Does Zheng Zhilong still need a reason to play Spain?

As for the fact that the big plate duck raised a butcher's knife against the Chinese several times, it is not unjust to cut down all the big plate duck people in the Asian territory.

This time, the Nanyang Alliance is to boycott the Europeans, so naturally it is necessary to take advantage of the Europeans as a sacrifice.

Nowadays, the Europeans on the border of East Asia have three households when they are full, and it is not cost-effective to fight the Dutch, but the strength of the Dutch is still not weak. There's no need to fight the Portuguese - Portugal has lost all of Malacca, and it's no good to fight it. Then only the big duck is good to slaughter.

Although the Manila galleon trade was strong, one or two galleons laden with gold and silver sailed from the port of Acapulco in the Americas every year and returned to Mexico loaded with Chinese raw silk, silk, porcelain, cloth, and other goods. It usually departs from Mexico in March and reaches Manila in July, which lasts about four months; The return journey takes 6 months.

This trade was in effect the exchange of gold and silver from the Americas for products from Asia, especially China. Galleons carried Asian goods to Mexico, from Acapulco to other places on large wheelers, and some of them were even transshipped to Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina. On the return journey, the galleons brought back Mexican silver dollars, ingots, cocoa, wool and other local products. Because of the low price and high quality of Asian products, Spanish products such as cloth and silk were crowded out in the Americas (the price of Ming silk in Peru was only one-third of the price of Spanish products). In 1593, Philip II, in order to protect the trade of large slabs, decreed that the trade in Manila galleons should not exceed two per year, each with a deadweight of no more than 300 tons.

But that doesn't fundamentally change anything. Unless they don't need Chinese goods anymore, which is simply not possible.

For many years, China's foreign trade has always been in a trade deficit, selling more and buying less, and the imbalance of trade has led to the other side having to pay a huge amount of silver currency. A large amount of silver flowed into China, so that China, a silver-deficient country, completed the monetization of silver during the Ming Dynasty, and Da Ban Ya was definitely one of the advanced workers with outstanding contributions.

Now that Zheng Zhilong is taking Spain, the losses in the short term are definitely more than the losses from the war with Portugal.

But the excuse for beating the big duck is ready-made, Zheng Zhilong already remembered this in his heart, and even faintly regarded the big duck as the initiator of the tragic history of the Chinese Nanyang.

This made him inwardly inclined to kill Spain.

Moreover, the latter occupies the lucid land of the Luzon Islands, which is also an advantage that the Portuguese do not have.

The city of Malacca in their hands had been taken by the Dutch, and except for Macau, the Portuguese colonies in East Asia were only the eastern part of the island of Timor, which was of no value. The Luzon Islands are occupied by the large plate ducks.

Taking here, the Zheng family's overseas kingdom will no longer be a nonsense on paper. Although Zheng Zhilong has always made a picture cake with it.

In addition, in these years of obedient bilateral trade, the Portuguese have unconsciously formed a complex network of interests. The existence of the Catholic Society inside is also closely related to the shepherds of the court, such as John Tong, behind whom stand some officials who believe in God. It will definitely make waves up and down the government and the opposition.

Although Zheng Zhilong was not afraid, he also felt that it was unnecessary.

What's more, after defeating Manila, can he continue to trade with the big plate ducks, or carry out trade with the Americas? Can the big plate duck give up such a cheap and high-quality supply?

Over the years, they have been 'raised' by cheap and high-quality Chinese goods. The Mexicans, then, wore silk more than cotton at the beginning of this century. In the thirties and forties, the situation became more serious, and the local silk weaving industry in Mexico was made from Ming Dynasty silk, while the native silk was basically wiped out. Peru, which is close to Mexico, was also a huge market for Ming Dynasty silk, for the simple reason that the price of Ming Dynasty silk in Peru was only one-third of the price of Spanish products.

Under the bilateral trade in recent years, Chinese silk not only flooded the American market, seized the sales of Spanish silk in the Americas, and even bypassed most of the world and exported to Spain, where it directly destroyed Spanish silk production.

Spain really wants to cut off trade with Zheng Zhilong, the domestic market, and even the American market, but it will be taken advantage of by the British and the Dutch. This kind of harm is greater than making Zheng Zhilong proud, and it is endless.

Not to mention that now that there is a new state, the British have more and more trade needs, which can more or less make up for the loss after the lack of big board ducks.

Not to mention whether there was a tipper in Manila, Zheng Zhilong had already led the warship towards Borneo, that is, Nibo.

Everyone knows that the two small countries of Nibo and Sulu are just beating the drums and shouting 666 waste, which are the five scum of the war that were brought in by Zheng Zhilong to make a strong appearance, purely incidental, in order to look good.

It was Zheng Jun who really fought.

In this way, the place where Zheng Zhilong's warship went was the focus of this battle.

Behind the army were two Western-style armed merchant ships. One with a tricolor flag and the other with a rice flag (a little different from the later ones, there is no red slash, the so-called St. Patrick's Cross).

Zheng Zhilong didn't care. Just let them watch.

He didn't know what was going on now, there was always a sense of urgency in his heart, and he didn't know what the reason was. It's just that I always feel that time is running out.

Zheng Zhilong has thought about the reason for that picture, the latter will still appear in his dreams, the auspicious clouds are getting better and better, and there are more and more, and then there is no difference.

He couldn't figure out where that feeling came from.

But he unconsciously sped up his speed.

You know, this Luzon big plate duck, he was going to do it again in the summer. Because it was just in time to catch the treasure ship of the big duck.

But now, as if he had forgotten his earlier plan, he would do it now.

It's really a bit abrupt.

When Diego Fjardor Chacon received the emergency, he was just like Anthony, unwilling to believe what he saw with his eyes.

They cooperate very well with Zheng Zhilong, every year the Zheng family's cargo ships come to Manila to trade, why does Zheng Zhilong turn his face and deny people?

As a governor who had only been in office for two years, in addition to scolding Zheng Zhilong for being a bastard and being bold and unreasonable, Chakong immediately summoned important people in the city, such as the speaker, such as the bishop, such as the governor of the navy and army, and everyone gathered together to discuss how to face the crisis that had come to him.

The speaker and the bishop who heard the news all looked miserable, and now Manila is in a weak state, and both the navy and the army are at the lowest point since the founding of the city. The Thirty Years' War (the Thirty Years' War) had drained Spain from its own efforts, and it had been draining the blood of its overseas colonies for decades, and Spain's power in Luzon was far less powerful today than it had been at its peak.

Otherwise, the Spaniards would not have been trapped in the north of the Great Circle for twenty years without taking a single step, and would have run away as soon as the Dutch attacked.

But the soldiers still have backbone, and the naval and army commanders can see the pride on each other's faces when they look at each other. Although they didn't know why the other party was so arrogant, the Spaniards just looked down on the natives. The same is true for the Chinese.

The commander of the army, Juan Guillermo Ripeda, immediately proposed that all the Chinese around Manila be taken hostage.

Although many Chinese went there after the emergence of NSW, there were still some Chinese who stayed outside of Manila.

The killings of seven years ago are still fresh in my mind, with more than 20,000 Chinese killed, and the remaining Chinese, who are less than 10,000 people, not only have to pay a poll tax of six yuan each, but also have to convert to God. So when Zheng Jun opened his capital in New China, most of the surviving Chinese in Manila ran away. And it's gone.

But no matter how much the Spaniards lost such an act, and whether the remaining Chinese were rich or poor, they were nothing to mention in the eyes of Juan Guillermo Ripeda.

This is a very short-sighted suggestion, even if it can cope with the past crisis, it will completely lose the trust of the Chinese.

However, Diego Fajardor Chacon thought of the number of soldiers in the royal city of Manila, and finally chose to agree.

The Speaker was silent, and the bishop drew a cross on his chest, showing a touch of 'cat crying mouse' pity.

The determination of the upper echelons soon spread throughout the royal city of Manila, and they were not worried about leaking the news, because non-whites were not allowed in the entire city, except for their servants.

Moreover, there are not many Chinese even servants, most of them are black slaves or brown people in the Americas, and a few are indigenous.

The Chinese were concentrated in the Parian outside the city, which was the Chinese settlement in Manila at that time, and later Chinatown.

Surrounded by a wooden wall, the Parian was home to hundreds of thousands of merchants in its heyday. Food, clothing, housing and transportation, all kinds of work, everything.

But now, the stream is a big cage. The duck had been stretched to no more than sixty paces from the wooden wall, but after the second slaughter, everything changed back to the way it was.

Lin Shaoqing is a native of Quanzhou, in a sense, he and Zheng Zhilong are both fellow countrymen. It is also the Kapitan in the current stream. "Kapitan" is the name given by the Spaniards in Manila to the leader of the Han Chinese on the sea.

Therefore, this Lim Jia Pitan is well aware of Zheng Zhilong's strength, and he is even more aware of the current weakness of the Spaniards in Manila.

One victory and one decline, if the Zheng family plotted against Manila, the Spaniards were powerless to resist.

He obediently got on the Zheng family's boat, because Lin Shaoqing knew that when the situation was in crisis, his own Kapitan was no more loving than a dog in the eyes of the Spaniards.

"Sir, sir. Suddenly the trumpets sounded in the city......"

In less than half a month, Lin Shaoqing has lost a lot of weight. Helplessly, I can't sleep day and night. If he could, he would like to get out of this place first. But the Zheng family has already found him, where else can he hide?

Now, has the time finally come?

"Go and ask Lin Risheng to win them."