Chapter 019: Killing
"Let's go, go in and have a look!" Zhuo Shijie led everyone into the He Mansion. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Miss He, who was pale, followed behind everyone and walked in.
The courtyard was silent and lifeless.
The group continued on, through the vestibule, to a magnificent two-story building.
I saw that the doors and windows of this building were completely destroyed, and the windows of the black holes were like big mouths, which looked eerie and terrifying.
Miss He suddenly rushed towards the building, shouting bitterly: "Dad! Mother! Eldest brother! Third Brother ......"
Zhuo Shijie hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed her arm with one hand, and covered her mouth with the other.
Miss He screamed "whining" in her mouth and struggled hard.
"If you don't shout, I'll figure out what's going on for you, otherwise, whatever you want, we don't care about your business!" Zhuo Shijie lowered his voice to warn her.
Miss He stopped struggling and looked at Zhuo Shijie sadly and helplessly.
Zhuo Shijie waved his hand, and all the people left the He Mansion.
Separated from the He Mansion by a wall, looking at the size of the house, it is also a rich family, but it is slightly inferior to the He family.
"Go in here and ask!" Zhuo Shijie said.
In just a few minutes, a group of them were already guests of the family.
A man and woman in their forties and fifties were sitting on the floor, looking at Zhuo Shijie and his group in horror, and sneaking a glance at Miss He from time to time.
Miss He was emotionally and spoke a long list to the male and female hosts of the house in a language that Zhuo Shijie did not understand.
The man and woman also muttered for a while.
Suddenly, Miss He let out a cry of grief and fainted to the ground.
Zhuo Shijie asked Andre: "What did they say?" β
AndrΓ© replied: "Miss He asked her what happened to her family, and the two said that the Spanish army smashed their house, robbed them of all their belongings, and killed Miss He's entire family and threw them into the sea. β
Zhuo Shijie sighed and asked again: "Why did the Spaniards kill her whole family?" β
"When the Black Whirlwind snatched Miss He, he encountered the Spaniards and wounded two Spanish soldiers, and the Spaniards said that the He family was a pirate, so they ...... However, it was not only the He family who suffered in Vigan City this time, almost all the Ming merchants in Vigan City were killed. β
Zhuo Shijie's teeth were gritted loudly.
Sun Tiezhu couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted angrily: "Spanish red-haired ghost! One day, Lao Tzu will kill all your sons of bitch! β
Several others also scolded.
Zhuo Shijie didn't say anything, he knew what the root cause of this massacre was.
In the mid-sixteenth century, the Spaniards arrived in the Philippine region and occupied Luzon in the early eighties, building the city of Manila.
They transported a large amount of gold and silver from the colonies in South America to the Philippines, and through the Chinese merchants in the Philippines, to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for countless silk porcelain, these Spaniards made a lot of money, and of course, the Chinese merchants naturally made a lot of money.
During this period, the Spaniards gave all kinds of preferential treatment to Chinese businessmen, and they almost called Chinese businessmen their fathers.
However, the land of the Ming Dynasty was vast and producing, and there was nothing lacking except gold and silver, and gradually Spain realized that something was wrong.
All the gold and silver shipped from South America went to the Ming Dynasty, causing a huge trade deficit for the Spaniards.
At this time, the Wanli Emperor, who had been at war with Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Korea for several years, was finally victorious, but the treasury was empty. They saw that the Spaniards were pouring so much gold and silver into Daming, and thought that they had huge gold and silver mines, so they could send people to the Philippines to inspect the mines.
Who knew that when the news reached the Philippines, the Spaniards took the opportunity to build momentum, saying that the Ming Dynasty was going to cooperate with Chinese merchants to invade the Philippines, and began to carry out the first massacre of Chinese merchants in 1603.
In this massacre, more than 20,000 Chinese were killed, and in the end, only more than 800 Chinese in the entire Philippines survived.
At that time, Emperor Wanli was furious and said: "The emperor deceived the court and provoked overseas, causing 20,000 merchants to use their blades, damaging the prestige and humiliating the country, and dying innocently. The Luzon chieftain killed the merchants without permission, and the officials discussed the crime. β
Unfortunately, due to the emptiness of the treasury and the weakness of the navy, it was finally overcome.
The second massacre, in 1639, killed as many as 22,000 Chinese, and this time, only a handful of nimble Chinese survived.
The He family could never have imagined that they had escaped last year's massacre, but not this year.
Every time the Spaniards slaughtered the Chinese, they robbed countless gold and silver, and if Zhuo Shijie remembered correctly, decades later, the Spaniards, who had tasted the sweetness, carried out a third massacre of the Chinese.
"Spaniards, one day, Lao Tzu will move westward and kill your lair!" Zhuo Shijie said viciously.
Miss Ho woke up with tears streaming down her face, but she was just crying silently.
Zhuo Shijie and others also knew that persuasion was useless at this time, so they could only let her cry for a while.
Suddenly, Miss He wiped the tears from her face and pointed with her hand: "That porcelain belongs to my family!" β
The couple panicked all of a sudden, and their mouths were filled with a series of bird words.
Miss He stood up suddenly, looked around the room, and pointed with her hand: "This is my family!" That's my ...... too."
She walked up to the couple in two steps and said sharply, "You guys also went to my house to grab something!" Say! Who killed my family!? β
The couple fell to their knees at once, and another string of bird songs.
Zhuo Shijie snorted coldly.
In several anti-Chinese incidents in Spain, it was not the Spanish soldiers who really slaughtered the most Chinese, but the local Filipinos!
Chinese businessmen are generally wealthy, while poor Filipinos are very hostile to the Chinese, so every time they exclude Chinese, these Filipinos are the vanguard of the massacre of the Chinese, fueling the flames, burning, killing, prostituting and plundering, and their evil deeds are several times worse than those of the Spaniards!
Zhuo Shijie slowly pulled out the short knife on his waist and stepped forward.
Seeing this, the couple pleaded repeatedly.
"If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, no wonder others!"
Zhuo Shijie's hand rose and fell, and blood splashed five steps in an instant!
He gently wiped the blood from the knife and said, "Go!" While it's still early, let's go do another big one! β
Sun Tiezhu and the others were all excited, and immediately said: "I am willing to go with the big boss!" β
After going out, Zhuo Shijie's brain teaser kept going on and began to assign tasks to everyone.
"Sun Tiezhu, you take two people to the oil mill and buy some hot oil!"
"Heizi, you and Chen Han and the two, go and investigate the situation around the inner city, and report later!"
"Remember, at three o'clock, meet at the west gate of the inner city!"
Several people took the order and left.
When they left, Zhuo Shijie looked at Andre: "You said you could keep me safe?" β
Andrei's body straightened up all of a sudden: "Please rest assured, commander!" Nothing goes wrong! β
"Do you have a weapon on you?"
"I've got two pistols, Commander, do you need one?"
Zhuo Shijie shook his head: "Forget it, I haven't played with guns again, wait for the next time!" β
He looked at the towering castles in the inner city not far away, and his face was extremely gloomy.
"Lao Tzu is going to kill today!"