Chapter 499: What the hell do you do

The fire that burned on the sea in the middle of the night, and it was impossible for the inhabitants of the colony to be left there to hear it, and the cracking sound of the burning wood of the sea fire, and the terrible screams in the fire, all made them frightened, and they did not want to go out to the rescue. However, when they rushed out of the house, they found that the Chinese militia was faithfully carrying out the duty of "protection", holding weapons and not allowing anyone to go out.

The reason they use is very simple: it will be very unsafe to go outside, and it is impossible to let these people move freely for the sake of their lives. Thinking about their lives, looking at the firearms and swords in the hands of the vigilantes, these Spaniards all knew that if they insisted on going to the rescue, they were afraid that their lives would not be considered, and it was difficult to say whether they would be as miserable as those at sea.

There were few survivors of the fire, which was fueled by grease, and before long, the screaming at sea had stopped, and the already terrified residents were driven back to their houses.

The next day, Governor Revel again announced the order to summon, saying that all the members of the colony were to gather at the Governor's Palace, and that the Governor was going to announce a matter, this time only a lowly-ranking private going door to door, but the enthusiasm of every Spaniard still on land was not comparable to yesterday, and they all came to the Governor's Palace early, and did not even dare to speak loudly.

The Chinese militia is stationed not far away, there is a cold look at this side, so that everyone is afraid and panicked, standing on the periphery of the venue is the colony's own soldiers, after the incident last night, the prestige of the second lieutenant Phillips has risen greatly, the soldiers are very obedient, they are towards the crowd, holding the guns in their hands that are already loaded with ammunition, pinning the sword to their waists, and looking coldly at the people in the inner circle.

When Governor Revere walked to the makeshift crown prince, it was not like yesterday when everyone was talking unscrupulously, and he didn't take him seriously at all, as soon as he stood up, the whispered discussion in the audience was suddenly silent, and everyone looked at Revere's eyes with some fear and fear. Revere was clearly enjoying the reaction below, and he smiled and said loudly:

"Everyone must have not slept well last night, the evil Turks attacked our ship, but fortunately, no one was hurt, and they all returned to the shore in time!"

After saying this, the people in the audience and even the soldiers on duty were surprised to grow their mouths, and the quiet venue suddenly became noisy again, and everyone could hear the flames and screams clearly, how could there be any living mouths.

"Don't go to the unforeseen sea, stay among us, we are all compatriots of the same nation, what is yesterday's contradictions, we don't care!"

Levill spoke quite passionately on the stage, although the people below were in broad daylight, they all felt a little creepy, thinking that Governor Revere was crazy, and he couldn't do it during the day, Levere's words were quite brief, and after speaking, he ordered Ensign Phillips in the audience, there were already arranged soldiers to bring a large group of people, these people were also wearing the clothes of the Spanish colonies in Luzon, and they were also genuine whites, but they were not those people last night, And there are a lot more people.

When someone was about to ask, the Chinese People's League over there suddenly raised the flag and began to walk towards this side with neat steps, and the sound of artillery wheels crushing on the road could be heard, and around them, they heard a military order from the second lieutenant, and all the soldiers raised their guns and spears in their hands.

The military and civilian systems in the colonies were separated, and there was not much intersection between soldiers and immigrants, relatively speaking, the cronies under the already dead Captain Alfonso had such and such relationships with the local residents, and the people controlled by Ensign Phillips were mostly bachelors or something.

So there is no psychological burden on the residents of the colony to raise their weapons, and for a while, the entire colonial area has become murderous, and those residents who are surrounded in the middle are suddenly at a loss, not knowing why, and suddenly become like this.

The scene gradually became embarrassing, and I don't know who shouted in my heart:

"Welcome our brothers and sisters, welcome back our loved ones!"

As soon as this sentence was shouted, everyone instantly had a feeling of sudden realization, and then shouted, and the atmosphere in the field became warm for a while, after hearing this sentence, the footsteps of the Chinese People's League stopped, and the Governor Revere standing on the stage made a gesture of pressing down, and the soldiers all withdrew their weapons.

The "returning Spaniards" who came out just now also thanked them one by one with smiles, and they actually spoke pure Spanish. It's just that some people can hear that the Spanish accent is very similar to the Dutch accent, and they are not wrong, among these people who came over, they are all Dutch people living in Washington, and the leader is Jason Hogan. Among the people who came to Luzon, they were all young and strong, and there were no women or children.

As long as it is admitted, then there is no objection, and under the arrangement of Governor Levere and Ensign Phillips, these people have their own dwellings, which are the houses of those who died in the fire last night.

The efficiency of the Doge's Palace suddenly became very high, and on the second and third days suddenly a register of people from the colonies began, saying that many poor people from Spain and people from the American colonies had come to Luzon for one reason or another.

The arrival of these people caused great inconvenience to the administration of Luzon, so it was necessary to start a census, and the counted population had to become subjects under the Governor of Luzon, and bear the responsibility and obligation of paying taxes and military service, and it did not take too long for Jason Hogan's more than 1,000 young men to become the legal population of Spain, and the names of the men who died in this census were all topped by people, and even the names of some women and children were impersonated by these later people, The results of this census were solemnly handed over to the merchant ships of the country by the Governor's Office of Luzon, and they were asked to bring them back to China and hand them over to the relevant departments for record.

The next thing is even more incomprehensible, in the port of Manila, where merchant ships are berthed, suddenly five Spanish ships docked in, so that the Spaniards in the territory are quite happy, thinking that the mother country has sent a support fleet, but these soldiers and civilians in the colony have a certain understanding of sea ships, and they are a little puzzled when they see the hull, because these big ships in the port are indeed the style of Spanish ships, but they are too new, you know, whether it is from Europe or from the Americas, It's all a long way to go, and the hull and sails can't be so new.

But what happened next also proved this, those "New Spanish compatriots" who appeared inexplicably quickly took over these five ships, and they were very skilled in operation, and some people were wondering if this was a military sent by Spain itself, and they were carrying out some secret mission.

Moreover, there are more or less rumors about the ships of Luzon in the past, saying that a fleet of more than 3,000 men in the Kingdom of Spain has set out and is ready to start an expedition to the East.

The speculation of the residents who did not leave also spread to the governor's palace, and the news was immediately passed on to the local Chinese chamber of commerce and militia groups.

Time passed quickly, the spring of Jiajing 20 years soon came, inexplicably, in the Ming Dynasty in Fujian and Guangdong, began to spread a news, saying that the army of the Lang Ji country was preparing to attack the Ming coast, in the early Jiajing period and Zhengde years, the Spanish and Portuguese warships did intrude on the coast of Guangdong, and even entered the Pearl River estuary, but were beaten back by the Ming army, and did not take any advantage.

But with the forbidden sea of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty's sailors and coastal defense have become weaker and weaker, there is no strength to resist at all, ten years ago the local illegal businessmen colluded with the Japanese are the seaside intrusion of the chickens and dogs, the people are not happy, although in recent years, the sea is very peaceful, but such rumors still make people shudder, thinking that this is the peace silver that has been earned for a few years, how can it be chaotic again.

And this source is quite reliable, it is still in Macau, Macau is a Portuguese lease, where the main managers are the officials of the Ming Dynasty, Portuguese merchants and soldiers, have a small autonomy, when Portugal used deception to settle down there, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to go to war, these people would have been driven to the sea, the reason why the Portuguese here did not move, is also to leave a channel of communication with the outside world.

It was said that the news that the Franc machine (Spain) was coming to attack the coast, but it came out in Macao, and after the Jinyi Wei Yamen in Guangdong found out, they were naturally quite nervous, and according to the usual practice, they arranged for people to disguise themselves as businessmen and go to the port of Luzon to investigate, and the results of the investigation were even more nervous, because there was indeed a Western fleet in the port of Manila, and there were quite a few of them......