In the poignant and tragic melody, the three women pulled their hands tightly together and stared at each other with teary eyes, at this time, Guo Yi found that Luo Amin had a cross hanging on his chest, and he was stunned. [No pop-ups. 】

So, Luo Amin took off the cross, put it in his arms, wiped his tears and whispered: "Please forgive Guo Qianhu, when I come here, I can only follow the customs of the locals, and in my heart, I have never forgotten Mazu Bodhisattva." ”

"The governor once told us that the internal supervisor Zheng He went to the West, passed through Luzon, and appointed Xu Chai Lao, the overseas Chinese leader of Jinjiang, as the governor of Luzon, and ruled the power of the place for decades, teaching the local people to fish, hunt, cultivate and weave, and the entire Luzon Island pursued Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, but unfortunately after the arrival of the Westerners, all this changed." Speaking of this, Guo Yi asked, "I wonder if Mrs. has heard this allusion?" ”

Before Luo Amin could react, he overheard Lin Feng reply in a loud voice: "The lord of Macao is taking Xu Chai Lao as a model, hoping to unify the Luzon Islands and serve the imperial court. ”

"If the lord of Lin Daao drives out the Westerners and unifies the Luzon Islands, of course, it will be great, but I don't know how Your Excellency will govern the country and educate the people?" Xu Ling'er asked.

Luo Amin was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and hurriedly lowered his head.

Guo Yi then asked, "Lord Lin, have you also converted to Christianity?" ”

"Despite being poor since childhood, I read the books of the sages for a few days. The reason why he hung a cross was just to cater to the locals, not because Lin did not promote Confucianism. Speaking of this, Lin Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly, and sighed: "The so-called rotten wood can not be carved, the Confucian classics are too secular, resulting in pedantic and vulgar, its theory seems to be elegant, but in practice it is often filthy, gentlemen, villains are classified, not only can not make people motivated, but make many people willing to fall." ”

These words came from Lin Feng's mouth, which was indeed quite surprising.

Finding that Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er were very shocked, Lin Feng said with a smile: "Don't hide it, although there is a cross hanging in the cheap, the gods are still enshrined in Mazu Bodhisattva and the ancestors. ”

Lin Fuzhong had already prepared a banquet, Luo Amin invited Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er to take a seat, and she herself and several Australian ladies accompanied her; The priest of the church also came, along with a few other who looked like local indigenous leaders, and Mark sat with them; Lin Feng and the major Australian owners of Hawksbill Hawksbill Harbor sit at a single table.

In a festive atmosphere, after three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, many people came to toast Guo Yi and Ling'er, and Luo Amin came forward and all declined one by one, and finally, it was Lin Feng's turn.

Facing Xu Ling'er and Guo Yi, Lin Feng said: "Lin is grateful for the righteous deeds of the two thousand households in Nanjing, and even more grateful for the brightness of the Hai people!" Drink first as a respect. So saying, he raised his glass and drank it all, and the servant hurriedly filled him with wine, and when he saw that he had drunk three glasses in a row, Luo Amin hurriedly got up and persuaded him to go away.

"Two Thousand Households, you have asked you, if you drive out the Westerners, how will you govern the country? I'll answer you now. Lin Feng, who was red-faced, laughed loudly and continued: "The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, although Lin is not talented, he has a way to let everyone follow me to make a fortune!" ”

At this time, Ma Zhishan, the owner of the second Australia, got up and asked, "Xu Qianhu, do you remember?" When we first arrived at the mouth of the Nyain River, what was it like? ”

"The harbor is barren and the inhabitants are poor." Xu Ling'er replied.

"How is it now?" Lin Feng then asked.

Xu Ling'er nodded and replied: "Merchants gather, and the market is prosperous. ”

Lin Feng pointed to the local chiefs and asked proudly, "So, with Lin as the king, will you support it?" ”

So the chiefs all gave their thumbs up, stood up and exclaimed, "Oh, oh! ”

Seeing this, Luo Amin hurriedly persuaded softly: "Second sister, don't listen to his drunken nonsense, I know it." ”

Suddenly, the priest stood up and said, "Your Excellency Lin Feng, this is not true. Can you bring more wealth to the locals than the Governor of Manila, La Vizares? It's just that the current unrest in the southern archipelago of Cagadin, Iloco, Leite, Bohol and Bulacan, and the desperate resistance of the locals against the Spanish colonial rule, make you take advantage of the loophole, and when the governor of Lavizares frees up his hands, overnight, you can use your wealth to buy the hearts and minds of the people here, or raze them to the ground. ”

Lin Feng was quite embarrassed when he heard this, and came to the priest with a wine glass, and said, "Lin is very grateful to the priest, come, I will give you a glass." "After that, I drank it all again.

"He is also a descendant of China, but because of the ban on the sea imposed by the imperial court, he was forced to go into exile here, and now he is a servant of God, and he does not drink a drop of wine. In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Lord also does not like colonizers who oppress the people with guns. Pushing away the wine glass handed over by Lin Feng, the priest continued: "Money is something outside the body, which can buy people's hearts for a while, but cannot buy a lifetime. Since you call yourself king, you won't be unclear about such a simple truth, right? ”

Probably knowing that Lin Feng was going to make a big deal of nonsense again, Luo Amin hurriedly replied: "What Father Priest said is extremely true, according to the Confucian classics, the implementation of the law of propriety and benevolence is the way to govern the country. ”

"Xu Chai Lao worked hard in Luzon for decades, spared no effort to promote the way of Confucius and Mencius, implemented the law of etiquette and benevolence, spread agriculture, fishery and industry, built shipyards, taught textiles, pottery, tea and other craft technologies, but unfortunately there was no successor, giving Westerners an opportunity, and today's Luzon is not what it used to be." The priest sighed: "Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, since Xu Chai Lao ruled Luzon, more than 100 years have passed, how easy is it to re-use Confucian classics to win the hearts of the people?" ”

"Father Priest has a point." Lin Feng immediately agreed: "If there is a piece of paradise land and handed over to the lord of Macao to govern, he will be like Xu Chai Lao, actively educate the uncivilized natives, teach them fishing, hunting, farming and weaving, free trade, and independent beliefs, and build an ideal country like a paradise." ”

"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." Ma Zhishan shook his head and sighed: "Lord Lin Daao, you don't want to think about it, how can there be such a paradise in the world?" ”

"Mr. Ma, let me ask you, but what is your idea to let Lin Daao go to Manila?" The priest asked.

"Yes, but I didn't expect that the Westerners would occupy Luzon so quickly." Ma Zhishan, who was quite helpless, replied.

Pointing to the east, the priest said earnestly: "Eighty years ago, a navigator discovered a new continent on the other side of the ocean, whose territory is many times larger than that of our Ming Dynasty. It is said that the indigenous people have not yet been civilized, and now, the colonists of the Western countries are dividing up the territory there, if you have ambitions, why don't you cross the ocean, compete with the Westerners, grab the territory, let the sea be wide and the sky is high, let the birds fly, what kind of ideal country to build, it is not up to you to decide? ”

Lin Feng smiled and asked rhetorically: "I can't even win the battle against the colonists in Manila, do you want me to run to the other side of the ocean to die?" ”

At this time, Xu Linger asked Mark to take out a pair of navigation charts, spread them out and put them on the table, everyone gathered around, looking at the two continents on the other side of the ocean in the map, with a large group of islands in between, someone measured the size of these lands, and then compared them with the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and was surprised to find that the land in the north of the light was more than twice as large as the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After Mark and the priest finished their introduction, Guo Yi asked, "Mrs. Luo, do you remember the Elder Moon Sky of Qixia Temple in Nanjing?" ”

Luo Amin knew what she wanted to say, and hurriedly replied: "This is a national teacher with great ambitions and high morality. ”

Guo Yi said: "Elder Yuekong took out his savings for many years of ocean trade, spent a million taels of silver, and built a big treasure ship in Qiumupu Village, where the lord of Lin Daao left behind, imitating the internal supervisor Zheng He to go to the Western Ocean, just to lead everyone to the New World, to proclaim the civilization of Chinese Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, to educate people's hearts with the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, and to implement the rule of propriety and benevolence, hoping to help the virtuous people to expand their territory and build an ideal country. ”

Lin Feng stared at the map and smiled slightly, was silent for a moment, and replied loudly: "If we can get this treasure from the south to the north, our generation will be on an equal footing with the Ming Emperor." ”

"The sea is high and the waves are fast, and the road is far away, so I am afraid that I will not be able to reach the new continent, so I feed the fish and turtles." Cai De, the owner of Jiuao, expressed his opposition.

"Westerners use the Sinan compass passed down from our Huaxia to cross the ocean and look for new continents everywhere to expand their territory." Guo Yi asked unceremoniously: "Are you only going to fight in the nest at the door of your house, so that Westerners can follow the fishermen to profit?" ”

"Guo Qianhu is reasonable." Lin Feng nodded and praised: "If you can get this treasure land, why bother to call the Ming Dynasty emperor a vassal?" ”

Ma Zhishan shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity that I'm old, and now I just want to return to my roots." ”

At this moment, Lin Feng had basically figured out their intentions, and wanted to hand over the tortoiseshell port to the Elder of the Moon Sky, and everyone would follow him to the New World in the future.

So, pointing to the location of today's Los Angeles on the map, Lin Feng said: "If you can get this continent, let's build the capital here, so that my people can have freedom of belief and go to sea to do business at will, and no one can stop me." ”

"Hehe, even if you imitate the Forbidden City to build the Jinluan Palace, no one can care about it." Guo Yi replied.

Hearing the three words of the Forbidden City, Lin Feng suddenly had an idea, and suddenly remembered that when Wen Tao fled with him on his back in the Enryakuji Temple of Mount Hiei, he met the monkey Hideyoshi at the pass of the Fragrant Valley, and at this moment, he seemed to hear the monkey asking him: Mr. Konishi Longzuo will send you back to Ningbo as soon as possible, may I ask Your Excellency Lin Feng, where should we meet next time?

I remember that it should be in the Forbidden City, the capital of Daming! Haha, haha......

Good! Lord Lin Daao is really extraordinary!

Now Oda Nobunaga is about to unify the Oriental Islands, then, Monkey Hideyoshi must act as the general of the expeditionary force, according to the plan negotiated by the two of them, in the future, Monkey Hideyoshi will take advantage of Korea to directly take the Ming Dynasty, and he will attack the coast of Fujian and Guangdong in Ryukyu, Taiwan or Luzon and other places, and destroy the Zhu Dynasty in the north and south. According to the pattern of "the world is clothed", Monkey Hideyoshi will definitely continue to attack India, Persia, and Europa, and the Ming Dynasty will be the world of his Lin family......

mistakenly thinking that Lin Feng had made up his mind, Xu Ling'er praised: "Lord Lin Daao is really extraordinary......

This sentence stimulated Lin Feng again, it was time to make a choice, and hurriedly summoned the major Australian owners, Dharma protectors, and small hall masters to go to the Juyi Hall to discuss together.

Li Chenghuai, the lord of Qiao, said worriedly: "The imperial court has no faith in its words, saying that it is to entitle the lord of Daao as the governor of Luzon and assist us in driving out the Spaniards, and a year is about to pass, and I have not seen the holy decree, let alone any indication of support for our recovery of Manila, and even heard that it has sent an envoy to Manila to discuss with the Spaniards to deal with us, and now it has sent these two yellow-haired girls to try to make us abandon the tortoiseshell port and cross the ocean to open up a new continent, when we are all fools?" Please don't be fooled! ”

The angry Cai De followed and said: "Lord Daao, everyone has been wandering for many years, and finally has a place to live, if you want everyone to make a choice, whether to cross the ocean to open up a new continent, or attack Manila again, I believe that everyone would rather choose a war." ”

Since the death of Zhuang Gong and Xiao Ke, Lin Feng's subordinates have no generals available, and it is difficult to expect these people to attack Manila now, and they can't help but look up to the sky and sigh......

Someone saw Lin Feng's thoughts and asked, "If you want to fight, who will be the pioneer?" ”

"You might as well arrest these two women as hostages, * force the imperial court to help us send troops, fight quickly, and take Manila!" Zede replied.

Ma Zhishan said angrily: "Presumptuous! You are really hard to change your habits, do you think that you can force the court to comply with such indiscriminate means? ”

Cai De was a little unconvinced, and replied: "They came this time, they have already fought a battle with the Westerners on the way, the Dafu ship is very powerful, and the two hundred elite officers and soldiers are not vegetarians, so it is better to let them be the vanguard, enter Manila Bay again, and drive away the Westerners in one go, what do you think?" ”

"If Manila is really defeated, will the imperial court appoint the lord of Daao as the governor of Luzon?" Someone else asked.

Hearing this, Lin Feng couldn't help but gasp, he knew very well that although the imperial court had not yet sent troops to exterminate the tortoiseshell port, once the Westerners were defeated and Manila was occupied, I was afraid that the imperial court would immediately send troops, and then he would have no place to stand......

Everyone was silent, waiting for Lin Feng to come up with an idea.

At the same time, Luo Amin became very nervous, and he didn't know what Lin Feng was doing when he suddenly left the guests, so he had to announce the hasty end of the banquet and take Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er to his residence, and found that Lin Feng and his wife had separated.

Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er have made up their minds and formulated three countermeasures: the first is to persuade Lin Feng and his wife to accept the merchant group of Elder Moon Sky to move to Tortoiseshell Harbor, and take the opportunity to send more officers and soldiers to control the situation here, forcing Westerners to accept this fact and build an overseas ocean-going base, at least northern Luzon can be controlled by our Chinese; If Lin Feng and the others did not accept this plan, they would try to persuade Luo Amin to take people out of the Ryukyus, so as to protect those innocent people, so that they could follow the Elder Moon Sky across the ocean in the future. The worst-case scenario is a direct conflict with Lin Feng, and I believe that with the help of 200 loyal and brave people, Luo Amin and Zhang Gou'er and others, Lin Feng and those stubborn Australian owners will be controlled.

After chatting a few words, Guo Yi suddenly asked, "Madam, how do you communicate with the governor Daren?" What are your plans for the future? ”

Luo Amin was stunned when he heard this, hesitated for a moment and replied: "Sister, although during my stay in Nanjing, I have heard the name of a huge person for a long time, and I live in the deep mansion compound of the Tang family, and I have no chance to meet a huge person. What's more, as a descendant of the Qin prisoners, now in exile overseas, how dare he easily contact the governor? ”

Xu Ling'er couldn't help but be stunned, and then asked: "Besides Lord Lin Daao, who else is communicating with the huge people?" ”

Luo Amin shook his head lightly and replied: "As far as I know, Lin Feng sent people to contact the government, which was nothing more than an attempt to restore his status as a Jinyi guard through threats and intimidation, and even fantasized about letting the imperial court make him the governor of Luzon. ”

"The huge man was concerned about safety reasons, and didn't tell us who the person who secretly contacted him was, so we took it for granted that this person should be you, but it seems that there are other people, so it can be seen that the Australian owners on the hawksbill turtle port are not monolithic, where to go, it is time to make a choice." Guo Yi preached.

"Two sisters, go, while they are discussing, take the families of those Australian lords, and read Ah Ping's letter to everyone."

(End of chapter)