Fortunately, the good news came back from Manila, at least the Bishop Melcho and more than a thousand other Spaniards survived, which gave the Spaniards a glimmer of hope.

Since none of the bishops have had an accident, it shows that God has blessed the empire.

Under the support of this sentiment, Spain in various parts of the Philippines began to move, and more than 800 Spanish troops and 2,000 indigenous troops began to counterattack the city of Qianzhou under the cover of more than 200 large and small ships.

However, this unstoppable momentum suddenly became a little funny when Qianzhou Bay met the large fleet composed of Fubo Division.

After the capture of the Spanish ships in Manila, the fleet of the Fubo Division had expanded to 12 large battleships, 41 medium ships, and 78 small ships.

Although these warships could not be fully used due to manpower reasons, they were enough to make up for the lack of mobility of the Fubo Division's fleet.

In addition, with the cooperation of Shouwang Island, on May 27, the Fubo Division won a great naval victory in Qianzhou Bay.

More than 50 Spanish warships were captured or destroyed, and if the Admiral of the Spanish fleet had not seen the opportunity to order a retreat, I feared that the Spanish rule in the Philippines would have come to an end.

After this war, the Luzon General's Mansion can be regarded as gaining a firm foothold in Southeast Asia.

The city of Qianzhou was officially lifted because of this incident, and as Dutch and Portuguese merchants from all walks of life who had regained their freedom traded around Southeast Asia, news about the Luzon General's Mansion gradually spread throughout Southeast Asia.

Anthony van Diemen, the Dutch governor of Batavia, had wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to attack the city of Qianzhou, but he had no choice but to stop when he learned of the Spanish defeat.

But all this has nothing to do with Liu Ximing.

It was already approaching June, and he was still returning to the capital, so he was busy every day with completing the construction of the political system of the Luzon general's palace and selecting and appointing temporary officials at all levels.

Compared with the governance system of Liujia Village, there are several major changes in the Luzon General's Mansion.

One is the financial aspect, originally the Liu family's Yuluo money ticket was printed with his own head and the pattern of Liujia Village, but now that the Luzon General's Mansion has been established, this naturally cannot be continued.

To this end, he directly found a painter from Balian City, and designed the front and back of the money ticket as a Luzon Islands pattern on the front and a Luzon general's palace on the reverse.

Of course, because the relevant equipment of the Money Ticket Bureau has not been shipped, it will take some time until the Luzon banknotes are officially designed for use.

Liu Ximing was more of a reform of gold, silver and copper coins, and with the establishment of the Luzon General's Palace, the Liu family could also begin to officially mint their own currency.

In the past four years, under the guidance of Liu Ximing, Liu's workshop has gradually promoted the use of primitive machine tools, and with the newly named Jiangyuan River next to Qianzhou City, Luzon has the conditions for using machine coinage.

To this end, Liu Ximing has arranged a task for the mint bureau under the household department, requiring the construction of the mint to be completed as soon as possible with the cooperation of the workshop.

The current world is still a gold and silver double standard monetary model, Liu Ximing naturally knows that under the control of the laws of the market economy, it will eventually enter the era of the gold standard.

But at present, the amount of gold mining is far from meeting the economic needs, and he can only implement the gold and silver standard system first.

After nearly four years of high centralization, many problems within Liujia Village have begun to emerge, such as officials' one-word opinions, arbitrariness, bureaucracy, and so on.

Liu Ximing has always been aware of these problems, although since the establishment of the house, the Liu family has carried out several rectification movements, but due to the lack of institutional guarantees, this rectification is only formalism after all.

At present, the Luzon General's Mansion is newly built, and Liu Ximing has already made up his mind to lay a good foundation for the future founding of the country.

In order to prevent bureaucracy and other problems, in Liu Ximing's view, it is natural that we can only rely on the participation of the masses in politics.

To this end, during his time in Luzon, he began to concentrate on the formation of a tentative assembly house for pilot construction.

In Liu Ximing's vision, the Assembly House should be a role similar to that of the National People's Congress, but its functions are broader than those of the National People's Congress.

In the future, not only will all laws be enacted by the Assembly, but some of the country's major policies should also be discussed in the Assembly.

At the same time, in order to avoid the ravages of bureaucracy, the Assembly House and the Metropolitan Procuratorate should also undertake the supervision of the bureaucracy, and have media under its jurisdiction, and strive to truly speak for the people.

As for the appointment and dismissal of officials, Liu Ximing naturally has to control it in his own hands, but this does not mean that officials only need to be responsible for their superiors.

In the future, in the Luzon General's Mansion and even the Liu family's regime, the power to recommend the promotion of officials in key positions, such as the Government Council, must be in the hands of Liu Ximing, and the final election will be conducted by the Assembly House.

Therefore, for the selection of the assembly house, Liu Ximing paid more attention to its class nature and representativeness, and he knew that the bureaucracy was yin and yang and contrary to his ability, so he directly stipulated the proportion of various groups of people in the assembly house from the beginning.

The proportion of officials and cadres at all levels cannot exceed 30 percent of all personnel, and the rest must be selected from farms, factories, the army, and other places.

However, many of his in-depth ideas have not yet been learned by officials at all levels in Luzon, and in view of the uneven quality of the members of the assembly house, the current assembly house is only given the function of collecting public sentiment and public opinion by Liu Ximing.

According to Liu Ximing's request, the Assembly House must convene a general meeting every three months, and Da Nayan will submit the government's suggestions for rectification to the Government Affairs Yuan.

The General Affairs Department of the Administrative Council must give a written reply to the opinions and suggestions put forward by the Assembly House in case Liu Xi's life is pending investigation.

After these actions are completed, the structure of the entire Luzon General's Mansion can be considered completely built.

After promising to send family managers to take over the work of the Luzon General's Mansion as soon as possible after returning to the Ming Dynasty, and to send two more battalions of troops to garrison Luzon, Liu Ximing officially left Qianzhou City under the escort of the fleet.

For this trip to Luzon, Liu Ximing was very satisfied.

Although the plan could not keep up with the changes, and many of the originally prepared plans were not implemented smoothly, the final result was unexpectedly good.

As far as the attack on Luzon is concerned, the Liu family not only officially set up a banner and inspired all the soldiers of the Fubo Division, but also obtained an excellent base.

From now on, some things that the Liu family originally did not dare to do can also be started, and in the past, in order to avoid attracting too much attention, the Liu family did not dare to recruit displaced people in Shaanxi, Henan and other places.

But now with Luzon, it is different, although it is thousands of miles away from the mainland, and the transportation cost is very huge, but the Liu family has to set up commercial pavilions in the southern provinces, otherwise his family will not be able to find a family for tens of millions of pieces of cloth a year, and these displaced people can also be transported to Luzon in batches.

After consulting with many Dutch and Portuguese people in Qianzhou City, Liu Ximing found that the cotton market in Southeast Asia was not large enough.

The cotton cloth shipped from China to the South Seas was mainly sold to Luzon, and then there were Han Chinese hawkers who walked the streets and alleys to sell all over the island, and the Spanish Manila trade would also buy some and ship some to Mexico.

As for Siam, Majapahit, and Aceh, due to their proximity to India, the pressure on the cotton cloth market is relatively high.

However, the total number of natives and Han people on the whole island of Luzon is only six or seven hundred thousand, and now that the city of Qianzhou is occupied by the Liu family, it remains to be said whether the Spaniards will still trade.

Before they could defeat the Zheng family and open up trade between Korea and Japan, the Liu family's cotton cloth sales could only focus on the mainland, so it was urgent for the Liu family to build a commercial network throughout southern China.

In this case, Liu Ximing immediately thought of the logistics network of later generations, since it can transport goods, it will naturally be able to transport personnel.

In addition to these, Liu Ximing's direct benefits on Luzon are even greater.

From the Spaniards alone, Liu Ximing had already seized 7.8 million taels of gold and silver, and then when Fubo Shi swept the whole island, he collected 1.5 million taels of gold from several tribes in the Beijin Mountains.

In order to improve the lives of the people of Luzon, Liu Ximing provided 4 million pieces of cotton cloth to the general's palace.

In addition, through low-price dumping, more than 6 million pieces of cotton cloth were sold to Dutch, Portuguese and other merchants, and 700,000 taels of silver were returned.

As for the remaining 20 million pieces of cotton cloth, Liu Ximing did not plan to continue to bring them back to the mainland for sale, so he could only stay in Luzon as the financial income of the Luzon General's Mansion.

All of this adds up, and the Liu family earned a total of 10 million taels of silver in cash during their trip to Luzon, which is not counting the money in Annan.

The Liu family can also be said to be a real rich party.