None of the pirate leaders dared to leave the port with their headquarters, and they were all afraid that the Ming fleet that was hiding somewhere would suddenly appear and kill them. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just when Zheng Yiguan's alliance was scaring itself, the combined fleet was already on its way to the city of Manila, Luzon, an era when the Kingdom of Sulu had been conquered by the Spanish colonizer Rigesby fifty years earlier, and Manila had become the capital of the Spanish colonists.

The Luzon region was called the Philippines by the Spaniards, a name that may have been a homonym for the Spaniards from their King Philip II.

The islands of Sulu, Mindanao, Basilan and Palawan in the southern Philippines became the territory of the Moro people of the Sulu Kingdom, who embraced Islam and fought against the Catholics and Spaniards.

Huang Sheng didn't come to fight the Spanish colonists with the combined fleet, Manila City was actually many times more prosperous and advanced than the Sulu Kingdom under the management of the Spaniards.

He believes that the biggest disaster for the Han people is to be colonized by the barbarians from Tunguska, and it is not advisable to set up any overseas strong enemies without eliminating the Jiannu.

After the Jiannu is destroyed, they will slowly pack up the Western colonists one by one and go to the Americas to colonize. Now it's just a knock on the mountain, so that everyone can trade fairly and make a fortune.

The arrival of such a large fleet in the port of Manila surprised the Spanish governor, the supreme governor here, whose warships were only a dozen in the port, and it was probably too late to hastily transfer warships to the port.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Spain is no longer what it used to be, and they are in decline, and their national and military strength is not at all comparable to that of half a century ago. They faced a great threat from the Dutch, the British.

The Spanish governor only discovered today that there was such a powerful enemy in Asia, and they suddenly launched an attack at this time, and their own country was far away.

Manila City St. The bells of Augustine's church rang in horror, and the Spanish governor declared martial law throughout the city, telling all Spaniards to take up arms against the pagan invasion.

Seeing that the war was about to break out, who knew that at this moment, the huge fleet sent an envoy.

The Spanish governor was overjoyed when he received the envoy, and it turned out that it was not the infidels who attacked, but the sailors of the Ming Dynasty who came to eliminate the pirates of the South Seas and escort the merchant ships of the people.

The Ming Dynasty came to a huge trading fleet this time, bringing a lot of porcelain, silk, cloth, tea, handicrafts and other goods, all of which were in demand in the European market.

The Ming Dynasty is a country of ancient civilizations, and the Spanish governor knows better, this country is not as unbearable as the Philippines, it is the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and the governor read "Marco Polo's Travels" when he was a child.

The trade negotiation representatives represented by Ruan Dan, Li Ximing, Bian Zhiming, and Ye Chengjing sent by the Ming side conducted trade negotiations with the Spanish side. Ye Chengjing also contacted some merchants who had traded before.

Fair trading, mutual benefit and reciprocity between the two sides, all the goods brought by the Daming fleet were taken off, and a lot of goods were loaded, and the Huang family made a lot of profits.

Huang Sheng still took the style of buying more goods with less silver, bought 10,000 stone for sugar, 200,000 jin for copper, and also bought spices, sumu, Su Ma Liqingshi, pepper, etc., and also purchased 100,000 stone of rice, with a price of six yuan of silver per stone, and corn for less than two coins of silver per stone.

In fact, with the load of the fleet, it is rich to triple it, but unfortunately Manila does not have so much spot, and there is no way to load it with 50,000 taels of gold. The coarse porcelain, glass products, Songjiang cloth and some soap gift boxes brought by the Huang family cost less than 200,000 taels of silver, and the profit was more than three times.

The Spanish side was also very excited about getting a lot of Daming goods, and they would get at least three times the profit if they shipped it back to Europe. They all promised to buy a large amount of copper, gold, nickel, sugar, and cotton to trade with the Ming Dynasty in the future.

The Spaniards had colonies in South America at this time, and there were a lot of gold and copper mines there, so the Spaniards had too much copper, but there was not much stock here in Manila.

As colonizers, the Spaniards were the most vicious and greedy, and their overseas colonization was completely naked plunder, using Galen ships to form armed fleets that specialized in transporting gold, silver, treasures, pearls, agate, and various precious metals to transport back to Europe.

They refused to invest in the colonies at all, but the raw materials were roughed and the finishing was done locally.

The Spaniards were stupid enough to plunder a lot of money without knowing how to use it, and spent most of it on the construction of magnificent cathedrals.

Many European towns have small populations of only a few thousand, and their churches are large enough to accommodate the entire town's inhabitants to worship at the same time, and some of them are so beautiful that they need to be built for decades or even centuries.

They just squandered their wealth in vain.

Later, the British who replaced Spain were relatively much better, they actually colonized a place and led to the industrial upgrading of this place, until later generations, the prosperity of Commonwealth countries such as Australia, New Zealand and so on can be seen.

Of course, all colonizers are predators, there is nothing wrong with this, everything for their own country, to maximize the interests of their own people, is very practical and humane, and it is stupid bastard behavior to help the poor class brothers all over the world.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty led by Huang Sheng also plundered the colonies, not in the colony deep processing, the Ming Dynasty is rich in resources, and the population advantage is not comparable to that of a small Spanish projectile country, and it is completely possible to rely on huge wealth to support a million male divisions, and it is impossible for the colonial rebels with cold weapons and bare arms to turn the sky upside down.

Seeing that they had found a powerful big buyer, of course they would ship a large number of goods to Manila for trading, and because they shipped too many precious metals back to Europe, they hit the market, and copper, gold, and silver have been depreciating, so this time Huang Sheng bought copper prices cheaper than those bought from Japan.

In fact, there was a large trade deficit between the West and the Ming Dynasty, and there were very few things they could ship to sell, while Europe needed a large amount of Ming porcelain, silk, cloth, tea, and so on.

They were able to trade gold, copper, nickel and other metals, but at least the load of the cargo ship was much more balanced.

Huang Sheng deliberately did not use silver to settle the value of the goods, because all Western merchants knew that silver was currency in the Ming Dynasty, and the price was too transparent.

Rather, it was bartered through negotiations, and the exchange ratio of sugar, cotton, and grain for silk, cloth, porcelain, and so on was negotiated.

The gold obtained by Huang Sheng was recalculated and the price ratio of silver became one to seven, and the price ratio of gold to silver in later generations was one to sixty or seventy, and now the ratio of Daming is also between one to eight and ten.

Huang Sheng's negotiation has virtually won more interests, and he will hoard a lot of gold in the future, so he can sit back and wait for the appreciation of gold.

The Daming business group and the Spanish businessmen finalized a long-term cooperation contract, which was the second large foreign trade order obtained by the Huang family, and the Ming and Spain officially named it the "Manila Contract".

The Huang family's first long-term cooperation contract was the "38 Agreement" finalized with the Japanese.

Huang Sheng was in an extremely relaxed mood, with these two contracts in hand, he would get millions of taels of trade volume, would provide hundreds of thousands of jobs in Daming, and would get more than one million taels of profits.