Liu Ximing's space is also equipped with some cement, steel and other materials, but these can only support the completion of the construction of the city wall part of Qianzhou City, and cannot support other needs of Qianzhou City and even Luzon Island.

Fortunately, in this month, the three troops led by You Degao and others have cleared up the northern part of Luzon Island, and the essence of the whole island has been in the hands of the Liu family.

To this end, You Degao launched more than 70 large and small wars, annihilating more than 1,200 Spaniards and more than 30,000 natives.

Through the conquest of the North Island of Luzon, Liu Xi's command not only collected the Han people on the island, but also replaced the Spaniards to complete the rule of the natives.

By 15 April, the Luzon General's Office had more than 70,000 Han Chinese, another 320,000 natives, and 37 large and small towns and strongholds in the northern island of Luzon.

The Spaniards had already made a relatively detailed survey of Luzon before, and with the vague impression of the Han Chinese and Liu Ximing who traveled among the various tribes of Luzon, the Luzon General's Office had a better grasp of the whole of Luzon than people imagined.

The Liu family did not have the jerky feeling of the new regime, and with such a good ruling foundation, Liu Ximing was regarded as the planning department of the National Development and Reform Commission and began to make preliminary plans for the whole island.

In the next few years, the Luzon General's Office will open more than 20 iron mines, gold mines, coal mines, lime mines, and other mines in the west of Yunshuang Mountain (Zambales Mountains) and North Gold Mountain (Northern Cordillera Mountains) in the north, and at the same time build a number of new factories on the island, such as steel mills, gyplay mills, and distilleries.

In order to further exploit the island's human resources, the Ministry of Planning also suggested that Liu Ximing concentrate the scattered population on the island and work together to build 12 key towns.

For this suggestion, Liu Ximing naturally accepted it gladly.

Among the many plans, the most critical ones at the moment are iron mines, lime mines, gold mines and other places that directly generate benefits.

In order to ensure the construction of Qianzhou City, Liu Ximing put all the resources that could be mobilized in these directions, and Luzon's human resources operated to the limit under the Liu family's system.

However, because of the high salary of the Liu family and various welfare guarantees, the Han natives on the island were all happy to serve and beat their chests with Melcho and other Spaniards.

Of course, Liu Ximing still treated the Han and the Turen differently.

Generally, Han men have a basic annual income of between 15 taels and 30 taels when they work, while the natives only have about 60% of Han people.

This level of income was already on par with that of white European soldiers who had traveled thousands of miles to East Asia in this era.

According to Van Linenberg, the average Dutch soldier earns only 8 guilders a month, and the rank of master chief and corporal is only 10 guilders, which is equivalent to 2 taels of silver a month.

With this kind of income and the fact that the Liu family controls the grain of the whole island and keeps the cost of living at a low level, even the natives can still live very well.

Coupled with the fooling of Liu Ximing, the efficiency of these natives was several times higher than that of the Spanish rule.

However, Liu Ximing knew that the Han people were the most stable foundation for his rule, so in April, the general's office directly ordered that in the whole territory of Luzon, only Han people were allowed to carry weapons, and the rest, whether they were natives or whites, would be sentenced to three years in prison if they broke the law.

Except for the 120-member samurai team of Nagamune's Yoshikin.

On 10 May, with the sufficient supply of materials, the construction of the section of the city wall of Qianzhou City was basically completed.

The entire original Manila City, Balian City and the Turen gathering area are all surrounded by walls that are three zhang high and two zhang thick, providing tens of thousands of people in the city with an incomparable sense of security.

It was also at this time, after nearly two months of communication cutoff, that the Spanish colonial army in Cebu, Zamboanga and other places finally realized that something was wrong.

On the afternoon of the third day of the fifth lunar month, five Spanish galleons appeared in the field of view of Zheng Minxuan, the commander of the defenders on the island of Watch (Corregido).

In order to better control the sea outside Qianzhou City, the Fubo Division specially applied for a batch of materials from the general's mansion and built a reinforced concrete fortress on Shouwang Island, garrisoning 120 people every day.

Looking at the fleet of ships with the red cross-shaped flag of the Spanish Empire in the field of vision of the telescope, Zheng Minxuan turned around and wanted to light the wolf smoke.

But he had only taken two steps, and his eyes were on his mind.

"Quick, lower the flag, the Spaniard's flag is still there? Hang it up for me. ”

After the establishment of the Luzon General's Office, Liu Ximing considered that international exchanges would inevitably increase greatly, so he specially formulated a translation dictionary of the names of various countries.

The translation is still based on the words known by Liu Ximing in later generations, and these country names were taken by the Chinese literati when they were licking dogs in Europe, and they are relatively prominent in Xinyada.

As for the flattery of these names when the Chinese literati licked the dogs in Europe, Liu Ximing now became a manifestation of his cheerfulness and generosity.

Merchants from various countries in East Asia were already a little dissatisfied with the Ming people calling them red-haired and ghost, but they dared not speak out, but now when they heard the translation name formulated by the Luzon General's Office, they all had a good impression of Luzon.

Qi Jieping, the deputy head of the song, was a little dumbfounded, "Qu chief, what is this going to do?" The General's Mansion has ordered that the flag is not allowed to be lowered at any time except at night. ”

Qi Jieping joined Liu Jiajun for less than a year, unlike Zheng Minxuan, who received two years of military education, and failed to understand Zheng Minxuan's intentions.

Zheng Minxuan knocked on his head with some hatred, "Don't you see that the Spaniards are still far away, they shouldn't know the news that Qianzhou City has changed hands, let's change the flag, and then it will be just a surprise to them." ”

"Hehe, you're still good, I'll arrange it", Qi Jieping grinned, and hurriedly ran into the fortress to call people.

Zheng Minxuan rang the alarm bell hanging on the wall of the fortress, and the sound of dangdang spread throughout the fortress, and dozens of soldiers who were still resting in the fortress quickly ran to the wall.

There are 12 large turrets built on the fortress of Watch Island, all of which are large with 6-inch guns, and if hit, even smaller ships can be overturned.

As the distance closed, the Spaniards on the sea also noticed the change on Watch Island.

The original wooden fortress was gone, and it became a solid stone fortress, but fortunately, the flag hoisted on the fortress was still the flag of the Empire, which relieved the captains of several ships.

However, after decades of colonization, the Spaniards also relaxed their vigilance against the Manila area, and in their opinion, with the protection of spears and cannons, it was impossible for the natives and Han Chinese to influence their rule.

As a result, several ships approached the watchman island almost unsuspectingly, and there was no news from this side for more than a month, and they were eager to ask what was going on.

Seeing that the five fast sailing ships had approached a distance of about three miles from the coastline, Zheng Minxuan, who was wearing a Spanish military hat disguise, finally couldn't help it.

"Fire, aim."

Before the Spaniards, who had gradually relaxed because of their proximity to the shoreline, heard more than a dozen roars from the fortress.

"Boom"

Huge solid cannonballs smashed into waves, sending waves around the five small sailboats.

"Enemy Attack"

The Spaniards on the sea burst into a panicked shout.

"Retreat, retreat, damn it, turn quickly."

The captains of all five ships shouted desperately at their sailors.

"Why are you firing at us, God is above, has Manila been lost?"

The only answer to their questions was the icy artillery of Watch Island.

After three volleys, the defenders on Overwatch Island finally made their mark.

Two huge solid shells pierced the hold directly from the top of the Spaniard's middle sailboat, and the crew of the ship was so frightened that they threw dumplings into the sea.

By the time the Spaniards' fleet escaped from the shooting distance of the watchdog, only three of the five ships had escaped.

Looking at the pitch black wolf smoke rising from the Watchtower, the Spaniards on the two ships, although full of grief and indignation, could only steer the ships towards the open sea.

When the news came back to Cebu, the Spaniards here were taken aback, and after sending a number of people to inquire about the news, the Spaniards in the entire Philippines reluctantly accepted a fact.

The Empire's advance base in Southeast Asia, the most important of the northern island of Luzon, had been completely occupied by a force called the General's Office of the Luzon.

Less than 2,000 Spaniards in Manila survived the fierce battle, and even His Excellency Governor Cocuella was shot by these barbarians, and for a time the Spaniards all over the Philippine Islands were in mourning.