"No, no, Mr. Wu, you have misunderstood my intention. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Elber said with a smile on his face, "I'm only here to offer kind advice. You know, the natives are much more numerous than the Chinese, and they're at a disadvantage because you caught them off guard. If you stop now, we can still try to suppress them, otherwise, they will fight back on a large scale. At that point, things may not be as you would have liked. ”

"Thank you for your kindness." Wu Tiande said, "I know that you came to me to bring peace on the earth, not to let all nations use swords. But justice is far more important than peace. As long as there is one copper plate of stolen goods that has not been recovered, as long as there is one criminal who has not been punished, the action of justice will not stop. ”

Wu Tiande knew what the Spaniards meant, although the Spaniards had begun to provide a certain number of weapons to those natives, but when arming these natives, the Spaniards also needed to pay more attention. After all, the natives are not only far more numerous than the Chinese, but also far more numerous than the Spaniards. Of course, these natives now hate the Chinese, but this does not contradict their hatred of the Spaniards. If the power in their hands is too strong, God knows if they will have any thoughts of recovering the country? If the large-scale conflict had ceased at this time, it would have obviously been very beneficial to the Spaniards. Because at this time, the hatred between the Chinese and the natives has been planted, and after the large-scale conflict is stopped, they don't need to let the natives have too much power to deal with small-scale friction or something. That way, you're really in control.

But for Wu Tiande, and the Zheng group he represents, this is not the case. The Zheng Group's thoughts on Luzon are now almost Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows it. It is in the interests of the Zheng clique to provoke the struggle between the Chinese and the natives, and even to provoke them to commit genocide against the natives. Unlike Spain, whose home country was thousands of miles away and had a limited population, it was impossible to actually move many people to Luzon, China was much closer, and there was a large surplus population in the country that had no to eat. Therefore, the Zheng group can completely immigrate hundreds of thousands or even millions of Chinese to Luzon, and if they don't kill the local natives, where will they make room for these immigrants? What, you said that the population density on Luzon Island is not large, and there are large areas of wasteland, which can completely allow these immigrants to open up the wasteland? What nonsense are you talking about! Don't you know that those so-called wastelands are all tropical rainforests? Don't know how expensive it is to develop a tropical rainforest? At the beginning, how much cost and effort did the Zheng family spend when they developed Taiwan, and how many immigrants were completed? If we follow the model of developing Taiwan, considering that the distance by sea is much larger, then this development will really become a lifetime series. On the other hand, if all the natives were to be eliminated, the part of the area that had already been developed by the natives who had already been agriculturalized would immediately be able to accommodate more immigrants. I don't know how many times higher the efficiency of the whole thing. Of course, because they don't have to worry about manpower, there are some things that the Spaniards can't do, (such as killing the local natives or something, because who will pay the taxes and serve the Spaniards after killing them?). For the Zheng Group, it can be done completely, and even purely from the perspective of interests, it is better to do it than not to do it. The seventeenth century was a golden age for the colonizers.

"Ah, my friend, Christ teaches us that there is a higher love and forgiveness above absolute justice." Elber stood up and said, "I have said all that I have to say, and if anything happens in the future, it will be like Pilate (a Roman official, according to the Bible, who ordered the execution of Jesus under duress from the Jewish nobles. In making this decision, Pilate washed his hands in the basin and declared, 'The sin is not with me.' As he said, 'The sin is not mine,' but if your plans change in the future, you are still welcome to come to me......"

Wu Tiande nodded, also stood up, and sent Elber out very politely.

After sending Elber away, Wu Tiande returned to his room and asked his master Mr. Ma to call him and said, "I have something to do, and I want to write to the marshal and the major general immediately." I also want to trouble Mr. to hold a pen for me......"

Wu Tiande estimated that what the Spaniards could do was to provide weapons to those natives on a larger scale, and even provide corresponding training to those natives. However, these moves will not put too much pressure on the Chinese in the short term, because training takes time. Don't think that you can immediately have the combat effectiveness of a modern army with a musket, weapons and combat effectiveness are never the same thing. In Zheng Sen's original time and space, the AK-47 automatic rifle invented by the Soviet Union, as well as its various development copycat models and models, such as 56 Chong, AKM and so on, were flooded all over the world. There is a poem that praises:

There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and there will be a pickup truck when there is a road.

The car was full of beards, and his hands were singing to the sky.

However, these bearded men with AKs were still the five scum of war in that era, and even when they were shooting at each other with simple small arms, they would always be beaten by the armies of the great powers. Even when they were fighting the British, they had tragic stories of being taught to behave with bayonets by the British, who were armed with bolt-action rifles with the largest ammunition capacity in history. The main reason for this is the lack of training.

The natives of Luzon also have this problem, and if they are allowed to go into battle without at least a few months of training, then their combat effectiveness is not much different from that of holding a sword or something. Moreover, the Spaniards must have reservations when providing them with weapons, for example, artillery that can pose even the slightest threat to the city of Manila, but they are afraid that they will not provide them to the natives.

However, after a while, the intensification of the conflict was absolutely predictable, which meant that there would be more arms needs, more personnel needs, so he needed to write to the commanders and major generals to prepare them in advance.

……

"Brother Zhang!" As soon as Boss Zhang Yuan Zhang went out and was about to get into the carriage, he heard someone calling him. He turned his head, but saw an ox cart coming in the distance, and a man was sticking his head out of the window of the ox cart and shouting to him:

"Brother Zhang, wait a minute, are you going to the Yamen of the Protector?"

Boss Zhang has been very high-spirited recently, as one of the first Chinese bosses to establish a militia organization, in the recent period, he has recruited a total of less than 200 militia teams have helped him to defeat the four Zhuangzi belonging to the local natives, although the floating wealth grabbed is not too much, after paying the various expenses for maintaining the militia, the income is not too much, but this thing is nothing, what really satisfies him the most is that in this series of actions, he grabbed a large number of fields. In Boss Zhang's view, the field is more lovely than the silver of white flowers, because it is a real wealth that can be passed on to children and grandchildren, so that children and grandchildren can benefit from generation to generation.

Recently, however, the situation has begun to change a little, and I heard that the natives have recently begun to organize, and they have also received muskets from the Spaniards, and even two days ago, a group of natives took advantage of the afternoon rain (it rains almost every day in the evening in the Luzon Island) to attack a Chinese farm (in fact, it was taken by the Chinese from the natives not long ago), they may have thought that the guns in the hands of the Chinese were the same as the arquebuses they had gotten, When it's raining, it doesn't sound. Who knew that the guns in the hands of the Chinese were all flintlock muskets, even in the rain, they were not completely unusable (of course, they would be affected to a certain extent), and another Chinese militia was not far away, and soon after the attack began, reinforcements also quickly arrived. As a result, although the natives paid a lot of casualties, they finally rushed into the Zhuangzi, but they were driven out again under the front and rear attacks of the Chinese. But after they stormed the farm, they still caused a lot of losses to the Chinese. In total, more than two dozen Chinese were killed in the attack, most of them women and children. This matter even shocked the Protector Lord Wu. So Lord Wu made a post, asking some of the most well-connected and wealthy bosses in the Chinese to go to the people's yamen to discuss the following countermeasures.

By this time the ox cart had caught up. Boss Zhang also recognized it, and the one who shouted at him was Jiang Sanfa Jiang, who was originally mainly engaged in silk trading.

"Brother Jiang, are you also going to Lord Wu? Hey, why did you change your car to be pulled by oxen? Boss Zhang asked.

"Naturally, I went to Lord Wu." Boss Jiang's fat face was full of smiles, "As for the horse that pulls the cart, hehe, brother thinks, anyway, it's just a little slower to pull it with an ox, what's the big deal." On our side, we really need some horses. Boss Zhang, you also know about that incident two days ago. At that time, the natives had already entered the Zhuangzi, and if the rescue hadn't come quickly, I was afraid that all the people in the Zhuangzi would have been killed by them. The Zhuangzi that the younger brother had recently laid down was a little far away from the other Zhuangzi, so the younger brother was very worried, so he put the horse pulling the cart on the Zhuangzi. In this way, if you find that there are local people who want to come to fight the younger brother's Zhuangzi, the people in the Zhuangzi can also ride horses and run out to find rescuers. ”

"Brother Jiang is thoughtful." Boss Zhang gave a thumbs up and said, "You have taught me a trick, and when I see Lord Wu come back today, I will also replace this cart with an ox pull, and send the horse pulling this cart to Zhuangzi." Brother Jiang, why don't you get into my car, and let's go to Lord Wu together. ”