The army against Canton set out three days later, and Fang stayed in Quanzhou Harbor to meet with Poole, an envoy sent by Pahlavi, the Spanish governor of Luzon, along with Fang Yuan's old friend, the Dutch Cohen.

Fang Yuan's purpose in conquering Luzon was of course to recover the territory of the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but in essence, he still coveted the fertile land and rich mineral resources on Luzon Island.

All foreign wars are aimed at plundering resources, and if there is no large amount of undersea oil and natural gas around the Diaoyu Islands, China and Japan will have enough to eat and support and will be fighting for 20 to 30 years. In other places without strategic interests, such as the barren land of Guangxi Tusi, it is impossible for Fang Yuan to spend too much manpower and material resources to fight for it.

In the eyes of the Ming people, Luzon is actually Little Luzon, the most prosperous Luzon Island in the north. Luzon, as well as several surrounding islands, is fertile and rich in gold, iron, and copper, and the Spaniards also ship hundreds of thousands of gold from Luzon every year.

As for iron ore and copper ore, they are important resources that Fang Yuan urgently needs to build armaments.

After the conquest of Guangdong and Zuo Liangyu, almost all of those small warlords were cleaned out, and Fang Yuan faced some imperial courts with 300,000 troops, and Li Zicheng, a big warlord with more than 400,000 troops.

This kind of war of the Three Kingdoms affects the whole body, and it is not that whether it is attacking the imperial court or Li Zicheng, he may face an attack from the other side. The previous battle against Fujian had shown that the current 100,000 mobile troops of the Xuanjia Army were still insufficient, at least not enough to cope with a two-front war. To cope with a two-front battle, it is necessary to have at least 200,000 mobile troops.

The reason why Fang Yuan was unable to expand his army on a large scale now was because of the great shortage of resources such as muskets, artillery, and war horses.

War horses can only be purchased from the north, and the casting of muskets, artillery and other equipment requires a large amount of iron, copper and other mineral resources. Nanzhili itself does not produce copper and iron mineral resources, and can only be purchased from other regions. And these important mineral resources, the amount of mining in the Ming Dynasty is not large, and as the situation in the world gradually becomes clear, whether it is the imperial court in the north or Li Zicheng in the southwest and other hostile forces, it is impossible for the other party to sell a large number of them, and even cut off the trade of these minerals.

The lack of armament resources also limited Fang Yuan's current Xuanjia Army to 100,000 mobile troops and 30,000 to 40,000 permanent troops.

Facing a strong enemy with hundreds of thousands of troops in the Ming Dynasty, Fang Yuan could only divert his gaze and stare at the mineral resources beyond the sea frontier. As long as we can seize the gold, silver, iron, copper, and other mineral resources of Luzon Island, we will be able to completely shake off the situation in which minerals are controlled by others, vigorously develop the military industry, expand armaments and warfare, and launch a war to unify the world.

Therefore, in this dispute over the ownership of Luzon Island, Fang Yuan was determined to win, and there was no room for any commercial rights. If the Netherlands and Spaniards were unwilling to return them, Fang Yuan would inevitably launch a war to take them. Snatching resources from thousands of Dutch and Spanish troops is better than gnawing at the hard bones of hundreds of thousands of troops such as the imperial court and Li Zicheng.

As the defenders, the Spanish and Dutch people were even more alarmed, and now Luzon is jointly occupied by the Netherlands and Spain, and the parties concerned may have a move against Luzon in the next step, and the two countries cannot ignore it.

The two countries really have enough reason to be worried, because according to the accurate information they have received, the second artillery carrier formation of the Xuanjia Army has been officially put into service half a month ago, and it is stationed at the Zhoushan Naval Base.

With the weak naval division of the Ming Dynasty, if Fang Yuan wanted to attack Weihaiwei and Tianjin Wei from the sea route, or take the Yangtze River waterway, attack the ports along the river, or even occupy the entire Oriental sea area from the Ming Dynasty to Japan, one artillery carrier formation was enough to be invincible, and there was no need to spend a lot of money to build two powerful artillery carrier formations.

Fang Yuan's purpose of building two artillery carrier formations has been clearly revealed, one to protect the Daming Sea Frontier, and the other to carry out ocean expansion, which is aimed at the maritime hegemony of the South Seas from Manchuria to the territory of the Daming Dynasty.

What frightened them even more was that after the military exercise in Quanzhou Port, they had already transmitted the information of the artillery carrier formation back to China, which was imitated by domestic craftsmen. The result was very frustrating, with the current shipbuilding technology of the West, it was only possible to build a warship with a displacement of 2,000 tons at most. And the displacement of the artillery carrier, which reached almost 5000 tons, was impossible to do. Even if it is built with all the financial resources and iron armor, it will face the danger of falling apart at any time when entering the sea.

According to the professional assessment report of the two countries, the warships of the two countries in Manchuria, Batavia, and Luzon are combined, and if they encounter a formation of such artillery carriers, they will definitely lose. The order from the East came from the country was that until the West developed the method of building such artillery carriers, it was prudent to have a military conflict with Fang Yuan, and on the premise of not harming the fundamental interests, the method of peace talks should be the mainstay, supplemented by military resistance.

Cohen and Poole arrived in the lobby, and before they could speak, Hu Qi had already handed Fang Yuan a letter, and Fang Yuan reviewed the letter, his expression becoming more and more gloomy.

Cohen and Fang Yuan are old acquaintances who have dealt with each other N times, and seeing that Fang Yuan has only been reading the letter for two quarters of an hour, he didn't say a word, so he could only open his mouth first, "Governor Fang, Prince William of our country has asked me to greet Governor Fang's health on my behalf, and I am willing to offer the most precious agate and jade as a meeting gift." ”

The Netherlands is now the Netherlands, the first bourgeois republic in the world. The first consul of the Dutch Republic was William I, known as the father of the Netherlands. Orange. The current consul of the Netherlands is Wilhelm II.

Fang Yuan was not interested in these luxuries, raised his head and stared coldly at the two messengers, threw the letter far in front of the two, and swept the cups and pots on the table to the ground, and said angrily, "The Spaniards have done a good thing!" Take a good look! ”

Fang Yuan turned his head sideways again and confessed to Hu Qi, "Bring all the plaintiffs up!" ”

Seeing that Fang Yuan was suddenly angry, Cohen and Poole didn't know what was going on, so they hurriedly ordered their subordinates to pick up the letter that Fang Yuan threw down, and asked the accompanying translator to read it and listen to it.

It turned out that the letter was written about two massacres of the Ming by Spain on the island of Luzon.

The Ming people do business on Luzon all the year round, and there are at least 300,000 or 400,000 Ming people on Luzon Island.

These two massacres against the Ming people on Luzon Island, one was during the Wanli period, because Wanli had just experienced the three major expeditions, the treasury was empty, and gold and silver were in short supply. I don't know where Wanli got the news that Luzon is rich in gold and silver, so he suddenly thought of sending troops to expel the Spanish garrison on Luzon and seize the gold and silver of Luzon. As a result, the Spaniards got the news in advance, and in order to prevent the Ming people on Luzon Island from colluding with the Ming army, they carried out a massacre of the Ming people, with nearly 100,000 casualties.

When the Wanli Emperor heard this, he was furious and immediately wanted to go to Luzon to punish these Spaniards. Because the sailors of the Ming Dynasty at that time were really not enough, they couldn't even take the island of Taiwan that was close in front of them. It is almost a fool's dream to cross thousands of miles of sea and defeat the Spanish fleet. Wanli was angry and angry, but he was helpless, after he died, no one mentioned the Luzon massacre again.

The second time was in the twelfth year of Chongzhen eight years ago. The Spanish were rampant and slaughtered tens of thousands of Ming people in order to suppress the resistance of the local Ming people. This time, the Ming Dynasty has long been troubled by internal and external troubles, and it has been tossed to the core, who will care about this massacre on Luzon Island. This news did not even bubble up in the history books of the Ming Dynasty.

The letter thrown out by Fang Yuan was the family members of the Ming family who suffered eight years ago who came to Fang to complain to Fang, asking the Ming to administer justice for the Ming people in Luzon. Wanli, Chongzhen, or can't manage it, or don't want to manage it, Fang Yuan must be managed!