The Spaniards' nerves were very tense, and the unusual actions of the Ming court made them very worried, and although the Philippine governor was worried about the strength of the Ming army, he did not intend to give up the Philippines, a very important eastern stronghold.

On the one hand, the Spaniards prepared for war, recalled ships and Spanish troops scattered throughout the South China Sea, and on the other hand, sent ships to Macao and Siam to find out the movements of the Ming court, and strive to communicate with the Ming court, so as to avoid the occurrence of war to the greatest extent.

The situation in the South China Sea has become very strange, and there is a sense of rumour, and many countries have analyzed the news that the Ming court may want to take action against the Philippines from the movements of the Ming court and some "gossip" in the trade cities of Myanmar.

As a result, the merchant ships of some of the Spaniards' old patrons gradually stopped going to the Philippines to do business, which undoubtedly exacerbated the concerns of the Spaniards.

In the consciousness of the Spaniards, one of the things they offended the Ming Court was a small naval battle decades ago, they killed some Ming Court officers and soldiers, and then were defeated by the Ming Court, and then retreated to the big island of the Philippines, and never sent troops to the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Another thing is that some unpleasant things happened between them and Xiao Ruxun, the Marquis of Nanhou in Burma, that is, they hid the local Chinese population and prevented Xiao Ruxun from taking away the local Chinese to avoid damage to the labor force.

This made them very worried, worried that the powerful navy under Xiao Ruxun would attack them at any time, worried that the Ming Court would order them to be exterminated and so on, all in all, all kinds of worries, and by the way, the Chinese in the Philippines were also jealous, and it happened that at this time, there was a news spread, which intensified the worry of the Philippine Governor's Office.

The message is that the Chinese emperor intends to occupy the Philippines!

Specifically, the Chinese emperor intended to occupy the Philippines to obtain the gold here, and this news was brought back by the Spaniards who came back from Macau, specifically that the news came from a Han carpenter who had lived in the Philippines for many years, and he said that the Philippines had a machine Yishan, on which the golden beans grew by themselves, and the output was very large, and this information attracted the Chinese emperor, so the Chinese emperor sent people to find out the news.

The Spaniards could not tell what the situation was for a while, and before the return of Siam's intelligence officers, while stepping up preparations for war, the idea of seeking dialogue became stronger, and they actively submitted documents to Guangdong officials through Macao, requesting dialogue, but there was no response so far.

The uneasiness of the Spaniards was soon felt by the local Chinese, and in the places where they worked and lived, the Spanish soldiers and the big Chinese merchants were noticeably more dog-legged, with guns and knives in their hands, and watched them with great vigilance.

It seems that as soon as there is some trouble, they will rush over to ask questions, and even beat and arrest people indiscriminately, and no more than ten people are allowed to get together to chat and talk about things, and they are not even allowed to squat and eat together.

Of course, such a situation caused great dissatisfaction among the local Chinese, but at the same time, they also wondered, what happened to these foreign devils, and suddenly became like this? It's a bit of a rumor......

While the days of uncertainty were passing day by day, the Blackwater intelligence force led by Zhang Wu also summarized all the surrounding information and quickly passed it to Xiao Ruxun's hands for Xiao Ruxun's reference.

"Luzon has a machine Yishan? The golden beans on it are self-grown? Who spread this rumor? Who said the? What about the crooks? If gold can be born on its own, we still eat it in the ground every day? What's going on here? ”

Xiao Ruxun asked Zhang Wu strangely.

Zhang Wu replied: "According to our analysis, this may be inseparable from the incident of the Chinese sailors attacking and killing the governor of Xiyi two years ago, of course, it can be traced back to more than 20 years ago when Lin Feng attacked the stronghold of Xiyi in Luzon. ”

Xiao Ruxun was silent for a while.

In the second year of Wanli, Lin Feng, a private armed leader active in Fujian, almost captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines, which made the Spanish colonists fearful of the Chinese, which was the beginning of the Spaniards' dissatisfaction with the Chinese and their wariness.

In the twenty-first year of Wanli, the Philippine Governor Dasmarinas made an expedition to the Moluccas, because he forced overseas Chinese to act as oarsmen, which caused dissatisfaction.

Their resistance was very fierce, directly killed almost all the Spaniards on the ship, including the governor, and then fled back to Daming by boat, after this incident, the Spaniards did not dare to go to Daming to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, so they could only vent their dissatisfaction with the Filipino Chinese, and by the way instigated a wave of anti-Chinese people.

There are many Chinese who do business and farm in the Philippines, and they can get along with the Spaniards in the early days, but with the improvement of the status and number of Chinese, as well as the increase in influence on the Philippine economy, this inevitably makes the Spaniards dissatisfied and the local natives feel jealous.

At that time, Xiao Ruxun also received information and planned to use this as an excuse to ask the imperial court for war and clean up the Philippine Spaniards by the way, but then he got the news that at the beginning of the 22nd year of Wanli, a Ming fleet led by Fujian officials arrived in Manila with soldiers and weapons to pick up 3,000 Chinese.

This fleet showed off its might, and warned the local Spaniards by the way, so that the situation was calmed down, and the wave of anti-Chinese did not continue, and Xiao Ruxun did not continue to force.

But at the moment, these Spaniards were obviously frightened by this news, and remembered the military deterrence of the Ming Dynasty, so they were even more frightened, not to mention, there would be some other moves.

"All the energy of the imperial court is on the nine sides at the moment, and the possibility of sending troops to attack Luzon is extremely low, or it is a holy decree ordering me to send troops, those people are too anxious, they actually make this stupid move, the imperial court can't find the gold and silver mountains and naturally retreat, they want the imperial court to send someone to pick them up, but the imperial court has never paid attention to them, and they don't regard them as the people of the Ming Dynasty, how can they ask for the support of the imperial court?"

Xiao Ruxun shook his head.