For Catholicism, Xiao Ruxun really doesn't have any trust and expectations, they are in collusion with the Spanish government, and they don't know what kind of results they will come up with to play hide and seek with Xiao Ruxun, but Xiao Ruxun knows very well that it is absolutely impossible to persuade the Philippine Governor's Office to release people with just the bishop and Matteo Ricci, and they must have other plans and ideas to prevaricate themselves.

France and Genoa are now enough to safeguard China's commercial interests in Europe, so they signed a commercial alliance with them, tied their relationship with them, and maintained this profit together, after that, Xiao Ruxun arranged specific things to Yuan Huang, and asked him to arrange the supply to Europe, Xiao Ruxun had other things to do.

The spies who returned from the Philippines brought very important news.

Three years ago, after the fleet returned from the Philippines, Xiao Ruxun had the idea of putting his people inside the Philippine islands and mixing with the local Chinese groups, hoping to obtain effective information, spy on the military strength of the Spanish authorities and the number of local indigenous servants, etc.

This group of secret agents selected from the most trusted personal guards directly under the Ningxia headquarters was Xiao Ruxun's earliest intelligence force.

The number of people was originally only thirty people, and they were carefully selected from the cronies of the Ningxia headquarters, the leader was called Zhang Wu, Xiao Ruxun's fellow countryman, a family private soldier who came out of his hometown, twenty-seven years old, was a deputy captain in the pro-guard team, and was very careful and cautious, Xiao Ruxun asked him to pick the most reliable thirty people in the pro-guard team to form the original intelligence force, Xiao Ruxun personally named it Heishui.

At first, the work of these 30 people was only responsible for infiltrating the Philippines to find out the location of the Chinese and the intelligence of the armed forces of the Spaniards, and after the 30 people went back and the 50 people returned, Zhang Wu explained to Xiao Ruxun that this group of people had recruited 20 young people in the Chinese settlement in the Philippines and volunteered to assist the army in attacking the Philippines, on the grounds that the Chinese there were being abused by the Spaniards and Chinese merchants.

The group of people that Xiao Ruxun couldn't take away before were hidden in other deep mountains and old forests to engage in heavy physical labor such as logging and mining.

Moreover, most of the people who killed them were the doglegs of those big Chinese merchants, but the Spaniards watched the show on the sidelines and rarely did it, which couldn't help but make Xiao Ruxun even more resentful.

After that, Xiao Ruxun expanded the Blackwater force to 100 people, infiltrated the Philippine islands in batches, drew a map of the Philippines, and put it in his combat conference room to collect the geographical and hydrological data of the Philippines little by little.

Not only the collection of population information, but also the collection of information including the distribution of military strength and naval ships in the Philippines, etc., the task was successfully completed, there was no mistake in the past three years, and no personnel was lost, which could not help but make Xiao Ruxun look at Zhang Wu with admiration.

This time it was a regular reconnaissance mission again, Zhang Wu, who had returned from the Philippines, brought back the latest information, the map of the entire Philippine islands and the distribution of military strength and population were almost completed, and the preparations for attacking the Philippines were almost complete, so it was up to the time to see the time.

Xiao Ruxun personally met with Zhang Wu, who had returned from the Philippines.

"Zhang Wu, yes, good job."

Xiao Ruxun looked at the maps and hydrological data he brought back, and patted him on the shoulder very happily: "Reward!" Rewards! Each of the spies under your command will be rewarded, with this information, I have a much greater grasp of those foreigners, and it will be much easier to clean them up, you have done a good job! ”

Zhang Wu smiled, expressed his happiness, and then told Xiao Ruxun a very important news.

"Shiro, this time we went to Luzon, we still contacted the Chinese people over there as before, and then got a lot of information, and there is a piece of information in it that I think is very important."

Xiao Ruxun raised his head and looked at Zhang Wu: "Say." ”

"On May 20, several official ships from Daming arrived in Luzon, went to the island to find some people, asked about some things, stayed for almost half a month, and then all returned to Daming."

Xiao Ruxun looked puzzled.

"Official ship?"

"Yes, the official ship, and I heard that it was someone from the palace, because there were eunuchs in the crew, and the person who gave us the news happened to be sent to serve those who came from the palace, and the foreigners didn't know what they were doing here, so they didn't dare to stop it, so they sent someone to serve them to find out the information.

The intelligence that came back was that the purpose of those official ships coming here was to find Jinshan, Yinshan and Tongshan, and it was said that there were rumors in Daming that there were Jinshan, Yinshan, and Tongshan on the island of Luzon. ”

Xiao Ruxun blinked his eyes and said suspiciously: "You have been in Luzon for so long, have you heard that there are gold and silver mountains and copper mountains in the local area?" Myanmar has it, Japan has it, but if Luzon has it, how come I don't know? Luzon is best known for spices, not gold? ”

Zhang Wu replied: "I think it's the same, the locals in Luzon haven't talked about the legend of the Golden Mountain, how did the imperial court know?" They don't know the news of the locals, we have no reason to know? There should be something greasy in this, the imperial court will not send people to Luzon for no reason, if it is really for what gold and silver mountains, then who gave the news to the imperial court? ”

Xiao Ruxun thought about it for a while, but still couldn't understand it.

"When we beat Japan, there were a lot of gold and silver mountains and copper mountains in Japan, and now they are all under our control, where is Wu Weizhong staring, but why did there be gold and silver mountains in Luzon again? If I knew about it first, how could the court know? It's hard to understand! Japan has mountains of gold and silver, so some people in the court think that Luzon also has mountains of gold and silver, right? ”

Zhang Wu shook his head and said: "It seems that those foreigners are also very confused about this matter, I heard from our informant, those foreigners seem to be very nervous, and they are all over there to discuss what the official ships of the Ming Dynasty and the eunuchs in the palace are doing there, it seems that they have recently sent a few ships to Macao to inquire about the news, and also sent a few ships to Siam to inquire about our news, but I don't know what is going on." ”

"The court is short of money again? Isn't that enough? Putting aside so much silver in Japan for the time being, we pay a tribute of 100,000 catties of copper to the imperial court every year, so we won't run out of money, right? A few million taels of silver is not enough for the court to squander? What is the matter with this anxious search for gold and silver everywhere? ”

Xiao Ruxun was puzzled, Zhang Wu didn't have a clue here, Xiao Ruxun could only tell Zhang Wu and them to continue to investigate the relevant news in the Philippines, and if there was any news, he would be the first to inform him, and the rest would not care much.

After signing treaties with the French and Genoese, he had to arrange for ocean-going caravans and interpreters to go to Europe to do business, which was a big business of several million taels of silver, and it was impossible to ignore it.