Before dawn, the "Streamer" traffic ship quietly approached Luzon, the "Streamer" is the sister ship of the "Feiyan", but compared with the "Feiyan" it has made a little improvement, it uses a large amount of balsa wood imported from the Spaniards, which makes the weight of the ship further reduced, so this ship, in terms of speed alone, is even a little faster than the "Feiyan". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIt's just that the ship does not have a luxurious interior, and the living conditions and comfort are even worse than those of the "Feiyan". Now that the "streamer" had quietly put away its mainsail, a small sampan was lowered from the ship, and five or six people jumped on the sampan, and then some more things were lowered, and then this one rowed towards Luzon with the help of the moonlight. In a few moments the boat was rowing away.

"Mr. Chen, now we're going to Manila. It's almost an hour before dawn, and we're waiting for them to arrive, so we'll have to float here for a while, and we'll not reach Manila until after noon. Mr. Chen, you can also go to sleep in the cabin. On the "Streamer", the captain Zou Kaifu said to Chen Guang.

"Forget it," Chen Guang said, "I don't have much time, so I won't go down." The smell below is really ......"

"Hehe......" Zou Kaifu also laughed a little embarrassedly, and stuffed a few fried soybeans into his mouth. Unlike the "Feiyan", which is dedicated to being a big man, the "Streamer" does not have many independent cabins for people to live in. Except for the captain, all the sailors were crammed into a small cabin with only a small skylight, and even the captain's cabin was actually very small, with only a table for nautical charts and a chair for him to sit down and look at them. What the? Where do you say the bed is? Oh, and it hangs on the table, and like all sailors, the captain sleeps in a hammock. Of course, Chen Guang and the translator Mario could not have a special cabin to live in this time, so Chen Guang was arranged to squeeze into the captain's place and sleep on the captain's table.

Chen Guang also smiled, and then held on to the railing in front of him, looking at the eastern sky, where the morning star had already risen.

"Mr. Chen is going to Manila this time, but he is going to declare war on those Spaniards?" Zou Kaifu asked casually.

"The first is to ask them to apologize and compensate. If they don't agree, we declare war on them again. This is not a secret, so Chen Guang said directly, "Our conditions are very harsh, at least in their eyes, so I don't think they will agree." The declaration of war is certain, but we are not barbarians like the Spaniards, and there is still a process of saluting first and then soldiering. ”

"They'll say yes, after we've beaten them up. These barbarians have always been afraid of nothing and nothing. Zou Kaifu said.

"Fear of power but not virtue." Chen Guang said softly.

"Well, that's it, it's actually his grandmother's slut, remember to eat it or not." Zou Kaifu said, "Eh, Mr. Chen, although the two countries exchange troops and do not kill them, but the Spaniards are barbarians, you really have to be careful this trip." ”

"Hehe, there's nothing to worry about." Chen Guang smiled and said, "I have you behind me, and they don't dare." ”

The two of them talked like this, and the sky gradually brightened.

……

"Mr. Governor, the Zheng family has sent an envoy who wants to see you immediately." A waiter said to the governor of Aquila.

"Oh, they're really coming." Governor Aquila thought.

"You take him to the living room and wait, tell him that I still have some things, let him wait there." Governor Aquila said.

Why did the envoy of the Zheng family come, of course Aquila knew that when he began to suppress those Chinese again, Aquila was ready to make enemies with the Zheng family for a period of time. In his opinion, the Zheng family should have strongly demanded that he stop the massacre of the Chinese, and then threaten him with trade between the two sides. In the end, he only had to delay for a while, pacify them, and then stop the massacre (he didn't intend to kill all the Chinese, since the limited Spaniards and the stupid natives alone could not sustain Luzon's prosperity). The regular massacres are just a means to control the power of the Chinese), and the Zheng family will not care too much.

Of course, there is also a certain price to be paid to appease the Zheng family. After all, the Zheng family also has certain interests among those Chinese. In Aquila's view, the Zheng family may not care too much about the situation of the Chinese in Luzon, but they will definitely be very concerned about their own interests. They will surely open their mouths and ask for compensation. Therefore, he decided to dry the envoys of the Zheng family first, and then accuse them of colluding with the local Chinese to attempt rebellion as soon as they met, so that it might be much more convenient to bite back first, and then talk about the later conditions.

Because of this, Chen Guang was left in the living room and waited for an hour. Then I saw an old fat man in a blue military uniform walk in angrily. Before Chen Guang could speak, the old fat man roared angrily: "How dare you Zheng family do this, how dare you conspire to launch a rebellion in the sacred land of Spain!" Now your plot has failed! The rebels are all in hell! If you dare to come here to see me, I should have hanged you all at the docks at once!" Tell me, what did your pirate general send you for! ”

Chen Guang watched the Humpty Dumpty man perform quietly, and when he finished the performance, he said slowly: "So you are the Spanish chieftain in Luzon." Then he turned his face to the translator Mario and said, "The word chief must be translated as it is." ”

The word "chief" obviously irritated Aquila, his eyes widened, and he glared at Chen Guang angrily, as if he was about to pounce, but Chen Guang was not moved at all, and continued: "On behalf of the Ming Dynasty Fujian General Soldier Xiao Yuer and other barbarians, you barbarians dare to commit such a crime against the noble Han people, it is really an unforgivable crime. However, the chief soldier considered that you and the others were extremely stupid barbarians and lacked education, so he committed such a crime, so he gave you a chance to reform themselves. All you need to do is cut off the heads of the barbarians who led the rebellion, and the number must not be less than the number of Chinese victims, and all their wives and children will be arrested and handed over to our disposal. At the same time, all the wealth plundered from the Chinese was returned, as well as an indemnity of 10 million taels of silver, and the Chinese were allowed to freely possess weapons for self-defense. The Chief Soldier can magnanimously forgive you for your crime this time, otherwise, the Chief Soldier will be furious, and you will all be powdered, and it will be too late to regret it! ”

"Are you kidding?" Aquila glared at Chen Guang, "This is the most ridiculous joke I've ever heard!" ”

"So, chief, you don't want to accept such lenient terms?" Chen Guang said.

"Joke!" Aquila shouted angrily.

"Then, on behalf of the Ming Fujian General Army, I will now announce that the barbarians such as Er have officially entered a state of war." Chen Guang said as he took out a piece of paper and gently threw it on the table, "This is an official declaration of war document. ”

Then he stood up, turned around, and said to Mario, "Okay, we can go." ”

"Bastard! Do you think this is a place where you can come and go whenever you want? Aquila slapped the table, and several guards immediately surrounded him.

"I've known for a long time that you uncivilized barbarians don't know diplomatic etiquette." Chen Guang sneered, "But Chief Aquila, I still have to remind you that impulsiveness comes at a price. ”

Aquila was stunned for a moment, he knew that detaining, or even killing the messenger, would definitely not be worth the loss. Because even now they and the Zheng family are already at war, but Spain in the Far East did not defeat or even eliminate the power of the Zheng family, of course, the Zheng family did not eliminate the Spaniards in Luzon and defeat possible Spanish reinforcements to occupy the power of Luzon, and the interruption of trade for a long time will also bring huge losses to both sides, so Aquila felt that the two sides still had to make peace in the end, and the sooner the peace, the better. Otherwise, if the losses caused by the severance of trade exceed the gains from the massacre of the Chinese and the plundering of their accumulated wealth, the purge of the Chinese will be at a loss. And the seizure, or killing of the envoy, will definitely seriously delay the time for the new negotiations between the two sides. There is no doubt that this is not cost-effective.

"Let them go." Governor Aquila grimaced and said, "We are not barbarians. ”

Chen Guang sneered, stretched out his hand and gently pushed away a guard standing in front of him, and walked out with Mario in great stride.

……

"Captain Hao, you see, the 'Streamer' has left the port." On a hill covered with dense rainforest four or five kilometers from the port of Manila, Hao Ren and several soldiers climbed on the top of a tall banyan tree and looked out at the port of Manila with binoculars.

"Judging by the flags hoisted, they have completed the declaration of war on those Spaniards. In the next half month, we will keep a firm eye on the port of Manila. Any ships coming in and out of Manila, we have to record it and report it to the Major General. Okay, let's send out our first report today. Hao Ren replied.

A few people descended from the top of the tree and descended to the place where the branches of the banyan tree intersected at a height of about ten meters above the ground, where they built a tree house with palmetto leaves as a roof—a skill that Bell had given them back then.

One of the team members took out a small note, dipped it in ink with a quill pen, and wrote the first report: "The 'Streamer' has completed the declaration of war and left safely." He waited for the ink to dry, then handed the note to everyone, and then carefully rolled it up, put it in a small wooden cylinder, and carefully sealed it with wax. At this time, someone brought a cage with a carrier pigeon, took out the carrier pigeon from it, and tied this small tube to the pigeon's leg. Then he climbed to the top of the tree with the pigeon and released it. The pigeon circled them twice and flew southwest, which was in the direction of Batavia.