"Your Majesty? Fourth brother? ”

Those who can be called "fourth brother" in front of Li Xi are naturally confidants, not to mention the girls who were raised by him. On Kunlun Island, seeing Li Shi pinching a military report, his face flushed, as if he couldn't breathe, Siniang was so anxious that her apricot eyes were full of tears. While rubbing Li Shi's chest, he called anxiously.

Is it defeated?

Siniang thought so, four days ago, news came from Luzon that the navy had a big battle with the Spaniards, although they repelled each other and even captured a battleship, but their own side also suffered heavy losses, and the ship's crew was nearly half. Xiao Sheng, Bai Yanding and others were seriously injured, and the old man Liang Deguang was killed. The former chief master, nicknamed "Liang Ganzi", Siniang could often be seen in Fengtian Village in her early years.

At that time, Li Xi was worried, and looking at this situation today, Siniang's heart sank.

was in a trance, but his hand was held down by Li Shi, and he met Li Shi's bright eyes, and the heat inside startled Siniang.

Turning his gaze to Siniang's waist, Li Xian grinned: "Xiaohong, take out your silver......"

Hu Hanshan actually used the strategy of stealing the city that every Chinese fiction will not fall behind, and destroyed the remaining strength of the Spanish fleet in the port of Manila

The Spaniards, who won for at least a year or two, were cut off from sea access and had to retreat in Manila.

Li Xi let out a sigh of relief, but his heart became anxious again. It's not the anxiety I was before, but after breaking through the fetters, I thought my pace was too slow.

The Spaniards will not rest on their laurels, and will certainly transfer the American fleet to the South Seas, and may even mobilize the home fleet. The galleon trade was the sole venture of the Spanish crown, from the royal family to the American colonies to the Luzon authorities, a large interest group that they would not give up easily.

The next important step was to capture Manila, which was the work of the army, and Li Shi had already arranged it before going to sea, just waiting for an order. Earlier, he had placed an order with the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, which was not specifically for Manila, but it was just right to use it there.

At the same time, the restoration of the navy could not be delayed, and if Manila had not been captured by the time the Spanish fleet returned, or if other Europa men intervened, the navy would have to act as the last line of defense.

Li Xian muttered to himself, Lao Xiao, if it is not for you and me, it is only for the country of Yinghua, and you can't die

"Herald ......"

Li Shi summoned Yang Shi, the secretary of the inner court, who was accompanying him, and issued several edicts in one breath.

Jia Hao was appointed as the governor of Luzon, and two battalions of the army were requisitioned and transferred from Boni and Funan, and they were organized as the vanguard of the Luzon Dispatch Army, and rushed to Luzon.

The left division of the Yingyang Army and the left division of the Shenwu Army were formed as follow-up troops, and all the sea ships under the rule of Fujian were recruited to transport the army ashore. The two armies of the Yulin Army and the Tielin Army were the main forces of the Luzon Dispatch Army, assembled and stood by.

All coastal patrols and war-fighting ships were called up and dispatched by the navy to block the galleon route from Luzon to Japan and block the passage of the Spanish to the Americas.

The Secretariat urgently contacted the Dutch, British, and Portuguese, suggesting that the Spaniards might send a Grand Fleet to invade the South Seas, prompting the three East India Companies to intercept the Spaniards' line of contact from the Indian Ocean back to their homeland.

Recruit the most intrepid naval volunteers, equip clippers, and make an urgent voyage to Europa, informing the Xiao Xie mission of the situation in the South Seas, allowing them to delay the Spaniards' response, and preparing to negotiate with the other side on the redistribution of Luzon's interests.

Hearing this series of edicts, Yang Shi was also excited, and he naturally felt that the country of Yinghua had stepped on another critical threshold from this war, and for this reason, Li Shi did not hesitate to devote all his strength to the country, and he had to continue to walk.

He was cautious and subtle, and reminded: "The country still doesn't know the news of this war, how are the officials going to report it?" ”

Li Shi turned his head and saw Siniang, who was being wronged by "obscenity", and then thought of some people who should also be counting the money bags at this moment, and said with a slight smile: "If you don't report the details, you will say that you have a big victory." ”

At this time, it was April 28, and Subic Bay had been renamed Yinglie's Bay by Xiao Sheng to commemorate the 2,000 soldiers who died in the battle. The small port originally called "Olongapo" has become "Hansan Port", as the name suggests, it is a reward for the daring Huhan Mountain.

"Are you really my lieutenant general in the Anglo-Chinese Navy? Just like those Tartars who hold a book on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and serve as soldiers? Stealing the city? Take the four boats you managed to surrender and go on an adventure, your mind is full of earthworms? Xiao Sheng has recovered a lot, and is reprimanding Hu Hanshan in the big tent in the port, and looking through the tent, countless warships are moored in the port, and the Spanish battleship stands out from the crowd.

Hu Hanshan shrugged his shoulders and said: "I don't have much hope, who knew that the Spaniards were so idiotic......"

Xiao Sheng roared: "Anyway, don't expect a reward for your failures, this dilapidated port bears your name to let everyone know about your idiotic behavior."

Hu Hanshan grinned: "Just what I want......"

Why did Xiao Sheng reprimand him, Hu Hanshan knew that the sneak attack on Manila was just a fluke, and it would be a real idiot to take luck as the norm.

However, Hu Hanshan also muttered in his stomach, and said to Dali, isn't this battle of the navy an adventure, and isn't it a fluke to win.

As if sensing his heart, Xiao Sheng glared at him again, and he hurriedly said again: "Next, we have to rest well, summarize the battle, and see the performance of the army by the way." ”

Xiao Sheng shook his head: "Rest? We'll have to prepare for the next big game, at least for a year, and we're going to fight to recover, do you think the Spaniards are going to stop there? A year later they sent four or even eight battleships, what are we going to do? ”

Hu Hanshan's face darkened, yes, this time there were only two battleships, and they almost dragged the entire Anglo-Chinese Navy into the abyss of no return, and then there were four or eight ships, how could this be.

Xiao Sheng said again: "The fourth brother asked me to return to China to take charge of the reorganization of the navy, you can stay here, but listen, you are not allowed to act without authorization and discuss everything with Yanzi."

Hu Hanshan was both happy and depressed, and asked again: "Fourth brother, you haven't explained anything else to me?" ”

Xiao Sheng smiled: "He said...... If you have any spare money, let me take it all. ”

In mid-May, when a large number of sea ships sent the army to Hanshan Port, Xiao Sheng's return to Guangzhou also set off a wave of excitement in the country. Because he brought back all the Spanish prisoners, as well as six captured Spanish battleships, including that battleship. Xiao Sheng did not reveal the details of this battle, but only said that Yinghua won a big victory. And the results he brought back are enough to confirm this.

In the crowd of cheering people who saw this huge ship at the Huangpu Military Port, some people were even more excited.

Wang Mingle, a maritime merchant in Fuzhou, said: "It's really a win, and now our investment in building buildings, and even the entire Fujian cabinet, should soar to the sky."

Xu Shan, a maritime merchant in Quanzhou, was still a little sober: "Almost all the ships that can go to sea have moved, and the Spaniards still have some combat power, which is not certain, and they can't ...... yet."

Before he finished speaking, the Fujian businessmen around him had already dispersed in a hurry, the Luzon naval battle ended, and in the stock market of Huangpu Yutou Street, the war was about to rise again.

The "war" alone is not enough to describe the hustle and bustle of Fish Head Street and the restlessness of the stocks. As soon as the news of the Anglo-Chinese naval victory over the Spaniards reached China, the stock market began to rejoice. And when Xiao Sheng returned to Huangpu with the loot, stocks related to maritime trade and shipbuilding rose. The change in construction investment can be described as "ascending to heaven". In just half a month, the stock price has broken through the 400 taels mark from nearly 200 taels, and the stock, which originally had only 500,000 taels, has become a large market of more than 2 million taels.

The surge in investment in Jianxia has also led to other Fujian stocks, and the "Fujian counter" composed of these stocks has become the main force in the stock market, and it has the momentum to overpower the Nanyang Company. The shares of Nanyang Company, which were about to break through the 200 two mark, were also continuously thrown out because the shareholders wanted to speculate on the Fujian counter, and the stock price fell all the way.

Just when Jianxia Investment was about to break through the 500 tael mark, many speculators felt hot and began to turn to other stocks in the Fujian counter, and a large amount of Jianxia Investment was suddenly sold in the stock market, which made the speculators tremble.

Retail investors are happy to pick up the plate, and the Fujian chaebols who go up all the way feel that something is wrong. These sell-offs are not their actions, and after careful investigation, it is actually the Qingtian Company behind them, and it is difficult for the Fujian chaebols headed by Wang Mingle and Xu Shan to sit still.

Xu Shan said in an afterthought: "I'm not wrong, the Luzon battle situation, I'm afraid it's not so clean." The Emperor here is scavenging for ships that can fight, and the Spaniards definitely have the strength to spare."

Wang Mingle also said with a calm face: "Qingtian Company, the first emperor industry, has now withdrawn from the industry, it is a group of old people in Shaozhou who are running it, and they naturally know the inside story." The prospect of Luzon, I'm afraid it's ......", the words are not finished, the intention has arrived, and the investment in building buildings is afraid that it will be abolished.

In the eyes of these Fujian chaebols, although the Anglo-Chinese navy won the battle, the Spaniards still had the strength to fight, and they were even mobilizing foreign fleets to prepare for a comeback. For this reason, the emperor is anxiously preparing for war, and it is still a mystery who owns the Luzon deer.

Those who knew the situation in Manila also jumped out, declaring that the Spanish fortress was impregnable and that it was impossible for the British and Chinese to conquer it in one fell swoop. The battle of Luzon was mostly abandoned halfway. Jianxia Investment wants to contract trade from Fujian to Manila, which is simply a flash in the pan.

The prospect is so bleak, taking advantage of the fact that there are still stunned retail investors to take over, the Fujian chaebol also hurriedly sells, just as the construction investment in the sky has plummeted. Within a few days, the high price of nearly 500 taels to less than 200 taels per share, and the stock market was full of mourning.

When Xiao Sheng was reviewing the new shipbuilding plan in the Whampoa shipyard, he saw people jump from the nearby Whampoa wharf more than once.

The admonition that "the stock market is risky, don't fight for your own money" appeared frequently in newspapers during this period, and Confucian newspapers such as "Righteousness" and "Righteous Path" even made a high-profile crusade against stocks, which brought disaster to the country and the people, and caused another noisy dispute between the government and the opposition.

Whether it is the Fujian chaebol, or the government and the opposition of a country, or even Xiao Sheng, who has seen someone throw himself into the river, he doesn't know that this is just the beginning.

The turmoil subsided in a few days, and by the end of May, nearly 20,000 troops had landed in Luzon, and the vanguard had exchanged fire with the Spanish outside Manila. The details of the Battle of Heroic Bay, including the feat of Hu Hanshan's sneak attack on Manila Bay, were finally revealed. In both the government and the opposition, some people began to counter the "Luzon defeat theory", claiming that the emperor was wise and powerful, and that this battle had been planned for a long time and that it was absolutely impossible to fail.

The Fujian chaebols are also well-informed, and they hurriedly entered the market and found that there were big dealers who had swept the market before. I didn't care about the previous losses, and I went straight to absorb it, and the investment in building buildings rose all the way up, and climbed to a high level of 400 taels and shares.

At this time, they vaguely realized that Qingtian Company was always in the front, and the chaebols were very dissatisfied with the investment in this building, and through Liang Boyu, they found the Shen family, a Chaoshan salt merchant.

Shen Shisheng is no longer a director, and his son Shen Fuyang came forward and promised to contact the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to pass the word to Qingtian Company.

Huangpu Boundless Palace, a ** who has been in his teenage years has entered the garden. The face is not very good, but the temperament is extremely sophisticated, and when the pupils turn, there is a rare intelligence and agility, and the guards in the outer garden and the female guards in the inner garden all greeted affectionately: "Mrs. Lingling"

This lady named Lin Lingling was obviously a regular visitor to the garden, and went straight to the study in the garden, which was where Concubine Hui Guan was on weekdays. She is not an outsider, her father Lin Dashu is an old man in Fengtian Village, and a scholar of the Ministry of Agriculture of Shangshu Province. The supernatural power bureau in charge of her and her husband Liu Dan was set up by Guan Xuan.

"Niangniang, the Fujian people are aware of it."

Entering the study, Lin Lingling shouted without seeing it, but saw Guan Xuan throwing a lit letter into the copper basin.

"Only then did I realize it, it was really dull. Okay, the fourth brother said, let's stop tossing for the time being, it's time for them to throw themselves into the net. ”

Almost nine years have passed, and the pretty little girl in the past has now become a dignified beauty. But when it comes to "Fourth Brother" and "Tossing", the eye waves are flowing, and the agility is even stronger than Lin Lingling, mixed with her white jade-like skin and deep eyes, and it has become a breathtaking style.

Lin Lingling exhaled, as if she had palpitations: "Yes, three and a half million taels have been tossed into two million taels, and I am already scared to death." ”

Guan Xuan glanced at his cronies and said with a smile: "Are you afraid of earning this bit of silver?" Don't toss now, but wait for a bigger toss later. ”

She said as if she was pitying, and as if expecting: "Of course, it depends on what those guys can toss themselves into." ”