The declining Spanish Empire no longer had global military, political, and economic clout. Various emerging countries have launched a furious challenge against Spain around the world. The once powerful first empire on which the sun never sets has now begun to crumble like a candle in the wind.

However, in the remote Spice Islands, the Spanish city of Manila is still a very strong and sprawling castle. It was also the core of Spanish domination throughout East Asia.

The castle is lined with forts inside and outside the castle, and there are a large number of houses, streets, shops, farmsteads, public facilities, churches, etc. In total, nearly 40,000 people live in the castle, and in the farmstead outside the city, there are several times the number of inhabitants. Among them are the industrious. Chinese, but there are more people in the local area, who are short and dark, and ugly as ghosts.

Don't look at Governor Coqueira's dark-skinned and pot-bellied appearance now, and think he's a useless* bureaucrat. In fact, this Governor is a very experienced and excellent soldier!

The Governor of Coqueilla was of orthodox military origin and one of the famous Flemish veterans. He has fought against different enemies in Flanders, Peru and other places, and has achieved outstanding results. Before coming to the Philippines, he was the Governor of Panama.

After the death of his predecessor Viceroy of the Philippines, Coquela was appointed Governor of the Philippine Province of New Spain (Mexico) in 1635.

After he took office, he was good at using various means to divide and win over the ignorant natives of the local area, so that those fools would willingly die for the Spaniards. Subsequently, the "Protection and Preferential Treatment of Chinese Merchants" law was signed to lure hard-working and intelligent Chinese to come to the Philippines to do hard labor or business, and contribute to the prosperity and taxation of Manila City.

A few years after serving as Governor, Coquela was keenly aware of the The power of the Chinese people has swelled rapidly, and even vaguely threatens the dominance of the Spaniards in the region. Then he turned his face and launched a campaign against the . A massacre of the countrymen!

It is conservatively estimated that there are at least more than 20,000 of them. The people of the country died in that massacre. Originally in the Philippines thriving. The people fell silent again.

After the potential threat is removed. Governor Coquilla quickly put away the blood-dripping butcher's knife and turned the hideous butcher's face back into a kind smile. Once again began to give a variety of preferential policies to defraud a large number of medium. Chinese people are coming to the Philippines again to do things for the Spaniards!

A few years have passed. Everyone has forgotten what happened before. Local. The number of Malaysians has once again reached an alarming level, and they are almost completely in charge of the local economy!

If it weren't for Gao Yang who came over with a large army. It won't be long before the Spaniards raise their butcher's knives again!

Bagum Mdala, the leader of a small tribe from Legazpi. This small, obscene local head man was wearing only a dirty crotch cloth all over his body at the moment, and his dark skin was covered with sweat, dust, and blood from the whip!

In particular, there was a wound on his forehead wrapped in a bloodstained white cloth, and just looking at it made people feel sick!

Bagumdara gritted her teeth and desperately tugged at the rope on her shoulder, which had been deeply inserted into her flesh. Together with several other natives who had suffered the same thing, they tried to drag a cart full of supplies out of a deep pit behind them.

In order to limit the medium. With the rapidly expanding power of the Chinese in the Philippines, Coquela deliberately gave many local indigenous tribes some privileges to clash with the Chinese.

Bagumdala was given the title of land administrator outside Manila by the Governor of Coquela. All the taxes on the land of Chinese descent around Manila were entrusted to Bagumdala to be responsible for the collection. And privately allowed Bagummudala to receive a portion of it as payment.

Coveted for a long time. Bagum Dara, who is rich in the country, takes the chicken feather as an arrow and hits it. All kinds of difficulties and extortion of the Chinese people have emerged one after another.

The Spanish colonial officials deliberately turned a blind eye again. Whenever there is a dispute, most of the fault will be attributed to the local Chinese. Bagumdala, who was secretly connived, became even more unscrupulous, and the expropriation became more and more frequent, which naturally caused great anger among the Chinese on Luzon against the natives. The hatred between the two sides has long accumulated to an intolerable level.

Not only that, but the Governor of Coquilla even delegated the management of some of the port waters to local indigenous chiefs.

These natives levied a surcharge on the passage of ships by Chinese merchants, and not only did they collect a huge amount of money and goods from the Chinese every year. It also cultivated a large number of indigenous forces that obeyed the Spanish language, which can be described as a superb strategy to kill two birds with one stone.

Stir up a wedge between local indigenous and Chinese immigrants, and use indigenous power to counterbalance the expansion of Chinese in Luzon. It is even an opportunity to create a new round of "sheep shearing" through indigenous hands. This was the strategy that Governor Coquilla had prepared. When the time comes, it will be a bloody catastrophe for local Chinese immigrants!

Bagum Darlah, who had hoped to make another windfall in the coming tax season. When he was sleeping in his manor, he was broken into by a group of wolf-like Ming troops!

Bagum Dallah, who was sleeping in a daze, didn't understand anything when he was slammed on the head with a thick rifle butt. In the screams of his busty wife. Bagum Darlah, whose eyes were all covered in blood, suddenly fainted in pain.

By the time he woke up, he was in a filthy and chaotic camp. All around were shivering and terrified local natives.

Bagumdala, whose head was hastily bandaged, was furious and asked what had happened. But I was told that it was those who were wantonly bullied in the past. The army of the countryman's hometown has been killed!

Looking in the direction of the fingers of the surrounding natives, Bagum Dara, whose head was dizzy, suddenly turned black and almost fainted again.

"All the disobedient people are hung up there." The words of the surrounding natives made Bagum Dara completely desperate. This nightmare came so fast, he wasn't ready for it!

The days that followed became a hellish moment for all the natives who had been forcibly requisitioned.

Gao Yang for these perennial mutilation. The local natives of the country do not have the slightest mercy. All the heavy lifting is done by these lazy guys. Those who dare to have the slightest dissatisfaction or passive slacking off work, all hanging on the wooden pole to bask in the sun without saying a word.

In just a few days, the newly expanded stretch of road from Krabi Port to Manila City was already lined with hundreds of corpses that had begun to decompose!

Why does Bagum Dara, who has always been lazy, work so hard? If you have injuries on your body, you don't know about it? It's not because you're scared?!

Don't look at how brutal and violent these people were when they bullied and mutilated those Chinese in the past, and what kind of heinous evil deeds they could do. But. When there is a real threat of life and death coming to them, these people are the most afraid of death!

Because they're just a bunch of cowards.

"Huh~~~" The big car whose wheels were stuck in the pit was finally pulled out. Exhausted, Bagum Dara was relieved. He fell to the ground suddenly, gasping for air. His dark cheeks were covered with beads of sweat the size of beans. Even the tongue sticks out.

It's just that Bagum Dara, who is rare among the natives, is a little smart, and he just stood up on the ground after lying on the ground for a while. The old and new whip marks on his body reminded him all the time that it was not in his manor now!

Sure enough, Bagum Dara had just stood up, and several local Chinese who had to grovel and smile when they saw him in the past walked over with cold faces and leather whips.

Bagum Darlah, who was beating a drum in his heart, hurriedly took a few steps back and gave way to the road. With his hands on his legs, his body standing straight, he didn't dare to breathe more!

The natives who were pulling the cart with Bagumdara were still lying on the ground and humming. When I got up in the morning, I only ate two dry mediums. The natives who drank some dirty water were already too tired to do so much after such a long period of heavy physical work. They really don't have any strength left. It wasn't until the whip was added that he remembered where he was, and he howled.

Bagum Dara, whose eyes were flustered, looked at the natives who were whipped and rolled on the ground, and sighed in his heart. These Chinese who were trampled under their feet in the past and ate soil once they gained power, they immediately took revenge on them frantically!

At this time, he will not remember how his natives have treated these Chinese immigrants over the years!

Not far from the road, a few Ming soldiers who were drinking water and enjoying the cool under the shade of the trees were looking coldly at everything in front of them, and the muskets beside them were ready to send those natives who dared to make trouble to the western sky!

Looking at the people of the same clan who were screaming and rolling all over the ground under the whips of the Chinese, Bagum Dara's heart was desolate.

"What are the Spanish men going to do? Why don't you hurry up and put these damn in. All the national pigs were killed!! When the Spanish men come back, I'll have to skin them alive. The skin !! of the national pig Bagumdala, who had become meat on the chopping board, wailed in his heart, obsessed with the tragic revenge scene after his Spanish father came back.

At this moment, a loud and earth-shattering frenzied shout suddenly sounded in the barracks of the Ming army in the distance!

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"Your Excellency!" Huang Degong, who was full of joy, came behind Gao Yang and said with a smile: "We have blown up a fortress of the Francosian!" ”

"Hmm." Gao Yang put down the telescope in his hand and nodded slightly, "I saw it." ”

Watch as the once incomparably strong fortress in the distance turns into a dusty ruin under the fierce shelling. Gao Yang nodded slightly in his heart, this time it shouldn't be too much time wasted! (To be continued)