Liu Hengzhen went out of the camp and ordered a carriage to be prepared, and he was to return to Manila to meet his uncle.

Soon, a carriage pulled out of the barracks. Liu Hengzhen asked the young man who was in the same carriage with him: "Who are you?" ”

"I have already said that I am Chinese."

"Can you tell me your name?"

"You can call me Joseph, or you can call me Kelly, or the Queen of England, or of course you can call me the carriage. You just need to know that I am Chinese. As for the name, does it matter? ”

Name, does it matter? Liu Hengzhen's heart was shocked, this question woke Liu Hengzhen like a thunderbolt from the sky, and then Liu Hengzhen realized that he had made a big mistake that he thought he was right.

Since the day I took that awkward Filipino name for myself, I have been going further and further down the wrong path. He once thought that in order to truly integrate into the world of Filipino locals, it didn't matter if he chose a local name, and the word Baohua at the end of his name implied the fact that he was Chinese. However, in fact, even he did not realize that since he had this name, he has gotten closer and closer to the Filipino locals, and the taste of Chinese in himself is getting weaker and weaker.

He once had a great ideal to help the Chinese in the Philippines truly gain a firm foothold in this land. So he took a Filipino name, married a Filipino woman, and secretly made gunpowder, smuggled arms, and secretly resold them to local armed forces. While earning the difference, I also hope to rely on these locals in exchange for a better life in the Philippines. I also hope that in this way, the Chinese people in the Philippines can be attached to themselves, and use their friendship with the commander-in-chief of the Philippine Revolutionary Army to promote the integration of Chinese and locals! Now this once-great ideal turned out to be a mess.

The Luzon people are not Chinese, and while they are growing stronger with their own help, they are also becoming more and more interested in the wealth of the Chinese! Now that the revolution has not yet won, they are openly robbing the wealth of the Chinese. Once the revolution is won, who can guarantee that the Filipinos will not turn their guns on the Chinese? The Dai Yan Kingdom, the Three Buddha Kingdoms, the Borneo Kingdom, etc., the prosperity established by the Chinese who worked hard in Nanyang were wiped out overnight, and when hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Lanfang Kingdom were finally slaughtered like pigs and dogs, this torrent of extermination of China became more and more unscrupulous. On the surface, the torrent of extermination of China was the result of the Western powers behind the scenes, but it was the local natives who had received jobs and money in the hands of the Chinese who had become more and more greedy in the hands of the Chinese who had raised their butcher's knives. While they wantonly slaughtered the Chinese in Nanyang, they also took away the wealth that the Chinese had worked so hard to accumulate. After the local natives plundered the wealth of the Chinese and became rich, they stopped robbing the Chinese. When they spent all the wealth they had looted, the Nanyang Chinese also accumulated wealth again. When the Nanyang Chinese had just thought about some good times, these local natives raised their butcher knives again and started a new round of robbery. The Nanyang occupied by the great powers has now become a cemetery for the Chinese, and countless Chinese have been thrown into the sea in the genocide deliberately created by the colonial rulers. The kingdom of Daiyan, the country of the Three Buddhas, the country of Borneo, the country of Lanfang, and the suffering of the Chinese in Nanyang are like the staging of the cyclical surname.

Wrong, really wrong. Liu Hengzhen finally understands that what he wants to help is just a group of bandits who do not produce but only know how to rob other people's wealth. The unremitting eyes of the squad leader who acted privately made him really understand. In the eyes of the Spaniards and the locals of Luzon, he is still an alien, he is still an alien. Even if he could help the locals to gain reading ability, then what did he do to ensure the safety of the Chinese people at that time?

Nanyang! It is no longer the place where the Three Treasures Eunuch sailed into the sea, and bowed down to Chen Chen wherever he went. What should I do in the future?

There was silence in the carriage along the way, but Liu Hengzhen's heart was full of turmoil. The carriage entered the city of Manila and entered the iron shop of Liu Yuan's department. After the joints were properly aligned, in the inner room, before the three of them could sit down, the young man said: "I have the guns and ammunition, and I have the food and clothing, and they are already on their way to Luzon." But I can't give them to you. Because I can't keep the Luzon people armed with these weapons, will these weapons provided by the Qing State be redirected at the Chinese in Nanyang? ”

"What's going on?" Liu Yuan asked Liu Hengzhen rhetorically.

Liu Hengzhen was shocked in his heart, but he still told the story of today's massacre of more than 30 members of a Chinese family by the Philippine Revolutionary Army under the pretext of doing so.

"Tuqiong (Liu Hengzhen's character), my uncle has already told you that if you are not from my race, your heart will be different. But you just don't listen, now ......" Liu Yuan sighed: "Pity me Nanyang Chinese." ”

"Uncle, I will do my best to restrain the revolutionary army."

"If Aguinaldo makes such a guarantee, I still have to think about it. How can you guarantee that? Liu Yuanzhi shook his head and said helplessly: "Don't think that if you give yourself a Luzon name and marry a Luzon girl, you will be a Luzon person." Tuqiong, you are Chinese, and you will always be Chinese. It can't change. No matter how grateful the people of Luzon are to you, you are still a Chinese! ”

Aguinaldo, the first president of the Republic of the Philippines, said: "General Po (Liu Hengzhen) won the admiration of the people of the whole Philippines for his impartial and selfless heroic demeanor, which he sacrificed for their freedom and happiness." He loved the Philippines - like his homeland, and the Philippines deserved to regard him as a heroic descendant. "Krisorogo? Vera Carlos in José? Ignacio? The book General Baohua called him "a well-known figure in the cause of the Philippines' struggle for freedom." Although he is Chinese, our people owe him a debt of remembrance, because in the fight against Spain and the United States, he linked his fate to that of the Filipino insurgents. "The Filipinos were very grateful to him and erected a statue in his honor, but they never thought of him as Filipino.

At this time, Liu Hengzhen didn't know how to answer for a while, so he could only ask the young man instead: "Sir, can you tell me your name at this time?" ”

"In Luzon, my name is Huang Ming."

"I asked my uncle to buy a batch of firearms from Qingguo for me, but just now Mr. Huang said that he was not at ease to hand over the firearms to me. But the gentleman said that the guns were being shipped to Luzon. So, what is the purpose of the gentleman here? ”

"Arming the Luzon Chinese, not seeking to build a country, but seeking self-security. Wait for the future. ”

"Arm the Luzon Chinese, sir, you know that there are nearly one million Luzon Chinese. If you want to protect yourself, do you know how many guns you need? Wait for the future, and then come again to the Lanfang tragedy? "Lan Fang was in danger of forgetting the country back then, and no one stood up at this time, and the Great Qing Kingdom, as the sect master, didn't even let out a fart. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese were slaughtered like pigs and dogs. This is the history that no one in Nanyang Chinese wants to recall, which is chilling.

Huang Ming sighed: "Actually, I am Lan Fang's orphan. That year, my mother escaped with me as an infant, but my father died at the hands of the local natives. When I grew up, my mother told me that it was the local indigenous workers who worked on my family's estate who killed my father. The local aborigines got food and clothing from the hands of our Chinese, and they were not grateful, but peeped at the wealth of our Chinese and slaughtered the Chinese. I have been thinking about this in my heart, and I just want to have a day to avenge my father. And not only do you not want to help the Chinese, but you help the local natives to rob us of the wealth of the Chinese. We wanted to get rid of you as soon as possible, but after our investigation, we found that the massacre of the Chinese by the Philippine Revolutionary Army was not your intention, and you also intervened to stop it many times. It was because I saw that you still cared about the Chinese that I decided to find you, hoping that you would come forward to arm the Chinese. ”

"Me?" Liu Hengzhen lowered his head, he had already been wrong once, and he couldn't be wrong again. Liu Hengzhen suddenly raised his head and asked, "How much do you know about me?" ”

"Many, we've been investigating you since the beginning of the year. We have also been to your home in Nan'an, Fujian Province to learn about your situation, and we have also met your parents. Well, they're in good health. We believe that you are the most suitable person. We hope that you will recruit and arm the local Chinese in the name of the Philippine Revolutionary Army. ”

"Do you think Aguinaldo will agree?"

"He will, because the Filipinos alone will not be able to defeat the Spaniards, he knows that. If at this time there was a Chinese armed force to join the Philippine Revolutionary Army and join them against the Spaniards, what reason would he have to disagree? Moreover, after the Chinese joined, it would be of great benefit to the supply of weapons and ammunition for the Philippine Revolutionary Army. ”

"Isn't that something you can do with three or two thousand guns?"

"How much do you need, is there enough for the entire Luzon Chinese?"

"Mr. Huang, your tone is too loud." Liu Hengzhen said disdainfully, one person has one, which is nearly a million guns: "What guarantee do you have?" ”

"I use all the military factories of the Great Qing Kingdom as a guarantee." Huang Ming smiled: "Well, we can also provide cannons." ”

As soon as Huang Ming's words fell, Liu Yuanxi, who had been sitting on the side and had not spoken, stood up suddenly: "Mr. Huang, who are you?" ”

Huang Ming laughed: "I can tell you who I am, but once you know my identity, you must join our plan." Otherwise, I'll really have to kill you. ”

"Your plan?"

"Yes, we Chinese must be in charge here."

"Does your identity guarantee that your plan will actually come true?"

"No, but it's man-made. The Lanfang tragedy is vivid, when Lanfang was at its most critical, none of the Nanyang Chinese stood up out for their own interests and safety. The Nanyang Chinese are like a tool for them to earn wealth in front of the local natives. In the decades after Lan Fang, every once in a while, Western colonists would incite the local natives to massacre the Nanyang Chinese. If we don't unite anymore, then the Nanyang Chinese can only ......" Huang Ming did not continue, and the rest of the words were actually not said, and everyone understood it.

Liu Hengyun frowned and thought, only to see his uncle nod lightly. He thought that he helped the Filipinos so much, but the Filipinos did not have any gratitude to the Chinese, and openly robbed and slaughtered the Chinese in defiance of their own prohibitions. What's more, didn't he just want to help the Nanyang Chinese in the first place? Since there is a Chinese organization, why not join it? I can't make mistakes again and again to help those Filipinos who slaughtered the Chinese.

Liu Hengyun nodded heavily: "Please also ask Mr. Huang to tell him." ”

"On the lower side of the face is called Huang Ming, and it is a trotting hall of Pacific Freight Company's warehouse in Manila. His real name is Huang Minghua, who belongs to the Philippine Group of the Asian Branch of the Central Intelligence Agency of the Qing Dynasty, and is the team leader under the code name Pioneer. ”

"Great Qing Kingdom?" Liu Yuanzhi and Liu Hengzhen were shocked.

"That's right, all of this was arranged by the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Now, I formally invite you to join in. Huang Minghua stretched out his hands with an extremely expectant look: "For the Chinese people in Nanyang." ”

Unexpectedly, the two did not hold Huang Minghua's hand in response, but Liu Yuanzhi asked: "The Western powers will not allow the Chinese to build a country in Nanyang again, and there will be no more Lanfang tragedy, right?" ”

"In the Lanfang tragedy in the past, the Qing Kingdom did not lend a hand. One was that the domestic political situation was unstable at that time, and the other was that there were no warships that could go to sea to fight. But today's emperor is different, he has just defeated the fleet of the Yue Army, and he is still in control of the government. What's more, the emperor at that time said that we were 'outcasts of the Celestial Empire', but the current emperor says that we are 'overseas wanderers'. What's more, the emperor not only sent guns. Moreover, a large number of Chinese children in Lanfang's hometown began to live in the Qing Dynasty and entered the Qing Dynasty to begin to study military courses. At that time, Lanfang did not have an army, and now the emperor wants to train an army belonging to the Nanyang Chinese for the Nanyang Chinese. ”

"I'm joining." Liu Hengzhen held Huang Minghua's hand heavily.

"Hehe, if you don't think the old man is old, count me in." Liu Yuanxi also held Huang Minghua's other hand.

Liu Hengyun said in a very affirmative tone: "Please tell us what you want us to do." ”

"Hidden strength. You are the cousin-in-law of Aguinaldo, the commander-in-chief of the Philippine Revolutionary Army, and use your name to recruit local Chinese into the Philippine Revolutionary Army. When the Qing Dynasty did not have the strength to protect us in the south, it was necessary to hide its strength. When the Great Qing Kingdom has cleaned up its roots, the Great Qing Navy can rest assured that it will go south, and at that time, the Chinese in Nanyang can get real protection from the motherland. Of course, I will arrange for someone to enter the Chinese army of the Philippine Revolutionary Army, and he will be your intelligence liaison officer, and he will answer any requests you have. ”

Seeing Liu Hengzhen, who was a little puzzled, Huang Minghua smiled: "To protect the Chinese in Nanyang, you need more than just military force. I have other things to do. ”

While the Philippines was in full swing, Lee En-fu, who was far away in Hawaii, was also in Guam and was discussing with the Governor of Guam about buying land and building farms and factories, when the British Far East Fleet sent a telegram from Hong Kong. The two newest and fastest destroyers in the South Sea Fleet were snatched by pirates.

When the news came, the government and the opposition of the Great Qing Kingdom were shocked. (To be continued.) )