Chapter 498: Burning the Ship

For these Spaniards, of course, they know that there is no free lunch in this world, and the Chinese in the past always paid attention to the style of the kingdom of heaven, and many things were willing to let Westerners take advantage of them.

However, since the appearance of Huazhou, the Chinese have suddenly become shrewd and never suffer a loss. But what Governor Revel said was so astonishing that the more than 2,000 people in the audience were silent when they heard it.

At this moment, even the sound of the waves crashing against the stone wall of the harbor could be heard outside, and the only ones whose expressions remained unchanged were Revere and Phillips, as well as some cronies of two people, and the people below were all dumbfounded, and after a long time, the cronies of the former Captain Alfonso were the first to cry:

"Damn it, you are traitors, the laws of the Kingdom of Spain will not tolerate such rights!"

Listening to the clamor of these people, the soldiers standing on the periphery raised their arquebuses one after another, waiting for the second lieutenant's order, Governor Revel was very calm there, just with a gentle smile, and those who were clamoring shouted loudly, and their families and those close to them were there to cheer.

"To bring everyone here is to let all the members of the colony make a decision, after all, it requires everyone's participation."

Most of these people who came to the Luzon colony from thousands of miles ago have no concern in Spain, or their families have followed here, nostalgic for their homeland, unwilling to leave their homeland, it is not the habit of the Chinese, if the Europeans live well in the country, they will not come to a little insecure colony, because there is not a lot of domestic involvement, so they have no scruples.

The Islamic tribes of Turkey and Luzon are all frightening existences, and everyone has made a lot of money over the years. At this time, I heard Governor Revell say the conditions, these people have been living in Chinese inns for a while, in their hearts, don't say anything about treason, even if they immigrate to Huazhou, it doesn't matter, I heard very early on that Huazhou is very suitable for Westerners to live, the area is relatively cool, and there are European-style villages and towns, so why not immigrate.

After Governor Levere finished speaking, the people who had been silent also expressed their opinions one after another, saying that since the other party provided protection, then why not cooperate with the other party, there is no big loss in this matter, why not abide by it.

The quarrel between the two factions to the left became more and more intense, and soon escalated to shoving, and Governor Revere stood on the makeshift platform, and seemed to have anticipated the situation before him, and the second lieutenant standing in front of the platform gave several orders to the soldiers who were guarding in front.

More than a dozen soldiers stood around the platform, counting as guards, and Alfonso's cronies did not take advantage of the pushing, or even suffered a lot, because the people who supported them were at most a third of all the numbers.

The emotions of these people are getting more and more excited, the small number of people finally can't bear it, and they copy the firearm in their hands, which is suddenly frightened by the civilians to dodge, and actually use the firearm, Ensign Phillips, who has been silent on one side, snorted, and the soldiers in the outer circle raised the firearms in their hands one after another, and the situation immediately became tense.

The people inside didn't expect that they were arrogant here, but the former colleagues were not polite at all, the shooting of this fire gun still depends on who has more people, and there are still more people who obey the orders of Ensign Phillips than them, and suddenly this momentum is much weaker, and the scene fell into an awkward silence for a while.

At this time, Levire stood up, symbolically waved his hand, signaling everyone to calm down, of course, no one paid attention to him, and he didn't care, just said loudly there:

"Everyone is a people of the same race, if you don't want to participate, we won't embarrass everyone, we won't embezzle your property, we will let you leave freely, but there is a requirement, your actions must be carried out collectively, so as not to leak information or other harmful actions, your non-participation is your freedom, but it can't affect the safety of those who stay because of this!"

Now the situation is compelling, looking at far more guns and soldiers than their own, these opposing forces, there is no other opinion to say, anyway, leave by boat, you can also take the money you earn, many people at this time, have already made up their minds, as long as they leave Luzon, they will immediately report this matter to the Spanish navy or other colonies.

Maybe there will be a lot of cheap money because of the denunciation, such as the faction that replaced Levere, etc., since the other party has already given the steps, these people did not insist too much, and after cursing a few words, under the unified order, they lowered the muzzle of the gun, extinguished the fire rope, and walked outside.

Although everyone was shocked, but no one spoke out, after all, the news of this meeting was too shocking, many people wanted to pack up their family property, they all stayed in the original settlement to tidy up, and did not return to live in the inn, there are Chinese militia guards around here, so there is no need to worry too much.

After dark, all of a sudden, in the outer area, the sound of gunfire rang out, and occasionally there were loud shouts or something, and the harassment lasted for nearly half an hour or so, and then it stopped.

Everyone who did not return to the inn hid in fear at home, listening to the noise outside tremblingly, for fear of being suddenly killed by the other party, and was so afraid until dawn. When he got up in the morning, the officials sent by Revere began to go from house to house to inform them that it was safe.

It turned out that at night, the natives sneaked up to the harbor in small boats, and fought fiercely with the colonial guards with their muskets and arrows, and according to the loud shouts, some veterans who had fought in Hungary were very convinced that this was the Turkish language.

In this attack, the Spanish colonists in Luzon also suffered some casualties, and Ensign Phillips's men were killed and wounded more than a dozen of them, and after the meeting, the hundreds of people who had already drawn the line also suffered more than 20 casualties, and most of the casualties appeared in the other side's firearms.

Moreover, the raid of the other side was obviously very successful, and after dawn, the colonial army sent a search team, but found nothing, and did not even find any traces of blood left by the other party.

However, this attack dispelled the suspicions in some people's hearts, and it was still too fantastical to say that the Turks were colluding with the Islamic tribes here, but many people noticed that Governor Revel already had most of the firearms in his hands, so he still agreed first, so as not to cause retaliation.

Who would have thought that this attack would occur at night, if it was Alfonso's cronies who suffered heavy casualties, it could also be said that the governor and the second lieutenant had made up reasons to eradicate dissidents, so that the people below could cooperate with them in some fantastical plans, but among the dead, the governor controlled and the other group of people had not suffered light casualties, anyway, the dead were real, and no one must have joked about this.

Everyone was convinced, and the two groups of people who had a fierce quarrel yesterday were silent, and all places were silently incinerating the bodies there to deal with the aftermath.

In the governor's office, Revere and Phillips looked down at what was happening below, and seeing that the ensign's face was not very good-looking, Revere raised the wine glass in his hand and said with a smile:

"If we don't, we'll be lying there, and there's nothing to be sad about."

Recently, there have been fewer and fewer merchant ships coming to Luzon Port, especially the number of ships coming from the direction of the Indian Ocean has decreased a lot, and the people who have come here are even more apprehensive that near the Indian Ocean, there are a large number of pirate ships with the Crescent flag, looting ships from Europe, which is extremely rampant.

All this proves that the damned 'Turks' have now reached into Asia, and the people who have made the most noise have become depressed, waiting quietly for the merchant ships from the Americas to take them away, while others are glad that they made the right choice.

In November of the 19th year of Jiajing, there was finally a fleet that could transport them out of the port of Luzon, the fleet was a Spanish merchant who went to the Americas to deliver goods, and it is said that the calculation at the time of departure was wrong, and several ships could not be loaded with goods at all, and could only load guests.

There was no farewell ceremony, these people paid what can be said to be a high fare, and they got on the merchant ship one after another, the plan of this fleet was to stay here for another day, and the next day it would set sail, looking at the business of those companions who stayed behind, these people regretted it in their hearts, under the protection of the Chinese People's League, the so-called Turkish harassment was getting weaker and weaker, and it could not cause any harm at all, so what if it was done according to the governor's request at that time? Daming and Spain are so far apart, will there be any negotiations that cannot be reached?

But these words of regret are also unspeakable, the captains and sailors on the fleet are troublesome, and tell them clearly, after getting on the ship today, don't go down and walk around, and the next day will not wait for you.

The night slowly went on, and the inhabitants of each ship fell asleep there, and the captain and sailors of the ship got up one after another, and lightly broke the barrels in the hold, and the oil in the barrels flowed out slowly, and they put down the boat, and after jumping on it silently, one of them took the torch, turned and threw it on.

With a "whew", the sea in the dark night suddenly brightened......