Chapter 496: Coercion and Inducement Proceed

Phillips, a Spanish lieutenant from Luzon, already felt that he was at the end of his rope, and the sheriff of Huazhou acted like an angry lion at this time, and he had no way to respond and explain such a powerful oppression. The ensign racked his brains and thought of several reasons.

The angry Luo Yi did not accept it at all, but put forward more and more harsh conditions, Luo Yi just bit the other party and allowed the spread of this powerful weapon, which caused extremely bad consequences in the territory of Huazhou, during the period, the second lieutenant also used a very humble tone to explain, saying that the weapon sank to the bottom of the sea, this difference appeared like this, he didn't expect it, but Luo Yi said directly, who knows if you fished it out of the water.

An hour later, the young ensign was already feeling hopeless, and in the course of the conversation, it could be seen that war was inevitable, and that the strength of more than 2,000 people in Luzon could not compete with Huazhou in any way, and even Huazhou did not need to intervene, and the local militia and the fleet stationed in Manila's South Harbor could destroy them.

And even if you can save your life as an emissary, but when you return to Manila, I am afraid that the rigid Captain Alfonso, the commander of the colonial army, will send himself to a military court, tried on the spot, and then hanged, which is inevitable.

The second lieutenant thought about the nearly a few thousand taels of silver and more than a hundred taels of gold he had earned in Manila, which was enough for him to return to Spain to live the life of a rich man, but now it was all about to disappear, and Ensign Phillips had even forgotten to answer Luo Yi's questioning, and fell into a short period of distraction and confusion.

Luo Yi and the interpreter over there exchanged glances, Luo Yi's words became pleasant again, and he said with a smile:

"Mr. Ensign has also made a lot of money in Luzon in the past few years, about six thousand taels of silver?"

Ensign Phillips was no longer surprised, and when he talked about the present, even if Luo Yi said that he had a relationship with several indigenous women, and knew the indigenous names of those women, it was a normal thing, and the Spanish colony of Luzon was like a sieve in the eyes of the other party, full of huge holes, and there was nothing that outsiders could not see.

Six thousand taels is almost all his current property, this number in the translation and relay, or let him a spirit, the second lieutenant's brain at this time quickly activated, if it is not for the sake of making a fortune, who would come to a place thousands of miles away from the mother country, when he was in Spain, he was just the second son of a small rural landlord, to put it bluntly, it is the type that may not have food when he grows up, after joining the army in Luzon, this is what changed his life, This kind of silver can be enjoyed for the rest of your life after returning to China.

Loyalty to the country, spreading the prestige of the Kingdom of Spain, spreading the glory of God, jokes, that was the work of generals and nobles, even these people who carried such banners to make themselves astonishing riches.

At this time, Second Lieutenant Phillips had already quickly made up his mind that after leaving Huazhou, he would not fight to the death in Luzon or anything, and after he returned, he would make up an optimistic outcome of the talks and negotiations, and then take the silver and board the merchant ship, whether it was to the Americas or to return to China.

"Do you want to earn 10,000 taels of silver and be promoted to the military commander of the Luzon colony?"

This sentence hit the final blow in time when the ensign's psychological defense line was about to collapse, and the temptation of wealth and position suddenly made the ensign collapse, not to mention what military commander, for this ten thousand taels of silver, he can betray anything, the Europeans of this era, especially the colonists in the colonies, everything is money first.

Luzon is in October every year, which is the best season here, and when Phillips disembarked in the harbor, the expression on his face did not show anything wrong at all, and he said with confidence to everyone who came to ask him:

"This negotiation was very successful, and I brought peace to everyone!"

He was then taken into the office of Governor Revere, and the two men talked for a long time, and two hours later Lieutenant Alfonso, a forty-two-year-old old-fashioned army officer, was the kind of man who said the words 'His Majesty' every day. Of course, when making money, he was not soft, but he insisted on a certain principle.

When Alfonso, the commander of the Luzon army, arrived at the governor's office, the servants around him had already been dismissed.

"Ridiculous! Ridiculous! We can't take such an adventure, and if we do this, the ships of our Kingdom of Spain won't even be able to pass through these seas! ”

The present situation was that the routes between the Americas and Europe, in the Atlantic, the activities of fleets and pirates hostile to Spain were becoming more and more rampant, and merchant ships were often emptied, so that the Pacific routes, that is, the routes through the seas of Southeast Asia, became more and more important.

Moreover, the merchants found that if they exchanged the goods of the Americas for silk and other goods in Asia, and then trafficked them back to Europe, the profits they would get even exceeded the profits of simply transporting special products from the Americas to Europe, and now Spain was trying to maintain its hegemony in Europe on the one hand, and on the other hand, it had to lead the resistance of the countries of the same faction as him, and the greatest threat in Europe, the attack of Turkey.

All this requires a lot of money to support, so to maintain Luzon's presence in Asia, at least to give Spanish merchant ships a port and protectorate, if Luzon is lost, the colony's financial support for the kingdom will be cut off.

Captain Alfonso's beautiful beard was upturned, his whole face was distorted, and he looked at the two people in front of him with red eyes, Governor Revere looked as usual, but Ensign Phillips bowed his head a little with a little cringe, and the captain roared loudly there:

"As the military commander of the colony, I have the right to put an end to your absurd acts, and do not forget that I have the right to dismiss you from your duties in the most urgent state of affairs, and to put you as a prisoner on the ships returning home, Your Excellency the Governor!"

"Dear Alfonso, there is no need to be so excited, how much money we have earned in Luzon, your savings should be more than 20,000 silver coins, and how many tax-evading ships you have covered, we all know in our hearts!"

Although he was poked in the shortcoming, Alfonso's momentum was not a little shorter, and he still shouted in a loud voice:

"Don't think that you can blackmail me with this, these are two different things, and I must be responsible to the king."

He glanced down at Ensign Phillips, who had not spoken all along, and scolded angrily there:

"You traitorous bastard, come back to the barracks with me, I'm going to send you to the gallows!"

Governor Revell seemed to have given up arguing with him, and there he shook his head indifferently, spread his hands, and just said a nonchalant word:

"I am not grateful to the King for his glorious exile of me, thank you, Alfonso, I am a little tired!"

The two officers, one after the other, walked out of the office, Phillips turned and nodded at Revere before going out, the servants and clerks in the vicinity were all sent off into the distance, Captain Alfonso kept cursing from his mouth, and Ensign Phillips followed with his head bowed behind him.

The temperature in Luzon in October is not inferior to the summer in Spain, and the clothes of the people are very thin, and the colonial soldiers are wearing military uniforms made of fine cotton, which is also after the colony has made a fortune, and can get some enjoyment for themselves.

Alfonso was wearing a single military uniform, which was breathable and sweat-absorbing, and he was thinking about whether he would mobilize the army and arrest Governor Revere immediately after returning to the barracks, well, but before that, the damned Phillips would be tried for dereliction of duty and treason.

Suddenly, Captain Alfonso, who was walking in front, felt a tingling pain in his waist, and the sharp weapon pierced extremely deep, piercing his kidneys, and the instant secretion of adrenaline, the great pain that made him unable to shout a word even though he opened his mouth.

The captain turned his head with all his strength, and the last sight he saw was Phillips' hideous expression. The second lieutenant held in his hand a pointed arrow, which was often used by the local natives as a weapon, and quenched poison on it, and as long as blood was seen, the poison was still very powerful. When Alfonso fell, his face was already iron-blue.

More than 2,000 members of the entire colony, at lunchtime, got a shocking news, the army commander Captain Alfonso was shot dead by the natives who sneaked up, whether it was the Chinese or the Spaniards, the abusers of the local aborigines and sold them to Nanyang as slaves in recent years are a lot of income, such behavior, naturally let the two sides have a blood feud, the Chinese around Manila have a population of nearly 100,000, and the style of work has become extremely strong after getting the support of Huazhou, If the aborigines offend or hurt the Chinese, the militia will immediately retaliate tenfold and hundredfold.

As for the Spaniards, they didn't dare to do anything, and only after the other party was left alone, they would think about revenge, but they killed people near the Doge's Palace, and they did it to Captain Alfonso, and they really didn't know whether they were dead or alive.

Revere, the governor of Luzon, immediately announced that all the colonists had been summoned to a general meeting, and at this time, the command of the colonial army had already fallen into the hands of Second Lieutenant Phillips......