In that year, given that the New World "discovered" by Columbus crossed the Atlantic, the Pope declared that Spain would enjoy every newly discovered land west of 46 degrees west of longitude, while Portugal would enjoy land east of the line. Other countries do not have jurisdiction or trade rights over newly discovered areas.

As a result, the Treaty of Todesillas was revised by Spain and Portugal, establishing a "papal meridian", and during the Age of Discovery, Portugal and Spain chose opposite directions, with the Portuguese passing through the Indian Ocean and the Spanish passing through the Pacific Ocean, both aiming to find Marco Polo's golden country.

In the sixteenth year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty (1521 AD), the explorer Magellan, with the support of Prince Philip of the Spanish Empire, led a fleet from the New World across the Pacific Ocean to Cebu Island, "discovered" this archipelago, and declared that it was dedicated to his benefactor Prince Philip in the name of God, naming it the Philippines. However, the spread of Catholicism also aroused the resentment of the locals, and brought about their own death, and it is said that Magellan was eaten by the local natives, and in the next 50 years, the Spaniards from the New World lost this route due to sea transiency.

Until the 35th year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1556 AD), Prince Philip inherited the throne, this is the King Philip II of Spain, the new king wanted to expand the colony from the Americas to Asia, in a vain attempt to turn the Pacific Ocean into "Spain's inner lake", in the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564 AD), sent Augustinian priests with rich experience in navigation Father Udanetta and General López to organize an expedition, with Legazpi as the commander-in-chief, From New Spain (present-day Mexico), he landed on the island of Cebu again.

After a battle, the Spanish colonists defeated the local tribal alliance, demanded that the locals must obey Spanish law, built Fort San Petro on Cebu Island, baptized the local tribal leaders, established a base camp on Panay Island (the area of present-day Pa), and began to move north to Luzon.

In the third year of Longqing (1569 AD), Philip II appointed Legazpi as the governor of the Philippines, and in April of the fifth year of Longqing (1571 A.D.), Legazpi personally led an expeditionary force to Manila by speedboat.

As early as the third year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1405 AD), when Zheng He led the fleet to the Western Ocean, he had been sent to the edict of the Yongle Emperor, appointing Xu Chai Lao, the overseas Chinese leader of Jinjiang, as the governor of Luzon, and the power of the place, Xu Chai Lao worked Luzon Island for more than 20 years, spared no effort to implement the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, implemented the rule of etiquette and benevolence, spread the agriculture, fishery and industry in southern Fujian, built a shipyard, and taught the local people weaving, pottery, tea and other craft techniques, therefore, the main residents of Manila City are Chinese businessmen.

Suleiman, the Moro king who ruled Manila, with the support of the local Chinese and overseas Chinese leaders, united with the tribal leaders from all over Luzon to resist and eliminate the interference of the capitulation faction.

In the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Spanish colonists opened the Governor's Palace in Manila, which became the ruling center of the Philippines, expelled the Chinese and the locals who resisted colonial rule from the royal city of Manila, and in the second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1574 AD), Legazpi died of illness in Manila, and King Philip II appointed Lavizares as the successor governor.

Father Simon Almeida, as a senior priest of the Society of Jesuits, is one of the founders of the Sakai Town Chamber of Commerce, long before the Spanish ruled the Philippine Islands, he often traveled back and forth between Manila and Sakai Town, Hirado and other places, missionaries throughout the Philippines all know his name, and have inextricable links with the daimyo throughout Japan, the year before last, he made an agreement with the "new king" Oda Nobuna to help them sell new arquebuses from Europe to Owari, this book has already been talked about in the third volume of "Dark War", Therefore, both the Governor of Lavizares and the Archbishop of Pérez gave him three points.

If it weren't for General Fernando's vigilance, coupled with the help of Zhu Hui and Zhang Gou'er and others, he was able to expose the pirate gang and the Japanese scheme, I am afraid that Luzon Island has fallen into the hands of the Japanese.

After being reinstated, General Fernando issued a wanted warrant to all parts of the archipelago to arrest Simon Almeida, and sent soldiers to do their best to find the missing Xuande Zhenren, Bai Haishan and Felipe and others, at the same time, Zhu Hui led eight other Australian owners to spare no effort to investigate, and the plan to make the first voyage to the New World was temporarily put on hold.

Treasure hunting at sea is not an easy task, and I believe that Simon Almeida will also be fully prepared for this, and more than two months have passed, and there is still no trace.

Just when everyone was in a hurry, a caravan from Ryukyu came to the port of Bashihe, they did not bring any goods, nor did they purchase any goods, but they went around to inquire about Lin Feng and Bai Haishan, obviously, this is also for treasure hunting.

After learning about this situation, Zhu Hui and Zhang Gou'er went to meet their leader together, Ye Mingshan, the owner of the Naha Port, was a straightforward person, and told Zhu Hui without subtlety that they were ordered by Princess Xu to assist Lin Feng and Bai Haishan to go to the Hungarian Kingdom to hunt for treasures, and when they learned that Lin Feng and the others had acted alone, Bai Haishan had been kidnapped, etc., they were very anxious, and they couldn't wait to fly over immediately to chase after Lin Feng.

No matter how Zhu Hui persuaded him, Ye Mingshan couldn't listen to it, and after purchasing enough supplies for a year, they left Manila in a hurry and sailed into the vast ocean.

Soon after they left, more than a dozen merchant ships from Hirado came, the owner of which was Matsuura Nobuya, who had been doing business in Yuegang, and Li Dan, who was kidnapped by Jingming and Shen Mao, came with the ship, he first helped Xinchang busy with the business for two days, and then quietly went to Shen Qi, Zhu Hui and others, and cried loudly like seeing relatives, telling about his bizarre experience.

It turned out that Jingming and Shen Mao were instigated by Lin Feng, first went to Ryukyu to contact Princess Xu, and then went to Japan to find Yushiba Hideyoshi, these two reckless bastards claimed to be helping Lin Feng to ask for accounts, and asked for 300,000 taels of silver, Hideyoshi did not deny it, let them live in Nagahama City first, but these two were still thinking about going overseas to hunt for treasures, and chased Hideyoshi every day to ask for silver, at that time, Arakimura Shigebecause betrayed Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi was ordered to prepare for the expedition, how could they take care of them, His samurai defeated the three of them, and soon Hideyoshi was appointed lord of Harima and moved to Himeji Castle.

Panicked like a lost dog, Jingming and Shen Mao took Li Dan to prepare to return to Ryukyu, passing through Hirado, Li Dan took the opportunity to break away from them, and now, he has become Matsuura Nobuya's bookkeeper, when he passed through Shuri Naha Port this time, he went to visit Guo Yi and Xu Ling'er, and reported to them about Lin Feng, Jingming and Shen Mao and others, but these two muddy boys did not seem to return to Ryukyu.

Shen Qi hoped that Li Dan would come back and follow him, but Li Dan had his own troubles, he almost starved to death when he was exiled to Hirado, it was Matsuura Nobuya who saved him, seeing that he was proficient in the languages of various countries, could speak well, and was good at arithmetic, so he did not hesitate to take him in as a bookkeeper by his side, and he couldn't help but repay this kind of kindness, so Shen Qi and others were no longer difficult for him.

A few days later, Li Dan brought Zhu Hui an extremely important piece of information, with their merchant ship came a close confidant of Matsuura Takanobu, named Jiro Jiro, it is said that he was the leader of the old Japanese pirates who united Xu Hai to invade the Ming coast, and had committed unspeakable crimes, along the way, he was always mysterious, even Matsuura Nobuyo respected him for three points, and seemed to have a special mission, this morning, he went to Cebu Island alone and sneakily.

So, Zhu Hui and others accompanied Shen Qi to visit his old friend Matsuura Nobuya, wanting to know about the situation of this old widow leader, so the meeting was indispensable for a polite manner, when Xinchang learned that Shen Qi and others were about to sail to Acapulco, he suddenly respected, said that he wanted to cooperate with Shen Qi in the future, he wanted to transport Indian spices to the New World, and the two sides talked very speculatively.

Shen Qi invited everyone to dinner in a large restaurant owned by Chinese, and after three rounds of drinking, everyone began to chat, Zhu Hui talked about the past, claiming that when he lived in Hirado and Satsuma with his father, he knew a Hirado man named Jiro Jiro.

Before Zhu Hui finished speaking, Matsuura Nobuyama suddenly stood up and glanced at Li Dan with an angry face, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Zhu Hui knew that Mark had been a missionary on Iki Island, and believed that the relationship between Ximen Almeida and Matsuura Takanobu, the lord of the Pingto domain, must be very close, and if Ximen Almeida got the treasure map and kidnapped Bai Haishan and others, they should have started to prepare for the voyage, but so far, they have not found any movement, maybe they are waiting for the arrival of this old Japanese leader.

If this inference is true, then Xuande Zhenren, Bai Haishan and Felipe may have been kidnapped to Cebu Island, and Simon Almeida should also be there, so Zhu Hui went to General Fernando to discuss.

In the early years, when the Spaniards had just established themselves on Cebu, Simon Almeida was a missionary there, and he had deep roots in the local area, and after learning of this situation, General Fernando was deeply convinced and decided to immediately launch an operation on Cebu.

As a result, General Fernando led a large army to Cebu Island in person and sent a large army to launch an overwhelming search; Zhu Hui took Song He, Zhang Gou'er, Jingkong, Chen Xuewen and others to investigate, but all the people living on Cebu Island were Spaniards, and the five of them were useless at all, and they lived for more than ten days in a hurry, but they still found nothing.

This large-scale operation attracted the attention of a group of Dutch people on the nearby islands, and when they learned that a great fortune was buried in the depths of the ocean, they were all overjoyed and sent the news to their beggar guerrillas at sea.

"Dutchland" means Dutch depression, which included the present-day Netherlands and Belgium, and at that time, they were under the brutal rule of the Spanish Empire, and the Catholic Philip II carried out a frenzied persecution of the Protestant Dutch people, and the men were killed and the women were buried alive. In September of the previous year (1576 AD), an angry Dutch revolt broke out in Brussels, killing the governor sent by the Spanish Empire.

In order to rescue Xuande Zhenren, Bai Haishan and Felipe, Zhu Hui and others ran all over the nearby islands, and when they were exhausted, Mark suddenly came and brought them a surprising news: Liu Meng and others, who were in charge of monitoring Matsuura Nobuya, found that Matsuura Nobuyo only took a few cronies and Li Dan, and left first on someone else's merchant ship, and the fleet they brought came up with a lot of sailors from the Ming Dynasty, and they filled the ship with all kinds of daily necessities, enough for them to live at sea for more than a year, Yesterday, he quietly left the Bashi River estuary.

At this time, Zhu Hui and others realized that they had been deceived, judging from the confessions of Liu Qian and Zhang Biao, these two people were just being used, and those Ming Dynasty sailors who boarded the merchant ship of the Songpu family should be the protagonists of many thefts and kidnapping cases, and the leader behind them must have conspired with Simon Almeida for a long time, if Liu Qian and Zhang Biao succeeded, they would definitely use Shen Qi's merchant ship to go treasure hunting, it was because these two people miscalculated and were arrested, that they had to ask their old friend Matsuura Takashin for help.

It seems that Matsuura Takannobu sent the old Japanese Jiro to Manila in order to join forces with Simon Almeida to hunt for treasure, and at the same time, to send them ships and travel expenses, and skillfully use Li Dan's mouth to trick the tiger away from the mountain, and deceive all the people who were tracking them to Cebu Island.

It was too late to chase them, and when General Fernando learned the news, he almost fainted with anger, so he led everyone to hurry back to Manila.

After obtaining the consent of the governor of Lavizares, the defense of Manila was temporarily handed over to Gonzalez, and General Fernando came to resign, saying that he could no longer escort the ocean-going caravans, and in order to prevent the huge treasure from falling into the hands of pirates and pirates, he would personally organize a large expedition, and no longer consider using Indians to deal with those terrible "cannibals", and must find the treasure place before Simon Almeida and others......

Off topic

Sea Beggars Guerrillas: They are one of the main forces of the sea treasure hunt in Book V, a name that comes from the fact that the Dutch rebelled against the Spanish Empire by smashing churches and storming prisons. At that time, the Spanish aristocracy insulted the rebellious Dutch people as "beggars", while the rebels shouted the slogan "Long live the beggars", which in turn mocked the Spanish rulers. In 1572, a "guerrilla army of beggars" of 24 warships attacked Brier, the port of Sealand, and soon captured the city, establishing a stronghold for the Dutch uprising.