Governor Lavizares tried to knock on the door of the Ming Empire's customs with the elimination of the Lin Feng pirate gang as bait, and tried for half a year without results, but basically figured out the attitude of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Empire had no ambition to expand overseas, and turned a blind eye to the pirates entrenched in Luzon, as long as they no longer intruded on the coast of the mainland, they went with him. [No pop-ups. 】

But the Woodwind clique entrenched in Hawksbill Harbor was indeed a great threat to the Manila authorities, so Governor Lavizares gradually lost patience.

After settling down in the Tortoiseshell Harbor, the Lin Feng Group accurately grasped the pulse of the Manila authorities and the imperial court, and through the mediation of the Chinese priests in the Hawksbill Harbor, they won the opportunity to recuperate.

Because the Ming Dynasty relaxed the sea ban during the Longqing period, although the overall size of merchant ships was restricted, the merchants could trade freely in the country, so people's minds changed, no one easily became pirates, Lin Feng was difficult to recruit troops on the coast of the mainland, in order to confront the Westerners, on the one hand, he wanted to blackmail the imperial court, and wanted to restore his identity as a Jinyi guard, so as to justifiably expand the ranks, trying to get the imperial court to make him the governor of Luzon after driving out the Westerners, but he himself knew very well that this wish was difficult to achieve.

On the other hand, Lin Feng never gave up the joint monkey Hideyoshi, just based on the tortoiseshell port, under the pressure of Luo Amin, decided to release Xu Ling'er, Ma Wu and his wife, Lin Shaoqi and others, and sent Li Chenghuai and Cai De to return to China in the name of escorting Xu Ling'er, wanting to take this opportunity to blackmail Pang Shangpeng; At the same time, he secretly sent his henchmen to Japan, preparing to pay a lot of money to buy the Japanese ronin, and form a large fleet to come to support and attack Manila again.

In Yuegang, Zhangzhou, Fujian, Lin Feng's Y plot was discovered by Xu Ling'er, and he captured Li Chenghuai, the lord of the Seven Ao, and Cai De, the lord of the Nine Ao, annihilated the Japanese sailors, and cut off the connection between Lin Feng and the Wako, Xu Linger knew that most of the soldiers in the Hawksbill Harbor were forced to fall into the grass because their homes were destroyed by the Hawksbill Invaders, and Ma Zhishan, Li Chenghuai and Cai De and others were no exception, so she took great righteousness to the two captured Australian owners and released them to return to the Hawksbill Harbor.

After Li Chenghuai and Cai De came back, they secretly launched a purge in Tortoiseshell Harbor, so that everyone talked about the "Japanese" color change. However, Lin Feng still did not give up his intention to buy the ronin, and when the missionary Mark came to Hawksbill Harbor again, he tried to bribe Mark to help him deliver a letter to Japan, but was refused, and by this time, Oda Nobunaga and Father Simon Almeida had reached a long-term agreement to buy arquebuses.

Because Oda Nobunaga could not pay the cash, this agreement was rejected by the Sakai Town Council, and no one was willing to take over the business, although Konishi Lonzo was very active, but Oda Nobunaga could not trust him, and Konishi Ryonzo was not familiar with Nanyang, Ryukyu and other places, so in desperation, Father Simon Almeida recalled his disciple Mark to Manila and appointed him to be in charge.

When Mark trafficked arquebuses to Japan for the second time, he was captured by Feng An, a Taiwanese garrison commander near the Diaoyu Islands, and he surrendered voluntarily without passing on any news to the outside world, so neither Oda Nobunaga, Hashiba Hideyoshi, nor the Sakai Town Federation and the Manila authorities knew the real reason for Mark's disappearance.

In order to investigate the truth of the incident, the elders of the Sakai Town Consortium sent Sister Louise to Manila, and Monkey Hideyoshi's agent in the Consortium, Konishi Ryonzo, seized the opportunity in time to secretly find Louise and asked her to help find Lin Feng.

Shortly before Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er arrived at the tortoiseshell port, Louise came from Manila as a nun and was warmly received by the priest, she secretly contacted Lin Feng, and was attracted by his legendary experience and "ambition", the two hit it off at first sight, like **, so Lin Feng struck while the iron was hot, saying that after occupying Luzon in the future, let her become the governor's wife, so that this naïve Louise was eager to go to the soup and fire at any cost.

But Lin Fengwan did not expect that the letter delivered through Louise would fall into the hands of Archbishop Perez.

Knowing that Lin Feng tried to lure the Japanese ronin to attack Manila, the tolerance of the Manila authorities finally reached the limit, and it happened that at this time the rebellion on Mindoro Island was quelled, and it was learned that the Ming Dynasty sent an envoy to the tortoiseshell port, although the governor of Lavizares did not know the Ming envoys, but firmly believed that they could not help the pirates, just to take the opportunity to cut off Lin Feng, to give the Ming Dynasty a dismount, therefore, let the free hands of General Sashilow immediately gather the armed forces of all parts of the archipelago to destroy the tortoiseshell port in one fell swoop.

After the failure of the naval operation of the Manila authorities, they immediately organized an army of nearly 2,000 people to attack the tortoiseshell port along the Renyain River, and were ambushed by Li Chenghuai's department and 200 elite Ming troops, the most incredible thing is that after the colonial army captured the tortoiseshell port, they actually fell into Lin Feng's plan, resulting in the annihilation of the Spanish soldiers, and General Saschlow did not understand until his death, why did the super battleship of the Ming Dynasty envoy support Lin Feng?

After the death of General Saschlow, Governor Lavizares began to panic, and General Fernando, who was besieging and suppressing the Dutch sea beggar guerrillas on Cebu Island, was urgently recalled to Manila.

At this time, Manila was almost an empty city, Lin Feng of course would not give up this opportunity, when he confessed to the priest of Hawksbill Harbor, he said that he would dismiss his team, but secretly divided the 500 soldiers into 50 squads, through the carrier pigeons raised by Li Ruiqi to contact, divided into pieces, and set off for Manila separately.

After the Spanish occupation of Manila, the city was built on the basis of Suleiman's original castle and expanded into a high-walled city, known as the "Intramural City", which was only legally allowed to be inhabited by "white people" (Spanish: blancos) according to Spanish law.

"Caucasians" include Hispanic Filipinos (Spanish-born Spaniards in the Philippines), Peninsular Hispanics (Spanish-born Spaniards), Hispanial-Malay-Chinese mestizos (Spanish: tornatrás), and Hispano-Malay mestizos.

In addition to the law, there is conventional racial discrimination: male "Caucasians" can marry non-Caucasian women; In the case of female "Caucasians", it is never allowed to marry a non-Caucasian person, but any non-Caucasian woman who marries a male Spanish is automatically and legally classified as "Caucasian" and, naturally, she can live with her husband in the Intramuros.

But no matter who they are, they are inseparable from the livelihoods of farming, fishing, transportation, sewing, catering, artisans, etc., and most of the people engaged in these livelihoods are Chinese, so the city of Manila is basically impossible to run without the Chinese, and of course, the colonists cannot live a comfortable life.

As a result, the colonial authorities were forced to allow the Chinese to enter Intramuros for work reasons, but only at sunset to return to their homes in the Binodo neighborhood outside Intramuros.

This gave Lin Feng and others an opportunity, in just a few days, nearly 100 people mixed into the royal city, just as they were preparing to respond to the rebellion, General Fernando had already transferred all the troops on Cebu Island back to Manila, in order to prevent unforeseen disasters, adopted a one-size-fits-all measure, and cleared out all the Chinese and overseas Chinese who worked in Binodo.

Lin Feng's squad was of course cleaned up, and without full certainty, this armed force of nearly 100 people revolted hastily, although it won the support of many local natives, and finally ended in failure, and all of them were slaughtered.

This uprising once again angered the Manila authorities, so Governor Lavizares issued an order to arrest Chinese and overseas Chinese everywhere in all villages, markets, inns, wineries, ports and docks, even passing merchant ships.

At that time, the Manila authorities used a silver coin called Real, while the Ming Dynasty used silver ingots, and the silver coin could not be circulated, so whether it was a merchant or a pirate, they had to exchange it when they went to the Ming Dynasty to do business, but the official exchange price was extremely unreasonable, basically all private transactions, and it was General Fernando and his soldiers who secretly engaged in this exchange business.

This gave the Lin Feng group another opportunity to use the exchange of silver dollars as bait to carefully design a battle plan, kill many Spanish soldiers who were greedy for money, and fight more than a dozen beautiful victories in a row, which greatly shocked the Manila authorities.

General Fernando had few soldiers under him, and he couldn't trust the strength of the local indigenous armed forces, so he had no choice but to put down his position and take the initiative to make peace with the Dutch "sea beggar guerrillas", trying to use this armed force to deal with Lin Feng.

(The Netherlands, which means "lowland" in Dutch, included the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, and other countries.) ）

Ten years ago (1566 AD) in Europe, in the Protestant Netherlands, a "Iconoclasm Movement" broke out against the Catholic Church, which was ruthlessly suppressed by the Catholic Spanish Empire, Philip II appointed Alpha as the governor of the Netherlands, forcibly promoted the new tax system, desperately looted and extorted, and issued a series of edicts, for those who spread Protestantism or came into contact with Protestant books, men were beheaded and women were buried alive. He was even tied to a cross and burned alive.

The Dutch aristocracy, the common people and the toiling masses finally had no patience and organized themselves to smash churches and storming prisons, setting off a huge uprising.

When the Spanish aristocracy insulted the rebels as "beggars", the rebels shouted the slogan "Long live the beggars" and mocked the Spanish rulers, who formed "forest beggar guerrillas" in the dense forests of the south and "sea beggar guerrillas" in the northern coastal areas to rise up against the brutal rule of the Spaniards.

One of the "sea beggars" composed of sailors, fishermen and dock workers, led by the leader Hendry, drove a light boat, and intercepted a Spanish convoy in the Atlantic, and achieved a brilliant victory.

This maritime guerrilla force was extremely strong, controlling the Zamboanga line from Cebu to Mindanao, and in this sea area, constantly attacking the Spanish merchant ships, much to the great headache of Governor Lavizarles.

Governor Lavizares gladly accepted General Fernando's suggestion, saying that if the two pirate groups could be brought together by each other, the Manila authorities would be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Therefore, General Fernando, regardless of the danger to his life, personally negotiated with Hendry, and without even a slight discount on any conditions proposed by Hendry, an agreement was soon reached: as long as the Dutch people assisted the authorities in eliminating the Lin Feng pirate group, King Philip II of Spain would crown Hendry as a lord and allow them to settle anywhere in the Philippine Islands in the future.

In this way, the pirate leader Hengdeli was recruited, and the Dutch came to Luzon to participate in the suppression of the Lin Feng group, and they adopted more terrifying methods than the Spanish colonists, in addition to targeting the Chinese and overseas Chinese, they also extended to the Annamite, Ryukyuan, Japanese and Koreans, and even the Malays and Indians were also captured, and the White Terror enveloped the entire Luzon Island.

In this situation, the Lin Feng group gave up the plan of armed attack on Manila, and distributed it to various parts of Luzon, playing guerrilla warfare with the Caucasian armed forces, and in the process, gradually grew the team, especially the Dutch pirates, and gave a heavy blow, therefore, Hengdry and Lin Feng have formed a deep hatred, and the story between them will continue to be performed in the fifth volume of "Pirate Legends", so please pay attention.

The colonial authorities understood that it was impossible to drive all the Chinese and overseas Chinese out of Luzon, let alone exterminate them all, and when the Dutch pirate force was greatly weakened, General Fernando found that the activities of the Lin Feng group had gradually stopped, so he turned his gun on the Dutch pirates......

Finding himself fooled, Hendry led his "guerrillas of beggars" to the southern islands, where he continued to fight against the Spanish Empire, and from then on he and General Fernando had a personal feud, the fate of which will be described in the fifth volume of the book, The Pirate Sale.

In order to preserve its strength, the Lin Feng Group lurked all the teams in the most remote villages and used carrier pigeons to communicate with each other.

The priests in these villages, who are generally literate overseas Chinese, are of course sympathetic to their compatriots who have been repressed.

Due to the limited number of colonial troops, it was difficult to go deep into these remote villages to investigate, but they often sent people to various areas to search, threaten and intimidate, and under the cover of local aborigines and overseas Chinese priests, they were always able to save the day.

The situation stabilized temporarily, and after putting on makeup, Lin Feng often appeared at the port of the Bashi River estuary, trying to contact merchant ships from Japan, but the authorities' inventory of merchant ships was still not over, and they continued to seize merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu and other places, one in order to cut off Lin Feng's trade channels, and the other in order to exert pressure on the Ming Dynasty, in an attempt to exchange for the opening of the mainland coastal ports and allow free trade of Spanish galleons.

The Manila authorities set their sights on the Yuegang port in Zhangzhou, Fujian, and often sent envoys to Fuzhou to negotiate with Pang Shangpeng, who politely refused the envoy of the governor of Lavizares on the grounds that Fuzhou City had no extra merchant ships to quote tickets.

At the same time, Oda Nobunaga, who was far away in Japan, was promoted from the fourth rank to the right guard general from the second rank, and he nominally handed over the position of family governor to his eldest son, Oda Nobutada, and planned to build Azuchi Castle on the shore of Lake Biwa himself, as the beginning of his road to realizing the "world of martial arts".

Annoyed by the fact that Simon Almeida could not continue to deliver the new arquebus, Oda Nobunaga sent someone to Sakai to threaten the council.

The Sakai Town Federation did not dare to offend Oda Nobunaga, and due to the "disappearance" of the missionary Mark and the nun Louise one after another, Simon Almeida decided to go to Manila, and the monkey Hideyoshi once again seized the opportunity and secretly ordered Ryonzo Konishi to accompany him secretly, so as to control the purchase of this musket in the future.

The hard work paid off, and finally saw the Japanese merchant ship at the Bashi River estuary, Lin Feng quickly connected with Konishi Longzuo, and the two of them made full use of the trust of Westerners in Christians after some conspiracy, and formulated a set of "seamless" action plans, the details of this plan will be described in the fourth volume of this book "Maritime Silk Road", for this reason, Lin Daoqian, who was far away in Pattani, was introduced to Konishi Longzuo.

Some arrangements were in place, and the merchant ships led by Lonzo Jr. to Pattani, and the Lin Feng group became active again, just waiting to provoke the Manila authorities again in order to implement the action plan he had drawn up with Ronzo Jr.

What Lin Feng didn't expect was that the Dafu ship would not return to Luzon, because it did not go to Pattani at all, but returned to Taiwan......

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Off topic

Regarding the division of the colonies at that time: after the discovery of America by Columbus, in view of the discovery of new lands across the Atlantic, in 1493 the Pope declared that Spain had every newly discovered land west of 46 degrees of west longitude, while Portugal had land east of the line. All other European countries do not have jurisdiction or trade rights over the newly discovered areas. In 1494, Spain and Portugal revised the Treaty of Tordesillas, moving the demarcation line a further 270 leagues (1 league, about 5.556 kilometers) westward, and Brazil was included in the Portuguese sphere of influence under this treaty. After the "Papal Meridian" was determined, Portugal and Spain chose opposite directions in the great undertaking of traveling around the world, with Portugal passing through the Indian Ocean and Spain through the Pacific Ocean. They all know that China is on the other side of the world, and they think that whoever is the first to get there will be the one who will be prosperous and rich.

Off topic

Regarding the division of the colonies at that time: after the discovery of America by Columbus, in view of the discovery of new lands across the Atlantic, in 1493 the Pope declared that Spain had every newly discovered land west of 46 degrees of west longitude, while Portugal had land east of the line. All other European countries do not have jurisdiction or trade rights over the newly discovered areas. In 1494, Spain and Portugal revised the Treaty of Tordesillas, moving the demarcation line a further 270 leagues (1 league, about 5.556 kilometers) westward, and Brazil was included in the Portuguese sphere of influence under this treaty. After the "Papal Meridian" was determined, Portugal and Spain chose opposite directions in the great undertaking of traveling around the world, with Portugal passing through the Indian Ocean and Spain through the Pacific Ocean. They all know that China is on the other side of the world, and they think that whoever is the first to get there will be the one who will be prosperous and rich.

(End of chapter)