estimate, the seizure resulted in about four million silver yuan.

To Zhu Cihong's surprise, one-third of the money was actually found in the Augustinian Church!

It seems that these foreign monks in Manila are also the ones who got rich first, spreading the 'gospel' while accumulating money!

In addition, the Ming army also occupied the Manila shipyard and captured more than a dozen ocean-going merchant ships, which were of great value.

This time I sent troops to Nanyang, not only did I not lose money, but I also made money!

No wonder it is said that colonial expansion was a powerful means of primitive accumulation of European capital, and it turned out that this money was really profitable! A real money grab!

Zhu Cihong was very happy, Daming not only earned a strategic place for nothing, but also pocketed all the wealth accumulated by the Spaniards in Luzon for more than 80 years.

Next, Zhu Cihong also used the Pacific route opened up by the Spaniards to open up a trade route to the Americas, and sent a fleet to the sea to find Hong Chengchou and other two Tartars.

Chopping the grass does not remove the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows, for Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and other old traitors, Zhu Cihong is also very concerned.

Jinyiwei's spies have already entered overseas, mainly in the South Seas and Europe, and the Ming Dynasty has not penetrated much in the Americas.

Because of the strict supervision of the Spaniards, the spies of Jinyiwei could only penetrate the interior of the Governor's Palace in Manila first, and then follow the Spanish merchant ships across the Pacific Ocean to the Americas.

It takes a long time to go back and forth, and the information transmission is extremely inconvenient.

So far, Zhu Cihong has only received one piece of information from the Americas, saying that the two Tartars have arrived in North America, and Hong Chengchou has also established the Great Eastern Kingdom and actively expanded abroad.

This information was also obtained by Jinyiwei's spies in the Governor's Palace of the Spanish Colonies in the Americas, apparently because the Spaniards realized the threat of the Great Eastern Kingdom and wanted to suppress them.

Zhu Cihong was in a good mood and summoned Shen Shouchong, the minister of the navy, and ordered him to organize a fleet to go to the Americas as soon as possible to collect intelligence and immigrate to the United States.

According to the archives of the Governor's Palace in Manila, in 1600 there were 250,000 Spaniards (including mestizos) in the Americas and about 30,000 Portuguese in Brazil.

Britain, France, the Netherlands, and other countries (e.g., Denmark, Sweden) also emigrated to North America and the Caribbean, but half died of disease.

After 50 years of reproduction, Zhu speculates that there are currently more than 500,000 Spaniards and 50,000 Portuguese in the Americas, mainly in Mexico and South America.

If the Ming wants to take over Spain's vast colonies in the Americas, it is not easy, and he must be fully prepared!

As for Dadongguo, Zhu Cihong hopes that they can also be like the Spaniards, make a wave of money for the Ming Dynasty first, and wait for the Ming army to collect the accounts and take over.