Luzon, that is, the area of Manila in the later Philippines. During www.biquge.info the reign of Hongwu and Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, Luzon sent envoys to visit China three times.

At first, Zhou Shixiang did not know that Luzon was Manila, and he did not know the situation there. He hurried to Jinxia in order to obtain detailed information on Luzon from Zheng Xi.

After Zheng Mingjun's uncle and nephew led the rebellion of the sailors, Zheng Jing had already returned from Xinghua to Jinxia. Zheng Xi took advantage of the situation and led his troops to the area of Tong'an and Zhongqing, and formed an encirclement of Jinxia with the sixth and seventh towns of the Taiping Army that had gone south in advance. What is surprising is that Zheng Xi did not take advantage of Zheng Jing's "illness" to kill him, and immediately waved his army across the sea to seize the island, but stopped the offensive under the pretext that the army was out of food.

Without the help of Zheng's raiding department, Suna did not dare to force the crossing, and Dasu mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that year, and two sailors participated in the battle, but they failed to take Jinxia. As a lesson from the past, Suna, who is not good at water warfare, is also not confident in capturing Jinxia alone, so after consulting with Hu Qili, the town general of the seventh town, he also stopped the front-line military operations.

After Zhou Shixiang received the report, he also guessed that Zheng Jing was unwilling to "contribute" anymore, probably this uncle really didn't want to take on the reputation of forcing his nephew, or he felt that his lips were cold and he was afraid that if Zheng Jing died, it would be his turn next.

Suna's prudence made Zhou Shixiang appreciate it very much, and if Suna forcibly crossed the sea to seize the island, Zhou Shixiang might not agree. Although the main force of the Jinxia Navy Division has been taken to him by Zheng Mingjun's uncle and nephew, one-third of the sailor warships are still in Jinxia. If Zheng Jing's last naval force is not completely resolved, Zhou Shixiang will never launch the Battle of Jinxia. At present, the possibility of a political solution to the settlement of Zheng Jing and Jinxia Zheng Jun is actually much greater than a military solution.

Guo Xiong, an officer of the military department, suggested that the East China Sea Division in Zhoushan be transferred south to deal with the remnants of Zheng Jing's naval division, and this plan was very safe, and with the strength of the East China Sea Division, the remnants of Zheng Jing's naval division would definitely not be able to resist. As long as Zheng Jing didn't even have a single warship left in his hand, then crossing the sea and landing would be as easy as running on flat ground. However, Zhou Shixiang vetoed this plan, because Zheng Mingjun's uncle and nephew and Feng Xifan certainly had the intention of making great contributions again, but the soldiers they brought were from Zheng Jun after all, and they were inextricably linked with Jinxia.

Zhou Shixiang didn't want to be in a hurry, not only did he want Zheng Mingjun's uncle and nephew and Feng Xifan to die, but also completely reined in the hearts of the East China Sea masters, so that they could become the backbone of the future Ming Navy, so they couldn't let them feel that the imperial court and His Royal Highness the King of Qi were using them, instead of trusting them. In addition, the East China Sea Division has just been formed, the construction of camps and ports, the resettlement of soldiers' families is in progress, and there are many problems such as the maintenance and supply of warships. Hastily transferring them to the south again to participate in the Battle of Jinxia would inevitably outweigh the losses.

In Zhou Shixiang's plan, the direction of the battle that the East China Sea Division was about to engage was in the north, outside the distant pass, not in Jinxia.

If it weren't for the news of Luzon that Liu Guoxuan received, Zhou Shixiang would not have been in such a hurry to go south, he wanted to give Zheng Jing a little time to think about it, and also give Zheng Jing a little time to think about it.

The massacre of the Han Chinese in Luzon changed Zhou Shixiang's itinerary, and when he suddenly arrived in Tong'an, Zheng immediately panicked, thinking that Zhou Shixiang had come to Xingshi to ask for his guilt. However, when he led the civil and military general Zhou Shixiang into Tong'an City, he found that His Royal Highness the King of Qi did not ask him about the intention of not moving his troops, nor did he ask about the situation of Zheng Jing in Jinxia, but asked about Zheng Zheng's situation on Luzon Island.

Zheng Xi didn't know much about Luzon, and Huang Zhao, who was busy with the situation in Luzon, introduced it to His Royal Highness King Qi. According to Huang Zhao, around the time of Jiajing, the Spaniards occupied the island of Luzon and built a city there called Manila. I don't know where the Spaniards got a lot of gold and silver to transport to Manila, and then went to Daming through the local Chinese to exchange for silk and porcelain and other goods, making a lot of money. Among them, the Zheng family played a non-negligible role in it, because the maritime trade between Luzon and the Ming Dynasty was basically in the hands of the Zheng family. In recent years, because Dongfan was occupied by the Dutch, the sea route was divided by the red-haired ghosts. But whether it is the Spaniards or the red-haired ghosts, their main trading partners are the Zheng family. The main source of goods provided to them by the Zheng family was sold by merchants in Jiangnan, Zhejiang, and Fujian.

Knowing Manila, Zhou Shixiang naturally had the impression of the Philippines, and then the map of the entire Southeast Asia, Europe, and South America appeared in his mind. Huang Zhao's sea trade can obviously be summed up in a line, that is, the white people in Europe will transport the gold and silver looted from South America to the Philippines and other places, and then buy goods from Eastern China through local Chinese merchants. The purchase objects of those Chinese merchants were naturally the Zheng family, who had mastered the coastal seaways of China, and then the Zheng family purchased the goods needed by Westerners from Jiangnan and other places to sell. And those merchants in the south of the Yangtze River led to another line, that is, the problem of textile workshops and cash crops discovered by Zhou Shixiang in Songjiang and other places not long ago.

One ring is one ring, the "consumer" of the terminal is a white man thousands of miles away, the other end is the thousands of handicraft owners and farmers of the Ming Dynasty, and in the middle are all kinds of "maritime merchants" including the Zheng family. The "currency" that connects this line is the gold and silver looted by whites from South America and elsewhere. In other words, the white people transported batch after batch of goods from the Ming Dynasty almost free of charge through colonization and other means, and the only people who could benefit from the Ming Dynasty were the Zheng family and those merchants and workshop owners. Craftsmen and peasants earn only small profits.

Sort out the line and understand the key points, and things will be simpler. The simple question is why the Spaniards in Luzon carried out the massacre of the Chinese who helped them profit.

Huang Zhao didn't understand this too well, but he told Zhou Shixiang that the Spaniards had slaughtered the Chinese twice before. One was in the Wanli year, and the other was in the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

The massacre that took place during the Wanli period was largely related to Emperor Shenzong. At that time, the Ming Dynasty had just finished the "Three Great Expeditions", although they were victorious, but they consumed most of the national strength, so that the treasury was empty, and the finances were tight, so Emperor Shenzong learned that the Spaniards had a lot of gold and silver in Luzon, thinking that there were huge silver mines there to mine, so he was ready to send an army to attack Luzon, drive away the Spaniards, and include Luzon and the surrounding areas into the territory of the Ming Dynasty to solve the financial problems.

Emperor Wanli wanted to include the Philippines in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and His Majesty Shenzong was motivated by greed, which really surprised Zhou Shixiang. Thinking about it carefully, His Majesty the Divine Sect coincides with his current thoughts, and it also reflects a truth - as long as there are enough benefits, people will go crazy about it.

If Emperor Wanli's plan is realized, then it is likely that this Emperor Shenzong will become the most glorious figure in Chinese history and the most far-reaching influence on China and the world pattern.

It's just that this news was somehow known to the Spanish people in Luzon, and the Chinese in Luzon had rebelled because of the heavy taxes of the Spaniards before, so the Spaniards thought that the Chinese would cooperate with the Ming Dynasty army to occupy Luzon. The Spaniards, who were accustomed to being robbers, struck first and incited the local natives to carry out a large-scale massacre of the Chinese. More than 20,000 people were estimated to have been killed in this massacre.

Because there were maritime trade exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and Luzon and other places at that time, the news quickly spread to the Ming Dynasty and the ears of the Wanli Emperor. His Majesty, who was nicknamed "Shenzong", was extremely furious and issued an order: "The Emperor and others deceived the imperial court, provoked overseas, and caused 20,000 merchants to anoint the blade, damage the prestige and humiliate the country, and die innocently, that is, the head of the lord will be sent to the sea." The Luzon chieftain killed the merchants without permission, and the officials discussed the crime. ”

However, because the three major expeditions consumed most of the Ming Dynasty's national strength, and the Wanli Emperor died soon, the plan to send troops to pacify Luzon failed. The cabinet officials who presided over the government even thought that the Chinese who fled to Luzon were merchants, and that merchants were not worthy of the imperial court's use of force. It is said that "the four people of China, the businessmen are the most cheap, how can they be untouchables, raise a military revolution, and abandon it without pity." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Shixiang shook his head secretly, he found that Huang Zhao and others had similar views on this matter to those officials back then, and also thought that the imperial court should not use force for businessmen. Thinking of the so-called "Shinong Industry and Commerce" in this era, the deep-rooted ideological concepts are by no means something that can be changed in a short period of time, so Zhou Shixiang did not say anything about it.

The second massacre of the Chinese by the Spaniards took place in the twelfth year of Chongzhen. At that time, the Chinese in Luzon and other places rebelled again because of the Spanish conquest, but they were defeated in the end. After the incident, even many Chinese who had converted to Catholicism were brutally killed by the Spaniards, and more than 50,000 people were killed. Because the Ming Dynasty was already in turmoil at that time, and it was too busy to take care of itself, this incident did not cause any waves in the Ming Dynasty, as if it had never happened.

Zheng Xi remembered something and said, "King Qi, in the eleventh year of Yongli, the eldest brother sent a letter to an overseas Chinese in Batavia, Java, asking him to stop doing business with the Spaniards in Luzon. And when the eldest brother was there, he repeatedly expressed his indignation at what happened to the Chinese in Luzon, and proposed to lead troops to capture Luzon and punish the Spaniards. ”

Liu Guoxuan, who was slightly injured in the naval battle, also said: "The general also knows about this matter, but at that time, the feudal lord was preparing for the Northern Expedition, and he really couldn't draw troops and horses for the expedition. ”

Zhou Shixiang nodded, the news of the massacre of the Chinese by the Spaniards in Luzon was obtained by Liu Guoxuan, and he knew the most, so he asked about the situation in Luzon this time. Liu Guoxuan said that the specific situation is not very clear, and it is not clear how many people died.

Gan Hui interjected: "The people of our country in Luzon have always been loose, and they only use money to buy peace when they encounter problems on weekdays, and when the crisis comes, they have no power to resist, which leads to tragedy. If there is the power of self-preservation, how can so many people die, think that the Spaniards are said to have come from the polar Europa, the number is not many, the people of our country really want to work together, how can they be arrogant. ”

"How long does it take to sail from our country to Luzon?" Zhou Shixiang asked a question that he was most concerned about.

Liu Guoxuan thought for a while and said: "Starting from Zhangzhou Waiyang Cape to Penghu, Shama Touao at the southern tip of Dongfan to Apari Port in northern Luzon, this route departs in March every spring, and can reach Manila in 20 days at most. ”