The more they talked, the more excited they became, and they felt that they had found a way to make the locals more industrious. At this time, Yang Juncai occasionally turned his head and saw General Manager Zhou's face full of confusion, so he reacted: "Everyone, let's discuss how to legislate to elect members of the House of Commons, and how to change the laziness of the locals." “

Only then did everyone remember what was going on, and they were a little embarrassed for a while. Someone bowed his hand to General Manager Zhou's office and said, "See the smile and laugh." “

General Manager Zhou hurriedly replied: "Where, where." “

At this time, a member of parliament said: "Actually, this matter can also be related to the election of members, and we require that the elected members of the House of Commons must have some rice fields of their own." “

Everyone suddenly felt that it made sense. At this time, another person said: "What's the use of that, they just scatter a few handfuls of rice in the field on weekdays, and don't care at all, just harvest a few to fill their stomachs, where is there more to transport back to the mainland?" “

The councillor who put forward the opinion first said: "Don't be afraid, we can also stipulate how much property the councilor must have, for example, a thousand catties of rice at home, or a certain number of silk clothes at home, or how much silver money at home, isn't that okay?" “

At this time, another councillor said: "We are talking here about how to elect a councillor, but what if the locals are not willing to be this councillor?" This is very reasonable, the locals are too lazy, and there is nothing good to do, but I am afraid that no one will really want to do it.

Yang Juncai said: "I thought about this, as long as we pay the councillor, they will be willing to be this councillor." Because they are lazy, there will be many people who want to get something for nothing. “

After solving the problem that the locals might not be willing to become councillors, everyone began to discuss the election method, because the Zhou General Office had first said that elections should be conducted according to the region and the number of people, so this issue was easy to discuss, and everyone allocated 50 seats according to the administrative division of Luzon. In the end, General Manager Zhou interjected a sentence, that is, all parliamentarians must be able to speak Mandarin.

Thus, the first law of the Luzon House of Lords, the Luzon House of Commons Election Method, finally took shape. Yang Juncai proudly announced that this law will come into effect in Luzon with immediate effect. Then he said: "What laws are going to be enacted in the future, it is better for a few people to write an outline first, otherwise the discussion will be biased to other places." “

The deputies agreed: "Indeed, there must be an outline in the future, otherwise it will be too tiring to discuss like this." “

The law has been enacted, and how it will be promulgated and implemented will be left to the Governor's Palace. Yang Jingchen's Governor's Mansion was running at high speed, and first of all, he found some locals in Manila and nearby who got along well with the Chinese on a daily basis, and under the protection of the soldiers, he went to various places, posted notices, and explained the contents to the locals.

There are many kinds of languages in Luzon, and according to incomplete statistics, there are more than 190 languages. So the notice was in two languages: Chinese and Tagalog. Tagalog is a relatively large number of languages, and it is spoken by about a quarter of Luzon's people in the early days of this era, although there are very few people who can understand Tagalog.

Therefore, it is a difficult task to explain the content of this proclamation to the Luzon people everywhere. Generally, it takes two tongues to understand the general meaning of a sentence.

Sure enough, as the members of the House of Lords thought, when they learned that this member could sit in a meeting and get the money, the enthusiasm of the local people for the election was high. In a district with only one seat, more than a dozen people want to run for this councillor. However, the fact that you can speak Mandarin has shattered many people's dreams, and the farther away from Manila, the fewer people can speak Mandarin.

However, many nimble locals have some bold ideas after repeated inquiries to determine that the election will be held in six months' time. Soon, the Chinese in the vicinity of Manila became a sweet spot, and the locals offered them generous conditions to teach Chinese, and many even lived in Chinese areas and invited Chinese to accompany them. For a while, there is often a non-standard Chinese dialect: "Mud Artemisia, Crab Crab ......"

Inspired by this phenomenon, some members of the House of Lords proposed that only Mandarin should be used as the official language in Luzon in the future, and that Mandarin should be taught to the locals. After it was introduced by the House of Lords, it was unanimously approved, and the second law, "Regulations on the Official Language of Luzon", was issued, which stipulated that all official documents in Luzon must and only use Chinese characters in commercial contracts. When collecting taxes, if the head of the local household can speak Mandarin, the tax will be reduced by 10%.

Although the laws on the collection of taxes have not yet been enacted, the natives certainly know that the collection of taxes is inevitable because the Spaniards also collect taxes. Now I know that there is such a good thing, so that the trend of learning Chinese quickly spread throughout Luzon for a while. The Chinese in Luzon no longer have the energy to do anything else, just teaching Chinese is already much better than before.

Li Dagui reported these situations to Dai Chunfeng, expressing concern about the agricultural situation in Luzon this year. And Dai Chunfeng waved his hand and said: "This is more important, the mainland is not short of this food to save lives now, what is the urgency." He had heard the emperor's lectures in the lecture hall, and knew that the quickest and easiest way to conquer a people was to destroy their language. Now the Luzon people are spontaneously learning Chinese, which is a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, and the food problem is a scum compared to this.

The reason why Luzon people have started a craze to learn Mandarin is of course related to the election of parliamentarians and tax cuts, but it is also closely related to the local language situation. There are so many languages in Luzon that maybe another language is spoken ten miles away, which makes it very inconvenient for everyone to communicate. Moreover, the Tagalog, the most widely spoken language in Luzon, had only recently been written (the first book written in Tagalog appeared in 1594), so the popularity of the Chinese language did not meet with strong resistance from the native languages.

Dai Chunfeng immediately sent someone to report this information directly to the imperial front, Zhu Youxiao was naturally overjoyed, and ordered a large number of students and even children to be summoned in Henan, and they were trained in simple pinyin, and then transported to Luzon as normal students, and opened a large number of Chinese schools in Luzon in one go, which were specially used to teach the locals to speak Chinese and recognize simple Chinese characters. As for why Henan people are used instead of the more recent Fujianese and Cantonese people, it is, of course, because the accent of Henan people is at least understandable to most Chinese.