Chapter 140: The Great Layout of the South Seas

Qin Kai naturally understands that the large-scale shì in the country does not allow him to have too many actions, but this is out of the country, this era is not like the later generations, he sends a thunderous word and thunder, and it will soon spread all over the world, and the blockage of the news gives him enough room to talk about it in the far away place of the high emperor, and there are powerful 501 ships and Nanyang sailors as the backing, although it is not enough to shake the Spanish broken ship in the twilight of the sunset, but it is naturally no problem to show the force.

There are a large number of old members of the Freemasonry in the fleet, many of them are Chinese who joined the Freemasonry in Vietnam, and they have a deeper understanding of the difficulties of surviving in a foreign country than others. What to do?

The current situation of the Chinese overseas he listed, the land in front of him, 800 years ago in the Great Song Dynasty, this was the foothold of Chinese's overseas trade, at that time it was called Luzon and Boni, and the natives here were not only lazy and ignorant, but also hated the hard-working Chinese!

Although the Chinese have contributed greatly to the prosperity of local commerce by bringing the latest technology and skilled craftsmen over the past two hundred years, the local aborigines, instigated by the Spanish colonizers, have become frenzied by the local Chinese, and the five massacres recorded in history are in 1603, 1639, 1662, 1686 and 1762.

Tens of thousands of Chinese who had lived in the local area for decades were killed for no reason, and many more were forced to flee from their homes, while the wealth of the Chinese was wantonly divided and plundered by local colonizers and indigenous scoundrels.

These Freemasons were all educated and enthusiastic young people, and many of them had been treated unequally in Vietnam, but it was a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and the Chinese also had a certain amount of power in the Vietnamese court, although they were suppressed, but not at all to the point of outrageous in the Philippines.

These histories have never been known to these young people, and no one has ever advocated for the so-called justice for these overseas Chinese. However, because Lord Qin was speaking, he didn't interrupt him very impulsively.

Qin Kai naturally saw this situation, he stretched out his hand and pointed to Yan Xun, the leader of the Mutual Masonic Group sitting in the front row, this is the second son of the Yan family in the Vietnamese Chinese Business Alliance, he doesn't like to do business, but likes to fight everywhere, but the Mutual Masonic Association has become a world for this guy to display his talents, "Yan Xun, it seems that you have something to say!" ”

Yan Xun stood up snapped, but he also had a bit of a military demeanor, after all, they had all gone through a month of paramilitary training, and they looked a little bit, "My lord, what is this Filipino native, since our Freemasons are here, we have to contact the Chinese in Luzon and the Chinese in Nanyang to form a group, so that we are not afraid of the natives and Spaniards here, these Spaniards and natives are too vicious!" I think I can only retaliate with a tooth for a tooth! ”

"A tooth for a tooth ......"

"Blood for blood......" The young man below responded loudly.

Qin Kai nodded solemnly, made a quiet gesture, and all the members immediately quieted down, they naturally knew that this Lord Qin was a powerful character, and the French also took a detour when they saw it, and they could also be afraid of this Spain at the end of Taixi, of course, this Spain has declined, and the last generation is not enough, Qin Kai is somewhat exaggerated in this regard! In the words of his plagiarism of the great man, it is a strategic contempt for the enemy......

"Yan Xun said very right, my mood is the same as each of you, these Chinese are our compatriots, and they all have the same Chinese blood, this justice will have to be sought sooner or later!! But...... Not now! ”

"My lord, when did that ......?"

Qin Kai shook his hand, looking calm, "It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, ten years, but in dealing with these wicked people and thugs, we can only be villains, villains take revenge, seize the day!" Today, I'm going to recruit a group of villains who are willing to do justice for these compatriots! Remember, as long as the villains, come and deal with these thugs who have not slaughtered tens of thousands of Chinese! ”

His words somewhat subverted the previous image of this Lord Qin, he was a gentle and knowledgeable member on weekdays, and the following mutual aid members were silent for only a few seconds, Yan Xun immediately stood up and said loudly, "My lord, this kind of villain, I deserve it!" Count me in as a ......",

"Count me in ......"

"I'm going to join ...... too"

“……”

The scene was hot, and he was somewhat proud of his preaching Qin Kai, and his revelations obviously achieved good results, great power nationalism, which is undoubtedly the only way to go in the era of civilization, the story of the global village, even in his own time, is an unattainable idea, only in the image of a science fiction blockbuster, and strive for the greatest interests of his own nation and country, this is the only choice for progress.

Soon a mutual masonic team with a clear division of labor was established, and there were many young people who had small disputes over several positions and even small disputes, in the face of such enthusiasm, Qin Kai naturally would not deliberately suppress it, and immediately said that this Philippine Luzon is just the first stop, and the whole Nanyang is a big world!

The leader of the group, Yan Xun, was appointed as the president of the Luzon branch of the Chinese Mutual Masonic Association, and Qin Kai publicly announced the three purposes of the Mutual Masonic Association in Nanyang, one is to vigorously develop the organization, absorb reliable members, and safeguard the interests of the Chinese, the second is to help the Chinese to start a business in Nanyang and provide cooperation support, and the third is to absorb and assist the Mawei Shipping Company to carry out trade, open up the market, and at the same time develop the Mutual Masonic Association with the help of commercial channels.

In later generations, the Philippines, the closest to the Chinese mainland, had the smallest proportion of Chinese in the whole of Southeast Asia, which is closely related to the country's centuries-long history of frenzied oppression of the Chinese, at a time when the natives did not formally hold power, and the attitude of the Spaniards towards the Chinese was very contradictory.

On the one hand, there are lazy and unskilled natives, and on the other hand, there are hard-working and intelligent Chinese workers, who neither want the Chinese to grow in power nor do they want the Chinese to leave, so they have been taking advantage of ethnic contradictions to indulge the natives' hatred of China.

However, the local Chinese have been in a state of disorganization for a long time, which has been discovered by the shopkeepers of Mawei Shipping, who are preparing to open a trading house in Olongapo. The good trading base of the port of Subic Bay was the property run by some indigenous officials, or the property of the Spaniards, while the Chinese commercial companies were scattered on the periphery of the trade area.

This time, the two Luzon Chinese businessmen Li and Chen took the initiative to come to the door, and they were the number one Chinese businessmen in Olongapo, and after Qin Kai arranged the affairs of the Mutual Masonic Association, the shopkeeper Liu came to tell him that the Chinese businessman Li and the Chen family sent out the big shopkeeper to visit, and the two families had already heard that this time they passed through Luzon was the Qin Cha from the Qing Dynasty, and this visit was also very grand.

As soon as they met the big shopkeepers of the Sun family and the Chen family, they had to return to the line according to the rules of the court, Qin Kai was very generously exempted, and the accompanying shopkeeper Liu introduced the goods of Mawei shipping to the two big shopkeepers, as well as the preferential measures for the two Chinese businessmen, but it was obvious that the two shopkeepers were not interested in these preferential measures.

Qin Kai naturally knew that these two came to see him with a big red envelope, it must have intentions, and he also guessed a thing or two, he stood up and pointed outside with a smile, "Shopkeeper Sun, Shopkeeper Chen, come and see, the scenery of this Subic Port is really unusual!" ”

Seeing this, the two shopkeepers immediately followed over and looked in the direction pointed by Qin Kai, looking here, not only did there be no scenery on the opposite side, but there were more than 10 Spanish warships moored in the harbor, and the two looked at each other, and they were a little confused about the meaning of the adult's words.

Shopkeeper Chen spoke first, he sighed first, and then said: "My lord, since this Luzon has been changed to the Philippines, this Spain is not ready to let us Chinese live a good life!" ”

It's a little interesting, it's a little interesting, these two well-informed Chinese businessmen are people who have some ideas, Qin Kai smiled slightly, and expanded along their topic, "Two shopkeepers, you look at the fleet of our Nanyang Naval Division, how do you want to compare it to the Spaniards?" ”

"There are a lot of Spanish boats, but there are none of them on this one that Lord Xiang is on!" When Shopkeeper Sun got on the boat, he peeked around, and when he commented at this time, he was right.

Qin Kai looked at the two, laughed, and pointed to the huge naval guns in front of the bridge, "Two, in this land of Luzon, I can earn a stable world for the Chinese, I don't know what you will repay me?" ”

These two shopkeepers came today, just hoping that Qin Kai, as the envoy of the Great Qing Dynasty, would talk to the local Spaniards about the status of the Chinese in the Philippines. ,

After decades and generations of hard work, many Chinese have earned a lot of money, but in the face of the oppression of indigenous thugs and Spaniards, they often have to spend money to eliminate the disaster. However, this time they took the initiative to find Mawei Shipping Company, which naturally has a big reason, these Chinese are intertwined in the local area, and they have also planted a lot of eyeliner.

A local official who has an in-law relationship with the Chen family secretly delivered the news that the Olongapo City garrison is on full alert today, and the Spanish Far East Fleet stationed in Subic Military Port is also on full alert, and it is said that the Great Qing Fleet that came to trade is very powerful, so strong that it even makes the Spaniards very nervous.

Originally, the Sun and Chen families were not very interested in Chinese businessmen coming to do trade, and after hearing the news, they also took the initiative to send people to check the products of the Mawei Shipping Company, and they were even more surprised at this look, the goods shipped here were all lucrative things, small hardware, soap, and ready-to-wear clothes, but they were all products that were not very common outside.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the two came, this adult turned out to be very straightforward, and for a while, the two big shopkeepers didn't know how to answer Qin Kai's straightforward question......

Lu Han was also sitting behind Qin Kai at this time, and when he heard Qin Kai's words, he was also shocked in his heart, this is good at fighting, but it is not something that the Fujian political envoy should do, so he calculated it, and did he want to remind him kindly later.

The two shopkeepers pondered for a while, but they couldn't make up their minds, but the purpose of their coming today was achieved, this Lord Qin, who has a strong military power, is obviously very interested in his own proposal, and now all he lacks is to come up with suitable conditions on his side, Shopkeeper Sun asked: "Lord Qin, I don't know what you have to say?" This is the amount of the army's salary, as long as we Luzon Chinese businessmen can get it, it is absolutely true! ”

This shopkeeper Sun naturally spoke very tactfully, neither throwing hole cards, but also directly stating that he could give out the silver to work the army, but the amount still had to be discussed, after all, he didn't know anything about the details of this Lord Qin.

Qin Kai's face is black, these two Chinese businessmen are really ruthless, as soon as they get started, they are ready to borrow their own soldiers to do it with Spain, Lao Tzu's mess in Vietnam has not been solved yet, and this is across the South China Sea in the Philippines to make a fuss...... In that situation, I really can't handle a 501 ship with ten or twenty ships.

Although the Spanish fleet is no longer ranked among the world's powers, it is also an old empire that started with naval warships, and it is still investing in the construction of the navy as always, but the gap is a little bigger than that of other European powers.

After entering the port, the officers were not idle, the Spanish fleet in this port was carefully pondered one by one, and there were at least 15 warships moored in the port of Subic Bay, all of which were steam-powered warships, but there were only three ironclad ships, and two of them were ancient side-chord gun ironclads, and only one seemed to be a relatively advanced waist gun room ironclad ship.

But this ship's waist gun room ...... For the turret-type heavy gun with a 270-degree angle on the 501 ship, that thing is definitely a design with a gap of several classes, as long as the combat position is controlled, Lu Han will definitely make the Spanish battleship have no power to fight back!

However, Qin Kai is not an idiot, now is definitely not the time to provoke this side, this Spain has ruled the Philippines for more than 200 years, this rule can be described as deep-rooted, there are at least more than 50,000 infantry stationed there, and there is absolutely no way to quickly defeat them by relying on his own soldiers and horses.

And he had already made a full plan, he was not in a hurry at all, he picked up the teapot and poured a cup for the two shopkeepers, seeing that the adults poured the tea in person, these two were somewhat cramped, and they hurriedly got up and said that they didn't dare, Qin Kai laughed, "Shopkeeper Sun, shopkeeper Chen, have you seen the goods of our Mawei Sea?" ”

The two of them were stunned, this adult didn't talk about silver, what kind of goods did he talk about, Shopkeeper Sun thought for a while and said: "Shopkeeper Liu introduced us to them, they are all unique products of the Great Qing Kingdom, and they are very profitable......

"Wrong!" Qin Kai categorically interrupted his words, "This is not unique to the Qing Dynasty, but unique to Mawei Shipping!" Can you imagine how big a market this is? ”

As soon as these words came out, Sun and Chen, the two shopkeepers, were also taken aback, what does it mean to operate exclusively in this commodity, they are the most clear about this family that has been in business for generations, and the two looked at each other - the feelings of this Lord Qin are not bad for money! ,

"What do you mean by ......"

"Let the money in your hands make money, I will teach you! But I hope you will do your best to twist all the Chinese in Nanyang into a rope, so that you still need to be afraid of the problems you are worried about! Qin Kai smiled and drew a big circle, see if you don't come in...... It's strange not to come in!!

When the two shopkeepers heard this, they were a little dizzy, this Lord Qin ...... That's not Bao Qingtian alive, it sounds like it's all for the sake of the Chinese and Chinese businessmen in Nanyang, not only don't you want overseas Chinese to pay, but you can also make everyone make money, what kind of ability is this, but what this adult wants to do by himself sounds like no clue......

"Your Excellency is willing to make decisions for the Nanyang Chinese, we should do our best to assist your Excellency, how to handle it, but please be the commander!" The two shopkeepers immediately made up their minds to get on Qin Kai's thief ship.

Qin Kai smiled, beckoned Yan Xun in......

After the Qing fleet anchored in Subic Harbor, Pedro, the governor of Olongapo City, was quite nervous for a while, at this time, Westerners still have some awe of this huge empire in the Far East, and this time the fleet of the Great Qing Kingdom was unexpectedly strong, which made him very surprised.

Vice Admiral Robben, commander of the First Fleet of the Spanish Far East, stationed in Subic Harbor, came to him yesterday, and according to the analysis of the Qing fleet he sent people, the other side actually had a very advanced ironclad battleship, and the caliber of the guns was amazing, in addition to several steam-wood-hulled warships, there was also a first-class cruiser with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, and the overall combat power was very amazing.

The most important thing is that Vice Admiral Robben observed the soldiers of the Qing Navy who disembarked for training and found that the military discipline and training of the other side were very good, and the army weapons and equipment were very advanced, and the Spanish army now stationed in the Philippines was not only negligent in training because it had not fought for a long time, but also the replacement of weapons was also very outdated, and there was a large proportion of practical front-loading rifles, and the soldiers of this Qing fleet turned out to be all rear-loading rifles.

The two discussed for a while, and they were also afraid that the Qing people would do something, so they hurriedly ordered the whole army to be on guard, and the forts in the bay were stationed with soldiers day and night, but unexpectedly, after observing for a few days, the Qing people did not have any other new moves except for starting a new shop very hard, so today Lieutenant General Robben came to Governor Pedro again to discuss.

While the two were discussing, an officer outside the Governor's Mansion suddenly came in to report that Qin Kai, who was sent by the Great Qing Dynasty and was also in charge of the military affairs of the Nanyang Naval Division, had come to visit the Governor......

This somewhat surprised Pedro, what does this Chinese want to do?