In the face of Zhiyuan's request, Fernando especially wanted to go to war directly, and the Qing Empire, which had been huddled in the Asian continent, was really deceitful this time. Fernando has no opinion on improving the treatment of Chinese, after all, the motherland is strong, and it is not appropriate to bully others. Moreover, the Spaniards do not want to do this kind of dirty work in the open, and it is better to stir up trouble among the natives in private. But asking Spain to give up the island of Hele that it had swallowed in its mouth, and to stop the invasion of Sulu, is absolutely unacceptable to Fernando.

Sulu's territory is not particularly large, its location on the international shipping lanes is not particularly important, and the local* is not too easy to mess with, which is a relatively poor place for the Spanish colonists. But if the North Manchurian forces invade the South Seas, the location of Sulu will be important, because the Sulu Islands are just southwest of the Philippines. If the Sulu archipelago becomes the sphere of influence of North Manchuria, it is equivalent to having a nail in the back of North Manchuria, and it is a big nail. North Manchuria can not only form a north-south flank attack on the Philippines, but also has its own logistics base under the nose of the Philippines, and can calmly arrange troops. At present, North Manchuria and the Philippines are still far away from each other, and Fernando still has a local advantage, but if North Manchukuo occupies Sulu and uses Sulu as a springboard to attack the Philippines in the future, Fernando will be blind. Fernando and Zhiyuan grinded for three days, but there was no result, because Zhiyuan bit Sulu is a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and refused to back down from anything.

As soon as Fernando wanted to take some tough measures, Zhiyuan instructed Bolton to do it first. On the night of the third day of the Bohai Fleet's march into Manila Harbor, a battalion of marines infiltrated the high ground where the Manila battery was located, established a position behind the battery, and began to confront the defenders of the battery. It is hard for Fernando to imagine how the North Manchurian marines sneaked up, but behind the fortress surrounded by the sea on three sides, a Manchurian army of five or six hundred men appeared overnight, and even small field guns for infantry were brought up.

Because the process of establishing the North Manchurian Navy was a bit tortuous, and the foundation was basically laid down by the inland river faction, there was a strange situation, most of the lower-level officers and soldiers of the navy and the marines were from the mountains in the north. Most of these soldiers from the mountainous areas of the Greater and Lesser Khing'an Mountains and the Heilongjiang River Valley were hunters from the Daur, Oroqen, Manchurian, Han and other ethnic groups, and they maintained the fierceness of the banner people in the early Qing Dynasty. They grow up between the white mountains and black waters, live by fishing and hunting every day, and live with fierce beasts all year round, and the hardships of life have exercised their extraordinary abilities. These natural hunters, who climb mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground, are as strong as bears, and are almost a group of natural special forces. The cliffs of the coast, which Fernando regarded as a defensive barrier, were a small hillside in their eyes. So when the order was given, the hunters showed off their climbing skills, climbed the cliff overnight, and brought small artillery such as mortars and 92 rifles.

The Manchurian Army's actions were very unfriendly, it was purely an act of war, but they hadn't fired the first shot, so the capital of the Philippines was still peaceful, but the atmosphere of sabre-rattling was felt by everyone. Fernando was tempted to give the order to open fire and fight the Manchurians, but he had to restrain himself because he had no hope of winning. With the relationship between the American Civil War and the spread of the British, the Manchurian armours are now known to the whole world, and the Spanish army, which is still using front-loading rifled guns and smoothbore guns, will definitely not be able to defeat the well-equipped Manchurian army.

In addition, Fernando's strength is also very problematic, the Philippines claims to have 50,000 soldiers, but it is scattered throughout the Philippines, and the defenders of Manila are only 5,000. And there is a lot of water in the account of these 50,000 people, among whom the natives still carry spears, the vast majority, and the Spanish soldiers who actually use modern weapons are less than 3,000. The North Manchurian Marines showed their cards, and their total strength was a brigade, with more than 7,000 regular troops. Even if the Spanish warriors were brave and good at fighting, and could use their war experience to offset the Manchurian army's weapon superiority, it would only be possible for a Spanish soldier to offset a Manchurian soldier. The remaining 4,000 troops slaughtered the entire Philippines, which is a matter of time.

On the naval side, the warships of the entire Philippines, that is, the seven cruisers that greeted the Manchurian Bohai Fleet, and the two battleships in the south. Moreover, because of the financial investment, these nine warships are all wooden-hulled sail warships, and they are all more than 20 years old. In the face of the cutting-edge steam ironclad ships of the North Manchurian Navy, there is no chance of winning at all, not to mention that they still have a numerical advantage. Half of the Bohai Fleet can destroy the Philippine Navy, and the remaining half can calmly dismantle Manila with naval guns.

Fernando gave up his intention to fight by force and began to grind his teeth with Zhiyuan. There was still no progress in the negotiations, and Zhiyuan's patience became worse and worse, and the marines began to land in a steady stream, as if to prove to Fernando that he had an army of 7,000. Fernando's choice of grinding his teeth was not because he had given up resistance, but because he had delayed his army, and he had already sent a telegram to Madrid asking for domestic support. Although the arrival of reinforcements may not win the battle, it can at least calm the enthusiastic Manchurians and allow Spain to achieve a better result at the negotiating table.

Unfortunately, Fernando did not wait for the good news, and the situation in Spain was worse than that of the Philippines. The current Queen Isabella II of Spain won the throne after a painstaking seven-year war, and her ruling foundation is somewhat loose. During the period of his pro-government, it was also the wave of the French Revolution that was pouring into Spain, and the liberal opposition in Spain was growing day by day. From 1843 to the present, Spain's court intrigues and coup d'état revolutions have emerged one after another, and King Isabella II has had to rely on frequent changes of government to cope, and in more than 20 years, Spain has changed 34 governments, promulgated 7 constitutions, and 15 riots. Isabella II herself lived a life of absurdity and decadence, sometimes intervening in domestic politics in wayward and irrational ways. Therefore, when Spain basically did not stop, it was through the British consul that Goxinga and Pi Runmin learned about the internal turmoil in Spain, and dared to order Zhiyuan to take a tough attitude towards Fernando.

I can't stand it, and there is no air control in China, even if Fernando has foresight, he can only look at the present. After all, if Sulu is given to North Manchuria, it will be a few years or even more than ten years before it causes trouble, and if it is not given, it will start a fight now, and Spain may not even be able to hold the Philippines. After many twists and turns at the negotiation table, Fernando finally agreed to cede Sulu, but North Manchuria, for a period of ten years, needed to purchase 2 million taels worth of minerals and agricultural products from the Philippines every year, which was the only way Fernando could save the face of the Spanish kingdom. However, Fernando still miscalculated, and North Manchuria, which is developing rapidly, needs a large number of raw materials, including rubber and other resources, which must be purchased from Nanyang countries. Even if Fernando didn't ask for anything, North Manchurian would still come to them to buy things.

Fernando obediently signed the treaty, and Zhiyuan and Botun had no intention of traveling in the Philippines, so they took the fleet and went to the next stop, Sulu. Sulu was nominally a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, but nine out of ten people in the Qing Dynasty did not know where Sulu was, except for the Chinese who went to Nanyang, and not a single official of the imperial court had ever been to Sulu. Zhiyuan can be said to be the first envoy of the Celestial Empire to visit Sulu since the founding of the Qing Dynasty. However, Zhiyuan did not enjoy the welcome ceremony he deserved, because since the Sultan of Sulu's Hele Island was occupied by Spain more than ten years ago, His Royal Highness the Sultan has been gnawing bananas, and he has long lost the prestige of the previous feudal kingdom.

It was almost as if he sent troops to sneak His Royal Highness the Sultan in front of him, and Zhiyuan was able to find Sulu's family. When he heard that the Spaniards were gone and that the Qing people were coming again, His Highness the Sultan was particularly excited, because his good days had come again. From the perspective of Sulu's independence, both the Spaniards and the Chinese have to be considered invaders, but the Chinese's aggression methods are much better than those of the Spaniards. In the past, the Chinese also served as the suzerainty of Sulu, but the Chinese asked very little, never interfered in the internal affairs of Sulu, and went to pay tribute regularly, even if they did not go occasionally, the Chinese were not in a hurry. And it is a good thing to pay tribute to the Chinese, send some souvenirs over, kowtow two heads, and His Majesty the Great Emperor will reward back a lot of real money and silver. It's like the Spaniards, the swords, guns, swords and halberds are all pointed at the face, and they have to take care of everything, and there is no reward at all, and they still see what they rob.

However, after talking to Zhiyuan, His Royal Highness the Sultan was a little unpleasant, because the Chinese had also become bad. This time, Zhiyuan no longer only asked for tribute, he also made a basket of demands, just like the Spaniards. And there are two points that are more excessive than the original Spaniards, Zhiyuan demanded the construction of two military ports and troops in Sulu, and also demanded that Sulu have zero tariffs on goods to and from North Manchuria. However, after several consultations, the Sultan still signed a treaty with Zhiyuan, and felt that it was better for the Chinese.

The reason why His Royal Highness the Sultan was even more happy than the Spaniards was because Zhiyuan's treaty was unfair to Sulu, but it was especially fair to the Sultan. As soon as the treaty was signed, Sulu became a colony of North Manchuria, and the Chinese enjoyed extraterritoriality, zero tariffs and other benefits, and North Manchuria could also garrison troops in Sulu, and the cost of the garrison would have to be borne by Sulu, and the people of Sulu suffered a big loss, but the Sultan earned. The treaty stipulates that North Manchuria recognizes the Sultan as the sole legitimate ruler of Sulu and is obliged to maintain the Sultan's rule over Sulu, and every year it will take half of the Manchurian trade duties on Sulu and give it to the Sultan for his personal enjoyment. Even the most bullying garrison has become a force guarantee for North Manchuria's support of Sudan's rule, and the garrison will also assist the Sultan in training his army and developing the Sultan's own armed forces. Of course, because of Guoxing's consistent picking, the equipment of the Sulu army had to be purchased from North Manchuria, not from military factories, but from the tatters recovered by North Manchu from the Hunan army and the Huai army.

The treaty was bullying, but both sides were satisfied, and when Zhiyuan left Sulu, the Sultan held a grand farewell ceremony on Hole Island. Zhiyuan perfectly opened up the first colony of the Chinese or the yellow race, and Mei Zizi was ready to go to the Lanfang Republic with Bolton to find trouble with the Dutch. But as soon as they entered the deep sea, they ran into trouble, probably God wronged the people of Sulu, so he gave Zhiyuan, who squeezed the anointment of the people of Sulu, a violent storm.