"Let Brother Pan laugh!" Xu Qing knew that his actions just now were very unbearable, so he had to laugh at himself.

"No!" Pan Haisheng said sullenly: "I feel that I am useless!" ”

"The Overseers taught us that the guns we have are used to protect our own people and our enemies, and this time we are derelict in our duties!" Pan Haisheng said guiltily: "We promise that there will be no such thing in the future!" ”

"Good, good!" Xu Qing was pleased.

went back and reported to Hong Xiguan on the Kaohsiung No. 8 moored in the nearby waters, and he said indifferently: "Let things go here, let's go, let's go to Manila first!" ”

If you want to get away with it, now that the situation is at the beginning, I am afraid that the other party is still nervous, which is not conducive to rescue, so I will go to Manila first, and after the other party relaxes, the matter will naturally be resolved.

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Manila!

In 1565, the Spaniard Legazpi landed on the island of Cebu and established his first colony here.

Four years later, Spain established a second colony in Panay.

King Philip II of Spain appointed Legazpi as the governor of the Philippines and ordered the locals to adopt Catholicism.

In 1570, Legazpi, in the name of the Governor of the Philippines, sent 15 warships into Mindoro.

Legazpi appointed his grandsons, Juan Salcedo and Goiti, to establish colonial rule in Luzon.

Gauthi formed an alliance with Manila Sultan Soliman and occupied Manila.

In 1571, the Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi arrived in Manila and built a walled city, or Intramuros (Intramuros), a complex of buildings with European feelings.

In the same year, Legazpi declared Manila the capital of the Philippines, and with the organization and support of the Catholic Church, the Philippines became a place of Catholicism.

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At first, because of the barrenness of Luzon, the Spaniards lamented: "There is no spice here, and there is no gold or silver." ”

In fact, Luzon is rich in mineral deposits (it was later proved that there were billions of tons of copper and hundreds of millions of tons of gold in the Philippines), but after the prospecting water at that time, it was impossible to find out.

The turnaround occurred in the Ming Dynasty after the merchants of Fujian Yuegang arrived in Luzon, and in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there were at least dozens of hundreds of ships (some large and some small) coming and going to Luzon China every year, and the Chinese merchant ships carried a wide variety of goods, including various items for food and clothing, such as cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, chickens and ducks and other livestock, poultry; all kinds of raw silk, silk fabrics, cotton, linen fabrics and other textiles; porcelain, iron, copper, tin, lead and other utensils; food, fruits, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, sugar, flour and other edible products; Among them, the largest is raw silk and silk fabrics, accounting for about 90%.

When Chinese merchant ships arrived at the port, they first brought the goods into the Chinese shops in the port, and then the local Chinese sold the goods to the Filipinos and Spaniards. The Spaniards relied on the goods transported by Chinese merchant ships not only to meet the needs of survival in the Philippine Island, but also to resell silk, porcelain and other items transported by Chinese merchant ships to their American colonies, thus forming the so-called "Pacific Silk Road", which was called the "galleon trade" by Western scholars, and Chinese silk and porcelain spread all over the world. The Spaniards make millions of pesos a year with the Manila galleon. And China also obtained a large amount of South American silver through this trade.

The business was so prosperous that it attracted a large number of Chinese to Manila to make a living, even after the Spanish massacre of the Chinese in Manila in 1603, the Chinese soon flocked to Manila.

Merchant ships from the Ming Kingdom were usually anchored at Cavite, a narrow peninsula five miles south of Manila, which stood in front of Manila and was the barrier of Manila, just south of that large bay, and was a military stronghold during early Spanish rule, with a seaport and fortress.

At the top of the peninsula is Cape Sangley, a Hokkien phrase meaning business travel (?). Traveling merchants), a scornful term for people of Chinese descent born in the Philippines, a typical use of the term is what a church chief in Manila called in a 1628 complaint about the "great threat" posed by "the swarming of God-abandoned barbarians swarming."

Don't blame the Spaniards BS Ming people in that period, even the Ming Emperor didn't want them, and they didn't hold grudges when they were killed, how could they get the respect of the Spaniards?

But today will be different.

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The merchant ships of this task force rushed into the Krabi bottom anchorage, because it was a large fleet, the entire Krabi bottom was alarmed, and Hong Xiguan was really shocked when he saw the black crowd on the pier waiting for the fleet to enter the port on the cruiser.

All kinds of people, most of them are Chinese, some poor whites, native Filipino monkeys, and Japanese people who wear Ming Dynasty clothes and pretend to be Ming people (they can't return to China, and some Japanese people have a very pure Chinese accent, and Han people may not be able to compare with them, just like the Chinese calligraphy written by a certain young master of the Southeast Prefecture Overseer is far less good than that of His Royal Highness the Great Imperial Palace), as well as Koreans and Annam...... It's a mess, when the first merchant ship docked in port, the people on it barely had room to go down to land!

However, Hong Xiguan was not interested in paying attention to the excitement here for the time being, and he ordered: "Keep moving forward and go to Wangcheng Port!" ”

At this time, Xu Qing took Zhang Yunhe's place and was also on the cruiser, and when he heard his order, he was startled and said: "Captain Hong, the Spaniards don't allow us Ming people to go there!" ”

"I am the special envoy of the southeast province of the Ming Dynasty, and I came to visit the southeast on behalf of the southeast government, if the Spaniards don't let us pass, it will mean war!" Hong Xiguan smiled strangely: "Don't let us go today, tomorrow we will come again, it will be the arrival of our battleships in the southeast province, if you don't invite us, then we will come uninvited!" ”

Xu Qing was speechless!

Hong Xiguan invited him: "Come together and be a witness!" ”

"Good!" Xu Qing said happily.

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So in front of everyone on the Krabi Pier, they saw three warships flying the Ming flag bypassing the port of Krabi and sailing straight ahead to the port area of Wangcheng!

The sailors on the Daming battleship took out the dresses that they usually don't use, a white suit, the sailors were sailor hats with streamers, carrying spears, while the officers were big caps, wearing sabers and pistols, everyone put the dazzling and eye-catching matching up, standing proudly, the officers and soldiers stood on the slope (the officers and soldiers were lined up on the side of the gunwale, their legs spread and their hands behind their backs) on both sides of the deck in a queue, and the military appearance was neat.

The military band on the ship also played a light military music, blowing and beating, attracting more people to see the Ming warship.

What's more, the gun doors on the gun decks of the two cruisers opened, revealing the cannon of one door pointing outward, and the three 18-pounder guns in the middle were particularly eye-catching.

In addition to the open-air deck guns of the supply ships stripped off their gun jackets, the three battleships slowly sailed in battle formation in front of the people in the port of Krabide, and the noise of the people on the dock suddenly fell silent.

What did people see next?

The invincible ruler of the land, the Spaniards sent a pilot ship to pilot in front of the three Ming warships, guiding them to the port of Wangcheng, where only white ships could dock!

This is a glory that non-whites have never had!

Wow!

All the people who saw this scene held their breath and let out another breath!

Xu Qing and Rong Youyan, who were on the cruiser, moistened the corners of his eyes, and said to himself softly: "The times are different!" ”