After the nominally important two castles were negotiated, the next step was the main event: the slave trade negotiations.

Considering that this was the first time since the Spaniards came to East Asia many years ago that they had "self-produced fist goods" other than silver, the policy still had to be slightly supported: Cai Feiming gave the Spaniards a 5% preferential purchase price in the 1628-1629 slave trade agreement.

After signing the agreement, Baron Juan couldn't help but secretly sigh a sigh of relief: only God knows how difficult the situation in East Asia is for the Philippines, which even imports pots and pans from the Ming Dynasty.

As expected, when the agreement was made public among the merchants, the Dutch, who heard the news, immediately ran to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to express their strong protest and grave concern - why should the Protestants suffer a 5% loss when everyone sells Malay goods? This is **naked racial discrimination, no, even if the preferential period is only one year.

In the end, the Dutch, who received only a helpless look from the Foreign Office, could only turn their grief and anger into strength: in the following year, the Dutch not only increased the number of attacks on the Spanish colonies by Malay pirates, but also continued to suppress the big pie faces on multiple fronts...... These are all later words, so I won't mention them for the time being.

When the trade agreement between the Spaniards and the people was signed, the Spanish merchants, who had become "losers", hurriedly set off on two merchant ships loaded with industrial products and miscellaneous goods of the Ming Kingdom.

The same is true of the later industrial nations that did business with the colonies, as did the crossing countries. The visitors were all on the basis of exclusive goods: no matter how many silver coins and slaves the poor merchants had, the travelers could always settle the difference with more expensive industrial goods, and then let the guests "go back in debt".

So when the two ships returned to Manila in late June, all the Spanish merchants were saddled with varying amounts of loans. Expensive bleaching powder, raw silk, scarce kerosene lamps, and all kinds of industrial daily necessities looted the silver coins they brought.

In order to maximize the purchase of these scarce materials, the merchants had to unite and mortgage Baron Juan and the soldiers and cannons of Taipei Castle in exchange for a certain amount of export credit.

Of course, the debt was short-lived: when the ship soon returned to Manila, everything on board was sold, and the merchants who returned with the ship made a big profit.

After reading the documents of the trade agreement and the personal letter of the special envoy, Governor Juan finally made up his mind and began to comprehensively adjust Manila's domestic and foreign policies.

First of all, the city hall raised the tax rate in the Visayas villages outside the city, and anyone who did not pay enough or resisted the tax would be arrested and sold by the tax collector, including women and children.

Second, the aborigines of several plots of land suitable for growing rice were "migrated" to a mysterious location at gunpoint by a large number of soldiers: the land was contracted to the Ming people, who were skilled at farming, and they had to provide a large amount of rice in the coming days to meet the quota set by the Dayuan.

And then came the main thing: a fleet of nobles, merchants, and churches who intended to get a piece of the slave trade attacked a large indigenous tribe on the island of Mentoro half a month later.

This tribe is located in the middle of the island of Nentoro and is a powerful tribe of the Moro people. The Moro people of the Philippines are a hodgepodge of Islam that includes many scattered peoples, and "Moro" is a Spanish transliteration of the Moorish people who believe in Islam.

The name shows how disdainful the Flatpie-Faces were for the Moros: it took centuries for the Spaniards to drive the Moors of North Africa from their homeland.

And the so-called Moro people did not live up to their name: the natives, who were essentially part of the Malay branch, were extremely hostile to the whiteskins, and the tribesmen here not only served as outposts and staging grounds for Malay pirates, but also set out to raid and attack Spanish ships and strongholds.

The Manila regime, which had been under tremendous strategic pressure from the Low Country bandits, had no effect on the multitude of pirates and hostile tribes – municipal revenues were already stretched thin to feed the bureaucrats and strengthen the city's defenses, let alone send troops around the Thousand Islands.

However, this time is different.

When the richest ministry of the 17th century: the church, came into play, everything was different.

Adventurers, nobles, and merchants soon moved to action under the glue of the bishop. The bigwigs, who complained every day that Manila's greedy tax system had drained everyone, quickly pulled out a lot of silver coins.

Not only did it contain the funds of the church's treasury, but also the tax collector's own furniture, and the governor and mayor were believed to have taken shares, albeit on behalf of their cronies.

Once the most important funding problem is solved, the rest will be easy to handle.

A fleet with the armed merchant ship "Miss Rose" as the flagship was immediately formed. With a displacement of 5 tons and a number of long-barreled guns, the ship will be responsible for dealing with all enemies on the sea in the future.

The other two smaller armed merchant ships were mainly responsible for carrying supplies and "transporting cargo". The main part of the fleet is actually 10 medium boats and 20 small rowing boats - the target tribe only has a small dock for canoes to dock, and armed merchant ships are of little practical use, and can only transfer personnel and supplies in small boats on the open sea.

The taverns in Manila were swept away overnight, and a large number of sailors, drunkards, vagabonds, scoundrels, and scum were all incorporated into the dinghy landing force after receiving a few silver coins.

The 100 regular soldiers, commanded by the Red Second Lieutenant Diego Sandova, also boarded the deck of the Miss Rose...... Manila's city hall is finally putting its tax dollars where it deserves.

When everything was ready, after the Bishop himself had celebrated the pre-battle mass and chanted the sacred slogan "Those who spread glory for the Lord will bathe in the light", the slave hunter fleet with +3 morale and +2 negative status check set out.

The island of Genduro is just south of Manila, and the 200-kilometer sea route does not take much time, and the tribe of the Moro people is near the tourist town of Sabrayan.

A large indigenous tribe of tens of thousands of people, if you don't consider the quality, can muster at least 2,000 warriors.

So the Spaniards, who had deliberately rounded the lower reaches of the estuary, had survived the dangerous landing period on the first day, and began to trace the river the next day...... Then he was confronted by a large army of natives.

At this time, the defenders, who had lost the only chance to block the beachhead on land, did not ask what to do: nearly 10 indigenous warriors were quickly defeated under the blows of 100 regular soldiers + 300 scum + small artillery.

The devil has entered the village.