At the end of October of the twentieth year of Chongzhen, the news about Annam reached the Manila side of Luzon. All of a sudden, the occupation of Annan by the Ming army and the matter of taking Annan under its direct jurisdiction became a topic of discussion for most people.

For the local Ming people, they were all very excited.

"I didn't expect that the emperor would personally drive to such a far place and clean up those Annan monkeys!"

"Well cleaned up, you don't know, in the past, they were not friendly to us Mingren. When I came to Luzon, I didn't dare to approach the coast of Annam! ”

“……”

In addition to clapping their hands, some people were also surprised by the situation in Daming.

"When I left home when I was young, when the Ming Dynasty was in chaos. You don't know that the Jianyu of Liaodong entered the Guannei, and it is said that even Jinan Mansion was captured by them. It was a miserable one, most of the people in the city were slaughtered, and then a fire was burned, and the rest were plundered to Liaodong. ”

"But no, in addition to Liaodong Jianyu, there are rebellions everywhere. Fengyang's imperial tombs, haven't they all been excavated by the eight kings! At that time, I thought that there would soon be a change of dynasty! ”

"Yes, at that time, the people were not happy, there were thieves everywhere, there were starvation everywhere, and the emperor had issued two edicts in a row, so I felt that the court was no longer good, so I escaped and came to Luzon to eat."

"Me too, it's really messy in the country, it's better to come out!"

"However, looking at the current situation, the turmoil in the country should be calmed down, right? Otherwise, how could the emperor have personally driven to the south? ”

"Yes, if the north is undecided and the thieves are endless, it shouldn't be possible for the emperor to go south, right?"

"I always feel a little impossible, how many years have passed, and I can calm the disaster of Liaodong Jianyu and the rebellion of thieves? Won't it ...... Could it be that the emperor moved the capital to the south, regardless of the erosion in the north, so he wanted to consolidate the situation in the south, right? ”

“……”

Being in Luzon, the news about the country is not timely after all, and these Ming people in Luzon opened their brains and speculated about the domestic situation.

However, no matter how they speculated, few people felt that the situation at home should be better and they could return to China. On the whole, only some old people have this kind of thought, wanting to return to their roots. However, now they are limited to discussions.

Of course, they can't be blamed for this. After all, they have been in Luzon for so many years, relying on traditional virtues, hard work and prosperity, they all have families and businesses, and it is impossible to just leave.

When they speculated about the situation in the country, the local natives were not so happy.

"What, the Ming Kingdom occupied Annan? It can't be! ”

"What's impossible, the news is already spreading. You don't know, the Ming army killed a river of blood on the side of Annam, and it is said that the corpses of the Annamite people even blocked the river. ”

"It's so ferocious, will they take other places, such as us, will they kill us too!"

"Don't talk nonsense, how did I hear that the people of Annam have been allocated the fields!"

"How is it possible, look at when those old men will think about the common people of Pingtou and give them a share of the land, so why are they working so hard to beat Annan?"

"Oh, it looks like I heard me wrong!"

“……”

On Annan's side, those who have the ability to escape and spread the news by the way are generally the landlords of Annan. As for ordinary people, when they heard about the policies of the Ming Dynasty, how could they flee out. And in terms of their strength, they can't escape!

Therefore, most of the news that came out was unfavorable to Daming and smeared Daming.

Although different people will hear different news. If you are a little more powerful, you will hear more news. But for Daming's side, it is not necessarily friendly. For example, the Spanish colonizers, the largest power in Luzon, were more worried about the more information they heard from the outside.

"The Ming army occupied Annam and slaughtered all the Dutch. I heard that the Portuguese continued to hug Mingguo's thigh, but it was fine. ”

"It's not just those in Annan, didn't there be news before that the Dutch in Taiwan were also exterminated by the Ming State Sailors!"

"These are all our Spanish rebellions, it's better that they're all dead!"

"You can't say that, with them in front of Ming Guo in contact, at least we don't have to worry about what Ming Guo has plans. Now that they have all been wiped out, and the power of the Ming Kingdom has been extended, what if there is a plot against us in Luzon? ”

"Haha, how could the Ming Kingdom send troops to our Luzon Island, you forgot, the first few times we killed those Ming people, the Ming Kingdom did not send troops on the other side!"

"Hey, yes, when you say that, it's true!"

“……”

The Spaniards were referring to the three massacres of the Ming on the island of Luzon.

The first time was in the thirtieth year of Wanli, when the Wanli Emperor was fighting the three major levies, and he had no money, so he listened to the words of Yan Yinglong and Zhang Wei, the envoys of the mining tax, and sent Zhang Wei, King Shihe of Haicheng County, and Baihu Gan Yicheng to Luzon Jiyi Mountain to prospect for mines. But at that time, in fact, Luzon was no longer a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, but was occupied by the Spaniards.

Those Spaniards suspected that the Ming would capture Luzon, and they suspected that the Ming people in Luzon would become the internal response, so they started to slaughter.

In the beginning, they were very cautious. Fearing that the massacre would fail, he deceived the Ming people that they were going to attack the neighboring countries and buy iron weapons at a high price. As a result, the Ming people in Luzon were greedy for profit, so their families were defenseless. Then the Spanish governor ordered that all the names of the Ming people should be recorded, and that they should assemble them in a courtyard for every 300 people, and after these things were done, they would all be slaughtered, which was very easy. In this first massacre, they killed about 25,000 people.

Later, the Spanish colonists deceived the Ming court and said that it was the Ming people who wanted to rebel, and they were forced to kill those Ming people.

In December of the 32nd year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli issued an edict: the Luzon chieftain killed the merchants and people, and the official discussed the crime. Governor Xu Xueju and others moved to Luzon, charged them with unauthorized killing, and ordered the wife of the deceased to return.

Seeing that the Ming court only had this attitude, these Spanish colonists were relieved, and they no longer paid attention to the officials of the Ming Dynasty at all. And the Ming officials were just perfunctory, ignoring it, and the matter ended like this.

Six years later, the Ming merchants who had regathered in Luzon to make a living could not bear the heavy taxes of the Spanish colonists, so they protested against the excessive taxes and demanded relief, but the Spanish colonists this time they were very simple, directly killing all those Ming people and robbing them of their Caicos. In this second massacre, more than 20,000 Ming people were killed.

Regarding this massacre, Emperor Wanli believed that the merchants who had lived in Luzon for a long time no longer belonged to the people of the Ming Dynasty. Whose responsibility is for overseas disputes has not yet been clarified, and more importantly, the businessmen are the cheapest among the four peoples, so how can they wage war for the sake of the untouchables?

Of course, this also has something to do with the national conditions at that time, and Emperor Wanli didn't have so much energy to send troops to Nanyang at all. Coupled with the subjectivity, this matter ends again.

When Chongzhen was 12 years old, the Spanish colonists forced the Ming people to pay high ID card taxes and taxes, and they wanted to squeeze out the hard-earned money of the Ming people, but of course the Ming people were unwilling, so they began to resist collecting such a heavy tax, but this time it was very simple, and the Spanish colonists directly slaughtered the Ming people and robbed them of their wealth.

At this time, it was the time when Emperor Chongzhen crossed over, when Dolgon led an army of 200,000 to wreak havoc in the pass, and the southernmost point had even reached Jinan Mansion. Even Jiangnan is panicked. Many people fled the South Seas.

Coupled with the reaction of the previous two imperial courts, everyone did not have hope for the imperial court, thinking that the imperial court would uphold justice, so this matter was gone at all.

With such three massacres experience, the Spanish colonists in Luzon can be said to have no scruples about killing the Ming people, just like raising pigs, when they are almost raised, they kill and eat; After eating, preferential policies were issued to attract Ming people to go to Luzon again.

Now, after hearing about the situation on Annam's side, the Spanish colonists were a little worried, and suggested to their governor Diego that in order to prevent the Ming people from becoming the internal response of the Ming army, they might endanger Luzon and kill them as soon as possible to prevent the future trouble.

Hearing this, Diego did not hesitate, and immediately followed the example of his former governor, and launched another massacre against the Ming people in Luzon.

In the original history, there was a fourth massacre of the Ming people in Luzon, but it was not until the sixteenth year of Yongli. At that time, the Spanish colonists were also worried that the Luzon Ming people would become the internal response of the Ming army, so they killed them directly. Because of the civil unrest, hundreds of thousands of people who fled to Luzon were killed.

Zheng Chenggong was furious when he heard this, and immediately reorganized his troops for battle, but just before he set off, he did not expect to be seriously ill and die young. His successors, on the other hand, began to fight for power and profit. As a result, the matter of conquering the Luzon Spaniards and avenging the Ming people was over.

But on this plane, when the news of the massacre on Luzon Island spread again, after arriving in Annam, Lu Xiangsheng was furious, and immediately played Emperor Chongzhen while starting to reorganize the army.

Those who commit crimes will be punished even if they are far away! The Xiyi on Luzon Island is so rampant that they dare to slaughter the Ming people so blatantly, how can they be spared!

In addition, the previous three massacres of the Ming people also came out, and Lu Xiangsheng was even more furious and directly issued a killing order. The West on Luzon Island does not leave a single one.

Of course, foreign wars must obtain the will of Emperor Chongzhen, which is the duty of the ministers. Therefore, while preparing for the war, Lu Xiangsheng anxiously waited for news from the Beijing Division.

This unexpected news, in fact, did not need to be delivered by Lu Xiangsheng's recital, and Emperor Chongzhen already knew it through the eavesdropping system the moment Lu Xiangsheng knew about it.