With Felipe and others' rich sailing experience, repeatedly defusing the attacks of wind and waves, after ten days of sea sailing, this galleon finally arrived in Manila Bay, at this time it was Chinese New Year's Eve.

When Ma Zhishan was young, he also went here to run business, at this moment, he stood on the deck and looked at Manila City, and suddenly there was infinite emotion in his heart, so he summoned Zhu Hui, Shen Qi and Li Dan and others to his side......

In the third year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1405 AD), Zheng He, the internal supervisor, went to the West to tour the Luzon Islands, and appointed Xu Chai Lao, the overseas Chinese leader of Jinjiang, as the governor of Luzon, and took over the power of the place.

Xu Chai Lao worked hard for more than 20 years, spared no effort to promote the way of Confucius and Mencius, implemented the rule of etiquette and benevolence, spread the agriculture, fishery and industry of southern Fujian, built a shipyard, taught the Luzon people textile, pottery, tea planting and other craft techniques, the Chinese civilization took root here, until 120 years later, the expedition of the Westerner Magellan arrived on Cebu Island, changed the course of Luzon's history, more than 30 years ago (1542 AD), the king of Spain sent an expedition to survey Xìng expedition, this place was named "Philippine Islands".

Twenty years ago (1556 AD), the new king of Spain ascended the throne, this person was so happy that he tried to open up the connection between Europa and the New World, and wanted to turn the vast East China Sea (Pacific Ocean) into "Spain's inner lake", so he wrote a letter to the governor of the New World (Mexico), especially emphasizing the development of the Philippine Islands as an important new colony, and organized an expeditionary force to occupy the geographically important island of Cebu, which can reach Luzon in the north and Mindanao in the south. It became their first colony in the Philippine Islands.

In the third year of the Ming Dynasty (1569 AD), the king of Spain officially appointed the governor of the Philippines to implement the colonial policy, which was fiercely resisted by the locals.

At that time, Manila was still under the control of the locals, and every Spring Festival, just like the mainland, pasted Spring Festival couplets, hung New Year's paintings, the sound of firecrackers, and the lion dance Chinese New Year's Eve d......

Until the fifth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty (1571 AD), the colonizer governor personally led the tiger and wolf army to kill Manila, Luzon King Suleiman with the support of the local Chinese overseas Chinese leaders, took the lead, united the tribes around the country to resist, in the battle to defend the royal city, unfortunately was killed by a cannon, since then, Manila fell, became the center of Spanish rule.

In the winter of the second year of Wanli, in order to avoid the pursuit of the armies of Guangdong and Fujian, the Lin Feng Group surrendered the old department of the original Lin Daoqian on Taiwan Island, led 100 large ships, more than 1,000 sailors, more than 2,000 soldiers, plus 1,000 soldiers and sailors' families, set off from Taiwan North Port, and arrived at Manila Bay at the end of November of that year.

As early as when Lin Feng was entrenched in Qiumupu, he had traveled to Manila many times to buy muskets, and Ma Zhishan had also followed the former Taiao lord Lin Daoqian, and traveled back and forth to various places in Nanyang to do business.

Lin Feng's army suddenly fell from the sky, more than 100 ships of all kinds, and they occupied the coast of the bay with one son, and because they did not know the reality of Manila, they built strategic fortifications on the shore.

At this time, the Spaniards in the city did not know what was going on, and hurriedly sent people to Cebu Island, Mindanao and other places to move rescue troops, it was Xu Linger and Luo Aping who captured the Jiān who went out to move troops, and learned through interrogation that the defenders of Manila were only 200 people, so Lin Feng decided to attack the city and divided the army into three routes: the ronin Zhuang Gong commanded the attack on the city gate of Manila, the ronin Xiao Ke led a thousand people to attack along the Bashi River, and Ma Wu led more than 500 people to attack nearby villages along the coast.

Xiao Ke was the first to attack the city along the Bashi River, killing the supreme commander of the city of Manila, Zhuang Gong was killed by a cannon during the attack on the city gate, and after a whole day of fierce fighting, the soldiers who attacked the city were all wiped out, and the Spaniards were given a respite.

Fortunately, at this time, Xu Linger met the missionary Mr. Mark, and for the safety of the villagers, he decided to go to the Tortoiseshell Harbor at the mouth of the Renyain River in Pengaslan Bay, so Mingli pretended to be a feint and secretly arranged to evacuate, and with the help of the Chinese priests in the Hawksbill Harbor, the villagers finally had a place to stay.

The earlier "Philippines" archipelago, from the villages of Manila in the north to the large and small islands of Mindanao in the south, was deeply influenced by Chinese civilization in terms of secular culture, and most of them were dependent on ****** in terms of religion.

Outside of Manila, they built spectacular stone churches in each village and town, with the initial aim of converting the local people to Catholicism, with the result that the power at the grassroots level in these places was largely in the hands of church priests.

Everyone settled in the Hawksbill Harbor, the Spaniards tried to knock on the door of the Imperial Customs to help the imperial court eliminate the Lin Feng pirate gang as bait, so they were not in a hurry to eliminate the Lin Feng, which brought a chance for the Hawksbill Turtle Harbor to recuperate, under the leadership of Luo Amin, the villagers worked hard and painstakingly, and in less than half a year, the desolate peninsula was turned into a prosperous trading port.

At that time, Lin Feng tried to make the imperial court the governor of Luzon in the name of opening up the territory for the imperial court, and on the condition of expelling the Westerners in Manila, but the imperial court had no ambition to expand overseas.

Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er came to appease the villagers with a letter from the governor of the city, hoping to use the tortoiseshell port as the ocean base of the Moonlight Elders, and everyone joined forces to deal with the Western bandits.

Lin Feng's collusion with the pirates, exposed by Louise, completely angered the Manila authorities, and at that time, the governor of Lavizares had already seen the fire and knew that the use of pirates to put pressure on the imperial court would not work, and decided to immediately send troops to attack the tortoiseshell port.

The Manila authorities sent two armies before and after, Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er led the Dafu ship to block the sea, and beat the Western Navy to the ground, and then sent a road of men and horses, along the Renyain River by land quietly killed, 200 Ming army brothers were not afraid in the face of a strong enemy, under the leadership of Li Chenghuai, the lord of Qiao, they fought on the front line, winning time for the villagers to flee, and they were all bloody......

It was in this battle that Li Chenghuai was seriously wounded and disabled, and after the port fell, Li Dan became a prisoner of the Westerners, and what everyone did not expect was that after Lin Feng lost the tortoiseshell port, he could still retreat as an advance, pretending to lead the crowd to escape from the sea, and the bottom bilge of the warship moored at the dock to the devouring was full of explosives, and the Westerners were all buried at the bottom of the sea when they pursued the victory.

This short-lived victory did not bring good luck to Lin Feng and others, but caused the Westerners to retaliate frantically, and the entire Luzon Island became a hell on earth, and most of the Chinese and overseas Chinese were brutally killed......

Ma Zhishan, Li Chenghuai and others were sent back to the mainland, and the pirates who surrendered were also forgiven by the governor Pang Shangpeng.

It turned out that after Lin Feng and others lurked on Luzon, they basically lost the basis of survival, and could only count on external reinforcements, according to Cai De's declaration, Yuchai Hideyoshi spent a lot of money to organize two groups of people, adding up to a total of about 4,000 people, and they could arrive in Manila after the Spring Festival, and they only had more than 300 people, and they laid down Luzon, and they couldn't cheap these Orientals, so they came back to recruit troops.

Now, Zhang Gou'er has become the vanguard officer of the Ryukyu State Expeditionary Force, leading two hundred jīng rui to be stationed in the suburbs of Manila, he had secretly gone to find Lin Feng, just when he was anxious, he suddenly saw his loyal nephew, and was overjoyed, and even inquired about the whereabouts of his wife and children, and immediately sent a task to Zhang Gou'er, ordering him to cooperate with Wasuka Masakatsu, who was about to arrive in Manila, to turn the muzzle of the gun and deal with the Westerners.

Once Lin Feng colludes with the Japanese to seize Luzon, they will be able to destroy the Ryukyus and TaiWan with their backhand, and these places will become the territory of the Japanese in the future, not only will the status of the Ryukyus as a subject country not be guaranteed, but the entire coastal area of the mainland will lose its barrier and be exposed to the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou, and there will be no peace in the land of China in the future.

Zhang Gou'er gradually grew up, in addition to loyalty, he was also deeply influenced by Zhu Hui, Song He, Elder Yuekong and others, with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and also knew that what Lin Feng did could be described as a grasshopper shaking a tree, so he wanted to persuade Lin Feng, if he didn't turn back early, he would eventually be ruined.

Knowing that Cai De and the Japanese have a common enmity, for this reason, Zhang Gou'er privately looked for Cai De, but at this time, Cai De was completely carried away by the benefits he was about to get, but he didn't betray Zhang Gou'er, just told him that telling Lin Feng these things now would not only fail to achieve the effect, but also might lead to death, just like that, Zhang Gou'er left Lin Feng's camp.

The next time, Lin Feng was about to sneak attack a Westerner camp, and suddenly found that the main general of the reinforcements was Zhang Gou'er, and he was so angry that he fainted, but fortunately, Cai De and others hurriedly rescued him.

Because the liaison sent to the mainland many times returned in vain, and now his most trusted nephew has also betrayed him, Lin Feng was sad, and had a strong sense of crisis, so he appointed the general Cai De to come forward in person, with a letter of vow, to Yuzhen Continent to contact Ma Zhishan and Li Chenghuai, and to spend a lot of money to recruit troops.

Cai De secretly returned to Yuegang, just as Ma Zhishan and Li Chenghuai were not at home, and the brothers on the Jade Pillow Continent saw that the lord of Jiuao had returned, and thought that he had enough of licking blood from the knife, but he didn't expect Cai De to gather everyone over, and immediately took out a document and began to seal the official and make a wish, as long as a hundred soldiers are recruited to fight in Luzon, they will be able to get a sub-seal in the future, and they can choose any place to be the lord in Luzon, and even TaiWan, Ryukyu and other places.

If it weren't for Zhang Biao's turmoil, maybe this letter of appointment would still work, now, everyone understands the risk of continuing to be a pirate, even if they can't get along in the mainland, they can still follow Elder Yuekong and Xuande Zhenren in the future, participate in Shen Qi's business group, and go to the New World Xuanhua Four Seas together, so they didn't give Cai De a drink, so they arrested him, and immediately sent people to Zhangzhou City to send a letter to Ma Zhishan and Li Chenghuai.

At that time, it happened that Guo Yi came back, and then Shen Mao came to swagger again, Ma Zhishan and Li Chenghuai got the news when they had lunch, and they didn't have time to say hello to everyone, so they hurried back.

For how to deal with this ninth brother who shared the suffering, Ma Zhishan and Li Chenghuai were a little in a dilemma, and their brothers also quarreled into a pot of porridge.

But Cai De just refused to give in, and even wanted to escape, so he had no choice but to hand him over to Song He to take care of.

How easy is it to submit Lin Feng? Everyone watched Manila City get closer and closer, and couldn't help but frown.

At this moment Felipe was releasing a speedboat and sending troops into the city to deliver the message, and then he came to the crowd and spoke enthusiastically:

"Dear friends, thank God for His care for us! Welcome to the city of Manila, all of you distinguished guests, and you will be received by the Governor of Manila, His Excellency Lavizares, and the Bishop Perez of the Cathedral of Manila......"

Manila Bay is wide and flat, surrounded by two peninsulas in the east and west, the bay goes deep into the interior, the north connects the Zhōng Yāng plain, rich in tropical mangrove forests, the sea cháo does not change much, and the southwest is Corregido Island, which divides the bay into two waterways, north and south.

The two galleons also crossed the waterway in the northern part of Corregido Island and entered Manila Bay, and after a voyage of more than an hour, the bustling Bashi River Estuary was close in front of them.

Felipe proudly waved his hands, pointed to the team that came to greet him, and loudly introduced Shen Qi and others, Li Dan was an interpreter next to him, and the officials who came to greet him were: Governor Lavizares, General Fernando, Supreme Commander of Manila's Defense, Cardinal Perez of Manila Cathedral, and Antonio, President of the Manila District Court. Molgar ......

Shen Qi, as a guest invited by Felipe, was indeed courteous to the Manila authorities, and Felipe accompanied him to meet these "big shots" one by one, at this time, Ma Zhishan led Zhu Hui and others to squeeze out the crowd to watch the excitement and quietly came to the port market.

Chinese, Malays, Indians, Arabs, Europa people crowded the market, and a dazzling array of goods filled the shops, including Chinese silk, cotton, ceramics, paper, Indian fabrics, Luzon native sugar, Moluccas's sandalwood, cloves, cardamom and other spices, Sumatran ornaments and pepper, Borneo camphor, Timorese sandalwood, and western Malay tin foil, all gathered in Manila, like the World Trade Center.

Everyone can't help but be a little strange, a few years ago, I heard that the Manila authorities are still blocking the wharf, strictly checking the passing merchant ships in various places, in order to arrest Lin Feng, they also deliberately create a terrifying atmosphere, and strictly guard against the Chinese, Annamite, Ryukyuan and Japanese people, and even massacre, but looking at the prosperous scene in front of him, it seems that nothing has happened, Ma Zhishan immediately asked someone to inquire about the reason......

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