Luzon, the name of the ancient country. In the area of present-day Manila, Luzon. Since the Song and Yuan dynasties, Chinese merchant ships often came here to trade, and the Ming Dynasty called it Luzon.

This is a very general term, probably because the scholars of the Ming Dynasty did not bother to argue the actual situation of these small islands.

For more than 50 years, the Francophiles have been in charge of the area, and Luzon is rich in gold, abundant in its products, and prosperous in trade.

The wealth that Coquilla grabbed here was enough to make Zhu Yousong, the emperor, look sideways. The 5,000 brave and warlike Qin soldiers, under the leadership of the generals, moved for a few days and did not finish moving. There was a constant stream of ships, each loaded with gold, silver and jewelry.

Zhu Yousong sat at the bow of the boat, holding a half-peeled coconut in his hand, watching the busy figures of the soldiers.

After taking a sip of coconut water and wiping his mouth, Zhu Yousong scolded and said: "This vampire is really not a thing, he saves so much money, will he spend it?" ”

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The attendants beside him were speechless for a while, whether he would spend you to snatch them all is no longer a matter of concern to the unlucky Governor Fanren. In fact, he couldn't care about this anymore, just now, a black native of Luzon, who is said to have a grudge against Coquilla, only used a small bamboo pole to poke this once invincible governor into a hole in his heart.

The Francis who stayed behind had already surrendered their warships and weapons and turned into a group of unarmed men.

Fifty years of exploitation and slavery made the indigenous Luzon natives afraid to attack them. Although they have no weapons, they are still the superior people in the hearts of the natives, and their servility has been planted, and they cannot be pulled out at all.

The new Ming prefect of Luzon summoned the local Han people on the first day, suggesting that they would not protect the Fanren.

The next day, blood was pouring all over the place, and the natives were screaming like madness and rushing towards the Francis. They have red eyes and weapons in their hands, and they kill white people when they see them. Severed limbs and stumps are all over every alley, and the local Han people live at the door of the alley, there are soldiers and horses stationed to protect them, and the rebels rush here and are executed on the spot.

With the corpses of their companions, they did not dare to be presumptuous, and turned to the city to look for the white man.

"Crazy, these barbarians are crazy, we're done, everyone is going to die in this place." The sound of horror came from a white-faced, beardless Franciscan, who had been the captain of a warship, and the knighthood handed down by his ancestors had allowed him to reign in this place for decades. At this moment, his face is colorless, his wife and daughter were all killed by the indigenous jian, and the youngest son was also ruthlessly chopped.

For three days in a row, the country on this island turned into a terrifying bloody hell. Finally, three days later, after the rain passed, the Ming army stationed there was dispatched to calm down the rebellious people.

They dared to make trouble, and behind them was the acquiescence and support of the prefect Liu Shouren, but such a thing is obviously not in line with the image of the Ming Dynasty and the style that it has always been. Governor Liu, with the general army, arrested all the natives who participated in the rebellion, their hands were stained with blood, ten years ago, they slaughtered the Han people on the island, and now they slaughter the Francois people.

At the beginning, the massacre of the Han people was supported and instigated by the Francois people, and now the feng shui is turning, and the sins they have created have eaten their bodies.

Many surviving Han people celebrated each other in the settlement, and almost everyone was burdened with a sea of blood and hatred.

Most of their ancestral hometowns are Fujian, because the Ming Dynasty was forbidden by the sea, and these people came here in search of money.

Around 1603, after the Francos slaughtered the Han Chinese for the first time, they immediately found that there were no barbers, no tailors, no shoemakers, no cooks, no farmers and herdsmen in all of Luzon. "There is no food to eat, no shoes to wear, and even if you pay a very high price, you can't buy them." The robbers themselves confessed, "The Han people are the workers of all trades, and they are excellent laborers who work at reasonable wages, and without the Han people, Luzon cannot survive." ”

For the colonial government, Chinese businessmen paid an annual import tax of 52,000 pesos, and Chinese textiles in Mexico paid more import taxes than Manila. Therefore. The colonial governments of the Philippines and Mexico could not afford such a large loss of tax revenue. As for all the people who have to do with the collection of customs duties and license fees, they make a lot more, not to mention. In short, without the Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese, the Francois robbers will not survive.

Luzon's economy was in a state of depression, and the colonial authorities were severely short of skilled labor, so they had to take steps to encourage Chinese merchants to trade in the Philippines. Some Spaniards left the surviving Chinese in their homes and gave them "shelter" to serve their families and engage in handicrafts to increase their wealth. Without the supply of Chinese goods and the services of overseas Chinese, the Spaniards would not be able to live in the Philippines. They found that without Chinese merchants, the rule of the Philippines could not be maintained, so they did not invade or relax the restrictions on Chinese merchants, and a large number of Chinese merchant ships sailed to Manila, and "Jiannei" became increasingly prosperous.

By 1638, there were more than 10,000 Chinese merchants in the "Jiannei", and the total number of people on the island reached 25,000 to 30,000. The Francos brutally exploited and ravaged the Chinese merchants, not only imposing heavy taxes, but also forcing them to perform heavy labor, and many of them were tortured to death. The Chinese merchants could not bear it anymore and rose up to resist, and the Spanish people immediately mobilized a large army to encircle and suppress it, and once again used artillery to flatten the "Jiannei", so that the once prosperous "Jiannei" was instantly turned into ashes. Then a massacre was carried out throughout the Philippines, some of them tricked Chinese businessmen into a compound and shot them en masse, and some of them used surprise attacks to kill unprepared Chinese businessmen, even the elderly and children. The massacre lasted more than three months, and more than 24,000 Han Chinese were killed.

This period of blood and tears finally got its due ending today. If you don't believe it, look up, the sky has spared anyone.

After the executioners tortured and killed the original mastermind, they were also purged by the government, and the population of Luzon became sparse.

Fortunately, now that the sea ban has been opened, the conditions here were so bad that there were Min people who came to do business, not to mention that this place is now the Ming Dynasty's own territory.

Shen Muhong's policies have made this a paradise for Chinese businessmen, and it is foreseeable that in a few months, it will become unprecedentedly prosperous. The first to smell is the Dutch, the world's most money-sensitive.

A few days later, Zhu Yousong's palace welcomed the envoys of the Dutch, who were full of gifts and sincerity, and wanted to come to get a piece of the pie.

Zhu Yousong generously agreed, but his hand could not reach out to the Western continent for the time being, and he needed a spokesperson and collaborator.